9390 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 41 / Wednesday, March 4, 2009 / Notices 

to DOE in the areas of environmental 

restoration, waste management, and 

related activities. 

Tentative Agenda 

Monday, March 23, 2009 

1 p.m. Combined Committee Session. 

5 p.m. Adjourn. 

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 

8:30 a.m. Approval of Minutes, 

Agency Updates, Public Comment 

Session, Chair and Facilitator 

Updates, Savannah River Nuclear 

Solutions Presentation: The First 

Six Months, Strategic and Legacy 

Management Committee Report, 

Public Comment Session. 

12 p.m. Lunch Break. 

1 p.m. Nuclear Materials Committee 

Report, Facility Disposition and 

Site Remediation Committee 

Report, Administrative Committee 

Report, Waste Management 

Committee Report, Public Comment 

Session. 

4 p.m. Adjourn. 

If needed, time will be allotted after 

public comments for items added to the 

agenda and administrative details. A 

final agenda will be available at the 

meeting Monday, March 23, 2009. 

Public Participation: The EM SSAB, 

Savannah River Site, welcomes the 

attendance of the public at its advisory 

committee meetings and will make 

every effort to accommodate persons 

with physical disabilities or special 

needs. If you require special 

accommodations due to a disability, 

please contact Gerri Flemming at least 

seven days in advance of the meeting at 

the telephone number listed above. 

Written statements may be filed with 

the Board either before or after the 

meeting. Individuals who wish to make 

oral statements pertaining to agenda 

items should contact Gerri Flemming’s 

office at the address or telephone listed 

above. Requests must be received five 

days prior to the meeting and reasonable 

provision will be made to include the 

presentation in the agenda. The Deputy 

Designated Federal Officer is 

empowered to conduct the meeting in a 

fashion that will facilitate the orderly 

conduct of business. Individuals 

wishing to make public comment will 

be provided a maximum of five minutes 

to present their comments. 

Minutes: Minutes will be available by 

writing or calling Gerri Flemming at the 

address or phone number listed above. 

Minutes will also be available at the 

following Web site: http://www.srs.gov/ 

general/outreach/srs-cab/srs-cab.html. 

Issued at Washington, DC, on February 24, 

2009. 

Rachel Samuel, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–4573 Filed 3–3–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings #1 

February 24, 2009. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric corporate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: EC09–56–000. 

Applicants: Wolverine Creek Goshen 

Interconnection LLC. 

Description: Joint Application of 

Wolverine Creek Goshen 

Interconnection, LLC, et al. for 

Authorization of Disposition of 

Facilities under Section 203 of the FPA 

and Request for Confidential Treatment, 

Expedited Consideration and Waivers. 

Filed Date: 02/23/2009. 

Accession Number: 20090223–5130. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Monday, March 16, 2009. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric rate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: ER01–316–031. 

Applicants: ISO New England Inc. 

Description: ISO New England Inc 

submits its Index of Customers for the 

fourth quarter of 2008 under their FERC 

Tariff for Transmission Dispatch and 

Power Administration Services. 

Filed Date: 02/02/2009. 

Accession Number: 20090203–0171. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Monday, March 2, 2009. 

Docket Numbers: ER09–666–000; 

ER09–667–000; ER09–668–000; ER09– 

669–000; ER09–670–000; ER09–671– 

000. 

Applicants: EDFD-Handsome Lake; 

EDFD-Perryman; EDFD-Keystone; 

EDFD-Conemaugh; EDFD-C.P. Crane; 

EDFD-West Valley. 

Description: EDF Development, Inc 

submits application on behalf of each of 

several EDFD subsidiaries, for 

acceptance of market-based tariffs and 

granting of waivers and blanket 

authorizations; request that shortened 

comment period, etc. 

Filed Date: 02/20/2009. 

Accession Number: 20090223–0025. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Friday, March 13, 2009. 

Docket Numbers: ER09–726–000. 

Applicants: Vision Power, LLC. 

Description: Vision Power, LLC 

requests acceptance of FERC Electric 

Tariff, Original Volume 1 under which 

it will engage in whole sales of electric 

energy transactions at market-based 

rates, etc. 

Filed Date: 02/20/2009. 

Accession Number: 20090223–0024. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Friday, March 13, 2009. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric securities 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: ES09–21–000. 

Applicants: Northern Maine 

Independent System Administrator, Inc. 

Description: Application of Northern 

Maine Independent System 

Administrator, Inc. for Authorization to 

Issue Securities Pursuant to Section 204 

of the Federal Power Act in ES09–21. 

Filed Date: 02/23/2009. 

Accession Number: 20090223–5068. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Monday, March 16, 2009. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest in any of the above proceedings 

must file in accordance with Rules 211 

and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 

and 385.214) on or before 5 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. It 

is not necessary to separately intervene 

again in a subdocket related to a 

compliance filing if you have previously 

intervened in the same docket. 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. 

Anyone filing a motion to intervene or 

protest must serve a copy of that 

document on the Applicant. In reference 

to filings initiating a new proceeding, 

interventions or protests submitted on 

or before the comment deadline need 

not be served on persons other than the 

Applicant. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http:// 

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with Internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the intervention or protest to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First St. NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

The filings in the above proceedings 

are accessible in the Commission’s 

eLibrary system by clicking on the 

Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 41 / Wednesday, March 4, 2009 / Notices 9391 

appropriate link in the above list. They 

are also available for review in the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room in 

Washington, DC. There is an 

eSubscription link on the Web site that 

enables subscribers to receive e-mail 

notification when a document is added 

to a subscribed docket(s). For assistance 

with any FERC Online service, please email FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or 

call (866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, 

call (202) 502–8659. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–4579 Filed 3–3–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

Notice of Availability of Request for 

Interest 

AGENCY: Western Area Power 

Administration, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of Request 

for Interest. 

SUMMARY: The Western Area Power 

Administration (Western), a power 

marketing administration within the 

U.S. Department of Energy, announces 

the availability of a Request for Interest 

(RFI). Western is seeking interest from 

any entity or entities interested in 

identifying a proposed transmission 

project, primarily in Western’s service 

area, and/or desiring to participate with 

Western and possibly others by 

constructing, financing, owning, 

operating or maintaining transmission 

facilities or acquiring transmission 

rights or entering into long-term 

transmission service agreements on that 

project. 

DATES: To be assured consideration, all 

Statements of Interest should be 

received by Western April 3, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information or to obtain a copy 

of this RFI, please contact Transmission 

Infrastructure Program, Western Area 

Power Administration, P.O. Box 281213, 

Lakewood, CO 80228–8213, e-mail 

txrfi@wapa.gov. The RFI is also 

available on Western’s Web site at 

http://www.wapa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Western 

markets and transmits wholesale 

hydroelectric power, generated at 

Federal dams across the western United 

States. This power is sold to customers 

in accordance with Federal Law. 

Western’s transmission system was 

developed to deliver the Federal 

hydropower to those customers. 

Western owns and operates an 

integrated 17,000 circuit mile, highvoltage transmission system across 15 

western states and a 1.3 million squaremile service area. Western’s service area 

encompasses all of the following states: 

Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, 

Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, 

South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming: as 

well as parts of Iowa, Kansas, Montana, 

Minnesota, and Texas. Today, Western 

makes capacity on its transmission 

system, excess to that needed to serve 

its preference customers, available 

through the policies and procedures 

outlined in its Open Access 

Transmission Tariff. 

This RFI is being issued under 

authority granted to Western in the 

American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). Section 402 

of the Recovery Act gives Western 

authority to construct, finance, 

facilitate, plan, operate, maintain or 

study construction of new or upgraded 

electric power transmission lines and 

related facilities with at least one 

terminus within the area served by 

Western and for delivering or 

facilitating the delivery of power 

generated by renewable energy 

resources constructed or reasonably 

expected to be constructed. The law 

provides borrowing authority to 

facilitate Western’s participation, and 

further specifies that Western, in the 

course of selecting potential projects to 

be funded under this section, shall seek 

requests for interest from entities 

interested in identifying potential 

projects. This FRN fulfills that 

requirement. 

Environmental Compliance 

In compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321, et seq.), the 

Council on Environmental Quality 

Regulations for implementing NEPA (40 

CFR parts 1500–1508) and the DOE 

NEPA Implementing Procedures and 

Guidelines (10 CFR part 1021), Western 

has determined that this action is 

categorically excluded from further 

NEPA analysis. Future actions under 

this authority will undergo appropriate 

NEPA analysis. 

Dated: February 20, 2009. 

Timothy J. Meeks, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. E9–4610 Filed 3–3–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

Notice of Proposed Program and 

Request for Public Comments 

AGENCY: Western Area Power 

Administration, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of Proposed Program and 

Request for Public Comments. 

SUMMARY: The Western Area Power 

Administration (Western) proposes to 

adopt a Transmission Infrastructure 

Program. The Program is being proposed 

to implement section 402 of the 

American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) for the 

purpose of constructing, financing, 

facilitating, planning, operating, 

maintaining, or studying construction of 

new or upgraded electric power 

transmission lines and related facilities 

with at least one terminus within the 

area served by Western and for 

delivering or facilitating the delivery of 

power generated by renewable energy 

resources constructed or reasonably 

expected to be constructed. The 

proposed Program would use authority 

granted under this section to borrow 

funds from the U.S. Treasury to 

accomplish these purposes. The 

Recovery Act also calls for Western to 

use a public process to develop 

practices and policies that implement 

the authority granted by this section. To 

expedite the development process, 

Western is offering this initial proposal. 

This Federal Register notice (FRN) 

seeks public comment on these 

proposed principles, policies and 

practices. 

DATES: The consultation and comment 

period begins today and ends April 3, 

2009. Western will present an 

explanation of the proposed program 

and accept oral and written comments 

at a public meeting on March 23, 2009, 

beginning at 1 p.m. MDT, in Lakewood, 

Colorado. The meeting will also be 

Webcast. Western will accept written 

comments any time during the 

consultation and comment period. 

Written comments on the proposed 

Program should be submitted to 

Western by April 3, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be 

held at Western’s Corporate Services 

Office, 12155 West Alameda Parkway, 

Lakewood, CO 80228 on the date listed 

above. Send written comments to: 

Transmission Infrastructure Program, 

Western Area Power Administration, 

P.O. Box 281213, Lakewood, CO 80228– 

8213, e-mail txprogram@wapa.gov. 

Western will post information about the 

program development on its Web site at