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protestants parties to the proceeding.

Any person wishing to become a party

must file a motion to intervene. Copies

of this filing are on file with the

Commission and are available for public

inspection in the Public Reference

Room.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–30186 Filed 12–11–95; 8:45 am]

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Upper Peninsula Power Company;

Notice of Public Scoping Meeting

[Project No. 1864–005]

December 6, 1995.

The Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission (Commission) has received

an application for a new license

(relicense) for the existing project

operated by the Upper Peninsula Power

Company (UPPCo) on the Ontonagon

River system in the western part of

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and a small

portion of neighboring Wisconsin. The

project includes four developments:

Bond Falls, Bergland, Cisco, and

Victoria.

Upon review of the application,

supplemental filings and intervenor

submittals, the Commission staff

concludes that, given the location and

interaction of the project with other

projects nearby, staff will prepare an

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)

that describes and evaluates the

probable impacts of the applicant’s

proposals and alternatives for the

project.

One element of the EIS process is

scoping. Scoping activities are initiated

early to:

• Identify reasonable alternative

operational procedures and

environmental enhancement measures

that should be evaluated in the EIS;

• Identify significant environmental

issues related to the operation of the

existing project;

• Determine the depth of analysis for

issues that will be discussed in the EIS;

and

• Identify resource issues that are of

lesser importance and, consequently, do

not require detailed analysis in the EIS.

Scoping Meetings

Commission staff will conduct three

public meetings for the Bond Falls

Project. All interested individuals,

organizations, and agencies are invited

to attend any of the planned meetings

and help staff identify the scope of

environmental issues that should and

should not be analyzed in the Bond

Falls EIS.

Two scoping meetings will be held on

Wednesday, January 10, 1996, at the

Best Western Porcupine Mountain

Lodge in Silver, City, MI. The first

meeting will be held from 1:00 PM to

4:00 PM, EST, and will be oriented

toward resource agency concerns. The

second meeting will be held in the

evening from 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM, EST,

and will be oriented toward public

participation.

A third scoping meeting will be held

on Thursday, January 11, 1996, at the

Sylvania Visitor Center in Watersmeet,

MI. The meeting will be held in the

evening from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM, EST,

and will be oriented toward public

participation.

Procedures

The meetings, which will be recorded

by a stenographer, will become part of

the formal record of the Commission’s

proceeding on the Bond Falls Project.

Individuals presenting statements at the

meetings will be asked to sign in before

the meeting starts and to identify

themselves for the record.

Concerned parties are encouraged to

speak during the public meeting.

Speaking time allowed for individuals

will be determined before each meeting,

based on the number of persons wishing

to speak and the approximate amount of

time available for the session. All

speakers will be provided at least 5

minutes to present their views.

Objectives of the Scoping Meetings

At the scoping meetings, the staff will:

• Summarize the environmental

issues tentatively identified for analysis

in the EIS;

• Identify resource issues that are of

lesser importance and, therefore, do not

require detailed analysis;

• Solicit from the meeting

participants all available information,

especially quantifiable data, concerning

significant local resources; and

• Encourage statements from experts

and the public on issues that should be

analyzed in the EIS.

Information Requested

Federal and state resource agencies,

local government officials, interested

groups, area residents, and concerned

individuals are requested to provide any

information they believe will assist the

Commission staff to analyze the

environmental impacts associated with

relicensing the project. The types of

information sought include the

following:

• Data, reports, and resource plans

that characterize the baseline physical,

biological, or social environments in the

vicinity of the projects; and

• Information and data that helps

staff identify or evaluate significant

environmental issues.

Scoping information and associated

comments should be submitted to the

Commission no later than January 31,

1996. Written comments should be

provided at the scoping meeting or

mailed to the Commission, as follows:

Lois Cashell, Secretary, Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 888 First

Street, N.E., Washington, DC 20426.

All filings sent to the Secretary of the

Commission should contain an original

and 8 copies. Failure to file an original

and 8 copies may result in appropriate

staff not receiving the benefits of your

comments in a timely manner. See 18

CFR 4.34(h).

All correspondence should clearly

show the following caption on the first

page:

FERC Project No. 1864: Bond Falls

Intervenors and interceders (as

defined in 18 CFR 385.2010) who file

documents with the Commission are

reminded of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedure requiring them

to serve a copy of all documents filed

with the Commission on each person

whose name is listed on the official

service list for this proceeding. See 18

CFR 4.34(b).

For further information, please

contact Frankie Green at (202) 501–

7704.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–30206 Filed 12–11–95; 8:45 am]

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[Docket No. TQ96–1–35–000]

West Texas Gas, Inc.; Notice of Filing

December 6, 1995.

Take notice that on December 1, 1995,

West Texas Gas, Inc. (WTG) filed

Seventeenth Revised Sheet No. 4 to its

FERC Gas Tariff, First Revised Volume

No. 1, proposed to be effective January

1, 1996. WNG states that this tariff sheet

and the accompanying explanatory

schedules constitute WTG’s quarterly

PGA filing submitted in accordance

with the Commission’s purchased gas

adjustments regulations.

WTG states that copies of the filing

were served upon WTG’s customers and

interested state commissions.

Any persons desiring to be heard or

to protest said filing should file a

motion to intervene or protest with the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C.

20426, in accordance with Rules 211

and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.211
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and 385.214. Pursuant to Section

154.210 of the Commission’s

regulations, all such motion or protests

must be filed not later than 12 days after

the date of filing noted above. Protests

will be considered by the Commission

in determining the appropriate action to

be taken, but will not serve to make the

protestants parties to the proceeding.

Any person wishing to become a party

must file a motion to intervene. Copies

of this filing are on file with the

Commission and are available for public

inspection.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–30180 Filed 12–11–95; 8:45 am]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5341–5]

Request for Comments: Information

Collection Request for the 1996 Metal

Products and Machinery—Phase II

Survey; Agency Information Collection

Activities

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

3501 et seq.), this notice announces that

the United States Environmental

Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to

request approval from the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) to

conduct a survey of industries included

in the Metal Products and Machinery

(MP&M) Phase II industrial categories.

These categories are motor vehicles (i.e.,

automotive industry activities—

excluding automotive filling stations),

bus & truck, railroad, office machines,

household equipment, instruments (i.e.,

measurement and control instruments),

precious metals, and ships & boats.

Before submitting the proposed

Information Collection Request (ICR) to

OMB for review and approval, EPA is

soliciting comments from the public on

specific aspects of the proposed

information collection as described

below.

DATES: Comments and requests for

information must be received by EPA no

later than February 12, 1996.

ADDRESSES: The public may contact Mr.

Mark Ingle at the EPA for a copy of the

proposed survey instruments. Mr. Ingle

may be reached by mail at U.S. EPA,

Engineering and Analysis Division, Mail

Code 4303, Office of Science and

Technology, 401 M Street SW.,

Washington, DC 20460; or by telephone

at (202) 260–7191. The survey

instruments will be available as draft

documents that include all pertinent

instructions, information request

questions, and definitions.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Affected

Entities: Entities affected by the

proposed survey include industrial

activities that manufacture, maintain, or

repair metal products and machinery

included in the following industry

categories: motor vehicles (i.e.,

automotive industry activities—

excluding automotive filling stations),

bus & truck, railroad, office machines,

household equipment, instruments (i.e.,

measurement and control instruments),

precious metals, and ships & boats.

Such entities may be privately owned,

or may be owned by the federal

government and/or state/local

governments. The survey instruments

will be sent to entities in these

categories, regardless of the ownership

status of the parts they are

manufacturing, maintaining, or

repairing. The survey is intended to

identify and collect data from MP&M

Phase II industrial sites that generate

and discharge process wastewater from

unit operations associated with

potential water-using industrial

activities (selected examples of waterusing industrial activities are

electroplating, painting, machining,

grinding, conversion coating).

In addition to the directly affected

entities listed above, the EPA also plans

to collect information related to

regulatory burden that would be created

by implementation of a final MP&M

Phase II rule on other federal agencies

(e.g., Department of Defense,

Department of Energy, etc.), and the

state/local governmental authorities

responsible for operating the affected

publicly owned treatment works.

Impacts on these other government

entities could include either increased

costs to issue additional permits or cost

savings realized from using the

proposed national standards instead of

local pollutant limits.

Title: 1996 Metal Products and

Machinery Industry—Phase II Survey.

Abstract: The survey is intended to

collect, from industry and other affected

parties, the type of technical and

economic information required by EPA

to develop effluent limitations

guidelines for the Metal Products and

Machinery, Phase II industry categories

described above. EPA is required under

Section 304(m) of the Clean Water Act

of 1987 (Federal Water Pollution

Control Act, 33 U.S.C. 1314[m]) to

promulgate new effluent limitations

guidelines. As the result of a lawsuit by

the Natural Resources Defense Council,

Inc. (NRDC) and Public Citizen, Inc.

(NRDC et al. v. Reilly, Civ. No. 89–

2980), a Consent Decree was entered by

the Court on January 31, 1992 that

established the schedule for

promulgating numerous effluent

limitations guidelines including the

MP&M Phase II rule. Thus, EPA is

required under a court order stemming

from the CWA to promulgate the MP&M

Phase II rule. Because this survey will

be issued under authority of Section 308

of the Clean Water Act of 1987 (Federal

Water Pollution Control Act, U.S.C.

Section 1318), responses from data

collection survey instrument recipients

are mandatory. The survey instruments

will be mailed after OMB approves the

ICR. The ICR that will be submitted by

EPA to OMB will include discussion of

the comments EPA has already received

to date and the comments received as

the result of today’s announcement. The

proposed survey instruments are a

necessary part of the data collection

portion of the effluent limitations

guidelines development process. The

proposed survey instruments will

provide EPA with the technical and

economic data required to effectively

evaluate pollution control technologies

and the economic achievability of the

final rule. EPA will consider both

technical performance and economic

achievability (including cost

effectiveness analyses of alternative

pollution control technologies) when

developing the final regulations.

Burden Statement: The proposed

survey instruments were developed by

improving upon the MP&M Phase I

survey in such a manner as to reduce

burden and improve clarity. EPA has

already conducted an outreach program

to industry and other government

entities with the objective of minimizing

reporting burden. The outreach program

included distribution of draft survey

instruments to industry and

governmental associations, outreach to

community groups, and direct

presentations at meetings. The following

are the industry/government

associations already contacted as part of

the EPA outreach program: Air

Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute,

American Ambulance Association,

American Automotive Manufacturers

Association, American Bus Association,

American Electronics Association,

American Electroplaters and Surface

Finishers Society, American Furniture

Manufacturing Association, American

Public Transit Association, American

Short Line Railroad Association,

American Trucking Association,