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calendar days prior to the Forum so that 

a list of speakers can be developed. The 

chairman may allow others to speak if 

time permits. 

A transcript of the Forum will be 

made. Copies of the transcripts may be 

obtained directly from the transcribing 

service for a fee. Copies of all 

documents introduced will also be 

available from the transcribing service 

for a fee. 

Written comments on the proposed 

Robert D. Willis Rate are due on or 

before September 4, 2008. Five copies of 

the written comments should be 

submitted to James K. McDonald, 

Assistant Administrator, Southwestern 

Power Administration, U.S. Department 

of Energy, One West Third Street, Tulsa, 

Oklahoma, 74103. 

Following review of the oral and 

written comments and the information 

gathered during the course of the 

proceedings, the Administrator will 

submit the final Robert D. Willis Rate 

Proposal, and Power Repayment Studies 

in support of the proposed rate to the 

Deputy Secretary of Energy for 

confirmation and approval on an 

interim basis, and subsequently to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 

(FERC) for confirmation and approval 

on a final basis. The FERC will allow 

the public an opportunity to provide 

written comments on the proposed rate 

increase before making a final decision. 

Dated: July 28, 2008. 

Jon C. Worthington, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. E8–17912 Filed 8–4–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2004–0081; FRL–8700–9] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Prevention of Significant 

Deterioration and Non-Attainment Area 

New Source Review (Renewal), EPA 

ICR Number 1230.23, OMB Control 

Number 2060–0003 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.), this document announces 

that an Information Collection Request 

(ICR) has been forwarded to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval. This is a request 

to renew an existing approved 

collection. This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on October 31, 2008. Under OMB 

regulations, the Agency may continue to 

conduct or sponsor the collection of 

information while this submission is 

pending at OMB. This ICR describes the 

nature of the information collection and 

its estimated burden and cost. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before September 4, 

2008. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number EPA–HQ–

OAR–2004–0081, to (1) EPA on-line at 

www.regulations.gov, or by mail to: U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, EPA 

Docket Center, Air and Radiation Docket 

and Information Center, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Mail Code 

2822T, Washington, DC 20460, and (2) 

OMB at: Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), 

Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 

17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carrie Wheeler, Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards, Air Quality 

Policy Division (C504–05), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711; 

telephone number: (919) 541–9771; fax 

number: (919) 541–5509; e-mail address: 

wheeler.carrie@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has 

submitted the following ICR to OMB for 

review and approval according to the 

procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12. 

On November 30, 2007 (72 FR 67720), 

EPA sought comments on this ICR 

pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA 

received no comments. EPA completed 

an active consultation with the National 

Association of Clean Air Agencies 

(NACAA) in January, 2008. Three 

comments were received and EPA has 

addressed the comments. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. EPA–

HQ–OAR–2004–0081, which is 

available for online viewing at 

www.regulations.gov, or in-person 

viewing at the Air and Radiation Docket 

and Information Center in the EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center Public Reading Room is open 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and 

the telephone number for the Air Docket 

is (202) 566–1742. 

Use EPA’s electronic docket and 

comment system at www.regulations.gov 

to submit or view public comments, 

access the index listing of the contents 

of the public docket, and to access those 

documents in the public docket that are 

available electronically. Once in the 

system, select ‘‘search,’’ then key in the 

docket ID number identified above. 

Please note that EPA’s policy is that 

public comments, whether submitted 

electronically or in paper, will be made 

available for public viewing in 

www.regulations.gov as EPA receives 

them and without change, unless the 

comment contains copyrighted material, 

confidential business information (CBI), 

or other information whose public 

disclosure is restricted by statute. For 

further information about the electronic 

docket, go to www.regulations.gov. 

Title: Prevention of Significant 

Deterioration and Non-Attainment Area 

New Source Review (Renewal). 

ICR Numbers: EPA ICR No. 1230.23, 

OMB Control No. 2060–0003. 

ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on October 31, 2008. Under OMB 

regulations, the Agency may continue to 

conduct or sponsor the collection of 

information while this submission is 

pending at OMB. 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 in title 40 of the CFR, after 

appearing in the Federal Register when 

approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, 

are displayed by publication in the 

Federal Register or by other appropriate 

means, such as on the related collection 

instrument or form, if applicable. The 

display of OMB control numbers in 

certain EPA regulations is consolidated 

in 40 CFR part 9. 

Abstract: Part C of the Clean Air Act 

(Act)—‘‘Prevention of Significant 

Deterioration,’’ and Part D—‘‘Plan 

Requirements for Nonattainment 

Areas,’’ require all States to adopt 

preconstruction review programs for 

new or modified stationary sources of 

air pollution. In addition, the provisions 

of Section 110 of the Act include a 

requirement for States to have a 

preconstruction review program to 

manage the emissions from the 

construction and modification of any 

stationary source of air pollution to 

assure that the National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards (NAAQS) are 

achieved and maintained. Implementing 

regulations for these three programs are 

promulgated at 40 CFR 51.160 through 

51.166 to Part 51 and 40 CFR 52.21 and 

52.24. 

In order to receive a construction 

permit for a major new source or major 

modification, the applicant must 


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conduct the necessary research, perform 

the appropriate analyses and prepare 

the permit application with 

documentation to demonstrate that their 

project meets all applicable statutory 

and regulatory NSR requirements. 

Specific activities and requirements are 

listed and described in the Supporting 

Statement for the ICR. 

Reviewing authorities review the 

permit application, provide for public 

review of the proposed project, and 

issue the permit based on its 

consideration of all technical factors 

and public input. The EPA, more 

broadly, reviews a fraction of the total 

applications and audits the state and 

local programs for their effectiveness. 

Consequently, information prepared and 

submitted by the source is essential for 

the source to receive a permit, and for 

Federal, state and local environmental 

agencies to adequately review the 

permit application and thereby properly 

administer and manage the NSR 

programs. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to be broken down as follows: 

Type of permit action Major PSD Major Part D Minor 

Number of sources ...................................................................................................................... 282 519 74,591 

Burden Hours per Response: 

Industry ................................................................................................................................. 866 642 40 

Permitting Agencies .............................................................................................................. 301 127 30 

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: 

Industrial plants, state and local 

permitting agencies. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

150,821. 

Frequency of Response: 1 per 

respondent. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

5,951,068 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$486,452,000, which includes 

$475,056,000 annual labor costs and 

$11,396,000 annual capital/startup and 

O&M costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of 44,960 in the total estimated 

burden currently identified in the OMB 

Inventory of Approved ICR Burdens. 

The number of respondents has 

increased by 51 due to the decision by 

the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC. 

Circuit to vacate the Clean Units and 

Pollution Control Project Exclusion 

provisions of the NSR program. In 

addition, the burden per permit for Part 

C major NSR permit applications 

increased based on active consultation 

with NACAA, conducted in January 

2008. 

Dated: July 29, 2008. 

Sara Hisel-McCoy, 

Director, Collections Strategies Division. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8700–8; Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD 

2007–0983] 

Interim Report of the U.S. EPA Global 

Change Research Program 

Assessment of the Impacts of Global 

Change on Regional U.S. Air Quality: A 

Preliminary Synthesis of Climate 

Change Impacts on O3

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Peer-Review 

Workshop. 

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing that 

Versar, Inc., an EPA contractor for 

external scientific peer review, will 

convene an independent panel of 

experts and organize and conduct an 

external peer-review workshop to 

review the external review draft 

document titled, ‘‘Interim Report of the 

U.S. EPA Global Change Research 

Program Assessment of the Impacts of 

Global Change on Regional U.S. Air 

Quality: A Preliminary Synthesis of 

Climate Change Impacts on O3’’ (EPA/ 

600/R–07/094). The draft document was 

prepared by the National Center for 

Environmental Assessment (NCEA) 

within EPA’s Office of Research and 

Development. 

The public comment period, 

announced in (73 FR 39695), and the 

external peer-review workshop are 

separate processes that provide 

opportunities for all interested parties to 

comment on the document. EPA has 

released this draft document solely for 

the purpose of pre-dissemination peer 

review under applicable information 

quality guidelines. This document has 

not been formally disseminated by EPA. 

It does not represent and should not be 

construed to represent any Agency 

policy or determination. 

EPA invites the public to register to 

attend this workshop as observers. In 

addition, EPA invites the public to give 

oral and/or provide written comments at 

the workshop regarding the draft 

document under review. The draft 

document and EPA’s peer-review charge 

are available primarily via the Internet 

on NCEA’s home page under the Recent 

Additions and the Data and Publications 

menus at www.epa.gov/ncea. In 

preparing a final report, EPA will 

consider the Versar, Inc. report of the 

comments and recommendations from 

the external peer-review workshop and 

any public comments that EPA receives 

in accordance with this notice. 

DATES: The peer-review panel workshop 

will begin on August 26, 2008, at 8:30 

a.m. and end at 5 p.m. on the same day. 

ADDRESSES: The peer-review workshop 

will be held at the U.S. EPA, Research 

Triangle Park Campus, 109 TW 

Alexander Drive, Durham, NC 27709. 

The EPA contractor, Versar Inc., is 

organizing, convening, and conducting 

the peer-review workshop. To attend the 

workshop, register by August 19, 2008, 

preferably via the Internet at http:// 

epa.versar.com/ 

climatechangeimpactsonozone, or via 

the following means: by calling Versar, 

Inc. at 703–750–3000, extension 737 or 

211; sending a facsimile to Attn: 

Malikah Moore at 703–642–6954, or; 

sending an e-mail to 

mmoore@versar.com and 

dsinkowski@versar.com. The draft 

‘‘Interim Report of the U.S. EPA Global 

Change Research Program Assessment 

of the Impacts of Global Change on 

Regional U.S. Air Quality: A 


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