Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 15 / Friday, January 23, 2015 / Notices 3579 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) has submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

clearance, a proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. DOE, 

Office of Science (SC), has chosen to 

leverage the use of Government, Off-theShelf (GOTS) software capabilities to 

implement a new consolidated system 

called Portfolio Analysis and 

Management System (PAMS). 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

collection must be received on or before 

February 23, 2015. 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 DOE Desk Officer at 

OMB 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 the DOE Desk Officer, 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 Marina Amoroso, Program 

Management Specialist, Office of 

Information Technology and Services, 

Germantown Building; Room E–180, 

U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Ave. SW., Washington, 

DC 20585–1290, Email: 

marina.amoroso@science.doe.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Marina Amoroso by email at 

marina.amoroso@science.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

section contains the following 

information about the information 

collection submitted to OMB for review: 

(1) OMB No. New; (2) Information 

Collection Request Title: Portfolio 

Analysis and Management System 

(PAMS) Submissions for Letter of Intent 

(LOI), Pre-proposals, Interagency 

Proposals, and DOE National Laboratory 

Proposals; System Registration by 

External Users. (3) Type of Request: 

New collection; (4) Purpose: This new 

system is based on the Health Resources 

and Services Administration (HRSA) 

Electronic Handbooks software. 

Discretionary financial assistance 

proposals continue to be collected using 

Grants.gov but are imported into PAMS 

for use by the program offices. Under 

the proposed information collection, an 

external interface will be implemented 

in PAMS to allow two other types of 

proposal submission: DOE National 

Laboratories will be able to submit 

proposals for technical work 

authorizations directly into PAMS, 

while other Federal Agencies will be 

able to submit Proposals for interagency 

awards directly into PAMS. External 

users from all institution types will be 

able to submit Solicitation Letters of 

Intent and Pre-proposals directly into 

PAMS. All applicants, whether they 

submitted through Grants.gov or PAMS, 

will be able to register with PAMS to 

view the proposals that were submitted. 

They will also be able to maintain a 

minimal amount of information in their 

personal profile. The proposed 

collection will automate and streamline 

the submission, tracking, and 

correspondence portions of financial 

award pre-review processes. The 

information collected will be used by 

DOE to select applicants and projects for 

financial awards. (5) Annual Estimated 

Number of Respondents: The following 

numbers are calculated using the 

average of the number of financial 

assistance proposals received in fiscal 

year 2006 through fiscal year 2010. 

9,920 PAMS registrants, who are to 

include 8,000 submitters of lab 

proposals, interagency proposals, preproposals, and Letters Of 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: The Office of Science 

receives about 1,000 DOE national 

laboratory and interagency proposals 

per year, based on a five-year average of 

estimated submission numbers (fiscal 

year 2006 through fiscal year 2010) 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 a five-year average between 

fiscal year 2006 and fiscal year 2010); 

(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, authorizes the DOE to 

collect, use, and retain information that 

is mandatory for the financial awards 

process. All information comes from 

proposals, reviews, and reports that are 

submitted to the DOE by authorized 

external users (i.e., scientists and 

research administrators). 

Issued in Washington, DC, on December 1, 

2014. 

Marina Amoroso, 

Deputy Project Manager for Information 

Technology and Services, Office of Science. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01163 Filed 1–22–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Notice of Effectiveness of Exempt 

Wholesale Generator or Foreign Utility 

Company Status 

Docket Nos. 

Binghamton BOP LLC ....... EG15–1–000 

Lost Hills Solar, LLC .......... EG15–2–000 

Blackwell Solar, LLC ......... EG15–3–000 

Mesquite Creek Wind, LLC EG15–4–000 

Sky Global Power One, 

LLC.

EG15–5–000 

Heritage Stoney Corners 

Wind Farm I, LLC.

EG15–6–000 

Western Antelope Blue Sky 

Ranch A, LLC.

EG15–7–000 

Duke Energy Miami Fort, 

LLC.

EG15–8–000 

Duke Energy Zimmer, LLC EG15–9–000 

Spanish Town Estate Solar 

1, LLC.

EG15–10–000 

Diageo USVI Inc ................ FC15–1–000 

Take notice that during the month of 

December 2014, the status of the abovecaptioned entities as Exempt Wholesale 

Generators or Foreign Utility Companies 

became effective by operation of the 

Commission’s regulations. 18 CFR 

366.7(a). 


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3580 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 15 / Friday, January 23, 2015 / Notices 

1The tailrace/forebay would be a small 

constructed inlet from the Pacific Ocean. Flows 

from the turbines would discharge into the tailrace/ 

forebay. Return flows for filling of the storage tanks 

would be pumped from the tailrace/forebay. 

Dated: January 15, 2015. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01043 Filed 1–22–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 14640–000] 

South Maui Pumped Storage, LLC; 

Notice of Preliminary Permit 

Application Accepted for Filing and 

Soliciting Comments, Motions To 

Intervene, and Competing Applications 

On October 20, 2014, South Maui 

Pumped Storage, LLC, filed an 

application for a preliminary permit, 

pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal 

Power Act (FPA), proposing to study the 

feasibility of the South Maui Pumped 

Storage Project (South Maui Project or 

project) to be located on the Pacific 

Ocean, in unincorporated Maui County, 

Hawaii. The sole purpose of a 

preliminary permit, if issued, is to grant 

the permit holder priority to file a 

license application during the permit 

term. A preliminary permit does not 

authorize the permit holder to perform 

any land-disturbing activities or 

otherwise enter upon lands or waters 

owned by others without the owners’ 

express permission. 

The proposed project would consist of 

the following new features: (1) Four 

400-foot-long, 200-foot-wide, 50-foothigh oval concrete storage tanks; (2) a 

12,000-foot-long, 4.5-foot-diameter 

buried steel penstock; (3) a 150-footlong, 68-foot-wide concrete 

powerhouse; (4) two 15 megawatt (MW) 

Pelton turbine/generators; (5) three 10 

MW multi-stage variable speed pumps; 

(6) an approximately 400-foot-wide, 

450-foot-long tailrace/forebay; 1 (7) a 

12,000-foot-long, 4.5-foot-diameter 

buried steel supply pipeline; (8) two 28- 

kilovolt transmission lines totaling 

8,000 feet long, interconnecting with the 

existing Sempra Gas and Power-owned 

Auwahi wind turbine transmission line; 

(9) a 5.6-mile-long paved access road; 

and (10) appurtenant facilities. The 

estimated annual generation of the 

South Maui Project would be 5.2 

gigawatt-hours. 

Applicant Contact: Mr. Bart O’Keefe, 

United Power Corporation, P.O. Box 

1916, Discovery Bay, California 94505; 

phone: (510) 634–1550. 

FERC Contact: Sean O’Neill; phone: 

(202) 502–6462. 

Deadline for filing comments, motions 

to intervene, competing applications 

(without notices of intent), or notices of 

intent to file competing applications: 60 

days from the issuance of this notice. 

Competing applications and notices of 

intent must meet the requirements of 18 

CFR 4.36. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file comments, 

motions to intervene, notices of intent, 

and competing applications using the 

Commission’s eFiling system at http://

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. 

Commenters can submit brief comments 

up to 6,000 characters, without prior 

registration, using the eComment system 

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

ecomment.asp. You must include your 

name and contact information at the end 

of your comments. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) 

208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 

(TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please 

send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

The first page of any filing should 

include docket number P–14640–000. 

More information about this project, 

including a copy of the application, can 

be viewed or printed on the ‘‘eLibrary’’ 

link of Commission’s Web site at 

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

elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number 

(P–14640) in the docket number field to 

access the document. For assistance, 

contact FERC Online Support. 

Dated: January 16, 2015. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01140 Filed 1–22–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD14–14–000] 

Price Formation in Energy and 

Ancillary Services Markets Operated 

by Regional Transmission 

Organizations and Independent 

System Operators; Notice Inviting 

Post-Technical Workshop Comments 

On September 8, October 28, and 

December 9, 2014, the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission) 

staff conducted a series of technical 

workshops to evaluate issues regarding 

price formation in the energy and 

ancillary services markets operated by 

Regional Transmission Organizations 

(RTOs) and Independent System 

Operators (ISOs) (RTOs/ISOs). 

All interested persons are invited to 

file post-technical workshop comments 

on any or all of the questions listed in 

the attachment to this Notice. We 

emphasize that commenters need not 

answer all of the questions. Commenters 

should organize responses consistent 

with the structure of the attached 

questions and take care to identify to 

which RTO/ISO the comment applies. 

Commenters are also invited to 

reference material previously filed in 

this docket, including technical 

workshop transcripts. These comments 

must be filed with the Commission no 

later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard 

Time on February 19, 2015. 

For more information about this 

Notice, please contact: 

Mary Wierzbicki (Technical 

Information), Office of Energy Policy 

and Information, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, 

(202) 502–6337, mary.wierzbicki@

ferc.gov. 

Joshua Kirstein (Legal Information), 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502– 

8519, joshua.kirstein@ferc.gov. 

Dated: January 16, 2015. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

Post-Technical Conference Questions 

for Comment 

The goals of proper price formation 

are to: Maximize market surplus for 

consumers and suppliers; provide 

correct incentives for parties to follow 

commitment and dispatch instructions, 

make efficient investments in facilities 

and equipment, and maintain reliability; 

provide transparency so that market 

participants understand how prices 

reflect the actual marginal cost of 

serving load and the operational 

constraints of reliably operating the 

system; and ensure that all suppliers 

have an opportunity to recover their 

costs. With proper price formation, the 

RTO/ISO would ideally not need to 

commit any additional resources 

beyond those resources scheduled 

economically through the market 

processes, and load would reduce 

consumption in response to price 

signals such that market prices would 

reflect the value of electricity 

consumption without the need to curtail 

load administratively. 


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