Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 158 / Wednesday, August 15, 2018 / Notices 40571 

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 

BUDGET 

Cumulative Report of Rescissions 

Proposals Pursuant to the 

Congressional Budget and 

Impoundment Control Act of 1974 

AGENCY: Executive Office of the 

President, Office of Management and 

Budget. 

ACTION: Notice of monthly cumulative 

report pursuant to the Congressional 

Budget and Impoundment Control Act 

of 1974. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Congressional 

Budget and Impoundment Control Act 

of 1974, OMB is issuing a monthly 

cumulative report (for August, 2018) 

from the Director detailing the status of 

rescission proposals that were 

previously transmitted to the Congress 

on May 8, 2018, and amended by the 

supplementary message transmitted on 

June 5, 2018. 

DATES: Release Date: August 10, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: The August, 2018 

cumulative report is available on-line on 

the OMB website at: https://

www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budgetrescissions-deferrals/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jessica Andreasen, 6001 New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503, 

Email address: jandreasen@

omb.eop.gov, telephone number: (202) 

395–3645. Because of delays in the 

receipt of regular mail related to 

security screening, respondents are 

encouraged to use electronic 

communications. 

John Mulvaney, 

Director. 

[FR Doc. 2018–17571 Filed 8–14–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3110–01–P 

MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE 

CORPORATION 

[MCC FR 18–09] 

Notice of Entering Into a Compact With 

the Mongolia 

AGENCY: Millennium Challenge 

Corporation. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 

610(b)(2) of the Millennium Challenge 

Act of 2003 as amended, and the 

heading ‘‘Millennium Challenge 

Corporation’’ of the Department of State, 

Foreign Operations, and Related 

Programs Appropriations Act, 2018, the 

Millennium Challenge Corporation 

(MCC) is publishing a summary of the 

Millennium Challenge Compact 

between the United States of America, 

acting through MCC, and the country of 

Mongolia. Representatives of MCC and 

Mongolia signed the compact on July 

27, 2018. The complete text of the 

compact has been posted at: https://

assets.mcc.gov/content/uploads/ 

compact-mongolia-water.pdf. 

Dated: August 9, 2018. 

Thomas G. Hohenthaner, 

Deputy Vice President and General Counsel, 

Millennium Challenge Corporation. 

Summary of the Mongolia Compact 

Overview of MCC Mongolia Compact 

MCC’s five-year, $350 million 

Millennium Challenge Compact with 

the Government of Mongolia (the 

‘‘Government’’) aims to reduce poverty 

through economic growth by assisting 

the Government in addressing one of the 

country’s most binding constraints to 

economic growth: Inadequate access to 

water and sanitation in productive 

sectors and poor communities. The 

Compact will address this constraint 

through a single project that aims to 

increase the water supply to the capital 

city, Ulaanbaatar. 

The Compact will focus on addressing 

problems within the water sector in 

Ulaanbaatar, specifically the imminent 

shortage of water that threatens 

Ulaanbaatar’s economy and that could 

begin to reduce the quality of life of its 

residents as early as 2019. The city 

currently draws its annual supply of 77 

million cubic meters of drinking water 

from groundwater aquifers along the 

upper reaches of the Tuul River, which 

flows through the city. Studies 

supported by MCC indicate that any 

additional extraction of the groundwater 

aquifers upstream will diminish river 

flow and cause portions of the river in 

this area to run dry, thus making the 

upper reaches of the river unavailable 

for the development of future water 

supplies. The groundwater aquifers 

located along the reaches of the Tuul 

River downstream from the city must 

therefore support the city’s future needs. 

However, poorly treated discharge from 

the city’s outdated and overloaded 

central wastewater treatment plant has 

contaminated the Tuul River as it flows 

downstream from the city, thereby 

introducing potentially harmful 

contaminants into these downstream 

aquifers. The pollution of these aquifers 

at a time of rapid growth in the demand 

for water only makes the imminent 

water crisis more acute. 

Project Summary 

The Compact will address the 

constraint of long-term water supply to 

Ulaanbaatar through a Water Supply 

Project, the objective of which is to meet 

the projected demand for water in 

Ulaanbaatar for residential consumers 

and commercial and industrial users 

over the medium term in ways that are 

economically and environmentally 

sustainable. The Water Supply Project is 

composed of three activities: 

• Downstream Wells Activity: This 

activity involves expansion of the city’s 

bulk water supply through the 

construction of (i) approximately 52 

new wells in two downstream wellfields 

to supply up to 50 million cubic meters 

of groundwater per year, (ii) associated 

pipelines, transmission lines, and 

pumps to convey the water, (iii) an 

advanced water treatment plant to 

produce water that meets drinking 

standards, and (iv) storage facilities, a 

pumping station and a conveyance 

pipeline to transport finished drinking 

water into the existing municipal water 

network of Ulaanbaatar. The activity 

includes advanced technology for 

purification of the water to ensure that 

water supplied to the city is safe and 

potable. 

• Wastewater Recycling Activity: This 

activity involves a significant reduction 

in the demand for fresh water through 

the construction of (i) a wastewater 

recycling plant designed to treat a 

portion of the effluent from the central 

wastewater treatment plant, (ii) 

pumping stations and associated 

pipelines to convey the recycled water 

to water storage facilities near two large 

combined heating and power plants, 

and (iii) internal piping, storage 

facilities and control systems to 

facilitate the use of recycled wastewater 

for certain processes within these 

combined heating and power plants, 

which are currently the city’s largest 

consumers of freshwater. This activity 

will substitute recycled water for at least 

14 million cubic meters of freshwater 

that the combined heating and power 

plants consume each year, with an 

expectation that the volume will 

increase over time. The wastewater 

recycling plant will be the first of its 

kind in Mongolia, helping to pave the 

path for efficient and responsible 

management of the scarce water 

resources of Ulaanbaatar. 

• Water Sector Sustainability 

Activity: This activity is designed to 

enhance the long-term sustainability of 

water supplies to the capital city 

through critical policy, legal, regulatory 

and institutional changes, with a 

particular emphasis on achieving full 

cost recovery and making improvements 

in operations and maintenance. The 

Water Sector Sustainability Activity 

includes five sub-activities, which will 


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