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1Letter to the Honorable Linda Lingle, Governor 

of Hawaii, from Stephen Johnson of EPA dated July 

30, 2007. 

2Energy Information Administration, Petroleum 

Marketing Annual 2006, Explanatory Notes, 

Relationship of Refiner and Prime Supplier Sales 

Volumes’’ (p. 382). 

3Table 2.2–21 ‘‘2012 Forecasted Ethanol 

Consumption by State,’’ Regulatory Impact 

Analysis: Renewable Fuel Standard Program, April 

2007. 

4Through 2010 only, unless the exemption is 

extended under 211(o)(9)(A)(ii) or (B) of the Act. 

5 ‘‘Calculation of the Small Refiner/Small 

Refinery Fraction for the Renewable Fuel Program,’’

memo to the docket from Christine Brunner, ASD, 

OTAQ, EPA, September 2006. 

used to calculate the RFS for the coming 

year. The October 2007 STEO projects 

that an average of 9.42 million barrels/ 

day of gasoline will be consumed in all 

of the United States in 2008. 

Multiplying this average consumption 

rate by 366 days (2008 is a leap year) 

produces a total consumption of 144.80 

billion gallons of gasoline in 2008. 

Only one non-contiguous state or 

territory has petitioned EPA to opt into 

the RFS Program beginning in 2008. 

Hawaii petitioned EPA on June 22, 2007 

to opt into the RFS program, and EPA 

approved their request.1 Thus, Alaska is 

the only one of the 50 states that is not 

included in the RFS Program. 

In order to calculate gasoline 

consumption in the 48 contiguous states 

plus Hawaii, we subtracted Alaska’s 

projected gasoline consumption from 

the projected nationwide gasoline 

consumption of 144.80 billion gallons. 

Alaska’s projected gasoline 

consumption was calculated by 

multiplying the projected nationwide 

gasoline consumption in 2008 by the 

ratio of Alaska’s gasoline consumption 

in 2006 to the total U.S. consumption in 

2006, based on Table 48, ‘‘Prime 

Supplier Sales Volumes of Motor 

Gasoline by Grade Formulation, PAD 

District, and State’’ gasoline data from 

EIA’s Petroleum Marketing Annual 2006 

(the final rulemaking used data from 

Petroleum Marketing Annual 2005). 

According to EIA, Prime Supplier data 

reflects where gasoline is used, rather 

than where it is produced.2 Alaska’s 

projected gasoline consumption in 2008 

is 0.30 billion gallons. Subtracting this 

consumption from the projected 

nationwide consumption of 144.80 

billion gallons in 2008 produces a total 

consumption of 144.50 billion gallons of 

gasoline in 2008 in the 48 contiguous 

states plus Hawaii. 

Calculation of (Ri + RSi, total amount of 

renewable fuel blended into gasoline 

that is projected to be consumed in the 

48 contiguous states plus opt-in states/ 

territories, in year i, in gallons 

The projected gasoline consumption 

in the October 2007 STEO includes 

renewable fuel that is blended into 

gasoline. This volume of renewable fuel 

must be subtracted from the total 

volume of gasoline in order to calculate 

the total consumption of non-renewable 

gasoline. In Table 8 of the October 2007 

STEO, EIA estimates that 0.755 

quadrillion Btu of ethanol will be used 

as transportation fuel in all of the 

United States in 2008. Dividing this 

energy usage by the high heating value 

of ethanol (3.539 million Btu/barrel), 

and multiplying by 42 gallons/barrel 

produces a total ethanol usage of 8.96 

billion gallons nationwide in 2008. 

Since Hawaii has opted in, but Alaska 

has not opted in, to the RFS program for 

2008, Alaska’s renewable fuels 

consumption must be subtracted from 

the nationwide renewable fuels 

consumption to calculate renewable 

consumption in the 48 contiguous states 

plus Hawaii. In Chapter 2 of the 

Regulatory Impact analysis for the RFS 

program rulemaking, EPA estimated that 

ethanol consumption in Alaska would 

be negligible prior to 2012. Thus, we 

project renewable fuels consumption in 

the 48 contiguous states plus Hawaii to 

be 8.96 billion gallons in 2008.3 For 

purposes of recalculating the 2008 RFS, 

we will round this value to 9.0 billion 

gallons, which is equivalent to the 

volume of renewable fuel required by 

amended section 211(o) for 2008. 

Calculation of GEi, amount of gasoline 

projected to be produced by exempt 

small refineries and small refiners in 

year i, in gallons 4

In the final rulemaking establishing 

the RFS program regulations, we stated 

that we would estimate the combined 

small refinery and small refiner gasoline 

volume using a constant percentage of 

national consumption. Using 

information from gasoline batch reports 

submitted to EPA, EIA data and input 

from the California Air Resources Board 

regarding California small refiners, we 

estimated this percentage to be 13.5%.5

Multiplying the projected nationwide 

consumption of gasoline in 2008 (144.80 

billion gallons) by 13.5% results in a 

total projected production of 19.55 

billion gallons of gasoline from small 

refiners and small refineries in 2008. 

Calculation of RFStdi, renewable fuel 

standard in year i, in percent 

Substituting all of the terms 

calculated above into the equation for 

RFStdi results in the following RFS for 

2008, 

RFStdi = × − − 100 = 9 0

144 50 9 0 19 55

7 762 .

... . %

Therefore, the RFS for 2008 is 7.76%. 

This is the standard referenced in 40 

CFR 80.1105(b) through (d) and which 

obligated parties apply to determine 

their renewable volume obligation 

under 40 CFR 80.1107. This 

recalculated 2008 RFS supersedes, and 

therefore replaces for all purposes, the 

2008 standard published by EPA on 

November 27, 2007. 

Dated: February 7, 2008. 

Stephen L. Johnson, 

Administrator. 

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BILLING CODE 6560-50-M 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 

COMMISSION 

Meetings; Sunshine Act 

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission. 

DATE AND TIME: Tuesday, February 19, 

2008, 10:30 a.m. eastern time. 

PLACE: Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. 

Conference Room on the Ninth Floor of 

the EEOC Office Building, 1801 ‘‘L’’

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20507. 

STATUS: The meeting will be open to the 

public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Open Session 

1. Announcement of Notation Votes, 

and 

2. Obligation of Funds for a 

Temporary Interactive Voice Response 

(IVR) Non-competitive Housing 

Contract, a Non-competitive Extension 

of Software Licenses and a Competitive 

Contract for Technology Support of 

Customer Response Function. 

Note: In accordance with the Sunshine Act, 

the meeting will be open to public 

observation of the Commission’s 

deliberations and voting. (In addition to 

publishing notices on EEOC Commission 

meetings in the Federal Register, the 


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Commission also provides a recorded 

announcement a full week in advance on 

future Commission sessions.) 

Please telephone (202) 663–7100 

(voice) and (202) 663–4074 (TTY) at any 

time for information on these meetings. 

The EEOC provides sign language 

interpretation at Commission meetings 

for the hearing impaired. Requests for 

other reasonable accommodations may 

be made by using the voice TTY 

numbers listed above. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Stephen Llewellyn, Executive Officer on 

(202) 663–4070. 

Dated: February 12, 2008. 

Stephen Llewellyn, 

Executive Officer, Executive Secretariat. 

[FR Doc. 08–703 Filed 2–12–08; 12:19 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6570–01–M 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Public Information Collections 

Approved by Office of Management 

and Budget 

January 24, 2008. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications 

Commission (FCC) has received Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval for the following public 

information collections pursuant to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. 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 control number. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas Butler, Federal 

Communications Commission, (202) 

418–1492 or via the Internet at 

Thomas.butler@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control No.: 3060–0804. 

OMB Approval Date: 1/17/2008. 

Expiration Date: 7/31/2008. 

Title: Universal Service—Rural Health 

Care Program/Rural Health Care Pilot 

Program. 

Form Number(s): FCC Forms 465, 466, 

466–A, and 467. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 6,494 

respondents; 59,464 responses; 68,420 

total annual hours; 0.10–20 hours per 

response. 

Needs and Uses: In the 

Telecommunications Act of 1996 (1996 

Act), Congress specifically intended that 

rural health care providers be provided 

with ‘‘an affordable rate for the services 

necessary for the provision of 

telemedicine and instruction relating to 

such services.’’ In 1997, the Commission 

implemented this statutory directive by 

adopting the current Rural Health Care 

support mechanism, which provides 

universal service support to ensure that 

rural health care providers pay no more 

than their urban counterparts for their 

telecommunications needs and Internet 

access in the provision of health care 

services. Despite the Commission’s 

efforts to increase the utility of the Rural 

Health Care support mechanism, the 

program has yet to fully achieve the 

benefits intended by the statute and the 

Commission. In particular, health care 

providers continue to lack access to the 

broadband facilities needed to support 

the types of advanced telehealth 

applications, like telemedicine, that are 

vital to bringing medical expertise and 

the advantages of modern health 

technology to rural areas of the Nation. 

In response, the Commission issued the 

2007 Rural Health Care Pilot Program 

Selection Order (WC Docket No. 02–60; 

FCC 07–198) which selected 69 

participants for the universal service 

Rural Health Care Pilot Program (which 

was originally established by the 

Commission in September 2006). These 

69 participants represent 42 states and 

3 U.S. territories and will be eligible for 

approximately $417 million in universal 

service support over three years (or $139 

million per funding year) to: (1) Support 

up to 85 percent of the costs associated 

with the construction of state or regional 

broadband health care networks and 

with the advanced telecommunications 

and information services provided over 

those networks; and (2) support up to 85 

percent of the costs of connecting to 

Internet2 or National LambdaRail, 

which are both dedicated nationwide 

backbones, or to the public Internet. To 

minimize the burden on Pilot Program 

participants and to streamline the 

process, the Commission generally uses 

the same forms as the existing Rural 

Health Care support mechanism. For 

example, Selected Participants, in order 

to receive support, must submit an FCC 

Form 465 (seeking bids), FCC 466–A 

(selection of service provider), and FCC 

Form 467 (notification of service 

initiation). Due to the unique structure 

of the Pilot Program, however, in the 

2007 Rural Health Care Pilot Program 

Selection Order, the Commission 

provides guidance regarding how these 

forms should be completed and 

additional information is required from 

Selected Participants, including, 

proposed network costs worksheets, 

certifications, letters of agency from 

each participating health care provider, 

invoices showing actual incurred costs, 

and, if applicable, network design 

studies. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Notice of Public Information 

Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the 

Federal Communications Commission 

for Extension Under Delegated 

Authority, Comments Requested 

February 8, 2008. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications 

Commission, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork burdens, 

invites the general public and other 

Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (PRA), Public Law 104–13. 

An agency may not conduct or sponsor 

a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid control 

number. Subject to the PRA, no person 

shall be subject to any penalty for failing 

to comply with a collection of 

information that does not display a 

valid control number. Comments are 

requested concerning (a) Whether the 

proposed collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the Commission, 

including whether the information shall 

have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of 

the Commission’s burden estimate; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information collected; and 

(d) ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on the 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

DATES: Written PRA comments should 

be submitted on or before April 14, 

2008. If you anticipate that you will be 

submitting comments, but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the contact listed below as soon 

as possible. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit all PRA 

comments by e-mail or U.S. mail. To 

submit your comments by e-mail, send 

them to PRA@fcc.gov. To submit your 

comments by U.S. mail, send them to 

Jerry Cowden, Federal Communications 

Commission, Room 1–B135, 445 12th 

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20554. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information about the 

information collection(s), contact Jerry 


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