68912 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 223 / Wednesday, November 19, 2014 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

[RR02054000, 14XR0680A1, 

RX021489433320900] 

Notice of Availability and Notice of 

Public Meetings for the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

Central Valley Project Municipal and 

Industrial Water Shortage Policy, 

Central Valley, CA 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation 

has made available for public review 

and comment the Central Valley Project 

(CVP) Municipal and Industrial Water 

Shortage Policy (M&I WSP) Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). 

The Draft EIS addresses updating the 

CVP M&I WSP and implementation 

guidelines. The CVP M&I WSP would be 

used by Reclamation to: (1) Define water 

shortage terms and conditions for 

applicable CVP M&I water service 

contractors, as appropriate; (2) establish 

CVP water supply levels that, together 

with the M&I water service contractors’ 

drought water conservation measures 

and other water supplies, would assist 

the M&I water service contractors in 

their efforts to protect public health and 

safety during severe or continuing 

droughts; and (3) provide information to 

M&I water service contractors for their 

use in water supply planning and 

development of drought contingency 

plans. 

DATES: Send written comments on the 

Draft EIS on or before January 12, 2015. 

Four meetings to receive oral or 

written comments will be held on the 

following dates: 

• Monday, December 8, 2014, 2–4 

p.m., Sacramento, California. 

• Wednesday, December 10, 2014, 6– 

8 p.m., Willows, California. 

• Tuesday, December 16, 2014, 6–8 

p.m., Fresno, California. 

• Wednesday, December 17, 2014, 6– 

8 p.m., Oakland, California. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments or 

requests for copies to Mr. Tim Rust, 

Bureau of Reclamation, Resources 

Management Division, 2800 Cottage 

Way, Sacramento, CA 95825, or via 

email to trust@usbr.gov. 

The meeting locations are: 

• Sacramento—Sacramento Inn and 

Conference Center, 1401 Arden Way, 

Sacramento, California 95825. 

• Willows—Veteran’s Memorial Hall, 

525 W. Sycamore Street, Willows, 

California 95988. 

• Fresno—Piccadilly Inn Airport, 

5113 E. McKinley Avenue, Fresno, 

California 93727. 

• Oakland—Oakland Courtyard 

Airport, 350 Hegenberger Road, 

Oakland, California 94621. 

To request a compact disc of the Draft 

EIS, please contact Mr. Tim Rust as 

indicated above, or call (916) 978–5516. 

The Draft EIS may be viewed at 

Reclamation’s Web site at http://

www.usbr.gov/mp/cvp/mandi/

index.html. See SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section for locations where 

copies of the Draft EIS are available for 

public review. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Tim Rust, Program Manager, Bureau of 

Reclamation, via email at trust@

usbr.gov, or at (916) 978–5516; or Mr. 

Michael Inthavong, Natural Resources 

Specialist, Bureau of Reclamation, via 

email at minthavong@usbr.gov, or at 

(559) 487–5295. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CVP 

is operated under Federal statutes 

authorizing the CVP, and by the terms 

and conditions of water rights acquired 

pursuant to California law. During any 

year, constraints may occur on the 

availability of CVP water for M&I water 

service contractors. The cause of the 

water shortage may be drought, 

unavoidable causes, or restricted 

operations resulting from legal and 

environmental obligations or mandates. 

Those legal and environmental 

obligations include, but are not limited 

to, the Endangered Species Act, the 

Central Valley Project Improvement Act 

(CVPIA), and conditions imposed on 

CVP’s water rights by the California 

State Water Resources Control Board. 

The 2001 draft CVP M&I WSP, as 

modified by Alternative 1 B of the 2005 

draft environmental assessment, 

establishes the terms and conditions 

regarding the constraints on availability 

of water supply for the CVP M&I water 

service contracts. 

Allocation of CVP water supplies for 

any given water year is based upon 

forecasted reservoir inflows and Central 

Valley hydrologic conditions, amounts 

of storage in CVP reservoirs, regulatory 

requirements, and management of 

Section 3406(b)(2) resources and refuge 

water supplies in accordance with 

CVPIA. In some cases, M&I allocations 

in water shortage years may differ 

between CVP divisions due to regional 

CVP water supply availability, system 

capacity, or other operational 

constraints. 

The purpose of the update to the 2001 

CVP M&I WSP, as modified by 

Alternative 1 B of the 2005 draft 

environmental assessment, is to provide 

detailed, clear, and objective guidelines 

for the distribution of CVP water 

supplies during water shortage 

conditions, thereby allowing CVP water 

users to know when, and by how much, 

water deliveries may be reduced in 

drought and other low water supply 

conditions. 

The increased level of clarity and 

understanding that will be provided by 

the update to the 2001 draft CVP M&I 

WSP is needed by water managers and 

the entities that receive CVP water to 

better plan for and manage available 

CVP water supplies, and to better 

integrate the use of CVP water with 

other available non-CVP water supplies. 

The update to the 2001 draft CVP M&I 

WSP is also needed to clarify certain 

terms and conditions with regard to its 

applicability and implementation. The 

proposed action is the adoption of an 

updated CVP M&I WSP and its 

implementation guidelines. 

The EIS analyzes five alternative 

actions. Alternative 1 is No Action, and 

represents the current 2001 draft CVP 

M&I WSP, as modified by Alternative 1 

B of the 2005 Environmental 

Assessment, which is currently guiding 

Reclamation’s allocation of water to 

agricultural and M&I water service 

contractors during water shortage years. 

Alternative 2, Equal Agricultural and 

M&I Allocation, provides M&I and 

agricultural water service contractors 

with equal allocation percentages 

during water shortage conditions. 

Alternative 3, Full M&I Allocation 

Preference, provides M&I contractors 

with 100 percent of their contract 

allocation until CVP supplies are not 

available to meet those demands, while 

agricultural water service contractor 

deliveries are reduced as needed. 

Alternative 4, Updated M&I WSP, 

modifies Alternative 1 to provide a 

different definition of unconstrained 

years used in calculating historical use, 

and provides higher level of deliveries 

to M&I water service contractors by 

attempting to provide minimum public 

health and safety (PH&S) unmet need 

amounts without a guarantee. 

Alternative 5, M&I Contractor Suggested 

WSP, is similar to Alternative 4 but 

attempts to meet PH&S unmet need 

deliveries through modification of 

operational priorities. 

Public Review of Draft EIS 

Copies of the Draft EIS are available 

for public review at the following 

locations: 

1. Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific 

Region, Regional Library, 2800 Cottage 

Way, Sacramento, CA 95825. 

2. Natural Resources Library, U.S. 

Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street 

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NW., Main Interior Building, 

Washington, DC 20240–0001. 

Special Assistance for Public Meetings 

If special assistance is required to 

participate in the public meeting, please 

contact Mr. Louis Moore at (916) 978– 

5106, or via email at wmoore@usbr.gov. 

Please contact Mr. Moore at least 10 

working days prior to the meeting. A 

telephone device for the hearing 

impaired (TDD) is available at (916) 

978–5608. 

Public Disclosure 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Dated: October 28, 2014. 

Pablo Arroyave, 

Deputy Regional Director. 

[FR Doc. 2014–27372 Filed 11–18–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4332–90–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Office of Justice Programs 

[OJP (NIJ) Docket No. 1678] 

Criminal Justice Restraints Standard, 

NIJ Standard-1001.00 

AGENCY: National Institute of Justice. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Institute of 

Justice (NIJ) announces publication of 

Criminal Justice Restraints Standard, 

NIJ Standard 1001.00. The document 

can be found here: https://ncjrs.gov/

pdffiles1/nij/247988.pdf. Conformity 

assessment organizations are invited to 

review the document and provide any 

feedback to the point of contact listed 

below. This standard is planned to 

supersede NIJ Standard for Metallic 

Handcuffs, NIJ Standard 0307.01, found 

here: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/

nij/082981.pdf. The effective date that 

this will occur will be given six months 

prior through a notice in the Federal 

Register. For more information about 

NIJ standards, please visit http://nij.gov/ 

standards. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brian Montgomery, by telephone at 

(202) 353–9786 [Note: this is not a tollfree telephone number], or by email at 

brian.montgomery@usdoj.gov. 

William Sabol, 

Acting Director, National Institute of Justice. 

[FR Doc. 2014–27367 Filed 11–18–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Office of Justice Programs 

[OJP (NIJ) Docket No. 1676] 

Request for Expressions of Interest 

From Manufacturers and Developers in 

Forthcoming Gun Safety Technology 

Challenge and Request for Information 

AGENCY: National Institute of Justice, 

DOJ. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Institute of 

Justice (NIJ) is requesting manufacturers 

and developers of firearms that 

incorporate advanced safety 

technologies or firearms accessories 

utilizing advanced safety technologies 

that are intended to modify firearms to 

submit an expression of interest in the 

forthcoming Gun Safety Technology 

Challenge (‘‘Challenge’’) and provide 

information about their products or 

technology. Through the Challenge, NIJ 

will seek an objective demonstration 

through testing and evaluation of the 

reliability of firearms and firearms 

accessories available today that are 

typically known by various terms such 

as smart guns, user-authorized 

handguns, childproof guns, and 

personalized firearms. These firearms or 

firearms accessories can be understood 

to utilize integrated components that 

exclusively permit an authorized user or 

set of users to operate or fire the gun 

and automatically deactivate it under a 

set of specific circumstances, reducing 

the chances of accidental or purposeful 

use by an unauthorized user. NIJ is 

interested in receiving information 

regarding which firearms and firearms 

accessories that incorporate advanced 

safety technologies that would be made 

available by industry for testing and 

evaluation in the Challenge. This 

information will help inform NIJ 

regarding the scope of the notional test 

methods and test procedures for 

firearms and firearms accessories 

required for the Challenge, as described 

below. 

DATES: Manufacturers or developers 

wishing to submit an expression of 

interest and information to the National 

Institute of Justice must do so by 5 p.m. 

Eastern Time January 5, 2015, as 

instructed below. 

ADDRESSES: How to Respond and What 

to Include: To submit an expression of 

interest and information, please send an 

email to gunsafetytechnology 

@usdoj.gov. Please provide the business 

contact information, including a point 

of contact name, company name (if 

applicable), mailing address, phone 

number, and email address. The 

minimum information requested about 

the firearm or firearm accessory 

responsive to the Challenge described in 

this notice is as follows: (1) A written 

description; (2) a photograph (or 

diagram); (3) the type of cartridge that 

would be used in the firearm; and (4) an 

estimate of the technological maturity. 

The information found in the report A 

Review of Gun Safety Technologies is 

suggested as a guide to assess the 

maturity of technologies. The report can 

be found here: https://www.ncjrs.gov/ 

pdffiles1/nij/242500.pdf. There is no 

limit to the amount of information that 

interested parties may submit. No 

materials will be returned. All materials 

submitted will be treated confidentially 

and discreetly and may be shared with 

U.S. Government staff or U.S. 

Government contractors for evaluation 

purposes. This notice is not a 

solicitation for funding and does not 

obligate the Government to fund any 

research and development. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Institute of Justice (NIJ) was 

tasked with supporting the President’s 

Plan to Reduce Gun Violence, 

specifically: 

‘‘The President is directing the 

Attorney General to work with 

technology experts to review existing 

and emerging gun safety technologies, 

and to issue a report on the availability 

and use of those technologies. In 

addition, the Administration will issue 

a challenge to the private sector to 

develop innovative and cost-effective 

gun safety technology and provide 

prizes for those technologies that are 

proven to be reliable and effective.’’ 

In support of this Executive action, 

NIJ has conducted a technology 

assessment and market survey of 

existing and emerging gun safety 

technologies that would be of interest to 

the law enforcement and criminal 

justice communities and others with an 

interest in gun safety and advanced 

firearm technology. A report published 

in June 2013 by NIJ entitled A Review 

of Gun Safety Technologies examined 

existing and emerging gun safety 

technologies, and their availability and 

use, to provide a comprehensive 

perspective on firearms with integrated 

advanced safety technologies. 

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