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slight decrease in overall annual costs 

and a slight increase in other revenues 

when compared to FY 2008. However, 

since there is no projected year-end 

carryover into FY 2009 the result is an 

overall increase in the base charge for 

FY 2009. Another factor contributing to 

the increase in the capacity rate is the 

decrease in capacity sales associated 

with lower Lake Mead water elevations. 

The decrease in the composite and 

energy rates is due to a slight increase 

in the FY 2009 energy sales from FY 

2008. 

Legal Authority 

Western will hold both a public 

information forum and a public 

comment forum. After review of public 

comments and possible amendments or 

adjustments, Western will recommend 

the Deputy Secretary of Energy approve 

the proposed base charge and rates on 

a final basis. 

Western is establishing an electric 

service base charge and rates for BCP 

under the Department of Energy 

Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7152); the 

Reclamation Act of 1902 (ch. 1093, 32 

Stat. 388), as amended and 

supplemented by subsequent laws, 

particularly section 9(c) of the 

Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (43 

U.S.C. 485h(c)), and other acts that 

specifically apply to the project 

involved. 

By Delegation Order No. 00–037.00, 

effective December 6, 2001, the 

Secretary of Energy delegated: (1) The 

authority to develop power and 

transmission rates to Western’s 

Administrator; (2) the authority to 

confirm, approve, and place such rates 

into effect on an interim basis to the 

Deputy Secretary of Energy; and (3) the 

authority to confirm, approve, and place 

into effect on a final basis, to remand or 

to disapprove such rates to the 

Commission. Existing Department of 

Energy (DOE) procedures for public 

participation in power rate adjustments 

(10 CFR part 903) were published on 

September 18, 1985. 

Availability of Information 

All brochures, studies, comments, 

letters, memorandums or other 

documents that Western initiates or uses 

to develop the proposed rates are 

available for inspection and copying at 

the Desert Southwest Customer Service 

Regional Office, Western Area Power 

Administration, located at 615 South 

43rd Avenue, Phoenix, AZ. Many of 

these documents and supporting 

information are also available on 

Western’s Web site at http:// 

www.wapa.gov/dsw/pwrmkt/BCP/ 

RateAdjust.htm. 

Ratemaking Procedure Requirements 

Environmental Compliance 

In compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321, et seq.), the 

Council On Environmental Quality 

Regulations for implementing NEPA (40 

CFR parts 1500–1508), and DOE NEPA 

Implementing Procedures and 

Guidelines (10 CFR part 1021), Western 

has determined this action is 

categorically excluded from preparing 

an environmental assessment or an 

environmental impact statement. 

Determination Under Executive Order 

12866 

Western has an exemption from 

centralized regulatory review under 

Executive Order 12866, accordingly, no 

clearance of this notice by the Office of 

Management and Budget is required. 

Dated: January 10, 2008. 

Timothy J. Meeks, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. E8–1872 Filed 1–31–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8523–6] 

Clean Water Act Section 303(d): 

Availability of 16 Total Maximum Daily 

Loads (TMDL) in Louisiana 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability for comment of the 

administrative record files for 16 

TMDLs and the calculations for these 

TMDLs prepared by EPA Region 6 for 

waters listed in the Pearl River and the 

Terrebonne River Basins of Louisiana, 

under section 303(d) of the Clean Water 

Act (CWA). These TMDLs were 

completed in response to a court order 

in the lawsuit styled Sierra Club, et al. 

v. Clifford, et al., No. 96–0527, (E.D. 

La.). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted in 

writing to EPA on or before March 3, 

2008. 

ADDRESSES: Comments on the 16 

TMDLs should be sent to Diane Smith, 

Environmental Protection Specialist, 

Water Quality Protection Division, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency 

Region 6, 1445 Ross Ave., Dallas, TX 

75202–2733 or e-mail: 

smith.diane@epa.gov. For further 

information, contact Diane Smith at 

(214) 665–2145 or fax 214.665.7373. The 

administrative record files for the 16 

TMDLs are available for public 

inspection at this address as well. 

Documents from the administrative 

record files may be viewed at http://

www.epa.gov/earth1r6/6wq/npdes/

tmdl/index.htm, or obtained by calling 

or writing Ms. Smith at the above 

address. Please contact Ms. Smith to 

schedule an inspection. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Diane Smith at (214) 665–2145. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 1996, 

two Louisiana environmental groups, 

the Sierra Club and Louisiana 

Environmental Action Network 

(plaintiffs), filed a lawsuit in Federal 

Court against the EPA, styled Sierra 

Club, et al. v. Clifford, et al., No. 96–

0527, (E.D. La.). Among other claims, 

plaintiffs alleged that EPA failed to 

establish Louisiana TMDLs in a timely 

manner. EPA proposes six of these 

TMDLs pursuant to a consent decree 

entered in this lawsuit. 

EPA Seeks Comment on 16 TMDLs 

By this notice EPA is seeking 

comment on the following 16 TMDLs 

for waters located within Louisiana 

basins: 

Subsegment Waterbody name Pollutant 

............................ ....................................................................................................................................

090101 ............... Pearl River—MS State Line to Pearl River Navigation Canal .................................. Fecal Coliform. 

090104 ............... Peters Creek—Headwaters to Pearl River ............................................................... Fecal Coliform. 

090106 ............... Holmes Bayou—From the Pearl River to the West Pearl River (scenic) ................. Turbidity. 

090201 ............... West Pearl River—From Headwaters to confluence with Holmes Bayou (scenic) .. Turbidity. 

090202 ............... West Pearl River—From confluence with Holmes Bayou to the Rigolets (includes 

east and west mouths) (scenic).

Turbidity. 

090301 ............... Pushepatapa Creek—MS State Line to Pearl River floodplain ................................ Fecal Coliform. 

090401 ............... Bogue Lusa Creek—Headwaters to Pearl River ...................................................... Fecal Coliform. 

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Subsegment Waterbody name Pollutant 

090501 ............... Bogue Chitto River—From MS State Line to Pearl River Navigation Canal (scenic).Turbidity. 

090502 ............... Big Silver Creek—Headwaters to Bogue Chitto River .............................................. Fecal Coliform. 

090505 ............... Bonner Creek—Headwaters to Bogue Chitto River .................................................. Fecal Coliform. 

090506 ............... Thigpen Creek—Headwaters to Bogue Chitto River ................................................ Fecal Coliform. 

090105 ............... Pearl River Navigation Canal—From Pools Bluff to Lock No. 3 (includes east and 

west mouths) (scenic).

Dissolved Oxygen. 

090204 ............... Pearl River Navigation Canal—Below Lock No. 3 .................................................... Dissolved Oxygen. 

090207 ............... Middle Pearl River and West Middle Pearl River—From West Pearl River to Little 

Lake.

Dissolved Oxygen. 

120606 ............... Bayou Blue—Grand Bayou Canal to Boundary between segments 1206 and 1207 

(Estuarine).

Dissolved Oxygen and Nutrients. 

EPA requests that the public provide 

to EPA any water quality related data 

and information that may be relevant to 

the calculations for the 16 TMDLs. EPA 

will review all data and information 

submitted during the public comment 

period and revise the TMDLs where 

appropriate. EPA will then forward the 

TMDLs to the Louisiana Department of 

Environmental Quality (LDEQ). The 

LDEQ will incorporate the TMDLs into 

its current water quality management 

plan. 

Dated: January 25, 2008. 

Miguel I. Flores, 

Director, Water Quality Protection Division, 

EPA Region 6. 

[FR Doc. E8–1897 Filed 1–31–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8523–5] 

Access to Confidential Business 

Information by Enrollees Under the 

Senior Environmental Employment 

Program 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA has authorized grantee 

organizations under the Senior 

Environmental Employment (SEE) 

Program and their enrollees access to 

information which has been submitted 

to EPA under the environmental statutes 

administered by the Agency. Some of 

this information may be claimed or 

determined to be confidential business 

information (CBI). 

DATES: Comments concerning CBI 

access will be accepted on or before 

February 8, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

submitted to: Susan Street, National 

Program Director, Senior Environmental 

Employment Program (MC 3605A), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency; Ariel 

Rios Building, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Susan Street at (202) 564–0410. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Senior Environmental Employment 

(SEE) program is authorized by the 

Environmental Programs Assistance Act 

of 1984 (Pub. L. 98–313), which 

provides that the Administrator of the 

Environmental Protection Agency may 

‘‘make grants to, or enter into 

cooperative agreements with,’’ specified 

private nonprofit organizations for the 

purpose of ‘‘providing technical 

assistance to Federal, State, and local 

environmental agencies for projects of 

pollution prevention, abatement, and 

control.’’ Cooperative agreements under 

the SEE program provide support for 

many functions in the Agency, 

including clerical support, staffing hot 

lines, providing support to Agency 

enforcement activities, providing library 

services, compiling data, and support in 

scientific, engineering, financial, and 

other areas. 

In performing these tasks, grantees 

and cooperators under the SEE program 

and their enrollees may have access to 

potentially all documents submitted 

under the Clean Air Act (CAA), the 

Clean Water Act (CWA), the Safe 

Drinking Water Act (SDWA), the 

Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act (RCRA), the Federal Insecticide, 

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 

(FIFRA), the Emergency Planning & 

Community Right-to-Know Act 

(EPCRA), the Federal Food, Drug, and 

Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), and the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act (CERCLA), to the extent that these 

statutes allow disclosure of confidential 

information to ‘‘authorized 

representatives of the United States’’ or 

to ‘‘contractors.’’ Some of these 

documents may contain information 

claimed as confidential. 

EPA provides confidential 

information to enrollees working under 

the following cooperative agreements: 

Cooperative Agreement 

No. Organization 

National Association for Hispanic Elderly 

QS–833757 ........................ NAHE 

Q–833436 .......................... NAHE 

National Asian Pacific Center on Aging 

Q–832831 .......................... NAPCA 

Q–832943 .......................... NAPCA 

Q–832965 .......................... NAPCA 

Q–832972 .......................... NAPCA 

Q–832973 .......................... NAPCA 

Q–832974 .......................... NAPCA 

QS–833084 ........................ NAPCA 

National Caucus and Center on Black 

Aged, Inc. 

Q–832975 .......................... NCBA 

Q–832977 .......................... NCBA 

National Council On the Aging, Inc. 

Q–832828 .......................... NCOA 

Q–832970 .......................... NCOA 

Q–833413 .......................... NCOA 

Q–833439 .......................... NCOA 

National Older Workers Career Center 

Q–832838 .......................... NOWCC 

Q–832852 .......................... NOWCC 

Q–832889 .......................... NOWCC 

Q–832890 .......................... NOWCC 

Q–832891 .......................... NOWCC 

Q–832892 .......................... NOWCC 

Q–832893 .......................... NOWCC 

Q–832922 .......................... NOWCC 

Q–832925 .......................... NOWCC 

Q–832928 .......................... NOWCC 

Q–832945 .......................... NOWCC 

Senior Service America, Inc. 

Q–832621 .......................... SSAI 

Q–832961 .......................... SSAI 

Q–832969 .......................... SSAI 

Q–832979 .......................... SSAI 

Q–833379 .......................... SSAI 

Q–833383 .......................... SSAI 

Q–833403 .......................... SSAI 

Among the procedures established by 

EPA confidentiality regulations for 

granting access to confidential business 

information is notification to the 

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