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time. A period of time will be reserved 

for individuals who choose to not 

register in advance. Participation in the 

hearing for unregistered participants 

will be subject to availability. 

Comments should be limited to five 

minutes per person or organization, but 

participants have the option of 

supplementing their testimony with 

written statements that will be part of 

the official hearing record. The 

Commission will have technology to 

facilitate PowerPoint presentations as 

needed. 

Members of the public who would 

like to offer comments as part of the 

public hearing remotely may submit 

written comments to 

AIMCommission@ed.gov or by mail to 

Advisory Commission on Accessible 

Instructional Materials in Postsecondary 

Education for Students with Disabilities, 

550 12th St., SW., Room PCP–5113, 

Washington, DC 20202. All submissions 

will become part of the public record. 

Members of the public also have the 

option of participating in the open 

meeting and public hearing remotely. 

Remote access will be provided via an 

Internet webinar service utilizing VoiP 

(Voice Over Internet Protocol). For the 

July 11th, 2011 portion of the meeting 

from 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m., the URL is 

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The login will be available to the public 

starting at 8 a.m. (Pacific). On July 12th, 

the URL will be https:// 

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Commission meeting from 8:30 a.m.– 

3:30 p.m., and the login will be open to 

public at 8 a.m. (Pacific). 

The URL for the public hearing 

portion of the meeting from 4 p.m.–9 

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join/yvbmyjr. The login will open to 

public at 3:45 p.m. (Pacific). Login 

information is also provided via the 

Commission’s public listserv at 

pscpublic@lists.cast.org and posted at 

the following site: http://www2.ed.gov/ 

about/bdscomm/list/aim/index.html. 

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Dated: June 20, 2011. 

Alexa Posny, 

Assistant Secretary, Office of Special 

Education and Rehabilitative Services. 

[FR Doc. 2011–15721 Filed 6–22–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Draft Competition Rules for a Global 

Appliance Efficiency Award for 

Televisions 

AGENCY: Office of Policy and 

International Affairs, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of solicitation of 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) is working with partner 

governments within the Super-efficient 

Equipment and Appliance Deployment 

(SEAD) Initiative of the Clean Energy 

Ministerial to conduct an international 

competition to identify the most 

efficient televisions (TVs) available on 

the market. Ultimately, the international 

competition will allow consumers to 

differentiate and choose the most 

efficient product in their region within 

a given size category. Pursued alongside 

direct outreach to appliance and 

consumer electronics industry 

associations, this notice is intended to 

announce the publication of the first 

draft program rules for the 2012 SEAD 

Global Appliance Efficiency Award for 

Televisions and to offer an opportunity 

for interested parties to offer input on 

the proposed structure of the 

competition. Regional winners of the 

competition will gain the right to use 

the award logo and branding (currently 

under development) in their marketing, 

and the best of the regional winners will 

be named the global winner, recognized 

at the subsequent Clean Energy 

Ministerial meeting of energy ministers 

from major economies. 

DATES: Comments on the draft 

competition rules must be submitted no 

later than July 8, 2011. Final versions of 

the SEAD Awards Terms and 

Conditions and the 2012 Television 

Awards Rules will be completed by the 

end of 2011. It is anticipated that 

product nominations will be accepted 

from February 1, 2012 to May 1, 2012. 

The SEAD Initiative plans to announce 

its first international award winners by 

October 1, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: The draft program rules are 

posted for public download and review 

on the SEAD program Web site at: 

http://www.superefficient.org/ 

awards.php. A comment form is 

available at: http:// 

www.superefficient.org/awards.php. 

Comments may also be submitted via 

email to awards@superefficient.org. 

Interested parties may subscribe to 

future Awards program updates at: 

http://www.superefficient.org/ 

awards.php#signup. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions about the television awards 

competition should be directed to: Mr. 

Stephen Pantano, SEAD Program 

Manager, Collaborative Labeling and 

Appliance Standards (CLASP), 

spantano@clasponline.org, or (202) 

662–7440. (CLASP is the SEAD 

operating agent and will host the awards 

competition.) General questions about 

the awards program can be directed to: 

Mr. Arne Jacobson, Senior Advisor, DOE 

Office of Policy and International 

Affairs, at arne.jacobson@hq.doe.gov or 

(202) 586–2402. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SEAD 

Initiative was launched in July 2010 as 

part of the Clean Energy Ministerial’s 

Global Energy Efficiency Challenge 

(http://www.cleanenergyministerial.org). 

The Clean Energy Ministerial is a global 

forum for accelerating the transition to 

clean energy technologies. SEAD’s 

purpose is to leverage high-level 

political dialogue to advance on-theground appliance and equipment 

efficiency efforts. SEAD activities are 

conducted by five working groups, 

covering standards and test procedures, 

awards, procurement, incentives, and 

cross-cutting technical analysis. 

Fourteen SEAD member governments 

announced plans for an international 

awards competition for super-efficient 

appliances at the second Clean Energy 

Ministerial in April 2011. DOE leads the 

multilateral Working Group that is 

developing the SEAD Awards 

competition together with SEAD 

initiative counterparts from Australia, 

Canada, Japan, Sweden, and the United 

Kingdom. The Awards Working Group 

has selected televisions as the product 

for this first annual awards competition, 

since TVs contribute about 6–8 percent 

of global residential electricity 

consumption. Subsequent rounds of the 

awards competition will focus on other 

major energy-using appliances that are 

internationally traded and can be 

evaluated using established, 

internationally-recognized test methods. 

The awards competition will address 

product categories on a rotating basis, 

with a given product type being featured 

every few years. 

The 2012 SEAD Global Appliance 

Efficiency Awards for Televisions will 

allow consumers to differentiate and 

choose the most efficient product in 

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1Future rounds of the awards may include a 

broader set of locations. 

2The test procedures that will be used are those 

established by the International Electrotechnical 

Commission: IEC 62087, ‘‘Methods of measurement 

for the power consumption of audio, video, and 

related equipment’’ (Second Edition 2008–09) and 

IEC 62301, ‘‘Household electrical appliances— 

Measurement of standby power’’ (Edition 2.0 2011– 

01). 

3See: http://www.energystar.gov/revisedspecs. 

category. A total of 20 awards are 

planned: One per size category (small/ 

medium/large) for commerciallyavailable products in each of four 

locations 1 (Australia, Europe, India, and 

the United States); one international 

award per size category from among the 

winners of each region—a ‘‘best of the 

best’’ in each of the three size categories; 

and five ‘‘emerging technology’’ awards 

(one emerging technology award per 

market with no differentiation by size, 

and a fifth award for the ‘‘best of the 

best’’ of these models). Efficiency will 

be evaluated via internationallyrecognized test methods,2 and all 

potential winning products will be 

subject to verification testing to ensure 

the integrity of the awards. 

Requested Input: The Awards 

Working Group is interested in 

comments and feedback from interested 

stakeholders on all aspects of the draft 

program rules. However, comments 

addressing the following issues would 

be particularly valuable: 

• Proposed nomination period, 

testing, dispute resolution, and award 

timing, particularly with regard to 

typical product production cycles and 

marketing/promotional needs; 

• Proposed emerging technology 

award requirements, including use of 

the proposed evaluation methodology 

for Automatic Brightness Control (ABC) 

at 10, 100, 150, and 300 lux from the 

forthcoming revision of the ENERGY 

STAR Televisions test method;3 and 

• Proposed size boundaries for small/ 

medium/large product categorization. 

More information on DOE’s 

participation in the SEAD Initiative and 

the Clean Energy Ministerial can be 

found at: http:// 

www.cleanenergyministerial.org. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on June 16, 

2011. 

Rick Duke, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Policy and 

International Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2011–15693 Filed 6–22–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC11–549B–000] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities (FERC–549B); Comment 

Request; Extension 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed information 

collection and request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

44 USC 3506(c)(2)(A) (2006), (Pub. L. 

104–13), the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission (Commission or FERC) is 

soliciting public comment on the 

proposed information collection 

described below. 

DATES: Comments in consideration of 

the collection of information are due 

August 22, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Commenters must send an 

original of their comments to: Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 

Secretary of the Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

Comments may be filed either on paper 

or on CD/DVD, and should refer to 

Docket No. IC11–549B–000. Documents 

must be prepared in an acceptable filing 

format and in compliance with 

Commission submission guidelines at 

http://www.ferc.gov/help/submissionguide.asp. eFiling and eSubscription are 

not available for Docket No. IC11–549B– 

000, due to a system issue. 

All comments and FERC issuances 

may be viewed, printed or downloaded 

remotely through FERC’s eLibrary at 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

elibrary.asp, by searching on Docket No. 

IC11–549B. For user assistance, contact 

FERC Online Support by e-mail at 

ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by phone 

at: (866) 208–3676 (toll-free), or (202) 

502–8659 for TTY. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ellen Brown may be reached by e-mail 

at DataClearance@FERC.gov, telephone 

at (202) 502–8663, and fax at (202) 273– 

0873. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

information collected under the 

requirements of FERC–549B, ‘‘Gas 

Pipeline Rates: Capacity Information,’’ 

includes both the Index of Customers 

(IOC) report under Commission 

regulations at 18 Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR) 284.13(c) and three 

capacity reporting requirements. One of 

these is in Commission regulations at 18 

CFR 284.13(b) and requires reports on 

firm and interruptible services. The 

second is at 18 CFR 284.13(d)(1) and 

requires pipelines make information on 

capacity and flow information available 

on their Internet Web sites. The third is 

at 18 CFR 284.13(d)(2) and requires an 

annual filing of peak day capacity. 

Capacity Reports Under 284.13(b) and 

284.13(d)(1) 

On April 4, 1992, in Order No. 636 

(RM91–11–000), the Commission 

established a capacity release 

mechanism under which shippers could 

release firm transportation and storage 

capacity on either a short- or long-term 

basis to other shippers wanting to obtain 

capacity. Pipelines posted available firm 

and interruptible capacity information 

on their electronic bulletin boards 

(EBBs) to inform potential shippers. 

On August 3, 1992, in Order No. 636– 

A (RM91–11–002), the Commission 

determined through staff audits, that the 

efficiency of the capacity release 

mechanism could be enhanced by 

standardizing the content and format of 

capacity release information and the 

methods by which shippers accessed 

this information, which pipelines 

posted to their EBBs 

On March 29, 1995, through Order 

577 (RM95–5–000), the Commission 

amended § 284.243(h) of its regulations 

to allow shippers the ability to release 

capacity without having to comply with 

the Commission’s advance posting and 

bidding requirements. 

On February 9, 2000, in Order No. 637 

(RM98–10–000), to create greater 

substitution between different forms of 

capacity and to enhance competition 

across the pipeline grid, the 

Commission revised its capacity release 

regulations regarding scheduling, 

segmentation and flexible point rights, 

penalties, and reporting requirements. 

This resulted in more reliable capacity 

information availability and price data 

that shippers needed to make informed 

decisions in a competitive market as 

well as to improve shipper’s and the 

Commission’s ability to monitor the 

market for potential abuses. 

Peak Day Annual Capacity Report 

Under 284.13(d)(2) 

18 CFR 284.13(d)(2) requires an 

annual peak day capacity report of all 

interstate pipelines, including natural 

gas storage only companies. This report 

is generally a short report showing the 

peak day design capacity or the actual 

peak day capacity achieved, with a short 

explanation, if needed. The regulation 

states: 

An interstate pipeline must make an 

annual filing by March 1 of each year 

showing the estimated peak day capacity of 


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