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address the Panel during the scheduled

public comment period. The final

agenda will be available at the meeting.

Tentative Agenda

7:30 am–7:40 am—Opening Remarks

7:40 am–9 am—Discussion of DOE R&D

Plan

9 am–9:10 am—Break

9:10 am–10:40 am—RFI Responses

10:40 am–11:30 am—Review of Revised

Report Outline

11:30 am–Noon—Public Comment

Public Participation: In keeping with

procedures, members of the public are

welcome to observe the business of the

Panel on Emerging Technological

Alternatives to Incineration and submit

written comments or comment during

the scheduled public comment period.

Members of the public will be heard in

the order in which they sign up at the

beginning of the meeting. The Panel will

make every effort to hear the views of

all interested parties. The Chairman of

the Panel is empowered to conduct the

meeting in a fashion that will, in the

Chairman’s judgment, facilitate the

orderly conduct of business. You may

submit written comments to Mary

Louise Wagner, Executive Director,

Secretary of Energy Advisory Board,

AB–1, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000

Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20585. This notice is

being published less than 15 days before

the date of the meeting due to a last

minute change in the location of the

meeting in Denver.

Minutes: A copy of the minutes and

a transcript of the meeting will be made

available for public review and copying

approximately 30 days following the

meeting at the Freedom of Information

Public Reading Room, 1E–190 Forrestal

Building, 1000 Independence Avenue,

SW., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m.

and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday

except Federal holidays.

Issued at Washington, D.C., on October 6,

2000.

Rachel M. Samuel,

Deputy Advisory Committee Management

Officer.

[FR Doc. 00–26148 Filed 10–6–00; 11:50 am]

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Bonneville Power Administration

Opportunity for Public Comment;

Regarding Bonneville Power

Administration’s Conservation and

Renewables Discount Implementation

Manual

AGENCY: Bonneville Power

Administration, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of public review of Draft

Conservation and Renewables Discount

Implementation Manual and Regional

Technical Forum Recommendations.

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is

to announce a public review of the Draft

Conservation and Renewables Discount

(C&R Discount) Implementation Manual

and the supporting Regional Technical

Forum (RTF) recommendations/

material. Bonneville Power

Administration (BPA) is publishing a

draft C&R Discount Implementation

Manual, for public comment, as a result

of the decision in BPA’s 2002 Wholesale

Power Rate Case (WP–02) to establish

guidelines for the C&R Discount

Program. After the public comment

period, the C&R Discount

Implementation Manual will be

published in its final version and will

be used to implement the C&R Discount

Program.

Interested parties can find the Draft

C&R Discount Implementation Manual

at http://www.bpa.gov/Energy/N/

c&r.htm and RTF work products can be

found at the Northwest Power Planning

Council’s web site http://

www.nwppc.org/rtf.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before November 27, 2000. The

number, dates, and locations of the

public review meetings have not been

determined. These details will be posted

on BPA’s web page, http://

www.bpa.gov/Energy/N/c&r.htm, as

soon as they are available.

ADDRESSES: Comments regarding the

Draft C&R Discount Implementation

Manual can be sent to Mark Johnson—

PNG/1, BPA, P.O. Box 3621, Portland,

OR, 97208–3621 or e-mailed to him at

mejohnson@bpa.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mark Johnson—PNG–1, Bonneville

Power Administration, P.O. Box 3621,

Portland, OR 97208–3621, e-mail:

mejohnson@bpa.gov, Phone: 503–230–

7669.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of

BPA’s 2002 Power Rate Proposal, 0.5

mills per kWh was added to the basic

rate for Subscription Power Purchases

and settlement benefits. This 0.5 mills is

referred to as the Conservation and

Renewables Discount.

BPA is offering the C&R Discount to

customers purchasing under the Priority

Firm Power (PF–02), New Resource

Firm Power (NR–02), and Residential

Load (RL–02) rate schedules. Purchasers

of the Slice product and benefits

provided as a cash payment in

settlement of the Residential Exchange

Program will also be eligible for the C&R

Discount.

Customers purchasing under the

Industrial Firm Power rate (IP–02) will

be eligible to the extent that the C&R

Discount does not reduce their effective

rate below the DSI floor rate. Regional

public agency customers with PreSubscription contracts with collared

pricing provisions may be eligible for

the C&R Discount subject to contract

provisions.

The amount of the C&R Discount will

be a fixed monthly amount based on the

customer’s forecasted purchases and

Residential Exchange Program

settlement benefits from BPA under its

Subscription contract.

Purchasers accepting the monthly

C&R Discount agree to abide by the

implementation provisions specified in

the C&R Discount Implementation

Manual. This notice announces a public

review of the Draft C&R Discount

Implementation Manual.

The Northwest Power Planning

Council (Council) formed a Regional

Technical Forum (RTF) to facilitate the

development of conservation and

renewable resources in the Pacific

Northwest and assist BPA in

implementing a conservation and

renewables discount on BPA’s new

rates. The RTF was asked, by BPA, to

make the following recommendations to

BPA to facilitate the operation of the

conservation and renewable resources

discount program.

• A list of eligible conservation

measures and programs, their estimated

savings, and the estimated regional

power system value associated with

those savings.

• A process for updating the list as

technology and standard practices

change and an appeals process through

which customers can demonstrate that

different savings and value estimates

should apply.

• A set of protocols by which the

savings and system value of measures/

programs not on the list could be

estimated. These would include

complex commercial or industrial

projects.

• Recommended protocols for

measurement and evaluation of savings.

With respect to renewables, the RTF

was asked to:

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• Develop a list of pre-approved

Demonstration (RD&D) activities.

• Develop quality control criteria for

direct application renewables and

distributed resources that will be

credited based on a ‘‘deemed’’ amount

of output.

• Develop evaluation criteria to be

used on a case-by-case basis to

determine whether or not a proposed

activity is RD&D.

• Develop criteria for determining

what constitutes a ‘‘new’’ facility, as

opposed to an expansion or addition to

an existing facility.

• When requested by Bonneville,

assist in evaluating proposals for which

eligibility may be unclear.

The RTF recommendations and the

Draft C&R Discount Implementation

Manual will be the subject of the public

review noticed hereunder. It is BPA’s

intent to give customers and interested

parties the opportunity to comment

before publishing final versions of the

C&R Discount Manual and BPA’s

decisions on how to implement the

RTF’s recommendations.

Issued in Portland, Oregon on September

25, 2000.

Judith A. Johansen,

Administrator and Chief Executive Officer.

[FR Doc. 00–26025 Filed 10–10–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Energy Efficiency and

Renewable Energy

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of submission for OMB

reviw, comment request.

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy

(DOE) has submitted the information

collection identified in this notice to the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for review under Sections

3507(a) and 3506(c) of the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995.

This collection would gather

information over a three-year period

from participants in the Industrial

Assessment Center (IAC) Program

(specifically clients, alumni and website users), concerning details of energy,

waste, production and cost savings

generated through their participation in

IAC assessments, or through their use of

IAC-sponsored web-sites. Information

will also be collected to determine the

levels of satisfaction that participants

have with the services of the IAC.

DATES: Written comments must be filed

on or before October 23, 2000. If you

anticipate that you will be submitting

comments but find it difficult to do so

within the time allowed by this notice,

you should advise the OMB DOE Desk

Officer listed below of your intention to

do so as soon as possible. The OMB

DOE Desk Officer may be telephoned at

(202) 395–3084. (Also, please notify the

DOE contact listed below.)

ADDRESSES: Address comments to the

Department of Energy Desk Officer,

Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, 726 Jackson Place, NW.,

Washington, DC 20503. (Comments

should also be addressed to Oak Ridge

National Laboratory at the address

below).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

copies of the forms and instructions

should be directed to M. Martin, Oak

Ridge National Laboratory, Bethel

Valley Rd., MS–6070, Bldg. 3147, Oak

Ridge, TN 37831–6070. Ms. Martin may

be contacted by telephone at (865) 574–

8688, FAX at (865) 574–9338, or e-mail

at martinma@ornl.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Collection Title: Program Quality

Monitoring of IAC Participants: Clients,

Alumni and Web-users

OMB Control Number: None.

Type of Request: New collection.

Frequency of response: One time only.

Respondents: IAC Program clients,

alumni and web-users (businesses and

individuals).

Estimated number of annual

respondents: 570.

Estimated total annual burden hours:

355 hours.

Background

As part of its effort to comply with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub.

L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the

Department of Energy sought comments

from the general public and other

Federal agencies regarding this

collection of information through its

June 9, 2000 notice in the Federal

Register (65 FR 36679). No comments

were received during this 60-day review

period. The Department now seeks

approval by the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) for clearance of its

surveys designed for the IAC effort.

Data will be collected from IAC

participants concerning energy, waste,

productivity and cost savings generated

through their participation in IAC

assessments or through their use of

technical information provided by IACsponsored web-sites. Data will be

collected from clients, program alumni,

and IAC web-users using either

electronic, web-based surveys or

telephone interviews. Participation is

voluntary. The data will provide input

for monitoring performance and

satisfaction of IAC participants.

STATUTORY AUTHORITY: Section 3507(a) and

3506(c) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995 (Pub. L. No. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter

35).

Issued in Washington, DC, September 28,

2000.

Susan L. Frey,

Director, Division of Records Management.

[FR Doc. 00–26027 Filed 10–10–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

Notice of Compliance Filing

October 4, 2000.

In the matter of: RM9–1–014, RP00–23–

000, RP01–9–000, RP00–597–000, RP00–

590–000, RP01–11–000, RP00–588–000,

RP00–625–000, RP00–604–000, RP00–603–

000, RP01–16–000, RP00–598–000, RP00–

601–000, RP01–22–000, RP00–622–000,

RP00–583–000, RP00–577–000, RP00–606–

000, RP00–617–000, RP00–619–000, RP00–

574–000, RP00–629–000, RP00–630–000,

RP01–7–000, RP01–17–000, RP01–19–000,

RP00–575–000, RP01–8–000, RP00–621–000,

RP01–2–000, RP00–631–000, RP00–576–000,

RP00–582–000, RP00–627–000, RP01–10–

000, RP00–587–000, RP00–613–000, RP01–

15–000, RP01–12–000, RP00–603–000,

RP00–612–000, RP00–593–000, RP00–620–

000, RP01–18–000, RP01–25–000, RP00–

624–000, RP00–626–000, RP00–609–000,

RP00–616–000, RP01–14–000, RP00–618–

000, RP01–13–000, RP00–600–000 (Not

Consolidated) Standards for Business

Practices of Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines,

Algonquin Gas Transmission Company,

Alliance Pipeline L.P., ANR Pipeline

Company, ANR Storage Company, Arkansas

Western Pipeline, L.L.C., Blue Lake Gas

Storage Company, Canyon Creek

Compression Company, Columbia Gas

Transmission Corporation, Columbia Gulf

Transmission Company, Dauphin Island

Gathering Partners, Discovery Gas

Transmission L.L.C, Dominion Transmission,

Inc., East Tennessee Natural Gas Company,

El Paso Natural Gas Company, Florida Gas

Transmission Company, Garden Banks Gas

Pipeline, L.L.C., Great Lakes Gas

Transmission Limited Partnership, Gulf

States Transmission Corporation, High Island

Offshore System, L.L.C., Honeoye Storage

Corporation, Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas

Transmission L.L.C., K N Wattenberg

Transmission Limited Liability Company,

Koch Gateway Pipeline Company, Maritimes

& Northeast Pipeline, L.L.C., Midwestern Gas

Transmission Company, Mississippi Canyon

Gas Pipeline L.L.C., Mississippi River

Transmission Corporation, Mojave Pipeline

Company, National Fuel Gas Supply