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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 23 / Wednesday, February 4, 2015 / Notices
Engineers (USACE) published a Notice
of Intent to Prepare an Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) to jointly
analyze the direct, indirect and
cumulative effects of two water supply
projects that were proposed collectively
as the Halligan-Seaman Water
Management Project. USACE has
determined that the two projects will be
separated and independently evaluated
as the Halligan Water Supply Project
EIS and the Seaman Water Supply
Project EIS. Constructing the proposed
Projects would impact jurisdictional
waters of the United States, thereby
requiring Clean Water Act Section 404
permits. The Cities of Fort Collins and
Greeley (Cities) have proposed the
Projects to meet existing and future
water demands during droughts, more
efficiently manage the Cities’ existing or
future water rights, provide some
operational redundancy, and possibly
enhance river functions. The proposed
Projects involve enlarging two existing
reservoirs, Halligan Reservoir and
Milton Seamen Reservoir (Seaman
Reservoir), which would provide
approximately 56,125 acre-feet of
additional storage capacity in the Cache
la Poudre River Basin. The Halligan and
Seaman Water Supply Projects would
both be non-federal projects
constructed, owned and operated by the
Cities.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions regarding the proposed action
and Draft EISs should be addressed to
Cody Wheeler, Project Manager, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, 9307 South
Wadsworth Boulevard, Littleton, CO
80128–6901; cody.s.wheeler@
usace.army.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 2006,
the Cities of Fort Collins and Greeley
and six other water providers
(Participants) had originally proposed to
replace the existing dams with new,
larger dams immediately downstream of
the existing Halligan and Seaman dams.
This would have provided 88,592 acrefeet of additional storage capacity. The
Participants were composed of water
providers in the region and included
three water districts collectively known
as the Tri-District including North Weld
County Water District, Fort CollinsLoveland Water District, and East
Larimer County Water District; the City
of Evans; the North Poudre Irrigation
Company; and the Water Supply and
Storage Company. However, six
participants have terminated their
participation in the Halligan and
Seaman water supply projects leaving
Fort Collins and Greeley as the sole
project proponents. The additional
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decreased from 88,592 to 56,125 acrefeet. This smaller amount of needed
storage might be provided by raising the
existing Halligan and Seaman dams
rather than replacing them with larger
new dams immediately downstream.
Water stored in the expanded
reservoirs would address municipal and
industrial water demands as well as
some agricultural demands. Preliminary
analyses by the Cities indicate that the
enlarged reservoirs would fill primarily
during the summer and fall months
from North Fork Poudre River flows.
Seaman Reservoir would also fill via a
pump station on the Poudre River main
stem near the dam site. Small releases
are proposed throughout the year on a
periodic basis to maximize operational
efficiency. The cities anticipate that
both reservoirs would remain mostly
full except during drought periods.
USACE has completed its analysis of
the purpose and need for the two
projects. Alternatives to the Halligan
project have been identified and USACE
is evaluating the impacts of those
alternatives. However, the City of
Greeley has expressed concerns about
USACE-identified alternatives to the
Seaman project. Addressing these
concerns would also delay evaluating
the Fort Collins’ Halligan project.
Several contributing factors including
the differing study schedules led Fort
Collins and Greeley to request that the
two projects be separated and
independently evaluated. USACE
carefully considered the request and
determined that it is appropriate and in
the best interest of all involved to
independently evaluate the two
projects.
The EIS will be prepared according to
the USACE’s procedures for
implementing the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of
1969, 42 U.S.C.4332(2)(c), and
consistent with the USACE’s policy to
facilitate public understanding and
review of agency proposals. Scoping as
described in the original Notice of Intent
(February 1, 2006 (71 FR 5250)) was
completed. Although needed storage has
decreased, the scopes of the two projects
and the issues identified in the initial
scoping process remain essentially the
same. Therefore, additional public
scoping meetings are not required. As
part of the EIS process, a full range of
reasonable alternatives including the
proposed Project and no action will be
evaluated.
As two separate projects, the USACE
anticipates completing and releasing the
Draft Halligan Water Supply EIS during
the spring of 2016. The Draft Seaman
Water Supply EIS will be completed at
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published for public review and
comments. Public comments will be
considered and addressed in each Final
EIS serving as a basis for the USACE
decision to issue or deny Section 404
Permits to enlarge Halligan and Seaman
reservoirs.
USACE has invited the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S.
Forest Service, Colorado Parks and
Wildlife, Colorado Department of Public
Health and Environment, Larimer
County, and Weld County to be
cooperating agencies in preparing the
EISs.
Cody S. Wheeler,
Project Manager, Regulatory Branch.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Agency Information Collection
Extension With Changes
U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Agency Information Collection
Activities: Information Collection
Extension with Changes; Notice and
Request for Comments.
AGENCY:

EIA, pursuant to the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
intends to extend for three years with
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), the Form EIA–111, Quarterly
Electricity Imports and Exports Report.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) 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; (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 automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.

SUMMARY:

Comments regarding this
proposed information collection must
be received on or before April 6, 2015.
If you anticipate difficulty in submitting
comments within that period, contact
the person listed in ADDRESSES as soon
as possible.

DATES:

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Written comments may be
sent to William Booth by email at
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to William Booth at
[email protected]. The draft form
and instructions are available at http://
www.eia.gov/survey/changes/
electricity/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
information collection request contains:
(1) OMB No.: 1905–0208;
(2) Information Collection Request
Title: Quarterly Electricity Imports and
Exports Report;
(3) Type of Request: Extension, with
changes, of a currently approved
collection;
(4) Purpose: Form EIA–111 collects U.
S. electricity import and export data.
The data are used to get an accurate
measure of the flow of electricity into
and out of the United States. The import
and export data are reported by U.S.
purchasers, sellers and transmitters of
wholesale electricity, including persons
authorized by Order to export electric
energy from the United States to foreign
countries, persons authorized by
Presidential Permit to construct,
operate, maintain, or connect electric
power transmission lines that cross the
U.S. international border, and U.S.
Balancing Authorities that are directly
interconnected with foreign Balancing
Authorities. Such entities are to report
monthly flows of electric energy
received or delivered across the border,
the cost associated with the
transactions, and actual and
implemented interchange. The data
collected on this form may appear in
various EIA publications.
(4a) Proposed Changes to Information
Collection: The data element ‘‘Transfer
Facility’s Presidential Permit numbers’’
is changed to ‘‘Transmission Provider/
Transfer Facility(ies)’’ and the section
for reporting Actual Interchange is
expanded to collect monthly metered
cross border flow over Presidential
Permit holders facilities that do not
involve interchange.
(5) Annual Estimated Number of
Respondents: 158;
(6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: 632;
(7) Annual Estimated Number of
Burden Hours: 948;
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: EIA
estimates that there are no additional
costs to respondents associated with the
surveys other than the costs associated
with the burden hours.

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Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the
Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974,
Pub L. 93–275, codified at 15 U.S.C. 772(b).
Issued in Washington, DC, on January 29,
2015.
Nanda Srinivasan,
Director, Office of Survey Development and
Statistical Integration, U. S. Energy
Information Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. RD14–12–000]

Proposed Agency Information
Collection
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Comment request.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
3507(a)(1)(D), the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (Commission or
FERC) is submitting the FERC–725D
information collection in Docket No.
RD14–12–000 to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review of the information collection
requirements. Any interested person
may file comments directly with OMB
and should address a copy of those
comments to the Commission as
explained below. The Commission
issued a Notice in the Federal Register
(79 FR 68426, 11/17/2014) requesting
public comments. FERC received no
comments in response to that notice and
is making the notation in its submission
to OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due by March 6, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB
should be sent via email to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs:
[email protected], Attention:
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Desk Officer and should be identified by
FERC–725D (OMB Control Number
1902–0247), The OMB Desk Officer may
also be reached via telephone at 202–
395–0710.
A copy of the comments should also
be sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, identified by the Docket
No. RD14–12–000, by either of the
following methods:
• eFiling at Commission’s Web site:
http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
efiling.asp.
• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier:
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
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Secretary of the Commission, 888 First
Street NE., Washington, DC 20426.
Instructions: All submissions must be
formatted and filed in accordance with
submission guidelines at: http://
www.ferc.gov/help/submissionguide.asp. For user assistance, contact
FERC Online Support by email at
[email protected], or by phone
at: (866) 208–3676 (toll-free), or (202)
502–8659 for TTY.
Docket: Users interested in receiving
automatic notification of activity in this
docket or in viewing/downloading
comments and issuances in this docket
may do so at http://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/docs-filing.asp.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ellen Brown may be reached by email
at [email protected], telephone
at (202) 502–8663, and fax at (202) 273–
0873.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
information collection changes in
Docket No. RD14–12–000 relate to the
Reliability Standards FAC–001–2
(Facility Interconnection Requirements)
and FAC–002–2 (Facility
Interconnection Studies), developed by
the North American Electric Reliability
Corporation (NERC), and submitted to
the Commission for approval. The
Commission received NERC’s petition to
approve the proposed Reliability
Standards on August 22, 2014.
NERC summarizes the FAC group of
standards as follows:
The Facility Design, Connections, and
Maintenance (‘‘FAC’’) Reliability Standards
address topics such as facility
interconnection requirements, facility
ratings, system operating limits, and transfer
capabilities.1

In its petition, NERC also summarizes
the proposed Reliability Standards’
applicability and requirements:
Proposed Reliability Standard FAC–001–2
requires that Transmission Owners and
applicable Generator Owners document and
make Facility interconnection requirements
available so that entities seeking to
interconnect have the necessary information.
Proposed Reliability Standard FAC–002–2
ensures that the reliability impact of
interconnecting new or materially modified
Facilities is studied. Collectively, proposed
Reliability Standards FAC–001–2 and FAC–
002–2 ensure that there is appropriate
coordination and communication regarding
the interconnection of Facilities, which
improves the reliability of the Bulk-Power
System.2

Finally, NERC also states that the
proposed Reliability Standards improve
reliability, clarify requirement language
1 NERC
2 Id.

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