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Organization Act to construct, operate,

and maintain transmission lines and

attendant facilities. Western has projectspecific authority under the Energy and

Water Development Appropriation Act,

1985, supra, to construct or participate

in the construction of system additions

in the Los Ban ̃ os-Gates area to relieve

the Path 15 bottleneck.

Western’s initial step is to identify all

entities interested in participating in the

financing and co-ownership of Path 15

system additions. For this initial step,

interested parties should assume that

the system additions would be very

similar to those proposed in 1988 for the

Los Ban ̃ os—Gates Transmission Project.

Western estimates that the cost of the

Project today would be approximately

$200–300 million. Those entities should

submit Statements of Interest including

the following:

1. Name of requesting entity and

experience in financing electric utility

transmission projects.

2. Name, telephone number, facsimile

number, and e-mail address of

management contact.

3. Name, telephone number, facsimile

number, and e-mail address of technical

contact.

4. Amount of financing they are

willing to contribute to the project.

5. Amount and type of ownership

rights they seek.

6. Description of non-monetary

contributions they are willing to offer to

the project.

7. Description of the proposed

participation in sufficient detail to

enable Western to evaluate the proposal.

8. Amounts and types of transmission

rights they wish to purchase.

Western then will analyze the

Statements of Interest. The level of

interest will be a factor in the decision

by the Secretary whether or not to build

the system additions necessary to

relieve the Path 15 constraints.

In accordance with the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1980, 44 U.S.C. 3501–

3520, Western has received approval

from the Office of Management and

Budget for the collection of this

information under control number

1910–1200.

Western will prepare the necessary

environmental and feasibility studies

and review easement and land

acquisition issues related to the project.

Western will review the 1988 COTP EIS

and 1991 Supplement Analysis to

determine what further action must be

taken to comply with National

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and

other environmental laws and

regulations.

Dated: June 2, 2001.

Michael S. Hacskaylo,

Administrator.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Western Area Power Administration

Post-2004 Resource Pool—Salt Lake

City Area Integrated Projects

AGENCY: Western Area Power

Administration, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of Proposed Allocation.

SUMMARY: The Western Area Power

Administration (Western), a Federal

power marketing agency of the

Department of Energy, announces its

Post-2004 Resource Pool—Salt Lake City

Area Integrated Projects (SLCA/IP)

Proposed Allocation of Power. This

allocation fulfills the requirements of

Subpart C—Power Marketing Initiative

of the Energy Planning and Management

Program Final Rule. The Post-2004

Resource Pool Proposed Allocation of

Power is Western’s application of

Subpart C—Power Marketing Initiative

of the Energy Planning and Management

Program Final Rule to the SLCA/IP.

DATES: All comments must be received

by the end of the comment period, to be

assured of consideration. The comment

period on the Proposed Allocation of

Power begins today and ends October

11, 2001.

ADDRESSES: All comments regarding the

Proposed Allocation of Power should be

directed to the following address: Mr.

Burt Hawkes, Power Marketing and

Contracts, CRSP Management Center,

Western Area Power Administration,

P.O. Box 11606, Salt Lake City, UT

84147–0606. Comments may also be

faxed to (801) 524–5017 or e-mailed to

POST2004SLCIP@WAPA.GOV.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Burt Hawkes, Power Marketing and

Contracts, (801) 524–3344, or Lyle

Johnson, Public Utilities Specialist,

(801) 524–5585. Written requests for

information should be sent to CRSP

Management Center, Western Area

Power Administration, P.O. Box 11606,

Salt Lake City, UT 84147–0606.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Western

will also consult with the applicants

and interested parties at the combined

public information forums and

comment forums, which are planned for

Albuquerque, New Mexico; Las Vegas,

Nevada; Phoenix, Arizona; and Salt

Lake City, Utah. Notification of the

location and times of the forums will be

given in a subsequent Federal Register

notice at least 30 days prior to the first

of these forums. All documentation

developed or retained by Western in

developing the Proposed Allocation of

Power will be available for inspection

and copying at the CRSP Management

Center, 150 East Social Hall Avenue,

Suite 300, Salt Lake City, Utah. After all

public comments have been thoroughly

considered, Western will prepare and

publish the Final Allocation of Power in

the Federal Register.

Western published its decision on

June 25, 1999, at 64 FR 34414, to apply

Subpart C—Power Marketing Initiative

of the Energy Planning and Management

Program Final Rule, 10 CFR part 905 to

the SLCA/IP. The Energy Planning and

Management Program (Program), which

was developed in part to implement

section 114 of the Energy Policy Act of

1992, became effective on November 20,

1995. Subpart C of the Program provides

for the establishment of project-specific

resource pools and the allocation of

power from these pools to new

preference customers. Western’s power

allocation criteria and call for

applications for power were published

in the Federal Register at 64 FR 48825,

September 8, 1999, and revised and

clarified in the Federal Register at 65

FR 11303, March 2, 2000. These

established the framework for allocating

power from the resource pool to be

established from the SLCA/IP.

Applications for power were accepted at

Western’s Colorado River Storage

Project (CRSP) Management Center until

close of business on June 8, 2000. The

Proposed Allocation of Power published

herein is the result of Western’s

decision in response to those

applications. Only comments relevant to

the proposed allocations will be

accepted during this period. A Federal

Register notice of the final allocations of

power will address the comments

received during the comment period.

I. Proposed Allocation of Power

Western will respond to the

comments received about the Proposed

Allocation of Power and publish its

final allocations after the public

comment period ends. If any

adjustments or corrections are necessary

in a recipient’s allocation, the fixed size

of the pool will cause the change to

affect the allocations of all other

recipients. Western plans to enter into

contracts with new customers after

publication of that notice.

The SLCA/IP Post-2004 Power Pool

will consist of 7 percent of the SLCA/

IP firm power resources available on

October 1, 2004. On this date, 7 percent

of the firm power resources will be

withdrawn from current customers and

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allocated to new customers. In addition,

another 7 megawatts (MW) of capacity

and associated energy (14,660,861

kilowatthours (kWh) in the Winter

Season and 15,350,991 kWh in the

Summer Season) will be withdrawn

from Tri-State Generation and

Transmission Association (Tri-State)

and included in the Post-2004 Power

Pool. These 7 MW will be made

available to Navopache Electric

Cooperative (Navopache). Navopache,

as a member of Plains Electric

Generation and Transmission

Cooperative, Inc. (Plains), had received

SLCA/IP power through Plains for many

years. However, Navopache decided not

to participate in a recent merger

between Plains and Tri-State. Because

the Federal power allocation was under

contract to Plains rather than

Navopache, Navopache lost its share of

the benefits of Plains’ Federal power

allocation when the merger was

completed in 2000. Consistent with

Western’s policy of encouraging the

widespread distribution of Federal

power, Western is remedying this

situation by reducing the Plains/TriState allocation by 7 MW in both

seasons, effective October 1, 2004, and

allocating 7 MW in each season with

14,660,861 kWh available in the Winter

Season and 15,350,991 kWh in the

Summer Season to Navopache.

Western received applications for

power from 57 Native American tribes

or organizations and 9 utilities.

Following the established criteria of

allocating first to Native American tribes

with the stated target of serving 65

percent of the eligible loads, the tribes’

Applicant Profile Data (APD) indicated

that the electrical loads of these Native

American tribes were large enough to

require the entire Post-2004 Power Pool

be allocated to the qualifying Native

American tribes. Navopache is the only

non-tribal applicant that will receive an

allocation.

Since the entire Post-2004 Power Pool

was used to meet the commitment to

Navopache and to meet the needs of

Native American applicants, there is no

power available for the remaining eight

new applicants. Accordingly, Western is

unable to allocate SLCA/IP power to the

following: Utah Transit Authority;

Deseret Chemical Depot; U.S.

Department of Energy, Sandia National

Laboratories; U.S. Department of

Energy, Waste Isolation Pilot Project;

Town of Fredonia, Arizona; City of

Monticello, Utah; City of Eagle

Mountain, Utah; and Washington

County Water Conservancy District.

Several tribes within the SLCA/IP

marketing area were determined

ineligible for an allocation of power

from the Post-2004 Power Pool

primarily because they did not meet the

qualifying criteria or failed to submit

proper applications. Tribes that have

not been assigned a proposed allocation

include the following:

Tribe Reason

Ak Chin Indian Community ....................................................................... Current allocation of Federal power exceeds 65 percent of Indian total

load.

Cherokee Nation Southwest Longhair Tribe ............................................ Not a Federally recognized tribe. No reservation; no electrical load during the base year.

Colorado River Indian Tribes ................................................................... Current Federal power available exceeds 65 percent of total load.

Navajo Agricultural Products Industry ...................................................... Current reservation of Federal power exceeds 65 percent of total load.

San Juan Southern Paiute ....................................................................... No reservation. Receive benefits of an allocation through Navajo Tribal

Utility Authority.

Four tribes, the Moapa Band of

Paiutes, the Pueblo of San Ildefonso, the

Pueblo of Santo Domingo, and the

Pueblo of Taos, submitted incomplete

applications. No allocations are

proposed for these tribes.

Western’s intent is that the benefits of

Federal power be made available first to

Native American individuals,

businesses, and tribal loads and to

essential services existing on

reservations that may be owned by nonNative Americans. Because the Post2004 Power Pool is not large enough to

meet the goal of serving 65 percent of

the total loads of the Native American

applicants, Western is able to allocate

power only for those uses as initially

intended. If there had been unallocated

energy remaining in the Post-2004

Power Pool, Western would have

considered allocating it to non-Native

American loads on the reservations.

For the two tribes, the Gila River

Indian Community and the Tonto

Apache Tribe, that did not separate their

commercial and industrial loads into

Indian- and non-Indian-owned loads,

Western used the amount of energy

reported in the small commercial

category of their APDs as estimates of

their Indian-owned load on their

respective reservations.

The Power Allocation Procedures

published September 8, 1999, state,

‘‘For Native American Tribes currently

receiving power from utilities that have

allocations of Federal power resources,

Western will take into account the

benefit received through the existing

supplier when determining their

allocations.’’ Accordingly, the

percentage of Western service that each

of the tribes receives through its current

power supplier(s) was used in

determining the allocations for tribes

served by current Western customers.

The White Mountain Apache Tribe’s

(White Mountain) allocation was

calculated using the percentage of

service that its serving utility,

Navopache, will receive when service to

Navopache and White Mountain begins

on October 1, 2004. This is consistent

with the method used to determine

allocations to the other applicant tribes

that are served by utilities that receive

Federal power.

Energy from the Post-2004 Power Pool

was allocated to the applicants in a

manner consistent with the intent of the

criteria in that each tribe received an

equal percent of its energy needs from

the Post-2004 Power Pool. Energy was

allocated using the following formula:

Post-2004 Proposed Allocation = EL × (P

¥ C)

Where

EL = Eligible loads, the sum of reported

residential, agricultural, Indianowned commercial, and other

essential service loads.

P = Percent of eligible load served, not

to exceed 65 percent.

C = Percent of eligible load currently

served by Federal power.

Contract rates of delivery (CROD)

were determined by applying Western’s

seasonal load factors of 49.4 percent in

the Winter Season and 53.1 percent in

the Summer Season to the energy

allocations. The resulting allocations

serve 61.2 percent of the tribal

applicants’ Winter Season and 59.3

percent of their Summer Season loads.

The resource pool was not large enough

to serve any non-Indian-owned loads.

The proposed allocations of power for

new Native American customers are as

follows:

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Salt Lake City Area Integrated Projects Proposed Post-2004 Power Allocations

Native American Tribes or Organizations

Winter Seasonal

Energy

(kWh)

Summer Seasonal

Energy

(kWh)

Winter Seasonal

CROD

(kW)

Summer Seasonal

CROD

(kW)

Alamo Navajo Chapter ............................................................ 520,517 467,324 241 199

Canoncito Navajo Chapter ...................................................... 384,767 342,392 178 146

Cocopah Indian Tribe .............................................................. 2,622,934 2,987,305 1,216 1,274

Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation .................. 157,457 93,602 73 40

Duckwater Shoshone Tribe ..................................................... 170,417 164,419 79 70

Ely Shoshone Tribe ................................................................. 326,822 185,540 151 79

Fort Mojave Indian Tribe ......................................................... 984,261 1,122,834 456 479

Ft. McDowell Mojae-Apache Indian Community ..................... 5,643,637 5,491,311 2,615 2,342

Gila River Indian Community ................................................... 24,007,510 21,831,572 11,126 9,310

Havasupai Tribe ....................................................................... 590,971 468,834 274 200

Hopi Tribe ................................................................................ 6,963,674 6,333,627 3,227 2,701

Hualapai Tribe ......................................................................... 1,519,945 1,471,351 704 627

Jicarilla Apache Tribe .............................................................. 1,955,562 1,470,092 906 627

Kiabab Band of Paiute Indians ................................................ 13,892 10,156 6 4

Las Vegas Paiute Tribe ........................................................... 1,296,112 1,680,347 601 717

Mescalero Apache Tribe .......................................................... 2,634,241 2,473,888 1,221 1,055

Nambe Pueblo ......................................................................... 173,892 148,429 81 63

Navajo Tribal Utility Authority .................................................. 62,990,277 50,935,888 29,192 21,722

Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah ..................................................... 392,204 380,489 182 162

Pascua Yaqui Tribe ................................................................. 2,577,307 3,105,707 1,194 1,324

Picuris Pueblo .......................................................................... 58,763 192,033 27 82

Pueblo De Cochiti .................................................................... 556,234 431,475 258 184

Pueblo of Acoma ..................................................................... 1,091,073 1,065,061 506 454

Pueblo of Isleta ........................................................................ 2,748,820 2,559,866 1,274 1,092

Pueblo of Jemez ...................................................................... 704,202 542,516 326 231

Pueblo of Laguna .................................................................... 2,003,804 1,881,827 929 803

Pueblo of Pojoaque ................................................................. 721,462 527,582 334 225

Pueblo of San Felipe ............................................................... 1,044,582 764,873 484 326

Pueblo of San Juan ................................................................. 1,620,183 1,569,299 751 669

Pueblo of Sandia ..................................................................... 2,024,432 2,198,256 938 937

Pueblo of Santa Clara ............................................................. 1,413,816 1,124,568 655 480

Pueblo of Santo Domingo ....................................................... 1,086,300 1,053,375 503 449

Pueblo of Tesuque .................................................................. 738,366 705,739 342 301

Pueblo of Zia ........................................................................... 225,272 173,537 104 74

Pueblo of Zuni ......................................................................... 3,154,688 2,585,656 1,462 1,103

Quechan Indian Tribe .............................................................. 1,807,040 1,177,660 837 502

Ramah Navajo Chapter ........................................................... 1,095,757 760,531 508 324

Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community ......................... 33,272,972 37,793,973 15,420 16,118

San Carlos Apache Tribe ........................................................ 8,507,052 8,766,037 3,942 3,738

Santa Ana Pueblo .................................................................... 1,016,119 1,072,447 471 457

Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians ..................................... 36,688 35,576 17 15

Southern Ute Indian Tribe ....................................................... 3,125,651 2,846,489 1,449 1,214

Tohono O’Odham Utility Authority ........................................... 2,292,447 2,056,301 1,062 877

Tonto Apache Tribe ................................................................. 865,611 891,647 401 380

Ute Indian Tribe ....................................................................... 1,832,215 1,158,870 849 494

Ute Mountain Ute Tribe ........................................................... 1,351,661 1,208,840 626 516

White Mountain Apache Tribe ................................................. 15,078,751 13,797,601 6,988 5,884

Wind River Reservation ........................................................... 1,307,138 1,227,998 606 524

Yavapai Apache Nation ........................................................... 3,631,777 4,414,186 1,683 1,882

Yavapai Prescott Indian Tribe ................................................. 6,866,719 7,429,022 3,182 3,168

Yomba Shoshone Tribe ........................................................... 75,518 73,229 35 31

Total .................................................................................. 217,281,509 203,251,178 100,696 86,678

II. Review Under the Regulatory

Flexibility Act

The Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5

U.S.C. section 601–621 (Act), requires

Federal agencies to perform a regulatory

flexibility analysis if a proposed rule is

likely to have a significant economic

impact on a substantial number of small

entities. Western has determined that

this is a rulemaking of particular

applicability relating to services offered

by Western and, therefore, is not a rule

within the purview of the Act. In

addition, the requirements of this Act

can be waived if the head of the agency

certifies that the rule will not, if

promulgated, have a significant

economic impact on a substantial

number of small entities. By his

execution of this Federal Register

notice, Western’s Administrator certifies

that no significant economic impact on

a substantial number of small entities

will occur.

III. Review Under the National

Environmental Policy Act

Western has completed

environmental impact statements (EIS)

on the Program, and on the marketing of

SLCA/IP power pursuant to the National

Environmental Policy Act of 1969

(NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321, et seq.),

Council on Environmental Quality

regulations (40 CFR parts 1500–1508);

and DOE NEPA regulations (10 CFR part

1021). The Records of Decision were

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published in the Federal Register (60

FR 53181, October 12, 1995; and 61 FR

56534, November 1, 1996). Since then,

Western has determined that this action

is categorically excluded from

preparation of an additional

environmental assessment or EIS. See

Appendix B4.1 of subpart D of 10 CFR

part 1021. Accordingly, no further

environmental assessment will be

conducted.

IV. Determination Under Executive

Order 12866

DOE has determined this is not a

significant regulatory action because it

does not meet the criteria of Executive

Order 12866, 58 FR 51735. Western has

an exemption from centralized

regulatory review under Executive

Order 12866; accordingly, no clearance

of this notice by OMB is required.

Dated: May 30, 2001.

Michael S. Hacskaylo,

Administrator.

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BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6996–2]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection

Renewal; Comment Request; Annual

Updates of Emission Data to

Aerometric Information Retrieval

System

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

3501 et seq.), this document announces

that EPA is planning to submit the

following Information Collection

Request (ICR) renewal to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB):

Annual Updates of Emission Data to

Aerometric Information Retrieval

System (AIRS), EPA ICR No. 916.11,

OMB Control Number 2060–0088,

Expiration Date 8/31/2001. Before

submitting the ICR to OMB for review

and approval, EPA is soliciting

comments on specific aspects of the

proposed information collection as

described below.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before August 13, 2001.

ADDRESSES: United States

Environmental Protection Agency;

Office of Air Quality Planning and

Standards; Emissions, Monitoring and

Analysis Division (MD–14); Research

Triangle Park, NC 27711. Interested

persons may obtain a copy of the ICR

without charge from www.epa.gov/ttn/

chief/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

David Misenheimer; Telephone (919)

541–5473; Email:

misenheimer.david@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Affected entities: Entities potentially

affected by this action are State and

Territorial air pollution control agencies

which collect and report emissions

information from stationary sources

emitting at least prescribed amounts of

pollutants.

Title: Annual Updates of Emission

Data to Aerometric Information

Retrieval System (AIRS) (OMB Control

Number 2060–0088; EPA ICR No.

916.11) expiring 8/31/2001.

Abstract: This ICR deals with reports

required by 40 CFR 51.321, 51.322, and

51.323. The respondents (States) are

required to annually update information

on stationary sources emitting at least

prescribed amounts of pollutants

regulated by National Ambient Air

Quality Standards (NAAQS) via

electronic input to EPA. EPA’s Office of

Air Quality Planning and Standards

(OAQPS) uses the annual emission

reports to update a national data base on

air emissions which it has maintained

since 1974. The data is used in

developing emission standards,

applying dispersion models, preparing

national trend assessments, preparing

reports to Congress, providing

information to the public, and other

special analyses and reports. 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 OMB control numbers for

EPA’s regulations are listed in 40 CFR

part 9 and 48 CFR chapter 15.

The EPA would like to solicit

comments to:

(i) Evaluate whether the proposed

collection of information is necessary

for the proper performance of the

functions of the agency, including

whether the information will have

practical utility;

(ii) Evaluate 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;

(iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and

(iv) Minimize the burden of the

collection of information on those who

are to respond, including through 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.

Burden Statement: An estimated 54

States and Territorial air pollution

control agencies will be required to

record and report emission information

on significant stationary sources on an

annual basis. Reporting and record

keeping of this information is estimated

to involve an average of 212 hours per

year by each State and Territorial air

pollution control agency. This estimate

includes the time needed to review

instructions, search existing data

sources, gather and maintain the data

needed, and complete and review the

collection of information. Burden means

the total time, effort, or financial

resources expended by persons to

generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or

provide information to or for a Federal

agency. This includes the time needed

to review instructions; develop, acquire,

install, and utilize technology and

systems for the purposes of collecting,

validating, and verifying information,

processing and maintaining

information, and disclosing and

providing information; adjust the

existing ways to comply with any

previously applicable instructions and

requirements; train personnel to be able

to respond to a collection of

information; search data sources;

complete and review the collection of

information; and transmit or otherwise

disclose the information.

Dated: June 1, 2001.

J. David Mobley,

Acting Director; Emissions, Modeling and

Analysis Division.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6995–9]

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request; Reporting

Requirements under EPA’s National

Wastewater Operator Training and

Technical Assistance Program

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

3501 et seq.), this document announces

that the following Information

Collection Request (ICR) has been

forwarded to the Office of Management