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In June 2013, the Supreme Court ruled 

that the NVRA preempts inconsistent 

State law and States must accept and 

use the Federal Form for voter 

registration purposes in elections for 

Federal office. Arizona v. Inter Tribal 

Council of Arizona, Inc., ll 

U.S. ll, 133 S. Ct. 2247, 2253–60 

(2013) (hereinafter ‘‘Inter Tribal 

Council’’). 

The EAC deferred consideration of the 

requests by Kansas and Georgia 

pursuant to internal operating 

procedures put in place in 2011 by the 

former EAC Executive Director. These 

procedures provided that requests that 

‘‘raise issues of broad policy concerns to 

more than one state’’ would be deferred 

until the EAC regained a quorum of its 

commissioners, so that they would have 

the opportunity, if they desired, to 

provide additional policy guidance to 

the Executive Director and staff. 

Currently all four seats on the EAC are 

vacant. 

Following the Supreme Court’s 

decision in Inter Tribal Council in June 

2013, Arizona and Kansas renewed their 

requests to the EAC to change the Statespecific instructions on the Federal 

Form to include additional proof-ofcitizenship requirements, and the EAC 

likewise deferred those renewed 

requests, in accordance with the 2011 

EAC internal procedures. Kansas and 

Arizona officials then initiated litigation 

against the EAC in the United States 

District Court for the District of Kansas, 

challenging the EAC’s deferral of these 

requests. See Kobach v. EAC, No. 5:13– 

cv–4095 (D. Kan. filed Aug. 21, 2013). 

On December 13, 2013, as part of this 

litigation, the district court remanded 

the Kansas and Arizona matters to the 

EAC with instructions that the EAC 

render a final agency action on the 

Kansas and Arizona requests to change 

the Federal Form by no later than 

January 17, 2014. The Court’s order 

provided that if the EAC has not acted 

by January 17, 2014, the States’ requests 

will be deemed by the Court to have 

been denied. The Georgia request is not 

part of this pending federal court 

litigation. 

Request for Public Comments: The 

EAC invites public comments on the 

requests from Arizona, Kansas and 

Georgia to modify the State-specific 

instructions for those States on the 

Federal Form to require additional proof 

of citizenship under their respective 

state laws beyond the existing 

requirements on the Federal Form. The 

EAC invites public comments on any 

issues that commenters believe are 

relevant to the EAC’s consideration of 

these State requests. Comments must be 

in writing and must be submitted no 

later than 5:00 p.m. EST on January 3, 

2014. 

Dated: December 19, 2013. 

Alice Miller, 

Chief Operating Officer and Acting Executive 

Director, U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2013–30659 Filed 12–23–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–KF–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Extension With Changes 

AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), U.S. Department 

of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice and Request for OMB 

Review and Comment. 

SUMMARY: EIA has submitted an 

information collection request to the 

OMB for extension with changes, under 

the provisions of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, for the 

Electricity and Renewable Power 

Surveys (OMB Control Number 1905– 

0129) information collection. EIA 

requests a three-year clearance with 

changes for the following existing forms: 

D Form EIA–411, ‘‘Coordinated Bulk 

Power Supply Program Report’’ 

D Form EIA–826, ‘‘Monthly Electric 

Utility Sales and Revenue Report with 

State Distributions’’ 

D Form EIA–860, ‘‘Annual Electric 

Generator Report’’ 

D Form EIA–860M, ‘‘Monthly Update 

to the Annual Electric Generator 

Report’’ 

D Form EIA–861, ‘‘Annual Electric 

Power Industry Report’’ 

D Form EIA–861S, ‘‘Annual Electric 

Power Industry Report (Short Form)’’ 

D Form EIA–923, ‘‘Power Plant 

Operations Report’’ and 

the addition of a new survey, Form EIA– 

930, ‘‘Balancing Authority Operations 

Report’’ under OMB Control Number 

1905–0129. 

EIA also proposes to discontinue 

OMB Control Number 1905–0196 for the 

Solar Information Collection. This 

collection includes the Form EIA–63A 

(Annual Solar Thermal Collector/

Reflector Shipments Report), Form EIA– 

63B (Annual Photovoltaic Module/Cell 

Shipments Report), and Form EIA–902 

(Annual Geothermal Heat Pump 

Shipments Report). The current 

approval will expire on December 31, 

2013. EIA does not plan to collect data 

on the Forms EIA–63A and EIA–902 

and proposes to transfer the Form EIA– 

63B to the Electric Power Information 

Collection (OMB Control Number 1905– 

0129). 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

collection must be received on or before 

January 23, 2014. 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– 

395–4718 or contacted by email at 

Chad_S_Whiteman@omb.eop.gov. 

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, Chad_S_Whiteman@

omb.eop.gov. 

And to Rebecca Peterson, U.S. Energy 

Information Administration, Mail Stop 

EI–23, Forrestal Building, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585, erus2014@

eia.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Direct any requests for additional 

information or copies of the information 

collection instrument and instructions 

to Rebecca Peterson at erus2014@

eia.gov, or at 202–586–4509. The 

collection instrument and instructions 

are also available on the Internet at: 

http://www.eia.gov/survey/changes/

electricity/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

(1) OMB No.: 1905–0129; 

(2) Information Collection Request 

Title: Electricity and Renewables Power 

Surveys; 

(3) Type of Request: Extension, with 

changes of a currently approved 

collection; 

(4) Purpose: The electricity and 

renewables surveys collect data from 

entities involved in the production, 

transmission, delivery, and sale of 

electricity, and in maintaining the 

reliable operation of the power system. 

The data collected are the primary 

source of information on the nation’s 

electric power industry. EIA uses the 

data collected on the electric power 

surveys to answer queries from the U.S. 

Congress, other federal and state 

agencies, the electric power industry, 

and the public; and as input to the 

National Energy Modeling System 

(NEMS) and to EIA’s other forecasting 

and analytical activities. Other users of 

the data include policy makers, 

regulators, energy market analysts, and 

the energy industries. 

EIA proposes that the existing Form 

EIA–63B, ‘‘Annual Photovoltaic Cell/


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Module Shipments Report,’’ move into 

this clearance package to permit EIA to 

better align its surveys and programs. In 

addition, EIA’s proposed new Form 

EIA–930, ‘‘Balancing Authority 

Operations Report,’’’ will collect hourly 

information on the operation of the 

power system, a topic of growing 

interest due to the impact of renewable 

power plants and demand response 

programs on power system performance. 

Changes to the currently approved 

forms in this package include collecting 

enhanced data on power system 

reliability, operations, environmental 

performance, and energy efficiency and 

demand response programs, and 

eliminating questions where the data 

either are no longer needed or cannot be 

accurately or cost-effectively collected. 

In addition, EIA proposes changes to the 

data protection terms for the electric 

power survey forms to uniformly apply 

the same policy regarding electric power 

data. There are two changes in the 

provisions for protecting the survey 

data. The first change is that EIA will 

protect and not publicly disclose the 

information on the individuals who 

complete the survey forms. The second 

change is that, with the exceptions of 

blackstart data and power plant 

construction costs reported on Form 

EIA–860, and all data reported on Form 

EIA–63B, EIA will no longer apply 

disclosure limitation procedures to the 

published aggregate electric power 

statistical data. 

(5) Annual Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 14,328; 

(6) Annual Estimated Number of 

Total Responses: 74,934; 

(7) Annual Estimated Number of 

Burden Hours: 141,145; 

(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $76,000. 

Authority: Section 13(b) of the Federal 

Energy Administration Act of 1974, Public 

Law 93–275, codified at 15 U.S.C. 772(b). 

Issued in Washington, DC, December 18, 

2013. 

Stephanie Brown, 

Director, Office of Survey Development and 

Statistical Integration, U.S. Energy 

Information Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2013–30727 Filed 12–23–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

Certification Reports, Compliance 

Statements, Application for a Test 

Procedure Waiver, and Recordkeeping 

for Consumer Products and 

Commercial/Industrial Equipment 

Subject to Federal Energy or Water 

Conservation Standards 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Proposed information 

collection; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) invites public comment 

on a proposed collection of information 

that DOE is developing for submission 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) pursuant to the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. Comments are 

invited on: (a) Whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before February 24, 

2014. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Ms. Ashley Armstrong, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 

Building Technologies Program, EE–2J, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. Email: 

certification_compliance_enforcement

@ee.doe.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Ashley Armstrong at 

Ashley.Armstrong@ee.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

(1) OMB No. 1910–1400; 

(2) Information Collection Request 

Title: Certification Reports, Compliance 

Statements, Application for a Test 

Procedure Waiver, and Recordkeeping 

for Consumer Products and 

Commercial/Industrial Equipment 

subject to Energy or Water Conservation 

Standards; 

(3) Type of Request: Renewal; 

(4) Purpose: DOE is seeking approval 

to collect information from 

manufacturers and to require that 

manufacturers retain records of covered 

consumer products and commercial and 

industrial equipment pursuant to Title 

III of the Energy Policy and 

Conservation Act of 1975, as amended 

(‘‘EPCA’’), 42 U.S.C. 6291 et seq. The 

EPCA sets forth a variety of provisions 

designed to improve energy efficiency. 

Part A of Title III (42 U.S.C. 6291–6309) 

of the EPCA provides for the Energy 

Conservation Program for Consumer 

Products Other Than Automobiles. 

The Energy Conservation Program for 

Consumer Products Other Than 

Automobiles consists of four parts: (1) 

Testing, (2) labeling, (3) Federal energy 

conservation standards, and (4) 

certification and enforcement 

procedures. The testing requirements 

consist of test procedures that 

manufacturers of covered products must 

use (1) as the basis for certifying to DOE 

that their products comply with the 

applicable energy conservation 

standards adopted under the EPCA, and 

(2) for making representations about the 

efficiency of those products. DOE must 

use these test requirements to determine 

whether the products comply with any 

relevant standards promulgated under 

the EPCA. 

DOE is renewing its information 

collection on the energy and water 

efficiency of consumer products and 

commercial equipment manufactured 

for distribution in commerce in the 

United States. Under the Energy 

Conservation Program for Consumer 

Products Other Than Automobiles DOE 

requires that manufacturers: (1) Submit 

certification and compliance reports for 

each basic model distributed in 

commerce in the U.S.; (2) maintain 

records underlying the certified ratings 

for each basic model including test data 

and the associated calculations; and (3) 

submit an application for a test 

procedure waiver for which 

manufacturers may elect to submit if 

they manufacturer a basic model that 

cannot be tested pursuant to the DOE 

test procedure. 

DOE currently requires manufacturers 

or their party representatives to prepare 

and submit certification reports and 

compliance statements using DOE’s 

electronic Web-based tool, the 

Compliance and Certification 

Management System (CCMS), which is 

the only mechanism for submitting 


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