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Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, docket 

number and title for this Federal 

Register document. The general policy 

for comments and other submissions 

from members of the public is to make 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the Internet at http://

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

DOD Clearance Officer: Ms. Patricia 

Toppings. 

Written requests for copies of the 

information collection proposal should 

be sent to Ms. Toppings at WHS/ESD 

Information Management Division, 4800 

Mark Center Drive, East Tower, Suite 

02G09, Alexandria, VA 22350–3100. 

Dated: August 23, 2013. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2013–21012 Filed 8–27–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Nevada 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Environmental 

Management Site-Specific Advisory 

Board (EM SSAB), Nevada. The Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public 

notice of this meeting be announced in 

the Federal Register. 

DATES: Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 

4:00 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: National Atomic Testing 

Museum, 755 E. Flamingo Road, Las 

Vegas, Nevada 89119. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Barbara Ulmer, Board Administrator, 

232 Energy Way, M/S 505, North Las 

Vegas, Nevada 89030. Phone: (702) 630– 

0522; Fax (702) 295–5300 or Email: 

NSSAB@nnsa.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Board: The purpose of 

the Board is to make recommendations 

to DOE–EM and site management in the 

areas of environmental restoration, 

waste management, and related 

activities. 

Tentative Agenda: 

1. Fiscal Year 2014 Work Plan 

Development 

2. Election of Officers 

Public Participation: The EM SSAB, 

Nevada, welcomes the attendance of the 

public at its advisory committee 

meetings and will make every effort to 

accommodate persons with physical 

disabilities or special needs. If you 

require special accommodations due to 

a disability, please contact Barbara 

Ulmer at least seven days in advance of 

the meeting at the phone number listed 

above. Written statements may be filed 

with the Board either before or after the 

meeting. Individuals who wish to make 

oral presentations pertaining to agenda 

items should contact Barbara Ulmer at 

the telephone number listed above. The 

request must be received five days prior 

to the meeting and reasonable provision 

will be made to include the presentation 

in the agenda. The Deputy Designated 

Federal Officer is empowered to 

conduct the meeting in a fashion that 

will facilitate the orderly conduct of 

business. Individuals wishing to make 

public comments can do so during the 

15 minutes allotted for public 

comments. 

Minutes: Minutes will be available by 

writing to Barbara Ulmer at the address 

listed above or at the following Web 

site: http://nv.energy.gov/nssab/

MeetingMinutes.aspx. 

Issued at Washington, DC, on August 21, 

2013. 

LaTanya R. Butler, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2013–20977 Filed 8–27–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Energy Information Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Extension 

AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Information collection extension 

with change, comment request. 

SUMMARY: The EIA, pursuant to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

intends to extend for three years with 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) the Coal Markets Reporting 

System. Comments are invited on: (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(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 must be filed by 

October 28, 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 EIA–3 Survey Manager 

at EIA of your intention to make a 

submission as soon as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent to: Attn: Tejasvi Raghuveer, 

EIA–3 Survey Manager, U.S. Energy 

Information Administration, EI–24, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585. 

To ensure receipt of the comments by 

the due date, submission by email 

(tejasvi.raghuveer@eia.gov) is 

recommended. Alternatively, Ms. 

Raghuveer may be contacted by 

telephone at 202–586–8926. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of any forms and instructions 

should be directed to Ms. Tejasvi 

Raghuveer at the contact information 

listed above. The proposed forms and 

instructions are available on the Internet 

at: http://www.eia.gov/survey/#coal. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

This information collection request 

contains: (1) OMB No. 1905–0167; (2) 

Information Collection Request Title: 

Coal Markets Reporting System. The 

survey forms included in this system 

are: EIA–3 ‘‘Quarterly Coal 

Consumption and Quality Report, 

Manufacturing and Transformation/ 

Processing Coal Plants and Commercial 

and Institutional Coal Users; ’’EIA–6Q ’’ 

Quarterly Coal Report (Standby);’’ EIA– 

7A ‘‘Coal Production and Preparation 

Report;’’ EIA–8A ‘‘Coal Stocks Report;’’ 

EIA–20 ‘‘Weekly Coal Monitoring 

Report, Coal Burning Utilities and 

Independent Power Producers 

(Standby);’’ (3) Type of Request: Threeyear extension with changes; (4) 

Purpose: The Federal Energy 

Administration Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 

761 et seq.) and the DOE Organization 

Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.) require the 

EIA to carry out a centralized, 

comprehensive, and unified energy 

information program. This program 

collects, evaluates, assembles, analyzes, 

and disseminates information on energy 

resource reserves, production, demand, 

technology, and related economic and 

statistical information. This information 

is used to assess the adequacy of energy 

resources to meet near and longer term 

domestic demands and to promote 

sound policymaking, efficient markets, 


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and public understanding of energy and 

its interaction with the economy and the 

environment. 

EIA surveys are conducted to collect 

coal market data. The data elements 

include production, consumption, 

receipts, stocks, and prices. Information 

pertaining to the quality of the coal is 

also collected. Aggregates of this 

collection are used to support public 

policy analyses of the coal industry, 

economic modeling, forecasting, coal 

supply and demand studies, and in 

guiding research and development 

programs. EIA publications, including 

the Monthly Energy Review, Quarterly 

Coal Report, Quarterly Coal Distribution 

Report, Annual Coal Report, and 

Annual Coal Distribution Report, each 

contain data collected through the coal 

production and consumption surveys 

listed above. The EIA uses the data in 

short-term and long-term models such 

as the Short-Term Integrated Forecasting 

System (STIFS) and the National Energy 

Modeling System (NEMS) Coal Market 

Module. The forecast data also appear in 

the Short-Term Energy Outlook and the 

Annual Energy Outlook publications. 

(4a) Proposed Changes: The EIA 

proposes to make changes to Forms 

EIA–3, EIA–6Q, EIA–7A, EIA–8A, and 

EIA–20. The EIA proposes to 

discontinue standby Forms EIA–1 and 

EIA–4. Together, these two standby 

forms were intended to collect data from 

non-electric sector respondents in the 

event of a coal supply disruption. To 

date, these forms have never been 

deployed. Also, the possibility of such 

a disruption to non-electric sector 

respondents seems minimal. In 

addition, coal and coke data collected 

on Form EIA–5 in Schedules II, III, and 

IV will now be collected on Form EIA– 

3. Hence, the EIA proposes to 

discontinue the Form EIA–5. Detailed 

descriptions of proposed changes to 

individual forms follow. 

Form EIA–3: Quarterly Coal 

Consumption and Quality Report, 

Manufacturing and Transformation/

Processing Coal Plants and Commercial 

and Institutional Coal Users 

• Change the title of the survey to 

‘‘Quarterly Survey of Non-Electric 

Sector Coal Data’’ 

• Modify the scope of the survey, as 

defined under the purpose section, to 

include coke plants 

• Remove Secure File Transfer from 

Communication Method 

• Re-categorize mail as an Unsecured 

Communication Method 

• Change Site County to Site City 

• Request EIA–923 ID in the 

Company Contact Information Section 

• Create ‘‘Part 5: Coking Plants Only’’ 

to accommodate respondents of 

discontinued Form EIA–5 and collect 

data regarding coke production. 

Disclosure limitation procedures will 

continue to be applied to all cost and 

revenue data reported in Part V. 

• No longer collect Synfuel data 

• Minor revisions to instructions and 

definitions 

Form EIA–7A: Coal Production and 

Preparation Report 

• Change title of survey to ‘‘Annual 

Survey of Coal Production and 

Preparation’’ 

• Modify questions, response options, 

and instructions to provide respondents 

with more detail and to improve 

navigation 

• Update Unsecured Communication 

Method(s) to include email, fax, and 

mail 

• Create a field for adjustment to coal 

stocks to account for stocks held on- and 

off-site at the end of the reporting year 

• Add new fields for metallurgical 

and non-metallurgical coal under 

sections on Open and Captive Market 

Sales to gather more accurate revenue 

data from each type of sale. Disclosure 

limitation procedures will be applied to 

protect the data elements from being 

attributed to any specific company. 

EIA proposes adding the following 

questions to Form EIA–7A: 

• Did the company that owns the 

mining operation cease operations 

during the reporting year? This question 

will be used to help maintain the EIA– 

7A frame and review data discrepancies 

as reported by respondents that 

answered ‘‘yes’’ to the question. 

• Report the county, state, and 

mining dates of the surface mining 

activity. The Mine Safety and Health 

Administration assigns this location 

every quarter. Adding this question 

would track production by county more 

accurately. 

• What is the average heat content for 

all coal mined at this mine during the 

reporting year? EIA’s State Energy Data 

System publishes heat content of coal 

produced by state. Currently, this 

production heat content data is 

estimated by EIA staff using coal-quality 

data collected, in relation to coal 

receipts, at end-use sectors as a proxy. 

This question would provide the actual 

production-based quality data needed to 

replace the estimation. 

• For any Captive Market Sales or 

transfer of coal to the parent company 

or a subsidiary of the parent company, 

what are their contact name, company 

name, email address, and telephone 

number? This question helps verify the 

accuracy of captive market sales vs. 

open market sales data. This will also 

allow for improved frame maintenance 

on the EIA–8A, which covers coal 

traders, brokers, and terminals. 

• For any Export Coal Sales to coal 

brokers, coal traders, or coal terminals, 

what are their contact name, company 

name, email address, and telephone 

number? This question will be used to 

run a cross-survey comparison with the 

EIA–8A in hopes of eliminating doublecounting of export coal sales and 

improving export-related data. 

Form EIA–8A: Coal Stocks Report 

• Change title of survey to ‘‘Annual 

Survey of Coal Stocks and Coal Exports’’ 

• Simplify questions, response 

options, and instructions to provide 

respondents with more detail and to 

improve navigation 

• Update Secure Communication 

Method to include the Internet Data 

Collections (IDC) System 

• Modify Unsecured Communication 

Method(s) to include email, fax, and 

mail 

• Require additional contact 

information when a company is sold or 

merges during the reporting year 

• Amend the Required Respondents 

section of the survey to require 

respondents to report coal exported 

since prior reporting year 

• Revise list of locations where U.S. 

originated stocks are held to include 

‘‘OT—Other’’ 

• Add new fields for metallurgical 

and non-metallurgical coal to various 

sections of the survey to gather more 

accurate revenue data about the 

metallurgical coal market 

EIA proposes adding the following 

questions to Form EIA–8A: 

• Did the company for which you are 

reporting export coal that originated in 

the United States during the reporting 

year? This is a screening question that 

will help ensure an accurate accounting 

of all coal brokers that also act as 

exporters. 

• What was the operational status of 

your company during the reporting 

year? This question will be used to help 

maintain the EIA–8A frame and review 

data discrepancies as reported by 

respondents that answered ‘‘yes’’ to the 

question. 

Standby Forms EIA–6Q: Quarterly Coal 

Report (Standby) and EIA–20: Weekly 

Coal Monitoring Report, Coal Burning 

Utilities and Independent Power 

Producers (Standby) 

• Change standby form titles to Form 

EIA–6: ‘‘Emergency Coal Supply 

Survey’’ and Form EIA–20: ‘‘Emergency 

Weekly Coal Monitoring Survey for Coal 

Burning Power Producers.’’ 


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1Texas Eastern Transmission, LP, 144 FERC 

¶ 61,082, at P 19 (2013). 

• Make minor revisions to 

instructions and definitions 

Eliminating Form EIA–5: Quarterly 

Coal Consumption and Quality 

Report—Coke Plants 

Eliminating Form EIA–5 and the 

proposed changes to Form EIA–3 will 

result in the absorption of all 19 EIA– 

5 respondents into the EIA–3 frame, 

reduce quarterly maintenance of two 

separate internet data collection systems 

with nearly identical layouts and edits, 

and create a single survey for all nonelectric sector coal users. 

Eliminating Standby Forms EIA–1: 

Weekly Coal Monitoring Report— 

General Industries and Blast Furnaces 

and EIA–4: Weekly Coal Monitoring 

Report—Coke Plants 

Standby Forms EIA–1 and EIA–4 were 

intended to collect data from nonelectric sector respondents in the event 

of a coal supply disruption. To date, 

these forms have never been deployed. 

Also, the possibility of such a 

disruption to non-electric sector 

respondents seems minimal. 

Eliminating these two survey forms 

would be optimal. 

(5) Estimated Number of Survey 

Respondents: 

• Form EIA–3 will consist of 508 

respondents; the increase from the 

current 489 respondents is because of 

the additional 19 EIA–5 respondents 

that will begin reporting on Form EIA– 

3. 

• EIA–7A will consist of 1,208 

respondents. 

• EIA–8A will consist of 86 

respondents. 

(6) Annual Estimated Number of Total 

Responses: 3326. 

• Form EIA–3, 2,032 responses. 

• EIA–7A, 1,208 respondents. 

• EIA–8A, 86 respondents. 

(7) Annual Estimated Number of 

Burden Hours: Total annual burden 

hours for all three surveys: 3834. 

(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: EIA 

estimates that there are no additional 

costs to respondents associated with the 

surveys other than the costs associated 

with the burden hours. 

Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the 

Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974, 

Pub. L. 93–275, codified at 15 U.S.C. 772(b), 

and the DOE Organization Act of 1977, Pub. 

L. 95–91, codified at 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on August 22, 

2013. 

Stephanie Brown, 

Director, Office of Survey Development and 

Statistical Integration, U.S. Energy 

Information Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2013–20978 Filed 8–27–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. OR13–31–000] 

Flint Hills Resources Alaska, LLC, BP 

Pipelines (Alaska) Inc., ConocoPhillips 

Transportation Alaska, Inc., 

ExxonMobil Pipeline Company; Notice 

of Complaint 

Take notice that on August 20, 2013, 

pursuant to section 9, 13(1), and 15(1) 

of the Interstate Commerce Act, 49 

U.S.C. 9, 13(1), and 15(1), Rule 206 of 

the Rules of Practice and Procedures of 

the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission (Commission), 18 CFR 

365.206 (2013), and section 343.2 of the 

Procedural Rules Applicable to Oil 

Pipeline Proceedings, 18 CFR 343.2 

(2013), Flint Hills Resources Alaska, 

LLC (FHR or Complainant) filed a 

formal complaint against BP Pipelines 

(Alaska) Inc., ConocoPhillips 

Transportation Alaska, Inc., and 

ExxonMobil Pipeline Company 

(collectively, Respondents), petitioning 

the Commission to investigate the 

continuing reasonableness of the 

existing Quality Bank provisions of the 

Respondents’ tariffs governing the 

method of making monetary 

adjustments among TAPS shippers to 

account for the differences between the 

quality of the crude oil tendered for 

transportation and the quality of the 

crude oil received by that shipper. 

The Complainant certifies that copies 

of the complaint were served on the 

contacts for the Respondents as listed 

on the Commission’s list of Corporate 

Officials. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest this filing 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). 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. Any person wishing to 

become a party must file a notice of 

intervention or motion to intervene, as 

appropriate. The Respondent’s answer 

and all interventions, or protests must 

be filed on or before the comment date. 

The Respondent’s answer, motions to 

intervene, and protests must be served 

on the Complainants. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper using the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible on-line at 

http://www.ferc.gov, using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is 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 email notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please email 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time on September 9, 2013. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–20924 Filed 8–27–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RP13–1015–000] 

Texas Eastern Transmission, LP; 

Notice of Technical Conference 

Take notice that the Commission Staff 

will convene a technical conference in 

the above-referenced proceeding on 

Thursday, September 12, 2013, at 10:00 

a.m. (Eastern Standard Time), in a room 

to be designated at the offices of the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

At the technical conference, the 

Commission Staff and the parties to the 

proceeding can discuss all of the issues 

raised by Texas Eastern Transmission, 

LP’s (Texas Eastern) filing. In particular, 

as discussed in the Order Accepting and 

Suspending Tariff Record and 

Establishing Technical Conference 

Proceedings 1 in this docket, Texas 

Eastern should be prepared to address 

the concerns raised by the parties in this 

proceeding and, if necessary, to provide 

additional technical, engineering and 


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