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[email protected] 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
[email protected]. 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]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

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]
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Agency Information Collection
Extension
U.S. Department of Energy.
ACTION: Submission for Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) review;
comment request.
AGENCY:

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.
SUMMARY:

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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,
[email protected].
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,

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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
[email protected] 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.

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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 [email protected] 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
[email protected].
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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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
[email protected] 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

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)

e-mail 2

Submittal to FERC of the original e-mail and follow-up
.....................
Submittal of damage report to state commissions ..........................................
Submittal to FERC of copy of DOT incident report .........................................

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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.
1 The 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.
2 This includes the original e-mail, plus the
follow-up e-mail (sent when throughput or storage
deliverability has been restored).
3 Based 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.

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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
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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:

1
1

1
0.25
0.25

2 80

10
10

e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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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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