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The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper using the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible on-line at 

http://www.ferc.gov, using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive e-mail notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–8849 Filed 5–8–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 12769–000] 

Ice House Partners, Inc.; Notice 

Soliciting Scoping Comments 

May 2, 2007. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Exemption 

from Licensing. 

b. Project No.: P–12769–000. 

c. Date filed: January 22, 2007. 

d. Applicant: Ice House Partners, Inc. 

e. Name of Project: Ice House Power 

Project. 

f. Location: On the Nashua River in 

the Town of Ayer, Middlesex County, 

Massachusetts. The project would 

utilize lands of the United States. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Public Utilities 

Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, 16 

U.S.C. §§ 2705, 2708. 

h. Applicant Contact: Liisa Dowd, Ice 

House Partners, Inc., 323 West Main 

Street, Ayer, MA 01432, (978) 772–3303. 

i. FERC Contact: Tom Dean, (202) 

502–6041. 

j. Deadline for filing scoping 

comments: June 1, 2007. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) should be filed with: Secretary, 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

require all intervenors 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 intervenor 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. 

Scoping comments may be filed 

electronically via the Internet in lieu of 

paper. The Commission strongly 

encourages electronic filings. See 18 

CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the 

instructions on the Commission’s Web 

site (http://www.ferc.gov) under the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link. 

k. This application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

l. The Ice House Project would consist 

of: (1) The 300-foot-long, 10-foot-high 

Ice House dam consisting of a 210-footlong spillway topped with reinstalled 

flashboards; (2) a 137-acre reservoir 

with a normal full pond elevation of 217 

feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum 

with flashboards installed; (3) an 

existing 50-foot-wide, 600-foot-long 

power canal; (4) a restored powerhouse 

containing two retrofitted generating 

units with a total installed capacity of 

270 kilowatts (kW); (5) an existing 

transmission line; and (6) appurtenant 

facilities. The project would have an 

average annual generation of 2,500,000 

kW-hours. 

m. A copy of the application is 

available for review at the Commission 

in the Public Reference Room or may be 

viewed on the Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket 

number excluding the last three digits in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

(202) 502–8659. A copy is also available 

for inspection and reproduction at the 

address in item h above. 

n. You may also register online at 

http://www.ferc.gov.esubscribenow.htm 

to be notified via e-mail of new filings 

and issuances related to this or other 

pending projects. For assistance, contact 

FERC Online Support. 

o. Scoping Process 

The Commission staff intends to 

prepare a single Environmental 

Assessment (EA) for the Ice House 

Project in accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act. The EA will 

consider both site-specific and 

cumulative environmental impacts and 

reasonable alternatives to the proposed 

action. 

Commission staff do not propose to 

conduct any on-site scoping meetings at 

this time. Instead, we are soliciting 

comments, recommendations, and 

information, on the Scoping Document 

(SD) issued on May 1, 2007. 

Copies of the SD outlining the subject 

areas to be addressed in the EA were 

distributed to the parties on the 

Commission’s mailing list. Copies of the 

SD may be viewed on the web at 

http://www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket 

number excluding the last three digits in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, call 1–866–

208–3676 or for TTY, (202) 502–8659. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–8851 Filed 5–8–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2007–0094; FRL–8123–2] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Pre-Manufacture 

Review Reporting and Exemption 

Requirements for New Chemical 

Substances and Significant New Use 

Reporting Requirements for Chemical 

Substances; EPA ICR No. 0574.13, 

OMB Control No. 2070–0012 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document 

announces that EPA is planning to 

submit a request to renew an existing 

approved Information Collection 

Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). This 

ICR, entitled: ‘‘Pre-Manufacture Review 

Reporting and Exemption Requirements 

for New Chemical Substances and 

Significant New Use Reporting 

Requirements for Chemical Substances’’

and identified by EPA ICR No. 0574.13 

and OMB Control No. 2070–0012, is 

scheduled to expire on December 31, 

2007. Before submitting the ICR to OMB 

for review and approval, EPA is 

soliciting comments on specific aspects 

of the proposed information collection. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before July 9, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 


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