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and signed into law on December 19, 

2007, was funded, for the first time, by 

the American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act of 2009. The Funding 

Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for 

Formula Grants was issued on June 25, 

2009 and closed on June 25, 2010. 

The scope of the National Evaluation 

of EECBG involves a combination of 

careful reviews of grant status reports 

and applications (‘‘engineering desk 

reviews’’), conversations with DOE 

project officers, and in-depth interviews 

with grant managers to assemble critical 

data for answering the three questions of 

interest: 

1. What is the total magnitude of 

energy and cost savings, and other key 

outcomes, such as gross carbon 

emissions reduction and the net number 

of jobs created or retained, achieved in 

Broad Program Areas that cumulatively 

account for approximately 80 percent of 

total Formula Grant expenditures in the 

2009–2011 program years? 

2. What is the magnitude of outcomes 

achieved by each of the most heavilyfunded Broad Program Areas within the 

EECBG portfolio? 

3. What are the key factors 

influencing the magnitude of EECBG 

outcomes? 

These questions will be answered by 

evaluating a sample of 350 grant activity 

examples from a pool of direct grants 

and State sub-grants, all issued as part 

of the EECBG program. 

Scale of the Information Collection 

The DOE Formula grants are welldefined and have been further 

scrutinized by Oak Ridge National 

Laboratory (ORNL)/DOE and its 

contractors for categorization into Broad 

Program Areas and activities. The 

evaluation team will complete the 

process of counting and categorizing the 

State sub-grants. From these combined 

lists of grants, sorted by Broad Program 

Area, sub-area, and activity, and from a 

set of criteria developed by ORNL/DOE 

and its contractors, a sampling approach 

will be applied to select 350 grants for 

study. That random sample of projects 

will be taken from the six Broad 

Program Areas that, in combination, 

account for over 80 percent of total 

EECBG Formula Grant expenditures, 

which will allow valid inferences to be 

drawn for each Broad Program Area 

examined. 

Data collection will begin with a 

combination of careful reviews of DOE 

program databases, grant status reports 

and applications (‘‘engineering desk 

reviews’’), and conversations with DOE 

project officers and Regional and State 

Coordinators. After this extensive 

preliminary data collection effort, 

interviews will be conducted with grant 

program managers and grant project 

managers for each sample point. The 

two survey instruments proposed are: 

1. Grant Activity-Level Contact 

Survey: Verifies activities performed, 

measures installed, measure level data, 

and other relevant project information 

necessary to calculate program impacts 

and other metrics. 

There will be 2 versions of this survey 

instrument: One for grant activities 

targeted to residential dwellings, and 

one for non-residential buildings. 

2. Performance Indicators Survey: 

Collects information regarding 

operational success factors to be 

combined with grant data and 

secondary data on economic and other 

external factors for determining what 

conditions and elements are necessary 

for a successful project. 

Together, these surveys will involve 

700 respondents and entail a total 

burden of 642 hours. This calculation is 

based on the assumption that the 

telephone surveys used in this study 

will require an average of 55 minutes, 

depending on the individual survey 

instrument. 

This evaluation approach will not 

include any data collection from 

individual service recipients to estimate 

savings or outcomes. This study will use 

data from the above-mentioned 

interviews plus additional information 

that can be obtained from program 

records and secondary sources, as well 

as engineering-based analytical 

methods, to produce energy savings and 

outcome estimates. 

The above-described data collection 

instruments will be supplemented by 

additional records research and 

database review activities provided by 

the Grant Program Managers and Local 

Grant Activity Managers. These general 

recordkeeping activities will require an 

estimated 487 hours. Combining the 

burden hours associated with telephone 

surveys (642 hours) with the burden 

hours associated with general records 

review (487 hours) produces a total 

estimated burden of 1,129 hours. 

Two key steps are being taken to 

avoid duplicating the efforts of any 

concurrent evaluations of EECBG 

activities: (1) Identifying results from 

any EECBG grant evaluation efforts 

taking place at the State level; and (2) 

coordinating with the Better Buildings 

Program evaluation concerning any data 

collection already taking place during 

the same time period that addresses 

EECBG grant activities. 

The sample selection of Broad 

Program Areas and specific 

programmatic activities within each 

Broad Program Area is scheduled to be 

completed by June 2012. Data collection 

and calculation of outcomes are 

scheduled to be completed by October 

2012. 

The detailed study design and work 

plan for the EECBG evaluation has been 

available for public review since 

January 2012 at http:// 

weatherization.ornl.gov/eecbg.shtml. 

(5) Annual Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 700. 

(6) Annual Estimated Number of 

Total Responses: 700. 

(7) Annual Estimated Total Number 

of Burden Hours (Interview and Record 

Review): 1,129. 

Statutory Authority: Title V, Subtitle E of 

the Energy Independence and Security Act of 

2007, codified at 42 U.S.C. 17151–17158. 

Issued in Washington, DC on February 1, 

2012. 

Henry C. Kelly, 

Acting Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency 

and Renewable Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2012–3535 Filed 2–14–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Sunshine Act Meeting Notice 

The following notice of meeting is 

published pursuant to section 3(a) of the 

government in the Sunshine Act (Pub. 

L. 94–409), 5 U.S.C. 552b: 

AGENCY HOLDING MEETING: Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission. 

DATE AND TIME: February 16, 2012, 10 

a.m. 

PLACE: Room 2C, 888 First Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. 

STATUS: Open. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Agenda. 

* Note—Items listed on the agenda 

may be deleted without further notice. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Telephone 

(202) 502–8400. 

For a recorded message listing items 

struck from or added to the meeting, call 

(202) 502–8627. 

This is a list of matters to be 

considered by the Commission. It does 

not include a listing of all documents 

relevant to the items on the agenda. All 

public documents, however, may be 

viewed on line at the Commission’s 

Web site at http://www.ferc.gov using 

the eLibrary link, or may be examined 

in the Commission’s Public Reference 

Room. 

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Item No. Docket No. Company 

Administrative 

A–1 ........................... AD02–1–000 ............................................................................... Agency Business Matters. 

A–2 ........................... AD02–7–000 ............................................................................... Customer Matters, Reliability, Security and Market Operations. 

Electric 

E–1 ........................... OMITTED ....................................................................................

E–2 ........................... RM11–14–000 ............................................................................. Analysis of Horizontal Market Power under the Federal 

Power Act. 

E–3 ........................... AD10–11–001, RM11–7–001 ...................................................... Frequency Regulation Compensation in the Organized 

Wholesale Power Markets. 

E–4 ........................... RC11–6–000, RC12–1–000, RC12–2–000, RC12–6–000, 

RC12–7–000.

North American Electric Reliability Corporation. 

E–5 ........................... EL11–22–001, QF11–115–002, QF11–116–002, QF11–117– 

002, QF11–118–002, QF11–119–002, QF11–120–002, 

QF11–121–002, QF11–122–002, QF11–123–002, QF11– 

124–002.

OREG 1, Inc., OREG 2, Inc., OREG 3, Inc., and OREG 

4, Inc. 

E–6 ........................... ER08–194–000, ER08–194–001, ER08–194–002, ER08–194– 

003, ER08–194–004.

Duquesne Light Company. 

ER08–1235–000, ER08–1235–001, ER08–1309–000, ER08– 

1370–000.

Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, 

Inc. and Duquesne Light Company. 

ER08–1339–000, ER08–1339–001, ER08–1339–002, ER08– 

1345–000, ER08–1345–001, ER08–1345–002.

PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. 

E–7 ........................... ER11–3616–000, ER11–3616–001, ER11–3616–002 ............... California Independent System Operator Corporation. 

E–8 ........................... ER11–2256–000, ER11–2256–002 ............................................ California Independent System Operator Corporation. 

E–9 ........................... RC08–5–001 ............................................................................... U.S. Department of Energy, Portsmouth/Paducah 

Project Office. 

E–10 ......................... ER08–386–001, ER08–386–002 ................................................ Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline, LLC. 

E–11 ......................... EL10–71–000 .............................................................................. Puget Sound Energy, Inc. 

E–12 ......................... RM11–9–000 ............................................................................... Locational Exchanges of Wholesale Electric Power. 

Gas 

G–1 .......................... RM96–1–037 ............................................................................... Standards for Business Practices for Interstate Natural 

Gas Pipeline. 

G–2 .......................... RP09–487–000, RP10–307–000 ................................................ High Island Offshore System, L.L.C. 

G–3 .......................... OR12–1–000, OR12–2–000, OR12–3–000 ................................ Chevron Products Company v. SFPP, L.P., 

ConocoPhillips Company v. SFPP, L.P., Tesoro Refining and Marketing Company v. SFPP, L.P. 

Hydro 

H–1 ........................... P–13351–002 .............................................................................. Marseilles Land and Water Company. 

H–2 ........................... P–4632–035 ................................................................................ Commissioners of Public Works of the City of 

Spartanburg, South Carolina. 

Dated: February 9, 2012. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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this event can do so by navigating to 

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locating this event in the Calendar. The 

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(703) 993–3100. 

Immediately following the conclusion 

of the Commission Meeting, a press 

briefing will be held in the Commission 

Meeting Room. Members of the public 

may view this briefing in the designated 

overflow room. This statement is 

intended to notify the public that the 

press briefings that follow Commission 

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[FR Doc. 2012–3656 Filed 2–13–12; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9632–5] 

Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities 

Advisory Committee (FRRCC) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Charter Renewal. 

The Charter for the Environmental 

Protection Agency’s Farm, Ranch, and 

Rural Communities Advisory 

Committee (FRRCC) will be renewed for 

an additional two-year period, as a 

necessary committee which is in the 

public interest, in accordance with the 

provisions of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App.2. 

The purpose of the FRRCC is to provide 

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