82598 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 198 / Friday, October 11, 2024 / Notices 

SUMMARY: This notice announces an inperson/virtual hybrid meeting of the 

Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), 

Hanford. The Federal Advisory 

Committee Act requires that public 

notice of this meeting be announced in 

the Federal Register. 

DATES: Wednesday, November 6, 2024; 

9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. PST. 

ADDRESSES: The Holiday Inn Express & 

Suites Pasco, Vineyard Ballroom, 4525 

Convention Place, Pasco, Washington 

99301. This hybrid meeting will be inperson at The Holiday Inn Express & 

Suites Pasco and virtually. To receive 

the virtual access information and callin number, please contact the Deputy 

Designated Federal Officer, Lindsay 

Somers, at the telephone number or 

email listed below at least five days 

prior to the meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lindsay Somers, Deputy Designated 

Federal Officer, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Hanford Office of 

Communications, Richland Operations 

Office, P.O. Box 550, Richland, WA, 

99354; Phone: (509) 376–0923; or Email: 

lindsay.somers@rl.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Board: The purpose of 

the Board is to provide advice and 

recommendations concerning the 

following EM site-specific issues: cleanup activities and environmental 

restoration; waste and nuclear materials 

management and disposition; excess 

facilities; future land use and long-term 

stewardship. The Board may also be 

asked to provide advice and 

recommendations on any EM program 

components. 

Tentative Agenda 

Æ Tri-Party Agreement Agencies’ 

Updates 

Æ Presentation 

Æ Subcommittee Reports 

Æ Board Member Roundtable 

Æ Board Business 

Public Participation: The meeting is 

open to the public. The EM SSAB, 

Hanford, welcomes the attendance of 

the public at its advisory committee 

meetings and will make every effort to 

accommodate persons with physical 

disabilities or special needs. If you 

require special accommodations due to 

a disability, please contact Lindsay 

Somers at least seven days in advance 

of the meeting at the telephone number 

listed above. Written statements may be 

filed with the Board either before or 

within five business days after the 

meeting. Individuals who wish to make 

oral statements pertaining to agenda 

items should contact Lindsay Somers. 

Requests must be received five days 

prior to the meeting and reasonable 

provision will be made to include the 

presentation in the agenda. The Deputy 

Designated Federal Officer is 

empowered to conduct the meeting in a 

fashion that will facilitate the orderly 

conduct of business. Individuals 

wishing to make public comments will 

be provided a maximum of five minutes 

to present their comments. 

Minutes: Minutes will be available at 

the following website: https://

www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/hab/Full

BoardMeetingInformation. 

Signing Authority: This document of 

the Department of Energy was signed on 

October 7, 2024, by David Borak, 

Committee Management Officer, 

pursuant to delegated authority from the 

Secretary of Energy. That document 

with the original signature and date is 

maintained by DOE. For administrative 

purposes only, and in compliance with 

requirements of the Office of the Federal 

Register, the undersigned DOE Federal 

Register Liaison Officer has been 

authorized to sign and submit the 

document in electronic format for 

publication, as an official document of 

the Department of Energy. This 

administrative process in no way alters 

the legal effect of this document upon 

publication in the Federal Register. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on October 7, 

2024. 

Jennifer Hartzell, 

Alternate Federal Register Liaison Officer, 

U.S. Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2024–23507 Filed 10–10–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Energy Information Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Proposed New Survey 

AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), U.S. Department 

of Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EIA submitted an information 

collection request for clearance of the 

Residential Utility Disconnections 

Survey as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. The collection 

requests a three-year clearance of a new 

data collection survey—Form EIA–112. 

Form EIA–112 is an annual survey that 

collects information on the number of 

monthly natural gas and electric service 

final notices, disconnections, and 

reconnections for bill non-payment 

across residential customers. 

DATES: Comments on this information 

collection must be received no later 

than November 12, 2024. Written 

comments and recommendations for the 

proposed information collection should 

be sent within 30 days of publication of 

this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/ 

do/PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kenneth Pick, EIA Clearance Officer, at 

(202) 586–5562. The form and 

instructions are available at https://

www.eia.gov/survey/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

(1) OMB No.: New; 

(2) Information Collection Request 

Title: Residential Utility Disconnections 

Survey; 

(3) Type of Request: New; 

(4) Purpose: Form EIA–112 is an 

annual form that will collect 12 months 

of data from electric and natural gas 

providers about final termination 

notices sent to residential customers 

due to bill nonpayment, service 

disconnections of residential customers 

due to bill nonpayment, and service 

reconnections of residential customers 

who were disconnected due to bill 

nonpayment. 

No national data is currently collected 

on this information. Some States collect 

some of the data described above, but 

the data are inconsistent, and 

publication is not uniform. Form EIA– 

112 aims to better inform State and 

Federal policymakers on utility 

disconnections by providing reliable 

data that can help inform appropriate 

levels of budgetary support for various 

assistance programs across the United 

States. The results of the survey will be 

published on the EIA website at the 

aggregated national and State level, as 

well as at the utility level for 

respondents. 

EIA will conduct periodic censuses of 

all natural gas and electric utilities 

above a certain size threshold. These 

censuses will cover respondents that 

complete Form EIA–176 and Form EIA– 

861, excluding the small electric 

utilities receiving Form EIA–861S. To 

reduce the respondent burden of this 

proposed data collection, while also 

considering data quality, for the years in 

between censuses, EIA will use cut-off 

samples from Form EIA–857 and Form 

EIA–861M, based on utility size and 

State coverage. This strategy will allow 

EIA to reduce respondent burden on 

smaller utilities, while also producing 

population estimates at the State level 


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by modeling data for the utilities on the 

frames that were subjected to sampling 

but not selected. 

(5) Annual Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 1,130; 

(6) Annual Estimated Number of 

Total Responses: 1,130; 

(7) Annual Estimated Number of 

Burden Hours: 2,260; 

(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: EIA 

estimates that there are no capital and 

start-up costs associated with this data 

collection. The information is 

maintained during the normal course of 

business. The cost of the burden hours 

is estimated to be $206,021.60 (2,260 

burden hours times $91.16 per hour). 

Other than the cost of burden hours, EIA 

estimates that there are no additional 

costs for generating, maintaining, and 

providing this information. 

Statutory Authority: 15 U.S.C. 772(b) 

and 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on October 8, 

2024. 

Samson A. Adeshiyan, 

Director, Office of Statistical Methods and 

Research, U.S. Energy Information 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2024–23621 Filed 10–10–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP24–514–000] 

National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation; 

Notice of Scoping Period Requesting 

Comments on Environmental Issues 

for the Proposed Tioga Pathway 

Project, and Notice of Virtual Public 

Scoping Session 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) will prepare an 

environmental document, that will 

discuss the environmental impacts of 

the Tioga Pathway Project involving 

construction and operation of facilities 

by National Fuel Gas Supply 

Corporation (National Fuel) in Potter 

and Tioga Counties, Pennsylvania. The 

Commission will use this environmental 

document in its decision-making 

process to determine whether the 

project is in the public convenience and 

necessity. 

This notice announces the opening of 

the scoping process the Commission 

will use to gather input from the public 

and interested agencies regarding the 

project. As part of the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

review process, the Commission takes 

into account concerns the public may 

have about proposals and the 

environmental impacts that could result 

from its action whenever it considers 

the issuance of a Certificate of Public 

Convenience and Necessity. This 

gathering of public input is referred to 

as ‘‘scoping.’’ The main goal of the 

scoping process is to focus the analysis 

in the environmental document on the 

important environmental issues. 

Additional information about the 

Commission’s NEPA process is 

described below in the NEPA Process 

and Environmental Document section of 

this notice. 

By this notice, the Commission 

requests public comments on the scope 

of issues to address in the 

environmental document. To ensure 

that your comments are timely and 

properly recorded, please submit your 

comments so that the Commission 

receives them in Washington, DC on or 

before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on 

November 4, 2024. Comments may be 

submitted in written or oral form. 

Further details on how to submit 

comments are provided in the Public 

Participation section of this notice. 

Your comments should focus on the 

potential environmental effects, 

reasonable alternatives, and measures to 

avoid or lessen environmental impacts. 

Your input will help the Commission 

staff determine what issues they need to 

evaluate in the environmental 

document. Commission staff will 

consider all written or oral comments 

during the preparation of the 

environmental document. 

If you submitted comments on this 

project to the Commission before the 

opening of this docket on August 21, 

2024, you will need to file those 

comments in Docket No. CP24–514–000 

to ensure they are considered as part of 

this proceeding. 

This notice is being sent to the 

Commission’s current environmental 

mailing list for this project. State and 

local government representatives should 

notify their constituents of this 

proposed project and encourage them to 

comment on their areas of concern. 

If you are a landowner receiving this 

notice, a pipeline company 

representative may contact you about 

the acquisition of an easement to 

construct, operate, and maintain the 

proposed facilities. The company would 

seek to negotiate a mutually acceptable 

easement agreement. You are not 

required to enter into an agreement. 

However, if the Commission approves 

the project, the Natural Gas Act conveys 

the right of eminent domain to the 

company. Therefore, if you and the 

company do not reach an easement 

agreement, the pipeline company could 

initiate condemnation proceedings in 

court. In such instances, compensation 

would be determined by a judge in 

accordance with state law. The 

Commission does not subsequently 

grant, exercise, or oversee the exercise 

of that eminent domain authority. The 

courts have exclusive authority to 

handle eminent domain cases; the 

Commission has no jurisdiction over 

these matters. 

National Fuel provided landowners 

with a fact sheet prepared by the FERC 

entitled ‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas 

Facility On My Land? What Do I Need 

To Know?’’ which addresses typically 

asked questions, including the use of 

eminent domain and how to participate 

in the Commission’s proceedings. This 

fact sheet along with other landowner 

topics of interest are available for 

viewing on the FERC website 

(www.ferc.gov) under the Natural Gas, 

Landowner Topics link. 

Public Participation 

There are four methods you can use 

to submit your comments to the 

Commission. Please carefully follow 

these instructions so that your 

comments are properly recorded. The 

Commission encourages electronic filing 

of comments and has staff available to 

assist you at (866) 208–3676 or 

FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. 

(1) You can file your comments 

electronically using the eComment 

feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s website (www.ferc.gov) 

under the link to FERC Online. Using 

eComment is an easy method for 

submitting brief, text-only comments on 

a project; 

(2) You can file your comments 

electronically by using the eFiling 

feature, which is also located on the 

Commission’s website (www.ferc.gov) 

under the link to FERC Online. With 

eFiling, you can provide comments in a 

variety of formats by attaching them as 

a file with your submission. New 

eFiling users must first create an 

account by clicking on ‘‘eRegister.’’ You 

will be asked to select the type of filing 

you are making; a comment on a 

particular project is considered a 

‘‘Comment on a Filing’’; 

(3) You can file a paper copy of your 

comments by mailing them to the 

Commission. Be sure to reference the 

project docket number (CP24–514–000) 

on your letter. Submissions sent via the 

U.S. Postal Service must be addressed 

to: Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Acting 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 

1A, Washington, DC 20426. 

Submissions sent via any other carrier 


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