30616 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 122 / Friday, June 26, 2009 / Notices 

DATES: Meetings will be held on 

Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., 

Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 8 a.m. to 5 

p.m., and Thursday, July 30, 2008, 8 

a.m. to 11 a.m. eastern standard time. 

ADDRESSES: These meetings will be held 

at the Holiday Inn Arlington at Ballston, 

4610 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, 

Virginia 22203, telephone (703) 243– 

9800. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

William W. Matchneer III, Associate 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Regulatory Affairs and Manufactured 

Housing, Office of Manufactured 

Housing Programs, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410, 

telephone (202) 708–6409 (this is not a 

toll-free number). Persons who have 

difficulty hearing or speaking may 

access this number via TTY by calling 

the toll-free Federal Information Relay 

Service at (800) 877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of 

this meeting is provided in accordance 

with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 

2) and 41 CFR 102–3.150. The 

Manufactured Housing Consensus 

Committee was established under 

section 604(a)(3) of the National 

Manufactured Housing Construction 

and Safety Standards Act of 1974, as 

amended by the Manufactured Housing 

Improvement Act of 2000, 42 U.S.C. 

5403(a)(3). The Consensus Committee is 

charged with providing 

recommendations to the Secretary to 

adopt, revise, and interpret 

manufactured housing construction and 

safety standards, procedural and 

enforcement regulations, installation 

standards, installation regulations, and 

dispute resolution regulations. 

Tentative Agenda 

A. Welcome and Introductions. 

B. Full Committee Meeting. 

C. MHCC Charter and Bylaws. 

D. Primary Inspection Agency 

Proposed Rule. 

E. Reference Standards—3rd Set of 

Standards Updates. 

F. Public Testimony. 

G. Reports and Actions on Committee 

Work. 

H. Adjourn. 

Dated: June 18, 2009. 

Brian D. Montgomery, 

Assistant Secretary for Housing—Federal 

Housing Commissioner. 

[FR Doc. E9–15174 Filed 6–25–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Minerals Management Service 

Notice of Offering of Five Alternative 

Energy Interim Policy Leases for Wind 

Resource Data Collection on the Outer 

Continental Shelf Offshore Delaware 

and New Jersey; Notice of Availability 

of an Environmental Assessment 

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service 

(MMS), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Lease Offering; Notice 

of Availability of an Environmental 

Assessment. 

SUMMARY: Notice is given that the MMS 

will issue five limited leases authorizing 

wind resource data collection on the 

Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore 

New Jersey and Delaware. Five OCS 

blocks will be leased for a term of 5 

years; and the annual rent will be $3.00 

per acre as established in the interim 

policy published in the Federal Register 

(72 FR 214, pp. 62673–62675) on 

November 6, 2007. The OCS blocks will 

be leased subject to the terms set forth 

in the lease form published in the 

Federal Register (73 FR 77, pp. 21363– 

21375) on April 21, 2008, and also 

subject to stipulations. The MMS will 

issue leases for four OCS blocks off the 

coast of New Jersey and one off the coast 

of Delaware to four companies: 

Bluewater Wind Delaware, LLC; 

Bluewater Wind New Jersey Energy 

LLC; Fishermen’s Energy of New Jersey, 

LLC, and Deepwater Wind, LLC. The 

OCS blocks off the coast of New Jersey 

are Wilmington NJ 18–02 Block 6936 to 

Bluewater Wind New Jersey Energy, 

LLC; Wilmington NJ 18–02 Block 6931 

to Fishermen’s Energy of New Jersey, 

LLC; Wilmington NJ 18–02 Block 6738 

and Wilmington NJ 18–02 Block 7033 to 

Deepwater Wind, LLC. The OCS block 

MMS will lease off the coast of 

Delaware is Salisbury NJ 18–05 Block 

6325 to Bluewater Wind Delaware, LLC. 

The MMS is also giving notice that 

MMS is making available to the public 

an environmental assessment (EA) that 

addresses the issue of whether offering 

of leases off the coasts of New Jersey 

and Delaware would have a significant 

effect on the human environment and 

whether an environmental impact 

statement (EIS) must be prepared 

pursuant to the National Environmental 

Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), as amended, 

42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq. Based on the 

environmental review set forth in the 

EA, the MMS has determined that no 

significant effects on the human 

environment have been identified that 

would result from the issuance of leases 

for wind resource data collection on the 

OCS off the coasts of New Jersey and 

Delaware. Therefore, MMS concluded 

that an EIS was not required under the 

NEPA and prepared a Finding of No 

Significant Impact (FONSI). The MMS is 

making available the FONSI and the 

decision memorandum approving the 

selection of the preferred alternative on 

the MMS Web site provided at the time 

of this notice. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background. Section 388 of the 

Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) gave 

the Secretary of the Department of the 

Interior (DOI) the authority to issue 

leases, easements and rights-of-way on 

the OCS for alternative energy activities. 

In a Request for Information and 

Nominations published on November 6, 

2007, in the Federal Register (72 FR 

214, pp. 62673–62675) the MMS 

announced that it had established an 

interim policy under which it would 

issue limited leases authorizing 

alternative energy resource assessment 

data collection and technology testing 

activities on the OCS and that it was 

accepting requests for limited leases to 

conduct such activities. Limited leases 

issued under the interim policy for 

energy resource assessment data 

collection and technology testing 

activities have a term of 5 years, and do 

not authorize the production or 

transmission of energy. Subsequently, 

MMS received more than 40 

nominations proposing areas for limited 

leases on the OCS off the Pacific and 

Atlantic Coasts. The MMS reviewed in 

detail all nominations received and 

established priority areas for initial 

leasing based on considerations such as 

technological complexity, geographical 

balance, timing needs, competing spaceuse issues, and relevant State-supported 

renewable energy activities and 

initiatives. The MMS also took into 

consideration the importance of 

supporting the advancement of 

activities relating to the development of 

each of the renewable energy resource 

types cited in the nominations—wind, 

current, and wave. In April 2008, MMS 

identified a subset of 16 proposed lease 

areas for priority consideration, 

including 7 areas offshore Delaware and 

New Jersey, and provided public notice 

of those areas in the Federal Register 

(73 FR 76, pp. 21152–21155) in which 

it sought other project proposals for 

those areas for the purpose of 

determining competitive interest as 

required by the EPAct. No competing 

nominations were received for any of 

the areas offshore Delaware and New 

Jersey, allowing the MMS to proceed 

with the issuance of the leases 

noncompetitively and the required 

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environmental review. The MMS 

received applications for five of the 

initial seven lease areas proposed 

offshore Delaware and New Jersey. The 

five limited leases are as follows: 

State Approximate 

distance offshore Technology type Protraction Company 

New Jersey ............ 15–18 miles .......... Wind ..................... Wilmington NJ 18–02, block 6936 ...... Bluewater Wind New Jersey Energy, 

LLC. 

New Jersey ............ 7–10 miles ............ Wind ..................... Wilmington NJ 18–02, block 6931 ...... Fishermen’s Energy of New Jersey, 

LLC. 

New Jersey ............ 15–18 miles .......... Wind ..................... Wilmington NJ 18–02, block 6738 ...... Deepwater Wind, LLC. 

New Jersey ............ 12–15 miles .......... Wind ..................... Wilmington NJ 18–02, block 7033 ...... Deepwater Wind, LLC. 

Delaware ................ 12–15 miles .......... Wind ..................... Salisbury NJ 18–05, block 6325 ......... Bluewater Wind Delaware, LLC. 

The limited leases will be governed 

by the terms outlined in the interim 

policy lease and stipulations. The 

interim policy lease form was published 

in the Federal Register (73 FR 77, pp. 

21363–21375) on April 21, 2008. 

Environmental Assessment. The MMS 

has prepared an EA to determine 

whether issuance of leases under MMS’ 

alternative energy interim policy 

authorizing wind resource data 

collection on seven lease blocks, 

including the five lease blocks listed 

above, located on the OCS offshore 

Delaware and New Jersey would have a 

significant effect on the human 

environment and whether an EIS must 

be prepared. The EA examines potential 

effects of activities associated with the 

proposed action—the issuance of seven 

limited leases—and the alternatives 

(reduced number of leases and no 

action) that would occur over the life of 

the leases, including site assessment 

activities, construction, operation, and 

decommissioning of meteorological and 

oceanographic data collection facilities. 

The EA concluded that offshore 

activities would result in localized 

impacts and impacts from the 

individual meteorological towers. The 

activities related to the seven proposed 

facilities would not overlap due to the 

distance between the proposed lease 

areas. Therefore, the EA concluded that 

there would be no additive effect on 

offshore environmental resources by 

approving multiple locations for wind 

resource data collection. The proposed 

leases would be located 7–18 miles from 

the nearest shoreline and result in 

virtually no visual impacts. There also 

would be no need to expand existing 

onshore facilities or construct new 

facilities to support staging and 

fabrication of meteorological towers. 

There would, however, be a small 

increase in vessel traffic associated with 

limited construction and 

decommissioning activities for very 

short time periods. During the operation 

of the proposed meteorological towers, 

there would be no significant impacts 

on air and water quality; coastal, 

wildlife, and archeological resources; or 

fishing and recreational activities. 

Furthermore, EA recommended that 

several mitigation measures, in the form 

of lease stipulations, be added to the 

lease that would reduce or eliminate the 

potential impacts to the environment. 

Based on the analyses in the EA, no 

significant effects on the human 

environment were identified that would 

result from the proposed action. 

Therefore, MMS has concluded that an 

EIS is not required and prepared a 

FONSI. 

EA Availablity: The EA, FONSI, and 

decision memorandum are available on 

the MMS Web site at: http:// 

www.mms.gov/offshore/ 

AlternativeEnergy/ 

RegulatoryInformation.htm. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Regarding the Lease Issuance: Ms. 

Maureen Bornholdt, Program Manager, 

Office of Offshore Alternative Energy 

Programs, 381 Elden Street MS 4090, 

Herndon, Virginia 20170, (703) 787– 

1300. 

Regarding the Environmental 

Assessment: Mr. James F. Bennett, 

Chief, Branch of Environmental 

Assessment, 381 Elden Street MS 4042, 

Herndon, Virginia 20170, (703) 787– 

1660. 

Dated: June 12, 2009. 

Walter D. Cruickshank, 

Acting Director, Minerals Management 

Service. 

[FR Doc. E9–15169 Filed 6–25–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R6–ES–2009–N0107; 61411–0000– 

1115–F4] 

Montana Department of Natural 

Resources and Conservation; Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement 

Availability and Public Meetings 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: This notice advises the public 

that the Montana Department of Natural 

Resources and Conservation (DNRC), on 

behalf of the State of Montana, has 

submitted an incidental take permit 

(ITP) application to the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service, US) under the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

amended (ESA). As the ESA requires, 

DNRC has also prepared a proposed 

habitat conservation plan (HCP) 

designed to minimize and mitigate any 

such take of endangered or threatened 

species. The ITP application includes 

the proposed HCP and draft 

Implementation Agreement (IA). We 

also announce the availability of a draft 

environmental impact statement (draft 

EIS) for the proposed action. The ITP 

application addresses forest 

management and timber harvest 

activities on approximately 221,970 

hectares (548,500 acres) of forested State 

trust lands in western Montana. We 

request comments from the public on 

the ITP application, proposed HCP, IA, 

and draft EIS. 

DATES: We must receive any comments 

no later than September 24, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Address all written 

comments to Kathleen Ports, by mail at 

Montana Department of Natural 

Resources and Conservation, 2705 

Spurgin Road, Missoula, MT 59802, or 

by facsimile at (406) 542–4274; or to 

Tim Bodurtha, by mail at U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, 780 Creston Hatchery 

Road, Kalispell, MT 59901, or by