Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 122 / Tuesday, June 25, 2013 / Notices 38021 

Issued in Washington, DC, on June 18, 

2013. 

Susan Richardson, 

Acting Executive Director, Loan Programs 

Office. 

[FR Doc. 2013–15123 Filed 6–24–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

Proposed Amendment of Agency 

Information Collection 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Submission for Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) review; 

comment request. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy is 

proposing to merge two information 

collections into one more broad 

collection, one of which is approved 

and one of which was previously 

proposed pursuant to the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. The approved 

collection is being used to develop a 

scorecard that will assist DOE’s Clean 

Cities coalitions and stakeholders in 

assessing the level of readiness of their 

communities for plug-in electric 

vehicles (PEV). Information collected 

via the scorecard is intended to allow 

DOE to provide respondents with an 

objective assessment of their 

communities’ readiness for PEV 

adoption and an understanding of their 

commitment to successful deployment 

of PEVs, and is needed to ensure 

appropriate evaluation of progress in 

deploying PEVs. The other, previously 

proposed information collection would 

be used to develop information that will 

enable DOE to measure the impact and 

progress of DOE’s National Clean Fleets 

Partnership (Partnership). The 

Partnership is an initiative through 

which DOE provides large private-sector 

fleets with technical assistance and 

expertise to incorporate alternative fuels 

and fuel saving measures into their 

operations successfully. The initiative 

builds on the established success of 

DOE’s Clean Cities Program. The 

Partnership was developed with input 

from fleet managers, industry 

representatives, Clean Cities program 

staff, and Clean Cities coordinators. 

DOE is also proposing to amend the PEV 

Scorecard information collection 

request by expanding the number of 

entities estimated to participate in the 

voluntary PEV Scorecard information 

collection. 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

collection must be received on or before 

July 25, 2013. If you anticipate that you 

will be submitting comments, but find 

it difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, please 

advise the OMB Desk Officer of your 

intention to make a submission as soon 

as possible. The Desk Officer may be 

telephoned at (202) 395–4650. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent to: 

Desk Officer for the Department of 

Energy, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Room 10102, 

735 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 

20503 

And to 

Mr. Dennis Smith, Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy 

(EE–2G), U.S. Department of Energy, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121, or by fax 

at 202–586–1600, or by email at 

Dennis.Smith@ee.doe.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Dennis Smith at the address listed above 

in ADDRESSES. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PEV 

Scorecard information collection was 

previously proposed and available for 

public comment. See 77 FR 19275 

(March 30, 2012) and 77 FR 39690 (July 

5, 2012) and has since been cleared for 

use under OMB No. 1910–5171. The 

Clean Fleets Partnership information 

collection request also was previously 

proposed and available for public 

comment. See 77 FR 65374 (October 26, 

2012) and 78 FR 14519 (March 6, 2013). 

Because both requests were developed 

by and for the DOE Clean Cities 

Program, DOE is proposing to merge 

these two requests so that they would 

operate under the same OMB No. 1910– 

5171. Merging the two information 

collections would not affect any of the 

management of the information 

collection requests themselves, or 

management of the information 

collected. 

DOE is also proposing to amend the 

estimated burden associated with the 

PEV Scorecard information collection 

request. Initially, DOE envisioned that 

only Clean Cities coordinators, of which 

there approximately 90 presently, 

would avail themselves of the PEV 

Scorecard and feedback it will provide. 

The PEV Scorecard has been received 

enthusiastically by communities beyond 

the Clean Cities coalitions. In the first 

month, the public was accessing the 

PEV Scorecard in numbers 

unanticipated, making it such that the 

approved limit, 100 respondents, will be 

reached before all Clean Cities 

coordinators have an opportunity to 

access the PEV Scorecard. To ensure all 

Clean Cities coordinators and leaders of 

other communities are able to access the 

PEV Scorecard, DOE is proposing to 

increase the total number of 

unduplicated responses, from 100 to 

1,250. The number represents the 

possible number of participating 

communities, which in turn is based on 

the approximate number of ‘‘Principal 

Cities’’ within Core Based Statistical 

Areas (the U.S. Census Bureau defines 

there to be approximately 1,250) DOE 

wants to increase the number of 

potential respondents to ensure all 

Clean Cities coordinators are able to 

participate, and also to address the 

expression of interest on the part of 

Clean Cities coordinators to support 

multiple municipalities in completing 

the PEV Scorecard within their 

coalition. 

As merged, the amended information 

collection request contains: (1) OMB No. 

1910–5171; (2) Information Collection 

Request Title: Clean Cities Vehicle 

Programs; (3) Type of Request: 

Amended collection; (4) Purpose: DOE’s 

Clean Cities initiative has developed 

two voluntary mechanisms by which 

communities and certain fleets can get 

a better understanding of their readiness 

to deploy alternative fuel vehicles and 

their progress in doing so. The 

voluntary PEV Scorecard is intended to 

assist its coalitions and stakeholders in 

assessing the level of readiness of their 

communities for plug-in electric 

vehicles. The principal objective of the 

scorecard is to provide respondents 

with an objective assessment and 

estimate of their respective community’s 

readiness for PEV deployment as well as 

understand the respective community’s 

commitment to deploying these vehicles 

successfully. DOE intends the scorecard 

to be completed by a city/county/ 

regional sustainability or energy 

coordinator. As the intended respondent 

may not be aware of every aspect of 

local or regional PEV readiness, 

coordination among local stakeholders 

to gather appropriate information may 

be necessary. See also 77 FR 19275 

(March 30, 2012). 

For the PEV Scorecard information 

collection request, DOE now expects 

that many communities beyond simply 

the Clean Cities coalitions may want to 

avail themselves of the opportunity to 

assess their respective community’s PEV 

readiness. Therefore, DOE expects a 

total respondent population of 

approximately 1,250 respondents. 

Selecting the multiple choice answers in 

completing a scorecard questionnaire is 

expected to take under 30 minutes, 

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although additional time of no more 

than 20 hours may be needed to 

assemble information necessary to be 

able to answer the questions, leading to 

a total burden of approximately 25,625 

hours. Assembling information to 

update questionnaire answers in the 

future on a voluntary basis would be 

expected to take less time, on the order 

of 10 hours, as much of any necessary 

time and effort needed to research 

information would have been completed 

previously; 

For the Clean Fleets Partnership 

information collection request, the 

Partnership is targeted at large, privatesector fleets that own or have 

contractual control over at least 50 

percent of their vehicles and have 

vehicles operating in multiple States. 

DOE expects approximately 50 fleets to 

participate in the Partnership and, as a 

result, DOE expects a total respondent 

population of approximately 50 

respondents. Providing initial baseline 

information for each participating fleet, 

which occurs only once, is expected to 

take 60 minutes. Follow-up questions 

and clarifications for the purpose of 

ensuring accurate analyses are expected 

to take up to 90 minutes. The total 

burden is expected to be 125 hours. 

The combined burden for the two 

information collections is 25,750 hours. 

(5) Type of Respondents: Public; (6) 

Annual Estimated Number of 

Respondents for both information 

collections: 1,300; (7) Annual Estimated 

Number of Total Responses: 1,300; (7) 

Annual Estimated Number of Burden 

Hours: 25,750 (25,625 for PEV 

Scorecard, and 125 for Clean Fleets 

Partnership); and (8) Annual Estimated 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost 

Burden: There is no cost associated with 

reporting and recordkeeping. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 13233; 42 U.S.C. 

13252 (a)–(b); 42 U.S.C. 13255. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on: June 12, 

2013. 

Patrick B. Davis, 

Director, Vehicle Technologies Office, Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2013–15126 Filed 6–24–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 349–000] 

Alabama Power Company; Notice of 

Authorization for Continued Project 

Operation 

On June 5, 2008, the Alabama Power 

Company, licensee for the Martin Dam 

Hydroelectric Project, filed an 

Application for a New License pursuant 

to the Federal Power Act (FPA) and the 

Commission’s regulations thereunder. 

The Martin Dam Hydroelectric Project is 

located on Tallapoosa River, in 

Tallapoosa, Coosa, and Elmore counties. 

The license for Project No. 349 was 

issued for a period ending June 8, 2013. 

Section 15(a)(1) of the FPA, 16 U.S.C. 

808(a)(1), requires the Commission, at 

the expiration of a license term, to issue 

from year-to-year an annual license to 

the then licensee under the terms and 

conditions of the prior license until a 

new license is issued, or the project is 

otherwise disposed of as provided in 

section 15 or any other applicable 

section of the FPA. If the project’s prior 

license waived the applicability of 

section 15 of the FPA, then, based on 

section 9(b) of the Administrative 

Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 558(c), and as 

set forth at 18 CFR 16.21(a), if the 

licensee of such project has filed an 

application for a subsequent license, the 

licensee may continue to operate the 

project in accordance with the terms 

and conditions of the license after the 

minor or minor part license expires, 

until the Commission acts on its 

application. If the licensee of such a 

project has not filed an application for 

a subsequent license, then it may be 

required, pursuant to 18 CFR 16.21(b), 

to continue project operations until the 

Commission issues someone else a 

license for the project or otherwise 

orders disposition of the project. 

If the project is subject to section 15 

of the FPA, notice is hereby given that 

an annual license for Project No. 349 is 

issued to the licensee for a period 

effective June 9, 2013 through June 8, 

2014 or until the issuance of a new 

license for the project or other 

disposition under the FPA, whichever 

comes first. If issuance of a new license 

(or other disposition) does not take 

place on or before June 8, 2014, notice 

is hereby given that, pursuant to 18 CFR 

16.18(c), an annual license under 

section 15(a)(1) of the FPA is renewed 

automatically without further order or 

notice by the Commission, unless the 

Commission orders otherwise. 

If the project is not subject to section 

15 of the FPA, notice is hereby given 

that the licensee, Alabama Power 

Company, is authorized to continue 

operation of the Martin Dam 

Hydroelectric Project, until such time as 

the Commission acts on its application 

for a subsequent license. 

Dated: June 18, 2013. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–15069 Filed 6–24–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings 

Take notice that the Commission has 

received the following Natural Gas 

Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings: 

Filings Instituting Proceedings 

Docket Numbers: RP13–975–000. 

Applicants: Millennium Pipeline 

Company, LLC. 

Description: System Map Update to be 

effective 7/12/2013. 

Filed Date: 6/11/13. 

Accession Number: 20130611–5101. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/24/13. 

Docket Numbers: RP13–976–000. 

Applicants: Gulf Crossing Pipeline 

Company LLC. 

Description: Amendment to Neg Rate 

Agmt (Devon 10–9, 10) to be effective 6/ 

13/2013. 

Filed Date: 6/12/13. 

Accession Number: 20130612–5059. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/24/13. 

Any person desiring to intervene or 

protest in any of the above proceedings 

must file in accordance with Rules 211 

and 214 of the Commission’s 

Regulations (18 CFR § 385.211 and 

§ 385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. 

Protests may be considered, but 

intervention is necessary to become a 

party to the proceeding. 

Filings in Existing Proceedings 

Docket Numbers: RP12–1006–000. 

Applicants: Colorado Interstate Gas 

Company LLC. 

Description: Compliance Report of 

Colorado Interstate Gas Company, L.L.C. 

Filed Date: 6/11/13. 

Accession Number: 20130611–5151. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/24/13. 

Docket Numbers: RP12–1100–000. 

Applicants: Wyoming Interstate 

Company, L.L.C. 

Description: Compliance Report of 

Wyoming Interstate Company, L.L.C. 

Filed Date: 6/11/13. 

Accession Number: 20130611–5152. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/24/13. 

Any person desiring to protest in any 

of the above proceedings must file in 

accordance with Rule 211 of the 

Commission’s Regulations (18 CFR 

§ 385.211) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. 

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