48946 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 185 / Friday, September 25, 2009 / Notices 

Proposed Wholesale Power Rate 

Schedule JW–2–F 

Availability 

This rate schedule shall be available 

to the Florida Power Corporation (or 

Progress Energy Florida, hereinafter 

called the Company). 

Applicability 

This rate schedule shall be applicable 

to electric energy generated at the Jim 

Woodruff Project (hereinafter called the 

Project) and sold to the Company in 

wholesale quantities. 

Points of Delivery 

Power sold to the Company by the 

Government will be delivered at the 

connection of the Company’s 

transmission system with the Project 

bus. 

Character of Service 

Electric power delivered to the 

Company will be three-phase alternating 

current at a nominal frequency of 60 

cycles per second. 

Monthly Rate 

The monthly rate for energy sold 

under this schedule shall be equal to 

100 percent of the calculated saving in 

the cost of fuel per KWH to the 

Company determined as follows: 

Energy Rate = × 100% Fm

Sm

[Computed to the nearest $0.00001 (1/ 

100mill) per KWH] 

Where: Fm = Company fuel cost in the 

current period as defined in Federal 

Power Commission Order 517 issued 

November 13, 1974, Docket No. R–479. 

Sm = Company sales in the current period 

reflecting only losses associated with 

wholesale sales for resale. Sale shall be 

equated to the sum of (a) generation, (b) 

purchases, (c) interchange-in, less (d) 

inter-system sales, less estimated 

wholesale losses (based on average 

transmission loss percentage for 

preceding calendar year). 

Determination of Energy Sold 

Energy will be furnished by the 

Company to supply any excess of 

Project use over Project generation. 

Energy so supplied by the Company will 

be deducted from the actual deliveries 

to the Company’s system to determine 

the net deliveries for energy accounting 

and billing purposes. Energy for Project 

use shall consist of energy used for 

station service, lock operation, Project 

yard, village lighting, and similar uses. 

The on-peak hours shall be the hours 

between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m., Monday 

through Sunday, inclusive. Off-peak 

hours shall be all other hours. 

All energy made available to the 

Company shall, to the extent required, 

be classified as energy transmitted to the 

Government’s preference customers 

served from the Company’s system. All 

energy made available to the Company 

from the Project shall be separated on 

the basis of the metered deliveries to it 

at the Project during on-peak and offpeak hours, respectively. Deliveries to 

preference customers of the Government 

shall be divided on the basis (with 

allowance for losses) of 77 percent being 

considered as on-peak energy and 23 

percent being off-peak energy. Such 

percentages may by mutual consent be 

changed from time to time as further 

studies show to be appropriate. In the 

event that in classifying energy there is 

more than enough on-peak energy 

available to supply on-peak 

requirements of the Government’s 

preference customers but less than 

enough off-peak energy available to 

supply such customers off-peak 

requirements, such excess on-peak 

energy may be applied to the extent 

necessary to meet off-peak requirements 

of such customers in lieu of purchasing 

deficiency energy to meet such off-peak 

requirements. 

Billing Month 

The billing month under this 

schedule shall end at 12:00 midnight on 

the 20th day of each calendar month. 

[FR Doc. E9–23233 Filed 9–24–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Energy Information Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Agency information collection 

activities: Submission for OMB review; 

comment request. 

SUMMARY: The EIA has submitted the 

Residential Energy Consumption Survey 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and a reinstatement 

under section 3507(h)(1) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 

L. 104–13) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq). 

DATES: Comments must be filed by 

October 26, 2009. If you anticipate that 

you will be submitting comments but 

find it difficult to do so within that 

period, you should contact the OMB 

Desk Officer for DOE listed below as 

soon as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to OMB 

Desk Officer for DOE, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget. To 

ensure receipt of the comments by the 

due date, submission by FAX at 202– 

395–7285 or e-mail to 

Christine_Kymn@omb.eop.gov is 

recommended. The mailing address is 

726 Jackson Place, NW., Washington, 

DC 20503. The OMB DOE Desk Officer 

may be telephoned at (202) 395–4638. 

(A copy of your comments should also 

be provided to EIA’s Statistics and 

Methods Group at the address below.) 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information 

should be directed to Grace Sutherland. 

To ensure receipt of the comments by 

the due date, submission by FAX (202– 

586–5271) or e-mail 

(grace.sutherland@eia.doe.gov) is also 

recommended. The mailing address is 

Statistics and Methods Group (EI–70), 

Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence 

Ave, SW., U.S. Department of Energy, 

Washington, DC 20585–0670. Ms. 

Sutherland may be contacted by 

telephone at (202) 586–6264. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

section contains the following 

information about the energy 

information collection submitted to 

OMB for review: (1) The collection 

numbers and title; (2) the sponsor (i.e., 

the Department of Energy component; 

(3) the current OMB docket number (if 

applicable); (4) the type of request (i.e., 

new, revision, extension, or 

reinstatement); (5) response obligation 

(i.e., mandatory, voluntary, or required 

to obtain or retain benefits); (6) a 

description of the need for and 

proposed use of the information; (7) a 

categorical description of the likely 

respondents; and (8) an estimate of the 

total annual reporting burden (i.e., the 

estimated number of likely respondents 

times the proposed frequency of 

response per year times the average 

hours per response). 

1. Forms EIA–457 A/G ‘‘Residential 

Energy Consumption Survey.’’ 

2. Energy Information Administration. 

3. OMB Number 1905–0092. 

4. Reinstatement. 

5. Mandatory. 

6. EIA’s Residential Energy 

Consumption Survey (RECS) collects 

basic data necessary to meet EIA’s 

legislative mandates as well as the 

energy consumption and expenditures 

and related subjects for the household 

sector of the U.S. economy. 

7. Individuals, Federal, State, and 

local Government as well as Business or 

other for-profit. 

8. 8,784 annual burden hours. 


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Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 185 / Friday, September 25, 2009 / Notices 48947 

After the pre-survey consultation 60- 

day Federal Register notice was 

published on page 8075 on February 23, 

2009, EIA received funds in order to 

include weatherization and energy 

efficiency program participation 

questions on the survey. 

Please refer to the supporting 

statement as well as the proposed forms 

and instructions for more information 

about the purpose, who must report, 

when to report, where to submit, the 

elements to be reported, detailed 

instructions, provisions for 

confidentiality, and uses (including 

possible nonstatistical uses) of the 

information. For instructions on 

obtaining materials, see the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the 

Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974, 

Pub. L. 93–275, codified at 15 U.S.C. 772(b). 

Issued in Washington, DC, September 21, 

2009. 

Stephanie Brown, 

Director, Statistics and Methods Group, 

Agency Clearance Officer Energy Information 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. E9–23185 Filed 9–24–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

Record of Decision: Montana Alberta 

Tie Limited (DOE/EIS–0399) 

AGENCY: Western Area Power 

Administration, DOE. 

ACTION: Record of decision. 

SUMMARY: The Western Area Power 

Administration (Western), an agency of 

the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), 

has decided to finance a portion of the 

Montana Alberta Tie Ltd. (MATL) 230- 

kilovolt (kV) transmission line (MATL 

Project) in exchange for ownership of 50 

megawatts (MW) of southbound 

capacity on the line and ownership of 

approximately 18 miles of transmission 

line. This decision is contingent on the 

MATL Project meeting all necessary 

conditions under Western’s 

Transmission Infrastructure Program 

(TIP). MATL proposed to construct, 

operate, maintain, and connect a new 

214-mile, single-circuit 230-kV electric 

transmission line across the U.S.- 

Canada border near Cut Bank, Montana, 

and DOE prepared the Environmental 

Impact Statement for the Montana 

Alberta Tie Ltd. (MATL) 230-kV 

Transmission Line (DOE/EIS–0399), 

herein referred to as the MATL 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), 

as co-lead with the State of Montana, to 

analyze the environmental impacts that 

would be associated with construction 

and operation of the line. The 

environmental mitigation measures and 

electric reliability conditions required 

by DOE’s permit for the line are 

identified in the Record of Decision 

(ROD); Montana Alberta Tie Ltd. issued 

by DOE on November 17, 2008, (73 FR 

67860), herein referred to as the first 

ROD. 

Western’s decision to finance a 

portion of the MATL Project has no 

effect on the environmental impacts 

identified in the MATL EIS, and does 

not in any way modify the first ROD. 

Western has prepared this second 

ROD in accordance with the regulations 

of the Council on Environmental 

Quality (40 CFR Parts 1500–1508) for 

implementing the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and 

DOE’s NEPA Implementing Procedures 

(10 CFR part 1021). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information about Western’s 

decision, contact Robert J. Harris, 

Regional Manager, Upper Great Plains 

Customer Service Region, Western Area 

Power Administration, P.O. Box 35800, 

Billings MT 59107–5800, by telephone 

at (406) 247–7405 or (800) 358–3415, or 

by facsimile at (406) 247–7408. The 

MATL EIS and first ROD are available 

on the DOE NEPA Web site at http:// 

www.gc.energy.gov/NEPA/. In addition, 

the first ROD may be requested by 

contacting Ellen Russell, Senior Project 

Manager, Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability, OE–20, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585, by telephone at 

(202) 586–9624, by facsimile at (202) 

586–8008, or at 

Ellen.Russell@hq.doe.gov. For 

information on the DOE NEPA process, 

contact Carol Borgstrom, Director, Office 

of NEPA Policy and Compliance, GC– 

20, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585, by telephone at 

(202) 586–4600 or (800) 472–2756, or by 

facsimile at (202) 586–7031. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

NEPA Review 

When DOE distributed the Final 

MATL EIS in October 2008, Western 

was not involved in the MATL Project 

as the MATL Project did not include an 

interconnection with Western’s 

transmission system and the American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 

(Pub. L. 111–5; the Recovery Act) was 

not then law. The environmental 

impacts that would be associated with 

the line were analyzed in the MATL 

EIS, and the MATL Project would result 

in low environmental impacts after 

mitigation measures required by DOE’s 

permit are implemented. The 

environmental mitigation measures and 

electric reliability conditions committed 

to are noted in the first ROD. 

Because the expected environmental 

impacts of the MATL Project were fully 

addressed in the MATL EIS, and given 

that Western’s participation and Federal 

action does not change the MATL 

Project or its impacts, Western has 

determined that further NEPA 

documentation is not required. For 

detailed information on the MATL EIS, 

please see the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

section above. 

Purpose and Need for Agency Action 

Under section 402 of the Recovery 

Act, Western is given authority to 

borrow funds from the U.S. Treasury to 

construct, finance, facilitate, plan, 

operate, maintain, and/or study 

construction of new or upgraded electric 

power transmission lines and related 

facilities. These transmission lines and 

related facilities must have at least one 

terminus in Western’s marketing area 

and deliver or facilitate the delivery of 

power from renewable resources 

constructed or reasonably expected to 

be constructed after the date of 

enactment of the Recovery Act. 

On March 4, 2009, Western published 

a Notice of Proposed Program and 

Request for Public Comments in the 

Federal Register (74 FR 9391) 

describing its proposed Transmission 

Infrastructure Program (TIP) and 

soliciting public input on that program. 

After considering the comments 

received on its March 4 Federal Register 

notice, Western published its final TIP 

Notice of Program on May 14, 2009 (74 

FR 22732). The TIP will guide how 

Western evaluates proposals for funding 

under the Recovery Act. 

Western also published a Notice of 

Availability of Request for Interest on 

March 4, 2009, (74 FR 9391) that 

initiated a public process to help 

identify the first round of transmission 

projects to be developed under the 

Recovery Act. The MATL Project was 

one of the projects proposed for funding 

in response to this notice. 

Western’s proposed action is to 

partially finance under its TIP the 

MATL Project as described in the first 

ROD. In return for its portion of Project 

funding, Western would own 50 MW of 

southbound capacity on the MATL line 

and gain ownership of approximately 18 

miles of transmission line extending 

north from the Great Falls substation. 


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