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Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 63 / Friday, April 2, 2010 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
Notice of Proposed Information
Collection
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Office
of Acquisition and Property
Management.
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 the
Secretary of the Department of the
Interior announces the proposed
extension of an information collection
required by Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) Circular A–45 (Revised):
‘‘Private Rental Survey,’’ OMB Control
No. 1084–0033, and that it is seeking
comments on its provisions. After
public review, the Office of the
Secretary will submit the information
collection to OMB for review and
approval.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by June 1, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations on the proposed
information collection should be sent to
the Office of the Secretary Information
Collection Budget Officer, Rachel
Drucker, 1951 Constitution Avenue,
NW., MS 116 SIB, Washington, DC
20240, or by e-mail to
Rachel_Drucker@nbc.gov. Individuals
providing comments should reference
OMB control number 1084–0033,
‘‘Private Rental Survey.’’
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on this
proposed information collection or to
obtain a copy of the proposal and
associated collection instrument, please
write or e-mail Lavera Hamidi, Mail
Stop 2607, 1849 C Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20240,
Lavera_Hamidi@ios.doi.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) regulations at 5 CFR 1320, which
implement the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13), 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)). This notice
identifies an information collection
activity that the Office of the Secretary
will submit to OMB for extension or reapproval.
Public Law 88–459 authorizes Federal
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Government employees under specified
circumstances. In compliance with
OMB Circular A–45 (Revised), Rental
and Construction of Government
Quarters, a review of private rental
market housing rates is required at least
once every 5 years to ensure that the
rental, utility charges, and charges for
related services to occupants of
Government Furnished Housing (GFH)
are comparable to corresponding
charges in the private sector. To avoid
unnecessary duplication and
inconsistent rental rates, the Department
of the Interior, Office of the Secretary,
National Business Center, conducts
housing surveys in support of employee
housing management programs for the
Departments of the Interior (DOI),
Agriculture, Commerce, Homeland
Security, Justice, Transportation, Health
and Human Services, and Veterans
Affairs. In this survey, two collection
forms are used: OS–2000, covering
‘‘Houses—Apartments—Mobile Homes’’
and OS–2001, covering ‘‘Trailer Spaces.’’
This collection of information
provides data that helps DOI and the
other Federal agencies to manage GFH
in accordance with the requirements of
OMB Circular A–45 (Revised). If this
information were not collected from the
public, DOI and the other Federal
agencies required to provide GFH would
be required to use professional
appraisals of open market rental costs
for GFH, again, in accordance with OMB
Circular A–45.
II. Data
(1) Title: Private Rental Survey.
OMB Control Number: 1084–0033.
Current Expiration Date: 07/31/2010.
Type of Review: Information
Collection: Renewal.
Affected Entities: Individuals or
households, Businesses and other forprofit institutions.
Estimated annual number of
respondents: OS–2000: 3,841; OS–2001:
200; Total: 4,041.
Frequency of response: Ranges from 1
to 2.1 per respondent every fourth year.
Note: Three or four of 15 total survey
regions are surveyed every year. Therefore
each respondent may be potentially be
surveyed every fourth year, if an individual
respondent lives in the same unit, or if an
individual business is a significant rental
property owner or rental property manager in
the community.

(2) Annual reporting and
recordkeeping burden.
Estimated burden per response: OS–
2000: 12 minutes; OS–2001: 10 minutes.
Total annual reporting: OS–2000: 768
hours; OS–2001: 33 hours, Total: 801
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(3) Description of the need and use of
the information: This information
collection provides the data that enables
DOI to determine open market rental
costs for GFH. These rates, in turn,
enable DOI and other Federal agencies
to set GFH rental rates in accordance
with the requirements of OMB Circular
A–45 (Revised).
III. Request for Comments
The Department of the Interior invites
comments on:
(a) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the collection
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 those
who are to respond, 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, or
financial resources expended by 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 utilize technology
and systems for the purpose 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, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information.
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.
All written comments will be
available for public inspection in the
Main Interior Building, 1849 C Street,
NW., Washington, DC, during normal
business hours, excluding legal
holidays. For an appointment to inspect
comments, please contact Rachel
Drucker by telephone on (202) 208–
3568, or by e-mail at
Rachel_Drucker@nbc.gov, to make an
appointment. A valid picture
identification is required for entry into
the Department of the Interior.

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Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 63 / Friday, April 2, 2010 / Notices
Dated: March 29, 2010.
Debra E. Sonderman,
Director, Office of Acquisition and Property
Management.
[FR Doc. 2010–7436 Filed 4–1–10; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4310–RK–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Notice of Availability of the Draft
Granite Mountain Wind, LLC Wind
Energy Generation Project
Environmental Impact Statement/
Environmental Impact Report,
California, and the Draft California
Desert Conservation Area Plan
Amendment

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AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability.
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended, and the Federal Land
Policy and Management Act of 1976
(FLPMA), as amended, the Bureau of
Land Management (BLM), in
cooperation with the County of San
Bernardino, has prepared a Draft
California Desert Conservation Area
(CDCA) Plan Amendment and a Draft
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)/
Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for
the proposed Granite Mountain Wind
Energy Generation Project and by this
notice is announcing the opening of the
comment period.
DATES: To ensure that comments will be
considered, the BLM must receive
written comments on the CDCA Plan
Amendment and Draft EIS/EIR within
90 days following the date the
Environmental Protection Agency
publishes its Notice of Availability in
the Federal Register. The BLM will
announce future meetings or hearings
and any other public involvement
activities at least 15 days in advance
through public notices, media releases,
or mailings.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
related to the proposed Granite
Mountain Wind Energy Generation
Project by any of the following methods:
• Web site: http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/
en/fo/barstow.html.
• E-mail:
GraniteWindProject@blm.gov.
• Fax: (760) 252–6099.
• Mail: Edythe Seehafer, BLM
Barstow Field Office, 2601 Barstow
Road, Barstow, California 92311.

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Copies of the Draft CDCA Plan
Amendment and Draft EIS/EIR for the
proposed Granite Mountain Wind
Energy Generation Project are available
in the Barstow Field Office at the above
address; copies are also available at the
following Web site: http://www.blm.gov/
ca/st/en/fo/barstow.html; the BLM
California State Office, 2800 Cottage
Way, Sacramento, California 95825;
County of San Bernardino Land Use
Services Department, 385 N. Arrowhead
Avenue, San Bernardino, California
92415 and County of San Bernardino
Land Use Services Department, 15456
West Sage Street, Victorville, California
92392. Electronic (CD–ROM) or paper
copies may also be obtained by
contacting Edythe Seehafer at (760)
252–6021 or by e-mailing your request
to GraniteWindProject@blm.gov and
including your name and mailing
address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Edythe Seehafer, telephone (760) 252–
6021; address BLM Barstow Field
Office, 2601 Barstow Road, California
92311; e-mail
GraniteWindProject@blm.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Granite
Wind LLC has applied to the BLM
under Title V of the FLPMA (43 U.S.C.
1761) for authorization of a right-of-way
(ROW) on BLM managed lands to
construct, operate, and decommission a
wind energy facility and associated
infrastructure in compliance with
FLPMA, BLM ROW regulations, and
other applicable Federal laws. The BLM
will decide whether to approve, approve
with modification, or deny issuance of
a ROW authorization to Granite Wind
LLC for the proposed Granite Mountain
Wind Energy Project. Pursuant to the
BLM’s CDCA Plan (1980, as amended),
sites associated with power generation
or transmission not identified in the
CDCA Plan will be considered through
the plan amendment process; the BLM
will also decide whether the project site
itself is suitable or unsuitable for wind
energy generation.
The Project is proposed on
approximately 2,086 acres of public
lands administered by the BLM’s
Barstow Field Office and 670 acres of
private lands under the jurisdiction of
the County of San Bernardino. Total
disturbance for the project and ancillary
facilities would be approximately 200
acres, of which approximately 90 acres
would be long-term disturbance (for the
life of operations). The Project would
include the installation of up to twentyeight 2.3-megawatt (MW) Siemens wind
turbines (or a similar model of wind
turbine with a 2.1 to 3 MW capacity). At
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anticipated to produce approximately
185,000 MW-hours per year.
Alternatives include:
• A no action (no project) alternative
with a plan amendment making the
project area unavailable to wind energy
projects;
• A no action (no project) alternative
with a plan amendment making the
project area available to other wind
energy projects;
• The proposed action, including a
plan amendment making the project
area available for wind energy
generation and providing for a portion
of a new 230-kilovolt (kV) transmission
line to occur outside of a utility
corridor;
• A modified proposed action to
access the site from the east instead of
the west to minimize visual impacts
from the project and to mitigate
biological impacts to Bendire’s
Thrasher, a BLM sensitive bird species;
and
• A modified proposed action that
would interconnect to the transmission
grid at an alternative location further
east that would minimize impacts to an
active golden eagle nest.
The proposed towers would be up to
262 feet tall. The turbine blades would
extend an additional 166 feet for a total
height of up to 428 feet above the
ground. Twenty of the wind turbines
would be located on Federal lands
administered by the BLM, and eight
would be on adjacent private land
within unincorporated San Bernardino
County. The proposed project would
require the construction of a new access
road; an on-site electrical switchyard; an
overhead transmission line; a small
operations and maintenance building; a
temporary construction office;
temporary facilities including a cement
mixing facility, asphalt batch plant, and
construction staging areas; and an
electrical substation for interconnection
to the Southern California Edison 230
kV transmission system. Each wind
turbine would have a pad-mounted
transformer located beside the wind
turbine tower, a maintenance road, and
underground electrical and
communication lines. Two permanent
meteorological towers would be
installed to measure wind speed and
direction across the site and control the
turbines. The proposed project is
expected to have an operating lifetime
of 25–30 years.
A Notice of Intent for this project was
published in the Federal Register on
December 6, 2007 (72 FR 68894). This
was followed by a 30-day public
scoping period, which was extended
upon the request of San Bernardino
County. This extension ended on May 5,

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