[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 47 (Friday, March 9, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 14212]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-5907]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation


Definition and Payback of Inadvertent Overruns for Delivery of 
Lower Colorado River Water; Notice of Extension of Public Comment 
Period

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of public comment period extension.

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SUMMARY: Reclamation published a Notice of public comment period in the 
Federal Register, (66 FR 4856), on January, 18, 2001, requesting 
comments on a proposed policy that will identify inadvertent overruns, 
establish procedures that account for inadvertent overruns, and define 
subsequent payback requirements to the Colorado River mainstream. This 
notice extends the original comment period, as identified below in the 
DATES section.

DATES: The comment period for receiving comments on the proposed policy 
regarding definition and payback of inadvertent overruns for delivery 
of Lower Colorado River water, has been extended from March 24, 2001, 
to April 10, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you wish to comment, you may mail 
comments to Deputy Area Manager, Boulder Canyon Operations Office, 
Lower Colorado Region, Bureau of Reclamation, BCOO-1010, PO Box 61470, 
Boulder City, Nevada 89006. You may also comment via the Internet at 
[email protected]. If you comment via the Internet, please 
submit comments as an ASCII file avoiding the use of special characters 
and any form of encryption. If you do not receive a confirmation via e-
mail that we have received your Internet message, please contact us 
directly at (702) 293-8592.
    Our practice is to make comments, including names and home 
addresses of respondents, available for public review. Individual 
respondents may request that we withhold their home address from public 
disclosure, which we will honor to the extent allowable by law. There 
also may be circumstances in which we would withhold a respondent's 
identity from public disclosure, as allowable by law. If you wish us to 
withhold your name and/or address, you must state this prominently at 
the beginning of your comment. We will make all submissions from 
organizations or businesses, and from individuals identifying 
themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or 
businesses, available for public disclosure in their entirety.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. John Redlinger, (702) 293-8592.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The period for receiving public comments on 
the proposed inadvertent overrun policy, described in detail in the 
Federal Register dated January 18, 2001, (66 FR 4856), has been 
extended until April 10, 2001. The comment period has been extended in 
response to several requests, and because Reclamation intends to 
prepare an environmental impact statement that will evaluate the 
potential environmental effects of implementing the inadvertent overrun 
policy (see the Notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact 
statement (EIS) and initiation of scoping process for the 
``Implementation Agreement for Secretarial Actions Associated with 
California Parties' Proposed Quantification Settlement Agreement and 
other Related Federal Actions, including Implementation of an 
Inadvertent Overrun Policy, Lower Colorado River, Arizona, California, 
and Nevada,'' elsewhere in this Federal Register. The public scoping 
comment period for this EIS ends on April 10, 2001. Comments received 
on the inadvertent overrun policy will also be taken into consideration 
during the scoping process for the EIS.

    Dated: March 2, 2001.
Lorri J. Gray,
Assistant Regional Director.
[FR Doc. 01-5907 Filed 3-8-01; 8:45 am]
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