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Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 188 / Monday, September 29, 1997 / Notices

Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 188 / Monday, September 29, 1997 / Notices

50960 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 188 / Monday, September 29, 1997 / Notices

Federal agencies will also take these Public Comments Solicited SUMMARY: The Bureau of Indian Affairs comments into account in the course of The Service solicits written comments (BIA) is adjusting the electric power implementing approved recovery plans. on the recovery plan described. All rates for customers of Mission Valley This Technical/Agency draft is for comments received by the date specified Power (MVP), the Confederated Salish Pleodendron macranthum and above will be considered prior to and Kootenai Tribal entity operating the haematocarpa two species endemic approval of the plan. power facility of the Flathead Irrigation to Puerto Rico. Pleodendron and Power Project of the Flathead Authority macranthum (Chupacallos) has fewer Reservation under a Public Law 93–638 than 50 individuals in five localities of The authority for this section is contract. The Notice of Proposed Rate the Subtropical Wet and the Subtropical Section 4(f) of the Adjustment for MVP was published in Lower Montane Wet Forests of northern Act, 16 U.S.C. 1533(f). the Federal Register on August 18, and eastern Puerto Rico (Caribbean Dated: September 22, 1997. 1997, 62 FR 44013. The public and National and Rio Abajo Commonwealth James P. Oland, interested parties were provided an Forests). Eugenia haematocarpa (Uvillo) Field Supervisor. opportunity to submit written is known from six localities with fewer [FR Doc. 97–25758 Filed 9–26–97; 8:45 am] comments during the 30-day period than 125 in the Caribbean National subsequent to August 18, 1997. No Forest and one population of 15 BILLING CODE 4310±55±P comments were received. The following individuals on private land adjacent to table illustrates the impact of the rate the Carite Commonwealth Forest. This DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR species is found only in Subtropical adjustment: Lower Montane Wet Forests of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Sierra de Luquillo and Sierra de Cayey. These two species are threatened by Mission Valley Power Utility, Montana habitat destruction and modification, Power Rate Adjustment collection, forest management ACTION: Notice of rate adjustment. practices and impacts by hurricanes.

POWER RATE REVISION FOR MVP

Rate class Present rate Rate adjustment

Residential: Basic Rate ...... $11.00/mo. (includes 125 kwh) ...... $5.00/mo. Energy Rate ...... $0.04828/KWH (over 125 kwh) ...... $0.04725/kwh. Minimum Monthly Bill Not Applicable ...... $10.00/moÐMay 1 thru October 31. $20.00/moÐNovember 1 thru April 30. #2 General: Basic Rate ...... $11.00/mo.(includes 107 kwh) ...... This rate is replaced by Small Commercial (without demand): Energy Rate ...... $ 0.05604/KWH(over 107 kwh) ...... Small Commercial (without Rate Replaces #2 General Above. demand): Basic Rate ...... $5.00/mo. Energy Rate ...... $0.05495/kwh. Small and Large Commer- cial (with Demand): Basic Rate ...... None ...... Rate is replaced, See new separate rate structures for Small Commercial and Large Commercial Monthly Minimum ...... $38.00 ...... Demand Rate ...... $4.514/kw of billing demand ...... Energy Rate ...... $0.04345/kwhÐFirst 18,000kwh ...... $0.03592/kwhÐOver 18,000kwh ...... Small Commercial with De- Rate Replaces Previous Small and mand: Large Commercial. Basic Rate:. Single Phase ...... $20.00/mo. Three Phase ...... $40.00/mo. Demand Rate ...... $ 4.50/kw. Energy Rate ...... $ 0.0405/kwh. Large Commercial with Rate Replaces Previous Small and Demand: Large Commercial. Basic Rate ...... $125.00/mo. Monthly Minimum ...... None. Demand Rate ...... $5.00/KW. Energy Rate ...... $0.03115/kwh. Irrigation: Horsepower Rate ...... $ 11.30/hp ...... $11.05/hp. Energy Rate ...... $ 0.03642/kwh ...... $ 0.03572/kwh. Minimum Seasonal $132.00 or $6.00/hp, whichever is No Adjustment. Rate. greater. Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 188 / Monday, September 29, 1997 / Notices 50961

POWER RATE REVISION FOR MVPÐContinued

Rate class Present rate Rate adjustment

Area Lights Installed on Monthly Rate Monthly Rate Existing Pole or Struc- ture:

7,000 lumen unit, $7.00 ...... $6.85. M.V.*. 20,000 lumen unit, 10.00 ...... 9.80. M.V.*. 9,000 lumen unit, 6.50 ...... 6.35. H.P.S. 22,000 lumen unit, 8.75 ...... 8.58. H.P.S.

Area Lights Installed with Monthly Rate Monthly Rate New Pole: 7,000 lumen unit, $8.75 ...... $8.60. M.V.*. 20,000 lumen unit, 11.50 ...... 11.25. M.V.*. 9,000 lumen unit, 8.25 ...... 8.10. H.P.S. 22,000 lumen unit, 10.50 ...... 10.30. H.P.S. Street Lighting (Metered): Basic Rate ...... $11.00/mo. (includes 107 kwh) ...... $5.00/mo. Energy Rate: ...... $ 0.05615 (over 107 kwh) ...... $0.05495/kwh). Street Lighting This rate class applies to municipalities or communities where there are ten or more lighting units billed in a group. (Unmetered): This rate schedule is subject to a negotiated contract with MVP and is unchanged as part of this rate adjustment. * Continuing Service Only.

DATES: The new rates will become DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR The FEIS supplements the Draft effective on October 1, 1997. Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), Bureau of Land Management providing additional information, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Area changes, and corrections to the DEIS. Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, [WY±010±5101±00±K022, WYW±131027] Portland Area Office, 911 N.E. 11th DATES: Written comments concerning Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97232–4169, Availability of Final Environmental the analysis will be accepted for 30 days telephone (503) 231–6702; or, General Impact Statement for the Greybull following the date the Environmental Manager, Mission Valley Power, P. O. Valley Irrigation District Dam and Protection Agency (EPA) publishes the Box 1269, Polson, Montana 59860–1269, Resevoir Project notice of filing of the FEIS in the Federal Register, which is expected to telephone (406) 883–5361. AGENCIES: Bureau of Land Management, be on September 19, 1997. Interior, and U.S. Army Corps of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ADDRESSES: Engineers, Defense. Copies of the DEIS and the authority to issue this document is FEIS may be reviewed at the following vested in the Secretary of the Interior by ACTION: Notice of availability of the locations: Worland District BLM Office, 5 U.S.C. 301; the Act of August 7, 1946, Final Environmental Impact Statement 101 South 23rd Street, (contact Don c. 802, Section 3 (60 Stat. 895; 25 U.S.C. (FEIS) for the Greybull Valley Irrigation Ogaard, BLM Project Manager), 385c); the Act of May 25, 1948 (62 Stat. District Dam and Reservoir Project for Worland, WY; Wyoming State BLM 269); and the Act of December 23, 1981, public review and comment. Office, 5353 Yellowstone Road, section 112 (95 Stat. 1404). The SUMMARY: The FEIS for a proposal from Cheyenne, WY, (Jon Johnson, Secretary has delegated this authority to the Greybull Valley Irrigation District Environmental Protection Specialist); the Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs (GVID) to construct, operate, and COE Cheyenne Regulatory Office, 2232 pursuant to part 209 Departmental maintain a 150-foot-high zoned-earth Dell Range Blvd., Suite 210, Cheyenne, Manual, Chapter 8.1A and embankment dam and an associated WY (Chandler Peter, COE Project Memorandum dated January 25, 1994, 33,470 acre-foot impoundment in an Manager); COE Omaha District Office, from Chief of Staff, Department of the unnamed drainage south of Roach 215 N. 17th Street, Omaha, NE (Becky Interior, to Assistant Secretaries, and Gulch, a tributary of the Greybull River, Latka, EIS Technical Manager); and Heads of Bureaus and Offices. on public lands in Park County, county and city libraries near the proposed project. Dated: September 22, 1997. Wyoming, is available for public review. The FEIS was prepared by WEST, Inc., FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ada E. Deer, a third-party contractor for the Bureau Don Ogaard, BLM Project Manager, Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs. of Land Management (BLM) and the Bureau of Land Management, Worland [FR Doc. 97–25774 Filed 9–26–97; 8:45 am] U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) District Office, P.O. Box 119, 101 South BILLING CODE 4310±02±P under the provisions of Section 23rd Street, Worland, WY 82401–0119, 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental telephone 307–347–5100; or Chandler Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended. Peter, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,