40090 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 126 / Thursday, June 29, 2000 / Notices

www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call

202–208–2222 for assistance).

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–16418 Filed 6–28–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Project No. 1494–197, Oklahoma]

Grand River Dam Authority; Notice of

Availability of Environmental

Assessment

June 23, 2000.

An environmental assessment (EA) is

available for public review. The EA

analyzes the environmental impacts of

Grand River Dam Authority’s (GRDA)

application to grant a permit to John W.

Mayes (applicant) to install 9 boat docks

with 84 slips in Grand Lake O’ The

Cherokees (Grand Lake), the reservoir

for the Pensacola Hydroelectric Project.

GRDA’s proposed permit would also

allow the applicant to dredge about

33,557 cubic yards of sediment to

improve boat access from the docks to

Grand Lake. The Pensacola Project is on

the Grand (Nesho) River in Craig,

Delaware, Mayes, and Ottawa Counties,

Oklahoma.

The EA was written by staff in the

Office of Energy Projects, Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission. In the

EA, Commission staff conclude that

approving GRDA’s application to grant

the permit would not constitute a major

federal action significantly affecting the

quality of the human environment.

Copies of the EA can be viewed on the

web at www.ferc.fed.us/online/

rims.htm. Call (202) 208–2222 for

assistance. Copies are also available for

inspection and reproduction at the

Commission’s Public Reference Room,

located at 888 First Street, NE, Room

2A, Washington, DC 20426, or by calling

(202) 208–1371.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–16424 Filed 6–28–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

Notice of Scoping Meetings and Site

Visit and Soliciting Scoping Comments

June 23, 2000.

Take notice that the following

hydroelectric applications have been

filed with Commission and are available

for public inspection:

a. Type of Applications: New Major

Licenses.

b. Projects: Soda Project No. 20–019,

Grace-Cove Project No. 2401–007, and

Oneida Project No. 472–017.

c. Date filed: September 27, 1999.

d. Applicant: PacifiCorp.

e. Location: On the Bear River in

Caribou and Franklin Counties, Idaho.

The projects are partially on United

States lands administered by the Bureau

of Land Management.

f. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power

Act, 16 USC 791(a)–825(r).

g. Applicant Contact: Randy Landolt,

Director, Hydro Resources, PacifiCorp,

825 N.E. Multnomah Street, Suite 1500,

Portland, OR 97232, (503) 813–6650, or,

Thomas H. Nelson, 825 Multnomah

Street, Suite 925, Portland, OR 97232,

(503) 813–5890.

h. FERC Contact: Susan O’Brien,

susan.obrien@ferc.fed.us, (202) 219–

2840.

i. Deadline for filing scoping

comments: September 14, 2000.

All documents (original and eight

copies) should be filed with: David P.

Boergers, Secretary, Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 888 First

Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice

and Procedure require all interveners

filing documents with the Commission

to serve a copy of that document on

each person on the official service list

for the project. Further, if an intervener

files comments or documents with the

Commission relating to the merits of an

issue that may affect the responsibilities

of a particular resource agency, they

must also serve a copy of the document

on that resource agency.

j. This application is not ready for

environmental analysis at this time.

k. The existing Soda Project consists

of: (1) the 103-foot-high and 433-footlong concrete gravity Soda Dam with a

114-foot-long spillway section; (2) the

Soda Reservoir with a surface area of

1,100 acres, an active storage capacity of

16,300 acre-feet, and a maximum water

elevation of 5,720 feet; (3) the Soda

Powerhouse containing two units with a

total installed capacity of 14 megawatts

(MW); and (4) other appurtenances.

The existing Grace Development

consists of: (1) a 51-foot-high and 180-

foot-long rock filled timber crib dam

that creates a 250 acre-feet usable

storage capacity forebay; (2) a 26,000-

foot-long flowline and surge tanks; and

(3) a powerhouse with three units with

total installed capacity of 33 MW. The

Cove Development consists of: (1) a

26.5-foot-high and 141-foot-long

concrete dam creating a 60-acre-foot

forebay; (2) a 6,125-foot-long concrete

and wood flume; (3) a 500-foot-long

steel penstock; and (4) a powerhouse

with a 7.5-MW unit.

The existing Oneida Project consists

of: (1) the 111-foot-high and 456-footlong concrete gravity Oneida Dam; (2)

the Oneida Reservoir with an active

storage of 10,880 acre-feet and a surface

area of 480 acres; (3) an 16-footdiameter, 2,240-foot-long flowline; (4) a

surge tank; (5) three 12-foot-diameter,

120-foot-diameter, 120-foot-long steel

penstocks; (6) the Oneida Powerhouse

with three units with a total installed

capacity of 30 MW; and (7) other

appurtenances.

l. A copy of the application is

available for inspection and

reproduction at the Commission’s

Public Reference Room, located at 888

First Street, NE, Room 2A, Washington,

DC 20426, or by calling (202) 208–1371.

The application may be viewed on

http://www.ferc.fed.us/rims.htm (call

(202) 208–2222 for assistance). A copy

is also available for inspection and

reproduction at the address in item g

above.

m. Scoping Process

The Commission intends to prepare

an Environmental Impact Statement

(EIS) on the project in accordance with

the National Environmental Policy Act.

The EIS will consider both site-specific

and cumulative environmental impacts

and reasonable alternatives to the

proposed action.

Scoping Meetings and Site Visit

A scoping meeting will be held on

Tuesday, August 14, 2000 from 7:00

p.m. until 10 p.m. at the Caribou County

Senior Citizens Center, 60 South Main

Street, Soda Springs, Idaho. A project

site visit will be scheduled for Tuesday,

August 14, 2000 at 9 am, if there is any

interest. If you would like to attend,

please call Susan O’Brien, FERC Team

Leader, at (202) 219–2840, no later than

Thursday, July 27, 2000.

Copies of the Scoping Document (SDI)

outlining the subject areas to be

addressed in the EIS were distributed to

the parties on the Commission’s mailing

list. Copies of the SDI will be available

at the scoping meeting in August or may

be viewed on http://www.ferc.fed.us/

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rims.htm (call (202) 208–2222 for

assistance).

The Commission held scoping

meetings, one in the daytime and one in

the evening, to help identify the scope

of issues to be addressed in the EIS. The

daytime scoping meeting was held on

June 15, 2000 at the Holiday Inn, 1399

Bench Road, Pocatello, Idaho, and

focused on resource agency concerns.

The evening scoping meeting was held

on June 14, 2000 at the Caribou County

Senior Citizens Center, 60 South Main

Street, Soda Spring, Idaho, and was

primarily for public input. The

applicant and Commission staff also

conducted a project site visit on Friday,

June 16, 2000.

It was the Commission’s intent that all

interested individuals, organizations,

and agencies be invited to attend one or

both of the meetings and the site visit,

and to assist the staff in identifying the

scope of the environmental issues that

should be analyzed in the EIS. These

meetings and site visit were not noticed

in the Federal Register or the local

newspapers. For that reason, the subject

scoping meeting and site visit are being

scheduled. Transcripts of the June

meetings will be available shortly and

can be viewed on http://

www.ferc.fed.us/rims.htm (call (202)

208–2222 for assistance). Transcripts of

the August meeting will also become

available shortly after that meeting.

The scoping comment period will be

extended from July 16, 2000 until

September 14, 2000. Please follow

procedures in item i. above.

Objectives

Individuals, organizations, and

agencies with environmental expertise

and concerns are encouraged to attend

the meeting and to assist the staff in

defining and clarifying the issues to be

addressed in the EIS.

At the scoping meetings, the staff will:

(1) Summarize the environmental issues

tentatively identified for analysis in the

EIS; (2) solicit from the meeting

participants all available information,

especially quantifiable data, on the

resources at issue; (3) encourage

statememts from experts and the public

on issues that should be analyzed in the

EIS, including viewpoints in opposition

to, or in support of, the staff’s

preliminary views; (4) determine the

resource issues to be addressed in the

EIS; and (5) identify those issues that

require a detailed analysis, as well as

those issues that do not require a

detailed analysis.

Procedures

The meetings are recorded by a

stenographer and become part of the

formal record of the Commission

proceeding on the project.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–16423 Filed 6–28–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6726–6]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; National

Emission Standards for Air Pollutants

for Source Categories: Flexible

Polyurethane Foam Production—

MACT

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

3501 et seq.), this document announces

that the following Information

Collection Request (ICR) has been

forwarded to the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) for review and

approval: MACT, Subpart III, National

Emission Standards for Air Pollutants

for Flexible Polyurethane Foam

Production. OMB Control Number

2060–0357, expiration date 8/31/00. The

ICR describes the nature of the

information collection and its expected

burden and cost; where appropriate, it

includes the actual data collection

instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before July 31, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

a copy of the ICR contact Sandy Farmer

at EPA by phone at (202) 260–2740, by

E-Mail at

Farmer.Sandy@epamail.epa.gov or

download off the Internet at http://

www.epa.gov/icr and refer to EPA ICR

No. 1783.02. For technical questions

about the ICR contact Greg Fried at EPA

by phone at (202) 564–7016 or by email

at fried.gregory@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: ICR for MACT Subpart III—

National Emission Standards for

Hazardous Air Pollutants for Flexible

Polyurethane Foam Production, OMB

Control Number 2060–0357, EPA ICR

No. 1783.02, expiration date 8/31/00.

This is a request for extension of a

currently approved collection.

Abstract: This standard applies to

owners or operators of new and existing

facilities that engage in the manufacture

of flexible polyurethane foam products.

This includes facilities making slabstock

flexible polyurethane foam

(‘‘slabstock’’), rebond flexible

polyurethane foam (‘‘rebond’’), and/or

molded flexible polyurethane foam

(‘‘molded foam’’).

For slabstock foam producers, these

requirements include an initial

notification, notification of compliance

status, and semiannual reports

thereafter. In addition, respondents are

required to submit a pre-compliance

report that describes the HAP

compliance procedures, and

recordkeeping procedures. Respondents

electing to comply with the slabstock

foam emission limitation using recovery

devices must measure and record

emissions as specified in section

63.1297 of the final rule. Molded and

rebond foam producers have only to

submit a notification of compliance

status report.

Owners or operators of slabstock

flexible polyurethane foam production

facilities must maintain a copy of all

HAP usage records onsite for a

minimum of five years. All reports are

to be submitted upon request to EPA or

the enforcement authority by EPA. The

information is used to determine

whether or not all sources subject to the

MACT are achieving the standards.

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 are listed

in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR Chapter

15. The Federal Register document

required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d),

soliciting comments on this collection

of information was published on April

18, 2000; no comments were received.

Burden Statement: The annual burden

for this collection of information is

estimated to average 45 hours over the

next three years. 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; 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.