Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Draft Habitat Conservation Plan for Oncor Electric Delivery Facilities in 100 Texas Counties, 59732-59733 [2011-24752]
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The draft DARP/EA can be viewed in
person by contacting Janet Whitlock at
(916) 414–6599.
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Author
The primary author of this notice is
Janet Whitlock (address above).
Authority
The authority for this action is the Oil
Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S. C. 2701
et seq.) and the implementing Natural
Resource Damage Assessment
regulations found at 15 CFR part 990.
Dated: September 19, 2011.
Alexandra Pitts,
Acting Regional Director, Pacific Southwest
Region.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R2–ES–2011–N155; 20124–1112–
0000–F2]
Draft Environmental Impact Statement
and Draft Habitat Conservation Plan
for Oncor Electric Delivery Facilities in
100 Texas Counties
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
AGENCY:
We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, correct a previously
published notice that announced the
availability of the draft environmental
impact statement (DEIS) and the draft
Oncor Electric Delivery Company, LLC,
habitat conservation plan (HCP). Due to
an inadvertent error, the prior notice
mischaracterized the alternatives
evaluated in the draft environmental
impact statement. We correct the
descriptions of the alternatives in this
notice. The error was not in the DEIS or
the HCP, but only in our previous
notice.
SUMMARY:
Comments: We must receive
written comments on the draft
environmental impact statement and
draft habitat conservation plan on or
before close of business (4:30 p.m. CDT)
October 13, 2011.
Public meetings: Up to nine public
meetings will take place throughout
Oncor’s proposed 100-county permit
area through September 28, 2011. Exact
meeting locations and times will be
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announced in local newspapers, on the
Austin Ecological Services Office Web
site (https://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/
AustinTexas/), and on Oncor’s Web site
(https://www.oncor-eis-hcp.com) at least
2 weeks prior to each meeting.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Adam Zerrenner, Field Supervisor, by
U.S. mail at U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, 10711 Burnet Road, Suite 200,
Austin, TX 78758, or by phone at (512)
490–0057.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On July 15, 2011, we published a
notice in the Federal Register (76 FR
41808) that announced that Oncor
Electric Delivery Company, LLC, has
applied under section 10(a)(1)(B) of the
Endangered Species Act of 1973, as
amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) (Act),
for an incidental take permit (ITP) (TE–
40918A–0). The requested ITP, which
would be in effect for a period of 30
years if granted, would authorize
incidental take of 11 federally listed
species. The proposed incidental take
would occur in 100 Texas counties that
comprise the Applicant’s service area,
excluding Williamson and Travis
counties and with the addition of
Runnels County, and would result from
activities associated with maintenance
and repair of existing electric facilities
and installation and operation of new
facilities.
The July 15, 2011, notice (76 FR
41808) provided information about
Oncor’s draft habitat conservation plan
(HCP) and our draft environmental
impact statement (DEIS) prepared under
the National Environmental Policy Act
of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). Please
refer to that notice for further
information, including details about
public meetings, ways to obtain copies
of the documents, and comment
submission.
Due to an inadvertent error, the July
15, 2011, Federal Register notice did
not accurately reflect the three
alternatives explored in the DEIS.
Therefore, we correct our description of
the alternatives below in this document.
Please note that all the documents we
made available from the date of
publication of our earlier notice (July
15, 2011) are correct. If you already
obtained any documents for review, you
do not need to get new copies. The only
error was in the text of our notice.
Alternatives
The DEIS examines three alternatives:
1. No Action—Project-Based
Consultation—Project-by-project
consultations or ITPs. This alternative
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would require Oncor to seek
authorization on a project-by-project
basis to address incidental take resulting
from their actions, as needed, through
section 7 of the Act or under section
10(a)(1)(B).
2. Preferred Alternative—Proposed
Alternative with 30-year Duration—
Issuance of an ITP by the Service for
covered activities in the 100-county
permit area, pursuant to section
10(a)(1)(B) of the Act. This is the
Applicant’s preferred alternative. The
activities that would be covered by the
ITP are general activities associated
with new construction, maintenance,
and emergency response and
restoration, including stormwater
discharges from construction sites,
equipment access, and surveying.
Construction activities covered for new
facilities include new overhead
transmission and distribution lines, new
support facilities such as substations
and switching stations, underground
electric installation, and second-circuit
addition on existing structures.
Maintenance activities would include
vegetation management within rights of
way, expansion of existing support
facilities, line upgrades, insulator
replacement, and maintenance of
underground electric facilities. The
requested ITP will cover the 100-county
permit area. The requested term of the
permit is 30 years.
To meet the requirements of a section
10(a)(1)(B) ITP, the Applicant has
developed and will implement the draft
HCP, which describes the conservation
measures the Applicant has agreed to
undertake to minimize and mitigate for
incidental take of the covered species to
the maximum extent practicable. As
described in the draft HCP, the
Applicant anticipates that incidental
take would not appreciably reduce the
likelihood of the survival and recovery
of these species in the wild.
3. Proposed Alternative with 50-year
Duration—Issuance of an ITP by the
Service for covered activities in the 100county permit area, pursuant to section
10(a)(1)(B) of the Act. This alternative
would cover the same activities as the
preferred alternative, but for a longer
period of time. The requested term of
the permit is 50 years.
Authority
We provide this notice under section
10(c) of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.)
and its implementing regulations (50
CFR 17.22) and NEPA (42 U.S.C. 4321
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et seq.) and its implementing
regulations (40 CFR 1506.6).
Joy E. Nicholopoulos,
Acting Regional Director, Southwest Region,
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended;
Notice To Amend an Existing System
of Records
Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of amendment to an
existing system of records.
AGENCY:
Pursuant to the provisions of
the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended,
the Department of the Interior (DOI) is
issuing a public notice of its intent to
amend Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
Privacy Act system of records, ‘‘Tribal
Rolls—Interior, BIA–7’’ to change the
name of the system to the ‘‘Tribal
Enrollment Reporting and Payment
System, Interior/BIA–7,’’ and update the
categories of individuals and records in
the system, the authorities, routine uses,
and policies and practices for records
storage and disposition. This system is
used to assist the Bureau of Indian
Affairs in collecting data and analyzing
applications to determine an
individual’s eligibility to share in
judgment fund distributions authorized
by plans prepared pursuant to Federal
legislation. It also assists BIA in calling
and conducting Secretarial elections.
DATE: Comments must be received by
November 7, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Any person interested in
commenting on this notice may do so
by: submitting comments in writing to
Willie Chism, Indian Affairs Privacy Act
Officer, 625 Herndon Parkway,
Herndon, Virginia 20170; handdelivering comments to Willie Chism,
Indian Affairs Privacy Act Officer, 625
Herndon Parkway, Herndon, Virginia
20170; or e-mailing comments to
willie.chism@bia.gov.
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Deputy Bureau Director for Indian
Services, 1849 C Street, NW., MS 4513–
MIB, Washington, DC 20240 or 202–
513–7640.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The BIA maintains the ‘‘Tribal Rolls—
Interior, BIA–7’’ system of records,
which it is renaming the ‘‘Tribal
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Enrollment Reporting and Payment
System, Interior/BIA–7.’’ The BIA Tribal
Enrollment Reporting and Payment
System functions as a central database
for Tribal enrollment records. The
purpose of this system is to assist BIA
to determine an individual’s eligibility
to share in judgment fund distributions
authorized by plans prepared pursuant
to 25 U.S.C. Section 1401, Funds
appropriated in satisfaction of
judgments of Indian Claims Commission
or United States Court of Federal
Claims. It also assists BIA in calling and
conducting Secretarial elections under
25 CFR Part 81, Tribal Reorganization
under a Federal Statute. The
amendments to the system will include
revising the system name and adding a
routine use to comply with 5 U.S.C.
552a(b)(3) of the Privacy Act specifically
applying to the disclosure of
information in connection with
response and remedial efforts in the
event of a data breach. Other
amendments will include updating data
in the following fields: System location,
categories of individuals and records in
the system, authorities, routine uses,
storage, retrievability, safeguards,
retention and disposal, system manager
and address, notification procedures,
records access procedures, contesting
records procedures and record source
categories. This system notice was last
published on August 21, 1990 (55 FR
34085).
The amendments to the system will
be effective as proposed at the end of
the comment period (the comment
period will end 40 days after the
publication of this notice in the Federal
Register), unless comments are received
which would require a contrary
determination. DOI will publish a
revised notice if changes are made based
upon a review of the comments
received.
II. Privacy Act
The Privacy Act of 1974, as amended
(5 U.S.C. 552a), embodies fair
information principles in a statutory
framework governing the means by
which Federal Agencies collect,
maintain, use, and disseminate
individuals’ personal information. The
Privacy Act applies to information that
is maintained in a ‘‘system of records.’’
A ‘‘system of records’’ is a group of any
records under the control of an agency
for which information is retrieved by
the name of an individual or by some
identifying number, symbol, or other
identifying particular assigned to the
individual. In the Privacy Act, an
individual is defined to encompass U.S.
citizens or lawful permanent residents.
As a matter of policy, DOI extends
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R2-ES-2011-N155; 20124-1112-0000-F2]
Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Draft Habitat
Conservation Plan for Oncor Electric Delivery Facilities in 100 Texas
Counties
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, correct a previously
published notice that announced the availability of the draft
environmental impact statement (DEIS) and the draft Oncor Electric
Delivery Company, LLC, habitat conservation plan (HCP). Due to an
inadvertent error, the prior notice mischaracterized the alternatives
evaluated in the draft environmental impact statement. We correct the
descriptions of the alternatives in this notice. The error was not in
the DEIS or the HCP, but only in our previous notice.
DATES: Comments: We must receive written comments on the draft
environmental impact statement and draft habitat conservation plan on
or before close of business (4:30 p.m. CDT) October 13, 2011.
Public meetings: Up to nine public meetings will take place
throughout Oncor's proposed 100-county permit area through September
28, 2011. Exact meeting locations and times will be announced in local
newspapers, on the Austin Ecological Services Office Web site (https://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/AustinTexas/), and on Oncor's Web site (https://www.oncor-eis-hcp.com) at least 2 weeks prior to each meeting.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Adam Zerrenner, Field Supervisor,
by U.S. mail at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 10711 Burnet Road,
Suite 200, Austin, TX 78758, or by phone at (512) 490-0057.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On July 15, 2011, we published a notice in the Federal Register (76
FR 41808) that announced that Oncor Electric Delivery Company, LLC, has
applied under section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered Species Act of
1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) (Act), for an incidental take
permit (ITP) (TE-40918A-0). The requested ITP, which would be in effect
for a period of 30 years if granted, would authorize incidental take of
11 federally listed species. The proposed incidental take would occur
in 100 Texas counties that comprise the Applicant's service area,
excluding Williamson and Travis counties and with the addition of
Runnels County, and would result from activities associated with
maintenance and repair of existing electric facilities and installation
and operation of new facilities.
The July 15, 2011, notice (76 FR 41808) provided information about
Oncor's draft habitat conservation plan (HCP) and our draft
environmental impact statement (DEIS) prepared under the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). Please refer
to that notice for further information, including details about public
meetings, ways to obtain copies of the documents, and comment
submission.
Due to an inadvertent error, the July 15, 2011, Federal Register
notice did not accurately reflect the three alternatives explored in
the DEIS. Therefore, we correct our description of the alternatives
below in this document. Please note that all the documents we made
available from the date of publication of our earlier notice (July 15,
2011) are correct. If you already obtained any documents for review,
you do not need to get new copies. The only error was in the text of
our notice.
Alternatives
The DEIS examines three alternatives:
1. No Action--Project-Based Consultation--Project-by-project
consultations or ITPs. This alternative
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would require Oncor to seek authorization on a project-by-project basis
to address incidental take resulting from their actions, as needed,
through section 7 of the Act or under section 10(a)(1)(B).
2. Preferred Alternative--Proposed Alternative with 30-year
Duration--Issuance of an ITP by the Service for covered activities in
the 100-county permit area, pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Act.
This is the Applicant's preferred alternative. The activities that
would be covered by the ITP are general activities associated with new
construction, maintenance, and emergency response and restoration,
including stormwater discharges from construction sites, equipment
access, and surveying. Construction activities covered for new
facilities include new overhead transmission and distribution lines,
new support facilities such as substations and switching stations,
underground electric installation, and second-circuit addition on
existing structures. Maintenance activities would include vegetation
management within rights of way, expansion of existing support
facilities, line upgrades, insulator replacement, and maintenance of
underground electric facilities. The requested ITP will cover the 100-
county permit area. The requested term of the permit is 30 years.
To meet the requirements of a section 10(a)(1)(B) ITP, the
Applicant has developed and will implement the draft HCP, which
describes the conservation measures the Applicant has agreed to
undertake to minimize and mitigate for incidental take of the covered
species to the maximum extent practicable. As described in the draft
HCP, the Applicant anticipates that incidental take would not
appreciably reduce the likelihood of the survival and recovery of these
species in the wild.
3. Proposed Alternative with 50-year Duration--Issuance of an ITP
by the Service for covered activities in the 100-county permit area,
pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Act. This alternative would
cover the same activities as the preferred alternative, but for a
longer period of time. The requested term of the permit is 50 years.
Authority
We provide this notice under section 10(c) of the Act (16 U.S.C.
1531 et seq.) and its implementing regulations (50 CFR 17.22) and NEPA
(42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and its implementing regulations (40 CFR
1506.6).
Joy E. Nicholopoulos,
Acting Regional Director, Southwest Region, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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