Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 246 / Tuesday, December 22, 2020 / Notices 83539 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local, and Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 56. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 6,738. 

Abstract: The National Public 

Education Financial Survey (NPEFS) is 

the Nation’s only source of annual 

statistical information about total 

revenues and expenditures for public 

elementary and secondary education at 

the state level. NCES collects data 

annually from SEAs under Section 

153(a)(1)(I) of the Education Sciences 

Reform Act of 2002, 20 U.S.C. 

9543(a)(1)(I), which authorizes NCES to 

gather data on the financing and 

management of education. NCES and 

the Economic Reimbursable Surveys 

Division of the U.S. Census Bureau 

collaborate to collect public education 

finance data. The U.S. Census Bureau 

(Census), Governments Division, 

administers the NPEFS data collection 

for NCES under interagency agreement. 

NPEFS provides detailed finance data 

at the state level, including average 

daily attendance; school district 

revenues by source (local, state, and 

federal); and expenditures by function 

(instruction, support services, and noninstruction), sub function (e.g., school 

administration), and object (e.g., 

salaries). This survey also includes 

capital outlay and debt service 

expenditures. The NPEFS includes data 

on all public schools from the 50 states, 

the District of Columbia, American 

Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, 

Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin 

Islands. NPEFS serves as both a 

statistical and an administrative 

collection used for a number of federal 

program funding allocations. 

In 2019, NCES requested an extension 

of approval for the NPEFS data 

collection, OMB Control Number 1850– 

0067. NPEFS is an annual collection of 

state-level finance data that have been a 

component of NCES’s Common Core of 

Data (CCD) since FY 1982 (covering 

school year 1981/82). On August 22, 

2019, the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approved the collection 

of state-level finance data for the data 

collections of FY 19–FY 21 data. The 

expiration date is August 31, 2022. The 

statistical uses of NPEFS were 

previously set forth in National Public 

Education Financial Survey (NPEFS) 

2019–2021: Common Core of Data 

(CCD), Supporting Statement Part A, 

OMB# 1850–0067 v.17. 

This submission for 30-day public 

review requests changes to the National 

Public Education Financial Survey 

(NPEFS) data collection. As a direct 

result of the COVID–19 circumstances, 

the National Center for Education 

Statistics (NCES) is requesting to: 

1. Amend the instructions for Average 

Daily Attendance (ADA) on NPEFS; 

2. Obtain approval to send a letter to 

Chief State School Officers (CSSOs) and 

State Fiscal Coordinators pertaining to 

ADA; 

3. Amend the data plan for NPEFS; 

4. Add certain data items to NPEFS; 

5. Make other small changes to FY 20 

NPEFS, based on regular 

communication with state fiscal 

coordinators; and 

6. Change the estimated respondent 

burden and the costs to the federal 

government incurred by the above 

changes. 

Dated: December 17, 2020. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and 

Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, 

Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of 

Planning, Evaluation and Policy 

Development. 

[FR Doc. 2020–28257 Filed 12–21–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Northern New 

Mexico 

AGENCY: Office of Environmental 

Management, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open virtual meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces an 

online virtual meeting of the 

Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), 

Northern New Mexico. The Federal 

Advisory Committee Act requires that 

public notice of this conference call be 

announced in the Federal Register. 

DATES: Wednesday, January 13, 2021; 

1:00 p.m.–4:45 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held 

virtually via Webex. To attend, please 

contact Menice Santistevan by email, 

Menice.Santistevan@em.doe.gov, no 

later than 5:00 p.m. MST on Monday, 

January 11, 2021. 

To Sign Up For Public Comment: 

Please contact Menice Santistevan by 

email, Menice.Santistevan@em.doe.gov, 

no later than 5:00 p.m. MST on Monday, 

January 11, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Menice Santistevan, Northern New 

Mexico Citizens’ Advisory Board 

(NNMCAB), 94 Cities of Gold Road, 

Santa Fe, NM 87506. Phone (505) 995– 

0393 or Email: Menice.Santistevan@

em.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Board: The purpose of 

the Board is to make recommendations 

to DOE–EM and site management in the 

areas of environmental restoration, 

waste management, and related 

activities. 

Tentative Agenda 

• Call to Order 

• Welcome and Introductions 

• Roll Call 

• Overview and Approval of Agenda 

• Approval of November 18, 2020 

Minutes 

• Old Business 

Æ Report from NNMCAB Chair and Vice 

Chair 

Æ Report from Committee Chairs 

Æ Consideration and Action on Draft 

Recommendation 2020–03: Need for 

Native America, Hispanic, and Other 

Traditional Lifestyle Special 

Pathways Exposure Scenario for EM 

Los Alamos Field Office Campaigns 

[tabled during November 18, 2020 

meeting] 

Æ Other Items 

• New Business 

• Presentation on Legacy Transition 

Materials Project 

• Update from EM Los Alamos Field 

Office 

• Update from NNMCAB Deputy 

Designated Federal Officer 

• Update from N3B 

• Update from New Mexico 

Environment Department 

• Presentation on N3B Labor Force 

Demographics 

• Public Comment Period 

• February 2021 Meeting Schedule and 

Presentation Requests 

• Wrap-Up and Comments from 

NNMCAB Members 

• Adjourn 

Public Participation: The online 

virtual meeting is open to the public. 

Written statements may be filed with 

the Board either before or within five 

days after the meeting by sending them 

to Menice Santistevan at the 

aforementioned email address. The 

Deputy Designated Federal Officer is 

empowered to conduct the conference 

call in a fashion that will facilitate the 

orderly conduct of business. Individuals 

wishing to make public comments will 

be provided a maximum of five minutes 

to present their comments. 

Minutes: Minutes will be available by 

writing or calling Menice Santistevan at 

the address or telephone number listed 

above. Minutes and other Board 

documents are on the internet at: 

https://www.energy.gov/em/nnmcab/ 

meeting-materials. 


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83540 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 246 / Tuesday, December 22, 2020 / Notices 

Signed in Washington, DC, on December 

17, 2020. 

LaTanya Butler, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2020–28203 Filed 12–21–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 1855–050] 

Great River Hydro, LLC; Notice 

Establishing Procedural Schedule for 

Licensing and Deadline for 

Submission of Final Amendments 

Take notice that the following 

amended hydroelectric application has 

been filed with the Commission and is 

available for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: New Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: 1855–050. 

c. Date Material Amendments Filed: 

December 7, 2020. 

d. Applicant: Great River Hydro, LLC 

(Great River Hydro). 

e. Name of Project: Bellows Falls 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: The existing project is 

located on the Connecticut River in 

Windsor and Windham Counties, 

Vermont, and Sullivan and Cheshire 

Counties, New Hampshire. There are no 

federal lands within the project 

boundary. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: John Ragonese, 

FERC License Manager, Great River 

Hydro, LLC, 40 Pleasant Street, Suite 

202, Portsmouth, NH 03801; (603) 498– 

2851 or jragonese@greatriverhydro.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Steve Kartalia, (202) 

502–6131 or stephen.kartalia@ferc.gov. 

j. This application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

k. Great River Hydro filed an 

application for a new license for the 

Bellows Falls Hydroelectric Project No. 

1855 on May 1, 2017. In the license 

application, Great River Hydro stated 

that it could not develop a complete 

licensing proposal for the project since 

many of the required environmental 

studies were not complete as of May 1, 

2017. Great River Hydro indicated that 

it would amend the license application 

after completing additional field work, 

consultation, and analyses on the 

required studies. Great River Hydro 

filed material amendments to the final 

license application on December 7, 

2020. 

l. Project Description: The existing 

Bellows Falls Project consists of: (1) A 

643-foot-long, 30-foot-high concrete 

dam that includes: (a) Two 18-foot-high, 

115-foot-wide steel roller gates; (b) two 

13-foot-high, 121-foot-wide stanchion 

flashboards; and (c) a 13-foot-high, 100- 

foot-wide stanchion flashboard; (2) a 26- 

mile-long, 2,804-acre impoundment 

with a useable storage volume of 7,467 

acre-feet between elevations 288.63 and 

291.63 feet National Geodetic Vertical 

Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29); (3) a 1,700- 

foot-long, 36- to 100-foot-wide, 29-footdeep stone-lined power canal; (4) a 

130.25-foot-wide concrete forebay that 

includes trashracks with 4-inch clear 

bar spacing; (5) a 186-foot-long, 106- 

foot-wide, 52-foot-high steel frame, 

brick powerhouse containing three 13.6- 

megawatt (MW) vertical Francis turbinegenerator units, for a total project 

capacity of 40.8 MW; (6) three 

approximately 20-foot-high, 31-footwide concrete draft tubes; (7) a 900-footlong tailrace; (8) a 12-foot-wide, 10-foothigh ice sluice; (9) three 80-foot-long, 

6.6-kilovolt generator leads that connect 

the turbine-generator units to two stepup transformers; (10) a 920-foot-long, 8- 

foot-wide fishway; (11) a concrete fish 

barrier dam in the bypassed reach; and 

(12) appurtenant facilities. 

Great River Hydro operates the project 

in coordination with its upstream 

Wilder Project No. 1892 and 

downstream Vernon Project No. 1904 

and in a peaking mode. Average annual 

generation is approximately 239,070 

MW-hours. Great River Hydro is 

proposing changes to project operation 

that would reduce impoundment 

fluctuations and increase the stability of 

downstream flow releases relative to 

current project operation, including 

targeted water surface elevation levels 

and flow ramping rates. Great River 

Hydro proposes several protection, 

mitigation, and enhancement measures 

for aquatic, terrestrial, cultural, and 

recreation resources, and threatened and 

endangered species. The specific 

proposed changes are described in the 

amended application. 

m. In addition to publishing the full 

text of this notice in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

notice, as well as other documents in 

the proceeding (e.g., license application) 

via the internet through the 

Commission’s Home Page (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 (P–1855). 

At this time, the Commission has 

suspended access to the Commission’s 

Public Reference Room due to the 

proclamation declaring a National 

Emergency concerning the Novel 

Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19) issued 

by the President on March 13, 2020. For 

assistance, contact FERC at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (866) 208–3676 or (202) 502– 

8659 (TTY). 

n. You may also register online at 

https://ferconline.ferc.gov/ 

FERCOnline.aspx to be notified via 

email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

o. Procedural Schedule: The 

application will be processed according 

to the following preliminary Hydro 

Licensing Schedule. Revisions to the 

schedule may be made as appropriate. 

Milestone Target date 

Commission issues letter identifying application deficiencies and requesting additional information ............................................. January 2021. 

Notice of Acceptance/Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis ................................................................................................ May 2021. 

Filing of recommendations, preliminary terms and conditions, and fishway prescriptions .............................................................. July 2021. 

Reply Comments due ....................................................................................................................................................................... August 2021. 


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