Agency Information Collection Proposed New Survey, 82598-82599 [2024-23621]

Download as PDF 82598 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 198 / Friday, October 11, 2024 / Notices This notice announces an inperson/virtual hybrid meeting of the Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Hanford. The Federal Advisory Committee Act requires that public notice of this meeting be announced in the Federal Register. DATES: Wednesday, November 6, 2024; 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. PST. ADDRESSES: The Holiday Inn Express & Suites Pasco, Vineyard Ballroom, 4525 Convention Place, Pasco, Washington 99301. This hybrid meeting will be inperson at The Holiday Inn Express & Suites Pasco and virtually. To receive the virtual access information and callin number, please contact the Deputy Designated Federal Officer, Lindsay Somers, at the telephone number or email listed below at least five days prior to the meeting. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lindsay Somers, Deputy Designated Federal Officer, U.S. Department of Energy, Hanford Office of Communications, Richland Operations Office, P.O. Box 550, Richland, WA, 99354; Phone: (509) 376–0923; or Email: lindsay.somers@rl.doe.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Purpose of the Board: The purpose of the Board is to provide advice and recommendations concerning the following EM site-specific issues: cleanup activities and environmental restoration; waste and nuclear materials management and disposition; excess facilities; future land use and long-term stewardship. The Board may also be asked to provide advice and recommendations on any EM program components. Requests must be received five days prior to the meeting and reasonable provision will be made to include the presentation in the agenda. The Deputy Designated Federal Officer is empowered to conduct the meeting in a fashion that will facilitate the orderly conduct of business. Individuals wishing to make public comments will be provided a maximum of five minutes to present their comments. Minutes: Minutes will be available at the following website: https:// www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/hab/Full BoardMeetingInformation. Signing Authority: This document of the Department of Energy was signed on October 7, 2024, by David Borak, Committee Management Officer, pursuant to delegated authority from the Secretary of Energy. That document with the original signature and date is maintained by DOE. For administrative purposes only, and in compliance with requirements of the Office of the Federal Register, the undersigned DOE Federal Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to sign and submit the document in electronic format for publication, as an official document of the Department of Energy. This administrative process in no way alters the legal effect of this document upon publication in the Federal Register. Tentative Agenda Æ Tri-Party Agreement Agencies’ Updates Æ Presentation Æ Subcommittee Reports Æ Board Member Roundtable Æ Board Business Public Participation: The meeting is open to the public. The EM SSAB, Hanford, welcomes the attendance of the public at its advisory committee meetings and will make every effort to accommodate persons with physical disabilities or special needs. If you require special accommodations due to a disability, please contact Lindsay Somers at least seven days in advance of the meeting at the telephone number listed above. Written statements may be filed with the Board either before or within five business days after the meeting. Individuals who wish to make oral statements pertaining to agenda items should contact Lindsay Somers. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1 SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:15 Oct 10, 2024 Jkt 265001 Signed in Washington, DC, on October 7, 2024. Jennifer Hartzell, Alternate Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy. [FR Doc. 2024–23507 Filed 10–10–24; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6450–01–P Energy Information Administration Agency Information Collection Proposed New Survey U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). AGENCY: ACTION: Notice. EIA submitted an information collection request for clearance of the Residential Utility Disconnections Survey as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The collection requests a three-year clearance of a new data collection survey—Form EIA–112. Form EIA–112 is an annual survey that collects information on the number of monthly natural gas and electric service final notices, disconnections, and reconnections for bill non-payment across residential customers. SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Comments on this information collection must be received no later than November 12, 2024. 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: Kenneth Pick, EIA Clearance Officer, at (202) 586–5562. The form and instructions are available at https:// www.eia.gov/survey/. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request contains: (1) OMB No.: New; (2) Information Collection Request Title: Residential Utility Disconnections Survey; (3) Type of Request: New; (4) Purpose: Form EIA–112 is an annual form that will collect 12 months of data from electric and natural gas providers about final termination notices sent to residential customers due to bill nonpayment, service disconnections of residential customers due to bill nonpayment, and service reconnections of residential customers who were disconnected due to bill nonpayment. No national data is currently collected on this information. Some States collect some of the data described above, but the data are inconsistent, and publication is not uniform. Form EIA– 112 aims to better inform State and Federal policymakers on utility disconnections by providing reliable data that can help inform appropriate levels of budgetary support for various assistance programs across the United States. The results of the survey will be published on the EIA website at the aggregated national and State level, as well as at the utility level for respondents. EIA will conduct periodic censuses of all natural gas and electric utilities above a certain size threshold. These censuses will cover respondents that complete Form EIA–176 and Form EIA– 861, excluding the small electric utilities receiving Form EIA–861S. To reduce the respondent burden of this proposed data collection, while also considering data quality, for the years in between censuses, EIA will use cut-off samples from Form EIA–857 and Form EIA–861M, based on utility size and State coverage. This strategy will allow EIA to reduce respondent burden on smaller utilities, while also producing population estimates at the State level DATES: E:\FR\FM\11OCN1.SGM 11OCN1 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 198 / Friday, October 11, 2024 / Notices by modeling data for the utilities on the frames that were subjected to sampling but not selected. (5) Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,130; (6) Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses: 1,130; (7) Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 2,260; (8) Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: EIA estimates that there are no capital and start-up costs associated with this data collection. The information is maintained during the normal course of business. The cost of the burden hours is estimated to be $206,021.60 (2,260 burden hours times $91.16 per hour). Other than the cost of burden hours, EIA estimates that there are no additional costs for generating, maintaining, and providing this information. Statutory Authority: 15 U.S.C. 772(b) and 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq. Signed in Washington, DC, on October 8, 2024. Samson A. Adeshiyan, Director, Office of Statistical Methods and Research, U.S. Energy Information Administration. [FR Doc. 2024–23621 Filed 10–10–24; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6450–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. CP24–514–000] ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1 National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation; Notice of Scoping Period Requesting Comments on Environmental Issues for the Proposed Tioga Pathway Project, and Notice of Virtual Public Scoping Session The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) will prepare an environmental document, that will discuss the environmental impacts of the Tioga Pathway Project involving construction and operation of facilities by National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation (National Fuel) in Potter and Tioga Counties, Pennsylvania. The Commission will use this environmental document in its decision-making process to determine whether the project is in the public convenience and necessity. This notice announces the opening of the scoping process the Commission will use to gather input from the public and interested agencies regarding the project. As part of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review process, the Commission takes VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:15 Oct 10, 2024 Jkt 265001 into account concerns the public may have about proposals and the environmental impacts that could result from its action whenever it considers the issuance of a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity. This gathering of public input is referred to as ‘‘scoping.’’ The main goal of the scoping process is to focus the analysis in the environmental document on the important environmental issues. Additional information about the Commission’s NEPA process is described below in the NEPA Process and Environmental Document section of this notice. By this notice, the Commission requests public comments on the scope of issues to address in the environmental document. To ensure that your comments are timely and properly recorded, please submit your comments so that the Commission receives them in Washington, DC on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on November 4, 2024. Comments may be submitted in written or oral form. Further details on how to submit comments are provided in the Public Participation section of this notice. Your comments should focus on the potential environmental effects, reasonable alternatives, and measures to avoid or lessen environmental impacts. Your input will help the Commission staff determine what issues they need to evaluate in the environmental document. Commission staff will consider all written or oral comments during the preparation of the environmental document. If you submitted comments on this project to the Commission before the opening of this docket on August 21, 2024, you will need to file those comments in Docket No. CP24–514–000 to ensure they are considered as part of this proceeding. This notice is being sent to the Commission’s current environmental mailing list for this project. State and local government representatives should notify their constituents of this proposed project and encourage them to comment on their areas of concern. If you are a landowner receiving this notice, a pipeline company representative may contact you about the acquisition of an easement to construct, operate, and maintain the proposed facilities. The company would seek to negotiate a mutually acceptable easement agreement. You are not required to enter into an agreement. However, if the Commission approves the project, the Natural Gas Act conveys the right of eminent domain to the company. Therefore, if you and the company do not reach an easement PO 00000 Frm 00035 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 82599 agreement, the pipeline company could initiate condemnation proceedings in court. In such instances, compensation would be determined by a judge in accordance with state law. The Commission does not subsequently grant, exercise, or oversee the exercise of that eminent domain authority. The courts have exclusive authority to handle eminent domain cases; the Commission has no jurisdiction over these matters. National Fuel provided landowners with a fact sheet prepared by the FERC entitled ‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas Facility On My Land? What Do I Need To Know?’’ which addresses typically asked questions, including the use of eminent domain and how to participate in the Commission’s proceedings. This fact sheet along with other landowner topics of interest are available for viewing on the FERC website (www.ferc.gov) under the Natural Gas, Landowner Topics link. Public Participation There are four methods you can use to submit your comments to the Commission. Please carefully follow these instructions so that your comments are properly recorded. The Commission encourages electronic filing of comments and has staff available to assist you at (866) 208–3676 or FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. (1) You can file your comments electronically using the eComment feature, which is located on the Commission’s website (www.ferc.gov) under the link to FERC Online. Using eComment is an easy method for submitting brief, text-only comments on a project; (2) You can file your comments electronically by using the eFiling feature, which is also located on the Commission’s website (www.ferc.gov) under the link to FERC Online. With eFiling, you can provide comments in a variety of formats by attaching them as a file with your submission. New eFiling users must first create an account by clicking on ‘‘eRegister.’’ You will be asked to select the type of filing you are making; a comment on a particular project is considered a ‘‘Comment on a Filing’’; (3) You can file a paper copy of your comments by mailing them to the Commission. Be sure to reference the project docket number (CP24–514–000) on your letter. Submissions sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be addressed to: Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Acting Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Submissions sent via any other carrier E:\FR\FM\11OCN1.SGM 11OCN1

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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 198 (Friday, October 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 82598-82599]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-23621]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Energy Information Administration


Agency Information Collection Proposed New Survey

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 clearance 
of the Residential Utility Disconnections Survey as required by the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The collection requests a three-year 
clearance of a new data collection survey--Form EIA-112. Form EIA-112 
is an annual survey that collects information on the number of monthly 
natural gas and electric service final notices, disconnections, and 
reconnections for bill non-payment across residential customers.

DATES: Comments on this information collection must be received no 
later than November 12, 2024. 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: Kenneth Pick, EIA Clearance Officer, 
at (202) 586-5562. The form and instructions are available at https://www.eia.gov/survey/.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request 
contains:
    (1) OMB No.: New;
    (2) Information Collection Request Title: Residential Utility 
Disconnections Survey;
    (3) Type of Request: New;
    (4) Purpose: Form EIA-112 is an annual form that will collect 12 
months of data from electric and natural gas providers about final 
termination notices sent to residential customers due to bill 
nonpayment, service disconnections of residential customers due to bill 
nonpayment, and service reconnections of residential customers who were 
disconnected due to bill nonpayment.
    No national data is currently collected on this information. Some 
States collect some of the data described above, but the data are 
inconsistent, and publication is not uniform. Form EIA-112 aims to 
better inform State and Federal policymakers on utility disconnections 
by providing reliable data that can help inform appropriate levels of 
budgetary support for various assistance programs across the United 
States. The results of the survey will be published on the EIA website 
at the aggregated national and State level, as well as at the utility 
level for respondents.
    EIA will conduct periodic censuses of all natural gas and electric 
utilities above a certain size threshold. These censuses will cover 
respondents that complete Form EIA-176 and Form EIA-861, excluding the 
small electric utilities receiving Form EIA-861S. To reduce the 
respondent burden of this proposed data collection, while also 
considering data quality, for the years in between censuses, EIA will 
use cut-off samples from Form EIA-857 and Form EIA-861M, based on 
utility size and State coverage. This strategy will allow EIA to reduce 
respondent burden on smaller utilities, while also producing population 
estimates at the State level

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by modeling data for the utilities on the frames that were subjected to 
sampling but not selected.
    (5) Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,130;
    (6) Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses: 1,130;
    (7) Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 2,260;
    (8) Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: EIA 
estimates that there are no capital and start-up costs associated with 
this data collection. The information is maintained during the normal 
course of business. The cost of the burden hours is estimated to be 
$206,021.60 (2,260 burden hours times $91.16 per hour). Other than the 
cost of burden hours, EIA estimates that there are no additional costs 
for generating, maintaining, and providing this information.
    Statutory Authority: 15 U.S.C. 772(b) and 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.

    Signed in Washington, DC, on October 8, 2024.
Samson A. Adeshiyan,
Director, Office of Statistical Methods and Research, U.S. Energy 
Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 2024-23621 Filed 10-10-24; 8:45 am]
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