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Intent (LOI) (assuming one person per 

estimated submission) and 1,920 

reviewers of proposals submitted 

through Grants.gov. 

(6) Annual Estimated Number of 

Total Responses: Annual Estimated 

Number of Total Responses: The Office 

of Science receives about 1,000 DOE 

national laboratory and interagency 

proposals per year, based on an average 

of estimated submission numbers (fiscal 

year 2006 through fiscal year 2014) and 

about 7,000 pre-proposals and letters of 

intent per year, based on an estimate of 

about 200 per solicitation and the 

number of solicitations per year (about 

35, based on an average between fiscal 

year 2006 and fiscal year 2014). 

(7) Annual Estimated Number of 

Burden Hours: The time it takes to 

complete a form depends upon the type 

of form being completed. External users 

will need to register with PAMS in 

order to access the system. It takes 

approximately 30 minutes for external 

users to complete the forms required to 

become a registered PAMS user. Both 

LOI and pre-proposal forms take 15 

minutes each, whereas completing a 

lab/interagency proposal will take about 

2 hours. The reviewers require about 1 

hour of analysis, per submission. Based 

on the annual estimated number of 

responses, broken down by DOE 

national laboratory, letter of intent and 

pre-proposal, the annual estimated time 

required for reviewers to complete 

analysis or responses and the time 

required for external users to register 

with PAMS, the estimated annual 

number of burden hours is 10,630. 

Total number of unduplicated 

respondents: 9,920. 

Reports filed per person: 1. 

Total annual responses: 9,920. 

Total annual burden hours: 10,630. 

(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0. 

Statutory Authority: Section 641 of the 

Department of Energy Organization Act, 

codified at 42 U.S.C. 7251. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on August 12, 

2014. 

Marina Amoroso, 

Deputy Project Manager for Information 

Technology and Services Office of Science. 

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BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

National Electric Transmission 

Congestion Study 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of Public Comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(Department) invites public comment on 

the draft National Electric Transmission 

Congestion Study. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before October 20, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: The draft study is available 

for review at http://www.energy.gov/

node/942311. Written comments may be 

submitted electronically to 

Congestionstudy.comments@hq.doe.gov. 

Written comments may also be 

delivered by conventional mail to David 

Meyer, Office of Electricity Delivery and 

Energy Reliability, U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Ave. SW., 

Washington, DC 20585. Commenters are 

cautioned, however, that all 

conventional mail to the Department is 

subject to an automatic security 

screening process that may take up to 

three weeks and sometimes renders 

mailed material illegible. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Meyer, at David.Meyer@

hq.doe.gov, or telephone 202–586–1411. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

1221(a) of the Energy Policy Act of 

2005, codified at 16 U.S.C. 824p(a), 

directs the Secretary of Energy to 

conduct an electric transmission 

congestion study every three years, and 

to prepare it in consultation with 

affected states and regional reliability 

organizations. In the study, the 

Department seeks to provide 

information about transmission 

congestion by focusing on specific 

indications of transmission constraints 

and congestion and their consequences. 

The study focuses on a specific time 

frame—i.e., historical trends over the 

past few years, and looking forward 

three to five years. The study is based 

entirely on publicly available data and 

transmission-related documents. 

The draft study is available for review 

at http://www.energy.gov/node/942311. 

All comments received will be made 

publicly available on http://

www.energy.gov/node/942311. After 

reviewing and considering the public 

comments, the Department will prepare 

and release a final version of the study. 

Issued at Washington, DC, on August 14, 

2014. 

Patricia A. Hoffman, 

Assistant Secretary, Office of Electricity 

Delivery and Energy Reliability. 

[FR Doc. 2014–19690 Filed 8–18–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9915–14–OARM; EPA–HQ–OEI–2012– 

0836] 

Notification of a New System of 

Records Notice for the EPA Personnel 

Access and Security System (EPASS) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of 

Administration and Resource 

Management, Office of Administration, 

Security Management Division is giving 

notice that it proposes to create a new 

system of records pursuant to the 

provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 

U.S.C. 552a). The EPA Personnel Access 

and Security System (EPASS) is being 

created to comply with the Homeland 

Security Presidential Directive-12 

(HSPD–12), which was issued on 

August 12, 2004 and signed on August 

27, 2004. HSPD–12 mandates a 

government-wide federal standard for 

ensuring that identification cards issued 

to government employees and 

contractors are reliable and secure. 

EPASS complies with the federal 

requirements and will enhance security, 

increase efficiency, reduce identity 

fraud, and protect personal privacy. 

DATES: Persons wishing to comment on 

this new system of records notice must 

do so by September 29, 2014. 

ADDRESS: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

2012–0836, by mail: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: oei.docket@epa.gov. 

• Fax: 202–566–1752. 

• Mail: OEI Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mail code: 2822T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. 

• Hand Delivery: OEI Docket, EPA/

DC, EPA West Building, Room 3334, 

1301 Constitution Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC. Such deliveries are 

only accepted during the docket’s 

normal hours of operation, and special 

arrangements should be made for 

deliveries of boxed information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OEI–2012– 

0836. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change and may be 

made available online at 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes information 


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claimed to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

for which disclosure is restricted by 

statute. Do not submit information that 

you consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected through www.regulations.gov. 

The www.regulations.gov Web site is an 

‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means EPA will not know your identity 

or contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

If you send an email comment directly 

to EPA without going through 

www.regulations.gov your email address 

will be automatically captured and 

included as part of the comment that is 

placed in the public docket and made 

available on the Internet. If you submit 

an electronic comment, EPA 

recommends that you include your 

name and other contact information in 

the body of your comment and with any 

disk or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA 

cannot read your comment due to 

technical difficulties and cannot contact 

you for clarification, EPA may not be 

able to consider your comment. 

Electronic files should avoid the use of 

special characters, any form of 

encryption, and be free of any defects or 

viruses. For additional information 

about EPA’s public docket visit the EPA 

Docket Center homepage at http://

www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the www.regulations.gov 

index. Although listed in the index, 

some information is not publicly 

available (e.g., CBI or other information 

for which disclosure is restricted by 

statute). Certain other material, such as 

copyrighted material, will be publicly 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the OEI Docket, EPA/DC, EPA West 

Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC. The Public 

Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday 

excluding legal holidays. The telephone 

number for the Public Reading Room is 

(202) 566–1744, and the telephone 

number for the OEI Docket is (202) 566– 

1745. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kelly Glazier, Security Management 

Division (SMD) Acting Director, (202) 

564–0351. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

General Information 

The U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) plans to create a Privacy 

Act system of records for the EPA 

Personnel Access and Security System 

(EPASS). This system is being created 

for the purpose of issuing credentials to 

EPA employees and its contractors that 

meet the requirements of Homeland 

Security Presidential Directive 12 

(HSPD–12) issued on August 12, 2004. 

The Directive requires the development 

of a mandatory, government-wide 

standard for issuing secure and reliable 

forms of identification to executive 

branch employees and federal 

contractors for access to federally 

controlled facilities and networks. 

The National Institute of Standards 

and Technology (NIST) further defined 

the issuance standards in Federal 

Information Processing (FIP) Standards 

Publication 201which describes the 

minimum requirements for a federal 

personal identification verification (PIV) 

system. EPA’s identification system, 

EPASS, complies with all HSPD–12 

requirements. It is designed to link a 

person’s identity to an identification 

credential and link the credential to a 

person’s ability to physically and 

logically access federally-controlled 

buildings and information systems. 

EPASS will contain information on all 

Agency employees, contractors, 

consultants, volunteers and other 

workers who require long-term, regular 

access, as required by their position, to 

federal facilities, systems and networks. 

The personal information collected in 

the personnel enrollment process 

consists of data elements necessary to 

verify the identity of the individual and 

to perform background or other 

investigations. EPASS will collect the 

applicant’s name, date of birth, Social 

Security Number, organizational 

affiliations, fingerprints, work email 

address and phone number(s), other 

verification and demographic 

information, and the applicant’s 

photograph. 

Dated: June 24, 2014. 

Renee P. Wynn, 

Acting Assistant Administrator, and Acting 

Chief Information Officer. 

EPA–62 

SYSTEM NAME: 

EPA Personnel Access and Security 

System (EPASS) 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Office of Administration and Resource 

Management (OARM), Office of 

Administration (OA), Ariel Rios 

Building, MC3201A, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM: 

The System will collect and maintain 

information on individuals who require 

long-term, regular access as required by 

their position, to EPA-controlled 

facilities and information technology 

systems, including federal employees, 

contractors, grantees, students, interns, 

volunteers, other non-federal employees 

and individuals formerly in any of these 

positions. The System does not collect 

information on occasional visitors or 

short-term guests to whom the Agency 

may issue temporary identification. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

Enrollment records: full name and 

history of name changes, social security 

number, applicant ID number, date of 

birth, gender, race, height, weight, hair 

color, eye color, digital color 

photograph, fingerprints, biometric 

template (two fingerprints), employee 

affiliation, work email address, work 

telephone number(s), office location and 

organizational unit, employee status, 

foreign national status, federal 

emergency response official status, 

National Agency Check with Inquiries 

(NACI) status (permanent or 

provisional), citizenship status, 

government agency code, computer 

login name/user principal name (UPN), 

and personal identification verification 

(PIV) card issuance location. Records in 

EPASS’s Identity Management System 

(IDMS) and Card Management System 

(CMS) are needed for credential 

management of enrolled individuals and 

include PIV card serial number, digital 

certificate serial number, PIV card 

issuance and expiration dates, PIV card 

personal identification number (PIN), 

cardholder unique identifier (CHUID), 

and card management keys. All 

sponsored individuals enrolled within 

EPASS may be issued a PIV card. The 

PIV card contains the following 

mandatory information: name, 

photograph, individual’s affiliation, 

organizational affiliation, PIV card 

expiration date, Agency card serial 

number, and color-coding for employee 

affiliation. The card also contains an 

integrated circuit chip which is encoded 

with the following data elements: 

cardholder unique identifier (CHUID), 

PIV authentication digital certificate, 

and two fingerprint biometric minutiae 

templates. 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

Government Organization and 

Employees (5 U.S.C. 301); Public 

Buildings under the control of 

Administrator of General Services (40 

U.S.C. 3101); Federal Information 

Security Management Act of 2002 (44 

U.S.C. 3541); E-Government Act of 2002 

(44 U.S.C. 101); Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501); Executive 

Order 9347 (Nov. 22, 1943); and 


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Homeland Security Presidential 

Directive 12 (HSPD–12) (August 27, 

2004). 

PURPOSE(S): 

The primary purposes of the System 

are to: (1) Ensure the safety and security 

of Federal facilities, systems, or 

information, and of facility occupants 

and users; (2) provide for 

interoperability and trust in allowing 

physical access to individuals entering 

Federal facilities; and (3) allow logical 

access to Federal information systems, 

networks, and resources on a 

government-wide basis. 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES: 

General routine uses A, B, C, D E, F, 

G, H, I, J, K, and L apply to this System. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, 

RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND

DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

• Storage: Records are stored on a 

secure server within the EPASS subsystem Fingerprint Transmission 

System (FTS) and can be accessed over 

the Web using encryption software. The 

records are kept for 120 days and are 

either manually or automatically 

deleted. 

• Retrievability: Records can only be 

retrieved within the System database, 

which requires authorized user login/

password credentials and administrative 

privileges to retrieve personal data 

within a Web instance of the system by 

using a combination of first name and 

last name. 

• Safeguards: Consistent with the 

requirements of the Federal Information 

Security Management Act and 

associated OMB policies, standards and 

guidance from the National Institute of 

Standards and Technology, EPA 

protects all records from unauthorized 

access through appropriate 

administrative, physical, and technical 

safeguards. Buildings have security 

guards and secured doors. All entrances 

are monitored through electronic 

surveillance equipment. Physical 

security controls include indoor and 

outdoor security monitoring and 

surveillance, badge and picture ID 

access screening and biometric access 

screening. Personally identifiable 

information (PII) is safeguarded and 

protected in conformance with all 

Federal statutes and Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

requirements. All access has role-based 

restrictions. Individuals granted access 

privileges must be screened for proper 

credentials. EPA maintains an audit trail 

and performs random periodic reviews 

to identify any unauthorized access. 

Persons given roles in the EPASS 

HSPD–12 process must be screened and 

complete training specific to their roles 

to ensure they are knowledgeable about 

how to protect PII. 

• Retention and Disposal: Records are 

retained and disposed of in accordance 

with EPA’s records schedule 089. 

SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS: 

Director, Office of Administration and 

Resources Management (OARM), Office 

of Administration (OA), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES: 

Any individual who wants to know 

whether this System of records contains 

a record about him or her, who wants 

access to his or her record, or who 

wants to contest the contents of a 

record, should make a written request to 

the EPA FOIA Office, Attn: Privacy Act 

Officer, MC2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURE: 

Requests for access must be made in 

accordance with the procedures 

described in EPA’s Privacy Act 

regulations at 40 CFR part 16. 

Requesters will be required to provide 

adequate identification, such as a 

driver’s license, employee identification 

card, or other identifying document. 

Additional identification procedures 

may be required in some instances. 

CONTESTING RECORDS PROCEDURE: 

Requests for correction or amendment 

must identify the record to be changed 

and the corrective action sought. 

Complete EPA Privacy Act procedures 

are described in EPA’s Privacy Act 

regulations at 40 CFR part 16. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

The sources for information in the 

system are the individuals about whom, 

the records are maintained, the 

supervisors of those individuals, 

existing EPA systems, the sponsoring 

agency, the former sponsoring agency, 

other Federal agencies, the contract 

employer, the former contract employer 

and the U.S. Office of Personnel 

Management (OPM). 

SYSTEMS EXEMPTED FROM CERTAIN PROVISIONS

OF THE ACT: 

None. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK 

[Public Notice: 2014–0040] 

Application for Final Commitment for a 

Long-Term Loan or Financial 

Guarantee in Excess of $100 Million: 

AP088876XX 

AGENCY: Export-Import Bank of the 

United States. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This Notice is to inform the 

public, in accordance with Section 

3(c)(10) of the Charter of the ExportImport Bank of the United States (‘‘ExIm Bank’’), that Ex-Im Bank has received 

an application for final commitment for 

a long-term loan or financial guarantee 

in excess of $100 million (as calculated 

in accordance with Section 3(c)(10) of 

the Charter). Comments received within 

the comment period specified below 

will be presented to the Ex-Im Bank 

Board of Directors prior to final action 

on this Transaction. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before September 15, 2014 to be 

assured of consideration before final 

consideration of the transaction by the 

Board of Directors of Ex-Im Bank. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted through Regulations.gov at 

WWW.REGULATIONS.GOV. To submit 

a comment, enter EIB–2014–0040 under 

the heading ‘‘Enter Keyword or ID’’ and 

select Search. Follow the instructions 

provided at the Submit a Comment 

screen. Please include your name, 

company name (if any) and EIB–2014– 

0040 on any attached document. 

Reference: AP088876XX. 

Purpose and Use 

Brief description of the purpose of the 

transaction: 

To support the export of U.S.- 

manufactured commercial aircraft to 

Colombia. 

Brief non-proprietary description of 

the anticipated use of the items being 

exported: 

To be used by Avianca for passenger 

transport between Colombia and other 

countries in Latin America, North 

America and Europe. 

To the extent that Ex-Im Bank is 

reasonably aware, the items being 

exported may produce exports or 

provide services in competition with the 

exportation of goods or provision of 

services by a United States industry. 

Parties 

Principal Supplier: The Boeing 

Company. 

Obligor: Avianca Holdings S.A. 

Guarantor(s): Avianca S.A., TACA 

International Airlines, S.A. 


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