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Management Plan (35 points)
• The extent to which the offeror
provides a description of its plan for
managing the project in a clear and
sequential fashion, and the extent to
which that plan provides credible
evidence that the management of
personnel, physical resources, activities,
and work production will result in a
robust portal with a 99.99 percent
‘‘uptime rate.’’ (20 points)
• The quality of the offeror’s plans to
establish and work with an advisory
committee that has appropriate
expertise to advise the offeror on its
implementation of the project. (5 points)
• The extent to which the time
commitments of the offeror’s staff are
appropriate to operating and
maintaining U.S.A. Learns Web Portal.
(5 points)
• The extent to which the offeror
submitted a summary of a plan to
evaluate the use and effectiveness of the
portal, so that it can be improved. (5
points)
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Other Requirements for the Content of
Proposals
Proposals submitted in response to
this notice also must include the
following information:
• Name, address, and contact
information for the entity submitting the
proposal.
• Mission statement of the entity.
• Capability statement (must address
the key factors and each component of
the selection criteria).
• Entity’s Web site URL.
• Annual report or similar report on
the condition of the entity.
• Description of existing programs
owned and operated by the entity that
could support the goals of the U.S.A.
Learns Web Portal.
• A signed assurance by an
appropriate officer of the entity
indicating that the entity agrees to own
and operate the portal consistent with
its proposal and with the purposes and
provisions of this notice, and
understands that, if it does not do so,
the ownership of the portal, all content
therein provided by the Department,
and all databases needed to operate the
portal will revert to the Department,
which can award it to another entity or
entities in accordance with a notice
published in the Federal Register. The
signed assurance shall acknowledge that
the Department shall transfer its specific
rights and interest in data and content
of the portal. In addition, the assurance
shall acknowledge that in the event of
any reversion of the portal to the
Department, the Department shall
possess the rights and interest in data
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and content of the portal provided by
the Department, including all databases
needed to operate the portal. In the
assurance the entity will also agree to
submit semi-annual reports on the
operation and use of the portal in such
detail as the Department specifies in the
agreement that the parties will sign.
Availability of Funds
There are no Federal funds available
to support the portal once ownership
and operation have been transferred
from the Federal Government. It will be
the sole responsibility of the selected
entity or entities to bear all costs
associated with ownership and
operation of the portal.
Interests of the Federal Government
The Department will transfer
ownership of the portal and its content
to the entity or entities selected. The
Department will transfer the rights and
interest it possesses in data and content
transferred to the entity or entities. In
addition, as noted elsewhere in this
notice, if the entity or entities selected
operates the portal in a manner that is
not consistent with its or their proposal
or proposals and with the purposes and
provisions of this notice, or if the entity
or entities ceases to operate the portal,
the ownership of the portal, all content
therein provided by the Department,
and all databases needed to operate the
portal will revert to the Department, and
the entity or entities will not be
authorized to operate the portal. Upon
such a reversion, the Federal
Government shall possess the rights and
interest in data and content of the portal
originally provided by the Department,
including all databases needed to
operate the portal. Under these
circumstances, the Department may
award the ownership of the portal to
another entity or entities in accordance
with a notice published in the Federal
Register.
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(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Number: 84.191X Adult Education—National
Leadership Activities)
Dated: November 25, 2008.
Troy R. Justesen,
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Ultra-Deepwater Advisory Committee
Department of Energy, Office of
Fossil Energy.
ACTION: Notice of open meeting.
AGENCY:
This notice announces a meeting of
the Ultra-Deepwater Advisory
Committee. Federal Advisory
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463, 86 Stat.
770) requires that notice of these
meetings be announced in the Federal
Register.
DATES: Friday, December 19, 2008, 10
a.m. to 12 p.m.
ADDRESSES: Location: TMS, Inc., 955
L’Enfant Plaza North, SW., Suite 1500,
Washington, DC 20024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Elena Melchert, U.S. Department of
Energy, Office of Oil and Natural Gas,
Washington, DC 20585. Phone: 202–
586–5600.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose of the Committee: The
purpose of the Ultra-Deepwater
Advisory Committee is to provide
advice on development and
implementation of programs related to
ultra-deepwater natural gas and other
petroleum resources to the Secretary of
Energy and provide comments and
recommendations and priorities for the
Department of Energy Annual Plan per
requirements of the Energy Policy Act of
2005, Title IX, Subtitle J, Section 999.
Tentative Agenda:
9:30 a.m.–10 a.m. Registration.
10 a.m.–11:45 a.m. Roll Call;
Opening Remarks by the Committee
Chair; Remarks by Designated
Federal Officer; Member discussion
regarding organization and/or
establishment of standing
subcommittees; Committee vote;
Member discussion regarding next
steps.
11:45 a.m.–12 p.m. Public Comments.
12 p.m. Adjourn.
Public Participation: The meeting is
open to the public. The Designated
Federal Officer and the Chairman of the
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Committee will lead the meeting for the
orderly conduct of business. If you
would like to file a written statement
with the Committee, you may do so
either before or after the meeting. If you
would like to make oral statements
regarding any of the items on the
agenda, you should contact Elena
Melchert at the address or telephone
number listed above. You must make
your request for an oral statement at
least 10 business days prior to the
meeting, and reasonable provisions will
be made to include the presentation on
the agenda. Public comment will follow
the 5 minute rule.
Minutes: The minutes of this meeting
will be available for public review and
copying within 60 days at the Freedom
of Information Public Reading Room,
Room 1G–033, Forrestal Building, 1000
Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 4
p.m., Monday through Friday, except
federal holidays.
Issued at Washington, DC, on November
24, 2008.
Rachel Samuel,
Deputy Committee Management Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Energy Information
Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The EIA is soliciting
comments on the proposed revision and
three-year extension to the Form OE–
781R ‘‘Report of International Electrical
Export/Import Data.’’
DATES: Comments must be filed by
January 30, 2009. If you anticipate
difficulty in submitting comments
within that period, contact the person
listed below as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Mr.
Steve Mintz. To ensure receipt of the
comments by the due date, submission
by FAX (202–586–8008) or e-mail
(steven.mintz@hq.doe.gov) is
recommended. The mailing address is
the Office of Electricity Delivery and
Energy Reliability, Department of
Energy (Mail Code OE–20), U.S.
Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Avenue, SW.,
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Washington, DC 20585. Alternatively,
Mr. Mintz may be contacted by
telephone at 202–586–9506.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of any forms and instructions
(the proposed draft collection) should
be directed to Mr. Steve Mintz at the
address listed above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
II. Current Actions
III. Request for Comments
I. Background
The Federal Energy Administration
Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 761 et seq. ) and
the DOE Organization Act (42 U.S.C.
7101 et seq. ) require the EIA to carry
out a centralized, comprehensive, and
unified energy information program.
This program collects, evaluates,
assembles, analyzes, and disseminates
information on energy resource reserves,
production, demand, technology, and
related economic and statistical
information. This information is used to
assess the adequacy of energy resources
to meet near and longer term domestic
demands.
The EIA, as part of its effort to comply
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq. ), provides
the general public and other Federal
agencies with opportunities to comment
on collections of energy information
conducted by or in conjunction with the
EIA. Also, the EIA will later seek
approval for this collection by the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB)
under Section 3507(a) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995.
The DOE Office of Electricity Delivery
and Energy Reliability, which currently
has programmatic responsibility,
oversees international electricity power
flows for reliability and violations of
permit standards. They also monitor the
levels of electricity imports and exports
and issue summary tabulations in a staff
Annual Report. Monthly tabulations of
these data may be used by the Energy
Information Administration. The
publications may include: Annual
Energy Outlook, Annual Energy Review,
Electric Power Annual, Electric Power
Monthly, and Monthly Energy Review.
This information will be kept in the
public electronic files and will be
available for public copying.
The existing survey was designed for
an electric utility industry that was
dominated by integrated utilities,
operating narrowly within prescribed
markets and individually holding
complete information on their
operations and finances. In that
environment, utilities that held
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Presidential Permits and or Export
Authorizations could provide relatively
complete information on their activities.
The utilities, before restructuring of the
power industry, also controlled power
lines that largely were dedicated to
serving their own customers, so it was
appropriate for regulatory concern about
reliability of supply to focus on the
capacities and uses of individual lines,
not systems. That has all changed. The
reasons include: the restructuring of the
wholesale and transmission markets by
the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC); the entry of a large
number of independent marketers into
those markets; and the regulatory
requirement that entities in the electric
power industry keep information on
transmission operations separate from
their information on marketing. All of
that has placed limits on the usefulness
of the existing form and collection
format.
II. Current Actions
The following changes are being
proposed:
The form would collect data on
monthly activity, and respondents
would file the form monthly using an
internet-based electronic data collection
and editing system. Monthly data would
be filed within 30 days of the end of the
reporting month, e.g. October data
would be due not later than November
30. (The existing form collects monthly
information annually on paper filings.)
The Form OE–781R would be retitled
‘‘Monthly Electricity Imports and
Exports Report.’’
A new category of respondents is
being proposed to report on
transmission system operations. That
category would cover the independent
system operators (ISOs) and regional
transmission operators (RTOs). Since
much of the physical information on
cross-border power flows today is held
by ISOs/RTOs and the transmission
system managers in the federal power
marketing administrations (PMA), they
will likely be the principal respondents
for questions on flows, capacities, and
characteristics of transmission
operations.
Purchasers and sellers (including the
marketing entities in the PMAs) would
respond to questions on the value of the
imports and exports (costs and
revenues).
The form would be restructured by
disaggregating it into two parts and
would separately query the U.S.
transmission system operators and the
U.S. purchasing and selling entities
involved in cross-border trade. The
separation of transmission and power
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Ultra-Deepwater Advisory Committee
AGENCY: Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy.
ACTION: Notice of open meeting.
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This notice announces a meeting of the Ultra-Deepwater Advisory
Committee. Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat.
770) requires that notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal
Register.
DATES: Friday, December 19, 2008, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
ADDRESSES: Location: TMS, Inc., 955 L'Enfant Plaza North, SW., Suite
1500, Washington, DC 20024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elena Melchert, U.S. Department of
Energy, Office of Oil and Natural Gas, Washington, DC 20585. Phone:
202-586-5600.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose of the Committee: The purpose of the Ultra-Deepwater
Advisory Committee is to provide advice on development and
implementation of programs related to ultra-deepwater natural gas and
other petroleum resources to the Secretary of Energy and provide
comments and recommendations and priorities for the Department of
Energy Annual Plan per requirements of the Energy Policy Act of 2005,
Title IX, Subtitle J, Section 999.
Tentative Agenda:
9:30 a.m.-10 a.m. Registration.
10 a.m.-11:45 a.m. Roll Call;
Opening Remarks by the Committee Chair; Remarks by Designated
Federal Officer; Member discussion regarding organization and/or
establishment of standing subcommittees; Committee vote; Member
discussion regarding next steps.
11:45 a.m.-12 p.m. Public Comments.
12 p.m. Adjourn.
Public Participation: The meeting is open to the public. The
Designated Federal Officer and the Chairman of the
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Committee will lead the meeting for the orderly conduct of business. If
you would like to file a written statement with the Committee, you may
do so either before or after the meeting. If you would like to make
oral statements regarding any of the items on the agenda, you should
contact Elena Melchert at the address or telephone number listed above.
You must make your request for an oral statement at least 10 business
days prior to the meeting, and reasonable provisions will be made to
include the presentation on the agenda. Public comment will follow the
5 minute rule.
Minutes: The minutes of this meeting will be available for public
review and copying within 60 days at the Freedom of Information Public
Reading Room, Room 1G-033, Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except federal holidays.
Issued at Washington, DC, on November 24, 2008.
Rachel Samuel,
Deputy Committee Management Officer.
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