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Air Force Base will be invited as 

cooperating agencies for this proposal. 

Scoping And Public Comments: 

Native Americans, federal, state, and 

local agencies, organizations, and the 

public are invited to be involved in the 

scoping process for the preparation of 

this EIS by participating in scoping 

meetings and/or submitting written 

comments. Written comments will be 

accepted within 30 days of publication 

of the NOI in the Federal Register. The 

scoping process will help identify 

possible alternatives, potential 

environmental impacts, and key issues 

of concern to be analyzed in the EIS. 

Scoping meetings will be held in El 

Paso, Texas, and Alamogordo and Las 

Cruces, New Mexico. Notification of the 

times and locations for the scoping 

meetings will be locally announced and 

published. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–2844 Filed 2–7–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3710–08–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Defense Acquisition Regulations 

System 

Acquisition of Items for Which Federal 

Prison Industries Has a Significant 

Market Share 

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: DoD is issuing this 

notification to set forth an up-to-date list 

of product categories for which the 

Federal Prison Industries’ share of the 

DoD market is greater than five percent. 

DATES: Effective Date: February 8, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Director, Defense and Acquisition 

Policy, Attn: Susan Pollack, 3060 

Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 

20301–3060; telephone (703) 697–8336. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 827 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2008, 

Public Law 110–181, amended DoD’s 

competition requirements for 

acquisition of products from Federal 

Prison Industries (FPI). On November 

19, 2009, a final rule was published at 

74 FR 59914, which amended the 

Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation 

Supplement (DFARS) at subpart 208.6 

to implement section 827. 

Among other things, section 827 

required DoD to publish a list of product 

categories for which FPI’s share of the 

DoD market was greater than five 

percent, based on the most recent fiscal 

year data available. Section 827 also 

provides for modification of the 

published list if DoD subsequently 

determines that new data require adding 

or omitting a product category from the 

list. 

This notification provides a modified 

list of FPI product categories exceeding 

five percent of the DoD market, based on 

Fiscal Year 2011 data obtained from the 

Federal Procurement Data System. An 

identical list is also found in the 

Director, Defense Procurement and 

Acquisition Policy (DPAP) 

memorandum dated January 12, 2012. 

(The DPAP memorandum with the 

updated list of product categories for 

which FPI has a significant market share 

is posted at: http://www.acq.osd.mil/ 

dpap/policy/policyvault/USA007288– 

11–DPAP.pdf.) 

Accordingly, the updated product 

categories for which FPI’s share of the 

DOD market is greater than five percent 

are: 

• 3625 (Textile Industries 

Machinery); 

• 3990 (Miscellaneous Materials 

Handling Equipment); 

• 6020 (Fiber Optic Cable Assemblies 

and Harnesses); 

• 7110 (Office Furniture); 

• 7230 (Draperies, Awnings, and 

Shades); 

• 8420 (Underwear and Nightwear, 

Men’s); and 

• 8465 (Individual Equipment). 

Product categories on the updated list, 

and the products within each identified 

product category, must be procured 

using competitive or fair opportunity 

procedures in accordance with DFARS 

208.602–70(c)(1). FPI must be included 

in the solicitation process and will be 

considered in accordance with the 

policy set forth in 8.602(a)(4)(ii) through 

(v) of the Federal Acquisition 

Regulation. 

Mary Overstreet, 

Editor, Defense Acquisition Regulations 

System. 

[FR Doc. 2012–2846 Filed 2–7–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[OE Docket No. PP–334] 

Notice of Availability for Public 

Comment of Interconnection Facilities 

Studies Prepared for the Proposed 

Energia Sierra Juarez Transmission 

Project 

AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of availability for public 

comment of Interconnection Facilities 

Studies. 

SUMMARY: Sempra Generation applied to 

the Department of Energy (DOE), on 

behalf of Energia Sierra Juarez U.S. 

Transmission, LLC, for a Presidential 

permit to construct, operate, maintain, 

and connect an electric transmission 

line across the U.S. border with Mexico, 

currently referred to as the Energia 

Sierra Juarez Transmission Project (ESJ 

Project). The ESJ Project would connect 

a wind energy project to be built in the 

vicinity of La Rumorosa, Baja California, 

Mexico, to San Diego Gas and Electric 

Company’s (SDG&E) existing Southwest 

Powerlink (SWPL) 500-kV transmission 

line. DOE hereby announces the 

availability for public comment of the 

Interconnection Studies prepared for the 

ESJ Project. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before March 9, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

addressed to: Dr. Jerry Pell, Office of 

Electricity Delivery and Energy 

Reliability, OE–20, U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue 

SW., Washington, DC 20585–0001. 

Because of delays in handling 

conventional mail, it is recommended 

that documents be transmitted by 

overnight mail, by electronic mail to 

Jerry.Pell@hq.doe.gov (preferred), or by 

facsimile to (202) 318–7761. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Jerry Pell (Program Office) at (202) 586– 

3362, or by email to 

Jerry.Pell@hq.doe.gov, or contact Brian 

Mills at 2(02) 586–8267, or by email to 

Brian.Mills@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

construction, operation, maintenance, 

and connection of facilities at the 

international border of the United States 

for the transmission of electric energy 

between the United States and a foreign 

country is prohibited in the absence of 

a Presidential permit issued pursuant to 

Executive Order (EO) 10485, as 

amended by EO 12038. 

On December 20, 2007, Sempra 

Generation, on behalf of Energia Sierra 

Juarez U.S. Transmission, LLC, filed an 

application with the Office of Electricity 

Delivery and Energy Reliability of DOE 

for a Presidential permit. That 

application was originally noticed in the 

Federal Register for public comment on 

February 22, 2008 (73 FR 9782). The 

proposed transmission line project 

would connect up to 1,250 megawatts of 

electric power produced from wind 

turbines to be located in the vicinity of 

La Rumorosa, Baja California, Mexico, 

to SDG&E’s existing Southwest 


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