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supported under this invitational

priority may include, but are not limited

to, maintaining and replicating

successful approaches to link the

supportive or the subsidized housing

industry with the vocational

rehabilitation (VR) system; developing

methodologies to expedite entry into the

VR system for those individuals with

disabilities who are homeless or

residing in supportive or subsidized

housing who need and may benefit from

VR services; developing appropriate

mechanisms to build on existing

supportive or subsidized housing

systems to provide VR services to

increase employment outcomes

including long-term job placements in

competitive work, in a cost effective and

efficient manner; and developing

linkages with the Department of Labor’s

One-Stop service delivery system and

focusing on individuals with disabilities

in the Department of Housing and

Urban Development’s housing

programs, including the Shelter Care

Plus and the Section 8 programs. The

goal would be to not only increase

employment rates but to encourage new

local collaboration between

employment and housing providers.

Projects would provide services that

may include, but are not limited to,

training, education, counseling,

placement, and follow-up activities that

would allow the individuals with

disabilites to possess the knowledge and

skills necessary to compete for jobs with

the potential for career advancement

and higher wages and benefits. Projects

may also provide services to improve

career advancement opportunities for

individuals with disabilities who are

employed.

Invitational Priority 3—Programs That

Demonstrate Methods of Providing

Affordable Transportation Services to

Individuals With Disabilities

We are interested in projects that

would demonstrate methods of

providing affordable transportation

services to individuals who are

employed, seeking employment, or

receiving vocational rehabilitation

services from public or private

organizations and who reside in

geographic areas in which public

transportation or paratransit service is

not available or, if available, does not

adequately meet the needs of the

consumers (e.g., need for 24-hour

service).

Selection Criteria: In evaluating an

application for a new grant under this

competition, we use selection criteria

chosen from the general selection

criteria in 34 CFR 75.210 of EDGAR.

The selection criteria to be used for this

competition will be provided in the

application package for this

competition.

For Applications Contact: Education

Publications Center (ED Pubs), P.O. Box

1398, Jessup, MD 20794–1398.

Telephone (toll free): 1–877–433–7827.

Fax: (301) 470–1244. If you use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD), you may call (toll free): 1–877–

576–7734.

You may also contact ED Pubs via its

Web site: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/

edpubs.html or you may contact ED

Pubs at its e-mail address: ed

pubs@inet.ed.gov

If you request an application from ED

Pubs, be sure to identify this

competition as follows: CFDA number

84.235M.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain a copy of the application package

in an alternative format by contacting

the Grants and Contracts Services Team,

U.S. Department of Education, 400

Maryland Avenue, SW., room 3317,

Switzer Building, Washington, DC

20202–2550. Telephone: (202) 205–

8351. If you use a telecommunications

device for the deaf (TDD), you may call

the Federal Information Relay Service

(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339. However,

the Department is not able to reproduce

in an alternative format the standard

forms included in the application

package.

For Further Information Contact:

Alfreda Reeves, U.S. Department of

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,

room 3314, Switzer Building,

Washington, DC. 20202–2650.

Telephone: (202) 205–9361. If you use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD), you may call the Federal

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–

800–877–8339.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain this notice in an alternative

format (e.g., Braille, large print,

audiotape, or computer diskette) on

request to the contact person listed in

the preceding paragraph.

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as all other Department of Education

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index.html

Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 773(b).

Dated: May 8, 2001.

Francis V. Corrigan,

Deputy Director, National Institute on

Disability and Rehabilitation Research.

[FR Doc. 01–11996 Filed 5–11–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4000–01–U

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. IC01–719B–000; FERC–719B]

Proposed Information Collection and

Request for Comments

May 10, 2001.

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, DOE.

ACTION: Request for Office of

Management and Budget Emergency

Processing of proposed information

collection and request for comments.

SUMMARY: The Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission (Commission) is

providing notice of a request to the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for emergency processing of a

proposed collection of information in

connection with the California

electricity markets, and is soliciting

public comment on that information

collection.

DATES: Comments are requested on or

before May 14, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to: (1)

Michael Miller, Office of the Chief

Information Officer, CI–1, Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426.

Mr. Miller may be reached by telephone

at (202) 208–1415 and by e-mail at

mike.miller@ferc.fed.us; and (2) Amy

Farrell, FERC Desk Officer, Office of

Information and Regulatory Affairs,

Office of Management and Budget,

Room 10202 NEOB, 725 17th Street

NW., Washington, DC 20503. Ms. Farrell

may be reached by telephone at (202)

395–7318 or by fax at (202) 395–7285.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Stuart Fischer, Office of the General

Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, (202) 208–2103.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Federal Power Act directs the

Commission to ensure just and

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reasonable rates for transmission and

wholesale sales of electricity in

interstate commerce. See 16 U.S.C.

824e(a). To enable the Commission to

fulfill this duty, the Federal Power Act

also authorizes the Commission to

conduct investigations of, and collect

information from, public utilities. See

16 U.S.C. 825, 825c, 825f, and 825j.

Commission staff has been investigating

the California electricity market, which

is in a state of emergency with prices at

extremely high levels and, on some

days, rotating blackouts.

One of the likely reasons for the high

prices is forced and scheduled outages

by electric generators in California. Each

day, for the past few months, the

California Independent System Operator

(ISO) has reported outages of well over

10,000 megawatts for generating plants

in California. In addition to causing

higher prices, the outages limit the

availability of electric power in

California, leading the ISO to order

rotating blackouts in the state to

preserve the transmission system. The

ISO ordered rotating blackouts on May

7 and 8, 2001, and many more such

blackouts are anticipated over the next

few months if increased summer

demand is not matched by generation

supply. Further, in 2000 electricity

prices continued to be high even after

the summer cooling season, and the

same pattern may recur this year.

Commission staff believes that it is in

the public interest to monitor generation

outages in California to assess their

causes, particularly during the summer

cooling season when electricity demand

is at its highest. Commission staff

proposes to do so by requesting that

selected generators in the state of

California electronically provide to the

Commission information on total or

partial generation unit outages within

24 hours of their occurrence, whether

scheduled, forced or otherwise.

Specifically, Commission staff will be

requesting information only from

generators that own, operate or control

in California an individual generation

unit with a generating capacity of 30

MW or more or generation units

aggregating capacity of 50 MW or more.

Commission staff will not request

information concerning generation units

owned by the independent transmission

utilities in California (Pacific Gas and

Electric Company, San Diego Gas &

Electric Company and Southern

California Edison Company). For the

purposes of this data collection,

Commission staff considers an outage

partial if it reduces the available output

of a generation unit below its nameplate

rated capacity or below the reliable

capacity of the unit as determined by

contract with the California ISO. The

Commission staff will treat information

provided by the generators as nonpublic pursuant to the provisions of 18

CFR 1b.9.

Commission staff will be requesting

that the information be provided

through a template that will be mailed

to the generators and that can be

requested from Commission staff at the

E-Mail address CALoutages@ferc.fed.us.

That electronic address is also the

address to which Commission staff is

requesting that the generators send the

outage information. To further assist

monitoring efforts, Commission staff

will be requesting that generators

provide the information on the template

for all outages that are current as of the

date they receive the letter containing

the template. Although Commission

staff will be requesting information from

municipalities concerning their

generation units in California,

Commission staff is requesting such

data on a voluntary basis and is not

questioning the jurisdictional status of

those entities.

Because Commission staff is

requesting information from a large

number of generators (over 100)

concerning future outages, the data

collection may be subject to the

Paperwork Reduction Act, which

requires OMB to review certain federal

reporting requirements. 44 U.S.C. 3507.

In light of the critical condition of the

California electricity markets,

particularly during the summer heating

season, Commission staff will be

requesting emergency processing of this

proposed information collection. If the

Commission followed the regular

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction

Act, Commission staff would be unable

to collect this information until most of

the summer cooling season was over.

The electronic template asks for the

following data: Date of Report; Outage

Report Type (Beginning or Ending);

Company Name; Name of the Contact

Person and Telephone Number; Unit

Name; Year Unit Was Built; Unit Type;

Is the Unit RMR (Reliability-Must-Run)

or Non-RMR; Fuel Type; Nameplate

Capacity; Re-Rated Capacity; Output

Before Outage; Outage Type (Forced or

Scheduled); Complete or Partial Outage;

Megawatts Out; Date Outage Began;

Time Outage Began; Date Outage Ended

or Expected to End; Time Outage Ended

or Expected to End; Reason for Outage;

and whether a post-outage report was

created. Most of the information asked

for on the template, such as the

identification and operating

characteristics of a generation unit,

would remain constant and would not

require additional time to compile after

the first report. The only new data in

later reports would be in those fields

asking for information about an outage.

Commission staff estimates that

between 100 and 125 entities owning

generation could be subject to this

reporting request, and that during any

given week, only 15–25 of those entities

would likely have an outage to report.

However, many entities own several

generation units, so that actual number

of reports submitted by each entity

would vary. Based on information

compiled by the California ISO, for the

seven day period between May 2 and

May 8, 2001, there were 157 instances

in which a report would have been

submitted pursuant to the proposed

information collection. Therefore, for

the 180 days the reporting request

would be in place, Commission staff

anticipates that a maximum of

approximately 4,082 reports would be

filed.

Because Commission staff has created

a pre-existing template, generators need

not take any time to develop a reporting

format. Commission staff estimates that

it would take each generator

approximately one hour to fill out an

initial report for a generation unit, but,

as most of the unit information will

remain constant (such as its name, fuel

type and megawatt rating), it should

take 20 minutes or less to fill out and

send each subsequent report.

The outage reports are to be submitted

electronically within 24 hours of when

a total or partial unit outage begins or

ends. As stated above, based on

information compiled by the California

ISO, for the seven day period between

May 2 and May 8, 2001, there were 157

instances in which a report would have

been submitted. Assuming the same

number of instances for the 180 days for

which this information collection is

requested, the total number of hours it

would take to comply with the reporting

requirement would be approximately

1,465 hours (157 hours for initial

submission and 1,308 hours for

subsequent submissions, assuming 20

minutes per submission). Commission

staff estimates a cost of $50 per hour for

complying with the reporting

requirement, based on salaries for

professional and clerical staff, as well as

direct and indirect overhead costs.

Therefore, the total estimated cost of

compliance would be $73,250.

Commission staff will submit this

reporting requirement to OMB for

approval. OMB’s regulations describe

the process that federal agencies must

follow in order to obtain OMB approval

of reporting requirements. See 5 CFR

Part 1320. The standards for emergency

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processing of information collections

appear at 5 CFR 1320.13. If OMB

approves a reporting requirement, it will

assign an information collection control

number to that requirement. If a request

for information subject to OMB review

does not display a valid control number,

or if the agency has not provided a

justification as to why the control

number cannot be displayed, then the

recipient is not required to respond.

OMB requires federal agencies

seeking approval of reporting

requirements to allow the public an

opportunity to comment on the

proposed reporting requirement. 5 CFR

1320.5(a)(1)(iv). Therefore, comments

are being solicited on:

(1) Whether the collection of the

information is necessary for the proper

performance of the Commission’s

functions, including whether the

information will have practical utility;

(2) The accuracy of Commission

staff’s estimate of the burden of the

collection of this information, including

the validity of the methodology and

assumptions used;

(3) The quality, utility, and clarity of

the information to be collected; and

(4) How to minimize the burden of the

collection of this information on

respondents, including the use of

appropriate automated electronic,

mechanical, or other forms of

information technology.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–12175 Filed 5–11–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RP01–407–000]

Algonquin Gas Transmission

Company; Notice of Tariff Filing

May 8, 2001.

Take notice that on May 4, 2001,

Algonquin Gas Transmission Company

(Algonquin) tendered for filing as part of

its FERC Gas Tariff, Fourth Revised

Volume No. 1, the following tariff sheets

proposed to be effective June 4, 2001:

Ninth Revised Sheet No. 600

Original Sheet No. 718

Sheet Nos. 719–798

Algonquin states that the purpose of

this filing is to amend its tariff, as

suggested by the Commission in its

April 12, 2001, Order Denying

Clarification and Rehearing in Docket

No. CP95–218–004, to include a generic

waiver of the ‘‘shipper must have title’’

rule and a general statement that it will

only transport for others on off-system

capacity pursuant to its existing tariff

and rates.

Algonquin states that copies of its

filing have been mailed to all affected

customers and interested state

commissions.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

protest said filing should file a motion

to intervene or protest with the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426,

in accordance with Sections 385.214 or

385.211 of the Commission’s Rules and

Regulations. All such motions or

protests must be filed in accordance

with Section 154.210 of the

Commission’s Regulations. Protests will

be considered by the Commission in

determining the appropriate action to be

taken, but will not serve to make

protestants parties to the proceedings.

Any person wishing to become a party

must file a motion to intervene. Copies

of this filing are on file with the

Commission and are available for public

inspection in the Public Reference

Room. This filing may be viewed on the

web at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/

rims.htm (call 202–208–2222 for

assistance). Comments, protests, and

interventions may be filed electronically

via the internet in lieu of paper. See, 18

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

instructions on the Commission’s web

site at http://www.ferc.fed.us/efi/

doorbell.htm.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–11983 Filed 5–11–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RP01–410–000]

Algonquin LNG, Inc.; Notice of Tariff

Filing

May 8, 2001.

Take notice that on May 4, 2001,

Algonquin LNG, Inc. (ALNG) tendered

for filing as part of its FERC Gas Tariff,

First Revised Volume No. 1, the

following tariff sheets proposed to be

effective June 4, 2001:

Fourth Revised Sheet No. 29

Original Sheet No. 84

Sheet Nos. 85–88

ALNG states that the purpose of this

filing is to amend its tariff, as suggested

by the Commission in its April 12, 2001,

Order Denying Clarification and

Rehearing in Docket No. CP95–218–004,

to include a generic waiver of the

‘‘shipper must have title’’ rule and a

general statement that it will only

transport for others on off-system

capacity pursuant to its existing tariff

and rates.

ALNG states that copies of its filing

have been mailed to all affected

customers and interested state

commissions.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

protest said filing should file a motion

to intervene or protest with the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426,

in accordance with Sections 385.214 or

385.211 of the Commission’s Rules and

Regulations. All such motions or

protests must be filed in accordance

with Section 154.210 of the

Commission’s Regulations. Protests will

be considered by the Commission

determining the appropriate action to be

taken, but will not serve to make

protestants parties to the proceedings.

Any person wishing to become a party

must file a motion to intervene. Copies

of this filing are on file with the

Commission and are available for public

inspection in the Public Reference

Room. This filing may also be viewed

on the web at http://www.ferc.fed.us/

online/rims.htm (call 202–208–2222 for

assistance). Comments, protests, and

interventions may be filed electronically

via the internet in lieu of paper. See, 18

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

instructions on the Commission’s web

site at http://www.ferc.fed.us/efi/

doorbell.htm.

Linwood Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–11986 Filed 5–11–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. EC01–94–000]

American Electric Power Service

Corp.; Notice of Filing

May 8, 2001.

Take notice that on April 27, 2001,

American Electric Power Service

Corporation, on behalf of West Texas

Utilities Company, Public Service

Company of Oklahoma and

Southwestern Electric Power Company,

filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission an application pursuant to

section 203 of the Federal Power Act

requesting authorization to transfer

operational control of certain

jurisdictional transmission facilities to