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site is not available. Written requests for
information or comments submitted by
postal mail or delivery should be
addressed to the Director of the
Information Collection Clearance
Division, U.S. Department of Education,
400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ,
Mailstop L–OM–2–2E319, Room 2E105,
Washington, DC 20202.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Michelle
Meier, (202) 245–7890.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department of Education (ED), in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general
public and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed,
revised, and continuing collections of
information. This helps the Department
assess the impact of its information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. It also
helps the public understand the
Department’s information collection
requirements and provide the requested
data in the desired format. ED is
soliciting comments on the proposed
information collection request (ICR) that
is described below. The Department of
Education is especially interested in
public comment addressing the
following issues: (1) Is this collection
necessary to the proper functions of the
Department; (2) will this information be
processed and used in a timely manner;
(3) is the estimate of burden accurate;
(4) how might the Department enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (5) how
might the Department minimize the
burden of this collection on the
respondents, including through the use
of information technology. Please note
that written comments received in
response to this notice will be
considered public records.
Title of Collection: Measures and
Methods for the National Reporting
System for Adult Education.
OMB Control Number: 1830–0027.
Type of Review: An extension of an
existing information collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: State,
Local and Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 5,700.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours:
Abstract: Title II of the Workforce
Investment Act (WIA—Pub. L. 105–
220), entitled the Adult Education and
Family Literacy Act (AEFLA), creates a
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provide, on a voluntary basis, adult
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education and literacy services. Section
212 of Title II requires that a
comprehensive performance
accountability system be established to
assess the effectiveness of eligible
agencies in achieving continuous
improvement of adult education and
literacy activities in order to optimize
the return on the Federal investment.
The accountability system must include
the following measures of performance.
These measures are referred to in
AEFLA as ‘‘core indicators are:
Demonstrated improvements in adult
learners’ literacy skill levels; placement
in, retention in, or completion of
postsecondary education, training,
unsubsidized employment or career
advancement; and receipt of a
secondary school diploma or its
recognized equivalent. States submit 10
required tables, 6 optional tables, 4
financial reports, 1 narrative report, and
1 data quality checklist.
assessment and management; and cleanup science and technology activities.
Additionally, the renewal of the
Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board has been
determined to be essential to conduct
the Department of Energy’s business and
to be in the public interest in
connection with the performance of
duties imposed on the Department of
Energy, by law and agreement. The
Board will operate in accordance with
the provisions of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, and rules and
regulations issued in implementation of
that Act.
Further information regarding this
Advisory Board may be obtained from
Mr. David Borak, Designated Federal
Officer, at (202) 586–9928.
Issued in Washington, DC, on April 11,
2014.
Amy Bodette,
Committee Management Officer.
Dated: April 14, 2014.
Stephanie Valentine,
Acting Director, Information Collection
Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and
Records Management Services, Office of
Management.
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Management, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of Charter Renewal.
AGENCY:
Pursuant to Section
14(a)(2)(A) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463), and in
accordance with Title 41 of the Code of
Federal Regulations, section 102–
3.65(a), and following consultation with
the Committee Management Secretariat,
General Services Administration, notice
is hereby given that the Environmental
Management Site-Specific Advisory
Board (EM SSAB or Board) will be
renewed for a two-year period beginning
April 11, 2014.
The Board provides the Assistant
Secretary for Environmental
Management (EM) with information,
advice, and recommendations
concerning issues affecting the EM
program at various sites. These sitespecific issues include clean-up
standards and environmental
restoration; waste management and
disposition; stabilization and
disposition of non-stockpile nuclear
materials; excess facilities; future land
use and long-term stewardship; risk
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of the General Counsel,
Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of intent to grant
exclusive patent license.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
SUMMARY:
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Notice is hereby given to an
intent to grant to Soil Water Monitoring
Systems, LLC of Kennewick, WA, an
exclusive license to practice the
inventions described in U.S. Patent No.
6,752,007 entitled ‘‘Horizontal
Advanced Tensiometer’’. The invention
is owned by the United States of
America, as represented by the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE).
DATES: Written comments or
nonexclusive license applications are to
be received at the address listed below
no later than May 2, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant
General Counsel for Technology
Transfer and Intellectual Property, U.S.
Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Ave. SW., Washington,
DC 20585.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michael Badagliacca, Office of the
Assistant General Counsel for
Technology Transfer and Intellectual
Property, U.S. Department of Energy,
Forrestal Building, Room 6F–067, 1000
Independence Ave. SW., Washington,
DC 20585; Telephone (202) 586–4792.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 35 U.S.C.
209 provides federal agencies with
authority to grant exclusive licenses in
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federally-owned inventions, if, among
other things, the agency finds that the
public will be served by the granting of
the license. The statute requires that no
exclusive license may be granted unless
public notice of the intent to grant the
license has been provided, and the
agency has considered all comments
received in response to that public
notice, before the end of the comment
period.
Soil Water Monitoring Systems, LLC
of Kennewick, WA has applied for an
exclusive license to practice the
inventions embodied in U.S. Patent No.
6,752,007 and has plans for
commercialization of the inventions.
The exclusive license will be subject
to a license and other rights retained by
the U.S. Government, and other terms
and conditions to be negotiated. DOE
intends to negotiate to grant the license,
unless, within 15 days of this notice, the
Assistant General Counsel for
Technology Transfer and Intellectual
Property, Department of Energy,
Washington, DC 20585, receives in
writing any of the following, together
with supporting documents:
(i) A statement from any person
setting forth reason why it would not be
in the best interests of the United States
to grant the proposed license; or
(ii) An application for a nonexclusive
license to the invention in which
applicant states that if already has
brought the invention to practical
application or is likely to bring the
invention to practical application
expeditiously.
The Department will review all timely
written responses to this notice, and
will proceed with negotiating the
license if, after consideration of written
responses to this notice, a finding is
made that the license is in the public
interest.
Issued in Washington, DC, on April 9,
2014.
John T. Lucas,
Assistant General Counsel for Technology,
Transfer and Intellectual Property.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
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Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. Ic14–11–000]
Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–516a); Comment
Request; Extension
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, DOE.
Notice of information collection
and request for comments.
ACTION:
In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A), the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (Commission or
FERC) is soliciting public comment on
the currently approved information
collection, [FERC–516A, ‘‘Small
Generator Interconnection Agreements’’
(OMB No. 1902–2003)].
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due June 16, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
(identified by Docket No. IC14–11–000)
by either of the following methods:
• eFiling at Commission’s Web site:
https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
efiling.asp.
• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier:
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
Secretary of the Commission, 888 First
Street NE., Washington, DC 20426.
Instructions: All submissions must be
formatted and filed in accordance with
submission guidelines at: https://
www.ferc.gov/help/submissionguide.asp. For user assistance contact
FERC Online Support by email at
ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by phone
at: (866) 208–3676 (toll-free), or (202)
502–8659 for TTY.
Docket: Users interested in receiving
automatic notification of activity in this
docket or in viewing/downloading
comments and issuances in this docket
may do so at https://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/docs-filing.asp.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ellen Brown may be reached by email
at DataClearance@FERC.gov, telephone
at (202) 502–8663, and fax at (202) 273–
0873.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FERC–516A, Standardization of
Small Generator Interconnection
Agreements and Procedures.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0203.
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the information collection
requirements for FERC–516A with no
changes to the current reporting
requirements.
Abstract: Under Sections 205 and 206
of the Federal Power Act (FPA) 1 the
Commission is charged with ensuring
just and reasonable electric transmission
rates and charges as well as ensuring
that jurisdictional providers do not
subject any person to any undue
prejudice or disadvantage.
The lack of consistent and readily
accessible terms and conditions for
connecting resources to the grid led to
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a large number of disputes between
jurisdictional transmission providers
and small generators 2 in the late 1990s
and early 2000s. In response, the
Commission directed transmission
providers to include Commissionapproved, standard, pro-forma
interconnection procedures (small
generator interconnection procedures or
SGIP) and a single uniformly applicable
interconnection agreement (small
generator interconnection agreement or
SGIA) in their open-access transmission
tariffs (OATTs). The requirement to
create and file these documents was
instituted August 2005 by Commission
Order No. 2006 3 and is codified in 18
CFR 35.28(f). This requirement set and
maintained a standard in OATTs for
consistent consideration and processing
of interconnection requests by
transmission providers.
Since the issuance of Order No. 2006,
many aspects of the energy industry
have changed including the growth of
small generator interconnection
requests 4 and the growth in solar
photovoltaic (PV) installations. These
changes have been driven, in part, by
state renewable energy goals and
policies. For example, approximately
3,300 MW of grid-connected PV
capacity were installed in the U.S. in
2012 5 compared to 79 MW in 2005, the
year Order No. 2006 was issued.6
In February 2012, pursuant to
Sections 205 and 206 of the FPA and
Rule 207 of the Commission’s Rules of
Practice and Procedures,7 and noting
that the Commission encouraged
stakeholders to submit proposed
revisions to the regulations set forth in
Order No. 2006,8 the Solar Energy
2 ‘‘Small generators’’ are generating facilities
having a capacity of no more than 20 megawatts
(MW).
3 Standardization of Small Generation
Interconnection Agreements and Procedures, Order
No. 2006, 70 FR 34189 (May 12, 2005), FERC Stats.
& Regs. ¶31,180 (2005).
4 See, e.g., Cal. Indep. Sys. Operator Corp., 133
FERC ¶ 61,223, at P 3 (2010) (stating that an
increasing volume of small generator
Interconnection Requests had created
inefficiencies); Pacific Gas & Elec. Co., 135 FERC
¶ 61,094, at P 4 (2011) (stating that increased small
generator Interconnection Requests resulted in a
backlog of 170 requests over three years); PJM
Interconnection, LLC, 139 FERC ¶ 61,079, at P 12
(2012) (stating that smaller projects comprised 66
percent of recent queue volume).
5 Sherwood, Larry, U.S. Solar Market Trends 2012
at 4, available at https://www.irecusa.org/wpcontent/uploads/2013/07/Solar-Report-Final-July2013-1.pdf.
6 U.S. Solar Market Insight Report, 2012 Year in
Review, Executive Summary Table 2.1, available at
https://www.seia.org/research-resources/us-solarmarket-insight-2012-year-in-review.
7 18 CFR 385.207 (2012).
8 SEIA Petition at 4 (citing Order No. 2006, FERC
Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,180 at P 118).
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Soil Water Monitoring Systems, LLC
AGENCY: Office of the General Counsel, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of intent to grant exclusive patent license.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given to an intent to grant to Soil Water
Monitoring Systems, LLC of Kennewick, WA, an exclusive license to
practice the inventions described in U.S. Patent No. 6,752,007 entitled
``Horizontal Advanced Tensiometer''. The invention is owned by the
United States of America, as represented by the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE).
DATES: Written comments or nonexclusive license applications are to be
received at the address listed below no later than May 2, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant General Counsel for Technology
Transfer and Intellectual Property, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Ave. SW., Washington, DC 20585.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Badagliacca, Office of the
Assistant General Counsel for Technology Transfer and Intellectual
Property, U.S. Department of Energy, Forrestal Building, Room 6F-067,
1000 Independence Ave. SW., Washington, DC 20585; Telephone (202) 586-
4792.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 35 U.S.C. 209 provides federal agencies with
authority to grant exclusive licenses in
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federally-owned inventions, if, among other things, the agency finds
that the public will be served by the granting of the license. The
statute requires that no exclusive license may be granted unless public
notice of the intent to grant the license has been provided, and the
agency has considered all comments received in response to that public
notice, before the end of the comment period.
Soil Water Monitoring Systems, LLC of Kennewick, WA has applied for
an exclusive license to practice the inventions embodied in U.S. Patent
No. 6,752,007 and has plans for commercialization of the inventions.
The exclusive license will be subject to a license and other rights
retained by the U.S. Government, and other terms and conditions to be
negotiated. DOE intends to negotiate to grant the license, unless,
within 15 days of this notice, the Assistant General Counsel for
Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property, Department of Energy,
Washington, DC 20585, receives in writing any of the following,
together with supporting documents:
(i) A statement from any person setting forth reason why it would
not be in the best interests of the United States to grant the proposed
license; or
(ii) An application for a nonexclusive license to the invention in
which applicant states that if already has brought the invention to
practical application or is likely to bring the invention to practical
application expeditiously.
The Department will review all timely written responses to this
notice, and will proceed with negotiating the license if, after
consideration of written responses to this notice, a finding is made
that the license is in the public interest.
Issued in Washington, DC, on April 9, 2014.
John T. Lucas,
Assistant General Counsel for Technology, Transfer and Intellectual
Property.
[FR Doc. 2014-08802 Filed 4-16-14; 8:45 am]
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