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Data. The Department may disclose 

records from this system to another 

Federal agency or Federal entity, when 

the Department determines that 

information from this system of records 

is reasonably necessary to assist the 

recipient agency or entity in (a) 

responding to a suspected or confirmed 

breach or (b) preventing, minimizing, or 

remedying the risk of harm to 

individuals, the recipient agency or 

entity (including its information 

systems, programs, and operations), the 

Federal Government, or national 

security, resulting from a suspected or 

confirmed breach. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORAGE OF

RECORDS: 

These records will be maintained in 

an electronic database. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETRIEVAL OF

RECORDS: 

Records are indexed by Social 

Security number, name, date of birth, 

and case tracking number. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETENTION AND

DISPOSAL OF RECORDS: 

All records are retained and disposed 

of in accordance with Department 

Records Schedule 052: Ombudsman 

Case Files (N1–441–09–21) (ED 052). ED 

052 is being amended, pending approval 

by the National Archives and Records 

Administration (NARA). Records will 

not be destroyed until NARA-approved 

amendments to ED 052 are in effect, as 

applicable. 

ADMINISTRATIVE, TECHNICAL, AND PHYSICAL

SAFEGUARDS: 

Access to and use of these records by 

Department employees and agents shall 

be limited to those persons whose 

official duties require access. This 

includes staff members of the Office of 

the Student Loan Ombudsman, 

Enforcement Office staff members, and 

other Department employees and agents. 

All physical access to the site where this 

system of records is maintained, is 

controlled and monitored by security 

personnel who check each individual 

entering the building for his or her 

employee or visitor badge. 

The computer system offers a high 

degree of resistance to tampering and 

circumvention. This security system 

limits data access to staff on a ‘‘need to 

know’’ basis, and controls individual 

users’ ability to access and alter records 

within the system. All users of this 

system of records are given unique user 

IDs with personal identifiers. All 

interactions by individual users with 

the system are recorded. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

If you wish to gain access to a record 

regarding you in the system of records, 

contact the system manager at the 

address listed above. You must provide 

necessary particulars such as your 

name, SSN, and any other identifying 

information requested by the 

Department while processing the 

request to distinguish between 

individuals with the same name. Your 

request must meet the requirements of 

34 CFR 5b.5, including proof of identity. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

If you wish to contest the content of 

a record regarding you in the system of 

records, contact the system manager 

with the information described in the 

record access procedures. Your request 

must meet the requirements of 34 CFR 

5b.7. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES: 

If you wish to determine whether a 

record exists regarding you in the 

system of records, contact the system 

manager at the address listed above. 

You must provide necessary particulars 

such as your name, SSN, and any other 

identifying information requested by the 

Department while processing the 

request to distinguish between 

individuals of with the same name. 

Your request must meet the 

requirements of 34 CFR 5b.5, including 

proof of identity. 

EXEMPTIONS PROMULGATED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

HISTORY: 

The system of records notice entitled 

‘‘Office of the Student Loan 

Ombudsman Records’’ (18–11–11) was 

published in the Federal Register on 

December 27, 1999 (64 FR 72384, 

72399–72400). The ‘‘Office of the 

Student Loan Ombudsman Records’’ 

system of records notice was most 

recently altered and republished in full 

in the Federal Register on March 8, 

2016 (81 FR 12081). 

The records that will be maintained in 

the CEMS system of records that are 

about individuals who have asserted 

defenses to the repayment of their 

Federal student loans, also known as 

‘‘borrower defenses,’’ pursuant to the 

Department’s regulations at 34 CFR 

685.206, previously were covered by the 

system of records notice entitled 

‘‘Common Services for Borrowers 

(CSB)’’ (18–11–16), which was first 

published in the Federal Register on 

January 23, 2006 (71 FR 3503), 

subsequently updated on September 12, 

2014 (79 FR 54685), and last altered on 

September 2, 2016 (81 FR 60683). 

[FR Doc. 2018–12700 Filed 6–12–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Notice of Request for Information (RFI) 

on Identifying Priorities for Reducing 

Barriers to Deployment of Hydrogen 

Infrastructure 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Request for information (RFI). 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) published a Request for 

Information (RFI) on Identifying 

Priorities for Reducing Barriers to 

Deployment of Hydrogen Infrastructure 

on EERE Exchange to gather information 

on priority areas for reducing barriers to 

deployment of hydrogen technologies, 

with a particular focus on hydrogen 

infrastructure. 

DATES: Responses to the RFI must be 

received no later than 5:00 p.m. (ET) on 

August 10, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are to 

submit comments electronically to 

FY18FCTOBARRIERSRFI@

EE.DOE.GOV. Responses must be 

provided as attachments to an email. 

Include ‘‘Deployment Barriers RFI’’ as 

the subject of the email. It is 

recommended that attachments with file 

sizes exceeding 25MB be compressed 

(i.e., zipped) to ensure message delivery. 

Responses must be provided as a 

Microsoft Word (.docx) attachment to 

the email, and 12 point font, 1 inch 

margins. Only electronic responses will 

be accepted. The complete RFI 

document is located at https://eereexchange.energy.gov/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions may be addressed to 

FY18FCTOBARRIERSRFI@

EE.DOE.GOV. Further instruction can be 

found in the RFI document posted on 

EERE Exchange. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOE 

posted on its website an RFI to solicit 

feedback from industry, academia, 

research laboratories, government 

agencies, and other stakeholders on 

critical barriers to deployment of 

hydrogen infrastructure. The goal of the 

RFI is to identify these barriers and 

potential courses-of-action to address 

them to reduce deployment time and 

cost in implementing hydrogen 

technologies and to support the 

implementation of large-scale 

applications. Deployment of hydrogen 


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station regulatory compliance costs and 

time for regulatory processing have been 

shown to be substantial. Courses-ofaction may include areas such as: 

Identifying gaps in existing regulations, 

codes and standards; streamlining 

regulatory, permitting, and certification 

processes; reducing unneeded 

compliance actions; or consolidating 

regulatory requirements. The RFI [DE– 

FOA–0001948] is available at: https://

eere-exchange.energy.gov/. 

Confidential Business Information 

Because information received in 

response to this RFI may be used to 

structure future programs, funding and/ 

or otherwise be made available to the 

public, respondents are strongly advised 

to not include any information in their 

responses that might be considered 

business sensitive, proprietary, or 

otherwise confidential. If, however, a 

respondent chooses to submit business 

sensitive, proprietary, or otherwise 

confidential information, it must be 

clearly and conspicuously marked as 

such in the response as detailed in the 

RFI [DE–FOA–0001948] at: https://eereexchange.energy.gov/. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2018. 

Sunita Satyapal, 

Director, Fuel Cell Technologies Office. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12699 Filed 6–12–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Agency Information Collection 

Extension 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Submission for Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) review 

and comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) has submitted an information 

collection request to the OMB for 

extension under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The 

information collection requests a threeyear extension of its Procurement 

Collection, OMB Control Number 1910– 

4100. This information collection 

request covers information necessary to 

administer and manage DOE’s 

procurement and acquisition programs. 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

collection must be received on or before 

July 13, 2018. If you anticipate that you 

will be submitting comments, but find 

it difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, please 

advise the OMB Desk Officer of your 

intention to make a submission as soon 

as possible. The Desk Officer may be 

telephoned at (202) 395–4650. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent to the: DOE Desk Officer, Office 

of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building Room 10102, 

735 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 

20503. 

If you wish access to the collection of 

information, without charge, contact the 

person listed as soon as possible. 

Sharon Archer, Procurement Analyst, 

MA–61/L’Enfant Plaza Building, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 950 L’Enfant 

Plaza SW, Washington, DC 20024, 

Sharon.Archer@hq.doe.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Sharon Archer, by email: 

Sharon.Archer@hq.doe.gov, or by 

telephone at (202) 287–1739. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

(1) OMB No. 1910–4100 (Renewal); (2) 

Information Collection Request Title: 

Procurement Information Collection; (3) 

Type of Request: Renewal; (4) Purpose: 

Under 48 CFR part 952 and Subpart 

970.52, DOE must collect certain types 

of information from those seeking to do 

business with the Department or those 

awarded contracts by the Department. 

This information collection is necessary 

for the solicitation, award, 

administration, and closeout of DOE 

procurement contracts. (5) Annual 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

7,387; (6) Annual Estimated Total 

Burden Hours: 666,082; (7) Annual 

Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping 

Cost Burden: $56,616,970. 

Statutory Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2201. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 31, 

2018. 

John Bashista, 

Director, Office of Acquisition Management. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12698 Filed 6–12–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Energy Information Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Proposed New Survey or Extension 

AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: EIA is requesting a three-year 

extension of EIA–882T, ‘‘Generic 

Clearance for Questionnaire Testing, 

Evaluation, and Research.’’ EIA–882T 

provides EIA with the authority to 

utilize qualitative and quantitative 

methodologies to pretest questionnaires 

and validate the quality of data 

collected on EIA’s surveys. EIA uses 

EIA–882T to meet its obligation to 

publish, and otherwise make available 

independent, high-quality statistical 

data to federal government agencies, 

state and local governments, the energy 

industry, researchers, and the general 

public. 

DATES: EIA must receive all comments 

on this proposed information collection 

no later than August 13, 2018. If you 

anticipate any difficulties in submitting 

your comments by the deadline, contact 

the person listed in the ADDRESSES

section of this notice as soon as 

possible. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments to 

Brian Hewitt, U.S. Energy Information 

Administration, 1000 Independence 

Avenue SW, EI–21 Washington, DC 

20585. If you prefer, you can email them 

to: brian.hewitt@eia.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you need additional information, send 

your request to Brian Hewitt, U.S. 

Energy Information Administration, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW, EI–21, 

Washington, DC 20585. If you prefer, 

you can email brian.hewitt@eia.gov or 

contact him by telephone at 202–586– 

5045. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

(1) OMB No.: 1905–0186; 

(2) Information Collection Request 

Title: Generic Clearance for 

Questionnaire Testing, Evaluation, and 

Research; 

(3) Type of Request: Renewal; 

(4) Purpose: The U.S. Energy 

Information Administration (EIA) is 

requesting a three-year approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) to utilize qualitative and 

quantitative methodologies to pretest 

questionnaires and validate the quality 

of the data that is collected on EIA and 

DOE survey forms. Through the use of 

these methodologies, EIA will conduct 

research studies to improve the quality 

of energy data being collected, reduce or 

minimize survey respondent burden, 

and increase agency efficiency. This 

authority would also allow EIA to 

improve data collection in order to meet 

the needs of EIA’s customers while also 

staying current in the evolving nature of 

the energy industry. 

The specific methods proposed for the 

coverage by this clearance are described 

below. Also outlined is the legal 

authority for these voluntary 

information gathering activities. 


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