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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 238 / Friday, December 11, 2015 / Notices
Issued in Washington, DC on: December 4,
2015.
David Howell,
Acting Director, Vehicle Technologies Office,
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
[FR Doc. 2015–31257 Filed 12–10–15; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy
Proposed Agency Information
Collection
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

The Department of Energy
(DOE) invites public comment on a
proposed collection of information that
DOE is developing for submission to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) pursuant to the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. The proposed
collection in support of the DOE’s Small
Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot will
gather quantitative estimates of the
pilot’s impacts as well as capture
implementation lessons learned. The
information is needed to assess the
impacts of the SBV Pilot, documenting
that the investment is producing the
expected results, and to determine ways
to improve the pilot should it be
expanded in scope.
The SBV Pilot is a funding
mechanism structured to allow small
businesses engaged in the renewable
energy and energy efficiency sectors to
collaborate with researchers at the DOE
National Laboratories and to take
advantage of the resources at the Labs
that assist small businesses in
proceeding through commercialization
challenges. Respondents will include
small businesses participating in the
pilot as well a comparison group of
businesses with Cooperative Research
and Development Agreements (CRADA)
outside of the SBV Pilot.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (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

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on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
DATES: Comments regarding this
proposed information collection must
be received on or before February 9,
2016. If you anticipate difficulty in
submitting comments within that
period, contact the person listed in
ADDRESSES as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be
emailed to: Jeff.Dowd@ee.doe.gov or
mailed to Jeff Dowd, U.S. Department of
Energy, EE–61P, 1000 Independence
Ave. SW., Washington, DC 20585.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
emailed to: Jeff.Dowd@ee.doe.gov.
Requests may also be mailed to Jeff
Dowd, U.S. Department of Energy, EE–
61P, 1000 Independence Ave. SW.,
Washington, DC 20585. Calls may be
directed to Jeff Dowd at (202) 586–7258.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
information collection request contains:
(1) OMB No. ‘‘New’’; (2) Information
Collection Request Title: Web-survey of
Participating and Nonparticipating
Small Businesses for DOE’s Small
Business Vouchers Pilot (3) Type of
Request: New; (4) Purpose: To evaluate
the effectiveness and impacts of DOE’s
Small Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot
program, to capture lessons learned, and
make recommendations; the information
collection will be through a web based
survey, allowing participating SBV
firms and the comparison firms to
answer questions at a time most
convenient for them. The web survey
will consist of two full-length surveys,
conducted once after the first year of
vouchers has been completed and once
five years after the pilot began, and
three abbreviated surveys in the interim
years (years two, three and four). The
first full-length survey (30 minutes in
length for about 70 SBV participants
and about 70 comparison firms) will
stress questions about the application,
selection, work agreement and
completion processes and also ask about
commercialization progress and other
outcomes. The survey in year five (30
minutes in length) will ask about 300
firms participating in SBV from Years
1–4 and about 100 comparison firms
about interest in continuing to engage
with the national Laboratories, but
concentrate on commercialization and
other outcomes and how much the DOE
program contributed to the outcomes.
The abbreviated, interim-year surveys
will be 15 minutes in length and will
provide status updates on SBV pilot

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impacts such as commercialization and
other outcomes. The purpose of also
surveying small business firms that have
completed similar work through the
existing CRADA process is to investigate
similarities and differences in the two
small business engagement programs.
The data collected in the year five
survey will also be used to perform a
benefit-cost calculation and benchmark
comparison of voucher firms to firms in
the DOE Small Business Innovation
Research (SBIR) program, based on
existing SBIR data. (5) Annual
Estimated Number of Respondents Year
1 Survey: 140; Year 5 Survey: 400; Year
2, 3 and 4 Survey: 300. (6) Annual
Estimated Number of Total Responses:
Year 1 Survey: 140; Year 5 Survey: 400;
Year 2, 3 and 4 Survey: 300 (7) Annual
Estimated Number of Burden Hours
(Total): Year 1 Survey: 70; Year 5
Survey: 200; Year 2, 3 and 4 Survey: 75
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: Year 1
Survey: $0; Year 5 Survey: $0; Year 2,
3 and 4 Survey: $0.
Statutory Authority: DOE Org Act (42
U.S.C. 7101, et seq.) and 42 U.S.C. 16191
(AMO authority).
Issued in Washington, DC.
Joyce Yang,
EERE National Laboratory Impact Director,
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy, Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2015–31259 Filed 12–10–15; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. EL00–95–288]

San Diego Gas & Electric Company v.
Sellers of Energy and Ancillary
Services Into Markets Operated by the
California Independent System
Operator Corporation and the
California Power Exchanges; Notice of
Compliance Filing
Take notice that on December 4, 2015,
Exelon Generation Company, LLC.
submitted its Opinion No. 536 Fuel Cost
Allowance Compliance Filing.1
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest this filing must file in
accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of
the Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214).
Protests will be considered by the
1 See San Diego Gas & Electric Company v. Sellers
of Energy and Ancillary Services into Markets
Operated by the California Independent System
Operator Corporation and the California Power
Exchange, Docket No. EL00–95–280 et al., 153
FERC ¶ 61,144 (2015).

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