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1See Black Hills Hydro, Inc., 77 FERC ¶ 61,232

at 61,944 (1996).

2See Wisconsin Energy Corporation, Inc., 83

FERC ¶ 61,069 (1998) (approving the proposed

merger).

A copy of this filing has been served

on Granite State, as well as regulatory

agencies in New Hampshire.

Comment date: July 20, 1998, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

22. California Independent System

Operator Corporation

[Docket No. ER98–3594–000]

Take notice that on June 30, 1998, the

California Independent System Operator

Corporation (ISO), tendered for filing

Amendment No. 9, to the ISO Tariff

governing the issuance and use of Firm

Transmission Rights.

The ISO states that this filing has been

served on all parties listed on the

official service list in the Docket Nos.

EL96–19 and ER96–1663.

Comment date: July 20, 1998, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

23. Open Access Same-time

Information System (OASIS) and

Standards of Conduct

[Docket No. RM95–9–000]

Take notice that on June 11, 1998, the

Commercial Practices Working Group

(Commercial Practices Group), filed a

letter seeking prompt Commission

confirmation that members may

voluntarily participate in an industry

experiment to improve the completion

of next hour transactions by using trial

procedures for completing next-hour

transactions during a four month

experiment. After assessing the results

of this test, the Commercial Practices

Group may offer further

recommendations as warranted.

We invite written comments on this

filing on or before July 17, 1998. Any

person desiring to submit comments

should file an original and 14 paper

copies and one copy on a computer

diskette in WordPerfect 6.1 format or in

ASCII format with the Office of the

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 888 First Street, N.E.,

Washington, D.C. 20426. The comments

must contain a caption that references

Docket No. RM95–9–000.

Copies of this filing are on file with

the Commission and are available for

public inspection. The filing will also be

posted on the Commission Issuance

Posting System (CIPS), an electronic

bulletin board and World Wide Web (at

WWW.FERC.FED.US) service, that

provides access to the texts of formal

documents issued by the Commission.

The complete text on diskette in

WordPerfect format may be purchased

from the Commission’s copy contractor,

La Dorn Systems Corporation. La Dorn

Systems Corporation is located in the

Public Reference Room at 888 First

Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426.

24. Open Access Same-time

Information System (OASIS) and

Standards of Conduct

[Docket No. RM95–9–000]

Take notice that on June 19, 1998, the

Commercial Practices Working Group

(Commercial Practices Group), jointly

with the OASIS How Working Group

(How Group), tendered for filing a

report entitled Industry Report to the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

on OASIS Phase 1–A Business Practices.

The Commercial Practices Group and

How Group state that the report reflects

a consensus based on diverse

viewpoints within various customer and

provider industry segments. The report

offers for Commission adoption a set of

business practice standards and

guidelines designed to implement FERC

policy on transmission service price

negotiation and improved consistency

of Customer-Provider interactions across

OASIS nodes.

We invite written comments on this

filing on or before July 31, 1998. Any

person desiring to submit comments

should file an original and 14 paper

copies and one copy on a computer

diskette in WordPerfect 6.1 format or in

ASCII format with the Office of the

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 888 First Street, N.E.,

Washington, D.C. 20426. The comments

must contain a caption that references

Docket No. RM95–9–000.

Copies of this filing are on file with

the Commission and are available for

public inspection. The filing will also be

posted on the Commission Issuance

Posting System (CIPS), an electronic

bulletin board and World Wide Web (at

WWW.FERC.FED.US) service, that

provides access to the texts of formal

documents issued by the Commission.

The complete text on diskette in

WordPerfect format may be purchased

from the Commission’s copy contractor,

La Dorn Systems Corporation. La Dorn

Systems Corporation is located in the

Public Reference Room at 888 First

Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426.

25. Edison Sault Electric Company

[Docket No. OA98–14–000]

Take notice that on May 26, 1998,

Edison Sault Electric Company (Edison

Sault), tendered for filing standards of

conduct. The Commission previously

granted Edison Sault a waiver from the

Order No. 889 requirements.1 Edison

Sault states that it is submitting

standards of conduct in light of the

merger between Wisconsin Energy

Corporation, Inc., and ESELCO, Inc., the

parent company of Edison Sault.2

Comment date: July 16, 1998, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

Standard Paragraphs

E. Any person desiring to be heard or

to protest said filing should file a

motion to intervene or protest with the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C.

20426, in accordance with Rules 211

and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211

and 18 CFR 385.214). All such motions

or protests should be filed on or before

the comment date. Protests will be

considered by the Commission in

determining the appropriate action to be

taken, but will not serve to make

protestants parties to the proceeding.

Any person wishing to become a party

must file a motion to intervene. Copies

of these filings are on file with the

Commission and are available for public

inspection.

David P. Boergers,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–19067 Filed 7–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Project Nos. 10822–000 and 10823–000

Connecticut]

Summit Hydropower Company; Notice

of Availability of Draft Environmental

Assessment

July 13, 1998.

In accordance with the National

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and

the Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission’s (Commission)

regulations, 18 CFR Part 380 (Order No.

486, 52 FR 47897), the Office of

Hydropower Licensing has reviewed the

application for original license for the

Upper Collinsville Hydroelectric Project

and the Lower Collinsville

Hydroelectric Project, located on the

Farmington River in Hartford County,

Connecticut, and has prepared a Draft

Environmental Assessment (DEA) for

the projects.

Copies of the DEA are available in the

Public Reference Branch, Room 2–A, of

the Commission’s offices at 888 First

Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426.
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Any comments should be filed within

45 days from the date of this notice and

should be addressed to David P.

Boergers, Acting Secretary, Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C.

20426. For further information, contact

James T. Griffin at (202) 219–2799.

David P. Boergers,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–19091 Filed 7–16–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RP98–203–000 and RP 98–203–

000]

Northern Natural Gas Company; Notice

of Technical Conference

July 13, 1998.

In the Commission’s order issued on

May 28, 1998, the Commission directed

that a technical conference be held to

address issues raised by the filing.

Take notice that the technical

conference will be held on Wednesday,

July 15, 1998, at 10:00 a.m., in Hearing

Room 6, at the offices of the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C.

20426.

All interested parties and Staff are

permitted to attend.

David P. Boergers,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–19090 Filed 7–16–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6125–5]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; NSPS

Standards of Performance for Coal

Preparation Plants

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: NSPS Subpart Y—Standards

of Performance for Coal Preparation

Plants, OMB Control Number 2060-

0122, expiration date August 31, 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 17, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

a copy of the ICR, call 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/icr.htm, and refer to

EPA ICR No. 1062.06.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: NSPS Subpart Y—Standards of

Performance for Coal Preparation Plants

(OMB Control Number 2060–0122; EPA

ICR No. 1062.06) expiring August 31,

1998. This is a request for extension of

a currently approved collection.

Abstract: Owners or operators of the

affected facilities described must make

the following one-time-only reports:

notification of the date of construction

or reconstruction; notification of the

anticipated and actual dates of start-up;

and notification of any physical or

operational change to an existing facility

which may increase the regulated

pollutant emission rate.

Owners or operators are also required

to maintain records of the occurrence

and duration of any start-up, shutdown,

or malfunction in the operation of an

affected facility. These notifications,

reports, and records are required, in

general for all sources subject to NSPS.

There are no additional recordkeeping

or reporting requirements specific to

coal preparation plants.

Owners or operators of all affected

facilities shall install, calibrate,

maintain, and continuously operate a

monitoring device which continuously

measures the temperature of the gas

stream of the thermal dryer, and if

applicable, the pressure drop across the

process scrubbing system. Therefore, the

recordkeeping requirements for coal

preparation plants that have thermal

dyers consist of the occurrence and

duration of any start-up and

malfunction as described, temperature,

pressure drop across any scrubber

system, measurements of PM emissions,

and the initial performance test results

including conversion factors,

measurements of PM emissions, and

daily charge rates and hours of

operation. Records of start-ups,

shutdowns, and malfunctions should be

noted as they occur. Any owner or

operator subject to the provisions of this

part shall maintain a file of these

measurements, and retain the file for at

least two years following the date of

such measurements, maintenance

reports and records.

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 March

5, 1998 (63 FR 10870). No comments

were received.

Burden Statement: The annual public

reporting and recordkeeping burden for

this collection of information is

estimated to average 37 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; 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:

Owners/Operators of Coal Preparation

Plants.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

399.

Frequency of Response: Occasionally.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

14,729 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost

Burden: $14,060.

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. 1062.06 and

OMB Control No.2060–0122 in any

correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, OPPE Regulatory

Information Division (2137), 401 M

Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460;

and

Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for

EPA, 725 17th Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20503.