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purchases to volumes of propane that it

purchased from Enron at above market

prices.

Howard Cab, Inc. Hoquiam Plywood

Company, INC., 6/18/98, RJ272–

00061, RJ272–00062, RJ272–04818,

RJ272–04819

The DOE rescinded two Applications

for Supplemental Refund filed by

Federal Action, a private filing service,

in the crude oil overcharge refund

proceeding. The DOE found that Federal

Action violated its Escrow Certification

in its handling of the two supplemental

refunds. Federal Action was ordered to

repay the refund amounts to the DOE

and the supplemental refunds were

reissued directly to the Applicants.

Refund Applications

The Office of Hearings and Appeals

issued the following Decisions and

Orders concerning refund applications,

which are not summarized. Copies of

the full texts of the Decisions and

Orders are available in the Public

Reference Room of the Office of

Hearings and Appeals.

FARMLAND COOPERATIVE, INC ...................................................................................................................... RF272–95739 6/17/98

Dismissals

The following submissions were dismissed.

Name Case No.

FLORIDA ........................................................................................................................................................................................... VEG–0004

PERSONNEL SECURITY REVIEW ................................................................................................................................................. VSA–0176

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Hearings and Appeals

Notice of Issuance of Decisions and

Orders During the Week of June 8

Through June 12, 1998

During the week of June 8 through

June 12, 1998, the decisions and orders

summarized below were issued with

respect to appeals, applications,

petitions, or other requests filed with

the Office of Hearings and Appeals of

the Department of Energy. The

following summary also contains a list

of submissions that were dismissed by

the Office of Hearings and Appeals.

Copies of the full text of these

decision and order are available in the

Public Reference Room of the Office of

Hearings and Appeals, 950 L’Enfant

Plaza, SW, Washington, D.C., Monday

through Friday, except federal holidays.

They are also available in Energy

Management: Federal Energy

Guidelines, a commercially published

loose leaf reporter system. Some

decisions and orders are available on

the Office of Hearings and Appeals

World Wide Web site at http://

www.oha.doe.gov.

Dated: July 16, 1998.

George B. Breznay,

Director, Office of Hearings and Appeals.

Decision List No. 89

Appeals

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent

Carre`re and Dene`gre, 6/8/98, VFA–

0419

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent

Carr`re & Den` gre, L.L.P., appealed a

determination issued to it by the Federal

Energy Technology Center (FETC) in

response to a Request for Information

submitted under the Freedom of

Information Act. The law firm sought

records of a never-issued contract for

the Mound Site Plume Treatment

System at the Rocky Flat Environmental

Technology Site. FETC withheld all

responsive documents in full under the

competitive harm standard of

Exemption 4 because the Rocky Flats

Field Office (RFFO) was in the process

of finalizing a contract for similar work.

During the course of the Appeal, the

DOE determined that RFFO had issued

the Mound Site Plume Treatment

System contract. Because the factual

predicate for the FETC determination no

longer existed, the DOE remanded the

matter for FETC to issue a new

determination.

The National Security Archive, 6/11/98,

VFA–0327, VFA–0365

The National Security Archive filed

Appeals from denials by the Department

of the Air Force of a request for

information that it filed under the

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Because the withheld information was

classified under the Atomic Energy Act,

the Air Force withheld it as the

direction of the DOE under Exemption

3. The DOE determined on appeal that

the information must continue to be

withheld under Exemption 3.

Accordingly, the Appeals were denied.

Refund Applications

The Office of Hearings and Appeals

issued the following Decisions and

Orders concerning refund applications,

which are not summarized. Copies of

the full texts of the Decisions and

Orders are available in the Public

Reference Room of the Office of

Hearings and Appeals.

ENRON CORPORATION/WALLACE OIL RECLAIMING COMPANY ........................................................ RF340–173 6/11/98

GARY VOGT ................................................................................................................................................... RJ272–00060 6/11/98

GULF OIL CORPORATION/REEDY CREEK UTILITIES CO., INC ............................................................... RF300–17085 6/11/98

SHIELDALLOY METALLURGICAL CORP. ET AL ....................................................................................... RF272–94619 6/11/98

SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE ................................................................................................................................ RK272–04816 6/10/98

ST. JOHN PARISH SCHOOL BOARD ET AL ............................................................................................... RF272–80644 6/11/98

Dismissals

The following submissions were dismissed.

Name Case No.

COBLE DAIRY PRODUCTS, INC. ................................................................................................................................................... RF272–98951
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Name Case No.

WATCHTOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY OF NY ...................................................................................................................... RF272–98962

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BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6130–5]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request;

Environmental Impact Assessment of

Nongovernmental Activities in

Antarctica

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 the following Information

Collection Request (ICR) has been

forwarded to the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) for review and

approval: Environmental Impact

Assessment of Nongovernmental

Activities in Antarctica, OMB Control

No. 2020–0007, expiring August 8,

1998. The ICR describes the nature of

the information collection and its

expected burden and cost; where

appropriate, it includes the actual data

collection instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before August 24, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Contact Sandy Farmer at EPA by phone

at (202) 260–2740, by email at

farmer.sandy@epamail.epa.gov, or

download off the Internet at http://

www.epa.gov/icr and refer to EPA ICR

No. 1808.02.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Environmental Impact

Assessment of Nongovernmental

Activities in Antarctica, EPA ICR No.

1808.02, OMB Control No. 2020–0007,

expiring August 31, 1998. This is a

request for extension of a currently

approved collection.

Abstract: The EPA promulgated an

Interim Final Rule for Environmental

Impact Assessment of Nongovernmental

Activities in Antarctica, 40 CFR part 8,

in accordance with the Antarctic

Science, Tourism, and Conservation Act

(Act) of 1996, 16 U.S.C. 2401 et seq., as

amended 16 U.S.C. 2403a, which

implements the Protocol on

Environmental Protection (Protocol) to

the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 (Treaty).

The Interim Final Rule provides for

assessment of the environmental

impacts of nongovernmental activities

in Antarctica, including tourism, and for

coordination of the review of

information regarding environmental

impact assessments received from other

Parties under the Protocol. The

requirements of the Interim Final Rule

apply to operators of nongovernmental

expeditions organized in or proceeding

from the territory of the United States to

Antarctica and include commercial and

noncommercial expeditions. The

Interim Final Rule does not apply to

individual U.S. citizens or groups of

citizens planning to travel to Antarctica

on an expedition for which they are not

acting as an operator.

Persons subject to the Interim Final

Rule at 40 CFR part 8 must prepare

environmental documentation, as

appropriate to support the operator’s

determination regarding the level of

environmental impact of the proposed

expedition. Environmental

documentation includes a Preliminary

Environmental Review Memorandum

(PERM), an Initial Environmental

Evaluation (IEE), or a Comprehensive

Environmental Evaluation (CEE). The

environmental documentation must be

submitted to the Office of Federal

Activities (OFA) in accordance with the

schedule for the level of environmental

documentation as provided in the

Interim Final Rule.

The Protocol and the Interim Final

Rule also require an operator to employ

procedures to assess and provide a

regular and verifiable record of the

actual impacts of an activity which

proceeds on the basis of an IEE or a CEE,

including monitoring of key

environmental indicators for an activity

proceeding on the basis of a CEE, or, if

necessary, an IEE.

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 Federal Register document

required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d),

soliciting comments on this collection

of information, was published on April

22, 1998 (63 FR 19912). Four comment

letters were received. Responses to

comments are included in the ICR

document.

Burden Statement: For the initial year

no PERMs or CEEs were submitted; four

IEEs were submitted on behalf of nine

operators with an estimated average

burden of 216 hours per IEE, or 96 hours

per operator, including assessment and

verification procedures. For each of the

subsequent years, four IEEs that fully

incorporate paperwork reduction

provisions of the Interim Final Rule are

anticipated on behalf of eleven

operators with an estimated annual

average burden of 25 hours per operator,

including assessment and verification

procedures. 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.

Respondents/Affected Entities:

Commercial tour operators and all other

nongovernmental entities including

privately funded research expeditions.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

11.

Frequency of Response: Once per

year.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

1415 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost

Burden: 0

Send comments on the Agency’s need

for this information, the accuracy of the

provided burden estimates, and any

suggested methods for minimizing

respondent burden, including through

the use of automated collection

techniques, to the following addresses.

Please refer to EPA ICR No. 1808.02,

and OMB Control No. 2020–0007 in any

correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, .S. Environmental

Protection Agency, OP Regulatory

Information Division (2137), 401 M

Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460;

and