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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Northern New
Mexico
Office of Environmental
Management, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of open virtual meeting.
AGENCY:
This notice announces an
online virtual combined meeting of the
Consent Order Committee and Risk
Evaluation and Management Committee
of the Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board (EM SSAB),
Northern New Mexico. The Federal
Advisory Committee Act requires that
public notice of this online virtual
meeting be announced in the Federal
Register.
SUMMARY:
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held
virtually via Webex. To attend, please
contact Menice Santistevan by email,
Menice.Santistevan@em.doe.gov, no
later than 5:00 p.m. MT on Monday,
August 16, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Menice Santistevan, Northern New
Mexico Citizens’ Advisory Board
(NNMCAB), 94 Cities of Gold Road,
Santa Fe, NM 87506. Phone (505) 995–
0393 or Email: Menice.Santistevan@
em.doe.gov.
DATES:
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose of the Board: The purpose of
the Board is to make recommendations
to DOE–EM and site management in the
areas of environmental restoration,
waste management, and related
activities.
Purpose of the Consent Order
Committee (COC): It is the mission of
the COC to review the Consent Order,
evaluate its strengths and weaknesses,
and make recommendation as to how to
improve the Consent Order. It is also
within the mission of this committee to
review and ensure implementation of
NNMCAB Recommendation 2019–02,
Improving the Utility of the Consent
Order with Supplementary Information.
The COC will work with the NNMCAB
Risk Evaluation and Management
Committee to review the risk-based
approaches used to determine the
prioritization of cleanup actions, as well
as the ‘‘relative risk ranking’’ of the
campaigns, targets, and milestones by
the NNMCAB, to be recommended for
use by the DOE EM Los Alamos Field
Office (EM–LA) both within and outside
of those activities covered by the
Consent Order.
Purpose of the Risk Evaluation and
Management Committee (REMC): The
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REMC provides external citizen-based
oversight and recommendations to the
DOE EM–LA on human and ecological
health risk resulting from historical,
current, and future hazardous and
radioactive legacy waste operations at
Los Alamos National Laboratory
(LANL). The REMC will, to the extent
feasible, stay informed of DOE EM–LA
and LANL’s environmental restoration
and long-term environmental
stewardship programs and plans. The
REMC will also work with the
NNMCAB COC to provide DOE EM–LA
and LANL with the public’s desires in
determining cleanup priorities. The
REMC will prepare recommendations
that represent to the best of committee’s
knowledge and ability to determine, the
public’s position on human and
ecological health risk issues pertaining
to direct radiation or contaminant
exposure to soils, air, surface and
groundwater quality, or the agricultural
and ecological environment.
Signed in Washington, DC, on July 14,
2021.
LaTanya Butler,
Deputy Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021–15356 Filed 7–19–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Agency Information Collection
Extension
U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
EIA submitted an information
collection request for extension as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. The information collection
requests a three-year extension of its
Form EIA–63C, Densified Biomass Fuel
Report, OMB Control Number 1905–
Tentative Agenda
0209. The report is part of EIA’s
comprehensive energy data program.
• Approval of Agenda
Form EIA–63C collects monthly data on
• Old Business
the manufacture, shipment, exports,
• New Business
energy characteristics, and sales of
Æ Report from Nominating Committee densified biomass fuels and other
Æ Election of Chair and Vice Chair for densified biomass fuel products data
Fiscal Year 2022
from facilities that manufacture
• Overview of Natural Resource Damage densified biomass fuel products (pellet
fuels), for energy applications.
Assessment (NRDA)
DATES: Comments on this information
• Public Comment Period
collection must be received no later
• Presentation by the Pueblo de San
than August 19, 2021. Written
Ildefonso Environmental Office
comments and recommendations for the
• Update from Deputy Designated
proposed information collection should
Federal Officer
be sent within 30 days of publication of
Public Participation: The online
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/
virtual meeting is open to the public. To do/PRAMain. Find this particular
sign up for public comment, please
information collection by selecting
contact Menice Santistevan by email,
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
Menice.Santistevan@em.doe.gov, no
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
later than 5:00 p.m. MT on Monday,
search function.
August 16, 2021. Written statements
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
may be filed with the Committees either Connor Murphy, EI–23, U.S. Energy
before or within five days after the
Information Administration, telephone
meeting by sending them to Menice
(202) 287–5982, email Connor.Murphy@
Santistevan at the aforementioned email eia.gov. The form and instructions are
address. The Deputy Designated Federal available at https://www.eia.gov/survey/
Officer is empowered to conduct the
#eia-63.
meeting in a fashion that will facilitate
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
the orderly conduct of business.
This information collection request
Individuals wishing to make public
contains:
comments will be provided a maximum
(1) OMB No.: 1905–0209;
of five minutes to present their
(2) Information Collection Request
comments.
Title: Densified Biomass Fuel Report;
Minutes: Minutes will be available by
(3) Type of Request: Three-year
writing or calling Menice Santistevan at extension without changes;
the address or telephone number listed
(4) Purpose: Form EIA–63C is part of
above. Minutes and other Board
EIA’s comprehensive energy data
documents are on the internet at: https:// program. The survey collects
energy.gov/em/nnmcab/meetinginformation on the manufacture,
materials.
shipment, exports, energy
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characteristics, and sales of pellet fuels
and other densified biomass fuel
products data from facilities that
manufacture densified biomass fuel
products, primarily pellet fuels, for
energy applications. The data collected
on Form EIA–63C are a primary source
of information for the nation’s growing
production of biomass products for
heating and electric power generation,
and for use in both domestic and foreign
markets.
(5) Annual Estimated Number of
Respondents: 106;
(6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: 1,041;
(7) Annual Estimated Number of
Burden Hours: 1,433;
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: The cost of
the burden hours is estimated to be
$117,004 (1,433 burden hours times
$81.65 per hour). EIA estimates that
respondents will have no additional
costs associated with the surveys other
than the burden hours and the
maintenance of the information during
the normal course of business.
Statutory Authority: 15 U.S.C. 772(b),
42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.
Signed in Washington, DC, on July 14th,
2021.
Samson A. Adeshiyan,
Director, Office of Statistical Methods and
Research, U.S. Energy Information
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2021–15355 Filed 7–19–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Agency Information Collection
Proposed Extension
U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
EIA invites public comment
on the proposed three-year extension,
with changes, to the Generic Clearance
for Questionnaire Testing, Evaluation,
and Research, as required under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. EIA–
882T, Generic Clearance for
Questionnaire Testing, Evaluation, and
Research, provides EIA with the
authority to utilize qualitative and
quantitative methodologies to pretest
questionnaires and validate the quality
of data collected on EIA’s surveys. EIA
uses EIA–882T to meet its obligation to
publish, and otherwise make available
independent, high-quality statistical
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data to federal government agencies,
state and local governments, the energy
industry, researchers, and the general
public.
EIA must receive all comments
on this proposed information collection
no later than September 20, 2021. If you
anticipate any difficulties in submitting
your comments by the deadline, contact
the person listed in the ADDRESSES
section of this notice as soon as
possible.
DATES:
Submit comments
electronically to Gerson Morales by
email at Gerson.Morales@eia.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Gerson Morales, U.S. Energy
Information Administration, telephone
(202) 586–7077, or by email at
Gerson.Morales@eia.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
information collection request contains:
(1) OMB No.: 1905–0186;
(2) Information Collection Request
Title: Generic Clearance for
Questionnaire Testing, Evaluation, and
Research;
(3) Type of Request: Three-year
extension with changes;
(4) Purpose: The U.S. Energy
Information Administration (EIA) is
requesting a three-year approval from
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) to utilize qualitative and
quantitative methodologies to pretest
questionnaires and validate the quality
of the data that is collected on EIA and
DOE survey forms. Through the use of
these methodologies, EIA will conduct
research studies to improve the quality
of energy data being collected, reduce or
minimize survey respondent burden,
and increase agency efficiency. This
authority would also allow EIA to
improve data collection in order to meet
the needs of EIA’s customers while also
staying current in the evolving nature of
the energy industry.
The specific methods proposed for the
coverage by this clearance are described
below. Also outlined is the legal
authority for these voluntary
information gathering activities.
The following methods are proposed:
Pilot Surveys. Pilot surveys conducted
under this clearance will generally be
methodological studies, and will always
employ statistically representative
samples. The pilot surveys will replicate
all components of the methodological
design, sampling procedures (where
possible), and questionnaires of the full
scale survey. Pilot surveys will normally
be utilized when EIA undertakes a
complete redesign of a particular data
collection methodology or when EIA
undertakes data collection in new
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energy areas, such as HGL production,
alternative fueled motor vehicles, and
other emerging areas of the energy
sector where data collection would
provide utility to EIA.
Cognitive Interviews. Cognitive
interviews are typically one-on-one
interviews in which the respondent is
usually asked to ‘‘think aloud’’ or is
asked ‘‘retrospective questions’’ as he or
she answers questions, reads survey
materials, defines terminology, or
completes other activities as part of a
typical survey process. A number of
different techniques may be involved
including, asking respondents what
specific words or phrases mean or
asking respondents probing questions to
determine how they estimate, calculate,
or determine specific data elements on
a survey. The objectives of these
cognitive interviews are to identify
problems of ambiguity or
misunderstanding, examine the process
that respondents follow for reporting
information, assess survey respondents’
ability to report new information, or
identify other difficulties respondents
have answering survey questions in
order to reduce measurement error from
estimates based on a survey.
Respondent Debriefings. Respondent
debriefings conducted under this
clearance will generally be
methodological or cognitive research
studies. The debriefing form is
administered after a respondent
completes a questionnaire either in
paper format, electronically, or through
in-person interviews. The debriefings
contain probing questions to determine
how respondents interpret the survey
questions, how much time and effort
was spent completing the questionnaire,
and whether they have problems in
completing the survey/questionnaire.
Respondent debriefings also are useful
in determining potential issues with
data quality and in estimating
respondent burden.
Usability Testing. Usability tests are
similar to cognitive interviews in which
a respondent is typically asked to ‘‘think
aloud’’ or asked ‘‘retrospective
questions’’ as he or she reviews an
electronic questionnaire, website, visual
aid, or hard copy survey form. The
objective of usability testing is to check
that respondents can easily and
intuitively navigate electronic survey
collection programs, websites, and other
survey instruments to submit their data
to EIA.
Focus Groups. Focus groups, in
person, online, or by phone, involve
group sessions guided by a moderator
who follows a topic guide containing
questions or subjects focused on a
particular issue rather than adhering to
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Agency Information Collection Extension
AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: EIA submitted an information collection request for extension
as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The information
collection requests a three-year extension of its Form EIA-63C,
Densified Biomass Fuel Report, OMB Control Number 1905-0209. The report
is part of EIA's comprehensive energy data program. Form EIA-63C
collects monthly data on the manufacture, shipment, exports, energy
characteristics, and sales of densified biomass fuels and other
densified biomass fuel products data from facilities that manufacture
densified biomass fuel products (pellet fuels), for energy
applications.
DATES: Comments on this information collection must be received no
later than August 19, 2021. Written comments and recommendations for
the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of
publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find
this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently under
30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search
function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Connor Murphy, EI-23, U.S. Energy
Information Administration, telephone (202) 287-5982, email
[email protected]. The form and instructions are available at
https://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-63.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
This information collection request contains:
(1) OMB No.: 1905-0209;
(2) Information Collection Request Title: Densified Biomass Fuel
Report;
(3) Type of Request: Three-year extension without changes;
(4) Purpose: Form EIA-63C is part of EIA's comprehensive energy
data program. The survey collects information on the manufacture,
shipment, exports, energy
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characteristics, and sales of pellet fuels and other densified biomass
fuel products data from facilities that manufacture densified biomass
fuel products, primarily pellet fuels, for energy applications. The
data collected on Form EIA-63C are a primary source of information for
the nation's growing production of biomass products for heating and
electric power generation, and for use in both domestic and foreign
markets.
(5) Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: 106;
(6) Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses: 1,041;
(7) Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 1,433;
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: The
cost of the burden hours is estimated to be $117,004 (1,433 burden
hours times $81.65 per hour). EIA estimates that respondents will have
no additional costs associated with the surveys other than the burden
hours and the maintenance of the information during the normal course
of business.
Statutory Authority: 15 U.S.C. 772(b), 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.
Signed in Washington, DC, on July 14th, 2021.
Samson A. Adeshiyan,
Director, Office of Statistical Methods and Research, U.S. Energy
Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 2021-15355 Filed 7-19-21; 8:45 am]
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