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wetlands. DOE hereby gives early notice
that it will include in the Draft EIS a
floodplain and wetland assessment
prepared in accordance with the DOE
Regulations for Compliance with
Floodplain and Wetland Environmental
Review Requirements (10 CFR Part
1022) and provides for early public
input.
DATES: DOE intends to issue the Draft
EIS containing the floodplain and
wetland assessment in the near future.
Any suggestions related to preparation
of the floodplain and wetland
assessment would be most helpful if
received no later than April 12, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Suggestions or questions
may be submitted by any of the
following methods, identified by
‘‘Notice of Floodplain and Wetland
Actions for the SPR EIS’’ on the subject
line, cover sheet, or envelope,
respectively:
• E-mail:
Donald.Silawsky@hq.doe.gov.
• Fax: (202) 586–4446.
• Mail: Donald Silawsky, Office of
Petroleum Reserves (FE–47), U.S.
Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20585–0301. Please
note that mail may be delayed by
anthrax screening.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: To
receive information on the proposed
expansion of the SPR or the floodplain
and wetland assessments, or to request
a copy of the Draft EIS when it is issued,
contact Donald Silawsky by any of the
means listed in the ADDRESSES section of
this notice, or call (202) 586–1892.
Additional information may also be
found on the DOE Fossil Energy Web
site for ‘‘EIS Information for Expanding
the Nation’s Strategic Petroleum
Reserves’’ at https://www.fe.doe.gov/
programs/reserves/spr/expansioneis.html.
For further information on the DOE
NEPA process, please contact: Carol M.
Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA
Policy and Compliance (EH–42), U.S.
Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20585–0119; telephone:
(202) 586–4600; fax: (202) 586–7031; or
leave a toll-free message at: (800) 472–
2756.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: DOE published a notice of
intent to prepare an EIS for site
selection for the expansion of the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve at 70 FR
52088 on September 1, 2005. In
response to conditions following
Hurricane Katrina, DOE extended the
scoping period through October 28,
2005 (70 FR 56649; September 28, 2005)
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and held public scoping meetings in
Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. On
October 27, 2005, the Governor of
Mississippi requested the Secretary of
Energy to include a new site at
Bruinsburg Salt Dome in the analysis of
environmental impacts. On November
22, 2005 (70 FR 70600), in response to
the inclusion of the new site, DOE
announced that another public meeting
would be held in Mississippi on
December 7, 2005, and the public
scoping period would be reopened until
December 19, 2005.
Locations of Potential Actions in
Wetlands and Floodplains
Construction and Operation of
Reserves. Candidate sites for expansion
of existing Strategic Petroleum Reserve
storage capacity are at West Hackberry
and Bayou Choctaw, Louisiana, and Big
Hill, Texas. Candidate sites for
construction of new Strategic Petroleum
Reserve storage capacity are at
Chacahoula and Clovelly, Louisiana;
Richton and Bruinsburg, Mississippi;
and Stratton Ridge, Texas. The
expansion sites and the candidate
construction sites all involve potential
actions in floodplains and/or wetlands.
Petroleum Pipelines. The candidate
Big Hill, Bayou Choctaw, and West
Hackberry expansion sites and the new
candidate Chacahoula, Clovelly,
Richton, Bruinsburg, and Stratton Ridge
sites involve potential construction of
crude oil or product pipelines in
floodplains and/or wetlands.
Brine Pipelines. The candidate Big
Hill and Bayou Choctaw expansion sites
and the new candidate Chacahoula,
Richton, Bruinsburg, and Stratton Ridge
sites involve potential construction of
brine pipelines in floodplains and/or
wetlands.
Issued in Washington, DC, on March 21,
2006.
Mark J. Matarrese,
NEPA Compliance Officer, Office of Fossil
Energy.
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BILLING CODE 6450–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC06–505–000; FERC–505]
Commission Information Collection
Activities, Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Extension
March 21, 2006.
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission.
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
15399
Notice.
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(a) of
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(Pub. L. 104–13), the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (Commission) is
soliciting public comment on the
specific aspects of the information
collection described below.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due May 21, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Copies of sample filings of
the proposed collection of information
can be obtained from the Commission’s
Web site (https://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/elibrary.asp) or from the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, Attn:
Michael Miller, Office of the Executive
Director, ED–34, 888 First Street, NE.,
Washington, DC 20426. Comments may
be filed either in paper format or
electronically. Those parties filing
electronically do not need to make a
paper filing. For paper filing, the
original and 14 copies of such
comments should be submitted to the
Secretary of the Commission, Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426
and refer to Docket No. IC06–505–000.
Documents filed electronically via the
Internet must be prepared in
WordPerfect, MS Word, Portable
Document Format, or ASCII format. To
file the document, access the
Commission’s Web site at https://
www.ferc.gov and click on ‘‘Make an Efiling,’’ and then follow the instructions
for each screen. First time users will
have to establish a user name and
password. The Commission will send an
automatic acknowledgement to the
sender’s e-mail address upon receipt of
comments.
All comments may be viewed, printed
or downloaded remotely via the Internet
through FERC’s homepage using the
eLibrary link. For user assistance,
contact FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or
toll-free at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY,
contact (202) 502–8659.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michael Miller may be reached by
telephone at (202) 502–8415, by fax at
(202) 273–0873, and by e-mail at
michael.miller@ferc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
information collected under the
requirements of FERC–505 ‘‘Application
for License for Water Projects with less
than 5MW capacity’’ (OMB No. 1902–
0115) is used by the Commission to
implement the statutory provisions of
Part I of the Federal Power Act (FPA),
16 U.S.C. sections 791a et seq. & 3301–
3432, as amended by the Electric
Consumers Protections Act (ECPA)
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(Pub. L. 99–495, 100 Stat. 1234 (1986).
The FPA as amended by ECPA provides
the Commission with the responsibility
of issuing licenses for nonfederal
hydroelectric power plants, plus
requiring the Commission in its
licensing activities to give equal
consideration to preserving
environmental quality. ECPA also
amended sections 10(a) and 10(j) of the
FPA to specify the conditions on which
hydropower licenses are issued, to
direct that the project be adopted in
accordance with a comprehensive plan
that improves waterways for interstate/
foreign commerce and for the
protection, enhancement and mitigation
of damages to fish and wildlife.
Submission of the information is
necessary to fulfill the requirements of
Sections 9 and 10(a) of the Act in order
for the Commission to make the
required finding that the proposal is
economically, technically, and
environmentally sound, and is best
adapted to the comprehensive plan of
development of the water resources of
the region. Under section 405(c) of the
Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act
of 1978, the Commission may in its
discretion (by rule or order) grant an
exemption in whole or in part from the
requirements of Part I of the FPA to
small hydroelectric power projects
having a proposed installed capacity of
5,000 kilowatts or less. The information
collected under designation FERC–505
is in the form of a written application
for a license and is used by Commission
staff to determine the broad impact of
the license application.
In Order No. 2002 (68 FR 51070,
August 25, 2003; FERC Statutes and
Regulations ¶ 31,150 at p. 30,688) the
Commission revised in regulations to
create a new licensing process in which
a potential license applicant’s pre-filing
consultation and the Commission’s
scoping pursuant to the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) are
conducted concurrently rather than
sequentially. The Commission estimated
that if an applicant chooses to use the
new licensing process, this could result
in a reduction of 30% from the
traditional licensing process. The
reporting burden related to Order No.
2002 would on average be 7,000 hours
per respondent as opposed to 10,000
hours per respondent in the traditional
licensing process and 8,600 hours in the
alternative licensing process. It has been
nearly three years since Order No. 2002
was issued and applicants have
experienced the opportunity to gain the
benefits from the revised licensing
process. In particular, applicants have
benefited from (a) increased public
participation in pre-filing consultation;
(b) increased assistance from
Commission staff to the potential
applicant and stakeholders during the
development of a license application; (c)
development by the potential applicant
of a Commission-approved study plan;
(d) elimination of the need for postapplication study requests; (e) issuance
of public schedules and enforcement of
deadlines, (f) better coordination
between the Commission’s processes,
including the NEPA document
preparation, and those of Federal and
state agencies and Indian tribes with
authority to require conditions for
Commission-issued licenses. It is for
these reasons, that the Commission will
use the estimates projected in the table
below.
The information collected is needed
to evaluate the license application
pursuant to the comprehensive
development standard of FPA sections
4(e) and 10(a)(1), to consider the
comprehensive development analysis
certain factors with respect to new
license set forth in section 15, and to
comply with NEPA, Endangered Species
Act (16 U.S.C. 531 et seq.) and the
National Historic Preservation Act (16
U.S.C. 470 et seq.).
Commission staff conducts a
systematic review of the prepared
application with supplemental
documentation provided by the
solicitation of comments from other
agencies and the public. The
Commission implements these filing
requirements in the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) under 18 CFR 4.61;
4.71; 4.93; 4.107; 4.108; 4.201; 4.202,
292.203 and 292.208.
Action: The Commission is requesting
a three-year extension of the current
expiration date, with no changes to the
existing collection of data.
Burden Statement: Public reporting
burden for this collection is estimated
as:
Number of responses per
respondent (2)
Number of respondents annually (1)
Average burden hours per
response (3)
1
6,959*
5 ...................................................................................................................................................
Total annual
burden hours
(1)×(2)×(3)
34,795
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* Rounded off.
Estimated cost burden to respondents
is $ 8,675,000. ($1,500,000 (traditional
process) + $2,975,000 (alternative
process) + $4,200,000 (integrated
process). These costs were determined
by the percentage of applicants that
would be using each of these processes.
Annualized costs per project $500,000
(traditional); $425,000 (alternative
licensing), and $350,000 (integrated
licensing).
The reporting burden includes the
total time, effort, or financial resources
expended to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose, or provide the information
including: (1) Reviewing instructions;
(2) developing, acquiring, installing, and
utilizing technology and systems for the
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purposes of collecting, validating,
verifying, processing, maintaining,
disclosing and providing information;
(3) adjusting the existing ways to
comply with any previously applicable
instructions and requirements; (4)
training personnel to respond to a
collection of information; (5) searching
data sources; (6) completing and
reviewing the collection of information;
and (7) transmitting, or otherwise
disclosing the information.
The estimate of cost for respondents
is based upon salaries for professional
and clerical support, as well as direct
and indirect overhead costs. Direct costs
include all costs directly attributable to
providing this information, such as
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administrative costs and the cost for
information technology. Indirect or
overhead costs are costs incurred by an
organization in support of its mission.
These costs apply to activities, which
benefit the whole organization rather
than any one particular function or
activity.
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the Commission,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (2) the accuracy of
the agency’s estimate of the burden of
the proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (3)
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ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (4) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond, including
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology
e.g. permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6–4460 Filed 3–27–06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. CP06–93–000]
ANR Pipeline Company; Notice of
Application
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March 21, 2006.
Take notice that on March 15, 2006,
ANR Pipeline Company (ANR) filed an
application pursuant to section 7 of the
Natural Gas Act (NGA) for authorization
to abandon three injection/withdrawal
wells, Frackelton-Sherwood 21, Lincoln
109, and Lincoln 123, located in the
Lincoln-Freeman Storage Field in Clare
County, Michigan, all as more fully set
forth in the application which is on file
with the Commission and open to
public inspection. This filing may also
be viewed on the Web at https://
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. For
assistance, call (866) 208–3676 or TTY,
(202) 502–8659.
Any questions concerning this
application may be directed to Dawn
McGuire, Counsel, ANR Pipeline
Company, 1001 Louisiana, Houston,
Texas 77002 at (713) 420–5503.
There are two ways to become
involved in the Commission’s review of
this project. First, any person wishing to
obtain legal status by becoming a party
to the proceedings for this project
should, before the comment date of this
notice, file with the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First
Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, a
motion to intervene in accordance with
the requirements of the Commission’s
Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR
385.214 or 385.211) and the Regulations
under the NGA (18 CFR 157.10). A
person obtaining party status will be
placed on the service list maintained by
the Secretary of the Commission and
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will receive copies of all documents
filed by the applicant and by all other
parties. A party must submit 14 copies
of filings made with the Commission
and must mail a copy to the applicant
and to every other party in the
proceeding. Only parties to the
proceeding can ask for court review of
Commission orders in the proceeding.
However, a person does not have to
intervene in order to have comments
considered. The second way to
participate is by filing with the
Secretary of the Commission, as soon as
possible, an original and two copies of
comments in support of or in opposition
to this project. The Commission will
consider these comments in
determining the appropriate action to be
taken, but the filing of a comment alone
will not serve to make the filer a party
to the proceeding. The Commission’s
rules require that persons filing
comments in opposition to the project
provide copies of their protests only to
the party or parties directly involved in
the protest.
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 under the
‘‘e-Filing’’ link.
Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time
on April 11, 2006.
Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6–4458 Filed 3–27–06; 8:45 am]
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Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
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Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and
385.214). 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. Any person wishing to
become a party must file a notice of
intervention or motion to intervene, as
appropriate. Such notices, motions, or
protests must be filed in accordance
with the provisions of Section 154.210
of the Commission’s regulations (18 CFR
154.210). Anyone filing an intervention
or protest must serve a copy of that
document on the Applicant. Anyone
filing an intervention or protest on or
before the intervention or protest date
need not serve motions to intervene or
protests on persons other than the
Applicant.
The Commission encourages
electronic submission of protests and
interventions in lieu of paper using the
‘‘eFiling’’ link at https://www.ferc.gov.
Persons unable to file electronically
should submit an original and 14 copies
of the protest or intervention to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC
20426.
This filing is accessible on-line at
https://www.ferc.gov, using the
‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for
review in the Commission’s Public
Reference Room in Washington, DC.
There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the
Web site that enables subscribers to
receive e-mail notification when a
document is added to a subscribed
docket(s). For assistance with any FERC
Online service, please e-mail
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call
(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call
(202) 502–8659.
[Docket No. RP99–301–139]
Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6–4470 Filed 3–27–06; 8:45 am]
ANR Pipeline Company; Notice of
Negotiated Rate Filing
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
March 21, 2006.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Take notice that on March 17, 2006,
ANR Pipeline Company (ANR) tendered
for filing and approval ten amendments
to existing negotiated rate service
agreements between ANR and
Wisconsin Gas LLC and fourteen
amendments to existing negotiated rate
service agreements between ANR and
Wisconsin Electric Power Company.
ANR requests that the Commission
accept and approve the subject
negotiated rate agreement amendments
to be effective April 1, 2006.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest this filing must file in
accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of
the Commission’s Rules of Practice and
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Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. RP00–305–025]
CenterPoint Energy—Mississippi River
Transmission Corporation; Notice of
Filing
March 21, 2006.
Take notice that on March 17, 2006,
CenterPoint Energy—Mississippi River
Transmission Corporation (MRT)
tendered for filing as part of its FERC
Gas Tariff, Third Revised Vol. No. 1,
Second Revised Sheet No. 10D, to be
effective March 31, 2006.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. IC06-505-000; FERC-505]
Commission Information Collection Activities, Proposed
Collection; Comment Request; Extension
March 21, 2006.
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(a)
of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13), the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is soliciting public comment
on the specific aspects of the information collection described below.
DATES: Comments on the collection of information are due May 21, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Copies of sample filings of the proposed collection of
information can be obtained from the Commission's Web site (https://
www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp) or from the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, Attn: Michael Miller, Office of the Executive
Director, ED-34, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. Comments
may be filed either in paper format or electronically. Those parties
filing electronically do not need to make a paper filing. For paper
filing, the original and 14 copies of such comments should be submitted
to the Secretary of the Commission, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426 and refer to
Docket No. IC06-505-000.
Documents filed electronically via the Internet must be prepared in
WordPerfect, MS Word, Portable Document Format, or ASCII format. To
file the document, access the Commission's Web site at https://
www.ferc.gov and click on ``Make an E-filing,'' and then follow the
instructions for each screen. First time users will have to establish a
user name and password. The Commission will send an automatic
acknowledgement to the sender's e-mail address upon receipt of
comments.
All comments may be viewed, printed or downloaded remotely via the
Internet through FERC's homepage using the eLibrary link. For user
assistance, contact FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll-free at (866)
208-3676, or for TTY, contact (202) 502-8659.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Miller may be reached by
telephone at (202) 502-8415, by fax at (202) 273-0873, and by e-mail at
michael.miller@ferc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The information collected under the
requirements of FERC-505 ``Application for License for Water Projects
with less than 5MW capacity'' (OMB No. 1902-0115) is used by the
Commission to implement the statutory provisions of Part I of the
Federal Power Act (FPA), 16 U.S.C. sections 791a et seq. & 3301-3432,
as amended by the Electric Consumers Protections Act (ECPA)
[[Page 15400]]
(Pub. L. 99-495, 100 Stat. 1234 (1986). The FPA as amended by ECPA
provides the Commission with the responsibility of issuing licenses for
nonfederal hydroelectric power plants, plus requiring the Commission in
its licensing activities to give equal consideration to preserving
environmental quality. ECPA also amended sections 10(a) and 10(j) of
the FPA to specify the conditions on which hydropower licenses are
issued, to direct that the project be adopted in accordance with a
comprehensive plan that improves waterways for interstate/foreign
commerce and for the protection, enhancement and mitigation of damages
to fish and wildlife.
Submission of the information is necessary to fulfill the
requirements of Sections 9 and 10(a) of the Act in order for the
Commission to make the required finding that the proposal is
economically, technically, and environmentally sound, and is best
adapted to the comprehensive plan of development of the water resources
of the region. Under section 405(c) of the Public Utilities Regulatory
Policies Act of 1978, the Commission may in its discretion (by rule or
order) grant an exemption in whole or in part from the requirements of
Part I of the FPA to small hydroelectric power projects having a
proposed installed capacity of 5,000 kilowatts or less. The information
collected under designation FERC-505 is in the form of a written
application for a license and is used by Commission staff to determine
the broad impact of the license application.
In Order No. 2002 (68 FR 51070, August 25, 2003; FERC Statutes and
Regulations ] 31,150 at p. 30,688) the Commission revised in
regulations to create a new licensing process in which a potential
license applicant's pre-filing consultation and the Commission's
scoping pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) are
conducted concurrently rather than sequentially. The Commission
estimated that if an applicant chooses to use the new licensing
process, this could result in a reduction of 30% from the traditional
licensing process. The reporting burden related to Order No. 2002 would
on average be 7,000 hours per respondent as opposed to 10,000 hours per
respondent in the traditional licensing process and 8,600 hours in the
alternative licensing process. It has been nearly three years since
Order No. 2002 was issued and applicants have experienced the
opportunity to gain the benefits from the revised licensing process. In
particular, applicants have benefited from (a) increased public
participation in pre-filing consultation; (b) increased assistance from
Commission staff to the potential applicant and stakeholders during the
development of a license application; (c) development by the potential
applicant of a Commission-approved study plan; (d) elimination of the
need for post-application study requests; (e) issuance of public
schedules and enforcement of deadlines, (f) better coordination between
the Commission's processes, including the NEPA document preparation,
and those of Federal and state agencies and Indian tribes with
authority to require conditions for Commission-issued licenses. It is
for these reasons, that the Commission will use the estimates projected
in the table below.
The information collected is needed to evaluate the license
application pursuant to the comprehensive development standard of FPA
sections 4(e) and 10(a)(1), to consider the comprehensive development
analysis certain factors with respect to new license set forth in
section 15, and to comply with NEPA, Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C.
531 et seq.) and the National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470
et seq.).
Commission staff conducts a systematic review of the prepared
application with supplemental documentation provided by the
solicitation of comments from other agencies and the public. The
Commission implements these filing requirements in the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) under 18 CFR 4.61; 4.71; 4.93; 4.107; 4.108; 4.201;
4.202, 292.203 and 292.208.
Action: The Commission is requesting a three-year extension of the
current expiration date, with no changes to the existing collection of
data.
Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this collection is
estimated as:
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Number of Average burden Total annual
Number of respondents annually (1) responses per hours per burden hours
respondent (2) response (3) (1)x(2)x(3)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5............................................................... 1 6,959* 34,795
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* Rounded off.
Estimated cost burden to respondents is $ 8,675,000. ($1,500,000
(traditional process) + $2,975,000 (alternative process) + $4,200,000
(integrated process). These costs were determined by the percentage of
applicants that would be using each of these processes. Annualized
costs per project $500,000 (traditional); $425,000 (alternative
licensing), and $350,000 (integrated licensing).
The reporting burden includes the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide
the information including: (1) Reviewing instructions; (2) developing,
acquiring, installing, and utilizing technology and systems for the
purposes of collecting, validating, verifying, processing, maintaining,
disclosing and providing information; (3) adjusting the existing ways
to comply with any previously applicable instructions and requirements;
(4) training personnel to respond to a collection of information; (5)
searching data sources; (6) completing and reviewing the collection of
information; and (7) transmitting, or otherwise disclosing the
information.
The estimate of cost for respondents is based upon salaries for
professional and clerical support, as well as direct and indirect
overhead costs. Direct costs include all costs directly attributable to
providing this information, such as administrative costs and the cost
for information technology. Indirect or overhead costs are costs
incurred by an organization in support of its mission. These costs
apply to activities, which benefit the whole organization rather than
any one particular function or activity.
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the Commission, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (2) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (3)
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ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (4) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to respond, including the use of
appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of information technology e.g.
permitting electronic submission of responses.
Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-4460 Filed 3-27-06; 8:45 am]
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