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end of the public hearing, and received 

by 4:30 p.m. EDT on Aug 18, 2010. 

Written testimony should be submitted 

via e-mail at testimony@eac.gov, via 

mail addressed to the U.S. Election 

Assistance Commission 1201 New York 

Avenue NW., Suite 300, Washington, 

DC 20005, or by fax at 202–566–1392. 

All correspondence that contains 

written testimony must have in the 

subject/attention line (or on the 

envelope if by mail): Written testimony 

on proposed NVRA regulations. 

Members of the public may observe 

but not participate in EAC meetings 

unless this notice provides otherwise. 

Members of the public may use small 

electronic audio recording devices to 

record the proceedings. The use of other 

recording equipment and cameras 

requires advance notice to and 

coordination with the Commission’s 

Communications Office.* 

*View EAC Regulations Implementing 

Government in the Sunshine Act. 

THIS MEETING AND HEARING WILL 

BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. 

PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION: 

Bryan Whitener, Telephone: (202) 566– 

3100. 

Donetta Davidson, 

Chair, U.S. Election Assistance Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2010–19513 Filed 8–4–10; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6820–KF–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice and Request for OMB 

Review and Comment. 

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. The 

proposed collection will provide 

information for use in an impact 

evaluation of DOE’s Solar Decathlon 

Program. The collection consists of four 

questionnaires addressed to (1) 

homeowners who visited a Solar 

Decathlon, (2) homeowners who did not 

visit a Solar Decathlon, (3) former 

students who participated in their 

school’s Solar Decathlon entry, and (4) 

former students who did not participate 

in a Solar Decathlon entry. The 

questionnaires will collect information 

on the respondents’ knowledge of solar 

energy and energy efficiency and on 

installations of solar-energy and energyefficiency equipment with which the 

respondents have been personally 

involved. The former-student 

questionnaires will also collect 

information on types of employment 

since leaving college. 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

collection must be received on or before 

September 7, 2010. 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: 

Jeffery Dowd, Solar Decathlon 

Evaluation Lead, EE–3B, Forrestal 

Building, U.S. Department of Energy, 

1000 Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585, (O) 202–586– 

7258, (Fax) 202–586–2176, 

Jeff.Dowd@ee.doe.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jeffery Dowd, Solar Decathlon 

Evaluation Lead, EE–3B, Forrestal 

Building, U.S. Department of Energy, 

1000 Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585, (O) 202–586– 

7258, (Fax) 202–586–2176, 

Jeff.Dowd@ee.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

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

Collection Request Title: DOE Solar 

Decathlon Impact Evaluation Surveys; 

(3) Type of Request: New collection; (4) 

Purpose: The information collected by 

this information collection will be used 

for an impact evaluation of the Solar 

Decathlon Program. The evaluation will 

contribute to the effective 

administration, monitoring, and 

management of the Solar Decathlon 

Program; and for measuring attainment 

of DOE’s program goals as required by 

the Government Performance and 

Results Act and the Office of 

Management and Budget’s Program 

Assessment Rating Tool. The likely 

respondents are homeowners and 

former college students as described in 

the SUMMARY; (5) Annual Estimated 

Number of Respondents: 810; (6) 

Annual Estimated Number of Total 

Responses: 810; (7) Annual Estimated 

Number of Burden Hours: 104; (8) 

Annual Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: None. 

Statutory Authority: Department of Energy 

Organization Act of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 5815(b)); 

Government Performance and Results Act (31 

U.S.C. 1115(a)); Executive Order 13450, 

November 13, 2007; and Memo, Peter R. 

Orszag, Director, Office of Management and 

Budget, ‘‘Increased Emphasis on Program 

Evaluations,’’ dated October 7, 2009. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on July 21, 

2010. 

Scott Hine, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary-Business 

Administration (DAS–BA), Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2010–19404 Filed 8–5–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[OE Docket No. PP–369] 

Application to Rescind Presidential 

Permit; Joint Application for 

Presidential Permit; British Columbia 

Transmission Corporation and British 

Columbia Hydro and Power Authority 

AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of Application. 

SUMMARY: British Columbia 

Transmission Corporation (BCTC) and 

British Columbia Hydro and Power 

Authority (BC Hydro) filed a joint 

application to voluntarily transfer the 

BCTC facilities authorized by 

Presidential Permit No. PP–22, as 

amended, to BC Hydro. The application 

requested that the Department of Energy 

(DOE) rescind the Presidential permit 

held by BCTC and simultaneously issue 

a new permit to BC Hydro covering the 

same international transmission 

facilities. 

DATES: Comments, protests, or requests 

to intervene must be submitted on or 

before September 7, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Comments, protests, or 

requests to intervene should be 

addressed as follows: Office of 

Electricity Delivery and Energy 

Reliability (OE–20), U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20585. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher Lawrence (Program Office) 

at 202–586–5260, or by e-mail to 

Christopher.Lawrence@hq.doe.gov, or 

Michael T. Skinker (Program Attorney) 

at 202–586–2793. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

construction, operation, maintenance, 

and connection of facilities at the 

international border of the United States 

for the transmission of electric energy 

between the United States and a foreign 

country is prohibited in the absence of 


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a Presidential permit issued pursuant to 

Executive Order (EO) 10485, as 

amended by EO 12038. Existing 

Presidential permits are not transferable 

or assignable. However, in the event of 

a proposed voluntary transfer of 

facilities, in accordance with DOE 

regulations at 10 CFR 205.323, the 

existing permit holder and the 

transferee are required to file a joint 

application with DOE that includes a 

statement of reasons for the transfer. 

On June 23, 2010, BCTC and BC 

Hydro (collectively the ‘‘Applicants’’) 

jointly filed an application with DOE 

requesting that Presidential Permit No. 

PP–22, as amended, issued to BCTC be 

rescinded and that a new Presidential 

permit be issued simultaneously to BC 

Hydro for the same international 

transmission facilities. The international 

transmission facilities authorized by 

Presidential Permit No. PP–22, as 

amended, include seven single 

conductor 132 kilovolt (kV) submarine 

cables and three single conductor 260 

kV DC submarine cables. These cables 

do not connect to any U.S. electrical 

facility, but rather connect to the 

mainland of British Columbia, Canada 

and Vancouver Island. They do, 

however, pass through the United States 

territorial waters in the Strait of Georgia. 

The Applicants requested that the 

issuance of the new permit be made 

effective as of July 5, 2010, to coincide 

with the date that BCTC was to be 

integrated into BC Hydro by operation 

of law pursuant to British Columbia’s 

Clean Energy Act. 

Since restructuring of the electric 

power industry began, resulting in the 

introduction of different types of 

competitive entities into the 

marketplace, DOE has consistently 

expressed its policy that cross-border 

trade in electric energy should be 

subject to the same principles of 

comparable open access and nondiscrimination that apply to 

transmission in interstate commerce. 

DOE has stated that policy in export 

authorizations granted to entities 

requesting authority to export over 

international transmission facilities. 

Specifically, DOE expects transmitting 

utilities owning border facilities to 

provide access across the border in 

accordance with the principles of 

comparable open access and nondiscrimination contained in the FPA 

and articulated in the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission Order No. 888 

(Promoting Wholesale Competition 

Through Open Access NonDiscriminatory Transmission Services 

by Public utilities; FERC Stats. & Regs. 

¶31,036 (1996)), as amended. In 

furtherance of this policy, on July 27, 

1999, (64 FR 40586) DOE initiated a 

proceeding in which it noticed its 

intention to condition existing and 

future Presidential permits, appropriate 

for third party transmission, on 

compliance with a requirement to 

provide non-discriminatory open access 

transmission service. That proceeding is 

not yet complete. In that proceeding, 

DOE determined that the international 

transmission lines authorized by the 

Presidential permit currently held by 

BCTC are not appropriate for third party 

transmission, because the lines are not 

connected to the U.S. domestic electric 

power system. Therefore, a requirement 

to provide non-discriminatory open 

access transmission service will not be 

added to the permit being issued to BC 

Hydro. 

Procedural Matters: Any person 

desiring to become a party to this 

proceeding or to be heard by filing 

comments or protests to this application 

should file a petition to intervene, 

comment or protest at the address 

provided above in accordance with 

§ 385.211 or 385.214 of the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) 

Rules of Practice and Procedures (18 

CFR 385.211, 385.214). Fifteen copies of 

each comment, petition and protest 

should be filed with DOE on or before 

the date listed above. 

Additional copies of such petitions to 

intervene or protests also should be 

filed directly with: Glenn S. Benson, 

Perkins, Coie, LLP, 607 Fourteenth 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20005 

AND Joanna Sofield, Chief Regulatory 

Officer, BC Hydro, 333 Dunsmuir Street, 

16th Floor, Vancouver British Columbia 

V6B 5R3. 

Before a Presidential permit may be 

granted or amended, DOE must 

determine that the proposed action will 

not adversely impact on the reliability 

of the U.S. electric power supply 

system. In addition, DOE must consider 

the environmental impacts of the 

proposed action (i.e., granting the 

Presidential permit or amendment, with 

any conditions and limitations, or 

denying the permit) pursuant to the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969. DOE also must obtain the 

concurrences of the Secretary of State 

and the Secretary of Defense before 

taking final action on a Presidential 

permit application. 

Copies of this application will be 

made available, upon request, for public 

inspection and copying at the address 

provided above. In addition, the 

application may be reviewed or 

downloaded electronically at http:// 

www.oe.energy.gov/permits/ 

permits_pending.htm. Upon reaching 

the home page, select ‘‘Pending 

Applications.’’ 

Issued in Washington, DC, on August 2, 

2010. 

Anthony J. Como, 

Director, Permitting and Siting Office of 

Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability. 

[FR Doc. 2010–19403 Filed 8–5–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

National Commission on the BP 

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and 

Offshore Drilling 

AGENCY: Department of Energy, Office of 

Fossil Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of Open Meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces an 

open meeting for the National 

Commission on the BP Deepwater 

Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling 

(the Commission). The Commission was 

organized pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, 86 Stat. 770) (the Act). The Act 

requires that agencies publish these 

notices in the Federal Register. The 

Charter of the Commission can be found 

at: http://www.OilSpillCommission.gov. 

DATES: Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 9 

a.m.–5 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Ronald Reagan Building 

and International Trade Center, 1300 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20004; telephone 

number: 1–202–312–1300. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher A. Smith, Designated 

Federal Officer, Mail Stop: FE–30, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585; telephone (202) 

586–0716 or facsimile (202) 586–6221; 

e-mail: BPDeepwaterHorizon

Commission@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The President directed 

that the Commission be established to 

examine the relevant facts and 

circumstances concerning the root 

causes of the BP Deepwater Horizon 

explosion, fire and oil spill and to 

develop options to guard against, and 

mitigate the impact of, any oil spills 

associated with offshore drilling in the 

future. 

The Commission is composed of 

seven members appointed by the 

President to serve as special 

Government employees. The members 

were selected because of their extensive 

scientific, legal, engineering, and 

environmental expertise, and their 

knowledge of issues pertaining to the oil 


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