Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 61 / Friday, March 30, 2007 / Notices 15161 

Dated: March 22, 2007. 

Rick L. Gold, 

Regional Director—Bureau of Reclamation, 

Upper Colorado Region. 

[FR Doc. E7–5776 Filed 3–29–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MN–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

Delta-Mendota Canal Recirculation 

Project, Calaveras, Contra Costa, 

Fresno, Kings, Merced, San Benito, 

San Joaquin, Santa Clara, Stanislaus, 

and Tuolumne Counties, CA 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement/ 

Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR) 

and notice of public scoping meetings. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and 

the California Environmental Quality 

Act (CEQA), the Bureau of Reclamation 

(Reclamation) and the California 

Department of Water Resources (DWR) 

intend to prepare an EIS/EIR for the 

Delta-Mendota Canal (DMC) 

Recirculation Project. Reclamation is the 

Federal lead agency for NEPA and DWR 

is the State lead agency for CEQA. 

The purpose of the project is to 

prepare a feasibility study of the DMC 

Recirculation Project that will evaluate 

the costs, benefits, feasibility, and 

impacts of possibly recirculating water 

from the DMC Canal for release to the 

San Joaquin River. Recirculation may 

provide additional flows for fishery 

objectives and may help to meet San 

Joaquin River water quality objectives, 

while reducing the reliance on the New 

Melones Reservoir for water releases. As 

part of the feasibility study process, a 

Draft EIS/EIR is expected to be available 

in 2008. 

DATES: Public scoping meetings will be 

held to solicit public input on the 

alternatives, concerns, and issues to be 

addressed in the EIS/EIR. The meetings 

dates and times are as follows: 

• Monday, April 16, 2007, 10 a.m.–12 

p.m, Sacramento, CA. 

• Monday, April 16, 2007, 6 p.m.–8 

p.m., Los Banos, CA. 

• Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 6 p.m.–8 

p.m., Modesto, CA. 

Written comments on the scope of the 

EIS/EIR should be mailed to the Bureau 

of Reclamation at the address below by 

May 9, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: The public scoping meeting 

locations are: 

• Sacramento at the Federal Building, 

2800 Cottage Way, Cafeteria Conference 

Rooms C–1001 and C–1002. 

• Los Banos at the Miller and Lux 

Senior Center Building, 830 6th Street. 

• Modesto at the Modesto Centre 

Plaza, 1000 L Street, Pistache Room. 

Written comments on the scope of the 

EIS/EIR should be sent to: Ms. Sammie 

Cervantes, Bureau of Reclamation, 2800 

Cottage Way, Sacramento, CA 95825, via 

e-mail scervantes@mp.usbr.gov, or faxed 

to 916–978–5094. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Maury Kruth, Reclamation Project 

Manager, at the above address, at 916–

978–5078, TDD 916–978–5608, via fax 

at 916–978–5094, or e-mail at 

mkruth@mp.usbr.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The DMC 

is located on the western side of Central 

California’s San Joaquin Valley and runs 

for approximately 120 miles, beginning 

near the City of Tracy at the southern 

edge of the Sacramento River and San 

Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin 

Delta Estuary (Delta) and terminating at 

the Mendota Pool of the San Joaquin 

River. The project study area can be 

defined as the lower main stem of the 

San Joaquin River below its confluence 

with the Merced River, the areas served 

by the Merced, Tuolumne, and 

Stanislaus Rivers on the western side of 

the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and the 

areas served by the DMC, including 

approximately 30 water agencies. 

Immediately downstream from the 

confluence with the Stanislaus River, 

the San Joaquin River becomes part of 

the Delta, which serves as a source of 

water supply for agricultural, 

environmental, municipal, and urban 

uses. The south Delta will be considered 

part of the project study area. 

The SWRCB has established Delta 

water quality and flow objectives that 

are to be met as a condition of the 

operation of the C.W. ‘‘Bill’’ Jones 

Pumping Plant (formerly the Tracy 

Pumping Plant) and the State Water 

Project Harvey O. Banks Pumping Plant. 

The current objectives for operation of 

the Central Valley Project and the State 

Water Project facilities in the Delta are 

the SWRCB’s 1995 Water Quality 

Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay/ 

Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary, 

and the SWRCB’s Water Rights D–1641, 

as amended. 

In D–1641, SWRCB required 

Reclamation to prepare a Plan of Action 

(POA) to evaluate the potential impacts 

of recirculating water from DMC 

through the Newman Wasteway, in 

consultation with National Marine 

Fisheries Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, California Department of Fish 

and Game, DWR, and the South Delta 

Water Agency. The POA has been 

completed and is being implemented by 

this feasibility study. 

Federal authorization comes from 

Public Law 108–361, Section 

103(d)(2)(D)(ii) of the CALFED BayDelta Authorization Act, which states in 

part that ‘‘* * * the Secretary [of the 

Interior] shall include, to the maximum 

extent feasible, the measures described 

in clauses (iii) through (vii).’’ Section 

103(d)(2)(D)(iii) states ‘‘the Secretary 

shall incorporate into the program a 

recirculation program to provide flow, 

reduce salinity concentrations in the 

San Joaquin River, and reduce the 

reliance on the New Melones Reservoir 

for meeting water quality and fishery 

flow objectives through the use of 

excess capacity in export pumping and 

conveyance facilities.’’ Section 

103(f)(1)(G) states ‘‘* * * funds may be 

used to conduct feasibility studies, 

evaluate, and if feasible, implement the 

recirculation of export water to reduce 

salinity and improve dissolved oxygen 

in the San Joaquin River.’’

Previous recirculation studies have 

consisted of modeling and physically 

discharging water from the DMC to the 

San-Joaquin River via one of the 

wasteways that connect the DMC to the 

river. Ongoing studies that might affect 

the DMC Recirculation Project include 

Vernalis Adaptive Management Plan, 

CALFED Conveyance Program—South 

Delta Improvements Program, the New 

Melones Revised Plan of Operations, 

and the West Side Regional Drainage 

Plan. A recent litigation settlement 

regarding the San Joaquin River from 

Friant Dam to the Merced River may 

also affect the DMC Recirculation 

Project. 

If special assistance is required at the 

scoping meetings, please contact Ms. 

Sammie Cervantes at 916–978–5189, 

TDD 916–978–5608, or via e-mail at 

scervantes@mp.usbr.gov. Please notify 

Ms. Cervantes 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. 

Comments received in response to 

this notice will become part of the 

administrative record and are subject to 

public inspection. Our practice is to 

make comments, including names, 

home addresses, home phone numbers, 

and e-mail 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 us to 

consider withholding this information, 

you must state this prominently at the 


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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 

organizations or businesses, available 

for public inspection in their entirety. 

Dated: February 23, 2007. 

Kenneth Lentz, 

Acting Regional Environmental Officer, MidPacific Region. 

[FR Doc. E7–5889 Filed 3–29–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MN–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 

and Enforcement 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection for 1029–0089 

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 

and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing 

that the information collection request 

for 30 CFR part 702, Exemption for Coal 

Extraction Incidental to the Extraction 

of Other Minerals has been forwarded to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB for review and approval. The 

information collection request describes 

the nature of the information collection 

and the expected burden and cost. 

DATES: OMB has up to 60 days to 

approve or disapprove the information 

collection but may respond after 30 

days. Therefore, public comments 

should be submitted to OMB by April 

30, 2007, in order to be assured of 

consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments to the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, Attention: Department of 

Interior Desk Officer, by telefax at (202) 

395–6566 or via e-mail to 

OIRA_Docket@omb.eop.gov. Also, 

please send a copy of your comment to 

John A. Trelease, Office of Surface 

Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, 

1951 Constitution Ave, NW., Room 

202—SIB, Washington, DC 20240, or 

electronically to jtrelease@osmre.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request a copy of the information 

collection request contact John A. 

Trelease at (202) 208–2783. You may 

also contact Mr. Trelease at 

jtrelease@osmre.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB 

regulations at 5 CFR 1320, which 

implement provisions of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13), 

require that interested members of the 

public and affected agencies have an 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection and recordkeeping activities 

[see 5 CFR 320.8(d)]. OSM has 

submitted a request to OMB to renew its 

approval for the collection of 

information found at 30 CFR Part 702. 

OSM is requesting a 3-year term of 

approval for this information collection 

activity. 

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 

number of this collection of information 

is 1029–0089, and may be found in 

OSM’s regulations at 702.10. 

As required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), a 

Federal Register notice soliciting 

comments on this collection of 

information was published on December 

8, 2006 (71 FR 71189). No comments 

were received. This notice provides the 

public with an additional 30 days in 

which to comment on the following 

information collection activity: 

Title: 30 CFR part 702—Exemption for 

Coal Extraction Incidental to the 

Extraction of Other Minerals. 

OMB Control Number: 1029–0089. 

Summary: This part implements the 

requirement in Section 701(28) of the 

Surface Mining Control and 

Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA), 

which grants an exemption from the 

requirements of SMCRA to operators 

extracting not more than 162⁄3

percentage tonnage of coal incidental to 

the extraction of other minerals. This 

information will be used by the 

regulatory authorities to make that 

determination. 

Bureau Form Number: None. 

Frequency of Collection: Once and 

annually thereafter. 

Description of Respondents: 

Producers of coal and other minerals 

and the State regulatory authorities. 

Total Annual Responses: 120. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 535. 

Total Non-wage Costs: $200. 

Send comments on the need for the 

collection of information for the 

performance of the functions of the 

agency; the accuracy of the agency’s 

burden estimates; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility and clarity of the 

information collection burden on 

respondents, such as use of automated 

means of collection of the information, 

to the addresses listed under 

ADDRESSES. Please refer to OMB control 

number 1029–0089 in all 

correspondence. 

Dated: February 8, 2007. 

John R. Craynon, 

Chief, Division of Regulatory Support. 

[FR Doc. 07–1575 Filed 3–29–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–05–M 

JUDICIAL CONFERENCE OF THE 

UNITED STATES 

Revision of Certain Dollar Amounts in 

the Bankruptcy Code Prescribed Under 

Section 104(b) of the Code 

AGENCY: Judicial Conference of the 

United States. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Modification of Federal 

Register notice that certain dollar 

amounts in title 11 and title 28, United 

States Code, are increased. [Original 

notice appeared in the Federal Register 

of February 14, 2007]. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

following provides (1) An updated list 

of the adjustments to 11 U.S.C. Section 

707(b) and (2) an updated list of the 

Bankruptcy Forms which will be 

amended to reflect the adjusted dollar 

amounts. 

11 U.S.C. Dollar amount 

to be adjusted 

New 

(adjusted) dollar amount 

707(b)—dismissal of a case or conversion to a case under chapter 11 or 13 (means test): 

(1)—in paragraph (2)(A)(i)(I) ............................................................................................................................ $6,000 $6,575 

(2)—in paragraph (2)(A)(i)(II) ........................................................................................................................... 10,000 10,950 

(3)—in paragraph (2)(A)(ii)(IV) ......................................................................................................................... 1,500 1,650 


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