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amendment for the BSPP by any of the
following methods:
• Web site: https://www.blm.gov/ca/st/
en/fo/palmsprings/solar_projects/
Blythe_Solar_Power_Project.html
• Email: capssolarblythe@blm.gov.
• Fax: 760–833–7199, Attn: Frank
McMenimen.
• Mail: Frank McMenimen, Project
Manager, BLM Palm Springs—South
Coast Field Office, 1201 Bird Center
Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262.
Copies of the Draft EIS are available
from the Palm Springs—South Coast
Field Office at the above address and
online at the project Web site.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Frank McMenimen, BLM Project
Manager, telephone 760–833–7150;
address 1201 Bird Center Drive, Palm
Springs, CA 92262; email
capssolarblythe@blm.gov. Persons who
use a telecommunications device for the
deaf (TDD) may call the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–
800–877–8339 to contact the above
individual during normal business
hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week, to leave a message
or question with the above individual.
You will receive a reply during normal
business hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
project area is located 8 miles west of
Blythe and 3 miles north of Interstate 10
(I–10). The BSPP was permitted and
approved by the BLM as a 1,000megawatt (MW) solar thermal generating
plant in 2010. NextEra Blythe Solar
Energy Center, LLC (Grant Holder)
purchased via bankruptcy the (un-built)
project assets of the prior BSPP grant
holder in 2012. In connection with that
purchase, on August 22, 2012, the BLM
approved the assignment of the BSPP
ROW grant from the prior holder, Palo
Verde Solar I, LLC, to the Grant Holder.
The Grant Holder now proposes to
modify the Project’s energy generation
technology and to reduce the overall
size of the Project within the previously
approved BSPP footprint.
Specifically, the Grant Holder is
proposing to construct, operate,
maintain, and decommission the BSPP
using photovoltaic (PV) technology with
a 485 MW capacity on 4,138 acres of
BLM-administered public land.
Anticipating that a PV project would
require a smaller footprint than the
approved solar thermal trough project,
the Grant Holder relinquished to the
BLM approximately 35 percent of the
previously approved ROW grant on
March 7, 2013. In connection with its
proposed modifications to the BSPP, the
Grant Holder has submitted a Level 3
variance request seeking an amendment
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to the existing ROW authorization to
reduce the acreage of the project site
and change the generating technology
authorized under the ROW grant from
concentrating solar trough to PV, which
reduces the project’s capacity from
1,000 to 485 MWs (the Modified
Project).
The Draft EIS fully analyzes the Grant
Holder’s proposal to construct, operate,
maintain, and decommission a Modified
Project (Alternative 1), as well as the
BLM’s denial of the variance request
which would maintain the current ROW
grant approvals on the site as modified
by the Grant Holder’s voluntary
relinquishment (Alternative 2, No
Action). Further, as part of the Draft EIS,
Alternatives 1 and 2 are compared to the
Approved Project and the No Project
alternatives analyzed as part of the 2010
Proposed Plan Amendment/Final EIS
for the previously approved BSPP. The
Draft EIS does not supersede or replace
the BLM’s Proposed Plan Amendment/
Final EIS or other consideration of the
Approved Project, but rather tiers to that
analysis to extent applicable for analysis
of the Modified Project and alternative.
The Draft EIS analyzes the use of PV
technology in detail, including any
additional site-specific impacts
resulting from the change in technology
and additional or relocated ancillary
facilities. This includes impacts to air
quality, biological resources, climate
change, cultural resources, hazards and
public health, lands and realty, mineral
resources, noise, paleontological
resources, recreation and special
designations, socioeconomics and
environmental justice, soil resources,
traffic and travel management, visual
resources, water resources, and
wildland fire ecology.
The BLM conducted Native American
tribal consultations in accordance with
Section 106 of the National Historic
Preservation Act and Federal policy in
connection with the previously
approved BSPP, which resulted in the
development of a Programmatic
Agreement. During that process tribes
expressed their views and concerns
about the importance and sensitivity of
specific cultural resources to which they
attach religious and cultural
significance. In connection with its
review of the Modified Project and
throughout the implementation of the
PA, the BLM will continue to give tribal
concerns due consideration, including
impacts to historic properties to which
tribes attach religious and cultural
significance and Indian trust assets. The
BLM will also carry out its
responsibilities to consult with tribes on
a government-to-government basis and
other members of the public pursuant to
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Section 106, Executive Order 13175,
other laws and policies, and the existing
PA to the extent applicable to the
consideration of the Grant Holder’s
proposed amendment to the BSPP ROW
grant.
Federal, State, and local agencies,
along with other stakeholders that may
be interested or affected by the BLM’s
decision on this project are invited to
participate in the comment process and,
if eligible, may request or be requested
by the BLM to participate as a
cooperating agency. Please note that
public comments and information
submitted including names, street
addresses, and email addresses of
persons who submit comments will be
available for public review and
disclosure at the above address during
regular business hours (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.),
Monday through Friday, except
holidays.
Before including your address, phone
number, email address, or other
personal identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6 & 1506.10.
Thomas Pogacnik,
Deputy State Director.
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United
States International Trade Commission.
TIME AND DATE: February 14, 2014 at 11
a.m.
PLACE: Room 101, 500 E Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20436, Telephone:
(202) 205–2000.
STATUS: Open to the public.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:
1. Agendas for future meetings: none
2. Minutes
3. Ratification List
4. Vote in Inv. Nos. 701–TA–511 and
731–TA–1246–1247 (Preliminary)
(Certain Crystalline Silicon
Photovoltaic Products from China
and Taiwan). The Commission is
currently scheduled to complete
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and file its determinations on
February 14, 2014; views of the
Commission are currently
scheduled to be filed on February
24, 2014.
5. Outstanding action jackets: none
In accordance with Commission
policy, subject matter listed above, not
disposed of at the scheduled meeting,
may be carried over to the agenda of the
following meeting.
By order of the Commission.
Dated: February 5, 2014.
William R. Bishop,
Supervisory Hearings and Information
Officer.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection,
Comments Requested; New Collection;
National Incident-Based Reporting
System (NIBRS)
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ACTION:
30-Day notice.
The Department of Justice, Federal
Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice
Information Services Division will be
submitting the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with established review procedures of
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
The proposed information collection is
published to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies. This
proposed information collection was
previously published in the Federal
Register Volume 78, Number 235, pages
73565–73566, on December 6, 2013,
allowing for a 60 day comment period.
The purpose of this notice is to allow
for an additional 30 days for public
comment until March 10, 2014. This
process is conducted in accordance with
5 CFR 1320.10.
Written comments and/or suggestions
regarding the items contained in this
notice, especially the estimated public
burden and associated response time,
should be directed to Mrs. Amy C.
Blasher, Unit Chief, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Criminal Justice
Information Services (CJIS) Division,
Module E–3, 1000 Custer Hollow Road,
Clarksburg, West Virginia 26306;
facsimile (304) 625–3566.
Written comments and suggestions
from the public and affected agencies
concerning the proposed collection of
information are encouraged. Comments
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should address one or more of the
following four points:
(1) Evaluate 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;
(2) Evaluate 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) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(4) 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
technological collection techniques of
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Overview of This Information
Collection
(1) Type of information collection:
New collection.
(2) The title of the form/collection:
National Incident-Based Reporting
System.
(3) The agency form number, if any,
and the applicable component of the
department sponsoring the collection:
Criminal Justice Information Services
Division, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Department of Justice.
(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Primary: City, county, state,
tribal, and federal law enforcement
agencies. Abstract: Under U. S. Code,
Title 28, Section 534, Acquisition,
Preservation, and Exchange of
Identification Records; Appointment of
Officials, June 11, 1930; Public Law
109–177 (H.R. 3199), March 9, 2006,
USA Patriot Improvement and
Reauthorization Act of 2005; PL 110–
457, Title II, Section 237(a), (b),
December 23, 2008, the William
Wilberforce Trafficking Victims
Reauthorization Act of 2008, and
Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes
Prevention Act, April 28, 2009, this
collection requests Incident data from
city, county, state, tribal and federal law
enforcement agencies in order for the
FBI UCR Program to serve as the
national clearinghouse for the collection
and dissemination of crime data and to
publish these statistics in Crime in the
United States, Hate Crime Statistics, and
Law Enforcement Officers Killed and
Assaulted. NIBRS is an incident-based
reporting system in which law
enforcement collects data on each crime
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occurrence. Designed to be generated as
a byproduct of local, state, and federal
automated records systems, currently,
the NIBRS collects data on each
incident and arrest within 23 crime
categories made up of 49 specific crimes
called Group A offenses. For each of the
offenses coming to the attention of law
enforcement, various facts about the
crime are collected. In addition to the
Group A offenses, there are 10 Group B
offense categories for which only arrest
data are reported. The most significant
difference between NIBRS and the
traditional Summary Reporting System
(SRS) is the degree of detail in reporting.
In reporting data via the traditional SRS,
law enforcement agencies tally the
occurrences of eight Part I crimes.
NIBRS is capable of producing more
detailed, accurate, and meaningful data
because data are collected about when
and where crime takes place, what form
it takes, and the characteristics of its
victims and perpetrators. Although most
of the general concepts for collecting,
scoring, and reporting UCR data in the
SRS apply in the NIBRS, such as
jurisdictional rules, there are some
important differences in the two
systems. The most notable differences
that give the NIBRS an advantage over
the SRS are: No Hierarchy Rule, in a
multiple-offense incident NIBRS reports
every offense occurring during the
incident where SRS would report just
the most serious offense and the lowerlisted offense would not be reported;
NIBRS provides revised, expanded, and
new offense definitions; NIBRS provides
more specificity in reporting offenses,
using NIBRS offense and arrest data for
23 Group A offense categories can be
reported while in the SRS eight Part I
offenses can be reported; NIBRS can
distinguish between attempted and
completed Group A crimes; NIBRS also
provides crimes against society while
the SRS does not; the victim-to-offender
data, circumstance reporting, drug
related offenses, offenders suspected use
of drugs, and computer crime is
expanded in NIBRS; the NIBRS update
reports are directly tied to the original
incident submitted. The Group A
offense categories include arson, assault
offenses, bribery, burglary/breaking and
entering, counterfeiting/forgery,
destruction/damage/vandalism of
property, drug/narcotic offenses,
embezzlement, extortion/blackmail,
fraud offenses, gambling offenses,
homicide offenses, human trafficking,
kidnapping/abduction, larceny/theft
offenses, motor vehicle theft,
pornography/obscene material,
prostitution offenses, robbery, sex
offenses, sex offenses/nonforcible,
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Sunshine Act Meetings
AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: United States International Trade
Commission.
TIME AND DATE: February 14, 2014 at 11 a.m.
PLACE: Room 101, 500 E Street SW., Washington, DC 20436, Telephone:
(202) 205-2000.
STATUS: Open to the public.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:
1. Agendas for future meetings: none
2. Minutes
3. Ratification List
4. Vote in Inv. Nos. 701-TA-511 and 731-TA-1246-1247 (Preliminary)
(Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products from China and
Taiwan). The Commission is currently scheduled to complete
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and file its determinations on February 14, 2014; views of the
Commission are currently scheduled to be filed on February 24, 2014.
5. Outstanding action jackets: none
In accordance with Commission policy, subject matter listed above,
not disposed of at the scheduled meeting, may be carried over to the
agenda of the following meeting.
By order of the Commission.
Dated: February 5, 2014.
William R. Bishop,
Supervisory Hearings and Information Officer.
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