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Land Requirements for Construction
The proposed project has been
designed to minimize impacts by
replacing existing pipeline and
installing crossovers at previously
existing aboveground facilities within
and directly adjacent to Texas Eastern’s
existing right-of-way. Construction of
the proposed facilities would disturb
about 16.2 acres of land for the
aboveground facilities and the pipeline.
Following construction, Texas Eastern
would maintain 12.9 acres for
permanent operation of the project’s
facilities. The entire proposed 0.8-mile
Delmont Loop pipeline route parallels
existing pipeline, utility, or road rightsof-way with the exception of the
proposed launcher and receiver barrels,
which will convert 3.6 acres of land use
from open land to industrial/
commercial.
The EA Process
The EA will discuss impacts that
could occur as a result of the
construction and operation of the
proposed project under these general
headings:
• geology and soils;
• water resources and wetlands;
• vegetation and wildlife;
• threatened and endangered species;
• cultural resources;
• land use;
• air quality and noise;
• public safety; and
• cumulative impacts.
Commission staff will also evaluate
reasonable alternatives to the proposed
project or portions of the project, and
make recommendations on how to
lessen or avoid impacts on the various
resource areas.
The EA will present Commission
staff’s independent analysis of the
issues. The EA will be available in
electronic format in the public record
through eLibrary 4 and the
Commission’s website (https://
www.ferc.gov/industries/gas/enviro/
eis.asp). If eSubscribed, you will receive
instant email notification when the EA
is issued. The EA may be issued for an
allotted public comment period.
Commission staff will consider all
comments on the EA before making
recommendations to the Commission.
To ensure Commission staff have the
opportunity to address your comments,
please carefully follow the instructions
in the Public Participation section,
beginning on page 2 of this notice.
8371. For instructions on connecting to eLibrary,
refer to the last page of this notice.
4 For instructions on connecting to eLibrary, refer
to the last page of this notice.

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With this notice, the Commission is
asking agencies with jurisdiction by law
and/or special expertise with respect to
the environmental issues of this project
to formally cooperate in the preparation
of the EA.5 Agencies that would like to
request cooperating agency status
should follow the instructions for filing
comments provided under the Public
Participation section of this notice.

and will provide instructions to access
the electronic document on the FERC’s
website (www.ferc.gov).
If you need to make changes to your
name/address, or if you would like to
remove your name from the mailing list,
please return the attached ‘‘Mailing List
Update Form’’ (appendix 2).

Consultation Under Section 106 of the
National Historic Preservation Act
In accordance with the Advisory
Council on Historic Preservation’s
implementing regulations for section
106 of the National Historic
Preservation Act, the Commission is
using this notice to initiate consultation
with the Pennsylvania State Historic
Preservation Office, and to solicit their
views and those of other government
agencies, interested Indian tribes, and
the public on the project’s potential
effects on historic properties.6 The EA
for this project will document findings
on the impacts on historic properties
and summarize the status of
consultations under section 106.

Additional information about the
project is available from the
Commission’s Office of External Affairs,
at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC
website at www.ferc.gov using the
eLibrary link. Click on the eLibrary link,
click on General Search and enter the
docket number in the Docket Number
field, excluding the last three digits (i.e.,
CP20–436). Be sure you have selected
an appropriate date range. For
assistance, please contact FERC Online
Support at [email protected]
or (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, contact
(202) 502–8659. The eLibrary link also
provides access to the texts of all formal
documents issued by the Commission,
such as orders, notices, and
rulemakings.
Public sessions or site visits will be
posted on the Commission’s calendar
located at www.ferc.gov/EventCalendar/
EventsList.aspx along with other related
information.

Environmental Mailing List
The environmental mailing list
includes federal, state, and local
government representatives and
agencies; elected officials;
environmental and public interest
groups; Native American Tribes; other
interested parties; and local libraries
and newspapers. This list also includes
all affected landowners (as defined in
the Commission’s regulations) who are
potential right-of-way grantors, whose
property may be used temporarily for
project purposes, or who own homes
within certain distances of aboveground
facilities, and anyone who submits
comments on the project. Commission
staff will update the environmental
mailing list as the analysis proceeds to
ensure that Commission notices related
to this environmental review are sent to
all individuals, organizations, and
government entities interested in and/or
potentially affected by the proposed
project.
If the Commission issues the EA for
an allotted public comment period, a
Notice of Availability of the EA will be
sent to the environmental mailing list
5 The Council on Environmental Quality
regulations addressing cooperating agency
responsibilities are at Title 40, Code of Federal
Regulations, Part 1501.6.
6 The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s
regulations are at Title 36, Code of Federal
Regulations, Part 800. Those regulations define
historic properties as any prehistoric or historic
district, site, building, structure, or object included
in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register
of Historic Places.

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Additional Information

Dated: May 18, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Western Area Power Administration
Agency Information Collection
Extension
Western Area Power
Administration, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

The Western Area Power
Administration (WAPA), pursuant to
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
intends to extend an information
collection request with the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
three years with ministerial changes.
The current OMB control number 1910–
5136 for WAPA’s Applicant Profile Data
(APD) form expires November 30, 2020.
WAPA intends to extend the APD form
under the OMB control number to
November 30, 2023. WAPA is seeking
comments on this proposed information
collection extension.

SUMMARY:

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Comments regarding this
proposed information collection must
be received on or before the end of the
comment period that closes on July 21,
2020. WAPA must receive comments by
the end of the comment period to ensure
consideration.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be
sent to Mr. Christopher O. Magee,
Records and Information Management
Program Manager, Western Area Power
Administration, P.O. Box 281213,
Lakewood, CO 80228, or by email to
[email protected]. Please refer to
‘‘Paperwork Reduction Act Information
Collection’’ as the subject of your
comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Please contact Ms. Erin Green, Power
Marketing and Energy Services
Specialist, Western Area Power
Administration, P.O. Box 281213,
Lakewood, CO 80228, telephone (720)
962–7016, or email [email protected].
The proposed APD form is available on
WAPA’s website at www.wapa.gov/
PowerMarketing/Pages/applicantprofile-data.aspx.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
information collection request relates to:
(1) OMB No.: 1910–5136; (2)
Information Collection Request Title:
Western Area Power Administration
Applicant Profile Data; (3) Type of
Review: Renewal; (4) Purpose: The
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
WAPA’s power marketing functions.
WAPA markets a limited amount of
Federal hydropower and has discretion
to determine who will receive an
allocation of Federal hydropower. Due
to the limited quantity and high demand
for WAPA’s hydropower available
under established marketing plans,
WAPA may need to collect information
using the APD to evaluate the entities
applying to receive allocations of
Federal hydropower; (5) Annual
Estimated Number of Respondents:
33.3; (6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: 33.3; (7) Annual
Estimated Number of Burden Hours:
250; and (8) Annual Estimated
Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost
Burden: $32,046.98.
DATES:

I. Statutory Authority
The Reclamation Act of 1902
established the Federal reclamation
program.1 The basic principle of the
Reclamation Act of 1902 was that the
United States, through the Secretary of
the Interior, would build and operate
irrigation works from the proceeds of
1 See Act of June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388
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public land sales in sixteen arid
Western states (a seventeenth—Texas—
was added in 1906). The Reclamation
Project Act of 1939 expanded the
purposes of the reclamation program
and specified certain terms for contracts
that the Secretary of the Interior enters
into to furnish water and power.2
Congress enacted the Reclamation Laws
for purposes that include enhancing
navigation, protection from floods,
reclaiming the arid lands in the Western
United States, and for fish and wildlife.3
Congress intended that the production
of power would be a supplemental
feature of the multi-purpose water
projects authorized under the
Reclamation Laws.4 Section 9 of the
Reclamation Project Act of 1939
provides that no contract entered into
by the United States for power may, in
the judgment of the Secretary, ‘‘impair
the efficiency of the project for irrigation
purposes.’’ 5 Section 5 of the Flood
Control Act of 1944, as amended,6 is
read in pari materia with the
Reclamation Laws with respect to
WAPA.7 In 1977, section 302 of the
Department of Energy Organization Act
transferred the power marketing
functions of the Department of the
Interior to the Secretary of Energy,
acting by and through a separate
Administrator for WAPA.8 Under this
authority, WAPA markets Federal
hydropower. As part of WAPA’s
marketing authority, WAPA needs to
obtain information from interested
entities who desire an allocation of
Federal power using the APD form. The
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
requires WAPA to obtain a clearance
from OMB before collecting this
information through the APD form.9
II. This Process Determines the Format
of the APD and Is Not a Call for
Applications
This public process and the
associated Federal Register notice only
determine the information that WAPA
will collect from an entity desiring to
apply for a Federal power allocation.
This public process is a legal
requirement that WAPA must fulfill
2 See

Act of Aug. 4, 1939, ch. 418, 53 Stat. 1187
(1939), as amended and supplemented.
3 See, e.g., Act of Oct. 26, 1937, ch. 832, 50 Stat.
844, 850 (1937), as amended and supplemented.
4 See id.
5 43 U.S.C. 485h(c)(1).
6 16 U.S.C. 825s.
7 See, e.g., United States v. Sacramento Mun. Util.
Dist., 652 F.2d 1341, 1345 n.4 (9th Cir. 1981) (citing
N. Cal. Power Agency v. Morton, 396 F. Supp. 1187,
1189 (D.D.C. 1975). See also Disposition of Surplus
Power Generated at Clark Hill Reservoir Project, 41
Op. Att’y Gen. 236, 245 (1955).
8 See 42 U.S.C. 7152(a)(1)(E).
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before WAPA can request information
from potential preference customers.
This public process is not the process
whereby interested parties request an
allocation of Federal power. The actual
allocation of power is outside the scope
of this proceeding. Please do not submit
a request for Federal power in this
process. Later, and as appropriate,
WAPA will issue calls for applications
as part of project-specific marketing
plans. When WAPA issues a call for
applications, the information WAPA
proposes to collect is voluntary. WAPA
will use the information collected, in
conjunction with its project–specific
marketing plans, to determine an
entity’s eligibility, and ultimately which
entities will receive an allocation of
Federal power.
III. Invitation for Comments
WAPA intends to extend and reuse
the APD form approved under OMB
control number 1910–5136. The
extension would continue use of the
form through November 30, 2023.
WAPA is proposing some ministerial
changes to the APD. The proposed APD
form, including a list of ministerial
changes and the reason for such
changes, is available on WAPA’s
website. Comments are invited on: (1)
Whether the extended collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
(2) 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) ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (4) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including the use of
automated electronic, mechanical or
other collection techniques, or other
forms of information technology. After
considering all public comments,
WAPA will publish a second notice in
the Federal Register submitting the APD
to OMB.
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of
Energy was signed on May 15, 2020, by
Mark A. Gabriel, Administrator,
Western Area Power Administration,
pursuant to delegated authority from the
Secretary of Energy. That document,
with the original signature and date, is
maintained by DOE. For administrative
purposes only, and in compliance with
requirements of the Office of the Federal
Register, the undersigned DOE Federal
Register Liaison Officer has been
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document in electronic format for
publication, as an official document of
the Department of Energy. This
administrative process in no way alters
the legal effect of this document upon
publication in the Federal Register.
Signed in Washington, DC, on May 19,
2020.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S.
Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2020–11074 Filed 5–21–20; 8:45 am]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OAR–2018–0279; FRL–10009–30–
OAR]

Release of Policy Assessment for the
Ozone National Ambient Air Quality
Standards
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:

On or about May 29, 2020, the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
will make available the document,
Policy Assessment for the Ozone
National Ambient Air Quality
Standards (PA, EPA–452/R–20–001).
This document was prepared as part of
the current review of the national
ambient air quality standards (NAAQS)
for photochemical oxidants including
ozone (O3). The PA serves to ‘‘bridge the
gap’’ between the currently available
scientific and technical information and
the judgments required of the
Administrator in determining whether
to retain or revise the existing O3
NAAQS. The primary and secondary O3
NAAQS are set to protect the public
health and the public welfare from O3
and other photochemical oxidants in
ambient air.
DATES: This document will be available
on or about May 29, 2020.
ADDRESSES: This document will be
available on the EPA’s website at
https://www.epa.gov/naaqs/ozone-o3air-quality-standards. The document
will be accessible under ‘‘Policy
Assessments’’ from the current review.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Deirdre L. Murphy, Office of Air Quality
Planning and Standards, (Mail Code
C504–06), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Research Triangle
Park, NC 27711; telephone number:
919–541–0729, fax number: 919–541–
0237; or email: murphy.deirdre@
epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Two
sections of the Clean Air Act (CAA or
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the Act) govern the establishment and
revision of the NAAQS. Section 108
directs the Administrator to identify and
list certain air pollutants and then issue
‘‘air quality criteria’’ for those
pollutants. The air quality criteria are to
‘‘accurately reflect the latest scientific
knowledge useful in indicating the kind
and extent of all identifiable effects on
public health or welfare which may be
expected from the presence of such
pollutant in the ambient air . . .’’ (CAA
section 108(a)(2)). Under section 109 of
the Act, the EPA is then to establish
primary (health-based) and secondary
(welfare-based) NAAQS for each
pollutant for which the EPA has issued
air quality criteria. Section 109(d)(1) of
the Act requires periodic review and, if
appropriate, revision of existing air
quality criteria. Revised air quality
criteria are to reflect advances in
scientific knowledge on the effects of
the pollutant on public health and
welfare. Under the same provision, the
EPA is also to periodically review and,
if appropriate, revise the NAAQS, based
on the revised air quality criteria.
The Act additionally requires
appointment of an independent
scientific review committee that is to
periodically review the existing air
quality criteria and NAAQS and to
recommend any new standards and
revisions of existing criteria and
standards as may be appropriate (CAA
section 109(d)(2)(A)–(B)). Since the
early 1980s, the requirement for an
independent scientific review
committee has been fulfilled by the
Clean Air Scientific Advisory
Committee (CASAC).
Presently the EPA is reviewing the air
quality criteria and NAAQS for
photochemical oxidants and O3.1 The
EPA’s overall plan for this review is
presented in the Integrated Review Plan
for the Ozone NAAQS (IRP).2 As
described in the IRP, the EPA has
prepared an Integrated Science
Assessment for Ozone and Related
Photochemical Oxidants (ISA), a draft of
which was released in September 2019
for public comment and review by the
CASAC.3 A draft of the PA was also
reviewed by the CASAC (84 FR 58713,
November 1, 2019; 85 FR 4656, January
27, 2020). The final PA reflects
consideration of the advice and
1 The EPA’s call for information for this review
was issued on June 26, 2018 (83 FR 29785).
2 The IRP is available at https://www.epa.gov/
naaqs/ozone-o3-standards-planning-documentscurrent-review.
3 The ISA is available at: https://www.epa.gov/
naaqs/ozone-o3-standards-integrated-scienceassessments-current-review.

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comments from the CASAC,4 as well as
public comments, on the draft PA. The
PA serves to ‘‘bridge the gap’’ between
the scientific and technical information
in the final ISA and any air quality,
exposure and risk analyses available in
the review, and the judgments required
of the Administrator in determining
whether to retain or revise the existing
ozone NAAQS. The PA builds upon
information presented in the ISA and
quantitative air quality, exposure and
risk analyses (presented in appendices
to the PA). The PA document will be
available on or about May 29, 2020, on
the EPA’s website at https://
www.epa.gov/naaqs/ozone-o3-airquality-standards. The document briefly
described here does not represent and
should not be construed to represent
any final EPA policy, viewpoint, or
determination.
Dated: May 19, 2020.
Panagiotis Tsirigotis,
Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and
Standards.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[ER–FRL–9050–9]

Environmental Impact Statements;
Notice of Availability
Responsible Agency: Office of Federal
Activities, General Information 202–
564–5632 or https://www.epa.gov/nepa.
Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact
Statements (EIS)
Filed May 11, 2020, 10 a.m. EST
Through May 18, 2020, 10 a.m. EST
Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9.
Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act
requires that EPA make public its
comments on EISs issued by other
Federal agencies. EPA’s comment letters
on EISs are available at: https://
cdxnodengn.epa.gov/cdx-enepa-public/
action/eis/search.
EIS No. 20200106, Draft, BR, ND,
Eastern North Dakota Alternate Water
Supply, Comment Period Ends: 07/
06/2020, Contact: Damien Reinhart
701–221–1275.
EIS No. 20200107, Final, USFWS, CA,
Placer County Conservation Program
Final Environmental Impact
Statement/Environmental Impact
Report, Review Period Ends: 06/22/
2020, Contact: Stephanie Jentsch 916–
414–6600.
4 The CASAC comments are available at: https://
yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/WebProjects
byTopicCASAC!OpenView.

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