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ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202– 

401–0920. Please specify the complete 

title of the information collection when 

making your request. 

Comments regarding burden and/or 

the collection activity requirements 

should be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Individuals who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 

1–800–877–8339. 

[FR Doc. E9–13338 Filed 6–5–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Agency Information Collection 

Extension 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Submission for Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) review; 

comment request. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) 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 threeyear extension of its Financial 

Assistance Information Collection, OMB 

Control Number 1910–0400. This 

information collection request covers 

information necessary to administer and 

manage DOE’s financial assistance 

programs. 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

collection must be received on or before 

July 8, 2009. 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 OMB Desk Officer of your 

intention to make a submission as soon 

as possible. The Desk Officer may be 

telephoned at 202–395–4650. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent to the following: Denise Clarke, 

Procurement Analyst, MA–612/L’Enfant 

Plaza Building, U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC, 20585–1615, 

deniset.clarke@hq.doe.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Denise Clarke at the above address, or 

by telephone at (202) 287–1748. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

(1) OMB No. 1910–0400 (Renewal); (2) 

Information Collection Request Title: 

Financial Assistance Information 

Collection (3) Purpose: This package 

contains information collections 

necessary for the solicitation, award, 

administration, and closeout of grants 

and cooperative agreements (4) 

Estimated Number of Respondents 

59,217 (5) Estimated Total Burden 

Hours: 926,022 (6) Number of 

Collections: The information collection 

request contains 16 information and/or 

recordkeeping requirements. 

Statutory Authority: Federal Grant and 

Cooperative Agreement Act, 31 U.S.C. 6301– 

6308. 

Issued in Washington, DC on June 1, 2009. 

Edward R. Simpson, 

Director, Office of Procurement and 

Assistance Management, Department of 

Energy. 

[FR Doc. E9–13321 Filed 6–5–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC09–576–001] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities (Ferc–576); Comment 

Request; Submitted for OMB Review 

June 1, 2009. 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of section 3507 of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 

U.S.C. 3507, the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission or 

FERC) has submitted the information 

collection described below 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 

received no comments in response to 

the Federal Register notice (74 FR 6273, 

2/6/09) and has made this notation in its 

submission to OMB. 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information are due by July 8, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Address comments on the 

collection of information to the Office of 

Management and Budget, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission Desk Officer. Comments to 

OMB should be filed electronically, c/o 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov and 

include OMB Control No. 1902–0004 as 

a point of reference. The OMB Desk 

Officer may be reached by telephone at 

202–395–4638. 

A copy of the comments should also 

be sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission and should refer to Docket 

No. IC09–576–001. Comments may be 

filed either electronically or in paper 

format. Those persons filing 

electronically do not need to make a 

paper filing. Documents filed 

electronically via the Internet must be 

prepared in an acceptable filing format 

and in compliance with the FERC 

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. 

For paper filings, an original and 2 

copies of the comments should be 

submitted to the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, Secretary of the 

Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20426, and should refer 

to Docket No. IC09–576–001. 

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: 

Ellen Brown may be reached by 

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

(202) 273–0873, and by e-mail at 

ellen.brown@ferc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FERC 

is requesting comments on the FERC– 

576 (Report of Service Interruptions; 

OMB Clearance No. 1902–0004). Under 

the Natural Gas Act (NGA) (Pub. L. 75 

688) (15 U.S.C. 717–717w), a natural gas 

company must obtain Commission 

authorization to engage in the 

transportation, sale or exchange of 

natural gas in interstate commerce. The 

Commission is also empowered to 

oversee continuity of service in the 

transportation of natural gas in 

interstate commerce. The information 

collected under FERC–576 notifies the 

Commission of: (1) Serious 

interruptions to service, and (2) damage 

to jurisdictional natural gas facilities 

due to natural disaster or terrorist 

activity, that creates the potential for 

serious delivery problems on the 

pipeline’s own system or the pipeline 

grid. 


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1The burden and cost figures may not be exact, 

due to rounding. For these calculations, the number 

of hours an employee works each year is 2,080. 

2This includes the original e-mail, plus the 

follow-up e-mail (sent when throughput or storage 

deliverability has been restored). 

3Based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ figures 

for wage estimates within ‘NAICS 486200, Pipeline 

Transportation of Natural Gas’ (posted at http:// 

www.bls.gov/oes/2008/may/naics4_486200.htm, for 

May 2008), the average hourly cost being used for 

these calculations is $63.07. The total estimated 

cost burden provided here ($6,307) updates and 

replaces the estimate (of $6,076.15) provided in the 

60-day Notice issued on 1/29/09. 

Filings in accordance with the 

provisions of section 4(d) of the Natural 

Gas Act (NGA) (15 U.S.C. 717c) are to 

contain information necessary to advise 

the Commission when a change in 

service has occurred. Under section 7(d) 

of the NGA (15 U.S.C. 717f), the 

Commission may issue a temporary 

certificate in cases of emergency to 

assure maintenance of adequate service 

or to serve particular customers, without 

notice or hearing. 

The FERC–576 initial reports are 

submitted by e-mail to 

pipelineoutage@ferc.gov or by facsimile 

transmission. Title 18 Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR) section 260.9(b) 

requires that a report of service 

interruption or damage to natural gas 

facilities state the: (1) Location of the 

service interruption or damage to 

natural gas pipeline or storage facilities; 

(2) nature of any damage to pipeline or 

storage facilities; (3) specific 

identification of the facilities damaged; 

(4) time the service interruption or 

damage to the facilities occurred; (5) 

customers affected by the service 

interruption or damage to the facilities; 

(6) emergency actions taken to maintain 

service; and (7) company contact and 

telephone number. (In response to these 

reports, the Commission may contact 

the pipeline to determine the estimated 

duration of the outage, and if necessary, 

authorize emergency transportation or 

re-construction of facilities to alleviate 

the problem.) The company also reports 

to the Commission when pipeline 

throughput or storage deliverability has 

been restored. 

Failure by the Commission to collect 

this information would mean that it is 

unable to monitor and evaluate our 

regulated energy infrastructure, and 

remain apprised of the critical status of 

operations and reliability of interstate 

pipelines. 

In coordination with the U.S. 

Department of Transportation (DOT), 

FERC has reviewed the pipeline damage 

reporting requirements. FERC and DOT 

have concluded that there is minimal 

duplication between the data collected 

here and that collected by DOT under 

49 CFR 191. The intent, timing, and the 

information collected serve different 

needs, and a common reporting form is 

not appropriate. 

Action: The Commission is requesting 

a three-year extension of the current 

expiration date, with no change to the 

existing requirements. 

Burden Statement: Annual reporting 

burden for this collection is estimated 

as: 

FERC Data Collection—FERCt–576 

Number of 

respondents 

annually 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Total annual 

burden hours1

(1) (2) (3) (1) × (2) × (3) 

Submittal to FERC of the original e-mail and follow-up e-mail 2 ..................... 40 2 2 1 2 80 

Submittal of damage report to state commissions .......................................... 40 1 0.25 10 

Submittal to FERC of copy of DOT incident report ......................................... 40 1 0.25 10 

The estimated cost burden to 

respondents 3 is $6,307 (100 hours × 

$63.07 per hour = $6,307). 

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 

utilizing technology and systems for the 

purposes of collecting, validating, 

verifying, processing, maintaining, 

disclosing and providing information; 

(3) adjusting the existing ways to 

comply with any previously applicable 

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 estimate of cost 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) Whether 

the proposed 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 estimates of the burden of 

the proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (3) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (4) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond, including 

the use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–13236 Filed 6–5–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. P–516–459] 

South Carolina Electric & Gas 

Company; Notice of Application 

Accepted for Filing and Soliciting 

Motions To Intervene and Protests 

May 29, 2009. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Applications: New Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: P–516–459. 

c. Date Filed: August 28, 2008. 

d. Applicant: South Carolina Electric 

& Gas Company. 

e. Name of Project: Saluda 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On the Saluda River in 

Richland, Lexington, Saluda, and 

Newberry counties, South Carolina. The 


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