Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 35 / Wednesday, February 21, 2024 / Notices 13061 

ACTION: Notice and request for OMB 

review and comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy (EERE) has submitted 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for clearance, a proposal for a 

three-year extension, with changes, of a 

collection of information under the 

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995. The proposed collection 

will provide DOE with the information 

necessary to meet its statutory and 

regulatory obligations under the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) of 1969 and the DOE NEPA 

implementing regulations, which 

requires EERE to perform environmental 

impact analyses prior to making a 

decision to provide Federal funding for 

research, development and 

demonstration projects funded by DOE. 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

proposed information collection must 

be received on or before March 22, 2024. 

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 

your intention to make a submission as 

soon as possible. The Desk Officer may 

be telephoned at (202) 395–4718. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this information 

collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 

30-day Review—Open for Public 

Comments’’ or by using the search 

function. 

And to: Andrew M. Montano at U.S. 

Department of Energy, 15013 Denver 

West Parkway, Golden, CO 80401, or by 

email at: EEREEQComments@

ee.doe.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the EERE Environmental 

Questionnaire should be directed to 

Andrew M. Montano at: 

EREEQComments@ee.doe.gov. The 

EERE Environmental Questionnaire also 

is available for reviewing in the Golden 

Field Office Public Reading Room at: 

www.energy.gov/node/2299401. If you 

have difficulty accessing this document, 

please contact Casey Strickland at (720) 

356–1575. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

(1) OMB No.: 1910–5175; (2) 

Information Collection Request Title: 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy (EERE) 

Environmental Questionnaire; (3) Type 

of Request: Revision ; (4) Purpose: The 

DOE’s EERE provides Federal funding 

through Federal assistance programs to 

businesses, industries, universities, and 

other groups for renewable energy and 

energy efficiency research and 

development and demonstration 

projects. The National Environmental 

Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 

4321 et seq.) requires that an 

environmental analysis be completed 

for all major Federal actions 

significantly affecting the environment 

including projects entirely or partly 

financed by Federal agencies. To 

effectively perform environmental 

analyses for these projects, the DOE’s 

EERE needs to collect project-specific 

information from Federal financial 

assistance awardees. DOE’s EERE has 

developed its Environmental 

Questionnaire to obtain the required 

information and ensure that its 

decision-making processes are 

consistent with NEPA as it relates to 

renewable energy and energy efficiency 

research and development and 

demonstration projects. Minor changes 

have been made to the Environmental 

Questionnaire that help to clarify 

certain questions as related to the 

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act 

(Bipartisan Infrastructure Law), but do 

not change the meaning of the questions 

being asked. These revisions include 

additional fields in Section 1 to collect 

award, funding, and contact information 

and additional fields in Section 3 of the 

Environmental Questionnaire to collect 

information about project location(s). 

The average hours per response have 

increased from one hour to one- and 

one-half hours and the revisions made 

should not add any additional time 

needed to complete the Environmental 

Questionnaire; (5) Annual Estimated 

Number of Total Responses: 300; (6) 

Average Hours per Response: 1.5; and 

(7) Annual Estimated Number of Burden 

Hours: 443; (8) Annual Estimated 

Respondent Costs: $29,238. There is no 

cost associated with reporting and 

recordkeeping. 

Statutory Authority: National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) (42 

U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). 

Signing Authority: This document of 

the Department of Energy was signed on 

February 14, 2024, by Matthew Blevins, 

Director, Environment, Safety and 

Health Office, Golden Field Office, 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, pursuant to 

delegated authority from the Secretary 

of Energy. That document with the 

original signature and date is 

maintained by DOE. For administrative 

purposes only, and in compliance with 

requirements of the Office of the Federal 

Register, the undersigned DOE Federal 

Register Liaison Officer has been 

authorized to sign and submit the 

document in electronic format for 

publication, as an official document of 

the Department of Energy. This 

administrative process in no way alters 

the legal effect of this document upon 

publication in the Federal Register. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on February 15, 

2024. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03470 Filed 2–20–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Energy Information Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Extension 

AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), U.S. Department 

of Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: DOE submitted an 

information collection request for 

extension as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. The information 

collection requests a three-year 

extension of Form DOE–417 Electric 

Emergency Incident and Disturbance 

Report, OMB Control Number 1901– 

0288. The collection will enable DOE to 

monitor electric emergency incidents 

and disturbances in the United States 

(including all 50 States, the District of 

Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin 

Islands, and the U.S. Territories). The 

information collected allows DOE to 

conduct post-incident reviews 

examining significant interruptions of 

electric power or threats to the national 

electric system. 

DATES: Comments on this information 

collection must be received no later 

than March 22, 2024. Written comments 

and recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you need additional information, 

contact Matthew Tarduogno, U.S. 

Department of Energy, telephone (202) 

586–2892, or by email at 

Matthew.Tarduogno@hq.doe.gov. The 

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online at: https://www.oe.netl.doe.gov/ 

oe417.aspx. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains 

(1) OMB No.: 1901–0288; 

(2) Information Collection Request 

Title: Electric Emergency Incident and 

Disturbance Report; 

(3) Type of Request: Three-year 

extension with changes; 

(4) Purpose: DOE uses Form DOE–417 

Emergency Incident and Disturbance 

Report to monitor electric emergency 

incidents and disturbances in the 

United States (including all 50 States, 

the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, 

the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the U.S. 

Territories) and to investigate significant 

interruptions of electric power or threats 

to the electric system reliability. Form 

DOE–417 also enables DOE to meet the 

Department’s national security 

responsibilities as the coordinating 

agency for Emergency Support Function 

(ESF) #12—Energy, under the National 

Response Framework, and the SectorSpecific Agency for the energy sector, 

pursuant to Presidential Policy Directive 

21—Critical Infrastructure Security and 

Resilience, Presidential Policy Directive 

41—United States Cyber Incident 

Coordination, and the Fixing Americas 

Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, 

Public Law 114–94. The information 

may also be shared with other nonregulatory federal agencies assisting in 

emergency response and recovery 

operations or investigating the causes of 

an incident or disturbance to the 

national electric system. Public 

summaries of Form DOE–417 

submissions are published on the DOE– 

417 web page (https://www.oe.netl.doe.

gov/oe417.aspx) on a regular basis to 

keep the public informed. 

(4a) Changes to Information 

Collection: DOE proposes to make 

changes to Form DOE–417 to continue 

to ensure future alignment with the 

North American Electric Reliability 

Corporation (NERC) CIP–008–6 

Reliability Standard, as well as the 

NERC EOP–004–6 Reliability Standard, 

and potential future changes. The 

continued alignment between Form 

DOE–417 and NERC reporting 

requirements helps minimize confusion 

among industry stakeholders about 

where and how to file reports and 

enable industry stakeholders to train 

personnel to report using a single form. 

Additional changes to Form DOE–417 

clarify reporting criteria and updated 

types of entities that are required to 

submit certain criteria. A summary of 

these and other changes to Form DOE– 

417 is provided below: 

• Minor edit to alert criteria 2 to add 

‘‘as defined in the NERC Glossary of 

Terms’’ 

• Under ‘‘Criteria for Filing’’ section 

added alert criteria 27, ‘‘Uncontrolled 

loss of a total of 500 MW or more from 

inverter-based resource(s) for greater 

than 30 minutes at a common point of 

interconnection to the bulk electric 

system.’’ 

• Under ‘‘Cause’’ in the ‘‘Type of 

Emergency’’ section added the following 

subcategories to physical attack: 

Æ Ballistic 

Æ Arson 

Æ Explosive device 

Æ Other 

• Under ‘‘Cause’’ in the ‘‘Type of 

Emergency’’ section added the following 

subcategories to suspicious activity: 

Æ Aircraft or Unmanned Aerial System 

(UAS) 

Æ Trespassing or non-destructive 

intrusion 

Æ Surveillance 

Æ Vandalism 

Æ Other 

• Under ‘‘Cause’’ in the ‘‘Type of 

Emergency’’ combined ‘‘(Cyber event 

information technology)’’ and ‘‘cyber 

event (operational technology)’’ and 

added the following subcategories: 

Æ Information Technology 

Æ Operational Technology 

• Updated Instructions: Replaced 

‘‘Office of Electricity’’ with ‘‘Office of 

Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and 

Emergency Response 

• Updated Instructions: Replaced 

‘‘oe417@hq.doe.gov’’ with ‘‘DOE417@

hq.doe.gov.’’ 

• Updated Instructions: Replaced 

‘‘Assistant Secretary’’ with ‘‘Director’’ 

• Updated Instructions: Appendix A. 

Replace ‘‘What is Excluded’’ text for 

generating entities with ‘‘Entities who 

have 300 MW or more of generation 

detected to one or more end-use 

customers (e.g. retail or industrial 

customers), except for commercial 

power reactors regulated by the Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission and subject to 

the physical and cybersecurity event 

notification requirements of 10 CFR part 

73. All items need to be addressed.’’ 

• On Line F., Date/Time Incident 

Began.: Added Atlantic and Chamorro 

time zones 

• On Line G., Date/Time Incident 

Ended: Added Atlantic and Chamorro 

time zones 

(5) Annual Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 2,174; 

(6) Annual Estimated Number of 

Total Responses: 400; 

(7) Annual Estimated Number of 

Burden Hours: 5,025; 

(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $438,984. 

DOE estimates that respondents will 

have no additional costs associated with 

the surveys other than the burden hours 

and the maintenance of the information 

during the normal course of business. 

Statutory Authority: 15 U.S.C. 772(b), 

764(b); 764(a); and 790a and 42 U.S.C. 

7101 et seq. and the Public Utility 

Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (16 

U.S.C. 2601, Pub. L. 93–275. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on February 15, 

2024. 

Samson A. Adeshiyan, 

Director, Office of Statistical Methods & 

Research, U. S. Energy Information 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03515 Filed 2–20–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2607–016] 

Spencer Mountain Hydropower, LLC; 

Notice Soliciting Scoping Comments 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Subsequent 

License. 

b. Project No.: P–2607–016. 

c. Date Filed: June 26, 2023. 

d. Applicant: Spencer Mountain 

Hydropower, LLC (SMH). 

e. Name of Project: Spencer Mountain 

Hydroelectric Project (Spencer 

Mountain Project). 

f. Location: On the South Fork 

Catawba River, near the town of 

Gastonia, in Gaston County, North 

Carolina. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Kevin 

Edwards and Mrs. Amy Edwards, 

Spencer Mountain Hydropower, LLC, 

916 Comer Rd., Stoneville, NC 27048; 

Phone at (336) 589–6138, or smhydro@

pht1.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Michael Spencer at 

(202) 502–6093; or michael.spencer@

ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing scoping 

comments: March 15, 2024. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file scoping 

comments using the Commission’s 

eFiling system at https://ferconline.ferc.

gov/FERCOnline.aspx. Commenters can 

submit brief comments up to 6,000 

characters, without prior registration, 

using the eComment system at https:// 

ferconline.ferc.gov/Quick

Comment.aspx. You must include your 


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