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previously entered and that is currently 

in FAPIIS. 

Please note that, if the total value of 

your currently active grants, cooperative 

agreements, and procurement contracts 

from the Federal Government exceeds 

$10,000,000, the reporting requirements 

in 2 CFR part 200, Appendix XII, 

require you to report certain integrity 

information to FAPIIS semiannually. 

Please review the requirements in 2 CFR 

part 200, Appendix XII, if this grant 

plus all the other Federal funds you 

receive exceed $10,000,000. 

VI. Award Administration Information 

1. Award Notices: If your application 

is successful, we will notify your U.S. 

Representative and U.S. Senators and 

send you a Grant Award Notification 

(GAN); or we may send you an email 

containing a link to access an electronic 

version of your GAN. We may notify 

you informally, also. 

If your application is not evaluated or 

not selected for funding, we will notify 

you. 

2. Administrative and National Policy 

Requirements: We identify 

administrative and national policy 

requirements in the application package 

and reference these and other 

requirements in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. 

We reference the regulations outlining 

the terms and conditions of an award in 

the Applicable Regulations section of 

this notice and include these and other 

specific conditions in the GAN. The 

GAN also incorporates your approved 

application as part of your binding 

commitments under the grant. 

3. Open Licensing Requirements: 

Unless an exception applies, if you are 

awarded a grant under this competition, 

you will be required to openly license 

to the public grant deliverables created 

in whole, or in part, with Department 

grant funds. When the deliverable 

consists of modifications to pre-existing 

works, the license extends only to those 

modifications that can be separately 

identified and only to the extent that 

open licensing is permitted under the 

terms of any licenses or other legal 

restrictions on the use of pre-existing 

works. Additionally, a grantee or 

subgrantee that is awarded competitive 

grant funds must have a plan to 

disseminate these public grant 

deliverables. This dissemination plan 

can be developed and submitted after 

your application has been reviewed and 

selected for funding. For additional 

information on the open licensing 

requirements please refer to 2 CFR 

3474.20. 

4. Reporting: (a) If you apply for a 

grant under this competition, you must 

ensure that you have in place the 

necessary processes and systems to 

comply with the reporting requirements 

in 2 CFR part 170 should you receive 

funding under the competition. This 

does not apply if you have an exception 

under 2 CFR 170.110(b). 

(b) At the end of your project period, 

you must submit a final performance 

report, including financial information, 

as directed by the Secretary. If you 

receive a multiyear award, you must 

submit an annual performance report 

that provides the most current 

performance and financial expenditure 

information as directed by the Secretary 

under 34 CFR 75.118. The Secretary 

may also require more frequent 

performance reports under 34 CFR 

75.720(c). For specific requirements on 

reporting, please go to www.ed.gov/ 

fund/grant/apply/appforms/ 

appforms.html. 

5. Performance Measures: The 

Department will use the following 

performance measures in assessing the 

successful performance of the Open 

Textbooks Pilot program grants: 

a. The number of students who 

enrolled in courses that use open 

textbooks developed through the grant; 

b. The number of students who 

completed courses which used the open 

textbooks developed through the grant; 

c. Student and faculty evaluations of 

the quality of the open textbooks 

compared with other kinds of textbooks 

they have used, the ease of use of these 

materials and the cost savings 

associated with the use of open 

textbooks; 

d. The average cost savings per 

student; 

e. The total cost savings for students 

who used open textbooks compared to 

students in the same course of study 

who used traditional textbooks; 

f. The number and percentage of 

courses among consortium members 

that adopted the use of open textbooks, 

where appropriate, as opposed to those 

that continued to use paper or electronic 

textbooks; and 

g. The number of institutions outside 

of the consortium that adopted the use 

of the open textbooks produced through 

the grant. 

VII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

an accessible format (e.g., braille, large 

print, audiotape, or compact disc) on 

request to the program contact person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. You may access the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the 

Code of Federal Regulations via the 

Federal Digital System at: www.gpo.gov/ 

fdsys. At this site you can view this 

document, as well as all other 

documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Portable Document Format 

(PDF). To use PDF you must have 

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. 

You may also access documents of the 

Department published in the Federal 

Register by using the article search 

feature at: www.federalregister.gov. 

Specifically, through the advanced 

search feature at this site, you can limit 

your search to documents published by 

the Department. 

Dated: July 24, 2018. 

Diane Auer Jones, 

Principal Deputy Under Secretary, Delegated 

to Perform the Duties of Under Secretary and 

Assistant Secretary, Office of Postsecondary 

Education. 

[FR Doc. 2018–16264 Filed 7–27–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Energy Information Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Extension 

AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EIA has submitted an 

information collection request as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995. The information collection 

requests a three-year extension with 

changes to Form EIA–846, 

‘‘Manufacturing Energy Consumption 

Survey’’ (MECS), OMB Control Number 

1905–0169. Form EIA–846 collects data 

from the U.S. manufacturing sector on 

energy consumption, expenditures, 

shipments of energy offsite, end use 

consumption, building characteristics, 

participation in energy management 

programs, technologies, and fuel 

switching capacity. 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

proposed information collection must 

be received on or before August 29, 

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 DOE Desk Officer at OMB of 

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1 16 U.S.C. 825d(a) (2012). 

soon as possible. The Desk Officer may 

be telephoned at (202) 395–4718. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent to the DOE Desk Officer: 

Brandon Debruhl, Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Room 10102, 

735 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 

20503. Email: Brandon_F_DeBruhl@

omb.eop.gov; and to Tom Lorenz, Office 

of Energy Consumption and Efficiency 

Statistics, Forrestal Building, EI–22, 

U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20585 or by fax at (202) 586–9753, 

or by email at Thomas.Lorenz@eia.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Tom Lorenz at the contact 

information given above or by email at 

Thomas.Lorenz@eia.gov. Form EIA–846 

and its instructions are available on the 

internet at https://www.eia.gov/survey/ 

form/eia_846/proposed/2018/form.pdf. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

(1) OMB No. 1905–0169; 

(2) Information Collection Request 

Title: Manufacturing Energy 

Consumption Survey; 

(3) Type of Request: Three-year 

extension with changes; 

(4) Purpose: Form EIA–846 is a selfadministered sample survey designed to 

collect energy consumption and 

expenditures data from establishments 

in the manufacturing sector; i.e., North 

American Industry Classification 

System (NAICS) codes 31–33. The 

previous MECS required respondents to 

complete multiple collection forms 

depending on an establishment’s 

primary business activity classification 

under NAICS. The increased use of 

technology by means of an internet data 

collection system has allowed the MECS 

to eliminate the need to have multiple 

forms; 

(4a) Changes to Information 

Collection: 

• Questions about Tire-Derived Fuel: 

EIA will collect data about tire-derived 

fuel (TDF) in the Waste Oils and Tars, 

and Waste Byproduct Gases section of 

the questionnaire starting on page 35 of 

Form EIA–846A. The new questions 

will be inserted after questions 138–139, 

specifically from those industries, Paper 

(NAICS 322) and Nonmetallic Mineral 

Products (NAICS 327) that use TDF as 

an energy source. EIA currently asks 

respondents to report TDF on the MECS 

in a section titled, ‘‘Other.’’ The change 

to report TDF as a separate category will 

reduce respondent uncertainty 

regarding where to report this 

information. The questions on TDF are 

the same questions that have previously 

been asked about this energy source: 

Purchases; expenditures; transfers-in; 

amount produced on-site; whether it’s a 

product/byproduct of another energy 

source consumed on-site; and fuel 

consumption. Over the past three MECS 

cycles, TDF has become a growing 

energy source within the ‘‘Other’’ 

section and accounts for over half of the 

energy consumed that is reported in that 

section. Previous data collection cycles 

may have undercounted the use of TDF 

because some establishments did not 

know where to report their TDF 

volumes. By directly asking for these 

data as a separate data element, EIA will 

improve the coverage and accuracy of 

the use of this energy source. 

• Question 16 about electric 

generation with less than one-megawatt 

nameplate capacity was added. EIA will 

collect data about small-scale (less than 

one megawatt) distributed electricity 

generation occurring at U.S. 

manufacturing establishments. EIA will 

add a Yes/No question about distributed 

generation to the electricity section of 

the MECS to monitor manufacturing 

establishments that use non-renewable 

distributed generation. Distributed 

generation is a subset of ‘‘distributed 

energy resources’’ which are modular, 

moderately sized generation sources 

that are used to produce electricity, or 

combined heat and power (CHP), near 

the site of end use. EIA expects that 

generation from non-renewable, smallscale distributed generation (e.g., micro 

turbines, fuel cells, natural gas generator 

sets, and diesel generator sets below one 

megawatt) will increase in the future. 

This increase in non-renewable, smallscale distributed generation is expected 

to continue because of a variety of 

factors, including increased demand for 

reliable and resilient power, 

deployment mandates (e.g., renewable 

portfolio standards), improved 

technology and decreased cost of 

distributed generation, low natural gas 

prices, and high retail electricity rates. 

(5) Annual Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 15,000; 

(6) Annual Estimated Number of 

Total Responses: 3,750; 

(7) Annual Estimated Number of 

Burden Hours: 34,565; 

(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: The cost of 

the burden hours is estimated to be 

$2,616,225 (34,565 burden hours times 

$75.69 per hour). EIA estimates that 

there are no additional costs to 

respondents associated with the surveys 

other than the costs associated with the 

burden hours. 

Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the 

Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974, 

Pub. L. 93–275, codified as 15 U.S.C. 772(b) 

and the DOE Organization Act of 1977, Pub. 

L. 95–91, codified at 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on July 17, 

2018. 

Nanda Srinivasan, 

Director, Office of Survey Development and 

Statistical Integration, U.S. Energy 

Information Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2018–16250 Filed 7–27–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. EL18–186–000] 

PATH Allegheny Transmission 

Company, LLC; Notice of Petition for 

Declaratory Order 

Take notice that on July 23, 2018, 

pursuant to Rule 207 of the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission’s 

(Commission) Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 18 CFR 385.207 (2017), 

PATH Allegheny Transmission 

Company, LLC and its subsidiaries, 

PATH Allegheny Virginia Transmission 

Corporation (PATH–VA) and PATH 

Allegheny Maryland Transmission 

Corporation (PATH–MD), (together, 

PATH AYE) filed a petition requesting 

the Commission issue a declaratory 

order determining that PATH AYE’s 

distribution of paid-in capital to its 

ultimate parent company—FirstEnergy 

Corp., will not violate section 305(a) of 

the Federal Power Act,1 as more fully 

explained in the petition. 

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, 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 

comment date. Anyone filing a motion 

to intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Petitioner. 

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 5 copies 


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