Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 220 / Tuesday, November 16, 2004 / Notices 67143

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Fossil Energy 

National Petroleum Council

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of open meeting.

This notice announces a meeting of 

the National Petroleum Council. Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 

92–463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that 

notice of these meetings be announced 

in the Federal Register.

DATES: Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 

9:30 am.

ADDRESSES: The Ballroom of The Westin 

Embassy Row Hotel, 2100 

Massachusetts Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

James Slutz, U.S. Department of Energy, 

Office of Fossil Energy, Washington, DC 

20585. Phone: (202) 586–5600.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Purpose of 

the Committee: To provide advice, 

information, and recommendations to 

the Secretary of Energy on matters 

relating to oil and gas or the oil and gas 

industry. 

Tentative Agenda 

• Call to Order and Introductory 

Remarks. 

• Remarks by the Honorable Spencer 

Abraham, Secretary of Energy. 

• Consideration of the Council’s 

Response to the Secretary’s Request for 

Advice on Petroleum Refining and 

Inventory Matters. 

• Administrative Matters. 

• Discussion of Any Other Business 

Properly Brought Before the National 

Petroleum Council. 

• Adjournment. 

Public Participation: The meeting is 

open to the public, and will begin at 

9:30 am and end before noon. The 

chairperson of the Council is 

empowered to conduct the meeting in a 

fashion that will facilitate the orderly 

conduct of business. Any member of the 

public who wishes to file a written 

statement to the Council will be 

permitted to do so, either before or after 

the meeting. Members of the public who 

wish to make oral statements pertaining 

to agenda items should contact James 

Slutz at the address or telephone 

number listed above. Requests must be 

received at least five days prior to the 

meeting and reasonable provisions will 

be made to include the presentation on 

the agenda. 

Transcripts: Available for public 

review and copying at the Public 

Reading Room, Room 1E–190, Forrestal 

Building, 1000 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. 

and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except federal holidays.

Issued at Washington, DC, on November 

10, 2004. 

Rachel M. Samuel, 

Deputy Advisory Committee, Management 

Officer.

[FR Doc. 04–25409 Filed 11–15–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC04–576–001, FERC–576] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities, Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Submitted for OMB 

Review 

November 8, 2004.

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of section 3507 of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 

U.S.C. 3507, the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission) 

has submitted the information 

collection described below to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and reinstatement of this 

information collection requirement. Any 

interested person may file comments 

directly with OMB and should address 

a copy of those comments to the 

Commission as explained below. The 

Commission received no comments in 

response to an earlier Federal Register

notice of August 20, 2004 (69 FR 51650–

51) and has made this notification in its 

submission to OMB.

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information are due by December 10, 

2004.

ADDRESSES: Address comments on the 

collection of information to the Office of 

Management and Budget, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission Desk Officer. Comments to 

OMB should be filed electronically, c/o 

Pamela_L._Beverly@omb.eop.gov and 

include the OMB Control No. as a point 

of reference. The Desk Officer may be 

reached by telephone at 202–395–4650. 

A copy of the comments should also be 

sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, Office of the Executive 

Director, ED–30, Attention: Michael 

Miller, 888 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. Comments may 

be filed either in paper format or 

electronically. Those persons filing 

electronically do not need to make a 

paper filing. For paper filings, such 

comments should be submitted to the 

Office of the Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426 and 

should refer to Docket No. IC04–576–

001. 

Documents filed electronically via the 

Internet must be prepared in 

WordPerfect, MS Word, Portable 

Document Format, or ASCII format. To 

file the document, access the 

Commission’s Web site at http://

www.ferc.gov and click on ‘‘Make an Efiling,’’ and then follow the instructions 

for each screen. First time users will 

have to establish a user name and 

password. The Commission will send an 

automatic acknowledgment to the 

sender’s e-mail address upon receipt of 

comments. User assistance for electronic 

filings is available at 202–502–8258 or 

by e-mail to efiling@ferc.gov. Comments 

should not be submitted to the e-mail 

address. 

All comments are available for review 

at the Commission or may be viewed on 

the Commission’s Web site at http://

www.ferc.gov, using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number excluding the 

last three digits in the docket number 

field to access the document. For 

assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, 

contact (202) 502–8659.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michael Miller may be reached by 

telephone at (202) 502–8415, by fax at 

(202) 273–0873, and by e-mail at 

michael.miller@ferc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description 

The information collection submitted 

for OMB review contains the following: 

1. Collection of Information: FERC–

576 ‘‘Report by Certain Gas Companies 

of Service Interruptions.’’

2. Sponsor: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission. 

3. Control No.: 1902–0004. 

The Commission is now requesting 

that OMB approve with a three-year 

extension of the expiration date, with no 

changes to the existing collection. The 

information filed with the Commission 

is mandatory. 

4. Necessity of the Collection of 

Information: Submission of this 

information is necessary to enable the 

Commission to carry out its 

responsibilities in implementing the 

statutory provisions of Sections 4, 7, 

10(a) and 16 of the Natural Gas Act 

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(NGA). The Commission is authorized 

to oversee continuity of service in the 

transportation of natural gas in 

interstate commerce. The information 

collected by FERC–576 notifies the 

Commission in a timely manner of any 

interruption of service or possible 

hazard to public health or safety. 

The Commission in response to 

timely notification of a serious 

interruption may contact other pipelines 

to determine available supply, and if 

requested, authorize transportation or 

construction of facilities to alleviate the 

problem. The data collected in FERC–

576 pertains to serious interruptions of 

service to any wholesale customer 

involving facilities operated under 

certificate authorization from the 

Commission. The reporting of these 

interruptions will assist the Commission 

and the natural gas industry in fulfilling 

their obligations to the public to provide 

better service through increased 

efficiency and reliability. The data 

required for notification of interruptions 

is specified by 18 Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR) part 260.9. 

5. Respondent Description: The 

respondent universe currently 

comprises 22 natural gas companies (on 

average per year) subject to the 

Commission’s jurisdiction. 

6. Estimated Burden: 22 total hours, 

22 respondents (average per year), 1 

response per respondent, and 1 hour per 

response (average). 

7. Estimated Cost Burden to 

Respondents: 22 hours / 2080 hours per 

year × $107,185 per year = $1,134.

Statutory Authority: Sections 4, 7, 10 and 

16 of the Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717–

717w).

Magalie R. Salas, 

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 04–25388 Filed 11–15–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[MN 84; FRL–7838–1] 

Notice of Final Determination for 

Rochester Public Utilities’ Silver Lake 

Plant in Rochester, MN

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of final action.

SUMMARY: This notice announces that on 

August 3, 2004, the Environmental 

Appeals Board (EAB) of the EPA 

dismissed a petition for review of a 

permit issued for the Rochester Public 

Utilities’ Silver Lake Plant (RPU) by the 

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency 

(MPCA). The EAB dismissed the 

petition because it determined that 

MPCA did not need to require best 

available control technology (BACT) for 

the permitted major modification.

DATES: The effective date for the EAB’s 

decision is August 3, 2004. Judicial 

review of this permit decision, to the 

extent it is available pursuant to section 

307(b)(1) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 

7607(b)(1), may be sought by filing a 

petition for review in the United States 

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit 

within 60 days of November 16, 2004.

ADDRESSES: The documents relevant to 

the above action are available for public 

inspection during normal business 

hours at the following address: EPA, 

Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard 

(AR–18J), Chicago, Illinois 60604. To 

arrange viewing of these documents, 

call Jennifer Darrow at (312) 886–6315.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jennifer Darrow, EPA, Region 5, 77 W. 

Jackson Boulevard (AR–18J), Chicago, 

Illinois 60604 or 

darrow.jennifer@epa.gov. Anyone who 

wishes to review the EAB decision can 

obtain it at http://www.epa.gov/eab/

disk11/rochester.pdf.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

supplemental information is organized 

as follows:

A. What Action Is EPA Taking? 

B. What Is the Background Information? 

C. What Did EPA Determine?

A. What Action Is EPA Taking? 

We are notifying the public of a final 

decision by EPA’s EAB on a permit 

issued by MPCA. 

B. What Is The Background 

Information? 

On June 27, 2003, MPCA issued a 

Prevention of Significant Deterioration 

(PSD) permit (permit number 

10900006–007) to RPU to construct and 

operate an underground high-pressure 

steam line from its Silver Lake Plant to 

the Mayo Clinic’s Prospect Utility Plant 

(Mayo Plant). The permit allows RPU to 

tap into existing steam lines at the 

Silver Lake Plant that currently provide 

steam for four boilers; and to route that 

steam through a single pipeline to 

provide steam to the Mayo Plant. This 

change does not alter the boilers 

themselves, but results in annual 

burning of approximately 73,700 

additional tons of coal at RPU. MPCA 

determined that this project would 

constitute a ‘‘major modification’’

subject to PSD. MPCA did not require 

the use of BACT, determining that there 

would not be a modification to an 

‘‘emissions unit.’’

The Minnesota Center for 

Environmental Advocacy (MCEA) filed 

a petition for review of this permit with 

the EAB on July 24, 2003. MCEA argued 

that the term ‘‘emissions unit’’

encompasses the steam lines as well as 

the boilers, based on a change to the 

regulatory definition of ‘‘emissions 

unit’’ in revisions to the PSD regulations 

promulgated at 67 FR 80186 (December 

31, 2002). MCEA further argued that 

MPCA erred by not requiring BACT 

under this revised definition. 

C. What Did the EAB Determine? 

On August 3, 2004, the EAB 

dismissed the petition for review on the 

grounds that the revised PSD 

regulations did not change the meaning 

of ‘‘emissions unit,’’ and therefore did 

not make it necessary for MPCA to 

require BACT.

Dated: October 26, 2004. 

Gary Gulezian, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5.

[FR Doc. 04–25399 Filed 11–15–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY

[OPP–2004–0033; FRL–7686–9]

Rodenticides; Availability of Revised 

Comparative Ecological Risk 

Assessment; Extension of Comment 

Period

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice; extension of comment 

period.

SUMMARY: EPA issued a notice in the 

Federal Register on September 22, 2004, 

titled ‘‘Rodenticides; Availability of 

Revised Comparative Ecological Risk 

Assessment.’’ This notice extends the 

closing date of the comment period 

announced in that notice by 60 days, 

from November 22, 2004, to January 21, 

2005.

DATES: Comments, identified by docket 

identification (ID) number OPP–2004–

0033, must be received on or before 

January 21, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted electronically, by mail, or 

through hand delivery/courier. Follow 

the detailed instructions asprovided in 

Unit I of the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kelly White, Special Review and 

Reregistration Division (7508C), Office 

of Pesticide Programs,Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460–