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help DOE understand the participating 

partners’ activities and progress toward 

achieving scheduled milestones 

enabling DOE to make decisions about 

the best way to run the programs and 

respond to partners’ needs to improve 

their operations and actions to lower 

energy consumption. (5) Annual 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

12,702. (6) Annual Estimated Number of 

Total Responses: 47,804. (7) Annual 

Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 

22,332. (8) Annual Estimated Reporting 

and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: Zero 

dollars. 

Statutory Authority: The U.S. Code, Title 

42, Chapter 149, Subchapter IX, Part A, 

Section 16191—Energy Efficiency. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 8, 2014. 

Kathleen B. Hogan, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy 

Efficiency, Energy Efficiency and Renewable 

Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2014–11196 Filed 5–14–14; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9910–26–OW] 

Clean Water Act; Contractor Access to 

Confidential Business Information 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Intended Transfer of 

Confidential Business Information to 

Subcontractor. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) intends to transfer 

confidential business information (CBI) 

collected from numerous industries to 

NEK Associates (NEK), a newly retained 

subcontractor of Eastern Research Group 

(ERG). Transfer of the information will 

allow the contractor and subcontractor 

to support EPA in the planning, 

development, and review of effluent 

limitations guidelines and standards 

under the Clean Water Act (CWA). 

Interested persons may submit 

comments on this intended transfer of 

information to the address noted below. 

DATES: Comments on the transfer of data 

are due May 20, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to 

Mr. M. Ahmar Siddiqui, Document 

Control Officer, Engineering and 

Analysis Division (4303T), Room 6231S 

EPA West, U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

M. Ahmar Siddiqui, Document Control 

Officer, at (202) 566–1044, or via email 

at siddiqui.ahmar@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has 

transferred CBI to various contractors 

and subcontractors over the history of 

the effluent guidelines program. EPA 

determined that this transfer was 

necessary to enable the contractors and 

subcontractors to perform their work in 

supporting EPA in planning, 

developing, and reviewing effluent 

guidelines and standards for certain 

industries. 

Today, EPA is giving notice that it is 

transferring CBI to NEK (located in 

Allston, MA), a new subcontractor to 

ERG, which operates under contract 

number EP–C–12–021. EPA initially 

announced its intention to transfer CBI 

to ERG and its subcontractors and 

consultants on October 5, 2012 (77 FR 

60962). The purpose of this transfer is 

to support technical and engineering 

analysis support for EPA in its 

development, review, implementation, 

and defense of water-related initiatives 

for a variety of industries. 

All EPA contractor, subcontractor, 

and consultant personnel are bound by 

the requirements and sanctions 

contained in their contracts with EPA 

and in EPA’s confidentiality regulations 

found at 40 CFR Part 2, Subpart B. NEK 

will adhere to an ERG-approved security 

plan which describes procedures to 

protect CBI. NEK will apply the 

procedures in this plan to CBI 

previously gathered by EPA and to CBI 

that may be gathered in the future. The 

security plan specifies that 

subcontractor personnel are required to 

sign non-disclosure agreements and are 

briefed on appropriate security 

procedures before they are permitted 

access to CBI. No person is 

automatically granted access to CBI: A 

need to know must exist. 

The information that will be 

transferred to NEK consists of 

information previously collected by 

EPA under the authority of section 308 

of the CWA to support the development 

and review of effluent limitations 

guidelines and standards. In particular, 

information, including CBI, collected for 

the planning, development, and review 

of effluent limitations guidelines and 

standards for the following industries 

may be transferred: Airport deicing; 

aquaculture; centralized waste 

treatment; coal bed methane; 

concentrated animal feeding operations; 

coal mining; construction and 

development; drinking water treatment; 

industrial container and drum cleaning; 

industrial laundries; industrial waste 

combustors; iron and steel 

manufacturing; landfills; meat and 

poultry products; metal finishing; metal 

products and machinery; nonferrous 

metals manufacturing; oil and gas 

extraction (including coalbed methane); 

ore mining and dressing; organic 

chemicals, plastics, and synthetic fibers; 

pesticide chemicals; petroleum refining; 

pharmaceutical manufacturing; pulp, 

paper, and paperboard manufacturing; 

shale gas extraction; steam electric 

power generation; textile mills; timber 

products processing; tobacco; and 

transportation equipment cleaning. 

Additionally, note that some 

information being transferred from the 

pulp, paper, and paperboard industry 

was collected under the additional 

authorities of section 114 of the Clean 

Air Act (CAA) and section 3007 of the 

Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act (RCRA). 

EPA also intends to transfer to NEK 

all information listed in this notice, of 

the type described above (including 

CBI) that may be collected in the future 

under the authority of section 308 of the 

CWA or voluntarily submitted (e.g., in 

comments in response to a Federal 

Register notice), as is necessary to 

enable NEK to carry out the work 

required by its subcontract to support 

EPA’s effluent guidelines planning 

process and the development of effluent 

limitations guidelines and standards. 

Dated: April 23, 2014. 

Elizabeth Southerland, 

Director, Office of Science and Technology. 

[FR Doc. 2014–09988 Filed 5–14–14; 8:45 am] 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act; Open Commission 

Meeting; Thursday, May 15, 2014 

May 8, 2014. 

The Federal Communications 

Commission will hold an Open Meeting 

on the subjects listed below on 

Thursday, May 15, 2014. The meeting is 

scheduled to commence at 10:30 a.m. in 

Room TW–C305, at 445 12th Street SW., 

Washington, DC. 

Public Comment on Item No. 1: 

Protecting and Promoting the Open 

Internet 

With respect to agenda item 1, 

Protecting and Promoting the Open 

Internet, the Commission has 

determined that strict enforcement of 

the Sunshine Period prohibition on 

comment would place an unnecessarily 

restrictive burden on the public, who 

should have full opportunity to express 

their views. Therefore, the Commission 

is waiving the Sunshine Period 

prohibition contained in section 1.1203 

of the Commission’s rules, 47 CFR 


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