[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 166 (Monday, August 28, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 50940]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-7193]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR


Office of Insular Affairs; Solicitation of Comments

AGENCY: Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Insular 
Affairs will make available for comment its draft report produced 
pursuant to sec. 251 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Pub. L. 109-58), 
concerning power utilities and energy usage in the U.S.-affiliated 
insular areas. These areas include the territories of Guam, American 
Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American 
Samoa, as well as the freely associated states of the Republic of 
Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States 
of Micronesia. The report was produced in consultation with the 
consultation with the U.S. Department of Energy. The draft report will 
be available on the Web site of the Department of the Interior's Office 
of Insular Affairs; the comments will be used to produce the final 
draft of the report by the end of FY 2006.

DATES: Please submit all comments in writing on or before September 27, 
2006. There will be no second opportunity to submit comments.

ADDRESSES: The draft report is available on the Office of Insular 
Affairs Web site, http://www.doi.gov/oia/. Submit electronic comments 
to [email protected]; see Supplemental Information or 
instructions on formatting. Address written comments to the attention 
of the Energy Policy Act Team, U.S. Department of the Interior, Office 
of Insular Affairs, 1849 C St. NW., Mailstop 4311-A, Washington, DC 
20240.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joseph Gean, (202) 208-4736.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Any electronic comments should be submitted 
in Word, WordPerfect, or PDF document formats only.

    Dated: August 21, 2006.
R. Thomas Weimer,
Assistant Secretary--Policy, Management, and Budget.
[FR Doc. 06-7193 Filed 8-25-06; 8:45 am]
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