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Electronic records are contained in computers, magnetic disks, computer tapes, removable drives, email and electronic databases.

**RETRIEVABILITY :** 

Records in this system are retrieved by various fields including the name of correspondent, project number, correspondence identification number or correspondent’s identification number.

**SAFEGUARDS :** 

Access to records in the PEPC System is limited to authorized personnel whose official duties require such access. Paper records are secured in file cabinets in areas which are locked during non-duty hours. Electronic records conform to OMB and Departmental guidelines reflecting the implementation of the E-Government Act of 2002, National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication standards for Computer Security and the DOI regulations on safeguarding of Privacy Act information (43 CFR 2.226). A Privacy Impact Assessment was developed for the PEPC System to ensure that Privacy Act requirements and safeguards are met. Database tables are kept on separate file servers away from general file storage and other local area network usage. Thedata itself is stored in a passwordprotected, client-server database. Electronic transmissions of records are encrypted and password-protected. Security measures establish access levels for different types of users. Personnel authorized to access the system must complete all Security, Privacy, and Records management training and sign the Rules of Behavior.

**RETENTION AND DISPOSAL :** 

Records in this system are retained in accordance with the National Park Service Records Schedule for Resource Management and Lands, which has been approved by National Archives and Records Administration (Job No. N1– 79–08–1), and includes both permanent and temporary records. Records retention and disposition vary dependent on the type of record maintained within the system.

Paper records are disposed of by shredding or pulping, and records contained on electronic media are degaussed or erased in accordance with 384 Departmental Manual 1.

**SYSTEM MANAGER AND ADDRESS :** 

Project Manager, Office of Natural Resource Information Systems, Natural Resource Stewardship and Science, National Park Service, 1201 Oakridge Dr., Fort Collins, CO 80525. **NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES :**  An individual requesting notification of the existence of records on himself or herself should send a signed, written inquiry to the System Manager identified above. The request envelope and letter should both be clearly marked ‘‘PRIVACY ACT INQUIRY.’’ A request for notification must meet the requirements of 43 CFR 2.235.

**RECORDS ACCESS PROCEDURES :** 

An individual requesting records on himself or herself should send a signed, written inquiry to the System Manager identified above. The request should describe the records sought as specifically as possible. The request envelope and letter should both be clearly marked ‘‘PRIVACY ACT REQUEST FOR ACCESS.’’ A request for access must meet the requirements of 43 CFR 2.238.

**CONTESTING RECORDS PROCEDURES :** 

An individual requesting corrections or the removal of material from his or her records should send a signed, written request to the System Manager identified above. A request for corrections or removal must meet the requirements of 43 CFR 2.246.

**RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES :** 

Records in the PEPC System are obtained from DOI employees, contractors and volunteers, other Federal, state or local government agency employees, contractors and volunteers, partners of NPS that are involved in projects, members of the public providing and seeking comments on projects, and other individuals involved with projects related to conservation planning and environmental impact analysis.

**EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM :** 

None.

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**BILLING CODE 4310–EJ–P**

**DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR**

**National Park Service**

**[NPS–PWR–KAHO–15695; PPPWKAHOS0, PPMPSPD1Z.S00000]** 

**Amendment of Na Hoa Pili O Kaloko Honoko**  ** ̄ hau National Historical Park**  **Advisory Commission Meeting Date**

**AGENCY :**  National Park Service, Interior.

**ACTION :**  Notice of Amendment of Meeting Date.

**SUMMARY :**  In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. Appendix 1–16), notice is hereby given of the change in date for the September 5, 2014, meeting of the Na Hoa Pili O Kaloko-Honoko
 ̄ hau National Historical Park Advisory Commission.

**DATES :**  The meeting date originally published on January 30, 2014, in the Federal Register , 79 FR 4956, has been changed. The new meeting date will be Friday, August 22, 2014, at 9:30 a.m. (Hawaii Standard Time).

**ADDRESSES :**  The meeting will be held at the Kaloko-Honoko
 ̄ hau National Historical Park Halau at the southern end of the park, located north of Honoko
 ̄ hau Harbor with access through the Honoko
 ̄ hau pedestrian entrance. Parking is available at Honoko
 ̄ hau Harbor.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Jeff Zimpfer, Environmental Protection Specialist, Kaloko-Honoko
 ̄ hau National Historical Park, 73–4786 Kanalani St., #14, Kailua Kona, HI 96740, by telephone 808–329–6881 x1500, or via email jeff

_zimpfer@nps.gov.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :**  Meetings are open to the public. Interested persons may make oral/written presentations to the Commission or file written statements. Such requests should be made to the Superintendent at least seven days prior to the meetings. Before including your address, telephone number, email address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment—including your personal identifying information— may be made publicly available at any time. While you may ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.

Dated: May 19, 2014. Alma Ripps, Chief, Office of Policy.

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**BILLING CODE 4312–FP–P**

**DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR**

**Bureau of Ocean Energy Management**

**[Docket No. BOEM–2014–0003; MMAA104000]** 

**Potential Commercial Wind Lease Issuance and Site Assessment**  **Activities on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Offshore New**  **York**

**AGENCY :**  Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Interior.

**ACTION :**  Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Assessment.


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**SUMMARY :**  This Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Assessment (Notice) is being published as an initial step to involve Federal agencies, states, tribes, local governments, and the public in an early and transparent process to prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA) in accordance with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., and the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations implementing NEPA, 40 CFR parts 1500–1508. This process includes determining the scope of issues and identifying potentially significant issues related to a proposed project on the OCS offshore New York. This public and expert input will help inform BOEM decision-making with regard to issuing leases and approving site assessment activities.

In consultation with other Federal agencies and BOEM’s New York Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force, BOEM has identified an area for consideration for potential future wind energy leasing offshore New York (Call Area). The Call Area is identified in Commercial Leasing for Wind Power on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore New York—Call for Information and Nominations (Call), which is being published concurrently with this Notice. The leasing process provides several opportunities for public involvement before leasing can occur, including the publication of a Call and proposed sale notice. A commercial lease gives the lessee the exclusive right, subsequently, to seek BOEM approval for the development of the leasehold. The lease does not grant the lessee the right to construct any facilities; rather, the lease grants the lessee the right to use the leased area to develop its plans, which BOEM must approve before the lessee can move on to the next stage of the process. (See 30 CFR 585.600 and 585.601.)

BOEM intends to prepare an EA to consider the environmental consequences associated with issuing commercial wind leases, associated site characterization activities (i.e., biological, archeological, geological and geophysical surveys and core samples), and approving site assessment activities on those leases within the Call Area. If a lessee proposes commercial wind development activity, the specific proposal will be subject to an environmental review at that time. At a minimum, the EA will consider the alternatives of (1) no action (i.e., no issuance of a lease) and (2) the issuance of a lease, associated site characterization activities and approval of certain site assessment activities within the lease area, such as installation of a fixed meteorological tower and/or deployment of a meteorological buoy. With this notice, BOEM requests comments and input from Federal, state, and local government agencies; tribal governments; and other interested parties on environmental issues and alternatives that may be appropriate for consideration in the EA. BOEM also requests information pertaining to measures (e.g., limitations on activities based on technology, siting, or timing) that would minimize the impacts to environmental resources and socioeconomic conditions that could result from the proposed activity. Additionally, as part of its compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470f), and its implementing regulations (36 CFR part 800), BOEM is seeking public comment and input regarding the identification of historic properties or potential effects to historic properties from leasing and site assessment activities in the proposed lease area.

Authority: This Notice is published pursuant to 43 CFR 46.305.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Michelle Morin, BOEM Office of Renewable Energy Programs, 381 Elden Street, HM 1328, Herndon, Virginia 20170–4817, (703) 787–1340 or michelle.morin@BOEM.gov.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :**  1. The OCS Wind Energy Leasing and Development Process

There are four key phases in BOEM’s wind energy authorization on the OCS: (1) Planning; (2) lease issuance; (3) approval of a site assessment plan (SAP); and (4) approval of a construction and operations plan (COP). During the planning phase, BOEM engages our inter-governmental partners and other relevant parties to delineate an area on the OCS that would be appropriate for commercial wind activities. BOEM is currently working through this stage for the area offshore New York with BOEM’s New York Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force. This phase typically ends with the completion of the environmental reviews necessary to support lease issuance. The second phase, issuance of a commercial wind lease, gives the lessee an exclusive right to apply for the required approval of a SAP. The third phase is the applicant’s actual submission and BOEM’s subsequent review and approval of a SAP. Approval of a SAP allows the lessee to construct and install equipment on the leasehold to perform site assessment functions, such as a meteorological tower or buoys. See 30 CFR 585.600–585.601; 585.605–585.618. The submission of a SAP is separate from the submission of a COP. After the lessee has collected the site characterization and assessment data necessary, the lessee may submit its COP to BOEM for subsequent review and may proceed with construction and operation of a renewable energy facility on the lease if BOEM approves the COP (see 30 CFR 585.620–585.629) and after BOEM’s review of a lessee’s Facility Design Report and Fabrication and Installation Report (see 30 CFR 585.700– 585.702) 2. Proposed Action and Scope of Analysis

The proposed action that will be the subject of the EA is the issuance of one or more renewable energy leases within the Call Area described in this Notice and the approval of site assessment activities on those leases in support of COP information requirements. (See 30 CFR 585.610 and 585.626.) Based on the information submitted in response to this Notice and the Call, BOEM plans to identify any portions of the Call Area that should be excluded from consideration for commercial wind leasing at this time. The remaining area identified will constitute a Wind Energy Area (WEA) and will be subject to environmental analysis in consultation with appropriate Federal agencies, states, local governments, tribes and other interested parties.

Additional NEPA analyses will be required before any future decisions on construction or operation of wind energy facilities on leases that may be issued within the Call Area. If and when a lessee is ready to begin this final phase of renewable energy development, it must submit a COP to proceed. No COP has been submitted to BOEM for a project within the Call Area at this time. If a COP is submitted for a particular project on a lease, appropriate site- and project-specific NEPA analysis will be prepared.

If BOEM determines during the EA process that issuing leases, authorizing site assessment activities, or associated site characterization activities within the Call Area would constitute a major Federal action significantly affecting the human environment, BOEM will publish a Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). If BOEM determines during the EA process that issuing leases, authorizing site assessment activities, or associated site characterization activities within the Call Area would not be a major impact significantly affecting the human


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environment, BOEM will issue a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI). After either a FONSI is issued or the EIS process is completed, BOEM may issue one or more renewable energy leases within the Call Area. In the event that a particular lease is issued, and the lessee submits a SAP, BOEM will determine whether the EA adequately considers the environmental impacts of the activities proposed in the lessee’s SAP. If the analysis in the EA adequately addresses these impacts, then no further NEPA analysis will be required before the SAP is approved. If the EA requires supplementation, additional NEPA analysis would be conducted before the SAP could be approved.

3. Information That Will Be Incorporated Into the EA

On November 6, 2007, BOEM published a Notice of Availability (NOA) in the Federal Register (72 FR 62,672) of the Programmatic EIS for Alternative Energy Development and Production and Alternate Use of Facilities on the Outer Continental Shelf, Final EIS (OCS Report MMS 2007–046). BOEM has prepared several EAs for areas in the North Atlantic and Mid-Atlantic OCS that evaluated activities similar to those to be addressed in the EA for which this Notice is being published (http://www.boem.gov/Renewable-EnergyProgram/Smart-from-the-Start/ Index.aspx). Additionally, BOEM has published a Final Programmatic EIS for proposed geological and geophysical activities in the Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic OCS Planning Areas (OCS EIS/ EA BOEM 2014–001).

BOEM will incorporate the environmental and socioeconomic analyses of site characterization and assessment activities from previous NEPA documents and other public information to help inform its analysis in the EA. 4. Description of the Call Area

A detailed description of the Call Area can be found in the Call that is being published concurrently with this Notice.

A map of the Call Area can be found at the following URL: http://boem.gov/Renewable-Energy-Program/StateActivities/New York.aspx

.

A large-scale map of the Call Area showing its boundaries and with numbered blocks is available from BOEM at the following address: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Office of Renewable Energy Programs, 381 Elden Street, HM 1328, Herndon, Virginia 20170–4817, Phone: (703) 787–1320. 5. Cooperating Agencies
BOEM invites Federal, state, and local government agencies, as well as tribal governments, to consider becoming cooperating agencies in the preparation of this EA. Regulations implementing the procedural provisions of NEPA define cooperating agencies as those with ‘‘jurisdiction by law or special expertise’’ (40 CFR 1508.5). Potential cooperating agencies should consider their authority and capacity to assume the responsibilities of a cooperating agency and remember that an agency’s role in the environmental analysis neither enlarges nor diminishes the final decisionmaking authority of any other agency involved in the NEPA process.

Upon request, BOEM will provide potential cooperating agencies with a draft memorandum of agreement that includes a schedule with critical action dates and milestones, mutual responsibilities, designated points of contact, and expectations for handling pre-decisional information. Agencies should also consider the ’’Factors for Determining Cooperating Agency Status’’ in Attachment 1 to CEQ’s January 30, 2002, Memorandum for the Heads of Federal Agencies: Cooperating Agencies in Implementing the Procedural Requirements of the NEPA. A copy of this document is available at: http://ceg.hss.doe.gov/nepa/regs/ cooperating/ cooperatingagenciesmemorandum.html and at: http://ceg.hss.doe.gov/nepa/ regs/cooperating/ cooperatingagencymemofactors.html.

BOEM, as the lead agency, will not provide financial assistance to cooperating agencies. If an agency is not a cooperating agency, it may provide information to BOEM during the public comment period for the EA.

6. Comments

Federal, state, local government agencies; tribal governments; and other interested parties are requested to send their written comments regarding environmental issues and potential alternatives to the proposed action described in this Notice in one of the following ways:

1. Electronically: http:// www.regulations.gov. In the entry entitled ‘‘Enter Keyword or ID,’’ enter BOEM–2014–0003, then click ‘‘search.’’ Follow the instructions to submit public comments and view supporting and related materials available for this document.

2. In written form, delivered by hand or by mail, enclosed in an envelope labeled ‘‘Comments on New York EA’’ to Program Manager, Office of Renewable Energy Programs, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 381 Elden Street, HM 1328, Herndon, Virginia 20170–4817. Comments should be submitted no later than July 14, 2014.

Dated: April 21, 2014. Tommy P. Beaudreau, Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
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**BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P**

**DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR**

**Bureau of Ocean Energy Management**

**[Docket No. BOEM–2013–0087; MMAA104000]** 

**Commercial Leasing for Wind Power Development on the Outer Continental**  **Shelf (OCS) Offshore New York—Call for Information and Nominations (Call)** 

**AGENCY :**  Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Interior.

**ACTION :**  Call for Information and Nominations for Commercial Leases for Wind Power Development on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore New York.

**SUMMARY :**  BOEM invites submissions of nominations from parties interested in obtaining one or more commercial leases that would allow a lessee to propose the construction of a wind energy project(s) on the OCS offshore New York. Although the publication of this notice is not itself a leasing announcement, the area described herein may be subject to future leasing. Parties wishing to submit a nomination in response to this Call should submit detailed and specific information as described in the section entitled, ‘‘Required Nomination Information.’’ Parties that have previously submitted a nomination in response to the Request for Interest (RFI) (78 FR 760, published on January 4, 2013) do not need to resubmit their proposals unless they wish to modify or update them.

BOEM also requests comments from interested and affected parties regarding site conditions, resources, and multiple uses of the identified area that would be relevant to BOEM’s review of the nominations and/or to any subsequent decision concerning whether to offer all or part of the area for commercial wind leasing. Information that BOEM is requesting is described in the section entitled, ‘‘Requested Information from Interested or Affected Parties.’’

This Call is published pursuant to subsection 8(p)(3) of the OCS Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1337(p)(3)), which was added by section 388 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct), as well as the