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Comments regarding burden and/or 

the collection activity requirements 

should be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Individuals who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 

1–800–877–8339. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

State Energy Advisory Board (STEAB) 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

Board Meeting of the State Energy 

Advisory Board (STEAB). The Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 

92–463; 86 Stat. 770) requires that 

public notice of these meetings be 

announced in the Federal Register. 

DATES: March 9–10, 2010, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. 

March 11, 2010, 8 a.m.–12 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Marriott Metro Center, 775 

12th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary 

Burch, STEAB Designated Federal 

Officer, Senior Management Technical 

Advisor, Intergovernmental Projects, 

Golden Field Office, U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, 

CO 80401, Telephone 303–275–4801. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Board: To make 

recommendations to the Assistant 

Secretary for the Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy 

regarding goals and objectives, 

programmatic and administrative 

policies, and to otherwise carry out the 

Board’s responsibilities as designated in 

the State Energy Efficiency Programs 

Improvement Act of 1990 (Pub. L. No. 

101–440). 

Tentative Agenda: Discuss ways the 

State Energy Advisory Board can 

continue to support the Department of 

Energy’s (DOE) commercialization and 

deployment efforts, consider potential 

collaborative activities with State 

Energy Programs in order to facilitate 

renewable energy advancement, find 

ways to encourage energy efficiency 

market transformation, and update 

members on routine business matters 

affecting the Board. 

Public Participation: The meeting is 

open to the public. Written statements 

may be filed with the Board either 

before or after the meeting. Members of 

the public who wish to make oral 

statements pertaining to agenda items 

should contact Gary Burch at the 

address or telephone number listed 

above. Requests to make oral comments 

must be received five days prior to the 

meeting; reasonable provision will be 

made to include requested topic(s) on 

the agenda. The Chair of the Board is 

empowered to conduct the meeting in a 

fashion that will facilitate the orderly 

conduct of business. 

Minutes: The minutes of the meeting 

will be available for public review and 

copying within 60 days on the STEAB 

Web site, http://www.steab.org. 

Issued at Washington, DC, on December 29, 

2009. 

Rachel Samuel, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Idaho 

National Laboratory 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Environmental 

Management Site-Specific Advisory 

Board (EM SSAB), Idaho National 

Laboratory. The Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92–463, 86 

Stat. 770) requires that public notice of 

this meeting be announced in the 

Federal Register. 

DATES: Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 8 

a.m.–5 p.m. 

Opportunities for public participation 

will be from 1:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. and 

from 3:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. 

These times are subject to change; 

please contact the Federal Coordinator 

(below) for confirmation of times prior 

to the meeting. 

ADDRESSES: Hilton Garden Inn, 700 

Lindsay Boulevard, Idaho Falls, Idaho 

83402. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert L. Pence, Federal Coordinator, 

Department of Energy, Idaho Operations 

Office, 1955 Fremont Avenue, MS– 

1203, Idaho Falls, ID 83415. Phone (208) 

526–6518; Fax (208) 526–8789 or e-mail: 

pencerl@id.doe.gov or visit the Board’s 

Internet home page at: http:// 

www.inlemcab.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Board: The purpose of 

the Board is to make recommendations 

to DOE–EM in the areas of 

environmental restoration, waste 

management, and related activities. 

Tentative Topics (agenda topics may 

change up to the day of the meeting; 

please contact Robert L. Pence for the 

most current agenda): 

• Progress to Cleanup. 

• InSitu Grouting—Draft Remedial 

Design and Remedial Action Work Plan. 

• Update on Hot Cell Engineering 

Evaluation and Cost Analysis. 

• Radiation Tutorial and Education. 

• Update on Calcine Record of 

Decision. 

Public Participation: The EM SSAB, 

Idaho National Laboratory, 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 Robert L. Pence at least 

seven days in advance of the meeting at 

the phone number listed above. Written 

statements may be filed with the Board 

either before or after the meeting. 

Individuals who wish to make oral 

presentations pertaining to agenda items 

should contact Robert L. Pence at the 

address or telephone number listed 

above. The request 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 by 

writing or calling Robert L. Pence, 

Federal Coordinator, at the address and 

phone number listed above. Minutes 

will also be available at the following 

Web site: http://www.inlemcab.org/ 

meetings.html. 

Issued at Washington, DC on December 29, 

2009. 

Rachel Samuel, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Proposed Subsequent Arrangement 

AGENCY: Office of International Regimes 

and Agreements, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Subsequent arrangement. 

SUMMARY: This notice has been issued 

under the authority of Section 131 of the 

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended 

(42 U.S.C. 2160). The Department is 

providing notice of a proposed 

subsequent arrangement under the 


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1Public Law 109–58, section 1252(e)(3), 119 Stat. 

594 (2005). 

Agreement for Cooperation Between the 

United States of America and the 

Government of Canada Concerning 

Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy and the 

Agreement Between the United States 

and the Government of Japan 

Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear 

Energy. 

This subsequent arrangement 

concerns the retransfer of 28,409 kg of 

U.S.-origin natural uranium dioxide, 

25,000 kg of which is uranium, from 

Cameco in Ontario, Canada to Global 

Nuclear Fuels in Kanakawa-ken, Japan. 

The material, which is currently located 

at Cameco, Port Hope, Ontario, will be 

transferred to Global Nuclear Fuel, 

Kanakawa-ken, Japan to be fabricated 

into fuel pellets and used by Electric 

Power Development Co, Ltd., Tokyo, 

Japan. The material was originally 

obtained by Cameco from Crowe Butte 

Resources Inc. pursuant to export 

license XSOU8798. 

In accordance with Section 131 of the 

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 

we have determined that this 

subsequent arrangement is not inimical 

to the common defense and security. 

This subsequent arrangement will take 

effect no sooner than fifteen days after 

the date of publication of this notice. 

Dated: December 31, 2009. 

For the Department of Energy. 

Richard Goorevich, 

Director, Office of International Regimes and 

Agreements. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Number IC09–731–001] 

Information Collection; Notice of 

Submission to OMB for Its Review and 

Approval of the Voluntary Survey on 

Advanced Metering and Demand 

Response Programs 

December 28, 2009. 

1. Take notice that the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission staff 

(Commission staff) is submitting to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), for its review and approval, a 

survey of demand response and timebased rate programs and tariffs, and 

advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). 

This survey will enable Commission 

staff to collect the necessary information 

to prepare a report for Congress, which 

assesses various aspects of demand 

response in the United States, as 

required by section 1252(e)(3) of the 

Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 

2005).1 The survey will be sent to 

approximately 3,443 electric power 

businesses and organizations who 

directly serve end-use customers. The 

survey results will be processed and 

analyzed in order to prepare the report 

and submit it to Congress in 2010. 

2. This survey is Commission staff’s 

third nationwide effort to gather 

information on the dispersion of 

advanced metering and demand 

response programs. Continued industry 

cooperation is important for us to obtain 

information that is as accurate and upto-date as possible, so that we may 

respond to Congress, and provide 

information to states and other market 

participants. Commission staff seeks to 

strongly encourage all survey recipients 

to complete the survey. 

3. Commission staff has designed a 

survey that imposes a minimal burden 

on respondents by providing an easy-tocomplete form that includes such userfriendly features as pre-populated fields 

and drop-down menus, while providing 

Commission staff with the information 

necessary to prepare the report directed 

by EPAct 2005 section 1253(e)(3). It is 

a streamlined and simplified version of 

past surveys and can be electronically 

filed. A paper version of the survey may 

be filed by those who are unable to file 

electronically. 

I. Background 

4. EPAct 2005 section 1252(e)(3) 

requires the Commission to prepare and 

publish a report, by appropriate region, 

that assesses demand response 

resources, including those available 

from all consumer classes. Specifically, 

EPAct 2005 requires that the 

Commission identify and review: 

(A) Saturation and penetration rate of 

advanced meters and communications 

technologies, devices and systems; 

(B) Existing demand response 

programs and time-based rate programs; 

(C) the annual resource contribution 

of demand resources; 

(D) the potential for demand response 

as a quantifiable, reliable resource for 

regional planning purposes; 

(E) steps taken to ensure that, in 

regional transmission planning and 

operations, demand resources are 

provided equitable treatment as a 

quantifiable, reliable resource relative to 

the resource obligations of any loadserving entity, transmission provider, or 

transmitting party; and 

(F) regulatory barriers to improved 

customer participation in demand 

response, peak reduction and critical 

period pricing programs. 

5. On August 7, 2009, a notice was 

published in the Federal Register, 74 FR 

39,682 (2009) (August 7 Notice), 

requesting comments on proposed 

updates to the FERC–727, Demand 

Response and Time Based Rate 

Programs Survey (OMB Control No. 

1902–0214), and FERC–728, Advanced 

Metering Survey (OMB Control No. 

1902–0213). In the August 7 Notice, 

Commission staff explained that it had 

investigated alternatives to fielding and 

collecting data using a FERC-designed 

survey, including using data from the 

North American Electric Reliability 

Corporation (NERC) and the Energy 

Information Administration (EIA). 

However, the data from NERC and EIA 

will not be available to the Commission 

in time to complete the 2010 report to 

Congress. 

II. Discussion 

6. Commission staff appreciate the 

useful comments on the survey 

questions submitted in response to the 

August 7 Notice. Within the limits of 

the available survey instrument, 

Commission staff made revisions to 

improve the clarity of the questions, to 

update the survey to capture 

technological advances, and to reduce 

the burden in responding. In certain 

cases, Commission staff did not make 

the suggested changes because more 

detailed information is needed to 

respond to the specific statutory 

provisions in EPAct 2005, to provide 

useful data, or to ensure that the survey 

is consistent with previous surveys. 

Commenters noted that this survey is 

much more concise than previous ones 

and will help reduce the collection 

burden significantly. Commission staff 

agrees, and proposes that with the 

updates and the changes that have been 

made, the survey will not be onerous to 

complete. Commission staff plans to 

encourage all potential respondents to 

complete the survey. A higher response 

rate will enable Commission staff to 

obtain more precise information. Below 

is a summary of the major changes to 

the survey and responses to the 

concerns expressed by commenters. 

A. Guidance on Responding to Survey 

Questions 

7. In response to a request for 

instructions or other guidance on how 

to calculate the potential reductions for 

price-based (time-based) and other 

voluntary programs, Commission staff 

has revised the survey instructions to 

describe possible methodologies, such 

as the methodologies used in A National 

Assessment of Demand Response 


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