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collection listed in this notice, please
use https://www.regulations.gov by
searching the Docket ID number ED–
2017–ICCD–0140. Comments submitted
in response to this notice should be
submitted electronically through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at https://
www.regulations.gov by selecting the
Docket ID number or via postal mail,
commercial delivery, or hand delivery.
Please note that comments submitted by
fax or email and those submitted after
the comment period will not be
accepted. 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, Room
216–32, Washington, DC 20202–4537.
For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Elise Cook,
202–401–3769.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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: Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) Third Party
Perjury Form.
OMB Control Number: 1880–0545.
Type of Review: An extension of an
existing information collection.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Respondents/Affected Public:
Individuals or Households.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 62,000.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 31,000.
Abstract: This collection is necessary
to certify the identity of individuals
requesting information under the
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and
Privacy Act (PA). This certification is
required under 5 U.S.C. Section 552a(b).
The form is used by Privacy Act
requesters to obtain personal records via
regular mail, fax or email. The
department will use the information to
help identify first-party or third party
requesters with same or similar name
when requesting retrieval of their own
documents.
Dated: November 14, 2017
Stephanie Valentine,
Acting Director, Information Collection
Clearance Division, Office of the Chief Privacy
Officer, Office of Management.
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Information Collection Request
Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request;
SmartWay Transport Partnership
(Renewal)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
Take notice that the Commission has
received the following Natural Gas
Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings:
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Dated: November 7, 2017.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.
Deputy Secretary.
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Protests may be considered, but
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requirements, interventions, protests,
service, and qualifying facilities filings
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docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For
other information, call (866) 208–3676
(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659.
The Environmental Protection
Agency has submitted an information
collection request (ICR), ‘‘SmartWay
Transport Partnership’’ (EPA ICR No.
2265.03, OMB Control No. 2060–0663)
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act. This is a reinstatement
of the ICR, which was currently
approved through July 31, 2017. Public
comments were previously requested
via the Federal Register on July 7, 2017
during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days
for public comments. A fuller
description of the ICR is given below,
including its estimated burden and cost
to the public. 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 OMB control number.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before December 18,
2017.
SUMMARY:
Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID Number EPA–
HQ–OAR–2007–0482–0012 to (1) EPA
online using www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by email to
martz.kathleen@epa.gov, or by mail to:
ADDRESSES:
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EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via
email to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.
Address comments to OMB Desk Officer
for EPA.
EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public
docket without change including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes profanity, threats,
information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kathleen Martz, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, 2000 Traverwood
Drive, S–68, Ann Arbor, MI 48105;
telephone number: 734–214–4335; Fax:
734–214–4906; email address:
martz.kathleen@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Supporting documents, which explain
in detail the information that the EPA
will be collecting, are available in the
public docket for this ICR. The docket
can be viewed online at
www.regulations.gov or in person at the
EPA Docket Center, WJC West, Room
3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC. The telephone number
for the Docket Center is 202–566–1744.
For additional information about EPA’s
public docket, visit https://www.epa.gov/
dockets.
Abstract: SmartWay is a voluntary
program that focuses on increasing
efficiency and lowering air pollution
generated by goods movement that is
open to organizations that own, operate,
or contract with fleet operations,
including truck, rail, barge, air and
multi-modal carriers, logistics
companies, and shippers. Organizations
that do not operate fleets, but that are
working to strengthen the freight
industry, such as industry trade
associations, state and local
transportation agencies and
environmental groups, also may join as
SmartWay affiliates. All organizations
that join SmartWay are asked to provide
EPA with information as part of their
SmartWay registration to annually
benchmark their transportation-related
operations and improve the
environmental performance of their
freight activities.
A company joins SmartWay when it
completes and submits a SmartWay
Excel-based tool (‘‘reporting tool’’) to
EPA. The data outputs from the
submitted tool are used by partners and
SmartWay in several ways. First, the
data provides confirmation that
SmartWay partners are meeting
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established objectives in their
Partnership Agreement. The reporting
tool outputs enable EPA to assist
SmartWay partners as appropriate, and
to update them with environmental
performance and technology
information that empower them to
improve their efficiency. This
information also improves EPA’s
knowledge and understanding of the
environmental and energy impacts
associated with goods movement, and
the effectiveness of both proven and
emerging strategies to lessen those
impacts.
In addition to requesting annual
freight transportation-related data, EPA
may ask its SmartWay partners for other
kinds of information which could
include opinions and test data on the
effectiveness of new and emerging
technology applications, sales volumes
associated with SmartWayrecommended vehicle equipment and
technologies, the reach and value of
partnering with EPA through the
SmartWay Partnership, and awareness
of the SmartWay brand. In some
instances, EPA might query other freight
industry representatives (not just
SmartWay partners), including trade
and professional associations, nonprofit
environmental groups, energy and
community organizations, and
universities, and a small sampling of the
general public.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Private
and public organizations that join
SmartWay Transport Partnership;
freight industry representatives who
engage in activities related to the
SmartWay Partnership; and
representative samplings of consumers
in the general public.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Voluntary.
Estimated number of respondents:
4,605.
Frequency of response: Once, on
occasion and annually.
Total estimated burden: 13,224 hours.
Total estimated cost: $909,828, which
includes no capital or operation and
maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an
increase of 1,720 hours in the total
estimated respondent partner burden
compared with the ICR currently
approved by OMB. This increase reflects
the following adjustments and program
changes:
(1) Adjustments increase associated
with increased interest in SmartWay,
and thus, an increase in new annual
respondents, as well as robust program
retention practices, leading to increased
number of existing respondent partners
reporting annually, increase in the
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number of applications for the
SmartWay Excellence Awards and the
affiliate challenge annually;
(2) Program change increase
associated with the new SmartWay
Affiliate Program and new requirements
under SmartWay Tractor and Trailer
program; and,
(3) Adjustment decrease due to EPA’s
change in policy for submitting Awards
materials electronically, rather than by
mail.
Courtney Kerwin,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies
Division.
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2017 from the ‘‘2008 Eight-Hour Ozone
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(December 2016)’’ (‘‘2016 San Diego
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for transportation conformity purposes
for the 2008 ozone national ambient air
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California Air Resources Board (CARB)
submitted the 2016 San Diego Ozone
Plan to the EPA on April 12, 2017, as
a revision to the California State
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effective date of this notice of adequacy,
the previously-approved budgets for the
1997 8-hour ozone standards will no
longer be applicable for transportation
conformity purposes, and the San Diego
Association of Governments (SANDAG)
and the U.S. Department of
Transportation must use these adequate
budgets in future transportation
conformity determinations.
DATES: This finding is effective
December 4, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John
Kelly, EPA, Region IX, Air Division
AIR–2, 75 Hawthorne Street, San
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2007-0482-0012; FRL--9969-76-OEI]
Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; SmartWay Transport Partnership (Renewal)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted an
information collection request (ICR), ``SmartWay Transport
Partnership'' (EPA ICR No. 2265.03, OMB Control No. 2060-0663) to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a reinstatement of
the ICR, which was currently approved through July 31, 2017. Public
comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on July 7,
2017 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an
additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR
is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the public.
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 OMB control number.
DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before December 18,
2017.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2007-0482-0012 to (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by email to martz.kathleen@epa.gov, or by mail to:
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EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via email
to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer
for EPA.
EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in the
public docket without change including any personal information
provided, unless the comment includes profanity, threats, information
claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kathleen Martz, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, 2000 Traverwood Drive, S-68, Ann Arbor, MI 48105;
telephone number: 734-214-4335; Fax: 734-214-4906; email address:
martz.kathleen@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents, which explain in
detail the information that the EPA will be collecting, are available
in the public docket for this ICR. The docket can be viewed online at
www.regulations.gov or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC West,
Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC. The telephone
number for the Docket Center is 202-566-1744. For additional
information about EPA's public docket, visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
Abstract: SmartWay is a voluntary program that focuses on
increasing efficiency and lowering air pollution generated by goods
movement that is open to organizations that own, operate, or contract
with fleet operations, including truck, rail, barge, air and multi-
modal carriers, logistics companies, and shippers. Organizations that
do not operate fleets, but that are working to strengthen the freight
industry, such as industry trade associations, state and local
transportation agencies and environmental groups, also may join as
SmartWay affiliates. All organizations that join SmartWay are asked to
provide EPA with information as part of their SmartWay registration to
annually benchmark their transportation-related operations and improve
the environmental performance of their freight activities.
A company joins SmartWay when it completes and submits a SmartWay
Excel-based tool (``reporting tool'') to EPA. The data outputs from the
submitted tool are used by partners and SmartWay in several ways.
First, the data provides confirmation that SmartWay partners are
meeting established objectives in their Partnership Agreement. The
reporting tool outputs enable EPA to assist SmartWay partners as
appropriate, and to update them with environmental performance and
technology information that empower them to improve their efficiency.
This information also improves EPA's knowledge and understanding of the
environmental and energy impacts associated with goods movement, and
the effectiveness of both proven and emerging strategies to lessen
those impacts.
In addition to requesting annual freight transportation-related
data, EPA may ask its SmartWay partners for other kinds of information
which could include opinions and test data on the effectiveness of new
and emerging technology applications, sales volumes associated with
SmartWay-recommended vehicle equipment and technologies, the reach and
value of partnering with EPA through the SmartWay Partnership, and
awareness of the SmartWay brand. In some instances, EPA might query
other freight industry representatives (not just SmartWay partners),
including trade and professional associations, nonprofit environmental
groups, energy and community organizations, and universities, and a
small sampling of the general public.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Private and public organizations
that join SmartWay Transport Partnership; freight industry
representatives who engage in activities related to the SmartWay
Partnership; and representative samplings of consumers in the general
public.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Voluntary.
Estimated number of respondents: 4,605.
Frequency of response: Once, on occasion and annually.
Total estimated burden: 13,224 hours.
Total estimated cost: $909,828, which includes no capital or
operation and maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 1,720 hours in
the total estimated respondent partner burden compared with the ICR
currently approved by OMB. This increase reflects the following
adjustments and program changes:
(1) Adjustments increase associated with increased interest in
SmartWay, and thus, an increase in new annual respondents, as well as
robust program retention practices, leading to increased number of
existing respondent partners reporting annually, increase in the number
of applications for the SmartWay Excellence Awards and the affiliate
challenge annually;
(2) Program change increase associated with the new SmartWay
Affiliate Program and new requirements under SmartWay Tractor and
Trailer program; and,
(3) Adjustment decrease due to EPA's change in policy for
submitting Awards materials electronically, rather than by mail.
Courtney Kerwin,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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