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State of Delaware with its executive
offices and principal place of business
located at 5400 Westheimer Court,
Houston, Texas 77056. Nexus is a 50/50
joint venture between DTE and
Enbridge.
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III. Relevant Markets and Market
Structure
The relevant product market at issue
is the pipeline transportation of natural
gas. Even if pipeline transportation rates
increased slightly, natural gas shippers
would continue to use pipelines, as no
economic or practical alternative exists.
Other natural gas delivery methods
(such as boat, rail, or truck) are far more
costly, less reliable, and potentially
more hazardous than pipeline
transportation. Moreover, particularly
given low natural gas prices, a small
increase in natural gas pipeline
transportation rates would not lead
customers to switch to other (more
costly) fuels.
A relevant geographic market within
which to analyze the effects of the
Transaction is an area no broader than
Lucas, Ottawa, and Wood counties in
Ohio (the ‘‘Relevant Area’’), which
contains the closest geographic overlaps
between the Generation Pipeline and
the North Coast Pipeline. Although
pipeline options may vary by customer
delivery location, any customer for
whom the Generation Pipeline and the
North Coast pipeline are both
competitive options are located within
the Relevant Area.
Market concentration in this industry
is location-specific and depends on the
pipeline options available near a given
delivery point. Many customers connect
only to one pipeline and cannot
economically connect to any other. For
large industrial customers looking to
establish a direct connection to a natural
gas pipeline system, concentration is a
factor of how many suppliers are close
enough to connect economically, while
also meeting the customer’s volume and
service requirements. The Commission’s
Complaint alleges that the Generation
pipeline and the NCGT pipeline may be
the best alternatives for a subset of large
non-residential customers in the Toledo
area who are located reasonably close to
both pipelines.
IV. Effects of the Transaction
The Commission’s Complaint alleges
that, absent the proposed Consent
Agreement, the Transaction would
result in competitive harm in the
natural gas pipeline transportation
market in the Relevant Area. By
prohibiting NCGT from competing to
provide natural gas transportation
within the Restricted Area, the Non-
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Compete would harm customers who
would otherwise benefit from
competition from NCGT. The NonCompete is not reasonably limited in
scope to protect a legitimate business
interest. In this instance, the provision
does not protect any significant
intellectual property, goodwill, or
customer relationship necessary to
protect Nexus’ investment. A mere
general desire to be free from
competition following a transaction is
not a legitimate business interest.
Moreover, even if a legitimate interest
existed, the geographic scope of the
Non-Compete would be broader than
reasonably necessary, because, in part, it
prevents NCGT from competing for any
opportunity in the restricted area, even
for opportunities that were unforeseen
at the time of the Transaction.
V. Entry Conditions
Entry into the relevant market would
not be timely, likely, or sufficient to
deter or counteract the anticompetitive
effects arising from the Merger. Entry
into the pipeline transportation of
natural gas is a complicated, expensive,
and time-consuming endeavor. In
addition to completing a lengthy
regulatory review and approval process,
an entrant would need to secure
sufficient precedent agreements by
shippers, obtain rights of way, and
overcome environmental or landowner
hurdles.
VI. The Proposed Consent Agreement
The proposed consent order (‘‘Order’’)
effectively resolves the competitive
concerns raised by the Sale Agreement’s
Non-Compete. First, the Order requires
the parties to execute a revised Sale
Agreement that eliminates the NonCompete and associated language.
Next, Section II.B of the Order
prohibits Nexus and its parents, DTE
and Enbridge, (collectively
‘‘Respondents’’), from entering into,
enforcing, or soliciting any written or
oral agreement that restricts competition
between one or more Respondents and
a ‘‘Pipeline Competitor’’ to provide
natural gas pipeline transportation to
the Relevant Area, without prior
Commission approval. The Order
defines ‘‘Pipeline Competitor’’ as a firm
that owns, operates, or markets capacity
on a natural gas pipeline. This
definition would include NCGT and
other pipeline companies, as well as a
situation where a customer with longterm capacity rights might resell its
capacity and effectively act as a
competitor.
In an industry where joint ventures
and other competitor collaborations
frequently occur, some arrangements
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that the Order might capture could
advance legitimate purposes. The
Order’s prior approval provision gives
Respondents the opportunity to
advocate for these arrangements and the
Commission to evaluate any attendant
restrictions on a case-by-case basis.
The Order also requires Respondents
to provide prior notice of intent to
acquire the North Coast System or any
other natural gas pipeline in the
Relevant Area. It also requires
Respondents to file annual compliance
reports with the Commission for 10
years following the Order’s issuance.
The sole purpose of this analysis is to
facilitate public comment on the
proposed Consent Agreement. This
analysis does not constitute an official
interpretation of the proposed Consent
Agreement or modify its terms in any
way.
By direction of the Commission.
April J. Tabor,
Acting Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice announces the
intention of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approve the proposed
information collection project:
‘‘Embedded Research in Care Delivery
Systems.’’ In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
AHRQ invites the public to comment on
this proposed information collection.
This proposed information collection
was previously published in the Federal
Register on July 29, 2019 and allowed
60 days for public comment. AHRQ
received no substantive comments. The
purpose of this notice is to allow an
additional 30 days for public comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by 30 days after date of
publication.
Written comments should
be submitted to: AHRQ’s OMB Desk
Officer by fax at (202) 395–6974
(attention: AHRQ’s desk officer) or by
ADDRESSES:
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email at OIRA_submission@
omb.eop.gov (attention: AHRQ’s desk
officer).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by
email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
‘‘Embedded Research in Care Delivery
Systems’’
Embedded researchers contribute to
learning health systems by collaborating
with delivery system stakeholders to
produce innovations and evidence that
can be rapidly implemented to improve
the outcomes of individual and
populations and health system
performance.
Research is defined in this proposed
project as embedded when it is
conducted by an investigator who is
employed or closely affiliated with the
care delivery system and when the
research project at least partially
addresses operational concerns of the
system (e.g. ways to improve care
quality, value, or other aspects of system
performance (e.g., patient and staff
satisfaction).
AHRQ is developing tools and
findings to support learning health
systems and embedded research and is
funding training of researchers to
conduct embedded research. The
proposed project has the following
goals:
• Select health care delivery systems
that currently apply diverse and
distinctive strategies for embedded
research.
• Conduct and report on qualitative
case studies documenting how
embedded research is prioritized,
funded, managed, conducted, and used
in these systems.
• Specify several promising strategies
for organizing and conducting
embedded research.
• Provide summaries of study
findings that will stimulate
consideration of current and future
strategies for embedded research among
funders, trainers, and delivery system
leaders.
The proposed project does not intend
to create a comprehensive inventory of
current practice in embedded research
or to provide a representative sample of
embedded research activities. Instead,
the illustrative case studies will
stimulate discussion at AHRQ and
elsewhere about how to prepare
researchers to conduct embedded
research. Additionally, the case studies
may provide insights to health research
funding agencies about ways that
funding criteria can influence the
conduct of embedded research. The case
studies may also provide health care
leaders with illustrations of some of the
potential benefits of supporting
embedded research and some of the
challenges of alternative approaches to
incorporating such research into care
delivery systems.
Method of Collection
Based on an environmental scan, six
to eight care delivery systems will be
selected that employ people engaged in
embedded research; have engaged in
this type of research for at least two
fiscal years; and take a distinctive
approach to it or are recognized as a
leader in this field. At least one system
will be selected that has a mission and
a commitment to serving AHRQ’s
priority populations. The investigators
will conduct phone interviews with up
to eight people in each of the selected
systems. The interview subjects in each
delivery system will include at least one
occupant of each of the following roles:
Executive-level manager; person
exercising oversight over embedded
research activities; person from a service
line or care sector in which several
embedded research projects have been
carried out; lead investigator on one or
more embedded research projects.
Interviews will be coded and case study
summaries created for each system. The
reports will describe promising
embedded research strategies, potential
benefits and challenges of this type of
research, and lessons learned about
addressing challenges. The findings will
be shared with AHRQ leadership, other
health system leaders and funder, and
with the health services research
community.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 is based on the following
assumptions: No more than 8 subjects
will participate in the main round of
interviews in each system (site). There
will be a maximum of 8 sites. If
supplementary information is needed
on selected projects, no more than 3
supplementary interviews will be
conducted. Each supplementary
interview will include 3–4 participants,
with a total of no more than 10
participants in the whole set of
supplementary interviews.
EXHIBIT 1—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Collection activity—interviews
Number of
responses per
respondent
Hours per
response
Total burden
hours
Interviews with executive-level subjects ..........................................................
Interviews with physicians ...............................................................................
Interviews with researchers and other operations staff ...................................
10
22
42
1
1
1
1
1
1
10
22
42
Total ..........................................................................................................
........................
........................
........................
74
EXHIBIT 2—ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED COST BURDEN
Number of
respondents
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Interview participants
Average
hourly
wage rate *
Total burden
hours
Total cost
burden
Executive level (code 11–1011) ......................................................................
Physicians (code 29–1060) .............................................................................
Researchers and other operations staff (based on Operations Research Analysts code 15–2031) ...................................................................................
10
22
10
22
$96.22
101.43
$962.20
2,231.46
42
42
42.48
1,784.16
Total ..........................................................................................................
........................
........................
........................
4,977.82
* National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States May 2018 ‘‘U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.’’
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Request for Comments
In accordance with the above-cited
Paperwork Reduction Act legislation,
comments on AHRQ’s information
collection are requested with regard to
any of the following: (a) Whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
AHRQ health care research and health
care information dissemination
functions, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of AHRQ’s estimate of
burden (including hours and costs) of
the proposed collection(s) of
information; (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 upon the
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the Agency’s subsequent
request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All
comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated: September 25, 2019.
Virginia L. Mackay-Smith,
Associate Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
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Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[30Day–19–19AXA]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
Reduction Act Review
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
has submitted the information
collection request titled ‘‘Annual
Reporting of the Rape Prevention and
Education (RPE) Program: CE19–1902
Cooperative Agreement’’ to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. CDC previously
published a ‘‘Proposed Data Collection
Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations’’ notice on June 5,
2019 to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies. One public
comment public comment was received.
This notice serves to allow an additional
30 days for public and affected agency
comments.
CDC will accept all comments for this
proposed information collection project.
The Office of Management and Budget
is particularly interested in comments
that:
(a) Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
(b) Evaluate the accuracy of the
agencies estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected;
(d) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including, through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses; and
(e) Assess information collection
costs.
To request additional information on
the proposed project or to obtain a copy
of the information collection plan and
instruments, call (404) 639–7570 or
send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Direct
written comments and/or suggestions
regarding the items contained in this
notice to the Attention: CDC Desk
Officer, Office of Management and
Budget, 725 17th Street NW,
Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202)
395–5806. Provide written comments
within 30 days of notice publication.
Proposed Project
Annual Reporting of the Rape
Prevention and Education (RPE)
Program: CE19–1902 Cooperative
Agreement—New—National Center for
Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC),
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
CDC’s Division of Violence
Prevention (DVP) provides national
leadership in prevention of sexual
violence (SV) perpetration and
victimization before it begins (i.e.,
primary prevention). DVP administers
the RPE Program, which provides
funding to health departments in all 50
states, the District of Columbia (DC),
Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin
Islands, and the Commonwealth of
Northern Mariana Islands. The CDC
seeks OMB approval for three years to
collect information related to
implementation and outcomes annually
from recipients funded under the Rape
Prevention and Education (RPE): Using
The Best Available Evidence for Sexual
Violence Prevention cooperative
agreement.
RPE Program recipients or designated
delegates will submit data annually into
the online data system, DVP Partners
Portal. Recipients will monitor and
report progress on their goals,
objectives, and activities, as well as
relevant information on the
implementation of their prevention
strategies, outcomes, evaluation, and
state action plan.
Information to be collected will
provide crucial data for program
performance monitoring. Information
collected will allow CDC to help ensure
consistency in documenting, enhancing
accountability of the use of federal
funds, providing timely program reports
and responses to information requests,
such as Congressional requests
mandated by the authorizing legislation,
improve real-time communications
between CDC and RPE recipients, and
strengthening CDC’s capacity to provide
responsive data-driven technical
assistance and to monitor and evaluate
recipients’ progress and performance.
Submission of the Annual Progress
Report is required for cooperative
agreement grantees. The total estimated
annualized burden hours are 440. There
is no cost to respondents other than
their time.
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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Type of respondents
Form name
RPE-funded Health Departments (State, DC,
and Territories) and their Designated Delegates.
Annual Reporting—Initial Population .............
Annual Reporting—Subsequent Reporting ....
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responses per
respondent
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2
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burden per
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(in hours)
4
2
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[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 2019-21239]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the intention of the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) approve the proposed information collection
project: ``Embedded Research in Care Delivery Systems.'' In accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, AHRQ invites the public to
comment on this proposed information collection. This proposed
information collection was previously published in the Federal Register
on July 29, 2019 and allowed 60 days for public comment. AHRQ received
no substantive comments. The purpose of this notice is to allow an
additional 30 days for public comment.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received by 30 days after date
of publication.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: AHRQ's OMB Desk
Officer by fax at (202) 395-6974 (attention: AHRQ's desk officer) or by
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email at [email protected] (attention: AHRQ's desk officer).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports
Clearance Officer, (301) 427-1477, or by email at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Project
``Embedded Research in Care Delivery Systems''
Embedded researchers contribute to learning health systems by
collaborating with delivery system stakeholders to produce innovations
and evidence that can be rapidly implemented to improve the outcomes of
individual and populations and health system performance.
Research is defined in this proposed project as embedded when it is
conducted by an investigator who is employed or closely affiliated with
the care delivery system and when the research project at least
partially addresses operational concerns of the system (e.g. ways to
improve care quality, value, or other aspects of system performance
(e.g., patient and staff satisfaction).
AHRQ is developing tools and findings to support learning health
systems and embedded research and is funding training of researchers to
conduct embedded research. The proposed project has the following
goals:
Select health care delivery systems that currently apply
diverse and distinctive strategies for embedded research.
Conduct and report on qualitative case studies documenting
how embedded research is prioritized, funded, managed, conducted, and
used in these systems.
Specify several promising strategies for organizing and
conducting embedded research.
Provide summaries of study findings that will stimulate
consideration of current and future strategies for embedded research
among funders, trainers, and delivery system leaders.
The proposed project does not intend to create a comprehensive
inventory of current practice in embedded research or to provide a
representative sample of embedded research activities. Instead, the
illustrative case studies will stimulate discussion at AHRQ and
elsewhere about how to prepare researchers to conduct embedded
research. Additionally, the case studies may provide insights to health
research funding agencies about ways that funding criteria can
influence the conduct of embedded research. The case studies may also
provide health care leaders with illustrations of some of the potential
benefits of supporting embedded research and some of the challenges of
alternative approaches to incorporating such research into care
delivery systems.
Method of Collection
Based on an environmental scan, six to eight care delivery systems
will be selected that employ people engaged in embedded research; have
engaged in this type of research for at least two fiscal years; and
take a distinctive approach to it or are recognized as a leader in this
field. At least one system will be selected that has a mission and a
commitment to serving AHRQ's priority populations. The investigators
will conduct phone interviews with up to eight people in each of the
selected systems. The interview subjects in each delivery system will
include at least one occupant of each of the following roles:
Executive-level manager; person exercising oversight over embedded
research activities; person from a service line or care sector in which
several embedded research projects have been carried out; lead
investigator on one or more embedded research projects. Interviews will
be coded and case study summaries created for each system. The reports
will describe promising embedded research strategies, potential
benefits and challenges of this type of research, and lessons learned
about addressing challenges. The findings will be shared with AHRQ
leadership, other health system leaders and funder, and with the health
services research community.
Estimated Annual Respondent Burden
Exhibit 1 is based on the following assumptions: No more than 8
subjects will participate in the main round of interviews in each
system (site). There will be a maximum of 8 sites. If supplementary
information is needed on selected projects, no more than 3
supplementary interviews will be conducted. Each supplementary
interview will include 3-4 participants, with a total of no more than
10 participants in the whole set of supplementary interviews.
Exhibit 1--Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of
Collection activity--interviews Number of responses per Hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interviews with executive-level subjects........ 10 1 1 10
Interviews with physicians...................... 22 1 1 22
Interviews with researchers and other operations 42 1 1 42
staff..........................................
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 74
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Exhibit 2--Estimated Annualized Cost Burden
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Average
Interview participants Number of Total burden hourly wage Total cost
respondents hours rate * burden
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Executive level (code 11-1011).................. 10 10 $96.22 $962.20
Physicians (code 29-1060)....................... 22 22 101.43 2,231.46
Researchers and other operations staff (based on 42 42 42.48 1,784.16
Operations Research Analysts code 15-2031).....
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 4,977.82
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* National Compensation Survey: Occupational wages in the United States May 2018 ``U.S. Department of Labor,
Bureau of Labor Statistics.''
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Request for Comments
In accordance with the above-cited Paperwork Reduction Act
legislation, comments on AHRQ's information collection are requested
with regard to any of the following: (a) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of
AHRQ health care research and health care information dissemination
functions, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of AHRQ's estimate of burden (including hours
and costs) of the proposed collection(s) of information; (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 upon the respondents, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and included in the Agency's subsequent request for OMB approval of the
proposed information collection. All comments will become a matter of
public record.
Dated: September 25, 2019.
Virginia L. Mackay-Smith,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 2019-21239 Filed 9-30-19; 8:45 am]
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