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implementing regulations (50 CFR 17.22
and 40 CFR 1506.6, respectively).
Dated: April 21, 2015.
Richard Hannan,
Deputy Regional Director, Pacific Region, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, Oregon.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
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Proposed Renewal of Information
Collection: OMB Control Number
1094–0001; Alternatives Process in
Hydropower Licensing
Office of the Secretary, Office
of Environmental Policy and
Compliance, Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
In compliance with section
3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of
Environmental Policy and Compliance,
Office of the Secretary, Department of
the Interior announces the proposed
extension of a public information
collection and seeks public comments
on the provisions thereof.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by July 6, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Send your written
comments to Shawn Alam, Office of
Environmental Policy and Compliance,
U.S. Department of the Interior, 1849 C
Street NW., MS 2462–MIB, Washington,
DC 20240, fax 202–208–6970, or by
electronic mail to Shawn_Alam@
ios.doi.gov. Please mention that your
comments concern the Alternatives
Process in Hydropower Licensing, OMB
Control Number 1094–0001.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request a copy of the information
collection request, any explanatory
information and related forms, please
use the contact information provided in
the ADDRESSES section above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
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I. Abstract
This notice is for renewal of
information collection.
The Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) regulations at 5 CFR part 1320,
which implement the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq., require that interested members
of the public and affected agencies have
an opportunity to comment on
information collection and
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recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR
1320.8 (d)).
On March 31, 2015, the Departments
of Agriculture, the Interior, and
Commerce published revised interim
final rules they originally published in
November 2005 at 7CFR part 1, 43 CFR
part 45, and 50 CFR part 221 to
implement section 241 of the Energy
Policy Act of 2005 (EP Act), Public Law
109–58, which the President signed into
law on August 8, 2005. Section 241 of
the EP Act adds a new section 33 to the
Federal Power Act (FPA), 16 U.S.C.
823d, that allows the license applicant
or any other party to the license
proceeding to propose an alternative to
a condition or prescription that one or
more of the Departments develop for
inclusion in a hydropower license
issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC) under the FPA.
This provision requires that the
Department of Agriculture, the
Department of the Interior, and the
Department of Commerce collect the
information covered by 1094–0001.
Under FPA section 33, the Secretary
of the Department involved must accept
the proposed alternative if the Secretary
determines, based on substantial
evidence provided by a party to the
license proceeding or otherwise
available to the Secretary, (a) that the
alternative condition provides for the
adequate protection and utilization of
the reservation, or that the alternative
prescription will be no less protective
than the fishway initially proposed by
the Secretary, and (b) that the
alternative will either cost significantly
less to implement or result in improved
operation of the project works for
electricity production.
In order to make this determination,
the regulations require that all of the
following information be collected: (1)
A description of the alternative, in an
equivalent level of detail to the
Department’s preliminary condition or
prescription; (2) an explanation of how
the alternative: (i) If a condition, will
provide for the adequate protection and
utilization of the reservation; or (ii) if a
prescription, will be no less protective
than the fishway prescribed by the
bureau; (3) an explanation of how the
alternative, as compared to the
preliminary condition or prescription,
will: (i) Cost significantly less to
implement; or (ii) result in improved
operation of the project works for
electricity production; (4) an
explanation of how the alternative or
revised alternative will affect: (i) Energy
supply, distribution, cost, and use; (ii)
flood control; (iii) navigation; (iv) water
supply; (v) air quality; and (vi) other
aspects of environmental quality; and
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(5) specific citations to any scientific
studies, literature, and other
documented information relied on to
support the proposal.
This notice of proposed renewal of an
existing information collection is being
published by the Office of
Environmental Policy and Compliance,
Department of the Interior, on behalf of
all three Departments and the data
provided below covers anticipated
responses (alternative conditions/
prescriptions and associated
information) for all three Departments.
II. Data
(1) Title: 7 CFR part 1; 43 CFR part 45;
50 CFR part 221; the Alternatives
Process in Hydropower Licensing.
OMB Control Number: 1094–0001.
Current Expiration Date: November
30, 2015.
Type of Review: Information
Collection Renewal.
Affected Entities: Business or forprofit entities.
Estimated annual number of
respondents: 5.
Frequency of responses: Once per
alternative proposed.
(2) Annual reporting and
recordkeeping burden:
Total annual reporting per response:
500 hours.
Total number of estimated responses:
5.
Total annual reporting: 2,500 hours.
(3) Description of the need and use of
the information: The purpose of this
information collection is to provide an
opportunity for license parties to
propose an alternative condition or
prescription to that proposed by the
Federal Government for inclusion in the
hydropower licensing process.
III. Request for Comments
The Departments invite comments on:
(a) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agencies, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) The accuracy of the agencies’
estimate of the burden of the collection
of information 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
respondents, 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,
and financial resources expended by
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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 use
technology and systems for the purposes
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, and to complete and
review the collection of information;
and to transmit or otherwise disclose
the information.
All written comments, with names
and addresses, will be available for
public inspection. If you wish us to
withhold your personal information,
you must prominently state at the
beginning of your comment what
personal information you want us to
withhold. We will honor your request to
the extent allowable by law. If you wish
to view any comments received, you
may do so by scheduling an
appointment with the Office of
Environmental Policy and Compliance
by using the contact information in the
ADDRESSES section above. A valid
picture identification is required for
entry into the Department of the
Interior.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
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: April 30, 2015.
Mary Josie Blanchard,
Deputy Director, Office of Environmental
Policy and Compliance.
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Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended;
Notice To Amend an Existing System
of Records
Office of the Secretary, Interior.
Notice of amendment to an
existing system of records.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
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Pursuant to the provisions of
the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended,
the Department of the Interior is issuing
public notice of its intent to amend the
Office of the Secretary Privacy Act
system of records, ‘‘Hearings and
Appeals Files—Interior, OS–09’’. The
amendment will update the system
location, categories of records, routine
uses of records maintained, policies and
practices for storing, retrieving,
accessing, retaining and disposing of
records, and citations to amended
Department of the Interior regulations.
DATES: Comments must be received by
June 16, 2015. The amendments to the
system will be effective June 16, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Any person interested in
commenting on this notice may do so
by: submitting comments in writing to
Teri Barnett, Departmental Privacy
Officer, 1849 C Street NW., Mail Stop
5547 MIB, Washington, DC 20240;
hand-delivering comments to Teri
Barnett, Departmental Privacy Officer,
1849 C Street NW., Mail Stop 5547 MIB,
Washington, DC 20240; or emailing
comments to Privacy@ios.doi.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Director, Office of Hearings and
Appeals, 801 N. Quincy Street, Suite
300, Arlington, Virginia 22203, or by
telephone at 703–235–3810.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
I. Background
The Department of the Interior (DOI),
Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA),
maintains the ‘‘Hearings and Appeals
File—Interior, OS–09,’’ system of
records. The primary purpose of this
system is to support the adjudication or
other resolution of administrative
disputes assigned to OHA. The
amendments to the system will include
updating the system location, categories
of records, routine uses of records
maintained, and policies and practices
for storing, retrieving, accessing,
retaining and disposing of records, as
well as updating citations to amended
DOI regulations. The categories of
records in the system is being updated
to delete a reference regarding contract
disputes considered and decided by the
Interior Board of Contract Appeals,
which was replaced by Congress with
the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals
(Sec. 847, Pub. L. 109–163, 119 Stat.
3391), and to add a reference to hearings
in hydropower licensing proceedings
(43 CFR part 45). This system notice
was last published in the Federal
Register on November 27, 2006, 71 FR
68633.
The list of routine uses of records
maintained in the system is being
revised in several respects. Routine use
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(1) is expanded to cover not only parties
and their authorized representatives but
also intervenors, witnesses, parties’
family members, any other persons
whose connections to the parties and/or
the proceedings could warrant
attendance and/or participation at a
hearing, and authorized representatives
of any of these additional persons.
Routine use (1) is also expanded to
expressly include service lists as
documents that may be disclosed. It is
typical for service lists to show, among
other things, the name and address of
each party or party’s representative.
Routine use (2) is added to permit
disclosure of case docket lists that
provide limited information on pending
cases, such as, docket number, case title
(which may be an individual’s name),
and docketed date. Finally, routine use
(3) is added to permit disclosure of
decisions and orders whose disclosure
is not required under the Freedom of
Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(2).
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 practice 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 records about
individuals that are 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 about an individual is
retrieved by the name or by some
identifying number, symbol, or other
identifying particular assigned to the
individual. The Privacy Act defines an
individual as a U.S. citizen or lawful
permanent resident. As a matter of
policy, DOI extends administrative
Privacy Act protections to all
individuals. Individuals may request
access to their own records that are
maintained in a system of records in the
possession or under the control of the
DOI by complying with DOI Privacy Act
regulations at 43 CFR part 2, subpart K.
The Privacy Act requires each agency
to publish in the Federal Register a
description denoting the type and
character of each system of records that
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
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Proposed Renewal of Information Collection: OMB Control Number
1094-0001; Alternatives Process in Hydropower Licensing
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Office of Environmental Policy and
Compliance, Department of the 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 Environmental Policy and
Compliance, Office of the Secretary, Department of the Interior
announces the proposed extension of a public information collection and
seeks public comments on the provisions thereof.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by July 6,
2015.
ADDRESSES: Send your written comments to Shawn Alam, Office of
Environmental Policy and Compliance, U.S. Department of the Interior,
1849 C Street NW., MS 2462-MIB, Washington, DC 20240, fax 202-208-6970,
or by electronic mail to Shawn_Alam@ios.doi.gov. Please mention that
your comments concern the Alternatives Process in Hydropower Licensing,
OMB Control Number 1094-0001.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the information
collection request, any explanatory information and related forms,
please use the contact information provided in the ADDRESSES section
above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
This notice is for renewal of information collection.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regulations at 5 CFR part
1320, which implement the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq., 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)).
On March 31, 2015, the Departments of Agriculture, the Interior,
and Commerce published revised interim final rules they originally
published in November 2005 at 7CFR part 1, 43 CFR part 45, and 50 CFR
part 221 to implement section 241 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EP
Act), Public Law 109-58, which the President signed into law on August
8, 2005. Section 241 of the EP Act adds a new section 33 to the Federal
Power Act (FPA), 16 U.S.C. 823d, that allows the license applicant or
any other party to the license proceeding to propose an alternative to
a condition or prescription that one or more of the Departments develop
for inclusion in a hydropower license issued by the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) under the FPA. This provision requires
that the Department of Agriculture, the Department of the Interior, and
the Department of Commerce collect the information covered by 1094-
0001.
Under FPA section 33, the Secretary of the Department involved must
accept the proposed alternative if the Secretary determines, based on
substantial evidence provided by a party to the license proceeding or
otherwise available to the Secretary, (a) that the alternative
condition provides for the adequate protection and utilization of the
reservation, or that the alternative prescription will be no less
protective than the fishway initially proposed by the Secretary, and
(b) that the alternative will either cost significantly less to
implement or result in improved operation of the project works for
electricity production.
In order to make this determination, the regulations require that
all of the following information be collected: (1) A description of the
alternative, in an equivalent level of detail to the Department's
preliminary condition or prescription; (2) an explanation of how the
alternative: (i) If a condition, will provide for the adequate
protection and utilization of the reservation; or (ii) if a
prescription, will be no less protective than the fishway prescribed by
the bureau; (3) an explanation of how the alternative, as compared to
the preliminary condition or prescription, will: (i) Cost significantly
less to implement; or (ii) result in improved operation of the project
works for electricity production; (4) an explanation of how the
alternative or revised alternative will affect: (i) Energy supply,
distribution, cost, and use; (ii) flood control; (iii) navigation; (iv)
water supply; (v) air quality; and (vi) other aspects of environmental
quality; and (5) specific citations to any scientific studies,
literature, and other documented information relied on to support the
proposal.
This notice of proposed renewal of an existing information
collection is being published by the Office of Environmental Policy and
Compliance, Department of the Interior, on behalf of all three
Departments and the data provided below covers anticipated responses
(alternative conditions/prescriptions and associated information) for
all three Departments.
II. Data
(1) Title: 7 CFR part 1; 43 CFR part 45; 50 CFR part 221; the
Alternatives Process in Hydropower Licensing.
OMB Control Number: 1094-0001.
Current Expiration Date: November 30, 2015.
Type of Review: Information Collection Renewal.
Affected Entities: Business or for-profit entities.
Estimated annual number of respondents: 5.
Frequency of responses: Once per alternative proposed.
(2) Annual reporting and recordkeeping burden:
Total annual reporting per response: 500 hours.
Total number of estimated responses: 5.
Total annual reporting: 2,500 hours.
(3) Description of the need and use of the information: The purpose
of this information collection is to provide an opportunity for license
parties to propose an alternative condition or prescription to that
proposed by the Federal Government for inclusion in the hydropower
licensing process.
III. Request for Comments
The Departments invite comments on:
(a) Whether the collection of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of the agencies, including whether
the information will have practical utility;
(b) The accuracy of the agencies' estimate of the burden of the
collection of information 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
respondents, 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, and financial resources
expended by
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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 use technology and
systems for the purposes 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, and to complete
and review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information.
All written comments, with names and addresses, will be available
for public inspection. If you wish us to withhold your personal
information, you must prominently state at the beginning of your
comment what personal information you want us to withhold. We will
honor your request to the extent allowable by law. If you wish to view
any comments received, you may do so by scheduling an appointment with
the Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance by using the contact
information in the ADDRESSES section above. A valid picture
identification is required for entry into the Department of the
Interior.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for OMB approval of this information
collection; they also will become a matter of public record.
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: April 30, 2015.
Mary Josie Blanchard,
Deputy Director, Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance.
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