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the format of the box to allow census are also used by the Office of the identifying themselves as checkmark indications for the options of Inspector General, General Accounting representatives or officials of ‘‘dry cropped’’, ‘‘fallow’’, and ‘‘idle’’, in Office, and the Congressional Research organizations or businesses, available addition to the number of acres. Service to independently evaluate our for public disclosure in their entirety. • Within each subsection (i.e., program and to estimate the impacts of Dated: July 1, 2002. Cereals, Forage, Vegetables, etc.) in proposed legislation. These data are Elizabeth Cordova-Harrison, Section III on both forms, ‘‘Crop supplied to other Federal and State Production‘‘, we are placing the items in agencies to evaluate the program and Deputy Director, Office of Policy. alphabetical order. provide data for research. [FR Doc. 02–17944 Filed 7–16–02; 8:45 am] • In Section III on both forms, we are Description of Respondents: Irrigators BILLING CODE 4310–MN–M moving ‘‘Cantaloupe’’, ’’Watermelon’’, and water user entities in the 17 and ‘‘Honey Ball, Honeydew, etc.’’ from Western States who receive irrigation the ‘‘Vegetables’’ subsection to the water service from Bureau of DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Reclamation facilities. Also included are ‘‘Fruits’’ subsection. Bureau of Reclamation • In Section I on Form 7–332, entities who receive other water ‘‘Irrigator Information’’, we are services, such as municipal and San Luis Reservoir Low Point including a box that asks for the industrial water through Bureau of Improvement Project, respondent’s telephone number so any Reclamation facilities. potential questions may be directed to Frequency of Collection: Annually. AGENCY: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, that person. Estimated completion time: Form 7– Interior. • We are removing the footnotes to 332, 15 minutes; Form 7–2045, 480 both forms and incorporating the minutes. ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an footnotes within the body of the Annual responses: Form 7–332, environmental impact report/ instructions that accompany each form. 25,000 responses; Form 7–2045, 225 environmental impact statement (EIR/ There have been editorial changes to responses. EIS). the current Form 7–332 and Form 7– Annual burden hours per form: Form 2045, and to the instructions that 7–332, 6,250; Form 7–2045, 1,800. SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National accompany these forms. These changes Total Annual burden hours: 8,050. Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of have been made to increase the Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 1969 (as amended), and the California respondents’ understanding of the forms the proposed collection of information Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and understanding of the instructions to is necessary for the proper performance Reclamation and the the forms. The proposed changes will be of the functions of the Bureau of Water District (District) propose to included starting with the 2003 Crop Reclamation, including whether the prepare a joint EIR/EIS for the San Luis Acreage and Yields and Water information will have practical utility; Reservoir Low Point Improvement Distribution information collection. (b) the accuracy of our burden estimate Project (Project). The Project is being Title: Crop Acreage and Yields and for the proposed collection of proposed by the District to maintain a Water Distribution information, including the validity of healthy, clean water supply for the Forms: Form 7–332, Water User Crop the methodology and assumptions used; District and other contractors of Census Report; and Form 7–2045, Crop (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, Reclamation’s San Felipe Division. The and Water Data. and clarity of the information being term ‘‘low point’’ refers to a range of Abstract: The annual crop census is collected; and (d) ways to minimize the pool elevations in San Luis Reservoir (in taken on all Bureau of Reclamation burden of the collection of information Merced County, California) within projects, along with collection of related on those who are to respond, including which seasonal algae blooms can create statistics, primarily for use as a tool in increased use of automated collection water quality problems directly affecting administering, managing, and techniques or other forms of information the treatability and reliability of evaluating the Federal Reclamation technology. deliveries to program. The census is used to assist in We will summarize all comments (CVP) San Felipe Division contractors the administration of repayment and received regarding this notice. We will (the District is a member of CVP’s San water service contracts, which are used publish that summary in the Federal Felipe Division). An additional goal of to repay the irrigators’ obligation to the Register when the information the Project is to increase the operational Federal Government. The census will collection request is submitted to OMB flexibility of the San Luis Reservoir and provide data to facilitate the required 5- for review and approval. to improve the reliability of deliveries to year review of ability-to-pay analysis, Department of the Interior practice is the District and other San Felipe which is being incorporated into new to make comments, including names Division contractors. The District will repayment and water service contracts. and home addresses of respondents, be the lead agency under CEQA. The basis for these reviews is an audit available for public review. Individual DATES: by the Office of the Inspector General, respondents may request that we Reclamation and the District will Department of the Interior. withhold their home address from seek public input on alternatives, Data from the census are utilized to public disclosure, which we will honor concerns, and issues to be addressed in determine class 1 equivalency to the extent allowable by law. There the EIR/EIS through scoping meetings in computations, i.e., determining the also may be circumstances in which we August, 2002. Scoping is an early and number of acres of class 2 and class 3 would withhold a respondent’s identity open process designed to determine the land that are required to be equivalent from public disclosure, as allowable by issues and alternatives to be addressed in productivity to class 1 land. law. If you wish us to withhold your in the EIR/EIS. The schedule and In recent years, the census has name and/or address, you must state locations of the scoping meetings are as provided data which are used to this prominently at the beginning of follows: administer international trade your comment. We will make all • Scoping Meeting 1: August 26, agreements, such as the North American submissions from organizations or 2002, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., San Jose, Free Trade Agreement. Data from the businesses, and from individuals California.

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• Scoping Meeting 2: August 27, and safety, and economic losses to contributing factor in algal bloom 2002, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., San Luis agriculture and industry. There are also formation and persistence). Reservoir, California. significant opportunity costs to the CVP Current Operations The draft EIR/EIS is expected to be and SWP as a result of their inability to available for public review at the end of fully utilize all of the available storage San Luis Reservoir is operated by 2003. in the reservoir. These impacts will filling in the wet winter months and ADDRESSES: Meeting locations are: increase in the future as the low point draining in the dry summer months. • Scoping Meeting 1: Santa Clara occurs more frequently and for a longer Drawdown typically begins in about Valley Water District, Board Meeting duration. The following summary March and reaches the low point in Room, 5750 Almaden Expressway, San includes information on San Luis August or September. Historically, the Jose, California. Reservoir, current and future operations, SWP and CVP have cooperated to try • Scoping Meeting 2: San Luis as well as impacts to users. and maintain reservoir elevations above the low point capacity of 300,000 acre- Reservoir Romero Visitor Center, San Luis Reservoir Highway 152, San Luis Reservoir, feet. Reclamation and the California California. Future Operations Written comments on the project Department of Water Resources (DWR) scope of alternatives and impacts to be jointly own the San Luis Reservoir to Although the CVP and SWP have considered should be sent to Mr. Kurt store and reregulate CVP and SWP water cooperated to try to maintain San Luis Arends of the Santa Clara Valley Water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Reservoir above 300,000 acre-feet to District, 5750 Almaden Expressway, San San Luis Reservoir is an off-stream date, there is no guarantee that they will Jose, CA 95118. water storage facility that stores water do so in the future. In fact, as demands for both the SWP and CVP; construction on the CVP and SWP continue to grow FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: and Delta export pumping restrictions Kevin Moody of Reclamation at 1243 N was completed in 1967. The State owns a little more than half of the 2,042,000 for environmental purposes occur more Street, Fresno, CA 93727, telephone: acre-feet water storage capacity. The frequently, pressure will increase to (559) 487–5179. Additional information reservoir is operated by the DWR; fully utilize the available storage in San can also be found at http:// however, operational decisions are Luis Reservoir. www.Valleywater.org. coordinated with Reclamation and the The State and Federal Governments SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CVP. San Luis Reservoir serves as the coordinate implementation of all Background major storage reservoir and O’Neill CALFED projects through the use of a Forebay acts as an equalizing basin for common set of assumptions relative to The San Luis Reservoir is among the the upper stage dual-purpose pumping- water supply, hydrology, and largest reservoirs in the state, and generating plant. Pumps located at the operations. The primary method for represents a significant component of base of O’Neill convey water from providing technical consistency is the the District, the CVP, and the State the Delta-Mendota through an use of the CALSIM II model for Water Project (SWP) water supply. intake channel and discharge it into operational studies, which provides a When water levels in San Luis Reservoir O’Neill Forebay. The California baseline condition for comparing project are low, high water temperatures Aqueduct flows directly into O’Neill impacts at current and future levels of combined with wind-induced mixing Forebay. The pumping-generating units development. Preliminary results of can result in algae blooms at the lift the water from O’Neill Forebay and CALSIM II operational modeling reservoir’s water surface, which can discharge it into the main reservoir. indicate that San Luis Reservoir will be extend down more than 30 feet. As Releases from San Luis Reservoir are drawn down below 300,000 acre-feet reservoir storage drops below about made through the Gianelli Pumping- more frequently and for longer 300,000 acre-feet (approximate elevation Generating Plant to the San Luis Canal durations in the future. 369), algae can be drawn into the San and to the Pacheco Pumping Plant for Felipe Division intake structure. This the San Felipe Division. Impacts to the District condition can: (1) Cause taste and odor The District has entitlement to problems; (2) become difficult or Reservoir Water Quality 152,500 acre-feet per year of water from impractical to treat; (3) foul drip In the summer months, when water the San Felipe Division, which is irrigation systems; and/or (4) eliminate levels are low, water quality deteriorates critical to meeting the demands of 1.6 the possibility of delivering any water to due to a combination of higher water million residents and important high- the San Felipe Division. To minimize temperatures, wind-induced nutrient technology industries. As storage in the these conditions, the reservoir is mixing, and algae blooms near the reservoir drops to approximately currently operated to attempt to reservoir surface. Algae content is of 300,000 acre-feet, quality, reliability, maintain reservoir storage above primary importance during periods of and operational impacts occur as problematic levels. reservoir drawdown, when the surface follows: Recognizing the need to resolve the water elevation drops to within 20 to 30 • Water Quality Degradation—Algae low point problem, the Low Point feet of the inlet to the Pacheco Pumping entering the intakes could cause: Improvement Project was included in Plant. Under these conditions, poor potential impacts on water treatment the August 28, 2000, CALFED Bay-Delta water quality may be delivered to the plant production rates and increased Program’s Programmatic Record of San Felipe Division contractors. risk of being unable to meet treated Decision as a complementary Additional factors may also contribute water demands; increased risk of conveyance action. The low point to algae problems in the reservoir. The exceeding primary water quality problem currently creates water quality, reservoir is operated as an active standards for disinfection byproducts reliability, and operational impacts to offstream storage facility, and therefore, and secondary standards for taste and the District, other San Felipe Division has a relatively short detention time. odor; and increased costs of both contractors, the CVP, and the SWP. The The reservoir also has an unusual treating water for taste and odor results of these impacts are additional configuration with a very large surface problems as well as for monitoring and operating costs, risks to public health area and a relatively shallow depth (a responding as impacts occur.

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• Interruption in Water Supply—If maintain a consistent healthy, clean, be to protect environmental resources San Luis Reservoir water quality and affordable water supply that meets and to identify project related becomes unacceptable for treatment, the or exceeds all applicable water quality opportunities for environmental supply to the District would be standards in a cost-effective manner. improvements by enhancing or restoring interrupted, which would have a serious Reclamation seeks to maintain and the natural benefits of streams and water supply, public health and safety, protect the water it delivers to CVP watersheds. Environmental and economic risk to Santa Clara contractors. By resolving the water improvements, where feasible, will be a County. Once the reservoir drops to quality problems associated with the direct component of the project’s elevation 334 (110 TAF capacity), the San Luis Reservoir low point, the integrated solution. The Project, where Pacheco Pumping Plant is unable to District will be able to better predict the feasible and appropriate, will also deliver water. This condition would quality of water it is supplied, ensure provide project-related opportunities for result in an interruption in supply due the health and safety of its water supply, recreation, hydropower, and flood to water supply availability. However, it and maximize the efficiency of its water control benefits. The goal is a multi- is likely that the water supply would be supply and treatment system. Resolving purpose project with regional benefits. the water quality problems would interrupted prior to reaching this Potential Alternatives condition due to untreatable water reduce the risk of exceeding water quality. In either case, the potential quality standards, reduce costs of water A wide range of conceptual interruption in water supply creates a treatment, reduce operating costs for alternatives is being considered to major reliability impact to the District monitoring, and reduce the risk of address the low point problem. A total and other San Felipe Division exceeding the capacity of drip irrigation of 9 major conceptual alternatives have contractors. The potential interruption filtering systems. been identified to date and include: • to water supply would also occur at the Improve the reliability of deliveries No Project Alternative time of year when water supply to the District and other San Felipe A No Action Alternative that demands are at their peak. Division contractors. There is a need to represents existing conditions will be • Reoperation of Water Supply improve the reliability of water supplies analyzed. The No Action Under System—Due to the risks to water to the San Felipe Division contractors Projected Future Conditions will also be quality and reliability from the low without adversely affecting deliveries of analyzed. point problem, District operations must CVP and SWP water. Improving the be modified annually in order to reliability of water would avoid public Institutional Alternatives health and economic impacts associated prepare for a worst case scenario. Institutional Alternatives include Modifications typically involve with water quality degradation and potential water supply interruptions. non-structural measures such as reoperating supply and conveyance implementation of pumping limitations systems and/or rescheduling CVP Improving water supply reliability would ensure that existing contract and amended operation plans or deliveries to minimize reliance on CVP agreements for San Luis Reservoir. supplies during low point conditions. allocations to the San Felipe Division These actions disrupt District operations are met by Reclamation and that the Source Water Quality Control and result in additional costs. District and other San Felipe Division Alternatives contractors meet their water supply Source Water Quality Control Impacts to Other San Felipe Division obligations. Contractors • Alternatives would be implemented on- Increase the operational flexibility site at San Luis Reservoir. Potential The low point problem also results in of the San Luis Reservoir. There is a methods under consideration include water quality and reliability impacts to need to eliminate the low point reservoir aeration, algaecide application, other San Felipe Division contractors, operational constraints on the delivery algae harvesting, and managed including the San Benito County Water of water from San Luis Reservoir. stratification of waters in San Luis District, which receives San Luis Through collaborative efforts, Reservoir. Reservoir supplies from the Hollister Reclamation, the District, and CVP Conduit, and the Pajaro Valley Water contractors have occasionally modified Water Treatment Alternatives Management Agency, which is in the operations to minimize the potential of Potential Water Treatment process of implementing a pipeline San Luis Reservoir dropping below Alternatives include additional project to connect to the Santa Clara 300,000 acre-feet. However, these treatment of water supplies by methods Conduit for future delivery of San Luis operational changes cannot be sustained such as dissolved air flotation. Reservoir water. over the long term as they reduce the likelihood of deliveries of full contract Bypass Alternatives Impacts to the CVP supplies to CVP contractors. A long- Bypass Alternatives include the The low point will be an ongoing term, regional solution is needed to construction of pump stations, constraint to the operational flexibility eliminate the constraints on San Luis pipelines, and tunnels that bypass the and reliability of San Luis Reservoir and Reservoir operations. Resolving the low San Luis Reservoir. Potential routes will have increasing CVP impacts. point problem will increase the effective under consideration include a pipeline Eliminating the low point operating storage capacity in San Luis Reservoir originating at the O’Neill Forebay, at the constraint could improve operational by allowing the State and Federal , or at the Delta- flexibility of the CVP. projects to continue to draw down San Mendota Canal and proceeding around Luis Reservoir in accordance with or under the San Luis Reservoir. The Project Objectives existing operating rules and regulations bypass pipelines would terminate at the The objectives of the Low Point without impact to the San Felipe intake to the San Felipe Division Improvement Project are to: Division. facilities. • Resolve the water quality problems • Provide opportunities for project- associated with the San Luis Reservoir related environmental improvements. In Storage Alternatives low point. The District and other San accordance with the District’s Ends Storage Alternatives include Felipe Division contractors want to Policies, an objective of the Project will expansion of existing District reservoirs,

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such as Anderson Reservoir or law. There also may be circumstances in habitually resided in Montserrat) who construction of a new dam and reservoir which we would withhold a previously have not applied for TPS in the foothills east of the Santa Clara respondent’s identity from public may be eligible to apply under the late Valley. Potential sites for a new dam disclosure, as allowable by law. If you initial registration provisions. and reservoir include wish us to withhold your name and/or EFFECTIVE DATES: The extension of on Pacheco Creek, upstream of the address, you must state this Montserrat’s TPS designation is existing Pacheco Reservoir; Packwood prominently at the beginning of your effective August 27, 2002, and will Reservoir, east of the existing Anderson comment. We will make all submissions remain in effect until August 27, 2003. Reservoir; Coe Reservoir inside Henry from organizations or businesses, and The 60-day re-registration period begins Coe State Park; Los Osos Reservoir from individuals identifying themselves July 17, 2002, and will remain in effect south of Henry Coe Park; and Cedar as representatives or officials of until September 16, 2002. Creek Reservoir southwest of the organizations or businesses, available FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: existing Pacheco Reservoir. for public disclosure in their entirety. Emily Crowder Frazelle, Program Integrated District Solutions Special Assistance Analyst, Residence and Status Services Branch, Adjudications, Immigration and Integrated District Solutions involve If special assistance is required, Naturalization Service, Room 3040, 425 use of existing District facilities such as contact Mr. Kevin Moody at I Street, NW, Washington, DC 20536, the groundwater basin, water reuse and Reclamation (559) 487–5179. Please telephone (202) 514–4754. recycling, interties with San Francisco notify Mr. Moody as far in advance of Public Utilities Commission, or the scoping meetings as possible to SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: reconfiguration and reoperation of the enable Reclamation to secure the What Authority Does the Attorney District’s in-County water transmission needed services. If a request cannot be General Have To Extend the and distribution system. honored, the requestor will be notified. Designation of Montserrat Under the A telephone device for the hearing TPS Program? Desalination impaired (TDD) is available at (559) Desalination would involve treatment 487–5933. Section 244(b)(3)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (Act) of alternative supplies from San Dated: June 25, 2002. Francisco Bay or Monterey Bay. states that at least 60 days before the Frank Michny, end of a designation, or any extension Integrated CALFED Solutions Regional Environmental Officer. thereof, the Attorney General must Integrated CALFED Solutions include [FR Doc. 02–17946 Filed 7–16–02; 8:45 am] review conditions in the foreign state for use of water supplies from an expanded BILLING CODE 4310–MN–P which the designation is in effect. 8 Los Vaqueros Reservoir or use of an U.S.C. 1254a(b)(3)(A). If the Attorney enlarged to General does not determine that the facilitate delivery of SCVWD water DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE foreign state no longer continues to meet supplies. the conditions for designation, the The draft EIR/EIS will focus on the Immigration and Naturalization Service period of designation is extended impacts and benefits of implementing [INS No. 2209–02; AG Order No. 2598–2002] automatically for 6 months pursuant to the various alternatives. It will contain section 244(b)(3)(C) of the Act, although an analysis of the physical, biological, RIN 1115–AE26 the Attorney General may exercise his discretion to extend the designation for social, and economic impacts arising Extension of the Designation of a period of 12 or 18 months. 8 U.S.C. from the alternatives. In addition, it will Montserrat Under the Temporary 1254a(b)(3)(C). address the cumulative impacts of Protected Status Program implementation of the alternatives in Why Did the Attorney General Decide AGENCY: conjunction with other past, present, Immigration and Naturalization To Extend the TPS Designation for and reasonably foreseeable actions. The Service, Justice. Montserrat? following are issues that have been ACTION: Notice. identified by Reclamation to date: water On August 28, 1997, the Attorney quality; agricultural and municipal SUMMARY: The designation of Montserrat General designated Montserrat under water supply reliability and quality; under the Temporary Protected Status the TPS program for a period of 12 water supply system flexibility and (TPS) program will expire on August 27, months due to volcanic eruptions that reliability; diversity of water supply 2002. This notice extends the Attorney affected the entire island and its sources; construction-related effects on General’s designation of Montserrat residents. 62 FR 45685. The Attorney urban areas and natural habitats. under the TPS program for 12 months General has extended Montserrat’s TPS until August 27, 2003, and sets forth designation four times, determining Interests in Assets Held in Trust procedures necessary for nationals of each time that the conditions warranting An initial review of available data Montserrat (or aliens having no such designation continued to be met. indicates that there are no known Indian nationality who last habitually resided See 66 FR 40834 (August 3, 2001); 65 FR Trust lands that would be affected by in Montserrat) with TPS to re-register 58806 (October 2, 2000); 64 FR 48190 the project. for the additional 12-month period. Re- (September 2, 1999); 63 FR 45864 registration is available only to persons (August 27, 1998). Disclosure of Public Comments who registered during the initial Since the date of the last extension, Our practice is to make comments, registration period, which ended August the Departments of Justice and State including names and home addresses of 27, 1998, or registered after that date have continued to review conditions in respondents, available for public under the late initial registration Montserrat. A 12-month extension is review. Individual respondents may provisions, and timely re-registered warranted due to the threat of further request that we withhold their home under each subsequent extensions. volcanic eruptions, the ongoing housing address from public disclosure, which Nationals of Montserrat (or aliens shortage, and the serious health risks we will honor to the extent allowable by having no nationality who last from hazardous volcanic ash.

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