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wetlands. DOE hereby gives early notice

that it will include in the Draft EIS a

floodplain and wetland assessment

prepared in accordance with the DOE

Regulations for Compliance with

Floodplain and Wetland Environmental

Review Requirements (10 CFR Part

1022) and provides for early public

input.

DATES: DOE intends to issue the Draft

EIS containing the floodplain and

wetland assessment in the near future.

Any suggestions related to preparation

of the floodplain and wetland

assessment would be most helpful if

received no later than April 12, 2006.

ADDRESSES: Suggestions or questions

may be submitted by any of the

following methods, identified by

‘‘Notice of Floodplain and Wetland

Actions for the SPR EIS’’ on the subject

line, cover sheet, or envelope,

respectively:

• E-mail:

Donald.Silawsky@hq.doe.gov.

• Fax: (202) 586–4446.

• Mail: Donald Silawsky, Office of

Petroleum Reserves (FE–47), U.S.

Department of Energy, 1000

Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20585–0301. Please

note that mail may be delayed by

anthrax screening.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: To

receive information on the proposed

expansion of the SPR or the floodplain

and wetland assessments, or to request

a copy of the Draft EIS when it is issued,

contact Donald Silawsky by any of the

means listed in the ADDRESSES section of

this notice, or call (202) 586–1892.

Additional information may also be

found on the DOE Fossil Energy Web

site for ‘‘EIS Information for Expanding

the Nation’s Strategic Petroleum

Reserves’’ at http://www.fe.doe.gov/

programs/reserves/spr/expansioneis.html.

For further information on the DOE

NEPA process, please contact: Carol M.

Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA

Policy and Compliance (EH–42), U.S.

Department of Energy, 1000

Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20585–0119; telephone:

(202) 586–4600; fax: (202) 586–7031; or

leave a toll-free message at: (800) 472–

2756.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background: DOE published a notice of

intent to prepare an EIS for site

selection for the expansion of the

Strategic Petroleum Reserve at 70 FR

52088 on September 1, 2005. In

response to conditions following

Hurricane Katrina, DOE extended the

scoping period through October 28,

2005 (70 FR 56649; September 28, 2005)

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and held public scoping meetings in

Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. On

October 27, 2005, the Governor of

Mississippi requested the Secretary of

Energy to include a new site at

Bruinsburg Salt Dome in the analysis of

environmental impacts. On November

22, 2005 (70 FR 70600), in response to

the inclusion of the new site, DOE

announced that another public meeting

would be held in Mississippi on

December 7, 2005, and the public

scoping period would be reopened until

December 19, 2005.

Locations of Potential Actions in

Wetlands and Floodplains

Construction and Operation of

Reserves. Candidate sites for expansion

of existing Strategic Petroleum Reserve

storage capacity are at West Hackberry

and Bayou Choctaw, Louisiana, and Big

Hill, Texas. Candidate sites for

construction of new Strategic Petroleum

Reserve storage capacity are at

Chacahoula and Clovelly, Louisiana;

Richton and Bruinsburg, Mississippi;

and Stratton Ridge, Texas. The

expansion sites and the candidate

construction sites all involve potential

actions in floodplains and/or wetlands.

Petroleum Pipelines. The candidate

Big Hill, Bayou Choctaw, and West

Hackberry expansion sites and the new

candidate Chacahoula, Clovelly,

Richton, Bruinsburg, and Stratton Ridge

sites involve potential construction of

crude oil or product pipelines in

floodplains and/or wetlands.

Brine Pipelines. The candidate Big

Hill and Bayou Choctaw expansion sites

and the new candidate Chacahoula,

Richton, Bruinsburg, and Stratton Ridge

sites involve potential construction of

brine pipelines in floodplains and/or

wetlands.

Issued in Washington, DC, on March 21,

2006.

Mark J. Matarrese,

NEPA Compliance Officer, Office of Fossil

Energy.

[FR Doc. E6–4492 Filed 3–27–06; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. IC06–505–000; FERC–505]

Commission Information Collection

Activities, Proposed Collection;

Comment Request; Extension

March 21, 2006.

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission.

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ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(a) of

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

(Pub. L. 104–13), the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission (Commission) is

soliciting public comment on the

specific aspects of the information

collection described below.

DATES: Comments on the collection of

information are due May 21, 2006.

ADDRESSES: Copies of sample filings of

the proposed collection of information

can be obtained from the Commission’s

Web site (http://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/elibrary.asp) or from the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, Attn:

Michael Miller, Office of the Executive

Director, ED–34, 888 First Street, NE.,

Washington, DC 20426. Comments may

be filed either in paper format or

electronically. Those parties filing

electronically do not need to make a

paper filing. For paper filing, the

original and 14 copies of such

comments should be submitted to the

Secretary of the Commission, Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426

and refer to Docket No. IC06–505–000.

Documents filed electronically via the

Internet must be prepared in

WordPerfect, MS Word, Portable

Document Format, or ASCII format. To

file the document, access the

Commission’s Web site at http://

www.ferc.gov and click on ‘‘Make an Efiling,’’ and then follow the instructions

for each screen. First time users will

have to establish a user name and

password. The Commission will send an

automatic acknowledgement to the

sender’s e-mail address upon receipt of

comments.

All comments may be viewed, printed

or downloaded remotely via the Internet

through FERC’s homepage using the

eLibrary link. For user assistance,

contact FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or

toll-free at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY,

contact (202) 502–8659.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michael Miller may be reached by

telephone at (202) 502–8415, by fax at

(202) 273–0873, and by e-mail at

michael.miller@ferc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

information collected under the

requirements of FERC–505 ‘‘Application

for License for Water Projects with less

than 5MW capacity’’ (OMB No. 1902–

0115) is used by the Commission to

implement the statutory provisions of

Part I of the Federal Power Act (FPA),

16 U.S.C. sections 791a et seq. & 3301–

3432, as amended by the Electric

Consumers Protections Act (ECPA)

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(Pub. L. 99–495, 100 Stat. 1234 (1986).

The FPA as amended by ECPA provides

the Commission with the responsibility

of issuing licenses for nonfederal

hydroelectric power plants, plus

requiring the Commission in its

licensing activities to give equal

consideration to preserving

environmental quality. ECPA also

amended sections 10(a) and 10(j) of the

FPA to specify the conditions on which

hydropower licenses are issued, to

direct that the project be adopted in

accordance with a comprehensive plan

that improves waterways for interstate/

foreign commerce and for the

protection, enhancement and mitigation

of damages to fish and wildlife.

Submission of the information is

necessary to fulfill the requirements of

Sections 9 and 10(a) of the Act in order

for the Commission to make the

required finding that the proposal is

economically, technically, and

environmentally sound, and is best

adapted to the comprehensive plan of

development of the water resources of

the region. Under section 405(c) of the

Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act

of 1978, the Commission may in its

discretion (by rule or order) grant an

exemption in whole or in part from the

requirements of Part I of the FPA to

small hydroelectric power projects

having a proposed installed capacity of

5,000 kilowatts or less. The information

collected under designation FERC–505

is in the form of a written application

for a license and is used by Commission

staff to determine the broad impact of

the license application.

In Order No. 2002 (68 FR 51070,

August 25, 2003; FERC Statutes and

Regulations ¶ 31,150 at p. 30,688) the

Commission revised in regulations to

create a new licensing process in which

a potential license applicant’s pre-filing

consultation and the Commission’s

scoping pursuant to the National

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) are

conducted concurrently rather than

sequentially. The Commission estimated

that if an applicant chooses to use the

new licensing process, this could result

in a reduction of 30% from the

traditional licensing process. The

reporting burden related to Order No.

2002 would on average be 7,000 hours

per respondent as opposed to 10,000

hours per respondent in the traditional

licensing process and 8,600 hours in the

alternative licensing process. It has been

nearly three years since Order No. 2002

was issued and applicants have

experienced the opportunity to gain the

benefits from the revised licensing

process. In particular, applicants have

benefited from (a) increased public

participation in pre-filing consultation;

(b) increased assistance from

Commission staff to the potential

applicant and stakeholders during the

development of a license application; (c)

development by the potential applicant

of a Commission-approved study plan;

(d) elimination of the need for postapplication study requests; (e) issuance

of public schedules and enforcement of

deadlines, (f) better coordination

Number of respondents annually (1)

between the Commission’s processes,

including the NEPA document

preparation, and those of Federal and

state agencies and Indian tribes with

authority to require conditions for

Commission-issued licenses. It is for

these reasons, that the Commission will

use the estimates projected in the table

below.

The information collected is needed

to evaluate the license application

pursuant to the comprehensive

development standard of FPA sections

4(e) and 10(a)(1), to consider the

comprehensive development analysis

certain factors with respect to new

license set forth in section 15, and to

comply with NEPA, Endangered Species

Act (16 U.S.C. 531 et seq.) and the

National Historic Preservation Act (16

U.S.C. 470 et seq.).

Commission staff conducts a

systematic review of the prepared

application with supplemental

documentation provided by the

solicitation of comments from other

agencies and the public. The

Commission implements these filing

requirements in the Code of Federal

Regulations (CFR) under 18 CFR 4.61;

4.71; 4.93; 4.107; 4.108; 4.201; 4.202,

292.203 and 292.208.

Action: The Commission is requesting

a three-year extension of the current

expiration date, with no changes to the

existing collection of data.

Burden Statement: Public reporting

burden for this collection is estimated

as:

Number of responses per

respondent (2)

Average burden hours per

response (3)

Total annual

burden hours

(1)×(2)×(3)

1

6,959*

34,795

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* Rounded off.

Estimated cost burden to respondents

is $ 8,675,000. ($1,500,000 (traditional

process) + $2,975,000 (alternative

process) + $4,200,000 (integrated

process). These costs were determined

by the percentage of applicants that

would be using each of these processes.

Annualized costs per project $500,000

(traditional); $425,000 (alternative

licensing), and $350,000 (integrated

licensing).

The reporting burden includes the

total time, effort, or financial resources

expended to generate, maintain, retain,

disclose, or provide the information

including: (1) Reviewing instructions;

(2) developing, acquiring, installing, and

utilizing technology and systems for the

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purposes of collecting, validating,

verifying, processing, maintaining,

disclosing and providing information;

(3) adjusting the existing ways to

comply with any previously applicable

instructions and requirements; (4)

training personnel to respond to a

collection of information; (5) searching

data sources; (6) completing and

reviewing the collection of information;

and (7) transmitting, or otherwise

disclosing the information.

The estimate of cost for respondents

is based upon salaries for professional

and clerical support, as well as direct

and indirect overhead costs. Direct costs

include all costs directly attributable to

providing this information, such as

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administrative costs and the cost for

information technology. Indirect or

overhead costs are costs incurred by an

organization in support of its mission.

These costs apply to activities, which

benefit the whole organization rather

than any one particular function or

activity.

Comments are invited on: (1) Whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance

of the functions of the Commission,

including whether the information will

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)

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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 those who are to respond, including

the use of appropriate automated,

electronic, mechanical, or other

technological collection techniques or

other forms of information technology

e.g. permitting electronic submission of

responses.

Magalie R. Salas,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. E6–4460 Filed 3–27–06; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP06–93–000]

ANR Pipeline Company; Notice of

Application

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March 21, 2006.

Take notice that on March 15, 2006,

ANR Pipeline Company (ANR) filed an

application pursuant to section 7 of the

Natural Gas Act (NGA) for authorization

to abandon three injection/withdrawal

wells, Frackelton-Sherwood 21, Lincoln

109, and Lincoln 123, located in the

Lincoln-Freeman Storage Field in Clare

County, Michigan, all as more fully set

forth in the application which is on file

with the Commission and open to

public inspection. This filing may also

be viewed on the Web at http://

www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link.

Enter the docket number excluding the

last three digits in the docket number

field to access the document. For

assistance, call (866) 208–3676 or TTY,

(202) 502–8659.

Any questions concerning this

application may be directed to Dawn

McGuire, Counsel, ANR Pipeline

Company, 1001 Louisiana, Houston,

Texas 77002 at (713) 420–5503.

There are two ways to become

involved in the Commission’s review of

this project. First, any person wishing to

obtain legal status by becoming a party

to the proceedings for this project

should, before the comment date of this

notice, file with the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 888 First

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, a

motion to intervene in accordance with

the requirements of the Commission’s

Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR

385.214 or 385.211) and the Regulations

under the NGA (18 CFR 157.10). A

person obtaining party status will be

placed on the service list maintained by

the Secretary of the Commission and

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will receive copies of all documents

filed by the applicant and by all other

parties. A party must submit 14 copies

of filings made with the Commission

and must mail a copy to the applicant

and to every other party in the

proceeding. Only parties to the

proceeding can ask for court review of

Commission orders in the proceeding.

However, a person does not have to

intervene in order to have comments

considered. The second way to

participate is by filing with the

Secretary of the Commission, as soon as

possible, an original and two copies of

comments in support of or in opposition

to this project. The Commission will

consider these comments in

determining the appropriate action to be

taken, but the filing of a comment alone

will not serve to make the filer a party

to the proceeding. The Commission’s

rules require that persons filing

comments in opposition to the project

provide copies of their protests only to

the party or parties directly involved in

the protest.

Comments, protests and interventions

may be filed electronically via the

Internet in lieu of paper. See, 18 CFR

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions

on the Commission’s Web site under the

‘‘e-Filing’’ link.

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time

on April 11, 2006.

Magalie R. Salas,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. E6–4458 Filed 3–27–06; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

ANR Pipeline Company; Notice of

Negotiated Rate Filing

March 21, 2006.

Take notice that on March 17, 2006,

ANR Pipeline Company (ANR) tendered

for filing and approval ten amendments

to existing negotiated rate service

agreements between ANR and

Wisconsin Gas LLC and fourteen

amendments to existing negotiated rate

service agreements between ANR and

Wisconsin Electric Power Company.

ANR requests that the Commission

accept and approve the subject

negotiated rate agreement amendments

to be effective April 1, 2006.

Any person desiring to intervene or to

protest this filing must file in

accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and

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Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and

385.214). Protests will be considered by

the Commission in determining the

appropriate action to be taken, but will

not serve to make protestants parties to

the proceeding. Any person wishing to

become a party must file a notice of

intervention or motion to intervene, as

appropriate. Such notices, motions, or

protests must be filed in accordance

with the provisions of Section 154.210

of the Commission’s regulations (18 CFR

154.210). Anyone filing an intervention

or protest must serve a copy of that

document on the Applicant. Anyone

filing an intervention or protest on or

before the intervention or protest date

need not serve motions to intervene or

protests on persons other than the

Applicant.

The Commission encourages

electronic submission of protests and

interventions in lieu of paper using the

‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov.

Persons unable to file electronically

should submit an original and 14 copies

of the protest or intervention to the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC

20426.

This filing is accessible on-line at

http://www.ferc.gov, using the

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for

review in the Commission’s Public

Reference Room in Washington, DC.

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the

Web site that enables subscribers to

receive e-mail notification when a

document is added to a subscribed

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC

Online service, please e-mail

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call

(202) 502–8659.

Magalie R. Salas,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. E6–4470 Filed 3–27–06; 8:45 am]

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Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RP00–305–025]

CenterPoint Energy—Mississippi River

Transmission Corporation; Notice of

Filing

March 21, 2006.

Take notice that on March 17, 2006,

CenterPoint Energy—Mississippi River

Transmission Corporation (MRT)

tendered for filing as part of its FERC

Gas Tariff, Third Revised Vol. No. 1,

Second Revised Sheet No. 10D, to be

effective March 31, 2006.

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