30866 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 98 / Friday, May 20, 2022 / Notices 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 17th day of 

May 2022. 

Anthony Shea, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2022–10874 Filed 5–19–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Natural Resources Conservation 

Service 

[Docket ID: NRCS–2022–0007] 

Information Collection Requests; 

Urban Agriculture and Innovative 

Production (UAIP) Grant Program; 

Composting and Food Waste 

Reduction (CFWR) Cooperative 

Agreements 

AGENCY: Natural Resources 

Conservation Service (NRCS), United 

States Department of Agriculture 

(USDA). 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, the NRCS is 

requesting comments from all interested 

individuals and organizations on two 

information collection requests 

associated with the UAIP Grant Program 

and the CFWR Cooperative Agreements, 

respectively. 

DATES: We will consider comments that 

we receive by July 19, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: NRCS prefers that the 

comments are submitted electronically 

through the Federal eRulemaking Portal. 

You may submit comments, identified 

by Docket ID No. NRCS–2022–0007, 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRCS–2022–0007. Follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail, Hand-Delivery, or Courier: 

Brian Guse, Room 4083–S NRCS, USDA, 

1400 Independence Avenue SW, Stop 

1600, Washington, DC 20250. 

In your comments, specify the docket 

ID NRCS–2022–0007. All comments 

received, including those received by 

mail, will be posted without change and 

will be publicly available on http://

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brian Guse; telephone: (202) 641–7249; 

email: urbanagriculture@usda.gov. 

Persons with disabilities who require 

alternative means for communication 

should contact the USDA’s TARGET 

Center at (202) 720–2600 (voice only) or 

(844) 433–2774 (toll-free nationwide). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Urban Agriculture and 

Innovative Production (UAIP). 

OMB Control Number: 0578–0032. 

Type of Request: Extension. 

Abstract: The Agriculture 

Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm 

Bill, Pub L. 115–334) authorized the 

Farm Production and Conservation 

(FPAC) mission area and NRCS to award 

competitive grants to local units of 

government, school districts, and tribal 

communities to support the 

development of urban agriculture and 

innovative production with the goal of 

improving access to local foods in areas 

where access to fresh, healthy food is 

limited or unavailable. In FY 2020 and 

FY 2021, the first 2 years of the 

program, NRCS granted 31 awards 

totaling just over $7.9 million. To 

improve the ability of communities 

nationwide to implement projects that 

improve access to local foods, the UAIP 

program is substantially increasing its 

public investment through additional 

funding and awards in FY 2022, 

leveraging additional funding provided 

by the American Rescue Plan of 2021 

(Pub L. 117–2). The grant recipients 

(applicants) are required to sign the 

notice of award and provide documents 

such as the project summary, Negotiated 

Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA), 

de minimus rate agreement, and annual 

progress reports. We received Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

clearance to electronically submit 

required forms through Grants.gov (SF– 

270, SF–424, and SF–425). 

For the following estimated total 

annual burden on respondents, the 

formula used to calculate the total 

burden hour is the estimated average 

time per responses hours multiplied by 

the estimated total annual responses. 

Estimate of annual burden: Public 

reporting burden for the collection of 

information is estimated to average 7.55 

hours per response. 

Respondents: Grant recipients. 

Estimated number of respondents: 

897. 

Estimated number of responses per 

respondent: 1. 

Estimated total annual number of 

responses: 897. 

Estimated average time per response: 

7.55 hours. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

6,773 hours. 

Title: Composting and Food Waste 

Reduction (CFWR). 

OMB Control Number: 0578–0033. 

Type of Request: Extension. 

Abstract: The 2018 Farm Bill 

authorized the FPAC mission area and 

NRCS to carry out pilot projects under 

which local and municipal governments 

enter into cooperative agreements to 

develop and test strategies for planning 

and implementing municipal 

composting plans and food waste 

reduction plans. In FY 2020 and FY 

2021, the first 2 years of the program, 

NRCS granted 37 awards totaling just 

over $3 million. To improve the ability 

of communities nationwide to 

implement projects that increase 

compost, improve soil quality, and 

reduce food waste, the CFWR program 

is substantially increasing its public 

investment by funding awards during 

FY 2022, leveraging additional funding 

provided by the American Rescue Plan 

of 2021 (Pub L. 117–2). Although no 

new information is being collected 

beyond prior-year requests, NRCS 

anticipates an additional public burden 

due to an increase in applications 

received and awards made. The grant 

recipients are required to sign the notice 

of award and provide documents such 

as the project summary, NICRA, de 

minimus rate agreement, and annual 

progress reports. We received OMB 

clearance to electronically submit 

required forms through Grants.gov (SF– 

270, SF–424 and SF–425). 

For the following estimated total 

annual burden on respondents, the 

formula used to calculate the total 

burden in hours is the average of the 

estimated time per response multiplied 

by the estimated total annual responses 

required. 

Estimate of annual burden: Public 

reporting burden for the collection of 

information is estimated to average 7.39 

hours per response. 

Respondents: Grant recipients. 

Estimated number of respondents: 

724. 

Estimated number of responses per 

respondent: 1. 

Estimated total annual number of 

responses: 724. 

Estimated average time per response: 

7.39 hours. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

5,353 hours. 

We are requesting comments on all 

aspects of the information collections to 

help us: 

(1) Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the agency to function properly, 

including whether the information will 

be useful for practical applications; 

(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimated burden for the 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology used and 

assumptions made; 


khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES
Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 98 / Friday, May 20, 2022 / Notices 30867 

(3) Evaluate the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information technology; 

and 

(4) Minimize the burden of the 

information collection on those who 

respond using appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

forms of information technology. 

All comments received in response to 

this notice, including names and 

addresses provided, will be made a 

matter of public record. Comments will 

be summarized and included in the 

request for OMB approval of the 

information collection. 

Louis Aspey, 

Associate Chief, Natural Resources 

Conservation Service. 

[FR Doc. 2022–10914 Filed 5–19–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Utilities Service 

[Docket #RUS–22–Electric–0014] 

Next Era Energy Resources, LLC, 

Notice of Availability of a Record of 

Decision 

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of a record 

of decision. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the Rural Utilities Service (RUS), an 

agency within the Department of 

Agriculture (USDA), has issued a 

Record of Decision (ROD) to meet its 

responsibilities in accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA), Council on Environmental 

Quality (CEQ) regulations for 

implementing the procedural provisions 

of NEPA, RUS Environmental Policies 

and Procedure, and other applicable 

environmental requirements related to 

providing financial assistance for Next 

Era Energy Resources, LLC’s (NEER or 

the Applicant) proposed Skeleton Creek 

Solar and Battery Storage Project 

(Project) in Oklahoma. The 

Administrator of RUS has signed the 

ROD, which was effective upon signing. 

This ROD concludes RUS 

environmental review process in 

accordance with NEPA and RUS, 

Environmental Policies and Procedures. 

The ultimate decision as to loan 

approval depends on the conclusion of 

the environmental review process plus 

financial and engineering analyses. 

Issuance of the ROD will allow these 

reviews to proceed. The ROD is not a 

decision on the NEER’s loan application 

and is not an approval of the 

expenditure of federal funds. 

DATES: The Administrator of the Rural 

Utilities Service signed the Record of 

Decision on May 16, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: For further information, or 

to request copies of the ROD, contact 

Kristen Bastis, Archeologist, 

SkeletonCreekSolarPublicComments@

usda.gov. The ROD is also available at 

RUS website at https://

www.rd.usda.gov/environmentalstudy/ 

skeleton-creek-solar-and-batterystorage-project-garfield-countyoklahoma. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information, or to request copies 

of the ROD, contact Kristen Bastis, 

Archeologist, USDA, Rural Utilities 

Service, 1400 Independence Ave. SW, 

Mail Stop 1570, Washington, DC 20250, 

by phone at 202–692–4910, or email at 

SkeletonCreekSolarPublicComments@

usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Applicant is a utility company with 

more than 180 MW of battery energy 

storage systems in operation across the 

United States and Canada. Since the 

Applicant entered into a Power 

Purchase Agreement (PPA) with 

Western Farmers Electric Cooperative 

(WFEC) for a 250-megawatt (MW) solar 

array and a 200-MW battery storage 

system, the Project’s purpose and need 

is focused on meeting the PPA. The 

Project would allow the Applicant to 

provide the additional solar and battery 

generation capacity needed by WFEC to 

achieve this goal within the service 

territories of their member cooperatives. 

Specifically, the Project would provide 

a source of non-dispatchable power via 

solar panels that increase capacity 

during moderate to high power 

requirement periods, whereas battery 

storage would provide a source of 

dispatchable power that increases the 

reliability of generated power to the 

grid. The pairing of battery storage with 

solar panels would further allow WFEC 

to meet peak demand needs without 

adding additional fossil fuel 

consumption to the system and provide 

safe, adequate, reliable power at the 

lowest reasonable cost. In addition, the 

Project would help WFEC and the 

Southwest Power Pool to continue to 

comply with Oklahoma legislative 

declarations to facilitate the delivery of 

renewable energy. 

The Project consists of a 250–MW 

solar array, and a 200-MW/800-MWh 

storage facility in Garfield County, 

Oklahoma. The Project consists of four 

major components: Photovoltaic solar 

arrays, energy storage facilities, linear 

facilities, and transmission 

interconnection facilities (Proposed 

Action). The energy storage facilities 

consist of batteries, solar trackers, and 

solar power inverters. Linear facilities 

include a network of internal access 

roads, communication cables or lines, 

and a distribution power network for 

construction and operations control 

systems. The transmission 

interconnection facilities include a 

substation/switchyard that 

interconnects to the existing Oklahoma 

Gas and Electric Company (OG&E) 345- 

kV Woodring Substation via a gen-tie 

line. These components are explained in 

detail in the Final Environmental 

Impact Statement (FEIS). 

RUS is authorized under the Rural 

Electrification Act of 1936, as amended 

(7 U.S.C. 901 et seq.) to make loans and 

loan guarantees to finance the 

construction of electric distribution, 

transmission, and generation facilities, 

including system improvements and 

replacements required to furnish and 

improve electric service in rural areas, 

as well as demand-side management, 

electricity conservation programs, and 

on- and off-grid renewable electricity 

systems. NEER intends to request 

financial assistance from RUS for the 

Project. Along with other technical and 

financial considerations, completing the 

environmental review process is one of 

RUS’s requirements in processing 

NEER’s application. 

RUS is serving as the lead Federal 

agency, as defined at 40 CFR 1501.7, for 

preparation of the FEIS. Cooperating 

agencies for this Project include the 

United States Army Corps of Engineers 

(USACE), the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM), and the Bureau of 

Indian Affairs (BIA). The United States 

Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is a 

participating agency for this Project. The 

USACE will review the Applicant’s 

permit application, as required by 

Section 404 under the Clean Water Act. 

The USFWS will determine the 

likelihood of Project effects on listed 

species, as required under Section 7 of 

the Endangered Species Act. 

RUS prepared a Final Environmental 

Impact Statement (FEIS) and published 

a notice of availability in the Federal 

Register on April 7, 2022, 87 FR 20387, 

to analyze the impacts of its respective 

Federal actions and the proposed 

Project in accordance with NEPA, the 

CEQ’s Regulations for Implementing the 

Procedural Provisions of NEPA (40 CFR 

parts 1500–1508), and RUS 

Environmental Policies and Procedures 

(7 CFR part 1970). 

RUS determined that its action 

regarding the proposed Project is an 

undertaking subject to review under 

Section 106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act and its implementing 

regulation, ‘‘Protection of Historic 


khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES