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time allowed for protest. If a protest is 

filed and not withdrawn within 30 days 

after the time allowed for filing a 

protest, the instant request shall be 

treated as an application for 

authorization pursuant to section 7 of 

the NGA. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings of comments, protests, 

and interventions via the Internet in lieu 

of paper. 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. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RM11–2–000] 

Smart Grid Interoperability Standards; 

Notice of Technical Conference 

October 22, 2010. 

Take notice that the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission) 

will convene a conference on November 

14, 2010, from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. 

Eastern time in conjunction with the 

NARUC/FERC Collaborative on Smart 

Response (Collaborative), in the 

International D Ballroom at the Omni 

Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta, GA. The 

technical conference will be open to the 

public and advance registration is not 

required. The Commission is holding 

this conference together with a number 

of State regulatory authorities that also 

are considering the adoption of Smart 

Grid Interoperability Standards 

(Standards) in their States. 

On October 6, 2010, the National 

Institute of Standards and Technology 

(NIST) informed the Commission by 

letter of the posting of several groups of 

Standards which NIST identified as 

ready for consideration by regulators. 

Commissioners from State public utility 

commissions and the Commission will 

receive briefings on the first set of 

Standards posted by NIST at the 

technical conference. 

Interested regulators may consider 

these Standards because they include 

emerging technology standards that may 

affect all electric facilities including 

generation, transmission, and 

distribution facilities as well as 

metering and communications at all 

levels. This technical conference 

provides an opportunity for both the 

Commission and interested State 

regulatory authorities to hear directly 

from NIST and others involved in the 

standards development process. The 

Commission will issue an agenda at a 

later date. 

Transcripts of the technical 

conference will be made available. 

Instructions for obtaining transcripts 

will be published at a later date. 

Prior to the technical conference other 

topics will be discussed by the 

Collaborative. Visit NARUC’s Web site, 

http://annual.narucmeetings.org/, for 

detailed information on the agenda for 

that portion of the meeting, which 

begins at 8:15 a.m. Following the 

technical conference, from 11:30 a.m. 

until 12:30 p.m., the Collaborative will 

hold an informal, off-the-record 

discussion about the Standards, the 

Standards setting process, and the 

issues that their adoption may present. 

These portions of the meeting will also 

be open to the public, but will not be 

recorded. 

Commission conferences are 

accessible under section 508 of the 

Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For 

accessibility accommodations, please 

send an e-mail to accessibility@ferc.gov 

or call toll free (866) 208–3372 (voice) 

or (202) 208–1659 (TTY), or send a FAX 

to (202) 208–2106 with the required 

accommodations. 

For more information about this 

conference, please contact Sandra 

Waldstein at (202) 502–8092 or 

sandra.waldstein@ferc.gov. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–27405 Filed 10–28–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD10–7–000] 

ILP Effectiveness Evaluation 2010; 

Additional Notice of Multi-Stakeholder 

Technical Conference on the 

Integrated Licensing Process 

October 21, 2010. 

As announced in the May 18, 2010, 

‘‘Notice of Interviews, Teleconferences, 

Regional Workshops And MultiStakeholder Technical Conference On 

The Integrated Licensing Process,’’ a 

technical conference will be held on 

November 3, 2010, from 11 a.m. (EST) 

to 3 p.m. (EST) in the Commission 

Meeting Room at the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

While we encourage interested parties 

to attend the technical conference in 

person, a limited number of phone lines 

will be available on a first-come-firstserve basis for interested parties to 

participate via teleconference. If you 

would like to participate via 

teleconference, e-mail Stephanie Obadia 

at sobadia@kearnswest.com by October 

29, 2010 to receive the toll-free 

telephone number and password to join 

the teleconference. Also, please register 

to attend the technical conference by emailing Stephanie Obadia at 

sobadia@kearnswest.com by October 29, 

2010. 

For more information about this 

conference, please contact David Turner 

at (202) 502–6091 or 

david.turner@ferc.gov. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–27399 Filed 10–28–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD11–2–000] 

Transmission Vegetation Management 

Practices; Supplemental Notice of 

Technical Conference 

October 21, 2010. 

On October 5, 2010 the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission 

announced that a Technical Conference 

on Transmission Vegetation 

Management Practices would be held on 

Tuesday, October 26, from 1 p.m. to 5 

p.m. This staff-led conference will be 

held in the Commission Meeting Room 

at the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. The conference 

will be open for the public to attend and 

advance registration is not required. 

Members of the Commission may attend 

the conference. 

Attached is an agenda for this 

meeting. The conference will be 

Webcast. Anyone with Internet access 

who desires to listen to this event can 

do so by navigating to http:// 

www.ferc.gov’s Calendar of Events and 

locating this event in the Calendar. The 

event will contain a link to the webcast. 

The Capitol Connection provides 

technical support for webcasts and 

offers the option of listening to the 

meeting via phone-bridge for a fee. If 

you have any questions, visit http:// 

www.CapitolConnection.org or call 703– 

993–3100. 

Commission conferences are 

accessible under section 508 of the 

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1See Mandatory Reliability Standards for the 

Bulk-Power System, Order No. 693, FERC Stats. & 

Regs. ¶ 31,242, at P 695–735; Order on reh’g, Order 

No. 693–A, 120 FERC ¶ 61,053 at P 95–99 (2007). 

2Reliability Standard FAC–003–1, section A.4.3. 

Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For 

accessibility accommodations, please 

send an e-mail to accessibility@ferc.gov 

or call toll free 1–866–208–3372 (voice) 

or 202–208–1659 (TTY), or send a FAX 

to 202–208–2106 with the required 

accommodations. 

For more information about this 

conference, please contact: Sarah 

McKinley, Office of External Affairs, 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426, (202) 502–8368, 

sarah.mckinley@ferc.gov. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

Technical Conference on Transmission 

Vegetation Management Practices 

Docket No. AD11–2–000 

October 26, 2010 

Agenda 

1 p.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks 

The purpose of the conference is to 

discuss current vegetation management 

programs and practices as required 

under the Commission-approved 

Reliability Standard FAC–003–1— 

Transmission Vegetation Management 

Program (TVMP).1 Reliability Standard 

FAC–003–1 applies to all transmission 

lines operated at 200 kV and above, and 

to lower voltage lines designated as 

‘‘critical to the reliability of the electric 

system in the region.’’ 2

Certain landowners and other affected 

parties have raised concerns about 

changes in vegetation management 

practices that utilities implemented 

following adoption of FAC–003–1. 

Because reliability of the Bulk-Power 

System is critical, the Commission is 

interested in obtaining a better 

understanding of the scope of any 

changes in vegetation management 

practices since FAC–003–1 was 

approved as mandatory and enforceable, 

and the extent to which such changes 

resulted from the requirements imposed 

under FAC–003–1. The Commission is 

also interested in obtaining a better 

understanding of the range of vegetation 

management practices used by 

transmission owners, and the reasons 

for selecting a given practice over 

alternatives. 

Panelists (for Both Panels) 

David Morrell—Utility Environmental 

Analyst, New York Public Service 

Commission. 

Robert Novembri—Senior Event 

Investigator, North American Electric 

Reliability Corporation. 

Randall H. Miller—Director, Vegetation 

Management, PacifiCorp. 

David E. Schleicher, PE—Vice 

President—Transmission, PPL 

Electric Utilities. 

Derek Vannice—Executive Director, 

Utility Arborist Association, 

International Society of Arboriculture. 

Charles Goodman—Co-Founder, Indiana 

Tree Alliance. 

Mark Gilliland—Chairperson, LORAX 

Working Group, Greenburgh 

Environmental Forum. 

Representative from another State 

public service commission (invited). 

1:10 p.m. Session 1—This session will 

explore the requirements and impact of 

mandatory Reliability Standard FAC– 

003–1. 

• What is required by Reliability 

Standard FAC–003–1? What is its 

purpose? Who must comply and what 

facilities are subject to it? 

• Are there corresponding or 

conflicting vegetation management 

requirements at the State level? How are 

such requirements developed and to 

what facilities do they apply? 

• What are common methods used for 

vegetation management, and what are 

the benefits of each method? 

• Why do utilities choose one method 

over another? Cost, benefit of one 

method over another, or for other 

reasons? 

• What’s contained in a typical 

TMVP? Are there different types of 

TVMPs so that a utility might have one 

for FAC–003–1 compliance and another 

for compliance with State/local 

vegetation management requirements? 

How is a TVMP created, implemented, 

and approved? 

• What effect did mandatory 

Reliability Standard FAC–003–1 have 

on vegetation management practices? 

Was there a change in vegetation 

management practices post-June 18, 

2007? 

• Questions from Staff. 

3 p.m. Break 

3:15 p.m. Session 2—This session will 

focus on Right of Way (ROW) 

agreements and landowner concerns 

and possible solutions. 

• What provisions are typically 

contained in a electric transmission line 

ROW agreement (e.g., common 

provisions, rights and obligations of the 

utility and landowner)? How are these 

agreements developed/negotiated? Who 

has jurisdiction over them? Who is the 

arbiter of any disputes? 

• Concerns raised by landowners 

regarding ROW maintenance, causes of 

disputes that say the utility blamed 

FERC for having to clear cut the right of 

way and remove trees that had long 

been in place. 

• Landowner avenues for relief; can a 

landowner prevent ROW maintenance? 

• Costs for vegetation management 

and who bears them? Are any such costs 

recovered in transmission tariffs subject 

to the Commission’s jurisdiction? How 

are they reviewed by State PSC/PUCs? 

• What is the impact, if any, of 

vegetation management practices on the 

siting of new (or upgraded) transmission 

lines? How can this impact be 

mitigated? 

• Questions from Staff. 

• Questions from the public. 

4:45 Concluding Remarks 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R10–OAR–2010–0858; FRL–9218–7; 

EPA ICR No. 2020.05; OMB Control No. 

2060–0558] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Federal 

Implementation Plans Under the Clean 

Air Act for Indian Reservations in 

Idaho, Oregon, and Washington 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document 

announces that EPA is planning to 

submit a request to renew an existing 

approved Information Collection 

Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). This 

ICR is scheduled to expire on May 31, 

2011. Before submitting the ICR to OMB 

for review and approval, EPA is 

soliciting comments on specific aspects 

of the proposed information collection 

as described below. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before December 28, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R10– 

OAR–2010–0858, by one of the 

following methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments; 

• E-mail: spenillo.justin@epa.gov; 

• Fax: (206) 553–0110; 

• Mail: Justin A Spenillo, 

Environmental Protection Agency 

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