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objectives, and compliance with grant 

conditions. The Secretary may also 

consider whether the applicant failed to 

submit a timely performance report or 

submitted a report of unacceptable 

quality. 

In addition, in making a competitive 

grant award, the Secretary also requires 

various assurances including those 

applicable to Federal civil rights laws 

that prohibit discrimination in programs 

or activities receiving Federal financial 

assistance from the Department of 

Education (34 CFR 100.4, 104.5, 106.4, 

108.8, and 110.23). 

3. Special Conditions: Under 2 CFR 

3474.10, the Secretary may impose 

special conditions and, in appropriate 

circumstances, high-risk conditions on a 

grant if the applicant or grantee is not 

financially stable; has a history of 

unsatisfactory performance; has a 

financial or other management system 

that does not meet the standards in 2 

CFR part 200, subpart D; has not 

fulfilled the conditions of a prior grant; 

or is otherwise not responsible. 

VI. Award Administration Information 

1. Award Notices: If your application 

is successful, we notify your U.S. 

Representative and U.S. Senators and 

send you a Grant Award Notification 

(GAN); or we may send you an email 

containing a link to access an electronic 

version of your GAN. We may notify 

you informally, also. 

If your application is not evaluated or 

not selected for funding, we notify you. 

2. Administrative and National Policy 

Requirements: We identify 

administrative and national policy 

requirements in the application package 

and reference these and other 

requirements in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. 

We reference the regulations outlining 

the terms and conditions of an award in 

the Applicable Regulations section of 

this notice and include these and other 

specific conditions in the GAN. The 

GAN also incorporates your approved 

application as part of your binding 

commitments under the grant. 

3. Reporting: (a) If you apply for a 

grant under this competition, you must 

ensure that you have in place the 

necessary processes and systems to 

comply with the reporting requirements 

in 2 CFR part 170 should you receive 

funding under the competition. This 

does not apply if you have an exception 

under 2 CFR 170.110(b). 

(b) At the end of your project period, 

you must submit a final performance 

report, including financial information, 

as directed by the Secretary. If you 

receive a multi-year award, you must 

submit an annual performance report 

that provides the most current 

performance and financial expenditure 

information as directed by the Secretary 

under 34 CFR 75.118. The Secretary 

may also require more frequent 

performance reports under 34 CFR 

75.720(c). For specific requirements on 

reporting, please go to www.ed.gov/

fund/grant/apply/appforms/

appforms.html. 

4. Performance Measures: Under the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act of 1993 (GPRA), the Department has 

developed the following performance 

measures for measuring the overall 

effectiveness of the Demonstration 

Grants for Indian Children program: 

(1) The percentage of the annual 

measurable objectives, as described in 

the application, that are met by grantees; 

and 

(2) The percentage of grantees that 

report a significant increase in 

community collaborative efforts that 

promote college and career readiness of 

Indian children. 

These measures constitute the 

Department’s indicators of success for 

this program. Consequently, we advise 

an applicant for a grant under this 

program to give careful consideration to 

these measures in developing the 

proposed project and identifying the 

method of evaluation. Each grantee will 

be required to provide, in its annual 

performance and final reports, data 

about its progress in meeting these 

measures. 

5. Continuation Awards: In making a 

continuation award under 34 CFR 

75.253, the Secretary considers, among 

other things: Whether a grantee has 

made substantial progress in achieving 

the goals and objectives of the project; 

whether the grantee has expended funds 

in a manner that is consistent with its 

approved application and budget; and, 

if the Secretary has established 

performance measurement 

requirements, the performance targets in 

the grantee’s approved application. In 

making a continuation grant, the 

Secretary also considers whether the 

grantee is operating in compliance with 

the assurances in its approved 

application, including those applicable 

to Federal civil rights laws that prohibit 

discrimination in programs or activities 

receiving Federal financial assistance 

from the Department (34 CFR 100.4, 

104.5, 106.4, 108.8, and 110.23). 

VII. Agency Contact 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David E. Emenheiser, U.S. Department 

of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue 

SW., Room 3W215, Washington, DC 

20202. Telephone: (202) 260–1488 or by 

email: david.emenheiser@ed.gov. 

VIII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

an accessible format (e.g., braille, large 

print, audiotape, or compact disk) on 

request to the program contact person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT in section VII of this notice. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the 

official edition of the Federal Register 

and the Code of Federal Regulations is 

available via the Federal Digital System 

at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you 

can view this document, as well as all 

other documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Adobe Portable Document 

Format (PDF). To use PDF you must 

have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. 

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: April 23, 2015. 

Deborah S. Delisle, 

Assistant Secretary for Elementary and 

Secondary Education. 

[FR Doc. 2015–09832 Filed 4–27–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[OE Docket No. TPF–01] 

Application for Proposed Project for 

Clean Line Plains & Eastern 

Transmission Line 

AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of Application. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) requests public comment on the 

first complete application submitted in 

response to its June 10, 2010 Request for 

Proposals for New or Upgraded 

Transmission Line Projects Under 

Section 1222 of the Energy Policy Act of 

2005 in the Federal Register (75 FR 

32940) (2010 RFP). In response to the 

2010 RFP, Clean Line Energy Partners, 

LLC, submitted an application for its 

Plains & Eastern Clean Line project. The 

project would include an overhead 

±600-kilovolt (kV) high voltage, direct 

current electric transmission system and 

associated facilities with the capacity to 

deliver approximately 3,500 megawatts 


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primarily from renewable energy 

generation facilities in the Oklahoma 

and Texas Panhandle regions to loadserving entities in the Mid-South and 

Southeast United States via an 

interconnection with the Tennessee 

Valley Authority electrical grid. DOE 

has concluded that Clean Line’s 

application was responsive to the 2010 

RFP and is making it available for 

public review. 

DATES: Comments on the application 

must be submitted on or before June 12, 

2015. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be addressed as follows: 1222 Program, 

Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy 

Reliability (OE–20), U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue 

SW., Washington, DC 20585. Electronic 

comments can be emailed to 

plainsandeastern@hq.doe.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Angela Colamaria at 202–287–5387 or 

via electronic mail at 

Angela.Colamaria@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to section 1222 of the Energy Policy Act 

of 2005 (EPAct) (42 U.S.C. 16421), the 

Secretary of Energy, acting through the 

Southwestern Power Administration 

(Southwestern) or the Western Area 

Power Administration (Western), has 

the authority to design, develop, 

construct, operate, maintain, or own, or 

participate with other entities in 

designing, developing, constructing, 

operating, maintaining, or owning two 

types of projects: (a) Electric power 

transmission facilities and related 

facilities needed to upgrade existing 

transmission facilities owned by 

Southwestern or Western (42 U.S.C. 

16421(a)), or (b) new electric power 

transmission facilities and related 

facilities located within any State in 

which Southwestern or Western 

operates (42 U.S.C. 16421(b)). In 

carrying out either type of section 1222 

project (Project), the Secretary may 

accept and use funds contributed by 

another entity for the purpose of 

executing the Project (42 U.S.C. 

16421(c)). 

In order to exercise the authority to 

engage in these activities under section 

1222, the Secretary, in consultation with 

the applicable Power Marketing 

Administrator, must first determine that 

a proposed Project satisfies certain 

statutory criteria: 

i. The proposed Project must be 

either: 

(A) Located in an area designated 

under section 216(a) of the Federal 

Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824p(a)) and will 

reduce congestion of electric 

transmission in interstate commerce; or 

(B) Necessary to accommodate an 

actual or projected increase in demand 

for electric transmission capacity; 

ii. The proposed Project must be 

consistent with both: 

(A) Transmission needs identified, in 

a transmission expansion plan or 

otherwise, by the appropriate 

Transmission Organization (as defined 

in the Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 

791a et seq.) if any, or approved regional 

reliability organization; and 

(B) Efficient and reliable operation of 

the transmission grid; 

iii. The proposed Project will be 

operated in conformance with prudent 

utility practice; 

iv. The proposed Project will be 

operated by, or in conformance with the 

rules of, the appropriate Transmission 

Organization, if any; or if such an 

organization does not exist, regional 

reliability organization; and 

v. The proposed Project will not 

duplicate the functions of existing 

transmission facilities or proposed 

facilities which are the subject of 

ongoing or approved siting and related 

permitting proceedings. 

In June 2010, DOE issued Request for 

Proposals for New or Upgraded 

Transmission Line Projects Under 

Section 1222 of the Energy Policy Act of 

2005 (75 FR 32940) (2010 RFP). To be 

responsive to the 2010 RFP, the 

application must demonstrate how the 

proposed Project meets all of the above 

statutory criteria, as well as several 

additional criteria, including, but not 

limited to, the following: 

1. Whether the Project is in the public 

interest; 

2. Whether the Project will facilitate 

the reliable delivery of power generated 

by renewable resources; 

3. The benefits and impacts of the 

Project in each state it traverses, 

including economic and environmental 

factors; 

4. The technical viability of the 

Project, considering engineering, 

electrical, and geographic factors; and 

5. The financial viability of the 

Project. 

In response to the 2010 RFP, Clean 

Line Energy Partners LLC of Houston, 

Texas, the parent company of Plains and 

Eastern Clean Line LLC and Plains and 

Eastern Clean Line Oklahoma LLC 

(collectively referred to with its 

subsidiaries as Clean Line or the 

Applicant) submitted a proposal to DOE 

in July 2010 for the Plains & Eastern 

Clean Line Project. In August 2011, 

Clean Line modified the proposal. In 

December 2014, DOE requested 

additional information from the 

Applicant to supplement and update its 

original application. This ‘‘Part II’’ 

application and other documentation 

are now available for a 45-day public 

comment period. 

Clean Line proposes to construct an 

overhead ±600-kilovolt (kV), high 

voltage direct current (HVDC) electric 

transmission system and associated 

facilities with the capacity to deliver 

approximately 3,500 megawatts 

primarily from renewable energy 

generation facilities in the Oklahoma 

and Texas Panhandle regions to loadserving entities in the Mid-South and 

Southeast United States via an 

interconnection with the Tennessee 

Valley Authority electrical grid. Major 

associated facilities identified in the 

application consist of converter stations; 

an approximate 720-mile, ±600kV 

HVDC transmission line; an alternating 

current (AC) collection system; and 

access roads. Clean Line requests that 

Southwestern participate in 

development of the facilities in 

Oklahoma and Arkansas. As part of 

their environmental review of the 

project pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), DOE 

has identified and analyzed potential 

environmental impacts for several 

additional alternatives. These 

alternatives include an Arkansas 

converter station (capable of supplying 

an additional 500 megawatts of energy 

into the Arkansas electrical grid) and 

alternative routes for the HVDC 

transmission line. 

Procedural Matters: Prior to making a 

determination whether or not to 

participate in the proposed Project, 

DOE, in consultation with 

Southwestern, must evaluate the 

proposed Project for compliance with 

section 1222 of EPAct, the criteria in the 

2010 RFP, and NEPA. On December 21, 

2012, DOE issued a Notice of Intent to 

Draft an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS; 77 FR 75623) pursuant 

to NEPA. On December 17, 2014, DOE 

issued a Notice of Availability and 

announced public hearings for the Draft 

EIS (79 FR 75132). DOE made the Draft 

EIS available on DOE’s Plains & Eastern 

EIS Web site 

(www.PlainsandEasternEIS.com) and 

the DOE NEPA Web site 

(www.energy.gov/nepa). The Draft EIS 

assesses the potential environmental 

effects of participating in the proposed 

Project. DOE hosted fifteen public 

hearings across the proposed Project 

area. The public comment period for the 

NEPA review is scheduled to end on 

April 20, 2015. DOE will address the 

public comments in the Final EIS, 

which will inform the Department’s 

determination. 

In addition to conducting a NEPA 

review, DOE is conducting due 


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diligence on other factors related to the 

statutory criteria identified above. 

DOE’s review will include making all 

required statutory findings and will 

consider all criteria listed in section 

1222 of EPAct, as well as all factors 

included in DOE’s 2010 RFP. This due 

diligence is the reason for today’s 

notice. DOE is requesting comments on 

whether the proposed Project meets the 

statutory criteria and the factors 

identified within the 2010 RFP. 

Any person may comment on the 

application by filing such comment at 

the address provided above. Copies of 

the application are available by 

accessing the program Web site at 

http://www.energy.gov/oe/services/

electricity-policy-coordination-andimplementation/transmission-planning/

section-1222-0. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on April 23, 

2015. 

Patricia A. Hoffman, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office 

of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability. 

[FR Doc. 2015–09941 Filed 4–27–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Notice of Staff Attendance at 

Southwest Power Pool Regional Entity 

Trustee, Regional State Committee, 

Members’ and Board of Directors’ 

Meetings 

The Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission (Commission) hereby gives 

notice that members of its staff may 

attend the meetings of the Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. (SPP) Regional Entity 

Trustee (RE), Regional State Committee 

(RSC), SPP Members Committee and 

Board of Directors, as noted below. 

Their attendance is part of the 

Commission’s ongoing outreach efforts. 

All meetings will be held at the Tulsa 

Hyatt Regency Downtown, 100 East 

Second Street, Tulsa, OK 74103. 

SPP RE 

April 27, 2015 (8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.) 

SPP RSC 

April 27, 2015 (1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.) 

SPP Members/Board of Directors 

April 28, 2015 (8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.) 

The discussions may address matters 

at issue in the following proceedings: 

Docket No. EL05–19, Southwestern 

Public Service Company 

Docket No. ER05–168, Southwestern 

Public Service Company 

Docket No. ER06–274, Southwestern 

Public Service Company 

Docket No. ER09–35, Tallgrass 

Transmission, LLC 

Docket No. ER09–36, Prairie Wind 

Transmission, LLC 

Docket No. ER09–548, ITC Great Plains, 

LLC 

Docket No. EL11–34, Midcontinent 

Independent System Operator, Inc. 

Docket No. ER11–1844, Midcontinent 

Independent System Operator, Inc. 

Docket No. ER11–4105, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. EL12–28, Xcel Energy 

Services Inc., et al. 

Docket No. EL12–59, Golden Spread 

Electric Cooperative, Inc. 

Docket No. EL12–60, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc., et al. 

Docket No. ER12–480, Midcontinent 

Independent System Operator, Inc. 

Docket No. ER12–959, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER12–1179, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER12–1586, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER13–366, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER13–367, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER13–1173, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER13–1864, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER13–1937, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER13–1939, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. EL14–21, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. EL14–30, Midcontinent 

Independent System Operator, Inc. 

Docket No. EL14–93, Kansas 

Corporation Commission v. Westar 

Energy, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–67, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–781, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–1174, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–1713, Midcontinent 

Independent System Operator, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–2022, Midcontinent 

Independent System Operator, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–2081, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–2107, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–2363, Southwestern 

Public Service Company 

Docket No. ER14–2399, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–2445, Midcontinent 

Independent System Operator, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–2553, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–2570, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–2850, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–2851, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–10, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–21, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–279, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–509, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–534, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–763, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–879, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–929, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–964, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–990, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–1139, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–1140, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–1152, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–1163, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–1228, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–1293, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–1304, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–1340, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–1370, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–1401, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER15–1414, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

These meetings are open to the 

public. 

For more information, contact Patrick 

Clarey, Office of Energy Market 

Regulation, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission at (317) 249–5937 or 

patrick.clarey@ferc.gov. 

Dated: April 16, 2015. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–09749 Filed 4–27–15; 8:45 am] 

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