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Agency (IEA) will meet on March 25, 

2009, at the headquarters of the IEA in 

Paris, France, in connection with a joint 

meeting of the IEA’s Standing Group on 

Emergency Questions (SEQ) and the 

IEA’s Standing Group on the Oil Market 

on March 25, and on March 26 in 

connection with a meeting of the SEQ 

on March 26. 

DATES: March 25–26, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: 9, rue de la Fe ́de ́ration, 

Paris, France. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Diana D. Clark, Assistant General for 

International and National Security 

Programs, Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585, 202–586–3417. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with section 252(c)(1)(A)(i) 

of the Energy Policy and Conservation 

Act (42 U.S.C. 6272(c)(1)(A)(i)) (EPCA), 

the following notice of meeting is 

provided: 

Meetings of the Industry Advisory 

Board (IAB) to the International Energy 

Agency (IEA) will be held at the 

headquarters of the IEA, 9, rue de la 

Fe ́de ́ration, Paris, France, on March 25, 

2009, beginning at 9 a.m. and on March 

26 beginning at 9:30 a.m. The purpose 

of this notice is to permit attendance by 

representatives of U.S. company 

members of the IAB at a joint meeting 

of the IEA’s Standing Group on 

Emergency Questions (SEQ) and the 

IEA’s Standing Group on the Oil Market 

(SOM) on March 25 beginning at 9 a.m. 

at the same location, and at a meeting 

of the SEQ on March 26 beginning at 

9:30 a.m. The IAB will also hold a 

preparatory meeting among company 

representatives at the same location at 

8:30 a.m. on March 26. The agenda for 

this preparatory meeting is to discuss 

the March 25 joint meeting of the SEQ 

and the SOM and to review the agenda 

for the SEQ meeting commencing at 

9:30 a.m. on March 26. 

The agenda of the joint SEQ/SOM 

meeting on March 25 is under the 

control of the SEQ and the SOM. It is 

expected that the SEQ and the SOM will 

adopt the following agenda: 

1. Adoption of the Agenda 

2. Approval of the Summary Record of 

the November 2008 SEQ/SOM Joint 

Session 

3. Update on the Oil Market 

4. Update on the Gas Market 

5. Reports by Member Countries on Oil 

and Gas Markets 

6. Preparation for the October 2009 

Ministerial Meeting 

7. Recent Developments in the 

Caucasus/Caspian Region 

8. Overview of the Russia—Ukraine Gas 

Dispute of January 2009 

9. Update on EMS (Energy Markets and 

Security) Activities 

10. Panel Discussion on Price Formation 

11. Other Business 

The agenda of the SEQ meeting on 

March 26, 2009, is under the control of 

the SEQ. It is expected that the SEQ will 

adopt the following agenda: 

1. Adoption of the Agenda 

2. Approval of the Summary Record of 

the 125th Meeting 

3. Status of Compliance with IEP 

Stockholding Commitments 

4. Emergency Response Exercise 

—Draft Outline for Workshop on 

Public Stock Release, June 2009 

—Draft Program for ERES 

5. Emergency Response Review Program 

—Questionnaire Response of Ireland 

—Questionnaire Response of Belgium 

—Questionnaire Response of Canada 

—Emergency Response Review of 

Luxembourg 

—Emergency Response Review of 

Portugal 

—Emergency Response Review of 

Italy 

—Schedule of Emergency Response 

Reviews 

6. Policy and Other Developments in 

Member Countries 

—Australia 

—Canada 

—Japan 

—United Kingdom 

—United States 

7. Activities with International 

Organizations and Non-Member 

Countries 

—Comparison of Draft EU Directive 

on Emergency Oil Stocks with the 

IEA System 

—Work on Candidate Countries 

—Emergency Response Exercises in 

Thailand, China, and India 

—IEA/HANDA/EC Workshop on 

Establishment of Emergency Oil 

Stocks in Southeast Europe, May 

28–29, 2009, Croatia 

8. Report from the Industry Advisory 

Board 

9. Emergency Policy for Natural Gas 

—Draft Proposal on Energy Policy for 

Natural Gas for the October 2009 

Ministerial Meeting 

—Natural Gas Reserves in Hungary 

10. Documents for Information 

—Emergency Reserve Situation of IEA 

Member Countries on January 1, 

2009 

—Base Period Final Consumption: 1Q 

2008–4Q 2008 

—Monthly Oil Statistics: December 

2008 

—Updated Emergency Contacts List 

12. Other Business 

—Tentative Schedule of Meetings: 

—June 23–25, 2009 

—October 20–22, 2009 

As provided in section 252(c)(1)(A)(ii) 

of the Energy Policy and Conservation 

Act (42 U.S.C. 6272(c)(1)(A)(ii)), the 

meetings of the IAB are open to 

representatives of members of the IAB 

and their counsel; representatives of 

members of the IEA’s Standing Group 

on Emergency Questions and the IEA’s 

Standing Group on the Oil Markets; 

representatives of the Departments of 

Energy, Justice, and State, the Federal 

Trade Commission, the General 

Accounting Office, Committees of 

Congress, the IEA, and the European 

Commission; and invitees of the IAB, 

the SEQ, the SOM, or the IEA. 

Issued in Washington, DC, March 10, 2009. 

Diana D. Clark, 

Assistant General Counsel for International 

and National Security Programs. 

[FR Doc. E9–5607 Filed 3–13–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 12576–004] 

CRD Hydroelectric, LLC; Notice of 

Application Tendered for Filing With 

the Commission, Soliciting Additional 

Study Requests, and Establishing a 

Deadline for Submission of Final 

Amendments 

March 9, 2009. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Original 

License. 

b. Project No.: 12576–004. 

c. Date Filed: February 24, 2009. 

d. Applicant: CRD Hydroelectric, LLC. 

e. Name of Project: Red Rock 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On the Des Moines River, 

in Marion County, Iowa. The project 

would be located at U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineer facilities. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)–825 (r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Ms. Douglas A. 

Spaulding, Nelson Energy LLC, 8441 

Wayzata Blvd., Suite 101, Golden 

Valley, MN 55426; (952) 544–8133. 

i. FERC Contact: Timothy Konnert, 

Timothy.Konnert@ferc.gov, (202) 502– 

6359. 

j. Cooperating Agencies: We are 

asking Federal, State, and local agencies 

and Indian tribes with jurisdiction and/ 

or special expertise with respect to 

environmental issues to cooperate with 

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us in the preparation of the 

environmental document. Agencies who 

would like to request cooperating status 

should follow the instructions for filing 

comments described in item l below. 

Cooperating agencies should note the 

Commission’s policy that agencies that 

cooperate in the preparation of the 

environmental document cannot also 

intervene. See 94 FERC ¶ 61,076 (2001). 

k. Pursuant to section 4.32(b)(7) of 18 

CFR of the Commission’s regulations, if 

any resource agency, Indian tribe, or 

person believes that an additional 

scientific study should be conducted in 

order to form a factual basis for 

complete analysis of the application on 

its merits, the resource agency, Indian 

tribe, or person must file a request for 

the study with the Commission no later 

than 60 days from the application filing 

date, and serve a copy of the request on 

the applicant. 

l. Deadline for filing additional study 

requests and requests for cooperating 

agency status: April 27, 2009. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) should be filed with: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

Additional study requests may be 

filed electronically via the Internet in 

lieu of paper. The Commission strongly 

encourages electronic filing. See 18 CFR 

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions 

on the Commission’s Web site (http:// 

www.ferc.gov) under the ‘‘eFiling’’ link. 

After logging into the eFiling system, 

select ‘‘Comment on Filing’’ from the 

Filing Type Selection screen and 

continue with the filing process. 

m. This application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

n. The proposed Red Rock 

Hydroelectric Project would be located 

at the existing U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers (Corps) Red Rock dam, which 

was constructed by the Corps in 1969 

for flood control. The existing Corps 

facilities consist of: (1) A 110-foot-high, 

6,260-foot-long earth-fill dam with a 

241-foot-long gated ogee spillway 

equipped with five 45-foot-high tainter 

gates; and (2) a 15,253-acre reservoir at 

a normal conservation pool water 

surface elevation of 742.0 feet National 

Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929. 

The proposed project would utilize 

the head created by the existing Corps 

dam and consist of: (1) A new, 

approximately 127-foot-long by 19-footwide intake structure connected to; (2) 

three new 19-foot-diameter, 

approximately 211-foot-long penstocks 

passing through the left side of the 

spillway leading to; (3) a new 59-footlong by 132-foot-wide powerhouse 

located directly downstream of the 

existing spillway structure containing 

three new 12.13-megawatt (MW) 

generating units for a total generating 

capacity of 36.4 MW; (4) a new 

approximately 8.4-mile-long, 69-kilovolt 

transmission line; and (5) appurtenant 

facilities. The estimated average annual 

generation would be 158,000 megawatt 

hours. 

The project would be operated in runof-river mode in that it would have no 

storage and only use flows released by 

the Corps in accordance with its present 

operations. 

o. A copy of the application is on file 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. This filing may 

also be viewed on the Web at http:// 

www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number, excluding the 

last three digits in the docket number 

filed to access the documents. For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll 

free at (866) 208–3676 or for TTY, 

contact (202) 502–8659. A copy is also 

available for inspection and 

reproduction at the address in item h 

above. 

p. You may also register online at 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

q. Procedural schedule and final 

amendments: The application will be 

processed according to the following 

Hydro Licensing Schedule. Revisions to 

the schedule will be made as 

appropriate. The Commission staff 

proposes to issue one environmental 

assessment rather than issue a draft and 

final EA. Comments, terms and 

conditions, recommendations, 

prescriptions, and reply comments, if 

any, will be addressed in an EA. Staff 

intends to give at least 30 days for 

entities to comment on the EA, and will 

take into consideration all comments 

received on the EA before final action is 

taken on the license application. 

Issue Acceptance or Deficiency 

Letter—May 2009. 

Issue Scoping Document—October 

2009. 

Notice of application is ready for 

environmental analysis—January 2010. 

Notice of the availability of the EA— 

November 2010. 

Final amendments: Final 

amendments to the application must be 

filed with the Commission no later than 

30 days from the issuance date of the 

notice of ready for environmental 

analysis. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–5556 Filed 3–13–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings #1 

March 6, 2009. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric rate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: ER99–1435–017. 

Applicants: Avista Corporation. 

Description: Avista Corp submits an 

errata to its January 29, 2009 filing to 

reflect a correct effective date of January 

29, 2009, which includes Revised 

Sheets 5, 6, and 8. 

Filed Date: 03/02/2009. 

Accession Number: 20090306–0009. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Friday, March 13, 2009. 

Docket Numbers: ER99–1435–018. 

Applicants: Avista Corporation. 

Description: Notice of non-material 

change in status. 

Filed Date: 03/04/2009. 

Accession Number: 20090304–5139. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Wednesday, March 25, 2009. 

Docket Numbers: ER03–534–009. 

Applicants: Ingenco Wholesale 

Power, LLC. 

Description: Supplement to 

Application for Finding of Category 1 

Seller Status and filing of Revised 

Market-Based Rate Tariff of Ingenco 

Wholesale Power, LLC. 

Filed Date: 03/02/2009. 

Accession Number: 20090302–5190. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Monday, March 23, 2009. 

Docket Numbers: ER04–691–091. 

Applicants: Midwest Independent 

System Transmission System Operator, 

Inc. 

Description: Midwest Independent 

Transmission System Operator, Inc. 

submits responses to the FERC’s 2/9/09 

letter seeking additional information, 

and requiring the amendment of 

compliance filing etc. 

Filed Date: 02/24/2009. 

Accession Number: 20090225–0227. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Tuesday, March 17, 2009. 

Docket Numbers: ER07–771–003. 

Applicants: E.ON U.S. LLC. 

Description: True-Up Filing of E.ON 

U.S. LLC.