4418 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 15 / Monday, January 26, 2009 / Notices 

1Notices for: FERC–65 (in Docket No. IC09–65), 

October 16, 2008, 73 FR 61414; FERC–65A (in 

Docket No. IC09–65A), October 15, 2008, 73 FR 

61103; and FERC–65B (in Docket No. IC09–65B), 

October 16, 2008, 73 FR 61415. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 16, 

2009. 

Anthony J. Como, 

Director, Permitting and Siting, Office of 

Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability. 

[FR Doc. E9–1559 Filed 1–23–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Gtherm, Inc.; Notice of Intent To Grant 

Exclusive Patent License 

AGENCY: Office of the General Counsel, 

Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to grant 

exclusive patent license. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given with 

an intent to grant to Gtherm, Inc. of 

Weston, Connecticut, an exclusive 

license to practice the inventions 

described in U.S. Patent No. 6,251,179, 

entitled ‘‘Thermally Conductive 

Cementitious Grout for Geothermal Heat 

Pump Systems.’’ The inventions are 

owned by the United States of America, 

as represented by the U.S. Department 

of Energy (DOE). 

DATE: Written comments or 

nonexclusive license applications are to 

be received at the address listed below 

no later than February 10, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant 

General Counsel for Technology 

Transfer and Intellectual Property, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Ave., SW., Washington, 

DC 20585. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Annette R. Reimers, Office of the 

Assistant General Counsel for 

Technology Transfer and Intellectual 

Property, U.S. Department of Energy, 

Forrestal Building, Room 6F–067, 1000 

Independence Ave., SW., Washington, 

DC 20585; Telephone (202) 586–3815. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 35 U.S.C. 

209 provides federal agencies with 

authority to grant exclusive licenses in 

federally-owned inventions, if, among 

other things, the agency finds that the 

public will be served by the granting of 

the license. The statute requires that no 

exclusive license may be granted unless 

public notice of the intent to grant the 

license has been provided, and the 

agency has considered all comments 

received in response to that public 

notice before the end of the comment 

period. 

Gtherm, Inc. of Weston, Connecticut 

has applied for an exclusive license to 

practice the inventions embodied in 

U.S. Patent No. 6,251,179 and has plans 

for commercialization of the inventions. 

The exclusive license will be subject to 

a license and other rights retained by 

the U.S. Government and other terms 

and conditions to be negotiated. DOE 

intends to negotiate to grant the license, 

unless, within 15 days of this notice, the 

Assistant General Counsel for 

Technology Transfer and Intellectual 

Property, Department of Energy, 

Washington, DC 20585, receives in 

writing any of the following, together 

with supporting documents: 

(i) A statement from any person 

setting forth reason why it would not be 

in the best interests of the United States 

to grant the proposed license; or 

(ii) An application for a nonexclusive 

license to the invention in which 

applicant states that it already has 

brought the invention to practical 

application or is likely to bring the 

invention to practical application 

expeditiously. 

The Department will review all timely 

written responses to this notice and will 

proceed with negotiating the license if, 

after consideration of written responses 

to this notice, a finding is made that the 

license is in the public interest. 

Issued in Washington, DC on January 12, 

2009. 

Paul A. Gottlieb, 

Assistant General Counsel for Technology 

Transfer and Intellectual Property. 

[FR Doc. E9–1561 Filed 1–23–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Questions Concerning Technology 

Transfer Practices at Department of 

Energy (DOE) Laboratories 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of extension of comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: The DOE published on 

November 26, 2008, in the Federal 

Register, a notice of inquiry concerning 

technology practices at DOE 

laboratories. The DOE invited comments 

to published questions concerning 

technology transfer practices at DOE 

laboratories. The comment period was 

to continue for 60 days from the date of 

the publication of the Federal Register 

notice (till January 26, 2009). This 

Federal Register notice extends the 

comment period till March 26, 2009, to 

allow additional time for the public to 

respond to the questions raised in the 

Notice of Inquiry. 

DATES: The comment period has been 

extended to March 26, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted electronically at: GC62@hq.doe.gov; or by mail at: Office of 

the Assistant General Counsel for 

Technology Transfer and Intellectual 

Property, U.S. Department of Energy, 

1000 Independence Ave., SW., 

Washington, DC 20585. ATTN: 

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER 

QUESTIONS. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

A. Gottlieb, Assistant General Counsel 

for Technology Transfer and Intellectual 

Property, U.S. Department of Energy, 

Forrestal Building, Room 6F–067, 1000 

Independence Ave., SW., Washington, 

DC 20585; Telephone: (202) 586–3439. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 16, 

2009. 

Devon Streit, 

Office of Science. 

[FR Doc. E9–1562 Filed 1–23–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. IC09–65–001, IC09–65A–001, 

IC09–65B–001] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; 

Submitted for OMB Review 

January 15, 2009. 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, DOE. 

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) 

has submitted the information 

collections described below to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review of these 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 

earlier Federal Register notices 1 and 

has made this notation in its 

submissions to OMB. 

DATES: Comments on the collections of 

information are due by February 19, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: Address comments on the 

collections of information to the Office 

of Management and Budget, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory 

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Commission Desk Officer. Comments to 

OMB should be filed electronically, c/o 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov and 

include the appropriate OMB Control 

Number(s) (1902–0218 for FERC–65, 

1902–0216 for FERC–65A, and 1902– 

0217 for FERC–65B) as a point of 

reference. The Desk Officer may be 

reached by telephone at 202–395–7345. 

A copy of the comments should also 

be sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission and should refer to Docket 

Nos. IC09–65–001, IC09–65A–001, and 

IC09–65B–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 Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission 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 Nos. IC09–65–001, IC09–65A– 

001, and IC09–65B–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 fercolinesupport@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: 

FERC–65. The information collected 

under the requirements of FERC–65 

‘‘Notification of Holding Company 

Status’’ (OMB No. 1902–0218) is used 

by the Commission to implement the 

statutory provisions of the Public Utility 

Holding Company Act of 2005 (PUHCA 

2005). Among other things, PUHCA 

2005 was intended to give the 

Commission access to books and records 

relevant to costs incurred by a public 

utility or natural gas company which are 

necessary or appropriate for the 

protection of utility customers with 

respect to jurisdictional rates. For the 

Commission to carry out its rate 

regulation responsibilities, it must know 

who the entities are that are holding 

companies of jurisdictional public 

utilities and natural gas companies. The 

Commission obtains this information 

through the FERC–65 filings. 

The FERC–65 is a one-time 

informational filing set out in the 

Commission’s regulations (18 CFR 

366.4) that must be submitted within 30 

days of becoming a holding company. 

The information is required in no 

specific format and consists of the 

identities of: the holding company, the 

public utilities and natural gas 

companies in the holding company 

system, the service companies, 

including special-purpose subsidiaries 

providing non-power goods and 

services, and all affiliates and 

subsidiaries and their corporate 

relationship to each other. Filings may 

be submitted in hardcopy or 

electronically through the Commission’s 

eFiling system. 

FERC–65A. The information collected 

under the requirements of FERC–65A 

‘‘Exemption Notification of Holding 

Company Status’’ (OMB No. 1902–0216) 

is also used by the Commission to 

implement the statutory provisions of 

PUHCA 2005. The Commission has 

allowed for an exemption if the books, 

accounts, memoranda, and other records 

of any person are not relevant to the 

jurisdictional rates of a public utility or 

natural gas company; or if any class of 

transactions is not relevant to the 

jurisdictional rates of a public utility or 

natural gas company. Commission 

regulations in 18 CFR 366.3 describe the 

criteria in more specificity, and 18 CFR 

366.4 designates the use of FERC–65A 

for exemption requests. Filings may be 

submitted in hardcopy or electronically 

through the Commission’s Web site. 

FERC–65B. The information collected 

under the requirements of FERC–65B 

‘‘Waiver Notification’’ (OMB No. 1902– 

0217) is also used by the Commission to 

implement the statutory provisions of 

PUHCA 2005. (This intention was made 

clear in Section 1264 of the Energy 

Policy Act of 2005, 42 U.S.C. 16452.) 

However, in 18 CFR 366.3(c), the 

Commission has allowed for waivers 

from related requirements for any 

holding company with respect to one or 

more of the following: (1) Single-state 

holding company systems; (2) holding 

companies that own generating facilities 

that total 100 MW or less in size, and 

are used fundamentally for their own 

load or for sales to affiliated end-users; 

or (3) investors in independent 

transmission-only companies. 

Entities meeting these criteria may file 

a FERC–65B pursuant to the notification 

procedures contained in 18 CFR 366.4 

to obtain a waiver. Filings may be made 

in hardcopy or electronically through 

the Commission’s Web site. 

Action: The Commission is requesting 

three-year extensions of the current 

expiration dates, with no changes to the 

existing collections of data. 

Burden Statement: Public reporting 

burden for these collections are 

estimated as: 

FERC Data collection 

Number of 

respondents 

annually 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average burden 

hours per 

response 

Total annual 

burden hours 

(1) (2) (3) (1)×(2)×(3) 

FERC–65 (Notification) .................................................................. 30 1 3 90 

FERC–65A (Exemption) ................................................................ 10 1 1 10 

FERC–65B (Waiver) ...................................................................... 10 1 1 10 

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2Number of hours an employee works each year. 

3Average annual salary per employee. 

Estimated costs to respondents are: 

1. For FERC–65, $5,468. [90 hours 

divided by 2080 hours 2 per year, times 

$126,384 3 equals $5,468.54]. The 

average cost per respondent is $182.28. 

2. For FERC–65A, $607.62. [10 hours 

divided by 2080 hours 2 per year, times 

$126,384 3 equals $607.62]. The average 

cost per respondent is $60.76. 

3. For FERC–65B, $607.62. [10 hours 

divided by 2080 hours 2 per year, times 

$126,384 3 equals $607.62]. The average 

cost per respondent is $60.76. 

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 collections of information 

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 

estimates of the burden of the proposed 

collections 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 

collections 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. E9–1470 Filed 1–23–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 3701–089] 

Tieton Hydropower, LLC; Notice of 

Application for Amendment of License 

and Soliciting Comments, Motions To 

Intervene, and Protests 

January 15, 2009. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection: 

a. Type of Application: Amendment 

of license to delete certain nonjurisdictional transmission facilities 

from license. 

b. Project No: 3701–089. 

c. Date Filed: November 17, 2008. 

d. Applicant: Tieton Hydropower, 

LLC. 

e. Name of Project: Tieton 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: The project is located at 

the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Tieton 

Dam and Reservoir on the Tieton River 

in Yakima County, Washington. 

g. Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 

U.S.C. 791a–825r. 

h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Chad Ross, 

Tieton Hydropower, LLC, 925 N 

Fairgrounds Road, Goldendale, 

Washington 98206. Tel: (509) 773–4900. 

i. FERC Contact: Any questions on 

this notice should be addressed to Ms. 

Kelly Houff at (202) 502–6393, or e-mail 

address: Kelly.Houff@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing comments and or 

motions: February 17, 2009. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) should be filed with: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

Comments, protests, and interventions 

may be filed electronically via the 

Internet in lieu of paper; see 18 CFR 

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and instructions on 

the Commission’s Web site under the 

‘‘e-filing’’ link. The Commission 

strongly encourages electronic filings. 

Please include the project number P– 

3701–089 on any comments or motions 

filed. 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure require all interveners 

filing documents with the Commission 

to serve a copy of that document on 

each person whose name appears on the 

official service list for the project. 

Further, if an intervener files comments 

or documents with the Commission 

relating to the merits of an issue that 

may affect the responsibilities of a 

particular resource agency, they must 

also serve a copy of the document on 

that resource agency. A copy of any 

motion to intervene must also be served 

upon each representative of the 

Applicant specified in the particular 

application. 

k. Description of Request: Tieton 

Hydropower, LLC proposes to delete 

from the license, a 21-mile-long 115–kV 

transmission line extending from the 

Tieton Project to the PacifiCorp Tieton 

Substation, and the substation originally 

included in the Tieton Project 

description. According to the licensee, 

the line and substation will no longer be 

primary transmission facilities 

transmitting power solely for the Tieton 

Project, but will be used for the 

transmission of non-Tieton Project 

power. 

l. Locations of the Application: A 

copy of the application is available for 

inspection and reproduction at the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room, 

located at 888 First Street, NE., Room 

2A, Washington, DC 20426, or by calling 

(202) 502–8371. This filing may also be 

viewed on the Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket 

number excluding the last three digits in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. You may also register online 

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

esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, call 1–866–208–3372 or 

e-mail FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, 

for TTY, call (202) 502–8659. A copy is 

also available for inspection and 

reproduction at the address in item (h) 

above. 

m. Individuals desiring to be included 

on the Commission’s mailing list should 

so indicate by writing to the Secretary 

of the Commission. 

n. Comments, Protests, or Motions to 

Intervene: Anyone may submit 

comments, a protest, or a motion to 

intervene in accordance with the 

requirements of Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 18 CFR 385.210, .211, .214. 

In determining the appropriate action to 

take, the Commission will consider all 

protests or other comments filed, but 

only those who file a motion to 

intervene in accordance with the 

Commission’s Rules may become a 

party to the proceeding. Any comments, 

protests, or motions to intervene must