6018 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 22 / Wednesday, February 4, 2009 / Notices 

Germantown Building, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–1290. The most 

current information concerning this 

meeting can be found on the Web site: 

http://www.science.doe.gov/ober/berac/ 

announce.html. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Meeting: To provide 

advice on a continuing basis to the 

Director, Office of Science of the 

Department of Energy, on the many 

complex scientific and technical issues 

that arise in the development and 

implementation of the Biological and 

Environmental Research Program. 

Tentative Agenda 

• Report from the Office of Science. 

• Report from the Office of Biological 

and Environmental Research. 

• Presentation of Workshop Reports. 

• News from the Biological Systems 

Science and Climate and Environmental 

Sciences Divisions. 

• Update on Joint Genome Institute 

Strategic Planning. 

• Report on the BER Climate Sciences 

Strategic Plan. 

• BER Response to Life and Medical 

Sciences Division Committee of Visitors 

Report. 

• BERAC Discussion of Strategy for 

Developing a 20-Year Planning Horizon 

for Biological and Environmental 

Research. 

• New Business. 

• Public Comment. 

Public Participation: The day and a 

half meeting is open to the public. If you 

would like to file a written statement 

with the Committee, you may do so 

either before or after the meeting. If you 

would like to make oral statements 

regarding any of the items on the 

agenda, you should contact David 

Thomassen at the address or telephone 

number listed above. You must make 

your request for an oral statement at 

least five business days before the 

meeting. Reasonable provision will be 

made to include the scheduled oral 

statements on the agenda. The 

Chairperson of the Committee will 

conduct the meeting to facilitate the 

orderly conduct of business. Public 

comment will follow the 10-minute 

rule. 

Minutes: The minutes of this meeting 

will be available for public review and 

copying within 45 days at the BERAC 

Web site: http://www.science.doe.gov/ 

ober/berac/Minutes.html. 

Issued in Washington, DC on January 29, 

2009. 

Rachel M. Samuel, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–2354 Filed 2–3–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technical 

Advisory Committee (HTAC) 

AGENCY: Department of Energy, Office of 

Energy Efficiency and Renewable 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Hydrogen and Fuel Cell 

Technical Advisory Committee (HTAC) 

was established under section 807 of the 

Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT), 

Public Law No. 109–58; 119 Stat. 849. 

The Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

Public Law No. 92–463, 86 Stat. 770, 

requires that agencies publish notice of 

an advisory committee meeting in the 

Federal Register. To attend the meeting 

and/or to make oral statements during 

the public comment period, please 

e-mail HTAC@nrel.gov at least 5 

business days before the meeting. Please 

indicate if you will be attending the 

meeting both days or a specific day, if 

you want to make an oral statement on 

February 19, 2009, and what 

organization you represent (if 

appropriate). 

DATES: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 

from 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. and Thursday, 

February 19, 2009, from 9 a.m.–2:45 

p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Crystal Gateway Marriott, 

1700 Jefferson Davis Highway, 

Arlington, VA 22202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

HTAC@nrel.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Meeting: To provide 

advice, information, and 

recommendations to the Secretary on 

the program authorized by title VIII of 

EPACT. 

Tentative Agenda (Subject to change; 

updates will be posted on http:// 

hydrogen.energy.gov and copies of the 

final agenda will be available the date 

of the meeting). 

The following items will be covered on 

the agenda: 

• Perspectives on the Role of 

Hydrogen in the Obama Administration. 

• Hydrogen Program Response to the 

GAO Comment on Technical Targets. 

• Jobs in the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell 

Industry. 

• Draft and Discussion on the HTAC 

Annual Report. 

• Hydrogen Policy Analysis by Argus 

Research. 

• Progress in Low Platinum and NoPlatinum Catalysts. 

• Fuel Cell Investment Tax Credit. 

• Open Discussion. 

• Next Steps. 

Public Participation: In keeping with 

procedures, members of the public are 

welcome to observe the business of the 

meeting of HTAC and to make oral 

statements during the specified period 

for public comment. The public 

comment period will take place between 

9 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. on February 19, 

2009. To attend the meeting and/or to 

make oral statements regarding any of 

the items on the agenda, e-mail 

HTAC@nrel.gov at least 5 business days 

before the meeting. Please indicate if 

you will be attending the meeting on 

both days or a particular day, if you 

want to make an oral statement, and 

what organization you represent (if 

appropriate). Members of the public will 

be heard in the order in which they sign 

up for the public comment period. Oral 

comments should be limited to two 

minutes in length. Reasonable provision 

will be made to include the scheduled 

oral statements on the agenda. The chair 

of the committee will make every effort 

to hear the views of all interested parties 

and to facilitate the orderly conduct of 

business. If you would like to file a 

written statement with the committee, 

you may do so either by submitting a 

hard copy at the meeting or by 

submitting an electronic copy to 

HTAC@nrel.gov. 

Minutes: The minutes of the meeting 

will be available for public review at 

http://hydrogen.energy.gov. 

Issued at Washington, DC on January 29, 

2009. 

Rachel Samuel, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–2352 Filed 2–3–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC09–716–001] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities (FERC–716); Comment 

Request; Submitted for OMB Review 

January 28, 2009. 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of section 3507 of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 

U.S.C. 3507, the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission) 

has submitted the information 

collection described below to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review of the information collection 

requirements. Any interested person 

may file comments directly with OMB 

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and should address a copy of those 

comments to the Commission as 

explained below. The Commission 

received no comments in response to 

the Federal Register notice (73FR70988, 

11/24/2008) and has made this notation 

in its submission to OMB. 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information are due by March 11, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Address comments on the 

collection of information to the Office of 

Management and Budget, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission Desk Officer. Comments to 

OMB should be filed electronically, c/o 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov and 

include OMB Control No. 1902–0170 as 

a point of reference. The Desk Officer 

may be reached by telephone at 202– 

395–7345. 

A copy of the comments should also 

be sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission and should refer to Docket 

No. IC09–716–001. Comments may be 

filed either electronically or in paper 

format. Those persons filing 

electronically do not need to make a 

paper filing. Documents filed 

electronically via the Internet must be 

prepared in an acceptable filing format 

and in compliance with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission 

submission guidelines. Complete filing 

instructions and acceptable filing 

formats are available at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/help/submission-guide/ 

electronic-media.asp. To file the 

document electronically, access the 

Commission’s website and click on 

Documents & Filing, E-Filing (http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp), 

and then follow the instructions for 

each screen. First time users will have 

to establish a user name and password. 

The Commission will send an automatic 

acknowledgement to the sender’s e-mail 

address upon receipt of comments. 

For paper filings, an original and 2 

copies of the comments should be 

submitted to the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, Secretary of the 

Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20426, and should refer 

to Docket No. IC09–716–001. 

All comments may be viewed, printed 

or downloaded remotely via the Internet 

through FERC’s homepage using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. For user assistance, 

contact fercolinesupport@ferc.gov or 

toll-free at (866) 208–3676 or for TTY, 

contact (202) 502–8659. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Miller may be reached by 

telephone at (202) 502–8415, by fax at 

(202) 273–0873, and by e-mail at 

michael.miller@ferc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FERC 

is combining the requirements from 

both FERC–716 (‘‘Good Faith Request 

for Transmission Service and Response 

by Transmitting Utility Under Sections 

211(a) and 213(a) of the Federal Power 

Act’’ (OMB No. 1902–0170)) and FERC– 

716A (‘‘Application for Transmission 

Services Under Section 211 of the 

Federal Power Act’’ (OMB No. 1902– 

0168)) for publication purposes into a 

single notice. In addition, the 

requirements will be labeled FERC–716 

and consolidated into a single OMB 

control no. (OMB No. 1902–0170). 

The information collected under the 

requirements of FERC–716 ‘‘Good Faith 

Request for Transmission Service and 

Response by Transmitting Utility Under 

Sections 211(a) and 213 (a) of the 

Federal Power Act’’ (existing/current 

OMB No. 1902–0170) is used by the 

Commission to implement the statutory 

provisions of sections 211 and 213 of 

the Federal Power Act (FPA) as 

amended and added by the Energy 

Policy Act 1992. For the initial process, 

the information is not filed with the 

Commission, however, the request and 

response may be analyzed as a part of 

a section 211 proceeding. This 

collection of information covers the 

information that must be contained in 

the request and in the response. Should 

the parties be unable to resolve 

outstanding issues, an application may 

be submitted to the FERC. The 

Commission may order transmission 

services under the authority of FPA 211. 

The Energy Policy Act of 1992 

amended section 211 of the FPA and 

expanded the Commission’s authority to 

order transmission service. Under the 

revised section 211, the Commission 

may order transmission services if it 

finds that such action would be in the 

public interest, would not unreasonably 

impair the continued reliability of 

electric systems affected by the order, 

and would meet the requirements of 

amended section 211 of the FPA. 

The Commission’s policy statement 

under Public Law 93–3, Policy 

Statement Regarding Good Faith 

Requests for Transmission Services and 

Responses by Transmitting Utilities 

Under Section 211(a) and 213(a) of the 

Federal Power Act, as Amended, 

implemented a data exchange between a 

transmission requester and a 

transmitting utility prior to the 

submission of a section 211 request with 

the Commission. Components of the 

data exchange are identified in the Code 

of Federal Regulations (CFR), 18 CFR 

2.20. The general policy sets forth 

standards by which the Commission 

determines whether and when a valid 

good faith request for transmission has 

been made under section 211 of the 

FPA. In developing the standards, the 

Commission sought to encourage an 

open exchange of information with a 

reasonable degree of specificity and 

completeness between the party 

requesting transmission services and the 

transmitting utility. As a result, 18 CFR 

2.20 identifies twelve components of a 

good faith estimate and five components 

of a reply to a good faith request. 

Information in the data exchange is 

not filed as noted above with the 

Commission, unless negotiations 

between the transmission requestor and 

the transmitting utility have not been 

successful and the transmission 

requestor files a section 211 request 

(formerly FERC–716A, OMB No. 1902– 

0168, and incorporated herein) with the 

Commission. 

When negotiations are unsuccessful, 

the information collected for the 

‘‘Application for Transmission Services 

Under Section 211 of the Federal Power 

Act’’ is used by the Commission to 

implement the statutory provisions of 

section 211 of the Federal Power Act 

(FPA) 16 U.S.C. (824) as amended by the 

Energy Policy Act 1992 (Pub. L. 102– 

486) 106 Stat. 2776. Under section 211, 

the Commission may order transmission 

services if it finds that such action 

would be in the public interest and 

would not unreasonably impair the 

continued reliability of systems affected 

by the order. The requirements are 

detailed in the Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR) under 18 CFR Part 36. 

Action: The Commission is requesting 

a three-year extension of the current 

expiration date, with no change to the 

existing collection of data. 

Burden Statement: Public reporting 

burden for this collection is estimated 

as: 

FERC Data collection—FERC–716 

Number of 

respondents 

annually 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average burden 

hours per 

response 

Total annual 

burden hours 1

(1) (2) (3) (1) × (2) × (3) 

Information exchange between parties ......................................................... 3 1 100 300 

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1The figures may not be exact, due to rounding. 

2Number of hours an employee works each year. 

3Average annual salary per employee. 

FERC Data collection—FERC–716 

Number of 

respondents 

annually 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average burden 

hours per 

response 

Total annual 

burden hours 1

(1) (2) (3) (1) × (2) × (3) 

Application submitted to FERC if parties’ negotiations are unsuccessful ..... 3 1 2 .5 8 

TOTAL 1 .................................................................................................. 3 2 .......................... 308 

For the information exchange, the 

estimated cost burden 1 to respondents 

is $18,228 (300 hours/2080 2 hours per 

year times $126,384 3 per year average 

per employee = $18,228). The cost per 

respondent is $6,076. For the 

application to FERC, the estimated cost 

burden 1 to respondents is $486 (8 

hours/2080 hours per year times 

$126,384 per year average per employee 

= $486). The cost per respondent is 

$162. 

The reporting burden includes the 

total time, effort, or financial resources 

expended to generate, maintain, retain, 

disclose, or provide the information 

including: (1) Reviewing instructions; 

(2) developing, acquiring, installing, and 

utilizing technology and systems for the 

purposes of collecting, validating, 

verifying, processing, maintaining, 

disclosing and providing information; 

(3) adjusting the existing ways to 

comply with any previously applicable 

instructions and requirements; (4) 

training personnel to respond to a 

collection of information; (5) searching 

data sources; (6) completing and 

reviewing the collection of information; 

and (7) transmitting, or otherwise 

disclosing the information. 

The estimate of cost for respondents 

is based upon salaries for professional 

and clerical support, as well as direct 

and indirect overhead costs. Direct costs 

include all costs directly attributable to 

providing this information, such as 

administrative costs and the cost for 

information technology. Indirect or 

overhead costs are costs incurred by an 

organization in support of its mission. 

These costs apply to activities which 

benefit the whole organization, rather 

than any one particular function or 

activity. 

Comments are invited on: (1) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the Commission, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (2) the accuracy of 

the agency’s estimates of the burden of 

the proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (3) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (4) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond, including 

the use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g. permitting electronic submission of 

responses. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–2287 Filed 2–3–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings 

January 16, 2009. 

Take notice that the Commission has 

received the following Natural Gas 

Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings: 

Docket Numbers: RP09–128–001. 

Applicants: Texas Gas Transmission, 

LLC. 

Description: Texas Gas Transmission, 

LLC submits Third Revised Sheet 1801 

et al. to FERC Gas Tariff, Third Revised 

Volume 1. 

Filed Date: 01/14/2009. 

Accession Number: 20090116–0108. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Monday, January 26, 2009. 

Docket Numbers: RP09–214–000. 

Applicants: Gas Transmission 

Northwest Corporation. 

Description: Gas Transmission 

Northwest Corp submits a refund report 

reflecting interruptible transportation 

revenue credits on their Coyote Springs 

Later for the period of 11/1/07–10/31/ 

08. 

Filed Date: 01/14/2009. 

Accession Number: 20090116–0107. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Monday, January 26, 2009. 

Docket Numbers: CP06–459–002. 

Applicants: Transwestern Pipeline 

Company, LLC. 

Description: Application of 

Transwestern Pipeline Company, LLC to 

amend initial incremental 

transportation rates for the Phoenix 

Expansion Project. 

Filed Date: 01/07/2009. 

Accession Number: 20090108–5014. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Wednesday, January 21, 2009. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest in any of the above proceedings 

must file in accordance with Rules 211 

and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 

and 385.214) on or before 5 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. It 

is not necessary to separately intervene 

again in a subdocket related to a 

compliance filing if you have previously 

intervened in the same docket. Protests 

will be considered by the Commission 

in determining the appropriate action to 

be taken, but will not serve to make 

protestants parties to the proceeding. 

Anyone filing a motion to intervene or 

protest must serve a copy of that 

document on the Applicant. In reference 

to filings initiating a new proceeding, 

interventions or protests submitted on 

or before the comment deadline need 

not be served on persons other than the 

Applicant. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http:// 

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with Internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the intervention or protest to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First St., NE. Washington, DC 

20426. 

The filings in the above proceedings 

are accessible in the Commission’s 

eLibrary system by clicking on the 

appropriate link in the above list. They 

are also available for review in the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room in 

Washington, DC. There is an 

eSubscription link on the Web site that 

enables subscribers to receive e-mail