Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 202 / Monday, October 20, 1997 / Notices 54453

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

Notice of Application Tendered for

Filing With the Commission

October 14, 1997.

Take notice that the following

hydroelectric application has been filed

with the Commission and is available

for public inspection:

a. Type of Application: Minor

License.

b. Project No.: P–10768–001.

c. Date Filed: August 28, 1997.

d. Applicant: City of Portland,

Michigan.

e. Name of Project: Municipal

Hydroelectric Facility.

f. Location: On the Grand River in

Ionia County, Michigan.

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power

Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)–825(r).

h. Applicant Contact: Robert

Masselink, P.E. or Glen Hendrix, Earth

Tech, Inc., 5555 Glenwood Hills

Parkway, Grand Rapids, MI 49588, (616)

942–9600.

i. FERC Contact: William Diehl, P.E.

(202) 219–2813.

j. Comment Date: 60 days from the

issuance date of this notice.

k. Description of Project: The

constructed project consists of the

Portland Municipal Dam, a reservoir of

about 625 acre-feet on the Grand River,

and a forebay and powerhouse complex

located at the south end of the dam. The

powerhouse is equipped with two

turbine-generator units having a total

installed capacity of 375 kW.

1. With this notice, we are initiating

consultation with the MICHIGAN

STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION

OFFICER (SHPO), as required by section

106, National Historic Preservation Act,

and the regulations of the Advisory

Council on Historic Preservation, 36,

CFR 800.4.

m. Pursuant to § 4.32(b)(7) of 18 CFR

of the Commission’s regulations, if any

resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person

believes that an additional scientific

study should be conducted in order to

form an adequate factual basis for a

complete analysis of the application on

its merit, the resource agency, Indian

Tribe, or person must file a request for

a study with the Commission not later

than 60 days from the issuance date of

this notice and serve a copy of the

request on the applicant.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–27664 Filed 10–17–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5910–6]

Agency Announcement of Information

Collection Activities: 1997 Iron and

Steel Industry Survey (EPA ICR No.

1830.01)

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 United States Environmental

Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to

submit the following proposed

Information Collection Request (ICR) to

the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB): 1997 Iron and Steel Industry

Survey (EPA ICR No. 1830.01). This

industry includes cokemaking,

sintering, ironmaking, steelmaking,

ladle metallurgy, vacuum degassing,

casting, hot forming, salt bath descaling,

acid pickling, cold forming, alkaline

cleaning, hot coating, and

electroplating. Before submitting an

Information Collection Request (ICR) to

OMB for review and approval, EPA is

soliciting comments from the public on

specific aspects of the proposed

information collection survey

instrument as described below.

DATES: Comments must be received by

EPA no later than December 19, 1997.

ADDRESSES: The public may contact Mr.

George Jett at the EPA for a paper copy

of the draft survey instrument or may

download the draft survey instrument

from the Internet at: http://

www.epa.gov/ost/Events/

index.html#ann. Mr. Jett may be reached

by mail at the U.S. EPA, Engineering

and Analysis Division (Mail Code 4303),

401 M Street SW., Washington, DC

20460; or by telephone at (202) 260–

7151 or FAX at 202–260–7185. The draft

survey instrument includes all pertinent

instructions, information request

questions, and definitions.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Affected Entities: Entities affected by

the proposed survey include facilities

that manufacture iron and steel

included in the following

manufacturing operations: cokemaking,

sintering, ironmaking, steelmaking,

ladle metallurgy, vacuum degassing,

casting, hot forming, salt bath descaling,

acid pickling, cold forming, alkaline

cleaning, hot coating, and

electroplating. The survey is intended to

identify and collect data from iron and

steel industrial sites that generate and

discharge process wastewater from all

manufacturing processes associated

with potential water-using industrial

activities.

Title: 1997 Iron and Steel Industry

Survey (EPA ICR No. 1830.01).

Abstract: The survey is intended to

collect technical (Part A) and economic

(Part B) information required by EPA in

order to develop revised effluent

limitations guidelines for the iron and

steel manufacturing point source

category as described above. EPA is

required by section 304 (m) of the Clean

Water Act of 1987 (33 U.S.C. 1314 [m])

to review effluent limitations guidelines

and standards periodically to determine

whether the current regulations remain

appropriate in light of changes in the

industrial category caused by advances

in manufacturing technologies, inprocess pollution prevention, or end-ofpipe wastewater treatment. EPA is also

required by the terms of a Consent

Decree with the Natural Resources

Defense Council, Inc. (NRDC), to

develop revised effluent limitations

guidelines and standards for the Iron &

Steel industry (D.D.C. Civ. No. 89–2980,

January 31, 1992, as modified). This

survey is being conducted pursuant to

those legislative and judicial

requirements.

This survey instrument will be issued

under authority of section 308 of the

Clean Water Act of 1987 (Federal Water

Pollution Control Act, 5 U.S.C. 1318),

and responses from data collection

survey instrument recipients are

mandatory. The survey instruments will

be mailed to respondents after OMB

approves the ICR. The ICR that will be

submitted by EPA to OMB will include

discussion of the comments received in

response to today’s announcement. The

proposed survey instrument is a

necessary part of the data collection

portion of the effluent limitations

guidelines development process. The

proposed survey instrument will

provide EPA with the technical and

economic data required to evaluate

effective pollution control technologies

and the economic achievability of any

final rule that the Agency issues. EPA

will consider both technical

performance and economic

achievability when making final

decisions on 40 CFR part 420.

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 EPA would like to solicit

comments to: