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public comment, the continuation of the 

computer matching program. 

1. Names of Participating Agencies 

The Department of Education 

(recipient agency) and the Department 

of Defense (source agency). 

2. Purpose of the Match 

The purpose of this matching program 

is to ensure that the requirements of 

sections 420R and 473(b) of the HEA (20 

U.S.C. 1070h and 20 U.S.C. 1087mm(b)) 

are fulfilled. 

DoD (source agency) is the lead 

contact agency for information related to 

benefits for military service dependents 

and, as such, provides these data to ED. 

ED (recipient agency) seeks access to the 

information contained in the DoD 

Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) 

system and the Defense Enrollment 

Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS). 

3. Authority for Conducting the 

Matching Program 

Under sections 420R and 473(b) of the 

HEA (20 U.S.C. 1070h and 20 U.S.C. 

1087mm(b)), ED must identify the 

children of military personnel who have 

died as a result of their military service 

in Iraq or Afghanistan after September 

11, 2001, to determine if the child is 

eligible for increased amounts of title 

IV, HEA program assistance. 

DoD and ED have determined that 

using DoD data provided to ED for 

matching against ED’s Federal Student 

Aid Application File (18–11–01) is the 

only practical method that the agencies 

can use to meet the statutory 

requirements of the HEA. 

4. Categories of Records and 

Individuals Covered by the Match 

DoD will submit for verification 

records from its DMDC and DEERS data 

bases to ED’s Central Processing System 

files (Federal Student Aid Application 

File (18–11–01)), the Social Security 

number (SSN) and other identifying 

information for each qualifying 

dependent record. ED will use the SSN, 

date of birth, and the first two letters of 

an applicant’s last name to match with 

the Federal Student Aid Application 

File. 

The DoD DMDC and DEERS systems 

contain the names, SSNs, dates of birth, 

and other identifying information about 

dependents of service personnel who 

died as a result of performing their 

military service in Iraq or Afghanistan 

after September 11, 2001. This system of 

records also contains the dates on which 

the service members died. 

5. Effective Dates of the Matching 

Program 

The matching program will be 

effective on the last of the following 

dates: (1) February 2, 2015; (2) 30 days 

after notice of the matching program has 

been published in the Federal Register; 

or (3) 40 days after a report concerning 

the matching program has been 

transmitted to OMB and transmitted to 

the Congress along with a copy of this 

agreement, unless OMB waives 10 days 

of this 40-day period for compelling 

reasons shown, in which case, 30 days 

after transmission of the report to OMB 

and Congress. 

The matching program will continue 

for 18 months after the effective date of 

the computer matching agreement and 

may be extended for an additional 12 

months thereafter, if the conditions 

specified in 5 U.S.C. 552a(o)(2)(D) have 

been met. 

6. Address for Receipt of Public 

Comments or Inquiries 

Marya Dennis, Management and 

Program Analyst, U.S. Department of 

Education, Federal Student Aid, Union 

Center Plaza, Room 63G2, 830 First 

Street NE., Washington, DC 20202– 

5454. Telephone: (202) 377–3385. If you 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) or text telephone (TTY), call 

the Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll 

free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document in 

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

print, audiotape, or compact disc) by 

contacting the contact person listed in 

the preceding paragraph. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the 

official edition of the Federal Register 

and the Code of Federal Regulations is 

available 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 the Department of 

Education published in the Federal 

Register, in text or Adobe 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 of Education 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. 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552a. 

Dated: December 29, 2014. 

James W. Runcie, 

Chief Operating Officer Federal Student Aid. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30741 Filed 12–31–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Energy Information Administration 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Agency information collection 

activities: Proposed information 

collection; notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The EIA invites public 

comment on a proposed collection of 

information that EIA is developing for 

submission to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) pursuant to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The 

EIA is soliciting comments on the 

proposed reinstatement of the Forms 

EIA–457A, C, D, E, F, and G, ‘‘2015 

Residential Energy Consumption 

Survey.’’ Comments are invited on: (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the proposed collection 

of information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

proposed information collection must 

be received on or before March 3, 2015. 

If you anticipate difficulty in submitting 

comments within that period, contact 

the person listed in ADDRESSES below as 

soon as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to James 

‘‘Chip’’ Berry. To ensure receipt of the 

comments by the due date, submission 

by email is recommended (james.berry@

eia.gov). Comments may also be 

submitted by mail to James Berry, 

Survey Manager, EI–22, Forrestal 

Building, U.S. Department of Energy, 

Washington, DC 20585. Alternatively, 

Mr. Berry may be contacted by 

telephone at (202) 586–5543. 


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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the forms and instructions 

should be directed to Mr. Berry at the 

contact information given above. To 

view the forms online please go to: 

http://www.eia.gov/survey/#eia-457. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Federal Energy Administration Act of 

1974 (Pub. L. 93–275, 15 U.S.C. 761 et 

seq.) and the DOE Organization Act 

(Pub. L. 95–91, 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.) 

requires EIA to carry out a centralized, 

comprehensive, and unified energy 

information program. This program 

collects, evaluates, assembles, analyzes, 

and disseminates information on energy 

resource reserves, production, demand, 

technology, and related economic and 

statistical information. This information 

is used to assess the adequacy of energy 

resources to meet near and longer-term 

domestic demands. 

EIA, as part of its effort to comply 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (Pub. L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. 35), 

provides the general public and other 

Federal agencies with opportunities to 

comment on collections of energy 

information conducted by or in 

conjunction with EIA. Any comments 

received help EIA to prepare data 

requests that maximize the utility of the 

information collected, and to assess the 

impact of collection requirements on the 

public. Also, EIA will later seek 

approval by the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) under section 

3507(a) of the Paperwork Reduction Act 

of 1995. 

The Residential Energy Consumption 

Survey (RECS) is a periodic series of 

surveys of households and their energy 

suppliers with the purpose of collecting 

and reporting energy characteristics, 

consumption, and expenditures data of 

homes in the United States. The data are 

widely used throughout the government 

and the private sector for policy analysis 

and are made available to the public via 

data tables, public-use data files, and 

analysis articles. The most recent 

survey, the 2009 RECS, was the 13th 

iteration of the program. Data, reports, 

survey forms, and documentation from 

the 2009 RECS are available at EIA’s 

Residential Consumption homepage at 

http://www.eia.gov/consumption/

residential/. Results and documentation 

from earlier surveys are also available at 

this Web site. Please refer to the survey 

Web site for more detailed information 

about the purpose of the RECS and 

discussions of survey and data 

collection methodologies. 

EIA administers the RECS to a 

nationally representative sample of 

households. A follow-on survey of 

rental agents (e.g. apartment managers 

or landlords) is also conducted to 

collect more accurate structural and 

equipment information for household 

respondents living in apartments. 

Specially trained interviewers collect 

energy characteristics on the housing 

unit, usage patterns, and household 

demographics. The household and 

rental agent data collections are 

conducted on a voluntary basis and inperson with each respondent. This 

information is combined with data from 

energy suppliers to these homes to 

estimate energy costs and usage for 

heating, cooling, appliances and other 

end uses. The energy supplier surveys 

are collected primarily via a secure Web 

site and response is mandatory. Similar 

designs and methods are planned for the 

next iteration of the RECS, the 2015 

RECS. 

This information collection contains: 

(1) OMB No.: 1905–0092. 

(2) Information Collection Request 

Title: EIA–457A C, D, E, F, G, 

‘‘Residential Energy Consumption 

Survey’’. 

(3) Type of Request: Reinstatement 

with change of a previously approved 

collection for which approval has 

discontinued. 

(4) Purpose: Need for and proposed 

use of the information: The RECS is 

used to collect data on energy 

characteristics, consumption, and 

expenditures of U.S. homes. These data 

collections fulfill planning, analyses 

and decision-making needs of DOE, 

other Federal agencies, State 

governments, and the private sector. 

Respondents are householders of 

selected housing units and their energy 

suppliers. Response obligations are 

Voluntary (households) and Mandatory 

(energy suppliers). 

This will be a proposed reinstatement 

of a previously approved collection and 

three-year clearance request to OMB. 

The content of the 2015 RECS will be 

largely unchanged from the 2009 RECS. 

Sampling will incorporate key 

definitions and elements from previous 

RECS. Housing units will be selected via 

a multi-stage area probability sample 

design and will be statistically 

representative of U.S. occupied housing 

units, as well as selected sub-national 

geographies. 

The EIA proposes the following 

changes to the RECS: 

a. The sample size for the 2015 RECS 

will be smaller than the 2009 RECS. The 

sample size and publishable results for 

the 2015 RECS will be comparable to 

the 2001 and 2005 surveys. 

b. The content of the household 

questionnaire will remain relatively 

unchanged from the 2009 RECS. 

Detailed information about the 

following characteristics of the home 

and data items that support the energy 

supplier collection will continue to be 

collected: 

• Structural characteristics, including 

square footage 

• Appliances 

• Entertainment devices and 

miscellaneous electric loads 

• Primary and secondary heating 

• Cooling 

• Water heating 

• Household demographics 

• Energy supplier and payment 

information 

Minor updates will be made to items 

in these areas in the interest of 

respondent clarity or to adjust to 

changes in technology. For example, 

EIA will collect information about tablet 

usage, revise refrigerator size categories 

to align with current stock, collect 

information on the use of wood pellets, 

and capture the penetration of groundsource heat pumps. Some items are also 

planned for removal, including 

residential transportation items. 

c. The scope of the supplemental 

RECS form EIA 457–C, ‘‘Rental Agent 

Survey’’ will be expanded to include all 

responding households living in 

apartments. In previous RECS only 

those responding households who paid 

some or all of their energy bills through 

rent or condo fees were selected for the 

follow-on Rental Agent Survey. 

Analysis of the 2009 RECS indicates 

that the data quality for all apartment 

unit respondents would be significantly 

improved by asking critical questions of 

associated apartment rental agents (e.g. 

leasing agents, property managers, or 

landlords.) 

(5) Annual Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 1,933. 

a. Household Survey: 1,500. 

b. Rental Agent Survey: 183. 

c. Energy Supplier Surveys: 250. 

(6) Annual Estimated Number of 

Total Responses: 4,334. 

a. Household Survey: 1,500. 

b. Rental Agent Survey: 367. 

c. Energy Supplier Surveys: 2,467. 

(7) Annual Estimated Number of 

Burden Hours: 1,959. 

a. Household Survey: 1,250. 

b. Rental Agent Survey: 92. 

c. Energy Supplier Surveys: 617. 

(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: EIA 

estimates that there are no capital and 

start-up costs associated with this data 

collection. The information is 

maintained in the normal course of 

business. For household respondents no 

additional record keeping or other 

burden is required outside the interview 


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1California Parties means collectively, the People 

of the State of California ex rel. Kamala D. Harris, 

Attorney General, the Public Utilities Commission 

of the State of California, Pacific Gas and Electric 

Company, and Southern California Edison 

Company. 

2San Diego Gas & Elec. Co. v. Sellers of Energy 

and Ancillary Services Into Markets Operated by 

the California Independent System Operator and 

the California Power Exchange, 149 FERC ¶ 61,116 

(2014) (Opinion No. 536). 

process. The cost of burden hours to all 

household, rental agent, and energy 

supplier respondents is estimated to be 

$135,817 (1,959 annual burden hours 

times $69.33 per hour.) Therefore, other 

than the cost of burden hours, EIA 

estimates that there are no additional 

costs for generating, maintaining and 

providing the information. 

Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the 

Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974, 

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

Issued in Washington, DC, December 24, 

2014. 

Lawrence Stroud, 

Acting Director, Office of Survey Development 

and Statistical Integration, U.S. Energy 

Information Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30744 Filed 12–31–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. EL00–95–248] 

San Diego Gas & Electric Company v. 

Sellers of Energy and Ancillary 

Services Into Markets Operated by the 

California Independent System 

Operator Corporation and the 

California Power Exchange; Notice of 

Filing 

Take notice that on December 10, 

2014, the California Parties 1 filed 

proposed data templates for compliance 

filings and proposed procedures for 

implementing the Commission’s 

Opinion No. 536,2 as more fully 

explained in the California Parties’ 

filing. 

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 Applicant and 

all the parties in this proceeding. 

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 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible on-line at 

http://www.ferc.gov, using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for 

electronic review in the Commission’s 

Public Reference Room in Washington, 

DC. There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on 

the Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive email notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please email 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time on December 31, 2014. 

Dated: December 23, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30747 Filed 12–31–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2014–0479; FRL–9916–07] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request Reporting in the 

FIFRA Cooperative Agreement Work 

Plan and Report Template OMB 

Control No. 2070–NEW 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), this 

document announces that EPA is 

planning to submit an Information 

Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). The 

ICR, entitled ‘‘Reporting in the FIFRA 

Cooperative Agreement Work Plan and 

Report Template’’ and identified by EPA 

ICR No. 2511.01 and OMB Control No. 

2070–NEW, represents a new request. 

Before submitting the ICR to OMB for 

review and approval, EPA is soliciting 

comments on specific aspects of the 

proposed information collection that is 

summarized in this document. The ICR 

and accompanying material are 

available in the docket for public review 

and comment. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before March 3, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2014–0479, by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

• Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/ 

DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 

NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: To make special 

arrangements for hand delivery or 

delivery of boxed information, please 

follow the instructions at 

http://www.epa.gov/dockets/ 

contacts.html. 

Additional instructions on 

commenting or visiting the docket, 

along with more information about 

dockets generally, is available at http:// 

www.epa.gov/dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cameo Smoot, Field and External 

Affairs Division (7605P) Office of 

Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001; 

telephone number: (703) 305–5454, 

email address: smoot.cameo@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. What information is EPA particularly 

interested in? 

Pursuant to PRA section 3506(c)(2)(A) 

(44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), EPA 

specifically solicits comments and 

information to enable it to: 

1. Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility. 

2. Evaluate the accuracy of the 

Agency’s estimates of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used. 

3. Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected. 

4. Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 


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