21672 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 88 / Friday, May 8, 2009 / Notices 

ACTION: Notice of intent to fund down 

the fiscal year (FY) 2008 grant slate for 

the GEAR UP Program. 

SUMMARY: The Secretary intends to use 

the grant slate developed in FY 2008 for 

the GEAR UP Program authorized by 

Title IV, Part A, of the Higher Education 

Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), to make 

new grant awards in FY 2009. The 

Secretary takes this action because a 

significant number of high-quality 

applications remain on last year’s grant 

slate. We expect to use an estimated 

$9,789,000 for new awards in FY 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Davis, U.S. Department of 

Education, 1990 K Street, NW., room 

6109, Washington, DC 20006–8524. 

Telephone: (202) 502–7676 or via 

Internet: James.Davis@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 

1–800–877–8339. 

Individuals with disabilities can 

obtain this document in an accessible 

format (e.g., braille, large print, 

audiotape, or computer diskette) on 

request to the contact person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On November 5, 2007, we published 

a notice in the Federal Register (72 FR 

62499) inviting applications for new 

awards under the GEAR UP Program. 

In response to this notice, we received 

a significant number of high-quality 

applications and made seven new State 

grant awards and 31 new Partnership 

grant awards. However, many 

applications that were awarded high 

scores by peer reviewers did not receive 

funding in FY 2008 due to the level of 

appropriations. 

The Department’s FY 2009 

appropriation is sufficient to allow the 

Department to make continuation 

awards to the 38 current grantees, and 

have funds still available for new 

awards under this program for FY 2009. 

Rather than using program funds for a 

new peer review process, the 

Department has decided to use the 

remaining funds after continuation 

awards are made to select grantees in FY 

2009 from the existing slate of 

applicants. This slate was developed 

during the FY 2008 competition using 

the selection criteria referenced in the 

Federal Register notice. 

Note: To be eligible to receive a grant 

pursuant to this notice, all applicants being 

considered for funding based on the funding 

slate for the FY 2008 competition must meet 

all statutory and regulatory eligibility criteria 

and other requirements for this program. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1070a– 

21—1070–28. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You may view this document, as well 

as all other documents of this 

Department published in the Federal 

Register, in text or Adobe Portable 

Document Format (PDF), on the Internet 

at the following site: http://www.ed.gov/ 

news/fedregister. To use PDF, you must 

have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at this site. If you have 

questions about using PDF, call the U.S. 

Government Printing Office (GPO), toll 

free, at 1–888–293–6498; or in the 

Washington, DC, area at (202) 512–1530. 

Note: The official version of this document 

is the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the Code 

of Federal Regulations is available on GPO 

Access at: www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Delegation of Authority: The Secretary 

of Education has delegated authority to 

Daniel T. Madzelan, Director, 

Forecasting and Policy Analysis for the 

Office of Postsecondary Education, to 

perform the functions of the Assistant 

Secretary for Postsecondary Education. 

Dated: May 5, 2009. 

Daniel T. Madzelan, 

Director, Forecasting and Policy Analysis. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Notice 

AGENCY: U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Virtual Public Forum 

for EAC Board of Advisors (Amended). 

DATE AND TIME: Monday, May 11, 2009, 

9 a.m. EDT through Friday, May 15, 

2009, 9 p.m. EDT. 

PLACE: EAC Board of Advisors Virtual 

Meeting Room at http://www.eac.gov. 

Once at the main page of EAC’s Web 

site, viewers should click the link to the 

Board of Advisors Virtual Meeting 

Room. The virtual meeting room will 

open on Monday, May 11, 2009, at 9 

a.m. EDT and will close on Friday, May 

15, 2009, at 9 p.m. EDT. The site will 

be available 24 hours per day during 

that 5-day period. 

PURPOSE: The EAC Board of Advisors 

will review and provide comment on 

Phase I of the draft Election Operations 

Assessment. Phase I of the project is an 

information gathering and modeling 

phase designed to create the framework 

for the remaining two phases of the 

project. The scope of the document and 

the project that created it are geared 

toward the procedures and equipment 

that move the ballot through the 

electoral process. The end goal of the 

election operations assessment is to 

create a work product that will allow 

the EAC to evaluate security risks to 

various types of voting systems (i.e. 

hand counted paper ballots, Precinct 

Based Optical Scan, or Remote 

Electronic Systems, etc.) and in order to 

better inform their work with future 

iterations of the Voluntary Voting 

System Guidelines. In addition, the 

assessment will allow policy makers 

and election officials to assess the 

potential risks to systems that they are 

looking to purchase in the future. 

The EAC Board of Advisors Virtual 

Meeting Room was established to enable 

the Board of Advisors to conduct 

business in an efficient manner in a 

public forum, including being able to 

review and discuss draft documents, 

when it is not feasible for an in-person 

board meeting. The Board of Advisors 

will not take any votes or propose any 

resolutions during the 5-day forum of 

May 11–15, 2009. 

This activity is open to the public. 

The public may view the Proceedings of 

this forum by visiting the eac board of 

advisors Virtual meeting room at 

http://www.eac.gov at any time between 

Monday, May 11, 2009, 9 a.m. EDT and 

Friday, May 15, 2009, 9 p.m. EDT. The 

public also may view the election 

operations assessment, which will be 

posted on EAC’s Web site beginning 

May 11, 2009. The public may file 

written statements to the EAC board of 

advisors at boardofadvisors@eac.gov. 

Data on EAC’s Web site is accessible to 

visitors with disabilities and meets the 

requirements of section 508 of the 

rehabilitation act. 

This meeting will be open to the 

public. 

STATEMENT OF EXCEPTIONAL

CIRCUMSTANCES: The May 5, 2009 notice 

of the EAC Board of Advisors Virtual 

Meeting inadvertently omitted the 

following important information: Notice 

of the special forum will not be 

published in the Federal Register 15 

days prior to the dates that the forum 

will be open. Late notice was 

unavoidable due to the short timeline 

remaining in Phase I of the Elections 

Operation Assessment project. The 

timetable for the noticed forum was 

expedited to allow the EAC Board of 

Advisors an opportunity to review and 

comment on the draft document. 


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PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION: 

Bryan Whitener, Telephone: (202) 566– 

3100. 

Gineen Bresso Beach, 

Chair, U.S. Election Assistance Commission. 

[FR Doc. E9–10843 Filed 5–6–09; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–KF–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 1881–054] 

PPL Holtwood, LLC; Notice of 

Application for Amendment of License 

and Soliciting Comments, Motions To 

Intervene, and Protests 

May 1, 2009. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection: 

a. Application Type: Renewed 

amendment of license to increase the 

installed capacity. 

b. Project No.: 1881–054. 

c. Date Filed: April 9, 2009. 

d. Applicant: PPL Holtwood, LLC 

(PPL). 

e. Name of Project: Holtwood 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: The project is located on 

the Susquehanna River, in Lancaster 

and York Counties, Pennsylvania. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791a–825r. 

h. Applicant Contact: Dennis J. 

Murphy, Vice President & Chief 

Operating Officer, PPL Holtwood, LLC, 

Two North Ninth Street (GENPL6), 

Allentown, Pennsylvania 18101; 

telephone (610) 774–4316. 

i. FERC Contact: Linda Stewart, 

telephone (202) 502–6680, and e-mail 

address linda.stewart@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing comments, 

motions to intervene, and protests: June 

1, 2009. 

Comments, protests, and 

interventions may be filed electronically 

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 ‘‘efiling’’ link. The Commission strongly 

encourages electronic filings. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) filed by paper should be sent to: 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. Please include 

the project number (P–1881–054) on any 

comments or motions filed. 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure require all interveners 

filing documents with the Commission 

to serve a copy of that document on 

each person whose name appears on the 

official service list for the project. 

Further, if an intervener 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. A copy of any 

motion to intervene must also be served 

upon each representative of the 

Applicant specified in the particular 

application. 

k. Background: On December 20, 

2007, and supplemented on January 4, 

February 20, June 19, July 7, August 27, 

and October 3, 2008, PPL filed an 

application to amend its license for the 

Holtwood Project (sub docket P–1881– 

050). By letter filed December 8, 2008, 

PPL withdrew its license amendment 

application. The withdrawal became 

effective 15 days later, on December 23, 

2008. 

In its application, PPL proposed to: 

(1) Construct a new powerhouse and 

install new turbines that would increase 

the total installed capacity of the project 

from 107.2 megawatts (MW) to 195.5 

MW; (2) construct a new skimmer wall 

and larger forebay; (3) reconfigure the 

existing fish lift, reroute the discharge of 

Unit 1 in the existing powerhouse, and 

excavate in the project tailrace and 

Piney Channel to improve migratory 

fish passage; (4) provide minimum 

flows and conduct studies of the 

effectiveness of the modified fish 

passage facilities and flow releases; (5) 

improve existing and construct new 

recreational facilities; and (6) establish 

protocols to ensure protection of special 

status plants, wildlife, and cultural 

resources during construction. 

Because of the substantial costs 

associated with the proposed 

modifications, PPL also requested in its 

license amendment application a 16- 

year extension of the current license 

term through August 31, 2030. 

l. Description of Request: In its 

renewed application for amendment of 

license, PPL requests that the 

Commission incorporate by reference 

the record fully developed in the 

proceeding for the previously 

withdrawn license amendment 

application (sub docket P–1881–050). 

m. Since Commission staff recently 

completed the Final Environmental 

Impact Statement (FEIS) for the 

Holtwood Project No. 1881–050, we 

believe the environmental record is 

complete and are not seeking new 

recommendations, terms and 

conditions, or fishway prescriptions for 

the renewed license amendment 

application. The fishway prescription 

previously filed by the U.S. Department 

of the Interior (Interior), as well as the 

recommendations previously filed by 

Interior and the Pennsylvania Fish and 

Boat Commission were analyzed in the 

FEIS and will remain as part of the 

renewed amendment application 

proceeding. 

n. Locations of the Application: A 

copy of the application is available for 

inspection and reproduction at the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room, 

located at 888 First Street, NE., Room 

2A, Washington, DC 20426, or by calling 

(202) 502–8371. This filing may also 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. You may also register online 

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

esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, call 1–866–208–3676 or 

e-mail FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, 

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

also available for inspection and 

reproduction at the address in item (h) 

above. 

o. Individuals desiring to be included 

on the Commission’s mailing list should 

so indicate by writing to the Secretary 

of the Commission. 

p. Comments, Protests, or Motions to 

Intervene: Anyone may submit 

comments, a protest, or a motion to 

intervene in accordance with the 

requirements of Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 18 CFR 385.210, .211, .214. 

In determining the appropriate action to 

take, the Commission will consider all 

protests or other comments filed, but 

only those who file a motion to 

intervene in accordance with the 

Commission’s Rules may become a 

party to the proceeding. Any comments, 

protests, or motions to intervene must 

be received on or before the specified 

comment date for the particular 

application. 

q. Any entity who intervened in the 

prior license amendment proceeding 

(sub docket P–1881–050) need not 

intervene again. 

r. Any filings must bear in all capital 

letters the title ‘‘COMMENTS’’, 

‘‘PROTEST’’, or ‘‘MOTION TO 

INTERVENE’’, as applicable, and the 

Project Number of the particular 

application to which the filing refers. 

s. Agency Comments: Federal, State, 

and local agencies are invited to file 

comments on the described application. 

A copy of the application may be 

obtained by agencies directly from the 

Applicant. If an agency does not file 


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