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RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

Individual and command supported 

aircrew information systems. 

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory 

Committee 

AGENCY: Office of Science, Department 

of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of Renewal. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 

14(a)(2)(A) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463), and in 

accordance with Title 41 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations, Section 102– 

3.65(a), and following consultation with 

the Committee Management Secretariat, 

General Services Administration, notice 

is hereby given that the Fusion Energy 

Sciences Advisory Committee will be 

renewed for a two-year period beginning 

on August 5, 2011. 

The Committee provides advice and 

recommendations to the Department of 

Energy on long-range plans, priorities, 

and strategies for advancing plasma 

science, fusion science, and fusion 

technology related to the Fusion Energy 

Sciences program. 

Additionally, the renewal of the 

Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory 

Committee has been determined to be 

essential to conduct Department of 

Energy business, and to be in the public 

interest in connection with the 

performance of duties imposed upon the 

Department of Energy by law and 

agreement. The Committee will 

continue to operate in accordance with 

the provisions of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, and the rules and 

regulations in implementation of that 

Act. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Albert Opdenaker, Designated Federal 

Officer, at (301) 903–4927. 

Issued at Washington, DC on August 5, 

2011. 

Carol A. Matthews, 

Committee Management Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Portsmouth 

AGENCY: Department of Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of Open Meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Environmental 

Management Site-Specific Advisory 

Board (EM SSAB), Portsmouth. 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: Thursday, September 1, 2011, 6 

p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Ohio State University, 

Endeavor Center, 1862 Shyville Road, 

Piketon, Ohio 45661. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joel 

Bradburne, Deputy Designated Federal 

Officer, Department of Energy 

Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office, Post 

Office Box 700, Piketon, Ohio 45661, 

(740) 897–3822, 

Joel.Bradburne@lex.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 

• Call to Order, Introductions, Review 

of Agenda. 

• Approval of July Minutes. 

• Deputy Designated Federal Officer’s 

Comments. 

• Federal Coordinator’s Comments. 

• Liaisons’ Comments. 

• FLUOR B&W Community 

Commitment Plan Update, Jerry 

Schneider. 

• Administrative Issues: 

Æ Subcommittee Updates. 

• Motions. 

Æ Second Reading of the 

amendment to the Operating 

Procedures: Section VI. Board Structure 

C3a. fourteen days changed to seven 

days as proposed by the Executive 

Committee. 

• Public Comments. 

• Final Comments. 

• Adjourn. 

Public Participation: The meeting is 

open to the public. The EM SSAB, 

Portsmouth, 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 Joel 

Bradburne 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 statements 

pertaining to agenda items should 

contact Joel Bradburne at the address or 

telephone number listed above. 

Requests 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 will 

be provided a maximum of five minutes 

to present their comments. 

Minutes: Minutes will be available by 

writing or calling Joel Bradburne at the 

address and phone number listed above. 

Minutes will also be available at the 

following Web site: http://www.portsssab.energy.gov/. 

Issued at Washington, DC on August 4, 

2011. 

LaTanya R. Butler, 

Acting Deputy Committee Management 

Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Energy Information Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request. 

SUMMARY: The EIA is soliciting 

comments on the proposed new Form 

EIA–111, ‘‘Quarterly Electricity Imports 

and Exports Report.’’ This new form 

would supersede the existing Form OE– 

781R, ‘‘Monthly Electricity Imports and 

Exports Report’’. The Form OE–781R is 

currently suspended and would be 

terminated with the implementation of 

the proposed Form EIA–111. 

DATES: Comments must be filed by 

October 11, 2011. If you anticipate 

difficulty in submitting comments 

within that period, contact the person 

listed below as soon as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Michelle 

Bowles. To ensure receipt of the 

comments by the due date, e-mail (eia111@eia.gov) is recommended. The 

mailing address is the U.S. Department 

of Energy, U.S. Energy Information 

Administration, Mail Stop: EI–23 (Form 

EIA–111), 1000 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20585. 

Alternatively, Ms. Bowles may be 


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contacted by telephone at 202–586– 

2430 or via fax at (202) 287–1960. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of any forms and instructions 

(the draft proposed collection) should 

be directed to Michelle Bowles at the 

address listed above. Forms and 

instructions are also available on the 

Internet at: http://beta.eia.gov/survey/ 

form-eia111/proposed.pdf. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

II. Current Actions 

III. Request for Comments 

I. Background 

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. 

The EIA, as part of its effort to comply 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.), provides 

the general public and other Federal 

agencies with opportunities to comment 

on collections of energy information 

conducted by or in conjunction with the 

EIA. Also, the EIA will later seek 

approval for this collection by the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

under Section 3507(a) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

The collected information will be kept 

in public electronic files available on 

EIA’s Web site (http://www.eia.gov). 

Monthly and annual tabulations of these 

data may be used by the U.S. Energy 

Information Administration in the 

publications: Annual Energy Outlook, 

Annual Energy Review, Electric Power 

Annual, Electric Power Monthly, and 

Monthly Energy Review. 

The existing survey of electricity 

imports and exports (OE–781R) was 

designed to reflect significant changes 

in the electricity industry, such as the 

restructuring of wholesale electricity 

markets and transmission by the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); 

the entry of a large number of 

independent marketers into those 

markets; and the regulatory requirement 

that entities in the electric power 

industry keep information on 

transmission service separate from their 

information on marketing. All of this 

reduced the usefulness of an earlier 

version of the survey form. 

However, experience with the current 

collection instrument since it began in 

July 2010 has shown that the form is 

overly complex and confusing. It is not 

providing the type and quality of 

information expected or required. We 

also find that some of the information 

currently collected is not justifiable 

considering EIA’s current budget. 

The following is additional 

information about the energy 

information collection to be submitted 

to OMB for review: (1) The collection 

numbers and title; (2) the sponsor (i.e., 

the Department of Energy component); 

(3) the current OMB docket number (if 

applicable); (4) the type of request (i.e., 

new, revision, extension, or 

reinstatement); (5) response obligation 

(i.e., mandatory, voluntary, or required 

to obtain or retain benefits); (6) a 

description of the need for and 

proposed use of the information; (7) a 

categorical description of the likely 

respondents; (8) estimate number of 

respondents; and (9) an estimate of the 

total annual reporting burden in hours 

(i.e., the estimated number of likely 

respondents times the proposed 

frequency of response per year times the 

average hours per response); (10) an 

estimate of the total annual reporting 

and recordkeeping cost burden (in 

thousands of dollars). 

1. Form EIA–111, Quarterly 

Electricity Imports and Exports Report. 

2. U.S. Energy Information 

Administration. 

3. OMB Number 1905–NEW. 

4. Three-year approval. 

5. Mandatory. 

6. Form EIA–111 collects U.S. 

electricity import and export data. The 

data are used to get an accurate measure 

of the flow of electricity into and out of 

the United States. The import and 

export data are reported by U.S. 

purchasers, sellers and transmitters of 

wholesale electricity, including persons 

authorized by Order to export electric 

energy from the United States to foreign 

countries, persons authorized by 

Presidential Permit to construct, 

operate, maintain, or connect electric 

power transmission lines that cross the 

U.S. international border, and U.S. 

Balancing Authorities that are directly 

interconnected with foreign Balancing 

Authorities. Such entities are to report 

monthly flows of electric energy 

received or delivered across the border, 

the cost associated with the 

transactions, and actual and 

implemented interchange. The data 

collected on this form may appear in 

various EIA publications. 

7. Business or other for-profit; State, 

local or Tribal government; Federal 

government. 

8. 173 responses per quarter, for a 

total of 692 responses annually. 

9. Annual total of 4,152 hours. 

10. Annual total of $0. 

II. Current Actions 

The EIA is soliciting comments on the 

proposed Form EIA–111, ‘‘Quarterly 

Electricity Imports and Exports Report.’’ 

This survey will replace the existing 

Form OE–781R. Pending authorization 

to administer the revised form, EIA has 

suspended the current collection of the 

OE–781R. Upon receiving authorization 

to administer the revised form, EIA will 

terminate the OE–781R and begin 

operation of the new survey. EIA 

intends to retroactively collect the core 

import and export data for the period of 

the suspension. 

The following changes are proposed: 

The form would continue to collect 

data on monthly activity, but 

respondents would file the form 

quarterly. Quarterly data would be filed 

within 30 days of the end of the 

reporting quarter, e.g., first quarter data 

would be due no later than April 30. 

(The existing form collects monthly 

information each month.) 

The current Form OE–781R is 

mandatory for persons issued orders 

authorizing them to export electricity 

from the United States to foreign 

countries and by owners and operators 

of international electricity transmission 

lines authorized by Presidential permit 

or treaty. The form further asks 

respondents to categorize themselves as 

one or more the following: Purchasing 

and Selling Entity, Transmission System 

Operator, Transmission Owner, or 

Treaty Entity. 

Currently, only Purchasing and 

Selling Entities that have been issued 

orders authorizing them to export 

electricity from the United States to 

foreign countries are required to 

complete the form. This means that 

information on imports made by 

Purchasing and Selling Entities without 

Export Authorizations is not being 

reported. To ensure reporting of all 

electricity imports into the U.S., in the 

new Form EIA–111 we propose to 

expand mandatory reporting to all 

Purchasing and Selling Entities that 

import electricity in to the U.S. 

In the new Form EIA–111 we propose 

to replace the Transmission System 

Operator category with U.S. Balancing 

Authorities that are directly 

interconnected with foreign electricity 

systems. There are seven such Balancing 

Authorities: ERCOT, CAISO, Bonneville 

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Great Plains East, MISO, NYISO, and 

ISO–NE. 

This change is proposed because 

under the NERC Functional Model (from 

which three of the current form’s 

respondent categories are derived), 

Transmission System Operators do not 

perform the functions necessary for 

them to provide the required 

information. In contrast, U.S. border 

Balancing Authorities are the 

appropriate entities to report crossborder actual and implemented 

interchange. Interchange is any energy 

transfer that crosses Balancing 

Authority boundaries. Actual 

Interchange means the metered value 

electricity that flows from one balancing 

authority area to another. Implemented 

Interchange is the interchange values 

that the Balancing Authority enters into 

its Area Control Error equation, i.e., uses 

to balance supply and demand of its 

electric system. 

A number of entities could report 

implemented interchange provided on 

the interchange scheduling e-tags. 

Border Balancing Authorities are a 

convenient provider of this information 

since they would already be providing 

actual interchange on the same 

schedule. Under FERC-approved 

mandatory reliability standards, 

Balancing Authorities receive e-tag 

information from the interchange 

coordinator when the transmission path 

is through their system. 

We propose to drop the transmission 

owner respondent category as it is no 

longer necessary. 

The existing survey breakdown of the 

quantity and value of imports and 

exports into cost-of-service and market 

rates would be dropped. The breakdown 

of volume by fuel source would be 

dropped. Questions covering the total 

cost of ancillary service along with a 

general identification of the type of 

ancillary services would be dropped. 

For each import transaction, the 

foreign source balancing authority 

name, the U.S. sink balancing authority 

name, the presidential permit number or 

transmission service provider name 

would be required. On the new Form 

EIA–111 the type of service is 

categorized as firm, non-firm, exchange, 

or other. Payments are broken down 

into energy revenues, other revenues 

and total revenues. 

For each export transaction, the DOE 

export authorization number, U.S. 

source balancing authority name, the 

foreign sink balancing authority name, 

the presidential permit number or 

transmission service provider name 

would be required. On the new Form 

EIA–111 the type of service is 

categorized as firm, non-firm, exchange, 

or other. Payments are broken down 

into energy payments, other payments, 

and total payments. 

U.S. border balancing authorities 

would report actual interchange 

received from and delivered to directly 

interconnected foreign border balancing 

authorities. Instead of scheduled 

imports and exports reported by 

transmission operators, U.S. border 

balancing authorities would report 

implemented interchange (the current 

industry term) when the transmission 

path is through their system, for each 

combination of source and sink 

balancing authorities. 

Reporting of the characteristics of 

transmission operations would be 

replaced by quarterly reporting of events 

that exceed DOE order terms. 

Presidential permit and DOE export 

authorization holders would report their 

order number, the date and hour(s) of 

the exceeded event and the specific 

order term exceeded. 

Reporting of existing and proposed 

transmission facilities crossing the 

border would be dropped. 

III. Request for Comments 

Prospective respondents and other 

interested parties should comment on 

the actions discussed in item II. The 

following guidelines are provided to 

assist in the preparation of comments. 

As a Potential Respondent to the 

Request for Information 

A. Is the proposed collection of 

information necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency and does the information have 

practical utility? 

B. What actions could be taken to 

help ensure and maximize the quality, 

objectivity, utility, and integrity of the 

information to be collected? 

C. Are the instructions and definitions 

clear and sufficient? If not, which 

instructions need clarification? 

D. Can the information be submitted 

by the respondent by the due date? 

E. Public reporting burden for this 

collection is estimated to average 6 

hours per quarter for each respondent. 

The estimated burden includes the total 

time necessary to provide the requested 

information. In your opinion, how 

accurate is this estimate? 

F. The agency estimates that the only 

cost to a respondent is for the time it 

will take to complete the collection. 

Will a respondent incur any start-up 

costs for reporting, or any recurring 

annual costs for operation, maintenance, 

and purchase of services associated with 

the information collection? 

G. What additional actions could be 

taken to minimize the burden of this 

collection of information? Such actions 

may involve the use of automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

H. Does any other Federal, State, or 

local agency collect similar information? 

If so, specify the agency, the data 

element(s), and the methods of 

collection. 

As a Potential User of the Information 

To Be Collected 

A. Is the proposed collection of 

information necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency and does the information have 

practical utility? 

B. What actions could be taken to 

help ensure and maximize the quality, 

objectivity, utility, and integrity of the 

information disseminated? 

C. Is the information useful at the 

levels of detail to be collected? 

D. For what purpose(s) would the 

information be used? Be specific. 

E. Are there alternate sources for the 

information and are they useful? If so, 

what are their weaknesses and/or 

strengths? 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of the form. They also will 

become a matter of public record. 

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). 

Issued in Washington, DC on August 3, 

2011. 

Stephanie Brown, 

Director, Office of Survey Development and 

Statistical Integration, U. S. Energy 

Information Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP11–526–000] 

Enbridge Offshore Pipelines (UTOS) 

LLC; Notice of Application 

Take notice that on August 1, 2011, 

Enbridge Offshore Pipelines (UTOS) 

LLC, (UTOS) filed an application in 

Docket No. CP11–526–000 pursuant to 

section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act and 

Part 157 of the Commission’s 

Regulations, seeking authorization to 

abandon all services it provides under 

its Part 284 blanket certificate and to 

abandon its physical certificated 

facilities which are located onshore and 

in federal and state waters offshore 


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