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Dated: April 29, 2014. Michael K. Yudin, Acting Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
[FR Doc. 2014–10224 Filed 5–2–14; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 4000–01–P**

**DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY**

**Proposed Agency Information Collection** 

**AGENCY :**  U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

**ACTION :**  Notice and request for
comments.

**SUMMARY :**  The Department of Energy (DOE) invites public comment on a proposed collection of information that DOE is developing for submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 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 July 7, 2014. If you anticipate difficulty in submitting comments within that period, contact Mr. Dennis A. Smith as listed below.

**ADDRESSES :**  Written comments may be sent to Mr. Dennis A. Smith, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, EE– 2G, 1000 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585–0121, by phone at 202–586–1791, or by fax at 202–586– 2476, or by email at dennis.a.smith@ ee.doe.gov.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Requests for additional information or copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should be directed to Mr. Dennis Smith using the contact information listed above.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :**  This information collection request contains: (1) OMB No.: New; (2) Information Collection Request Title: Consumers and Fuel Economy; (3) Type of Request: New Collection; (4) Purpose: The Consumers and Fuel Economy Study is a follow-on study of consumers’ valuation of automotive fuel economy conducted in 2003. The purpose is to provide both a qualitative description based on in-home interviews and a quantitative estimate based on a national sample survey of the prevalence of consumers’ fuel economyvaluations across the population of carowning households in the United States. The goals include the description of similarities and differences from the 2003 study and the further development of theory, models, or heuristics to explain consumers’ valuations of fuel economy. This information will be made available to the general public via the joint Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Web site, www.fueleconomy.gov; (5) Estimated Number of Respondents: 54 household interviews (not an annual collection); (6) Estimated Number of Total Responses: 54; (7) Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 108 hours; (8) Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: N/A—Not an annual collection.

Statutory Authority: 42 U.S.C. 13233; 42 U.S.C. 13252 (a)–(b); 42 U.S.C. 16191; 49 U.S.C. 32908 (g)–(2)–(A).

Issued in Washington, DC, on: January 3,
2014. Patrick B. Davis, Program Manager, Vehicle Technologies Program, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
[FR Doc. 2014–10238 Filed 5–2–14; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 6450–01–P**

**DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY**

**Bonneville Power Administration**

**Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;**  **Comment Request; Other Utility/ Contractor/Vendor Worker Access**  **Request Form**

**AGENCY :**  Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), DOE.

**ACTION :**  Notice of submission of information collection approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and request for comments. **SUMMARY :**  BPA is submitting to OMB for clearance, a proposal for the collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The proposed collection will allow BPA to gather information from contractors and service vendors, to be used by BPA to document compliance with NERC Standard CIP–004–3 by maintaining a list of personnel given authorized cyber access or unescorted physical access into BPA’s Critical Cyber Assets, based on those personnel having the appropriate level of personnel risk assessment, training, and security

awareness.

**DATES :**  Comments must be submitted on or before June 24, 2014.

**ADDRESSES :**  Written comments may be submitted to: 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.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Additional information may be requested from: Information Collection Clearance Officer, Christopher M. Frost, Governance and Internal Controls, DGC–7, Bonneville Power Administration, 905 NE. 11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97232, or by email: IGLM@bpa.gov.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :** 

(1) OMB Number: New. (2) Information Collection Request Title: Other Utility/Contractor/Vendor Worker (OUW) Unescorted Access Request.

(3) Type of Request: New. (4) Abstract: The information requested on this form is used by BPA to document compliance with NERC Standard CIP–004–3, R2 and R3, which requires that personnel having authorized cyber or authorized unescorted physical access to BPA’s Critical Cyber Assets, including contractors and service vendors, have an appropriate level of personnel risk assessment, training, and security

awareness.

Below we provide the BPA projected average estimates for the next three
years.

Affected Public: Contracting and Vendor Businesses and Organizations.

Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: Approx. 500.

Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses: Approx. 500.

Average Minutes per Response: 15. Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 125.

An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to


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1 A 5-year rate extension of this same rate formula through June 7, 1993, was approved by FERC on July 20, 1988, at 44 FERC ¶ 62,058. Subsequent 5- year extensions of the rate formula have been approved by FERC. The most recent approval was on December 17, 2009, in Docket No. EF09–5101– 000, which approved the same rate formula through June 7, 2014 (129 FERC ¶ 62,206).

2 Western’s proposal published on February 21, 2014 (79 FR 9897). respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget control number.

Issued in Portland, Oregon, on April 24,
2014. Damian J. Kelly, Acting Chief Compliance Officer, Agency Governance and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2014–10163 Filed 5–2–14; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 6450–01–P**

**DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY**

**Western Area Power Administration**

**Falcon and Amistad Projects’ Rate Order No. WAPA–164** 

**AGENCY :**  Western Area Power Administration (Western), DOE.

**ACTION :**  Notice of extension.

**SUMMARY :**  This action is to extend the existing Falcon and Amistad Projects’ Firm Power Rate Formula, established in Rate Order No WAPA–143, through June 7, 2019. The Falcon and Amistad Projects’ Firm Power Rate Formula is set to expire June 7, 2014.

**DATES :**  The rate formula extension will become effective on an interim basis June 8, 2014, and will remain interim until the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) confirms, approves, and places the rate formula into effect on a final basis through June 7, 2019, or until superseded.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Ms. Lynn C. Jeka, Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP) Manager, Colorado River Storage Project Management Center, Western Area Power Administration, 150 East Social Hall Avenue, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111–1580, (801) 524–6372, email jeka@wapa.gov, or Mr. Rodney Bailey, Power Marketing Manager, Colorado River Storage Project Management Center, Western Area Power Administration, 150 East Social Hall Avenue, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111–1580, (801) 524–4007, email rbailey@wapa.gov.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :**  By Delegation Order No. 00–037.00A, the Secretary of Energy delegated: (1) The authority to develop power and transmission rates to the Administrator of Western; (2) the authority to confirm, approve, and place in effect such rates on an interim basis to the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE); and (3) the authority to confirm and approve on a final basis or to disapprove rates developed by the Administrator under the delegation to FERC. This extension is issued pursuant to the Delegation Order and DOE rate extension procedures at 10 CFR 903– 23(a).

The Falcon and Amistad Dams are features of international water storage projects located on the Rio Grande River between Texas and Mexico. Under the terms of Contract No. 7–07–50–P0890 (Contract), dated August 9, 1977, as amended, Western markets the power from these dams to South Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc. (STEC). The power rate formula of the Contract was approved by the Federal Power Commission (FPC), predecessor to FERC, in Docket No. E–9566 on August 12, 1977 (59 FPC 1653), for a 5-year period effective on the date of initial operation of Amistad Power Plant, June 8, 1983. 1

According to article 9(a) of the Contract, Western calculates the annual installment to be paid by the Customer for the power generated at the Falcon and Amistad power plants on or before August 31 of the year proceeding the fiscal year to which it pertains and identifies this amount in a revised Exhibit A to the Contract. Each annual installment pays the annual amortized portion of the United States’ investment in the Falcon and Amistad hydroelectric facilities with interest, and the associated operation, maintenance, and administrative costs. This repayment schedule is not dependent upon the power and energy made available for sale or the rate of generation each year.

Following review of Western’s proposal within the Department of Energy, I hereby approve, on an interim basis, Rate Order No. WAPA–164, which extends, without adjustment, the existing Falcon and Amistad Projects’ Power Rate Formula through June 7,
2019. 2 The rate formula will be promptly submitted to FERC for confirmation and approval on a final basis.

Dated: April 28, 2014. Daniel B. Poneman, Deputy Secretary of Energy.
Deputy Secretary

In the matter of: Western Area Power Administration Extension for Falcon and Amistad Projects’ Power Rate Formula; Order Confirming and Approving an Extension of the Falcon and Amistad Projects’ Power Rate Formula This Power Rate Formula extension was established following section 302 of the Department of Energy (DOE) Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7152). This Act transferred to and vested in the Secretary of Energy the power marketing functions of the Secretary of the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) under the Reclamation Act of 1902 (ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388), as amended and supplemented by subsequent laws, particularly section 9(c) of the Reclamation Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 485h(c)), and other acts that specifically apply to the project involved.

By Delegation Order No. 00–037.00A, the Secretary of Energy delegated: (1) The authority to develop power and transmission rates to the Administrator of the Western Area Power Administration (Western); (2) the authority to confirm, approve, and place in effect such rates on an interim basis to the Deputy Secretary of Energy; and (3) the authority to confirm and approve on a final basis or to disapprove rates developed by the Administrator under the delegation to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). This extension is issued pursuant to the Delegation Order and DOE rate extension procedures at 10 CFR 903– 23(a). Background

On December 17, 2009, in Docket No. EF09–5101–000, FERC confirmed, approved, and placed into effect on a final basis the Falcon and Amistad Projects’ Power Rate Formula, Rate Order No. WAPA–143. FERC approved the Power Rate Formula for 5 years beginning June 8, 2009, through June 7, 2014. On February 21, 2014, pursuant to 10 CFR 903.23(a), Western filed a notice in the Federal Register proposing to extend, without adjustment, Falcon and Amistad Projects’ Power Rate Formula as Rate Order No. WAPA–164. Consistent with its regulations at 10 CFR 903.23(a), Western did not hold a consultation and comment period. Instead, Western stated its intent, via certified letter to South Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc (Customer), to extend the current Power Rate formula and received no adverse reactions.

Discussion

On June 7, 2014, Western’s Falcon and Amistad Projects’ Power Rate Formula expires. The Power Rate Formula, calculated annually and based on 2 years of data, includes the projected costs of the rate installment year (future fiscal year) and an adjustment from the last historic fiscal year. The adjustment is the surplus or