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Description: LP and T Energy, LLC
submits a second amended filing of
Application for Order Accepting Market
Based Rate Tariff; Original Sheet 4.
Filed Date: 09/06/2005.
Accession Number: 20050909–0029.
Comment Date: 5 pm Eastern Time on
Tuesday, September 27, 2005.
Docket Numbers: ER05–1238–002.
Applicants: MidAmerican Energy
Company.
Description: MidAmerican Energy Co.
submits a revised copy of the
Interconnection Agreement designated
as First Revised Service Agreement 244
which was inadvertently omitted.
Filed Date: 09/02/2005.
Accession Number: 20050912–0033.
Comment Date: 5 pm Eastern Time on
Friday, September 23, 2005.
Docket Numbers: ER05–1426–000.
Applicants: Avista Corporation.
Description: Avista Corp requests that
FERC disclaim jurisdiction over the
contracts between Public Utility District
#2 of Grant County, Washington and
Avista. September 8, 2005 errata to this
filing included under accession No.
20050908–5064.
Filed Date: 09/02/2005.
Accession Number: 20050907–0060.
Comment Date: 5 pm Eastern Time on
Friday, September 23, 2005.
Docket Numbers: ER05–1442–000.
Applicants: PJM Interconnection,
L.L.C.
Description: PJM Interconnection,
LLC submits an executed
interconnection service agreement with
Criterion Power Partners, LLC and
Allegheny Power.
Filed Date: 09/06/2005.
Accession Number: 20050908–0119.
Comment Date: 5 pm Eastern Time on
Tuesday, September 27, 2005.
Docket Numbers: ER05–1443–000.
Applicants: Southern Company
Services, Inc.
Description: Southern Company
Services, Inc. as agent for Alabama
Power Co., submits the First Revised
Service Agreement 370 under FERC
Electric Tariff, Fourth Revised Volume
No. 5.
Filed Date: 09/06/2005.
Accession Number: 20050908–0117.
Comment Date: 5 pm Eastern Time on
Tuesday, September 27, 2005.
Docket Numbers: ER05–1444–000.
Applicants: Midwest Independent
Transmission System Operator, Inc.
Description: Midwest Independent
Transmission System Operator Inc.
submits an unexecuted Large Generator
Interconnection Agreement among
Matton Wind Farm LLC, the Midwest
ISO and Central Illinois Public Service
Co. September 13, 2005 errata to this
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filing included under accession No.
20050915–0112.
Filed Date: 09/06/2005.
Accession Number: 20050908–0118.
Comment Date: 5 pm Eastern Time on
Tuesday, September 27, 2005.
Docket Numbers: ER05–1447–000.
Applicants: Salmon River Electric
Cooperative, Inc.
Description: Salmon River Electric
Coop, Inc. advises that due to
amendments to section 201(f) of the
Federal Power Act, it is no longer a
public utility.
Filed Date: 09/06/2005.
Accession Number: 20050909–0036.
Comment Date: 5 pm Eastern Time on
Tuesday, September 27, 2005.
Docket Numbers: ER05–1448–000.
Applicants: Wells Rural Electric
Company.
Description: Wells Rural Electric Co.
advises that due to amendments to
section 201(f) of the Federal Power Act,
it is no longer a public utility.
Filed Date: 09/06/2005.
Accession Number: 20050909–0035.
Comment Date: 5 pm Eastern Time on
Tuesday, September 27, 2005.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest in any of the above proceedings
must file in accordance with Rules 211
and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of
Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211
and §385.214) on or before 5 p.m.
Eastern time on the specified comment
date. It is not necessary to separately
intervene again in a subdocket related to
a compliance filing if you have
previously intervened in the same
docket. Protests will be considered by
the Commission in determining the
appropriate action to be taken, but will
not serve to make protestants parties to
the proceeding. Anyone filing a motion
to intervene or protest must serve a copy
of that document on the Applicant. In
reference to filings initiating a new
proceeding, interventions or protests
submitted on or before the comment
deadline need not be served on persons
other and the Applicant.
The Commission encourages
electronic submission of protests and
interventions in lieu of paper, using the
FERC Online links at https://
www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic
service, persons with Internet access
who will eFile a document and/or be
listed as a contact for an intervenor
must create and validate an
eRegistration account using the
eRegistration link. Select the eFiling
link to log on and submit the
intervention or protests.
Persons unable to file electronically
should submit an original and 14 copies
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
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The filings in the above proceedings
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are also available for review in the
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notification when a document is added
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call (866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY,
call (202) 502–8659.
Magalie R. Salas,
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Background Checks for
Contractor Employees (Renewal), EPA
ICR Number 2159.02, OMB Control
Number 2030–0043
Environmental Protection
Agency.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.), this document announces
that an Information Collection Request
(ICR) has been forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. This is a request
to renew an existing approved
collection. This ICR is scheduled to
expire on 09/30/2005. Under OMB
regulations, the Agency may continue to
conduct or sponsor the collection of
information while this submission is
pending at OMB. This ICR describes the
nature of information collection and its
estimated burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments must be
submitted on or before October 21,
2005.
Submit your comments,
referencing docket ID number OEI–
2005–0003, to (1) EPA online using
EDOCKET (our preferred method), by email to oei.docket@epa.gov, or by mail
to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of
Environmental Information Docket, Mail
ADDRESSES:
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Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2)
OMB at: Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget (OMB),
Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725
17th Street, NW., Washington, DC
20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul
Schaffer, U.S. EPA, Office of
Acquisition Management, Mail Code
3802R, Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone
number: (202) 564–4366; fax number:
(202) 565–2475; e-mail address:
schaffer.paul@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has
submitted the following ICR to OMB for
review and approval according to
procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12.
On June 10, 2005 (70 FR 33898), EPA
sought comments on this ICR pursuant
to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no
comments.
EPA has established a public docket
for this ICR under Docket ID number
OEI–2005–0003, which is available for
public viewing in the EPA Docket
Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room
B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC. The EPA Docket
Center Public Reading Room is open
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The telephone number for the
Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and
the telephone number for the OEI
Docket is (202) 566–1752. An electronic
version of the public docket is available
through EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) at
https://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use
EDOCKET to submit or view public
comments, access the index listing of
the contents of the public docket, obtain
a copy of the draft collection of
information, submit or view public
comments, access the index listing of
the contents of the public docket, and to
access those documents in the public
docket that are available electronically.
Once in the system, select ‘‘search,’’
then key in the docket ID number
identified above.
Any comments related to this ICR
should be submitted to EPA within 30
days of this notice. EPA’s policy is that
public comments, whether submitted
electronically or in paper, will be made
available for public viewing in
EDOCKET as EPA receives them and
without change, unless the comment
contains copyrighted material, CBI, or
other information whose public
disclosure is restricted by statute. When
EPA identifies a comment containing
copyrighted material, EPA will provide
a reference to that material in the
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version of the comment that is placed in
EDOCKET. The entire printed comment,
including the copyrighted material, will
be available in the public docket.
Although identified as an item in the
official docket, information claimed as
CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise
restricted by statute, is not included in
the official public docket, and will not
be available for public viewing in
EDOCKET. For further information
about the electronic docket, see EPA’s
Federal Register notice describing the
electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May
31, 2002), or go to https://www.epa.gov/
edocket.
Titles: Background Checks for
Contractor Employees (Renewal).
Abstract: EPA uses contractors to
perform services throughout the nation
with regard to environmental
emergencies involving the release, or
threatened release, of oil, radioactive
materials or hazardous chemicals that
may potentially affect communities and
the surrounding environment. Releases
may be accidental, deliberate, or may be
caused by natural disasters. Emergency
responders are available 24 hours-a-day
to an incident, and respond with
necessary personnel and equipment to
eliminate dangers to the public and
environment. Contractors responding to
any of these types of incidents are
responsible for conducting background
checks and applying Governmentestablished suitability criteria in
determining whether employees are
acceptable to perform on given sites or
on specific projects prior to contract
employee performance. The information
to be collected under the ICR for
Background Checks for Contractor
Employees covers citizenship or valid
visa, criminal convictions, weapons
offenses, felony convictions, parties
prohibited from receiving federal
contracts. The Contractor shall maintain
records of all background checks.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number. The OMB control
numbers for EPA’s regulations in 40
CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and are
identified on the form and/or
instrument, if applicable.
Burden Statement: The annual public
reporting and recordkeeping burden for
this collection of information is
estimated to average 1 hour per
response. Burden means the total time,
effort, or financial resources expended
by persons to generate, maintain, retain,
or disclose or provide information to or
for a Federal agency. This includes the
time needed to review instructions;
develop, acquire, install, and utilize
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technology and systems for the purposes
of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; adjust the
existing ways to comply with any
previously applicable instructions and
requirements; train personnel to be able
to respond to a collection of
information; search data sources;
complete and review the collection of
information; and transmit or otherwise
disclose the information.
Respondents/Affected Entities:
Entities potentially affected by this
action are contractors involved with
Emergency Response that have
significant security concerns, as
determined by the Contracting Officer
on a case-by-case basis, to provide
qualified personnel that meet the
background check requirements
developed by EPA.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,000.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
1,000.
Estimated Total Annual Cost:
$179,000, which includes $0 annual
capital/startup and O&M costs, and
$179,000 annual labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a
no change in the number of hours in the
total estimated burden currently
identified in the OMB Inventory of
Approved ICR Burdens.
Dated: September 13, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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FRL–7972–4]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments on
Sixteen Proposed Information
Collection Requests (ICRs)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.), this document announces
that EPA is planning to submit the
following sixteen existing, approved,
continuing Information Collection
Requests (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for the
purpose of renewing the ICRs. Before
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OEI-2005-0003, FRL-7972-3]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Background Checks for Contractor
Employees (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 2159.02, OMB Control Number 2030-
0043
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection
Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing
approved collection. This ICR is scheduled to expire on 09/30/2005.
Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor
the collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB.
This ICR describes the nature of information collection and its
estimated burden and cost.
DATES: Additional comments must be submitted on or before October 21,
2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OEI-2005-
0003, to (1) EPA online using EDOCKET (our preferred method), by e-mail
to oei.docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Information Docket, Mail
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Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2)
OMB at: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Schaffer, U.S. EPA, Office of
Acquisition Management, Mail Code 3802R, Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone
number: (202) 564-4366; fax number: (202) 565-2475; e-mail address:
schaffer.paul@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB
for review and approval according to procedures prescribed in 5 CFR
1320.12. On June 10, 2005 (70 FR 33898), EPA sought comments on this
ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments.
EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID
number OEI-2005-0003, which is available for public viewing in the EPA
Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center Public Reading Room is open
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The telephone number for the Reading Room is (202) 566-1744,
and the telephone number for the OEI Docket is (202) 566-1752. An
electronic version of the public docket is available through EPA
Dockets (EDOCKET) at https://www.epa.gov/edocket. Use EDOCKET to submit
or view public comments, access the index listing of the contents of
the public docket, obtain a copy of the draft collection of
information, submit or view public comments, access the index listing
of the contents of the public docket, and to access those documents in
the public docket that are available electronically. Once in the
system, select ``search,'' then key in the docket ID number identified
above.
Any comments related to this ICR should be submitted to EPA within
30 days of this notice. EPA's policy is that public comments, whether
submitted electronically or in paper, will be made available for public
viewing in EDOCKET as EPA receives them and without change, unless the
comment contains copyrighted material, CBI, or other information whose
public disclosure is restricted by statute. When EPA identifies a
comment containing copyrighted material, EPA will provide a reference
to that material in the version of the comment that is placed in
EDOCKET. The entire printed comment, including the copyrighted
material, will be available in the public docket. Although identified
as an item in the official docket, information claimed as CBI, or whose
disclosure is otherwise restricted by statute, is not included in the
official public docket, and will not be available for public viewing in
EDOCKET. For further information about the electronic docket, see EPA's
Federal Register notice describing the electronic docket at 67 FR 38102
(May 31, 2002), or go to https://www.epa.gov/edocket.
Titles: Background Checks for Contractor Employees (Renewal).
Abstract: EPA uses contractors to perform services throughout the
nation with regard to environmental emergencies involving the release,
or threatened release, of oil, radioactive materials or hazardous
chemicals that may potentially affect communities and the surrounding
environment. Releases may be accidental, deliberate, or may be caused
by natural disasters. Emergency responders are available 24 hours-a-day
to an incident, and respond with necessary personnel and equipment to
eliminate dangers to the public and environment. Contractors responding
to any of these types of incidents are responsible for conducting
background checks and applying Government-established suitability
criteria in determining whether employees are acceptable to perform on
given sites or on specific projects prior to contract employee
performance. The information to be collected under the ICR for
Background Checks for Contractor Employees covers citizenship or valid
visa, criminal convictions, weapons offenses, felony convictions,
parties prohibited from receiving federal contracts. The Contractor
shall maintain records of all background checks.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required
to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a
currently valid OMB control number. The OMB control numbers for EPA's
regulations in 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and are identified on
the form and/or instrument, if applicable.
Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1
hour per response. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or
disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This
includes the time needed to review instructions; develop, acquire,
install, and utilize technology and systems for the purposes of
collecting, validating, and verifying information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information;
adjust the existing ways to comply with any previously applicable
instructions and requirements; train personnel to be able to respond to
a collection of information; search data sources; complete and review
the collection of information; and transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
Respondents/Affected Entities: Entities potentially affected by
this action are contractors involved with Emergency Response that have
significant security concerns, as determined by the Contracting Officer
on a case-by-case basis, to provide qualified personnel that meet the
background check requirements developed by EPA.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,000.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 1,000.
Estimated Total Annual Cost: $179,000, which includes $0 annual
capital/startup and O&M costs, and $179,000 annual labor costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a no change in the number of
hours in the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB
Inventory of Approved ICR Burdens.
Dated: September 13, 2005.
Oscar Morales,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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