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the target audience for each activity; the 

number and types of TA products 

organized and archived; the number of 

visits to the grantee’s Web site on a 

monthly and annual basis; and a 

quantitative analysis of any customer 

satisfaction survey findings including 

information derived from questions 

about product quality, relevance, and 

utility; and 

(g) Collaborate with other RSA-funded 

TA providers, including, but not limited 

to, the TACE centers, the National 

Clearinghouse of Rehabilitation 

Training Materials, the American Indian 

Vocational Rehabilitation Technical 

Assistance Center, and the Independent 

Living Training and Technical 

Assistance Center, in the provision and 

support of TA activities. 

Types of Priorities: 

When inviting applications for a 

competition using one or more 

priorities, we designate the type of each 

priority as absolute, competitive 

preference, or invitational through a 

notice in the Federal Register. The 

effect of each type of priority follows: 

Absolute priority: Under an absolute 

priority, we consider only applications 

that meet the priority (34 CFR 

75.105(c)(3)). 

Competitive preference priority: 

Under a competitive preference priority, 

we give competitive preference to an 

application by (1) awarding additional 

points, depending on the extent to 

which the application meets the priority 

(34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i)); or (2) selecting 

an application that meets the priority 

over an application of comparable merit 

that does not meet the priority (34 CFR 

75.105(c)(2)(ii)). 

Invitational priority: Under an 

invitational priority, we are particularly 

interested in applications that meet the 

priority. However, we do not give an 

application that meets the priority a 

preference over other applications (34 

CFR 75.105(c)(1)). 

This notice does not preclude us from 

proposing additional priorities, 

requirements, definitions, or selection 

criteria, subject to meeting applicable 

rulemaking requirements. 

Note: This notice does not solicit 

applications. In any year in which we choose 

to use this priority, we invite applications 

through a notice in the Federal Register. 

Executive Order 12866: This notice 

has been reviewed in accordance with 

Executive Order 12866. Under the terms 

of the order, we have assessed the 

potential costs and benefits of this 

regulatory action. 

The potential costs associated with 

this regulatory action are those resulting 

from statutory requirements and those 

we have determined as necessary for 

administering this program effectively 

and efficiently. 

In assessing the potential costs and 

benefits—both quantitative and 

qualitative—of this regulatory action, 

we have determined that the benefits of 

the priority justify the costs. 

We have determined, also, that this 

final regulatory action does not unduly 

interfere with State, local, and tribal 

governments in the exercise of their 

governmental functions. 

Summary of potential costs and 

benefits: 

TA targeted to the specific needs of 

grantees helps them to improve their 

performance and to achieve their 

objectives. Specifically, the provision of 

cost effective TA to State VR agencies in 

areas of national need should result in 

higher quality employment outcomes 

for the individuals with disabilities 

whom these agencies serve. 

Intergovernmental Review: This 

program is subject to Executive Order 

12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR 

part 79. One of the objectives of the 

Executive order is to foster an 

intergovernmental partnership and a 

strengthened federalism. The Executive 

order relies on processes developed by 

State and local governments for 

coordination and review of proposed 

Federal financial assistance. 

This document provides early 

notification of our specific plans and 

actions for this program. 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document in 

an accessible format (e.g., braille, large 

print, audiotape, or compact disc) by 

contacting the Grants and Contracts 

Services Team, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

room 5075, Potomac Center Plaza, 

Washington, DC 20202–2550. 

Telephone: (202) 245–7363. If you use 

a TDD, call the FRS, toll free, at 1–800– 

877–8339. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the 

official edition of the Federal Register 

and the Code of Federal Regulations is 

available via the Federal Digital System 

at: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this 

site you can view this document, as well 

as all other documents of this 

Department published in the Federal 

Register, in text or Adobe Portable 

Document Format (PDF). To use PDF 

you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, 

which is available free at the site. 

You may also access documents of the 

Department published in the Federal 

Register by using the article search 

feature at: http:// 

www.federalregister.gov. Specifically, 

through the advanced search feature at 

this site, you can limit your search to 

documents published by the 

Department. 

Dated: August 10, 2011. 

Alexa Posny, 

Assistant Secretary for Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services. 

[FR Doc. 2011–20708 Filed 8–12–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[OE Docket No. EA–382] 

Application To Export Electric Energy; 

Glacial Energy of Texas, Inc. 

AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of Application. 

SUMMARY: Glacial Energy of Texas, Inc. 

(Glacial) has applied for authority to 

transmit electric energy from the United 

States to Mexico pursuant to section 

202(e) of the Federal Power Act. 

DATES: Comments, protests, or motions 

to intervene must be submitted on or 

before September 14, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Comments, protests, or 

motions to intervene should be 

addressed to: Christopher Lawrence, 

Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy 

Reliability, Mail Code: OE–20, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0350. Because 

of delays in handling conventional mail, 

it is recommended that documents be 

transmitted by overnight mail, by 

electronic mail to 

Christopher.Lawrence@hq.doe.gov, or by 

facsimile to 202–586–8008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher Lawrence (Program Office) 

202–586–5260. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Exports of 

electricity from the United States to a 

foreign country are regulated by the 

Department of Energy (DOE) pursuant to 

sections 301(b) and 402(f) of the 

Department of Energy Organization Act 

(42 U.S.C. 7151(b), 7172(f)) and require 

authorization under section 202(e) of 

the FPA (16 U.S.C. 824a(e)). 

On July 14, 2011, DOE received an 

application from Glacial for authority to 

transmit electric energy from the United 

States to Mexico for five years as a 

power marketer using existing 

international transmission facilities. 

Glacial does not own any electric 

transmission facilities nor does it hold 

a franchised service area. 

The electric energy that Glacial 

proposes to export to Mexico would be 


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surplus energy purchased from electric 

utilities, Federal power marketing 

agencies, and other entities within the 

United States. The existing international 

transmission facilities to be utilized by 

Glacial have previously been authorized 

by Presidential permits issued pursuant 

to Executive Order 10485, as amended, 

and are appropriate for open access 

transmission by third parties. 

Procedural Matters: Any person 

desiring to be heard in this proceeding 

should file a comment or protest to the 

application at the address provided 

above. Protests should be filed in 

accordance with Rule 211 of the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) 

Rules of Practice and Procedures (18 

CFR 385.211). Any person desiring to 

become a party to these proceedings 

should file a motion to intervene at the 

above address in accordance with FERC 

Rule 214 (385.214). Fifteen copies of 

each comment, protest, or motion to 

intervene should be filed with DOE on 

or before the date listed above. 

Comments on the Glacial application 

to export electric energy to Mexico 

should be clearly marked with Docket 

No. EA–382. An additional copy is to be 

filed directly with Michael B. Giery, 

Senior Corporate Counsel, 5326 Yacht 

Haven Grande #36, St. Thomas, VI 

00802. A final decision will be made on 

this application after the environmental 

impacts have been evaluated pursuant 

to DOE’s National Environmental Policy 

Act Implementing Procedures (10 CFR 

part 1021) and a determination is made 

by DOE that the proposed action will 

not have an adverse impact on the 

reliability of the U.S. electric power 

supply system. 

Copies of this application will be 

made available, upon request, for public 

inspection and copying at the address 

provided above, by accessing the 

program Web site at http://www.oe.

energy.gov/permits_pending.htm, or by 

e-mailing Odessa Hopkins at 

Odessa.hopkins@hq.doe.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on August 9, 

2011. 

Anthony J. Como, 

Director, Permitting and Siting, Office of 

Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability. 

[FR Doc. 2011–20661 Filed 8–12–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[DOE/EIS–0458] 

Notice of Availability of the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for a 

Proposed Federal Loan Guarantee To 

Support Construction and Start-up of 

the Topaz Solar Farm, San Luis Obispo 

County, CA 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of the 

Final Environmental Impact Statement. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) announces the availability 

of the Final Environmental Impact 

Statement for the DOE Loan Guarantee 

to Royal Bank of Scotland for 

Construction and Startup of the Topaz 

Solar Farm, San Luis Obispo County, 

California (DOE/EIS–0458) (Final EIS). 

The Final EIS, prepared under the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA), analyzes the potential 

environmental impacts of the DOE’s 

proposed action of issuing a Federal 

loan guarantee to support construction 

and start-up of the Topaz Solar Farm 

Project located in San Luis Obispo 

County, California (Proposed Project). 

The Proposed Project is a nominal 550- 

megawatt solar power generating facility 

based on photovoltaic (PV) technology 

on approximately 3,500 acres of private 

land in San Luis Obispo County, 

California. DOE considered all 

comments received in preparing the EIS 

and incorporated both the comments 

and DOE’s responses in the Final EIS. 

DATES: DOE will publish a Record of 

Decision no sooner than 30 days after 

publication of EPA’s Notice of 

Availability in the Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

obtain additional information about this 

EIS, or to receive a copy of the Final 

EIS, contact Angela Colamaria by 

telephone: 202–287–5387; toll-free 

number: 800–832–0885 ext. 75387; or 

electronic mail: 

Angela.Colamaria@hq.doe.gov. For 

general information on the DOE NEPA 

process, please contact: Ms. Carol M. 

Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA 

Policy and Compliance (GC–54), U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585; telephone: 202– 

586–4600; facsimile: 202–586–7031; 

electronic mail: askNEPA@hq.doe.gov; 

or leave a toll-free message at 800–472– 

2756. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title XVII 

of Energy Policy Act 2005 (EPAct) 

established a Federal loan guarantee 

program for eligible energy projects, and 

was amended by the American Recovery 

and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to create 

Section 1705 of Title XVII (42 U.S.C. 

16516), authorizing a new program for 

rapid deployment of renewable energy 

projects and related manufacturing 

facilities, electric power transmission 

projects, and leading edge biofuels 

projects. The Section 1705 Program is 

designed to address the current 

economic conditions of the nation, in 

part, through financing such projects. 

The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, as 

Lender-Applicant, with Topaz Solar 

Farms, LLC (Topaz) as the borrower, 

applied to DOE for a federal loan 

guarantee under the Solicitation 

entitled, ‘‘Federal Loan Guarantees for 

Commercial Technology Renewable 

Energy Generation Projects under the 

Financial Institution Partnership 

Program’’ (Solicitation No. DE–FOA– 

0000166), issued on October 7, 2009. 

The purpose and need for action by 

DOE is to comply with its mandate 

under EPAct 2005 by selecting eligible 

projects that meet the goals of the 

Section 1705 Program, as summarized 

above. The EIS informs DOE’s decision 

on whether to issue a loan guarantee to 

support the Proposed Project. DOE’s 

proposed action is to issue a loan 

guarantee to support construction and 

startup of the Topaz Solar Farm 

(Proposed Project). The Proposed 

Project would be located in an 

unincorporated portion of eastern San 

Luis Obispo County, California, adjacent 

to Highway 58 and east of Bitterwater 

Road. Topaz has options to purchase 

approximately 10,000 acres of land in 

the project area. The Proposed Project 

would be developed on approximately 

3,500 acres of private land. 

The Proposed Project would consist 

of: a solar field of approximately nine 

million ground-mounted PV modules, 

within up to 460 PV arrays, that collect 

solar radiation to produce electricity; an 

electrical collection system that 

converts generated power from direct 

current (DC) to alternating current (AC) 

and delivers it to a new Project 

substation which collects and converts 

the generated power from 34.5 kV to 230 

kV for delivery via a new Pacific Gas 

and Electric (PG&E) switching station to 

PG&E’s existing Morro Bay-Midway 

230–kV transmission line which runs in 

an east-to-west direction through the 

site and portions of Kern County; and 

the aforementioned PG&E switching 

station that interconnects the Proposed 

Project to PG&E’s existing transmission 

line. After construction, PG&E would 

own and operate the switching station. 

As part of the Proposed Project, Topaz 

would construct and operate a 

Monitoring and Maintenance Facility, 

and may also construct a Solar Energy 


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