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Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time on Friday, June 21, 2013. 

Dated: June 10, 2013. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Notice of Commission Staff 

Attendance 

The Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission (Commission) hereby gives 

notice that members of the 

Commission’s staff may attend the 

following meeting related to the 

transmission planning activities of the 

South Carolina Regional Transmission 

Planning (SCRTP) group: 

SCRTP Stakeholder Group 

June 13, 2013. 

The above-referenced meeting is open 

to stakeholders and will be held via 

Web conference. 

For additional information, see 

www.scrtp.com. 

The discussions at the meeting 

described above may address matters at 

issue in the following proceedings: 

Docket No. ER13–107–000, ER13–107– 

001 and ER13–107–002, South 

Carolina Electric & Gas Company 

For More Information Contact: 

Michael Lee, Office of Energy Market 

Regulation, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission at (202) 502–8658 or 

Michael.Lee@ferc.gov. 

Dated: June 11, 2013. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9823–7] 

State Allotment Percentages for the 

Drinking Water State Revolving Fund 

Program 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

is announcing the revised Drinking 

Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) 

allotments that will be provided to the 

States, the District of Columbia, Puerto 

Rico, U.S. Territories, American Indian 

Tribes and Alaska Native Villages if the 

President’s budget request for Fiscal 

Year 2014 is enacted. These allotments 

reflect the results from EPA’s most 

recent Drinking Water Infrastructure 

Needs Survey and Assessment which 

was released on June 3, 2013. The 

revised State allotment percentages will 

be the basis for distributing the DWSRF 

program appropriations to the States for 

the four years from Fiscal Years 2014 

through 2017. 

DATES: This notice is effective June 17, 

2013. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

inquiries, contact Robert Barles, 

Drinking Water Protection Division, 

Office of Ground Water and Drinking 

Water (4606M), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: (202) 564–3814; fax 

number: (202) 564–3757; email address: 

barles.robert@epa.gov. Copies of this 

document and information on the 

Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs 

Survey and Assessment and the DWSRF 

program can be found on EPA’s Office 

of Ground Water and Drinking Water 

Web site at http://water.epa.gov/ 

grants_funding/dwsrf/index.cfm. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 1996 

Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) 

Amendments established a DWSRF 

program. Congress directed that 

allotments for FY 1998 and each 

subsequent year would be distributed 

among States based on the results of an 

assessment by EPA of the relative 

infrastructure investment needs of the 

drinking water systems within each 

State (SDWA section 1452(a)(1)(D)(ii)) 

which must be conducted every four 

years. 

EPA’s Drinking Water Infrastructure 

Needs Survey and Assessment 

EPA’s first assessment, which 

reflected 1995 survey data, was released 

in 1997; the second assessment, which 

reflected 1999 survey data, was released 

in 2001; the third assessment, which 

reflected the 2003 survey data, was 

released in 2005; and the fourth 

assessment, which reflected the 2007 

survey data, was released in 2009. The 

2011 Drinking Water Infrastructure 

Needs Survey and Assessment (Needs 

Assessment) was released on June 3, 

2013 (EPA 816–R–13–006). The 2011 

Needs Assessment was completed in 

cooperation with State and Navajo 

Nation agencies with primacy for 

implementing the SDWA programs 

within their borders. EPA regional 

offices facilitated the surveying of water 

systems serving American Indian (AI) 

communities and Alaska Native Villages 

(ANV). These agencies participated in 

both the design of the survey and in the 

collection of data. The survey examined 

the needs of water systems and used 

these data to determine the aggregate 

infrastructure investment needs of 

drinking water systems within each 

individual State and for AI/ANV 

systems within each EPA Region or the 

Navajo Nation. 

The survey included all of the 

nation’s 606 largest systems (serving 

over 100,000 people) with 598 

providing data (a response rate of 

98.7%). For the nation’s 8,059 medium 

sized systems (each serving 3,301– 

100,000 people), the survey relied on a 

statistically-representative random 

selection of 2,234 with 2,159 systems 

responding (a response rate of 96.6%). 

For the 791 American Indian water 

systems, the survey relied on a 

statistical random selection of 220 with 

218 systems responding (a response rate 

of 99%). For the 165 water systems 

serving Alaska Native Villages, the 

survey relied on a statistical random 

selection of 86 systems with 84 

responding (a response rate of 97.7%). 

The survey also sampled the 4 medium 

and 1 large systems of the U.S. 

Territories (with a 100% response rate). 

For small, non-tribal water systems 

(each serving less than 3,301 people), 

the 2011 assessment extrapolated the 

findings from the 2007 survey by 

adjusting to 2011 dollars. 

The sample design for the survey and 

assessment produces a statistically-valid 

State-by-State estimate of the total need, 

which reflects the capital costs for all 

drinking water infrastructure projects 

allowed for inclusion in the survey. The 

2011 Needs Assessment also presents 

capital needs for each State by system 

size and by category of need (i.e., 

treatment, distribution and 

transmission, storage, source and 

‘‘other’’). 

In general, an infrastructure project 

was included in the Needs Assessment 

if project documentation demonstrated 

that meeting the need would address the 

public health objectives of SDWA. The 

total State need includes both projects 

that are currently needed and future 

projects that will be needed over the 

next 20 years. Projects to correct 

immediate public health threats (e.g., 

replacing a deteriorated filter plant) are 

given the same weight in the assessment 

as less critical needs (e.g., replacing a 

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storage tank that is expected to reach the 

end of its useful life in five years). The 

Needs Assessment excluded capital 

projects that are ineligible for DWSRF 

program assistance such as dams, 

reservoirs and projects needed solely for 

growth. 

The 2011 Needs Assessment found 

that the total national need is $384.2 

billion (Table 1). This estimate 

represents the needs of the 

approximately 52,000 community water 

systems and 21,400 not-for-profit noncommunity water systems that are 

eligible to receive DWSRF program 

assistance. These systems are found in 

all 50 States, Puerto Rico and the 

District of Columbia; in the Virgin 

Island and Pacific Island territories; and 

on American Indian lands and in Alaska 

Native Villages. 

TABLE 1—2011 DRINKING WATER INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS SURVEY AND

ASSESSMENT 20-YEAR NEEDS

Type of need Need 

(billions) 

States, Puerto Rico, District of 

Columbia ............................... $375.3 

Territories .................................. 0.7 

American Indian and Alaska 

Native Villages ...................... 3.3 

Costs for Proposed and Recent 

Regulations ........................... 4.9 

Total National Need .............. 384.2 

Note: Numbers may not total due to 

rounding. 

The total national need also includes 

$4.90 billion in capital needs associated 

with recently promulgated and 

proposed regulations as identified in 

EPA Economic Analyses accompanying 

the rules. Although these needs are 

included in the total national need, they 

were not apportioned to the States based 

on the unanimous recommendation of 

the State representatives who 

participated in the survey design. The 

States expressed concern that the 

methods available for allocating the 

costs of these more recent or proposed 

regulations would not yet be 

represented in the capital improvement 

plans of water systems at the time of the 

2011 survey. The total State need, 

which is the figure that EPA will use to 

calculate the State allotments, includes 

only the needs of the 50 States, Puerto 

Rico and the District of Columbia. The 

2011 Needs Assessment estimates that 

the total State need is $375.3 billion. 

Allocation Method 

On October 31, 1996, EPA solicited 

public comment on six options for using 

the results of the first Drinking Water 

Infrastructure Needs Survey and 

Assessment to allocate DWSRF program 

funds to the States (61 FR 56231). On 

March 18, 1997, EPA announced its 

decision to allocate DWSRF program 

funds for fiscal years 1998 through 2001 

appropriations based on each State’s 

proportional share of the total eligible 

needs for the States as derived from the 

1995 Needs Assessment (62 FR 12900). 

EPA used this same method when 

allocating DWSRF program funds for: 

fiscal years 2002 through 2005, utilizing 

the results of the 1999 Needs 

Assessment; fiscal years 2006 through 

2009, utilizing the results of the 2003 

Needs Assessment; and fiscal years 2010 

through 2013 utilizing the results of the 

2007 Needs Assessment. EPA has made 

the determination that it will continue 

to use this method for allocating 

DWSRF program funds for fiscal years 

2014 through 2017 appropriations 

utilizing the results of the 2011 Needs 

Assessment. The funds available to the 

States will be the level of funds 

appropriated by Congress less any 

national set-aside such as the set aside 

for American Indian and Alaska Native 

Village water systems. Of the remaining 

funds available to States, the SDWA 

includes a specific combined allocation 

for the Virgin Island and Pacific Island 

territories and a minimum for the 

District of Columbia. Each State 

(including Puerto Rico) will receive an 

allotment of DWSRF program funds 

based on each State’s proportional share 

of the total combined need for all States 

and the District of Columbia ($375.3 

billion) provided that each State 

receives a minimum allocation of one 

percent of the funds available to States, 

as required by the SDWA. The 2011 

Needs Assessment found that 17 States, 

Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia 

each had less than one percent of the 

total national need; for 2014 to 2017, 

each of these will be eligible for one 

percent of the annual DWSRF funds 

made available to States (or, in 

aggregate, 19 percent of the total 

DWSRF funds made available to States). 

Allocation of Funds 

Table 2 contains each State’s expected 

DWSRF program allotment based on the 

President’s budget request for FY 2014. 

The national set-aside for Fiscal Year for 

American Indian and Alaska Native 

Village water systems is 2.0 percent of 

the total appropriation or $16,340,000 

for FY 2014 under the President’s 

budget request. If funds are 

appropriated for the DWSRF program at 

the level of $817,000,000, the total 

funds available to the States, the District 

of Columbia and Territories would then 

equal $798,660,000. Because the 

percentages are based on allotting all 

available funds annually to the States 

regardless of the year in the four-year 

cycle, they can be used for general 

planning purposes for the entire fouryear cycle. Once the 2014 and 

subsequent year appropriated amounts 

and any national set-asides are known, 

a State’s allotment can be estimated by 

subtracting any national set-aside from 

the total funds available for allotment 

and then applying the appropriate 

percentage shown below. EPA will 

annually notify each State of its 

allotment from a specific fiscal year’s 

appropriation after the final budget has 

been passed. 

TABLE 2—DWSRF STATE PERCENTAGES AND DOLLAR ALLOTMENTS BASED ON THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET REQUEST FOR

FY 2014 AND THE 2011 NEEDS ASSESSMENT

State FY 2014 Allotment 2014 Allotment 

(%) 

Alabama ................................................................................................................................................... $15,253,000 1.91 

Alaska ...................................................................................................................................................... 7,987,000 1.00 

Arizona ..................................................................................................................................................... 14,419,000 1.81 

Arkansas .................................................................................................................................................. 12,220,000 1.53 

California .................................................................................................................................................. 75,142,000 9.41 

Colorado .................................................................................................................................................. 13,901,000 1.74 

Connecticut .............................................................................................................................................. 8,093,000 1.01 

Delaware .................................................................................................................................................. 7,987,000 1.00 

Florida ...................................................................................................................................................... 29,211,000 3.66 

Georgia .................................................................................................................................................... 17,413,000 2.18 

Hawaii ...................................................................................................................................................... 7,987,000 1.00 

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TABLE 2—DWSRF STATE PERCENTAGES AND DOLLAR ALLOTMENTS BASED ON THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET REQUEST FOR

FY 2014 AND THE 2011 NEEDS ASSESSMENT—Continued 

State FY 2014 Allotment 2014 Allotment 

(%) 

Idaho ........................................................................................................................................................ 7,987,000 1.00 

Illinois ....................................................................................................................................................... 33,328,000 4.17 

Indiana ..................................................................................................................................................... 12,955,000 1.62 

Iowa ......................................................................................................................................................... 11,945,000 1.50 

Kansas ..................................................................................................................................................... 9,102,000 1.14 

Kentucky .................................................................................................................................................. 12,434,000 1.56 

Louisiana .................................................................................................................................................. 10,950,000 1.37 

Maine ....................................................................................................................................................... 7,987,000 1.00 

Maryland .................................................................................................................................................. 13,555,000 1.70 

Massachusetts ......................................................................................................................................... 14,846,000 1.86 

Michigan ................................................................................................................................................... 24,858,000 3.11 

Minnesota ................................................................................................................................................ 14,291,000 1.79 

Mississippi ................................................................................................................................................ 8,270,000 1.04 

Missouri .................................................................................................................................................... 16,123,000 2.02 

Montana ................................................................................................................................................... 7,987,000 1.00 

Nebraska .................................................................................................................................................. 7,987,000 1.00 

Nevada ..................................................................................................................................................... 11,390,000 1.43 

New Hampshire ....................................................................................................................................... 7,987,000 1.00 

New Jersey .............................................................................................................................................. 15,195,000 1.90 

New Mexico ............................................................................................................................................. 7,987,000 1.00 

New York ................................................................................................................................................. 38,334,000 4.80 

North Carolina .......................................................................................................................................... 18,686,000 2.34 

North Dakota ............................................................................................................................................ 7,987,000 1.00 

Ohio ......................................................................................................................................................... 22,200,000 2.78 

Oklahoma ................................................................................................................................................. 12,868,000 1.61 

Oregon ..................................................................................................................................................... 11,344,000 1.42 

Pennsylvania ............................................................................................................................................ 25,536,000 3.20 

Puerto Rico .............................................................................................................................................. 7,987,000 1.00 

Rhode Island ............................................................................................................................................ 7,987,000 1.00 

South Carolina ......................................................................................................................................... 7,987,000 1.00 

South Dakota ........................................................................................................................................... 7,987,000 1.00 

Tennessee ............................................................................................................................................... 7,987,000 1.00 

Texas ....................................................................................................................................................... 57,746,000 7.23 

Utah ......................................................................................................................................................... 8,334,000 1.04 

Vermont ................................................................................................................................................... 7,987,000 1.00 

Virginia ..................................................................................................................................................... 13,232,000 1.66 

Washington .............................................................................................................................................. 17,825,000 2.23 

West Virginia ............................................................................................................................................ 7,987,000 1.00 

Wisconsin ................................................................................................................................................. 13,928,000 1.74 

Wyoming .................................................................................................................................................. 7,987,000 1.00 

District of Columbia ................................................................................................................................. 7,987,000 1.00 

U.S. Territories * ....................................................................................................................................... 11,980,000 1.50 

Total Funds Available to the States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Territories .. 798,660,000 ................................

American Indian & Alaska Native Water Systems .................................................................................. 16,340,000 ................................

Monitoring for Unregulated Contaminants ............................................................................................... 2,000,000 ................................

Total SRF Appropriation ................................................................................................................... 817,000,000 ................................

* Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. 

Dated: June 6, 2013. 

Peter C. Grevatt, 

Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking 

Water. 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Information Collection(s) Being 

Reviewed by the Federal 

Communications Commission, 

Comments Requested 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burden and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal 

Communications Commission invites 

the general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on the following information 

collection(s). Comments are requested 

concerning: whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Commission, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; the accuracy of the 

Commission’s burden estimate; ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information collected; ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on the respondents, 

including the use of automated 

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