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UNITED STATES CODE AND CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS WAIVED—Continued 

Title 5, United States Code Title 5, Code of Federal Regulations 

Part 316, sections 316.301, 316.303, and 316.304: Term Employment. 

(These sections are waived to allow flexible term appointments as 

described in this Federal Register Notice.) 

Part 335, section 335.102(f); Agency authority to promote, demote, or 

reassign. (This section is waived to the extent necessary to allow 

temporary promotions as described in this Federal Register Notice.) 

Part 330, section 330.707(h): Exceptions to Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) selection priority. (This section is 

waived to the extent necessary to allow conversion to permanent positions without clearing ICTAP.) 

Dated: August 11, 2017. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2017–17310 Filed 8–15–17; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID DOD–2016–OS–0033] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary of 

Defense for Policy, DoD. 

ACTION: 60-Day information collection 

notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Office of the Under Secretary of Defense 

for Policy announces a proposed public 

information collection and seeks public 

comment on the provisions thereof. 

Comments are invited on: Whether the 

proposed collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; ways 

to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and ways to minimize the 

burden of the information collection on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by October 16, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Department of Defense, Office 

of the Deputy Chief Management 

Officer, Directorate for Oversight and 

Compliance, Regulatory and Advisory 

Committee Division, 4800 Mark Center 

Drive, Mailbox #24, Suite 08D09B, 

Alexandria, VA 22350–1700. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, docket 

number and title for this Federal 

Register document. The general policy 

for comments and other submissions 

from members of the public is to make 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the Internet at http://

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

Any associated form(s) for this 

collection may be located within this 

same electronic docket and downloaded 

for review/testing. Follow the 

instructions at http://

www.regulations.gov for submitting 

comments. Please submit comments on 

any given form identified by docket 

number, form number, and title. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on this 

proposed information collection or to 

obtain a copy of the proposal and 

associated collection instruments, 

please write to the Leadership and 

Organizational Development Office, 

2400 Defense Pentagon, Room 5B683, 

ATTN: Dr. James Cully, Washington, DC 

20301–2400, or call, at 703–695–7386. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title; Associated Form; and OMB 

Number: OUSD—Policy Pulse Survey; 

OMB Control Number 0704–XXXX. 

Needs and Uses: The information 

collection requirement is necessary to 

obtain and record responses from 

contractor personnel employed within 

the Office of the Under Secretary of 

Defense for Policy and its components. 

The survey results are analyzed by the 

Leadership and Organizational 

Development Office to assess the 

progress of the current human capital 

strategy and to address emerging human 

capital and training issues. 

Affected Public: Individual or 

households. 

Annual Burden Hours: 76.5. 

Number of Respondents: 153. 

Responses per Respondent: 2. 

Annual Responses: 306. 

Average Burden per Response: 15 

minutes. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondents are defense contractors 

employed by Office of the Under 

Secretary of Defense for Policy who 

provide analytic, administrative, and 

operations services. The survey is 

administered to all employees of the 

Office of Secretary of Defense for Policy 

as required by the Under Secretary of 

Defense for Policy to assess the 

effectiveness and progress of the current 

human capital strategy. If contractors 

are not permitted to take the survey then 

the assessment effectively excludes 

∼20% of the employee population, 

diminishing the accuracy of the survey 

and resulting conclusions. 

Dated: August 11, 2017. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Energy Information Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Information Collection 

Extension 

AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: EIA, pursuant to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

intends to extend (with changes) for 

three years with the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) Form 

OE–417 Electric Emergency Incident 

and Disturbance Report, OMB Control 

Number 1901–0288. Form OE–417 

enables the U.S. Department of Energy 


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(DOE) to monitor emergencies and 

significant incidents that affect U.S. 

electric power systems. The information 

gathered allows DOE to conduct postincident reviews examining significant 

interruptions of electric power or threats 

to the national electric system. 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

proposed information collection must 

be received on or before October 16, 

2017. If you anticipate difficulty in 

submitting comments within that 

period, contact the person listed in 

ADDRESSES as soon as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

sent to OE–417 Recertification, C/O 

Matthew Tarduogno, U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue 

SW., Washington, DC 20585 or by fax at 

202–586–2623, or by email at OE417@

hq.doe.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Matthew Tarduogno, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585, or by phone at 

202–586–2892, or by email at 

matthew.tardugono@hq.doe.gov. 

Additional information may also be 

found at: https://www.oe.netl.doe.gov/ 

oe417.aspx. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Comments 

are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

This information collection request 

contains: 

(1) OMB No. 1901–0288. 

(2) Information Collection Request 

Title: Electric Emergency Incident and 

Disturbance Report. 

(3) Type of Request: Renewal. 

(4) Purpose: The U.S Department of 

Energy uses Form OE–417 Emergency 

Incident and Disturbance Report to 

monitor emergencies and incidents that 

affect U.S. electric power systems. The 

information gathered allows DOE to 

conduct post-incident reviews 

examining significant interruptions, or 

potential interruptions, of electric 

power or threats to the national electric 

system. Form OE–417 enables DOE to 

meet the Department’s national security 

responsibilities and requirements as the 

lead agency for Emergency Support 

Function (ESF) #12—Energy under the 

National Response Framework and the 

Sector-Specific Agency for energy under 

Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) 21 

and PPD 41. The information may also 

be shared with other non-regulatory 

federal agencies assisting in emergency 

response and recovery operations, or 

investigating the causes of an incident 

or disturbance to the national electric 

system. Public summaries are posted to 

the DOE Form OE–417 Web site on a 

monthly basis to keep the public 

informed. 

(4a) Proposed Changes to Information 

Collection: The main proposed change 

to Form OE–417 is to incorporate 

questions that are or will be included in 

the North American Electric Reliability 

Corporation (NERC) EOP–004 

Reliability Standard Event Reporting 

Form. Currently if an entity submits a 

Form OE–417 and elects to have it 

submitted to NERC, the entity does not 

need to file an EOP–004 Event 

Reporting Form; however there were 

some questions on EOP–004 Event 

Reporting Form that are not covered by 

Form OE–417. By incorporating these 

additional questions, and aligning 

language, entities will only be required 

to submit Form OE–417. This will 

reduce the reporting burden for the 

electric power industry. Additional 

changes to Form OE–417 clarify and 

improve the flow of questions. 

1. The instructions will include a note 

that ‘‘NERC has determined that, for 

U.S. NERC reporting entities, the 

proposed revised Form OE–417 meets 

NERC’s submittal requirements’’ (i.e. 

Form EOP–004). 

2. Alternative methods of filing Form 

OE–417 are added to allow the use of 

email submissions; however, online 

submissions remain the preferred 

method. 

3. Under ‘‘Criteria for Filing,’’ three 

categories of submission will be shown: 

‘‘Emergency Alert; Normal Report; 

System Report’’ to provide better clarity 

and easy reference. 

4. Minor edits were made to the Alert 

criteria 5 and 6 to align with EOP–004 

Reliability Standard terminology. 

5. Under ‘‘Criteria for Filing’’ section: 

12 new data elements are added to 

collect the additional information that 

NERC collects or will collect on under 

the EOP–004 Reliability Standard. The 

additional questions are in a new 

category of submission called ‘‘System 

Report’’ and include: 

a. Damage or destruction of a Facility 

within its Reliability Coordinator Area, 

Balancing Authority Area or 

Transmission Operator Area that results 

in action(s) to avoid a Bulk Electric 

System Emergency; 

b. Damage or destruction of its 

Facility that results from actual or 

suspected intentional human action; 

c. Physical threat to its Facility 

excluding weather or natural disaster 

related threats, which has the potential 

to degrade the normal operation of the 

Facility. Or suspicious device or activity 

at its Facility; 

d. Physical threat to its Bulk Electric 

System control center, excluding 

weather or natural disaster related 

threats, which has the potential to 

degrade the normal operation of the 

control center. OR suspicious device or 

activity at its Bulk Electric System 

control center; 

e. Bulk Electric System Emergency 

resulting in voltage deviation on a 

Facility; a voltage deviation of equal to 

or greater than 10% of nominal voltage 

sustained for greater than or equal to 15 

continuous minutes; 

f. Uncontrolled loss of 200 Megawatts 

or more of firm system loads for 15 

minutes or more from a single incident 

for entities with previous year’s peak 

demand less than or equal to 3,000 

Megawatts; 

g. Total generation loss, within one 

minute of: Greater than or equal to 2,000 

Megawatts in the Eastern or Western 

Interconnection or greater than or equal 

to 1,400 Megawatts in the ERCOT 

Interconnection; 

h. Complete loss of off-site power 

(LOOP) affecting a nuclear generating 

station per the Nuclear Plant Interface 

Requirements; 

i. Unexpected Transmission loss 

within its area, contrary to design, of 

three or more Bulk Electric System 

Facilities caused by a common 

disturbance (excluding successful 

automatic reclosing); 

j. Unplanned evacuation from its Bulk 

Electric System control center facility 

for 30 continuous minutes or more; 

k. Complete loss of Interpersonal 

Communication and Alternative 

Interpersonal Communication capability 

affecting its staffed Bulk Electric System 

control center for 30 continuous 

minutes or more; 

l. Complete loss of monitoring or 

control capability at its staffed Bulk 

Electric System control center for 30 

continuous minutes or more. 

6. Re-labeled line numbers 1 through 

20 to line numbers A through T to 


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prevent confusion between line 

numbers and alert criteria. 

7. Added an Alert status category 

‘‘system report,’’ which shall be filed by 

the later of 24 hours after the 

recognition of the incident OR by the 

end of the next business day. This 

change aligns with the EOP–004 

Reliability Standard. 4:00 p.m. local 

time will be definition for the end of the 

business day. 

8. Under Electric Emergency Incident 

and Disturbance Report section, lines J, 

K, L were reorganized into ‘‘Cause, 

Impact, and Action Taken’’ for clarity 

and ease of use and additional items 

were added to align with NERC’s EOP– 

004 Reliability Standard. 

9. The burden per response for 

completing Form OE–417 is reduced 

from 2.16 hours to 1.8 hours based on 

findings from the results from cognitive 

research conducted by the U.S. Energy 

Information Administration. 

EIA also proposes to amend its data 

protection policy for information 

reported on Schedule 2 of Form OE– 

417. Currently this information is 

protected from public release to the 

extent that it satisfies the criteria for 

exemption under the Freedom of 

Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552, 

the DOE regulations, 10 CFR 1004.11 

implementing FOIA, and the Trade 

Secrets Act, 18 U.S.C. 1905. EIA 

proposes to use the Critical Energy 

Infrastructure Information (CEII) 

regulations as set forth by the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission to 

implement the requirements of the 

Fixing America’s Surface Transportation 

(FAST) Act, Public Law 114–94, 

pursuant to section 215A(d) of the 

Federal Power Act, as amended, to 

protect information reported on 

Schedule 2 in addition to continuing to 

apply FOIA exemptions and using the 

Trade Secrets Act. This change will 

strengthen DOE’s ability to protect 

information reported on Schedule 2 of 

Form OE–417 and authorize DOE to 

withhold company identifiable 

information from public release. 

The new data protection provision for 

Form OE–417 will be as follows: The 

information reported on Schedule 1 will 

be considered ‘‘public information’’ and 

may be publicly released in company or 

individually identifiable form. 

Information on Schedule 2 of Form 

OE–417 will not be disclosed to the 

public to the extent that it satisfies the 

criteria for exemption under the 

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 

U.S.C. 552, the DOE regulations, 10 CFR 

1004.11, implementing the FOIA, the 

Trade Secrets Act, 18 U.S.C. 1905 and 

Critical Energy Infrastructure 

Information regulations as defined by 

the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission pursuant to section 

215A(d) of the Federal Power Act, as 

amended. 

In accordance with the Federal Energy 

Administration Act, the DOE provides 

company-specific protected data to 

other Federal agencies when requested 

for official use. The information 

reported on this form may also be made 

available, upon request, to another 

component of DOE; to any Committee of 

Congress, the U.S. Government 

Accountability Office, or other Federal 

agencies authorized by law to receive 

such information. A court of competent 

jurisdiction may obtain this information 

in response to an order. The information 

may be used for any non-statistical 

purposes such as administrative, 

regulatory, law enforcement, or 

adjudicatory purposes. 

The data collected on Form OE–417, 

Electric Emergency Incident and 

disturbance Report, will be used by DOE 

to meet its overall national security and 

National Response Framework 

responsibilities. 

(5) Annual Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 2,395. 

(6) Annual Estimated Number of 

Total Responses: 300. 

(7) Annual Estimated Number of 

Burden Hours: 5,315. 

(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $391,503. 

Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the 

Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974, 

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

and the DOE Organization Act of 1977, Pub. 

L. 95–91, codified at 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq. 

In addition, 15 U.S.C. 772(b); 764(a); 764(b); 

and 790a, of the Federal Energy 

Administration Act of 1974 (FEA Act), Pub. 

L. 93–275, as well as the Public Utility 

Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 

2601, Pub. L. 93–275. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on August 2, 

2017. 

Devon Streit, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Infrastructure 

Security and Energy Restoration, Office of 

Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP17–74–000] 

National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation; 

Notice of Schedule for Environmental 

Review of the Line YM28 & Line FM120 

Modernization Project 

On March 10, 2017, National Fuel Gas 

Supply Corporation (National Fuel) 

filed an application in Docket No. 

CP17–74–000 requesting an 

authorization and a Certificate of Public 

Convenience and Necessity pursuant to 

Sections 7(b) and 7(c) of the Natural Gas 

Act to abandon, construct, and operate 

certain natural gas pipeline facilities. 

The proposed project is known as the 

Line YM28 & Line FM120 

Modernization Project (Project). 

On March 24, 2017, the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission 

(Commission or FERC) issued its Notice 

of Application for the Project. Among 

other things, that notice alerted agencies 

issuing federal authorizations of the 

requirement to complete all necessary 

reviews and to reach a final decision on 

a request for a federal authorization 

within 90 days of the date of issuance 

of the Commission staff’s Environmental 

Assessment (EA) for the Project. This 

instant notice identifies the FERC staff’s 

planned schedule for the completion of 

the EA for the Project. 

Schedule for Environmental Review 

Issuance of EA September 29, 2017 

90-day Federal Authorization Decision 

Deadline December 28, 2017 

If a schedule change becomes 

necessary, additional notice will be 

provided so that the relevant agencies 

are kept informed of the Project’s 

progress. 

Project Description 

National Fuel proposes to construct, 

operate, and abandon various facilities 

in Cameron, Elk, and McKean Counties, 

Pennsylvania. According to National 

Fuel, the Project would enhance the 

reliability and safety of the National 

Fuel system, allow for continued 

transportation services performed by the 

abandoned facilities, and offer better 

connectivity for storage and 

transportation services to National 

Fuel’s backbone transmission pipeline 

(Line K). 

The Project would consist of the 

following: 

• Approximately 14.4 miles of new 

12-inch-diameter pipeline installed 

within existing rights-of-way in McKean 

County (designated Line KL); 


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