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percent to receive the highest score, a 

reasonable adjustment from the 

proposal. This correction properly 

conforms the language to the clearly 

intended meaning. 

II. Correction 

In the Federal Register of February 

23, 2011, in FR Doc. 2011–2658, on page 

10051, in the third column, the second 

full paragraph (beginning ‘‘A PHA will 

receive 5 points if * * * ’’) and the 

subsequent chart should be corrected to 

add the word ‘‘percent’’ after the figures 

‘‘1.5’’ and ‘‘2.5’’ wherever those figures 

occur, to read as follows: 

A PHA will receive 5 points if it has 

a tenant accounts receivable ratio of less 

than 1.5 percent. It will receive 2 points 

if it has a tenant accounts receivable 

ratio of equal to or greater than 1.5 

percent and less than 2.5 percent. It will 

receive zero points if it has a tenant 

accounts receivable ratio of equal to or 

greater than 2.5 percent. 

Tenant accounts receivable value Points 

<1.5 percent ................................. 5 

≥1.5 percent but <2.5 percent ...... 2 

≥2.5 percent .................................. 0 

Dated: April 5, 2011. 

Sandra B. Henriquez, 

Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian 

Housing. 

[FR Doc. 2011–8597 Filed 4–11–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 

Regulation and Enforcement 

[Docket No. BOEM–2011–0008] 

Commercial Leasing for Wind Power 

on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) 

Off Delaware, Determination of No 

Competitive Interest 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Regulation and 

Enforcement (BOEMRE), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides 

BOEMRE’s determination that no 

competitive interest exists in acquiring 

a commercial wind lease in the area 

offshore Delaware proposed in the 

January 26, 2011, Notice of Proposed 

Lease Area and Request for Competitive 

Interest (RFCI) (76 FR 4716). The 

location of a proposed lease area was 

identified through the issuance of a 

Request for Interest (RFI) in the Federal 

Register on April 26, 2010 (75 FR 

21653). 

Bluewater Wind Delaware, LLC 

submitted the only valid expression of 

commercial interest in response to the 

April 26, 2010, RFI and BOEMRE 

received no additional expressions of 

interest in response to the January 26, 

2011, RFCI. BOEMRE will proceed with 

the noncompetitive lease process for the 

proposed lease area offshore Delaware 

as described in the RFCI. 

This DNCI is published pursuant to 

subsection 8(p)(3) of the OCS Lands Act, 

which was added by section 388 of the 

Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) (43 

U.S.C. 1337(p)(3)), and the 

implementing regulations at 30 CFR part 

285. Subsection 8(p)(3) of the OCS 

Lands Act requires that OCS renewable 

energy leases, easements, and rights-ofway be issued ‘‘on a competitive basis 

unless the Secretary determines after 

public notice of a proposed lease, 

easement, or right-of-way that there is 

no competitive interest.’’ The authority 

to make such determinations has been 

delegated to BOEMRE. This DNCI 

provides notice to the public that 

BOEMRE has determined that there is 

no competitive interest in leasing the 

proposed area. 

BOEMRE received public comment 

submissions from four parties in 

response to the January 26, 2011, RFCI. 

A discussion of these comments is 

found below. 

DATES: Effective April 12, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin 

C. Trager, Projects and Coordination 

Branch, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Regulation and 

Enforcement, Office of Offshore 

Alternative Energy Programs, 381 Elden 

Street, Mail Stop 4090, Herndon, 

Virginia 20170–4817; telephone (703) 

787–1713. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of This DNCI 

This DNCI provides public notice that 

BOEMRE has determined that there is 

no competitive interest in acquiring a 

lease in the area described in the 

January 26, 2011, RFCI. Bluewater Wind 

Delaware, LLC submitted the only valid 

expression of commercial interest in 

response to the RFI and BOEMRE 

received no additional expressions of 

interest in response to the RFCI. As a 

result, no competitive interest exists in 

the proposed leasing area. Subsequent 

to the publication of this determination, 

BOEMRE may proceed with the 

noncompetitive lease process outlined 

at 30 CFR 285.231(d) through (i). 

Summary of Public Comments Received 

in Response to the January 26, 2011, 

RFCI 

On February 10, 2011, the comment 

period closed for the Delaware RFCI. 

BOEMRE received four responses 

during the public comment period, 

including comments from two groups 

representing waterway users, one 

marine waterway operator, and one 

company associated with the surf clam/ 

ocean quahog fishing industry. 

Comments received in response to the 

RFCI are available at the following URL: 

http://www.boemre.gov/offshore/ 

RenewableEnergy/ 

stateactivities.htm#Delaware 

Some of the comments received 

requested a change to the area of interest 

considered for leasing, and included 

suggestions such as identifying areas for 

exclusion, mitigation, or further study. 

Other comments suggested that 

BOEMRE undertake a more coordinated 

outreach effort with public stakeholders, 

to complement existing coordination 

efforts with government stakeholders in 

the BOEMRE/Delaware Renewable 

Energy Task Force. In addition, other 

comments expressed concern with 

navigational safety and socioeconomic 

impacts to the surf clam/ocean quahog 

fishery in the proposed lease area as a 

result of wind facility development. 

In identifying a lease area for analysis 

under the National Environmental 

Policy Act, BOEMRE will consider 

excluding the area designated as a 

potential U.S. Coast Guard vessel 

anchorage area, first identified by the 

U.S. Coast Guard in its response to the 

Delaware RFI. Comments received from 

waterways operators in response to the 

Delaware RFCI indicate support for 

excluding a designated anchorage area 

from a proposed lease area to replace 

unofficial anchorage areas currently in 

use throughout the area of interest, 

which may be displaced by future 

development. 

In response to concerns regarding the 

proposed 500-meter buffer between the 

proposed lease area and the adjacent 

Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS), 

BOEMRE has decided that additional 

information is needed to evaluate 

whether this proposed buffer should be 

widened. BOEMRE will collaborate with 

the U.S. Coast Guard to better quantify 

the amount and location of vessel 

activity and research ways to analyze 

the effects of wind energy facility 

infrastructure on marine vessel traffic in 

the area to better inform any future 

mitigation in a proposed lease area. If 

data suggest that heavy traffic transits 

within 0.5 nautical mile of the edge of 

the TSS, BOEMRE has the discretion to 


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require a larger buffer either as a 

stipulation in the lease or as a condition 

of Construction and Operations Plan 

approval. 

In response to concerns regarding 

potential impacts to the surf clam/ 

quahog fishery in the area of interest, 

BOEMRE intends to consider potential 

impacts to the fishery in a proposed 

lease area as well as the industry 

associated with this fishery as part of 

our compliance process. 

In response to requests that BOEMRE 

conduct outreach to the mariner and 

fishing communities, BOEMRE will 

continue its ongoing outreach efforts, 

including but not limited to, 

participation in meetings with the 

Mariners Advisory Committee for the 

Bay and River Delaware and outreach to 

the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management 

Council and regulators of associated 

activities offshore Delaware. 

Dated: March 29, 2011. 

Michael R. Bromwich, 

Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Regulation and Enforcement. 

[FR Doc. 2011–8341 Filed 4–11–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R8–R–2011–N042; 1261–0000–80230– 

W2] 

Llano Seco Riparian Sanctuary Unit 

Restoration and Pumping Plant/Fish 

Screen Facility Protection Project, 

California; Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of intent; request for 

public comment. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service), in 

coordination with the California 

Department of Fish and Game (CDFG), 

are preparing a joint environmental 

impact statement/environmental impact 

report (EIS/EIR) for the proposed Llano 

Seco Riparian Sanctuary Unit 

Restoration and Pumping Plant/Fish 

Screen Facility Protection Project, in 

Glenn and Butte Counties, California. 

The proposed project includes riparian 

restoration and protection of the 

Princeton-Cordora-Glenn and Provident 

Irrigation Districts (PCGID–PID) 

pumping plant and fish screen facility. 

This notice advises the public that we 

intend to gather information necessary 

to prepare an EIS pursuant to the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA). We encourage the public and 

other agencies to participate in the 

NEPA scoping process by sending 

written suggestions and information on 

the issues and concerns that should be 

addressed in the draft EIS/EIR, 

including the range of alternatives, 

appropriate mitigation measures, and 

the nature and extent of potential 

environmental impacts. 

DATES: To ensure that we have adequate 

time to evaluate and incorporate 

suggestions and other input, we must 

receive your comments on or before 

May 27, 2011. A public scoping meeting 

will be held on May 10, 2011 from 4 

p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at the Ord Bend 

Community Hall, 3241 Highway 45, Ord 

Bend, California 95943–9654. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments or 

requests to be added to our project 

mailing list to: Daniel W. Frisk, Project 

Leader, Sacramento National Wildlife 

Refuge Complex, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, 752 County Road 99W, 

Willows, CA 95988. Alternatively, you 

may send written comments or requests 

by fax to (530) 934–7814, or by e-mail 

to dan_frisk@fws.gov. Please indicate 

that your comments refer to the Riparian 

Sanctuary Restoration and Pumping 

Plant/Fish Screen Facility Protection 

Project. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kelly Moroney, Refuge Manager, (530) 

934–2801. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Llano Seco Riparian Sanctuary 

Unit was acquired by the Service in 

1991 and added to the Sacramento River 

National Wildlife Refuge. The Service 

acquired the Llano Seco Riparian 

Sanctuary Unit as part of the Joint 

Management Agreement between Parrot 

Investment Co., The Nature 

Conservancy, California Department of 

Fish and Game, and the Service to 

cooperatively manage lands on the 

Llano Seco Ranch. The Llano Seco 

Riparian Sanctuary Unit is one piece of 

the larger Llano Seco Ranch, and was 

cleared of riparian vegetation for 

agricultural production by the previous 

landowner during the 1970s. Although 

the property has been out of agricultural 

production for close to 15 years, the 

habitat remains dominated by nonnative 

and invasive noxious weeds. Currently, 

just over 200 acres is farmed to dryland 

row crops to help control nonnative 

weeds. 

Prior to acquisition by the Service, 

rock revetment was placed on the north 

end of the Llano Seco Riparian 

Sanctuary Unit by the Department of 

Water Resources in 1985 and 1986. The 

rock was placed in order to lock the 

Sacramento River in place ensuring that 

flood flows would continue to be 

diverted from the Sacramento River 

through the Goose Lake overflow 

structure and into the Butte Basin. 

When the Service acquired the ranch 

property in 1991, we did so with the 

understanding that our management 

activities would not impact the Goose 

Lake overflow structure that diverts 

flood water into the Butte Basin. 

Since the placement of rock revetment 

in 1986, the natural riverbank that is 

south of the revetment has eroded 

approximately 600 feet. The erosion on 

refuge property is directly across from 

the PCGID–PID pumping plant and fish 

screening facility. In 1999, the PCGID– 

PID consolidated three pumping plants 

into one new facility equipped with 

state-of-the-art fish screens. The fishscreening efficiency of the new PCGID– 

PID pumping plant is now endangered 

by the bank erosion on the refuge 

property and the migration of the 

Sacramento River. Although the rock 

revetment on the north edge of refuge 

property is decades old and eroding, it 

plays a key role in protecting the 

PCGID–PID pumping plant. As the bank 

erodes, the angle of flow and velocity of 

the water passing the screens will 

change, trapping fish against the screen 

rather than sweeping them past. 

Without some type of protection, it is 

likely the bank will continue to erode 

and the pumping plant facility will fail 

to meet guidelines for operation of the 

pumping-plant fish screens that were 

published by the National Marine 

Fisheries Service of National Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Administration 

(Department of Commerce). 

To address these issues we are 

proposing the restoration of 

approximately 500 acres of the Llano 

Seco Riparian Sanctuary Unit to 

improve habitat for wildlife with an 

emphasis on endangered and threatened 

species and the protection of the 

PCGID–PID pumping plant and fish 

screen facility. 

Previous Planning Studies 

In 2001, River Partners submitted a 

planning proposal to the CALFED BayDelta Program for grant funding to 

investigate the following problems: 

• River meander may threaten the 

operation of the PCGID–PID fish screen 

and pumping plant located across the 

river from the Llano Seco Riparian 

Sanctuary (part of the Sacramento River 

National Wildlife Refuge). 

• Current site conditions on much of 

the 950-acre Llano Seco Riparian 

Sanctuary have contributed little to 

endangered species recovery and overall 

riparian health. 


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