47048 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 152 / Tuesday, August 7, 2012 / Notices 

and Development Technical Advisory 

Committee. The Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (Public Law No. 92–463, 

86 Stat. 770) requires that agencies 

publish these notices in the Federal 

Register. 

DATES:

August 22, 2012; 1:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m. 

August 23, 2012; 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Renaissance DuPont Hotel, 

1143 New Hampshire Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20037. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elliott Levine, Designated Federal 

Officer, Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue 

SW., Washington, DC 20585; (202) 586– 

1476; Email: Elliott.Levine@ee.doe.gov 

or Roy Tiley at (410) 997–7778 ext. 220; 

Email: rtiley@bcs-hq.com. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of Meeting: To provide 

advice and guidance that promotes 

research and development leading to the 

production of biobased fuels and 

biobased products. 

Tentative Agenda: Agenda will 

include the following: 

• Update on USDA Biomass R&D 

Activities 

• Update on DOE Biomass R&D 

Activities 

• Review of the recently awarded 

Biomass Research and Development 

Projects 

• Review of Congressional Research 

Service Report—Biofuels Incentives: A 

Summary of Federal Programs 

Public Participation: In keeping with 

procedures, members of the public are 

welcome to observe the business of the 

Biomass Research and Development 

Technical Advisory Committee. To 

attend the meeting and/or to make oral 

statements regarding any of the items on 

the agenda, you must contact Elliott 

Levine at (202) 586–1476; Email: 

Elliott.Levine@ee.doe.gov or Roy Tiley at 

(410) 997–7778 ext. 220; Email: 

rtiley@bcs-hq.com at least 5 business 

days prior to the meeting. Members of 

the public will be heard in the order in 

which they sign up at the beginning of 

the meeting. Reasonable provision will 

be made to include the scheduled oral 

statements on the agenda. The Co-chairs 

of the Committee will make efforts to 

hear the views of all interested parties. 

If you would like to file a written 

statement with the Committee, you may 

do so either before or after the meeting. 

The Co-chairs will conduct the meeting 

to facilitate the orderly conduct of 

business. 

Minutes: The minutes of the meeting 

will be available for public review and 

copying at the following Web site: 

www.usbiomassboard.gov/committee/ 

meetings. 

Issued at Washington, DC, on July 31, 

2012. 

LaTanya R. Butler, 

Acting Deputy Committee Management 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–19253 Filed 8–6–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

U.S. Energy Information 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Extension 

AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), 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 under the provisions 

of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

The information collection requests a 

three-year extension of its Petroleum 

Marketing Program, OMB Control 

Number 1905–0174. The proposed 

collection will collect basic data 

necessary to meet EIA’s legislative 

mandates as well as the needs of EIA’s 

public and private customers. Data 

collected include costs, sales, prices, 

and distribution of crude oil and 

petroleum products. The data are used 

for analyses, publications, and multifuel reports. Respondents are refiners, 

first purchasers, gas plant operators, 

resellers/retailers, motor gasoline 

wholesalers, suppliers, distributors and 

importers. EIA intends to extend for 

three years the petroleum marketing 

survey forms listed below: 

EIA–14, ‘‘Refiners’ Monthly Cost 

Report’’ 

EIA–182, ‘‘Domestic Crude Oil First 

Purchase Report’’ 

EIA–782A, ‘‘Refiners’/Gas Plant 

Operators’ Monthly Petroleum 

Product Sales Report’’ 

EIA–782C, ‘‘Monthly Report of Prime 

Supplier Sales of Petroleum Products 

Sold for Local Consumption’’ 

EIA–821, ‘‘Annual Fuel Oil and 

Kerosene Sales Report’’ 

EIA–856, ‘‘Monthly Foreign Crude Oil 

Acquisition Report’’ 

EIA–863, ‘‘Petroleum Product Sales 

Identification Survey’’ 

EIA–877, ‘‘Winter Heating Fuels 

Telephone Survey’’ 

EIA–878, ‘‘Motor Gasoline Price 

Survey’’ 

EIA–888, ‘‘On-Highway Diesel Fuel 

Price Survey’’ 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

proposed information collection must 

be received on or before September 6, 

2012. 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. 

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 Jason Worrall, Office of 

Survey Development and Statistical 

Integration, U.S. Energy Information 

Administration, Forrestal Building, 

1000 Independence Ave. SW., U.S. 

Department of Energy, Washington, DC 

20585–0670, (202) 586–6075 (phone). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Jason Worrall at the contact 

information above. Alternatively Mr. 

Worrall may be emailed at, 

Jason.Worrall@eia.gov. Copies of the 

information collection instruments and 

instructions can also be viewed at 

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

(1) OMB No. 1905–0174; (2) Information 

Collection Request Title: Petroleum 

Marketing Program; (3) Type of Request: 

Renewal with Change; (4) Purpose: The 

Federal Energy Administration Act of 

1974 (15 U.S.C. 761 et seq.) and the DOE 

Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et 

seq.) require EIA to carry out a 

centralized, comprehensive, and unified 

energy information program. This 

program collects, evaluates, assembles, 

analyzes, and disseminates information 

on energy resource reserves, production, 

demand, technology, and related 

economic and statistical information. 

This information is used to assess the 

adequacy of energy resources to meet 

near and longer term domestic 

demands. 

EIA’s petroleum marketing survey 

forms collect volumetric and price 

information needed for determining the 

supply of and demand for crude oil and 

refined petroleum products. These 

surveys provide a basic set of data 

pertaining to the structure, efficiency, 

and behavior of petroleum markets. 

These data are published by EIA on 

its Web site, http://www.eia.gov, as well 

as in publications such as the Monthly 

Energy Review (http://www.eia.gov/ 

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Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 152 / Tuesday, August 7, 2012 / Notices 47049 

1Revised Regulations Governing Small Power 

Production and Cogeneration Facilities, Order No. 

671, 71 FR 7852 (2/15/2006), FERC Stats. & Regs. 

¶ 31,203 (2006); and Revised Regulations Governing 

Small Power Production and Cogeneration 

Facilities, Order 671–A, 71 FR 30585 (5/30/2006), 

in Docket No. RM05–36. 

2The FERC–556 is cleared separately as OMB 

Control No. 1902–0075 and is not a subject of this 

notice. 

totalenergy/data/monthly/), Annual 

Energy Review (http://www.eia.gov/ 

totalenergy/data/annual/), Petroleum 

Marketing Monthlyhttp://www.eia.gov/ 

oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/ 

petroleum_marketing_monthly/ 

pmm.html), Weekly Petroleum Status 

Report http://www.eia.gov/oil_gas/ 

petroleum/data_publications/ 

weekly_petroleum_status_report/ 

wpsr.html), and the International Energy 

Outlook (http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/ 

ieo/); (5) Annual Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 11,953; (6) Annual 

Estimated Number of Total Responses: 

106,661; (7) Annual Estimated Number 

of Burden Hours: 56,186; (8) Annual 

Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping 

Cost Burden: 0. EIA estimates that there 

are no additional costs to respondents 

associated with the surveys other than 

the costs associated with the burden 

hours. 

Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the 

Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974, 

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

Issued in Washington, DC, on August 1, 

2012. 

Stephanie Brown, 

Director, Office of Survey Development and 

Statistical Integration, U. S. Energy 

Information Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2012–19267 Filed 8–6–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC12–14–000; (FERC–914)] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Comment request. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission 

(Commission or FERC) is submitting the 

information collection FERC–914 

(Cogeneration and Small Power 

Production—Tariff Filings) to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review of the information collection 

requirements. Any interested person 

may file comments directly with OMB 

and should address a copy of those 

comments to the Commission as 

explained below. The Commission 

issued a Notice in the Federal Register 

(77 FR 31342, 5/25/2012) requesting 

public comments. FERC received no 

comments on the FERC–914 and is 

making this notation in its submittal to 

OMB. 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information are due by September 6, 

2012. 

ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB, 

identified by the OMB Control No. 

1902–0213, should be sent via email to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs: oira_submission@omb.gov. 

Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission Desk Officer. The Desk 

Officer may also be reached via 

telephone at 202–395–4718. 

A copy of the comments should also 

be sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, identified by the Docket 

No. IC12–14–000, by either of the 

following methods: 

• eFiling at Commission’s Web Site: 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

efiling.asp. 

• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

Secretary of the Commission, 888 First 

Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

Instructions: All submissions must be 

formatted and filed in accordance with 

submission guidelines at: http:// 

www.ferc.gov/help/submissionguide.asp. For user assistance contact 

FERC Online Support by email at 

ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by phone 

at: (866) 208–3676 (toll-free), or (202) 

502–8659 for TTY. 

Docket: Users interested in receiving 

automatic notification of activity in this 

docket or in viewing/downloading 

comments and issuances in this docket 

may do so at http://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/docs-filing.asp. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ellen Brown may be reached by email 

at DataClearance@FERC.gov, by 

telephone at (202) 502–8663, and by fax 

at (202) 273–0873. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: 

FERC–914, Cogeneration and Small 

Power Production—Tariff Filings. 

OMB Control No.:1902–0213. 

Type of Request: Three-year extension 

of the FERC–914 information collection 

requirements with no changes to the 

reporting requirements. 

Abstract: Section 205(c) of the Federal 

Power Act (FPA) requires that every 

public utility have all of its 

jurisdictional rates and tariffs on file 

with the Commission and make them 

available for public inspection, within 

such time and in such form as the 

Commission may designate. Section 

205(d) of the FPA requires that every 

public utility must provide notice to the 

Commission and the public of any 

changes to its jurisdictional rates and 

tariffs, file such changes with the 

Commission, and make them available 

for public inspection, in such manner as 

directed by the Commission. In 

addition, FPA section 206 requires the 

Commission, upon complaint or its own 

motion, to modify existing rates or 

services that are found to be unjust, 

unreasonable, unduly discriminatory or 

preferential. FPA section 207 requires 

the Commission upon complaint by a 

state commission and a finding of 

insufficient interstate service, to order 

the rendering of adequate interstate 

service by public utilities, the rates for 

which would be filed in accordance 

with FPA sections 205 and 206. 

In Orders Nos. 671 and 671–A,1 the 

Commission revised its regulations that 

govern qualifying small power 

production and cogeneration facilities. 

Among other things, the Commission 

eliminated certain exemptions from rate 

regulation that were previously 

available to qualifying facilities (QFs). 

New qualifying facilities may need to 

make tariff filings if they do not meet 

the new exemption requirements. 

FERC implemented the Congressional 

mandate of the Energy Policy Act of 

2005 (EPAct 2005) to establish criteria 

for new qualifying cogeneration 

facilities by: (1) Amending the 

exemptions available to qualifying 

facilities from the FPA and from 

PUHCA [resulting in the burden 

imposed by FERC–914, the subject of 

this statement]; (2) ensuring that these 

facilities are using their thermal output 

in a productive and beneficial manner; 

that the electrical, thermal, chemical 

and mechanical output of new 

qualifying cogeneration facilities is used 

fundamentally for industrial, 

commercial, residential or industrial 

purposes; and there is continuing 

progress in the development of efficient 

electric energy generating technology; 

(3) amending the FERC Form 556 2 to 

reflect the criteria for new qualifying 

cogeneration facilities; and (4) 

eliminating ownership limitations for 

qualifying cogeneration and small 

power production facilities. The 

Commission satisfied the statutory 

mandate and its continuing obligation to 

review its policies encouraging 

cogeneration and small power 

production, energy conservation, 

efficient use of facilities and resources 

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