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Department of Education, 400 Maryland

Avenue, SW., Room 4050, Regional

Office Building 3, Washington, DC

20202–4651. Requests may also be

electronically mailed to the internet

address OCIO_IMG_Issues@ed.gov or

faxed to 202–708–9346. Please specify

the omplete title of the information

collection when making your request.

Comments regarding burden and/or the

collection activity requirements should

be directed to Sheila Carey

at (202) 708–6287 or via her internet

address Sheila.Carey@ed.gov.

Individuals who use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD) may call the Federal Information

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–

8339.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge

Reservation

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of open meeting.

SUMMARY: This notice announces a

meeting of the Environmental

Management Site-Specific Advisory

Board (EM SSAB), Oak Ridge. The

Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub.

L. No. 92–463, 86 Stat. 770) requires

that public notice of these meetings be

announced in the Federal Register.

DATES: Wednesday, July 11, 2001, 6

p.m.–9:30 p.m.

ADDRESSES: Garden Plaza Hotel, 215

South Illinois Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN

37830.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pat

Halsey, Federal Coordinator,

Department of Energy Oak Ridge

Operations Office, P.O. Box 2001,

EM–922, Oak Ridge, TN 37831. Phone

(865) 576–4025; Fax (865) 576–5333 or

e-mail: halseypj@oro.doe.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Purpose of

the Board: The purpose of the Board is

to make recommendations to DOE and

its regulators in the areas of

environmental restoration, waste

management, and related activities.

Tentative Agenda: 1. An ‘‘Overview of

the Department of Energy/Oak Ridge

Operation’s Environmental Management

Program’’ will be presented by Mr. Rod

Nelson, Assistant Manager for

Environmental Management, DOE/ORO.

Public Participation: The meeting is

open to the public. Written statements

may be filed with the Committee either

before or after the meeting. Individuals

who wish to make oral statements

pertaining to agenda items should

contact Pat Halsey at the address or

telephone number listed above.

Requests must be received five days

prior to the meeting and reasonable

provision will be made to include the

presentation in the agenda. The Deputy

Designated Federal Officer is

empowered to conduct the meeting in a

fashion that will facilitate the orderly

conduct of business. Each individual

wishing to make public comment will

be provided a maximum of five minutes

to present their comments at the end of

the meeting.

Minutes: Minutes of this meeting will

be available for public review and

copying at the Department of Energy’s

Information Resource Center at 105

Broadway, Oak Ridge, TN between 7:30

a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Monday through

Friday, or by writing to Pat Halsey,

Department of Energy, Oak Ridge

Operations Office, P.O. Box 2001, EM–

922, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, or by calling

her at (865) 576–4025.

Issued at Washington, DC on June 19, 2001.

Belinda Hood,

Acting Deputy Advisory Committee

Management Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Rocky Flats

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of Open Meeting.

SUMMARY: This notice announces a

meeting of the Environmental

Management Site-Specific Advisory

Board (EM SSAB), Rocky Flats. The

Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub.

L. No. 92–463, 86 Stat. 770) requires

that public notice of these meetings be

announced in the Federal Register.

DATES: Thursday, July 12, 2001, 6 p.m.

to 9:30 p.m.

ADDRESSES: Broomfield City Hall, One

DesCombes Drive, Broomfield, CO.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ken

Korkia, Board/Staff Coordinator, Rocky

Flats Citizens Advisory Board, 9035

North Wadsworth Parkway, Suite 2250,

Westminster, CO, 80021; telephone

(303) 420–7855; fax (303) 420–7579.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Purpose of

the Board: The purpose of the Board is

to make recommendations to DOE and

its regulators in the areas of

environmental restoration, waste

management, and related activities.

Tentative Agenda

1. Quarterly update by the Defense

Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.

2. Recommendation on

Environmental Restoration RFCA

Standard Operating Protocal (RSOP)

document.

3. Radionuclide Soil Action Level

Review, Board recommendation

development, Part I: Presentation and

discussion on sensitivity analysis for

identifying parameters.

4. Other Board business may be

conducted as necessary.

Public Participation: The meeting is

open to the public. Written statements

may be filed with the Board either

before or after the meeting. Individuals

who wish to make oral statements

pertaining to agenda items should

contact Ken Korkia at the address or

telephone number listed above.

Requests must be received at least five

days prior to the meeting and reasonable

provisions will be made to include the

presentation in the agenda. The Deputy

Designated Federal Officer is

empowered to conduct the meeting in a

fashion that will facilitate the orderly

conduct of business. Each individual

wishing to make public comment will

be provided a maximum of five minutes

to present their comments.

Minutes: The minutes of this meeting

will be available for public review and

copying at the Public Reading Room

located at the Office of the Rocky Flats

Citizens Advisory Board, 9035 North

Wadsworth Parkway, Suite 2250,

Westminister, CO 80021; telephone

(303) 420–7855. Hours of operations for

the Public Reading Room are 9 a.m. to

4 p.m., Monday–Friday, except Federal

holidays. Minutes will also be made

available by writing or calling Deb

Thompson at the address or telephone

number listed above.

Issued at Washington, DC on June 19, 2001.

Belinda Hood,

Acting Deputy Advisory Committee

Management Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Bonneville Power Administration

Opportunity for Public Comment

Regarding Issues Arising Under

Bonneville Power Administration’s

New Large Single Load Policy

AGENCY: Bonneville Power

Administration (BPA), Department of

Energy.

ACTION: Notice of policy issue review.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces an

opportunity for public comment on

three specific issues relating to BPA’s

existing policy on New Large Single

Loads (NLSL). BPA’s NLSL policy is

statutorily based and has been

developed and refined over the past

twenty years, since enactment in 1980

of the Pacific Northwest Electric Power

Planning and Conservation Act

(Northwest Power Act), 16 U.S.C. 839.

This notice limits review to three issues

arising under BPA’s NLSL policy. These

issues are: (1) BPA preference customer

service to direct service industrial (DSI)

load; (2) the transfer of ‘‘contracted for,

committed to’’ (CFCT) load

determinations between preference

customers; and (3) whether BPA should

close the class of CFCT load served by

BPA customers.

DATES: Public meeting date: July 10,

2001. Close of comment date: July 27,

2001.

ADDRESSES: If you are interested in

commenting on these New Large Single

Load Policy issues, you have several

options.

1. You may send written comments to

Bonneville Power Administration, P.O.

Box 12999, Portland, OR 97212, or fax

comments to (503) 230–3285. If you

wish to send your comments

electronically, email comments to:

comment@bpa.gov. Comments must be

received by close of business on July 27,

2001.

2. You may also attend a public

comment meeting that will be held in

Portland, Oregon, on Tuesday, July 10,

2001, at the Sheraton Portland Airport

Hotel, 8235 N.E. Airport Way, beginning

at 1 p.m. If any additional meetings are

scheduled, the information will be

posted on the web site listed below:

http://www.bpa.gov/Power/subscription

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Bryan Crawford, Public Involvement

and Information Specialist, Bonneville

Power Administration, P.O. Box 3621,

Portland, Oregon 97208, telephone (503)

230–5130. Information can also be

obtained from your BPA Account

Executive.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: BPA is

directed by section 3(13) of the

Northwest Power Act to determine

whether large retail loads of consumer

facilities served by a public body,

cooperative, investor-owned utility, or

federal agency customer, whose power

requirements increase or are in excess of

10 aMWs in any consecutive 12-month

period, fall within the definition of New

Large Single Loads. For purposes of

BPA’s sales of electric power to a utility

or Federal agency customer, the

designation of a consumer’s facility as a

NLSL does not affect the amount or

quality of electric service which BPA

provides. BPA treats these loads as any

other load in terms of its supply of

power and quality of service obligations

under its utility power sales contracts.

Designation of a load as a NLSL,

however, does affect the price of the

electric power sold for service to that

load. BPA may not sell electric power at

the Priority Firm (PF) rate to utilities for

service to NLSLs. Rather, electric power

sold by BPA for utility service to NLSLs

is sold at the New Resources (NR) rate,

which historically has been a higher rate

than the PF rate.

There is an exception to the rate

treatment for NLSLs. Any load for

which service by the utility customer

was ‘‘committed to or contracted for’’

prior to September 1, 1979, is served at

the lower PF rate. The BPA

Administrator determines whether a

consumer facility is a CFCT load and

the amount of load that was to be

served. The load may be a CFCT if, prior

to September 1, 1979, the load was

being served under a contract; the BPA

customer had made a contract for future

service; or a commitment to provide a

power supply had been made. This

determination is based on customer

information and documents

contemporaneous to the September 1,

1979, date.

The development and implementation

of BPA’s NLSL policy began with BPA’s

initial long-term (20-year) power sales

contracts offered to BPA’s customers in

1981 in accordance with section 5(g) of

the Northwest Power Act. BPA has also

made several case-by-case decisions

regarding service to new large single

loads. In 1991, BPA published and

made available to its customers the

‘‘Guide to Bonneville Power

Administration New Large Single Load

Determinations.’’ DOE/BP–1370 (March

1991). The Guide provided background

information on the NLSL policy, an

overview of decisions involved in

service to new large single loads, and

descriptions of the three principal types

of BPA determinations affecting those

loads: (1) CFCT determinations; (2)

facility determinations; and (3) new

large single load determinations. In

1993, the Administrator issued a Record

of Decision entitled ‘‘New Large Single

Load Treatment of Utility Service to

Direct Service Industry Expansions;

Initiating a Northwest Power Act

Section 5(d)(3) Process to Increase

Direct Service Industry Contract

Demand.’’

BPA’s NLSL policy is a combination

of contract and policy decisions

recorded in several documents. Those

decisions have been consolidated into

one document, and it is available on

BPA’s web site listed below: http://

www.bpa.gov/Power/subscription

BPA seeks public comment on only

three issues arising under the NLSL

policy. The first issue is whether BPA

should change its NLSL policy to allow

current and former DSI customer

production load served at BPA’s

Industrial Firm (IP) rate, or any other

rate, to transfer and receive service from

a public body, cooperative, or federal

agency customer at BPA’s PF rate. BPA’s

policy has been that if a DSI takes

service from a utility for its load, which

is or was previously served by BPA,

then the load would be served by that

utility customer as a NLSL at the NR

rate.

The second issue is whether a load at

a facility that has previously been

determined a CFCT load should be

allowed to receive service from a

different BPA preference customer and

retain its CFCT status. BPA’s policy has

been that a CFCT load is only eligible

for PF service as a CFCT when served

by the preference utility that made the

contract or commitment before

September 1, 1979. Service from a new

utility provider would cause the load to

lose its CFCT status and thereby be

served at the NR rate if the load is more

than 10 aMWs over a 12-month period.

The third issue is whether, after

twenty years, BPA should close the

class of future CFCT loads after

providing customers one last

opportunity to identify and request, if

any, a CFCT load determination by BPA.

Current policy enables BPA to perform

a CFCT review based on documents

contemporaneous to 1979, at any time a

utility identifies a load it believes may

be eligible.

Responsible Official: Dave

Fitzsimmons, Account Executive, Power

Business Line, is the official responsible

for the review of these issues arising

under BPA’s NLSL policy.

Issued in Portland, Oregon, on June 15,

2001.

Steven G. Hickok,

Chief Operating Officer.

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