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d. Applicants: North Central Power

Co., Inc. (tranferor) and Flambeau

Hydro, LLC (transferee).

e. Name and Location of Project: The

Winter and Arpin Dam Hydroelectric

Projects are on the East Fork of the

Chippewa River and on the Chippewa

River, respectively, in Sawyer County,

Wisconsin. The Winter Project occupies

federal lands within the ChequamegonNicolet National Forest, but no tribal

lands. The Arpin Project does not

occupy federal or tribal lands.

f. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r).

g. Applicant Contacts: Mr. Frank F.

Dahlberg, North Central Power Co., Inc.,

P.O. Box 167, Grantsburg, WI 54840,

(715) 463–5371 and Mr. Donald H.

Clarke, Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP,

2300 N Street NW., No. 700,

Washington, DC 20037, (202) 783–4141.

h. FERC Contact: Any questions on

this notice should be addressed to James

Hunter at (202) 219–2839.

i. Deadline for filing comments and or

motions: December 18, 2000.

All documents (original and eight

copies) should be filed with: David P.

Boergers, Secretary, Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 888 First

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.

Comments and protests may be filed

electronically via the internet in lieu of

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

and the instructions on the

Commission’s web site at http://

www.ferc.fed.us/efi/doorbell.htm.

Please include the noted project

numbers on any comments or motions

filed.

j. Description of Proposal: The

applicants state that the transfer will

assure the continued operation of these

renewable energy projects and will

effect the desired change of ownership

of the generating facilities consistent

with the restructuring plans of these

members of the electric industry.

The transfer application was filed

within five years of the expiration of the

license for Project No. 2064, which is

the subject of a pending relicense

application. In Hydroelectric

Relicensing Regulations Under the

Federal Power Act (54 Fed. Reg. 23, 756;

FERC Stats. and Regs., Regs. Preambles

1986–1990 30,854 at p. 31,437), the

Commission declined to forbid all

license transfers during the last five

years of an existing license, and instead

indicated that it would scrutinize all

such transfer requests to determine if

the transfer’s primary purpose was to

give the transferee an advantage in

relicensing (id. at p. 31,438 n. 318).

The transfer application also contains

a separate request for approval of the

substitution of the transferee for the

transferor as the applicant in the

pending relicensing application, filed by

the transferor on November 26, 1999, in

Project No. 2064–004.

k. Locations of the application: A

copy of the application is available for

inspection and reproduction at the

Commission’s Public Reference Room,

located at 888 First Street, NE., Room

2A, Washington, DC 20426, or by calling

(202) 208–2222 for assistance). A copy

is also available for inspection and

reproduction at the addresses in item g

above.

l. Individuals desiring to be included

on the Commission’s mailing list should

so indicate by writing to the Secretary

of the Commission.

Comments, Protests, or Motions to

Intervene—Anyone may submit

comments, a protest, or a motion to

intervene in accordance with the

requirements of Rules of Practice and

Procedure, 18 CFR 385.210, .211, .214.

In determining the appropriate action to

take, the Commission will consider all

protests or other comments filed, but

only those who file a motion to

intervene in accordance with the

Commission’s Rules may become a

party to the proceeding. Any comments,

protests, or motions to intervene must

be received on or before the specified

comment date for the particular

application.

Filing and Service of Responsible

Documents—Any filings must bear in

all capital letters the title

‘‘COMMENTS’’,

‘‘RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TERMS

AND CONDITIONS’’, ‘‘PROTESTS’’, OR

‘‘MOTION TO INTERVENE’’, as

applicable, and the Project Number of

the particular application to which the

filing refers. Any of the above-named

documents must be filed by providing

the original and the number of copies

provided by the Commission’s

regulations to: The Secretary, Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.

A copy of any motion to intervene must

also be served upon each representative

of the Applicant specified in the

particular application.

Agency Comments—Federal, state,

and local agencies are invited to file

comments on the described application.

A copy of the application may be

obtained by agencies directly from the

Applicant. If an agency does not file

comments within the time specified for

filing comments, it will be presumed to

have no comments. One copy of an

agency’s comments must also be sent to

the Applicant’s representatives.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6904–9]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request; Soil Ingestion

Research Study

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

3501 et seq.), this document announces

that EPA is planning to submit the

following proposed Information

Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB): Soil

Ingestion Research Study ( EPA ICR

Number 1965.01). Before submitting the

ICR to OMB for review and approval,

EPA is soliciting comments on specific

aspects of the proposed information

collection as described below.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before January 22, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Comments submitted by

regular U.S. Postal Service mail should

be sent to: Docket Coordinator,

Superfund Docket Office, Mail Code

5201G, U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency Headquarters, Ariel Rios

Building, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue,

NW., Washington, DC 20460. To ensure

proper receipt by EPA, it is imperative

that you identify docket control number

SOIL–INGEST in the subject line on the

first page of your comment. Comments

may also be submitted electronically or

in person. Please follow the detailed

instructions for these submission

methods as provided in unit III of the

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section.

Copies of the ICR may be obtained from

this office (contact Larry Zaragoza 703–

603–8867), or the Office of

Environmental Information’s ICR

website at http://www.epa.gov/icr/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Larry Zaragoza, Office of Emergency and

Remedial Response, at 703–603–8867/

703–603–9133 (fax), email:

Zaragoza.Larry@EPA.Gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Affected Entities: Entities potentially

affected by this action are those which

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agree to participate in a research study

on soil ingestion.

Title: Soil Ingestion Research, (EPA

ICR No. 1965.01).

Abstract: This ICR supports research

to examine the amount of soil ingested.

Soil is ingested in two ways, incidental

ingestion from everyday hand to mouth

activity and ingestion resulting from

inhaled particles of soil that are

deposited in upper and middle

respiratory tract and swallowed. The

ingestion of soil is important because

contaminated soils from a hazardous

waste site poses risks to individuals

exposed to contaminated soil. This

research should help any environmental

program concerned with contaminated

soils but is specifically being sponsored

by Superfund. This research will

evaluate ingestion by comparing the

amount of trace metals that are ingested

in food with the amount of metals that

are excreted, any amount in excess of

the ingested trace metals is attributed to

incidental soil ingestion. Because of the

possibility of trace metal ingestion from

a variety of sources (like food and

toothpaste), a questionnaire to identify

and characterize sources of trace metals

that can affect daily variation in trace

metals is an important part of the

experimental design of these studies.

About 20 study volunteers are paid and

are expected to participate in this study

for about two weeks. Each night the

study participants would participate in

a questionnaire that will later be used to

help interpret daily variations in trace

metals. An agency may not conduct or

sponsor, and a person is not required to

respond to, a collection of information

unless it displays a currently valid OMB

control number. The OMB control

numbers for EPA’s regulations are listed

in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR Chapter

15.

The EPA would like to solicit

comments 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.

Burden Statement: During the study,

paid research subjects would fill out a

questionnaire on a daily basis.

Questions could take 5 minutes. This

reporting burden would involve

approximately 20 research subjects who

are expected to participate in a study for

2 weeks. This information would be

collected by the researchers at the

research institution conducting the

study and the data would be maintained

by this group, not the Federal

government. Burden means the total

time, effort, or financial resources

expended by persons to generate,

maintain, retain, or disclose or provide

information to or for a Federal agency.

This includes the time needed to review

instructions; develop, acquire, install,

and utilize technology and systems for

the purposes of collecting, validating,

and verifying information, processing

and maintaining information, and

disclosing and providing information;

adjust the existing ways to comply with

any previously applicable instructions

and requirements; train personnel to be

able to respond to a collection of

information; search data sources;

complete and review the collection of

information; and transmit or otherwise

disclose the information.

Dated: October 24, 2000.

Elaine F. Davies,

Acting Director, Office of Emergency and

Remedial Response.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[OPP–00687A; FRL–6755–2]

FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel;

Announcement of change of Public

Meeting Dates

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a change

in the dates of a public meeting of the

FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel which

was originally published in the Federal

Register of November 3, 2000. Meetings

were scheduled to be held on December

6, 7, and 8, 2000. The December 6

meeting has been dropped, therefore,

meetings will only be held on December

7 and 8, 2000.

DATES: Meetings of the FIFRA Scientific

Advisory Panel will be held on

December 7 and 8, 2000, from 8:30 a.m.

to 5:30 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, 1800

Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA.

The telephone number for the Sheraton

Hotel is (703) 486–1111. Requests to

participate may be submitted by mail,

electronically, or in person. Please

follow the detailed instructions for each

method as provided in Unit I.C. of the

originally published notice of November

3, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Olga

Odiott, Designated Federal Official,

Office of Science Coordination and

Policy, (7101C), Office of Prevention,

Pesticides and Toxic Substances,

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,

DC 20460; telephone number: (703)

305–5369; fax number: (703) 605–0656;

e-mail address: odiott.olga@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. Does this Action Apply to Me?

This action is directed to the public

in general. This action may, however, be

of interest to those persons who are or

may be required to conduct testing of

chemical substances under the Federal

Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA),

FIFRA, and FQPA. Since other entities

may also be interested, the Agency has

not attempted to describe all the specific

entities that may be affected by this

action. If you have any questions

regarding the applicability of this action

to a particular entity, consult the person

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT.

II. Purpose of this Notice

EPA is announcing a change in dates

of a public meeting of the FIFRA

Scientific Advisory Panel which was

published in the Federal Register of

November 3, 2000 (65 FR 66245) (FRL–

6753–4). Meetings had been scheduled

to be held on December 6, 7, and 8,

2000, but because the session on the

LifeLineTM Model Review will not be

taking place at this time, the meetings

will be held only on December 7 and 8,

2000.

List of Subjects

Environmental protection.

Dated: November 16, 2000.

Steven K. Galson,

Director, Office of Science Coordination and

Policy, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and

Toxic Substances.

[FR Doc. 00–29868 Filed 11–17–00; 2:15 pm]

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