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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
[DES 06–21]
Contra Costa Water District Alternative
Intake Project, Contra Costa and San
Joaquin Counties, CA
Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability of the
Draft Environmental Impact Report/
Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/
EIS) and notice of public hearings.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation
(Reclamation) and the Contra Costa
Water District (CCWD) have made
available for public review and
comment a Draft EIR/EIS for the
proposed Contra Costa Water District
Alternative Intake Project. The Draft
EIR/EIS describes and presents the
environmental effects of five
alternatives: the No-Action Alternative
and four action alternatives. Three
public hearings will be held to receive
comments from individuals and
organizations on the Draft EIR/EIS.
DATES: The Draft EIR/EIS will be
available for a 45-day public review
period. Comments are due by close of
business on Monday, June 26, 2006.
Three public hearings have been
scheduled to receive oral or written
comments regarding the project’s
environmental effects:
• June 6, 2006, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.,
Antioch, CA
• June 7, 2006, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Sacramento, CA
• June 8, 2006, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.,
Concord, CA
A 30-minute open house to view
project information and interact with
the project team will precede the public
hearings in Antioch and Concord.
ADDRESSES: The public hearings will be
held at the following locations:
• Antioch at the Antioch Woman’s
Club, 509 G Street, Antioch, CA
• Sacramento at the Federal Building
Cafeteria, Conference Room C–1001,
2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, CA
• Concord at the Contra Costa Water
District Board Room, 1331 Concord
Avenue, Concord, CA 94524
Send comments on the Draft EIR/EIS
to Ms Erika Kegel, Project Manager,
Bureau of Reclamation, 2800 Cottage
Way, Sacramento, CA 95825 or Ms.
Samantha Salvia, Project Manager,
Contra Costa Water District, PO Box
H2O, Concord, CA 94524–2099.
Copies of the Draft EIR/EIS may be
requested from Ms. Samantha Salvia,
Project Manager, Contra Costa Water
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District, PO Box H2O, Concord, CA
94524–2099; telephone: 925–688–8057;
e-mail: alternativeintake@ccwater.com.
Copies of the Draft EIR/EIS are available
for public inspection at:
• Bureau of Reclamation, Regional
Library, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento,
CA
• Contra Costa Water District, 1331
Concord Ave., Concord, CA
• Antioch Public Library, 501 W. 18th
Street, Antioch, CA
• Brentwood Public Library, 751
Third Street, Brentwood, CA
• Concord Public Library, 2900 Salvio
Street, Concord, CA
The Draft EIR/EIS and related
documents are also available at
Reclamation’s Web site at
https://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/
nepa_projdetails.cfm?Project_ID=1818
and CCWD’s project Web site at https://
www.ccwater-alternativeintake.com.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Erika Kegel, Project Manager, Bureau of
Reclamation, Mid-Pacific Region, 2800
Cottage Way, MP–730, Sacramento, CA
95825–1898, 916–978–5081, TDD 916–
978–5608, ekegel@mp.usbr.gov or Ms.
Samantha Salvia, Project Manager,
Contra Costa Water District, PO Box
H2O, Concord, CA 94524–2099, 925–
688–8057,
alternativeintake@ccwater.com.
The
project purpose is to protect and
improve the quality of water delivered
to CCWD’s untreated- and treated-water
customers. Project objectives are to
improve delivered water quality,
especially during drought periods;
protect and improve health and/
aesthetic benefits to customers; improve
operational flexibility; and protect
delivered water quality during
emergencies. Water quality problems for
CCWD result from elevated
concentrations of salinity (chloride and
bromide), minerals, organic carbon, and
turbidity at CCWD’s Sacramento-San
Joaquin River Delta intakes. The
proposed action includes the
construction of a new intake and fish
screen in the Delta on Victoria Canal, a
pumping plant, and an associated 2- to
4-mile-long pipeline from the new
intake across Victoria Island to CCWD’s
existing Old River conveyance system.
Reclamation actions associated with the
proposed action are agreeing to a change
in point of diversion of Central Valley
Project (CVP) water under Contract No.
I75r–3401A–LTR1 and petitioning the
California State Water Resources
Control Board for necessary water right
changes regarding point of diversion.
Through the proposed action, CCWD is
seeking to relocate some of its
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diversions to a Delta location with better
water quality and would not seek to
increase its water rights, CVP contract
amounts, or permitted Los Vaqueros
Reservoir filling rates.
Oral and written comments, including
names and home addresses of
respondents, will be available for public
review. Individual respondents may
request that their home address be
withheld from public disclosure, which
will be honored to the extent allowable
by law. There may be circumstances in
which a respondent’s identity may also
be withheld from public disclosure, as
allowable by law. If you wish to have
your name and/or address withheld,
you must state this prominently at the
beginning of your comment. All
submissions from organizations or
businesses, and from individuals
identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses, will be
available for public disclosure in their
entirety.
Hearing Process Information
The purpose of the public hearings is
to provide the public with an
opportunity to comment on
environmental issues addressed in the
Draft EIR/EIS. Written comments will
also be accepted.
Persons needing special assistance to
attend and participate in the public
hearings should contact Ms. Erika Kegel,
at 916–978–5081, TDD 916–978–5608,
as soon as possible. To allow sufficient
time to process requests, please call no
later than one week before the public
hearings. Information regarding this
proposed action is available in
alternative formats upon request.
Susan L. Ramos,
Assistant Regional Director, Mid-Pacific
Region.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Special Trustee for
American Indians
Notice of Proposed Information
Collection
Office of the Special Trustee for
American Indians, Interior.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In compliance with section
3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the
Special Trustee for American Indians,
Department of the Interior, announces
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the proposed extension of a public
information collection required by The
American Indian Trust Fund
Management Reform Act of 1994,
‘‘Application to Withdraw Tribal Funds
from Trust Status, 25 CFR 1200,’’ OMB
Control No. 1035–0003, and that it is
seeking comments on its provisions.
After public review, the Office of the
Special Trustee for American Indians
will submit the information collection
to Office of Management and Budget for
review and approval.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by July 10, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations on the proposed
information collection should be sent to
the Office of the Special Trustee for
American Indians, Office of External
Affairs, Attn: Carrie Moore, Department
of the Interior, MS 5140 MIB, 1849 C St,
NW., Washington, DC 20240.
Individuals providing comments should
reference OMB control number 1035–
0003, ‘‘Application to Withdraw Tribal
Funds from Trust Status, 25 CFR 1200.’’
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on this
proposed information collection or to
obtain a copy of the proposal and
associated collection instrument, please
write to the above address, or call Carrie
Moore, 202–208–4866.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) regulations at 5 CFR part 1320,
which implement the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13),
require that interested members of the
public and affected agencies have an
opportunity to comment on information
collection and recordkeeping activities
(see 5 CFR 1320.8 (d)). This notice
identifies an information collection
activity that the Office of the Special
Trustee for American Indians will
submit to OMB for extension or reapproval.
Public Law 103–412, The American
Indian Trust Fund Management Reform
Act of 1994, allows Indian tribes on a
voluntary basis to take their funds out
of trust status within the Department of
the Interior (and the Federal
Government) in order to manage such
funds on their own. 25 CFR part 1200,
subpart B, § 1200.13, ‘‘How does a tribe
apply to withdraw funds?’’ describes the
requirements for application for
withdrawal. The Act covers all tribal
trust funds including judgment funds as
well as some settlement funds, but
excludes funds held in Individual
Indian Money accounts. Both the Act
and the regulation state that upon
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withdrawal of the funds, the
Department of the Interior (and the
Federal Government) have no further
liability for such funds. Accompanying
their application for withdrawal of trust
funds, tribes are required to submit a
Management Plan for managing the
funds being withdrawn, to protect the
funds once they are out of trust status.
This information collection allows the
Office of the Special Trustee to collect
the tribes’ applications for withdrawal
of funds held in trust by the Department
of the Interior. If this information were
not collected, the Office of the Special
Trustee would not be able to comply
with The American Indian Trust Fund
Management Reform Act of 1994, and
tribes would not be able to withdraw
funds held for them in trust by the
Department of the Interior.
II. Data
(1) Title: Application to Withdraw
Tribal Funds from Trust Status, 25 CFR
1200.
OMB Control Number: 1035–0003.
Current Expiration Date: August 31,
2006.
Type of Review: Information
Collection: Renewal.
Affected Entities: State, Local, or
Tribal Government.
Estimated annual number of
respondents: 12.
Frequency of response: Once per
respondent.
(2) Annual reporting and record
keeping burden:
Total annual reporting per
respondent: 342 hours.
Total annual reporting: 4104 hours.
(3) Description of the need and use of
the information: The statutorilyrequired information is needed to
provide a vehicle for tribes to withdraw
funds from accounts held in trust for
them by the United States Government.
III. Request for Comments
The Department of the Interior invites
comments on:
(a) Whether the 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
and the validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
(c) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(d) Ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
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collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Burden means the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons
to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
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
Office of Management and Budget
control number.
Dated: May 3, 2006.
Carrie Moore,
Director, Office of External Affairs, Office of
the Special Trustee for American Indians.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement
Notice of Proposed Information
Collection for 1029–0035
Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing
that the information collection request
for the title described below has been
forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and
approval. The information collection
request describes the nature of the
information collection and its expected
burden and cost.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before June 9, 2006, to be assured of
consideration.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request a copy of the information
collection request, explanatory
information and related form, contact
John A. Trelease at (202) 208–2783. You
may also contact Mr. Trelease at
jtreleas@osmre.gov.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians
Notice of Proposed Information Collection
AGENCY: Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians, Interior.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Special Trustee for American
Indians, Department of the Interior, announces
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the proposed extension of a public information collection required by
The American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994,
``Application to Withdraw Tribal Funds from Trust Status, 25 CFR
1200,'' OMB Control No. 1035-0003, and that it is seeking comments on
its provisions. After public review, the Office of the Special Trustee
for American Indians will submit the information collection to Office
of Management and Budget for review and approval.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by July 10,
2006.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations on the proposed
information collection should be sent to the Office of the Special
Trustee for American Indians, Office of External Affairs, Attn: Carrie
Moore, Department of the Interior, MS 5140 MIB, 1849 C St, NW.,
Washington, DC 20240. Individuals providing comments should reference
OMB control number 1035-0003, ``Application to Withdraw Tribal Funds
from Trust Status, 25 CFR 1200.''
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on this
proposed information collection or to obtain a copy of the proposal and
associated collection instrument, please write to the above address, or
call Carrie Moore, 202-208-4866.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regulations at 5 CFR part
1320, which implement the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-
13), require that interested members of the public and affected
agencies have an opportunity to comment on information collection and
recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR 1320.8 (d)). This notice identifies
an information collection activity that the Office of the Special
Trustee for American Indians will submit to OMB for extension or re-
approval.
Public Law 103-412, The American Indian Trust Fund Management
Reform Act of 1994, allows Indian tribes on a voluntary basis to take
their funds out of trust status within the Department of the Interior
(and the Federal Government) in order to manage such funds on their
own. 25 CFR part 1200, subpart B, Sec. 1200.13, ``How does a tribe
apply to withdraw funds?'' describes the requirements for application
for withdrawal. The Act covers all tribal trust funds including
judgment funds as well as some settlement funds, but excludes funds
held in Individual Indian Money accounts. Both the Act and the
regulation state that upon withdrawal of the funds, the Department of
the Interior (and the Federal Government) have no further liability for
such funds. Accompanying their application for withdrawal of trust
funds, tribes are required to submit a Management Plan for managing the
funds being withdrawn, to protect the funds once they are out of trust
status.
This information collection allows the Office of the Special
Trustee to collect the tribes' applications for withdrawal of funds
held in trust by the Department of the Interior. If this information
were not collected, the Office of the Special Trustee would not be able
to comply with The American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of
1994, and tribes would not be able to withdraw funds held for them in
trust by the Department of the Interior.
II. Data
(1) Title: Application to Withdraw Tribal Funds from Trust Status,
25 CFR 1200.
OMB Control Number: 1035-0003.
Current Expiration Date: August 31, 2006.
Type of Review: Information Collection: Renewal.
Affected Entities: State, Local, or Tribal Government.
Estimated annual number of respondents: 12.
Frequency of response: Once per respondent.
(2) Annual reporting and record keeping burden:
Total annual reporting per respondent: 342 hours.
Total annual reporting: 4104 hours.
(3) Description of the need and use of the information: The
statutorily-required information is needed to provide a vehicle for
tribes to withdraw funds from accounts held in trust for them by the
United States Government.
III. Request for Comments
The Department of the Interior invites comments on:
(a) Whether the 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 and the validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
(d) Ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Burden means the total time, effort, or financial resources
expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide
information to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize
technology and systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and
verifying information, processing and maintaining information, and
disclosing and providing information; to train personnel and to be able
to respond to a collection of information, to search data sources, to
complete and review the collection of information; and to transmit or
otherwise disclose the information.
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 Office of Management and Budget control number.
Dated: May 3, 2006.
Carrie Moore,
Director, Office of External Affairs, Office of the Special Trustee for
American Indians.
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