[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 131 (Wednesday, July 8, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41028-41029]
[FR Doc No: 2020-14666]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 6916-011]

City and County of Denver, Colorado; Notice of Availability of
Environmental Assessment

    In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission)
regulations, 18 CFR part 380 (Order No. 486, 52 FR 47897), the Office
of Energy Projects has reviewed an application submitted by City and
County of Denver, Colorado acting by and through its Board of Water
Commissioners (Denver Water), to exempt its Strontia Springs Project
No. 6916 from the licensing requirements of Part I of the Federal Power
Act. The Strontia Project is located on the South Platte River, in
Douglas and Jefferson counties, Colorado. The project occupies federal
lands within Pike San Isabel National Forest, administered by the U.S.
Forest Service.
    An environmental assessment (EA) has been prepared as part of
Commission staff's review of the proposal. In the application, Denver
Water proposes to upgrade its turbine generator unit, which would
increase the total installed capacity of the project to 1.25-megawatts,
and to convert its license to an exemption. The EA contains Commission
staff's analysis of the probable environmental impacts of the proposed
action and concludes that approval of the proposal would not constitute
a major federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human
environment.
    The Commission provides all interested persons an opportunity to
view and/or print the EA via the internet through the Commission's Home
Page (http://www.ferc.gov) using the eLibrary link. Enter the docket
number, excluding the last three digits in the docket number field, to
access the document. At this time, the Commission has suspended access
to Commission's Public Reference Room, due to the proclamation
declaring a National Emergency concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease
(COVID-19), issued by the President on March 13, 2020.
    For assistance, contact FERC Online Support at
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>or toll-free at<PHONE_NUMBER>, or for TTY,
(202) 502-8659. You may also register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filings
and

issuances related to this or other pending projects.

    Dated: July 1, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-14666 Filed 7-7-20; 8:45 am]
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UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
                NATIONAL VEHICLE AND FUEL EMISSIONS LABORATORY
                             2000 TRAVERWOOD ROAD
                           ANN ARBOR, MI  48105-2498

									          	OFFICE OF
										AIR AND RADIATION

July 21, 2011

MEMORANDUM

SUBJECT:	Meeting with Navistar

FROM:	Angela Cullen, Mechanical Engineer

TO:		Docket EPA-HQ-OAR-2010-0162

This memorandum documents a meeting held on April 11, 2011 between Navistar and EPA and included the following individuals:

      Navistar: John Zagone, Graham Weller, Phillip Gronberg, Ning Lei, and David Piech

      EPA: Byron Bunker, Houshun Zhang, Allen Duncan, Matt Brusster, and Angela Cullen

The discussion focused on technology paths to reduce GHG emissions and fuel consumption from heavy-duty engines, including the following:
   * Turbomachinery, including variable geometry and dual stage with double turbines and compressors
   * Exhaust Gas NOx Reduction system
   * Air management
   * Combustion improvement through calibration, higher injection pressure, and improved aftertreatment control
   * Short term parasitic reductions through low viscosity lubricants and crank shaft seal improvements
   * Long term improvements through reductions in rotating mass, piston ring/cylinder liner friction, and variable flow pumps

The individuals also discussed the engine development process and the impact of OBD calibration on the timing, which can add 6 to 9 months to the development process.  A typical engine development process can take between 3 and 4.75 years.


[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 62 (Wednesday, April 1, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17526-17528]
[FR Doc No: 2015-07462]

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[SEC File No. 270-237, OMB Control No. 3235-0226]

Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Upon Written Request, Copies Available From: Securities and Exchange

Commission, Office of FOIA Services, 100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC
20549-2736.

Extension: Rule 10f-3

    Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), the Securities and Exchange
Commission (``Commission'') is soliciting comments on the collections
of information discussed below. The Commission plans to submit these
existing collections of information to the Office of Management and
Budget (``OMB'') for extension and approval.
    Section 10(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a)
(the ``Act'') prohibits a registered investment company (``fund'') from
purchasing any security during an underwriting or selling syndicate if
the fund has certain relationships with a principal underwriter for the
security.\1\ Congress enacted this provision in 1940 to protect funds
and their shareholders by preventing underwriters from ``dumping''
unmarketable securities on affiliated funds.
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    \1\ 15 U.S.C. 80a-10(f).
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    Rule 10f-3 permits a fund to engage in a securities transaction
that otherwise would violate section 10(f) if, among other things: (i)
Each transaction effected under the rule is reported on Form N-SAR;
(ii) the fund's directors have approved procedures for purchases made
in reliance on the rule, regularly review fund purchases to determine
whether they comply with these procedures, and approve necessary
changes to the procedures; and (iii) a written record of each
transaction effected under the rule is maintained for six years, the
first two of which in an easily accessible place.\2\ The written record
must state: (i) From whom the securities were acquired; (ii) the
identity of the underwriting syndicate's members; (iii) the terms of
the transactions; and (iv) the information or materials on which the
fund's board of directors has determined that the purchases were made
in compliance with procedures established by the board.
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    \2\ 17 CFR 270.10f-3.
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    Rule 10f-3 also conditionally allows managed portions of fund
portfolios to purchase securities offered in otherwise off-limits
primary offerings. To qualify for this exemption, rule 10f-3 requires
that the subadviser that is advising the purchaser be contractually
prohibited from providing investment advice to any other portion of the
fund's portfolio and consulting with any other of the fund's advisers
that is a principal underwriter or affiliated person of a principal
underwriter concerning the fund's securities transactions.
    These requirements provide a mechanism for fund boards to oversee
compliance with the rule. The required recordkeeping facilitates the
Commission staff's review of rule 10f-3 transactions during routine
fund inspections and, when necessary, in connection with enforcement
actions.
    The staff estimates that approximately 270 funds engage in a total
of approximately 3,350 rule 10f-3 transactions each year.\3\ Rule 10f-3
requires that the purchasing fund create a written record of each
transaction that includes, among other things, from whom the securities
were purchased and the terms of the transaction. The staff estimates
\4\ that it takes an average fund approximately 30 minutes per
transaction and approximately 1,675 hours \5\ in the aggregate to
comply with this portion of the rule.
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    \3\ These estimates are based on staff extrapolations from
filings with the Commission.
    \4\ Unless stated otherwise, the information collection burden
estimates are based on conversations between the staff and
representatives of funds.
    \5\ This estimate is based on the following calculation: (0.5
hours x 3,350 = 1,675 hours).
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    The funds also must maintain and preserve these transactional
records in accordance with the rule's recordkeeping requirement, and
the staff estimates that it takes a fund approximately 20 minutes per
transaction and that annually, in the aggregate, funds spend
approximately 1,117 hours \6\ to comply with this portion of the rule.
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    \6\ This estimate is based on the following calculations: (20
minutes x 3,350 transactions = 67,000 minutes; 67,000 minutes/60 =
1,117 hours).
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    In addition, fund boards must, no less than quarterly, examine each
of these transactions to ensure that they comply with the fund's
policies and procedures. The information or materials upon which the
board relied to come to this determination also must be maintained and
the staff estimates that it takes a fund 1 hour per quarter and, in the
aggregate, approximately 1,080 hours \7\ annually to comply with this
rule requirement.
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    \7\ This estimate is based on the following calculation: (1 hour
per quarter x 4 quarters x 270 funds = 1,080 hours).
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    The staff estimates that reviewing and revising as needed written
procedures for rule 10f-3 transactions takes, on average for each fund,
two hours of a compliance attorney's time per year.\8\ Thus, annually,
in the aggregate, the staff estimates that funds spend a total of
approximately 540 hours \9\ on monitoring and revising rule 10f-3
procedures.
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    \8\ These averages take into account the fact that in most
years, fund attorneys and boards spend little or no time modifying
procedures and in other years, they spend significant time doing so.
    \9\ This estimate is based on the following calculation: (270
funds x 2 hours = 540 hours).
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    Based on an analysis of fund filings, the staff estimates that
approximately 251 fund portfolios enter into subadvisory agreements
each year.\10\ Based on discussions with industry representatives, the
staff estimates that it will require approximately 3 attorney hours to
draft and execute additional clauses in new subadvisory contracts in
order for funds and subadvisers to be able to rely on the exemptions in
rule 10f-3. Because these additional clauses are identical to the
clauses that a fund would need to insert in their subadvisory contracts
to rely on rules 12d3-1, 17a-10, and 17e-1, and because we believe that
funds that use one such rule generally use all of these rules, we
apportion this 3 hour time burden equally to all four rules. Therefore,
we estimate that the burden allocated to rule 10f-3 for this contract
change would be 0.75 hours.\11\ Assuming that all 251 funds that enter
into new subadvisory contracts each year make the modification to their
contract required by the rule, we estimate that the rule's contract
modification requirement will result in 188 burden hours annually.\12\
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    \10\ Based on information in Commission filings, we estimate
that 38 percent of funds are advised by subadvisers.
    \11\ This estimate is based on the following calculation (3
hours / 4 rules = .75 hours).
    \12\ These estimates are based on the following calculations:
(0.75 hours x 251 portfolios = 188 burden hours).
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    The staff estimates, therefore, that rule 10f-3 imposes an
information collection burden of 4,060 hours.\13\ This estimate does
not include the time spent filing transaction reports on Form N-SAR,
which is encompassed in the information collection burden estimate for
that form.
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    \13\ This estimate is based on the following calculation: (1,675
hours + 1,117 hours + 1,080 hours + 188 hours = 4,060 total burden
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    Written comments are invited on: (a) Whether the collections of
information are necessary for the proper performance of the functions
of the Commission, including whether the information has practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the Commission's estimate of the burdens
of the collections of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information collected; and (d) ways to
minimize the burdens of the collections of information on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of

information technology. Consideration will be given to comments and
suggestions submitted in writing within 60 days of this publication.
    Please direct your written comments to Pamela Dyson, Director/Chief
Information Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, c/o Remi
Pavlik-Simon, 100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 20549; or send an email
to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>
    Dated: March 27, 2015.
 Brent J. Fields,
 Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-07462 Filed 3-31-15; 8:45 am]
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