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Docket No. ER04–1096–000, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc.

Docket No. EL05–16–000, Aquila Merchant 

Services, Inc. v. Southwest Power Pool, 

Inc.

Docket No. ER05–109–000, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc.

Docket No. ER05–156–000, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc.

These meetings are open to the public. 

For more information, contact Tony 

Ingram, Office of Markets, Tariffs and 

Rates, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission at (202) 502–8938 or 

tony.ingram@ferc.gov.

Magalie R. Salas, 

Secretary.

[FR Doc. E4–3505 Filed 12–6–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Notice of Surrender of Preliminary 

Permits 

November 30, 2004. 

Symbiotics, LLC (Project No. 11978–

002); Symbiotics, LLC (Project No. 

12037–001); Prosser Creek Hydro, LLC 

(Project No. 12191–001); McCloud 

Hydro, LLC (Project No. 12195–001); 

Gillham Hydro, LLC (Project No. 12226–

002); Nimrod Hydro, LLC (Project No. 

12237–001); San Jacinto Hydro, LLC 

(Project No. 12242–001); Spavinaw 

Hydro, LLC (Project No. 12243–001); 

Great Salt Plains, LLC (Project No. 

12263–001); Wappapello Hydro, LLC 

(Project No. 12268–001); GV 

Montgomery Hydro, LLC (Project No. 

12277–001); KR 6 Hydro, LLC (Project 

No. 12278–001); Wilkins Hydro, LLC 

(Project No. 12281–001); Huntington 

Hydro, LLC (Project No. 12294–001); 

Rough River Hydro, LLC (Project No. 

12364–002); Coralville Hydro, LLC 

(Project No. 12417–001) 

Take notice that the permittees for the 

subject projects have requested to 

surrender their preliminary permits. 

Investigations and feasibility studies 

have shown that the projects would not 

be economically feasible.

Project No. Project name Stream State Expiration date 

11978–002 ........ Vega Dam ................................................... Plateau Creek .............................................. CO August 31, 2006. 

12037–001 ........ Swift Dam .................................................... Birch Creek .................................................. MT April 30, 2005. 

12191–001 ........ Prosser Creek Dam ..................................... Prosser Creek ............................................. CA May 31, 2006. 

12195–001 ........ McCloud Dam .............................................. McCloud River ............................................. CA October 31, 2006. 

12226–002 ........ Gillham Dam ................................................ Cossatot River ............................................. AR September 30, 2005. 

12237–001 ........ Nimrod Dam ................................................ Fourche La Fave River ............................... AR October 31, 2005. 

12242–001 ........ San Jacinto Dam ......................................... San Jacinto River ........................................ TX March 31, 2006. 

12243–001 ........ Spavinaw Dam ............................................ Spavinaw Creek .......................................... OK January 31, 2006. 

12263–001 ........ Great Salt Plains Dam ................................ Arkansas River ............................................ AR January 31, 2006. 

12268–001 ........ Wappapello Dam ......................................... St. Francis River .......................................... MO April 30, 2006. 

12277–001 ........ G.V. Montgomery Dam ............................... Tombigbee River ......................................... MS January 31, 2006. 

12278–001 ........ Kentucky River L&D #6 ............................... Kentucky River ............................................ KY October 31, 2005. 

12281–001 ........ Wilkins L&D ................................................. Tombigbee River ......................................... MS January 31, 2006. 

12294–001 ........ J. Edwards Roush Lake Dam ..................... Wabash River .............................................. IN October 31, 2006. 

12364–002 ........ Rough River Dam ........................................ Rough River ................................................ KY August 31, 2006. 

12417–001 ........ Coralville Dam ............................................. Iowa River ................................................... IA July 31, 2006. 

The permits shall remain in effect 

through the thirtieth day after issuance 

of this notice unless that day is 

Saturday, Sunday, or holiday as 

described in 18 CFR 385.2007, in which 

case each permit shall remain in effect 

through the first business day following 

that day. New applications involving 

these project sites, to the extent 

provided for under 18 CFR part 4, may 

be filed on the next business day.

Magalie R. Salas, 

Secretary.

[FR Doc. E4–3485 Filed 12–6–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[ORD–2004–0019; FRL–7845–5] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Detroit Children’s 

Health Study: Health Effects of 

Environmental Exposures Among 

Children Living in the Detroit, Michigan 

Area, EPA ICR Number 2167.01

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.), this notice announces that 

EPA is planning to submit a proposed 

Information Collection Request (ICR) to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB). This is a request for a new 

collection. Before submitting the ICR to 

OMB for review and approval, EPA is 

soliciting comments on specific aspects 

of the proposed information collection 

as described below.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before February 7, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number ORD–

2004–0019, to EPA online using 

EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to oei.docket@epa.gov, or by mail 

to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Office of 

Environmental Information Docket, Mail 

Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Susan Auby, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Office of Information 

Collection, Office of Environmental 

Information, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 

NW., Mail Code 28221T, Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 

566–1672; fax number: (202) 566–1753; 

e-mail address: auby.susan@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has 

established a public docket for this ICR 

under Docket ID number ORD–2004–

0019, which is available for public 

viewing at the Office of Research and 

Development Docket in the EPA Docket 

Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 

B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center Public Reading Room is open 

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from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and 

the telephone number for the Office of 

Research and Development Docket is 

(202) 566–1752. An electronic version of 

the public docket is available through 

EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://

www.epa.gov/edocket. Use EDOCKET to 

obtain a copy of the draft collection of 

information, submit or view public 

comments, access the index listing of 

the contents of the public docket, and to 

access those documents in the public 

docket that are available electronically. 

Once in the system, select ‘‘search,’’

then key in the docket ID number 

identified above. 

Any comments related to this ICR 

should be submitted to EPA within 60 

days of this notice. EPA’s policy is that 

public comments, whether submitted 

electronically or in paper, will be made 

available for public viewing in 

EDOCKET as EPA receives them and 

without change, unless the comment 

contains copyrighted material, CBI, or 

other information whose public 

disclosure is restricted by statute. When 

EPA identifies a comment containing 

copyrighted material, EPA will provide 

a reference to that material in the 

version of the comment that is placed in 

EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, 

including the copyrighted material, will 

be available in the public docket. 

Although identified as an item in the 

official docket, information claimed as 

CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise 

restricted by statute, is not included in 

the official public docket, and will not 

be available for public viewing in 

EDOCKET. For further information 

about the electronic docket, see EPA’s 

Federal Register notice describing the 

electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 

31, 2002), or go to http://www.epa.gov./

edocket. 

Affected entities: Entities potentially 

affected by this action are school 

officials, parents and children in the 

Detroit and Dearborn Public Schools. 

Title: Detroit Children’s Health Study: 

Health Effects of Environmental 

Exposures among Children Living in the 

Detroit, Michigan Area. 

Abstract: An agency may not conduct 

or sponsor, and a person is not required 

to respond to, a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

The OMB control numbers for EPA’s 

regulations in 40 CFR are listed in 40 

CFR part 9. The proposed study will be 

conducted by the Epidemiology and 

Biomarkers Branch, Human Studies 

Division, National Health and 

Environmental Effects Research 

Laboratory, Office of Research and 

Development, U.S. EPA. The purpose of 

this study is to examine the respiratory 

health effects in school-age children of 

mobile and point source air pollutants. 

Further knowledge regarding the 

respiratory health effects of airborne 

particulate matter is required to reduce 

scientific uncertainties in the 

development of an Air Quality Criteria 

for Particulate Matter under the Clean 

Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7403(d)). The 

National Academy of Science’s 

Committee on Research Priorities for 

Airborne Particulate Matter has 

identified several issues of scientific 

uncertainty in health effects of airborne 

particulate matter exposures, including 

the role of particle size and the role of 

particulate matter constituents and copollutants. The Detroit Children’s 

Health Study will contribute to our 

understanding of whether long-term, 

early-life exposures to mobile source 

emissions, particularly diesel exhaust 

particles, play a key role in the 

initiation of allergic asthma in 

schoolchildren. 

A similar NHEERL research project, 

the El Paso Children’s Health Study, 

was conducted among nearly 9,000 

schoolchildren with a collaboration on 

exposure assessment with scientists 

from EPA’s National Exposure Research 

Laboratory (NERL). The border cities of 

Detroit, Michigan and El Paso, Texas 

share common characteristics such as 

major diesel truck routes and vehicle 

idling at international borders, but the 

two areas have great climatic 

differences. The ORD Multi-Year Plan 

for Particulate Matter includes the 

Detroit Children’s Health Study as an 

integral component of ORD’s research 

on the adverse health effects of longterm air pollutant exposures in 

susceptible populations. 

The parents of children enrolled in 

fourth and fifth grades of selected 

Detroit and Dearborn Public Schools 

will receive a twenty-page respiratory 

health questionnaire along with a 

written request for permission for their 

children to participate in a pulmonary 

function examination at their school. 

Participation in the study is entirely 

voluntary. The respiratory health 

questionnaire conforms to the ATS/DLD 

standard respiratory symptom 

questionnaire and consists of questions 

specific to the child such as general 

demographic information, childhood 

respiratory illness and history of 

asthma, and current respiratory health 

conditions. There also are questions 

regarding household characteristics and 

family history of smoking, asthma, and 

respiratory illnesses. One parent from 

each family will be asked to complete 

the questionnaire, seal the completed 

form in the provided envelope, and 

send the envelope back to the teacher 

with the child.

Ambient air pollutants will be 

measured at twenty-five elementary 

schools in the Detroit metropolitan area. 

These twenty-five schools were selected 

to represent areas close to and far away 

from Detroit roadways and the 

international border crossings as well as 

those areas in between. Once explicit 

permission has been received from both 

the parent and the child, the children 

from the selected schools will attempt to 

perform a routine pulmonary function 

examination and an exhaled nitric oxide 

(NO) exam. The pulmonary function 

exam consists of blowing three to eight 

times into a tube connected to a 

spirometer. During the pulmonary 

function examination, a field technician 

will record each child’s height and 

weight, and coach the child to perform 

the breathing tests. A new, sterile, 

disposable mouthpiece will be used for 

each child in each test. The pulmonary 

function examination will be conducted 

according to guidelines developed by 

the American Thoracic Society and will 

be conducted in the child’s elementary 

school during normal school hours with 

an school nurse on site during the 

examinations. The exhaled nitric oxide 

exam consists of exhaling into a bag 

made of clear polyvinyl film, fitting the 

child’s nostrils with a stopper attached 

to an NO sampling line, and measuring 

the NO emitted through the nostrils and 

from the mouth. Neither exam is any 

more stressful than blowing out the 

candles on a birthday cake. 

The EPA would like to solicit 

comments to: 

(i) Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

(ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the 

Agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

(iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

(iv) Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

Burden Statement: The public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

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estimated to average 33 minutes per 

response or to range from 0.4–1.5 hours 

per respondent annually. This survey 

will not be repeated. Burden means the 

total time, effort, or financial resources 

expended by persons to generate, 

maintain, retain, or disclose or provide 

information to or for a Federal agency. 

This includes the time needed to review 

instructions; develop, acquire, install, 

and utilize technology and systems for 

the purposes of collecting, validating, 

and verifying information, processing 

and maintaining information, and 

disclosing and providing information; 

adjust the existing ways to comply with 

any previously applicable instructions 

and requirements; train personnel to be 

able to respond to a collection of 

information; search data sources; 

complete and review the collection of 

information; and transmit or otherwise 

disclose the information. An agency 

may not conduct or sponsor, and a 

person is not required to respond to, a 

collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

To comment on the Agency’s need for 

this information, the accuracy of the 

provided burden estimates, and any 

suggested methods for minimizing 

respondent burden, including the use of 

automated collection techniques, EPA 

has established a public docket for this 

ICR under Docket ID No. ORD–2004–

0019, which is available for public 

viewing at the Office of Research and 

Development Docket in the EPA Docket 

Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 

B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center Public Reading Room is open 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and 

the telephone number for the Office of 

Research and Development Docket is 

(202) 566–2426. An electronic version of 

the public docket is available through 

EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at http://

www.epa.gov/edocket. Use EDOCKET to 

submit or view public comments, access 

the index listing of the contents of the 

public docket, and to access those 

documents in the public docket that are 

available electronically. Once in the 

system, select ‘‘search,’’ then key in the 

docket ID number identified above. 

Also, you can send comments to the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, 725 17th Street, NW, 

Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk 

Office for EPA. Please include the EPA 

Docket ID No. ORD–2004–0019 and 

OMB control number (20XX–XXXX) 

[insert the appropriate OMB #] in any 

correspondence.

Type of respondent Respondent activities 

Estimated 

number of respondents Burden hours Frequency Total burden 

hours 

Total burden 

cost 

Adult ......................................... Complete Questionnaire 15,000 0.40 1 6000 a $88,320

Child ......................................... Perform Pulmonary 

Function Exam.

3,500 0.50 1 1750 b 9,013

Child ......................................... Perform Exhaled NO 

Exam.

2,000 0.25 1 500 2,575 

Total .............................. ........................................ 20,500 ........................ ........................ 8250 99,908 

a $14.72/hour. 

b $5.15/hour (minimum wage). 

There are no direct respondent costs 

for this data collection. 

No Annual Record Keeping Burden:

An agency may not conduct or sponsor, 

and a person is not required to respond 

to, a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. The OMB control numbers for 

EPA’s regulations are listed in 40 CFR 

Part 9 and 48 CFR Chapter 15.

Dated: November 30, 2004. 

John Creason, 

Acting Director, Human Studies Division.

[FR Doc. 04–26816 Filed 12–6–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[SFUND–2004–0005; FRL–7843–3] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Superfund Site Evaluation 

and Hazard Ranking System 

(Renewal), EPA ICR Number 1488.06, 

OMB Control Number 2050–0095.

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.), this document announces 

that an Information Collection Request 

(ICR) has been forwarded to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval. This is a request 

to renew an existing approved 

collection. This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on November 30, 2004. Under 

OMB regulations, the Agency may 

continue to conduct or sponsor the 

collection of information while this 

submission is pending at OMB. This ICR 

describes the nature of the information 

collection and its estimated burden and 

cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before January 6, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number SFUND–

2004–0005, to (1) EPA online using 

EDOCKET (our preferred method), by 

email to, or by mail to: EPA Docket 

Center, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Superfund Docket, Mail Code 

5202T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB at: 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB), Attention: Desk Officer 

for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Angelo Carasea, OSRTI, Office of Solid 

Waste and Emergency Response, Mail 

Code 5204G, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (703) 603–8828; fax number: 

(202) 603–9104; email address: 

carasea.angelo@epa.gov.