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d. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

will provide the Fish and Wildlife

Coordination Act Report.

e. A 45-day review period will be

allowed for all interested agencies and

individuals to review and comment on

the draft EIS/EIR. All interested persons

are encouraged to respond to this notice

and provide a current address if they

wish to be contacted about the draft EIS/

EIR.

4. A public scoping meeting will be

held on May 30, 2000, from 7 p.m. to

9 p.m. at the Heidrick Ag History Center

at 1962 Hays Lane in Woodland, Yolo

County, California.

5. Availability. The draft EIS/EIR is

scheduled to be available for public

review in August 2001.

Dated: April 17, 2000.

Robert A. O’Brien III,

LTC, EN, Acting Commander.

[FR Doc. 00–11294 Filed 5–4–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

[Docket Nos. FE C&E 00–06, C&E 00–07,

C&E 00–08, C&E 00–09 and C&E 00–10;

Certification Notice—186]

Office of Fossil Energy; Notice of

Filings of Coal Capability of Gateway

Power Project, L.P., Rio Nogales Power

Project, L.P., Conectiv Energy, Inc.,

AES Londonderry, LLC and Calpine

Construction Finance Co., L.P.

Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy,

Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of filing.

SUMMARY: Gateway Power Project, L.P.,

Rio Nogales Power Project, L.P.,

Conectiv Energy, Inc., AES

Londonderry, LLC and Calpine

Construction Finance Company, L.P.

submitted coal capability selfcertifications pursuant to section 201 of

the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use

Act of 1978, as amended.

ADDRESSES: Copies of self-certification

filings are available for public

inspection, upon request, in the Office

of Coal & Power Im/Ex, Fossil Energy,

Room 4G–039, FE–27, Forrestal

Building, 1000 Independence Avenue,

SW, Washington, DC 20585.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ellen Russell at (202) 586–9624.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title II of

the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use

Act of 1978 (FUA), as amended (42

U.S.C. 8301 et seq.), provides that no

new baseload electric powerplant may

be constructed or operated without the

capability to use coal or another

alternate fuel as a primary energy

source. In order to meet the requirement

of coal capability, the owner or operator

of such facilities proposing to use

natural gas or petroleum as its primary

energy source shall certify, pursuant to

FUA section 201(d), to the Secretary of

Energy prior to construction, or prior to

operation as a base load powerplant,

that such powerplant has the capability

to use coal or another alternate fuel.

Such certification establishes

compliance with section 201(a) as of the

date filed with the Department of

Energy. The Secretary is required to

publish a notice in the Federal Register

that a certification has been filed. The

following owners/operators of the

proposed new baseload powerplants

have filed a self-certification in

acccordance with section 201(d).

Owner: Gateway Power Project, L.P.

(C&E 00–06).

Operator: Gateway Power Project, L.P.

Location: Gilmer, TX.

Plant Configuration: Combined-cycle.

Capacity: 800 MW.

Fuel: Natural gas.

Purchasing Entities: Utilities and

power marketers in Texas and

surrounding states.

In–Service Date: September 1, 2002

Owner: Rio Nogales Power Project,

L.P. (C&E 00–07).

Operator: Rio Nogales Power Project,

L.P.

Location: Seguin, TX.

Plant Configuration: Combined-cycle.

Capacity: 800 MW.

Fuel: Natural gas.

Purchasing Entities: Utilities and

power marketers in Texas.

In-Service Date: June 1, 2002.

Owner: Conectiv Energy, Inc. (C&E

00–08).

Operator: Conectiv Energy, Inc.

Location: Wilmington, DE.

Plant Configuration: Combined-cycle.

Capacity: 550 MW.

Fuel: Natural gas.

Purchasing Entities: Various entities

interconnected in the PJM Power Pool,

including Conectiv Power Delivery.

In-Service Date: May 2001.

Owner: AES Londonderry, L.L.C.

(C&E 00–09).

Operator: AES Londonderry, L.L.C.

Location: Town of Londonderry,

County of Rockingham, NH.

Plant Configuration: Combined-cycle.

Capacity: 724 MW.

Fuel: Natural gas.

Purchasing Entities: Wholesale power

purchasers and into the spot markets

administered by ISO New England.

In-Service Date: June 2002.

Owner: Calpine Construction Finance

Company, L.P. (C&E 00–10).

Operator: Calpine/GenTex Lost Pines

Operations, L.P.

Location: Bastrop County, Texas.

Plant Configuration: Combined-cycle.

Capacity: 500 MW.

Fuel: Natural gas.

Purchasing Entities: Electric output

sold on a ‘‘merchant’’ basis under power

purchase agreements to be negotiated.

In-Service Date: June 1, 2001.

Issued in Washington, DC, April 26, 2000.

Anthony J. Como,

Deputy Director, Electric Power Regulation,

Office of Coal & Power Im/Ex, Office of Coal

& Power Systems, Office of Fossil Energy.

[FR Doc. 00–11248 Filed 5–4–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Energy Information Administration

Agency Information Collection Under

Review by the Office of Management

and Budget

AGENCY: Energy Information

Administration, Department of Energy.

ACTION: Submission for OMB review;

comment request.

SUMMARY: The Energy Information

Administration (EIA) has submitted the

energy information collection listed at

the end of this notice to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for

review under sections 3507 (h)(1) and

3506(c) of the Paperwork Reduction Act

of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13).

Each entry contains the following

information: (1) The collection number

and title; (2) a summary of the collection

of information (includes the sponsor

which is the Department of Energy

component), current OMB document

number (if applicable), type of request

(new, revision, extension, or

reinstatement), response obligation

(mandatory, voluntary, or required to

obtain or retain benefits); (3) a

description of the need and proposed

use of the information; (4) a description

of the likely respondents; and (5) 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).

DATES: Comments must be filed on or

before June 5, 2000. If you anticipate

that you will be submitting comments

but find it difficult to do so within the

time allowed by this notice, you should

advise the OMB DOE Desk Officer listed

below of your intention to do so as soon

as possible. The OMB DOE Desk Officer

may be telephoned at (202) 395–3084.

(Also, please notify the EIA contact

listed below.)