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(42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the Council on 

Environmental Quality Regulations (40 

CFR 1500–1508), and RUS’ 

Environmental Policies and Procedures 

(7 CFR Part 1794), RUS has determined 

that the environmental impacts of the 

proposal have been adequately 

addressed and that no significant 

impacts to the quality of the human 

environment would result from the 

construction and operation of the 

proposal. Any final action by RUS 

related to the proposal will be subject 

to, and contingent upon, compliance 

with all relevant federal and state 

environmental laws and regulations. 

Since RUS’ action will not result in 

significant impacts to the quality of the 

human environment, the preparation of 

an environmental impact statement 

related to the proposed project is not 

necessary. 

Dated: July 23, 2009. 

James R. Newby, 

Acting Administrator, Rural Utilities Service. 

[FR Doc. E9–18249 Filed 7–30–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Utilities Service 

Fitzgerald Renewable Energy, LLC: 

Notice of Finding of No Significant 

Impact 

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of finding of no 

significant impact. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) has 

made a Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI) with respect to a request from 

Fitzgerald Renewable Energy, LLC (FRE) 

for assistance to finance the 

construction, operation, and 

maintenance of a new 55-megawatt 

(MW) gas-fired combustion biomass 

fueled power plant in Ben Hill County, 

Georgia near Fitzgerald, Georgia. 

ADDRESSES: The FONSI is available for 

public review at the USDA Rural 

Utilities Service’s Web site—http:// 

www.usda.gov/rus/water/ees/ea.htm or 

at 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., 

Room 2244, Stop 1571, Washington, DC 

20250–1571; and at FRE’s headquarters 

office located at Fitzgerald Renewable 

Energy, LLC, 152 Lincoln Avenue, 

Winter Park, FL 32789 or at the 

Fitzgerald/Ben Hill County Library, 123 

North Main Street, Fitzgerald, GA 

31750. To obtain copies of the FONSI or 

for further information, contact 

Stephanie Strength, Environmental 

Protection Specialist, USDA, Rural 

Utilities Service, 1400 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Stop 1571 Washington, 

DC 20250–1571, Telephone: (202) 720– 

0468 or e-mail: 

stephanie.strength@wdc.usda.gov, or 

FRE’s headquarters office located at 

Fitzgerald Renewable Energy, LLC, 152 

Lincoln Avenue, Winter Park, FL 32789. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Fitzgerald 

Renewable Energy, LLC proposes to 

construct a 55-megawatt (MW) biomass 

fueled power plant (the Proposal) on 

Peachtree Road near Fitzgerald, Georgia 

in Ben Hill County. The Proposal, 

which will be fueled primarily by wood 

debris and residue from the regional 

forest products industry, is projected to 

be in service in 2011. Trinity 

Consultants, an environmental 

consulting firm, prepared an 

Environmental Report for RUS. RUS 

conducted an independent evaluation of 

the Environmental Report and agreed 

that it accurately assessed the impacts of 

the proposal. RUS accepted the 

document as its Environmental 

Assessment and published the 

document for a 30-day public comment 

period. The applicant is responsible for 

obtaining all permits required to 

construct the Proposal. 

Pursuant to 36 CFR 800.4(d)(1) of the 

regulations (36 CFR part 800) 

implementing Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act 

(NHPA), 16 U.S.C. 470f, RUS made a 

finding that this Proposal will not affect 

historic properties. RUS received no 

objection to this finding of effect from 

the Georgia State Historic Preservation 

Office or other consulting parties. RUS 

has determined this finding of no 

historic properties affected made 

pursuant to Section 106 of NHPA. 

In accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act, as amended 

(42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the Council on 

Environmental Quality Regulations (40 

CFR 1500–1508), and RUS’ 

Environmental Policies and Procedures 

(7 CFR part 1794), RUS has determined 

that the environmental impacts of the 

Proposal have been adequately 

addressed and that no significant 

impacts to the quality of the human 

environment would result from the 

construction and operation of the 

proposal. Any final action by RUS 

related to the Proposal will be subject 

to, and contingent upon, compliance 

with all relevant Federal and State 

environmental laws and regulations. 

Since RUS’ action will not result in 

significant impacts to the quality of the 

human environment, the preparation of 

an environmental impact statement 

related to the proposed project is not 

necessary. 

Dated: July 23, 2009. 

James R. Newby, 

Acting Administrator, Rural Utilities Service. 

[FR Doc. E9–18250 Filed 7–30–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–15–P 

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT 

Notice of Public Information Collection 

Requirements Submitted to OMB for 

Review 

SUMMARY: U.S. Agency for International 

Development (USAID) has submitted 

the following information collections to 

OMB for review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. Comments 

regarding this information collection are 

best assured of having their full effect if 

received within 30 days of this 

notification. Comments should be sent 

via e-mail to 

Ross_A._Rutledge@omb.eop.gov fax to 

202–395–6974. Copies of submission 

may be obtained by calling (202) 712– 

1365. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Number: OMB 0412–0572. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Title: Summer Internship Application. 

Type of Submission: Renewal of 

Information Collection. 

Purpose: The United States Agency 

for International Development, Africa 

Bureau, intends to use the Summer 

internship Application to collect 

information from approximately 300 

student applicants to its summer 

internship programs for USAID 

Missions in Africa and in Washington, 

DC. 

Annual Reporting Burden: 

Respondents: 300. 

Total annual responses: 300. 

Total annual hours requested: 150 

hours. 

Dated: July 27, 2009. 

Cynthia Staples, 

Acting Chief, Information and Records 

Division, Office of Administrative Services, 

Bureau for Management. 

[FR Doc. E9–18310 Filed 7–30–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6116–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 


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38168 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 146 / Friday, July 31, 2009 / Notices 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35). 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau. 

Title: 2010 Dress Rehearsal of the 

Redesigned Survey of Income & Program 

Participation. 

Form Number(s): SIPP 2010DR105(L) 

Director’s Letter; SIPP/CAPI Automated 

Instrument. 

OMB Control Number: None. 

Type of Request: New collection. 

Burden Hours: 5,376. 

Number of Respondents: 10,752. 

Average Hours Per Response: 30 

minutes. 

Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census 

Bureau requests authorization from the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) to conduct the 2010 dress 

rehearsal for the Re-engineered Survey 

of Income and Program Participation 

(SIPP). 

The Census Bureau’s SIPP CAPI 

interview will use an event history 

calendar (EHC) interviewing method 

and a 12-month, calendar-year reference 

period in place of the current SIPP 

questionnaire approach with a sliding 4- 

month reference period. The Census 

Bureau is re-engineering the SIPP to 

accomplish several goals including 

improving the collection instrument and 

processing system, development of the 

EHC, use of the administrative records 

data, and increased stakeholder 

interaction. 

The SIPP represents a source of 

information for a wide variety of 

separate topics to be integrated to form 

a single and unified database in order to 

examine the interaction between tax, 

transfer, and other government and 

private policies. Government domestic 

policy formulators depend heavily upon 

the SIPP information to determine the 

effect of tax and transfer programs on 

the distribution of income received 

directly as money or indirectly as inkind benefits. They also need improved 

and expanded data on the income and 

general economic and financial 

situation of the U.S. population. The 

SIPP has provided these kinds of data 

on a continuing basis since 1983, by 

measuring levels of economic wellbeing and changes in these levels over 

time. 

The main objective of the SIPP has 

been to provide accurate and 

comprehensive information about the 

income and program participation of 

individuals and households in the 

United States. The survey’s mission is to 

provide a nationally representative 

sample for evaluating: (1) Annual and 

sub-annual income dynamics, (2) 

movements into and out of government 

transfer programs, (3) family and social 

context of individuals and households, 

and (4) interactions among these items. 

The re-engineering of SIPP pursues 

these objectives in the context of several 

goals—cost reduction and improved 

accuracy, relevance, timeliness, reduced 

burden on respondents, and 

accessibility. The Re-engineered SIPP 

will collect detailed information on cash 

and non-cash income (including 

participation in government transfer 

programs) one time per year. A major 

use of the SIPP has been to evaluate the 

use of and eligibility for government 

programs and to analyze the impacts of 

options for modifying them. 

A key component of the reengineering process involves the 

proposed shift from the every-fourmonth data collection schedule of 

traditional SIPP to an annual data 

collection schedule for the reengineered survey. To accomplish this 

shift with minimal impact on data 

quality, the Census Bureau proposes 

employing the use of an event history 

calendar (EHC) to gather SIPP data. The 

Re-engineered SIPP will interview 

respondents in one year intervals, 

collecting data for the previous calendar 

year as the reference period. The 

content of the Re-engineered SIPP will 

combine the content of the 2008 Panel 

SIPP core as well as selected topical 

module questions. The Re-engineered 

SIPP will not contain free-standing 

topical modules. The EHC will allow 

recording dates of events and spells of 

coverage and should provide monthly 

transitions of program receipt and 

coverage, labor force transitions, health 

insurance transitions, and others. The 

2010 Re-engineered SIPP dress rehearsal 

will also involve recording a small 

number of the field interviews for 

research purposes. Recorded verbal 

consent will be obtained during the 

interview prior to recording. 

The 2010 Re-engineered SIPP dress 

rehearsal will be conducted from 

January 2010 to March 2010. 

Approximately 8,000 households are 

selected for the 2010 Re-engineered 

SIPP dress rehearsal, of which, 5,120 

households are expected to be 

interviewed. We estimate that each 

household contains 2.1 people aged 15 

and above, yielding approximately 

10,752 person-level interviews in the 

dress rehearsal. Interviews take 30 

minutes on average. The total annual 

burden for the 2010 Re-engineered SIPP 

dress rehearsal interviews will be 5,376 

hours in FY 2010. 

The EHC methodology is intended to 

help respondents recall information in a 

more natural ‘‘autobiographical’’ 

manner by using life events as triggers 

to other economic events. For example, 

a residence can change and in many 

cases occurs contemporaneously with a 

change in employment. The entire 

process of compiling the calendar 

focuses, by its nature, on consistency 

and sequential order of events, and 

attempts to correct for otherwise 

missing data. For example, if the 

respondents are unemployed, they may 

then look for a job, and then become 

employed. 

The 2010 dress rehearsal instrument 

will be evaluated in several domains 

including field implementation issues 

and data comparability vis-a`-vis SIPP 

2008 and administrative records. 

Distributional characteristics such as the 

percent of persons with TANF, Food 

Stamps, Medicare, who are working, 

who are enrolled in school, or who have 

health insurance coverage from the EHC 

will be compared to the same 

distributions from 2008 SIPP Panel. The 

primary focus will be to demonstrate to 

data users that the new instrument 

yields data for low-income programs 

that are of sufficient quality. The field 

test sample is focused in low income 

areas in order to increase the ‘‘hit rate’’ 

of households likely to participate in 

government programs. In general, there 

are two ways we will evaluate data 

quality: 

(1) We will compare monthly 

estimates from the field test to estimates 

from parallel sample areas in the 2008 

SIPP panel for characteristics such as 

participation in Food Stamps, TANF, 

SSI, WIC, and Medicaid. To the extent 

those estimates are reasonably aligned 

with each other, we can assume that 

data quality is reasonably comparable. 

Misalignment of the estimates, and 

especially misalignment in the direction 

of the EHC estimates being consistently 

lower than the SIPP estimates, would be 

worrisome, because it would be 

suggestive of (not definitive evidence of) 

reduced data quality in the EHC. 

(2) For a small subset of 

characteristics, and for a subset of 

sample areas, we will have access to 

administrative record data. These data 

will permit a more objective data quality 

assessment. 

Results from both the 2010 dress 

rehearsal and the 2008 SIPP Panel will 

be used to inform final decisions 

regarding the design, content, and 

implementation of the re-engineered 

SIPP for production beginning in 2013. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Frequency: One time. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. 

Section 182. 

OMB Desk Officer: Brian HarrisKojetin, (202) 395–7314. 


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Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Diana Hynek, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, (202) 482–0266, Department of 

Commerce, Room 7845, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 

dhynek@doc.gov). 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB 

Desk Officer either by fax (202–395– 

7245) or e-mail (bharrisk@omb.eop.gov). 

Dated: July 27, 2009. 

Glenna Mickelson, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–18206 Filed 7–30–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the emergency 

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). 

Agency: International Trade 

Administration (ITA). 

Title: Interim Procedures for 

Considering Requests under the 

Commercial Availability Provision of 

the United States-Peru Trade Promotion 

Agreement (US–PERU TPA). 

OMB Control Number: None. 

Type of Request: Emergency 

submission. 

Burden Hours: 89. 

Number of Respondents: 16. 

Average Hours Per Response: 8 hours 

for a Request of Commercial Availability 

Determination; 2 hours for a Response 

to Request; and 1 hour for Rebuttal. 

Needs and Uses: The United States 

and Peru negotiated the US-Peru Trade 

Promotion Agreement (the 

‘‘Agreement’’), which entered into force 

on February 1, 2009. Under the textile 

provisions of the Agreement, fabric, 

yarn, and fiber produced in Peru or the 

United States and traded between the 

two countries are entitled to duty-free 

tariff treatment. The Agreement also 

lists specific fabrics, yarns, and fibers 

that the two countries agreed are not 

available in commercial quantities in a 

timely manner from producers in Peru 

or the United States commercially 

unavailable fabrics, yarns, and fibers are 

also entitled to duty-free treatment 

despite not being produced in Peru or 

the United States. 

The list of commercially unavailable 

fabrics, yarns, and fibers may be 

changed pursuant to the commercial 

availability provision of the Agreement 

(See Chapter 3, Article 3.3, Paragraphs 

5–7 of the Agreement). Under this 

provision, interested entities from Peru 

or the United States have the right to 

request that a specific fabric, yarn, or 

fiber be added to, or removed from, the 

list of commercially unavailable fabrics, 

yarns, and fibers. 

Chapter 3, Article 3.3, paragraph 7 of 

the Agreement requires that the 

President ‘‘promptly publish’’ 

procedures for parties to exercise the 

right to make these requests. The 

President delegated the responsibility 

for publishing the procedures and 

administering commercial availability 

requests to the Committee for the 

Implementation of Textile Agreements 

(CITA), which issues procedures and 

acts on requests through the Office of 

Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA). OTEXA 

was unable to publish these procedures 

earlier and is requesting an emergency 

review of the information collection and 

procedures from the Office of 

Management and Budget. 

CITA must collect certain information 

about fabric, yarn, or fiber technical 

specifications and the production 

capabilities of Peruvian and U.S. textile 

producers to determine whether certain 

fabrics, yarns, or fibers are available in 

commercial quantities in a timely 

manner in the United States or Peru, 

subject to section 203(o) of the US– 

PERU TPA. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

OMB Desk Officer: Wendy Liberante, 

(202) 395–3647. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Diana Hynek, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, (202) 482–0266, Department of 

Commerce, Room 7845, 14th & 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230 or via the Internet at 

dHynek@doc.gov. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent by 

August 7, 2009 to Wendy Liberante, 

OMB Desk Officer, Fax number (202) 

395–5167 or via the Internet at 

Wendy_L._Liberante@omb.eop.gov. 

Dated: July 27, 2009. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–18211 Filed 7–30–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–FP–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XQ64 

Endangered Species; File No. 14508 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; receipt of application. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

Inwater Research Group, Inc., Jensen 

Beach, FL 34957 (Principal Investigator: 

Michael Bresette), has applied in due 

form for a permit to take green (Chelonia 

mydas), loggerhead (Caretta caretta), 

hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata), and 

Kemp’s ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) sea 

turtles for purposes of scientific 

research. 

DATES: Written, telefaxed, or e-mail 

comments must be received on or before 

August 31, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: The application and related 

documents are available for review by 

selecting ‘‘Records Open for Public 

Comment’’ from the Features box on the 

Applications and Permits for Protected 

Species (APPS) home page, https:// 

apps.nmfs.noaa.gov/index.cfm, and 

then selecting File No. 14508 from the 

list of available applications. These 

documents are also available for review 

upon written request or by appointment 

in the following office(s): 

Permits, Conservation and Education 

Division, Office of Protected Resources, 

NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 

13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone 

(301) 713–2289; fax (301) 713–0376; and 

Southeast Region, NMFS, 263 13th 

Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701; 

phone (727) 824–5312; fax (727) 824– 

5309. 

Written comments or requests for a 

public hearing on this application 

should be mailed to the Chief, Permits, 

Conservation and Education Division, 

F/PR1, Office of Protected Resources, 

NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 

13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Those 

individuals requesting a hearing should 

set forth the specific reasons why a 

hearing on this particular request would 

be appropriate. 

Comments may also be submitted by 

facsimile at (301) 713–0376, provided 


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