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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. 

[FR Doc. 2012–16465 Filed 7–3–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

State Energy Advisory Board (STEAB) 

AGENCY: Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open teleconference. 

SUMMARY: 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 

copying within 60 days on the STEAB 

Web site, www.steab.org. 

Issued at Washington, DC, on June 28, 

2012. 

LaTanya R. Butler, 

Acting Deputy Committee Management 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–16463 Filed 7–3–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Submission for Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) review; 

comment request. 

SUMMARY: 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 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 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 

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. 

[FR Doc. 2012–16455 Filed 7–3–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC12–11–000] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities (FERC–725); Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, DOE. 

ACTION: Comment request. 

SUMMARY: 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 


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