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Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
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Kimberly D. Bose,
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. Ic19–16–000]
Commission Information Collection
Activities (Ferc–556); Comment
Request; Extension
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of information collection
and request for comments.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission
(Commission or FERC) is soliciting
public comment on the currently
approved information collection FERC–
556 (Certification of Qualifying Facility
(QF) Status for a Small Power
Production or Cogeneration Facility)
and submitting the information
collection to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review. Any
interested person may file comments
directly with OMB and should address
a copy of those comments to the
Commission as explained below. On
March 14, 2019, the Commission
published a Notice in the Federal
Register in Docket No. IC19–16–000
requesting public comments. The
Commission received no public
comments, as stated in the related
submittal to OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due June 21, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB,
identified by OMB Control No. 1902–
0075, should be sent via email to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs: oira_submission@omb.gov.
Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission Desk Officer.
A copy of the comments should also
be sent to the Commission, in Docket
No. IC19–16–000, by either of the
following methods:
• eFiling at Commission’s website:
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.
SUMMARY:
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This is a supplemental notice in the
above-referenced proceeding of Tolna
Power, LLC’s application for marketbased rate authority, with an
accompanying rate tariff, noting that
such application includes a request for
blanket authorization, under 18 CFR
part 34, of future issuances of securities
and assumptions of liability.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest should file with the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426,
in accordance with Rules 211 and 214
of the Commission’s Rules of Practice
and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and
385.214). Anyone filing a motion to
intervene or protest must serve a copy
of that document on the Applicant.
Notice is hereby given that the
deadline for filing protests with regard
to the applicant’s request for blanket
authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of
future issuances of securities and
assumptions of liability, is June 5, 2019.
The Commission encourages
electronic submission of protests and
interventions in lieu of paper, using the
FERC Online links at https://
www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic
service, persons with internet access
who will eFile a document and/or be
listed as a contact for an intervenor
must create and validate an
eRegistration account using the
eRegistration link. Select the eFiling
link to log on and submit the
intervention or protests.
Persons unable to file electronically
should submit an original and 5 copies
of the intervention or protest to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street NE, Washington, DC
20426.
The filings in the above-referenced
proceeding are accessible in the
Commission’s eLibrary system by
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above list. They are also available for
electronic review in the Commission’s
Public Reference Room in Washington,
DC. There is an eSubscription link on
the website that enables subscribers to
receive email notification when a
document is added to a subscribed
docket(s). For assistance with any FERC
Online service, please email
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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–556, Certification of
Qualifying Facility (QF) Status for a
Small Power Production or
Cogeneration Facility.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0075.
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the FERC–556 information collection
requirements with no changes to the
current reporting and recordkeeping
requirements.
Abstract: Form No. 556 is required to
implement sections 201 and 210 of the
Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of
1978 1 (PURPA). FERC is authorized,
under those sections, to encourage
cogeneration and small power
production and to prescribe such rules
as necessary in order to carry out the
statutory directives.
A primary statutory objective is
efficient use of energy resources and
facilities by electric utilities. One means
of achieving this goal is to encourage
production of electric power by
cogeneration facilities which make use
of reject heat associated with
commercial or industrial processes, and
by small power production facilities
which use other wastes and renewable
resources. PURPA encourages the
development of small power production
facilities and cogeneration facilities that
meet certain technical and corporate
criteria through establishment of various
regulatory benefits. Facilities that meet
these criteria are called Qualifying
Facilities (QFs).
FERC’s regulations in 18 CFR part
292, as relevant here, specify: (a) The
certification procedures which must be
followed by owners or operators of
small power production and
cogeneration facilities; (b) the criteria
which must be met; (c) the information
which must be submitted to FERC in
order to obtain qualifying status; and (d)
the PURPA benefits which are available
to QFs to encourage small power
production and cogeneration.
18 CFR part 292 also exempts QFs
from certain corporate, accounting,
reporting, and rate regulation
requirements of the Federal Power Act,2
certain state laws, and the Public Utility
Holding Company Act of 2005.3
Type of Respondents: Facilities that
are self-certifying their status as a
cogenerator or small power producer or
that are submitting an application for
FERC certification of their status as a
cogenerator or small power producer.
Estimate of Annual Burden: 4 The
Commission estimates the burden and
cost for this information collection as
follows:
FERC–556—CERTIFICATION OF QUALIFYING FACILITY STATUS FOR A SMALL POWER PRODUCTION OR COGENERATION
FACILITY
Facility type
Annual
number of
responses
per
respondent
Total
number of
responses
Average burden
hours & cost per
response 5
Total annual burden hours &
total annual cost
(rounded)
Cost per
respondent
($)
(rounded)
(1)
(2)
(1) * (2) = (3)
(4)
(3) * (4) = (5)
(5) ÷ (1)
Cogeneration Facility >1
MW 6.
Self-certification .............
63
1.25
78.75
1.5 hrs.; $118.5 ....
118.125 hrs.; $9,332 ...........
$148
Cogeneration Facility >1
MW.
Small Power Production
Facility >1 MW.
Small Power Production
Facility >1 MW.
Cogeneration and Small
Power Production Facility ≤1 MW (Self-Certification) 7.
Application for FERC
certification.
Self-certification .............
1
1.25
1.25
50 hrs.; $3,950 .....
62.5 hrs.; $4,938 .................
4,938
2,698
1.25
3,372.5
1.5 hrs.; $118.5 ....
5,058.75 hrs.; $399,641 ......
148
Total ........................
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Filing type
Number of
respondents
Application for FERC
certification.
Self-certification .............
0
1.25
0
50 hrs.; $3,950 .....
0 hrs.; $0 .............................
0
692
1.25
865
1.5 hrs.; $118.5 ....
1,297.5 hrs.; $102,503 ........
148
........................................
3,454
....................
4,317.5
...............................
6,536.875 hrs.; $516,413.13
The estimated burden in the
Paperwork Reduction Act Notice on
page 1 of the FERC Form 556 will be
corrected to provide the current burden
estimates (shown above). It will read
‘‘[t]he estimated burden for completing
the FERC Form No. 556, including
gathering and reporting information, is
as follows: 1.5 hours for selfcertification of a small power
production facility, 1.5 hours for selfcertifications of a cogeneration facility,
1 16
U.S.C. 796, 824a–3.
U.S.C. 791, et seq.
3 42 U.S.C. 16, 451–63.
4 ‘‘Burden’’ is the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to generate,
maintain, retain, or disclose or provide information
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50 hours for an application for
Commission certification of a small
power production facility, and 50 hours
for an application for Commission
certification of a cogeneration facility.’’
The reporting requirements are not
changing.
Comments: Comments are invited on:
(1) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Commission, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden and cost of the collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility
and clarity of the information collection;
and (4) ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
to or for a Federal agency. For further explanation
of what is included in the information collection
burden, refer to Title 5 Code of Federal Regulations
1320.3.
5 The Commission staff believes that industry is
similarly situated in terms of wages and benefits.
Therefore, cost estimates are based on FERC’s 2018
average annual wage (and benefits) for a full-time
employee of $164,820 (or $79.00/hour).
6 MW = megawatt.
7 Not required to file.
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Dated: May 15, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019–10599 Filed 5–21–19; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 14961–000]
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Renewable Energy Aggregators;
Notice of Preliminary Permit
Application Accepted for Filing and
Soliciting Comments, Motions To
Intervene, and Competing Applications
On January 10, 2019, Renewable
Energy Aggregators, filed an application
for a preliminary permit, pursuant to
section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act
(FPA), proposing to study the feasibility
of the Eastern Industries Pumped
Storage Hydroelectric Project to be
located in Dauphin County,
Pennsylvania. The sole purpose of a
preliminary permit, if issued, is to grant
the permit holder priority to file a
license application during the permit
term. A preliminary permit does not
authorize the permit holder to perform
any land-disturbing activities or
otherwise enter upon lands or waters
owned by others without the owners’
express permission.
The proposed project would consist of
the following: (1) A new upper reservoir
with a surface area of 62 acres and a
storage capacity of 929.9 acre-feet at a
surface elevation of approximately 1,343
feet above mean sea level (msl) created
through construction of a new rollercompacted concrete or rock-filled dam;
(2) a new lower reservoir with a surface
area of 22.3 acres and a total storage
capacity of 1,337.9 acre-feet at a surface
elevation of 1,057 feet msl; (3) a new
834-foot-long, 48-inch-diameter
penstock connecting the upper and
lower reservoirs; (4) a new 150-footlong, 50-foot-wide powerhouse
containing one turbine-generator unit
with a total rated capacity of 20
megawatts; (5) a new transmission line
connecting the powerhouse to a nearby
electric grid interconnection point with
options to evaluate multiple grid
interconnection locations; and (6)
appurtenant facilities. The proposed
project would have an annual
generation of 88,434 megawatt-hours.
Applicant Contact: Adam Rousselle II,
Renewable Energy Aggregators, 5710
Oak Crest Drive, Doylestown, PA 18902;
phone: 215–485–1708.
FERC Contact: Monir Chowdhury;
phone: (202) 502–6736.
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Deadline for filing comments, motions
to intervene, competing applications
(without notices of intent), or notices of
intent to file competing applications: 60
days from the issuance of this notice.1
Competing applications and notices of
intent must meet the requirements of 18
CFR 4.36.
The Commission strongly encourages
electronic filing. Please file comments,
motions to intervene, notices of intent,
and competing applications using the
Commission’s eFiling system at https://
www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp.
Commenters can submit brief comments
up to 6,000 characters, without prior
registration, using the eComment system
at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
ecomment.asp. You must include your
name and contact information at the end
of your comments. For assistance,
please contact FERC Online Support at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866)
208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659
(TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please
send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426.
The first page of any filing should
include docket number P–14961–000.
More information about this project,
including a copy of the application, can
be viewed or printed on the ‘‘eLibrary’’
link of the Commission’s website at
https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number
(P–14961) in the docket number field to
access the document. For assistance,
contact FERC Online Support.
Dated: May 15, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of
the Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214).
Protests will be considered by the
Commission in determining the
appropriate action to be taken, but will
not serve to make protestants parties to
the proceeding. Any person wishing to
become a party must file a notice of
intervention or motion to intervene, as
appropriate. Such notices, motions, or
protests must be filed on or before the
comment date. On or before the
comment date, it is not necessary to
serve motions to intervene or protests
on persons other than the Applicant.
The Commission encourages
electronic submission of protests and
interventions in lieu of paper using the
‘‘eFiling’’ link at https://www.ferc.gov.
Persons unable to file electronically
should submit an original and 5 copies
of the protest or intervention to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street NE, Washington, DC
20426.
This filing is accessible on-line at
https://www.ferc.gov, using the
‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for
review in the Commission’s Public
Reference Room in Washington, DC.
There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the
website that enables subscribers to
receive email notification when a
document is added to a subscribed
docket(s). For assistance with any FERC
Online service, please email
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call
(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call
(202) 502–8659.
Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Time on June 11, 2019.
Dated: May 16, 2019.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. EF19–3–000]
Western Area Power Administration;
Notice of Filing
Take notice that on May 10, 2019,
Western Area Power Administration
submitted tariff filing per: Extension of
the Falcon and Amistad Projects’ Firm
Power Formula Rate-Rate Order No.
WAPA–186 to be effective April 1, 2019.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest this filing must file in
1 The Commission is issuing a second notice for
this project because the first notice issued on March
8, 2019, did not correctly identify the county where
the project would be located and some
municipalities may not have been notified by the
first notice.
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Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #1
Take notice that the Commission
received the following exempt
wholesale generator filings:
Docket Numbers: EG19–113–000.
Applicants: Sage Draw Wind, LLC.
Description: Notice of SelfCertification of EWG Status Sage Draw
Wind, LLC.
Filed Date: 5/16/19.
Accession Number: 20190516–5009.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/6/19.
Docket Numbers: EG19–114–000.
Applicants: 231RC 8me LLC.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. Ic19-16-000]
Commission Information Collection Activities (Ferc-556); Comment
Request; Extension
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of information collection and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or
FERC) is soliciting public comment on the currently approved
information collection FERC-556 (Certification of Qualifying Facility
(QF) Status for a Small Power Production or Cogeneration Facility) and
submitting the information collection to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review. Any interested person may file comments
directly with OMB and should address a copy of those comments to the
Commission as explained below. On March 14, 2019, the Commission
published a Notice in the Federal Register in Docket No. IC19-16-000
requesting public comments. The Commission received no public comments,
as stated in the related submittal to OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collection of information are due June 21, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB, identified by OMB Control No. 1902-
0075, should be sent via email to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs: [email protected]. Attention: Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission Desk Officer.
A copy of the comments should also be sent to the Commission, in
Docket No. IC19-16-000, by either of the following methods:
eFiling at Commission's website: 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/submission-guide.asp. For user assistance, contact FERC Online Support
by email at [email protected], or by phone at: (866) 208-3676
(toll-free), or (202) 502-8659 for TTY.
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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/docs-filing/docs-filing.asp.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellen Brown may be reached by email at
[email protected], telephone at (202) 502-8663, and fax at (202)
273-0873.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FERC-556, Certification of Qualifying Facility (QF) Status
for a Small Power Production or Cogeneration Facility.
OMB Control No.: 1902-0075.
Type of Request: Three-year extension of the FERC-556 information
collection requirements with no changes to the current reporting and
recordkeeping requirements.
Abstract: Form No. 556 is required to implement sections 201 and
210 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 \1\ (PURPA).
FERC is authorized, under those sections, to encourage cogeneration and
small power production and to prescribe such rules as necessary in
order to carry out the statutory directives.
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\1\ 16 U.S.C. 796, 824a-3.
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A primary statutory objective is efficient use of energy resources
and facilities by electric utilities. One means of achieving this goal
is to encourage production of electric power by cogeneration facilities
which make use of reject heat associated with commercial or industrial
processes, and by small power production facilities which use other
wastes and renewable resources. PURPA encourages the development of
small power production facilities and cogeneration facilities that meet
certain technical and corporate criteria through establishment of
various regulatory benefits. Facilities that meet these criteria are
called Qualifying Facilities (QFs).
FERC's regulations in 18 CFR part 292, as relevant here, specify:
(a) The certification procedures which must be followed by owners or
operators of small power production and cogeneration facilities; (b)
the criteria which must be met; (c) the information which must be
submitted to FERC in order to obtain qualifying status; and (d) the
PURPA benefits which are available to QFs to encourage small power
production and cogeneration.
18 CFR part 292 also exempts QFs from certain corporate,
accounting, reporting, and rate regulation requirements of the Federal
Power Act,\2\ certain state laws, and the Public Utility Holding
Company Act of 2005.\3\
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\2\ 16 U.S.C. 791, et seq.
\3\ 42 U.S.C. 16, 451-63.
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Type of Respondents: Facilities that are self-certifying their
status as a cogenerator or small power producer or that are submitting
an application for FERC certification of their status as a cogenerator
or small power producer.
Estimate of Annual Burden: \4\ The Commission estimates the burden
and cost for this information collection as follows:
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\4\ ``Burden'' is the total time, effort, or financial resources
expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal agency. For further
explanation of what is included in the information collection
burden, refer to Title 5 Code of Federal Regulations 1320.3.
FERC-556--Certification of Qualifying Facility Status for a Small Power Production or Cogeneration Facility
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Annual
number of Average burden hours Cost per
Facility type Filing type Number of responses Total number & cost per response Total annual burden hours & respondent
respondents per of responses \5\ total annual cost (rounded) ($)
respondent (rounded)
(1) (2) (1) * (2) = (4)................. (3) * (4) = (5)............... (5) / (1)
(3)
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Cogeneration Facility >1 MW Self- 63 1.25 78.75 1.5 hrs.; $118.5.... 118.125 hrs.; $9,332.......... $148
\6\. certification.
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Cogeneration Facility >1 MW. Application for 1 1.25 1.25 50 hrs.; $3,950..... 62.5 hrs.; $4,938............. 4,938
FERC
certification.
Small Power Production Self- 2,698 1.25 3,372.5 1.5 hrs.; $118.5.... 5,058.75 hrs.; $399,641....... 148
Facility >1 MW. certification.
Small Power Production Application for 0 1.25 0 50 hrs.; $3,950..... 0 hrs.; $0.................... 0
Facility >1 MW. FERC
certification.
Cogeneration and Small Power Self- 692 1.25 865 1.5 hrs.; $118.5.... 1,297.5 hrs.; $102,503........ 148
Production Facility <=1 MW certification.
(Self-Certification) \7\.
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Total................... ............... 3,454 ........... 4,317.5 .................... 6,536.875 hrs.; $516,413.13... ...........
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The estimated burden in the Paperwork Reduction Act Notice on page
1 of the FERC Form 556 will be corrected to provide the current burden
estimates (shown above). It will read ``[t]he estimated burden for
completing the FERC Form No. 556, including gathering and reporting
information, is as follows: 1.5 hours for self-certification of a small
power production facility, 1.5 hours for self-certifications of a
cogeneration facility, 50 hours for an application for Commission
certification of a small power production facility, and 50 hours for an
application for Commission certification of a cogeneration facility.''
The reporting requirements are not changing.
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\5\ The Commission staff believes that industry is similarly
situated in terms of wages and benefits. Therefore, cost estimates
are based on FERC's 2018 average annual wage (and benefits) for a
full-time employee of $164,820 (or $79.00/hour).
\6\ MW = megawatt.
\7\ Not required to file.
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Comments: Comments are invited on: (1) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the Commission, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (2) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden and
cost of the collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information collection; and (4) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are
to respond, including the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
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Dated: May 15, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-10599 Filed 5-21-19; 8:45 am]
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