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Presidential permits issued pursuant to 

Executive Order 10485, as amended, 

and are appropriate for open access 

transmission by third parties. 

Procedural Matters: Any person 

desiring to be heard in this proceeding 

should file a comment or protest to the 

application at the address provided 

above. Protests should be filed in 

accordance with Rule 211 of the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) 

Rules of Practice and Procedures (18 

CFR 385.211). Any person desiring to 

become a party to these proceedings 

should file a motion to intervene at the 

above address in accordance with FERC 

Rule 214 (18 CFR 385.214). Five copies 

of such comments, protests, or motions 

to intervene should be sent to the 

address provided above on or before the 

date listed above. 

Comments and other filings 

concerning Intercom’s application to 

export electric energy to Mexico should 

be clearly marked with OE Docket No. 

EA–289–C. An additional copy is to be 

provided directly to Ernesto Pallares, 

Intercom Energy, Inc., 1224 Tenth 

Avenue, Suite 202, Coronado, CA 92118 

and to William DeGrandis, Paul 

Hastings, LLP, 875 15th Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20005. 

A final decision will be made on this 

application after the environmental 

impacts have been evaluated pursuant 

to DOE’s National Environmental Policy 

Act Implementing Procedures (10 CFR 

part 1021) and after a determination is 

made by DOE that the proposed action 

will not have an adverse impact on the 

sufficiency of supply or reliability of the 

U.S. electric power supply system. 

Copies of this application will be 

made available, upon request, for public 

inspection and copying at the address 

provided above, by accessing the 

program Web site at http://energy.gov/

node/11845, or by emailing Angela Troy 

at Angela.Troy@hq.doe.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on March 24, 

2016. 

Christopher Lawrence, 

Electricity Policy Analyst, Office of Electricity 

Delivery and Energy Reliability. 

[FR Doc. 2016–07159 Filed 3–29–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Notice of Public Meeting To Inform the 

Design of a Consent-Based Siting 

Process for Nuclear Waste Storage 

and Disposal Facilities 

AGENCY: Fuel Cycle Technologies, Office 

of Nuclear Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) is implementing a 

consent-based siting process to establish 

an integrated waste management system 

to transport, store, and dispose of spent 

nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive 

waste. In a consent-based siting 

approach, DOE will work with 

communities, tribal governments and 

states across the country that express 

interest in hosting any of the facilities 

identified as part of an integrated waste 

management system. As part of this 

process, the Department is hosting a 

series of public meetings to engage 

communities and individuals and 

discuss the development of a consentbased approach to managing our 

nation’s nuclear waste. A public 

meeting will be held in Sacramento, CA 

on April 26, 2016. 

DATES: The meeting will take place on 

Tuesday April 26, 2016 from 5:00 p.m. 

to 9:30 p.m. PDT. Informal poster 

sessions will be held from 4:00 p.m. 

until 5:00 p.m. PDT and again after 9:30 

p.m. PDT. Department officials will be 

available to discuss consent-based siting 

during the poster sessions. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

Holiday Inn Capitol Plaza—Sacramento, 

300 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95814. To 

register for this meeting and to review 

the agenda for the meeting, please go to 

energy.gov/consentbasedsiting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for further information should 

be sent to consentbasedsiting@

hq.doe.gov or to Michael Reim at 202– 

586–2981. Updated information on this 

and other planned public meetings on 

consent based siting will be posted at 

energy.gov/consentbasedsiting. 

If you are unable to attend a public 

meeting or would like to further discuss 

ideas for consent-based siting, please 

request an opportunity for us to speak 

with you. The Department will do its 

best to accommodate such requests and 

help arrange additional opportunities to 

engage. To learn more about nuclear 

energy, nuclear waste, and ongoing 

technical work please go to energy.gov/ 

consentbasedsiting. 

Privacy Act: Data collected via the 

mechanisms listed above will not be 

protected from the public view in any 

way. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on March 24, 

2016. 

Andrew Griffith, 

Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office 

of Nuclear Energy, Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2016–07152 Filed 3–29–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2016–0125; FRL–9943–74] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed New Collection 

(EPA ICR No. 2532.01); Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), this 

document announces that EPA is 

planning to submit an Information 

Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). The 

ICR, entitled: ‘‘Use of Mercury and 

Mercury Compounds in Products and 

Processes’’ and identified by EPA ICR 

No. 2532.01 and OMB Control No. 

2070–NEW, represents a new request. 

Before submitting the ICR to OMB for 

review and approval, EPA is soliciting 

comments on specific aspects of the 

proposed information collection that is 

summarized in this document. The ICR 

and accompanying material are 

available in the docket for public review 

and comment. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before May 31, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPPT–2016–0125, by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

• Mail: Document Control Office 

(7407M), Office of Pollution Prevention 

and Toxics (OPPT), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: To make special 

arrangements for hand delivery or 

delivery of boxed information, please 

follow the instructions at http://

www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html. 

Additional instructions on 

commenting or visiting the docket, 

along with more information about 

dockets generally, is available at 

http://www.epa.gov/dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical information contact: Sue 

Slotnick, National Program Chemicals 

Division (7404T), Office of Pollution 

Prevention and Toxics, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001; 


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telephone number: (202) 566–1973; 

email address: slotnick.sue@epa.gov. 

For general information contact: The 

TSCA-Hotline, ABVI-Goodwill, 422 

South Clinton Ave., Rochester, NY 

14620; telephone number: (202) 554– 

1404; email address: TSCA-Hotline@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. What information is EPA particularly 

interested in? 

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

(44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), EPA 

specifically solicits comments and 

information to enable it to: 

1. 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. 

2. Evaluate the accuracy of the 

Agency’s estimates of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used. 

3. Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected. In particular, EPA seeks 

comment on these aspects of the 

questionnaire: 

• Are there additional products or 

product categories that should be 

included in the questionnaire? 

• Are there additional products or 

product categories that should be 

eliminated from the questionnaire? 

• Should the questionnaire ask 

respondents to identify which products 

are intended solely as replacement 

parts? 

4. 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. In 

particular, EPA is requesting comments 

from very small businesses (those that 

employ less than 25) on examples of 

specific additional efforts that EPA 

could make to reduce the paperwork 

burden for very small businesses 

affected by this collection. 

II. What information collection activity 

or ICR does this action apply to? 

Title: Use of Mercury and Mercury 

Compounds in Products and Processes. 

ICR number: EPA ICR No. 2532.01. 

OMB control number: OMB Control 

No. 2070–NEW. 

ICR status: This ICR is for a new 

information collection activity. 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 in title 40 of the Code 

of Federal Regulations (CFR), after 

appearing in the Federal Register when 

approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, 

and are displayed either by publication 

in the Federal Register or by other 

appropriate means, such as on the 

related collection instrument or form, if 

applicable. The display of OMB control 

numbers for certain EPA regulations is 

consolidated in 40 CFR part 9. 

Abstract: The U.S. EPA is making 

efforts to reduce the non-essential use of 

mercury and mercury compounds in 

products and certain manufacturing 

processes to prevent future releases of 

mercury to the environment. After 

negotiating and joining a global 

agreement called the Minamata 

Convention on Mercury, EPA continues 

to pursue measures to reduce the use of 

mercury in various media. EPA has 

determined that significant data gaps 

exist that prevent the Agency from 

taking systematic, strategic, and 

effective actions to reduce the use of 

mercury and mercury compounds in 

order to prevent potential releases to the 

environment. 

To close such data gaps, EPA will 

collect information from persons who 

process, import, and/or export mercury 

or mercury-added products. In addition, 

EPA will request information from 

persons who process mercury or 

mercury compounds for use in certain 

industrial processes. EPA is particularly 

interested in the amount of mercury or 

mercury compounds used in mercuryadded products as a whole and among 

various categories of products, 

including mercury or mercury 

compounds that are added during 

domestic manufacture, as well as 

contained in imported and exported 

products. 

Initially this will be a one-time 

information collection, but EPA may 

request subsequent renewals of OMB 

approval of the information collection 

as necessary. Information will be 

collected from companies that 

manufacture, import, or export a 

product or products containing mercury 

or mercury compounds, or companies 

that use mercury or mercury 

compounds in a manufacturing process 

or processes. EPA will request that 

companies voluntarily submit responses 

to a questionnaire during a period of 60 

days after OMB approves the proposed 

collection. Thereafter, EPA will issue 

formal measures under section 11 of the 

Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to 

obtain the information if appropriate. 

EPA anticipates that the information 

collection activity will involve 250 

private entities, although the number of 

entities may be as high as 646. The years 

of interest are 2010, 2013, and 2016. 

EPA will use the collected 

information to determine whether and if 

so what type of actions, including 

voluntary and/or mandatory measures, 

are needed to reduce non-essential use 

of mercury or mercury compounds. The 

Agency will also use such information 

to prioritize where and how EPA 

applies measures in order to help 

prevent potential risks of mercury 

exposure to human health and the 

environment. In addition, this 

information will be used to facilitate 

compliance with obligations of the 

United States under the Minamata 

Convention to continue to reduce the 

use of mercury in products and 

processes and to report on actions taken 

to do so. 

Responses to the collection of 

information are voluntary. However, 

should EPA initiate TSCA section 11 

actions to compel submission of 

information, those responses would be 

mandatory. Respondents may claim all 

or part of a notice confidential. EPA will 

disclose information that is covered by 

a claim of confidentiality only to the 

extent permitted by, and in accordance 

with, the procedures in TSCA section 14 

and 40 CFR part 2. 

Burden statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 9.9 hours per 

response. Burden is defined in 5 CFR 

1320.3(b). 

The ICR, which is available in the 

docket along with other related 

materials, provides a detailed 

explanation of the collection activities 

and the burden estimate that is only 

briefly summarized here: 

Respondents/Affected Entities: 

Entities potentially affected by this ICR 

are persons who process mercury or 

mercury compounds for use in the 

production of mercury-added products, 

import mercury for use in the 

production of mercury-added products, 

import mercury-added products, export 

mercury-added products, and/or process 

mercury or mercury compounds for use 

in certain industrial processes. 

Estimated total number of potential 

respondents: 646. 

Frequency of response: One time. 

Estimated total average number of 

responses for each respondent: 1.0. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

6,399 hours. 

Estimated total annual costs: 

$444,430. This includes an estimated 

burden cost of $444,430 and an 


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estimated cost of $0 for capital 

investment or maintenance and 

operational costs. 

III. What is the next step in the process 

for this ICR? 

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 pursuant to 5 CFR 

1320.12. EPA will issue another Federal 

Register document pursuant to 5 CFR 

1320.5(a)(1)(iv) to announce the 

submission of the ICR to OMB and the 

opportunity to submit additional 

comments to OMB. If you have any 

questions about this ICR or the approval 

process, please contact the technical 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. 

Dated: March 23, 2016. 

James Jones, 

Assistant Administrator, Office of Chemical 

Safety and Pollution Prevention. 

[FR Doc. 2016–07174 Filed 3–29–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2003–0162; FRL–9943–22– 

OEI] 

Information Collection Request 

Submitted to OMB for Review and 

Approval; Comment Request; Regional 

Haze Regulations (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency has submitted an information 

collection request (ICR), ‘‘Regional Haze 

Regulations (Renewal)’’ (EPA ICR No. 

1813.09, OMB Control No. 2060–0421) 

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.). 

This is a proposed extension of the ICR, 

which is currently approved through 

March 31, 2016. Public comments were 

previously requested via the Federal 

Register (80 FR 58473) on September 

29, 2015 during a 60-day comment 

period. This notice allows for an 

additional 30 days for public comments. 

A fuller description of the ICR is given 

below, including its estimated burden 

and cost to the public. 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. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before April 29, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–OAR–2003–0162, to (1) EPA 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, and (2) OMB via 

email to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. 

Address comments to OMB Desk Officer 

for EPA. 

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: 

Chris Werner, Air Quality Policy 

Division, Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards, C539–04, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Research Triangle 

Park, NC 27711; telephone number: 

(919) 541–5133; fax number: (919) 541– 

5315; email address: 

werner.christopher@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. 

Abstract: This ICR is for activities 

related to the implementation of the 

EPA’s regional haze rule, for the time 

period between March 31, 2016, and 

March 31, 2019, and renews the 

previous ICR. The regional haze rule 

codified at 40 CFR parts 308 and 309, 

as authorized by sections 169A and 

169B of the Clean Air Act, requires 

states to develop implementation plans 

to protect visibility in 156 federallyprotected Class I areas. Tribes may 

choose to develop implementation 

plans. For this time period, states will 

primarily be developing and submitting 

periodic comprehensive 

implementation plan revisions (or 

initial implementation plans) and 

progress reports to comply with the 

regulations. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: Entities 

potentially affected by this action are 

state, local and tribal air quality 

agencies, regional planning 

organizations and facilities potentially 

regulated under the regional haze rule. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory [see 40 CFR 51.308(b), (f) 

and (g) and 40 CFR 51.309(d)(10)]. 

Estimated number of respondents: 52 

(total); 52 state agencies. 

Frequency of response: 

Approximately every 5 years. 

Total estimated burden: 10,307 hours 

(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $510,489 (per 

year). There are no annualized capital or 

operation and maintenance costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of 4,259 hours in the total 

estimated respondent burden compared 

with the ICR currently approved by 

OMB. This increase is due to this ICR 

renewal period covering different task 

elements than the previous renewal 

(EPA ICR No. 1813.08). These 

differences reflect the requirements of 

the current regional haze rule with 

respect to the scheduled events and 

activities in the implementation 

process. The last collection request 

anticipated the program consisting 

mainly of submission of 5-year progress 

reports. The change in burden reflects 

changes in labor rates and changes in 

the activities conducted due to the 

normal progression of the program, 

especially the fact that states will be 

working on and submitting periodic 

comprehensive State Implementation 

Plan (SIP) revisions (or initial SIPs). 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division. 

[FR Doc. 2016–07087 Filed 3–29–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9944–40–OW] 

Notice of a Public Meeting and 

Webinar: Managing Cyanotoxins in 

Drinking Water 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) announces an 

opportunity for public input on the 

EPA’s tools and information related to 

drinking water cyanotoxin management. 

The EPA is holding a public meeting for 

interested parties to provide input either 


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