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to affect the export of electricity to
Canada as requested.
The electric energy that Dynasty
Power proposes to export to Canada
would be surplus energy purchased
from electric utilities and Federal power
marketing agencies within the United
States. The existing international
transmission facilities to be utilized by
Dynasty Power have previously been
authorized by Presidential permits
issued pursuant to Executive Order
10485, as amended, and are appropriate
for open access transmission by third
parties.
Procedural Matters: Any person
desiring to be heard in this proceeding
should file a comment or protest to the
application at the address provided
above. Protests should be filed in
accordance with Rule 211 of the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC)
Rules of Practice and Procedures (18
CFR 385.211). Any person desiring to
become a party to these proceedings
should file a motion to intervene at the
above address in accordance with FERC
Rule 214 (385.214). Five copies of such
comments, protests, or motions to
intervene should be sent to the address
provided above on or before the date
listed above.
Comments on the Dynasty Power
application to export electric energy to
Canada should be clearly marked with
OE Docket No. EA–385. An additional
copy(s) is to be filed directly with Allen
Cho, President, and Todd McRae, Risk
Manager, Dynasty Power, Inc, 500 715
5th Ave. SW., Calgary AB, CN T2P2X6
and Bonnie A. Suchman, Troutman
Sanders LLP, 401 9th Street NW., Suite
1000, Washington, DC 20004.
A final decision will be made on this
application after the environmental
impacts have been evaluated pursuant
to DOE’s National Environmental Policy
Act Implementing Procedures (10 CFR
part 1021) and after a determination is
made by DOE that the proposed action
will not have an adverse impact on the
reliability of the U.S. electric power
supply system.
Copies of this application will be
made available, upon request, for public
inspection and copying at the address
provided above, by accessing the
program Web site at http://energy.gov/
node/11845 or by emailing Angela Troy
at Angela.Troy@hq.doe.gov.
Issued in Washington, DC, on June 28,
2012.
Brian Mills,
Director, Permitting and Siting, Office of
Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability.
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copying within 60 days on the STEAB
Web site, www.steab.org.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
State Energy Advisory Board (STEAB)
Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice of open teleconference.
AGENCY:

This notice announces a
teleconference call of the State Energy
Advisory Board (STEAB). The Federal
Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–
463; 86 Stat.770) requires that public
notice of these meetings be announced
in the Federal Register.
DATES: Thursday, July 19, 2012 from
3:30 p.m.–4 p.m., EST. To receive the
call-in number and passcode, please
contact the Board’s Designated Federal
Officer (DFO) at the address or phone
number listed below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gil
Sperling, STEAB Designated Federal
Officer, U.S. Department of Energy,
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, 1000 Independence
Ave. SW., Washington, DC, 20585.
Phone number is (202) 287–1644.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose of the Board: To make
recommendations to the Assistant
Secretary for the Office of Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy
regarding goals and objectives,
programmatic and administrative
policies, and to otherwise carry out the
Board’s responsibilities as designated in
the State Energy Efficiency Programs
Improvement Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101–
440).
Tentative Agenda: Follow-up on
outstanding items from the June Board
meeting, update the Board on the
activities of the STEAB’s Task Forces,
review letters and resolutions
transmitted to EERE on behalf of the
STEAB, and provide an update to the
Board on routine business matters and
other topics of interest.
Public Participation: The meeting is
open to the public. Written statements
may be filed with the Board either
before or after the meeting. Members of
the public who wish to make oral
statements pertaining to agenda items
should contact Gil Sperling at the
address or telephone number listed
above. Requests to make oral comments
must be received five days prior to the
meeting; reasonable provision will be
made to include requested topic(s) on
the agenda. The Chair of the Board is
empowered to conduct the meeting in a
fashion that will facilitate the orderly
conduct of business.
Minutes: The minutes of the meeting
will be available for public review and
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Issued at Washington, DC, on June 28,
2012.
LaTanya R. Butler,
Acting Deputy Committee Management
Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy
Proposed Agency Information
Collection
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Submission for Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) review;
comment request.
AGENCY:

The Department of Energy has
submitted to the OMB for clearance, a
proposal for collection of information
pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. The collection would be
used to develop a scorecard that would
assist DOE’s Clean Cities Coalitions and
stakeholders in assessing the level of
readiness of their communities for plugin electric vehicles. Information
collected would allow DOE to provide
respondents with an objective
assessment of their communities’
readiness for PEV adoption and an
understanding of their commitment to
successful deployment of PEVs, and is
needed to ensure appropriate evaluation
of progress in deploying PEVS.
DATES: Comments regarding this
collection must be received on or before
August 6, 2012. If you anticipate that
you will be submitting comments, but
find it difficult to do so within the
period of time allowed by this notice,
please advise the OMB Desk Officer of
your intention to make a submission as
soon as possible. The Desk Officer may
be telephoned at 202–395–4650.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be sent to: Desk Officer for the
Department of Energy, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Room 10102,
735 17th Street NW., Washington, DC
20503. And to Ms. Linda Bluestein,
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy (EE–2G), U.S.
Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585–0121, or by fax
at 202–586–1600, or by email at
Linda.Bluestein@ee.doe.gov.
SUMMARY:

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Ms.
Linda Bluestein at the address listed
above in ADDRESSES.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
information collection request contains:
(1) OMB No.: {New}; (2) Information
Collection Request Title: Clean Cities
Plug-In Vehicle Community Readiness
Scorecard; (3) Type of Request: New
collection; (4) Purpose: DOE’s Clean
Cities initiative has developed a
voluntary scorecard to assist its
coalitions and stakeholders in assessing
the level of readiness of their
communities for plug-in electric
vehicles. The principal objective of the
scorecard is to provide respondents
with an objective assessment and
estimate of their respective community’s
readiness for PEV deployment as well as
understand the respective community’s
commitment to deploying these vehicles
successfully. DOE intends the scorecard
to be completed by a city/county/
regional sustainability or energy
coordinator. As the intended respondent
may not be aware of every aspect of
local or regional PEV readiness,
coordination among local stakeholders
to gather appropriate information may
be necessary.
The scorecard assessment effort will
rely on responses to questions the
respondent chooses to answer. The
multiple-choice questions address the
following topic areas: (1) Electric
vehicle supply equipment permitting
and inspection process; (2) PEV and
electric vehicle supply equipment
availability and numbers; (3) laws,
incentives, and financing; (4) education
and outreach; (5) utility interaction; and
(6) vehicle and infrastructure planning.
Respondents will provide answers
through a user-friendly online interface.
The answers will then be translated
through a simple algorithm that will
establish appropriate quantitative
criteria, translating the readiness
measures across several weighted
categories into numeric data. Using a
numberless color spectrum, a
community will be rated against itself,
with the colored spectrum results made
available only to the respondent
community. The total rankings will be
normalized into a ‘‘score’’, and
communities will see their own rating
and may be compared to other cities.
The scorecard will use one
information collection system, an online
system. No other data collection system
will be employed to support the
scorecard. The online scorecard system
DOE has developed provides several
advantages. First, it avoids the need to
download any forms or materials,
though respondents may print out the

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full list of questions and answers, or a
portion thereof if they wish. Second,
avoiding downloads also limits
potential security threats. Third, the
designed system allows respondents to
dynamically compare historical records,
providing the opportunity to revisit the
scorecard however often they like to
track progress. Further, employing an
online system also eliminates version
control concerns, allowing for a single
update to ensure that all scorecard users
are using the current version.
The voluntary scorecard may be
completed at any time, and there is no
date by which the scorecard questions
must be completed. Calculation of
outcomes will be undertaken on an
ongoing basis, immediately following
completion of the scorecard
questionnaire.
While there are approximately 90
Clean Cities Coalitions across the
United States, DOE expects that other
communities may want to avail
themselves of the opportunity to assess
their respective community’s PEV
readiness. Therefore, DOE expects a
total respondent population of
approximately 100 respondents.
Selecting the multiple choice answers in
completing a scorecard questionnaire is
expected to take under 30 minutes,
although additional time of no more
than 20 hours may be needed to
assemble information necessary to be
able to answer the questions, leading to
a total burden of approximately 2,050
hours in the first year. Assembling
information to update questionnaire
answers in future years on a voluntary
basis would be expected to take less
time, on the order of 10 hours, as much
of any necessary time and effort needed
to research information would have
been completed previously; (5) Type of
Respondents: Public; (6) Annual
Estimated Number of Respondents: 100;
(7) Annual Estimated Number of Total
Responses: 100; (8) Annual Estimated
Number of Burden Hours: 2,050; (9)
Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: There is no
cost associated with reporting and
recordkeeping.
Statutory Authority: 42 U.S.C. Sec. 13233;
42 U.S.C. Sec. 13252(a)–(b); 42 U.S.C. 13255.
Issued in Washington, DC, on June 20,
2012.
Patrick B. Davis,
Program Manager, Vehicle Technologies
Program, Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC12–11–000]

Commission Information Collection
Activities (FERC–725); Comment
Request
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, DOE.
ACTION: Comment request.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission
(Commission or FERC) is submitting the
information collection FERC–725,
Certification of Electric Reliability
Organization; Procedures for Electric
Reliability Standards, to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review of the information collection
requirements. Any interested person
may file comments directly with OMB
and should address a copy of those
comments to the Commission as
explained below. The Commission
issued a Notice in the Federal Register
(77 FR 24189, 04/23/2012) requesting
public comments. FERC received no
comments on the FERC–725 and is
noting this in its submittal to OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due by August 6, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB,
identified by the OMB Control No.
1902–0225, should be sent via email to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs: oira_submission@omb.gov.
Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission Desk Officer. The Desk
Officer may also be reached via
telephone at 202–395–4718.
A copy of the comments should also
be sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, identified by the Docket
No. IC12–11–000, by either of the
following methods:
• eFiling at Commission’s Web Site:
http://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: http://
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.
Docket: Users interested in receiving
automatic notification of activity in this
SUMMARY:

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