The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announces its intention to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for a proposal to construct, operate, maintain, and decontaminate and decommission two depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF 6) conversion facilities, at Portsmouth, Ohio, and Paducah, Kentucky. DOE would use the proposed

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

The DOE, Office of Power Technology is announcing its intention to conduct a Peer Review of DOE's Competitive Solicitation Program September 20, 2001 in Golden Colorado. The meeting is open to the public and attendance is free of charge.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

The U.S. Department of Energy, Idaho Operations Office, is soliciting applications for research and development grant awards in nuclear engineering topics. It is anticipated that on September 12, 2001, a full text for Solicitation Number DEPS0702ID14200 for the 2002 NEER Program will be made available at the Industry Interactive Procurement System

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Los Alamos. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

The Department of Energy (the Department) announces the extension by 15 days of the public comment period concerning consideration of Yucca Mountain as a potential site for a geologic repository. The comment period, which was to end on September 20, 2001, will be extended to end on October 5, 2001. The Department also wishes to correct the address

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

PPL EnergyPlus, LLC (PPL EnergyPlus) has applied for renewal of its authority to transmit electric energy from the United States to Canada pursuant to section 202(e) of the Federal Power Act.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

This notice announces the National Transmission Grid Study, a set of public workshops, and request comments. President George W. Bush unveiled his National Energy Policy (NEP) on May 17, 2001. Included in the NEP were 105 recommendations to produce more reliable, affordable and environmentally clean energy. One of the recommendations directed the

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

Energia de Baja California (EBC) has applied for authority to transmit electric energy from the United States to Mexico pursuant to section 202(e) of the Federal Power Act.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Exelon) has applied for authority to transmit electric energy from the United States to Canada pursuant to section 202(e) of the Federal Power Act.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

The Department of Energy (DOE) is amending procedures for making final determinations of eligibility for access to classified matter and/or special nuclear material. The purpose of the amendments is to ensure that DOE procedures in this regard conform to the access eligibility determination provisions in Part 5 of Executive Order 12968, ``Access

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

The Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing procedures to implement Subtitle D of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 under which a DOE contractor employee or the employee's estate can seek assistance from the DOE Program Office in filing a claim with the appropriate State workers' compensation system based

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

The Department of Energy (DOE) announces the extension of the public scoping period and additional public scoping meetings for the programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) that DOE is preparing on the policy alternatives for the disposition of DOE scrap metals that may have residual surface radioactivity.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

Baja California Power, Inc. (BCP) and Sempra Energy Resources (SER) have both applied for Presidential permits to construct, operate, maintain, and connect doublecircuit electric transmission lines across the U.S. border with Mexico. The proposed action(s) have the potential to impact on a floodplain/wetlands. In accordance with DOE regulations

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

Enron North America Corp. (Enron) has applied for a Presidential permit to construct, operate, maintain, and connect doublecircuit electric transmission lines across the U.S. border with Mexico. The proposed action has the potential to impact on a floodplain/wetlands. In accordance with DOE regulations for compliance with floodplain/wetlands

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) has applied to amend Presidential Permit PP68 authorizing the construction, operation, maintenance, and connection of a 230kV electric transmission line at the U.S. international border with Mexico. The proposed action has the potential to impact on a floodplain/wetlands. In accordance with DOE regulations

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

This notice announces a meeting of the Alternative Technologies to Incineration Committee (ATIC) of the Environmental Management Advisory Board (EMAB). The EMAB is a Federal Advisory Committee act (FACA) entity.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

The Office of Fossil Energy of the Department of Energy gives notice that on June 25, 2001, it issued DOE/FE Order No. 1694 granting H.Q. Energy Services (U.S.) Inc. (HQUS) longterm authorization to import from Canada up to 48,500 thousand cubic feet per day of natural gas beginning on the date of first import delivery and extending through

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

The Department of Energy (the Department) announces an expansion of the public hearing on September 5, 2001, on the possible recommendation of the Yucca Mountain Site in Nevada for development as a spent nuclear fuel and highlevel radioactive waste geologic repository. The Department previously announced that a hearing would take place in Las

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

The Department of Energy (DOE) has submitted an information collection package to the Office of Management and Budget (0MB) for extension under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (P.L. 10413).

The package covers the collection of information concerning annual applications from the owners of qualified renewable energy generation facilities for

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

The Department of Energy (the Department) provides suggested topics for public consideration regarding the possible recommendation by the Secretary of Energy to the President of the Yucca Mountain Site in Nevada for development as a spent nuclear fuel and highlevel nuclear waste geologic repository, pursuant to Section 114(a)(1) of the Nuclear

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

The Division of High Energy Physics of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy, hereby announces its interest in receiving grant applications for support under its Outstanding Junior Investigator (OJI) Program. Applications should be from tenuretrack faculty investigators who are currently involved in experimental or theoretical high

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department

The Division of Nuclear Physics of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy, invites grant applications for support under the Outstanding Junior Investigator Program in nuclear physics. The purpose of this program is to support the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY : Energy Department