38020 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 122 / Tuesday, June 25, 2013 / Notices 

or via postal mail, commercial delivery, 

or hand delivery. Please note that 

comments submitted by fax or email 

and those submitted after the comment 

period will not be accepted. Written 

requests for information or comments 

submitted by postal mail or delivery 

should be addressed to the Director of 

the Information Collection Clearance 

Division, U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, Room 

2E117, Washington, DC 20202–4537. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Electronically mail 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please do not 

send comments here. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Education (ED), in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general 

public and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed, 

revised, and continuing collections of 

information. This helps the Department 

assess the impact of its information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand the 

Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. ED is 

soliciting comments on the proposed 

information collection request (ICR) that 

is described below. The Department of 

Education is especially interested in 

public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) Is this collection 

necessary to the proper functions of the 

Department; (2) will this information be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might the Department enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might the Department minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

Title of Collection: Application for the 

Investing in Innovation (i3) grants 

program. 

OMB Control Number: 1855–0021. 

Type of Review: An extension of an 

existing information collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local, or Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 2,200. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 117,000. 

Abstract: The Investing in Innovation 

(i3) Fund was established under section 

14007 of the American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). 

Since this is a competitive program, the 

Department needs to collect 

applications in order to determine 

which eligible applicants should receive 

a grant award. The Department will 

make three types of awards under this 

program: Scale-up Grants, Validation 

Grants, and Development Grants. These 

grants will provide funding to support 

local educational agencies (LEAs), and 

nonprofit organizations in partnership 

with one or more LEAs or a consortium 

of schools to apply for funding to 

expand and develop innovate practices 

that can serve as models of best 

practices; allow eligible entities to work 

in partnership with the private sector 

and the philanthropic community; and 

identify and document best practices 

that can be shared and taken to scale 

based on demonstrated success. 

Dated: June 19, 2013. 

Tomakie Washington, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2013–15091 Filed 6–24–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Agency Information Collection 

Extension 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE), pursuant to the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, intends to 

reinstate for three years an information 

collection request with the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the extended collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency; (b) the 

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

proposed information collection must 

be received on or before August 26, 

2013. If you anticipate difficulty in 

submitting comments within that 

period, contact the person listed below 

as soon as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

sent to Mark Westergard, U.S. 

Department of Energy, LPO–70, Room 

4B–160, 1000 Independence Avenue 

SW., Washington, DC 20585 or by fax at 

202–287–6949. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mark S. Westergard, LPO.Paperwork

ReductionAct.Comments@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

(1) Information Collection Request 

Title:10 CFR Part 609—Loan Guarantees 

for Projects that Employ Innovative 

Technologies; (2) Type of Request: 

Reinstatement (3) Purpose: This 

information collection package covers 

collection of information necessary to 

evaluate applications for loan 

guarantees submitted under Title XVII 

of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, as 

amended, 42 U.S.C. 16511–16516. 

Applications for loan guarantees 

submitted to DOE in response to a 

solicitation must contain certain 

information. This information will be 

used to analyze whether a project is 

eligible for a loan guarantee and to 

evaluate the application under criteria 

specified in 10 CFR Part 609. The 

collection of this information is critical 

to ensure that the government has 

sufficient information to determine 

whether applicants meet the eligibility 

requirements to qualify for a DOE loan 

guarantee and to provide DOE with 

sufficient information to evaluate an 

applicant’s project using the criteria 

specified in 10 CFR Part 609; (5) Annual 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 100 

Pre-Applications/10 Full Applications; 

(6) Annual Estimated Number of Total 

Responses: It is estimated that the total 

number of annual responses will not 

exceed 100; (7) Annual Estimated 

Number of Burden Hours: 13,000 hours, 

most of which is likely to be time 

committed by firms that seek debt and/ 

or equity financing for their projects, 

regardless of their intent to apply for a 

DOE loan guarantee; (8) Annual 

Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping 

Cost Burden: It is estimated that the 

annual estimated reporting and 

recordkeeping cost burden for 

applicants will not exceed $25,000 per 

annum. 

Authority: Title XVII of the Energy Policy 

Act of 2005 42 U.S.C. §§ 16511–16516 

authorizes the collection of information. 

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Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 122 / Tuesday, June 25, 2013 / Notices 38021 

Issued in Washington, DC, on June 18, 

2013. 

Susan Richardson, 

Acting Executive Director, Loan Programs 

Office. 

[FR Doc. 2013–15123 Filed 6–24–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

Proposed Amendment of 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 is 

proposing to merge two information 

collections into one more broad 

collection, one of which is approved 

and one of which was previously 

proposed pursuant to the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. The approved 

collection is being used to develop a 

scorecard that will assist DOE’s Clean 

Cities coalitions and stakeholders in 

assessing the level of readiness of their 

communities for plug-in electric 

vehicles (PEV). Information collected 

via the scorecard is intended to 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. The other, previously 

proposed information collection would 

be used to develop information that will 

enable DOE to measure the impact and 

progress of DOE’s National Clean Fleets 

Partnership (Partnership). The 

Partnership is an initiative through 

which DOE provides large private-sector 

fleets with technical assistance and 

expertise to incorporate alternative fuels 

and fuel saving measures into their 

operations successfully. The initiative 

builds on the established success of 

DOE’s Clean Cities Program. The 

Partnership was developed with input 

from fleet managers, industry 

representatives, Clean Cities program 

staff, and Clean Cities coordinators. 

DOE is also proposing to amend the PEV 

Scorecard information collection 

request by expanding the number of 

entities estimated to participate in the 

voluntary PEV Scorecard information 

collection. 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

collection must be received on or before 

July 25, 2013. 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 

Mr. Dennis Smith, 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 

Dennis.Smith@ee.doe.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Dennis Smith at the address listed above 

in ADDRESSES. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PEV 

Scorecard information collection was 

previously proposed and available for 

public comment. See 77 FR 19275 

(March 30, 2012) and 77 FR 39690 (July 

5, 2012) and has since been cleared for 

use under OMB No. 1910–5171. The 

Clean Fleets Partnership information 

collection request also was previously 

proposed and available for public 

comment. See 77 FR 65374 (October 26, 

2012) and 78 FR 14519 (March 6, 2013). 

Because both requests were developed 

by and for the DOE Clean Cities 

Program, DOE is proposing to merge 

these two requests so that they would 

operate under the same OMB No. 1910– 

5171. Merging the two information 

collections would not affect any of the 

management of the information 

collection requests themselves, or 

management of the information 

collected. 

DOE is also proposing to amend the 

estimated burden associated with the 

PEV Scorecard information collection 

request. Initially, DOE envisioned that 

only Clean Cities coordinators, of which 

there approximately 90 presently, 

would avail themselves of the PEV 

Scorecard and feedback it will provide. 

The PEV Scorecard has been received 

enthusiastically by communities beyond 

the Clean Cities coalitions. In the first 

month, the public was accessing the 

PEV Scorecard in numbers 

unanticipated, making it such that the 

approved limit, 100 respondents, will be 

reached before all Clean Cities 

coordinators have an opportunity to 

access the PEV Scorecard. To ensure all 

Clean Cities coordinators and leaders of 

other communities are able to access the 

PEV Scorecard, DOE is proposing to 

increase the total number of 

unduplicated responses, from 100 to 

1,250. The number represents the 

possible number of participating 

communities, which in turn is based on 

the approximate number of ‘‘Principal 

Cities’’ within Core Based Statistical 

Areas (the U.S. Census Bureau defines 

there to be approximately 1,250) DOE 

wants to increase the number of 

potential respondents to ensure all 

Clean Cities coordinators are able to 

participate, and also to address the 

expression of interest on the part of 

Clean Cities coordinators to support 

multiple municipalities in completing 

the PEV Scorecard within their 

coalition. 

As merged, the amended information 

collection request contains: (1) OMB No. 

1910–5171; (2) Information Collection 

Request Title: Clean Cities Vehicle 

Programs; (3) Type of Request: 

Amended collection; (4) Purpose: DOE’s 

Clean Cities initiative has developed 

two voluntary mechanisms by which 

communities and certain fleets can get 

a better understanding of their readiness 

to deploy alternative fuel vehicles and 

their progress in doing so. The 

voluntary PEV Scorecard is intended 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. See also 77 FR 19275 

(March 30, 2012). 

For the PEV Scorecard information 

collection request, DOE now expects 

that many communities beyond simply 

the Clean Cities coalitions 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 1,250 respondents. 

Selecting the multiple choice answers in 

completing a scorecard questionnaire is 

expected to take under 30 minutes, 

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