50606 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 187 / Friday, September 26, 1997 / Notices

California-Oregon Transmission Project

(COTP). Congress authorized SNR’s

participation in the Pacific AC Intertie

for the purpose of importing power from

the Pacific Northwest. COTP rights were

acquired pursuant to Public Law 98–

630, primarily for the purpose of

delivering power to the United States

Department of Energy Laboratories (DOE

Labs) and Federal Fish and Wildlife

refuges. Long-term use of the Pacific AC

Intertie and COTP by third parties is

restricted under existing contracts. SNR

is a member of the Western Regional

Transmission Association regional

transmission group and operates within

the Western Systems Coordinating

Council reliability council.

The SNR does not operate a control

area and as such may be unable to

provide some or all of the services

under the Tariff, including but not

limited to, ancillary services and

Network Integration Transmission

Service.

The SNR application processing fee

will be $1,300.

Upper Great Plains Region

The Upper Great Plains Region

(UGPR) manages transmission facilities

in the states of Montana, North Dakota,

South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, and

Iowa which were constructed for the

primary purpose of marketing power

from the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin

Program—Eastern Division. The UGPR

office is located in Billings, Montana.

The UGPR manages a control area

operations center in Watertown, South

Dakota. The eastern portion of the UGPR

system is operated in the Mid-Continent

Area Power Pool (MAPP) reliability

council. The western portion of the

system is operated in the Western

Systems Coordinating Council.

The UGPR transmission facilities are

integrated with the transmission

facilities of Basin Electric Power

Cooperative (Basin) and Heartland

Consumers Power District (Heartland)

such that transmission services are

provided over an integrated

transmission system. UGPR rates for

Point-to-Point and Network Integration

Transmission Service charged pursuant

to the Tariff will be calculated using the

costs of the transmission facilities of

UGPR, Basin, and Heartland that are

included in the Transmission System.

This Transmission System is also called

the Integrated System (IS) and the rates

are identified as IS Rates. The

integration of these facilities as the IS

and the use of the IS rates have been

approved by the Administrator of

Western through December 19, 1997.

The definition of the Transmission

System and the rates for Point-To-Point

and Network Integration Transmission

Service may be subject to change upon

conclusion of an Open Access

Transmission Service rate development

process conducted pursuant to

applicable Federal Law and regulations.

Both Basin and Heartland also own

generating facilities and must commit to

deliver the output of those resources to

their respective members. Basin and

Heartland will therefore reserve

sufficient capacity in their transmission

facilities to deliver that output.

Any Transmission Customer taking

service under these Guidelines shall be

subject to a Stranded Cost Charge

payable to either UGPR, Basin or

Heartland if such service is used for the

transmission of power or energy that

replaces wholly or in part, power or

energy supplied by Western, Basin or

Heartland respectively.

The Stranded Cost Charge of Basin

shall be applicable regardless of

whether the transmission relates to

power and/or energy that is purchased

by or on behalf of a Generation and

Transmission Cooperative member of

Basin (G&T), a Distribution Cooperative

member of Basin or G&T, or a retail

customer of a Distribution Cooperative

member of Basin or a G&T.

The Stranded Cost Charge of

Heartland shall be applicable whether

the transmission service relates to

power and/or energy that is purchased

by or on behalf of a municipal customer

of Heartland or a retail customer of a

municipal customer of Heartland.

Stranded costs will be recovered only

from a Transmission Customer who

obtains transmission service under

access rights granted through the

Transmission Provider’s compliance

tariff developed pursuant to FERC Final

Orders 888 and 888–A and causes either

UGPR, Basin or Heartland to incur

stranded costs. Stranded costs will be

recovered through the terms and

conditions of a separate contract entered

into either by UGPR and the

Transmission Customer or Basin and the

Transmission Customer or Heartland

and the Transmission Customer.

The UGPR application processing fee

will be $1,700.

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BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5898–9]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request;

Information Collection Request for Iron

and Steel Foundries

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

3501 et seq.), this notice announces that

the following Information Collection

Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for review and approval:

Information Collection Request for Iron

and Steel Foundries, EPA ICR Number

1809.01. The ICR describes the nature of

the information collection and its

expected burden and cost; where

appropriate, it includes the actual data

collection instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before October 27, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR A COPY

CALL: Sandy Farmer at EPA, (202) 260–

2740, and refer to EPA ICR No 1809.01.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Information Collection Request

for Iron and Steel Foundries; EPA ICR

No. 1809.01. This is a new collection.

Affected entities: Entities potentially

affected by this action are iron and steel

foundries, which are facilities primarily

engaged in manufacturing iron and steel

castings. The Standard Industrial

Classification (SIC) codes for these

facilities include 3321 (gray and ductile

iron foundries), 3322 (malleable iron

foundries), 3324 (steel investment

foundries), and 3325 (steel foundries,

not elsewhere classified).

Abstract: The EPA is charged under

section 112 of the Clean Air Act (the

Act) with developing national emission

standards for listed hazardous air

pollutants (HAP). Preliminary

information indicates that there are

major sources of HAP in the iron and

steel foundry source categories. These

categories were listed pursuant to

section 112(c) of the Act on July 16,

1992, and section 112(d) of the Act

requires the Administrator to

promulgate regulations establishing

emission standards for this source

category. Standards must be

promulgated by November 15, 2000.

The responses to the survey are

mandatory and are being collected

under the authority of section 114 of the

Act.
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The Emission Standards Division

(ESD) of the Office of Air Quality

Planning and Standards plans to use the

survey responses to develop legally

defensible maximum achievable control

technology (MACT) standards. The

focus of the survey is on determinations

of HAP emissions, emission controls,

and control performance, which are

critical elements in the development of

technology-based standards. Other

questions in the survey provide

information that ESD will use to

develop reasonable estimates of impacts

associated with potential standards,

including emission reductions, cost, and

economic impacts.

Specifically, the information will be

used by ESD to develop estimates of

emissions of HAP, make determinations

with respect to probable ‘‘major’’

sources, and develop MACT standards

for both new and existing foundries.

The data base compiled from the results

will be used to make a determination of

the MACT floor for existing sources

based on the average emission

limitation achieved by the bestperforming 12 percent of sources. The

results will also aid in identifying the

best controlled sources for a

determination of MACT for new

foundries. In addition, the data base will

be invaluable to make defensible

estimates of the impacts of the

standards, including emissions and

emission reductions, costs of control

options and their cost effectiveness, and

economic impacts. Because many

foundries meet the definition of small

entities, the survey is necessary for EPA

to meet the requirements of the

Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 and

the Small Business Regulatory

Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996.

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

numbers for EPA’s regulations are listed

in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR Chapter

15. The Federal Register notice required

under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), soliciting

comments on this collection of

information was published on June 3,

1997 (62 FR 30322); three comments

were received. All three commenters

supported the need for the survey to

gather information to develop MACT

standards and recommended an

expeditious distribution to allow EPA to

meet statutory deadlines.

Burden Statement: The annual public

reporting and recordkeeping burden for

this collection of information is

estimated to average 24 hours per

response. Burden means the total time,

effort, or financial resources expended

by persons to generate, maintain, retain,

or disclose or provide information to or

for a Federal agency. This includes the

time needed to review instructions;

develop, acquire, install, and utilize

technology and systems for the purposes

of collecting, validating, and verifying

information, processing and

maintaining information, and disclosing

and providing information; adjust the

existing ways to comply with any

previously applicable instructions and

requirements; train personnel to be able

to respond to a collection of

information; search data sources;

complete and review the collection of

information; and transmit or otherwise

disclose the information.

Respondents/Affected Entities: Iron

and steel foundries.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

742.

Frequency of Response: 1.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

5,681 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost

Burden: $0.

Send comments on the Agency’s need

for this information, the accuracy of the

provided burden estimates, and any

suggested methods for minimizing

respondent burden, including through

the use of automated collection

techniques to the following addresses.

Please refer to EPA ICR No 1809.01 in

any correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, OPPE Regulatory

Information Division (2137), 401 M

Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460.

Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for

EPA 725 17th Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: September 23, 1997.

Joseph Retzer,

Director, Regulatory Information Division.

[FR Doc. 97–25650 Filed 9–25–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5899–1]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; Protection

of Stratospheric Ozone: Labeling

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

3501 et seq.), this notice announces that

the following Information Collection

Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for review and approval:

Protection of Stratospheric Ozone:

Labeling (OMB control number 2060–

0342 expiring September 30, 1997). The

ICR describes the nature of the

information collection and its expected

burden and cost; where appropriate, it

includes the actual data collection

instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before October 27, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR A COPY

CALL: Sandy Farmer at EPA, (202) 260–

2740, and refer to EPA ICR No. 1757.02.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Protection of Stratospheric

Ozone: Labeling (OMB Control No.

2060–0342; EPA ICR No. 1757.02.)

expiring 09/30/97. This is a request for

extension of a currently approved

collection.

Abstract: The regulations in 40 CFR

82.100 through 82.124 require all

products containing or made with a

class I substance and all containers of

class I and class II ozone-depleting

substances to have an applicable

warning label. The disclosure, in the

form of labeling, will be used by

consumers to make product choices

based on environmental information

and consumer preferences. These

requirements are mandatory as

authorized under section 611 of the

Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.

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

numbers for EPA’s regulations are listed

in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR Chapter

15. The Federal Register Notice

required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d),

soliciting comments on this collection

of information was published on

2/26/97 (62 FR 8724); no comments

were received.

Burden Statement: The annual public

burden for disclosure of this

information is estimated to average 63

hours per respondent. Burden means

the total time, effort, or financial

resources expended by persons to

generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or

provide information to or for a Federal

agency. This includes the time needed

to review instructions; develop, acquire,

install, and utilize technology and

systems for the purposes of collecting,

validating, and verifying information,

processing and maintaining

information, and disclosing and