Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 179 / Friday, September 15, 2006 / Notices 54519 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

Proposed Water Service Contract, El 

Dorado County Water Agency, El 

Dorado County, CA 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a 

draft environmental impact statement/ 

environmental report (EIS/EIR) and 

notice of scoping meetings. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C) 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) of 1969 (as amended) and 

Section 21061 of the California 

Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the 

Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) 

and El Dorado County Water Agency 

(EDCWA) intend to prepare a joint EIS/ 

EIR for a Municipal and Industrial (M&I) 

water service contract from the Central 

Valley Project (CVP), California. The 

proposed project consists of a long term 

water supply contract under which 

Reclamation would provide up to 

15,000 acre-feet per annum (AFA) to the 

EDCWA for diversion from Folsom 

Reservoir or for exchange upstream on 

the American River. The EDCWA 

proposes to sub-contract this water 

equally between El Dorado Irrigation 

District (EID) and Georgetown Divide 

Public Utility District (GDPUD). EID 

proposes to take its supply from Folsom 

Reservoir. GDPUD proposes to take its 

supply upstream by way of a water 

exchange with Placer County Water 

Agency (PCWA). The GDPUD diversion 

facility is at the American River Pump 

Station which is currently under 

construction. 

DATES: Reclamation and EDCWA will 

host two public scoping meetings on the 

proposed project. The meeting dates are: 

• Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 6 to 

8 p.m., Placerville, CA. 

• Wednesday, September 27, 2006, 6 

to 8 p.m., Greenwood, CA. 

Any interested member of the public 

is invited to attend. An overview of the 

project will be presented and public 

comments received. Written comments 

should be mailed to James A. Roberts at 

the address below by October 11, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: The locations of the two 

meetings are: 

• Placerville—El Dorado Irrigation 

District, Harry J. Dunlop Customer 

Service Building, Board Room, 2890 

Mosquito Road, Placerville. 

• Greenwood—Greenwood 

Community Center, 4411 Highway 193, 

Greenwood, CA 95635. 

Written comments on this notice or 

the scope of this EIS/EIR should 

reference the Bureau of Reclamation/ 

EDCWA CVP Water Service Contract 

EIS/EIR and be sent to: James A. 

Roberts, Ph.D., El Dorado County Water 

Agency, 3932 Ponderosa Road, Suite 

200, Shingle Springs, CA 95682. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brian Deason, Environmental Specialist, 

Bureau of Reclamation, 7794 Folsom 

Dam Road, Folsom, California 95630, 

telephone: (16) 989–7279 or James A. 

Roberts, Ph.D. at the above address, 

telephone: (530) 621–5392. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 1990, 

Congress passed Public Law 101–514, 

which directed Reclamation to enter 

into a long-term CVP M&I water service 

contract with EDCWA. Section 206 

(b)(1)(B) provides that Reclamation 

enter into an M&I water service contract 

with EDCWA for up to 15,000 AFA. The 

proposed action is the execution of a 

long term water service contract with 

EDCWA. EDCWA intends to apportion 

this new contract water to both EID and 

GDPUD based on these parties’

individual water needs and timing 

requests. This will require separate 

contracts between EDCWA and both EID 

and GDPUD with Reclamation approval. 

At present, it is assumed that the new 

Federal water supply would be split 

equally between EID and GDPUD such 

that each purveyor would be provided 

up to 7,500 AFA. 

The EIS/EIR focuses on the potential 

environmental impacts resulting from 

the execution and implementation of 

the new CVP water service contract. The 

EIS/EIR will include evaluation of the 

no project alternative as well as 

alternative delivery quantities. At a 

project-level, it will address a 

comprehensive nag of in-stream 

potential effects resulting from this new 

15,000 AFA withdrawal, including a 

detailed evaluation of the effects to the 

CVP and the State Water Project (SWP). 

This will involve assessments of waterrelated resources including: Fisheries, 

riparian species/habitats, water-related 

recreation, water-related cultural 

resources, and water quality. It will also 

address water supply impacts across the 

CVP/SWP, flood control at Folsom 

Reservoir, and potential effects to CVP 

hydropower generation and pumping 

impacts at the reservoir. Water-related 

analyses will be facilitated through the 

application and use of Reclamation’s 

planning and operations model, 

CALSIM II, along with other 

environmental models that utilize 

CLASIM II output hydrology. At 

present, the lead agencies lack sufficient 

information to ascertain whether any of 

these impacts will be significant. 

No new infrastructure facilities are 

included with this proposed action. 

While the EIS/EIR will identify, to the 

extent known, possible future 

infrastructure projects that would be 

needed to fully utilize this contract 

water, many of these details are not 

currently known. Accordingly, a 

program-level assessment of known or 

potential facilities will be provided in 

the EIS/EIR. 

The EIS/EIR will assess potential 

impacts to any Indian Trust Assets 

(ITAs) or any environmental justice 

issues. Input about concerns or issues 

related to ITAs is requested from 

potentially affected Indian groups and 

individuals, the public, and state and 

Federal agencies. 

This proposed action has been the 

subject of previous scoping meetings 

that were published in the Federal 

Register (58 FR 28034, May 12, 1993, 

and 63 FR 30512, June 4, 1998). 

However, because the proposed action 

and alternatives have been updated and 

more than eight years has passed since 

the last scoping meetings, additional 

scoping activities are being initiated at 

this time. 

Special Services 

If special assistance is required at the 

scoping meetings, please contract Donna 

Potter at 916–978–5103, TDD 916–978–

5608, or via e-mail at 

lpotter@mp.usbr.gov. Please notify Ms. 

Potter as far in advance of the meetings 

as possible to enable Reclamation to 

secure the needed services. If a request 

cannot be honored, the requestor will be 

notified. A telephone device for the 

hearing impaired (TDD) is available at 

916–978–5608. 

Our practice is to make comments, 

including names, home addresses, home 

phone numbers, and email addresses of 

respondents, available for public 

review. Individual respondents may 

request that we withhold their names 

and/or home addresses, etc., but if you 

wish to consider withholding this 

information you must state this 

prominently at the beginning of your 

comments. In addition, you must 

present a rationale for withholding this 

information. This rationale must 

demonstrate that disclosure would 

constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of privacy. Unsupported 

assertions will not meet this burden. In 

the absence of exceptional, 

documentable circumstances, this 

information will be released. We will 

always make submissions from 

organizations or businesses, and from 

individuals identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 


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54520 Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 179 / Friday, September 15, 2006 / Notices 

1Commissioner Deanna Tanner Okun and 

Commissioner Charlotte R. Lane found that the 

respondent interested party group response with 

respect to Germany was adequate. 

organizations or businesses, available 

for public inspection in their entirety. 

Michael Nepstad, 

Acting Regional Environmental Officer, MidPacific Region. 

[FR Doc. 06–7705 Filed 9–14–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MN–M 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation Nos. 701–TA–364 and 731–

TA–711 and 713–716 (Second Review)] 

Oil Country Tubular Goods From 

Argentina, Italy, Japan, Korea, and 

Mexico 

AGENCY: United States International 

Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Commission 

determinations to conduct full five-year 

reviews concerning the countervailing 

duty order on oil country tubular goods 

(‘‘OCTG’’) from Italy and the 

antidumping duty orders on OCTG from 

Argentina, Italy, Japan, Korea, and 

Mexico. 

SUMMARY: The Commission hereby gives 

notice that it will proceed with full 

reviews pursuant to section 751(c)(5) of 

the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 

1675(c)(5)) to determine whether 

revocation of the countervailing duty 

order on OCTG from Italy and the 

antidumping duty orders on OCTG from 

Argentina, Italy, Japan, Korea, and 

Mexico would be likely to lead to 

continuation or recurrence of material 

injury within a reasonably foreseeable 

time. A schedule for the reviews will be 

established and announced at a later 

date. For further information concerning 

the conduct of these reviews and rules 

of general application, consult the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, part 201, subparts A through 

E (19 CFR part 201), and part 207, 

subparts A, D, E, and F (19 CFR part 

207). 

DATES: Effective Date: September 5, 

2006. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary Messer (202–205–3193), Office of 

Investigations, U.S. International Trade 

Commission, 500 E Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20436. Hearingimpaired persons can obtain 

information on this matter by contacting 

the Commission’s TDD terminal on 202–

205–1810. Persons with mobility 

impairments who will need special 

assistance in gaining access to the 

Commission should contact the Office 

of the Secretary at 202–205–2000. 

General information concerning the 

Commission may also be obtained by 

accessing its Internet server (http:// 

www.usitc.gov). The public record for 

these reviews may be viewed on the 

Commission’s electronic docket (EDIS) 

at http://edis.usitc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

September 5, 2006, the Commission 

determined that it should proceed to 

full reviews in the subject five-year 

reviews pursuant to section 751(c)(5) of 

the Act. The Commission found that 

both the domestic and respondent 

interested party group responses to its 

notice of institution (71 FR 31207, June 

1, 2006) were adequate. A record of the 

Commissioners’ votes, the 

Commission’s statement on adequacy, 

and any individual Commissioner’s 

statements will be available from the 

Office of the Secretary and at the 

Commission’s Web site. 

Authority: These reviews are being 

conducted under authority of title VII of the 

Tariff Act of 1930; this notice is published 

pursuant to section 207.62 of the 

Commission’s rules. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: September 11, 2006. 

Marilyn R. Abbott, 

Secretary to the Commission. 

[FR Doc. E6–15359 Filed 9–14–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation Nos. 731–TA–707–709 

(Second Review)] 

Certain Seamless Carbon and Alloy 

Steel Standard, Line, and Pressure 

Pipe From Argentina, Brazil, and 

Germany 

AGENCY: United States International 

Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Commission 

determinations to conduct full five-year 

reviews concerning the antidumping 

duty orders on certain seamless carbon 

and alloy steel standard, line, and 

pressure pipe (‘‘seamless pipe’’) from 

Argentina, Brazil, and Germany. 

SUMMARY: The Commission hereby gives 

notice that it will proceed with full 

reviews pursuant to section 751(c)(5) of 

the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 

1675(c)(5)) to determine whether 

revocation of the antidumping duty 

orders on seamless pipe from Argentina, 

Brazil, and Germany would be likely to 

lead to continuation or recurrence of 

material injury within a reasonably 

foreseeable time. A schedule for the 

reviews will be established and 

announced at a later date. For further 

information concerning the conduct of 

these reviews and rules of general 

application, consult the Commission’s 

Rules of Practice and Procedure, part 

201, subparts A through E (19 CFR part 

201), and part 207, subparts A, D, E, and 

F (19 CFR part 207). 

DATES: Effective Date: September 5, 

2006. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary Messer (202–205–3193), Office of 

Investigations, U.S. International Trade 

Commission, 500 E Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20436. Hearingimpaired persons can obtain 

information on this matter by contacting 

the Commission’s TDD terminal on 202–

205–1810. Persons with mobility 

impairments who will need special 

assistance in gaining access to the 

Commission should contact the Office 

of the Secretary at 202–205–2000. 

General information concerning the 

Commission may also be obtained by 

accessing its Internet server (http:// 

www.usitc.gov). The public record for 

these reviews may be viewed on the 

Commission’s electronic docket (EDIS) 

at http://edis.usitc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

September 5, 2006, the Commission 

determined that it should proceed to 

full reviews in the subject five-year 

reviews pursuant to section 751(c)(5) of 

the Act. The Commission found that the 

domestic interested party group 

response to its notice of institution (71 

FR 31209, June 1, 2006) was adequate 

and that the respondent interested party 

group response with respect to 

Argentina was adequate and decided to 

conduct a full review with respect to the 

order covering seamless pipe from 

Argentina. The Commission found that 

the respondent interested party group 

responses with respect to Brazil and 

Germany were inadequate.1 However, 

the Commission determined to conduct 

full reviews concerning seamless pipe 

from Brazil and Germany to promote 

administrative efficiency in light of its 

decision to conduct a full review with 

respect to seamless pipe from Argentina. 

A record of the Commissioners’ votes, 

the Commission’s statement on 

adequacy, and any individual 

Commissioner’s statements will be 

available from the Office of the 

Secretary and at the Commission’s Web 

site. 

Authority: These reviews are being 

conducted under authority of title VII of the 

Tariff Act of 1930; this notice is published 


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