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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nelson Hastings, NIST Voting Program, 

Information Technology Laboratory, 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 

8930, Gaithersburg, MD 20899–8930, 

telephone: (301) 975–5237. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

5 U.S.C. App., notice is hereby given 

that the TGDC will meet Thursday, 

January 13, 2011 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., Eastern time, and Friday, January 

14, 2011 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 

Eastern time. Topics that will be 

discussed at the meeting include 

UOCAVA (Uniformed and Overseas 

Citizens Absentee Voting Act), 

Auditability, and Usability and 

Accessibility issues. The full meeting 

agenda will be posted in advance at 

http://vote.nist.gov. All sessions of this 

meeting will be open to the public. A 

live Webcast of this meeting will be 

available at http://vote.nist.gov. 

The TGDC was established pursuant 

to 42 U.S.C. 15361, to act in the public 

interest to assist the Executive Director 

of the Election Assistance Commission 

(EAC) in the development of voluntary 

voting system guidelines. Details 

regarding the TGDC’s activities are 

available at http://vote.nist.gov. 

All visitors to the National Institute of 

Standards and Technology site will 

have to pre-register to be admitted. 

Anyone wishing to attend this meeting 

must register by c.o.b. Thursday, 

January 6, 2011, in order to attend. 

Please submit your name, time of 

arrival, e-mail address and phone 

number to Mary Lou Norris or Angela 

Ellis, and they will provide you with 

instructions for admittance. Non-U.S. 

citizens must also submit their country 

of citizenship, title, employer/sponsor, 

and address. Mary Lou Norris’ e-mail 

address is marylou.norris@nist.gov, and 

her phone number is (301) 975–2002. 

Angela Ellis’ e-mail address is 

angela.ellis@nist.gov, and her phone 

number is (301) 975–3881. 

If you are in need of a disability 

accommodation, such as the need for 

Sign Language Interpretation, please 

contact Nelson Hastings by c.o.b. 

Thursday, January 6, 2011. 

Members of the public who wish to 

speak at this meeting may send a 

request to participate to Nelson Hastings 

by c.o.b. Thursday, January 6, 2011. 

Individuals and representatives of 

organizations who would like to offer 

comments and suggestions related to the 

Committee’s affairs are invited to 

request a place on the agenda. On 

January 13, 2011, approximately 30 

minutes will be reserved for public 

comments at the end of the open 

session. Speaking times will be assigned 

on a first-come, first-served basis. The 

amount of time per speaker will be 

determined by the number of requests 

received, but is likely to be no more 

than 3 to 5 minutes each. Participants 

who are chosen will receive 

confirmation from the contact listed 

above that they were selected by 12 p.m. 

Eastern time on Tuesday, January 11, 

2011. 

The general public, including those 

who are not selected to speak, may 

submit written comments, which will be 

distributed to TGDC members so long as 

they are received no later than 12 p.m. 

Eastern time on Tuesday, January 11, 

2011. All comments will also be posted 

on http://vote.nist.gov. 

Donetta Davidson, 

Chair, U.S. Election Assistance Commission. 

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BILLING CODE 6820–KF–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Notice of Intent To Prepare a 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement for the Hawai‘i Interisland 

Renewable Energy Program: Wind 

(DOE/EIS–0459) 

AGENCY: Department of Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS). 

SUMMARY: DOE announces its intention 

to prepare a Programmatic EIS with the 

State of Hawai‘i as joint lead agencies 

pursuant to the National Environmental 

Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 and the 

Hawai‘i Environmental Policy Act. The 

Hawai‘i Interisland Renewable Energy 

Program: Wind Programmatic 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(hereinafter referred to as the Hawai‘i 

Wind EIS or the EIS) will assess the 

foreseeable environmental impacts 

which may arise from wind energy 

development under the Hawai‘i 

Interisland Renewable Energy Program 

(HIREP). Hawai‘i proposes to facilitate 

the development of wind-generated 

electric energy and the required 

improvements to the existing electric 

transmission infrastructure in Hawai‘i. 

This EIS is the first phase of a 

programmatic environmental review of 

developing and increasing renewable 

energy technologies in Hawai‘i. 

DATES: The public scoping period starts 

with the publication of this Notice in 

the Federal Register. Comments on the 

scope of the EIS should be submitted by 

March 1, 2011. Comments e-mailed or 

postmarked after that date will be 

considered to the extent practicable. 

DOE and Hawai‘i will hold public 

scoping meetings in the first quarter of 

2011. Dates will be announced in the 

Federal Register, on the DOE NEPA 

Web site at http://www.nepa.energy.gov, 

on the EIS Web site at http://www.hirepwind.com, and in local media at least 15 

days before each meeting. 

ADDRESSES: DOE and Hawai‘i will 

announce locations of scoping meetings 

as indicated in DATES. Send comments 

on the scope of the Hawai‘i Wind EIS or 

a request to be added to the EIS 

distribution list: 

• By e-mail to comments@hirepwind.com. 

• By submitting electronic comments 

on the EIS Web page at http:// 

www.hirep-wind.com. 

• By facsimile (fax) to 808–586–2536, 

Attention Allen G. Kam. 

• By mail to Allen G. Kam, Esq., 

AICP, HIREP EIS Manager, State of 

Hawai‘i, Department of Business, 

Economic Development and Tourism, 

Renewable Energy Branch, State Energy 

Office, P.O. Box 2359, Honolulu, HI 

96804. 

Information on the HIREP: Wind 

Phase is available at the EIS Web site at 

http://www.hirep-wind.com. This Notice 

of Intent, and the draft and final EIS 

when issued, also will be posted on the 

DOE NEPA Web site at http:// 

www.nepa.energy.gov. These documents 

and additional materials relating to this 

EIS will be available at: 

• Hawai‘i State Library, 478 South 

King Street, Honolulu HI 96813. 

• La ̄na‘i Public and School Library, 

555 Fraser Ave, La ̄na‘i City, HI 96763. 

• Wailuku Public Library, 251 High 

Street, Wailuku, HI 96793. 

• Moloka‘i Public Library, 15 

Alamalama, Kaunakakai, HI 96748. 

• Edwin H. Mo‘okini Library, 

University of Hawai‘i–Hilo, 200 West 

Ka ̄wili Street, Hilo, HI 96720–4091. 

• Kailua-Kona Public Library, 75–138 

Huala ̄lai Road, Kailua-Kona, HI 96740– 

1704. 

• Lı ̄hu‘e Public Library, 4344 Hardy 

Street, Lı ̄hu‘e, HI 96766. 

• DOE Freedom of Information Act 

Public Reading Room, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on DOE’s proposed action, 

contact Anthony J. Como, DOE NEPA 

Document Manager, Office of Electricity 

Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE–20), 

U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 


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Washington, DC 20585; or at 

anthony.como@hq.doe.gov. For general 

information about the DOE NEPA 

process, contact Carol Borgstrom, 

Director, Office of NEPA Policy and 

Compliance (GC–54), U.S. Department 

of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20585; or at 800– 

472–2756 or askNEPA@hq.doe.gov. 

For information on the Hawai‘i 

Interisland Renewable Energy Program, 

contact Mr. Allen G. Kam, Esq., AICP, 

HIREP EIS Manager, State of Hawai‘i, 

Department of Business, Economic 

Development and Tourism, Renewable 

Energy Branch, State Energy Office, P.O. 

Box 2359, Honolulu, HI 96804; or at 

808–587–9023 or 

hirep@dbedt.hawaii.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Background 

Section 355 of the Energy Policy Act 

of 2005 (EPAct) requires the Secretary of 

Energy to assess the economic 

implications of the dependence of the 

State of Hawai‘i on oil as a principal 

source of energy, including the 

technical and economic feasibility of 

increasing the contribution of renewable 

energy resources for the generation of 

electricity on an island by island basis. 

Such an assessment is to include, 

among other factors, siting and facility 

configuration, the effects on utility 

system reliability, and environmental 

considerations. In furtherance of the 

provisions of section 355 of EPAct, DOE 

and Hawai‘i executed a Memorandum of 

Understanding (MOU) in January 2008 

that established the Hawai‘i Clean 

Energy Initiative (HCEI) and a long-term 

partnership between DOE and Hawai‘i 

to implement the initiative. HCEI has a 

goal of providing 70 percent of the 

state’s primary energy from clean energy 

sources by 2030 by replacing 40 percent 

of fossil fuel use with renewable energy 

and reducing energy consumption by 30 

percent through energy efficiency 

measures. Of the alternative renewable 

energy sources available in Hawai‘i— 

including wind, geothermal, solar, 

biomass, ocean thermal energy 

conversion, and wave—wind power has 

been identified as the most 

commercially available and 

economically viable option at the 

present time. The island of O‘ahu, with 

80 percent of the state’s population, is 

the island with the greatest energy 

demand; however, the island does not 

contain sufficient renewable energy 

potential to meet the HCEI’s goals. The 

islands of Maui, La ̄na‘i, and Moloka‘i 

have the most abundant and viable 

wind resources of those islands closest 

to O‘ahu. The analysis provided in the 

O‘ahu Wind Integration and 

Transmission Study (November 2010) 

(additional information at http:// 

www.nrel.gov/wind/systemsintegration/ 

owits.html), prepared by DOE’s National 

Renewable Energy Laboratory, 

concluded that bringing 400 megawatts 

(MW) of wind-generated power to O‘ahu 

via undersea cable (i.e., the Hawai‘i 

Interisland Wind Program) is 

technically feasible and should be 

considered an important part in 

reaching the HCEI’s goals. Subsequent 

environmental reviews may address 

non-wind renewable technologies. 

2. Environmental Review Process 

The Hawai‘i Wind EIS will be 

prepared pursuant to NEPA, as 

amended, the Council on Environmental 

Quality (CEQ) NEPA regulations (40 

CFR parts 1500–1508), the DOE NEPA 

implementing procedures (10 CFR part 

1021), and the Hawai‘i Environmental 

Policy Act (Hawai‘i Revised Statutes 

(HRS) chapter 343). The EIS will assess 

the potential environmental impacts 

from the development of wind 

generation facilities, the transmission 

required to deliver the wind-generated 

energy to O‘ahu, and the required 

improvements to the existing electric 

transmission infrastructure on O‘ahu. 

Because the proposed actions and 

alternatives may involve activities in 

floodplains and wetlands, the draft EIS 

may include a floodplain and wetland 

assessment prepared in accordance with 

10 CFR part 1022, Compliance with 

Floodplain and Wetland Environmental 

Review Requirements. The proposed 

actions and alternatives will involve 

undersea transmission cables that will 

transect federal Outer Continental Shelf 

waters, where the Department of the 

Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Regulation and 

Enforcement (BOEMRE) has exclusive 

authority over right-of-way grants for 

undersea renewable energy transmission 

cables. 

DOE and Hawai‘i invite agencies, 

Native Hawaiian and other 

organizations, and members of the 

public to participate in developing the 

scope of the EIS—that is, the proposed 

actions, the range of reasonable 

alternatives and environmental impacts 

and other issues to be considered—by 

submitting written comments and by 

participating in public scoping meetings 

that DOE and Hawai‘i will conduct 

jointly. DOE and Hawai‘i also invite 

those agencies with jurisdiction by law 

or special expertise to be cooperating 

agencies in EIS preparation. 

3. DOE Purpose and Need for Agency 

Action and Proposed Action 

DOE’s purpose and need for agency 

action is to meet its obligations under 

section 355 of EPAct and the 2008 MOU 

with Hawai‘i to transform the way in 

which renewable energy and efficiency 

resources are planned and used in the 

State. DOE’s proposed action is to work 

with and support Hawai‘i in the 

implementation of the HCEI. 

4. Hawai‘i’s Purpose and Need for State 

Action and Proposed Action 

Hawai‘i’s purpose and need for action 

is to determine how to use its wind 

energy resources to meet the 2030 goals 

set forth in the HCEI. Hawai‘i’s 

proposed action is to facilitate 

renewable energy development that will 

be required for the State of Hawai‘i to 

meet the HCEI renewable energy goals, 

including the development of wind 

resources on the islands of Maui, La ̄na‘i, 

and/or Moloka‘i and the required 

improvements to the existing electric 

transmission infrastructure, including 

undersea cables to transmit renewable 

energy generation to O‘ahu. 

5. Alternatives 

Alternatives to be analyzed in this EIS 

include the proposed action, which 

would provide for the implementation 

of an oversight program to develop up 

to 400 MW of wind energy on the Maui 

County islands of Maui, La ̄na‘i, and/or 

Moloka‘i and transmission of that 

energy to O‘ahu. A range of wind 

development projects could be pursued 

under the proposed action, and include 

varying power capacities and 

configurations among the islands, 

undersea cable corridors and routes, and 

locational criteria for landing sites (see 

www.hirep-wind.com for additional 

information including conceptual 

maps). The EIS will address scenarios 

under the proposed action that consider 

a programmatic approach to all wind 

energy deriving from a single island in 

Maui County (i.e., Maui, La ̄na‘i, or 

Moloka‘i) and all wind energy deriving 

from a combination of generation on 

two or more islands in Maui County, 

along with associated programmatic 

approaches to cable corridors and routes 

and landing site locations. The EIS will 

also analyze a no-action alternative. 

6. Preliminary Identification of 

Environmental Issues 

The EIS will evaluate the full range of 

potential environmental, social, 

cultural, and economic impacts 

associated with a proposed wind energy 

program encompassing the islands of 

Maui, La ̄na‘i and Moloka‘i and use areas 

on O‘ahu. The EIS also will include a 


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cultural impact assessment prepared in 

accordance with Hawai‘i law, 

specifically Act 50, SLH 2000. 

Impacts will be analyzed across a 

number of resource areas, including: 

• Air quality (including climate 

change and greenhouse gas emissions). 

• Water resources and drainage. 

• Coastal zone resources. 

• Geography, geology, and soils. 

• Land and submerged land use. 

• Threatened and endangered 

species, special status species, and 

related sensitive resources such as the 

Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale 

National Marine Sanctuary. 

• Land transportation. 

• Marine transportation and 

commerce. 

• Airspace utilization. 

• Public health and safety. 

• Noise. 

• Natural hazards. 

• Hazardous materials. 

• Accidents and intentional 

destructive acts. 

• Cultural and historical resources. 

• Recreational resources. 

• Visual resources. 

• Socioeconomic impacts, 

community services and infrastructure. 

• Environmental justice 

considerations (disproportionately high 

and adverse impacts to minority and 

low income populations). 

• Cumulative impacts (past, present, 

and reasonably foreseeable future 

actions). 

• Irreversible and irretrievable 

commitments of resources. 

The programmatic analysis will 

identify best management practices, 

outline regulatory procedures, address 

mitigation of environmental impacts 

and support the development of general 

guidance for major components of an 

interisland undersea cable energy grid 

for the transmission of wind energy. 

7. Public Participation: Scoping, EIS 

Distribution, Schedule 

As indicated in the DATES section, 

public scoping meetings will be 

conducted in early 2011. Each scoping 

meeting will be structured in two parts: 

first an informal ‘‘workshop’’ discussion 

period that will not be recorded, then a 

formal commenting session, which will 

be transcribed by a court stenographer. 

The meetings will provide interested 

parties the opportunity to view exhibits 

on the HIREP: Wind, ask questions, and 

submit comments orally or in writing. 

Representatives from DOE, Hawai‘i, and 

any cooperating agencies will be 

available to answer questions and 

provide additional information to 

participants. Individuals who submit 

comments during the scoping process 

will receive paper or electronic copies 

of the draft EIS, according to their 

preference. Persons who do not wish to 

submit comments or suggestions at this 

time, but would like to receive a copy 

of the draft EIS when it is issued should 

submit a request as provided in the 

ADDRESSES section and include their 

preference for a paper or electronic 

copy. 

In preparing the draft EIS, DOE and 

Hawai‘i will consider comments 

received during the scoping period. The 

agencies plan to issue the draft EIS by 

October 2011. After the agencies issue 

the draft EIS, the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency will publish a notice 

of availability of the draft EIS in the 

Federal Register, which will begin a 

minimum 45-day public comment 

period. In addition to and concurrent 

with this NOI publication in the Federal 

Register, the State of Hawai‘i is 

preparing a state-level environmental 

review notice. That notice along with 

this NOI will be published in the State 

of Hawai‘i Environmental Notice 

consistent with all state requirements. 

The agencies will announce how to 

comment on the draft EIS and will hold 

public hearings during the public 

comment period, but no sooner than 15 

days after the notice of availability is 

published. In preparing the final EIS, 

the agencies will respond to comments 

received on the draft EIS. The agencies 

plan to issue the final EIS by April 2012. 

No sooner than 60 days after the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

publishes a Notice of Availability of the 

final EIS, DOE and Hawai‘i will each 

issue its Record of Decision regarding 

their actions considered in the EIS. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on December 8, 

2010. 

Patricia A. Hoffman, 

Assistant Secretary, Office of Electricity 

Delivery and Energy Reliability. 

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BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP11–42–000] 

Dominion Transmission, Inc; Notice of 

Application 

December 7, 2010. 

Take notice that on November 23, 

2010, Dominion Transmission, Inc. 

(DTI), 120 Tredegar Street, Richmond, 

Virginia 23219, filed in Docket No. 

CP11–42–000 an application pursuant 

to section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act 

and Part 157 the Commission’s Rules 

and Regulations for all the necessary 

authorizations required to 

refunctionalize its existing Line No. TL– 

404, a 26-mile, 24- and 30-inch pipeline 

which extends from DTI’s Hastings 

Extraction Plant in Wetzel County, WV 

to its terminus in Monroe County, OH, 

from a transmission function to a 

gathering function. The details of the 

request are more fully set forth in the 

application, which is on file with the 

Commission and open to public 

inspection. This filing may also be 

viewed on the web at 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. For 

assistance, contact FERC at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) 

502–8659. 

Any questions regarding this 

application should be directed to Brad 

A. Knisley, Regulatory and Certificates 

Analyst III, Dominion Transmission, 

Inc., 701 East Cary Street, Richmond, 

VA 23219, or telephone (804) 777–4412, 

or facsimile (804) 771–4804 or e-mail 

Brad.A.Knisley@dom.com. 

There are two ways to become 

involved in the Commission’s review of 

this project. First, any person wishing to 

obtain legal status by becoming a party 

to the proceedings for this project 

should, on or before the comment date 

stated below, file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, 

a motion to intervene in accordance 

with the requirements of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211) 

and the Regulations under the NGA (18 

CFR 157.10). A person obtaining party 

status will be placed on the service list 

maintained by the Secretary of the 

Commission and will receive copies of 

all documents filed by the applicant and 

by all other parties. A party must submit 

14 copies of filings made with the 

Commission and must mail a copy to 

the applicant and to every other party in 

the proceeding. Only parties to the 

proceeding can ask for court review of 

Commission orders in the proceeding. 

However, a person does not have to 

intervene in order to have comments 

considered. The second way to 

participate is by filing with the 

Secretary of the Commission, as soon as 

possible, an original and two copies of 

comments in support of or in opposition 

to this project. The Commission will 

consider these comments in 

determining the appropriate action to be 

taken, but the filing of a comment alone 

will not serve to make the filer a party 


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