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this selected plan action in the Pony

Creek Watershed.

Conclusion

The Environmental Assessment

summarized above indicates that this

Federal action will not cause significant

impacts on the environment. Therefore,

based on the above findings, I have

determined that an environmental

impact statement for the Iowa

Watershed Rehabilitation Pilot Project is

not required.

Dated: April 2, 2001.

Leroy Brown,

State Conservationist.

[FR Doc. 01–10813 Filed 4–30–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–16–M

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY: Rural Telephone Bank, USDA.

ACTION: Staff briefing for the Board of

Directors.

TIME AND DATE: 2 p.m., Thursday, May

10, 2001.

PLACE: Conference Room 5030, South

Building, Department of Agriculture,

1400 Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC.

STATUS: Open.

MATTERS TO BE DISCUSSED:

1. Current telecommunications

industry issues.

2. Contract for business advisor to the

Privatization Committee.

3. Transferability of Class C stock to

a stockholder’s subsidiary company.

4. Office of the Inspector General’s

audit report on FY 2000 financial

statements.

5. FY 2000 annual report.

6. Administrative issues.

ACTION: Board of Directors meeting.

TIME AND DATE: 9 a.m., Friday, May 11,

2001.

PLACE: Conference Room 107–A, Jamie

L. Whitten Building, Department of

Agriculture, 12th and Jefferson Drive,

SW., Washington, DC.

STATUS: Open.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: The

following matters have been placed on

the agenda for the Board of Directors

meeting:

1. Call to order.

2. Action on Minutes of the February

6, 2001, board meeting.

3. Report on loans approved in the

second quarter of FY 2001.

4. Report on financial activity for the

second quarter of FY 2001.

5. Privatization Committee report.

6. Clarification on stock policy

regarding the transferability of Class C

stock to a stockholder’s subsidiary

company.

7. Action on the Bank’s annual report

for FY 2000.

8. Adjournment.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Roberta D. Purcell, Assistant Governor,

Rural Telephone Bank, (202) 720–9554.

Dated: April 26, 2001.

Blaine D. Stockton,

Acting Governor, Rural Telephone Bank.

[FR Doc. 01–10958 Filed 4–27–01; 12:29 pm]

BILLING CODE 3410–15–P

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Rural Utilities Service

Tri-State Generation and Transmission

Association, Inc.; Notice of Intent To

Hold A Public Workshop and Prepare

an Environmental Assessment

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of intent to hold a public

workshop and prepare an

environmental assessment.

SUMMARY: The Rural Utilities Service

(RUS) intends to hold a public scoping

workshop and prepare an

environmental assessment (EA) in

connection with possible impacts

related to the construction and

operation of a combustion turbine

generation facility. The project is being

proposed by Tri-State Generation and

Transmission Association, Inc. (TriState), of Westminster, Colorado. RUS

will conduct a public scoping workshop

at the Lordsburg High School, 41 W. 4th

Street, Lordsburg, New Mexico. The

meeting/workshop will be held on May

16, 2001, from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m.

FOR FUTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dennis E. Rankin, Environmental

Protection Specialist, RUS, Engineering

and Environmental Staff, Stop 1571,

1400 Independence Avenue, SW,

Washington, DC 20250–1571, telephone:

(202) 720–1953 or e-mail:

drank@inrus.usda.gov.; or Karl Myers,

Senior Environmental Planner, TriState, P.O. Box 33695, Denver, Colorado

80233, telephone: (303) 452–6111 or email: kmyerstristategt.org.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Tri-State

is proposing to construct a 150 MW

peaking facility consisting of four GE

LM6000 combustion turbine generators

with associated auxiliary and support

facilities including transmission

connections and a high-pressure natural

gas pipeline connection available for

commercial dispatch in January 2003.

The preferred site is located

approximately 12 miles southeast of

Lordsburg, New Mexico. The preferred

transmission alternative is to connect

these generators via two new/rebuilt 115

kV lines between the generating site and

the Hidalgo 115 kV Substation.

RUS may provide financial assistance

for the project. The Bureau of Land

Management has received a right-of-way

application for the 115 kV transmission

line. The EA will address the impacts

associated with granting the right-ofway.

Alternatives to be considered by RUS

include no action, load management

and energy conservation, purchase

power, alternative generators and

alternative sites.

Comments regarding the proposed

project may be submitted in writing at

the public meeting/workshop or in

writing no later than June 16, 2001, to

RUS at the address provided above.

An environmental assessment (EA)

will be prepared for the proposed

project. Based on a review of the

Environmental Assessment and other

relevant information, RUS will

determine if the preparation of an

environmental impact statement is

necessary. Should RUS determine that

the preparation of an environmental

impact statement is not necessary, it

will prepare a Finding of No Significant

Impact.

Any final action by RUS related to the

proposed project will be subject to, and

contingent upon, compliance with all

relevant Federal, State and local

environmental laws and regulations and

completion of the environmental review

procedures as prescribed by RUS’s

Environmental Policies and Procedures.

Dated: April 25, 2001.

Mark S. Plank,

Acting Director, Engineering and

Environmental Staff.

[FR Doc. 01–10777 Filed 4–30–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–15–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request

DOC has submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for

clearance the following proposal for

collection of information under the

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction

Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35).

AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau.

Title: Census 2000 Count Question

Resolution Program.

Form Number(s): None.

Agency Approval Number: None.

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Type of Request: New collection.

Burden: 15,600 hours.

Number of Respondents: 3,000.

Avg Hours Per Response: 5.2 hours.

Needs and Uses: After the release of

Census 2000 redistricting data, some

governmental entities may seek to

challenge these official Census 2000

counts. The Census Bureau is

implementing the Census 2000 Count

Question Resolution program (CQR) to

address boundary, geocoding, and

coverage (processing errors that result in

a failure to include or the incorrect

inclusion of population data that was

identified and collected during the 2000

Census) errors. The census officially

ended on December 31, 2000, and no

additional census data can or will be

collected after that date. The CQR

Program is not a mechanism or process

to challenge the March 6, 2001, decision

of the Secretary of Commerce to release

unadjusted numbers from Census 2000

for redistricting purposes nor to revise

the numbers that were released for

redistricting. Neither is the program a

mechanism or process to challenge or

revise the numbers sent to the President

on December 28, 2000, used to

apportion the United States House of

Representatives.

Local or tribal governmental entities

submitting a challenge using the CQR

Program must submit supporting

documentation, such as address lists

and/or maps. Supporting evidence in

the form of address lists shall be taken

from a source dated no later than April

1, 2000. Challenges alleging geocoding

or coverage (processing) errors in

housing unit counts or group quarters

population counts, must specify the

block(s) for which the counts are being

challenged. All governmental unit

boundary challenges must be based on

the boundaries that were in effect on

January 1, 2000. The Census Bureau will

compare the maps and supporting

documentation with the information

used to depict the boundaries for

Census 2000. The Census Bureau will

respond to all challenges and/or

questions and will notify all affected

governmental entities of any corrections

to their official counts.

The Census Bureau published a notice

in the Federal Register on January 22,

2001 (Vol. 66, No. 14, pp. 6574–6578)

announcing our plans to conduct the

CQR Program and instructing local and

Tribal governments on how, when, and

where to submit challenges.

CQR will begin June 30, 2001 and will

conclude September 30, 2003.

Affected Public: State, local, or Tribal

government.

Frequency: One time.

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.

Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C.,

Section 141.

OMB Desk Officer: Susan Schechter,

(202) 395–5103.

Copies of the above information

collection proposal can be obtained by

calling or writing Madeleine Clayton,

Departmental Paperwork Clearance

Officer, (202) 482–3129, Department of

Commerce, room 6086, 14th and

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at

mclayton@doc.gov).

Written comments and

recommendations for the proposed

information collection should be sent

within 30 days of publication of this

notice to Susan Schechter, OMB Desk

Officer, room 10201, New Executive

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: April 6, 2001.

Madeleine Clayton,

Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer,

Office of the Chief Information Officer.

[FR Doc. 01–10765 Filed 4–30–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Census Bureau

Applicant Background Questionnaire

ACTION: Proposed collection; comment

request.

SUMMARY: The Department of

Commerce, as part of its continuing

effort to reduce paperwork and

respondent burden, invites the general

public and other Federal agencies to

take this opportunity to comment on

proposed and/or continuing information

collections, as required by the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C.

3506(c)(2)(A)).

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted on or before July 2, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments

to Madeleine Clayton, Departmental

Paperwork Clearance Officer,

Department of Commerce, Room 6086,

14th and Constitution Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the

Internet at mclayton@doc.gov).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

copies of the information collection

instrument(s) and instructions should

be directed to Geraldine Burt, U.S.

Census Bureau, Field Division, FOB–3,

Room 1784, Washington, DC 20233–

5700, 301–457–1939.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

The Applicant Background

Questionnaire is completed on a

voluntary basis by applicants for

Regional Office Schedule A positions

with the Census Bureau at the time of

application and testing. The Census

Bureau conducts a wide variety of

statistical surveys and hires

interviewers and other Schedule A

employees to work on these surveys on

an ongoing basis. The questions on the

Applicant Background Questionnaire

are of a sensitive nature relating to race

and national origin as well as medical

disabilities. This information is useful

in determining whether we have a

representative sample of the community

from which we are hiring. This allows

the Census Bureau to adjust recruiting

efforts quickly and to employ local

applicants for indigenous hiring. It also

allows us to assess our compliance with

equal employment opportunity

regulations. Background information

provided by applicants will not be used

in applicant screening or selection and

will not be available to the selecting

official.

II. Method of Collection

Individuals complete the BC–1431

only once. Based on past experience, the

BC–1431 on average takes about 2.5

minutes to complete. The paper form is

completed by the applicant at the time

of testing.

III. Data

OMB Number: 0607–0494.

Form Number: BC–1431.

Type of Review: Regular Submission.

Affected Public: Census Bureau Job

Applicants.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

25,000.

Estimated Time Per Response: 2.5

minutes.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 1,042.

Estimated Total Annual Cost: There is

no cost to respondents except for their

time.

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.

Legal Authority: Pub. L. 92–261, Equal

Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 Pub. L.

94–311, Publication of Economic and Social

Statistics for Americans of Spanish Origin or

Descent 41 CFR part 60–3, Information on

Impact (Section 4) 5 U.S.C. 7201,

Antidiscrimination Policy, Minority

Recruitment Program.

IV. Request for Comments

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance

of the functions of the agency, including

whether the information shall have