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Project (CVP) has total contractual 

obligations and delivery losses of 

approximately 3.45 million acre-feet per 

year. The theoretical maximum 

pumping capability of CVP facilities 

serving this area is approximately 3.09 

million acre-feet per year. Available 

supplies are apportioned under a 

hierarchy of allocation in which 

agricultural water service contracts, 

totaling about 1.85 million acre-feet per 

year, are provided water only after all 

other obligations are met. 

Implementation of the CVPIA (1992), 

Endangered Species Act (1993–1995), 

and revised Bay-Delta water quality 

standards have further reduced 

pumping capabilities and water 

supplies available to agricultural 

contractors. Currently agricultural 

contractors can expect to receive a longterm average supply of about 50 to 55 

percent of contract water as compared to 

a pre-1992 average of 88 to 92 percent. 

Alternatives identified and evaluated, 

based on criteria adopted to maintain 

environmental quality, provide for 

continued agricultural production and 

include the proposed project, 

construction of new wells, and 

fallowing of farmland. The project 

proponents propose to pump up to 

269,600 acre-feet of groundwater over 

the 10-year period from non-CVP wells 

located adjacent to the Mendota Pool 

into the Mendota Pool to make up for 

a portion of the annual shortfall in the 

contract water to be delivered via the 

CVP. The actual quantity of water to be 

pumped would depend on whether the 

year is classified as wet (0 acre-feet per 

year), normal (maximum of 31,600 acrefeet per year), or dry (maximum of 

40,000 acre-feet per year). As part of this 

program, a maximum of 12,000 acre-feet 

per year of groundwater would be 

pumped from deep wells (i.e., screened 

interval greater than 130 feet deep), with 

the remainder coming from shallow 

wells (i.e., screened interval less than 

130 feet deep). The proposed project 

will comply with the terms specified in 

the Settlement Agreement for Mendota 

Pool Transfer Pumping Program,

effective January 1, 2001. 

The Federal action contemplated in 

the EIS is the exchange with 

Reclamation of a maximum of 25,000 

acre-feet of the total quantity pumped 

each year. This water would be made 

available to Reclamation in the Mendota 

Pool to offset their existing water 

contract obligations. In exchange, 

Reclamation would make an equivalent 

amount of CVP water available to the 

members of the Mendota Pool Group for 

irrigation purposes at Check 13 of the 

Delta-Mendota Canal. Any quantity of 

water pumped by the Mendota Pool 

Group beyond the 25,000 acre-feet 

exchanged is not part of the Federal 

action, but is evaluated in the EIS. The 

water pumped in excess of the 25,000 

acre-feet exchanged with Reclamation 

would be delivered directly to other 

lands that are presently under irrigation 

around the Pool.

The primary environmental resource 

issues that are evaluated in the EIS 

include groundwater levels, 

groundwater quality, subsidence, 

surface water quality, and biological 

resources. Other resource areas 

evaluated include cost of water, CVP 

operations, archaeological and cultural 

resources, Indian Trust assets, 

environmental justice, socioeconomic 

resources, land use, transportation, air 

quality, and noise. 

There are no known Indian Trust 

Assets or environmental justice issues 

associated with the proposed action. 

Reclamation published the notice of 

availability of the draft EIS in the 

Federal Register on Tuesday, July 29, 

2003 (68 FR 44542). The 60-day written 

comment period ended on September 

29, 2003. Reclamation obtained public 

input on the scope of the project and 

potential alternatives through 

solicitation of comment letters and a 

public scoping meeting. Ten comment 

letters were received. The final EIS 

addresses the comments received on the 

draft EIS both as revisions to the text, 

and in an appendix that provides 

specific responses to each comment. 

It is Reclamation’s practice to publicly 

disclose respondents’ comments, 

including names and addresses. 

Respondents may request that their 

address be withheld from disclosure; 

this will be honored to the extent 

allowable by law. There may also be 

circumstances in which a respondent’s 

identity may be withheld from 

disclosure; again, this will be honored 

to the extent allowable by law. If you 

wish us to withhold your name and/or 

address, you must state this 

prominently at the beginning of your 

comment. All submissions from 

organizations or businesses will be 

publicly disclosed in their entirety.

Dated: November 29, 2004. 

Kirk C. Rodgers, 

Regional Director, Mid-Pacfic Region.

[FR Doc. 04–27006 Filed 12–8–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MN–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation 

Change in Discount Rate for Water 

Resources Planning

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of change.

SUMMARY: The Water Resources 

Planning Act of 1965 and the Water 

Resources Development Act of 1974 

require an annual determination of a 

discount rate for Federal water 

resources planning. The discount rate 

for Federal water resources planning for 

fiscal year 2005 is 5.375 percent. 

Discounting is to be used to convert 

future monetary values to present 

values.

DATES: This discount rate is to be used 

for the period October 1, 2004, through 

and including September 30, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sandra L. Simons, Manager, Contract 

Services Office, Denver, Colorado, 

80225; telephone: 303–445–2902.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that the interest rate to be 

used by Federal agencies in the 

formulation and evaluation of plans for 

water and related land resources is 

5.375 percent for fiscal year 2005. 

This rate has been computed in 

accordance with Section 80(a), Pub. L. 

93–251 (88.Stat 34) and 18 CFR 704.39, 

which: (1) Specify that the rate shall be 

based upon the average yield during the 

preceding fiscal year on interest-bearing 

marketable securities of the United 

States which, at the time the 

computation is made, have terms of 15 

years or more remaining to maturity 

(average yield is rounded to nearest oneeighth percent); and (2) provide that the 

rate shall not be raised or lowered more 

than one-quarter of 1 percent for any 

year. The Treasury Department 

calculated the specified average to be 

5.088 percent. Rounding this average 

yield to the nearest one-eighth percent 

is 5.125 percent, which exceeds the 

permissible one-quarter of 1 percent 

change from fiscal year 2004 to 2005. 

Therefore, the change is limited to onequarter of 1 percent. 

The rate of 5.375 percent shall be 

used by all Federal agencies in the 

formulation and evaluation of water and 

related land resources plans for the 

purpose of discounting future benefits 

and computing costs or otherwise 

converting benefits and costs to a 

common time basis.

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Dated: November 13, 2004. 

Roseann Gonzales, 

Director, Office of Program and Policy 

Services.

[FR Doc. 04–27024 Filed 12–8–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MN–P

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

December 1, 2004. 

The Department of Labor (DOL) has 

submitted the following public 

information collection request (ICR) to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13, 

44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). A copy of each 

ICR, with applicable supporting 

documentation, may be obtained by 

contacting the Department of Labor 

(DOL). To obtain documentation, 

contact Ira Mills on (202) 693–4122 (this 

is not a toll-free number) or e-mail: 

mills.ira@dol.gov.

Comments should be sent to Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attn: OMB Desk Officer for DOL, Office 

of Management and Budget, Room 

10235, Washington, DC 20503 (202) 

395–7316 (this is not a toll-free 

number), within 30 days from the date 

of this publication in the Federal 

Register.

The OMB is particularly interested in 

comments which: 

• 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; 

• 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; 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• 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. 

Agency: Employment and Training 

Administration. 

Type of Review: New collection. 

Title: Unemployment Insurance 

Facilitation of Claimant Reemployment. 

OMB Number: 1205–0NEW. 

Frequency: Quarterly. 

Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal 

Government; Federal Government. 

Number of Respondents: 53. 

Number of Annual Responses: 212. 

Total Burden Hours: 2,120. 

Estimated Time Per Response: 10 

Hours. 

Total annualized capital/startup 

costs: $145,750. 

Total annual costs (operating/

maintaining systems or purchasing 

services): $79,500. 

Description: The Department of Labor 

requests approval to establish a system 

to collect data at the state level on the 

percentage of individuals who become 

reemployed in the calendar quarter 

subsequent to the quarter in which they 

received their first Unemployment 

Insurance (UI) payment. This data will 

be used to measure performance for the 

Department’s Government Performance 

and Results Act of 1993 goal of 

facilitating the reemployment of UI 

claimants.

Ira L. Mills, 

Departmental Clearance Officer.

[FR Doc. 04–27012 Filed 12–8–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–30–P

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary 

Submission for OMB Review: 

Comment Request 

December 2, 2004. 

The Department of Labor (DOL) has 

submitted the following public 

information collection requests (ICRs) to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13, 

44 U.S.C. chapter 35). A copy of each 

ICR, with applicable supporting 

documentation, may be obtained by 

contacting Darrin King on 202–693–

4129 (this is not a toll-free number) or 

e-mail: king.darrin@dol.gov.

Comments should be sent to Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attn: OMB Desk Officer for the Bureau 

of Labor Statistics (BLS), Office of 

Management and Budget, Room 10235, 

Washington, DC 20503, 202–395–7316 

(this is not a toll-free number), within 

30 days from the date of this publication 

in the Federal Register. 

The OMB is particularly interested in 

comments which: 

• 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; 

• 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; 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• 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. 

Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Title: Census of Fatal Occupational 

Injuries. 

OMB Number: 1220–0133. 

Form Number: BLS CFOI–1. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Type of Response: Reporting. 

Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal 

Government; individuals or households; 

business or other for-profit; not-forprofit institutions; farms; and Federal 

Government. 

Number of Respondents: 1,345. 

Number of Annual Responses: 27,750. 

Estimated Time Per Response: 10 

minutes to compile source documents 

and 20 minutes to complete the Form 

BLS CFOI–1. 

Total Burden Hours: 4,813.

Total Annualized Capital/Startup 

Costs: $0. 

Total Annual Costs (Operating/

Maintaining Systems or Purchasing 

Services): $0. 

Description: The Census of Fatal 

Occupational Injuries provides 

policymakers and the public with 

comprehensive, verifiable, and timely 

measures of fatal work injuries. Data are 

compiled from various Federal, State, 

and local sources and include 

information on how the incident 

occurred as well as various 

characteristics of the employer and the 

deceased worker. The information is 

used for surveillance of fatal work 

injuries and for developing prevention 

strategies. 

Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Type of Review: Reinstatement, 

without change, of a previously 

approved collection. 

Title: Contingent Work Supplement to 

the CPS. 

OMB Number: 1220–0153. 

Form Number: None. 

Frequency: One time. 

Type of Response: Reporting.