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99301. 

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Southwest, Quincy, WA 98848. 

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Royal City, WA 99357. 

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Warden Library, 305 South Main Street, 

Warden WA 98857. 

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for us to withhold your personal 

identifying information from public 

review, we cannot guarantee that we 

will be able to do so. 

Karl E. Wirkus, 

Regional Director, Pacific Northwest Region. 

[FR Doc. 2010–32525 Filed 12–27–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MN–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

Long-Term North to South Water 

Transfer Program, Sacramento County, 

CA 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement/ 

Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR) 

and notice of scoping meetings. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Reclamation 

(Reclamation) and the San Luis & DeltaMendota Water Authority propose to 

prepare a joint EIS/EIR to analyze the 

effects of water transfers from water 

agencies in northern California to water 

agencies south of the Sacramento-San 

Joaquin Delta (Delta) and in the San 

Francisco Bay Area. The EIS/EIR will 

address transfers of Central Valley 

Project (CVP) and non-CVP water 

supplies that require use of CVP or State 

Water Project (SWP) facilities to convey 

the transferred water. Water transfers 

would occur through various methods, 

including, but not limited to, 

groundwater substitution and cropland 

idling, and would include individual 

and multiyear transfers from 2012 

through 2022. 

DATES: Submit written comments on the 

scope of the Long-Term Water Transfer 

Program by February 28, 2011. 

Three public scoping meetings have 

been scheduled: 

• Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 6–8 

p.m., Chico, CA. 

• Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 2–4 

p.m., Sacramento, CA. 

• Thursday, January 13, 2011, 6–8 

p.m., Los Banos, CA. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments on 

the scope of the Long-Term Water 

Transfer Program or issues to be 

addressed in the EIS/EIR to Mr. Brad 

Hubbard, Bureau of Reclamation, 2800 

Cottage Way, MP–410, Sacramento, CA 

95825. 

Scoping meetings will be held at: 

• Chico at the Chico Masonic Family 

Center, 1110 W. East Avenue. 

• Sacramento at the Best Western 

Expo Inn & Suites, 1413 Howe Avenue. 

• Los Banos at the San Luis & DeltaMendota Water Authority, 842 Sixth 

Street. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Brad Hubbard, Project Manager, Bureau 

of Reclamation, via e-mail at 

bhubbard@usbr.gov or at 916–978–5204, 

or Ms. Frances Mizuno, Assistant 

Executive Director, San Luis & DeltaMendota Water Authority, via e-mail at 

frances.mizuno@sldmwa.org at 209– 

832–6200. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Due to dry 

hydrological conditions, priority of 

rights, competing needs, and low 

reservoir storage levels, water agencies 

south of the Delta have been using water 

transfers to supplement local and 

imported water supplies. Transfers of 

CVP supplies and transfers that require 

use of CVP or SWP facilities are subject 

to review by Reclamation and/or DWR 

in accordance with the Central Valley 

Project Improvement Act of 1992, 

Reclamation’s water transfer guidelines, 

and California State law. Pursuant to 

Federal and State law and subject to 

separate written agreement, Reclamation 

and DWR would facilitate water 

transfers involving CVP contract water 

supplies and CVP and SWP facilities. 

Buyers and sellers would be responsible 

for negotiating the terms of the transfers, 

including amount of water for transfer, 

method to make water available, and 

price. 

The EIS/EIR will identify potential 

selling parties in northern California, 

methods by which water could be made 

available for transfer, and maximum 

amounts of water available through each 

method. The EIS/EIR will also identify 

potential purchasing agencies south of 

the Delta and the proposed use of 

transfer water. 

The EIS/EIR will investigate 

alternative transfer methods to make 

water available. Groundwater 

substitution and cropland idling have 

been frequent transfer mechanisms in 

the past and will be analyzed in the EIS/ 

EIR. Groundwater substitution transfers 

occur when sellers forego diversion of 

their surface water supplies and pump 

an equivalent amount of groundwater as 

an alternative supply. The purchasing 

agency would receive the foregone 

surface water supply. The quantity of 

water available for transfer would 

account for potential stream flow losses 

as a result of groundwater-surface water 

interaction. Cropland idling would 

make water available for transfer that 

would have been used for agricultural 

irrigation without the transfer. 

Typically, the proceeds from the water 

transfer would pay farmers to idle land 

that they would have placed in 

production. Rice has been the crop idled 

most frequently in previous transfer 

programs. 

Water transfers under the Proposed 

Action involving conveyance through 

the Delta would be implemented within 

the operational parameters of the 

Biological Opinions on the Continued 

Long-term Operations of the CVP/SWP 

and any other regulatory restrictions in 

place at the time of implementation of 

the water transfers. Current operational 

parameters applicable to the transfer 

water include: 

• Conveyance of a maximum of 

600,000 acre feet per year; and 

• Use of the SWP’s Harvey O. Banks 

Pumping Plant and CVP’s C.W. ‘‘Bill’’ 

Jones Pumping Plant during July 

through September only. 

The EIS/EIR is expected to analyze 

the adverse and beneficial effects of 

implementing water transfers on the 

following environmental resources: 

Surface water, water quality, 

groundwater, fisheries, vegetation and 

wildlife, special status species, geology 

and soils, land use, air quality, climate 

change, cultural resources, noise, 

recreation, energy, visual resources, 

socioeconomics, and Indian trust assets. 

The EIS/EIR will also evaluate 

environmental justice and cumulative 

impacts associated with the Long-Term 

Water Transfer Program. 


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Special Assistance for Public Meetings 

If special assistance is required to 

participate in the scoping meeting, 

please contact Mr. Louis Moore at 916– 

978–5106 or via e-mail at 

wmoore@usbr.gov. Please contact Mr. 

Moore at least ten working days prior to 

the meeting. A telephone device for the 

hearing impaired (TDD) is available at 

916–978–5608. 

Public Disclosure 

Before including your name, address, 

phone number, e-mail address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be publicly available at any time. While 

you can ask us, in your comment, to 

withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Dated: October 12, 2010. 

Anastasia T. Leigh, 

Acting Regional Environmental Officer, MidPacific Region. 

[FR Doc. 2010–32583 Filed 12–27–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MN–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

Hydropower Resource Assessment at 

Existing Reclamation Facilities—Draft 

Report 

AGENCIES: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Reopening of comment period 

for review of the Hydropower Resource 

Assessment at Existing Reclamation 

Facilities Draft Report (HRA). 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation is 

reopening the review period for the 

HRA for another 30 days from the date 

of publication of this Notice. The notice 

of availability of the HRA was published 

in the Federal Register on November 4, 

2010 (75 FR 67993). The public review 

period was originally to end on 

December 6, 2010. 

DATES: Submit written comments on the 

Draft Report on or before January 27, 

2011. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments or 

requests for copies to Mr. Michael 

Pulskamp, Bureau of Reclamation, 

Denver Federal Center, Bldg. 67, P.O. 

Box 25007, Denver, Colorado 80225, or 

e-mail to mpulskamp@usbr.gov. 

The Draft Report is also accessible 

from the following Web site: http:// 

www.usbr.gov/power/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Michael Pulskamp, 303–445–2931, 

mpulskamp@usbr.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Administration is committed to 

increasing the generation of 

environmentally sustainable, affordable 

hydropower for our national electricity 

supplies. Reclamation has 476 dams and 

8,116 miles of canals, and owns and 

operates 58 hydropower plants. On an 

annual basis, these plants produce an 

average of 40 billion kilowatt hours of 

electricity, enough to meet the entire 

electricity needs of over 9 million 

people on average, and provide the 

energy equivalent of more than 80 

million barrels of crude oil or about 48.4 

billion pounds of coal. Reclamation is 

the second largest producer of 

hydroelectric power in the United 

States, and is actively engaged in 

looking for opportunities to encourage 

development of additional hydropower 

capacity. 

In March 2010 Reclamation signed a 

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) 

with the Department of Energy and the 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The 

MOU focuses on ways to increase 

renewable energy generation by 

focusing on development of sustainable, 

low impact, and small hydropower 

projects. The MOU committed 

Reclamation to produce an updated list 

of facilities and sites best suited for 

projects to increase sustainable 

hydropower generation by October 

2010. The HRA provides information on 

potential hydropower development at 

existing Reclamation facilities that may 

warrant further study. 

The Draft Report does not make any 

recommendations for development of 

the sites included in the report. Instead, 

it provides an inventory of hydropower 

potential at existing Reclamation sites 

using broad energy and economic 

criteria. Reclamation is not undertaking 

a new dam construction initiative with 

this study, and is focused on identifying 

the hydropower potential of 

Reclamation’s existing structures. This 

resource assessment level study does 

not take the place of a site by site 

feasibility study. 

Public Disclosure 

Before including your name, address, 

phone number, e-mail address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Dated: December 21, 2010. 

Michael R. Gabaldon, 

Director, Technical Resources, Bureau of 

Reclamation. 

[FR Doc. 2010–32660 Filed 12–27–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MN–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation No. 337–TA–729] 

In the Matter of Certain Semiconductor 

Products Made by Advanced 

Lithography Techniques and Products 

Containing Same; Notice of 

Commission Decision Not to Review 

an Initial Determination Terminating 

The Investigation 

AGENCY: U.S. International Trade 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the U.S. International Trade 

Commission has determined not to 

review the presiding administrative law 

judge’s initial determination (‘‘ID’’) 

(Order No. 11) granting a joint motion 

to terminate the investigation as to one 

respondent on the basis of a settlement 

agreement, and terminating the 

investigation. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sidney A. Rosenzweig, Office of the 

General Counsel, U.S. International 

Trade Commission, 500 E Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20436, telephone (202) 

708–2532. Copies of non-confidential 

documents filed in connection with this 

investigation are or will be available for 

inspection during official business 

hours (8:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.) in the 

Office of the Secretary, U.S. 

International Trade Commission, 500 E 

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20436, 

telephone (202) 205–2000. General 

information concerning the Commission 

may also be obtained by accessing its 

Internet server at http://www.usitc.gov. 

The public record for this investigation 

may be viewed on the Commission’s 

electronic docket (EDIS) at http:// 

edis.usitc.gov. Hearing-impaired 

persons are advised that information on 

this matter can be obtained by 

contacting the Commission’s TDD 

terminal on (202) 205–1810. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Commission instituted this investigation 

on July 27, 2010, based on a complaint 

filed by STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New 

Mexico) (‘‘STC’’), alleging a violation of 

section 337 in the importation, sale for 


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