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4The Addendum and related documents are 

available at: http://energy.gov/fe/draft-addendumenvironmental-review-documents-concerningexports-natural-gas-united-states. 

5The Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Report is 

available at: http://energy.gov/fe/life-cyclegreenhouse-gas-perspective-exporting-liquefiednatural-gas-united-states. 

Edward Myers or Cassandra Bernstein, 

U.S. Department of Energy Office of 

the Assistant General Counsel for 

Electricity and Fossil Energy, 

Forrestal Building, 1000 

Independence Ave. SW., Washington, 

DC 20585, (202) 586–3397; (202) 586– 

9793. 

DOE/FE Evaluation 

The Application will be reviewed 

pursuant to section 3(a) of the NGA, 15 

U.S.C. 717b(a), and DOE will consider 

any issues required by law or policy. To 

the extent determined to be relevant, 

these issues will include the domestic 

need for the natural gas proposed to be 

exported, the adequacy of domestic 

natural gas supply, U.S. energy security, 

and the cumulative impact of the 

requested authorization and any other 

LNG export application(s) previously 

approved on domestic natural gas 

supply and demand fundamentals. DOE 

may also consider other factors bearing 

on the public interest, including the 

impact of the proposed exports on the 

U.S. economy (including GDP, 

consumers, and industry), job creation, 

the U.S. balance of trade, and 

international considerations; and 

whether the authorization is consistent 

with DOE’s policy of promoting 

competition in the marketplace by 

allowing commercial parties to freely 

negotiate their own trade arrangements. 

Additionally, DOE will consider the 

following environmental documents: 

• Addendum to Environmental 

Review Documents Concerning Exports 

of Natural Gas From the United States, 

79 FR 48,132 (Aug. 15, 2014); 4 and 

• Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas 

Perspective on Exporting Liquefied 

Natural Gas From the United States, 79 

FR 32,260 (June 4, 2014).5

Parties that may oppose this 

Application should address these issues 

in their comments and/or protests, as 

well as other issues deemed relevant to 

the Application. 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., 

requires DOE to give appropriate 

consideration to the environmental 

effects of its proposed decisions. No 

final decision will be issued in this 

proceeding until DOE has met its 

environmental responsibilities. 

Public Comment Procedures 

In response to this Notice, any person 

may file a protest, comments, or a 

motion to intervene or notice of 

intervention, as applicable. Due to the 

complexity of the issues raised by the 

Applicant, interested parties will be 

provided 60 days from the date of 

publication of this Notice in which to 

submit their comments, protests, 

motions to intervene, or notices of 

intervention. 

Any person wishing to become a party 

to the proceeding must file a motion to 

intervene or notice of intervention. The 

filing of comments or a protest with 

respect to the Application will not serve 

to make the commenter or protestant a 

party to the proceeding, although 

protests and comments received from 

persons who are not parties will be 

considered in determining the 

appropriate action to be taken on the 

Application. All protests, comments, 

motions to intervene, or notices of 

intervention must meet the 

requirements specified by the 

regulations in 10 CFR part 590. 

Filings may be submitted using one of 

the following methods: (1) Emailing the 

filing to fergas@hq.doe.gov, with FE 

Docket No. 14–179–LNG in the title 

line; (2) mailing an original and three 

paper copies of the filing to the Office 

of Oil and Gas Global Security and 

Supply at the address listed in 

ADDRESSES; or (3) hand delivering an 

original and three paper copies of the 

filing to the Office of Oil and Gas Global 

Supply at the address listed in 

ADDRESSES. All filings must include a 

reference to FE Docket No. 14–179– 

LNG. 

Please Note: If submitting a filing via 

email, please include all related documents 

and attachments (e.g., exhibits) in the 

original email correspondence. Please do not 

include any active hyperlinks or password 

protection in any of the documents or 

attachments related to the filing. All 

electronic filings submitted to DOE must 

follow these guidelines to ensure that all 

documents are filed in a timely manner. Any 

hardcopy filing submitted greater in length 

than 50 pages must also include, at the time 

of the filing, a digital copy on disk of the 

entire submission. 

A decisional record on the 

Application will be developed through 

responses to this notice by parties, 

including the parties’ written comments 

and replies thereto. Additional 

procedures will be used as necessary to 

achieve a complete understanding of the 

facts and issues. If an additional 

procedure is scheduled, notice will be 

provided to all parties. If no party 

requests additional procedures, a final 

Opinion and Order may be issued based 

on the official record, including the 

Application and responses filed by 

parties pursuant to this notice, in 

accordance with 10 CFR 590.316. 

The Application is available for 

inspection and copying in the Division 

of Natural Gas Regulatory Activities 

docket room, Room 3E–042, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585. The docket 

room is open between the hours of 8:00 

a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. The 

Application and any filed protests, 

motions to intervene or notice of 

interventions, and comments will also 

be available electronically by going to 

the following DOE/FE Web address: 

http://www.fe.doe.gov/programs/

gasregulation/index.html. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on December 4, 

2014. 

John A. Anderson, 

Director, Division of Natural Gas Regulatory 

Activities, Office of Oil and Gas Global 

Security and Supply, Office of Oil and 

Natural Gas. 

[FR Doc. 2014–28914 Filed 12–9–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RM14–22–000] 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, DOE. 

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 collections in Docket No. 

RM14–22–000 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 file a copy of those 

comments to the Commission as 

explained below. 

The Commission solicited comments 

on the information collections 

associated with RM14–22–000 in Order 

No. 800 published in the Federal 

Register (79 FR 59105, October 1, 2014). 

The Commission received no comments 

on the information collections and is 

making this notation in its submission 

to OMB. 

DATES: Comments on the information 

collections are due by January 9, 2015. 

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1Public Law 113–23 (2013). 

2 16 U.S.C. 798 (2012), amended by, Hydropower 

Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2013, Public Law 113– 

23, 5, 127 Stat. 493 (2013). 3Revisions and Technical Corrections to Conform 

the Commission’s Regulations to the Hydropower 

Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2013, Order No. 800, 

79 FR 59105 (Oct. 1, 2014), 148 FERC ¶ 61,197, at 

P 13 (2014). 

4The Commission defines burden as 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, reference 5 CFR 

1320.3. 

5The estimated average hourly cost (salary plus 

benefits) is $70.50. 

6The Commission considers an application to be 

a ‘‘response.’’ 

7The estimates provided for small conduit 

exemption applications are for all conduit 

exemption applications, including applications for 

non-municipal conduit exemptions that have an 

installed capacity of greater than 15 MW and up to 

40 MW, and for any conduit exemption located on 

federal land. 

8 In the Commission’s first solicitation of 

comments on the information collections in Order 

No. 800, Commission staff estimated that the 

Commission would receive five conduit exemption 

applications per year. Since the Hydropower 

Efficiency Act’s enactment in August 2013, the 

Commission has received only three conduit 

exemption applications. Therefore, Commission 

staff reduces its estimate of anticipated conduit 

exemption applications to two applications per 

year. 

9 Given that Commission staff estimates two 

conduit exemption applications per year, 

Commission staff anticipates surrenders of conduit 

exemptions on federal lands to be rare. Hence, 

Commission staff estimates one surrender of a 

conduit exemption on federal lands to be filed 

every ten years (equaling on average 0.1 

applications per year). The one surrender would 

trigger agency notification, which is estimated to 

take 46 hours. The burden and cost are being 

averaged over that ten-year period (equaling on 

average 4.6 hours per year). 

ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB, 

identified by FERC–505 and FERC–512, 

should be sent by 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 by telephone at (202) 395– 

4718. 

A copy of the comments should also 

be filed with the Commission, identified 

by the Docket No. RM14–22–000, 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 to the 

Commission must be formatted and 

filed in accordance with submission 

guidelines at: http://www.ferc.gov/help/ 

submission-guide.asp. For user 

assistance contact FERC Online Support 

by email at ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, 

or by phone at: (866) 208–3676 (tollfree), or (202) 502–8659 (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 by email at 

DataClearance@FERC.gov, by telephone 

at (202) 502–8663, or by fax at (202) 

273–0873. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

information collections in Docket No. 

RM14–22–000 relate to Commissionapproved revisions to conform the 

Commission’s regulations on 

preliminary permits and exemptions to 

the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency 

Act of 2013 (Hydropower Efficiency 

Act).1 The information collection 

requirements for preliminary permits 

and exemptions are contained in: 

FERC–505 (Small Hydropower Projects 

and Conduits Facilities including 

License/Relicense, Exemption, and 

Qualifying Conduit Facility 

Determination, OMB Control Number 

1902–0115) and FERC–512 (Preliminary 

Permit, OMB Control Number 1902– 

0073). 

The Hydropower Efficiency Act 

amended statutory provisions pertaining 

to preliminary permits and to projects 

that are exempt from certain licensing 

requirements under the Federal Power 

Act (FPA) 2 in order to reduce cost and 

regulatory burden, and in turn, promote 

hydropower development. Specifically, 

the Hydropower Efficiency Act gave the 

Commission authority to extend a 

preliminary permit once for not more 

than two additional years without 

requiring the permittee to apply for a 

successive preliminary permit. The 

Hydropower Efficiency Act also 

expanded the number of projects that 

may qualify for exemptions from certain 

licensing requirements under the FPA 

(i.e., small conduit exemptions or small 

hydroelectric power projects), and 

allowed other projects to qualify to 

operate without Commission oversight 

(i.e., qualifying conduit hydropower 

facilities). 

The Commission approved the 

revised regulations in Order No. 800. 

While the revised regulations formally 

implement the Hydropower Efficiency 

Act, the Commission has complied with 

the Act since its enactment. Moreover, 

in Order No. 800, the Commission 

found that the revised regulations will 

reduce the current burden for affected 

entities.3

Burden Statement: 4

The Commission estimates the 

average annual reporting burden and 

cost as follows: 

ANNUAL CHANGES IMPLEMENTED BY THE FINAL RULE IN RM14–22 5

Type of respondents Number of 

respondents 

Annual 

number of 

responses 6

per respondent 

Total 

number of 

responses 

Average 

burden and 

cost per 

response 

Total annual 

burden 

hours and 

total annual 

cost 

Cost per 

respondent 

(a) (b) (a) × (b) = (c) (d) (c) × (d) = (e) (e)/(a) 

FERC–505, Small Hydropower Projects and Conduit Facilities Including License/Relicense, Exemption, 

and Qualifying Conduit Facility Determination 

Small conduit exemption applications (40 

MW or less, which can now be on fed. 

lands) 7 .................................................. 8 2 1 2 * 46 

$3,243 

* 92 

$6,486 

$3,243 

Small conduit exemption holder—notice 

to fed. agencies of petition to surrender and steps to be taken to restore lands ............................................ 1 9 0.1 0.1 * 46 

$3,243 

* 4.6 

$324 

$324 

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10The Commission received six license 

applications between 2010 and 2013 that proposed 

projects with installed capacity greater than 5 MW, 

which could now qualify for a small hydroelectric 

power project exemption. Therefore, Commission 

staff estimates that on average the Commission 

receives two applications per year. 

11A notice of intent is a request that the 

Commission determine a project is a qualifying 

conduit hydropower facility. 

12While the Commission initially received a rash 

of notices of intent to construct qualifying conduit 

hydropower facilities, Commission staff expects 

notices of intent to taper off. Over 60 percent of the 

36 notices of intent the Commission received since 

the Hydropower Efficiency Act’s enactment were 

filed within the first six months of the program. In 

the last three months, the Commission received 

three notices of intent; one of which the applicant 

refiled after Commission staff rejected the 

applicant’s first notice of intent. Therefore, 

Commission staff estimates that it will receive eight 

notices of intent per year. 

13Based on the number of preliminary permits 

issued in the past three years, Commission staff 

estimates that an annual average of 80 permits will 

be eligible to request an extension. 

ANNUAL CHANGES IMPLEMENTED BY THE FINAL RULE IN RM14–22 5—Continued 

Type of respondents Number of 

respondents 

Annual 

number of 

responses 6

per respondent 

Total 

number of 

responses 

Average 

burden and 

cost per 

response 

Total annual 

burden 

hours and 

total annual 

cost 

Cost per 

respondent 

(a) (b) (a) × (b) = (c) (d) (c) × (d) = (e) (e)/(a) 

Small hydroelectric power project exemption applications (greater than 5 MW 

and up to 10 MW) ................................ 10 2 1 2 * 46 

$3,243 

* 92 

$6,486 

$3,243 

Qualifying conduit hydropower facility— 

notices of intent 11 ................................ 12 8 1 8 * 46 

$3,243 

* 368 

$25,944 

$3,243 

FERC–512, Preliminary Permit 

Request for extension to 5 years ............ 13 80 1 80 * 4 

$282 

* 320 

$22,560 

$282 

* Hours. 

Comments: Comments are invited on: 

(1) Whether the information collections 

are 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 

information collections, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collections; and (4) ways to 

minimize the burden of the information 

collections on those who are to respond, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Dated: December 5, 2014. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–28949 Filed 12–9–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings #1 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric rate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: ER14–2742–000; 

ER14–2743–000; ER14–2744–000. 

Applicants: Central Maine Power 

Company. 

Description: eTariff filing per 

35.19a(b): Refund Report to be effective 

N/A. 

Filed Date: 12/2/14. 

Accession Number: 20141202–5152. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/23/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER14–2824–001. 

Applicants: California Independent 

System Operator Corporation. 

Description: Compliance filing per 35: 

2014–12–03 Pro Forma_APSA_

Compliance to be effective 11/10/2014. 

Filed Date: 12/3/14. 

Accession Number: 20141203–5105. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/24/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER15–559–000. 

Applicants: Pacific Gas and Electric 

Company. 

Description: § 205(d) rate filing per 

35.13(a)(2)(iii): Transmission Access 

Charge Balancing Account Adjustment 

(TACBAA) 2015 to be effective 

3/1/2015. 

Filed Date: 12/3/14. 

Accession Number: 20141203–5009. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/24/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER15–560–000. 

Applicants: Duke Energy Florida, Inc. 

Description: § 205(d) rate filing per 

35.13(a)(2)(iii): Amendment of FMPA 

NITSA SA No. 148 to be effective 

1/1/2015. 

Filed Date: 12/3/14. 

Accession Number: 20141203–5049. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/24/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER15–561–000. 

Applicants: Southwestern Public 

Service Company. 

Description: § 205(d) rate filing per 

35.13(a)(2)(iii): 12–3–14_RS114– 

117,137-Ministerial to be effective 

1/1/2014. 

Filed Date: 12/3/14. 

Accession Number: 20141203–5058. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/24/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER15–562–000. 

Applicants: Southwestern Public 

Service Company. 

Description: § 205(d) rate filing per 

35.13(a)(2)(iii): 12–3–14_RS135- 

Ministerial to be effective 1/1/2014. 

Filed Date: 12/3/14. 

Accession Number: 20141203–5059. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/24/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER15–563–000. 

Applicants: New York Independent 

System Operator, Inc. 

Description: § 205(d) rate filing per 

35.13(a)(2)(iii): NYISO 205 filing re: 

blackstart and system restoration service 

to be effective 2/1/2015. 

Filed Date: 12/3/14. 

Accession Number: 20141203–5121. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/24/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER15–564–000. 

Applicants: PJM Interconnection, 

L.L.C. 

Description: § 205(d) rate filing per 

35.13(a)(2)(iii): Service Agreement No. 

3185; Queue No. W4–046 to be effective 

11/10/2014. 

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