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1The vaccination requirement issued pursuant to 

E.O. 14043, is currently the subject of a nationwide 

injunction. While that injunction remains in place, 

the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 

will not process requests for a medical exception 

from the COVID–19 vaccination requirement 

pursuant to E.O. 14043. FERC will also not request 

the submission of any medical information related 

to a request for an exception from the vaccination 

requirement pursuant to E.O. 14043 while the 

injunction remains in place. But FERC may 

nevertheless receive information regarding a 

medical exception. That is because, if FERC were 

to receive a request for an exception from the 

COVID–19 vaccination requirement pursuant to 

E.O. 14043 during the pendency of the injunction, 

FERC will accept the request, hold it in abeyance, 

and notify the employee who submitted the request 

that implementation and enforcement of the 

COVID–19 vaccination requirement pursuant to 

E.O. 14043 is currently enjoined and that an 

exception therefore is not necessary so long as the 

injunction is in place. In other words, during the 

pendency of the injunction, any information 

collection related to requests for medical exception 

from the COVID–19 vaccination requirement 

pursuant to E.O. 14043 is not undertaken to 

implement or enforce the COVID–19 vaccination 

requirement. 

2 ‘‘Burden’’ is the total time, effort, or financial 

resources expended by persons to generate, 

maintain, retain, or disclose or provide information 

to or for a Federal agency. For further explanation 

of what is included in the information collection 

burden, refer to Title 5 Code of Federal Regulations 

1320.3. 

3Cost estimates are based on industry costs for 

general internal medicine physicians (29–1216) 

defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The cost 

figure for the general internal medicine physicians 

in 2021 was an average annual salary plus benefits 

of $300,076/year or $144/hour. 

Title: FERC–1000, Request for a 

Medical Exception to the COVID–19 

Vaccination Requirement. 

OMB Control No.: 1902–0320. 

Abstract: The purpose of this threeyear renewal of the information 

collection is to allow the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission to collect 

information from FERC employees (and 

their medical providers) applying for a 

medical exception to the COVID–19 

Vaccination Requirement as specified in 

Part 2 of FERC Form No. 1000.1

Consistent with guidance from the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), guidance from the 

Safer Federal Workforce Task Force 

established pursuant to Executive Order 

13991 of January 20, 2021, Protecting 

the Federal Workforce and Requiring 

Mask-Wearing, and Executive Order 

14043 of September 9, 2021, Requiring 

Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination 

for Federal Employees, the request for 

this information collection is essential 

to implement the Commission’s health 

and safety measures regarding the 

federal employee medical exceptions to 

the COVID–19 mandatory vaccinations. 

In addition, the Rehabilitation Act of 

1973, as amended, requires Federal 

Agencies to provide reasonable 

accommodations to qualified employees 

with disabilities unless that reasonable 

accommodation would impose an 

undue hardship on the employee’s 

Agency. See 29 U.S.C. 791 and 29 CFR 

part 1614; see also 20 CFR part 1630 and 

Executive Order 13164 of July 26, 2000, 

Requiring Federal Agencies to Establish 

Procedures to Facilitate the Provision of 

Reasonable Accommodation. Section 2 

of E.O. 14043 mandates that each 

agency, ‘‘implement, to the extent 

consistent with applicable law, a 

program to require COVID–19 

vaccination for all of its Federal 

employees, with exceptions only as 

required by law.’’ This medical 

exception form (FERC Form No. 1000) is 

necessary for the Commission to 

determine whether to grant medical 

exceptions to the vaccine requirement 

under the Rehabilitation Act. 

The information being requested 

helps promote the safety of the Federal 

workforce, Federal buildings, and others 

on site at FERC facilities. This collection 

is consistent with the COVID–19 

Workplace Safety Agency Model Safety 

Principles established by the White 

House Safer Federal Workforce Task 

Force and guidance from the Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

Type of Respondent: Medical 

Providers. 

Estimate of Annual Burden: 2 The 

Commission estimates the annual public 

reporting burden for the information 

collection as: 

FERC–1000: REQUEST FOR A MEDICAL EXCEPTION TO THE COVID–19 VACCINATION REQUIREMENT

Number of 

respondents 

Annual 

number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Total 

number of 

responses 

Average 

burden & 

cost per 

response 3

Total annual 

burden hours & 

total annual cost 

(1) (2) (1) * (2) = (3) (4) (3) * (4) = (5) 

Medical Provider ............... 24 1 24 30 minutes (1⁄2 hour); $72 .. 720 minutes (12 hours); $1,728. 

Comments: Comments are invited on: 

(1) Whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Commission, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden and cost of the collection 

of information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility 

and clarity of the information collection; 

and (4) ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Dated: March 11, 2022. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–05641 Filed 3–16–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. P–2376–052] 

Eagle Creek Reusens Hydro, LLC; 

Notice of Application Tendered for 

Filing With the Commission and 

Soliciting Additional Study Requests 

and Establishing Procedural Schedule 

for Relicensing and a Deadline for 

Submission of Final Amendments 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: New Major 

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b. Project No.: 2376–052. 

c. Date Filed: February 28, 2022. 

d. Applicant: Eagle Creek Reusens 

Hydro, LLC (Reusens Hydro). 

e. Name of Project: Reusens 

Hydroelectric Project (Reusens Project). 

f. Location: The project is located on 

the James River in Bedford and Amherst 

Counties, Virginia. The project does not 

occupy any federal land. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contacts: Ms. Joyce 

Foster, Director, Licensing and 

Compliance Eagle Creek Renewable 

Energy, LLC, 7315 Wisconsin Avenue, 

Suite 1100W, Bethesda, MD 20814; 

Phone at (804) 338–5110 or email at 

Joyce.Foster@eaglecreekre.co; and Ms. 

Jody Smet, Vice President, Regulatory 

Affairs, Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, 

LLC, 7315 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 

1100W, Bethesda, MD 20814; Phone at 

(240) 482–2700 or email at jody.smet@

eaglecreekre.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Laurie Bauer at (202) 

502–6519, or laurie.bauer@ferc.gov. 

j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state, 

local, and tribal agencies with 

jurisdiction and/or special expertise 

with respect to environmental issues 

that wish to cooperate in the 

preparation of the environmental 

document should follow the 

instructions for filing such requests 

described in item l below. Cooperating 

agencies should note the Commission’s 

policy that agencies that cooperate in 

the preparation of the environmental 

document cannot also intervene. See, 94 

FERC ¶ 61,076 (2001). 

k. Pursuant to section 4.32(b)(7) of 18 

CFR of the Commission’s regulations, if 

any resource agency, Indian Tribe, or 

person believes that an additional 

scientific study should be conducted in 

order to form an adequate factual basis 

for a complete analysis of the 

application on its merit, the resource 

agency, Indian Tribe, or person must file 

a request for a study with the 

Commission not later than 60 days from 

the date of filing of the application, and 

serve a copy of the request on the 

applicant. 

l. Deadline for filing additional study 

requests and requests for cooperating 

agency status: April 29, 2022. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file additional 

study requests and requests for 

cooperating agency status using the 

Commission’s eFiling system at http://

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. 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, you may submit a 

paper copy. Submissions sent via the 

U.S. Postal Service must be addressed 

to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, 

DC 20426. Submissions sent via any 

other carrier must be addressed to: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 

Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 

20852. All filings must clearly identify 

the project name and docket number on 

the first page: Reusens Project (P–2376– 

052). 

m. This application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

n. The Reusens Project consists of: (1) 

A 24-foot-high, 416-foot-long concrete 

dam and spillway containing eight 

16.75-foot-high, 44-foot-wide floodgates; 

(2) a 25-foot-high concrete curved 

auxiliary spillway; (3) a 500-acre 

impoundment with a gross storage 

capacity of 6,869 acre-feet at the normal 

pool elevation of 550.7 feet National 

Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929; (4) an 

intake sction of Powerhouse A 

containing three 6.83-foot-wide, 17.92- 

foot-high steel, concrete, and timber 

gates and Powerhouse B containing two 

6.67-foot-wide, 17.5-foot-high timber 

gates; (5) a 105.5-foot-long, 83-footwide, 86-foot-high steel frame, concrete 

and brick Powerhouse A containing 

three vertical Francis turbine-generator 

units with a total installed capacity of 

7.5 megawatts (MW); (5) a 55-foot-long, 

27-foot-wide, 84-foot-high steel frame, 

concrete and brick Powerhouse B 

containing two vertical Francis turbinegenerator units with a total installed 

capacity of 5 MW; (6) a 100-foot-wide, 

250-foot-long tailrace below 

Powerhouse A; (7) a 60-foot-wide, 50- 

foot-long tailrace below Powerhouse B; 

(8) a 280-foot-long transmission line to 

three 5,210 kilovolt-ampere 4/34.5 

kilovolt step-up transformers which are 

connected to the grid via a 24-foot-long 

overhead line; and (9) appurtenant 

facilities. 

The Reusens Project operates in a 

peaking mode with an average annual 

generation of 22,504 megawatt-hours 

between 2018 and 2021. 

o. A copy of the application can be 

viewed on the Commission’s website at 

http://www.ferc.gov, using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket 

number, excluding the last three digits 

in the docket number field, to access the 

document (P–2376). For assistance, 

contact FERC at FERCOnlineSupport@

ferc.gov, or call toll-free, (866) 208–3676 

or (202) 502–8659 (TTY). 

You may also register online at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

esubscription.asp to be notified via 

email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

p. Procedural schedule: The 

application will be processed according 

to the following preliminary schedule. 

Revisions to the schedule will be made 

as appropriate. 

Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary)— 

April 2022 

Request Additional Information—April 

2022 

Issue Acceptance Letter—July 2022 

Issue Scoping Document 1 for 

comments—August 2022 

Request Additional Information (if 

necessary)—September 2022 

Issue Scoping Document 2—November 

2022 

Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental 

Analysis—November 2022 

Final amendments to the application 

must be filed with the Commission no 

later than 30 days from the issuance 

date of the notice of ready for 

environmental analysis. 

Dated: March 10, 2022. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2022–0132; FRL–9411–04– 

OSCPP] 

Certain New Chemicals; Receipt and 

Status Information for February 2022 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA is required under the 

Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), 

as amended by the Frank R. Lautenberg 

Chemical Safety for the 21st Century 

Act, to make information publicly 

available and to publish information in 

the Federal Register pertaining to 

submissions under TSCA Section 5, 

including notice of receipt of a 

Premanufacture notice (PMN), 

Significant New Use Notice (SNUN) or 

Microbial Commercial Activity Notice 

(MCAN), including an amended notice 

or test information; an exemption 

application (Biotech exemption); an 

application for a test marketing 

exemption (TME), both pending and/or 

concluded; a notice of commencement 

(NOC) of manufacture (including 

import) for new chemical substances; 

and a periodic status report on new 

chemical substances that are currently 

under EPA review or have recently 


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