Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 28 / Monday, February 11, 2008 / Notices 7723 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy 

regarding goals and objectives, 

programmatic and administrative 

policies, and to otherwise carry out the 

Board’s responsibilities as designated in 

the State Energy Efficiency Programs 

Improvement Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101–

440). 

Tentative Agenda: Update members 

on routine business matters. 

Public Participation: The 

teleconference is open to the public. 

Written statements may be filed with 

the Board either before or after the 

meeting. Members of the public who 

wish to make oral statements pertaining 

to agenda items should contact Gary 

Burch at the address or telephone 

number listed above. Requests to make 

oral comments must be received five 

days prior to the conference call; 

reasonable provision will be made to 

include requested topic(s) on the 

agenda. The Chair of the Board is 

empowered to conduct the call in a 

fashion that will facilitate the orderly 

conduct of business. This notice is being 

published less than 15 days before the 

date of the meeting due to programmatic 

issues. 

Notes: The notes of the teleconference will 

be available for public review and copying 

within 60 days on the STEAB Web site, 

http://www.steab.org. 

Issued at Washington, DC, on February 5, 

2008. 

Rachel Samuel, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. E8–2487 Filed 2–8–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Energy Information Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request. 

SUMMARY: The EIA has submitted the 

Coal Program Package to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

revision and a three-year extension 

under section 3507(h)(1) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 

L. 104–13) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., at 

3507(h)(1)). 

DATES: Comments must be filed by 

March 12, 2008. If you anticipate that 

you will be submitting comments but 

find it difficult to do so within that 

period, you should contact the OMB 

Desk Officer for DOE listed below as 

soon as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to OMB 

Desk Officer for DOE, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget. To 

ensure receipt of the comments by the 

due date, submission by fax at (202) 

395–7285 or e-mail to 

Nathan_J._Frey@omb.eop.gov is 

recommended. The mailing address is 

726 Jackson Place, NW., Washington, 

DC 20503. The OMB DOE Desk Officer 

may be telephoned at (202) 395–7345. 

(A copy of your comments should also 

be provided to EIA’s Statistics and 

Methods Group at the address below.) 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information 

should be directed to Grace Sutherland. 

To ensure receipt of the comments by 

the due date, submission by fax (202–

586–5271) or e-mail 

(grace.sutherland@eia.doe.gov) is also 

recommended. The mailing address is 

Statistics and Methods Group (EI–70), 

Forrestal Building, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Washington, DC 20585–0670. 

Ms. Sutherland may be contacted by 

telephone at (202) 586–6264. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

section contains the following 

information about the energy 

information collection submitted to 

OMB for review: (1) The collection 

numbers and title; (2) the sponsor (i.e., 

the Department of Energy component; 

(3) the current OMB docket number (if 

applicable); (4) the type of request (i.e., 

new, revision, extension, or 

reinstatement); (5) response obligation 

(i.e., mandatory, voluntary, or required 

to obtain or retain benefits); (6) a 

description of the need for and 

proposed use of the information; (7) a 

categorical description of the likely 

respondents; and (8) an estimate of the 

total annual reporting burden (i.e., the 

estimated number of likely respondents 

times the proposed frequency of 

response per year times the average 

hours per response). 

1. Forms EIA–1, 3, 4, 5, 6Q, 7A, 8A 

and 20, ‘‘Coal Program Package.’’

2. Energy Information Administration. 

3. OMB Number 1905–0167. 

4. Revision and three-year extension. 

5. Mandatory. 

6. The coal surveys collect data on 

coal production, consumption, stocks, 

prices, imports and exports. Data are 

published in various EIA publications. 

Respondents are manufacturing plants, 

producers of coke, purchasers and 

distributors of coal, coal mining 

operators, and coal-consuming electric 

utilities. 

7. Business or other for-profit; Federal 

Government; State, Local or Tribal 

Government. 

8. 4,474 hours. 

Due to the changing structure of the 

electric power industry over the course 

of the last several years, the EIA–20 

standby survey will include 

independent power producers in the 

event of an emergency, thus activating 

the use of the survey to provide 

information on the primary sources of 

electric power in the U.S. 

Please refer to the supporting 

statement as well as the proposed forms 

and instructions for more information 

about the purpose, who must report, 

when to report, where to submit, the 

elements to be reported, detailed 

instructions, provisions for 

confidentiality, and uses (including 

possible nonstatistical uses) of the 

information. For instructions on 

obtaining materials, see the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

Statutory Authority: Section 3507(h)(1) of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 

L. No. 104–13) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., at 

3507(h)(1)) 

Issued in Washington, DC, February 5, 

2008. 

Jay H. Casselberry, 

Agency Clearance Officer, Agency Clearance 

Officer, Energy Information Administration. 

[FR Doc. E8–2486 Filed 2–8–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC08–566–000; FERC–566] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities, Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Extension 

February 1, 2008. 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(a) of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(Pub. L. No. 104–13), the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission) is 

soliciting public comment on the 

specific aspects of the information 

collection described below. 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information are due April 7, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of sample filings of 

the proposed information collection can 

be obtained from the Commission’s 


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7724 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 28 / Monday, February 11, 2008 / Notices 

1Annual Report of Interlocking Positions, FERC 

Form 561, OMB No. 1902–0099, collects the 

interlocking directorate information. 

2 Filing Via the Internet, RM07–16–000, 72 FR 

65659 (2007), FERC Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,259. 

3Number of hours an employee works. 

4Average annual salary per employee. 

Documents & Filing Web site (http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filings/elibrary.asp) 

or by contacting the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, Attn: Michael 

Miller, Office of the Executive Director, 

ED–34, 888 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. Comments may 

be filed either in paper format or 

electronically. Those parties filing 

electronically do not need to make a 

paper filing. For paper filing, the 

original and 14 copies of such 

comments should be submitted to the 

Secretary of the Commission, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426 

and refer to Docket No. IC08–566–000. 

Documents filed electronically via the 

Internet must be prepared in the 

acceptable filing format and in 

compliance with the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission’s submission 

guidelines. Complete filing instructions 

and acceptable filing formats are 

available at (http://www.ferc.gov/help/ 

submission-guide/electronic-media.asp). 

To file the document electronically, 

access the Commission’s Web site and 

click on Documents & Filing, E-Filing 

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

efiling.asp), and then follow the 

instructions for each screen. First time 

users will have to establish a user name 

and password. The Commission will 

send an automatic acknowledgement to 

the sender’s e-mail address upon receipt 

of comments. 

All comments may be viewed, printed 

or downloaded remotely via the Internet 

through FERC’s homepage using the 

eLibrary link. For user assistance, 

contact ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov or 

toll-free at (866) 208–3676 or for TTY, 

contact (202) 502–8659. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Miller may be reached by 

telephone at (202) 502–8415, by fax at 

(202) 273–0873, and by e-mail at 

michael.miller@ferc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

information collected under the 

requirements of FERC–566 ‘‘Annual 

Report of a Utility’s Twenty Largest 

Purchasers’’ (OMB No. 1902–0114) is 

used by the Commission to implement 

the statutory provisions of section 305 

of the Federal Power Act (FPA), (16 

U.S.C. 825d), as amended by Title II, 

section 211 of the Public Utility 

Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 

(PURPA). FPA section 305—Officials 

Dealing in Securities; Interlocking 

Directorates—requires that each public 

utility annually ‘‘publish’’ a list, 

pursuant to rules prescribed by the 

Commission, of the purchasers of the 20 

largest annual amounts of electric 

energy sold by such public utility 

during any one of three previous 

calendar years. The required filers, the 

filing deadline, the specific information 

to be filed, and the requirement to 

publicly provide the information are all 

specifically mandated by the FPA. The 

Commission is not empowered to 

amend or waive these statutory 

requirements. Requirements the 

Commission has the authority to amend, 

such as the filing format and method, 

are found in the Commission’s 

regulations in 18 CFR 46.3. 

The FPA requires public utilities to 

publish and file with the Commission a 

list of their largest customers and the 

identification of public utility board 

members who are also board members 

of the utility’s largest customers.1 This 

data on interlocking directorates allows 

the Commission to inquire into and 

determine whether public or private 

interests will be adversely affected by 

the holding of such positions. 

Under the current OMB authorization, 

the Commission requires the filing of 

FERC–566 in hardcopy. However, the 

Commission has directed under RM07–

16–000 2 to allow for the voluntary 

electronic submittal of many required 

filings, including the FERC–566, which 

is expected by early 2008. The 

implementation of eFiling 7.0 would 

eliminate the current burden of mailing 

or hand-delivering these filings in 

hardcopy. 

Action: The Commission is requesting 

a three-year extension of the current 

expiration date and proposes to make 

the filing of the FERC–566 more 

efficient by the end of 2007 under 

RM07–16–000. 

Burden Statement: Public reporting 

burden for this collection is estimated 

as: 

Number of respondents annually 

Number of 

responses 

per 

respondent 

Average 

burden 

hours per 

response 

Total annual 

burden 

hours 

(1) (2) (3) (1)×(2)×(3) 

242 ........................................................................................................................................................... 1 6 1,452 

The estimated total cost to respondents 

is $85,261, [1,452 hours divided by 

2,080 hours 3 (times $126,384 4 equals 

$88,226, rounded off). The cost of filing 

FERC–566 per respondent is $365 

(rounded off) 2. 

The reporting burden includes the 

total time, effort, or financial resources 

expended to generate, maintain, retain, 

disclose, or provide the information 

including: (1) Reviewing instructions; 

(2) developing, acquiring, installing, and 

using technology and systems for the 

purposes of collecting, validating, 

verifying, processing, maintaining, 

disclosing and providing information; 

(3) adjusting existing ways to comply 

with any previously applicable filing 

instructions and requirements; (4) 

training personnel to respond to a 

collection of information; (5) searching 

data sources; (6) completing and 

reviewing the collection of information; 

and (7) transmitting or otherwise 

disclosing the information. 

The cost estimate for respondents is 

based upon salaries for professional and 

clerical support, as well as direct and 

indirect overhead costs. Direct costs 

include all costs directly attributable to 

providing this information, such as 

administrative costs and the cost for 

information technology. Indirect or 

overhead costs are costs incurred by an 

organization in support of its mission. 

These costs apply to activities which 

benefit the whole organization rather 

than any one particular function or 

activity. 

Comments are invited on: (1) The 

accuracy of the agency’s burden 

estimate of the proposed information 

collection, including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used to 

calculate the reporting burden; (2) ways 

to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (3) the proposal to 


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Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 28 / Monday, February 11, 2008 / Notices 7725 

1Annual Report of a Utility’s Twenty Largest 

Purchasers, FERC–566, OMB No. 1902–0114, 

collects information from the twenty largest 

purchasers. 

2 Filing Via the Internet, RM07–16–000, 72 FR 

65659 (2007), FERC Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,259. 

3Number of hours an employee works each year. 

4Average annual salary per employee. 

provide the option to collect FERC–566 

electronically during 2008, as indicated 

under RM07–16–000 000 and any 

reduction in burden that option might 

allow filers. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–2407 Filed 2–8–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC08–561–000; FERC Form 561] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities, Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Extension 

February 1, 2008. 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(a) of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(Pub. L. No. 104–13), the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission) is 

soliciting public comment on the 

specific aspects of the information 

collection described below. 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information are due April 7, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: An example of this 

information collection can be obtained 

from the Commission’s Documents & 

Filing Web site (http://www.ferc.gov/ 

docs-filings/elibrary.asp) or by 

contacting the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, Attn: Michael 

Miller, Office of the Executive Director, 

ED–34, 888 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. Comments may 

be filed either in paper format or 

electronically. Those parties filing 

electronically do not need to make a 

paper filing. For paper filing, the 

original and 14 copies of such 

comments should be submitted to the 

Secretary of the Commission, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426 

and refer to Docket No. IC08–561–000. 

Documents filed electronically via the 

Internet must be prepared in an 

acceptable filing format and in 

compliance with the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission’s submission 

guidelines. Complete filing instructions 

and acceptable filing formats are 

available at (http://www.ferc.gov/help/ 

submission-guide/electronic-media.asp). 

To file the document electronically, 

access the Commission’s Web site and 

click on Documents & Filing, E-Filing 

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

efiling.asp), and then follow the 

instructions for each screen. First time 

users will have to establish a user name 

and password. The Commission will 

send an automatic acknowledgement to 

the sender’s e-mail address upon receipt 

of comments. 

All comments may be viewed, printed 

or downloaded remotely via the Internet 

through FERC’s homepage using the 

eLibrary link. For user assistance, 

contact ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov or 

toll-free at (866) 208–3676 or for TTY, 

contact (202) 502–8659. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Miller may be reached by 

telephone at (202) 502–8415, by fax at 

(202) 273–0873, and by e-mail at 

michael.miller@ferc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

information collected under the 

requirements of FERC Form 561 

‘‘Annual Report of Interlocking 

Positions’’ (OMB No. 1902–0099) is 

used by the Commission to implement 

the statutory provisions of section 305 

of the Federal Power Act (FPA), as 

amended by Title II, section 211 of the 

Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 

1978 (PURPA) (16 U.S.C. 825d). FPA 

section 305—Officials Dealing in 

Securities—Interlocking Directorates 

requires the annual reporting by public 

utility officers and directors of similar 

types of positions they hold with 

financial institutions, insurance 

companies, utility equipment and fuel 

providers, and with any of an electric 

utility’s twenty largest purchasers of 

electric energy.1 The FPA mandates the 

information that must be filed, the 

required filers, the requirement to make 

the information available to the public, 

and the filing deadline. The 

Commission is not empowered to 

amend or waive these statutory 

requirements. Requirements the 

Commission has the authority to amend, 

such as filing format and method, can be 

found in 18 CFR part 46 and section 

131.31. 

Without this information collection, 

the Commission and the public would 

not be able to inquire into and 

determine whether public or private 

interests will be adversely affected by 

the holding of such positions. 

Under the current OMB authorization, 

the Commission requires the FERC 

Form 561 filings in hardcopy with an 

optional diskette containing a 

spreadsheet of the interlocking 

directorate information. However, the 

Commission has indicated under 

RM07–16–000,2 to allow for the 

voluntary electronic submittal of many 

required filings, including the FERC 

Form 561, by early 2008. Through 

eFiling 7.0, the form will be filed in 

Adobe Acrobat with an optional 

electronic spreadsheet attachment. 

Implementation of eFiling 7.0 will 

eliminate the current burden of mailing 

and hand-delivering the filings in 

hardcopy. 

Action: The Commission is requesting 

a three-year extension of the current 

expiration date, and proposes to make 

the filing of the FERC Form 561 more 

efficient during 2008 under RM07–16–

000. 

Burden Statement: Public reporting 

burden for this collection is estimated 

as: 

Number of respondents annually 

Number of 

responses 

per respondent 

Average 

burden 

hours per 

response 

Total annual 

burden 

hours 

(1) (2) (3) (1)×(2)×(3) 

1996 ......................................................................................................................................................... 1 .25 499 

The estimated total cost to 

respondents is $21,516. [499 hours 

divided by 2080 hours 3 per year, times $126,384 4 equals $30,320]. The cost per 

respondent is $15 (rounded off). 


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