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1Number of hours an employee works each year. 2Average annual salary per employee. 

Number of respondents annually 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average burden hours per 

response 

Total annual 

burden hours 

(1) (2) (3) (1) × (2) × (3) 

30 1 3 90 

The estimated total cost to 

respondents is $5,468. [90 hours 

divided by 2080 hours 1 per year, times 

$126,384 2 equals $5,468.54]. The 

average cost per respondent is $182.28. 

The reporting burden includes the 

total time, effort, or financial resources 

expended to generate, maintain, retain, 

disclose, or provide the information 

including: (1) Reviewing instructions; 

(2) developing, acquiring, installing, 

using technology and systems for the 

purposes of collecting, validating, 

verifying, processing, maintaining, 

disclosing and providing information; 

(3) adjusting the existing ways to 

comply with any previously applicable 

filing instructions and requirements; (4) 

training personnel to respond to a 

collection of information; (5) searching 

data sources; (6) completing and 

reviewing the collection of information; 

and (7) transmitting, or otherwise 

disclosing the information. 

The cost estimate for respondents is 

based upon salaries for professional and 

clerical support, as well as direct and 

indirect overhead costs. Direct costs 

include all costs directly attributable to 

providing this information, such as 

administrative costs and the cost for 

information technology. Indirect or 

overhead costs are costs incurred by an 

organization in support of its mission. 

These costs apply to activities which 

benefit the whole organization rather 

than any one particular function or 

activity. 

Comments are invited on: (1) Whether 

the information collection is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Commission; (2) the 

accuracy of the Commission’s burden 

estimate of the proposed information 

collection, including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used to 

calculate the reporting burden; and (3) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected. 

Kimberly Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–24491 Filed 10–15–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC09–65B–000; FERC–65B] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities, Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Extension 

October 8, 2008. 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(a) of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(Pub. L. 104–13), the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission) is 

soliciting public comment on the 

specific aspects of the information 

collection described below. 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information are due November 14, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of sample filings of 

the proposed information collection can 

be obtained from the Commission’s Web 

site (http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filings/ 

elibrary.asp) or from the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, Attn: Michael 

Miller, Office of the Executive Director, 

ED–34, 888 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. Comments may 

be filed either in paper format or 

electronically. Those parties filing 

electronically do not need to make a 

paper filing. For paper filing, the 

original and 14 copies of such 

comments should be submitted to the 

Secretary of the Commission, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426 

and refer to Docket No. IC09–65B–000. 

Documents filed electronically via the 

Internet must be prepared in an 

acceptable filing format and in 

compliance with the Commission’s 

submission guidelines. Complete filing 

instructions and acceptable filing 

formats are available at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/help. To file the 

document, access the Commission’s 

Web site at http://www.ferc.gov, choose 

the Documents & Filings tab, click on 

eFiling, then follow the instructions 

given. First time users will have to 

establish a user name and password. 

The Commission will send an automatic 

acknowledgement to the sender’s e-mail 

address upon receipt of comments. 

All comments may be viewed, printed 

or downloaded remotely via the Internet 

through FERC’s homepage using the 

eLibrary link. For user assistance, 

contact FERConlinesupport@ferc.gov or 

toll-free at (866) 208–3676 or for TTY, 

contact (202) 502–8659. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Miller, 888 First St., NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. He may be 

reached by telephone at (202) 502–8415, 

by fax at (202) 273–0873, and by e-mail 

at michael.miller@ferc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

information collected under the 

requirements of FERC–65B ‘‘Waiver 

Notification’’ (OMB No. 1902–0217) is 

used by the Commission to implement 

the statutory provisions of the Public 

Utility Holding Company Act of 2005. 

Among other things, PUHCA 2005 was 

intended to give the Commission access 

to books and records relevant to costs 

incurred by a public utility or natural 

gas company which are necessary or 

appropriate for the protection of utility 

customers with respect to jurisdictional 

rates. This intention was made clear in 

section 1264 of the Energy Policy Act of 

2005, 42 U.S.C. 16452. However, in 18 

CFR 366.3(c) the Commission has 

allowed for waivers from related 

requirements for any holding company 

with respect to one or more of the 

following: (1) Single-state holding 

company systems; (2) holding 

companies that own generating facilities 

that total 100 MW or less in size and are 

used fundamentally for their own load 

or for sales to affiliated end-users; or (3) 

investors in independent transmissiononly companies. 

Entities meeting these criteria may file 

a FERC–65B pursuant to the notification 

procedures contained in 18 CFR 366.4 

to obtain a waiver. Filings may be made 

in hardcopy or electronically through 

the Commission’s Web site. 

Action: The Commission is requesting 

a three-year extension of the current 

expiration date. 

Burden Statement: Public reporting 

burden for this collection is estimated 

as: 
61416 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 201 / Thursday, October 16, 2008 / Notices 

1Number of hours an employee works each year. 

2Average annual salary per employee. 

Number of respondents annually 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average burden hours per 

response Total annual burden hours 

(1) (2) (3) (1) × (2) × (3) 

10 1 1 10 

The estimated total cost to 

respondents is $607.62. [10 hours 

divided by 2080 hours 1 per year, times 

$126,384 2 equals $607.62]. The average 

cost per respondent is $60.76. 

The reporting burden includes the 

total time, effort, or financial resources 

expended to generate, maintain, retain, 

disclose, or provide the information 

including: (1) Reviewing instructions; 

(2) developing, acquiring, installing, 

using technology and systems for the 

purposes of collecting, validating, 

verifying, processing, maintaining, 

disclosing and providing information; 

(3) adjusting the existing ways to 

comply with any previously applicable 

filing instructions and requirements; (4) 

training personnel to respond to a 

collection of information; (5) searching 

data sources; (6) completing and 

reviewing the collection of information; 

and (7) transmitting, or otherwise 

disclosing the information. 

The cost estimate for respondents is 

based upon salaries for professional and 

clerical support, as well as direct and 

indirect overhead costs. Direct costs 

include all costs directly attributable to 

providing this information, such as 

administrative costs and the cost for 

information technology. Indirect or 

overhead costs are costs incurred by an 

organization in support of its mission. 

These costs apply to activities which 

benefit the whole organization rather 

than any one particular function or 

activity. 

Comments are invited on: (1) The 

accuracy of the agency’s burden 

estimate of the proposed information 

collection, including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used to 

calculate the reporting burden; (2) ways 

to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected. 

Kimberly Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–24493 Filed 10–15–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2390–056] 

Northern States Power Company of 

Wisconsin, d/b/a Excel Energy Inc.; 

Notice of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment 

October 8, 2008. 

In accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as 

amended, and the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission’s (Commission) 

regulations (18 CFR Part 380), the Office 

of Energy Projects has reviewed an 

application for amendment of license 

and has prepared an environmental 

assessment (EA) regarding the licensee’s 

request to amend the project license to 

include the jurisdictional TurtleFlambeau Storage Reservoir as a project 

feature of the Big Falls Project. The Big 

Falls Project is located on the Flambeau 

River in Rusk County, Wisconsin. This 

EA concludes that the proposed action, 

with recommended measures, would 

not constitute a major Federal action 

significantly affecting the quality of the 

human environment. 

Copies of the EA are available in the 

Public Reference Room of the 

Commission’s offices at 888 First Street, 

NE., Room 1–A, Washington, DC 

204265. The EA also may be viewed on 

the Commission’s Internet Web site 

(http://www.ferc.gov) using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket 

number ‘‘P–2390’’ in the docket number 

field to access the document. For 

assistance with eLibrary, contact 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free at (866) 208–3372, or for TTY 

contact (202) 502–8659. 

For further information regarding this 

notice, please contact CarLisa Linton at 

(202) 502–8416. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–24490 Filed 10–15–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8730–2; Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD– 

2008–00461] 

Draft Toxicological Review of 

Tetrachloroethylene 

(Perchloroethylene): In Support of the 

Summary Information in the Integrated 

Risk Information System (IRIS) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of peer-review meeting. 

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing that the 

National Academy of Sciences (NAS) 

will convene an independent panel of 

experts and organize and conduct a 

review of the draft document titled, 

‘‘Toxicological Review of 

Tetrachloroethylene 

(Perchloroethylene): In Support of 

Summary Information on the Integrated 

Risk Information System (IRIS)’’ (EPA/ 

635/R–08/011A). The NAS is 

organizing, convening, and conducting 

this independent peer-review meeting. 

A public meeting of the NAS peer 

review panel will be held on November 

13, 2008. 

The draft document was prepared by 

the National Center for Environmental 

Assessment (NCEA) within EPA’s Office 

of Research and Development and was 

released on June 26, 2008, (73 FR 36321) 

solely for the purpose of predissemination 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. 

The draft ‘‘Toxicological Review of 

Tetrachloroethylene 

(Perchloroethylene): In Support of 

Summary Information on the Integrated 

Risk Information System (IRIS)’’ is 

available on the Internet on NCEA’s 

home page under a June 26, 2008, 

Recent Additions entry and the Data 

and Publications menus at http:// 

www.epa.gov/ncea. Copies are not 

available from NAS. 

In previous Federal Register notices 

concerning this draft document, EPA 

announced a 90-day public comment 

period that ended September 24, 2008, 

(73 FR 36321), as well as a public