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10 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12).

SR–PCX–2001–22 and should be

submitted by July 13, 2001.

For the Commission, by the Division of

Market Regulation, pursuant to delegated

authority.10

Margaret H. McFarland,

Deputy Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–15678 Filed 6–21–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8010–01–M

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

[Declaration of Disaster #3349]

State of Florida

As a result of the President’s major

disaster declaration on June 17, 2001, I

find that Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon,

Liberty, and Wakulla Counties in the

State of Florida constitute a disaster area

due to damages caused by Tropical

Storm Allison occurring on June 11 and

continuing through June 15, 2001.

Applications for loans for physical

damage as a result of this disaster may

be filed until the close of business on

August 16, 2001 and for economic

injury until the close of business on

March 18, 2002 at the address listed

below or other locally announced

locations: U.S. Small Business

Administration, Disaster Area 2 Office,

One Baltimore Place, Suite 300, Atlanta,

GA 30308.

In addition, applications for economic

injury loans from small businesses

located in the following contiguous

counties in Florida may be filed until

the specified date at the above location:

Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Jackson,

Madison, and Taylor; and Brooks,

Decatur, Grady, Seminole, and Thomas

counties in the State of Georgia.

The interest rates are:

Percent

For Physical Damage:

Homeowners with credit

available elsewhere ........... 6.625

Homeowners without credit

available elsewhere ........... 3.312

Businesses with credit available elsewhere .................. 8.000

Businesses and non-profit organizations without credit

available elsewhere ........... 4.000

Others (including non-profit

organizations) with credit

available elsewhere ........... 7.125

For Economic Inquiry:

Businesses and small agricultural cooperatives without credit available elsewhere ................................. 4.000

The number assigned to this disaster

for physical damage is 334908. For

economic injury the number is 9L9200

for Florida, and 9L9300 for Georgia.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program Nos. 59002 and 59008)

Dated: June 18, 2001.

Herbert L. Mitchell,

Associate Administrator for Disaster

Assistance.

[FR Doc. 01–15738 Filed 6–21–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

[Declaration of Disaster #3348; Amendment

#1]

State of Louisiana

In accordance with a notice received

from the Federal Emergency

Management Agency, dated June 14,

2001, the above-numbered Declaration

is hereby amended to include

Beauregard, Iberia, Jefferson, Orleans,

St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St.

John the Baptist, St. Mary, St.

Tammany, Tangipahoa and Washington

Parishes in the State of Louisiana as

disaster areas caused by Tropical Storm

Allison occurring on June 5, 2001 and

continuing.

In addition, applications for economic

injury loans from small businesses

located in Allen, Calcasieu,

Plaquemines and Vernon Parishes in the

State of Louisiana; Amite, Hancock,

Marion, Pearl River, Pike, and Walthall

in the State of Mississippi; and Newton

County in the State of Texas may be

filed until the specified date at the

previously designated location. Any

counties contiguous to the above named

primary counties and not listed here

have been previously declared.

The economic injury number assigned

is 9L9100 for Texas and 9L9400 for

Mississippi.

All other information remains the

same, i.e., the deadline for filing

applications for physical damage is

August 10, 2001, and for loans for

economic is March 11, 2002.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program Nos. 59002 and 59008)

Dated: June 18, 2001.

Herbert L. Mitchell,

Associate Administrator for Disaster

Assistance.

[FR Doc. 01–15739 Filed 6–21–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Region IV, North Florida District,

Jacksonville, Florida, Advisory Council

Meeting; Public Meeting

The U.S. Small Business

Administration, North Florida District

Office, Jacksonville, Florida, Advisory

Council will hold a public meeting from

12:00 p.m. to 2 p.m., eastern standard

time July 11, 2001, at the North Florida

District Office, 7825 Baymeadows Way,

Suite 100–B, in the Conference Room, to

discuss such matters as may be

presented by members, staff of the U.S.

Small Business Administration, or

others present.

Anyone wishing to make an oral

presentation to the Board must contact

Claudia Taylor, in writing by letter or

fax no later than June 25, 2001, in order

to be put on the agenda. For further

information, write or call Claudia D.

Taylor, U.S. Small Business

Administration, 7825 Baymeadows

Way, Suite 100–B, Jacksonville, Florida

32256–7504, telephone (904) 443–1933,

fax (904) 443–1980.

Nancyellen Gentile,

Committee Management Office.

[FR Doc. 01–15737 Filed 6–21–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

RIN: 3245–AE72

Small Business Innovation Research

Program Policy Directive

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business

Administration.

ACTION: Notice of proposed policy

directive; Notice of reopening of the

comment period.

SUMMARY: The proposed rule proposes

revisions to the Small Business

Innovation Research (SBIR) Program

Policy Directive. The revised proposed

policy directive reflects recently enacted

statutory requirements. It is proposed to

provide guidance to participating

Federal agencies for the general conduct

of the SBIR Program. The notice of

proposed policy directive was

published on May 18, 2001, 66 FR

27721. The comment period closed on

June 18, 2001. We are reopening the

comment period because the Small

Business Administration believes that

affected businesses need more time to

adequately respond.

DATES: The comment period for the

proposed policy directive published on

May 18, 2001 (66 FR 27721) is reopened

through July 23, 2001.

Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 121 / Friday, June 22, 2001 / Notices 33599

ADDRESSES: Address all comments to

Maurice Swinton, Assistant

Administrator for Technology, Office of

Technology, Office of Policy, Planning,

and Liaison, Office of Government

Contracting/Business Development, U.S.

Small Business Administration, 409

Third Street, SW., Washington, DC

20416 or via e-mail to

technology@sba.gov.

Dated: June 14, 2001.

William A. Fisher,

Acting Associate Deputy Administrator.

[FR Doc. 01–15717 Filed 6–21–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8025–01–U

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

Use of Lands Acquired for the

Columbia Dam Component of the Duck

River Project and Future Water Supply

Needs in the Upper Duck River Basin

AGENCY: Tennessee Valley Authority

(TVA).

ACTION: Issuance of records of decision.

SUMMARY: This notice is provided in

accordance with the Council on

Environmental Quality’s regulations (40

CFR 1500 to 1508) and TVA’s

implementing procedures. TVA has

decided to implement Alternative D/C

(intermediate alternative) in its Final

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS),

Use Of Lands Acquired For The

Columbia Dam Component Of The Duck

River Project. In addition, TVA has

decided to recommend to local utilities,

government agencies, and other

interested parties in the upper Duck

River watershed that one or more of the

action alternatives addressed in the

TVA Final EIS, Future Water Supply

Needs in the Upper Duck River Basin be

pursued to meet the future water needs

in that area. TVA is not proposing to

implement any of these water supply

alternatives itself.

The Columbia Land Use Final EIS was

made available to the public in April

1999. A Notice of Availability of the

Final EIS was published in the Federal

Register on April 16, 1999. TVA made

a decision to implement Option 2 to

stabilize the unfinished Columbia Dam

structure on May 17, 1999. Under

Alternative D/C, the agency preferred

land use alternative, TVA seeks to

balance public use and protection of

project lands and to be responsive to

public comments received during the

EIS process.

To implement Land Use Alternative

D/C, TVA has decided to transfer all of

the Columbia Project lands, 5200

hectares (12,800 acres) of land in Maury

County, Tennessee, to the state of

Tennessee subject to various easements

and restrictions.

Under the deed restrictions, most of

the land is to be managed to enhance

recreational use of the area and to

protect natural and cultural resources.

Up to 800 hectares (2000 acres) of land

could be devoted to other recreational

uses, including residential development

if the State decides to do this. An

additional 1550 hectares (3800 acres)

would be preserved for the possible

construction of a water supply and

compatible recreation reservoir (Water

Supply EIS Alternative B). This

reservoir was identified as one way to

meet the future water supply needs of

the Maury/southern Williamson County

Water Service Area. In the interim, these

preserved tracts would be managed for

wildlife and other recreation uses.

The Columbia Water Supply Final EIS

was made available to the public in

February 2001. A Notice of Availability

of the Final EIS was published in the

Federal Register on March 2, 2001.

TVA’s preferred alternative is that one

or more of the action alternatives should

be pursued by local utilities,

government agencies, and other

interested parties in the upper Duck

River watershed to meet the future

water needs in the Maury/southern

Williamson County Water Service Area.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Linda B. Oxendine, Senior NEPA

Specialist, Environmental Policy &

Planning, Tennessee Valley Authority,

400 West Summit Hill Drive, WT 8C,

Knoxville, Tennessee 37902–1499;

telephone (865) 632–3440 or e-mail

lboxendine@tva.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 1968,

TVA proposed the Duck River Project, a

project that would have resulted in the

construction of two dams and reservoirs

on the Duck River in middle Tennessee,

south of Nashville. As proposed, one

dam was to be built at River Mile 248,

near Normandy, and the other at River

Mile 136, near Columbia. Congress

began appropriating money for the Duck

River Project in December 1969.

Construction of Normandy Dam and

Reservoir began in June 1972 and was

completed in 1976. Construction of

Columbia Dam and Reservoir was begun

in August 1973, but was halted in 1983

because of potential impacts to at least

two endangered mussel species which

occur in the proposed reservoir pool

area.

In 1995, after conservation efforts for

the endangered mussel species had

failed to meet established criteria, TVA

decided that Columbia Dam and

Reservoir could not be completed. At

that time, TVA proposed to address two

partially-related purposes of the original

project: future use of the lands that had

been acquired, and water supply needs

in the upper Duck River watershed.

The Columbia Project lands are

located along the Duck River between

the city of Columbia (on the west) and

U.S. Route 431, Lewisburg-Franklin

Pike (on the east), in Maury County,

Tennessee. The reach of the Duck River

included in this study extends from

approximately River Mile 130, in

Columbia, upstream to River Mile 165,

at Carpenters Bridge, 3 kilometers (2 air

miles) west of U.S. Route 431.

When construction was halted in

1983, the Columbia Project was about 45

percent complete. The concrete portion

of the dam was about 90 percent

complete and the earth-filled section

was about 60 percent complete. The

river had been moved to flow through

a 600-meter (2000-foot) long diversion

channel located along the east side of

the work site and a dike had been built

to keep normal stream flow out of the

spillway construction site.

Approximately 46 percent of the land

required for the reservoir (5200 of

11,140 hectares (12,800 of 27,500 acres))

had been acquired, and approximately

half of the 72 kilometers (45 miles) of

roads affected by the reservoir had been

relocated.

Present status of sensitive resources in

the project area includes the presence of

at least four federal endangered species,

unusually diverse aquatic and terrestrial

communities, and a number of

important archaeological sites. During

the past decade, the Columbia Project

lands have become important public

hunting grounds in middle Tennessee.

At the same time, increasing numbers of

people are building homes and

businesses around the area.

On February 25, 1995, TVA issued a

Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an EIS

on alternative uses for the land acquired

as part of the Columbia Project. A

similar NOI for the Water Supply EIS

was published in the Federal Register

on March 9, 1995. The Tennessee Duck

River Development Agency, the U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers, and the U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service decided to

cooperate in the preparation of both EIS

documents. In addition, the Tennessee

Department of Environmental and

Conservation decided to cooperate in

the preparation of the Water Supply EIS.

Public scoping meetings were held at

Culleoka School near the Project site on

April 18 and May 2, 1995, on the Land

Use EIS and Water Supply EIS,

respectively. The Notice of Availability

(NOA) on the Draft Land Use EIS was

published on January 6, 1997, and a