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Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://

www.regulations.gov by selecting 

Docket ID number ED–2014–ICCD–0144 

or via postal mail, commercial delivery, 

or hand delivery. If the regulations.gov 

site is not available to the public for any 

reason, ED will temporarily accept 

comments at ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. 

Please note that comments submitted by 

fax or email and those submitted after 

the comment period will not be 

accepted; ED will only accept comments 

during the comment period in this 

mailbox when the regulations.gov site is 

not available. 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, 

Mailstop L–OM–2–2E319, Room 2E105, 

Washington, DC 20202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Kashka 

Kubzdela 202–502–7411. 

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: Quick Response 

Information System (QRIS) 2015–2018 

System Clearance. 

OMB Control Number: 1850–0733. 

Type of Review: An extension of an 

existing information collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local or Tribal Government. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 104,004. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 31,704. 

Abstract: The National Center for 

Education Statistics (NCES) Quick 

Response Information System (QRIS) 

consists of the Fast Response Survey 

System (FRSS) and the Postsecondary 

Education Quick Information System 

(PEQIS). The QRIS currently conducts 

surveys under OMB generic clearance 

1850–0733, which expires in May 2015. 

This submission requests approval to 

continue the current clearance 

conditions through 2018. FRSS 

primarily conducts surveys of the 

elementary/secondary sector (districts, 

schools) and public libraries. PEQIS 

conducts surveys of the postsecondary 

education sector. FRSS and PEQIS 

surveys are cleared under the QRIS 

generic clearance. The QRIS clearance is 

subject to the regular clearance process 

at OMB with a 60-day notice and a 30- 

day notice as part of the 120-day review 

period. Each individual FRSS or PEQIS 

survey is then subject to clearance 

process with an abbreviated clearance 

package, justifying the particular 

content of the survey, describing the 

sample design, the timeline for the 

survey activities, and the questionnaire. 

The review period for each individual 

survey is 45 days, including a 30-day 

Federal Register notice period. OMB 

will provide comments as soon after the 

end of the 30-day notice period as 

possible. This generic clearance request 

is for surveys of surveys of state 

education agencies, school districts, 

schools, postsecondary institutions, and 

libraries. 

Dated: December 12, 2014. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2014–29559 Filed 12–16–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Plains & Eastern Clean Line 

Transmission Project Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of availability and public 

hearings. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) announces the availability 

of the Draft Environmental Impact 

Statement for the Plains & Eastern 

Clean Line Transmission Project (DOE/ 

EIS–0486; Draft EIS) for a 90-day public 

comment period. DOE also announces 

15 public hearings to receive comments 

on the Draft EIS. In addition, DOE 

invites comments on the National 

Historic Preservation Act Section 106 

process and any potential adverse 

impacts to historic properties from the 

proposed Project. Major facilities 

associated with the proposed Project 

include converter stations in Oklahoma 

and Tennessee; an approximately 720- 

mile high voltage direct current (HVDC) 

transmission line; an alternating current 

(AC) collection system; and access 

roads. This Draft EIS evaluates the 

potential environmental impacts of the 

proposed Project and alternatives to it. 

DATES: DOE invites comments on this 

Draft EIS and on the National Historic 

Preservation Act Section 106 process 

and any potential adverse impacts to 

historic properties from the proposed 

Project and alternatives during a 90-day 

period, which ends on March 17, 2015. 

Comments submitted after the close of 

the comment period will be considered 

to the extent practicable. The 

Department will hold 15 public hearings 

at the locations, dates, and start times 

listed in SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

below. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments on the 

Draft EIS may be provided on the EIS 

Web site at http://www.plainsand

easterneis.com (preferred) or addressed 

to: Plains & Eastern EIS, 216 16th Street, 

Suite 1500, Denver, Colorado 80202; via 

email to comments@

PlainsandEasternEIS.com; or by 

facsimile to (303) 295–2818. Please 

mark envelopes and email subject lines 

as Plains & Eastern Draft EIS Comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the Plains & Eastern EIS 

or the Section 106 process, contact Jane 

Summerson, Ph.D., DOE NEPA 

Document Manager on behalf of the 

Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy 

Reliability, U.S. Department of Energy, 

NNSA, PO Box 391 Building 401, 

Kirtland Air Force Base East, 

Albuquerque, NM 87185; email at 

Jane.Summerson01@nnsa.doe.gov; or 

phone (505) 845–4091. 

For general information regarding the 

DOE NEPA process, contact Carol 

Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA 

Policy and Compliance (GC–54), U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585; or phone at 

(202) 586–4600; voicemail at (800) 472– 

2756; or email at askNEPA@hq.doe.gov. 

Additional information regarding DOE’s 

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NEPA activities is available on the DOE 

NEPA Web site at http://energy.gov/

nepa. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In June 

2010, DOE, acting through the 

Southwestern Power Administration 

and the Western Area Power 

Administration, both power marketing 

administrations within DOE, issued 

Request for Proposals (RFP) for new or 

upgraded transmission line projects 

under Section 1222 of the Energy Policy 

Act of 2005 (75 FR 32940; June 10, 

2010). In response to the RFP, Clean 

Line Energy Partners LLC of Houston, 

Texas, the parent company of Plains and 

Eastern Clean Line LLC and Plains and 

Eastern Clean Line Oklahoma LLC 

(collectively referred to as Clean Line or 

the Applicant) submitted a proposal to 

DOE in July 2010 for the Plains & 

Eastern Clean Line Project. In August 

2011, Clean Line modified the proposal. 

The Applicant Proposed Project 

would include an overhead ± 600- 

kilovolt (kV) HVDC electric 

transmission system and associated 

facilities with the capacity to deliver 

approximately 3,500 megawatts 

primarily from renewable energy 

generation facilities in the Oklahoma 

and Texas Panhandle regions to loadserving entities in the Mid-South and 

Southeast United States via an 

interconnection with the Tennessee 

Valley Authority (TVA) in Tennessee. 

Major facilities associated with the 

Applicant Proposed Project consist of 

converter stations in Oklahoma and 

Tennessee; an approximately 720-mile 

HVDC transmission line; an AC 

collection system; and access roads. 

Pursuant to NEPA, DOE has identified 

and analyzed potential environmental 

impacts for several alternatives in 

addition to the Applicant Proposed 

Project, including alternative routes for 

the HVDC transmission line and adding 

a converter station in Arkansas (to 

deliver power to the Arkansas electrical 

grid). 

DOE has prepared this Draft EIS in 

consultation with the following 

cooperating agencies: the Bureau of 

Indian Affairs, Natural Resources 

Conservation Service, TVA, U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency Regions 4 and 6, and 

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In 

the Draft EIS, DOE analyzes the 

potential environmental impacts of the 

Applicant Proposed Project, the range of 

reasonable alternatives, and a No Action 

Alternative. The potential 

environmental impacts resulting from 

connected actions (wind energy 

generation and substation and 

transmission upgrades related to the 

Project) are also analyzed in the Draft 

EIS. 

DOE’s purpose and need for agency 

action is to implement Section 1222 of 

the Energy Policy Act of 2005. To that 

end, DOE needs to decide whether and 

under what conditions it would 

participate in the Applicant Proposed 

Project. DOE has not identified a 

preference for whether to participate 

with Clean Line in the Project in some 

manner as prescribed by Section 1222. 

DOE will identify its preference for 

whether to participate with Clean Line 

in the Applicant Proposed Project and 

its preferred alternatives for each of the 

Project elements (including route 

alternatives) in the Final EIS after 

evaluating public comments and agency 

input received on the Draft EIS. 

Public hearings. All public hearings 

will follow the same format. An open 

house will be held from 5:00 p.m.–5:45 

p.m., during which DOE and its 

contractors will be available to answer 

questions in an informal setting. Clean 

Line personnel also will be available to 

answer technical questions regarding 

the Project. The open house will be 

followed by a presentation at 5:45 p.m. 

by Dr. Summerson, DOE NEPA 

Document Manager, who will describe 

the Draft EIS, the NEPA and Section 106 

processes, and the methods that can be 

used to submit comments. The formal 

public comment portion of the meeting 

will begin at 6:15 p.m. During this time, 

interested parties may present oral 

comments to DOE. A court reporter will 

transcribe the comments presented at 

each hearing. Individuals wishing to 

speak at a hearing should register when 

they arrive. DOE will initially allot three 

minutes to each commenter to ensure 

that as many people as possible have the 

opportunity to speak. More time may be 

provided, as circumstances permit. 

Written comments may be submitted at 

the hearing or by the other methods 

described in ADDRESSES above. It is 

DOE’s practice to make comments, 

including names and addresses of 

respondents, available for public 

review. Before including your address, 

phone number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information with 

your comments, be advised that your 

entire comment, including your 

personal identifying information, may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

Although you may ask us in your 

comment to withhold your personal 

identifying information from public 

review, we cannot guarantee that we 

will be able to do so. All submissions 

from organizations and businesses, and 

from individuals identifying themselves 

as representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, will be 

available for public inspection in their 

entirety. DOE will give equal 

consideration to oral and written 

comments in preparing the Final EIS. 

The locations, dates, and starting times 

of the public hearings are listed in the 

table below: 

Date and time Location 

Monday, January 26—5:00 pm .......................................... Woodward Convention Center, 3401 Centennial Lane, Woodward, OK 73801. 

Tuesday, January 27—5:00 pm ......................................... Pickle Creek Center, 822 NE 6th Street , Guymon, OK 73942. 

Wednesday, January 28—5:00 pm ................................... Beaver County Fairgrounds, Pavilion Building, 1107 Douglas Avenue, Beaver, OK 

73932. 

Thursday, January 29—5:00 pm ....................................... Ochiltree County Exposition Center, 402 Expo Drive , Perryton, TX 79070. 

Monday, February 2—5:00 pm .......................................... Muskogee Civic Center, Room D, 425 Boston Street, Muskogee, OK 74401. 

Tuesday, February 3—5:00 pm ......................................... Cushing Youth and Community Center, 700 South Little, Cushing, OK 74023. 

Wednesday, February 4—5:00 pm .................................... The Wes Watkins Center, 207 Wes Watkins Center, Exhibit Hall 111/112, (Hall of 

Fame and Washington), Stillwater, OK 74078. 

Thursday, February 5—5:00 pm ........................................ Enid Convention Hall, Nick Benson Memorial Ballroom, 301 South Independence, 

Enid, OK 73701. 

Monday, February 9—5:00 pm .......................................... Arkansas State University-Newport, Student Community Center, 7648 Victory Boulevard, Newport, AR 72112. 

Tuesday, February 10—5:00 pm ....................................... Carmichael Community Center Auditorium, 801 S. Elm, Searcy, AR 72143. 

Wednesday, February 11—5:00 pm .................................. Arkansas State University—Marked Tree Student Center, 33500 Highway 63 E, 

Marked Tree, AR 72365. 

Thursday, February 12—5:00 pm ...................................... Harvell Civic Center Auditorium, 8077 Wilkinsville Rd., Millington, TN 38053. 

Tuesday, February 17—5:00 pm ....................................... Lake Point Conference Center—Event Center, 61 Lake Point Lane, Russellville, AR 

72802. 

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Date and time Location 

Wednesday, February 18—5:00 pm .................................. Fort Smith Convention Center, Exhibit Hall A, 55 7th St, Fort Smith, AR 72901. 

Thursday, February 19—5:00 pm ...................................... University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton, Fine Arts Building Auditorium, 1537 University Blvd., Morrilton, AR 72110. 

Availability of the Draft EIS. The Draft 

EIS is available on the EIS Web site at 

http://www.plainsandeasterneis.com 

and on the DOE NEPA Web site at 

http://nepa.energy.gov/. A printed 

summary and CD of the complete 

document and, if preferred, a complete 

printed copy of the Draft EIS 

(approximately 3,700 pages), may be 

requested from info@

PlainsandEasternEIS.com. Copies of the 

Draft EIS have been distributed to 

appropriate members of Congress, state 

and local government officials, 

American Indian tribal governments, 

and other federal agencies, groups, and 

interested parties. Copies of the 

complete Draft EIS and supporting 

documents are also available for 

inspection at the following locations: 

Oklahoma 

• Guymon Public Library—1718 N. 

Oklahoma St., Guymon, OK 73942 

• Beaver County Pioneer Library—201 

Douglas Ave., Beaver, OK 73932 

• Woodward Public Library—1500 W. 

Main St., Woodward, OK 73801 

• Muskogee Public Library—801 W. 

Okmulgee Ave., Muskogee, OK 74401 

• Enid & Garfield County Public 

Library—120 W. Maine St., Enid, OK 

73701 

• Buffalo Public Library—11 E. Turner 

St., Buffalo, OK 73834 

• Fairview City Library—115 S. 6th St., 

Fairview, OK 73737 

• Guthrie Public Library—201 N. 

Division St., Guthrie, OK 73044 

• Stillwater Public Library—1107 S. 

Duck St., Stillwater, OK 74955 

• Chandler Public Library—1021 

Manvel Ave., Chandler, OK 74834 

• Montfort and Allie B. Jones Memorial 

Library—111 W. 7th Ave., Bristow, 

OK 74010 

• Bartlett-Carnegie Sapulpa Public 

Library—27 W. Dewey Ave., Sapulpa, 

OK 74066 

• Okmulgee Public Library—218 S. 

Okmulgee Ave., Okmulgee, OK 74447 

• Stanley Tubbs Memorial Library—101 

E. Cherokee Ave., Sallisaw, OK 74955 

Arkansas 

• Van Buren Public Library—1409 Main 

St., Van Buren, AR 72956 

• Pope County Library—116 E. 3rd St., 

Russellville, AR 72801 

• Jackson County/W.A. Billingsley 

Memorial Library—213 Walnut St., 

Newport, AR 72112 

• Searcy Public Library—113 E. 

Pleasure Ave., Searcy, AR 72143 

• Marked Tree Public Library—102 

Locust St., Marked Tree, AR 72365 

• Franklin County Library—120 S. 2nd 

St., Ozark, AR 72949 

• Johnson County Library—2 Taylor 

Cir., Clarksville, AR 72830 

• Conway County Library—101 W. 

Church St., Morrilton, AR 72110 

• Conway Public Library—1900 W. 

Tyler St., Conway, AR 72034 

• Mary I. Wold Cleburne County 

Library—1009 W. Main St., Heber 

Springs, AR 72543 

• Poinsett County Library—200 N. East 

St., Harrisburg, AR 72432 

• Blytheville Public Library—200 N. 5th 

St., Blytheville, AR 72315 

• Osceola Public Library—320 W. Hale 

Ave., Osceola, AR 72370 

• Cross County Library—410 E. 

Merriman Ave., Wynne, AR 72396 

Tennessee 

• Munford Memorial Library—1476 

Munford Ave., Munford, TN 38058 

Texas 

• Hansford County Library—122 Main 

St., Spearman, TX 79081 

Issued in Washington, DC, on December 

11, 2014. 

David S. Ortiz, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of 

Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability. 

[FR Doc. 2014–29524 Filed 12–16–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings #1 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric corporate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: EC15–47–000. 

Applicants: Entergy Gulf States 

Louisiana, L.L.C., Entergy Louisiana, 

LLC. 

Description: Application of Entergy 

Gulf States Louisiana, L.L.C., and 

Entergy Louisiana, LLC, for FPA 203 

Authorization. 

Filed Date: 12/10/14. 

Accession Number: 20141210–5199. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/31/14. 

Docket Numbers: EC15–48–000. 

Applicants: Entergy Louisiana, LLC, 

Entergy New Orleans, Inc. 

Description: Application of Entergy 

Louisiana, LLC and Entergy New 

Orleans, Inc., for FPA 203 

Authorization. 

Filed Date: 12/10/14. 

Accession Number: 20141210–5201. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/31/14. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric rate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: ER14–2558–000. 

Applicants: Puget Sound Energy, Inc. 

Description: eTariff filing per 

35.19a(b): Bellingham Cold StorageOrchard NITSA No 709 Refund Report 

to be effective N/A. 

Filed Date: 12/11/14. 

Accession Number: 20141211–5149. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/2/15. 

Docket Numbers: ER14–2559–000. 

Applicants: Puget Sound Energy, Inc. 

Description: eTariff filing per 

35.19a(b): Bellingham Cold StorageRoeder NITSA No 706 Refund Report to 

be effective N/A. 

Filed Date: 12/11/14. 

Accession Number: 20141211–5148. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/2/15. 

Docket Numbers: ER14–2560–000. 

Applicants: Puget Sound Energy, Inc. 

Description: eTariff filing per 

35.19a(b): Tesoro NITSA No 703 Refund 

Report to be effective N/A. 

Filed Date: 12/11/14. 

Accession Number: 20141211–5142. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/2/15. 

Docket Numbers: ER14–2850–002. 

Applicants: Southwest Power Pool, 

Inc. 

Description: Compliance filing per 35: 

Integrated System Open Access 

Transmission Tariff Revisions— 

Compliance Filing to be effective 10/1/ 

2015. 

Filed Date: 12/10/14. 

Accession Number: 20141210–5157. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/31/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER14–2851–002. 

Applicants: Southwest Power Pool, 

Inc. 

Description: Compliance filing per 35: 

Integrated System Membership 

Agreement Amendments—Compliance 

Filing to be effective 11/10/2014. 

Filed Date: 12/10/14. 

Accession Number: 20141210–5155. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/31/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER15–522–001. 

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