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Creek estuary/lagoon, and numerous 

ponds in the vicinity of Manchester, 

California (including Davis Lake, Davis 

Pond, Hunter’s Lagoon, and numerous 

unnamed water bodies in the lower 

Garcia River flood plain) in Mendocino 

County; Gualala River, Salmon Creek 

estuary/lagoon, and Estero Americano 

in Sonoma County; Estero de San 

Antonio, Walker Creek, Lagunitas Creek, 

and Rodeo Lagoon in Marin County; San 

Gregorio Creek estuary/lagoon, 

Pescadero Lagoon (Pescadero Creek/ 

Butano Creek estuary/lagoon), and 

Arroyo de los Frijoles estuary/lagoon in 

San Mateo County; Laguna Creek 

estuary/lagoon, Baldwin Creek estuary/ 

lagoon, Corcoran Lagoon, Aptos Creek 

estuary/lagoon, and Pajaro River 

estuary/lagoon in Santa Cruz County; 

Bennett Slough in Monterey County; 

Santa Paula Creek in Ventura County; 

Cow Creek in Shasta County; Battle 

Creek in Shasta and Tehama counties; 

Butte Creek in Glenn and Butte 

counties; Mokelumne River in 

Sacramento and San Joaquin counties; 

Sherman Island in Sacramento County; 

Napa River in Napa County; Tuolumne 

River in Stanislaus County; and Merced 

River in Merced County. 

Permit 1282 authorizes average 

unintentional lethal take of juvenile 

ESA-listed salmonids of approximately 

2 percent of ESA-listed salmonids 

captured. Permit 1282 does not 

authorize lethal take of adult ESA-listed 

salmonids or intentional lethal take of 

ESA-listed salmonids. The purpose of 

the research is to provide ESA-listed 

salmonid population, distribution, and 

habitat assessment data which will: (1) 

contribute to the general body of 

scientific knowledge pertaining to ESAlisted salmonids; (2) inform resource 

managers to further the conservation 

and recovery of ESA-listed salmonids; 

and (3) evaluate the effectiveness of past 

habitat restoration projects and guide 

future habitat restoration projects to best 

benefit ESA-listed salmonids. Permit 

1282 expires on December 31, 2012. 

Dated: May 30, 2007. 

Angela Somma 

Chief, Endangered Species Division, Office 

of Protected Resources, National Marine 

Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. E7–10948 Filed 6–6–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S 

ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Notice 

AGENCY: United States Election 

Assistance Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Plenary 

Teleconference Meeting for the 

Technical Guidelines Development 

Committee. 

DATE AND TIME: Tuesday, July 3, 2007, 

11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EDT. 

PLACE: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, 

Building 101, Gaithersburg, Maryland 

20899–8900. 

STATUS: This teleconference meeting 

will be Web cast to the public. 

Additional meeting information and 

URL Web link for the event will be 

available at http://vote.nist.gov. by June 

19, 2007. 

SUMMARY: The Technical Guidelines 

Development Committee (the 

‘‘Development Committee’’) has 

scheduled a plenary teleconference 

meeting for July 3, 2007. The 

Development Committee was 

established in 2004 to act in the public 

interest to assist the Executive Director 

of the U.S. Election Assistance 

Comission (EAC) in the development of 

voluntary voting system guidelines. The 

Development Committee has held nine 

previous plenary meetings. The 

proceedings of these plenary sessions 

are available at http://vote.nist.gov. The 

purpose of the tenth meeting of the 

Development Committee will be to 

review and approve a final draft of 

recommendations for future voluntary 

voting system guidelines to the EAC. 

The draft recommendations respond to 

tasks defined in resolutions passed at 

the previous Development Committee 

meetings as well as a review of a 

complete draft of recommendations 

presented at the May 2007 plenary 

meeting. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Technical Guidelines Development 

Committee (the ‘‘Development 

Committee’’) has scheduled a plenary 

teleconference meeting for July 3, 2007. 

The Committee was established 

pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 15361, to act in 

the public interest to assist the 

Executive Director of the Election 

Assistance Commission in the 

development of the voluntary voting 

system guidelines. The Technical 

Guidelines Development Committee 

held their first plenary meeting on July 

9, 2004. At this meeting, the 

Development Committee agreed to a 

resolution forming three working 

groups: (1) Human Factors & Privacy; (2) 

Security & Transparency; and (3) Care 

Requirements & Testing to gather 

information and review preliminary 

reports on issues pertinent to voluntary 

voting standard recommendations. At 

subsequent plenary sessions, additional 

resolutions were debated and adopted 

by the TGDC. The resolutions define 

technical work tasks for NIST that assist 

the TGDC in developing 

recommendations for voluntary voting 

system guidelines. The Development 

Committee approved initial 

recommendations for voluntary voting 

system guidelines at the April 20th & 

21st, 2005 meeting. The 

recommendation were formally 

delivered to the EAC in May 2005 for 

their review. In September of 2005, the 

Development Committee began review 

of preliminary technical reports for the 

next iteration of voluntary voting system 

guidelines. The Committee will review, 

debate and approve a final draft of 

recommendations of the next iteration 

of voluntary voting system guidelines at 

the July 3, 2007 teleconference meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Allan Eustis 301–975–5099. If a member 

of the public would like to submit 

comments concerning the Committee’s 

affairs at any time before or after the 

meeting, written comments should be 

addressed to the contact person 

indicated above, c/o NIST, 100 Bureau 

Drive, Mail Stop 8970, Gaithersburg, 

MD 20899 or to voting@nist.gov. 

Thomas R. Wilkey, 

Executive Director, U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission. 

[FR Doc. 07–2839 Filed 6–4–07; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6820–KF–M 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[OE Docket No. PP–305] 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Conduct Scoping; Montana Alberta 

Tie, Ltd. 

AGENCY: Department of Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) announces its intention to 

prepare an EIS and to conduct scoping 

on the proposed Federal action of 

granting a Presidential permit to 

construct a new electric transmission 

line across the U.S.-Canada border in 

northwestern Montana. DOE has 

determined that issuance of a 

Presidential permit for the proposed 

project would constitute a major Federal 

action that may have a significant effect 

upon the environment within the 

meaning of the National Environmental 

Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). For this 

reason, DOE intends to prepare an EIS 

entitled ‘‘The Montana Alberta Tie, Ltd. 

(MATL) 230-kV Transmission Line 


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