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and the instructions on the 

Commission’s Web site (http:// 

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

Dated: May 16, 2011. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2011–12426 Filed 5–19–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. ER10–1401–000; ER10–1559– 

000; ER11–2256–000; ER11–3149–000] 

California Independent System 

Operator Corporation; Notice of FERC 

Staff Attendance 

The Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission (Commission) hereby gives 

notice that on the following dates 

members of its staff will participate in 

teleconferences and meetings to be 

conducted by the California 

Independent System Operator (CAISO). 

The agenda and other documents for the 

teleconferences and meetings are 

available on the CAISO’s Web site, 

http://www.caiso.com. 

May 17, 2011, Systems Interface User 

Group, Department of Market 

Monitoring 2010, Market Monitoring 

Report, Bidding and Mitigation of 

Commitment Costs 

May 18, 2011, Board of Governors 

Meeting, Settlements and Market 

Clearing User Group, Congestion 

Revenue Rights 

May 19, 2011, Market Update, Board of 

Governors Meeting, Settlement 

Process Timeline Change, CA 

Transmission Planning Group Call 

May 20, 2011, Congestion Revenue 

Rights Enhancements, Transmission 

Planning Standards 

May 24, 2011, Systems Interface User 

Group, BPM Change Management 

May 25, 2011, Settlements and Market 

Clearing User Group, Congestion 

Revenue Rights 

May 31, 2011, Systems Interface User 

Group, Settlement Quality Meter Data 

Sponsored by the CAISO, the 

teleconferences and meetings are open 

to all market participants, and staff’s 

attendance is part of the Commission’s 

ongoing outreach efforts. The 

teleconferences and meetings may 

discuss matters at issue in the above 

captioned dockets. 

For further information, contact Saeed 

Farrokhpay at 

saeed.farrokhpay@ferc.gov; (916) 294– 

0322 or Maury Kruth at 

maury.kruth@ferc.gov, (916) 294–0275. 

Dated: May 16, 2011. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Southeastern Power Administration 

Cumberland System of Projects 

AGENCY: Southeastern Power 

Administration, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of extension of time to 

present written comments. 

SUMMARY: The period for submitting 

written comments on Southeastern’s 

proposed rate adjustment is extended to 

July 1, 2011. 

DATES: Written comments may be 

submitted until the close of business 

July 1, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be submitted to: Kenneth E. Legg, 

Administrator, Southeastern Power 

Administration, Department of Energy, 

1166 Athens Tech Road, Elberton, 

Georgia 30635–6711. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: J. W. 

Smith, Public Utilities Specialist, 

Finance and Marketing Division, 

Southeastern Power Administration, 

Department of Energy, 1166 Athens 

Tech Road, Elberton, Georgia, 30635– 

6711 (706–213–3839). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 

7, 2011, Southeastern published a notice 

in the Federal Register (76 FR 12354) 

that proposed new rate schedules to 

replace the current wholesale power 

schedules for the Cumberland System 

for a two-year period from October 1, 

2011, to September 30, 2013. The notice 

outlined a public comment process that 

included a public information and 

comment forum for the Cumberland 

customers and interested parties which 

was held in Nashville, Tennessee, on 

May 3, 2011. The public information 

process also provided that additional 

written comments would be due to 

Southeastern on or before June 6, 2011. 

At the public information and comment 

forum, the Cumberland customers, 

through their representatives, requested 

an extension of the comment period 

from June 6, 2011, to close of business 

on July 1, 2011. The additional time is 

needed in order for the customers to 

review extensive materials and 

information provided and developed at 

and after the forum and to allow 

sufficient time for such necessary 

review and preparation of informed 

comments regarding the new proposed 

rates. For the reasons stated above, 

Southeastern hereby extends the period 

for submission of written comments to 

the close of business July 1, 2011. 

Dated: May 9, 2011. 

Herbert R. Nadler, 

Acting Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2011–12503 Filed 5–19–11; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2007–0269; FRL–9308–7] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Transportation Conformity 

Determinations for Federally Funded 

and Approved Transportation Plans 

(Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)(44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document 

announces that an Information 

Collection Request (ICR) has been 

forwarded to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for review and 

approval. This is a request to renew an 

existing approved collection. The ICR, 

which is abstracted below, describes the 

nature of the information collection and 

its estimated burden and cost. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before June 20, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2007–0269, to (1) EPA online 

using http://www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), or by mail to EPA 

Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Air and Radiation 

Docket, Mailcode 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460, and (2) OMB by mail to: 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB), 725 17th Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk 

Officer for EPA. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Astrid Larsen, State Measures and 

Conformity Group, Transportation and 

Regional Programs Division, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 2000 

Traverwood Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 

48105; telephone number (734) 214– 

4812; fax number: (734) 214–4052; email address: larsen.astrid@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has 

submitted the following ICR to OMB for 

review and approval according to the 


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procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12. 

On February 10, 2011 (76 FR 7560), EPA 

sought comments on this ICR pursuant 

to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received 4 

comments during the comment period, 

which are addressed in the ICR. Any 

additional comments on this ICR should 

be submitted to EPA and OMB within 

30 days of this notice. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. EPA– 

HQ–OAR–2007–0269, which is 

available for online viewing at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or in person 

viewing at the Air Docket in the EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/D.C.), EPA West, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/D.C. 

Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 

a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays. The 

telephone number for the Reading Room 

is 202–566–1744, and the telephone 

number for the Air Docket is 202–566– 

1742. 

Use EPA’s electronic docket and 

comment system at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, to submit or view 

public comments, access the index 

listing of the contents of the docket, and 

to access those documents in the docket 

that are available electronically. Once in 

the system, select ‘‘docket search,’’ then 

key in the docket ID number identified 

above. Please note that EPA’s policy is 

that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing at http://www.regulations.gov 

as EPA receives them and without 

change, unless the comment contains 

copyrighted material, confidential 

business information (CBI), or other 

information whose public disclosure is 

restricted by statute. For further 

information about the electronic docket, 

go to http://www.regulations.gov. 

Title: Transportation Conformity 

Determinations for Federally Funded 

and Approved Transportation Plans, 

Programs and Projects (Renewal). 

ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 2130.04, 

OMB Control No. 2060–0561. 

ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on May 31, 2011. Under OMB 

regulations, the Agency may continue to 

conduct or sponsor the collection of 

information while this submission is 

pending at OMB. 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 CFR, after 

appearing in the Federal Register when 

approved, are listed in 40 CFR Part 9, 

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 in certain EPA regulations is 

consolidated in 40 CFR part 9. 

Abstract: Transportation conformity is 

required under Clean Air Act section 

176(c) (42 U.S.C. 7506(c)) to ensure that 

federally supported transportation 

activities are consistent with (‘‘conform 

to’’) the purpose of the state air quality 

implementation plan (SIP). 

Transportation activities include 

transportation plans, transportation 

improvement programs (TIPs), and 

federally funded or approved highway 

or transit projects. Conformity to the 

purpose of the SIP means that 

transportation activities will not cause 

or contribute to new air quality 

violations, worsen existing violations, or 

delay timely attainment of the relevant 

national ambient air quality standards 

(NAAQS or ‘‘standards’’) or interim 

milestones. 

Transportation conformity applies 

under EPA’s conformity regulations at 

40 CFR Part 93, subpart A, to areas that 

are designated nonattainment, and those 

redesignated to attainment after 1990 

(‘‘maintenance areas’’ with plans 

developed under Clean Air Act section 

175A) for the following transportation 

related criteria pollutants: Ozone, 

particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10), 

carbon monoxide (CO), and nitrogen 

dioxide (NO2). The EPA published the 

original transportation conformity rule 

on November 24, 1993 (58 FR 62188), 

and subsequently published several 

revisions. EPA develops the conformity 

regulations in coordination with the 

Federal Highway Administration 

(FHWA) and Federal Transit 

Administration (FTA). 

Transportation conformity 

determinations are required before 

federal approval or funding is given to 

certain types of transportation planning 

documents as well as non-exempt 

highway and transit projects. 

EPA considered the following in 

renewing the existing ICR: Burden 

estimates for transportation conformity 

determinations in current 

nonattainment and maintenance areas 

for the ozone, PM2.5, PM10, CO, and NO2

NAAQS, which made up EPA’s 

previous ICR; federal burden associated 

with EPA’s adequacy review process for 

submitted SIP budgets that are to be 

used in conformity determinations; new 

start-up burden associated with learning 

to perform quantitative hot-spot 

analyses; new burden associated with 

using the MOVES model for conformity 

analyses; efficiencies in areas doing 

conformity for multiple NAAQS; and, 

differences in conformity resource 

needs in large and small metropolitan 

areas and isolated rural areas. 

This ICR does not include burden 

associated with the general 

development of transportation planning 

and air quality planning documents for 

meeting other federal requirements. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 8 hours per 

response. 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 which have subsequently 

changed; 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. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: State 

and local governments. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

174. 

Frequency of Response: Occasionally. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

88,404 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$5,199,040 includes no annualized 

capital or without O&M costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of 36,100 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. This increase reflects EPA’s 

adjustments associated with the actual 

number of 2006 PM2.5 NAAQS 

nonattainment areas versus the 

estimated number in the previous ICR, 

adjustment for increased burden 

associated with quantitative hot-spot 

analyses, an adjustment for the 

increased burden associated with the 

transition from the MOBILE6.2 to the 

MOVES model, an adjustment to the 

frequency of plan and TIP conformity 

determinations, and an adjustment for 

burden associated with increased 

consultation hours. 

Dated: May 16, 2011. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

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