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public comment period soliciting 

comments on this collection of 

information (86 FR 17634). We received 

no comments in response to that notice. 

We are again soliciting comments on 

the proposed ICR that is described 

below. We are especially interested in 

public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) Is the collection 

necessary to the proper functions of the 

OS–OEPC; (2) will this information be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might the OS–OEPC enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might the OS–OEPC minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. Before including your 

address, phone number, email address, 

or other personal identifying 

information in your comment, you 

should be aware that your entire 

comment—including your personal 

identifying information—may be made 

publicly available at any time. While 

you can ask us in your comment to 

withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Abstract: The OMB regulations at 5 

CFR part 1320, which implement the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq., require that 

interested members of the public and 

affected agencies have an opportunity to 

comment on information collection and 

recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR 

1320.8 (d)). 

On November 23, 2016, the 

Departments of Agriculture, the Interior, 

and Commerce published a final rule on 

the March 31, 2015 revised interim final 

rule to the interim rule originally 

published in November 2005 at 7 CFR 

part 1, 43 CFR part 45, and 50 CFR part 

221, to implement section 241 of the 

Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EP Act), 

Public Law 109–58, enacted on August 

8, 2005. Section 241 of the EP Act added 

a new section 33 to the Federal Power 

Act (FPA), 16 U.S.C. 823d, that allowed 

the license applicant or any other party 

to the license proceeding to propose an 

alternative to a condition or prescription 

that one or more of the Departments 

develop for inclusion in a hydropower 

license issued by the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC) under 

the FPA. This provision required that 

the Department of Agriculture, the 

Department of the Interior, and the 

Department of Commerce collect the 

information covered by 1094–0001. 

Under FPA section 33, the Secretary 

of the Department involved must accept 

the proposed alternative if the Secretary 

determines, based on substantial 

evidence provided by a party to the 

license proceeding or otherwise 

available to the Secretary, (a) that the 

alternative condition provides for the 

adequate protection and utilization of 

the reservation, or that the alternative 

prescription will be no less protective 

than the fishway initially proposed by 

the Secretary, and (b) that the 

alternative will either cost significantly 

less to implement or result in improved 

operation of the project works for 

electricity production. 

In order to make this determination, 

the regulations require that all of the 

following information be collected: (1) 

A description of the alternative, in an 

equivalent level of detail to the 

Department’s preliminary condition or 

prescription; (2) an explanation of how 

the alternative: (i) If a condition, will 

provide for the adequate protection and 

utilization of the reservation; or (ii) if a 

prescription, will be no less protective 

than the fishway prescribed by the 

bureau; (3) an explanation of how the 

alternative, as compared to the 

preliminary condition or prescription, 

will: (i) Cost significantly less to 

implement; or (ii) result in improved 

operation of the project works for 

electricity production; (4) an 

explanation of how the alternative or 

revised alternative will affect: (i) Energy 

supply, distribution, cost, and use; (ii) 

flood control; (iii) navigation; (iv) water 

supply; (v) air quality; and (vi) other 

aspects of environmental quality; and 

(5) specific citations to any scientific 

studies, literature, and other 

documented information relied on to 

support the proposal. 

This notice of proposed renewal of an 

existing information collection is being 

published by the Office of 

Environmental Policy and Compliance, 

Department of the Interior, on behalf of 

all three Departments, and the data 

provided below covers anticipated 

responses (alternative conditions/ 

prescriptions and associated 

information) for all three Departments. 

Title of Collection: 7 CFR part 1; 43 

CFR part 45; 50 CFR part 221; The 

Alternatives Process in Hydropower 

Licensing. 

OMB Control Number: 1094–0001. 

Form Number: None. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Business or for-profit entities. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 5. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 5. 

Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: 500 hours. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 2,500 hours. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Frequency of Collection: Once per 

alternative proposed. 

Total Estimated Annual Nonhour 

Burden Cost: None. 

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 authority for this action is the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

Stephen G. Tryon, 

Director, Office of Environmental Policy and 

Compliance. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17932 Filed 8–20–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4334–63–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[DOI–BLM–NV–W010–2020–0030–EIS; 

LLNVW01000.L51100000.GN0000. 

LVEMF1907180.19XMO#4500153666] 

Notice of Availability of the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Proposed Gold Acquisition 

Corporation—Relief Canyon Gold 

Mine—Mine Expansion Amendment, 

Pershing County, NV 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, as amended, and the Federal Land 

Policy and Management Act of 1976, as 

amended, the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) Humboldt River 

Field Office, Winnemucca, Nevada has 

prepared the Relief Canyon Mine Final 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for the proposed expansion to the Relief 

Canyon gold mining operation in 

Pershing County, Nevada, and by this 

notice announces the availability of the 

Final EIS. 

DATES: The BLM will not issue a final 

decision on the proposal for a minimum 

of 30-days after the Environmental 

Protection Agency publishes its notice 

of availability of the Gold Acquisition 

Corporation—Relief Canyon Gold 

Mine—Mine Expansion Amendment 

Final EIS DOI–BLM–NV–W010–2020– 

0030–EIS in the Federal Register. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the Relief Canyon 

Mine Plan Expansion and the Final EIS 


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are available for public inspection on 

the internet at https://

eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/ 

project/2000567/510. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Jeanette ‘‘Jean’’ Black; telephone: (775) 

623–1500; email: jblack@blm.gov; 

address: 5100 E Winnemucca Blvd., 

Winnemucca, NV 89445. Persons who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay 

Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to 

contact Ms. Black during normal 

business hours. The FRS is available 24- 

hours a day, 7-days a week, to leave a 

message or question. You will receive a 

reply during normal business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Gold 

Acquisition Corporation (GAC), a 

wholly owned subsidiary of Pershing 

Gold Corporation, itself a wholly owned 

subsidiary of Americas Gold and Silver 

Corporation, proposes an expansion to 

the existing Relief Canyon Gold Mine. 

The mine is located in Pershing County, 

Nevada, approximately 16 miles eastnortheast of Lovelock, Nevada. The 

proposed expansion is located within 

GAC’s authorized Plan of Operations 

boundary and proposes to modify the 

existing Plan of Operations as follows: 

• Create roughly 576 acres of new 

surface disturbance on public and 

private land including re-disturbance of 

about 137 acres of previously disturbed 

vegetation communities. 

• Expand the footprint of the existing 

approved pit area by approximately 84 

acres (68 acres of public land and 16 

acres of private land) with resultant 

elimination of a portion of existing 

Waste Rock Storage Facility (WRSF) 4. 

• Mine to final pit bottom elevation of 

4,420 feet above mean sea level (ft 

amsl), which will involve continued 

mining below the water table, and result 

in a post-mining pit lake that is 

predicted to reach an equilibrium 

elevation of 4,887 ft amsl roughly 50 

years after completion of mining. 

• Construct a dewatering conveyance 

pipeline and Rapid Infiltration to reinfiltrate up to 900 gallons per minute 

of mine dewatering water during the last 

3 months of proposed mining. 

• Install up to 50 vertical and 

horizontal drains in the pit wall to 

ensure pit slope stability and 

supplement pit dewatering operations. 

• Convert up to 50 exploration drill 

holes located in and adjacent to the pit 

as vertical or near vertical drains and/ 

or piezometer to monitor water levels to 

ensure pit slope stability and 

supplement pit dewatering operations. 

• Expand WRSFs, heap leach pads, 

and construct process ponds, new 

growth media stockpiles, diversion 

ditches for stormwater control, and 

ancillary facilities. 

• Expand yard and crusher-conveyor 

areas, roads, and fences. 

• Close and reclaim all project 

facilities at the completion of the 

Project. 

Final EIS 

The Final EIS describes and analyzes 

the proposed project’s direct, indirect, 

and cumulative impacts on all affected 

resources. The EIS analyzed the 

Proposed Action (Alternative A) and the 

No Action Alternative (Alternative B). 

A Notice of Availability (NOA) of the 

Draft EIS for the proposed Project was 

published in the Federal Register on 

February 19, 2021 (86 FR 5246). Two 

virtual public meetings were held 

during the comment period. The BLM 

received 12 public comment documents 

during the 45-day comment period. The 

documents contained 70 individual 

comments with 36 substantive 

comments, which included concerns on 

potential impacts from the pit lake, 

groundwater quantity and quality, 

springs in the area near the mine, 

management of waste rock, rapid 

infiltration basins, and heap leach 

facilities, wildlife habitat loss, greater 

sage-grouse, golden eagles, pale 

kangaroo mice, and horses. These 

comments were considered and 

addressed in Appendix D (draft EIS 

Public Comments and Responses) of the 

Final EIS. 

Comments on the Draft EIS received 

from the public and internal BLM 

review were considered and 

incorporated, as appropriate, into the 

Final EIS. Public comments resulted in 

corrections or the addition of clarifying 

text but did not significantly change the 

proposed action. 

The BLM has consulted with the 

Nevada State Historic Preservation 

Office (SHPO) on the Project in 

accordance with the 2014 State Protocol 

Agreement between the BLM and 

Nevada SHPO for Implementing the 

National Historic Preservation Act. The 

BLM has determined that the Project 

would have no adverse effects to 

historic properties and the Nevada 

SHPO has concurred. 

The BLM has consulted and continues 

to consult with Native American tribes 

on a government-to-government basis in 

accordance with Executive Order 13175 

and other policies. Tribal concerns, 

including impacts on Indian trust assets 

and potential impacts to cultural 

resources, will be given due 

consideration. 

(Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7) 

Ester M. McCullough, 

District Manager, Winnemucca District Office. 

[FR Doc. 2021–18004 Filed 8–20–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–HC–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation No. 337–TA–1213] 

Certain Light-Emitting Diode Products, 

Fixtures, and Components Thereof; 

Notice of Request for Submissions on 

the Public Interest 

AGENCY: U.S. International Trade 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that on 

August 17, 2021, the presiding 

administrative law judge (‘‘ALJ’’) issued 

an Initial Determination on Violation of 

Section 337. The ALJ also issued a 

Recommended Determination on 

remedy and bonding should a violation 

be found in the above-captioned 

investigation. The Commission is 

soliciting submissions on public interest 

issues raised by the recommended relief 

should the Commission find a violation. 

This notice is soliciting comments from 

the public only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Clint Gerdine, Esq., Office of the 

General Counsel, U.S. International 

Trade Commission, 500 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20436, telephone (202) 

708–2310. Copies of non-confidential 

documents filed in connection with this 

investigation may be viewed on the 

Commission’s electronic docket (EDIS) 

at https://edis.usitc.gov. For help 

accessing EDIS, please email 

EDIS3Help@usitc.gov. General 

information concerning the Commission 

may also be obtained by accessing its 

internet server at https://www.usitc.gov. 

Hearing-impaired persons are advised 

that information on this matter can be 

obtained by contacting the 

Commission’s TDD terminal on (202) 

205–1810. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 provides 

that, if the Commission finds a 

violation, it shall exclude the articles 

concerned from the United States: 

Unless, after considering the effect of 

such exclusion upon the public health 

and welfare, competitive conditions in 

the United States economy, the 

production of like or directly 

competitive articles in the United 

States, and United States consumers, it 

finds that such articles should not be 

excluded from entry. 


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