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some surplus capacity available in the

post-1999 period. The annual energy

deficit is 3.3 percent of the total annual

energy resource. The deficit occurs in

the winter season when LAO has

historically purchased energy. Western

has reviewed the study results and

concluded that the energy resource,

even though deficit, will be sufficient to

meet the current contractual

commitments with minor energy

purchases. The available capacity will

be used to maintain operation

flexibility. Therefore, there is no need to

change the allocated amounts of energy

with capacity under the Criteria

between 1999 and 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Stephen A. Fausett, Area Manager,

Loveland Area Office, Western Area

Power Administration, P.O. Box 3700,

Loveland, CO 80539–3003, Telephone:

(970) 490–7201.

Regulatory Procedural Requirements

The authority upon which Western

allocates and contracts for electric

service is based upon the provisions of

the Reclamation Act of 1902 (ch. 1093,

32 Stat. 388); the Reclamation Project

Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 485h(c)); the

Department of Energy Organization Act

of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 7152, 7191); the

Flood Control Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 891);

the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Acts of

1962 and 1974 (Pub. L. 87–590, 76 Stat.

389 and Pub. L. 93–493, 88 Stat. 1497);

and acts amending or supplementing

the foregoing legislation.

Background

Power produced by the Loveland Area

projects is marketed pursuant to the

Criteria. LAO’s firm electric service

contracts executed under the Criteria

expire on the last day of the September

billing period in 2004. The Criteria

states ‘‘* * * at the end of the 1999

summer season billing period, the

provisions of the contracts concerning

the amounts of energy and capacity

committed will be subject to revision

based on the marketable resource. Any

necessary revisions to these contract

provisions will be determined by

Western and presented to the

contractors by the end of the 1996

summer season billing period.’’ The

available resources in the Criteria were

determined by duplicating the river

systems with a hydrological computer

modeling program and calculating what

the available energy and capacity would

be using this data. The marketable

capacity was calculated using a 90-

percent probability of exceedance factor.

The energy portion of the Post-1999

Resource Study uses the average of the

actual monthly generation rather than a

calculated amount of energy using a

hydrological computer simulation

model. The capacity portion of the

study uses essentially the same

methodology as used in the Criteria. The

results of the Post-1999 Resource Study

show that there is an energy deficit and

some surplus capacity available.

Resources

Post 1999

marketable

Difference

from contract

Winter Energy

(GWh) ............ 821.1 (89.2)

Summer Energy

(GWh) ............ 1,153.1 23.1

Total Energy

(GWh) . 1,974.2 (66.1)

Winter Capacity

(MW) ............. 538.5 42.0

Summer Capacity (MW) ......... 606.7 16.7

Environmental Compliance

The National Environmental Policy

Act (NEPA) of 1969 (42 U.S.C 4321 et

seq.) and implementing regulations

issued by the Council on Environmental

Quality (40 CFR parts 1500–1508)

require that the environmental effects of

agency actions be studied and

considered by decision makers. DOE

issued Implementing Procedures and

Guidelines for the National

Environmental Policy Act at 10 CFR

Part 1021. Performance of this resource

study meets the definition of a

categorical exclusion, which is a

category of actions defined at 40 CFR

1508.4 and listed in Appendix A to

Subpart D of the DOE Implementing

Procedures for which neither an

environmental assessment nor an

environmental impact statement is

usually required. The applicable

categorical exclusion is found at A9 in

Appendix A to Subpart D.

Issued at Washington, DC, December 11,

1995.

Joel K. Bladow,

Assistant Administrator.

[FR Doc. 95–30959 Filed 12–19–95; 8:45 am]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–5399–5]

Agency Information Collection

Activities Under OMB Review

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

3501 et seq.), this notice announces that

the Information Collection Request (ICR)

abstracted below has been forwarded to

the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for review and comment. The

ICR describes the nature of the

information collection and its expected

cost and burden; where appropriate, it

includes actual data collection

instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before January 19, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR A COPY

CALL:

Sandy Farmer at EPA, (202) 260–2740,

and refer to EPA ICR No. 1426.04.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: EPA Worker Protection

Standard for Hazardous Waste

Operations and Emergency Response,

OMB Control # 2050–0105, EPA ICR

# 1426.04, expiration 1–31–96. This is a

request for extension, without change,

of a currently approved collection.

Abstract: Section 126(f) of the

Superfund Amendments and

Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA)

require EPA to set worker protection

standards for State and local employees

engaged in hazardous waste operations

and emergency response in the 27 States

that do not have Occupational Safety

and Health Administration approved

State plans. The EPA coverage, required

to be identical to the OSHA standards,

extends to three categories of

employees: those in clean-ups at

uncontrolled hazardous waste sites,

including corrective actions at

Treatment, Storage and Disposal (TSD)

facilities regulated under the Resource

Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA);

employees working at routine hazardous

waste operations at RCRA TSD facilities;

and employees involved in emergency

response operations without regard to

location. This ICR renews the existing

mandatory recordkeeping collection of

ongoing activities including monitoring

of any potential employee exposure at

uncontrolled hazardous waste sites

maintaining records of employee

training, refresher training, medical

exams, and reviewing emergency

response plans. 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 OMB control number.

The OMB control numbers for EPA’s

regulations are displayed in 40 CFR Part

9 and 48 CFR Chapter 15. The Federal

Register Notice required under 5 CFR

1320.8(d), soliciting comments on this
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collection of information was published

on 11/06/95 (60 FR 176).

Burden Statement: The annual public

reporting and recordkeeping burden for

this collection is estimated to average

10.64 hours per response. Burden means

the total time, effort, or financial

resources expended by persons to

generate, maintain, or disclose or

provide information to or for a Federal

agency. This includes the time needed

to review instructions; develop, acquire,

install, and utilize technology and

systems for the purposes of collecting,

validating, and verifying information,

processing and maintaining

information, and disclosing and

providing information; adjust the

existing ways to comply with any

previously applicable instructions and

requirements; train personnel to be able

to respond to a collection of

information; search data sources; and

complete and review the collection of

information; and transmit or otherwise

disclose the information.

Respondents/Affected Entities: State

and local employees engaged in

hazardous waste operations and

emergency response in states without an

OSHA approved State plan.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

24,000.

Frequency of Response: On-going

records maintenance.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

255,427 hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost

Burden: None.

Send comments on the Agency’s need

for this information, the accuracy of the

provided burden estimates, and any

suggested methods for minimizing

respondent burden, including through

the use of automated collection

techniques to the following addresses.

Please refer to EPA ICR No. 1426.04 and

OMB Control No. 2050–0105 in any

correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, OPPE Regulatory

Information Division (2136), 401 M

Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460

and

Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for

EPA, 725 17th Street, NW 20503

Dated: December 13, 1995.

Joseph Retzer,

Director, Regulatory Information Division.

[FR Doc. 95–30983 Filed 12–19–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–M

[FRL–5398–5]

Agency Information Collection

Activities Under OMB Review

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

3501 et seq.), this notice announces that

the Information Collection Request (ICR)

abstracted below has been forwarded to

the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for review and comment. The

ICR describes the nature of the

information collection and its expected

cost and burden; where appropriate, it

includes the actual data collection

instrument.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before January 19, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR A COPY

CALL: Sandy Farmer at EPA, (202) 260–

2740, and refer to EPA ICR No. 619.07.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Mobile Source Emission Factor

Survey—2060–0078. This is a rerenewal

of an existing collection.

Abstract: The EPA Emission

Inventory Group, through contractors,

solicits the general public to voluntarily

offer their vehicle for emissions testing.

The owner is also asked to complete a

multiple choice form of nine questions

that summarize vehicle usage. There are

two methods of soliciting the general

public for participation in Emission

Factor Program (EFP):

Postal cards are sent to a random selection

of vehicle owners using State motor vehicle

registration lists. Motor vehicle owners, who

arrive at State inspection lanes for yearly

certification, are randomly solicited.

Information from the EFP provides a basis for

developing

State Implementation Plans (SIPs),

Reasonable Further Progress (RFP)

reports, attainment status assessments

for the National Ambient Air Quality

Standards (NAAQS).

The legislative basis for the Emission

Factor Program is Section 103(a)(1)(2)(3)

of the Clean Air Act, which requires the

Administrator to ‘‘conduct

* * * research, investigations,

experiments, demonstrations, surveys,

and studies relating to the causes,

effects, extent, prevention, and control

of air pollution’’ and ‘‘conduct

investigations and research and make

surveys concerning any specific

problem of air pollution in cooperation

with any air pollution control agency

* * *’’

EPA uses the data from the EFP to

verify predictions of the computer

model known as MOBILE, which

calculates the contribution of mobile

source emissions to ambient air

pollution. MOBILE is used by EPA, state

and local air pollution agencies, the

auto industry, and other parties

interested in estimating mobile source

emissions.

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 OMB

control number. The OMB control

numbers for EPA’s regulations are listed

in 40 CFR Part 9 and 48 CFR Chapter

15. The Federal Register Notice

required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d),

soliciting comments on this collection

of information was published on

Thursday, September 21, 1995 FR Vol.

60, No. 183 Page 48980.

Burden Statement: The annual public

reporting and recordkeeping burden for

this collection of information is

estimated to average 10 minutes to 2

hours per response. Burden means the

total time, effort, or financial resources

expended by persons to generate,

maintain, retain, or disclose or provide

information to or for a Federal agency.

This includes the time needed to review

instructions; develop, acquire, install,

and utilize technology and systems for

the purposes of collecting, validating,

and verifying information, processing

and maintaining information, and

disclosing and providing information;

adjust the existing ways to comply with

any previously applicable instructions

and requirements; train personnel to be

able to respond to a collection of

information; search data sources;

complete and review the collection of

information; and transmit or otherwise

disclose the information.

Respondents/Affected Entities: are the

general public that own on road motor

vehicles.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

1,600.

Frequency of Response: Annual.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

2,237 Hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost

Burden: $0.

Send comments on the Agency’s need

for this information, the accuracy of the

provided burden estimates, and any

suggested methods for minimizing

respondent burden, including through

the use of automated collection

techniques to the following addresses.

Please refer to EPA ICR No. 619.07

and OMB control No. 2060–0078 in any

correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, OPPE Regulatory

Information Division (2136), 401 M

Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460