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including positions involving 

responsibility for operation of both 

transportation service and terminal 

facilities. 

NOAA has requested that the 696 

Consumer Safety Series be removed 

from the Administrative (ZA) career 

path and placed in the Scientific and 

Engineering (ZP) career path as the 696 

occupational series is a professional and 

scientific position and has its own OPM 

Individual Occupational Requirements 

to be used in conjunction with OPM’s 

Group Coverage Qualification Standards 

for Professional and Scientific Work. 

The change of this series to the (ZP) 

career path will have no impact on the 

pay, series, or pay band classification of 

employees in this series. A copy of this 

approved Federal Register notice will 

be provided to the affected employees 

prior to making the change effective. 

III. Changes to the Project Plan 

The CAPS at DoC, published in 

Federal Register (FR) Volume 62, 

Number 247, on Wednesday, December 

24, 1997 is amended as follows: 

1. The following series is added to 

Table 2 

Administrative (ZA) Career Path, 2150, 

Transportation Operations Series. 

2. The following series is moved from 

the Administrative (ZA) Career Path and 

placed in the 

Scientific and Engineering (ZP) Career 

Path, 696, Consumer Safety Series. 

[FR Doc. E9–11213 Filed 5–13–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–03–P 

CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND 

COMMUNITY SERVICE 

Sunshine Act Notice 

The Board of Directors of the 

Corporation for National and 

Community Service gives notice of the 

following meeting: 

DATE AND TIME: Wednesday, May 20, 

2009, 12:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m. 

PLACE: The Almas Shriner Center, 1315 

K St., NW., Washington, DC 20005. Call 

in number: (202) 898–1688. 

STATUS: Open. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

12:30–1:15 p.m. 

I. Chair’s Opening Remarks. 

II. Consideration of Prior Meeting’s 

Minutes. 

III. CEO Report. 

IV. Committee Reports: Management, 

Audit and Governance Committee; 

Program and Evaluation Committee; 

Strategic Partnerships Committee 

1:15–2:30 p.m. 

V. Public Testimony on the 

Implementation of the Serve 

America Act. 

ACCOMMODATIONS: Anyone who needs 

an interpreter or other accommodation 

should notify the Corporation’s contact 

person by 5 p.m. Monday, February 4, 

2008. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Emily Samose, Office of the CEO, 

Corporation for National and 

Community Service, 10th Floor, Room 

9613C, 1201 New York Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20525. Phone (202) 

606–7564. Fax (202) 606–3460. TDD: 

(202) 606–3472. E-mail: 

esamose@cns.gov. 

Dated: May 12, 2009. 

Frank R. Trinity, 

General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. E9–11416 Filed 5–12–09; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6050–$$–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services; Overview 

Information; Vocational Rehabilitation 

Services Projects for American Indians 

with Disabilities; Notice Inviting 

Applications for New Awards for Fiscal 

Year (FY) 2009 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.250A. 

Applications Available: May 19, 2009. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: July 23, 2009. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The purpose of 

this program is to provide vocational 

rehabilitation (VR) services to American 

Indians with disabilities who reside on 

or near Federal or State reservations, 

consistent with their individual 

strengths, resources, priorities, 

concerns, abilities, capabilities, 

interests, and informed choice, so that 

they may prepare for and engage in 

gainful employment, including selfemployment, telecommuting, or 

business ownership. 

Priority: In accordance with 34 CFR 

75.105(b)(2)(iv), this priority is from 

section 121(b)(4) of the Rehabilitation 

Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C. 

741). 

Competitive Preference Priority: For 

FY 2009, this priority is a competitive 

preference priority. Under 34 CFR 

75.105(c)(2)(i) we award up to an 

additional 10 points to an application, 

depending on how well the application 

meets this priority. 

This priority is: 

Continuation of Previously Funded 

Tribal Programs 

In making new awards under this 

program, we give priority consideration 

to applications for the continuation of 

vocational rehabilitation service 

programs that have been funded under 

the Vocational Rehabilitation Services 

Projects for American Indians with 

Disabilities program. 

Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 741. 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

34 CFR parts 75, 77, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 

and 97. (b) The regulations for this 

program in 34 CFR parts 369 and 371. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Discretionary grants. 

Estimated Available Funds: 

$6,079,350. 

Estimated Range of Awards: 

$315,000–$412,000. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$380,000. 

Maximum Award: For applicants that 

are proposing to continue a program 

that is currently funded under the 

Vocational Rehabilitation Services 

Projects for American Indians with 

Disabilities program, the maximum 

award amount for the first project year 

is the greater of (a) $365,000 or (b) an 

amount equal to 103 percent of the 

applicant’s approved budget for the 

applicant’s FY 2008 grant (an increase 

of 3 percent). For applicants that are 

proposing to establish a new program 

under the Vocational Rehabilitation 

Services Projects for American Indians 

with Disabilities program, the maximum 

award amount for the first project year 

is $365,000. 

In addition, the Secretary may limit 

any proposed increases in funding for 

project years two through five to the 

annual estimated percentage change in 

the Consumer Price Index for all Urban 

Consumers (CPIU). 

Estimated Number of Awards: 15. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 60 months. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: The governing 

bodies of Indian Tribes (and consortia of 

those governing bodies) located on 

Federal and State reservations. 

Note: Indian Tribe is defined in the 

program regulations at 34 CFR 371.4 as ‘‘any 

Federal or State Indian band, rancheria, 

pueblo, colony, and community, including 

any Alaskan native village or regional village 

corporation (as defined in or established 

pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims 

Settlement Act).’’ 


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2. Cost Sharing or Matching: See 34 

CFR 371.40. 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Address to Request Application 

Package: Education Publications Center 

(ED Pubs), P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, MD 

20794–1398. Telephone, toll free: 1– 

877–433–7827. FAX: (301) 470–1244. If 

you use a telecommunications device 

for the deaf (TDD), call, toll free: 1–877– 

576–7734. 

You can contact ED Pubs at its Web 

site, also: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/ 

edpubs.html or at its e-mail address: 

edpubs@inet.ed.gov. 

If you request an application package 

from ED Pubs, be sure to identify this 

competition as follows: CFDA number 

84.250A. 

Individuals with disabilities can 

obtain a copy of the application package 

in an accessible format (e.g., braille, 

large print, audiotape, or computer 

diskette) by contacting the person or 

team listed under Accessible Format in 

section VIII of this notice. 

2. Content and Form of Application 

Submission: Requirements concerning 

the content of an application, together 

with the forms you must submit, are in 

the application package for this 

competition. 

3. Submission Dates and Times: 

Applications Available: May 19, 2009. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: July 23, 2009. 

Applications for grants under this 

competition may be submitted 

electronically using the Electronic Grant 

Application System (e-Application) 

accessible through the Department’s eGrants system, or in paper format by 

mail or hand delivery. For information 

(including dates and times) about how 

to submit your application 

electronically, or by mail or hand 

delivery, please refer to section IV. 6. 

Other Submission Requirements of this 

notice. 

We do not consider an application 

that does not comply with the deadline 

requirements. 

Individuals with disabilities who 

need an accommodation or auxiliary aid 

in connection with the application 

process should contact the person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT in section VII of this notice. If 

the Department provides an 

accommodation or auxiliary aid to an 

individual with a disability in 

connection with the application 

process, the individual’s application 

remains subject to all other 

requirements and limitations in this 

notice. 

4. Intergovernmental Review: This 

competition is not subject to Executive 

Order 12372 and the regulations in 34 

CFR part 79. 

5. Funding Restrictions: We reference 

regulations outlining funding 

restrictions in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. 

6. Other Submission Requirements: 

Applications for grants under this 

competition may be submitted 

electronically or in paper format by mail 

or hand delivery. 

a. Electronic Submission of 

Applications 

If you choose to submit your 

application to us electronically, you 

must use e-Application, accessible 

available through the Department’s eGrants portal page at: http://egrants.ed.gov. 

While completing your electronic 

application, you will be entering data 

online that will be saved into a 

database. You may not e-mail an 

electronic copy of a grant application to 

us. 

Please note the following: 

• Your participation in e-Application 

is voluntary. 

• You must complete the electronic 

submission of your grant application by 

4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, on the 

application deadline date. The eApplication system will not accept an 

application for this competition after 

4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, on 

the application deadline date. 

Therefore, we strongly recommend that 

you do not wait until the application 

deadline date to begin the application 

process. 

• The regular hours of operation of 

the e-Grants Web site are 6:00 a.m. 

Monday until 7:00 p.m. Wednesday; 

and 6:00 a.m. Thursday until 8:00 p.m. 

Sunday, Washington, DC time. Please 

note that, because of maintenance, the 

system is unavailable between 8:00 p.m. 

on Sundays and 6:00 a.m. on Mondays, 

and between 7:00 p.m. on Wednesdays 

and 6:00 a.m. on Thursdays, 

Washington, DC time. Any 

modifications to these hours are posted 

on the e-Grants Web site. 

• You will not receive additional 

point value because you submit your 

application in electronic format, nor 

will we penalize you if you submit your 

application in paper format. 

• You must submit all documents 

electronically, including all information 

you typically provide on the following 

forms: the Application for Federal 

Assistance (SF 424), the Department of 

Education Supplemental Information for 

SF 424, Budget Information—NonConstruction Programs (ED 524), and all 

necessary assurances and certifications. 

You must attach any narrative sections 

of your application as files in a .DOC 

(document), .RTF (rich text), or .PDF 

(Portable Document) format. If you 

upload a file type other than the three 

file types specified in this paragraph or 

submit a password protected file, we 

will not review that material. 

• Your electronic application must 

comply with any page limit 

requirements described in this notice. 

• Prior to submitting your electronic 

application, you may wish to print a 

copy of it for your records. 

• After you electronically submit 

your application, you will receive an 

automatic acknowledgment that will 

include a PR/Award number (an 

identifying number unique to your 

application). 

• Within three working days after 

submitting your electronic application, 

fax a signed copy of the SF 424 to the 

Application Control Center after 

following these steps: 

(1) Print SF 424 from e-Application. 

(2) The applicant’s Authorizing 

Representative must sign this form. 

(3) Place the PR/Award number in the 

upper right hand corner of the hardcopy signature page of the SF 424. 

(4) Fax the signed SF 424 to the 

Application Control Center at (202) 

245–6272. 

• We may request that you provide us 

original signatures on other forms at a 

later date. 

Application Deadline Date Extension 

in Case of System Unavailability: If you 

are prevented from electronically 

submitting your application on the 

application deadline date because the eApplication system is unavailable, we 

will grant you an extension of one 

business day to enable you to transmit 

your application electronically, by mail, 

or by hand delivery. We will grant this 

extension if— 

(1) You are a registered user of eApplication and you have initiated an 

electronic application for this 

competition; and 

(2) (a) The e-Application system is 

unavailable for 60 minutes or more 

between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 

p.m., Washington, DC time, on the 

application deadline date; or 

(b) The e-Application system is 

unavailable for any period of time 

between 3:30 p.m. and 4:30:00 p.m., 

Washington, DC time, on the 

application deadline date. 

We must acknowledge and confirm 

these periods of unavailability before 

granting you an extension. To request 

this extension or to confirm our 

acknowledgment of any system 

unavailability, you may contact either 


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(1) the person listed elsewhere in this 

notice under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT (see VII. Agency Contact) or (2) 

the e-Grants help desk at 1–888–336– 

8930. If the e-Application system is 

unavailable due to technical problems 

with the system and, therefore, the 

application deadline is extended, an email will be sent to all registered users 

who have initiated an e-Application. 

Extensions referred to in this section 

apply only to the unavailability of the 

Department’s e-Application system. If 

the e-Application system is available, 

and, for any reason, you are unable to 

submit your application electronically 

or you do not receive an automatic 

acknowledgment of your submission, 

you may submit your application in 

paper format by mail or hand delivery 

in accordance with the instructions in 

this notice. 

b. Submission of Paper Applications by 

Mail 

If you submit your application in 

paper format by mail (through the U.S. 

Postal Service or a commercial carrier), 

you must mail the original and two 

copies of your application, on or before 

the application deadline date, to the 

Department at the following address: 

U.S. Department of Education, 

Application Control Center, Attention: 

(CFDA Number 84.250A), LBJ Basement 

Level 1, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20202–4260. 

You must show proof of mailing 

consisting of one of the following: 

(1) A legibly dated U.S. Postal Service 

postmark. 

(2) A legible mail receipt with the 

date of mailing stamped by the U.S. 

Postal Service. 

(3) A dated shipping label, invoice, or 

receipt from a commercial carrier. 

(4) Any other proof of mailing 

acceptable to the Secretary of the U.S. 

Department of Education. 

If you mail your application through 

the U.S. Postal Service, we do not 

accept either of the following as proof 

of mailing: 

(1) A private metered postmark. 

(2) A mail receipt that is not dated by 

the U.S. Postal Service. 

If your application is postmarked after 

the application deadline date, we will 

not consider your application. 

Note: The U.S. Postal Service does not 

uniformly provide a dated postmark. Before 

relying on this method, you should check 

with your local post office. 

c. Submission of Paper Applications by 

Hand Delivery 

If you submit your application in 

paper format by hand delivery, you (or 

a courier service) must deliver the 

original and two copies of your 

application by hand, on or before the 

application deadline date, to the 

Department at the following address: 

U.S. Department of Education, 

Application Control Center, Attention: 

(CFDA Number 84.250A), 550 12th 

Street, SW., Room 7041, Potomac Center 

Plaza, Washington, DC 20202–4260. 

The Application Control Center 

accepts hand deliveries daily between 

8:00 a.m. and 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, 

DC time, except Saturdays, Sundays, 

and Federal holidays. 

Note for Mail or Hand Delivery of Paper 

Applications: If you mail or hand deliver 

your application to the Department— 

(1) You must indicate on the envelope 

and—if not provided by the Department—in 

Item 11 of the SF 424 the CFDA number, 

including suffix letter, if any, of the 

competition under which you are submitting 

your application; and 

(2) The Application Control Center will 

mail to you a notification of receipt of your 

grant application. If you do not receive this 

grant notification within 15 business days 

from the application deadline date, you 

should call the U.S. Department of Education 

Application Control Center at (202) 245– 

6288. 

V. Application Review Information 

Selection Criteria: The selection 

criteria for this competition are from 34 

CFR 75.210 of EDGAR and are listed in 

the application package. The selection 

criteria may total 100 points, plus the 10 

competitive preference priority points 

(see section I. Competitive Preference 

Priority). 

VI. Award Administration Information 

1. Award Notices: If your application 

is successful, we notify your U.S. 

Representative and U.S. Senators and 

send you a Grant Award Notification 

(GAN). We may notify you informally, 

also. 

If your application is not evaluated or 

not selected for funding, we notify you. 

2. Administrative and National Policy 

Requirements: We identify 

administrative and national policy 

requirements in the application package 

and reference these and other 

requirements in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. 

We reference the regulations outlining 

the terms and conditions of an award in 

the Applicable Regulations section of 

this notice and include these and other 

specific conditions in the GAN. The 

GAN also incorporates your approved 

application as part of your binding 

commitments under the grant. 

3. Reporting: At the end of your 

project period, you must submit a final 

performance report, including financial 

information, as directed by the 

Secretary. If you receive a multi-year 

award, you must submit an annual 

performance report that provides the 

most current performance and financial 

expenditure information as directed by 

the Secretary under 34 CFR 75.118. The 

Secretary may also require more 

frequent performance reports under 34 

CFR 75.720(c). For specific 

requirements on reporting, please go to 

http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/ 

appforms/appforms.html. 

4. Performance Measures: Under the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act of 1993 (GPRA), the Department has 

established three performance measures 

for the Vocational Rehabilitation 

Services Projects for American Indians 

with Disabilities program. The measures 

are (1) the percentage of individuals 

who leave the program with an 

employment outcome, (2) the 

percentage of projects that demonstrate 

an average annual cost per employment 

outcome of no more than $35,000, and 

(3) the percentage of projects that 

demonstrate an average annual cost per 

participant of no more than $10,000. 

Each grantee must annually report its 

performance on these measures through 

the Annual Progress Reporting Form for 

the American Indian Vocational 

Rehabilitation Services program (APR 

Form). 

Job Training and Employment Common 

Measures 

In addition, this program is part of the 

job training and employment common 

measures initiative. The common 

measures for job training and 

employment programs targeting adults 

are (1) entered employment (percentage 

employed in the first quarter after 

program exit); (2) retention in 

employment (percentage of those 

employed in the first quarter after exit 

that were still employed in the second 

and third quarter after program exit); (3) 

average weekly earnings (average 

earnings of those participants who are 

employed in the first, second, and third 

quarters after the exit quarter); and (4) 

the annual cost per participant. 

The AIVRS Annual Progress 

Reporting Form, approved by the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) on 

September 5, 2008, has been revised to 

collect data needed to assess the 

Vocational Rehabilitation Services 

Projects for American Indians with 

Disabilities program’s performance on 

supplemental measures that are 

comparable to the job training and 

employment common measures. Each 

grantee will be required to collect the 

report data for these supplemental 

measures as part of the annual 


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performance report requirement, 

including information on: (1) The 

number of individuals whose case 

record has not been closed, but have not 

received project services for 90 

consecutive calendar days, (2) the 

number of eligible individuals who 

were employed three months after 

achieving the employment outcome, (3) 

the number of eligible individuals who 

were employed six months after 

achieving an employment outcome, (4) 

the average weekly earnings at entry, 

and (5) the average weekly earnings of 

the individuals whose employment 

outcomes resulted in earnings. 

Note: For purposes of this section VI. 4., 

the term ‘‘employment outcome’’ has the 

meaning provided in 34 CFR 369.4. 

VII. Agency Contact 

For Further Information Contact: 

August Martin, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

room 5088, PCP, Washington, DC 

20202–2800. Telephone: (202) 245–7410 

or by e-mail: august.martin@ed.gov. 

If you use a TDD, call the FRS, toll 

free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

VIII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

an accessible format (e.g., braille, large 

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

by contacting the Grants and Contracts 

Services Team, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

room 5075, PCP, Washington, DC 

20202–2550. Telephone: (202) 245– 

7363. If you use a TDD, call the FRS, toll 

free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You can 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: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Delegation of Authority: The Secretary 

of Education has delegated authority to 

Andrew J. Pepin, Executive 

Administrator for the Office of Special 

Education and Rehabilitative Services, 

to perform the functions of the Assistant 

Secretary for Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services. 

Dated: May 8, 2009. 

Andrew J. Pepin, 

Executive Administrator for the Office of 

Special Education and Rehabilitative 

Services. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

Transmission Infrastructure Program 

AGENCY: Western Area Power 

Administration, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of Program. 

SUMMARY: The Western Area Power 

Administration (Western) hereby 

announces its Transmission 

Infrastructure Program (Program). The 

Program implements section 402 of the 

American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) for the 

purpose of constructing, financing, 

facilitating, planning, operating, 

maintaining, or studying construction of 

new or upgraded electric power 

transmission lines and related facilities 

with at least one terminus within the 

area served by Western, and for 

delivering or facilitating the delivery of 

power generated by renewable energy 

resources constructed or reasonably 

expected to be constructed after the date 

this section was enacted. The Program 

will use authority granted under this 

section to borrow funds from the U.S. 

Treasury Department to accomplish 

these purposes. 

DATES: The Program is effective upon 

May 14, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Please contact Transmission 

Infrastructure Program, Western Area 

Power Administration, P.O. Box 281213, 

Lakewood, CO 80228–8213, e-mail 

txprogram@wapa.gov. The Program is 

also available on Western’s Web site at 

http://www.wapa.gov/recovery. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Western markets and transmits 

wholesale hydroelectric power 

generated at Federal dams across the 

western United States. This power is 

sold to customers in accordance with 

Federal law. Western’s transmission 

system was developed to deliver the 

Federal hydro-power to those 

customers. Western owns and operates 

an integrated 17,000 circuit-mile, highvoltage transmission system and 

markets power across 15 western states 

and a 1.3 million square-mile service 

area. Western’s service area 

encompasses all of the following states: 

Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, 

Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, 

South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming; as 

well as parts of Iowa, Kansas, Montana, 

Minnesota, and Texas. Today, Western 

makes capacity on its transmission 

system excess to that needed to serve its 

preference customers available through 

the policies and procedures outlined in 

its Open Access Transmission Tariff 

(OATT). Western offers 

nondiscriminatory access to its 

transmission system, including requests 

to interconnect new generating 

resources to that transmission system 

under its OATT on file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). 

Western sought public comment on 

the proposed principles, policies and 

practices it will use to implement its 

new Recovery Act authority in a 30-day 

consultation and comment period as 

announced in a March 4, 2009, Federal 

Register notice (74 FR 9391). A formal 

public comment forum was held in 

Lakewood, Colorado, on March 23, 

2009, and a transcript and meeting 

video were made available through 

Western’s external Web site at http:// 

www.wapa.gov/recovery. Western 

received comments from 40 customers 

and other stakeholders. All comments 

were reviewed and, where appropriate, 

incorporated into the Program. The 

Discussion of Comments section 

provides Western’s response to the 

comments. Where possible, comments 

and related responses were 

consolidated. In defining the proposed 

Program, Western identified a series of 

principles to provide overarching 

guidance. Western further identified a 

series of policies and practices it will 

follow in implementing the Program. 

Those principles, policies and practices 

are set forth in this notice. 

With this notice, Western is making 

its Program effective upon publication 

in the Federal Register. The procedures 

and statements of policies set forth in 

Western’s Program are consistent with 

the Recovery Act and other statutes, and 

the Program does not include additional 

substantive requirements. Therefore, 

Western’s program is not subject to the 

Administrative Procedure Act’s delayed 

effective date provision (5 U.S.C. 

553(d)). 

Discussion of Comments 

Western received 40 submittals 

related to its proposed Program. To 


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