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link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the intervention or protest to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First St., NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

The filings in the above-referenced 

proceeding are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system by 

clicking on the appropriate link in the 

above list. They are also available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an eSubscription link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive e-mail notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–14152 Filed 6–11–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Notice of Interviews, Teleconferences, 

Regional Workshops and MultiStakeholder Technical Conference on 

the Integrated Licensing Process 

June 7, 2010. 

ILP Effectiveness Evaluation 2010 ...................................................................................................................................... Docket No. AD10–7– 

000. 

Exelon Generation Company, LLC ...................................................................................................................................... Project No. 2355–011. 

Exelon Generation Company, LLC ...................................................................................................................................... Project No. 405–087. 

Merced Irrigation District ...................................................................................................................................................... Project No. 2179–042. 

Pacific Gas & Electric Company .......................................................................................................................................... Project No. 2310–173. 

Nevada Irrigation District ...................................................................................................................................................... Project No. 2266–096. 

Sabine River Authority of Texas and State of Louisiana .................................................................................................... Project No. 2305–020. 

Town of Massena Electric Department ................................................................................................................................ Project No. 12607–001. 

Free Flow Power Corporation .............................................................................................................................................. Project No. 12829–001. 

Free Flow Power Corporation .............................................................................................................................................. Project No. 12861–001. 

Free Flow Power Corporation .............................................................................................................................................. Project No. 12912–001. 

Free Flow Power Corporation .............................................................................................................................................. Project No. 12915–001. 

Free Flow Power Corporation .............................................................................................................................................. Project No. 12921–001. 

Free Flow Power Corporation .............................................................................................................................................. Project No. 12930–001. 

Free Flow Power Corporation .............................................................................................................................................. Project No. 12938–001. 

On May 18, 2010, the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC) staff 

issued notice of a second effectiveness 

evaluation of the Integrated Licensing 

Process (ILP). The purpose of this 

evaluation is to seek further feedback on 

experiences in the ILP and to explore 

ideas to better implement the ILP. The 

May 18, 2010 Notice describes this 

effort, which includes conducting 

interviews and teleconferences with a 

cross-section of stakeholders, four 

regional workshops, and a multistakeholder effectiveness technical 

conference in Washington, DC. To 

facilitate this review, FERC has 

contracted with Kearns & West to 

conduct the 2010 ILP Effectiveness 

Evaluation. 

As indicated in the May 18, 2010 

Notice members of Kearns & West are 

conducting phone interviews with a 

number of representatives of agencies, 

tribes, non-governmental organizations, 

licensees, Commission staff, and others 

involved in 19 hydropower licensing 

proceedings in which the applicants 

have completed the pre-filing efforts 

and filed license applications using the 

ILP. To gather additional insight into 

the ILP formal dispute resolution 

process, staff has decided to expand the 

interview efforts to include all the 

proceedings where the ILP formal 

dispute resolution process has been 

used. The additional proceedings are 

identified in the caption above. Because 

of ex parte concerns, discussions will be 

limited to process rather than the merits 

of any proceeding before the 

Commission. 

See the May 18, 2010 Notice for 

additional details regarding the ILP 

effectiveness study. 

For additional information, please 

contact David Turner at 202–502–6091 

or david.turner@ferc.gov. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

Notice of the Carbon Sequestration— 

Geothermal Energy—Science Joint 

Workshop 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of the Carbon 

Sequestration—Geothermal Energy— 

Science Joint Workshop. 

SUMMARY: The DOE Geothermal 

Technologies Program, Office of 

Science-Geosciences Program and Office 

of Fossil Energy-Carbon Sequestration 

Program will be holding a joint 

workshop on Common Research 

Themes for Carbon Storage and 

Geothermal Energy, June 15–16, 2010. 

Experts from industry, academia, 

national labs, and State and Federal 

geological surveys will discuss 

geosciences research needs for 

subsurface reservoir characterization, 

development, and management. The 

resulting report will provide the 

collaborating offices with information 

key to coordinating high priority 

research in common areas. Further 

information, including the final report, 

when available, can be found on the 

Geothermal Technologies Program Web 

site—http://www.geothermal.

energy.gov. 

DATES: The Carbon Sequestration— 

Geothermal Energy—Science Joint 

Workshop will be held June 15, 2010, 

from 7:30 a.m.–7:30 p.m. EDT and June 

16, 2010, from 7:30 a.m.–7:30 p.m. EDT. 

ADDRESSES: The Carbon Sequestration— 

Geothermal Energy—Science Joint 

Workshop Conference will be held at 

the Hilton Washington, DC/Rockville 

Executive Meeting Center, 1750 

Rockville Pike, in Rockville, MD. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alison LaBonte, AAAS Science and 

Technology Policy Fellow, via e-mail at 

alison.labonte@ee.doe.gov. Further 

information on DOE’s Geothermal 


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Technologies Program can be viewed at 

http://www.geothermal.energy.gov/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Advance 

registration is required. If you would 

like to register, please contact Lee-Ann 

Talley via e-mail at LeeAnn.Talley@orise.orau.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on June 9, 2010. 

Steven Chalk, 

Chief Operating Officer, Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[Docket No. EPA–R02–OAR–2010–0482; 

FRL–9161–5] 

Adequacy Status of the Submitted 

2009 PM2.5 Motor Vehicle Emission 

Budgets for Transportation Conformity 

Purposes for New Jersey 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of adequacy. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is 

notifying the public that we have found 

that the motor vehicle emissions 

budgets for PM2.5 and NOX in the 

submitted attainment demonstration 

state implementation plans for the New 

Jersey portions of the New YorkNorthern New Jersey-Long Island, NY– 

NJ–CT, and Philadelphia-Wilmington, 

PA–NJ–DE, PM2.5 nonattainment areas 

to be adequate for transportation 

conformity purposes. The transportation 

conformity rule (40 CFR part 93) 

requires that the EPA conduct a public 

process and make an affirmative 

decision on the adequacy of budgets 

before they can be used by metropolitan 

planning organizations in conformity 

determinations. As a result of our 

finding, two metropolitan planning 

organizations in New Jersey (the North 

Jersey Transportation Planning 

Authority and the Delaware Valley 

Regional Planning Commission) must 

use the new 2009 PM2.5 budgets for 

future transportation conformity 

determinations. 

DATES: This finding is effective June 29, 

2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Matt 

Laurita, Air Programs Branch, 

Environmental Protection Agency— 

Region 2, 290 Broadway, 25th Floor, 

New York, New York 10007–1866, (212) 

637–3895, laurita.matthew@epa.gov. 

The finding and the response to 

comments will be available at EPA’s 

conformity Web site: http:// 

www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/

transconf/adequacy.htm. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On April 1, 2009, New Jersey 

submitted attainment demonstration 

state implementation plans to EPA for 

both the New York-Northern New 

Jersey-Long Island, NY–NJ–CT (New 

York), and Philadelphia-Wilmington, 

PA–NJ–DE (Philadelphia), PM2.5

nonattainment areas. The purpose of 

New Jersey’s submittal was to 

demonstrate the State’s progress toward 

attaining the 1997 PM2.5 National 

Ambient Air Quality Standard (62 FR 

38652, July 18, 1997). New Jersey’s 

submittal included motor vehicle 

emissions budgets (‘‘budgets’’) for 2009 

for use by the State’s metropolitan 

planning organizations in making 

transportation conformity 

determinations. On August 19, 2009, 

EPA posted the availability of the 

budgets our Web site for the purpose of 

soliciting public comments. The 

comment period closed on September 

18, 2009, and we received no comments. 

Today’s notice is simply an 

announcement of a finding that we have 

already made. EPA Region 2 sent a letter 

to New Jersey on May 4, 2010, stating 

that the 2009 motor vehicle emissions 

budgets in New Jersey’s SIPs for both 

the New York and Philadelphia PM2.5

nonattainment areas are adequate 

because they are consistent with the 

required attainment demonstration. In 

the letter we also clarified that the 

adequate 2009 budgets do not replace 

previously approved ‘‘early progress’’ 

budgets for either NJTPA (71 FR 38770, 

July 10, 2006) or the Mercer County 

portion of DVRPC (73 FR 24868, May 6, 

2008). However, since the previously 

approved budgets were established 

voluntarily (i.e. not to satisfy a specific 

Clean Air Act requirement), and the 

budgets submitted on April 1, 2009, 

were part of a required attainment 

demonstration, the budgets being found 

adequate today will co-exist with the 

previously approved budgets, and the 

more protective budgets will take 

precedence in any regional emissions 

analysis performed by either MPO. 

Transportation conformity is required 

by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act. 

EPA’s conformity rule requires that 

transportation plans, programs, and 

projects conform to SIPs and establishes 

the criteria and procedures for 

determining whether or not they 

conform. Conformity to a SIP means that 

transportation activities will not 

produce new air quality violations, 

worsen existing violations, or delay 

timely attainment of the National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards. 

The criteria by which we determine 

whether a SIP’s motor vehicle emission 

budgets are adequate for conformity 

purposes are outlined in 40 CFR 

93.118(e)(4). Please note that an 

adequacy review is separate from EPA’s 

completeness review, and it also should 

not be used to prejudge EPA’s ultimate 

approval of the SIP. Even if we find a 

budget adequate, the SIP could later be 

disapproved. 

We have described our process for 

determining the adequacy of submitted 

SIP budgets in 40 CFR 93.118(f). We 

have followed this rule in making our 

adequacy determination. The motor 

vehicle emissions budgets being found 

adequate today are listed in Table 1. 

EPA’s finding will also be announced 

on EPA’s conformity Web site: http:// 

www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/

transconf/adequacy.htm. 

TABLE 1—2009 ATTAINMENT PM2.5 MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS BUDGETS FOR NEW JERSEY

[Tons per year] 

Metropolitan planning organization PM2.5 NOX

North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority ............................................................................................. 842 44,321 

Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (Mercer County only) ........................................................ 105 5,323 

Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester Counties) ............. 341 17,319 


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