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1The 60-day notice included the following 

estimate of the aggregate burden hours for this 

generic clearance Federal-wide: 

Average Expected Annual Number of Activities: 

25,000. 

Average Number of Respondents per Activity: 

200. 

Average Responses: 5,000,000. 

Frequency of Responses: Once per request. 

Average Minutes per Response: 30. 

Burden hours: 2,500,000. 

You may also access documents of the 

Department published in the Federal 

Register by using the article search 

feature at: www.federalregister.gov. 

Specifically, through the advanced 

search feature at this site, you can limit 

your search to documents published by 

the Department. 

Dated: August 27, 2012. 

Arne Duncan, 

Secretary of Education. 

[FR Doc. 2012–21446 Filed 8–29–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Bonneville Power Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Generic Clearance 

for the Collection of Qualitative 

Feedback on Agency Service Delivery 

AGENCY: Bonneville Power 

Administration (BPA), DOE. 

ACTION: 30-Day notice of submission of 

information collection approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) and request for comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of a Federal 

Government-wide effort to streamline 

the process to seek feedback from the 

public on service delivery, the 

Bonneville Power Administration has 

submitted a Generic Information 

Collection request (Generic ICR): 

‘‘Generic Clearance for the Collection of 

Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service 

Delivery’’ to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for approval under 

the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 

U.S.C. et seq.). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted by 

September 30, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

submitted to: DOE Desk Officer, Office 

of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Room 10102, 

735 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 

20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information: 

Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, Christopher M. Frost, 

Governance and Internal Controls, 

DGC–7, Bonneville Power 

Administration, 905 NE. 11th Avenue, 

Portland, Oregon 97232. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Generic Clearance for the 

Collection of Qualitative Feedback on 

agency Service Delivery. 

Abstract: The information collection 

activity will garner qualitative customer 

and stakeholder feedback in an efficient, 

timely manner in accordance with the 

Administration’s commitment to 

improving service delivery. Qualitative 

feedback means information that 

provides useful insights on perceptions 

and opinions, but are not statistical 

surveys that yield quantitative results 

that can be generalized to the 

population of study. This feedback will 

provide insights into customer or 

stakeholder perceptions, experiences 

and expectations, provide an early 

warning of issues with service, or focus 

attention on areas where training or 

changes in operations might improve 

delivery of products or services. These 

collections will allow for ongoing, 

collaborative and actionable 

communications between the Agency 

and its customers and stakeholders. It 

will also allow feedback to contribute 

directly to the improvement of program 

management. 

Feedback collected under this generic 

clearance will provide useful 

information, but it will not yield data 

that can be generalized to the overall 

population. This type of generic 

clearance for qualitative information 

will not be used for quantitative 

information collections that are 

designed to yield reliable actionable 

results, such as monitoring trends over 

time or documenting program 

performance. Such data uses require 

more rigorous designs that address: The 

target population to which 

generalizations will be made, the 

sampling frame, the sample design 

(including stratification and clustering), 

the precision requirements or power 

calculations that justify the proposed 

sample size, the expected response rate, 

methods for assessing potential nonresponse bias, the protocols for data 

collection, and any testing procedures 

that were or will be undertaken prior to 

fielding the study. Depending on the 

degree of influence the results are likely 

to have, such collections may still be 

eligible for submission for other generic 

mechanisms that are designed to yield 

qualitative results. 

The 60-day notice was published in 

the Federal Register of December 22, 

2010 (75 FR 80542). 

Below we provide the BPA projected 

average estimates for the next three 

years: 1

Current Actions: New collection of 

information. 

Type of Review: New Collection. 

Affected Public: Individuals and 

Households, Businesses and 

Organizations, State, Local, or Tribal 

Government. 

Average Expected Annual Activities: 

5. 

Respondents: 500. 

Annual Responses: 2,500. 

Frequency of Responses: Once per 

request. 

Average Minutes per Response: 30. 

Burden Hours: 1,250. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid 

Office of Management and Budget 

control number. 

Issued in Portland, Oregon, on August 23, 

2012. 

John L. Hairston, 

Chief Compliance Officer, Agency 

Governance and Compliance. 

[FR Doc. 2012–21445 Filed 8–29–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

U.S. Energy Information 

Administration 

Request to Revise a CurrentlyApproved Data Collection 

AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice and request for OMB 

review and comment. 

SUMMARY: EIA has submitted a request 

to revise a currently-approved data 

collection under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB). EIA proposes changes to the 

data collection requirements for the 

Forms EIA–861, ‘‘Annual Electric Power 

Industry Report,’’ EIA–923, ‘‘Power 

Plant Operations Report,’’ and the 

proposed creation of the Form EIA– 

861S, ‘‘Annual Electric Power Industry 

Report (Short).’’ All collection 

instruments are under OMB Control 

Number 1905–0129. The Form EIA–861 

proposal is to modify the survey frame 

from a census of approximately 3,300 

entities to a sample of approximately 

2,200 entities and to estimate the total 

sales, revenues, and customer counts by 

sector. The Form EIA–861S proposal 

will collect data from the approximately 

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1,100 respondents that will no longer 

report on the Form EIA–861. The Form 

EIA–861S will collect a limited amount 

of sales, revenue, and customer count 

data and, for certain respondents, data 

on time-based rate customers and 

advanced meter reading (Advanced 

Metering Infrastructure/Automatic 

Meter Reading). Once every 5 years, the 

Form EIA–861S respondents will be 

asked to complete the Form EIA–861 in 

lieu of Form EIA–861S for sampling 

methodology purposes. 

The Form EIA–923 proposal involves 

modifying the reporting requirements 

for only Schedule 2, which collects cost 

and quality data of fossil fuel purchases 

at electricity generating plants. The 

proposal is to raise the reporting 

threshold to 200 megawatts (MW) of 

nameplate capacity for power plants 

primarily fueled by natural gas, 

petroleum coke, distillate fuel oil, and 

residual fuel oil. EIA will remove the 

reporting requirement for self-produced 

and minor fuels, i.e., blast furnace gas, 

other manufactured gases, kerosene, jet 

fuel, propoane, and waste oils. The 

reporting threshold for coal plants will 

remain at 50 MW of nameplate capacity. 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

proposed information collection must 

be received on or before October 1, 

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 DOE Desk Officer at OMB of 

your intention to make a submission as 

soon as possible. The Desk Officer may 

be telephoned at 202–395–4718 or 

contacted by email at 

Chad_S_Whiteman@omb.eop.gov. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent to: 

DOE Desk Officer, Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, 735 17th 

Street NW., Washington, DC 20503. 

And to: 

Rebecca A. Peterson, Office of 

Electricity, Renewables, and Uranium 

Statistics, Energy Information 

Administration, Email: 

ERUS2013@eia.gov, Fax: 202–287– 

1938. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Rebecca A. Peterson, 

ERUS2013@eia.gov. Further details are 

available on the ERUS 2013 Web page 

at http://www.eia.gov/survey/changes/ 

electricity/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

(1) OMB No.: 1905–0129; (2) 

Information Collection Request Title: 

Electricity Data Program; (3) Type of 

Request: Revision of a currently 

approved collection; (4) Purpose: The 

Forms EIA–861 and EIA–861S are 

mandatory surveys used to collect retail 

sales of electricity and associated 

revenue from all electric utilities, energy 

service providers, and distribution 

companies in the United States, its 

territories, and Puerto Rico on an annual 

basis. Form EIA–923 Schedule 2 collects 

information from regulated and 

unregulated electric power plants in the 

United States that burn certain fossil 

fuels and meet the reporting threshold. 

Data collected include fuel receipts, 

cost, quality, and coal mine information. 

Data from these three collection 

instruments are published for use by 

Congress and public and private 

analysts to monitor the status and trends 

of the electric power industry. The 

proposed changes to the Forms EIA–861 

and EIA–923 data collections, and the 

proposed creation of the Form EIA– 

861S, are anticipated to reduce 

reporting burden for smaller 

respondents, in particular, and to 

reduce the level of effort EIA requires to 

collect and validate survey data; (5) 

Annual Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 4,376; (6) Annual 

Estimated Number of Total Responses: 

15,354; (7) Annual Estimated Number of 

Burden Hours: 35,934; (8) Annual 

Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping 

Cost Burden: EIA estimates that there 

are no additional costs to respondents 

associated with the surveys other than 

the costs associated with the burden 

hours. 

Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the 

Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974, 

93, codified at 15 U.S.C. 772(b). 

Issued in Washington, DC, on August 24, 

2012. 

Stephanie Brown, 

Director, Office of Survey Development and 

Statistical Integration, U.S. Energy 

Information Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2012–21403 Filed 8–29–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 1256–031] 

Loup River Public Power District; 

Notice of Application Accepted for 

Filing, Soliciting Motions To Intervene 

and Protests, Ready for Environmental 

Analysis, and Soliciting Comments, 

Recommendations, Preliminary Terms 

and Conditions, and Preliminary 

Fishway Prescriptions 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: New Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: 1256–031. 

c. Date filed: April 16, 2012. 

d. Applicant: Loup River Public 

Power District (Loup Power District). 

e. Name of Project: Loup River 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: The existing project is 

located on the Loup River, Loup Canal 

(a diversion canal off the Loup River), 

and Platte River in Nance and Platte 

counties, Nebraska. The project does not 

occupy federal lands. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Neal Suess, 

President/CEO, Loup Power District, 

P.O. Box 988, 2404 15th Street, 

Columbus, Nebraska 68602, Telephone 

(866) 869–2087. 

i. FERC Contact: Lee Emery, 

Telephone (202) 502–8379 or email 

lee.emery@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing motions to 

intervene and protests, comments, 

recommendations, preliminary terms 

and conditions, and preliminary 

prescriptions: 60 days from the issuance 

date of this notice; reply comments are 

due 105 days from the issuance date of 

this notice. 

Motions to intervene, protests, 

comments, recommendations, 

preliminary terms and conditions, and 

preliminary fishway prescriptions may 

be filed electronically via the Internet. 

See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the 

instructions on the Commission’s Web 

site http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

efiling.asp. Commenters can submit 

brief comments up to 6,000 characters, 

without prior registration, using the 

eComment system at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

ecomment.asp. You must include your 

name and contact information at the end 

of your comments. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll 

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