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PACIFIC NORTHWEST ELECTRIC
POWER AND CONSERVATION
PLANNING COUNCIL
Northwest Power and Conservation
Planning Council Subbasin Plan Draft
Amendments
Pacific Northwest Electric
Power and Conservation Planning
Council (Northwest Power and
Conservation Council; Council).
ACTION: Notice of availability and
opportunity to comment on subbasin
plan draft amendments to the Council’s
Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife
Program (program).
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Following the mandate set out
in the Pacific Northwest Electric Power
Planning and Conservation Act of 1980
(16 U.S.C. 839 et seq.) (the Act), in
November 1982 the Council adopted a
regional program, the Columbia River
Basin Fish and Wildlife Program. The
Act requires the program be designed to
protect, mitigate and enhance fish and
wildlife of the Columbia River Basin
affected by hydropower dams, while
also assuring the region of an adequate,
efficient, economical and reliable power
supply.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 2000,
the Council began a comprehensive
revision of the program. First, the
Council amended the program by
adopting a framework of vision,
objectives and strategies at different
geographic scales (basinwide, ecological
province, subbasin), tied together with a
consistent scientific foundation. The
Council also adopted basinwide
provisions and described how it
proposed to add more specific
objectives and measures to the program
through integrated subbasin plans for
the tributary subbasins of the Columbia
and for specific mainstem reaches. The
draft amendments now proposed for
adoption will add subbasin plans to the
general, basinwide provisions of the
program as the next step in the
comprehensive revision.
On August 12, 2002, the Council
solicited recommendations for
amendments to the program at the
subbasin level from the region’s state
and federal fish and wildlife agencies,
Indian tribes, and others, as required by
the Act. At the same time, the Council
worked with a broad range of interests
in the region and developed a
‘‘Technical Guide for Subbasin
Planners’’ to help ensure that plans had
a consistent format and content. The
Council also worked with the
Bonneville Power Administration to
secure funding support for planning
groups, the first time that funding has
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been made available to help develop
fish and wildlife program amendment
recommendations. Subbasin planners
were asked to develop subbasin plans
that incorporate a technical assessment,
an inventory of past and present
activities, and a management plan
consisting of a vision, biological
objectives and implementation
strategies for the subbasin.
On May 28, 2004, the Council
received 59 recommendations for
subbasin plans in 58 subbasins from
various planning entities. The Council
made those recommendations available
for public review and comment,
including review by a team of
independent scientists. The public
comment period on the
recommendations ended on August 12,
2004. The Council received an extensive
set of comments. The Council staff and
Council also reviewed the plans during
the comment period for consistency
with standards in the Act for program
amendments and with the provisions in
the 2000 Program.
After its review of the
recommendations and the comments on
recommendations, the Council divided
the recommended subbasin plans into
three groups for consideration as
amendments to the Council’s fish and
wildlife program. From October to
December 2004, the Council engaged in
public review of the first set of draft
subbasin plans, deciding in December
2004 to adopt plan for 23 subbasin plans
into the program.
At same time, as its December 2004
meeting the Council decided to release
a second set of 29 subbasin plan
recommendations for public review as
draft amendments to the program. The
Council proposes to adopt the
management plan portions of these
subbasin plans as parts of the program.
The underlying technical assessments
and inventories will be placed in an
appendix to the program. The Columbia
subbasins for which draft subbasin
plans are now proposed for adoption
into the program are: Boise, Burnt,
Clearwater, Columbia Estuary, Cowlitz,
Deschutes Elochoman, Entiat, Grays,
Imnaha, Kalama, Klickitat, Lewis, Little
White Salmon, Lower Columbia, Lower
Mid-Columbia, Lower Mid-Snake,
Methow, Okanogan, Payette, Powder,
Snake Hells Canyon, Upper Mid-Snake,
Walla Walla, Washougal, Weiser,
Wenatchee, Wind, Yakima.
Public Comments and Hearings
The Council has scheduled public
hearings in the following locations to
accept oral and written comments on
the 29 draft subbasin plan program
amendments:
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First hearing: Boise, Thursday,
January 6 (Boise, Payette, Weiser,
Powder, Burnt, Upper and Lower MidSnake).
Second hearing: Clarkston,
Wednesday, January 12 (Clearwater,
Imnaha, Snake Hells Canyon, Walla
Walla).
Third hearing: Vancouver, Tuesday,
January 18 in conjunction with the
Council meeting (Lower Columbia,
Columbia Estuary).
Fourth hearing: Hood Rover, Monday,
January 24 (Deschutes, Klickitat, Little
White Salmon, Lower Mid-Columbia,
Wind).
Fifth hearing: Wenatchee,
Wednesday, January 26 (Entiat,
Methow, Okanagon, Wenatchee,
Yakima).
Sixth hearing: Kalispell, Wednesday,
January 27 (any subbasin).
See specific locations and schedules
at www.subbasins.org. Check this link
regularly, as we will post any updated
information there. Public comment
period for the above plans closes on
January 31, 2005.
The Council will consider all
comments received on the draft program
amendments as it decides whether to
adopt them as amendments to the
program. The Council tentatively has
scheduled the decision on program
adoption of these 29 subbasin plans at
its February 2005 meeting in Portland.
For precise times and locations, please
contact the Council’s central office or
consult the Council’s web site.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you would like a copy of the Subbasin
Plan Draft Amendments on a compact
disc or in printed form, please contact
the Council’s central office. The
Council’s address in 851 SW Sixth
Avenue, Suite 1100, Portland, Oregon
97204 and its telephone numbers are
503–222–5161: 800–452–5161. The
Council’s FAX number is 503–820–
2370. The Subbasin Plan Draft
Amendments are also fouind on the
Council’s Web site: www.nwcouncil.org.
If you are submitting comments on
the draft amendments, please note
prominently which subbasin plan you
are commenting on and address them to
Mr. Mark Walker, Director of Public
Affairs. Comments may be submitted by
mail, by facsimile transmission (FAX),
or by electronic mail at:
comments@nwcouncil.org. All
comments must be received by 5 p.m.
on January 31, 2005.
Stephen L. Crow,
Executive Director.
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Filings and Information Services,
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Extension: Complaint & Question Forms; SEC
File No. 270–485; OMB Control No.
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Notice is hereby given that pursuant
to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) the Securities
and Exchange Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) is soliciting comments
on the collection of information
summarized below. The Commission
plans to submit this existing collection
of information to the Office of
Management and Budget for extension
and approval.
Each year, the SEC receives more than
250,000 contacts from investors who
have complaints or questions on a wide
range of investment-related issues.
These contacts generally fall into the
following three categories:
(a) Complaints against SEC-regulated
individuals or entities;
(b) Questions concerning the federal
securities laws, companies or firms that
the SEC regulates, or other investmentrelated questions; and
(c) Tips concerning potential
violations of the federal securities laws.
Investors who submit complaints, ask
questions, or provide tips do so
voluntarily. To make it easier for
investors to contact the agency
electronically, the SEC created a series
of investor complaint and question web
forms. The titles of the forms are:
Enforcement Complaint Form; Investor
Complaint Form; Financial Privacy
Notice Complaint Form; and Questions
and Feedback Form. Investors can
access these forms through the SEC
Center for Complaints and Enforcement
Tips at https://www.sec.gov/
complaint.shtml.
Although the SEC’s complaint and
question forms provide a structured
format for incoming investor
correspondence, the SEC does not
require that investors use any particular
form or format when contacting the
agency. To the contrary, investors may
submit complaints, questions, and tips
through a variety of other means,
including telephone, letter, facsimile, or
e-mail. Approximately 20,000 investors
each year voluntarily choose to use the
complaint and question forms, and
approximately 98% of those investors
submit the forms electronically through
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the Internet (as opposed to printing and
mailing or faxing the forms).
Investors who choose not to use the
complaint and question forms receive
the same level of service as those who
do. The dual purpose of the forms is to
make it easier for the public to contact
the agency with complaints, questions,
tips, or other feedback and to streamline
the workflow of the SEC staff who
handle those contacts.
The SEC has used—and will continue
to use—the information that investors
supply on the complaint and question
forms to review and process the contact
(which may, in turn, involve responding
to questions, processing complaints, or,
as appropriate, initiating enforcement
investigations), to maintain a record of
contacts, to track the volume of investor
complaints, and to analyze trends.
The complaint forms ask investors to
provide information concerning, among
other things, their names, how they can
be reached, the names of the individuals
or entities involved, the nature of their
complaint or tip, what documents they
can provide, and what, if any, legal
actions they have taken. The question
form asks investors to provide their
names, e-mail addresses, and questions.
Investor use of the SEC’s complaint
and question forms is strictly voluntary.
Moreover, the SEC does not require
investors to submit complaints,
questions, tips, or other feedback.
Absent the forms, investors would still
have several ways to contact the agency,
including telephone, facsimile, letters,
and e-mail. Nevertheless, the SEC
created its complaint and question
forms to make it easier for investors to
contact the agency with complaints,
questions, or tips. The forms further
streamline the workflow of SEC staff
who record, process, and respond to
investor contacts.
The staff of the SEC estimates that the
total reporting burden for using the
complaint and question forms is 5,000
hours. The calculation of this estimate
depends on the number of investors
who use the forms each year and the
estimated time it takes to complete the
forms: 20,000 respondents × 15 minutes
= 5,000 burden hours.
Written comments are invited on: (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden of the collection of
information; (c) ways to enhance the
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PACIFIC NORTHWEST ELECTRIC POWER AND CONSERVATION PLANNING COUNCIL
Northwest Power and Conservation Planning Council Subbasin Plan
Draft Amendments
AGENCY: Pacific Northwest Electric Power and Conservation Planning
Council (Northwest Power and Conservation Council; Council).
ACTION: Notice of availability and opportunity to comment on subbasin
plan draft amendments to the Council's Columbia River Basin Fish and
Wildlife Program (program).
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SUMMARY: Following the mandate set out in the Pacific Northwest
Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act of 1980 (16 U.S.C. 839 et
seq.) (the Act), in November 1982 the Council adopted a regional
program, the Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program. The Act
requires the program be designed to protect, mitigate and enhance fish
and wildlife of the Columbia River Basin affected by hydropower dams,
while also assuring the region of an adequate, efficient, economical
and reliable power supply.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 2000, the Council began a comprehensive
revision of the program. First, the Council amended the program by
adopting a framework of vision, objectives and strategies at different
geographic scales (basinwide, ecological province, subbasin), tied
together with a consistent scientific foundation. The Council also
adopted basinwide provisions and described how it proposed to add more
specific objectives and measures to the program through integrated
subbasin plans for the tributary subbasins of the Columbia and for
specific mainstem reaches. The draft amendments now proposed for
adoption will add subbasin plans to the general, basinwide provisions
of the program as the next step in the comprehensive revision.
On August 12, 2002, the Council solicited recommendations for
amendments to the program at the subbasin level from the region's state
and federal fish and wildlife agencies, Indian tribes, and others, as
required by the Act. At the same time, the Council worked with a broad
range of interests in the region and developed a ``Technical Guide for
Subbasin Planners'' to help ensure that plans had a consistent format
and content. The Council also worked with the Bonneville Power
Administration to secure funding support for planning groups, the first
time that funding has been made available to help develop fish and
wildlife program amendment recommendations. Subbasin planners were
asked to develop subbasin plans that incorporate a technical
assessment, an inventory of past and present activities, and a
management plan consisting of a vision, biological objectives and
implementation strategies for the subbasin.
On May 28, 2004, the Council received 59 recommendations for
subbasin plans in 58 subbasins from various planning entities. The
Council made those recommendations available for public review and
comment, including review by a team of independent scientists. The
public comment period on the recommendations ended on August 12, 2004.
The Council received an extensive set of comments. The Council staff
and Council also reviewed the plans during the comment period for
consistency with standards in the Act for program amendments and with
the provisions in the 2000 Program.
After its review of the recommendations and the comments on
recommenda tions, the Council divided the recommended subbasin plans
into three groups for consideration as amendments to the Council's fish
and wildlife program. From October to December 2004, the Council
engaged in public review of the first set of draft subbasin plans,
deciding in December 2004 to adopt plan for 23 subbasin plans into the
program.
At same time, as its December 2004 meeting the Council decided to
release a second set of 29 subbasin plan recommendations for public
review as draft amendments to the program. The Council proposes to
adopt the management plan portions of these subbasin plans as parts of
the program. The underlying technical assessments and inventories will
be placed in an appendix to the program. The Columbia subbasins for
which draft subbasin plans are now proposed for adoption into the
program are: Boise, Burnt, Clearwater, Columbia Estuary, Cowlitz,
Deschutes Elochoman, Entiat, Grays, Imnaha, Kalama, Klickitat, Lewis,
Little White Salmon, Lower Columbia, Lower Mid-Columbia, Lower Mid-
Snake, Methow, Okanogan, Payette, Powder, Snake Hells Canyon, Upper
Mid-Snake, Walla Walla, Washougal, Weiser, Wenatchee, Wind, Yakima.
Public Comments and Hearings
The Council has scheduled public hearings in the following
locations to accept oral and written comments on the 29 draft subbasin
plan program amendments:
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First hearing: Boise, Thursday, January 6 (Boise, Payette, Weiser,
Powder, Burnt, Upper and Lower Mid-Snake).
Second hearing: Clarkston, Wednesday, January 12 (Clearwater,
Imnaha, Snake Hells Canyon, Walla Walla).
Third hearing: Vancouver, Tuesday, January 18 in conjunction with
the Council meeting (Lower Columbia, Columbia Estuary).
Fourth hearing: Hood Rover, Monday, January 24 (Deschutes,
Klickitat, Little White Salmon, Lower Mid-Columbia, Wind).
Fifth hearing: Wenatchee, Wednesday, January 26 (Entiat, Methow,
Okanagon, Wenatchee, Yakima).
Sixth hearing: Kalispell, Wednesday, January 27 (any subbasin).
See specific locations and schedules at www.subbasins.org. Check
this link regularly, as we will post any updated information there.
Public comment period for the above plans closes on January 31, 2005.
The Council will consider all comments received on the draft
program amendments as it decides whether to adopt them as amendments to
the program. The Council tentatively has scheduled the decision on
program adoption of these 29 subbasin plans at its February 2005
meeting in Portland. For precise times and locations, please contact
the Council's central office or consult the Council's web site.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you would like a copy of the
Subbasin Plan Draft Amendments on a compact disc or in printed form,
please contact the Council's central office. The Council's address in
851 SW Sixth Avenue, Suite 1100, Portland, Oregon 97204 and its
telephone numbers are 503-222-5161: 800-452-5161. The Council's FAX
number is 503-820-2370. The Subbasin Plan Draft Amendments are also
fouind on the Council's Web site: www.nwcouncil.org.
If you are submitting comments on the draft amendments, please note
prominently which subbasin plan you are commenting on and address them
to Mr. Mark Walker, Director of Public Affairs. Comments may be
submitted by mail, by facsimile transmission (FAX), or by electronic
mail at: comments@nwcouncil.org. All comments must be received by 5
p.m. on January 31, 2005.
Stephen L. Crow,
Executive Director.
[FR Doc. 05-1249 Filed 1-21-05; 8:45 am]
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