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Annual Responses: 150. 

Average Burden per Response: 15 

minutes. 

Annual Burden Hours: 38. 

Needs and Uses: The information 

collection requirement is necessary to 

obtain, track and record the personnel 

security data, training information and 

travel history within White House 

Military Office (WHMO) and White 

House Communications Agency 

(WHCA). 

Affected Public: DoD Contractors, 

retired military members, and agency 

visitors. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

OMB Desk Officer: Ms. Jasmeet 

Seehra. 

Written comments and 

recommendations on the proposed 

information collection should be sent to 

Ms. Jasmeet Seehra at the Office of 

Management and Budget, Desk Officer 

for DoD, Room 10236, New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503. 

You may also submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by the following method: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

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: November 6, 2013. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES 

SAFETY BOARD 

Sunshine Act Meeting; New Time and 

Date of Proceeding 

AGENCY: Defense Nuclear Facilities 

Safety Board. 

ACTION: Notice of Public Meeting and 

Hearing; New Time and Date. 

SUMMARY: The Defense Nuclear 

Facilities Safety Board (Board) 

published a document in the Federal 

Register of August 13, 2013, (78 FR 

49262), concerning notice of intent to 

convene a public meeting and hearing 

on October 22, 2013, at the Knoxville 

Convention Center, 701 Henley Street, 

Knoxville, Tennessee 37902 with regard 

to safety-related matters at defense 

nuclear facilities at the Y–12 National 

Security Complex. Due to the lapse in 

appropriations and subsequent federal 

government shutdown, the Board 

decided to postpone the meeting and 

hearing to a future date. The Board was 

unable to publish notice of the 

postponement in the Federal Register 

due to the shutdown. The Board has 

now decided on a new time and date for 

the proceeding. There is no change to 

the hearing location or the matters to be 

considered that were originally 

described in the Board’s August 13, 

2013, notice cited above. 

NEW TIME AND DATE OF HEARING AND

MEETING: Session I: 8:00 a.m.–12:00 

p.m., December 10, 2013; Session II: 

2:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m., December 10, 2013. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Mark Welch, Acting General Manager, 

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, 

625 Indiana Avenue NW., Suite 700, 

Washington, DC 20004–2901, (800) 788– 

4016. This is a toll-free number. 

Dated: November 6, 2013. 

Peter S. Winokur, 

Chairman. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Highly Qualified Teachers Clearance; 

Extension of Public Comment Period; 

Correction 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

ACTION: Correction Notice. 

SUMMARY: On September 12, 2013, the 

U.S. Department of Education published 

a 60-day comment period notice in the 

Federal Register (Page 56222, Column 

1) seeking public comment for an 

information collection entitled, ‘‘Highly 

Qualified Teachers Clearance,’’ ED– 

2013–ICCD–0121. The comment period 

for this information collection request 

has been extended to November 18, 

2013 due to technical issues the public 

experienced in posting comments. This 

extension will allow the public 

sufficient time to submit their 

comments. 

The Acting Director, Information 

Collection Clearance Division, Privacy, 

Information and Records Management 

Services, Office of Management, hereby 

issues a correction notice as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

Dated: November 6, 2013. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

American Energy Data Challenge 

AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of a four-part 

competition. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) announced the 

administration of a four-part prize 

competition titled ‘‘American Energy 

Data Challenge.’’ The goal of this 

competition is to introduce the public to 

the open data and resources offered by 

DOE, to solicit feedback about the data, 

its organization and presentation, to 

spur the creation of new tools and 

insights for the American public, and to 

solicit public input on how energy 

generation, distribution and use could 

be transformed to better serve our 21st 

century society and economy. 

DATES: See Key Challenge Dates & 

Deadlines in SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. 

ADDRESSES: The American Energy Data 

Challenge is available at http://

energychallenge.energy.gov/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Christopher Irwin, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability, OE–50, 1000 

Independence Ave. SW., Washington, 

DC 20585; email: christopher.irwin@

hq.doe.gov. 

Mr. Matthew Theall, U.S. Department 

of Energy, Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability, OE–50, 1000 

Independence Ave. SW., Washington, 

DC 20585; email: matthew.theall@

hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Key Challenge Dates & Deadlines 

Below is a summary of approximate 

challenge dates. Official dates for 

Contest 1 were provided when the 

American Energy Data Challenge was 

announced on November 6, 2013, as 


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well as expected dates for Contests 2, 3, 

and 4. 

Contest 1: Submissions: November 6– 

November 29, 2013. Judging: 

December 2–December 13, 2013. 

Winners Announced: December 16– 

December 20, 2013. 

Contest 2: Submissions: Mid-January– 

Mid-February 2014. Judging: Late 

February 2014. Winners 

announced: March 2014. 

Contest 3: Submissions: Mid-April–MidMay 2014. Judging: Late May 2014. 

Winners announced: June 2014. 

Contest 4: Submissions: Mid-June–July 

2014. Judging: Early August 2014. 

Winners announced: September 

2014. 

II. Introduction 

The Administration launched the 

Energy Data Initiative in 2012 to liberate 

data as a fuel for innovation while 

rigorously protecting privacy. The 

primary fuel for the Energy Data 

Initiative is open data. Open data can 

take many forms but generally includes 

information that is machine-readable, 

freely accessible, and in an industrystandard format. In particular, open data 

from the private sector made available 

to consumers may spur a uniquely 

scalable degree of innovation. For 

example, enabling energy customers to 

securely access their own household or 

building energy data—via a ‘‘Green 

Button’’ on their utility Web site—has 

fueled the next generation of energy 

efficiency products and services. Within 

this context, the U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) is launching the American 

Energy Data Challenge (the Challenge). 

The Challenge will consist of four 

parts: (1) Contest 1 will invite the public 

to identify open data sets held by the 

Department of Energy and other 

organizations that can deliver new or 

unexpected value, and incentivize 

concepts that blend open and other data 

in ways that could lead to future 

applications for American consumers 

and businesses. (2) Contest 2 will invite 

software developers to create software 

applications that enhance the value of 

open data and Green Button data in 

ways that benefit the public. (3) Contest 

3 will invite the public to offer 

approaches that improve the 

discoverability, usability, or 

understanding of open data and Green 

Button data resources. (4) Contest 4 

invites bold ideas for re-imagining all 

aspects of America’s energy system, and 

how this system could be changed for 

the better, including the way energy is 

generated, delivered, secured and sold. 

III. The Prizes 

The prizes for this four-part Challenge 

will be awarded in stages after each 

Contest is complete and will consist of 

a cash award and an opportunity to be 

recognized at a public announcement of 

the final winners. Each Contest winner 

will be awarded a small portion of the 

total cash pool. Winner(s) may be 

invited to a public announcement event 

hosted by DOE and its supporters and 

will be highlighted on DOE’s Web site. 

For the purposes of this Challenge, the 

term Submissions (‘‘Submissions’’) 

refers to the total portfolio of submitted 

ideas, products, and other entries. 

Monetary prizes will be awarded to each 

of the four Contest winners. Contestants 

are free to participate in one or more 

Contests. 

IV. Authority and Prize Amount 

This Challenge is being conducted 

under the authority of the America 

COMPETES Act of 2010, 15 U.S.C. 3719. 

Monetary prizes will be awarded, 

subject to the availability of funds. DOE 

reserves the right to suspend, cancel, 

extend, or curtail the Challenge as 

required or determined by appropriate 

DOE officials. Nothing within this 

document or in any documents 

supporting the Challenge shall be 

construed as obligating DOE or any 

other Federal agency or instrumentality 

to any expenditure of appropriated 

funds, or any obligation or expenditure 

of funds in excess of or in advance of 

available appropriations. DOE will 

award a single dollar amount to winning 

Team(s) and each Team, whether 

consisting of a single or multiple 

Contestants, is solely responsible for 

allocating any prize amount among its 

member Contestants as they deem 

appropriate. DOE will not arbitrate, 

intervene, advise on, or resolve any 

matters between entrant members. It 

will be up to the winning Team(s) to 

reallocate the prize money among its 

member Contestants, if they deem it 

appropriate. 

V. Prize Eligibility 

To be eligible to compete within this 

Challenge all of the requirements stated 

below must be met: 

A. All Challenge entrants must be 

identified in their Challenge Submission 

under a named Team (‘‘Team’’). 

B. Each Team member (‘‘Contestant’’) 

must be: (a) A citizen or permanent 

resident of the United States who is at 

least thirteen (13) years old at the time 

of entry; or (b) a private entity, such as 

a corporation or other organization, that 

is a lawfully-organized entity 

established in accordance with 

applicable State laws and in good 

standing in their respective jurisdiction, 

with operations in the U.S. or its 

Territories or a foreign legal entity 

having an officially recognized place of 

business in the U.S. or its Territories. 

Individuals submitting on behalf of 

corporations, nonprofits, or groups of 

individuals (such as an academic class) 

must meet the eligibility requirements 

for individual Contestants. A Contestant 

may join more than one Team. 

C. Each Team that registers for the 

Challenge must be able to receive 

payments that are legally made from the 

U.S. in U.S. dollars. Minors must 

provide proof of consent of a parent or 

legal guardian. 

D. Each Team must have a bank 

account into which funds can be legally 

deposited from the U.S. in U.S. dollars. 

E. The Team and all its Contestant 

members must agree to assume any and 

all risks related to the Challenge and 

waive all claims against the Federal 

Government and related entities, except 

in cases of willful misconduct, for any 

injury, death, damage, or loss of 

personal property, revenue or profits, 

whether direct, indirect, or 

consequential, arising from their 

participation in the Challenge 

competition, whether the injury, death, 

damage, or loss arises through 

negligence or otherwise. 

F. Each Team shall submit all 

required documentation in English and 

any monetary figures shall be stated or 

referenced in U.S. dollars. 

G. DOE employees, employees of 

sponsoring organizations (including 

participating industry leaders and 

employees of their associated or 

affiliated organizations), and members 

of their immediate family (spouses, 

children, siblings, parents), and persons 

living in the same household as such 

persons, whether or not related, are not 

eligible to participate in the Challenge. 

VI. Open Data and Green Button Data 

Specifications 

The Department of Energy has data 

available in a variety of locations and in 

a variety of formats. For this Challenge, 

where use of existing datasets is 

required, the data resources that are to 

be used by Teams are the datasets that 

can be directly and legally accessed. 

Green Button data means formatted data 

produced by the system developed by 

the North American Energy Standards 

Board for providing web-based secure 

access to energy bill account 

information, energy usage information, 

and energy consumption and usage data 

to customers of utilities and energy 

providers for the purposes of business 

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management. A partial list of electricity 

and gas service providers supporting 

Green Button data is available at 

http://www.greenbuttondata.org/

greenadopt.html. 

Use of open data or Green Button data 

is mandatory to be considered for a 

prize in Challenges 1, 2, and 3 listed 

above. However, DOE also encourages 

combining the value of this data with 

other non-open data, such as weather 

data or GPS technologies on a smart 

phone. 

VII. Evaluation Criteria 

It is of paramount importance to the 

American Energy Data Challenge that 

any use of open data or Green Button 

data protects privacy. Any generated 

idea, application, design, or other entry 

that presents a potential violation of this 

principle will be rejected by the judges. 

The following evaluation criteria are 

common across all four Contests, but 

complete rules and judging criteria will 

be published under each Contest. 

Common Criteria for Challenge 

Potential Impact: Each Submission 

will be rated on the strength of its 

potential to help individuals, 

organizations, and communities make 

greater use of open data or resources 

held by DOE, data in the Green Button 

data format, or energy infrastructure in 

the United States. 

Creativity and Innovation: Each 

Submission will be rated for the degree 

of new thinking it brings to the subject 

matter of each Contest, and the 

creativity shown in designing for 

impact. 

Helps Deliver Services Smarter and 

Faster: Each Submission will be rated 

for the degree to which public resources 

can be discovered and utilized or how 

open data and energy infrastructure can 

be efficiently leveraged to greatest 

citizen benefit. 

Use of Open Data: Each Submission 

in Contests 1, 2, and 3 must make use 

of open data or Green Button data. 

Judges will be looking at both the depth 

of usage for each data stream and the 

breadth of different data streams that are 

integrated. 

Submissions will be judged by an 

expert panel as well as the public. The 

expert judging panel will be appointed 

by DOE, may include both Federal and 

non-Federal personnel, and will 

determine winners of Contests 1–4. 

Each Contest will also feature a Popular 

Choice award, to be determined by 

public vote. Public votes will be 

displayed on the Challenge Web site, 

but will be verified for integrity. The 

winners of the Popular Choice Awards 

will be determined on the basis of the 

verified vote counts, as determined by 

DOE, and DOE reserves the right to 

suspend, cancel or extend the Popular 

Choice voting period at any time for any 

reason. 

VIII. Submission Requirements 

The official time-keeping device will 

be announced at the launch of each 

Contest, which shall be used for 

determining submission date and time, 

and compliance with submission 

timelines. The rules for Submissions— 

subject to modification as the individual 

Contests require—by Teams are as 

follows: 

(a) Visit http://

energychallenge.energy.gov/ and click 

‘‘Sign Up’’ to create a Contest account, 

or click ‘‘Log In’’ and log in with an 

existing account. 

(b) Register your interest in 

participating by clicking ‘‘Accept this 

Challenge’’ on the Challenge Web site in 

order to receive important Challenge 

updates. Registration is free. 

(c) After you sign up on the Challenge 

Web site, a confirmation email will be 

sent to the email address you provided. 

Use the confirmation email to verify 

your email address. As a registered 

Contestant, you will then be able to 

enter the each Contest by crafting a 

Submission that conforms to the 

requirements set forth in the Official 

Rules. 

(d) For Contest 1, submit an idea. For 

Contest 2, create a software application 

according to the Official Rules. For 

Contest 3, meet the requirements for the 

relevant prize category (visualization, 

information design, directory, etc). For 

Challenge 4, create a video. 

(e) Challenge Submission 

Requirements: Timing of Submission 

requirements will be announced when 

each Contest is launched, with Contest 

1 commencing on the date specified 

above. When a Submission is made, you 

will be required to visit http://

energychallenge.energy.gov/ to confirm 

that you have read and agree to the 

Official Rules. 

(g) Submission Rights: 

1. For Contest 1, Submissions must be 

submitted and released to the public 

under a Creative Commons Attribution 

3.0 Unported License. 

2. By sending in a Submission to this 

Challenge, you grant to DOE, and the 

other supporters a royalty-free license 

to: (i) Post on http://

energychallenge.energy.gov/ your 

Submission(s) and if applicable a link to 

the downloadable product in the online 

store of the applicable software platform 

(e.g., Google Play) or, if not distributed 

through such platform, to your Web site; 

and (ii) publicize the names of 

Challenge Contestants (including the 

individual members of a team) and 

winners and their Submissions through 

media and events of DOE’s choosing. 

Such license shall remain in force for 

the duration of the Challenge and for a 

period of no less than 12 consecutive 

months following the announcement of 

the Challenge winners. 

(h) Submission Requirements: In 

order for Submissions to be eligible to 

win a Contest, they must meet the 

following requirements: 

1. Acceptable platforms—The 

Submission, if in the form of software, 

must be designed for the web, a 

personal computer, a mobile handheld 

device, console, or any platform broadly 

accessible on the open internet. 

2. Data used—For Contests 1, 2, and 

3, the Submission must utilize open 

data or Green Button data. The use of or 

reference to data from other sources in 

conjunction with required data is 

strongly encouraged. 

3. No DOE logo—The Submission 

must not use DOE’s logo or official seal 

in the Submission, and must not claim 

DOE endorsement. 

4. Functionality/Accuracy—In the 

case of software applications, such 

applications may be disqualified if the 

software application fails to function as 

expressed in the description and video 

provided by the user, or if the software 

application provides inaccurate 

information. 

5. Third Party Approval— 

Submissions requiring approval from a 

third party, such as an ‘‘app store’’ like 

the Apple App Store, in order to be 

accessible to the public, must be 

submitted to such third party or app 

store for review before the end of the 

Contest period. For any software 

platform that is not easily shared on the 

web before store approval, such as 

Apple iPhone, you may submit your 

working software product using a web 

framework designed for those platforms 

(such as PhoneGap), and provide the 

required link to a video of your working 

application. DOE may request access to 

the product in person or via device 

provisioning to verify any criteria or 

functionality of your product. 

6. Security—Submissions must be free 

of malware. Contestant agrees that DOE 

may conduct testing on the Submission 

to determine whether malware or other 

security threats may be present. DOE 

may disqualify the Submission if, in 

DOE’s judgment, the Submission may 

damage Government or others’ 

equipment or operating environment. 

7. No Previous Winners—Contestant 

may not submit a Submission that is 

substantially similar to a Submission 

that has previously been submitted by 


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the Team to another competition and 

has won a prize. 

8. DOE will also screen Submissions 

for Team eligibility, IT security, and 

compliance with the challenge Web 

site’s Terms of Participation. Once a 

Submission has been submitted, the 

Team cannot make any changes or 

alterations to any part of the 

Submission. Ideas and products failing 

to meet Submission requirements or 

other Submission screenings will be 

deemed ineligible to win a prize. 

Posting a software application to 

http://energychallenge.energy.gov/does 

not constitute DOE’s final determination 

of Team eligibility. 

9. Each Submission must be original, 

the work of the Team, and must not 

infringe, misappropriate, or otherwise 

violate the lawful rights of any 

individual or organization including 

intellectual property rights and 

proprietary rights, privacy rights, or any 

other rights of any person or entity. 

Each Team further represents and 

warrants to DOE and the other sponsors 

that the Submission, and any use 

thereof by DOE or the other sponsors (or 

any of their respective partners, 

subsidiaries and affiliates), shall not: (i) 

Be defamatory or libelous in any 

manner toward any person, (ii) 

constitute or result in any 

misappropriation or other violation of 

any person’s publicity rights or right of 

privacy, and (iii) infringe, 

misappropriate, or otherwise violate any 

intellectual property rights, proprietary 

rights, privacy rights, moral rights, or 

any other rights of any person or entity. 

10. It is an express condition of 

eligibility that each Team warrants and 

represents that the Team’s Submission 

is solely owned by the Team, that the 

Submission is wholly original with the 

Team, and that no other party has any 

ownership rights or ownership interest 

in the Submission. 

11. A Team may contract with a third 

party for technical assistance to create 

the Submission, provided the idea or 

product is solely the Team’s work 

product and the result of the Team’s 

ideas and creativity and the Team owns 

all rights to it. 

12. Each Submission must be in 

English or, if in a language other than 

English, the Submission must be 

accompanied by an English translation 

of the text. 

13. Submissions will not be accepted 

if they contain any matter that, in the 

sole discretion of DOE or its judges, is 

indecent, obscene, defamatory, libelous, 

in bad taste, or demonstrates a lack of 

respect for public morals or conduct. If 

DOE, in its discretion, finds any 

Submission to be unacceptable, then 

such Submission shall be deemed 

disqualified. 

14. Winners are responsible for both 

reporting and paying all applicable 

Federal, state, and local taxes payable 

from any prize amounts awarded under 

this Challenge. 

IX. Additional Terms and Conditions 

Challenge Subject to Applicable Law: 

the Challenge is subject to all applicable 

Federal laws and regulations. 

Registering for this Challenge 

constitutes each Team and/or 

Contestant’s agreement to the official 

rules as set forth on http://

energychallenge.energy.gov/ and 

administrative decisions, which are 

final and binding in all matters related 

to the Challenge. Eligibility for a prize 

award is contingent upon fulfilling all 

requirements set forth herein. 

Judges: The Submissions will be 

judged by a qualified judging panel 

selected by DOE at its sole discretion. 

The judging panel will judge the 

Submissions on the judging criteria 

identified in the Contest rules in order 

to select winners in each category. 

Publicity: Except where prohibited, 

participation in the Challenge 

constitutes each winner’s consent to 

DOE’s and its agents’ use of each 

winner’s name, likeness, photograph, 

voice, biographical information, 

opinions, and/or hometown and state 

information for promotional purposes 

through any form of media, worldwide, 

without further permission, payment, or 

consideration. 

Liability and Insurance: Any and all 

information provided by or obtained 

from the Federal Government is without 

any warranty or representation 

whatsoever, including but not limited to 

its suitability for any particular purpose. 

Upon registration, all Contestants agree 

to assume and, thereby, have assumed 

any and all risks of injury or loss in 

connection with or in any way arising 

from participation in this competition, 

development of any application, or the 

use of any application by the 

Contestants or any third party. Upon 

registration, all Contestants agree to and, 

thereby, do waive and release any and 

all claims or causes of action against the 

Federal Government and its officers, 

employees and agents for any and all 

injury and damage of any nature 

whatsoever (whether existing or 

thereafter arising, whether direct, 

indirect, or consequential and whether 

foreseeable or not), arising from their 

participation in the Challenge, whether 

the claim or cause of action arises under 

contract or tort. Upon registration, all 

Contestants agree to and, thereby, shall 

indemnify and hold harmless the 

Federal Government and its officers, 

employees and agents for any and all 

injury and damage of any nature 

whatsoever (whether existing or 

thereafter arising, whether direct, 

indirect, or consequential and whether 

foreseeable or not), including but not 

limited to any damage that may result 

from a virus, malware, etc., to 

Government computer systems or data, 

or to the systems or data of end-users of 

the software and/or application(s) 

which results, in whole or in part, from 

the fault, negligence, or wrongful act or 

omission of the Contestants or 

Contestants’ officers, employees or 

agents. 

Records Retention and FOIA: All 

materials submitted to DOE as part of a 

Submission become DOE records and 

cannot be returned. No confidential 

information will be accepted with any 

Submission. Submitters will be notified 

of any Freedom of Information Act 

requests for their Submissions in 

accordance with 10 CFR part 1004. 

508 Compliance: Participants should 

keep in mind that the Department of 

Energy considers universal accessibility 

to information a priority for all 

individuals, including individuals with 

disabilities. In this regard, the 

Department is strongly committed to 

meeting its compliance obligations 

under Section 508 of the Rehabilitation 

Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. § 794d), as 

amended, to ensure the accessibility of 

its programs and activities to 

individuals with disabilities. This 

obligation includes acquiring accessible 

electronic and information technology. 

When evaluating Submissions for this 

contest, the extent to which a 

Submission complies with the 

requirements for accessible technology 

required by Section 508 will be 

considered. 

Public Voting: DOE is not responsible 

for, nor is it required to count, 

incomplete, late, misdirected, damaged, 

unlawful, or illicit votes, including 

those secured through payment or 

achieved through automated means. 

X. Contact Information 

Department of Energy, Office of 

Public Affairs, 7A–145, Attn: American 

Energy Data Challenge, 1000 

Independence Ave. SW., Washington, 

DC 20585. 

For questions about the Official Rules, 

contact DataInnovation@hq.doe.gov. 


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Issued in Washington, DC on November 6, 

2013. 

Patricia A. Hoffman, 

Assistant Secretary, Office of Electricity 

Delivery and Energy Reliability. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Invitation for Public Comment on Draft 

Test Plan for the High Burnup Dry 

Storage Cask Research and 

Development Project (CDP) 

AGENCY: Fuel Cycle Technologies, Office 

of Nuclear Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice; request for public 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) is providing notice of 

request for public comment on its draft 

test plan for the High Burnup Dry 

Storage Cask Research and Development 

Project (CDP). The test plan will guide 

the Department’s activities, research, 

and development throughout the 

execution of the High Burnup Dry 

Storage Cask Research and Development 

Project. The draft test plan places its 

focus on ‘‘why’’ the project is being 

performed and ‘‘what’’ the Department 

plans to accomplish with the CDP. The 

details on ‘‘how’’ the test plan will be 

executed will be added when Dominion 

Virginia Power, who is part of the 

Electric Power research Institute (EPRI) 

team, submits a License Amendment 

Request for the existing North Anna 

Generating Station Independent Spent 

Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI). The 

License Amendment Request will be 

submitted to the NRC in the future. The 

public will be provided an opportunity 

to provide comments to the NRC on the 

CDP test plan at that time. The DOE’s 

Office of Used Nuclear Fuel Disposition 

Research and Development has 

coordinated this effort in collaboration 

with its contractor EPRI and several 

DOE national laboratories. The DOE is 

seeking public stakeholder comment to 

ensure CDP resources are invested 

wisely to achieve measurable 

improvements in our Nation’s data on 

High Burnup Casks. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted by December 12, 2013. 

Comments received after this date will 

be considered if it is practical to do so; 

however, the DOE is only able to ensure 

consideration of comments received on 

or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

Electronic Form: Go to http://

www.id.energy.gov/insideNEID/

PublicInvolvement.htm. Locate the area 

on the page that pertains to the draft test 

plan for the High Burnup Dry Storage 

Cask Research and Development Project 

(CDP). Click on the link for the 

electronic comment form. Populate the 

form and click on ‘‘Submit’’. 

E-Mail: CDP@id.doe.gov. 

Mail: U.S. Department of Energy, C/O 

Melissa Bates, 1955 Freemont Ave., MS 

1235, Idaho Falls, ID 83415. 

Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S. 

Department of Energy, Willow Creek 

Building Ground Floor, Room 185B, 

1955 Fremont Ave., Attn: Melissa Bates, 

Idaho Falls, ID, between 8 a.m. and 3:30 

p.m. MT, Monday through Thursday, 

except Federal holidays. 

Fax: 208–526–6249. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mrs. 

Melissa Bates, Contracting Officers 

Representative, High Burnup Dry 

Storage Cask Research and Development 

Project, U.S. Department of Energy— 

Idaho Operations Office, MS 1235, 1955 

Fremont Ave., Idaho Falls, ID 83415, 

(208) 526–4652, batesmc@id.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Energy (DOE) has 

performed recent assessments focusing 

on long-term aging issues important to 

the performance of the structures, 

systems, and components of the dry 

cask storage systems for high burnup 

spent nuclear fuel. A number of 

technical issues and research and data 

needs have emerged from these 

assessments. DOE has determined that a 

large scale cask research and 

development project using various 

configurations of dry storage cask 

systems and experiments would be 

beneficial. 

A draft test plan for the High Burnup 

Dry Storage Cask Research and 

Development Project (CDP) has been 

drafted by DOE’s contractor the Electric 

Power Research Institute (EPRI) to 

document what is planned to be 

accomplished by the CDP. DOE is 

soliciting comments from the public to 

obtain feedback on what the Department 

plans to execute. 

A copy of the draft test plan can be 

found at the following link: http://

www.id.energy.gov/insideNEID/

PublicInvolvement.htm. Locate the area 

on the page that pertains to the High 

Burnup Dry Storage Cask Research and 

Development Project (CDP). Click on the 

link for the draft test plan. 

Submitting Comments 

Stakeholder’s comments should be 

aligned, if possible, with the goals and 

objectives of the CDP. All comments 

will be considered that are received by 

the deadline that appears in the DATES

section. 

Instructions: Submit comments via 

any of the mechanisms set forth in the 

ADDRESSES section above. Identify your 

name, organization affiliation, 

comments on the draft test plan, email, 

and phone number. If an email or phone 

number is included, it will allow the 

DOE to contact the commenter if 

questions or clarifications arise. No 

responses will be provided to 

commenters in regards to the 

disposition of their comments. All 

comments will be officially recorded 

without change or edit, including any 

personal information provided. 

Privacy Act: Data collected via the 

mechanisms listed above will not be 

protected from the public view in any 

way. DOE does not intend to publish the 

comments received externally; however, 

data collected will be seen by multiple 

entities while comments are resolved. 

Dated: November 5, 2013. 

Jay Jones, 

Office of Fuel Cycle Technologies, Office of 

Nuclear Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2013–26977 Filed 11–8–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[OE Docket No. PP–362] 

Notice of Availability for the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Announcement of Public Hearings for 

the Proposed Champlain Hudson 

Power Express Transmission Line 

Project; Correction 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of availability and public 

hearings; correction. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) published a document in the 

Federal Register of November 1, 2013, 

announcing the availability for the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

public hearings for the proposed 

Champlain Hudson Power Express 

transmission line project. This 

document corrects an error in that 

notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information 

should be directed to Brian Mills at 

Brian.Mills@hq.doe.gov. 

Correction 

In the Federal Register of November 

1, 2013 in FR Doc. 2013–26080, 78 FR 

65622, please make the following 

correction: 


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