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(713) 267–4759 (telephone) or (713) 

267–4755 (fax), jdowns@nisource.com, 

Cynthia Donaldson, Director, Regulatory 

& Government Affairs, Columbia Gas 

Transmission, LLC, 5151 San Felipe, 

Suite 2500, Houston, Texas 77056, or by 

calling (713) 267–4763 (telephone) or 

(713) 331–7456 (fax), 

cdonaldson@nisource.com, Victoria J. 

Hamilton, Certificate Lead, Columbia 

Gas Transmission, LLC, P.O. Box 1273, 

Charleston, West Virginia 25325–1273, 

or by calling (304) 357–2297 (telephone) 

or (304) 357–3206 (fax), 

vhamilton@nisource.com, or to Frederic 

J. George, Senior Counsel, Columbia Gas 

Transmission, LLC, P.O. Box 1273, 

Charleston, West Virginia 25325–1273, 

or by calling (304) 357–2359 (telephone) 

or (304) 357–3206 (fax), 

fgeorge@nisource.com. 

Any person or the Commission’s Staff 

may, within 60 days after the issuance 

of the instant notice by the Commission, 

file pursuant to Rule 214 of the 

Commission’s Procedural Rules (18 CFR 

385.214) a motion to intervene or notice 

of intervention and, pursuant to section 

157.205 of the Commission’s 

Regulations under the NGA (18 CFR 

157.205) a protest to the request. If no 

protest is filed within the time allowed 

therefore, the proposed activity shall be 

deemed to be authorized effective the 

day after the time allowed for protest. If 

a protest is filed and not withdrawn 

within 30 days after the time allowed 

for filing a protest, the instant request 

shall be treated as an application for 

authorization pursuant to section 7 of 

the NGA. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings of comments, protests, 

and interventions via the Internet in lieu 

of paper. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) 

and the instructions on the 

Commission’s Web site (http:// 

www.ferc.gov) under the ‘‘e-Filing’’ link. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD10–11–000] 

Frequency Regulation Compensation 

in the Organized Wholesale Power 

Markets; Notice of Technical 

Conference 

April 27, 2010. 

Take notice that Commission staff 

will hold a technical conference to elicit 

input on issues pertaining to Frequency 

Regulation Compensation in the ISO/ 

RTO Markets. The technical conference 

will take place on May 26, 2010, from 

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern Time. The 

conference will be held in the 

Commission Meeting Room at the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. All interested persons are invited 

to participate in the conference. 

Those interested in speaking at the 

conferences should notify the 

Commission by May 3, 2010 by 

completing an online form describing 

the topics that they will address: 

https://www.ferc.gov/whats-new/ 

registration/markets-05-26-speakerform.asp. Due to time constraints, we 

may not be able to accommodate all 

those interested in speaking. A detailed 

agenda, including panel speakers, will 

be published at a later date. 

The technical conference will be 

transcribed. Transcripts of the 

conferences will be immediately 

available for a fee from Ace-Federal 

Reporters, Inc. (202–347–3700 or 1– 

800–336–6646). The transcripts will be 

available for free on the Commission’s 

eLibrary system and on the Calendar of 

Events approximately one week after the 

conference. 

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on 

the Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive e-mail notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Commission conferences are 

accessible under section 508 of the 

Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For 

accessibility accommodations, please 

send an e-mail to accessibility@ferc.gov 

or call toll free (866) 208–3372 (voice) 

or (202) 208–1659 (TTY), or send a FAX 

to (202) 208–2106 with the required 

accommodations. 

For further information about the 

conference, please contact: Tatyana 

Kramskaya (Technical Information), 

Office of Energy Policy and Innovation, 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426, (202) 502–6262, 

Tatyana.Kramskaya@ferc.gov; Eric 

Winterbauer (Legal Information), Office 

of the General Counsel—Energy 

Markets, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502–8329, 

Eric.Winterbauer@ferc.gov. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–11110 Filed 5–10–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R05–OAR–2009–0666; FRL–9149–6] 

Adequacy Status of the Chicago, 

Illinois Area Submitted 8–Hour Ozone 

Redesignation and Maintenance Plans 

for Transportation Conformity 

Purposes 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of adequacy. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is 

notifying the public that we have found 

that the motor vehicle emissions 

budgets (MVEBs) for volatile organic 

compounds (VOCs) and oxides of 

nitrogen (NOX) in the Chicago, Illinois 

ozone nonattainment area are adequate 

for use in transportation conformity 

determinations. Illinois submitted a 

redesignation request and maintenance 

plan for the Illinois portion of the 

Chicago ozone nonattainment area on 

July 23, 2009. As a result of our finding, 

this area must use the MVEBs from the 

submitted ozone maintenance plan for 

future transportation conformity 

determinations. 

DATES: This finding is effective May 26, 

2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Leslie, Environmental 

Engineer, Criteria Pollutant Section 

(AR–18J), Air Programs Branch, Air and 

Radiation Division, United States 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 

Chicago, Illinois 60604 (312) 353–6680, 

leslie.michael@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document, whenever 

‘‘we’’, ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean 

EPA. 

Background 

Today’s notice is simply an 

announcement of a finding that we have 

already made. On April 22, 2010, EPA 


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Region 5 sent a letter to the Illinois 

Environmental Protection Agency 

stating that the 2009 and 2020 MVEBs 

for the Chicago, Illinois 8-hour ozone 

nonattainment area are adequate. 

Receipt of these MVEBs was announced 

on EPA’s transportation conformity Web 

site, and no comments were submitted. 

The finding is available at EPA’s 

conformity Web site: http:// 

www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/ 

transconf/adequacy.htm. 

The adequate 2009 and 2020 MVEBs, 

in tons per day (tpd), for VOCs and NOX

for the Chicago, Illinois area are as 

follows: 

Chicago area NOX

(tpd) 

VOCs 

(tpd) 

2009 .................................. 284.65 133.78 

2020 .................................. 88.17 73.68 

Transportation conformity is required 

by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act. 

EPA’s conformity rule requires that 

transportation plans, programs, and 

projects conform to state air quality 

implementation plans and establishes 

the criteria and procedures for 

determining whether or not they do 

conform. Conformity to a State 

Implementation Plan (SIP) means that 

transportation activities will not 

produce new air quality violations, 

worsen existing violations, or delay 

timely attainment of the national 

ambient air quality standards. 

The criteria by which we determine 

whether a SIP’s MVEBs are adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes are 

outlined in 40 CFR 93.118(e)(4). We 

have described our process for 

determining the adequacy of submitted 

SIP budgets in our July 1, 2004, 

preamble starting at 69 FR 40038, and 

we used the information in these 

resources while making our adequacy 

determination. Please note that an 

adequacy review is separate from EPA’s 

completeness review, and it also should 

not be used to prejudge EPA’s ultimate 

approval of the SIP. Even if we find a 

budget adequate, the SIP could later be 

disapproved. 

The finding and the response to 

comments are available at EPA’s 

transportation conformity Web site: 

http://www.epa.gov/otaq/ 

stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401–7671q. 

Dated: April 29, 2010. 

Walter W. Kovalick Jr., 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2009–0761; FRL–9149–8] 

Executive Order 13508 Chesapeake 

Bay Protection and Restoration 

Section 203 Final Coordinated 

Implementation Strategy 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability of a final strategy for 

restoration and protection of the 

Chesapeake Bay that was prepared 

pursuant to Executive Order (EO) 13508 

of May 12, 2009, Chesapeake Bay 

Protection and Restoration. The purpose 

of this strategy is to describe federal 

actions to protect and restore the health, 

heritage, natural resources, and social 

and economic value of the nation’s 

largest estuarine ecosystem and the 

natural sustainability of its watershed. 

The EO requires that the final strategy 

be published within one year of the date 

of the EO. 

DATES: Effective May 12, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Travis Loop, USEPA, Region 3, 

Chesapeake Bay Program Office, 

Annapolis City Marina, 410 Severn 

Avenue, Suite 109 (3CB10), Annapolis, 

MD 21403; telephone number: (410) 

267–5758; fax number: (410) 267–5777; 

e-mail: loop.travis@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

Executive Order 13508, Chesapeake 

Bay Protection and Restoration, dated 

May 12, 2009 (74 FR 23099, May 15, 

2009), established a Federal Leadership 

Committee, chaired by EPA, and 

including senior representatives from 

the departments of Agriculture, 

Commerce, Defense, Homeland 

Security, Interior and Transportation. 

EO 13508 directed these agencies to 

prepare and publish a strategy for 

coordinated implementation of existing 

programs and projects to guide efforts to 

protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay. 

The draft strategy was released for 

public comment on November 9, 2009 

(74 FR 57675, November 9, 2009). This 

final strategy incorporates revisions 

resulting from public comments and 

ongoing consideration by the federal 

agencies. 

Why was this document prepared? 

Executive Order 13508, Chesapeake 

Bay Protection and Restoration, dated 

May 12, 2009 (74 FR 23099, May 15, 

2009), required a Federal Leadership 

Committee composed of seven Federal 

agencies to (1) prepare and publish a set 

of reports on key challenges to 

protecting and restoring the Chesapeake 

Bay, (2) prepare and publish a draft 

strategy for coordinated implementation 

of existing programs and projects to 

guide efforts to protect and restore the 

Chesapeake Bay within 180 days of the 

date of the EO, and (3) prepare and 

publish a final strategy for coordinated 

implementation of existing programs 

and projects to guide efforts to protect 

and restore the Chesapeake Bay within 

one year of the date of the EO. 

The federal agency draft reports 

required by EO 13508 Sections 202(a) 

through (g) were released to the public 

for review on September 10, 2009. The 

draft reports were reviewed by the 

Federal Leadership Committee, in 

consultation with relevant state 

agencies. The reports were revised to 

reflect consideration of the comments 

received during state consultation and 

preliminary public input. The revised 

final reports were released on November 

24, 2009. 

The draft strategy for coordinated 

implementation of existing programs 

and projects to guide efforts to protect 

and restore the Chesapeake Bay required 

by EO 13508 Section 203 was released 

for public comment on November 9, 

2009 (74 FR 57675, November 9, 2009). 

The Federal Leadership Committee 

established a docket for public 

comments (EPA–HQ–OW–2009–0761). 

Several hundred individual comments 

were received, along with about 45,000 

comments provided through massmailing campaigns. The Federal 

Leadership Committee has prepared a 

summary of its responses to public 

comments on the draft strategy. The 

summary is available at http:// 

executiveorder.chesapeakebay.net. 

The final strategy for restoration and 

protection of the Chesapeake Bay 

incorporates revisions resulting from 

public comments and ongoing 

consideration by the federal agencies. 

This final strategy meets the EO 

requirement to publish the final strategy 

within one year of the EO. 

How can I get copies of this document 

and other related information? 

Docket: EPA has established a docket 

for this action under Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–OW–2009–0761. The final EO 

13508 Section 203 strategy document is 

available in the docket at 

http://www.regulations.gov, as well as at 

http:// 

executiveorder.chesapeakebay.net. 

Assistance and tips for accessing the 

docket can be found at http:// 

executiveorder.chesapeakebay.net. For 


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