Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 102 / Wednesday, May 28, 2014 / Notices 30597 

Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463, 86 Stat. 

770) requires that public notice of this 

meeting be announced in the Federal 

Register. 

DATES: Wednesday, June 11, 2014, 6:00 

p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Department of Energy 

Information Center, Office of Science 

and Technical Information, 1 

Science.gov Way, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 

37830. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Melyssa P. Noe, Federal Coordinator, 

Department of Energy Oak Ridge 

Operations Office, P.O. Box 2001, EM– 

90, Oak Ridge, TN 37831. Phone (865) 

241–3315; Fax (865) 576–0956 or email: 

noemp@emor.doe.gov or check the Web 

site at http://energy.gov/orem/services/

community-engagement/oak-ridge-sitespecific-advisory-board. 

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. 

Tentative Agenda 

• Welcome and Announcements 

• Comments from the Deputy 

Designated Federal Officer 

• Comments from the DOE, Tennessee 

Department of Environment and 

Conservation, and Environmental 

Protection Agency Liaisons 

• Public Comment Period 

• Presentation 

• Additions/Approval of Agenda 

• Motions/Approval of May 14, 2014 

Meeting Minutes 

• Status of Recommendations with DOE 

• Committee Reports 

• Federal Coordinator Report 

• Adjourn 

Public Participation: The EM SSAB, 

Oak Ridge, 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 Melyssa P. 

Noe at least seven days in advance of 

the meeting at the phone number listed 

above. Written statements may be filed 

with the Board either before or after the 

meeting. Individuals who wish to make 

oral statements pertaining to the agenda 

item should contact Melyssa P. Noe at 

the address or telephone number listed 

above. 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 by 

writing or calling Melyssa P. Noe at the 

address and phone number listed above. 

Minutes will also be available at the 

following Web site: http://energy.gov/

orem/services/community-engagement/

oak-ridge-site-specific-advisory-board. 

Issued at Washington, DC, on May 20, 

2014. 

LaTanya R. Butler, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2014–12331 Filed 5–27–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

SunShot Catalyst Program 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice; Release of competition 

rules and processes to compete. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) gives notice of the availability of 

the SunShot Catalyst Program prize 

competition rules. The Program is a 

series of prize-based contests designed 

to incentivize the public to address 

time-sensitive market problems in solar. 

The Program consists of four steps 

(Ideation, Business Innovation, 

Prototyping, and Incubation) with value 

awarded to all winning contestants 

totaling $1,000,000, which includes 

approximately $500,000 in cash prizes. 

DATES: Submission to the Ideation step 

began May 21, 2014, and must be 

received electronically by June 20, 2014. 

Submission to the Business Innovation 

step begins July 24, 2014, and must be 

received electronically by August 13, 

2014. All dates are subject to change. 

Other important dates are provided 

online at catalyst.energy.gov. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons can find 

full details about the competition rules 

and register to participate online at 

catalyst.energy.gov. Questions about the 

prize competition can be sent to: 

• Email: sunshot.catalyst@ee.doe.gov. 

• Mail: Mr. Victor Kane, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Mailstop EE–4S, 

1000 Independence Avenue, 

Washington, DC 20585. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions may be directed to Mr. Victor 

Kane at (202) 287–1862 or by email at: 

sunshot.catalyst@ee.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

America COMPETES Reauthorization 

Act of 2010 (America COMPETES), 

Public Law 111–358, enacted January 4, 

2011, authorizes Federal agencies to 

issue competitions to stimulate 

innovations in technology, education, 

and science. The SunShot Catalyst 

Program consists of four steps with 

value awarded to all winning 

contestants totaling $1,000,000, which 

includes approximately $500,000 in 

cash prizes. The following is only a 

summary of each step. For more 

information please review the full 

details online at catalyst.energy.gov. 

Contest rules are subject to change. 

Eligibility: The Contest is open only 

to: (a) Citizens or permanent residents of 

the United States; and (b) private 

entities, such as corporations or other 

organizations that are incorporated in 

and maintain a primary place of 

business in the United States. 

Individuals submitting on behalf of 

corporations, nonprofits, or groups of 

individuals (such as an academic class 

or other team) must meet the eligibility 

requirements for individual 

participants. An individual may join 

more than one team, corporation, or 

nonprofit organization. DOE employees, 

employees of sponsoring organizations, 

and members of their immediate family 

(spouses, children, siblings, parents), 

and persons living in the same 

household as such persons, whether or 

not related, are not eligible to 

participate in any portion of the 

SunShot Catalyst Program. Federal 

entities and Federal employees, acting 

within the scope of their employment, 

are also not eligible to participate in any 

portion of the SunShot Catalyst 

Program. 

Step 1: The Ideation Contest focuses 

on generating and aggregating pressing 

U.S. solar market needs and problem 

statements that can be solved through 

automation, algorithms, data, and 

software, especially by leveraging 

available data assets, tools, capabilities 

and resources. Anyone can participate 

in this contest by submitting problem 

statements online or by voting on 

existing submissions of problem 

statements during the active voting 

period. There will be five monetary 

prizes of $1,000 each, based on the 

results of a subsequent Incubation 

Contest (Step 4). A contestant with a 

problem statement, in the Ideation 

Contest, may win $1,000 in cash prizes, 

when a team, who adopted this 

referenced problem statement in their 

business solution, has been selected 

among top five winners in the 

Incubation Contest. 


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Submission Period Began: Wednesday 

May 21, 2014 at 11:59 a.m. ET. 

Submission Period Ends: Friday June 

20, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. ET. 

Step 2: The Business Innovation 

Contest is designed to help teams form 

and explore business solutions to the 

most compelling problems in increasing 

solar energy generation, especially 

problems and challenges expressed by 

the public during Step 1, the Ideation 

Contest. Anyone can participate in this 

Contest by submitting a business plan 

package online featuring a five minute 

video describing the proposed business 

plan. Winners of Step 2 will be given 

the opportunity to participate in the 

next contest, Prototyping (Step 3). DOE 

will grant access to $25,000 worth of 

online software development 

capabilities for every winner of Step 2. 

Winners will be selected based on the 

degree to which their business plan 

addresses a time-sensitive market 

problem in the solar industry. Up to 20 

winners will be given the opportunity to 

work directly with a crowd-centric 

performance-based software 

development platform (PSDP) for 60 

days to develop the product proposed in 

their business plan and complete 

minimum viable products (MVPs). 

Submission Period Begins: Thursday 

July 24, 2014 at 11:59 a.m. ET. 

Submission Period Ends: Wednesday 

August 13, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. ET. 

Step 3: The Prototyping stage is 

designed to help the selected winners 

from the Business Innovation Contest 

(Step 2) rapidly complete the 

development of minimum viable 

products (MVPs) using a crowd-centric, 

performance-based software 

development platform. DOE will match 

winners of stage 2 with a DOE provided 

software developer. The software 

developer will work with the winners to 

provide the technology solutions to 

support their business plan. 

Step 4: The Incubation Contest is 

designed to help teams with minimum 

viable products (MVPs) completed 

during a prior Step 3 (Prototyping) start 

their businesses and accelerate offering 

new products and services in the solar 

marketplace. To win cash awards, teams 

have to participate in a publically held 

event, Demonstration (Demo) Day, 

managed by DOE to showcase their 

MVPs, market entry execution strategy, 

and a 6-month growth plan. During 

Demo Day, Teams will be evaluated by 

judges selected in accordance with 

America COMPETES. The top five 

winners may receive a maximum total 

of $100,000 in cash prizes, per winning 

team. Funds will be distributed in two 

tranches as a seed round and a progress 

round. The first tranche seed round of 

$30,000 will be given to the five top 

teams that participate in Demo Day. 

Winners will be selected based on the 

degree to which their minimum viable 

product addresses a time-sensitive 

market problem in the solar industry. 

Those teams will be eligible for a second 

tranche progress round of $70,000 as a 

follow-on cash award based on the 

Team’s success in meeting its targets 

and goals as identified in its 6-month 

growth plan. Demo Date: January 19– 

February 09, 2015. Seed Round 1st 

Tranche Cash Awards Announcement 

Date: Monday February 09, 2015. 6- 

month Assessment Period Ends: 

Monday August 10, 2015 at 11:59 p.m. 

ET. Progress Round Awards and 2nd 

Tranche Cash Prizes Announcement 

Date: September 10–20, 2015. 

All dates are subject to change. For 

more details please visit 

catalyst.energy.gov. 

Dated: May 20, 2014. 

Steven G. Chalk, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–12290 Filed 5–27–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC14–14–000] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities (FERC–519); Comment 

Request; Extension 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection 

and request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 USC 

3506(c)(2)(A), the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission or 

FERC) is soliciting public comment on 

the currently approved information 

collection, Application under Federal 

Power Act Section 203. 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information are due July 28, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

(identified by Docket No. IC14–14–000) 

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 

docket or in viewing/downloading 

comments and issuances in this docket 

may do so at http://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/docs-filing.asp. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ellen Brown may be reached by email 

at DataClearance@FERC.gov, telephone 

at (202) 502–8663, and fax at (202) 273– 

0873. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: FERC–519, Application under 

Federal Power Act Section 203. 

OMB Control No.: 1902–0082. 

Type of Request: Three-year extension 

of the FERC–519 information collection 

requirements with no changes to the 

current reporting requirements. 

Abstract: The FERC–519, 

‘‘Application under Federal Power Act 

Section 203,’’ is necessary to enable the 

Commission to carry out its 

responsibilities in implementing the 

statutory provisions of Section 203 of 

the Federal Power Act (FPA), 16 U.S.C. 

824b. Section 203 authorizes the 

Commission to grant approval of 

transactions in which a public utility 

disposes of jurisdictional facilities, 

merges such facilities with the facilities 

owned by another person or acquires 

the securities of another public utility. 

Under this statute, the Commission 

must find that the proposed transaction 

will be consistent with the public 

interest. 

Under section 203 of the FPA, FERC 

must review proposed mergers, 

acquisitions and dispositions of 

jurisdictional facilities by public 

utilities, if the value of the facilities 

exceeds $10 million, and must approve 

these transactions if they are consistent 

with the public interest. One of FERC’s 

overarching goals is to promote 

competition in wholesale power 

markets, having determined that 

effective competition, as opposed to 

traditional forms of price regulation, can 

best protect the interests of ratepayers. 

Market power, however, can be 

exercised to the detriment of effective 

competition and customers, making it 

necessary for FERC to review and 

approve or disapprove all jurisdictional 

mergers, dispositions and acquisitions. 

The Commission implements these 

filing requirements in the Code of 

Federal Regulations (CFR) under 18 CFR 

part 33. 


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