BOARD01112

• Board Meeting Date: 1/24/2006
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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EXECUTIVE ACTION
Public Law 109-97
H.R, 2744, making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug
Administration and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006. (Signed
November 10,2005,)

Public Law 109-103
H.R, 2419, making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2006, (Signed November 19, 2005.)

WN 2005-12
Public Law 109-108
H.R. 2862, making appropriations for Science, the Departments of State, Justice and
Commerce and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, (Signed
November 22,2005,)

FEDERAL REGISTER
Bureau of Land Management

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70 Fed. Reg, 73788. December 13.2005
BLM published a notice of availability for the Draft Resource Management Plan (RMP) and
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Price Field Office planning area in Carbon and
Emery Counties, Utah in the Federal Register, volume 69, number 136, on Friday, July 16,
2004, The current Notice supplements that Notice with information on existing and potential
Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACECs) considered within the Draft RMP and
EIS, as required in 43 CFR 1610.7-2, The CFR also provides an associated 60-day comment
period. The comment period will commence with the publication of this notice in the
Federal Register and end 60 days after its publication,

Deoartment of the Interior

70 Fed, ReI!, 69804. November 17. 2005
As required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EP Act), the Departments of Agriculture, the
Interior and Commerce are jointly establishing procedures for a new category of expedited
trial-type hearings, The hearings will resolve disputed issues of material fact with respect to
conditions or prescriptions that one or more of the Departments develop for inclusion in a
hydropower license issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) under the
Federal Power Act. The three Departments are also establishing procedures for the
consideration of alternative conditions and prescriptions submitted by any party to a license
proceeding, as provided in the EP Act. Three substantively identical rules are being
promulgated--one for each agency--with a common preamble, The rules are effective
immediately so that interested parties may avail themselves of the new hearing right and
alternatives process created by the EP Act, but the Departments are requesting comments on
ways the rules can be improved, These rules are effective on November 17, 2005, You
should submit your comments by January 17, 2006,

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70 Fed, Reg, 69985. November 18.2005
Following consultation with the General Services Administration, notice is hereby given that
the Secretary of the Interior is renewing the Advisory Committee on Water Information
(ACWI). The ACWI has been established under the authority of the Office of Management

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