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Federal general election; (j) Type and 

number of voting equipment used for 

the 2010 Federal general election; (k) 

Type of process in which voting 

equipment was used—precinct, 

absentee, early vote site, accessible to 

disabled voters, provisional voting; (l) 

Location in which votes were tallied— 

central location, precinct/polling place, 

or early vote site; (m) General comments 

regarding the jurisdiction’s Election Day 

experiences. 

2010 Election Results 

Total number of votes cast—at polling 

places, via absentee ballot, at early vote 

centers, via provisional ballots. 

Statutory Overview (2010 Federal 

General Election) 

(a) Information on whether the state is 

exempt from the National Voter 

Registration Act (NVRA); (b) State 

definition of terms—over-vote, undervote, blank ballot, void/spoiled ballot, 

provisional/challenged ballot; (c) State 

definition of inactive and active voter; 

(d) State provision for voter 

identification at registration, for inperson voting, and for mail-in or 

absentee voting; (e) information on legal 

citation for changes to election laws or 

procedures enacted or adopted since the 

previous Federal general election; (f) 

State definition of voter registration; (g) 

Process used for moving voters from 

active to inactive lists and from inactive 

to active; (h) State deadline for 

registration for the Federal general 

election; (i) Information of whether the 

state is an Election Day/Same Day 

Registration state; (j) Description of state 

voter registration database system— 

bottom-up or top-down; (k) State voter 

removal/confirmation notices processes; 

(l) Agency or department that is 

responsible for list maintenance; (m) 

Information on whether there are 

electronic links between the voter 

registrar’s office and other state 

agencies; (n) State’s use of National 

Change of Address (NCOA); (o) State’s 

voting eligibility requirements as they 

relate to convicted felons; (p) Tabulation 

of votes cast at a place other than the 

voter’s precinct; (q) Provision for voting 

absentee; (r) State tracking of the date of 

all ballots cast before election day; (s) 

Provision for mail-in voting in place of 

at-the-precinct voting; (t) Acceptance or 

rejection of provisional ballots of voters 

registered in a different precinct; (u) 

State process for capturing over-votes 

and under-votes; (v) Processes and 

procedures for implementing the MOVE 

Act and capturing data related to MOVE 

Act requirements. States and territories 

that submitted a Statutory Overview for 

2008 will be asked to provide updates 

to the information above, where 

applicable. 

Needs and Uses: The EAC issues the 

survey to meet its obligations under the 

Help America Vote Act to serve as 

national clearinghouse and resource for 

the compilation of information with 

respect to the administration of Federal 

elections; to fulfill its data collection 

requirements under the Uniformed and 

Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act 

(UOCAVA); and meet its National Voter 

Registration Act (NVRA) mandate to 

collect information from states 

concerning the impact of that statute on 

the administration of Federal Elections. 

The Help America Vote Act of 2002 

(HAVA) (42 U.S.C. 15322) requires the 

EAC to serve as a national clearinghouse 

and resource for the compilation of 

information and review of procedures 

with respect to the administration of 

Federal Elections. This includes the 

obligation to study and report on 

election activities, practices, policies, 

and procedures, including methods of 

voter registration, methods of 

conducting provisional voting, poll 

worker recruitment and training, and 

such other matters as the Commission 

determines are appropriate. In addition, 

under the National Voter Registration 

Act (NVRA), the EAC is responsible for 

collecting information and reporting, 

biennially, to the United States Congress 

on the impact of that statute. The 

information the States are required to 

submit to the EAC for purposes of the 

NVRA report are found under Title 11 

of the Code of Federal Regulations. 

States that respond to questions in this 

survey concerning voter registration 

related matters will meet their NVRA 

reporting requirements under 42 U.S.C. 

1973gg–7 and EAC regulations. Finally, 

the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens 

Absentee Voters Act (UOCAVA) 

mandates that EAC create a 

standardized format for state reporting 

of UOCAVA voting information (42 

U.S.C. 1973ff–1). Additionally, 

UOCAVA requires that ‘‘not later than 

90 days after the date of each regularly 

scheduled general election for Federal 

office, each State and unit of local 

government which administered the 

election shall (through the State, in the 

case of a unit of local government) 

submit a report to the Election 

Assistance Commission (established 

under the Help America Vote Act of 

2002) on the combined number of 

absentee ballots transmitted to absent 

uniformed services voters and overseas 

voters for the election and the combined 

number of such ballots which were 

returned by such voters and cast in the 

election, and shall make such a report 

available to the general public.’’ States 

that complete and timely submit the 

UOCAVA section of the survey to the 

EAC will fulfill their UOCAVA 

reporting requirement under 42 U.S.C. 

1973ff–1(c). In order to fulfill the above 

requirements, the EAC is seeking 

information relating to the period from 

the Federal general Election Day 2008 

+1 through the November 2010 Federal 

general election. 

Affected Public (Respondents): State 

governments, the District of Columbia, 

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, 

American Samoa, and the United States 

Virgin Islands. 

Affected Public: State government 

Number of Respondents: 55 

Responses per Respondent: 1 

Estimated Burden per Response: 147 

hours 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 8,085 hours 

Frequency: Biennially 

Thomas R. Wilkey, 

Executive Director, U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Amended Record of Decision: Idaho 

High-Level Waste and Facilities 

Disposition Final Environmental 

Impact Statement; Correction 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Amended Record of Decision; 

Correction. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) published a document in the 

Federal Register of January 4, 2010, 

announcing an amended Record of 

Decision (ROD) for the Idaho High-Level 

Waste and Facilities Disposition Final 

Environmental Impact Statement. This 

document corrects an error in that 

notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information on 

this Amended ROD should be directed 

to Nolan R. Jensen, Federal Project 

Director, U.S. DOE Idaho Operations 

Office, 1955 Fremont Avenue, MS 1222, 

Idaho Falls, ID 83415, telephone (208) 

526–5793. 

Correction 

In the Federal Register of January 4, 

2010, in FR Doc. E9–31151, please make 

the following correction: 

On page 137, third column, under the 

heading DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, 

the heading is corrected to read: 

Amended Record of Decision: Idaho 

High-Level Waste and Facilities 

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Disposition Final Environmental Impact 

Statement 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 5, 

2010. 

Mark Gilbertson, 

Acting Chief Technical Officer for 

Environmental Management. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

Post-2010 Resource Pool, Pick-Sloan 

Missouri Basin Program—Eastern 

Division 

AGENCY: Western Area Power 

Administration, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of final power allocation. 

SUMMARY: Western Area Power 

Administration (Western), Upper Great 

Plains Region, a Federal power 

marketing agency of the Department of 

Energy (DOE), hereby announces the 

Post-2010 Resource Pool Power 

Allocation (Power Allocation) to fulfill 

the requirements of the Energy Planning 

and Management Program (Program). 

The Power Allocation comes from a 

Federal power resource pool of the longterm marketable resource of the PickSloan Missouri Basin Program—Eastern 

Division (P–SMBP—ED) that is available 

January 1, 2011. Western will use power 

previously returned to Western for this 

resource pool and will not need to 

withdraw power from existing 

customers. 

The Final Power Allocation is 

published to show Western’s decisions 

prior to beginning the contractual phase 

of the process. A firm electric service 

contract, between Western and the 

allottee in this notice, will provide for 

an allocation of power to the allottee 

beginning with the January 2011 billing 

period through the December 2020 

billing period. 

DATES: The Power Allocation is effective 

February 11, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Information about this 

Power Allocation, including letters and 

other supporting documents made or 

kept by Western in developing the final 

allocation, is available for public 

inspection and copying at the Upper 

Great Plains Region, Western Area 

Power Administration, 2900 4th Avenue 

North, Billings, MT 59101–1266. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

A. Pankratz, Public Utilities Specialist, 

Upper Great Plains Region, Western 

Area Power Administration, 2900 4th 

Avenue North, Billings, MT 59101– 

1266, telephone (406) 247–7392, e-mail 

pankratz@wapa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Western 

published the final Post-2010 Resource 

Pool Allocation Procedures (Procedures) 

in the Federal Register (74 FR 20697, 

May 5, 2009), to implement Subpart C– 

Power Marketing Initiative of the 

Program’s Final Rule (10 CFR 905), 

published in the Federal Register (60 

FR 54151, October 20, 1995). The 

Program, developed in part to 

implement section 114 of the Energy 

Policy Act of 1992, became effective on 

November 20, 1995. The goal of the 

Program is to require planning for 

efficient electric energy use by 

Western’s long-term firm power 

customers and to extend Western’s firm 

power resource commitments. One 

aspect of the Program is to establish 

project-specific power resource pools 

and allocate power from these pools to 

new preference customers. This Post2010 Resource Pool is the final resource 

pool under the Program. 

Western published its proposed 

allocation in the Federal Register (74 FR 

37702, July 29, 2009), and initiated a 

public comment period. A public 

information and comment forum on the 

proposed allocation was held on 

September 17, 2009. The public 

comment period ended on September 

28, 2009. Western received no public 

comments during the public comment 

period on the proposed allocation. 

The Procedures, in conjunction with 

the Post-1985 Marketing Plan (45 FR 

71860, October 30, 1980), establish the 

framework for allocating power from the 

P–SMBP—ED. 

Final Allocation of Power 

The Power Allocation for the new 

customer was calculated using the 

Procedures. As defined in the Post-1985 

Marketing Plan criteria under the 

Procedures, the summer allocation is 

24.84413 percent of peak summer load; 

the winter allocation is 35.98853 

percent of peak winter load. The final 

Power Allocation of power for the new 

eligible customer and the load, which 

this allocation is based upon, is as 

follows: 

New customer 

2007 Summer 

season peak 

load 

(kilowatts) 

2007 Winter 

season peak 

load 

(kilowatts) 

Post-2010 

Resource pool power allocation 

Summer kilowatts Winter kilowatts 

City of New Ulm, MN ....................................................................................... 1,626 1,301 404 468 

The final Power Allocation for the 

City of New Ulm, Minnesota, is based 

on the P–SMBP—ED marketable 

resource available at this time. Western, 

in accordance with 10 CFR 905.32(e)(2) 

of the Program, will use power 

previously placed under contract and 

subsequently returned to Western 

through termination of that contract for 

this final Power Allocation. A firm 

electric service contract will be offered 

by Western to the City of New Ulm, 

Minnesota. If the P–SMBP—ED 

marketable resource is adjusted in the 

future, the Power Allocation may be 

adjusted accordingly. 

Post-2010 Resource Pool Procedures 

Requirements 

Environmental Compliance 

In compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 

1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321–4347 (2007)); the 

Council on Environmental Quality 

Regulations for implementing NEPA (40 

CFR parts 1500–1508); and DOE NEPA 

Implementing Procedures and 

Guidelines (10 CFR part 1021), Western 

has determined that this action is 

categorically excluded from further 

NEPA review. 

Dated: January 5, 2010. 

Timothy J. Meeks, 

Administrator. 

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