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Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 122 / Tuesday, June 25, 2013 / Notices
Issued in Washington, DC, on June 18,
2013.
Susan Richardson,
Acting Executive Director, Loan Programs
Office.
[FR Doc. 2013–15123 Filed 6–24–13; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy
Proposed Amendment of 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 is
proposing to merge two information
collections into one more broad
collection, one of which is approved
and one of which was previously
proposed pursuant to the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. The approved
collection is being used to develop a
scorecard that will assist DOE’s Clean
Cities coalitions and stakeholders in
assessing the level of readiness of their
communities for plug-in electric
vehicles (PEV). Information collected
via the scorecard is intended to 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. The other, previously
proposed information collection would
be used to develop information that will
enable DOE to measure the impact and
progress of DOE’s National Clean Fleets
Partnership (Partnership). The
Partnership is an initiative through
which DOE provides large private-sector
fleets with technical assistance and
expertise to incorporate alternative fuels
and fuel saving measures into their
operations successfully. The initiative
builds on the established success of
DOE’s Clean Cities Program. The
Partnership was developed with input
from fleet managers, industry
representatives, Clean Cities program
staff, and Clean Cities coordinators.
DOE is also proposing to amend the PEV
Scorecard information collection
request by expanding the number of
entities estimated to participate in the
voluntary PEV Scorecard information
collection.

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SUMMARY:

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Comments regarding this
collection must be received on or before
July 25, 2013. 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
Mr. Dennis Smith, 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
Dennis.Smith@ee.doe.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Dennis Smith at the address listed above
in ADDRESSES.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PEV
Scorecard information collection was
previously proposed and available for
public comment. See 77 FR 19275
(March 30, 2012) and 77 FR 39690 (July
5, 2012) and has since been cleared for
use under OMB No. 1910–5171. The
Clean Fleets Partnership information
collection request also was previously
proposed and available for public
comment. See 77 FR 65374 (October 26,
2012) and 78 FR 14519 (March 6, 2013).
Because both requests were developed
by and for the DOE Clean Cities
Program, DOE is proposing to merge
these two requests so that they would
operate under the same OMB No. 1910–
5171. Merging the two information
collections would not affect any of the
management of the information
collection requests themselves, or
management of the information
collected.
DOE is also proposing to amend the
estimated burden associated with the
PEV Scorecard information collection
request. Initially, DOE envisioned that
only Clean Cities coordinators, of which
there approximately 90 presently,
would avail themselves of the PEV
Scorecard and feedback it will provide.
The PEV Scorecard has been received
enthusiastically by communities beyond
the Clean Cities coalitions. In the first
month, the public was accessing the
PEV Scorecard in numbers
unanticipated, making it such that the
approved limit, 100 respondents, will be
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reached before all Clean Cities
coordinators have an opportunity to
access the PEV Scorecard. To ensure all
Clean Cities coordinators and leaders of
other communities are able to access the
PEV Scorecard, DOE is proposing to
increase the total number of
unduplicated responses, from 100 to
1,250. The number represents the
possible number of participating
communities, which in turn is based on
the approximate number of ‘‘Principal
Cities’’ within Core Based Statistical
Areas (the U.S. Census Bureau defines
there to be approximately 1,250) DOE
wants to increase the number of
potential respondents to ensure all
Clean Cities coordinators are able to
participate, and also to address the
expression of interest on the part of
Clean Cities coordinators to support
multiple municipalities in completing
the PEV Scorecard within their
coalition.
As merged, the amended information
collection request contains: (1) OMB No.
1910–5171; (2) Information Collection
Request Title: Clean Cities Vehicle
Programs; (3) Type of Request:
Amended collection; (4) Purpose: DOE’s
Clean Cities initiative has developed
two voluntary mechanisms by which
communities and certain fleets can get
a better understanding of their readiness
to deploy alternative fuel vehicles and
their progress in doing so. The
voluntary PEV Scorecard is intended 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. See also 77 FR 19275
(March 30, 2012).
For the PEV Scorecard information
collection request, DOE now expects
that many communities beyond simply
the Clean Cities coalitions 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 1,250 respondents.
Selecting the multiple choice answers in
completing a scorecard questionnaire is
expected to take under 30 minutes,

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Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 122 / Tuesday, June 25, 2013 / Notices

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 25,625
hours. Assembling information to
update questionnaire answers in the
future 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;
For the Clean Fleets Partnership
information collection request, the
Partnership is targeted at large, privatesector fleets that own or have
contractual control over at least 50
percent of their vehicles and have
vehicles operating in multiple States.
DOE expects approximately 50 fleets to
participate in the Partnership and, as a
result, DOE expects a total respondent
population of approximately 50
respondents. Providing initial baseline
information for each participating fleet,
which occurs only once, is expected to
take 60 minutes. Follow-up questions
and clarifications for the purpose of
ensuring accurate analyses are expected
to take up to 90 minutes. The total
burden is expected to be 125 hours.
The combined burden for the two
information collections is 25,750 hours.
(5) Type of Respondents: Public; (6)
Annual Estimated Number of
Respondents for both information
collections: 1,300; (7) Annual Estimated
Number of Total Responses: 1,300; (7)
Annual Estimated Number of Burden
Hours: 25,750 (25,625 for PEV
Scorecard, and 125 for Clean Fleets
Partnership); and (8) Annual Estimated
Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost
Burden: There is no cost associated with
reporting and recordkeeping.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 13233; 42 U.S.C.
13252 (a)–(b); 42 U.S.C. 13255.
Issued in Washington, DC, on: June 12,
2013.
Patrick B. Davis,
Director, Vehicle Technologies Office, Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
[FR Doc. 2013–15126 Filed 6–24–13; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 349–000]

Alabama Power Company; Notice of
Authorization for Continued Project
Operation
On June 5, 2008, the Alabama Power
Company, licensee for the Martin Dam

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Hydroelectric Project, filed an
Application for a New License pursuant
to the Federal Power Act (FPA) and the
Commission’s regulations thereunder.
The Martin Dam Hydroelectric Project is
located on Tallapoosa River, in
Tallapoosa, Coosa, and Elmore counties.
The license for Project No. 349 was
issued for a period ending June 8, 2013.
Section 15(a)(1) of the FPA, 16 U.S.C.
808(a)(1), requires the Commission, at
the expiration of a license term, to issue
from year-to-year an annual license to
the then licensee under the terms and
conditions of the prior license until a
new license is issued, or the project is
otherwise disposed of as provided in
section 15 or any other applicable
section of the FPA. If the project’s prior
license waived the applicability of
section 15 of the FPA, then, based on
section 9(b) of the Administrative
Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 558(c), and as
set forth at 18 CFR 16.21(a), if the
licensee of such project has filed an
application for a subsequent license, the
licensee may continue to operate the
project in accordance with the terms
and conditions of the license after the
minor or minor part license expires,
until the Commission acts on its
application. If the licensee of such a
project has not filed an application for
a subsequent license, then it may be
required, pursuant to 18 CFR 16.21(b),
to continue project operations until the
Commission issues someone else a
license for the project or otherwise
orders disposition of the project.
If the project is subject to section 15
of the FPA, notice is hereby given that
an annual license for Project No. 349 is
issued to the licensee for a period
effective June 9, 2013 through June 8,
2014 or until the issuance of a new
license for the project or other
disposition under the FPA, whichever
comes first. If issuance of a new license
(or other disposition) does not take
place on or before June 8, 2014, notice
is hereby given that, pursuant to 18 CFR
16.18(c), an annual license under
section 15(a)(1) of the FPA is renewed
automatically without further order or
notice by the Commission, unless the
Commission orders otherwise.
If the project is not subject to section
15 of the FPA, notice is hereby given
that the licensee, Alabama Power
Company, is authorized to continue
operation of the Martin Dam
Hydroelectric Project, until such time as
the Commission acts on its application
for a subsequent license.

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Dated: June 18, 2013.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013–15069 Filed 6–24–13; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
Combined Notice of Filings
Take notice that the Commission has
received the following Natural Gas
Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings:
Filings Instituting Proceedings
Docket Numbers: RP13–975–000.
Applicants: Millennium Pipeline
Company, LLC.
Description: System Map Update to be
effective 7/12/2013.
Filed Date: 6/11/13.
Accession Number: 20130611–5101.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/24/13.
Docket Numbers: RP13–976–000.
Applicants: Gulf Crossing Pipeline
Company LLC.
Description: Amendment to Neg Rate
Agmt (Devon 10–9, 10) to be effective 6/
13/2013.
Filed Date: 6/12/13.
Accession Number: 20130612–5059.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/24/13.
Any person desiring to intervene or
protest in any of the above proceedings
must file in accordance with Rules 211
and 214 of the Commission’s
Regulations (18 CFR § 385.211 and
§ 385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern
time on the specified comment date.
Protests may be considered, but
intervention is necessary to become a
party to the proceeding.
Filings in Existing Proceedings
Docket Numbers: RP12–1006–000.
Applicants: Colorado Interstate Gas
Company LLC.
Description: Compliance Report of
Colorado Interstate Gas Company, L.L.C.
Filed Date: 6/11/13.
Accession Number: 20130611–5151.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/24/13.
Docket Numbers: RP12–1100–000.
Applicants: Wyoming Interstate
Company, L.L.C.
Description: Compliance Report of
Wyoming Interstate Company, L.L.C.
Filed Date: 6/11/13.
Accession Number: 20130611–5152.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/24/13.
Any person desiring to protest in any
of the above proceedings must file in
accordance with Rule 211 of the
Commission’s Regulations (18 CFR
§ 385.211) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern
time on the specified comment date.

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