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You may view this document, as well ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION of the document, Draft Environmental as all other documents of this Impact Statement for the FutureGen Department published in the Federal Cancellation Notice of a Sunshine Act Project (DOE/EIS–0394D), for public Register, in text or Adobe Portable Meeting comment. The draft environmental impact statement (EIS) analyzes the Document Format (PDF) on the Internet AGENCY: United States Election potential environmental consequences at the following site: http://www.ed.gov/ Assistance Commission (EAC). news/fedregister. of DOE’s proposed action to provide ACTION: Notice to Cancel EAC Standards federal funding for the FutureGen To use PDF you must have Adobe Board Virtual Public Meeting. Project. The Project would include the Acrobat Reader, which is available free planning, design, construction and at this site. If you have questions about SUMMARY: The U.S. Election Assistance Commission has cancelled the EAC operation of the FutureGen facility, a using PDF, call the U.S. Government prototype electric power and hydrogen Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1– Standards Board Virtual Public Meeting scheduled for Monday, June 18, 2007, 7 gas generating plant that employs coal 888–293–6498; or in the Washington, a.m. EDT through Wednesday, June 20, gasification technology integrated with DC, area at (202) 512–1530. 5 p.m. EDT. The meeting was combined-cycle electricity generation Note: The official version of this document announced in a sunshine notice that and the capture and geologic is the document published in the Federal was published in the Federal Register sequestration of the carbon dioxide Register. Free Internet access to the official on Thursday, May 31, 2007. PERSON (CO2) emissions. The project would also edition of the Federal Register and the Code TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION: include a research platform, which of Federal Regulations is available on GPO Bryan Whitener, Telephone: (202) would be a principal feature of the Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 566–3100. prototype plant. The proposed action index.html. would be undertaken by a private Gracia M. Hillman, sector, non-profit consortium of (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Commissioner, U.S. Election Assistance industrial participants known as the Numbers: 84.007 Federal Supplemental Commission. FutureGen Alliance, Inc., (the Alliance). Educational Opportunity Grant; 84.032 [FR Doc. 07–2772 Filed 5–30–07; 3:31 pm] The Alliance includes some of the Federal Family Education Loan Program; BILLING CODE 6820–KF–M largest coal producers and electricity 84.033 Federal Work-Study Program; 84.038 generators in the world. Under a Federal Perkins Loan Program; 84.063 Cooperative Agreement between DOE Federal Pell Grant Program; 84.268 William DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY and the Alliance, the Alliance would be D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program; 84.375 primarily responsible for implementing Academic Competitiveness Grant; 84.376 Notice of Availability of the Draft the FutureGen Project, while DOE National Science and Mathematics Access to Environmental Impact Statement for would guide the Alliance at a Retain Talent Grant) the FutureGen Project programmatic level to ensure the Dated: May 29, 2007. FutureGen Project’s objectives are met. AGENCY: Department of Energy. Theresa S. Shaw, ACTION: Notice of availability and public The Department prepared the draft Chief Operating Officer, Federal Student Aid. hearings. EIS in accordance with the National [FR Doc. E7–10621 Filed 5–31–07; 8:45 am] Environmental Policy Act of 1969 SUMMARY: BILLING CODE 4000–01–P The U.S. Department of (NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the Energy (DOE) announces the availability Council on Environmental Quality

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(CEQ) regulations that implement the details on the meeting process and geologically storing the CO2 generated procedural provisions of NEPA (40 CFR locations. in the process. DOE would implement the FutureGen parts 1500–1508), and DOE procedures ADDRESSES: Requests for information implementing NEPA (10 CFR part 1021). about this draft EIS and requests to Project through a Cooperative DOE identified four reasonable receive a copy of the draft EIS should Agreement that provides financial assistance to the FutureGen Alliance, alternative sites for analysis in the EIS. be directed to: Mr. Mark L. McKoy, Inc., a non-profit corporation that Based on the EIS, DOE will determine NEPA Document Manager, U.S. represents a global coalition of coal and which sites, if any, are acceptable to Department of Energy, National Energy energy companies. The Alliance DOE to host the FutureGen Project. The Technology Laboratory, P.O. Box 880, members are: American Electric Power four sites currently being considered for Morgantown, WV 26507–0880, Attn: Company, Inc. (Columbus, OH); Anglo the FutureGen Project are: Mattoon, FutureGen Project EIS. Mr. McKoy can American, LLC (London, UK); BHP Illinois; Tuscola, Illinois; Jewett, Texas; also be contacted by telephone at (304) Billiton Limited (Melbourne, Australia); and Odessa, Texas. The Project would 285–4262, toll free at 1–800–432–8330 China Huaneng Group (Beijing, China); incorporate cutting-edge research, as (extension 4262), fax 304–285–4403, or well as help develop promising new CONSOL Energy, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA); e-mail [email protected]. E.ON U.S. LLC (Louisville, KY); energy-related technologies at a Additional information about the draft commercial scale. Performance and Foundation Coal Holdings, Inc. EIS may also be requested or messages (Linthicum Heights, MD); Peabody economic test results from the recorded by calling the FutureGen FutureGen Project would be shared Energy Corporation (St. Louis, MO); PPL telephone line at (304) 285–4262, or toll Corporation (Allentown, PA); Rio Tinto among all participants, industry, the free at (800) 432–8330 (extension 4262). environmental community, and the Energy America (Gillette, WY); The draft EIS will be available via the Southern Company (Atlanta, GA); and public. Internet at http://www.eh.doe.gov/nepa/ The proposed power plant would be Xstrata Coal (Sydney, Australia). Several . Copies of the draft EIS are also foreign governments have entered into a 275-megawatt (MW) output Integrated available for public review at the Gasification Combined-Cycle (IGCC) discussions with DOE regarding locations listed in the SUPPLEMENTARY possible contributions. system combined with CO2 capture and INFORMATION section of this Notice. geologic storage at a rate of at least 1.1 Written comments on the draft EIS Description of Alternatives million tons of CO per year. The 2 can be mailed to Mr. Mark L. McKoy, DOE analyzed four alternative sites research facilities and power plant NEPA Document Manager, at the and the No Action Alternative. Under would be constructed at one of the four address noted above. Written comments the No Action Alternative DOE would alternative sites identified above. The may also be submitted by fax to: (304) not share in the cost for constructing potential environmental impacts of 285–4403; or submitted electronically and operating the FutureGen Project. locating and operating the FutureGen to: [email protected]. In Without DOE funding, neither the Project at each of the alternative sites addition to providing oral comments Alliance nor U.S. industry would likely are evaluated in the draft EIS. The draft during the public hearings, oral undertake the commercial scale EIS also analyzed the No-Action comments on the draft EIS may be integration of CO2 capture and geologic Alternative, under which DOE would recorded by calling the FutureGen sequestration in deep saline reservoirs not share in the cost for constructing telephone line at (304) 285–4262, or toll with a coal-fueled power plant in a and operating the FutureGen Project. free at (800) 432–8330 (extension 4262). comparable timeframe. Without DOE funding, neither the For Additional Information: For Under the proposed action, DOE Alliance nor U.S. industry would likely further information on the proposed would provide financial assistance to undertake the commercial scale project or the draft EIS, contact Mr. the Alliance to plan, design, construct, integration of CO2 capture and geologic Mark L. McKoy as directed above. For and operate the FutureGen Project. DOE sequestration in deep saline reservoirs general information regarding the DOE has identified four potential sites and, with a coal-fueled power plant in a NEPA process, please contact: Ms. Carol based on the EIS, will determine which comparable timeframe. M. Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA sites, if any, are acceptable to DOE to DATES: DOE invites the public to Policy and Compliance (GC–20), U.S. host the FutureGen Project. The four comment on the draft EIS during the Department of Energy, 1000 sites currently being considered as public comment period, which ends Independence Avenue, SW., reasonable alternatives for the July 16, 2007. DOE will consider all Washington, DC 20585–0119, FutureGen Project are: Mattoon, Illinois; comments postmarked or received Telephone: (202) 586–4600, or leave a Tuscola, Illinois; Jewett, Texas; and during the public comment period in message at (800) 472–2756. Odessa, Texas. The FutureGen Project preparing the final EIS, and will SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: would include a coal-fueled electric consider late comments to the extent power and hydrogen production plant. practicable. Background The power plant would be a 275- DOE will conduct public hearings President Bush proposed on February megawatt (MW) output Integrated near each of the four candidate sites to 27, 2003, that the United States Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) obtain comments on the draft EIS. The undertake a $1 billion, 10-year project to system combined with CO2 capture and meeting schedule is: June 19, 2007 in build the world’s first coal-fueled plant geologic storage at a rate of at least 1.1 Midland, Texas; June 21, 2007 in to produce electricity and hydrogen million tons of CO2 per year. Buffalo, Texas; June 26, 2007 in with near-zero emissions. In response to The draft EIS analyzes the Mattoon, Illinois; and June 28, 2007 in this announcement, the DOE developed environmental consequences that may Tuscola, Illinois. Informational sessions plans for the FutureGen Project, which result from the proposed action at each will be held at each location from 4 p.m. would establish the technical and of the four candidate sites. Potential to 7 p.m., preceding the formal economic feasibility of producing impacts identified during the scoping presentations and formal comment electricity and hydrogen from coal—a process and analyzed in the draft EIS period from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. See the low-cost and abundant energy relate to: Air quality; climate and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for resource—while capturing and meteorology; geology; physiography and

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soils; groundwater; surface water; Each hearing will begin with an DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY wetlands and floodplains; biological information session at approximately 4 resources; cultural resources; land use; p.m., followed by formal presentations Federal Energy Regulatory aesthetics; transportation and traffic and a formal comment session Commission noise and vibration; utility systems; beginning at approximately 7 p.m. DOE [Docket No. IC07–542–000; FERC–542] materials and waste management; will begin each meeting’s formal session human health, safety, and accidents; with an overview of the proposed Commission Information Collection community services; socioeconomics; FutureGen Project, followed by oral Activities, Proposed Collection; and environmental justice. statements by the scheduled speakers. Comment Request; Extension Availability of the Draft EIS Speakers may be asked questions to May 25, 2007. help ensure that DOE fully understands Copies of the draft EIS have been AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory distributed to members of Congress, the comments. A presiding officer will Commission. establish the order of speakers and Federal, State, and local officials, and ACTION: Notice. agencies, organizations, and individuals provide any additional procedures who may be interested or affected. The necessary to conduct the meetings. SUMMARY: In compliance with the draft EIS will be available on the All meetings will be accessible to requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(a) of Internet at: http://www.eh.doe.gov/ people with disabilities. Any individual the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 nepa/. Additional copies can also be with a disability requiring special (Pub. L. No. 104–13), the Federal Energy requested by contacting the NEPA assistance, such as a sign language Regulatory Commission (Commission) is Document Manager, as indicated above interpreter, or a translator, should soliciting public comment on the under ADDRESSES. Copies of the draft contact Mr. Mark McKoy, the NEPA specific aspects of the information collection described below. EIS are also available for public review Document Manager, (See ADDRESSES) at at the locations listed below. least 48 hours in advance of the meeting DATES: Comments on the collection of Mattoon Public Library, 1600 so that arrangements can be made. information are due August 3, 2007. Charleston Avenue, Mattoon, IL 61938. ADDRESSES: Copies of sample filings of Tuscola Public Library, 112 East Sale Meeting Schedule the proposed collection of information Street, Tuscola, IL 61953. can be obtained from the Commission’s Fairfield City Library (near Jewett), Texas—Odessa Site. Web site (http://www.ferc.gov/docs- 350 W. Main Street, Fairfield, TX 75480. Date: June 19, 2007. University of Texas of the Permian filings/elibrary.asp) or from the Federal Basin, J. Conrad Dunagan Library, Main Place: Center for Energy and Economic Energy Regulatory Commission, Attn: Floor, 4901 E. University Avenue, Diversification (CEED) Building, 1400 Michael Miller, Office of the Executive Odessa, TX 79762–0001. North FM 1788, Midland, TX 79707. Director, ED–34, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. Comments may Additional information about the Texas—Jewett Site. FutureGen Project can be found at these be filed either in paper format or web sites: http://www.doe.gov; http:// Date: June 21, 2007. electronically. Those parties filing fossil.energy.gov/programs/ Place: Buffalo Civic Center, 941 North electronically do not need to make a powersystems/futuregen/; or http:// Hill Street, Buffalo, TX 75831 paper filing. For paper filing, the www.futuregenalliance.org. (Located near the intersection of US– original and 14 copies of such 79 and I–45). comments should be submitted to the Public Meetings Secretary of the Commission, Federal DOE will conduct public hearings Illinois—Mattoon Site. Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 near each of the four candidate sites to Date: June 26, 2007. First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426 obtain comments on the draft EIS. and refer to Docket No. IC07–542–000. Place: Riddle Elementary School, 4201 Requests to speak at the public hearings Documents filed electronically via the Western Avenue, Mattoon, IL 61938 can be made by calling or writing to the Internet must be prepared in (Located at the corner of Western NEPA Document Manager (see WordPerfect, MS Word, Portable Avenue and 43rd Street [CR 300E]). ADDRESSES). Requests to speak that have Document Format, or ASCII format. To not been submitted prior to the hearing Illinois—Tuscola Site. file the document, access the Commission’s Web site at http:// will be accepted in the order in which Date: June 28, 2007. they are received during the hearing. www.ferc.gov, choose the Documents & Speakers are encouraged to provide a Place: Tuscola Community Building, Filings tab, click on eFiling, then follow written version of their oral comments 122 W. Central Avenue, Tuscola, IL the instructions given. First time users or supplementary materials for the 61953. (From I–57, take exit 212 to will have to establish a user name and record. Each speaker will be allowed U.S. Hwy 36 and continue to the password. The Commission will send an approximately five minutes to present intersection of North Central Ave. and automatic acknowledgement to the comments. Those speakers who want South Main Street). sender’s e-mail address upon receipt of comments. more than five minutes should indicate Issued in Washington, DC, on May 25, All comments may be viewed, printed the length of time desired in their 2007. request. Depending on the number of or downloaded remotely via the Internet Mark J. Matarrese, speakers, DOE may need to limit all through FERC’s homepage using the speakers to five minutes initially and Director, Office of Environment, Security, eLibrary link. For user assistance, provide additional opportunities as time Safety and Health, Office of Fossil Energy. contact [email protected] or permits. Comments will be recorded by [FR Doc. E7–10563 Filed 5–31–07; 8:45 am] toll-free at (866) 208–3676 or for TTY, a court reporter and will become part of BILLING CODE 6450–01–P contact (202) 502–8659. the public record. Oral and written FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: comments will be given equal Michael Miller may be reached by consideration. telephone at (202) 502–8415, by fax at

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