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period will not be accepted. Written 

requests for information or comments 

submitted by postal mail or delivery 

should be addressed to the Director of 

the Information Collection Clearance 

Division, U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, Room 

2E115, Washington, DC 20202–4537. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions related to collection activities 

or burden, please call Tomakie 

Washington, 202–401–1097 or 

electronically mail ICDocketMgr@

ed.gov. Please do not send comments 

here. We will ONLY accept comments 

in this mailbox when the 

regulations.gov site is not available to 

the public for any reason. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Education (ED), in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general 

public and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed, 

revised, and continuing collections of 

information. This helps the Department 

assess the impact of its information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand the 

Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. ED is 

soliciting comments on the proposed 

information collection request (ICR) that 

is described below. The Department of 

Education is especially interested in 

public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) Is this collection 

necessary to the proper functions of the 

Department; (2) will this information be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might the Department enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might the Department minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

Title of Collection: Rehabilitation 

Services Administration Grant Reallotment Form. 

OMB Control Number: 1820–0692. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of an existing collection of 

information. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local, or Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 402. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 12. 

Abstract: The Rehabilitation Act of 

1973, as amended, authorizes the 

commissioner to re-allot to other grant 

recipients that portion of a recipient’s 

annual grant that cannot be used. To 

maximize the use of appropriated funds 

under the formula grant programs, the 

Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services has established a 

re-allotment process for the Basic 

Vocational Rehabilitation State Grants; 

Supported Employment State Grants; 

Independent Living State Grants, Part B 

(IL–Part B); Independent Living Services 

for Older Individuals Who Are Blind 

(IL–OB); Client Assistance (CAP) and 

Protection and Advocacy of Individual 

Rights (PAIR) Programs. The authority 

for the Rehabilitation Services 

Administration to reallot formula grant 

funds is found at sections 110(b)(2) 

(VR), 622(b) (SE), 711(c) (IL–Part B), 

752(j)(4) (IL–OB), 112(e)(2) (CAP), and 

509(e) (PAIR) of the Act. The 

information will be used by the 

Rehabilitation Services Administration 

State Monitoring and Program 

Improvement Division to reallot formula 

grant funds for the awards mentioned 

above. For each grant award, the grantee 

will be required to enter the amount of 

funds being relinquished and/or any 

additional funds being requested. 

Dated: December 19, 2013. 

Tomakie Washington, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2013–30756 Filed 12–24–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 

Proposed Information Collection— 

2014 Election Administration and 

Voting Survey; Comment Request 

AGENCY: U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission (EAC). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 

3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, EAC announces 

an information collection and seeks 

public comment on the provisions 

thereof. The EAC, pursuant to 5 CFR 

1320.5(a)(iii), intends to submit this 

proposed information collection (2014 

Election Administration and Voting 

Survey) to the Director of the Office of 

Management and Budget for approval. 

The 2014 Election Administration and 

Voting Survey (Survey) asks election 

officials questions concerning voting 

and election administration. These 

questions request information 

concerning ballots cast; voter 

registration; overseas and military 

voting; Election Day activities; voting 

technology; and other important issues. 

The EAC issues the survey to meet its 

obligations under the Help America 

Vote Act to serve as national 

clearinghouse and resource for the 

compilation of information with respect 

to the administration of Federal 

elections; to fulfill both the EAC’s and 

the Department of Defense Federal 

Voting Assistance Programs’ 

quantitative State data collection 

requirements under the Uniformed and 

Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act 

(UOCAVA); and meet its National Voter 

Registration Act (NVRA) mandate to 

collect information from states 

concerning the impact of that statute on 

the administration of Federal Elections. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before 4 p.m. EST on 

January 27, 2014. 

Comments: Public 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 information collection; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the information collection on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments on the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted electronically to electionday

survey@eac.gov. Written comments on 

the proposed information collection can 

also be sent to the U.S. Election 

Assistance Commission, 1335 East West 

Highway, Suite 4300, Silver Spring, MD 

20910, Attn: Election Administration 

and Voting Survey. 

Obtaining a Copy of the Survey: To 

obtain a free copy of the survey: (1) 

Access the EAC Web site at http://

www.eac.gov and download an 

electronic copy of the survey; or (2) 

write to the EAC (including your 

address and phone number) at U.S. 

Election Assistance Commission, 1335 

East West Highway, Suite 4300, Silver 

Spring, MD 20910, Attn: Election 

Administration and Voting Survey. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Karen Lynn-Dyson at (301) 563–3919 

U.S. Election Assistance Commission, 

1335 East West Highway, Suite 4300, 

Silver Spring, MD 20910. 

Needs and Uses: The EAC issues the 

survey to meet its obligations under the 

Help America Vote Act to serve as 

national clearinghouse and resource for 


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the compilation of information with 

respect to the administration of Federal 

elections; to fulfill both the EAC and 

Department of Defense Federal Voting 

Assistance Program data collection 

requirements under the Uniformed and 

Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act 

(UOCAVA); and meet its National Voter 

Registration Act (NVRA) mandate to 

collect information from states 

concerning the impact of that statute on 

the administration of Federal Elections. 

The Help America Vote Act of 2002 

(HAVA) (42 U.S.C. 15322) requires the 

EAC to serve as a national clearinghouse 

and resource for the compilation of 

information and review of procedures 

with respect to the administration of 

Federal Elections. This includes the 

obligation to study and report on 

election activities, practices, policies, 

and procedures, including methods of 

voter registration, methods of 

conducting provisional voting, poll 

worker recruitment and training, and 

such other matters as the Commission 

determines are appropriate. In addition, 

under the National Voter Registration 

Act (NVRA), the EAC is responsible for 

collecting information and reporting, 

biennially, to the United States Congress 

on the impact of that statute. The 

information the States are required to 

submit to the EAC for purposes of the 

NVRA report are found under Title 11 

of the Code of Federal Regulations. 

States that respond to questions in this 

survey concerning voter registration 

related matters will meet their NVRA 

reporting requirements under 42 U.S.C. 

1973gg–7 and EAC regulations. Finally, 

the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens 

Absentee Voters Act (UOCAVA) 

mandates that the Department of 

Defense Federal Voting Assistance 

Program (FVAP) work with the EAC and 

State Chief Election officials to develop 

standards for reporting UOCAVA voting 

information (42 U.S.C. 1973ff–1) and 

that the FVAP will store the reported 

data and present the findings within the 

congressionally-mandated report to the 

President and Congress. Additionally, 

UOCAVA requires that ‘‘not later than 

90 days after the date of each regularly 

scheduled general election for Federal 

office, each State and unit of local 

government which administered the 

election shall (through the State, in the 

case of a unit of local government) 

submit a report to the Election 

Assistance Commission (established 

under the Help America Vote Act of 

2002) on the combined number of 

absentee ballots transmitted to absent 

uniformed services voters and overseas 

voters for the election and the combined 

number of such ballots which were 

returned by such voters and cast in the 

election, and shall make such a report 

available to the general public.’’ States 

that complete and timely submit the 

UOCAVA section of the survey to the 

EAC will fulfill their UOCAVA 

reporting requirement under 42 U.S.C. 

1973ff–1(c). In order to fulfill the above 

requirements, the EAC is seeking 

information relating to the period from 

the Federal general election day 2012 +1 

through the November 2014 Federal 

general election. 

The 2014 Survey has been expanded 

to include all of the questions from the 

Post-Election Survey of State and Local 

Election Officials, OMB Control Number 

0704–0125, formerly conducted by the 

Department of Defense Federal Voting 

Assistance Program. The Election 

Assistance Commission will provide the 

data from the new included items to the 

Department of Defense after data 

collection is completed. The additional 

questions are necessary to fulfill the 

mandate of the Uniformed and Overseas 

Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA 

of 1986 [42 U.S.C. 1973ff]). UOCAVA 

requires the States to allow Uniformed 

Services personnel, their family 

members, and overseas citizens to use 

absentee registration procedures and to 

vote by absentee ballot in general, 

special, primary, and runoff elections 

for Federal offices. UOCAVA covers 

members of the Uniformed Services and 

the Merchant Marine to include the 

commissioned corps of the National 

Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration and Public Health 

Service and their eligible dependents, 

Federal civilian employees overseas, 

and overseas U.S. citizens not affiliated 

with the Federal Government. Local 

Election Officials (LEO) process voter 

registration and absentee ballot 

applications, send absentee ballots to 

voters, and receive and process the 

voted ballots in counties, cities, 

parishes, townships and other 

jurisdictions within the U.S. The 

Federal Voting Assistance Program 

(FVAP) conducts the post-election 

survey of State and Local Election 

Officials to determine registration and 

participation rates that are 

representative of all citizens covered by 

the Act, to measure State-Federal 

cooperation, and to evaluate the 

effectiveness of the overall absentee 

voting program. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title and OMB Number: 2014 Election 

Administration and Voting Survey; 

OMB Number Pending. 

Summary of the Collection of 

Information: The survey requests 

information on a state- and county-level 

(or township-, independent city-, 

borough-level, where applicable) 

concerning the following categories: 

Voter Registration Applications (From 

the Period of Federal General Election 

Day +1, 2012 through Federal General 

Election Day, 2014) 

(a) Total number of registered voters; 

(b) Number of active and inactive 

registered voters; (c) Number of persons 

who registered to vote on Election 

Day—only applicable to States with 

Election Day registration; (d) Number of 

voters who registered using online 

registration—only applicable to States 

that allow online registration: (e) 

Number of voter registration 

applications received from all sources; 

(f) Number of voter registration 

applications that were duplicates, 

invalid or rejected, new, changes of 

name, address, party, and not 

categorized; (g) Number of duplicate 

registration applications received from 

all sources; (h) Total number of 

removal/confirmation notices mailed to 

voters and the reason for removal; (i) 

total number of voters removed from the 

registration list or moved to the inactive 

registration list. 

Uniformed & Overseas Citizens 

Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) 

(a) Total number and type of 

UOCAVA absentee ballots transmitted; 

(b) Total number and type of UOCAVA 

ballots returned and submitted for 

counting; (c) Total number and type of 

UOCAVA ballot returned by type of 

UOCAVA voter; (d) Total number and 

type of all UOCAVA ballots counted; (e) 

Total number and type of UOCAVA 

ballot counted by type of UOCAVA 

voter; (f) Total number and type of all 

UOCAVA ballots rejected; (g) Total 

number of UOCAVA ballots rejected by 

reason for rejection; (h) Total number of 

UOCAVA ballot rejected by type of 

UOCAVA voter; (i) Total number and 

type of registered and eligible UOCAVA 

voters; (j) Total number of Federal Post 

Card Applications (FPCAs) received by 

type of voter; (k) Total number of FPCAs 

rejected by type of voter; (l) Total 

number of FPCAs rejected after the 

absentee ballot request deadline; (m) 

Date when transmission of absentee 

ballots to UOCAVA voters began for the 

November election cycle; (n) Total 

number of UOCAVA ballots transmitted 

before and after the 45-day deadline by 

mode of transmission; (o) Total number 

of UOCAVA ballots transmitted that 

were returned as undeliverable by mode 

of transmission; (p) Total number of 

UOCAVA ballots returned by voters, 

excluding Federal Write-In Absentee 

Ballots (FWABs); (q) Total number of 


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UOCAVA ballots returned by voters and 

rejected, excluding FWABS, by type of 

voter and by mode of transmission; (r) 

Total number of UOCAVA ballots 

counted by mode of transmission, 

excluding FWABS; (s) Total number of 

FWABs received by type of voter; (t) 

Total number of FWABs rejected by 

type of voter; (u) Total number of 

FWABs rejected by reason for rejection; 

and (v) Total number of FWABs 

received by type of voter. 

Election Administration 

(a) Total number of precincts in the 

state/jurisdiction; (b) Number of polling 

places available for voting in the 

November 2014 Federal general 

election; (c) Number of poll workers 

used for Election Day; (d) Extent to 

which jurisdictions had enough poll 

workers available for the general 

election. 

Election Day Activities 

(a) Total number of persons who 

voted in the 2014 Federal general 

election; (b) The source of the 

participation number—poll books, 

ballots counted, vote history; (c) Total 

number of first-time voters who 

registered by mail and were required to 

provide identification in order to vote; 

(d) Number of voters who appeared on 

the permanent absentee voter 

registration list; (e) Number of absentee 

ballots requested, received, counted, 

and not counted; (f) Reasons for 

absentee ballot rejection; (g) Number of 

provisional ballots cast, counted, and 

rejected; (h) Reasons for provisional 

ballot rejection; (i) Use of electronic and 

printed poll books during the 2014 

Federal general election; (j) Type and 

number of voting equipment used for 

the 2014 Federal general election; (k) 

Type of process in which voting 

equipment was used—precinct, 

absentee, early vote site, accessible to 

disabled voters, provisional voting; (l) 

Location in which votes were tallied— 

central location, precinct/polling place, 

or early vote site; (m) General comments 

regarding the jurisdiction’s Election Day 

experiences. 

2014 Election Results 

Total number of votes cast—at polling 

places, via absentee ballot, at early vote 

centers, via provisional ballots. 

Statutory Overview (2014 Federal 

General Election) 

(a) Information on whether the state is 

exempt from the National Voter 

Registration Act (NVRA); (b) State 

definition of terms—over-vote, undervote, blank ballot, void/spoiled ballot, 

provisional/challenged ballot; (c) State 

definition of inactive and active voter; 

(d) State provision for voter 

identification at registration, for inperson voting, and for mail-in or 

absentee voting; (e) information on legal 

citation for changes to election laws or 

procedures enacted or adopted since the 

previous Federal general election; (f) 

State definition of voter registration; (g) 

Process used for moving voters from 

active to inactive lists and from inactive 

to active; (h) State deadline for 

registration for the Federal general 

election; (i) Information of whether the 

state is an Election Day/Same Day 

Registration state; (j) Description of state 

voter registration database system— 

bottom-up or top-down; (k) State voter 

removal/confirmation notices processes; 

(l) Agency or department that is 

responsible for list maintenance; (m) 

Information on whether there are 

electronic links between the voter 

registrar’s office and other state 

agencies; (n) State’s use of National 

Change of Address (NCOA); (o) State’s 

voting eligibility requirements as they 

relate to convicted felons; (p) Tabulation 

of votes cast at a place other than the 

voter’s precinct; (q) Provision for voting 

absentee; (r) State tracking of the date of 

all ballots cast before election day; (s) 

Provision for mail-in voting in place of 

at-the-precinct voting; (t) Acceptance or 

rejection of provisional ballots of voters 

registered in a different precinct; (u) 

State process for capturing over-votes 

and under-votes. States and territories 

that submitted a Statutory Overview for 

2008 will be asked to provide updates 

to the information above, where 

applicable. 

Affected Public (Respondents): State 

or local governments, the District of 

Columbia, Commonwealth of Puerto 

Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the 

United States Virgin Islands. 

Affected Public: State or local 

government. 

Number of Respondents: 55. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Estimated Burden per Response: 230 

hours per collection, 115 hours 

annualized. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 12,650 hours per collection, 

6,325 hours annualized. 

Frequency: Biennially. 

Alice Miller, 

Chief Operating Officer and Acting Executive 

Director, U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2013–30790 Filed 12–24–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–KF–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings #1 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric rate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: ER10–2864–001; 

ER10–2863–001; ER10–2862–001; 

ER10–2867–001. 

Applicants: Las Vegas Cogeneration 

LP, Las Vegas Cogeneration II, LLC, 

Valencia Power, LLC, Harbor 

Cogeneration Company, LLC. 

Description: Supplement to June 28, 

2013 Triennial Market Power Analysis 

of SGOC Southwest MBR Sellers for the 

Southwest Region. 

Filed Date: 12/13/13. 

Accession Number: 20131213–5057. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/3/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER12–1179–014. 

Applicants: Southwest Power Pool, 

Inc. 

Description: Compliance Filing to 

Adopt Initial List of Frequently 

Constrained Areas to be effective 3/1/ 

2014. 

Filed Date: 12/16/13. 

Accession Number: 20131216–5000. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/6/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER14–625–000. 

Applicants: Westar Energy, Inc. 

Description: Amendment of Westar 

OATT—Schedule 1 to be effective 3/1/ 

2014. 

Filed Date: 12/16/13. 

Accession Number: 20131216–5089. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/6/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER14–626–000. 

Applicants: PJM Interconnection, 

L.L.C. 

Description: Original Service 

Agreement No. 3679; Queue No. Y2–001 

to be effective 11/14/2013. 

Filed Date: 12/16/13. 

Accession Number: 20131216–5104. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/6/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER14–627–000. 

Applicants: New York Independent 

System Operator, Inc. 

Description: NYISO tariff revision to 

improve interconnection study 

processes to be effective 2/14/2014. 

Filed Date: 12/16/13. 

Accession Number: 20131216–5167. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/6/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER14–628–000. 

Applicants: Duke Energy Florida, Inc., 

Duke Energy Progress, Inc., Duke Energy 

Carolinas, LLC. 

Description: Order No. 784 OATT 

Compliance Filing to be effective 11/27/ 

2013. 

Filed Date: 12/16/13. 


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