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SUMMARY: The proposed action to be

addressed in the DEIS is to evaluate the

environmental acceptability of the

project design. The project is located

along the south-central Texas Coast on

the southern portion of Mustang Island.

It will provide storm damage reduction

and environmental restoration by

creating an opening between the Gulf of

Mexico and Corpus Christi Bay, and

placing excavated material in front of

the Padre Island Seawall. The project

channel will extend from the Gulf of

Mexico through a jettied entrance and a

channel through Mustang Island, east

and adjacent to John F. Kennedy

Causeway, therein to the existing

Packery Channel, joining the main

channel of the Gulf Intracoastal

Waterway in the vicinity of mile 553.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Questions about the proposed action

and DEIS can be answered by: Mr. Carl

Anderson, (409) 766–3914, Project

Manager, Project Management Branch,

or Mr. John C. Baker, (409) 766–3037,

Environmental Lead, Environment

Section, Planning and Environmental

Branch, P.O. Box 1229, Galveston, Texas

77553–1229.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 1. The

study process began with the Water

Resources Development Act of 1999,

Section 556, providing contingent

authorization to construct the North

Padre Island Storm Damage Reduction

and Environmental Restoration Project,

Texas, if the Secretary of the Army

determined that the locally preferred

plan (LPP) was technically sound and

environmentally acceptable.

2. A ‘‘No Action’’ alternative will be

evaluated and presented for comparison

purposes in evaluating the various

construction alternatives.

3. Scoping: The scoping process will

involve Federal, State, and local

agencies, and other interested persons

and organizations. A series of scoping

workshops will be conducted to discuss

various issues associated with the

channel improvements and placement

of dredged material. Separate Scoping

Notices will be issued for the various

workshops. Issues to be considered in

this process include beneficial uses of

dredged material, changes in bay

salinity and circulation, water and

sediment quality, erosion along the

channel, and threatened and

endangered species impacts.

Any person or organization wishing to

provide information on issues or

concerns should contact the Corps of

Engineers at the above address.

4. Coordination: Further coordination

with environmental agencies will be

conducted under the Fish and Wildlife

Coordination Act, Endangered Species

Act, Clean Water Act, National Historic

Preservation Act, Magnuson-Stevens

Fishery Conservation and Management

Act (Essential Fish Habitat), and the

Coastal Zone Management Act (Texas

Coastal Management Program).

5. DEIS Preparation: It is estimated

that the DEIS will be available to the

public for review and comment in

November 2001.

Luz D. Ortiz,

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 01–11466 Filed 5–7–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3710–52–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Idaho Operations Office; Industry

Materials of the Future (Industry

Specific and Crosscutting

Technologies)

AGENCY: Idaho Operations Office, DOE

ACTION: Notice of availability of

financial assistance solicitation.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of

Energy, Idaho Operations Office is

seeking applications for cost-shared

research and development of materials

or materials processing methods, in

accordance with the Program Plan for

the Industrial Materials for the Future

Program, available at www.oit.doe.gov.

This will be a national effort to research,

design, develop, engineer, and test new

and improved materials to achieve

improvements in energy efficiency,

emissions and waste reduction,

productivity, product quality, and

global competitiveness.

DATES: The issuance date of Solicitation

Number DE–PS07–01ID13985 will be on

April 26, 2001. The deadline for receipt

of applications will be approximately on

May 31, 2001.

ADDRESSES: The solicitation in its full

text will be available on the Internet at

the following URL address: http://

www.id.doe.gov/doeid/PSD/procdiv.html or http://e-center.doe.gov.

Applications should be submitted to:

Seb Klein, Procurement Services

Division, U.S. Department of Energy,

Idaho Operations Office, 850 Energy

Drive, Mail Stop 1221, Idaho Falls,

Idaho 83401–1563.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Seb

Klein, Contract Specialist,

kleinsm@id.doe gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

statutory authority for the program is

the Federal Non-Nuclear Energy

Research and Development Act of 1974

(P.L. 93–577). The Catalog of Federal

Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number

for this program is 81.086.

R.J. Hoyles,

Director, Procurement Services Division.

[FR Doc. 01–11520 Filed 5–7–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. IC01–566–000, FERC Form 566]

Proposed Information Collection and

Request for Comments

May 2, 2001.

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of proposed information

collection and request for comments.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

requirements of Section 3506(c)(2)(a) of

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

(Pub. L. 104–13), the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission (Commission) is

soliciting public comment on the

specific aspects of the information

collection described below.

DATES: Consideration will be given to

comments submitted on or before July 9,

2001.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the proposed

collection of information can be

obtained from and written comments

may be submitted to the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, Attn: Michael

Miller, Office of the Chief Information

Officer, CI–1, 888 First Street NE.,

Washington, DC 20426.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michael Miller may be reached by

telephone at (202) 208–1415, by fax at

(202) 208–2425, and by e-mail at

mike.miller@ferc.fed.us.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

information collected under the

requirements of FERC–566 ‘‘Annual

Report of a Utility’s Twenty Largest

Purchasers’’ (OMB No. 1902–0114) is

used by the Commission to implement

the statutory provisions of the Federal

Power Act section 305(c)(2) (FPA) as

amended by Title II, Section 211 of the

Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of

1978 (PURPA) (16 U.S.C. 825d). EPA

section 305—Officials Dealing in

Securities—Interlocking Directorates

defines the annual reporting

requirements for public utility officers

and directors to report officer and

director positions they hold with,

among other entities, a public utility’s

top twenty customers of electric energy.

FPA section 305(c)(2) states ‘‘each

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public utility shall publish a list,

pursuant to rules prescirbed by the

Commission * * * This statutory

requirement to publish customers list

allows the public the opportunity to

compare the customers listed with the

interlocking directorate information

filed in FERC Form 561, by public

utility officers and directors, for the

identification of positions where the

relationship may be employed, for

example, for the director’s own benefit

or profit, or for the benefit or profit of

any other person or persons and to the

detriment of the utility’s, or the public

interest. The required public utility

filers, the necessary filing information,

the requirement to publish the

information and the filing deadline are

all mandated by the FPA. The

Commission is not empowered to

amend or waive these statutory

requirements. Requirements the

Commission has the authority to amend,

such as the format of the filing itself and

the number of required copies are found

at 18 CFR 46.3.

Action: The Commission is requesting

a three-year extension of the current

expiration date, with no changes to the

existing collection of data.

Burden Statement: Public reporting

burden for this collection is estimated

as:

Number of respondents annually

Number of

responses per

respondent

Average burden

hours per

response

Total annual

burden hours

(1) (2) (3) (1)×(2)×(3)

175 ......................................................................................................................................... 1 6 1,050

The estimated total cost to

respondents is $59,083 (1,050 hours

divided by 2,080 hours per year per

employee times $117,041 per year per

average employee=$59,083). The cost

per respondent is $338.

The reporting burden includes the

total time, effort, or financial resources

expended to generate, maintain, retain,

disclose, or provide the information

including: (1) Reviewing instructions;

(2) developing, acquiring, installing, and

utilizing technology and systems for the

purposes of collecting, validating,

verifying, processing, maintaining,

disclosing and providing information;

(3) adjusting the existing ways to

comply with any previously applicable

instructions and requirements; (4)

training personnel to respond to a

collection of information; (5) searching

data sources; (6) completing and

reviewing the collection of information;

and (7) transmitting, or otherwise

disclosing the information.

The estimate of cost for respondents

is based upon salaries for professional

and clerical support, as well as direct

and indirect overhead costs. Direct costs

include all costs directly attributable to

providing this information, such as

administrative costs and the cost for

information technology. Indirect or

overhead costs are costs incurred by an

organization in support of its mission.

These costs apply to activities which

benefit the whole organization rather

than one particular function or activity.

Comments are invited on: (1) Whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance

of the functions of the Commission,

including whether the information will

have practical utility; (2) the accuracy of

the agency’s estimate of the burden of

the proposed collection of information,

including the validity of the

methodology and assumptions used; (3)

ways to enhance the quality, utility and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and (4) ways to minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on those who are to respond, including

the use of appropriate automated,

electronic, mechanical, or other

technological collection techniques or

other forms of information technology,

e.g., permitting electronic submission of

responses.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. IC01–561–000; FERC Form 561]

Proposed Information Collection and

Request for Comments

May 2, 2001.

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of proposed information

collection and request for comments.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

requirements of Section 3506(c)(2)(a) of

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

(Pub. L. 104–13), the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission (Commission) is

soliciting public comment on the

specific aspects of the information

collection described below.

DATES: Consideration will be given to

comments submitted on or before July 9,

2001.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the proposed

collection of information can be

obtained from and written comments

may be submitted to the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, Attn: Michael

Miller, Office of the Chief Information

Officer, CI–1, 888 First Street NE.,

Washington DC 20426.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michael Miller may be reached by

telephone at (202) 208–1415, by fax at

(202) 208–2425, and by e-mail at

mike.miller@ferc. fed.us.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

information collected under the

requirements of FERC Form 561

‘‘Annual Report of Interlocking

Positions’’ (OMB No. 1902–0099) is

used by the Commission to implement

the statutory provisions of the Federal

Power Act section 305 (FPA) as

amended by Title II, Section 211 of the

Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of

1978 (PURPA) (16 U.S.C. 825d).

Submission of FERC Form 561 satisfies

the FPA section 305(b) and (c) annual

reporting requirements for public utility

officers and directors to report officer

and director positions they hold with

financial institutions, insurance

companies, utility equipment providers,

utility fuel providers, and a utility’s top

twenty customers of electric energy.

FPA section 305(c)(3)(A) defines the

public utilities who are required to file.

FPA section 305(c)(2) requires that the

filed information be made available to

the public. FPA section 305(c)(1)

requires an annual filing deadline of

April 30th. The necessary filing

information, the required filers, the

requirement to make the information

available to the public and the filing

deadline are all mandated by the FPA.

The Commission is not empowered to

amend or waive these statutory

requirements. Requirements the

Commission has the authority to amend,

such as the format of the filing itself and