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Washington, DC 20460. The phone 

number is 202–566–1752. 

• Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is 

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Dated: March 3, 2009. 

Rebecca Clark, 

Acting Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

[FR Doc. E9–5201 Filed 3–11–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8775–7] 

Partnership To Promote Innovation in 

Environmental Practice, Notice of 

Availability of Solicitation for 

Proposals for 2009 Assistance 

Agreement Award 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA or Agency), 

National Center for Environmental 

Innovation (NCEI) is giving notice of the 

availability of its solicitation for 

proposals from institutions that are 

interested in organizing two symposia 

over four years to promote sharing and 

transfer of innovative environmental 

protection approaches among States, 

EPA, and other primarily governmental 

representatives. The solicitation is 

available at the Agency’s State 

Innovation Grant Web site: http:// 

www.epa.gov/innovation/ 

2010symposium.htm, or may be 

requested from the Agency by e-mail to: 

innovation_state_grants@gov, 

telephone, or by mail. Eligible recipients 

include States, territories, Indian Tribes, 

interstate organizations, intrastate 

organizations, and possessions of the 

U.S., including the District of Columbia, 

public and private universities and 

colleges, hospitals, laboratories, other 

public or private nonprofit institutions, 

and individuals. Nonprofit 

organizations described in Section 

501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code 

that engage in lobbying activities as 

defined in Section 3 of the Lobbying 

Disclosure Act of 1995 are not eligible 

to apply. For-profit organizations are 

generally not eligible for funding. 

DATES: Eligible applicants will have 

until April 22, 2009, to respond with a 

pre-proposal, budget, and project 

summary. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the solicitation 

can be downloaded from the Agency’s 

Web site at http://www.epa.gov/ 

innovation/2010symposium.htm or may 

be requested by telephone (202–566– 

2236), or by e-mail 

(innovation_state_grants@epa.gov). You 

can request a solicitation application 

package be sent to you by fax or by mail 

by contacting NCEI as indicated below. 

Applicants are requested to apply 

online using the Grants.gov Web site 

with an electronic signature. Applicants 

are encouraged to submit their preproposals early. For those applicants 

who lack the technical capability to 

apply electronically via http:// 

www.grants.gov, please contact Scott 

Fontenot by phone at: (202) 566–2236 

and/or by e-mail at: 

innovation_state_grants@epa.gov, for 

alternative submission procedures. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions about this notice, 

please contact EPA at this e-mail 

address: 

innovation_state_grants@epa.gov; or, 

you may call Scott Fontenot at (202) 

566–2236. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Strengthening EPA’s innovation 

partnership with States and Tribes is a 

cornerstone of EPA’s Innovation 

Strategy (http://www.epa.gov/ 

innovation/strategy.htm). A key 

mechanism by which this partnership 

has been enhanced is through a biannual conference sponsored primarily 

by the National Center for 

Environmental Innovation that brings 

together State and EPA innovation 

practitioners to share experiences. EPA 

sponsored the first State-EPA 

Environmental Innovation Symposium 

in 2000 to showcase environmental 

innovations that promise improved 

results. A second symposium was held 

in 2003. In 2006, NCEI joined with 

EPA’s Office of Congressional and 

Intergovernmental Relations to offer an 

expanded agenda that focused on 

innovation as well as performance 

management issues. In 2008, NCEI and 

EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation held 

the State/EPA Symposium on 

Innovating for Sustainable Results: 

Integrated Approaches for Climate, 

Energy, and the Environment. 


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(Information about these events can be 

found at http://www.epa.gov/ 

innovation/symposia.htm). Evaluations 

from these events, along with discussion 

with State commissioners, indicate that 

States and others have a strong interest 

in additional symposia that allow 

participants to share experiences and 

results from innovative environmental 

programs and policies. 

The primary audience for these 

symposia will be State environmental 

agency officials with practical 

experience implementing innovative 

approaches to environmental protection. 

Representatives from American Indian 

Tribes, local governments, other 

governments, NGOs, and the business 

community will also be invited to 

participate as appropriate to the 

ultimate symposia agendas. While EPA 

will have participants at the symposia, 

the primary goal of the meetings is to 

identify and highlight environmental 

innovations that can help States and 

other governmental entities learn about 

new ways to achieve environmental 

results. The symposia should be 

designed to: 

—Identify and showcase successful, 

innovative projects and programs that 

have accomplished important 

environmental results at the State, 

Federal, or other levels; 

—Facilitate information transfer so that 

proven approaches can be used by 

other states or other entities to 

achieve improved environmental 

results; 

—Enable discussion about specific 

issues facing innovators, such as how 

to effectively evaluate pilot-scale 

efforts and how to replicate successful 

innovations on a larger scale (e.g., 

from a pilot project at one facility to 

a program for the entire sector) or in 

other programs (e.g., from use in the 

air program to the water program), 

and how to sustain innovation over 

time so that projects continue 

evolving to reflect new knowledge, 

experience, and/or technology; 

—Expand the network of State, Federal 

and other environmental practitioners 

who are interested in applying and 

advancing new approaches; 

—Stimulate ideas for new innovative 

initiatives and pilot projects. 

The recipient will be responsible for 

preparing symposia agendas, identifying 

relevant speakers and presenters, 

promoting the event, and managing all 

symposia logistics. The recipient will be 

expected to be knowledgeable about a 

broad array of environmental policy 

issues and innovative approaches that 

have been tested to address them, and 

will establish and work with a Steering 

Committee comprised of representatives 

from the recipient, State environmental 

agencies and EPA, to serve as a resource 

and help inform planning of the 

symposia. 

EPA is interested in supporting the 

first symposium in 2010 and a second 

symposium approximately two years 

later. The goal is to maximize 

participation for State environmental 

officials as well as local and Tribal 

government officials. 

In addition to organizing the 

symposia, the recipient will provide 

other mechanisms for sharing 

information presented at the symposia, 

including providing all presentations 

and videotaped plenary sessions on a 

publicly available Web site. These 

resources will help extend the learning 

that occurs at the symposia to States, as 

well as other interested stakeholders. 

Dated: March 3, 2009. 

David Widawsky, 

Acting Director, National Center for 

Environmental Innovation. 

[FR Doc. E9–5384 Filed 3–11–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Notice of Public Information 

Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the 

Federal Communications Commission, 

Comments Requested 

March 4, 2009. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burden and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501– 

3520), the Federal Communications 

Commission invites the general public 

and other Federal agencies to comment 

on the following information 

collection(s). Comments are requested 

concerning (a) Whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Commission, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

Commission’s burden estimate; (c) ways 

to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information collected; and 

(d) ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on the 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

An agency may not conduct or sponsor 

a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. No person shall be subject to 

any penalty for failing to comply with 

a collection of information subject to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act that does not 

display a valid OMB control number. 

DATES: Written PRA comments should 

be submitted on or before May 11, 2009. 

If you anticipate that you will be 

submitting comments, but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the contact listed below as soon 

as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may 

submit all PRA comments by e-mail or 

U.S. post mail. To submit your 

comments by e-mail, send them to 

PRA@fcc.gov and/or to 

Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov. To submit your 

comments by U.S. mail, mark them to 

the attention of Cathy Williams, Federal 

Communications Commission, Room 1– 

C823, 445 12th Street, SW., Washington, 

DC 20554. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information about the 

information collection(s), contact Cathy 

Williams at (202) 418–2918 or send an 

e-mail to PRA@fcc.gov and/or 

Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0029. 

Title: Application for TV Broadcast 

Station License, Form FCC 302–TV; 

Application for DTV Broadcast Station 

License, FCC Form 302–DTV; 

Application for Construction Permit for 

Reserved Channel Noncommercial 

Educational Broadcast Station, FCC 

Form 340; Application for Authority to 

Construct or Make Changes in an FM 

Translator or FM Booster Station, FCC 

Form 349; FCC 47 CFR 73.626. 

Form Number: FCC Forms 302–TV, 

302–DTV, 340 and 349. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities; not-for-profit institutions. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 4,425 respondents; 6,425 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour 

to 4 hours. 

Frequency of Response: 

Recordkeeping requirement; On 

occasion reporting requirement; third 

party disclosure requirement. 

Total Annual Burden: 14,450 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: $21,869,625. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. The statutory 

authority is contained in sections 154(i), 

303 and 308 of the Communications Act 

of 1934, as amended. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

There is no need for confidentiality with 

this collection of information. 

Privacy Impact Assessment: No 

impact(s). 

Needs and Uses: On November 3, 

2008, the Commission adopted a Report 


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