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been issued under the authority of the 

Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, 

as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), and 

the regulations governing the taking and 

importing of marine mammals (50 CFR 

part 216). 

The research will provide information 

to better understand the levels and 

impacts of persistent organic pollutants 

on the California coastal stock of 

bottlenose dolphins. Up to 60 

individuals will be photo-identified and 

biopsied over the course of the five year 

permit. Killer whales (Orcinus orca), 

harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena), 

and bottlenose dolphins could be 

incidentally harassed during the 

proposed research. The sampling will 

occur mainly in Monterey Bay but may 

also occur in other locations along 

California. 

In compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 

U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), a final 

determination has been made that the 

activity proposed is categorically 

excluded from the requirement to 

prepare an environmental assessment or 

environmental impact statement. 

Dated: July 17, 2008. 

P. Michael Payne, 

Chief, Permits, Conservation and Education 

Division, Office of Protected Resources, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. E8–16787 Filed 7–21–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The IC Clearance Official, 

Regulatory Information Management 

Services, Office of Management invites 

comments on the submission for OMB 

review as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before August 

21, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be addressed to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Education Desk Officer, 

Office of Management and Budget, 725 

17th Street, NW., Room 10222, 

Washington, DC 20503. Commenters are 

encouraged to submit responses 

electronically by e-mail to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov or via fax 

to (202) 395–6974. Commenters should 

include the following subject line in 

their response ‘‘Comment: [insert OMB 

number], [insert abbreviated collection 

name, e.g., ‘‘Upward Bound 

Evaluation’’]. Persons submitting 

comments electronically should not 

submit paper copies. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) provide interested 

Federal agencies and the public an early 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection requests. OMB may amend or 

waive the requirement for public 

consultation to the extent that public 

participation in the approval process 

would defeat the purpose of the 

information collection, violate State or 

Federal law, or substantially interfere 

with any agency’s ability to perform its 

statutory obligations. The IC Clearance 

Official, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of 

Management, publishes that notice 

containing proposed information 

collection requests prior to submission 

of these requests to OMB. Each 

proposed information collection, 

grouped by office, contains the 

following: (1) Type of review requested, 

e.g. new, revision, extension, existing or 

reinstatement; (2) Title; (3) Summary of 

the collection; (4) Description of the 

need for, and proposed use of, the 

information; (5) Respondents and 

frequency of collection; and (6) 

Reporting and/or Recordkeeping 

burden. OMB invites public comment. 

Dated: July 17, 2008. 

Angela C. Arrington, 

IC Clearance Official, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Office of Planning, Evaluation and 

Policy Development 

Type of Review: New. 

Title: Family Educational Rights and 

Privacy Act (FERPA) Regulatory 

Requirements. 

Frequency: On Occasion; Annually. 

Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal 

Gov’t, SEAs or LEAs. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 1,666,013. 

Burden Hours: 1,666,013. 

Abstract: The Family Educational 

Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) 

requires that subject educational 

agencies and institutions notify parents 

and students of their rights under 

FERPA and requires that they record 

disclosures of personally identifiable 

information from education records, 

with certain exceptions. 

Additional Information: The 

Department informed the public 

through the 60-day notice that the 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) 

for the Family Educational Rights and 

Privacy Act was published on March 24, 

2008. The NPRM (Vol. 73, No. 57, page 

15574) did not provide a comment 

period for the information collection 

activity. However, the 60-day notice 

provided and the 30-day notice provides 

the appropriate comment period for the 

information collection activity. 

Requests for copies of the information 

collection submission for OMB review 

may be accessed from http:// 

edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the 

‘‘Browse Pending Collections’’ link and 

by clicking on link number 3693. When 

you access the information collection, 

click on ‘‘Download Attachments ’’ to 

view. Written requests for information 

should be addressed to U.S. Department 

of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, 

SW., LBJ, Washington, DC 20202–4537. 

Requests may also be electronically 

mailed to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed 

to 202–401–0920. Please specify the 

complete title of the information 

collection when making your request. 

Comments regarding burden and/or 

the collection activity requirements 

should be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@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. 

[FR Doc. E8–16789 Filed 7–21–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Notice 

AGENCY: United States Election 

Assistance Commission (EAC). 

ACTION: Notice of Virtual Public Forum 

for EAC Board of Advisors. 

DATES & TIMES: Monday, August 4, 

2008, 9 a.m. EDT through Friday, 

August 8, 2008, 5 p.m. EDT. 

PLACE: EAC Board of Advisors Virtual 

Meeting Room at http://www.eac.gov. 

Once at the main page of EAC’s Web 

site, viewers should click the link to the 

Board of Advisors Virtual Meeting 

Room. The virtual meeting room will 

open on Monday, August 4, 2008, at 9 

a.m. EDT and will close on Friday, 

August 8, 2008, at 5 p.m. EDT. The site 

will be available 24 hours per day 

during that 5-day period. 

PURPOSE: The EAC Board of Advisors 

will review and provide comment on 

the draft Alternative Voting Methods 

report. The draft contains feasibility and 

advisability recommendations 

regarding: early voting; Election Day as 

a Federal holiday; vote-by-mail; vote 

centers; weekend voting; and, voting in 


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Puerto Rico. The EAC Board of Advisors 

Virtual Meeting Room was established 

to enable the Board of Advisors to 

conduct business in an efficient manner 

in a public forum, including being able 

to review and discuss draft documents, 

when it is not feasible for an in-person 

board meeting. The Board of Advisors 

will not take any votes or propose any 

resolutions during the 5-day forum of 

August 4–August 8, 2008. Members will 

post comments about the draft 

Alternative Voting Methods report. 

This activity is open to the public. 

The public may view the proceedings of 

this special forum by visiting the EAC 

Board of Advisors virtual meeting room 

at http://www.eac.gov at any time 

between Monday, August 4, 2008, 9 a.m. 

EDT and Friday, August 8, 2008, 6 p.m. 

EDT. The public also may view the draft 

alternative voting methods report, 

which will be posted on EAC’s Web site 

beginning August 4, 2008. The public 

may file written statements to the EAC 

Board of Advisors at 

boardofadvisors@eac.gov. Data on EAC’s 

Web site is accessible to visitors with 

disabilities and meets the requirements 

of section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bryan Whitener, Telephone: (202) 566–

3100. 

Gracia M. Hillman, 

Commissioner, U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission. 

[FR Doc. 08–1457 Filed 7–18–08; 10:20 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–KF–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC08–600–001, FERC–600] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities, Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Submitted for OMB 

Review 

July 14, 2008. 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of section 3507 of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 

U.S.C. 3507, the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission) 

has submitted the information 

collection described below to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review of this information collection 

requirement. Any interested person may 

file comments directly with OMB and 

should address a copy of those 

comments to the Commission as 

explained below. The Commission 

received no comments in response to an 

earlier Federal Register notice of 

January 30, 2008 (73 FR 5529–5531) and 

has made this notation in its submission 

to OMB. 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information are due by August 21, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Address comments on the 

collection of information to the Office of 

Management and Budget, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission Desk Officer. Comments to 

OMB should be filed electronically, c/o 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov and 

include the OMB Control No. (1902–

0180) as a point of reference. The Desk 

Officer may be reached by telephone at 

202–395–7345. A copy of the comments 

should also be sent to the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, Office 

of the Executive Director, ED–34, 

Attention: Michael Miller, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

Comments may be filed either in paper 

format or electronically. Those persons 

filing electronically do not need to make 

a paper filing. For paper filings, such 

comments should be submitted to the 

Secretary of the Commission, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426 

and should refer to Docket No. IC08–

600–001. Documents filed electronically 

via the Internet must be prepared in an 

acceptable filing format and in 

compliance with the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission submission 

guidelines. Complete filing instructions 

and acceptable filing formats are 

available at (http://www.ferc.gov/help/ 

submission-guide/electronic-media.asp). 

To file the document electronically, 

access the Commission’s Web site and 

click on Documents & Filing, E-Filing 

(http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

efiling.asp), and then follow the 

instructions for each screen. First time 

users will have to establish a user name 

and password. The Commission will 

send an automatic acknowledgment to 

the sender’s e-mail address upon receipt 

of comments. 

All comments may be viewed, printed 

or downloaded remotely via the Internet 

through FERC’s homepage using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. For user assistance, 

contact ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov or 

toll-free at (866) 208–3676 or for TTY, 

contact (202) 502–8659. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Miller may be reached by 

telephone at (202) 502–8415, by fax at 

(202) 273–0873, and by e-mail at 

michael.miller@ferc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

information collected under the 

requirements of FERC–600 Rules of 

Practice and Procedure: Complaint 

Procedures (OMB No. 1902–0180) is 

used by the Commission to implement 

the statutory provisions of the Federal 

Power Act (FPA), 16 U.S.C. 791a–825r; 

the Natural Gas Act (NGA), 15 U.S.C. 

717–717w; the Natural Gas Policy Act 

(NGPA), 15 U.S.C. 3301–3432; the 

Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 

1978 (PURPA), 16 U.S.C. 2601–2645; 

the Interstate Commerce Act, 49 U.S.C. 

App. § 1 et seq.; the Outer Continental 

Shelf Lands Act, 43 U.S.C. 1301–1356 

and the Energy Policy Act of 2005, (Pub. 

L. 109–58) 119 Stat. 594. 

With respect to the natural gas 

industry, section 14(a) of the NGA 

provides: The Commission may permit 

any person to file with it a statement in 

writing, under oath or otherwise, as it 

shall determine, as to any or all facts 

and circumstances concerning a matter 

which may be the subject of an 

investigation. 

For public utilities, section 205(e) of 

the FPA provides: Whenever any such 

new schedule is filed, the Commission 

shall have the authority, either upon 

complaint or upon its own initiative 

without complaint at once, and, if it so 

orders, without answer or formal 

pleading by the public utility, but upon 

reasonable notice to enter upon hearing 

concerning the lawfulness of such rate, 

charge, classification, or service; and 

pending such hearing and decision of 

the Commission. * * * 

Section 215(d)(5) of the FPA provides: 

The Commission, upon its own motion 

or upon complaint, may order the 

Electric Reliability Organization to 

submit to the Commission a proposed 

reliability standard or a modification to 

a reliability standard that addresses a 

specific matter if the Commission 

considers such a new or modified 

reliability standard appropriate to carry 

out this section. * * * 

Concerning hydropower projects, 

section 19 of the FPA provides: * * * it 

is agreed as a condition of such license 

that jurisdiction is hereby conferred 

upon the Commission, upon complaint 

of any person aggrieved or upon its own 

initiative, to exercise such regulation 

and control until such time as the State 

shall have provided a commission or 

other authority for such regulation and 

control. * * * 

For qualifying facilities, section 

210(h)(2)(B) of PURPA provides: Any 

electric utility, qualifying co-generator, 

or qualifying small power producer may 

petition the Commission to enforce the 

requirements of subsection (f) as 


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