Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Other Utility/Contractor/Vendor Worker Access Request Form, 25592-25593 [2014-10163]
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Michael K. Yudin,
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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Proposed Agency Information
Collection
AGENCY:
U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE).
Notice and request for
comments.
ACTION:
The Department of Energy
(DOE) invites public comment on a
proposed collection of information that
DOE is developing for submission to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) pursuant to the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. Comments are
invited on: (a) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
DATES: Comments regarding this
proposed information collection must
be received on or before July 7, 2014. If
you anticipate difficulty in submitting
comments within that period, contact
Mr. Dennis A. Smith as listed below.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be
sent to Mr. Dennis A. Smith, Office of
Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, EE–
2G, 1000 Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585–0121, by phone
at 202–586–1791, or by fax at 202–586–
2476, or by email at dennis.a.smith@
ee.doe.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
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instrument and instructions should be
directed to Mr. Dennis Smith using the
contact information listed above.
This
information collection request contains:
(1) OMB No.: New; (2) Information
Collection Request Title: Consumers
and Fuel Economy; (3) Type of Request:
New Collection; (4) Purpose: The
Consumers and Fuel Economy Study is
a follow-on study of consumers’
valuation of automotive fuel economy
conducted in 2003. The purpose is to
provide both a qualitative description
based on in-home interviews and a
quantitative estimate based on a
national sample survey of the
prevalence of consumers’ fuel economy
valuations across the population of carowning households in the United States.
The goals include the description of
similarities and differences from the
2003 study and the further development
of theory, models, or heuristics to
explain consumers’ valuations of fuel
economy. This information will be
made available to the general public via
the joint Department of Energy and
Environmental Protection Web site,
www.fueleconomy.gov; (5) Estimated
Number of Respondents: 54 household
interviews (not an annual collection);
(6) Estimated Number of Total
Responses: 54; (7) Estimated Number of
Burden Hours: 108 hours; (8) Annual
Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping
Cost Burden: N/A—Not an annual
collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Statutory Authority: 42 U.S.C. 13233; 42
U.S.C. 13252 (a)–(b); 42 U.S.C. 16191; 49
U.S.C. 32908 (g)–(2)–(A).
Issued in Washington, DC, on: January 3,
2014.
Patrick B. Davis,
Program Manager, Vehicle Technologies
Program, Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy.
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BILLING CODE 6450–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Bonneville Power Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Other Utility/
Contractor/Vendor Worker Access
Request Form
Bonneville Power
Administration (BPA), DOE.
AGENCY:
Notice of submission of
information collection approval from
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) and request for comments.
ACTION:
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BPA is submitting to OMB for
clearance, a proposal for the collection
of information under the provisions of
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
The proposed collection will allow BPA
to gather information from contractors
and service vendors, to be used by BPA
to document compliance with NERC
Standard CIP–004–3 by maintaining a
list of personnel given authorized cyber
access or unescorted physical access
into BPA’s Critical Cyber Assets, based
on those personnel having the
appropriate level of personnel risk
assessment, training, and security
awareness.
SUMMARY:
Comments must be submitted on
or before June 24, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be
submitted to: DOE Desk Officer, Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Room 10102,
735 17th Street NW., Washington, DC
20503.
DATES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Additional information may be
requested from: Information Collection
Clearance Officer, Christopher M. Frost,
Governance and Internal Controls,
DGC–7, Bonneville Power
Administration, 905 NE. 11th Avenue,
Portland, Oregon 97232, or by email:
IGLM@bpa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
(1) OMB Number: New.
(2) Information Collection Request
Title: Other Utility/Contractor/Vendor
Worker (OUW) Unescorted Access
Request.
(3) Type of Request: New.
(4) Abstract: The information
requested on this form is used by BPA
to document compliance with NERC
Standard CIP–004–3, R2 and R3, which
requires that personnel having
authorized cyber or authorized
unescorted physical access to BPA’s
Critical Cyber Assets, including
contractors and service vendors, have an
appropriate level of personnel risk
assessment, training, and security
awareness.
Below we provide the BPA projected
average estimates for the next three
years.
Affected Public: Contracting and
Vendor Businesses and Organizations.
Annual Estimated Number of
Respondents: Approx. 500.
Annual Estimated Number of Total
Responses: Approx. 500.
Average Minutes per Response: 15.
Annual Estimated Number of Burden
Hours: 125.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
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respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid
Office of Management and Budget
control number.
Issued in Portland, Oregon, on April 24,
2014.
Damian J. Kelly,
Acting Chief Compliance Officer, Agency
Governance and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2014–10163 Filed 5–2–14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6450–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Western Area Power Administration
Falcon and Amistad Projects’ Rate
Order No. WAPA–164
Western Area Power
Administration (Western), DOE.
ACTION: Notice of extension.
AGENCY:
This action is to extend the
existing Falcon and Amistad Projects’
Firm Power Rate Formula, established
in Rate Order No WAPA–143, through
June 7, 2019. The Falcon and Amistad
Projects’ Firm Power Rate Formula is set
to expire June 7, 2014.
DATES: The rate formula extension will
become effective on an interim basis
June 8, 2014, and will remain interim
until the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC) confirms, approves,
and places the rate formula into effect
on a final basis through June 7, 2019, or
until superseded.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Lynn C. Jeka, Colorado River Storage
Project (CRSP) Manager, Colorado River
Storage Project Management Center,
Western Area Power Administration,
150 East Social Hall Avenue, Suite 300,
Salt Lake City, UT 84111–1580, (801)
524–6372, email jeka@wapa.gov, or Mr.
Rodney Bailey, Power Marketing
Manager, Colorado River Storage Project
Management Center, Western Area
Power Administration, 150 East Social
Hall Avenue, Suite 300, Salt Lake City,
UT 84111–1580, (801) 524–4007, email
rbailey@wapa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: By
Delegation Order No. 00–037.00A, the
Secretary of Energy delegated: (1) The
authority to develop power and
transmission rates to the Administrator
of Western; (2) the authority to confirm,
approve, and place in effect such rates
on an interim basis to the Deputy
Secretary of the Department of Energy
(DOE); and (3) the authority to confirm
and approve on a final basis or to
disapprove rates developed by the
Administrator under the delegation to
FERC. This extension is issued pursuant
to the Delegation Order and DOE rate
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extension procedures at 10 CFR 903–
23(a).
The Falcon and Amistad Dams are
features of international water storage
projects located on the Rio Grande River
between Texas and Mexico. Under the
terms of Contract No. 7–07–50–P0890
(Contract), dated August 9, 1977, as
amended, Western markets the power
from these dams to South Texas Electric
Cooperative, Inc. (STEC). The power
rate formula of the Contract was
approved by the Federal Power
Commission (FPC), predecessor to
FERC, in Docket No. E–9566 on August
12, 1977 (59 FPC 1653), for a 5-year
period effective on the date of initial
operation of Amistad Power Plant, June
8, 1983.1
According to article 9(a) of the
Contract, Western calculates the annual
installment to be paid by the Customer
for the power generated at the Falcon
and Amistad power plants on or before
August 31 of the year proceeding the
fiscal year to which it pertains and
identifies this amount in a revised
Exhibit A to the Contract. Each annual
installment pays the annual amortized
portion of the United States’ investment
in the Falcon and Amistad hydroelectric
facilities with interest, and the
associated operation, maintenance, and
administrative costs. This repayment
schedule is not dependent upon the
power and energy made available for
sale or the rate of generation each year.
Following review of Western’s
proposal within the Department of
Energy, I hereby approve, on an interim
basis, Rate Order No. WAPA–164,
which extends, without adjustment, the
existing Falcon and Amistad Projects’
Power Rate Formula through June 7,
2019.2 The rate formula will be
promptly submitted to FERC for
confirmation and approval on a final
basis.
Dated: April 28, 2014.
Daniel B. Poneman,
Deputy Secretary of Energy.
Deputy Secretary
In the matter of: Western Area Power
Administration Extension for Falcon and
Amistad Projects’ Power Rate Formula; Order
Confirming and Approving an Extension of
the Falcon and Amistad Projects’ Power Rate
Formula
1 A 5-year rate extension of this same rate formula
through June 7, 1993, was approved by FERC on
July 20, 1988, at 44 FERC ¶ 62,058. Subsequent 5year extensions of the rate formula have been
approved by FERC. The most recent approval was
on December 17, 2009, in Docket No. EF09–5101–
000, which approved the same rate formula through
June 7, 2014 (129 FERC ¶ 62,206).
2 Western’s proposal published on February 21,
2014 (79 FR 9897).
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This Power Rate Formula extension
was established following section 302 of
the Department of Energy (DOE)
Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7152). This
Act transferred to and vested in the
Secretary of Energy the power marketing
functions of the Secretary of the
Department of the Interior and the
Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation)
under the Reclamation Act of 1902 (ch.
1093, 32 Stat. 388), as amended and
supplemented by subsequent laws,
particularly section 9(c) of the
Reclamation Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C.
485h(c)), and other acts that specifically
apply to the project involved.
By Delegation Order No. 00–037.00A,
the Secretary of Energy delegated: (1)
The authority to develop power and
transmission rates to the Administrator
of the Western Area Power
Administration (Western); (2) the
authority to confirm, approve, and place
in effect such rates on an interim basis
to the Deputy Secretary of Energy; and
(3) the authority to confirm and approve
on a final basis or to disapprove rates
developed by the Administrator under
the delegation to the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC). This
extension is issued pursuant to the
Delegation Order and DOE rate
extension procedures at 10 CFR 903–
23(a).
Background
On December 17, 2009, in Docket No.
EF09–5101–000, FERC confirmed,
approved, and placed into effect on a
final basis the Falcon and Amistad
Projects’ Power Rate Formula, Rate
Order No. WAPA–143. FERC approved
the Power Rate Formula for 5 years
beginning June 8, 2009, through June 7,
2014. On February 21, 2014, pursuant to
10 CFR 903.23(a), Western filed a notice
in the Federal Register proposing to
extend, without adjustment, Falcon and
Amistad Projects’ Power Rate Formula
as Rate Order No. WAPA–164.
Consistent with its regulations at 10
CFR 903.23(a), Western did not hold a
consultation and comment period.
Instead, Western stated its intent, via
certified letter to South Texas Electric
Cooperative, Inc (Customer), to extend
the current Power Rate formula and
received no adverse reactions.
Discussion
On June 7, 2014, Western’s Falcon
and Amistad Projects’ Power Rate
Formula expires. The Power Rate
Formula, calculated annually and based
on 2 years of data, includes the
projected costs of the rate installment
year (future fiscal year) and an
adjustment from the last historic fiscal
year. The adjustment is the surplus or
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Bonneville Power Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Other Utility/Contractor/Vendor Worker Access Request
Form
AGENCY: Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), DOE.
ACTION: Notice of submission of information collection approval from
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: BPA is submitting to OMB for clearance, a proposal for the
collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. The proposed collection will allow BPA to gather
information from contractors and service vendors, to be used by BPA to
document compliance with NERC Standard CIP-004-3 by maintaining a list
of personnel given authorized cyber access or unescorted physical
access into BPA's Critical Cyber Assets, based on those personnel
having the appropriate level of personnel risk assessment, training,
and security awareness.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before June 24, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be submitted to: DOE Desk Officer,
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10102, 735 17th Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Additional information may be
requested from: Information Collection Clearance Officer, Christopher
M. Frost, Governance and Internal Controls, DGC-7, Bonneville Power
Administration, 905 NE. 11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97232, or by
email: IGLM@bpa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
(1) OMB Number: New.
(2) Information Collection Request Title: Other Utility/Contractor/
Vendor Worker (OUW) Unescorted Access Request.
(3) Type of Request: New.
(4) Abstract: The information requested on this form is used by BPA
to document compliance with NERC Standard CIP-004-3, R2 and R3, which
requires that personnel having authorized cyber or authorized
unescorted physical access to BPA's Critical Cyber Assets, including
contractors and service vendors, have an appropriate level of personnel
risk assessment, training, and security awareness.
Below we provide the BPA projected average estimates for the next
three years.
Affected Public: Contracting and Vendor Businesses and
Organizations.
Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: Approx. 500.
Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses: Approx. 500.
Average Minutes per Response: 15.
Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 125.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required
to
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respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently
valid Office of Management and Budget control number.
Issued in Portland, Oregon, on April 24, 2014.
Damian J. Kelly,
Acting Chief Compliance Officer, Agency Governance and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2014-10163 Filed 5-2-14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6450-01-P