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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
In–Service Date: Approximately May
1, 2017.
[[Certification Notice—242]
Issued in Washington, DC on July 26, 2016.
Christopher Lawrence
Electricity Policy Analyst, Office of Electricity
Delivery and Energy Reliability.
Notice of Filing of Self-Certification of
Coal Capability Under the Powerplant
and Industrial Fuel Use Act
Office of Electricity Delivery
and Energy Reliability, DOE.
ACTION: Notice of filing.
AGENCY:
On July 18, 2016, Oregon
Clean Energy, LLC, as owner and
operator of a new combined cycle
natural gas fired electric generating
powerplant, submitted a coal capability
self-certification to the Department of
Energy (DOE) pursuant to § 201(d) of the
Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act
of 1978 (FUA), as amended, and DOE
regulations in 10 CFR 501.60, 61. FUA
and regulations thereunder require DOE
to publish a notice of filing of selfcertification in the Federal Register. 42
U.S.C. 8311(d) and 10 CFR 501.61(c).
ADDRESSES: Copies of coal capability
self-certification filings are available for
public inspection, upon request, in the
Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy
Reliability, Mail Code OE–20, Room
8G–024, Forrestal Building, 1000
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christopher Lawrence at (202) 586–
5260.
SUMMARY:
Title II of
FUA, as amended (42 U.S.C. 8301 et
seq.), provides that no new base load
electric powerplant may be constructed
or operated without the capability to use
coal or another alternate fuel as a
primary energy source. Pursuant to FUA
in order to meet the requirement of coal
capability, the owner or operator of such
a facility proposing to use natural gas or
petroleum as its primary energy source
shall certify to the Secretary of Energy
(Secretary) prior to construction, or
prior to operation as a base load electric
powerplant, that such powerplant has
the capability to use coal or another
alternate fuel. Such certification
establishes compliance with FUA
section 201(a) as of the date it is filed
with the Secretary. 42 U.S.C. 8311.
The following owner of a proposed
new combined cycle natural gas fired
electric generating powerplant has filed
a self-certification of coal-capability
with DOE pursuant to FUA section
201(d) and in accordance with DOE
regulations in 10 CFR 501.60, 61:
Owner: Oregon Clean Energy, LLC,
Capacity: 960 megawatts (MW)
Plant Location: City of Oregon, Lucas
County, Ohio.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
U.S. Energy Information
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Generic Clearance
for the Collection of Qualitative
Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
As part of a Federal
Government-wide effort to streamline
the process to seek feedback from the
public on service delivery, EIA invites
the general public to comment on the
following proposed Generic Information
Collection Request (Generic ICR):
‘‘Generic Clearance for the Collection of
Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service
Delivery’’ for approval under the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44
U.S.C. 3501 et. seq.). This notice
announces EIA’s intent to submit this
proposed collection to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
approval.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by September 30,
2016. If you anticipate difficulty in
submitting comments within that
period, contact the person listed in
ADDRESSES as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be
sent to Jacob Bournazian, Energy
Information Administration, 1000
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585 or by fax at 202–
586–0552 or by email at
jacob.bournazian@eia.gov.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice may be made available to the
public through relevant Web sites. For
this reason, please do not include in
your comments information of a
confidential nature, such as sensitive
personal information or proprietary
information. If you send an email
comment; your email address will be
automatically captured and included as
part of the comment that is placed in the
public docket and made available on the
Internet. Please note that responses to
SUMMARY:
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this public comment request containing
any routine notice about the
confidentiality of the communication
will be treated as public comments that
may be made available to the public
notwithstanding the inclusion of the
routine notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
supporting statement should be directed
to Jacob Bournazian, Energy Information
Administration, 1000 Independence
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585,
phone: 202–586–5562, email:
jacob.bournazian@eia.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Generic Clearance for the
Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Agency Service Delivery.
Abstract: The proposed information
collection activity provides a means to
collect qualitative customer and
stakeholder feedback in an efficient,
timely manner, in accordance with the
Administration’s commitment to
improving service delivery.
By qualitative feedback we mean
information that provides useful
insights on perceptions and opinions,
but are not statistical surveys that yield
quantitative results that can be
generalized to the population of study.
This feedback will provide insights into
customer or stakeholder perceptions,
experiences and expectations. This
feedback also provides an early warning
of issues with service, or focuses
attention on areas where
communication, training or changes in
operations might improve the accuracy
of data reported on survey instruments
or the delivery of products or services.
These collections will allow for
ongoing, collaborative and actionable
communications between the agency
and its customers and stakeholders. It
will also allow feedback to contribute
directly to the improvement of program
management.
The solicitation of feedback will target
areas such as: Timeliness,
understanding of questions and
terminology used in survey instruments,
perceptions on data confidentiality and
security, appropriateness and relevancy
of information, accuracy of information,
courtesy, efficiency of service delivery,
and resolution of issues with service
delivery. Responses will be assessed to
plan and inform efforts to improve or
maintain the quality of service offered to
the public. If this information is not
collected, vital feedback from customers
and stakeholders on the agency’s
services will be unavailable.
The agency will only submit a
collection for approval under this
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generic clearance if it meets the
following conditions:
The collections are voluntary;
The collections are low-burden for
respondents (based on considerations of
total burden hours, total number of
respondents, or burden-hours per
respondent) and are low-cost for both
the respondents and the Federal
Government;
The collections are non-controversial
and do not raise issues of concern to
other Federal agencies;
Any collection is targeted to the
solicitation of opinions from
respondents who have experience with
the program or may have experience
with the program in the near future;
Personally identifiable information
(PII) is collected only to the extent
necessary for initially contacting
respondents and is not retained;
Information gathered is intended to be
used only internally for general service
improvement, the design, modification,
and evaluation of survey instruments,
modes of data collection, and program
management purposes. It is not
intended for release outside of the
agency (if released, the agency must
indicate the qualitative nature of the
information);
Information gathered will not be used
for the purpose of substantially
informing influential policy decisions;
and the collections will not be designed
or expected to yield statistically reliable
results or used as though the results are
generalizable to the population of study.
The information gathered will only
generate qualitative type of information.
Feedback collected under this generic
clearance provides useful information,
but it does not yield data that can be
generalized to the overall population.
This type of generic clearance for
qualitative information will not be used
for quantitative information collections
that are designed to yield reliably
actionable results, such as monitoring
trends over time or documenting
program performance. Such data uses
require more rigorous designs that
address: The target population to which
generalizations will be made, the
sampling frame, the sample design
(including stratification and clustering),
the precision requirements or power
calculations that justify the proposed
sample size, the expected response rate,
methods for assessing potential nonresponse bias, the protocols for data
collection, and any testing procedures
that were or will be undertaken prior to
fielding the study. Depending on the
degree of influence the results are likely
to have, such collections may still be
eligible for submission for other generic
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mechanisms that are designed to yield
quantitative results.
As a general matter, information
collections will not result in any new
system of records containing privacy
information and will not ask questions
of a sensitive nature, such as sexual
behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs,
and other matters that are commonly
considered private.
Current Actions: New collection of
information.
Type of Review: New Collection.
Affected Public: Individuals and
Households, Businesses and
Organizations, State, Local or Tribal
Government.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
Below is a preliminary estimate of the
aggregate number of respondents and
burden hours for this generic clearance.
Average Expected Annual Number of
Activities: 50.
Average Number of Respondents per
Activity: 10,000.
Number of Responses: 150,000.
Frequency of Response: Once per
request.
Average Minutes per Response: 6.
Burden Hours: 15,000.
Request for Comments: Comments
submitted in response to this notice will
be summarized and/or included in the
request for OMB approval. Comments
are invited on: (a) Whether the
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
collection of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; (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;
and (e) estimates of capital or start-up
costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information. Burden means
the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal
agency. This includes the time needed
to review instructions; to develop,
acquire, install and utilize technology
and systems for the purpose of
collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search
data sources, to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
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transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. All written comments will
be available for public inspection at
www.Regulations.gov.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid
Office of Management and Budget
control number.
Statutory Authority: Executive Order
(E.O.) 13571, Streamlining Service Delivery
and Improving Customer Service.
Issued in Washington, DC on July 26, 2016.
Nanda Srinivasan,
Director, Office of Survey Development and
Statistical Integration, U.S. Energy
Information Administration.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA:HO–OEl–2015–0200; FRL–9950–06–
OEI]
Privacy Act; System of Records:
Establishment of New Passport
Expiration Notification System (PENS)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Pursuant to the provisions of
the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a),
the Office of International and Tribal
Affairs is giving notice that it proposes
to create a new system of records for the
Passport Expiration Notification System
(PENS). This system of records contains
personally identifiable information (Pll)
collected from no-fee passports for the
purpose of tracking the status of
government passports. The information
maintained in the system will be the
passport holder’s name, place of birth,
passport number and passport issue and
expiration dates.
EFFECTIVE DATES: Persons wishing to
comment on this system of records
notice must do so by [40 days after
publication in the Federal Register].
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID no. EPA–HQ–
OEl–2015–0200, by one of the following
methods:
www .regulations.gov : Follow the
online instructions for submitting
comments.
Email: oei.docket@epa.gov.
Fax: 202–566–1752.
Mail: OEI Docket, Environmental
Protection Agency, Mailcode: 2822T,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington,
DC 20460.
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Hand Delivery: OEI Docket, EPA/DC,
EPA West Building, Room 3334, 1301
Constitution Ave. NW., Washington,
DC. Such deliveries are only accepted
during the Docket’s normal hours of
operation, and special arrangements
should be made for deliveries of boxed
information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OEl–2015–
0200.
EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public
docket without change and may be
made available online at
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes information
claimed to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information
for which disclosure is restricted by
statute. Do no submit information that
you consider to be CBI or otherwise
protected through www.regulations.gov.
The www.regulations.gov Web site is an
‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which
means EPA will not know your identity
or contact information unless you
provide it in the body of your comment.
If you send an email comment directly
to EPA without going through
www.regulations.gov your email address
will be automatically captured and
included as part of the comment that is
placed in the public docket and made
available on the Internet. If you submit
an electronic comment, EPA
recommends that you include your
name and other contact information in
the body of your comment with any disk
or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA cannot
read your comment due to technical
difficulties and cannot contact you for
clarification, EPA may not be able to
consider your comment. Electronic files
should avoid the use of special
characters, and form of encryption, and
be free of any defects or viruses. For
additional information about EPA’s
public docket visit the EPA Docket
Center homepage at https://www.epa.gov.
Docket: All documents in the docket
are listed in the www .regulations.gov
index. Although listed in the index,
some information is not publicly
available, e.g., CBI or other information
for which disclosure is restricted by
statute. Certain other material, such as
copyrighted material, will be publicly
available only in hard copy. Publicly
available docket materials are available
either electronically in
www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at
the OEI Docket, EPA/DC, WJC West
Building, Room 3334, and 1301
Constitution Ave. NW., Washington,
DC. The Public Reading Room is open
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday excluding legal holidays.
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The telephone number for the Public
Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and
the telephone number for the OEI
Docket is (202) 566–1745.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Pamela Younger, Office of Management
and International Services, Office of
International and Tribal Affairs, 1300
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 20004,
telephone number: 202–564–6631; fax
number: 202–565-2427; email address:
rhones-younger.pamela@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
General Information
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) plans to create a Privacy
Act system of records for the Passport
Expiration Notification System (PENS).
The information collected in this system
will be used for the purpose of
requesting and obtaining country
clearances for EPA staff traveling to
foreign countries to conduct official
government business. The information
maintained in the system will be the
passport holder’s name, place of birth,
passport number and passport issue and
expiration dates.
The information is accessed through
an electronic means which has its own
authentication process established by
OEI. Only certified Passport Agents in
the OITA Travel Office, and in Region
5 and the OITA Database Administrator
will have access to the information
contained in the database. No-fee
Passports containing personal
information are kept in a locked filing
cabinet. Physical access to the filing
cabinet is limited to authorized
personnel employees with office keys.
Dated: June 22, 2016.
Ann Dunkin,
Chief Information Officer.
EPA–72
SYSTEM NAME:
Passport Expiration Notification
System (PENS)
SYSTEM LOCATION:
US EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.
NW., Washington, DC 20460.
CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE
SYSTEM:
EPA International Travelers who
apply for a no-fee passport for the
purpose of conducting official
government business in foreign
countries.
CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:
The passport holder’s name, place of
birth, passport number and issue and
expiration dates.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
U.S. Energy Information Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative
Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: As part of a Federal Government-wide effort to streamline the
process to seek feedback from the public on service delivery, EIA
invites the general public to comment on the following proposed Generic
Information Collection Request (Generic ICR): ``Generic Clearance for
the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery'' for
approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et.
seq.). This notice announces EIA's intent to submit this proposed
collection to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by
September 30, 2016. If you anticipate difficulty in submitting comments
within that period, contact the person listed in ADDRESSES as soon as
possible.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be sent to Jacob Bournazian, Energy
Information Administration, 1000 Independence Avenue SW., Washington,
DC 20585 or by fax at 202-586-0552 or by email at
jacob.bournazian@eia.gov.
Comments submitted in response to this notice may be made available
to the public through relevant Web sites. For this reason, please do
not include in your comments information of a confidential nature, such
as sensitive personal information or proprietary information. If you
send an email comment; your email address will be automatically
captured and included as part of the comment that is placed in the
public docket and made available on the Internet. Please note that
responses to
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this public comment request containing any routine notice about the
confidentiality of the communication will be treated as public comments
that may be made available to the public notwithstanding the inclusion
of the routine notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection supporting statement should be
directed to Jacob Bournazian, Energy Information Administration, 1000
Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585, phone: 202-586-5562,
email: jacob.bournazian@eia.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback
on Agency Service Delivery.
Abstract: The proposed information collection activity provides a
means to collect qualitative customer and stakeholder feedback in an
efficient, timely manner, in accordance with the Administration's
commitment to improving service delivery.
By qualitative feedback we mean information that provides useful
insights on perceptions and opinions, but are not statistical surveys
that yield quantitative results that can be generalized to the
population of study. This feedback will provide insights into customer
or stakeholder perceptions, experiences and expectations. This feedback
also provides an early warning of issues with service, or focuses
attention on areas where communication, training or changes in
operations might improve the accuracy of data reported on survey
instruments or the delivery of products or services. These collections
will allow for ongoing, collaborative and actionable communications
between the agency and its customers and stakeholders. It will also
allow feedback to contribute directly to the improvement of program
management.
The solicitation of feedback will target areas such as: Timeliness,
understanding of questions and terminology used in survey instruments,
perceptions on data confidentiality and security, appropriateness and
relevancy of information, accuracy of information, courtesy, efficiency
of service delivery, and resolution of issues with service delivery.
Responses will be assessed to plan and inform efforts to improve or
maintain the quality of service offered to the public. If this
information is not collected, vital feedback from customers and
stakeholders on the agency's services will be unavailable.
The agency will only submit a collection for approval under this
generic clearance if it meets the following conditions:
The collections are voluntary;
The collections are low-burden for respondents (based on
considerations of total burden hours, total number of respondents, or
burden-hours per respondent) and are low-cost for both the respondents
and the Federal Government;
The collections are non-controversial and do not raise issues of
concern to other Federal agencies;
Any collection is targeted to the solicitation of opinions from
respondents who have experience with the program or may have experience
with the program in the near future;
Personally identifiable information (PII) is collected only to the
extent necessary for initially contacting respondents and is not
retained;
Information gathered is intended to be used only internally for
general service improvement, the design, modification, and evaluation
of survey instruments, modes of data collection, and program management
purposes. It is not intended for release outside of the agency (if
released, the agency must indicate the qualitative nature of the
information);
Information gathered will not be used for the purpose of
substantially informing influential policy decisions; and the
collections will not be designed or expected to yield statistically
reliable results or used as though the results are generalizable to the
population of study. The information gathered will only generate
qualitative type of information.
Feedback collected under this generic clearance provides useful
information, but it does not yield data that can be generalized to the
overall population. This type of generic clearance for qualitative
information will not be used for quantitative information collections
that are designed to yield reliably actionable results, such as
monitoring trends over time or documenting program performance. Such
data uses require more rigorous designs that address: The target
population to which generalizations will be made, the sampling frame,
the sample design (including stratification and clustering), the
precision requirements or power calculations that justify the proposed
sample size, the expected response rate, methods for assessing
potential non-response bias, the protocols for data collection, and any
testing procedures that were or will be undertaken prior to fielding
the study. Depending on the degree of influence the results are likely
to have, such collections may still be eligible for submission for
other generic mechanisms that are designed to yield quantitative
results.
As a general matter, information collections will not result in any
new system of records containing privacy information and will not ask
questions of a sensitive nature, such as sexual behavior and attitudes,
religious beliefs, and other matters that are commonly considered
private.
Current Actions: New collection of information.
Type of Review: New Collection.
Affected Public: Individuals and Households, Businesses and
Organizations, State, Local or Tribal Government.
Estimated Number of Respondents: Below is a preliminary estimate of
the aggregate number of respondents and burden hours for this generic
clearance.
Average Expected Annual Number of Activities: 50.
Average Number of Respondents per Activity: 10,000.
Number of Responses: 150,000.
Frequency of Response: Once per request.
Average Minutes per Response: 6.
Burden Hours: 15,000.
Request for Comments: Comments submitted in response to this notice
will be summarized and/or included in the request for OMB approval.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the 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 collection of
information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected; (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; and (e) estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of
operation, maintenance, and purchase of services to provide
information. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose
or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This includes the
time needed to review instructions; to develop, acquire, install and
utilize technology and systems for the purpose of collecting,
validating and verifying information, processing and maintaining
information, and disclosing and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to a collection of information, to
search data sources, to complete and review the collection of
information; and to
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transmit or otherwise disclose the information. All written comments
will be available for public inspection at www.Regulations.gov.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required
to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a
currently valid Office of Management and Budget control number.
Statutory Authority: Executive Order (E.O.) 13571, Streamlining
Service Delivery and Improving Customer Service.
Issued in Washington, DC on July 26, 2016.
Nanda Srinivasan,
Director, Office of Survey Development and Statistical Integration,
U.S. Energy Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 2016-18120 Filed 7-29-16; 8:45 am]
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