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having a total storage capacity of 5,500 

acre-feet at a normal maximum 

operating elevation of 7,860 feet msl; (2) 

a lower dam with a height of 310 feet, 

a crest length of 1,160 feet, and with a 

reservoir having a total storage capacity 

of 6,205 acre-feet at a normal maximum 

operating elevation of 6,000 feet msl; (3) 

a 9,750-foot-long underground conduit; 

(4) a powerhouse containing four 125– 

MW reversible pump turbines and 

located 450 feet below ground level, 

approximately midway between the 

upper and lower reservoirs; and (5) a 

16.8- or 10.9-mile-long transmission line 

(including both new construction of a 

230-kV line and upgrades to existing 

transmission lines) to either the existing 

Whirlwind or Windhub substations, 

respectively. The estimated annual 

generation of the Bison Peak Pumped 

Storage Project would be 1,533 gigawatthours. 

Applicant Contact: Bison Peak 

Pumped Storage, LLC. 9795 Cabrini Dr., 

Ste. 206, Burbank, CA 91504; phone: 

(818) 767–5554. 

FERC Contact: Matt Buhyoff; phone: 

(202) 502–6824. 

Deadline for filing comments, motions 

to intervene, competing applications 

(without notices of intent), or notices of 

intent to file competing applications: 60 

days from the issuance of this notice. 

Competing applications and notices of 

intent must meet the requirements of 18 

CFR 4.36. Comments, motions to 

intervene, notices of intent, and 

competing applications may be filed 

electronically via the Internet. See 18 

CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the 

instructions on the Commission’s Web 

site http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

efiling.asp. Commenters can submit 

brief comments up to 6,000 characters, 

without prior registration, using the 

eComment system at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

ecomment.asp. You must include your 

name and contact information at the end 

of your comments. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll 

free at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

(202) 502–8659. Although the 

Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing, documents may also be 

paper-filed. To paper-file, mail an 

original and seven copies to: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

More information about this project, 

including a copy of the application, can 

be viewed or printed on the ‘‘eLibrary’’ 

link of Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number 

(P–14201–000) in the docket number 

field to access the document. For 

assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

Dated: September 30, 2011. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2011–25965 Filed 10–6–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OA–2008–0701; FRL–9475–7] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Focus Groups as 

Used by EPA for Economics Projects 

(Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document 

announces that EPA is planning to 

submit a request to renew an existing 

approved Information Collection 

Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). This 

ICR is scheduled to expire on March 31, 

2012. Before submitting the ICR to OMB 

for review and approval, EPA is 

soliciting comments on specific aspects 

of the proposed information collection 

as described below. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before December 6, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OA–2008–0701, by one of the following 

methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: oei.docket@epa.gov. 

• Fax: (202) 566–9744. 

• Mail: Office of Environmental 

Information, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OA–2008– 

0701. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change and may be 

made available online at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes information 

claimed to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Do not submit information that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected through http:// 

www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The 

http://www.regulations.gov Web site is 

an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means EPA will not know your identity 

or contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

If you send an e-mail comment directly 

to EPA without going through http:// 

www.regulations.gov your e-mail 

address will be automatically captured 

and included as part of the comment 

that is placed in the public docket and 

made available on the Internet. If you 

submit an electronic comment, EPA 

recommends that you include your 

name and other contact information in 

the body of your comment and with any 

disk or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA 

cannot read your comment due to 

technical difficulties and cannot contact 

you for clarification, EPA may not be 

able to consider your comment. 

Electronic files should avoid the use of 

special characters, any form of 

encryption, and be free of any defects or 

viruses. For additional information 

about EPA’s public docket visit http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nathalie Simon, Office of Policy, (MC 

1809T), Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: 202–566–2347; fax number: 

202–566–2363; e-mail address: 

simon.nathalie@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

How can I access the docket and/or 

submit comments? 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. EPA– 

HQ–OA–2008–0701 which is available 

for online viewing at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or in person 

viewing at the Office of Environmental 

Information (OEI) Docket in the EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC 

Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 

a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays. The 

telephone number for the Reading Room 

is 202–566–1744, and the telephone 

number for the OEI Docket is 202–566– 

1752. 

Use http://www.regulations.gov to 

obtain a copy of the draft collection of 

information, submit or view public 

comments, access the index listing of 

the contents of the docket, and to access 

those documents in the public docket 

that are available electronically. Once in 

the system, select ‘‘search,’’ then key in 


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the docket ID number identified in this 

document. 

What information is EPA particularly 

interested in? 

Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the PRA, EPA specifically solicits 

comments and information to enable it 

to: 

(i) Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

(ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the 

Agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

(iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

(iv) Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. In 

particular, EPA is requesting comments 

from very small businesses (those that 

employ less than 25) on examples of 

specific additional efforts that EPA 

could make to reduce the paperwork 

burden for very small businesses 

affected by this collection. 

What should I consider when I prepare 

my comments for EPA? 

You may find the following 

suggestions helpful for preparing your 

comments: 

1. Explain your views as clearly as 

possible and provide specific examples. 

2. Describe any assumptions that you 

used. 

3. Provide copies of any technical 

information and/or data you used that 

support your views. 

4. If you estimate potential burden or 

costs, explain how you arrived at the 

estimate that you provide. 

5. Offer alternative ways to improve 

the collection activity. 

6. Make sure to submit your 

comments by the deadline identified 

under DATES. 

7. To ensure proper receipt by EPA, 

be sure to identify the docket ID number 

assigned to this action in the subject 

line on the first page of your response. 

You may also provide the name, date, 

and Federal Register citation. 

What information collection activity or 

ICR does this apply to? 

Affected entities: Entities potentially 

affected by this action are members of 

the general public, although the target 

population for the focus group 

discussions will vary by project. 

Title: Focus Groups as used by EPA 

for Economics Projects (Renewal). 

ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 2205.07, 

OMB Control No. 2090–0028. 

ICR status: This ICR is currently 

scheduled to expire on March 31, 2012. 

An Agency may not conduct or sponsor, 

and a person is not required to respond 

to, a collection of information, unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. The OMB control numbers for 

EPA’s regulations in title 40 of the CFR, 

after appearing in the Federal Register 

when approved, are listed in 40 CFR 

part 9, are displayed either by 

publication in the Federal Register or 

by other appropriate means, such as on 

the related collection instrument or 

form, if applicable. The display of OMB 

control numbers in certain EPA 

regulations is consolidated in 40 CFR 

part 9. 

Abstract: The Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking 

renewal of a generic information 

collection request (ICR) for the conduct 

of focus groups and protocol interviews 

(hereafter jointly referred to as focus 

groups) related to economics projects. 

Over the next three years, the Agency 

anticipates embarking on a number of 

survey development efforts associated 

with a variety of economics projects 

including those related to valuation of 

ecosystems, children’s health risks, 

mortality risk reductions, improvements 

to coastal waters including the 

Chesapeake Bay, to name a few. Focus 

groups are an important part of any 

survey development process, allowing 

researchers to directly gauge what 

specific issues are important to the 

public and providing a means for 

explicitly testing draft survey materials. 

Through these focus groups, the Agency 

will be able to gain a more in-depth 

understanding of the public’s attitudes, 

beliefs, motivations and feelings 

regarding specific issues and will 

provide valuable information regarding 

the quality of draft survey instruments. 

The information collected in the focus 

groups will be used to develop and 

improve economics-related surveys. To 

the extent that these surveys are 

ultimately successfully administered, 

they will serve to expand the Agencies 

understanding of benefits and costs of a 

variety of actions and could provide the 

means to quantitatively assess the 

effects of others. Participation in the 

focus groups will be voluntary and the 

identity of the participants will be kept 

confidential. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 2.4 hours per 

response. Burden means the total time, 

effort, or financial resources expended 

by persons to generate, maintain, retain, 

or disclose or provide information to or 

for a Federal agency. This includes the 

time needed to review instructions; 

develop, acquire, install, and utilize 

technology and systems for the purposes 

of collecting, validating, and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information; adjust the 

existing ways to comply with any 

previously applicable instructions and 

requirements which have subsequently 

changed; train personnel to be able to 

respond to a collection of information; 

search data sources; complete and 

review the collection of information; 

and transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. 

The ICR provides a detailed 

explanation of the Agency’s estimate, 

which is only briefly summarized here: 

Estimated total number of potential 

respondents: 1,011. 

Frequency of response: Once. 

Estimated total average number of 

responses for each respondent: 1. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

2,358. 

Estimated total annual costs: $22,385. 

This includes estimated respondent 

burden costs only as there are no capital 

costs or operating and maintenance 

costs associated with this collection of 

information. 

Are there changes in the estimates from 

the last approval? 

Burden estimates included here are 

based on the supporting statement 

submitted for the most recent renewal of 

the approved ICR. Burden estimates will 

be revised to reflect new information 

and will be made available for public 

comment at the time the ICR is 

submitted to OMB for approval. 

What is the next step in the process for 

this ICR? 

EPA will consider the comments 

received and amend the ICR as 

appropriate. The final ICR package will 

then be submitted to OMB for review 

and approval pursuant to 5 CFR 

1320.12. At that time, EPA will issue 

another Federal Register notice 

pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.5(a)(1)(iv) to 

announce the submission of the ICR to 

OMB and the opportunity to submit 

additional comments to OMB. If you 

have any questions about this ICR or the 

approval process, please contact the 

technical person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 


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Dated: September 29, 2011. 

Al McGartland, 

Director, National Center for Environmental 

Economics. 

[FR Doc. 2011–26087 Filed 10–6–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9476–7] 

Office of Research and Development; 

Ambient Air Monitoring Reference and 

Equivalent Methods; Designation of 

One New Equivalent Method 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of the designation of one 

new equivalent method for monitoring 

ambient air quality. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA) has designated, in accordance 

with 40 CFR Part 53, one new 

equivalent method for measuring 

concentrations of ozone (O3) in the 

ambient air. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert Vanderpool, Human Exposure 

and Atmospheric Sciences Division 

(MD–D205–03), National Exposure 

Research Laboratory, U.S. EPA, 

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 

27711. E-mail: 

Vanderpool.Robert@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with regulations at 40 CFR 

part 53, the EPA evaluates various 

methods for monitoring the 

concentrations of those ambient air 

pollutants for which EPA has 

established National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards (NAAQSs) as set 

forth in 40 CFR part 50. Monitoring 

methods that are determined to meet 

specific requirements for adequacy are 

designated by the EPA as either 

reference methods or equivalent 

methods (as applicable), thereby 

permitting their use under 40 CFR part 

58 by States and other agencies for 

determining compliance with the 

NAAQSs. A list of all reference or 

equivalent methods that have been 

previously designated by EPA may be 

found at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/amtic/ 

criteria.html. 

The EPA hereby announces the 

designation of one new equivalent 

method for measuring pollutant 

concentrations of O3 in the ambient air. 

This designation is made under the 

provisions of 40 CFR part 53, as 

amended on June 22, 2010 (75 FR 

35597). 

The new O3 equivalent method is an 

automated monitoring method 

(analyzer) utilizing a measurement 

principle based on chemiluminescence 

reaction of O3 with nitric oxide (NO). 

(Note that this is the first O3 equivalent 

method designated by EPA that utilizes 

this particular measurement principle, 

which is distinguished from the 

measurement principle of 

chemiluminescence reaction of O3 with 

ethylene specified for EPA reference 

methods for O3.) The newly designated 

equivalent method is identified as 

follows: 

EQOA–0611–199, ‘‘Teledyne—Advanced 

Pollution Instrumentation, Inc. Model 265E 

or T265 Chemiluminescence Ozone 

Analyzer,’’ operated on any full scale range 

between 0–100 ppb and 0–1000 ppb, with 

any range mode (Single, Dual, or AutoRange), 

at any ambient temperature in the range of 

5 °C to 40 °C, and with a TFE filter in the 

sample air inlet, operated with a sample flow 

rate of 500 ± 50 cm3/min (sea level), with the 

dilution factor set to 1, with Temp/Press 

compensation ON, and in accordance with 

the appropriate associated instrument 

manual, and with or without any of the 

following options: Internal or external 

sample pump, Sample/Cal valve option, Rack 

mount with or without slides, analog input 

option, 4–20 mA isolated current loop 

output. 

The application for an equivalent 

method determination for this candidate 

method was received by the EPA on 

November 7, 2010. The analyzer models 

are commercially available from the 

applicant, Teledyne Advanced Pollution 

Instrumentation, Inc., 9480 Carroll Park 

Drive, San Diego, CA 92121–2251. 

A representative test analyzer has 

been tested in accordance with the 

applicable test procedures specified in 

40 CFR part 53 (as amended on June 22, 

2010). After reviewing the results of 

those tests and other information 

submitted by the applicant, EPA has 

determined, in accordance with part 53, 

that this method should be designated 

as an equivalent method. The 

information submitted by the applicant 

will be kept on file, either at EPA’s 

National Exposure Research Laboratory, 

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 

27711 or in an approved archive storage 

facility, and will be available for 

inspection (with advance notice) to the 

extent consistent with 40 CFR part 2 

(EPA’s regulations implementing the 

Freedom of Information Act). 

As a designated equivalent method, 

this method is acceptable for use by 

states and other air monitoring agencies 

under the requirements of 40 CFR part 

58, Ambient Air Quality Surveillance. 

For such purposes, the method must be 

used in strict accordance with the 

operation or instruction manual 

associated with the method and subject 

to any specifications and limitations 

(e.g., configuration or operational 

settings) specified in the designated 

method description (see the 

identification of the method above). 

Use of the method also should be in 

general accordance with the guidance 

and recommendations of applicable 

sections of the ‘‘Quality Assurance 

Handbook for Air Pollution 

Measurement Systems, Volume I,’’ EPA/ 

600/R–94/038a and ‘‘Quality Assurance 

Handbook for Air Pollution 

Measurement Systems, Volume II, 

Ambient Air Quality Monitoring 

Program,’’ EPA–454/B–08–003, 

December, 2008 (both available at 

http://www.epa.gov/ttn/amtic/ 

qalist.html). Vendor modifications of a 

designated equivalent method used for 

purposes of Part 58 are permitted only 

with prior approval of the EPA, as 

provided in Part 53. Provisions 

concerning modification of such 

methods by users are specified under 

Section 2.8 (Modifications of Methods 

by Users) of Appendix C to 40 CFR part 

58. 

In general, a method designation 

applies to any sampler, analyzer, or 

method that is identical to the sampler, 

analyzer, or method described in the 

application for designation. In some 

cases, similar samplers or analyzers 

manufactured prior to the designation 

may be upgraded or converted (e.g., by 

minor modification or by substitution of 

the approved operation or instruction 

manual) so as to be identical to the 

designated method and thus achieve 

designated status. The manufacturer 

should be consulted to determine the 

feasibility of such upgrading or 

conversion. 

Part 53 requires that sellers of 

designated reference or equivalent 

method analyzers or samplers comply 

with certain conditions. These 

conditions are specified in 40 CFR 53.9. 

Aside from occasional breakdowns or 

malfunctions, consistent or repeated 

noncompliance with any of these 

conditions should be reported to: 

Director, Human Exposure and 

Atmospheric Sciences Division (MD– 

E205–01), National Exposure Research 

Laboratory, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Research Triangle 

Park, North Carolina 27711. 

Designation of this new equivalent 

method is intended to assist the States 

in establishing and operating their air 

quality surveillance systems under 40 

CFR Part 58. Questions concerning the 

commercial availability or technical 


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