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Technologies Program, intends to issue 

a Funding Opportunity Announcement 

(FOA) to select and fund EnergyEfficient Building Technology 

Application Centers. This FOA is 

expected to be issued on or about May 

15, 2007. The goal of this funding 

opportunity is to establish 

geographically and climatically diverse 

Energy-Efficient Building Technology 

Application Centers. This goal supports 

the EERE Strategic Plan to increase the 

energy efficiency of the Nation’s 

buildings and the Building Technology 

Program’s Technology Validation and 

Market Introduction activity goal of 

accelerating the widespread market 

adoption of energy-efficient building 

technologies and practices. It also 

encourages demonstration and 

commercial application of advanced 

energy methods and technologies 

through education and outreach to 

building and industry professionals, and 

other individuals and organizations 

with an interest in efficient energy use. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Rannels, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Program Office EE–

2J, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121, (202) 586–

8070, E-mail: 

James.Rannels@ee.doe.gov. 

C. Edward Christy, National Energy 

Technology Laboratory, 3610 Collins 

Ferry Road, M/S E–02, Morgantown, 

WV 26507, (304) 285–4604, E-mail: 

Eddie.Christy@netl.doe.gov. 

Dated: May 2, 2007. 

C. Edward Christy, 

Director, Building and Industrial 

Technologies Division. 

[FR Doc. E7–8788 Filed 5–7–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC07–555–000; FERC–555] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities, Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Extension 

May 1, 2007. 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(a) of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(Pub. L. No. 104–13), the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission) is 

soliciting public comment on the 

specific aspects of the information 

collection described below. 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information are due July 13, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: For more information on the 

records retention requirements, the 

public can view the Commission’s 

regulations on the Commission’s Web 

site (http://www.ferc.gov/legal/maj-ordreg.asp) or contacting the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, Attn: 

Michael Miller, Office of the Executive 

Director, ED–34, 888 First Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. Comments may 

be filed either in paper format or 

electronically. Those parties filing 

electronically do not need to make a 

paper filing. For paper filing, the 

original and 14 copies of such 

comments should be submitted to the 

Secretary of the Commission, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426 

and refer to Docket No. IC07–555–000. 

Documents filed electronically via the 

Internet must be prepared in 

WordPerfect, MS Word, Portable 

Document Format, or ASCII format. To 

file the document, access the 

Commission’s Web site at http:// 

www.ferc.gov and click on ‘‘Make an Efiling’’, 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. 

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 

information collected under the 

requirements of FERC–555 ‘‘Records 

Retention Requirements’’ (OMB No. 

1902–0098) is used by the Commission 

to carry out its responsibilities in 

implementing the statutory provisions 

of sections 301, 304 and 309 of the 

Federal Power Act (FPA) (16 U.S.C. 825, 

825c and 825h), sections 8, 10 and 16 

of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) (15 U.S.C. 

717–717w), and section 20 of the 

Interstate Commerce Act (ICA, 49 U.S.C. 

20). 

The regulations for preservation of 

records establish retention periods, 

necessary guidelines and requirements 

to sustain retention of applicable 

records for the regulated public utilities, 

natural gas and oil pipeline companies 

subject to the Commission’s 

jurisdiction. These records will be used 

by the regulated companies as the basis 

for their required rate filings and reports 

for the Commission. In addition, the 

records will be used by the 

Commission’s audit staff during 

compliance reviews, by enforcement 

staff during investigations and for 

special analyses as deemed necessary by 

the Commission. The records retained 

by jurisdictional companies as directed 

by the Commission are the result of a 

mandatory requirement. 

On January 8, 1999 the Commission 

issued AI99–2–000, an Accounting 

Issuance providing guidance on records 

storage media. Specifically, FERC gave 

each jurisdictional company the 

flexibility to select its own storage 

media. The storage media selected must 

have a life expectancy equal to the 

applicable record period unless the 

quality of the data transferred from one 

media to another with no loss of data 

would exceed the record period. 

On January 27, 2000, FERC issued a 

final rule amending its records retention 

regulations for public utilities and 

licensees, and natural gas and oil 

pipeline companies. These changes 

included revising the general 

instructions, and shortening various 

records retention periods. The final 

rule’s objective was to reduce or 

eliminate burdensome and unnecessary 

regulatory requirements. 

It has been more than seven years 

since the issuance of the final rule and 

the accounting guidance, and 

jurisdictional companies have 

experienced more than sufficient time to 

implement these provisions. In 

responding to this notice, the 

Commission seeks information on 

whether jurisdictional companies have 

obtained substantial reductions in the 

recordkeeping burden for maintaining 

their records under the revised retention 

periods and the use of alternative 

storage media. Further, the Commission 

is interested in learning if and what 

savings were achieved by jurisdictional 

companies by freeing up storage space 

formerly used for retaining records. The 

Commission implements these filing 

requirements in the Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR) under 18 CFR parts 

125, 225, and 356. 

Action: The Commission is requesting 

a three-year extension of the current 

expiration date, with no changes to the 

existing collection of data. 

Burden Statement: Public reporting 

burden for this collection is estimated 

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Number of 

respondents annually 

Number of responses 

per respondent 

Average burden hours 

per response 

Total annual 

burden hours 

(1) (2) (3) (1)x(2)x(3) 

515 1 2,402 1,237,030 

Estimated cost burden to respondents 

is $141,045. (1,237,030 hours/2080 

hours per year times $122,137 per year 

average per employee = $ 72,638,045). 

The cost per respondent is $ 141,045). 

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 estimate 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. E7–8701 Filed 5–7–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 11291–023] 

Star Mill, Inc.; Notice of Termination of 

License by Implied Surrender 

May 1, 2007. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric proceeding has been 

initiated by the Commission: 

a. Proceeding Type: Termination of 

License by Implied Surrender. 

b. Project No: 11291–023. 

c. Date Initiated: October 18, 2006. 

d. Licensee: Star Mill, Inc. 

e. Name of Project: Star Milling and 

Electric Minor Water Power Project (Star 

Milling). 

f. Location: On Fawn River in 

LaGrange County, near the town of 

Howe, Indiana. 

g. Proceeding Initiated Pursuant to: 18 

CFR 6.4. 

h. FERC Contact: Diane M. Murray, 

Telephone: (202) 502–8838 and e-mail: 

diane.murray@ferc.gov. 

i. Deadline for filing comments and or 

motions: June 1, 2007. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) should be filed with: Secretary, 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. Please include the project 

number (P–11291–023) on any 

comments. 

j. Description of Proceeding: Because 

of the licensee’s failure to live up to the 

obligations of its license, the 

Commission considers this inaction an 

implied surrender of the license. By 

letter dated October 18, 2006, the 

Commission gave the licensee notice of 

its intent to accept the surrender of the 

license for the Star Milling Project. 

k. Locations of the Letter: A copy of 

the letter is available for inspection and 

reproduction at the Commission’s 

Public Reference Room, located at 888 

First Street, NE., Room 2A, Washington, 

DC 20426, or by calling (202) 502–8371. 

This filing may also be viewed on the 

Commission’s Web site at http:// 

www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number excluding the 

last three digits in the docket number 

field to access the document. You may 

also register online at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, call toll-free 1–866–208–

3676 or e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. For TTY, 

call (202) 502–8659. 

l. Individuals desiring to be included 

on the Commission’s mailing list should 

so indicate by writing to the Secretary 

of the Commission. 

m. Comments, Protests, or Motions to 

Intervene—Anyone may submit 

comments, a protest, or a motion to 

intervene in accordance with the 

requirements of Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 18 CFR 385.210, .211, .214. 

In determining the appropriate action to 

take, the Commission will consider all 

protests or other comments filed, but 

only those who file a motion to 

intervene in accordance with the 

Commission’s Rules may become a 

party to the proceeding. Any comments, 

protests, or motions to intervene must 

be received on or before the specified 

comment date for the particular 

proceeding. 

n. Any filings must bear in all capital 

letters the title ‘‘COMMENTS’’, 

‘‘RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TERMS 

AND CONDITIONS’’, ‘‘PROTESTS’’, or 

‘‘MOTIONS TO INTERVENE’’, as 

applicable, and the Project Number of 

the particular proceeding to which the 

filing refers. 

o. Agency Comments—Federal, state, 

and local agencies are invited to file 

comments on the described proceeding. 

If an agency does not file comments 

within the time specified for filing 

comments, it will be presumed to have 

no comments. 

p. Comments, protests, and 

interventions may be filed electronically 

via the Internet in lieu of paper. See, 18 

CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the 

instructions on the Commission’s Web 


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