Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 67 / Thursday, April 8, 2010 / Notices 17913 

Signed: 

Gracia Hillman, 

Commissioner, U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2010–8171 Filed 4–6–10; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6820–KF–P 

ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act; Notice of Virtual Public 

Forum for EAC Standards Board 

DATE & TIME: Monday, May 3, 2010, 9 

a.m. EDT through Friday, May 14, 2010, 

9 p.m. EDT. 

PLACE: EAC Standards Board Virtual 

Meeting Room at http://www.eac.gov. 

Once at the main page of EAC’s Web 

site, viewers should click the link to the 

Standards Board Virtual Meeting Room. 

The virtual meeting room will open on 

Monday, May 3, 2010, at 9 a.m. EDT and 

will close on Friday, May 14, 2010, at 

9 p.m. EDT. The site will be available 

24 hours per day during that 12-day 

period. 

PURPOSE: The EAC Standards Board will 

review and provide comment on a draft 

version of the EAC Research 

Department’s Recounts and Contests 

study. The draft version contains 

information about the laws and 

procedures each States uses to govern 

recounts, contests, and standards for 

what constitutes a valid vote. The study 

includes best practices that States use 

with respect to recounts and contests. 

The EAC Standards Board Virtual 

Meeting Room was established to enable 

the Standards Board to conduct 

business in an efficient manner in a 

public forum, including being able to 

review and discuss draft documents, 

when it is not feasible for an in-person 

board meeting. The Standards Board 

will not take any votes or propose any 

resolutions during the 12-day forum of 

May 3–May 14, 2010. Members will post 

comments about the draft version of the 

Recounts and Contests study. 

This activity is open to the public. 

The public may view the proceedings of 

this special forum by visiting the EAC 

standards board virtual meeting room at 

http://www.eac.gov at any time between 

Monday, May 3, 2010, 9 a.m. EDT and 

Friday, May 14, 2010, 9 p.m. EDT. The 

public also may view recounts and 

contests, which will be posted on EAC’s 

Web site beginning April 26, 2010. The 

public may file written statements to the 

EAC standards board at 

standardsboard@eac.gov and by 

copying Sharmili Edwards at 

sedwards@eac.gov. Data on EAC’s Web 

site is accessible to visitors with 

disabilities and meets the requirements 

of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. 

PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION: 

Bryan Whitener, Telephone: (202) 566– 

3100. 

Gineen Bresso Beach, 

Commissioner, U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2010–8174 Filed 4–6–10; 4:15 pm] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Maintenance and Vegetation 

Management Along Existing Western 

Area Power Administration 

Transmission Line Rights of Way on 

National Forest System Lands, 

Colorado, Utah, and Nebraska (DOE/ 

EIS–0442) 

AGENCIES: Western Area Power 

Administration, DOE; Forest Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement and to 

Conduct Scoping Meetings; Notice of 

Floodplain and Wetlands Involvement. 

SUMMARY: Western Area Power 

Administration (Western) proposes to 

improve the way it manages vegetation 

along its rights-of-way (ROW) on 

National Forest System lands in the 

states of Colorado, Utah, and Nebraska. 

Implementing the proposal would 

include modifying existing United 

States Forest Service (Forest Service) 

authorizations or issuing new 

authorizations to accommodate 

Western’s vegetation management 

proposal and maintenance of the 

electrical transmission facilities. 

Western and the FS will be joint lead 

agencies in the preparation of an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

on the proposal in accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA), U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) NEPA Implementing 

Procedures, and the Council on 

Environmental Quality (CEQ) 

regulations for implementing NEPA. 

Western’s need for agency action is to 

ensure that it can safely and reliably 

operate and maintain its existing 

electrical transmission facilities. 

Western must meet North American 

Electric Reliability Corporation’s 

mandatory vegetation management and 

maintenance standards (FAC–003–1) in 

accordance with section 1211 of the 

Energy Policy Act of 2005 and industry 

standards. These industry standards are 

designed to ensure the safe and reliable 

operation of the transmission system. 

Portions of the proposed Project may 

affect floodplains and wetlands, so this 

Notice of Intent (NOI) also serves as a 

notice of proposed floodplain or 

wetland action, in accordance with DOE 

floodplain and wetland environmental 

review requirements. 

DATES: This NOI begins the public 

scoping period. The public scoping 

period will close May 26, 2010. Western 

and the Forest Service will consider all 

electronic and written scoping 

comments that are received or 

postmarked by midnight May 26, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Western and the Forest 

Service will host public scoping 

meetings on Thursday, April 22, 2010, 

at the Ramada Plaza Denver North, 10 

East 120th Avenue, Denver, CO 80233; 

Friday, April 23, 2010, at the Museum 

of Western Colorado, Whitman 

Educational Center, 248 S. 4th (4th and 

Ute), Grand Junction, CO 81501; and 

Monday, April 26, 2010, at the Uintah 

Basin Applied Technology College, 450 

N. 2000 W., Vernal, UT 84078. Scoping 

meetings will be from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. 

The meetings will provide information 

to the public and gather comments from 

the public. The meetings will be 

informal, and attendees will be able to 

speak directly with Western and FS 

representatives about the proposal. 

Attendees may provide written 

comments at the public scoping 

meetings, or send them to James 

Hartman, Environmental Manager, 

Rocky Mountain Regional Office, 

Western Area Power Administration, 

P.O. Box 3700, Loveland, CO 80539– 

3003, e-mail: Western-FSEIS@wapa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the proposal and the 

environmental review process, contact 

James Hartman at the above address. For 

general information on DOE’s NEPA 

review process, contact Carol M. 

Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA 

Policy and Compliance, GC–54, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0119, telephone 

(202) 586–4600 or (800) 472–2756, 

facsimile (202) 586–7031. For 

information on the Forest Service role in 

this effort, please contact David Loomis, 

Regional Environmental Planner, Rocky 

Mountain Regional Office, U.S. Forest 

Service, 740 Simms St., Golden, CO 

80401 (303) 275–5008. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Western is 

a Federal power marketing agency 

within the DOE that markets and 

delivers Federal wholesale electric 

power (principally hydroelectric power) 


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