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includes environmental review 

provisions. 

The PEIS collected and analyzed this 

information as it applies to wind energy 

development in the six states included 

in the UGP Region. Specifically, through 

the PEIS Western and the Service have: 

1. Defined areas with a high potential 

for wind energy development near the 

UGP Region’s transmission system in 

anticipation of future wind-generation 

interconnection requests. 

2. Defined natural and human 

environment resources in areas with 

high wind energy development 

potential, including Native American 

lands, to support analyses of the 

environmental impacts and 

development of wind energy projects. 

3. Identified standardized 

environmental evaluation procedures, 

avoidance areas, best management 

practices, and mitigation measures to be 

used by interconnection applicants for 

identifying and reducing wind energy 

development impacts of their projects 

on the natural and human environment. 

4. Initiated a programmatic ESA 

Section 7 informal consultation for 

federally listed and proposed threatened 

and endangered species within the 

study area boundaries established for 

the PEIS that may be affected by future 

wind energy development. 

5. Provided guidance for 

interconnection applicants that includes 

information about natural resources 

within areas with a high potential for 

wind development, requirements for 

subsequent site-specific environmental 

reviews, avoidance areas, and 

appropriate best management practices 

and mitigation measures to address 

adverse environmental impacts related 

to wind projects and associated 

transmission system enhancements. 

The Service maintains a grassland and 

wetland easement program to support 

and enhance waterfowl populations in 

the Prairie Pothole Region. The Service 

has developed a plan that will, in some 

circumstances, allow partial release of 

an easement for wind generation 

purposes, only with defined conditions 

and on a specified area, in exchange for 

additional easement acreage being 

conveyed to the Service. A streamlined 

approach for compliance with NEPA 

and ESA for future site-specific wind 

development projects would result from 

this PEIS, and would benefit both 

agencies. 

Western and the Service are engaged 

in informal consultation under Section 

7 of the ESA in support of the PEIS 

process. A Programmatic Biological 

Assessment has been prepared for listed 

and candidate species occurring in the 

UGP Region, and it is expected that the 

Service’s Ecological Services Field 

Office will issue a letter of concurrence 

as a result of this consultation. 

Separate Records of Decision 

addressing each agency’s Federal 

actions will be issued by Western and 

the Service not sooner than 30 days after 

distribution of the Final PEIS and the 

date of the Environmental Protection 

Agency’s weekly Federal Register 

notice listing the availability of the EIS. 

Dated: April 21, 2015. 

Mark A. Gabriel, 

Administrator, Western Area Power 

Administration. 

Dated: January 28, 2015. 

Matt Hogan, 

Deputy Regional Director, Mountain-Prairie 

Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

[FR Doc. 2015–10237 Filed 4–30–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[ER–FRL–9020–7] 

Environmental Impact Statements; 

Notice of Availability 

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal 

Activities, General Information (202) 

564–7146 or http://www.epa.gov/

compliance/nepa/. 

Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact 

Statements 

Filed 04/20/2015 Through 04/24/2015 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9. 

Notice 

Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act 

requires that EPA make public its 

comments on EISs issued by other 

Federal agencies. EPA’s comment letters 

on EISs are available at: http://

www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/

eisdata.html. 

EIS No. 20150117, Draft EIS, NPS, HI, 

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Draft 

General Management Plan and 

Wilderness Study, Comment Period 

Ends: 06/30/2015, Contact: Cindy 

Orlando 808–985–6026. 

EIS No. 20150118, Draft Supplement, 

USACE, CA, Mather Specific Plan, 

Comment Period Ends: 06/15/2015, 

Contact: Mary Pakenham-Walsh 916– 

557–7718. 

EIS No. 20150119, Final EIS, OSM, NM, 

Four Corners Power Plant and Navajo 

Mine Energy Project, Review Period 

Ends: 06/01/2015, Contact: Mychal 

Yellowman 303–293–5049. 

EIS No. 20150120, Final EIS, WAPA, 

USFWS, 00, PROGRAMMATIC— 

Upper Great Plains Wind Energy 

Project, Review Period Ends: 06/01/

2015, Contact: Mark Wieringa 720– 

962–7448. 

The U.S. Department of Energy’s 

Western Area Power Administration 

and the U.S. Department of the Interior’s 

Fish and Wildlife Service are joint lead 

agencies for the above project. 

EIS No. 20150121, Final EIS, BLM, WY, 

TransWest Express Transmission 

Project, Review Period Ends: 06/01/

2015, Contact: Sharon Knowlton 307– 

775–6124. 

EIS No. 20150122, Final EIS, APHIS, 

OR, ADOPTION—Double-crested 

Cormorant Management Plan to 

Reduce Predation of Juvenile 

Salmonids in the Columbia River 

Estuary, Contact: Kevin Christensen 

503–326–2346. 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service (APHIS) has adopted the U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers FEIS 

#20150122, filed with the U.S. EPA on 

2/25/2015. APHIS was a cooperating 

agency on this project, therefore, 

recirculation of the document is not 

necessary under section 1506.3(c) of 

CEQ Regulations. 

Dated: April 28, 2015. 

Cliff Rader, 

Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office 

of Federal Activities. 

[FR Doc. 2015–10218 Filed 4–30–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2003–0034; FRL–9927–08– 

OEI] 

Proposed Information Collection 

Request; Comment Request; Voluntary 

Aluminum Industrial Partnership 

(VAIP) (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is planning to submit an 

information collection request (ICR), 

Voluntary Aluminum Industrial 

Partnership (VAIP) (Renewal)—EPA ICR 

No. 1867.05, OMB Control No. 2060– 

0411—to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for review and approval 

in accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

Before doing so, EPA is soliciting public 

comments on specific aspects of the 

proposed information collection as 

described below. This is a proposed 

extension of the ICR, which is currently 

approved through June 30, 2015. An 

agency may not conduct or sponsor and 

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a person is not required to respond to 

a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before June 30, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing the Docket ID number 

provided above, online using 

www.regulations.gov (our preferred 

method), or by mail to: EPA Docket 

Center, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. 

EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes profanity, threats, 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sally Rand, Climate Change Division, 

Office of Atmospheric Programs (6207J), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: 202–343– 

9739; fax number: 202–343–2202; email 

address: rand.sally@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Supporting documents, which explain 

in detail the information that the EPA 

will be collecting, are available in the 

public docket for this ICR. The docket 

can be viewed online at 

www.regulations.gov or in person at the 

EPA Docket Center, WJC West, Room 

3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC. The telephone number 

for the Docket Center is 202–566–1744. 

For additional information about EPA’s 

public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/ 

dockets. 

Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the PRA, EPA is soliciting comments 

and information to enable it to: (i) 

Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (ii) evaluate the 

accuracy of the Agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(iii) enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (iv) minimize the burden 

of the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including through 

the use of appropriate automated 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. EPA will consider the 

comments received and amend the ICR 

as appropriate. The final ICR package 

will then be submitted to OMB for 

review and approval. At that time, EPA 

will issue another Federal Register 

notice to announce the submission of 

the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to 

submit additional comments to OMB. 

Abstract: EPA’s Voluntary Aluminum 

Industrial Partnership (VAIP) was 

initiated in 1995 and is an important 

voluntary program contributing to the 

overall reduction in emissions of 

greenhouse gases. This program focuses 

on reducing direct greenhouse gas 

emissions including perfluorocarbon 

(PFC) and carbon dioxide (CO2) 

emissions from the production of 

primary aluminum. Six of the seven 

U.S. producers of primary aluminum 

participate in this program. PFCs are 

very potent greenhouse gases with 

global warming potentials several 

thousand times that of carbon dioxide, 

and they persist in the atmosphere for 

thousands of years. CO2 is emitted from 

consumption of the carbon anode. The 

Partnership effectively promotes the 

adoption of emission reduction 

technologies and practices associated 

with decreasing the frequency and 

duration of anode effects. Participants 

voluntarily agree to designate a VAIP 

liaison, and to undertake and share 

information on technically feasible and 

cost-effective actions to reduce PFC and 

direct CO2 emissions. The information 

contained in the annual reports of VAIP 

members is used by EPA to assess the 

success of the program in achieving its 

goals and to advance Partner efforts to 

reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Producers of primary aluminum. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Voluntary. 

Estimated number of respondents: 6 

(total). 

Frequency of response: Voluntary. 

Total estimated burden: 240 hours 

(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $22,668 (per 

year), includes no annualized capital or 

operation & maintenance costs. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division. 

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AGENCY 

[FRL–9927–07–Region–10] 

Proposed Issuance of NPDES General 

Permit for Tribal Marine Net Pen 

Enhancement Facilities in Washington 

State (Permit Number WAG132000) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed issuance of 

NPDES General Permit and request for 

public comment. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Region 10 proposes to 

issue a National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System (NPDES) General 

Permit for Tribal Marine Net Pen 

Enhancement Facilities in Washington 

State (General Permit). As proposed, the 

General Permit authorizes discharges to 

Waters of the U.S. within the State of 

Washington. The draft General Permit 

contains effluent limitations, along with 

administrative reporting and monitoring 

requirements, as well as standard 

conditions, prohibitions, and 

management practices. A fact sheet is 

available that explains the draft General 

Permit in detail. Section 401 of the 

Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1341, 

requires EPA to seek a certification from 

the State of Washington that the 

conditions of the general permit are 

stringent enough to comply with State 

water quality standards. The 

Washington Department of Ecology 

(Ecology) has provided a draft 

certification that the draft General 

Permit complies with the State of 

Washington Water Quality Standards. 

EPA intends to seek a final certification 

from Ecology prior to issuing the 

General Permit. This is also notice of the 

draft § 401 certification provided by 

Ecology. Persons wishing to comment 

on the draft State certification should 

send written comments to Mr. Bill 

Moore; Water Quality Program, 

Washington Department of Ecology, 

P.O. Box 47696, Olympia, Washington 

98504–7696 or via email to bmoo461@

ecy.wa.gov. 

DATES: The public comment period for 

the draft General Permit will be from the 

date of publication of this Notice until 

June 30, 2015. Comments must be 

received or postmarked by no later than 

midnight Pacific Standard Time on June 

30, 2015. All comments related to the 

draft General Permit and Fact Sheet 

received by EPA Region 10 by the 

comment deadline will be considered 

prior to issuing the General Permit. 

Submitting Comments: You may 

submit comments by any of the 

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