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Vol. 73, No. 178 

Friday, September 12, 2008 

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT 

Notice of Meeting 

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, notice is hereby given of 

a meeting of the Advisory Committee on 

Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA). 

Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008 (9 

a.m. to 3 p.m., times may be adjusted). 

Location: National Press Club 

Ballroom, 529 14th Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20045. 

Please note that this is the anticipated 

agenda and is subject to change. 

Keynote: Henrietta H. Fore, USAID 

Administrator and Director of United 

States Foreign Assistance, will speak on 

key issues before USAID and the foreign 

assistance community including the 

High Level Forum in Accra on Aid 

Effectiveness and the United Nations 

General Assemby. She will also address 

the draft recommendations of the 

ACVFA Subcommittee on Public 

Outreach. 

American Awareness of U.S. Foreign 

Assistance: The ACVFA’s Subcommittee 

on Public Outreach will provide its draft 

recommendations to the full Committee 

and the general public. A respondent 

will provide feedback to the draft. 

The meeting is free and open to the 

public. Persons wishing to attend the 

meeting can register online at http:// 

www.usaid.gov/about_usaid/acvfa or 

with Jocelyn Rowe at jrowe@usaid.gov 

or 202–712–4002. 

Dated: September 8, 2008. 

Jocelyn M. Rowe, 

Executive Director, Advisory Committee on 

Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA), U.S. Agency 

for International Development. 

[FR Doc. E8–21273 Filed 9–11–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6116–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[OR–030–08–5101–ER–H048; OROR– 

065375; IDI–036029; HAG–08–0199] 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for the Boardman-Hemingway 500 

kilovolt (kV) Transmission Line Project 

(Project) in Idaho and Oregon and 

Possible Land Use Plan Amendments 

AGENCIES: Bureau of Land Management, 

DOI; and Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement, 

possible land use plan amendments, 

and notice of public scoping meetings. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102 (2)(C) 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) of 1969 and in response to 

right-of-way (ROW) applications filed 

by Idaho Power Company, the Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM), Vale District 

Office, and U.S. Forest Service (USFS), 

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest 

announce their intent to prepare an EIS 

and conduct public scoping meetings. 

Idaho Power Company proposes to 

construct, operate, and maintain a single 

circuit 500 kV overhead electric 

transmission line and appurtenant 

facilities beginning near Boardman, 

Oregon, and terminating near Melba, 

Idaho. The proposed route roughly 

parallels Interstate 84 and is 

approximately 278 miles long. 

Authorization of this Project may 

require the amendment of USFS or BLM 

land use plans. 

DATES: This notice initiates the public 

scoping process as required by NEPA. 

The BLM and USFS request that public 

comments be submitted by November 

14, 2008. To provide the public an 

opportunity to review project 

information, public meetings are 

planned in Idaho and Oregon in 

communities near the proposed route. 

The following communities are being 

considered for meeting locations: 

Ontario, Baker City, La Grande, 

Pendleton, Pilot Rock, Hermiston, and 

Boardman, Oregon; Marsing and 

Homedale, Idaho. The scoping meetings 

will be conducted in an ‘‘open house’’ 

format. Staff from the BLM, USFS, 

Oregon Department of Energy, Idaho 

Power Company, and environmental 

contractors will be available to answer 

questions and explain their respective 

roles and responsibilities. The BLM and 

USFS will announce the exact meeting 

dates, times, and locations at least 15 

days prior to the event. Announcements 

will be made by news release, 

individual postcard mailings, and 

posting on the Project Web site 

(http://www.boardmanto 

hemingway.com). 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• Web site: http:// 

www.boardmantohemingway.com. 

• E-mail: B2HComments@blm.gov. 

• Mail: Bureau of Land Management, 

Vale District Office, 100 Oregon Street, 

Vale, Oregon, 97918, Attention: Lucas 

Lucero. 

Documents pertinent to the ROW 

application are on file and may be 

examined at: 

• Bureau of Land Management, Vale 

District Office, 100 Oregon Street, Vale, 

Oregon, 97918. 

• U.S. Forest Service, WallowaWhitman Supervisor’s Office, 1550 

Dewey Avenue, Baker City, Oregon, 

97814. 

• U.S. Forest Service, La Grande 

Ranger District, 3502 Highway 30, La 

Grande Oregon, 97850. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Idaho 

Power Company has submitted ROW 

applications to construct, operate, and 

maintain a 500kV single circuit 

overhead electric transmission line on 

Federal lands. The purpose and need of 

the Project is to relieve existing 

congestion, capacity, and reliability 

constraints and allow for the delivery of 

up to 1500 megawatts (MW) of 

additional energy to target service areas 

principally in Idaho and Utah. The 

proposed project begins near Boardman, 

Oregon, just north of the Boardman 

Power Plant, at the newly proposed 

Boardman Substation. The Project route 

continues southeast to interconnect 

with the Hemingway Substation in 

southeastern Oregon. The Hemingway 

Substation is being planned and built 

separately from this Project and will be 

built regardless of the outcome of this 

Project so the Hemingway Substation 

will not be analyzed in this EIS. The 

Project route then proceeds southeast 

and terminates near Melba, Idaho, at the 

newly proposed Sand Hollow 


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