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of the information to be collected; and 

(d) ways to minimize the burden of the 

information collection on respondents, 

including through the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before June 18, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations on the proposed 

information collection must be sent to: 

OMB Reviewer: Alexander T. Hunt, 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Room 10235, New Executive Office 

Building, Washington, DC 20503, (202) 

395–7316. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on this 

proposed information collection or to 

obtain a copy of the proposal and 

associated collection instruments, 

please, write to the above address or call 

Ms. Karen Lynn-Dyson at (202) 566- 

3100. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Study of Voter Hotlines 

Operated by Election Offices. 

OMB Number: Pending. 

Type of Review: Regular submission. 

Needs and Uses: Section 241(b)(9) of 

the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) 

requires the U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission (EAC) to periodically study 

election administration issues, 

including methods of educating voters 

about the process of registering to vote 

and voting, the operation of voting 

mechanisms, the location of polling 

places, and all other aspects of 

participating in elections. Furthermore, 

Section 245(a)(2)(C) of HAVA indicates 

that the EAC may investigate the impact 

new communications or Internet 

technology systems used in the electoral 

process could have on voter 

participation rates, voter education, and 

public accessibility. In 2005, the EAC 

undertook a research study of voter 

hotline data available online to 

determine trends. A voter hotline was 

defined as a toll-free line that connects 

voters with elections offices, which then 

disseminate information and educate 

voters. The EAC found several hotlines 

in operation during the 2004 

Presidential election, and their 

sponsorship and capabilities varied to a 

great degree. To build on and augment 

these research findings, the EAC wishes 

to conduct a study to determine the 

current state of voter information 

hotlines that are operated by Federal, 

State, and local election offices. 

Affected Public: Federal, State, and 

local election offices. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

1937. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Estimated Burden per Response: .5 

hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 968.5 hours. 

Information will be collected through 

a survey of existing hotline services 

operated by Federal, State, and local 

government agencies and election 

offices during the 2006 primary and 

general elections. The data collected 

will include information on voter 

hotlines operated by election offices and 

their features, including, but not limited 

to: 

1. Basic Information. Hotline hours of 

operation, type of information available 

through the hotline, automated or nonautomated service, links to other 

sources of voting information. 

2. Costs. Breakdown of cost based on 

volume, cost of database maintenance 

per record, and all personnel and 

administrative costs of the service. 

3. Features. Important factors include, 

but are not limited to: (1) Languages 

used, (2) disability-compliant features, 

(3) touch tone and voice services, (4) 

voice response options, and (5) ability 

for interactivity with additional 

databases (for example interactivity 

with a voter registration database). 

4. Network Capacity. Number of calls 

capable of being routed per hour and the 

number of incoming calls that can be 

received. 

5. Call Tracking. How calls are logged 

or tracked, how they are routed, and the 

types or categories of calls received. 

6. Hotline personnel. Number of 

hotline operators and methods by which 

hotline operators are trained, the 

frequency of their training and how they 

are monitored for accuracy, currency, 

security, and other critical performance 

variables. 

7. Methods by which the network 

operator maintains the accuracy and 

currency of the data. Important factors 

include, but are not limited to how 

regularly updates are made and qualitycontrol procedures. 

8. Maintenance agreements with 

service providers. Percentage of hotlines 

that outsource all or part of the Hotline, 

and experiences working with 

contractors? 

9. Timelines for database creation, 

contractor integration, and final testing 

before launch. 

10. Security measures to ensure that 

data in the call-routing network is 

confidential. 

11. Other information such as: Who 

the intended audience is; demographic, 

political and socioeconomic information 

of the community served; cost of 

publicizing the service and effectiveness 

of various publicity methods; and 

lessons learned. 

A report on the key findings of the 

study, along with recommendations for 

the development and implementation of 

voter hotlines, will be made available to 

election officials and the public at the 

conclusion of this effort.The report will 

include a state-by-state compendium of 

the existing voter hotlines and their 

features. The report will be made 

available on the EAC Web site at 

http://www.eac.gov. 

Signed: 

Thomas R. Wilkey, 

Executive Director, U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission. 

[FR Doc. 07–2466 Filed 7–17–07; 8:45am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–KF–M 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP07–380–000] 

Avista Corporation; Notice of 

Abbreviated Application for Order 

Authorizing Abandonment of Limited 

Jurisdiction Certificates 

May 14, 2007. 

On May 7, 2007, Avista Corporation 

(Avista Corp) filed an abbreviated 

application pursuant to section 7(b) of 

the Natural Gas Act (NGA), and part 157 

of the Commission’s Rules and 

Regulations, requesting authorization to 

abandon limited jurisdiction certificates 

of public convenience and necessity, 

originally issued in 1983 and 1990, 

under which Terasen Gas and Cascade 

Natural Gas Corporation temporarily 

used a portion of Avista Corp’s storage 

capacity and deliverability at the 

Jackson Prairie Storage Project. 

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. Such notices, motions, or 

protests must be filed on or before the 

date as indicated below. Anyone filing 

an intervention or protest must serve a 

copy of that document on the Applicant. 

Anyone filing an intervention or protest 

on or before the intervention or protest 

date need not serve motions to intervene 

or protests on persons other than the 

Applicant. 


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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 online 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 e-mail notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

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

(202) 502–8659. 

Intervention and Protest Date: 5 p.m. 

Eastern Time May 22, 2007. 

Philis J. Posey, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–9621 Filed 5–17–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RP00–305–032] 

CenterPoint Energy—Mississippi River 

Transmission Corporation; Notice of 

Negotiated Rate 

May 14, 2007. 

Take notice that on April 27, 2007, 

CenterPoint Energy—Mississippi River 

Transmission Corporation (MRT) 

tendered for filing an amended 

negotiated rate agreement for Rate 

Schedule PALS service between MRT 

and CenterPoint Energy Services, Inc. 

MRT requests that the Commission 

accept and approve the transaction to be 

effective May 1, 2007. 

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. Such notices, motions, or 

protests must be filed in accordance 

with the provisions of Section 154.210 

of the Commission’s regulations (18 CFR 

154.210). Anyone filing an intervention 

or protest must serve a copy of that 

document on the Applicant. Anyone 

filing an intervention or protest on or 

before the intervention or protest date 

need not serve motions to intervene or 

protests on persons other than the 

Applicant. 

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 online 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 e-mail notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

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

(202) 502–8659. 

Philis J. Posey, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–9622 Filed 5–17–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RP95–408–068] 

Columbia Gas Transmission 

Corporation; Notice of Filing 

May 14, 2007. 

Take notice that on May 10, 2007, 

Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation 

(Columbia) filed to report on the sharing 

with its customers of a portion of the 

profits from the sale of certain base gas 

as provided in Columbia’s Docket No. 

RP95–408 rate case settlement. See 

Stipulation II, Article IV, Sections A 

through E, in Docket No. RP95–408 

approved at Columbia Gas Transmission 

Corp., 79 FERC ¶ 61,044 (1997). 

Columbia states that it has not had 

any Base Gas Sales during this covered 

filing period. Therefore, Columbia is 

filing this letter to inform the 

Commission that no profits have been 

received from Base Gas sales under the 

provisions of the Stipulation. 

Any person desiring to protest this 

filing must file in accordance with Rule 

211 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 

385.211). Protests to this filing 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. 

Such protests must be filed on or before 

the date as indicated below. Anyone 

filing a protest must serve a copy of that 

document on all the parties to the 

proceeding. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests 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 to 

the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. 

This filing is accessible online 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 e-mail notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

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

(202) 502–8659. 

Protest Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time on 

May 22, 2007. 

Philis J. Posey, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–9620 Filed 5–17–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[ Docket No. RP07–446–000] 

Northern Natural Gas Company; Notice 

of Proposed Changes in FERC Gas 

Tariff 

May 14, 2007. 

Take notice that on May 11, 2007, 

Northern Natural Gas Company 

(Northern), tendered for filing in its 

FERC Gas Tariff, Fifth Revised Volume 

No. 1, the following tariff sheets, with 

an effective date of June 11, 2007: 

Fourth Revised Sheet No. 114 

Sixth Revised Sheet No. 119 

Fourth Revised Sheet No. 125C 

Second Revised Sheet No. 129 

Third Revised Sheet No. 130 

Fifth Revised Sheet No. 139 


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