28490 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 100 / Wednesday, May 23, 2001 / Notices

FINAL AGENCY ACTION REMOVING 26 WATERBODY/POLLUTANTS FROM THE LOUISIANA 303(D) LIST BECAUSE TMDLS ARE

NOT NECESSARY—Continued

Subsegment Waterbody description Pollutant Reason for delisting

060802 ......................... Vermilion River—from New Flanders (Ambassador Caffery) Bridge at Hwy 3073 to Intracoastal Waterway.Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

060904 ......................... Vermilion River—B890 Basin New Iberia

Southern Drainage Canal.

Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

060907 ......................... Franklin Canal ................................................. Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

061101 ......................... Bayou Petite Anse .......................................... Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

060804 ......................... Intracoastal Waterway .................................... Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

060901 ......................... Bayou Petite Anse .......................................... Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

050402 ......................... Lake Arthur and Lower Mermentau ................ Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

050602 ......................... Intracoastal Waterway .................................... Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

050701 ......................... Grand Lake ..................................................... Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

050702 ......................... Intracoastal Waterway .................................... Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

050703 ......................... White Lake ...................................................... Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

060205 ......................... Bayou Teche—Headwaters at Bayou

Courtableau to I–10.

Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

060212 ......................... Chatlin Lake Canal and Bayou DuLac ........... Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

060701 ......................... Tete Bayou ...................................................... Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

060702 ......................... Lake Fausse Point and Dauterive Lake ......... Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

060906 ......................... Intracoastal Waterway .................................... Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

060910 ......................... Boston Canal and Associated Canals (Estuarine).Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

061103 ......................... Freshwater Bayou Canal ................................ Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

050501 ......................... Bayou Queue de Tortue—Headwaters to

Mermentau River.

Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

060902 ......................... Bayou Carlin (Delcambre Canal)—Lake

Peigneur To Bayou Petite Anse (Estuarine).

Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

060803 ......................... Vermilion River Cutoff ..................................... Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

061102 ......................... Intracoastal Waterway .................................... Oil & Grease .............. Assessment of new data and information

shows it is meeting WQS.

EPA requested the public to provide

to EPA any significant data or

information that may impact the

determination that 26 TMDLs are not

necessary at 66 FR 15472 (March 19,

2001). No comments were received.

Dated: May 3, 2001.

Sam Becker,

Acting Director, Water Quality Protection

Division, Region 6.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6982–9]

Clean Water Act Section 303(d):

Availability of Total Maximum Daily

Loads (TMDLs)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of availability.

SUMMARY: This notice announces the

availability for comment of the

administrative record file for one TMDL

prepared by EPA Region 6 for waters

listed in Louisiana’s Mermentau and

Vermilion/Teche river basins, under

section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act

(CWA). EPA prepared this TMDL in

response to a Court Order dated October

1, 1999, in the lawsuit Sierra Club, et al.

v. Clifford et al., No. 96–0527, (E.D. La.).

Under this court order, EPA is required

to prepare TMDLs when needed for

waters on the Louisiana 1998 section

303(d) list by December 31, 2007.

DATES: Comments on this TMDL must

be submitted in writing to EPA on or

before June 22, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Comments on this TMDL

should be sent to Ellen Caldwell,

Environmental Protection Specialist,

Water Quality Protection Division, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency

Region 6, 1445 Ross Ave., Dallas, TX

75202–2733. For further information,

contact Ellen Caldwell at (214) 665–

7513. The administrative record file for

this TMDL is available for public

inspection at this address as well.

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Copies of the TMDL and its respective

calculations may be viewed at

www.epa.gov/region6/water/tmdl.htm

or obtained by calling or writing Ms.

Caldwell at the above address. Please

contact Ms. Caldwell to schedule an

inspection.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ellen Caldwell at (214) 665–7513.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 1996,

two Louisiana environmental groups,

the Sierra Club and Louisiana

Environmental Action Network

(plaintiffs), filed a lawsuit in Federal

Court against the EPA, styled Sierra

Club, et al. v. Clifford et al., No. 96–

0527, (E.D. La.). Among other claims,

plaintiffs alleged that EPA failed to

establish Louisiana TMDLs in a timely

manner. Discussion of the court order

may be found at 65 FR 54032

(September 6, 2000).

EPA Seeks Comments on One TMDL

By this notice EPA is seeking

comment on the following TMDL for

waters located within the Mermentau

and Vermilion/Teche basins:

Subsegment Waterbody name Pollutant

060204 ....................... Bayou Courtableau—Origin to West Atchafalaya Borrow Pit Canal ..................................................... Oil and Grease.

EPA requests that the public provide

to EPA any water quality related data

and information that may be relevant to

the calculations for this TMDL, or any

other comments relevant to this TMDL.

EPA will review all data and

information submitted during the public

comment period and revise the TMDL

where appropriate. EPA will then

forward the TMDL to the Court and the

Louisiana Department of Environmental

Quality (LDEQ). LDEQ will incorporate

the TMDL into its current water quality

management plan.

Dated: May 3, 2001.

Sam Becker,

Acting Director, Water Quality Protection

Division, Region 6.

[FR Doc. 01–12887 Filed 5–22–01; 8:45 am]

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

Notice of Public Information

Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the

Federal Communications Commission

May 14, 2001.

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications

Commission, as part of its continuing

effort to reduce paperwork burden

invites the general public and other

Federal agencies to take this

opportunity to comment on the

following information collection(s), as

required by the Paperwork Reduction

Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13. An

agency may not conduct or sponsor a

collection of information unless it

displays a currently valid control

number. No person shall be subject to

any penalty for failing to comply with

a collection of information subject to the

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) that

does not display a valid control number.

Comments are requested concerning (a)

whether the proposed collection of

information is necessary for the proper

performance of the functions of the

Commission, including whether the

information shall have practical utility;

(b) the accuracy of the Commission’s

burden estimate; (c) ways to enhance

the quality, utility, and clarity of the

information collected; and (d) ways to

minimize the burden of the collection of

information on the respondents,

including the use of automated

collection techniques or other forms of

information technology.

DATES: Written comments should be

submitted on or before June 22, 2001. If

you anticipate that you will be

submitting comments, but find it

difficult to do so within the period of

time allowed by this notice, you should

advise the contact listed below as soon

as possible.

ADDRESSES: Direct all comments to Judy

Boley, Federal Communications

Commission, Room 1–C804, 445 12th

Street, SW., DC 20554 or via the Internet

to jboley@fcc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

additional information or copies of the

information collection(s), contact Judy

Boley at 202–418–0214 or via the

Internet at jboley@fcc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

OMB Control No.: 3060–XXXX.

Title: Standards for Co-channel and

Adjacent Channel Interference in the

Land Mobile Radio Services.

Form No.: N/A.

Type of Review: New collection.

Respondents: Business or other forprofit.

Number of Respondents: 19

respondents.

Estimated Time Per Response: 40

hours.

Frequency of Response: One time

reporting requirement.

Total Annual Burden: 760 hours.

Total Annual Cost: N/A.

Needs and Uses: The collection

requires frequency coordinators in the

Land Mobile radio services to arrive at

a consensus standard to be used to

determine co-channel and adjacent

channel interference and to make a one

time report of these standards to the

Commission.

OMB Control No.: 3060–XXXX.

Title: Sections 90.35(b)(2) and

90.175(b)(1).

Form No.: N/A.

Type of Review: New collection.

Respondents: Business or other forprofit; state, local or tribal government.

Number of Respondents: 3,800.

Estimated Time Per Response: 1 hour.

Frequency of Response: One time

reporting requirement, third party

disclosure requirement.

Total Annual Burden: 120 hours.

Total Annual Cost: N/A.

Needs and Uses: The rules require

applicants proposing to operate a land

mobile radio station that have service

contours that overlap an existing land

mobile station to obtain written

concurrence of the frequency

coordinator associated with the industry

for which the existing station license

was issued, or the written concurrence

of the licensee of the existing station.

OMB Control No.: 3060–XXXX.

Title: Public Safety—State

Interoperability Channels.

Form No.: N/A.

Type of Review: New collection.

Respondents: State, local or tribal

government.

Number of Respondents: 50.

Estimated Time Per Response: .5

hour.

Frequency of Response: One time

reporting requirement.

Total Annual Burden: 25 hours.

Total Annual Cost: N/A.

Needs and Uses: This collection

requires states to notify the FCC

regarding their intentions concerning

administration of the interoperability

public safety channels. The requirement

will be used by Commission personnel

in determining which states will be

responsible for the administrative and

technical oversight of operations on the

interoperability spectrum.

Federal Communications Commission.

Magalie Roman Salas,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–12993 Filed 5–22–01; 8:45 am]

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