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How To File a Complaint of 

Discrimination 

To file a complaint of discrimination, 

complete the USDA Program 

Discrimination Complaint Form, which 

may be accessed online at http://

www.ocio.usda.gov/sites/default/files/

docs/2012/Complain_combined_6_8_

12.pdf, or write a letter signed by you 

or your authorized representative. 

Send your completed complaint form 

or letter to USDA by mail, fax, or email: 

Mail 

U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

Director, Office of Adjudication, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–9410. 

Fax 

(202) 690–7442. 

Email 

program.intake@usda.gov. 

Persons with disabilities who require 

alternative means for communication 

(Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.), 

should contact USDA’s TARGET Center 

at (202) 720–2600 (voice and TDD). 

Done at Washington, DC, on January 9, 

2015. 

Paulo Almeida, 

Acting, U.S. Manager for Codex Alimentarius. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00435 Filed 1–13–15; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Utilities Service 

Energy Answers Arecibo Puerto Rico 

Renewable Energy Project: Notice of 

Extension of Public Comment Period, 

Notice of Public Scoping Meeting and 

Intent to Prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement 

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of a 30-day extension to 

the public comment period, notice of 

public scoping meeting and intent to 

prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement. 

SUMMARY: On November 28, 2014, Rural 

Utilities Service (RUS) published a 

Notice of Intent (NOI) announcing its 

intent to cancel a Supplemental Final 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(SFEIS) and prepare a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 

in association with a financial 

assistance request for a proposal 

submitted to the Agency by Energy 

Answers Arecibo, LLC (Energy 

Answers). RUS is extending the 

comment period by an additional 30 

days from the date of this notice. RUS 

intends to conduct public scoping, 

conduct a public scoping meeting, and 

prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) to meet its 

responsibilities under the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the 

Council on Environmental Quality’s 

regulations for implementing NEPA (40 

CFR parts 1500–1508), and RUS’s 

Environmental and Policies and 

Procedures (7 CFR part 1794) in 

connection with potential impacts 

related to the Energy Answers proposal. 

The proposal consists of constructing a 

waste-to-energy generation and resource 

recovery facility in the Cambalache 

Ward of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. RUS is 

providing notice of the intention to 

conduct public scoping and prepare an 

EIS related to the proposal submitted by 

Energy Answers. 

RUS is considering funding this 

application, thereby making the 

proposal an undertaking subject to 

review under Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act 

(NHPA), 16 U.S.C. 470(f), and its 

implementing regulation, ‘‘Protection of 

Historic Properties’’ (36 CFR part 800). 

Any party wishing to participate 

directly with RUS as a ‘‘consulting 

party’’ in Section 106 review may 

submit a written request to the RUS 

contact provided below. Pursuant to 36 

CFR 800.3(f)(3), RUS will consider, and 

provide a timely response to, any and 

all requests for consulting party status. 

DATES: Written requests to participate as 

a ‘‘consulting party’’ and/or comments 

concerning the public scoping or about 

this Notice of Intent must be received on 

or before February 13, 2015. A notice of 

availability of a Draft EIS will be 

published in the Federal Register and 

local newspapers announcing its review 

period. A public scoping meeting will 

be held on January 28, 2015 from 3:00– 

7:00 p.m. at the Colegio de Ingenieros y 

Agrimensores de Puerto Rico, Capı ́tulo 

de Arecibo, Ave. Manuel T. Guilla ́n 1, 

Arecibo. The public scoping meeting 

will be conducted in an open house 

format with a court reporter available 

for transcription of verbal comments. 

ADDRESSES: Project-related information 

will be available at RUS’s Web site 

located at: http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/ 

UWP-AreciboPuertoRico.html and at the 

Tribunal General de Justicia, Centro 

Judicial de Arecibo and at the Casa 

Alcaldı ́a del Municipio de Arecibo. 

To request ‘‘consulting party’’ status, 

submit comments or for further 

information, please contact: Ms. 

Stephanie Strength, Environmental 

Protection Specialist, USDA/RUS, 1400 

Independence Ave. SW., Room 2244–S, 

Stop 1571, Washington, DC 20250– 

1571, Telephone: (970) 403–3559, fax: 

(202) 690–0649, or email: 

stephanie.strength@wdc.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

November 28, 2014, Rural Utilities 

Service (RUS) published a Notice of 

Intent (NOI) announcing its intent to 

cancel a Supplemental Final 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(SFEIS) and prepare a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 

in association with a financial 

assistance request for a proposal 

submitted to the Agency by Energy 

Answers Arecibo, LLC (Energy 

Answers). RUS is extending the 

comment period by an additional 30 

days from the date of this notice. RUS 

intends to conduct public scoping, 

conduct a public scoping meeting, and 

prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) and is soliciting public 

comments on the scope of an EIS that 

it intends to prepare for Energy 

Answers’ proposal. In accordance with 

7 CFR 1794.74 and 40 CFR 1502.21, 

RUS intends to incorporate by reference 

the environmental impact analyses and 

documentation prepared by the Puerto 

Rico Industrial Development Company 

(PRIDCO). PRIDCO served as a lead 

agency in preparation of an EIS 

prepared under the Puerto Rico 

Environmental Public Policy Act, 

Article 4(B)(3), (Law No. 416, September 

22, 2004). RUS has copies of this EIS 

and all associated appendices posted on 

this Web site: http://

www.rurdev.usda.gov/UWPAreciboPuertoRico.html. RUS also 

intends to incorporate by reference all of 

the environmental impact and air 

quality analyses and responses to public 

comments prepared by the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(USEPA) as part of its Clean Air Act, 

Prevention of Significant Deterioration 

(PSD) permit. USEPA issued a final 

effective PSD permit on April 10, 2014, 

and information related to the PSD 

permit can be found on USEPA’s Web 

site—see: http://www.epa.gov/region02/

air/permit/energyanswers/. 

RUS is in receipt of all past public 

involvement activities, public 

comments, and responses to public 

comments from both PRIDCO and 

USEPA actions. While RUS understands 

the concerns expressed in the past by 

the public, the Agency strongly 

encourages all interested parties to 

submit scoping comments to the RUS 

contact listed in the ADDRESSES section 

of this Notice. 

Energy Answers proposes to construct 

a waste-to-energy generation and 

resource recovery facility in the 

Cambalache Ward of Arecibo, Puerto 

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Rico. The proposed facility would 

process approximately 2,100 tons of 

municipal waste per day and generate a 

gross capacity of approximately 77 

megawatts (MW). The Puerto Rico 

Electric Power Authority will purchase 

the power generated from the facility. 

The preferred location of the facility is 

the former site of the Global Fibers 

Paper Mill and would encompass 

approximately 79.6 acres of the 90-acre 

parcel. The proposal would include the 

following facility components: A 

municipal solid waste receiving and 

processing building; processed refuse 

fuel storage building; boiler and steam 

turbine; emission control system; ash 

processing and storage building; and 

other associated infrastructure and 

buildings. Two other connected actions 

include installation of an approximately 

2.0-mile raw water line and 

construction of a 115 kilovolt (kV) 

transmission line approximately 0.8 

miles in length. The connected actions 

will be addressed in the EIS. 

Among the alternatives that RUS will 

address in the EIS is the No Action 

alternative, under which the proposal 

would not be undertaken. In the EIS, the 

effects of the proposal will be compared 

to the existing conditions in the 

proposal area. Public health and safety, 

environmental impacts, and engineering 

aspects of the proposal will be 

considered in the EIS. 

RUS is the lead Federal agency, as 

defined at 40 CFR 1501.5, for 

preparation of the EIS. With this Notice, 

Federal and State agencies and federally 

recognized Native American Tribes with 

jurisdiction or special expertise are 

invited to be cooperating agencies. Such 

agencies or tribes may make a request to 

RUS to be a cooperating agency by 

contacting the RUS contact provided in 

this Notice. Designated cooperating 

agencies have certain responsibilities to 

support the NEPA and scoping process, 

as specified at 40 CFR 1501.6(b). 

As part of its broad environmental 

review process, RUS must take into 

account the effect of the proposal on 

historic properties in accordance with 

Section 106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act (Section 106) and its 

implementing regulation, ‘‘Protection of 

Historic Properties’’ (36 CFR part 800). 

Pursuant to 36 CFR 800.2(d)(3), RUS is 

using its procedures for public 

involvement under NEPA to meet its 

responsibilities to solicit and consider 

the views of the public during Section 

106 review. Accordingly, comments 

submitted in response to this Notice 

will inform RUS decision-making 

during Section 106 review. 

As applicable, the EIS will document 

changes in the affected environment and 

environmental consequences that may 

have occurred since the PRIDCOprepared Final EIS was published in 

2010 and USEPA’s PSD permit action. 

The PRIDCO-prepared Final EIS is 

available in both Spanish and English 

for review at the addresses provided in 

this Notice. USEPA PSD permit actions 

are available for review at the address 

provided in this notice. RUS’s EIS will 

incorporate this documentation by 

reference and focus on those topics that 

have changed since PRIDCO’s Final EIS 

was published. RUS’s Draft EIS will be 

available for review and comment for 45 

days. Following the 45-day review 

period, RUS will prepare a Final EIS. 

After a 30-day review period, RUS will 

publish a Record of Decision (ROD). 

Notices announcing the availability of 

the Draft EIS, Final EIS and the ROD 

will be published in the Federal 

Register and in local newspapers. 

Any final action by RUS related to the 

proposal will be subject to, and 

contingent upon, compliance with all 

relevant executive orders and federal, 

state, and local environmental laws and 

regulations in addition to the 

completion of the environmental review 

requirements as prescribed in RUS’s 

Environmental Policies and Procedures, 

7 CFR part 1794, as amended. 

Dated: January 7, 2015. 

Richard Fristik, 

Acting Director, Engineering and 

Environmental Staff, USDA, Rural Utilities 

Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35). 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau. 

Title: Current Population Survey, 

Annual Social and Economic Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0354. 

Form Number(s): There are no forms. 

We conduct all interviews on 

computers. 

Type of Request: Emergency review. 

Number of Respondents: 78,000. 

Average Hours per Response: 0.41667. 

Burden Hours: 32,500. 

Needs and Uses: The income data 

from the ASEC are used by social 

planners, economists, government 

officials, and market researchers to 

gauge the economic well-being of the 

country as a whole, and selected 

population groups of interest. 

Government planners and researchers 

use these data to monitor and evaluate 

the effectiveness of various assistance 

programs. Market researchers use these 

data to identify and isolate potential 

customers. Social planners use these 

data to forecast economic conditions 

and to identify special groups that seem 

to be especially sensitive to economic 

fluctuations. Economists use ASEC data 

to determine the effects of various 

economic forces, such as inflation, 

recession, recovery, and so on, and their 

differential effects on various 

population groups. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Title 13, United States 

Code, Section 182; and Title 29, United 

States Code, Sections 1–9. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 14 days of publication of this 

notice to OIRA_Submission@

omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806. 

Dated: January 9, 2015. 

Glenna Mickelson, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00452 Filed 1–13–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35). 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau. 

Title: Current Population Survey, 

Annual Social and Economic (Parallel) 

Survey. 

OMB Control Number: None. 

Form Number(s): There are no forms. 

We conduct all interviews on 

computers. 

Type of Request: Emergency review. 

Number of Respondents: 28,000. 

Average Hours per Response: 0.5. 

Burden Hours: 14,000. 

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