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Any questions regarding this 

Application should be directed to M.L. 

Gutierrez, Director, Regulatory Affairs, 

by phone at (713) 479–8252, or fax (713) 

479–1745 or by email at Nell.Gutierrez@

bwpmlp.com. 

Any person may, within 60 days after 

the issuance of the instant notice by the 

Commission, file pursuant to Rule 214 

of the Commission’s Procedural Rules 

(18 CFR 385.214) a motion to intervene 

or notice of intervention. Any person 

filing to intervene or the Commission’s 

staff may, pursuant to section 157.205 of 

the Commission’s Regulations under the 

NGA (18 CFR 157.205) file a protest to 

the request. If no protest is filed within 

the time allowed therefore, the proposed 

activity shall be deemed to be 

authorized effective the day after the 

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filed and not withdrawn within 30 days 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. 

Pursuant to section 157.9 of the 

Commission’s rules, 18 CFR 157.9, 

within 90 days of this Notice the 

Commission staff will either: Complete 

its environmental assessment (EA) and 

place it into the Commission’s public 

record (eLibrary) for this proceeding; or 

issue a Notice of Schedule for 

Environmental Review. If a Notice of 

Schedule for Environmental Review is 

issued, it will indicate, among other 

milestones, the anticipated date for the 

Commission staff’s issuance of the final 

environmental impact statement (FEIS) 

or EA for this proposal. The filing of the 

EA in the Commission’s public record 

for this proceeding or the issuance of a 

Notice of Schedule for Environmental 

Review will serve to notify federal and 

state agencies of the timing for the 

completion of all necessary reviews, and 

the subsequent need to complete all 

federal authorizations within 90 days of 

the date of issuance of the Commission 

staff’s FEIS or EA. 

Persons who wish to comment only 

on the environmental review of this 

project should submit an original and 

two copies of their comments to the 

Secretary of the Commission. 

Environmental commenter’s will be 

placed on the Commission’s 

environmental mailing list, will receive 

copies of the environmental documents, 

and will be notified of meetings 

associated with the Commission’s 

environmental review process. 

Environmental commenter’s will not be 

required to serve copies of filed 

documents on all other parties. 

However, the non-party commentary, 

will not receive copies of all documents 

filed by other parties or issued by the 

Commission (except for the mailing of 

environmental documents issued by the 

Commission) and will not have the right 

to seek court review of the 

Commission’s final order. 

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 (www.ferc.gov) 

under the ‘‘e-Filing’’ link. Persons 

unable to file electronically should 

submit original and 5 copies of the 

protest or intervention to the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

Dated: October 20, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–25380 Filed 10–24–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Notice of Settlement Agreement and 

Soliciting Comments 

Take notice that the following 

settlement agreement has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Settlement 

Agreement. 

b. Project No.: P–12686–004. 

c. Date filed: October 10, 2014. 

d. Applicant: Baker County, Oregon 

(Baker County). 

e. Name of Project: Mason Dam 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: The proposed project 

would be located on the Powder River, 

at the existing U.S. Bureau of 

Reclamation’s (Reclamation) Mason 

Dam, near Baker City, in Baker County, 

Oregon. The project would occupy 6.4 

acres of federal land managed by 

Reclamation and the U.S. Forest 

Service. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Rule 602 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 18 CFR 385.602. 

h. Applicant Contact: Applicant 

Contact: Fred Warner Jr., Baker County 

Board of Commissioners Chairman, 

1995 Third Street, Baker City, OR 

97814, (541) 523–8200. 

i. FERC Contact: Jennifer Adams, 

telephone (202) 502–8087, email 

jennifer.adams@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing comments: 

November 20, 2014. Reply comments 

due December 5, 2014. 

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. 

Comments 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. Baker County, Oregon (Baker 

County) filed the Settlement Agreement 

on behalf of itself and the U.S. Bureau 

of Reclamation, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture Forest Service, U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service, Oregon 

Department of Fish and Wildlife, 

Oregon Department of Environmental 

Quality, and Oregon Water Resources 

Department. The purpose of the 

Settlement Agreement is to resolve 

among the signatories all issues 

associated with issuance of an original 

license for the project regarding annual 

coordination meetings, project 

operation, fish entrainment and passage, 

water quality, erosion and vegetation 

and noxious weed management, 

terrestrial wildlife resources, historic 

and archeologic resources, emergency 

contact and action, recreation, and road 

disturbance. Baker County requests that 

the Commission accept and incorporate 

into any original license the project the 

protection, mitigation, and 

enhancement measures stated in 

Appendices A through E of the 

Settlement Agreement. 

l. A copy of the settlement agreement 

is available for electronic 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 the document. For 

assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support at FERCOnlineSupport@

ferc.gov or toll-free at 1–866–208–3676, 

or for TTY, (202) 502–8659. A copy is 

also available for inspection and 

reproduction at the address in item h 

above. 

You may also register online at 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/

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63918 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 207 / Monday, October 27, 2014 / Notices 

email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

Dated: October 21, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–25544 Filed 10–24–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL 9918–47–Region 2] 

Proposed CERCLA Section 122(h) Cost 

Recovery Settlement for the Hooker 

Chemical/Ruco Polymer Superfund 

Site, Located in Hicksville, Town of 

Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice; request for public 

comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 

122(i) of the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, 

Compensation, and Liability Act of 

1980, as amended (‘‘CERCLA’’), notice 

is hereby given by the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(‘‘EPA’’), Region II, of a proposed cost 

recovery settlement agreement pursuant 

to Section 122(h) of CERCLA, with 

Occidental Chemical Corporation 

(‘‘Settling Party’’) for the Hooker 

Chemical/Ruco Polymer Superfund Site 

(the ‘‘Site’’), located in Hicksville, Town 

of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New 

York. The Settling Party agrees to pay 

EPA $722,250 in reimbursement of past 

response costs related to EPA oversight 

of response actions performed by the 

Settling Party at the Site. 

The settlement includes a covenant by 

EPA not to sue or to take administrative 

action against the Settling party 

pursuant to Section 107(a) of CERCLA, 

with regard to the past response costs 

and future response costs as defined in 

the settlement agreement. For thirty (30) 

days following the date of publication of 

this notice, EPA will receive written 

comments relating to the settlement. 

EPA will consider all comments 

received and may modify or withdraw 

its consent to the settlement if 

comments received disclose facts or 

considerations that indicate that the 

proposed settlement is inappropriate, 

improper or inadequate. EPA’s response 

to any comments received will be 

available for public inspection at EPA 

Region II, 290 Broadway, New York, 

New York 10007–1866. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before November 26, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is 

available for public inspection at EPA 

Region II offices at 290 Broadway, New 

York, New York 10007–1866. Comments 

should reference the Hooker Chemical/ 

Ruco Polymer Superfund Site, located 

in Hicksville, Town of Oyster Bay, 

Nassau County, New York, Index No. 

CERCLA–02–2014–2017. To request a 

copy of the proposed settlement 

agreement, please contact the EPA 

employee identified below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Argie Cirillo, Assistant Regional 

Counsel, New York/Caribbean 

Superfund Branch, Office of Regional 

Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 290 Broadway—17th Floor, 

New York, New York 10007–1866. 

Telephone: 212–637–3178. 

Dated: October 14, 2014. 

Walter Mugdan, 

Director, Emergency and Remedial Response 

Division, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region 2. 

[FR Doc. 2014–25477 Filed 10–24–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies 

The companies listed in this notice 

have applied to the Board for approval, 

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company 

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) 

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part 

225), and all other applicable statutes 

and regulations to become a bank 

holding company and/or to acquire the 

assets or the ownership of, control of, or 

the power to vote shares of a bank or 

bank holding company and all of the 

banks and nonbanking companies 

owned by the bank holding company, 

including the companies listed below. 

The applications listed below, as well 

as other related filings required by the 

Board, are available for immediate 

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 

indicated. The applications will also be 

available for inspection at the offices of 

the Board of Governors. Interested 

persons may express their views in 

writing on the standards enumerated in 

the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the 

proposal also involves the acquisition of 

a nonbanking company, the review also 

includes whether the acquisition of the 

nonbanking company complies with the 

standards in section 4 of the BHC Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise 

noted, nonbanking activities will be 

conducted throughout the United States. 

Unless otherwise noted, comments 

regarding each of these applications 

must be received at the Reserve Bank 

indicated or the offices of the Board of 

Governors not later than November 21, 

2014. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland 

(Nadine Wallman, Vice President) 1455 

East Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio 

44101–2566: 

1. Citizens National Corporation, 

Paintsville, Kentucky; to acquire 100 

percent of the voting shares of Peoples 

Security Bancorp, Inc., and thereby 

indirectly acquire voting shares of 

Peoples Security Bank of Louisa, both in 

Louisa, Kentucky. 

B. Federal Reserve Bank of San 

Francisco (Gerald C. Tsai, Director, 

Applications and Enforcement) 101 

Market Street, San Francisco, California 

94105–1579: 

1. FNB Bancorp, South San Francisco, 

California; to acquire 100 percent of the 

voting shares of Valley Community 

Bank, Pleasanton, California. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, October 22, 2014. 

Michael J. Lewandowski, 

Associate Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2014–25474 Filed 10–24–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary 

Notice of Interest Rate on Overdue 

Debts 

Section 30.18 of the Department of 

Health and Human Services’ claims 

collection regulations (45 CFR part 30) 

provides that the Secretary shall charge 

an annual rate of interest, which is 

determined and fixed by the Secretary 

of the Treasury after considering private 

consumer rates of interest on the date 

that the Department of Health and 

Human Services becomes entitled to 

recovery. The rate cannot be lower than 

the Department of Treasury’s current 

value of funds rate or the applicable rate 

determined from the ‘‘Schedule of 

Certified Interest Rates with Range of 

Maturities’’ unless the Secretary waives 

interest in whole or part, or a different 

rate is prescribed by statute, contract, or 

repayment agreement. The Secretary of 

the Treasury may revise this rate 

quarterly. The Department of Health and 

Human Services publishes this rate in 

the Federal Register. 

The current rate of 103⁄4%, as fixed by 

the Secretary of the Treasury, is certified 

for the quarter ended September 30, 

2014. This rate is based on the Interest 


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