26736 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 90 / Friday, May 9, 2014 / Notices 

Dr. John P. Holdren, Assistant to the 

President for Science and Technology, 

and Director, Office of Science and 

Technology Policy, Executive Office of 

the President, The White House; and Dr. 

Eric S. Lander, President, Broad 

Institute of the Massachusetts Institute 

of Technology and Harvard. 

Type of Meeting: Open. 

Proposed Schedule and Agenda: The 

President’s Council of Advisors on 

Science and Technology (PCAST) is 

scheduled to hold a conference call in 

open session on Wednesday, May 28, 

2014 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

During the conference call, PCAST 

will discuss its antimicrobial resistance 

report and advanced manufacturing 

reports. Additional information and the 

agenda, including any changes that 

arise, will be posted at the PCAST Web 

site at: http://whitehouse.gov/ostp/

pcast. 

Public Comments: PCAST’s policy is 

to accept written public comments of 

any length and to accommodate oral 

public comments, whenever possible. 

The PCAST expects that public 

statements presented at its meetings will 

not be repetitive of previously 

submitted oral or written statements. 

The public comment period for this 

meeting will take place on May 28, 2014 

at a time specified in the meeting 

agenda posted on the PCAST Web site 

at http://whitehouse.gov/ostp/pcast. 

This public comment period is designed 

only for substantive commentary on 

PCAST’s work, not for business 

marketing purposes. 

Oral Comments: To be considered for 

the public speaker list at the meeting, 

interested parties should register to 

speak at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/

ostp/pcast, no later than 12:00 p.m. ET 

on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Phone or 

email reservations to be considered for 

the public speaker list will not be 

accepted. To accommodate as many 

speakers as possible, the time for public 

comments will be limited to two (2) 

minutes per person, with a total public 

comment period of 10 minutes. If more 

speakers register than there is space 

available on the agenda, PCAST will 

randomly select speakers from among 

those who applied. Those not selected 

to present oral comments may always 

file written comments with the 

committee as described below. 

Written Comments: Although written 

comments are accepted until the date of 

the meeting, written comments should 

be submitted to PCAST no later than 

12:00 p.m. ET on Friday, May 23, 2014, 

so that the comments may be made 

available to the PCAST members prior 

to the meeting for their consideration. 

Information regarding how to submit 

comments and documents to PCAST is 

available at http://whitehouse.gov/ostp/ 

pcast in the section entitled ‘‘Connect 

with PCAST.’’ 

Please note that because PCAST 

operates under the provisions of FACA, 

all public comments and/or 

presentations will be treated as public 

documents and will be made available 

for public inspection, including being 

posted on the PCAST Web site. 

Meeting Accommodations: 

Individuals requiring special 

accommodation to access this public 

meeting should contact Dr. Predith at 

least ten business days prior to the 

meeting so that appropriate 

arrangements can be made. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 6, 2014. 

LaTanya R. Butler, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2014–10699 Filed 5–8–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Quadrennial Energy Review: Notice of 

Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Policy and 

Systems Analysis, Secretariat, 

Quadrennial Energy Review Task Force, 

Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: At the direction of the 

President, the U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE or Department), as the 

Secretariat for the Quadrennial Energy 

Review Task Force (QER Task Force 

will convene a series of public meetings 

to discuss and receive comments on 

issues related to the Quadrennial Energy 

Review. 

DATES: The Department, as the 

Secretariat for the QER Task Force, is 

convening additional meetings relating 

to the Quadrennial Energy Review. The 

third public meeting will be held on 

Tuesday, May 27, 2014, beginning at 9 

a.m. Written comments are welcome, 

especially following the public meeting, 

and should be submitted within 60 days 

of the meeting. 

The precise, times, dates and 

addresses of additional meetings will be 

announced in later Federal Register 

notices. 

ADDRESSES: The May 27, 2014 meeting 

will be held at the Louisiana State 

University Health Sciences Center New 

Orleans, Lecture Room, Medical 

Education Building, 1901 Perdido 

Street, New Orleans, LA 70112. 

You may submit written comments, 

to: QERComments@hq.doe.gov or by 

U.S. mail to the Office of Energy Policy 

and Systems Analysis, EPSA–60, QER 

Meeting Comments, U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue 

SW., Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

For the May 27, 2014 Public Meeting, 

please title your comment ‘‘Quadrennial 

Energy Review: Comment on the Public 

Meeting ‘‘Petroleum Product 

Transmission & Distribution (including 

CO2/EOR)’’ held May 27, 2014, 

Washington, DC.’’. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Adonica Renee Pickett, EPSA–90, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Office of Energy 

Policy and Systems Analysis, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

Telephone: (202) 586–9168 Email: 

Adonica.Pickett@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

January 9, 2014, President Obama 

issued a Presidential Memorandum— 

Establishing a Quadrennial Energy 

Review. To accomplish this review, the 

Presidential Memorandum establishes a 

Quadrennial Energy Review Task Force 

to be co-chaired by the Director of the 

Office of Science and Technology 

Policy, and the Director of the Domestic 

Policy Council. Under the Presidential 

Memorandum, the Secretary of Energy 

shall provide support to the Task Force, 

including support for coordination 

activities related to the preparation of 

the Quadrennial Energy Review Report, 

policy analysis and modeling, and 

stakeholder engagement. 

The DOE, as the Secretariat for the 

Quadrennial Energy Review Task Force, 

will hold a series of public meetings to 

discuss and receive comments on issues 

related to the Quadrennial Energy 

Review. In this Federal Register notice, 

DOE is announcing the general locations 

and topics for additional meetings as 

follows: 

Topic Location 

Infrastructure Constraints—Bakken ...................................................................................... North Dakota. 

Electricity TS&D—West ......................................................................................................... Portland, OR. 

Electricity TS&D—East .......................................................................................................... New Jersey. 

Rail, Barge, Truck Transportation ......................................................................................... Chicago, IL. 


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Topic Location 

Water-Energy Nexus ............................................................................................................. California. 

Finance and Market Incentives ............................................................................................. New York, NY. 

Natural Gas TS&D ................................................................................................................ Pittsburgh, PA. 

Propane Distribution and North American TS&D ................................................................. Minneapolis, MN. 

State, Local and Tribal Issues .............................................................................................. New Mexico. 

Gas-Electricity Interdependence ........................................................................................... Colorado. 

Infrastructure Siting ............................................................................................................... Wyoming. 

Rural Electricity Issues, Biomass Processing and Transportation ....................................... Iowa. 

Business/Economic Development ......................................................................................... Atlanta, GA. 

Final Meeting ......................................................................................................................... Washington, DC. 

The initial focus for the Quadrennial 

Energy Review will be our Nation’s 

infrastructure for transporting, 

transmitting, storing and delivering 

energy. Our current infrastructure is 

increasingly challenged by 

transformations in energy supply, 

markets, and patterns of end use; issues 

of aging and capacity; impacts of 

climate change; and cyber and physical 

threats. Any vulnerability in this 

infrastructure may be exacerbated by the 

increasing interdependencies of energy 

systems with water, 

telecommunications, transportation, and 

emergency response systems. The first 

Quadrennial Energy Review Report will 

serve as a roadmap to help address these 

challenges. 

The Department of Energy has a broad 

role in energy policy development and 

the largest role in implementing the 

Federal Government’s energy research 

and development portfolio. Many other 

executive departments and agencies also 

play key roles in developing and 

implementing policies governing energy 

resources and consumption, as well as 

associated environmental impacts. In 

addition, non-Federal actors are crucial 

contributors to energy policies. Because 

most energy and related infrastructure is 

owned by private entities, investment 

by and engagement of the private sector 

is necessary to develop and implement 

effective policies. 

State and local policies; the views of 

nongovernmental, environmental, faithbased, labor, and other social 

organizations; and contributions from 

the academic and non-profit sectors are 

also critical to the development and 

implementation of effective energy 

policies. 

An interagency Quadrennial Energy 

Review Task Force, which includes 

members from all relevant executive 

departments and agencies (agencies), 

will develop an integrated review of 

energy policy that integrates all of these 

perspectives. It will build on the 

foundation provided in the 

Administration’s Blueprint for a Secure 

Energy Future of March 30, 2011, and 

Climate Action Plan released on June 

25, 2013. The Task Force will offer 

recommendations on what additional 

actions it believes would be appropriate. 

These may include recommendations on 

additional executive or legislative 

actions to address the energy challenges 

and opportunities facing the Nation. 

May 27, 2014 Public Meeting: 

Petroleum Product Transmission & 

Distribution (Including CO2/EOR) 

On May 27, 2014, the DOE will hold 

a public meeting in New Orleans, 

Louisiana. The May 27, 2014 public 

meeting will feature facilitated panel 

discussions, followed by an open 

microphone session. Persons desiring to 

speak during the open microphone 

session at the public meeting should 

come prepared to speak for no more 

than 3 minutes and will be 

accommodated on a first-come, firstserve basis, according to the order in 

which they register to speak on a signin sheet available at the meeting 

location, on the morning of the meeting. 

In advance of the meeting, DOE 

anticipates making publicly available a 

briefing memorandum providing useful 

background information regarding the 

topics under discussion at the meeting. 

DOE will post this memorandum on its 

Web site: http://energy.gov. 

Submitting comments via email. 

Submitting comments by email to the 

QER email address will require you to 

provide your name and contact 

information in the transmittal email. 

Your contact information will be 

viewable to DOE staff only. Your contact 

information will not be publicly 

viewable except for your first and last 

names, organization name (if any), and 

submitter representative name (if any). 

Your contact information will be 

publicly viewable if you include it in 

the comment itself or in any documents 

attached to your comment. Any 

information that you do not want to be 

publicly viewable should not be 

included in your comment, nor in any 

document attached to your comment. 

Otherwise, persons viewing comments 

will see only first and last names, 

organization names, correspondence 

containing comments, and any 

documents submitted with the 

comments. 

Do not submit to the QER email 

address (QERcomments@hq.doe.gov) 

information for which disclosure is 

restricted by statute, such as trade 

secrets and commercial or financial 

information (hereinafter referred to as 

Confidential Business Information 

(CBI)). Comments submitted to the QER 

email address cannot be claimed as CBI. 

Comments received through the email 

address will waive any CBI claims for 

the information submitted. For 

information on submitting CBI, see the 

Confidential Business Information 

section, below. 

If you do not want your personal 

contact information to be publicly 

viewable, do not include it in your 

comment or any accompanying 

documents. Instead, provide your 

contact information in a cover letter. 

Include your first and last names, email 

address, telephone number, and 

optional mailing address. The cover 

letter will not be publicly viewable as 

long as it does not include any 

comments. 

Include contact information each time 

you submit comments, data, documents, 

and other information to DOE. If you 

submit via mail or hand delivery/

courier, please provide all items on a 

CD, if feasible, in which case it is not 

necessary to submit printed copies. No 

telefacsimiles (faxes) will be accepted. 

Comments, data, and other 

information submitted to DOE 

electronically should be provided in 

PDF (preferred), Microsoft Word or 

Excel, WordPerfect, or text (ASCII) file 

format. Provide documents that are not 

secured, written in English, and are free 

of any defects or viruses. Documents 

should not contain special characters or 

any form of encryption and, if possible, 

they should carry the electronic 

signature of the author. 

Confidential Business Information. 

Pursuant to 10 CFR 1004.11, any person 

submitting information that he or she 

believes to be confidential and exempt 

by law from public disclosure should 


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1The Commission defines burden as the total 

time, effort, or financial resources expended by 

persons to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or 

provide information to or for a Federal agency. For 

further explanation of what is included in the 

information collection burden, reference 5 Code of 

Federal Regulations 1320.3. 

submit via email, postal mail, or hand 

delivery/courier two well-marked 

copies: One copy of the document 

marked ‘‘confidential’’ including all the 

information believed to be confidential, 

and one copy of the document marked 

‘‘non-confidential’’ with the information 

believed to be confidential deleted. 

Submit these documents via email or on 

a CD, if feasible. DOE will make its own 

determination about the confidential 

status of the information and treat it 

according to its determination. 

Confidential information should be 

submitted to the Confidential QER email 

address: QERConfidential@hq.doe.gov. 

Factors of interest to DOE when 

evaluating requests to treat submitted 

information as confidential include: (1) 

A description of the items; (2) whether 

and why such items are customarily 

treated as confidential within the 

industry; (3) whether the information is 

generally known by or available from 

other sources; (4) whether the 

information has previously been made 

available to others without obligation 

concerning its confidentiality; (5) an 

explanation of the competitive injury to 

the submitting person which would 

result from public disclosure; (6) when 

such information might lose its 

confidential character due to the 

passage of time; and (7) why disclosure 

of the information would be contrary to 

the public interest. It is DOE’s policy 

that all comments may be included in 

the public docket, without change and 

as received, including any personal 

information provided in the comments 

(except information deemed to be 

exempt from public disclosure). 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 6, 2014. 

Michele Torrusio, 

QER Secretariat, QER Interagency Task Force, 

U.S. Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2014–10736 Filed 5–8–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC14–7–000] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities (FERC–603); Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, DOE. 

ACTION: Comment request. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 

3507(a)(1)(D), the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission or 

FERC) is submitting the information 

collection FERC–603, Critical Energy 

Infrastructure Information Request, to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review of the information 

collection requirements. Any interested 

person may file comments directly with 

OMB and should address a copy of 

those comments to the Commission as 

explained below. The Commission 

issued a Notice in the Federal Register 

(79 FR 8181, 2/11/2014) requesting 

public comments. FERC received one 

comment in response to the notice and 

has addressed the comment below and 

in the supporting statement submitted 

to OMB. 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information are due by June 9, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB, 

identified by the OMB Control No. 

1902–0197, should be sent via email to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs: oira_submission@omb.gov. 

Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission Desk Officer. The Desk 

Officer may also be reached via 

telephone at 202–395–4718. 

A copy of the comments should also 

be sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, identified by the Docket 

No. IC14–7–000, by either of the 

following methods: 

• eFiling at Commission’s Web site: 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/

efiling.asp. 

• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

Secretary of the Commission, 888 First 

Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

Instructions: All submissions must be 

formatted and filed in accordance with 

submission guidelines at: http://

www.ferc.gov/help/submissionguide.asp. For user assistance contact 

FERC Online Support by email at 

ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by phone 

at: (866) 208–3676 (toll-free), or (202) 

502–8659 for TTY. 

Docket: Users interested in receiving 

automatic notification of activity in this 

docket or in viewing/downloading 

comments and issuances in this docket 

may do so at http://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/docs-filing.asp. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ellen Brown may be reached by email 

at DataClearance@FERC.gov, by 

telephone at (202) 502–8663, and by fax 

at (202) 273–0873. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: FERC–603, Critical Energy 

Infrastructure Information Request. 

OMB Control No.: 1902–0197. 

Type of Request: Three-year extension 

of the FERC–603 information collection 

requirements with no changes to the 

current reporting requirements. 

Abstract: This collection is used by 

the Commission to implement 

procedures for gaining access to critical 

energy infrastructure information (CEII) 

that would not otherwise be available 

under the Freedom of Information Act 

(5 U.S.C. 552). On February, 21, 2003, 

the Commission issued Order No. 630 

(66 FR 52917) to address the appropriate 

treatment of CEII in the aftermath of the 

September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and 

to restrict unrestrained general access 

due to the ongoing terrorism threat. 

These steps enable the Commission to 

keep sensitive infrastructure 

information out of the public domain, 

decreasing the likelihood that such 

information could be used to plan or 

execute terrorist attacks. The process 

adopted in Order No. 630 is a more 

efficient alternative for handling 

requests for previously public 

documents than FOIA. The Commission 

has defined CEII to include information 

about ‘‘existing or proposed critical 

infrastructure that (i) relates to the 

production, generation, transportation, 

transmission, or distribution of energy; 

(ii) could be useful to a person planning 

an attack on critical infrastructure; (iii) 

is exempt from mandatory disclosure 

under the Freedom of Information Act, 

and (iv) does not simply give the 

location of the critical infrastructure. 

Critical infrastructure means existing 

and proposed systems and assets, 

whether physical or virtual, the 

incapacity or destruction of which 

would negatively affect security, 

economic security, public health or 

safety, or any combination of those 

matters. A person seeking access to CEII 

may file a request for that information 

by providing information about their 

identity and reason as to the need for 

the information. Through this process, 

the Commission is able to review the 

requester’s need for the information 

against the sensitivity of the 

information. Compliance with these 

requirements is mandatory. 

The CEII request form (hard copy and 

electronic version) and other materials 

are located at http://www.ferc.gov/legal/ 

ceii-foia/ceii.asp. 

Type of Respondents: Persons seeking 

access to CEII. 


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