Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 164 / Friday, August 22, 2008 / Notices 49663 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Notice of Proposed Extension of 

Project Period and Waiver for the 

Puerto Rico State Technical 

Assistance (TA) Project To Improve 

Services and Results for Children Who 

Are Deaf-Blind 

AGENCY: Office of Special Education 

Programs, Office of Special Education 

and Rehabilitative Services, Department 

of Education. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed extension of 

project period and waiver for the Puerto 

Rico State Technical Assistance (TA) 

Project to Improve Services and Results 

for Children Who Are Deaf-Blind. 

SUMMARY: The Secretary proposes to 

waive the requirements in the Education 

Department General Administrative 

Regulations (EDGAR), in 34 CFR 75.250 

and 75.261(a), respectively, that 

generally prohibit project periods 

exceeding five years and extensions of 

project periods involving the obligation 

of additional Federal funds. This 

extension of project period and waiver 

will enable the currently funded Puerto 

Rico State TA Project to Improve 

Services and Results for Children Who 

Are Deaf-Blind to receive funding from 

October 1, 2008 through September 30, 

2009. 

DATES: We must receive your comments 

on or before September 8, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Address all comments 

concerning this proposed extension and 

waiver to Anne Smith, U.S. Department 

of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, 

SW., Room 4086, Potomac Center Plaza, 

Washington, DC 20202–2641. 

Telephone: (202) 245–7529. If you 

prefer to send your comments through 

the Internet, use the following address: 

anne.smith@ed.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Anne Smith. Telephone: (202) 245–

7529. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll-free, at 

1–800–877–8339. Individuals with 

disabilities may obtain this document in 

an alternative format (e.g., Braille, large 

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

on request to the contact person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Invitation to Comment 

We invite you to submit comments 

regarding this proposed extension of 

project period and waiver. 

During and after the comment period, 

you may inspect all public comments 

about this proposed extension of project 

period and waiver in Room 4086, 

Potomac Center Plaza, 550 12th Street, 

SW., Washington, DC, between the 

hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., Eastern 

time, Monday through Friday of each 

week except Federal holidays. 

Assistance to Individuals With 

Disabilities in Reviewing the 

Rulemaking Record 

On request, we will supply an 

appropriate aid, such as a reader or 

print magnifier, to an individual with a 

disability who needs assistance to 

review the comments or other 

documents in the public rulemaking 

record for this proposed extension of 

project period and waiver. If you want 

to schedule an appointment for this type 

of aid, please contact the person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Background 

The Department published a notice in 

the Federal Register on July 3, 2003 (68 

FR 39902), inviting applications for 

awards for fiscal year (FY) 2003. Based 

on that notice, the Department made 48 

awards, including one award for a 

period of 60 months to the Puerto Rico 

Department of Education, in order to 

build the capacity of the State, parents, 

and professionals to improve outcomes 

for children and young adults who are 

deaf-blind and their families by 

providing TA, information, and training 

on early intervention, special education, 

related services, and transitional 

services. The Department published a 

notice inviting applications for awards 

for FY 2008 on March 25, 2008 (73 FR 

15444). The Puerto Rico Department of 

Education submitted an application, but 

the budget request was above the 

maximum amount allocated to them, 

and, therefore, the application was 

ineligible for review. Given the severity 

of deaf-blindness and the low incidence 

of this population, it is important to 

ensure continuation of State TA services 

for children who are deaf-blind in 

Puerto Rico. Therefore, the Department 

proposes to extend the current grant to 

the Puerto Rico Department of 

Education (H326C030042) for a sixth 

year and award an additional $65,000 to 

that agency. The Department also 

intends to announce a competition to 

permit Puerto Rico to apply for four 

additional years of funding. The Puerto 

Rico Department of Education DeafBlind TA project has demonstrated 

significant progress in providing TA 

services to families, educators, and 

other service providers since it was 

funded in 2003. The Puerto Rico 

Department of Education’s current 

project period for its Deaf-Blind TA 

Project is scheduled to end on 

September 30, 2008. Deaf-blindness is a 

severe and complex disability. In order 

to ensure that continued TA is available 

to assist Puerto Rican families, 

educators, and other professionals who 

work with children who are deaf-blind, 

the Secretary proposes to waive the 

requirements in 34 CFR 75.250 and 

75.261(a) and proposes to issue a 

continuation award to the existing 

grantee for an additional twelve-month 

period. 

The Puerto Rico Department of 

Education will continue to build the 

capacity of the State, parents, and 

professionals to improve outcomes for 

children and young adults who are deafblind and their families by providing 

TA, information, and training on early 

intervention, special education, related 

services, and transitional services. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification 

The Secretary certifies that the 

proposed extension of the project period 

and waiver will not have a significant 

economic impact on a substantial 

number of small entities. The only 

entity that would be affected is the 

Puerto Rico Department of Education. 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

This proposed extension of project 

period and waiver does not contain any 

information collection requirements. 

Intergovernmental Review 

This program is subject to the 

requirements of Executive Order 12372 

and the regulations in 34 CFR part 79. 

One of the objectives of the Executive 

order is to foster an intergovernmental 

partnership and a strengthened 

federalism. The Executive order relies 

on processes developed by State and 

local governments for coordination and 

review of proposed Federal financial 

assistance. 

This document provides early 

notification of our specific plans and 

actions for this program. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You can view this document, as well 

as all other documents of this 

Department published in the Federal 

Register, in text or Adobe Portable 

Document Format (PDF) on the Internet 

at the following site: http://www.ed.gov/ 

news/fedregister. 

To use PDF you must have Adobe 

Acrobat Reader, which is available free 

at this site. If you have questions about 

using PDF, call the U.S. Government 

Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1–

888–293–6498; or in the Washington, 

DC, area at (202) 512–1530. 


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49664 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 164 / Friday, August 22, 2008 / Notices 

Note: The official version of this document 

is the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the Code 

of Federal Regulations is available on GPO 

Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Dated: August 18, 2008. 

Tracy R. Justesen, 

Assistant Secretary for Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services. 

[FR Doc. E8–19563 Filed 8–21–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project Nos. 12540–002; 12545–002; 12549–

002] 

Hydrodynamics, Inc.; Notice of 

Applications Accepted for Filing, 

Soliciting Motions To Intervene and 

Protests, Ready for Environmental 

Analysis, and Soliciting Comments, 

Terms and Conditions, 

Recommendations, and Prescriptions 

August 14, 2008. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric applications have been 

filed with the Commission and are 

available for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Minor 

unconstructed projects. 

b. Projects Nos.: 12540–002, 12545–

002, and 12549–002. 

c. Date filed: March 31, 2008. 

d. Applicant: Hydrodynamics, Inc. 

e. Name of Projects: Woods, Johnson, 

and A–Drop. 

f. Location: On the Greenfields Main 

Canal and the Greenfields South Canal, 

parts of the U. S. Bureau of 

Reclamation’s existing Sun River 

Irrigation Project, in Cascade and Teton 

Counties, Montana, near Fairfield, 

Montana. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r) 

h. Applicant Contact: Roger Kirk, 

Hydrodynamics, Inc., P.O. Box 1136, 

Bozeman, MT 59771, (406) 587–5086. 

i. FERC Contact: Dianne Rodman, 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426; telephone (202) 502–6077 or by 

e-mail at dianne.rodman@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing motions to 

intervene and protests, comments, terms 

and conditions, recommendations, and 

prescriptions: 60 days from the issuance 

of this notice. All reply comments must 

be filed with the Commission within 

105 days from the date of this notice. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) should be filed with: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

require all intervenors filing documents 

with the Commission to serve a copy of 

that document on each person on the 

official service list for the project. 

Further, if an intervenor files comments 

or documents with the Commission 

relating to the merits of an issue that 

may affect the responsibilities of a 

particular resource agency, they must 

also serve a copy of the document on 

that resource agency. 

Motions to intervene, protests, 

comments, terms and conditions, 

recommendations, and prescriptions 

may be filed electronically via the 

Internet in lieu of paper. The 

Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings. See 18 CFR 

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions 

on the Commission’s Web site (http:// 

www.ferc.gov) under the ‘‘e-Filing’’ link. 

k. The applications have been 

accepted for filing and are now ready for 

environmental analysis. 

l. The proposed Woods Project would 

be built at the Greenfields Main Canal’s 

Woods drop structure. The applicant 

proposes to construct: (1) An inflatable 

weir spanning the full width of the 

canal; (2) an intake structure with trash 

rack and radial gate or stop-log shut off; 

(3) a buried, 72-inch-diameter, 750-footlong steel or polyethylene penstock; (4) 

a powerhouse containing one Francis or 

propeller (Reaction) turbine and one 

generator with a rated output of 900 

kilowatts (kW); (5) a tailrace returning 

flows to the canal; (6) a switchyard; and 

(7) a 376-foot-long, 69-kilovolt (kV) 

transmission line interconnecting with 

an existing powerline. Average annual 

generation would be 2.2 gigawatt-hours 

(GWh). 

The proposed Johnson Project would 

be built at the Greenfields South Canal’s 

Johnson drop structure. The applicant 

proposes to construct: (1) An inflatable 

weir spanning the width of the canal; (2) 

an intake structure with trash rack and 

radial gate or stop-log shut off; (3) a 

buried, 60-inch-diameter, 900-foot-long 

steel or polyethylene penstock; (4) a 

powerhouse containing one Francis or 

propeller (Reaction) turbine and one 

generator with a rated output of 700 kW; 

(5) a tailrace returning flows to the 

canal; (6) a switchyard; (7) a 1,024-footlong, 69-kV transmission line 

interconnecting with an existing 

powerline; and (8) a powerhouse access 

road. Average annual generation would 

be 1.7 GWh. 

The proposed A–Drop Project would 

be built at the Greenfields Main Canal’s 

Greenfield drop structure. The applicant 

proposes to construct: (1) An inflatable 

weir spanning the width of the canal; (2) 

an intake structure with trash rack and 

radial gate or stop-log shut off; (3) a 

buried, 96-inch-diameter, 830-foot-long 

steel or polyethylene penstock; (4) a 

powerhouse containing one Francis or 

propeller (Reaction) turbine and one 

generator with a rated output of 1,000 

kW; (5) a tailrace returning flows to the 

canal; (6) a switchyard; (7) a buried 144- 

foot-long, 12-kV transmission line 

interconnecting with an existing 

powerline; and (8) an approximately 

730-foot-long powerhouse access road. 

Average annual generation would be 2.5 

GWh. 

m. Copies of the applications are 

available for review at the Commission 

in the Public Reference Room or may be 

viewed on the Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket 

number, excluding the last three digits, 

in the docket number field to access 

each of the documents. For assistance, 

contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

(202) 502–8659. Copies are also 

available for inspection and 

reproduction at the address in item h 

above. 

Register online at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

n. Any qualified applicant desiring to 

file a competing application must 

submit to the Commission, on or before 

the specified intervention deadline date, 

a competing development application, 

or a notice of intent to file such an 

application. Submission of a timely 

notice of intent allows an interested 

person to file the competing 

development application no later than 

120 days after the specified intervention 

deadline date. Applications for 

preliminary permits will not be 

accepted in response to this notice. 

A notice of intent must specify the 

exact name, business address, and 

telephone number of the prospective 

applicant, and must include an 

unequivocal statement of intent to 

submit a development application. A 

notice of intent must be served on the 

applicant named in this public notice. 

Anyone may submit comments, a 

protest, or a motion to intervene in 

accordance with the requirements of 

Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 

385.210, 385.211, and 385.214. In 

determining the appropriate action to 

take, the Commission will consider all 


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