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7 CFR 4288.13(b) and (c) and in 7 CFR 

4288.24. 

VIII. Application Review and Selection 

Information 

The Agency will evaluate projects 

based on the cost, cost-effectiveness, 

and capacity of projects to reduce fossil 

fuels used. 

A. Review 

The Agency will review applications 

submitted under this Notice in 

accordance with 7 CFR 4288.21(a). 

B. Scoring 

The Agency will score applications 

submitted under this Notice in 

accordance with 7 CFR 4288.21(b). 

C. Ranking and Selecting Applications 

All scored applications will be ranked 

by the Agency as soon after September 

15, 2014 as possible. The Agency will 

consider the score an application has 

received compared to the scores of other 

applications, with higher scoring 

applications receiving first 

consideration for payments. Using the 

application scoring criteria point values 

specified in 7 CFR 4288.21, the Agency 

will select applications for payments. 

D. Availability of Funds 

As applications are funded, if 

insufficient funds remain to pay the 

next highest scoring application, the 

Agency may elect to pay a lower scoring 

application. Before this occurs, the 

Agency will provide the applicant of the 

higher scoring application the 

opportunity to reduce the amount of its 

payment request to the amount of funds 

available. If the applicant agrees to 

lower its payment request, it must 

certify that the purposes of the project 

can be met, and the Agency must 

determine the project is feasible at the 

lower amount. 

IX. Administration Information 

A. Notice of Eligibility 

The provisions of 7 CFR 4288.23 

apply to this Notice. These provisions 

include notifying an applicant 

determined to be eligible for 

participation and notifying an applicant 

determined to be ineligible, including 

their application score and ranking and 

the score necessary to qualify for 

payments. 

B. Administrative and National Policy 

Requirements 

(1) Review or Appeal Rights. A person 

may seek a review of an Agency adverse 

decision or appeal to the National 

Appeals Division as provided in 7 CFR 

4288.3. 

(2) Compliance With Other Laws and 

Regulations. The provisions of 7 CFR 

4288.4 apply to this Notice, which 

includes requiring participating 

biorefineries to be in compliance with 

other applicable Federal, State, and 

local laws. 

(3) Oversight and Monitoring. The 

provisions of 7 CFR 4288.5(a) and (b) 

apply to this Notice, which includes the 

right of the Agency to verify all payment 

applications and subsequent payments 

and the requirement that each 

biorefinery must make available, at one 

place at all reasonable times for 

examination by the Agency, all books, 

documents, papers, receipts, payroll 

records, and bills of sale adequate to 

identify the purposes for which, and the 

manner in which, funds were expended 

for all eligible project costs for a period 

of not less than 3 years from the final 

payment date. 

(4) Reporting. Upon completion of the 

repowering project funded under this 

Notice, the biorefinery must submit a 

report, in accordance with 7 CFR 

4288.5(c), to the Agency annually for 

the first 3 years after completion of the 

project. The reports are to be submitted 

as of October 1 of each year. 

(5) Exception Authority. The 

provisions of 7 CFR 4288.7 apply to this 

Notice. 

(6) Succession and Control of 

Facilities and Production. The 

provisions of 7 CFR 4288.25 apply to 

this Notice. 

C. Environmental Review. All 

recipients under this Notice are subject 

to the requirements of 7 CFR Part 1940, 

subpart G. 

X. Agency Contacts 

For further information about this 

Notice, please contact Fred Petok, 

USDA, Rural Development, Business 

Programs Energy Division, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW., Room 6870, 

STOP 3225, Washington, DC 20250– 

3225. Telephone: 202–690–0784. Email: 

frederick.petok@wdc.usda.gov. 

XI. Nondiscrimination Statement 

USDA prohibits discrimination in all 

its programs and activities on the basis 

of race, color, national origin, age, 

disability, and where applicable, sex, 

marital status, familial status, parental 

status, religion, sexual orientation, 

genetic information, political beliefs, 

reprisal, or because all or part of an 

individual’s income is derived from any 

public assistance program. (Not all 

prohibited bases apply to all programs.) 

Persons with disabilities who require 

alternative means for communication of 

program information (Braille, large 

print, audiotape, etc.) should contact 

USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720– 

2600 (voice and TDD). 

To file a complaint of discrimination, 

write to USDA, Assistant Secretary for 

Civil Rights, Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–9410 or call tollfree at (866) 632–9992 (English) or (800) 

877–8339 (TTD) or (866) 377–8642 

(English Federal-relay) or (800) 845– 

6136 (Spanish Federal-relay). USDA is 

an equal opportunity provider and 

employer. 

Dated: May 20, 2014. 

Ashli Palmer, 

Acting Administrator, Rural BusinessCooperative Service, United State Department 

of Agriculture. 

[FR Doc. 2014–14048 Filed 6–13–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–XY–P 

CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD 

INVESTIGATION BOARD 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: July 16, 2014 12:00 p.m.– 

3:00 p.m. EDT. 

PLACE: Four Points Sheraton, Ballroom, 

600 Kanawha Blvd. E, Charleston, WV 

25301. 

STATUS: Open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: The 

Chemical Safety and Hazard 

Investigation Board (CSB) will convene 

a public meeting on July 16, 2014, 

starting at 12:00 p.m. in the Ballroom at 

the Four Points Sheraton located at 600 

Kanawha Blvd. E, Charleston, WV 

25301. 

At the public meeting, the board will 

hear findings and recommendations 

from the CSB’s investigation team into 

the December 9, 2010, explosion and 

fire which occurred at AL Solutions 

located in New Cumberland, WV. An 

explosion ripped through the New 

Cumberland AL Solutions titanium 

plant in West Virginia on December 9, 

2010, fatally injuring three workers. The 

workers were processing titanium 

powder, which is highly combustible, at 

the time of the explosion. The meeting 

will also provide an update on the 

CSB’s investigation into the January 9, 

2014, tank leak at Freedom Industries 

that contaminated the local water 

supply leaving hundreds of thousands 

of West Virginia residents without clean 

drinking water. 

This public meeting is intended to 

provide members of the public with 

information into how this incident 

occurred and how similar future 

incidents can be prevented or mitigated. 


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Following the staff presentation the 

Board will hear comments from the 

public. All staff presentations are 

preliminary and are intended solely to 

allow the Board to consider in a public 

forum the issues and factors involved in 

this case. No factual analyses, 

conclusions, or findings presented by 

staff should be considered final until 

approved by a vote of the Board. 

Additional Information 

The meeting is free and open to the 

public. If you require a translator or 

interpreter, please notify the individual 

listed below as the ‘‘Contact Person for 

Further Information,’’ at least five 

business days prior to the meeting. 

The CSB is an independent federal 

agency charged with investigating 

industrial chemical accidents. The 

agency’s board members are appointed 

by the President and confirmed by the 

Senate. CSB investigations look into all 

aspects of chemical accidents, including 

physical causes such as equipment 

failure as well as inadequacies in 

regulations, industry standards, and 

safety management systems. 

The Board does not issue citations or 

fines but does make safety 

recommendations to plants, industry 

organizations, labor groups, and 

regulatory agencies such as OSHA and 

EPA. 

Public Comment 

Members of the public are invited to 

make brief statements to the Board at 

the conclusion of the staff presentation. 

The time provided for public statements 

will depend upon the number of people 

who wish to speak. Speakers should 

assume that their presentations will be 

limited to five minutes or less, but 

commenters may submit written 

statements for the record. 

Contact Person for Further Information 

Hillary J. Cohen, Communications 

Manager, hillary.cohen@csb.gov or (202) 

446–8094. General information about 

the CSB can be found on the agency 

Web site at: www.csb.gov. 

Dated: June 12, 2014. 

Rafael Moure-Eraso, 

Chairperson. 

[FR Doc. 2014–14171 Filed 6–12–14; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6350–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau. 

Title: Information and 

Communication Technology Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0909. 

Form Number(s): ICT–1(S), ICT–1(M), 

ICT–1(L). 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Burden Hours: 79,286. 

Number of Respondents: 45,000. 

Average Hours per Response: 1.76 

hours. 

Needs and Uses: Economic 

policymakers are concerned about the 

lack of available data related to 

e-business infrastructure investment. 

Such data are critical for evaluating 

productivity growth, changes in 

industrial capacity, and current 

economic developments. Rapid 

advances in Information and 

Communication Technology (ICT) 

equipment have resulted in these assets 

having short useful lives and being 

replaced faster than other types of 

equipment. Companies are expensing 

the full cost of such assets during the 

current annual period rather than 

capitalizing the value of such assets and 

expensing the cost over two or more 

years. In some cases this is due not only 

to the short useful life of the asset, but 

also to the fact that companies have 

varying dollar levels for capitalization. 

The Annual Capital Expenditures 

Survey (ACES) (OMB Project 0607– 

0782) currently collects summary data 

on business capital expenditures 

annually and detailed data on types of 

structures and equipment every five 

years. The fact that the ACES program 

does not include non-capitalized 

expenditures for e-business 

infrastructure and infrequently collects 

detailed data on types of structures and 

equipment creates serious data gaps. To 

fill these gaps and as a supplement to 

the ACES survey, the Census Bureau 

created the Information and 

Communication Technology Survey 

(ICTS). The ICTS uses the ACES 

sampling, follow-up and estimation 

methodologies including mailing to the 

same employer companies. 

Data users tell us that they need 

comprehensive and consistent data on 

investment by all private non-farm 

businesses in capitalized and noncapitalized ICT equipment and software. 

The objectives of the ICTS are: 

(a) To provide estimates of capitalized 

and non-capitalized ICT equipment 

expenditures for all private non-farm 

sectors of the economy at 3-digit and 

selected 4-digit North American 

Industry Classification System (NAICS) 

levels; 

(b) to base the survey on a probability 

sample that yields measures of 

statistical reliability of the survey 

estimates; 

(c) to produce annual enterprise-level 

data with the level of detail, coverage, 

and quality which was previously 

unavailable; 

(d) to provide detailed data on 

capitalized and non-capitalized ICT 

expenditures for estimating the national 

income and product accounts, 

estimating the productivity of U.S. 

industries, evaluating fiscal and 

monetary policy, and conducting 

research using capitalized and noncapitalized expenditures data; and 

(e) to provide industry analysts with 

necessary data for market analysis, 

economic forecasting, product 

development, and business planning. 

This request is for continuation of a 

currently approved collection and will 

cover the 2013 through 2015 ICTS 

(conducted in fiscal years 2014 through 

2016). Due to budgetary constraints in 

2013, the Census Bureau suspended the 

2012 ICTS. However, funds were 

appropriated for fiscal year 2014 

allowing the Census Bureau to reinstate 

the ICTS for the 2013 survey year. 

We will collect and publish data 

based on the 2012 NAICS. Industries in 

the survey will comprise 3-digit and 

selected 4-digit 2012 NAICS codes. 

The annual ICTS collects data on two 

categories of non-capitalized expenses 

(purchases; and operating leases and 

rental payments), for four types of 

information and communication 

technology equipment and software 

(computers and peripheral equipment; 

ICT equipment, excluding computers 

and peripherals; electromedical and 

electrotherapeutic apparatus; and 

computer software, including payroll 

associated with software development). 

The survey also collects capital 

expenditures data on the four types of 

ICT equipment and software cited 

above. 

In prior ICTS data collection, the 

Census Bureau used mail out/mail back 

survey forms to collect data. Employer 

companies were able to respond via 

Centurion (the Census Bureau’s online 

reporting system), by mail, or by using 

our toll-free number to reply via secure 

facsimile machine. We asked companies 

to respond to the survey within 30 days 

of the initial mailing. If companies did 

not respond by the designated time, 

they received letters and/or telephone 

calls encouraging participation. 

For the 2013 ICTS data collection, the 

Census Bureau will rely primarily on 

electronic reporting. Employer 


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