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cause a statutory or court ordered 

deadline to be missed. 

(b) The agency shall state the time 

period within which OMB should 

approve or disapprove the collection of 

information. 

Statutory Authority: Title IV, H.R. 1 

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 

2009. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on March 23, 

2010. 

Patrick Davis, 

Program Manager, Office of Vehicles 

Technology, Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2010–6877 Filed 3–26–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

Technical Evaluation Report for the 

Phase 1 Decommissioning Plan for the 

West Valley Demonstration Project, 

West Valley, NY 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) announces the availability 

of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) Technical 

Evaluation Report (TER) for the Phase 1 

Decommissioning Plan for the West 

Valley Demonstration Project, West 

Valley, NY. The Phase 1 

Decommissioning Plan describes the 

Phase 1 decommissioning actions for 

the West Valley Demonstration Project 

(WVDP) and is consistent with DOE’s 

preferred alternative in the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

Decommissioning and/or Long-Term 

Stewardship at the West Valley 

Demonstration Project and Western New 

York Nuclear Service Center (DOE/EIS– 

0226). 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission Technical 

Evaluation Report for the Phase 1 

Decommissioning Plan for the West 

Valley Demonstration Project are 

available for public inspection at the 

following locations: 

U.S. Department of Energy, FOIA 

Reading Room, Room 1G–033, Forrestal 

Building, 1000 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20585–0001, (202) 

586–5955. 

Concord Public Library, DOE–WVDP 

Public Reading Room, 18 Chapel Street, 

Springville, NY 14141, 716–592–7742. 

Ashford Office Complex Public 

Reading Room, 9030 Route 219, West 

Valley, NY 14171–0191, (716) 942– 

4679. 

U.S. Department of Energy West 

Valley Demonstration Project Web site: 

http://www.wv.doe.gov. 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

Electronic Reading Room Web site: 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ms. Moira N. Maloney, 

Decommissioning Plan Project Manager, 

West Valley Demonstration Project, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 10282 Rock 

Springs Road, West Valley, New York 

14171–0191 or via electronic mail at 

Moira.N.Maloney@wv.doe.gov. 

Mr. Bryan C. Bower, Director, West 

Valley Demonstration Project, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 10282 Rock 

Springs Road, West Valley, New York 

14171–0191, or via electronic mail at 

Bryan.Bower@wv.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

The West Valley Demonstration 

Project Act (the Act), Public Law 96–368 

of October 1, 1980, directed DOE to 

carry out a high-level radioactive waste 

management demonstration project at 

the Western New York Nuclear Service 

Center in West Valley, New York. The 

purpose of the project was to 

demonstrate the solidification of highlevel radioactive waste for disposal in a 

Federal repository for permanent 

disposal. The Act also requires the 

Department to decontaminate and 

decommission the underground waste 

storage tanks and other facilities where 

the solidified high-level radioactive 

waste was stored, the facilities used in 

the solidification of the waste, and any 

material and hardware used in 

connection with the project in 

accordance with such requirements as 

the NRC may prescribe. 

In accordance with the Act, DOE 

entered into an agreement with the NRC 

to establish arrangement for review and 

consultation by the NRC for the Project. 

The procedures for NRC review and 

consultation were established in the 

September 23, 1981, Memorandum of 

Understanding between DOE and NRC 

and section 2(c)(1) of the Act. The Act 

and Memorandum of Understanding 

require the DOE to submit to the NRC, 

for its review and comment, a Project 

Decommissioning Plan for the facilities 

that were used in solidifying the waste, 

which includes a description of 

engineering and operating activities to 

be performed. The plan was reviewed 

by the NRC and comments provided to 

DOE. DOE will review and consider the 

comments provided prior to the 

initiation of decontamination and 

decommissioning operations. 

The decommissioning activities 

described in the Phase 1 

Decommissioning Plan for the WVDP 

are consistent with the Phased 

Decisionmaking Alternative, the 

preferred alternative for project closure 

described in the Final Environmental 

Impact Statement for Decommissioning 

and/or Long-Term Stewardship at the 

West Valley Demonstration Project and 

Western New York Nuclear Service 

Center (DOE/EIS–0226). Under the 

Phased Decisionmaking Alternative, the 

decommissioning of the Project and 

Western New York Nuclear Service 

Center (WNYNSC) would be completed 

in two phases. Phase 1 

decommissioning activities within the 

project premises, which are described in 

the Phase 1 Decommissioning Plan, are 

near-term removal actions that include 

removal of the Main Plant Process 

Building, Vitrification Facility, source 

area of the North Plateau Groundwater 

Plume, wastewater treatment facility 

lagoons, and certain ancillary buildings, 

foundations, slabs, and pads on the 

WVDP project premises. The Phase 2 

decisions on the decommissioning of 

the remainder of the Project and 

WNYNSC, or its long-term management, 

would be made in the future and are not 

part of the Phase 1 Decommissioning 

Plan. 

The TER for the Phase 1 

Decommissioning Plan presents NRC’s 

technical evaluation and view of the 

Phase 1 decommissioning approach for 

the WVDP and is based on its technical 

review of both the Phase 1 

Decommissioning Plan and DOE 

responses to NRC. As prescribed in 

section 2(c)(1) of the West Valley 

Demonstration Project Act, Public Law 

96–368 of October 1, 1980, and the 

September 23, 1981, Memorandum of 

Understanding between DOE and NRC, 

the NRC review of the DOE’s Phase 1 

Decommissioning Plan is an informal 

process, as the NRC does not have a 

licensing role with regard to DOE’s 

involvement at WVDP and may not 

require formal procedures or actions. 

DOE submitted Revision 0 of the 

Phase 1 Decommissioning Plan to NRC 

for technical review on December 3, 

2008, and submitted Revision 1, which 

incorporated additional information, on 

March 16, 2009. NRC notified DOE on 

March 20, 2009, that it had finished its 

completeness review of the Phase 1 

Decommissioning Plan and that it was 

suitable for NRC technical review. After 

its technical review, NRC submitted a 

total of 44 requests for additional 

information (RAI) for the Phase 1 

Decommissioning Plan to the DOE on 

May 15, 2009. DOE responded to the 

NRC RAI in three separate submittals on 

August 13, 2009, September 16, 2009, 

and November 5, 2009. Revision 2 of the 

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Phase 1 Decommissioning Plan, which 

incorporated the changes resulting from 

the responses to the NRC RAIs was 

submitted to the NRC on December 18, 

2009. 

The Department will consider NRC 

views on the Decommissioning Plan 

expressed in the TER prior to the 

initiation of decontamination and 

decommissioning operations. 

As indicated by NRC, ‘‘Should the EIS 

process result in the selection of a 

different preferred alternative from that 

considered in the Phase 1 DP, the DP 

would need to be revised and 

resubmitted for review.’’ 

Signed in Washington, DC on March 23, 

2010. 

Frank Marcinowski, 

Acting Chief Technical Officer for 

Environmental Management. 

[FR Doc. 2010–6884 Filed 3–26–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. IC10–538–001, IC10–539–001, 

IC10–577–001, IC10–606–001, and IC10– 

607–001] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities (FERC–538, FERC–539, 

FERC–577, FERC–606, and FERC–607); 

Comment Request; Submitted for OMB 

Review 

March 22, 2010. 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of section 3507 of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 

U.S.C. 3507, the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission or 

FERC) has submitted the information 

collections described below to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review of the information 

collection requirements. Any interested 

person may file comments directly with 

OMB and should address a copy of 

those comments to the Commission as 

explained below. The Commission 

issued a Notice in the Federal Register 

(75 FR 2124, 1/14/2010) requesting 

public comments. FERC received no 

comments and has made this notation in 

its submission to OMB. 

DATES: Comments on the collections of 

information are due by April 28, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Address comments on the 

collections of information to the Office 

of Management and Budget, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission Desk Officer. Comments to 

OMB should be filed electronically, c/o 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov and 

include the appropriate OMB Control 

Number(s) and collection number(s) as 

a point of reference. The Desk Officer 

may be reached by telephone at 202– 

395–4638. 

A copy of the comments should also 

be sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission and should refer to Docket 

Nos. IC10–538–001, IC10–539–001, 

IC10–577–001, IC10–606–001, and 

IC10–607–001. (For comments that only 

pertain to some of the collections, 

specify the appropriate collection(s) and 

related docket number(s).) Comments 

may be filed either electronically or in 

paper format. Those persons filing 

electronically do not need to make a 

paper filing. Documents filed 

electronically via the Internet must be 

prepared in an acceptable filing format 

and in compliance with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission 

submission guidelines. Complete filing 

instructions and acceptable filing 

formats are available at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/help/submission-guide/ 

electronic-media.asp. To file the 

document electronically, access the 

Commission’s Web site and click on 

Documents & Filing, E-Filing (http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp), 

and then follow the instructions for 

each screen. First time users will have 

to establish a user name and password. 

The Commission will send an automatic 

acknowledgement to the sender’s e-mail 

address upon receipt of comments. 

For paper filings, the comments 

should be submitted to the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 

Secretary of the Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, and 

should refer to Docket Nos. IC10–538– 

001, IC10–539–001, IC10–577–001, 

IC10–606–001, and IC10–607–001 (or 

the appropriate docket number(s), if the 

comments only pertain to some of the 

collections). 

All comments may be viewed, printed 

or downloaded remotely via the Internet 

through FERC’s homepage using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. For user assistance, 

contact ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or 

call toll-free at (866) 208–3676, or for 

TTY, contact (202) 502–8659. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ellen Brown may be reached by 

telephone at (202) 502–8663, by fax at 

(202) 273–0873, and by e-mail at 

DataClearance@FERC.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For the 

purpose of publishing this notice and 

seeking public comment, FERC requests 

comments on the following information 

collections: 

• FERC–538, Gas Pipeline Certificate: 

Section 7(a) Mandatory Initial Service, 

contained in 18 CFR part 156; OMB 

Control No. 1902–0061; 

• FERC–539, Gas Pipeline 

Certificates: Import/Export Related, 

contained in 18 CFR parts 153 and 157; 

OMB Control No. 1902–0062; 

• FERC–577, Gas Pipeline 

Certificates: Environmental Impact 

Statement, identifies FERC’s 

information collections relating to 18 

CFR part 380 implementing NEPA and 

includes the environmental compliance 

conditions of 18 CFR 157.206(b); OMB 

Control No. 1902–0128; 

• FERC–606, Notification of Request 

for Federal Authorization and Requests 

for Further Information, contained in 18 

CFR part 385; OMB Control No. 1902– 

0241; and 

• FERC–607, Report on Decision or 

Action on Request for Federal 

Authorization, contained in 18 CFR part 

385; OMB Control No. 1902–0240. 

The associated regulations, 

information collections, burdens, and 

OMB clearance numbers will continue 

to remain separate and distinct. 

FERC–538. Under the Natural Gas Act 

(NGA) (Pub. L. 75–688) (15 U.S.C. 717– 

717w), upon application by a local 

distribution company or municipality, a 

natural gas pipeline company may be 

ordered by the Commission to extend or 

improve transportation facilities, to 

establish physical connections to serve, 

and to sell natural gas to the applicant. 

Filings pursuant to the provisions of 

section 7(a) of the NGA are to contain 

all information necessary to advise the 

Commission fully concerning the 

service which the applicant has 

requested the Commission to direct the 

natural gas pipeline company to render 

(such as a request to direct a natural gas 

company to extend or improve its 

transportation facilities, and to sell 

natural gas to the municipality or 

person and, for such purpose, to extend 

its transportation facilities to 

communities immediately adjacent to 

such facilities or to territories served by 

the natural gas pipeline company). 

FERC–539. Section 3 of the Natural 

Gas Act (NGA) (Pub. L. 75–688) (15 

U.S.C. 717–717w) provides, in part, that 

‘‘* * * no person shall export any 

natural gas from the United States to a 

foreign country or import any natural 

gas from a foreign country without first 

having secured an order from the 

Commission authorizing it to do so.’’ 

The 1992 amendments to section 3 of 

the NGA concern importation or 

exportation from/to a nation which has 

a free trade agreement with the United 

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