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and Development Technical Advisory
Committee. The Federal Advisory
Committee Act (Public Law No. 92–463,
86 Stat. 770) requires that agencies
publish these notices in the Federal
Register.
DATES:
August 22, 2012; 1:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
August 23, 2012; 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
ADDRESSES: Renaissance DuPont Hotel,
1143 New Hampshire Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20037.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Elliott Levine, Designated Federal
Officer, Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of
Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue
SW., Washington, DC 20585; (202) 586–
1476; Email: [email protected]
or Roy Tiley at (410) 997–7778 ext. 220;
Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose of Meeting: To provide
advice and guidance that promotes
research and development leading to the
production of biobased fuels and
biobased products.
Tentative Agenda: Agenda will
include the following:
• Update on USDA Biomass R&D
Activities
• Update on DOE Biomass R&D
Activities
• Review of the recently awarded
Biomass Research and Development
Projects
• Review of Congressional Research
Service Report—Biofuels Incentives: A
Summary of Federal Programs
Public Participation: In keeping with
procedures, members of the public are
welcome to observe the business of the
Biomass Research and Development
Technical Advisory Committee. To
attend the meeting and/or to make oral
statements regarding any of the items on
the agenda, you must contact Elliott
Levine at (202) 586–1476; Email:
[email protected] or Roy Tiley at
(410) 997–7778 ext. 220; Email:
[email protected] at least 5 business
days prior to the meeting. Members of
the public will be heard in the order in
which they sign up at the beginning of
the meeting. Reasonable provision will
be made to include the scheduled oral
statements on the agenda. The Co-chairs
of the Committee will make efforts to
hear the views of all interested parties.
If you would like to file a written
statement with the Committee, you may
do so either before or after the meeting.
The Co-chairs will conduct the meeting
to facilitate the orderly conduct of
business.
Minutes: The minutes of the meeting
will be available for public review and
copying at the following Web site:

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meetings.
Issued at Washington, DC, on July 31,
2012.
LaTanya R. Butler,
Acting Deputy Committee Management
Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012–19253 Filed 8–6–12; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
U.S. Energy Information
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Extension
U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice and request for OMB
review and comment.
AGENCY:

EIA 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
three-year extension of its Petroleum
Marketing Program, OMB Control
Number 1905–0174. The proposed
collection will collect basic data
necessary to meet EIA’s legislative
mandates as well as the needs of EIA’s
public and private customers. Data
collected include costs, sales, prices,
and distribution of crude oil and
petroleum products. The data are used
for analyses, publications, and multifuel reports. Respondents are refiners,
first purchasers, gas plant operators,
resellers/retailers, motor gasoline
wholesalers, suppliers, distributors and
importers. EIA intends to extend for
three years the petroleum marketing
survey forms listed below:
EIA–14, ‘‘Refiners’ Monthly Cost
Report’’
EIA–182, ‘‘Domestic Crude Oil First
Purchase Report’’
EIA–782A, ‘‘Refiners’/Gas Plant
Operators’ Monthly Petroleum
Product Sales Report’’
EIA–782C, ‘‘Monthly Report of Prime
Supplier Sales of Petroleum Products
Sold for Local Consumption’’
EIA–821, ‘‘Annual Fuel Oil and
Kerosene Sales Report’’
EIA–856, ‘‘Monthly Foreign Crude Oil
Acquisition Report’’
EIA–863, ‘‘Petroleum Product Sales
Identification Survey’’
EIA–877, ‘‘Winter Heating Fuels
Telephone Survey’’
EIA–878, ‘‘Motor Gasoline Price
Survey’’
EIA–888, ‘‘On-Highway Diesel Fuel
Price Survey’’

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Comments regarding this
proposed information collection must
be received on or before September 6,
2012. 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 DOE Desk Officer at OMB of
your intention to make a submission as
soon as possible. The Desk Officer may
be telephoned at 202–395–4718.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be sent to the DOE Desk Officer, Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Room 10102,
735 17th Street NW., Washington, DC
20503; and to Jason Worrall, Office of
Survey Development and Statistical
Integration, U.S. Energy Information
Administration, Forrestal Building,
1000 Independence Ave. SW., U.S.
Department of Energy, Washington, DC
20585–0670, (202) 586–6075 (phone).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Jason Worrall at the contact
information above. Alternatively Mr.
Worrall may be emailed at,
[email protected]. Copies of the
information collection instruments and
instructions can also be viewed at
http://www.eia.gov/survey.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
information collection request contains:
(1) OMB No. 1905–0174; (2) Information
Collection Request Title: Petroleum
Marketing Program; (3) Type of Request:
Renewal with Change; (4) Purpose: The
Federal Energy Administration Act of
1974 (15 U.S.C. 761 et seq.) and the DOE
Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et
seq.) require EIA to carry out a
centralized, comprehensive, and unified
energy information program. This
program collects, evaluates, assembles,
analyzes, and disseminates information
on energy resource reserves, production,
demand, technology, and related
economic and statistical information.
This information is used to assess the
adequacy of energy resources to meet
near and longer term domestic
demands.
EIA’s petroleum marketing survey
forms collect volumetric and price
information needed for determining the
supply of and demand for crude oil and
refined petroleum products. These
surveys provide a basic set of data
pertaining to the structure, efficiency,
and behavior of petroleum markets.
These data are published by EIA on
its Web site, http://www.eia.gov, as well
as in publications such as the Monthly
Energy Review (http://www.eia.gov/
DATES:

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totalenergy/data/monthly/), Annual
Energy Review (http://www.eia.gov/
totalenergy/data/annual/), Petroleum
Marketing Monthlyhttp://www.eia.gov/
oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/
petroleum_marketing_monthly/
pmm.html), Weekly Petroleum Status
Report http://www.eia.gov/oil_gas/
petroleum/data_publications/
weekly_petroleum_status_report/
wpsr.html), and the International Energy
Outlook (http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/
ieo/); (5) Annual Estimated Number of
Respondents: 11,953; (6) Annual
Estimated Number of Total Responses:
106,661; (7) Annual Estimated Number
of Burden Hours: 56,186; (8) Annual
Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping
Cost Burden: 0. EIA estimates that there
are no additional costs to respondents
associated with the surveys other than
the costs associated with the burden
hours.
Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the
Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974,
Pub. L. 93–275, codified at 15 U.S.C. 772(b).
Issued in Washington, DC, on August 1,
2012.
Stephanie Brown,
Director, Office of Survey Development and
Statistical Integration, U. S. Energy
Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 2012–19267 Filed 8–6–12; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC12–14–000; (FERC–914)]

Commission Information Collection
Activities; Comment Request
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Comment request.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission
(Commission or FERC) is submitting the
information collection FERC–914
(Cogeneration and Small Power
Production—Tariff Filings) 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
issued a Notice in the Federal Register
(77 FR 31342, 5/25/2012) requesting
public comments. FERC received no
comments on the FERC–914 and is

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making this notation in its submittal to
OMB.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due by September 6,
2012.
ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB,
identified by the OMB Control No.
1902–0213, should be sent via email to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs: [email protected].
Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission Desk Officer. The Desk
Officer may also be reached via
telephone at 202–395–4718.
A copy of the comments should also
be sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, identified by the Docket
No. IC12–14–000, 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 must be
formatted and filed in accordance with
submission guidelines at: http://
www.ferc.gov/help/submissionguide.asp. For user assistance contact
FERC Online Support by email at
[email protected], or by phone
at: (866) 208–3676 (toll-free), or (202)
502–8659 for 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 may be reached by email
at [email protected], by
telephone at (202) 502–8663, and by fax
at (202) 273–0873.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title:
FERC–914, Cogeneration and Small
Power Production—Tariff Filings.
OMB Control No.:1902–0213.
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the FERC–914 information collection
requirements with no changes to the
reporting requirements.
Abstract: Section 205(c) of the Federal
Power Act (FPA) requires that every
public utility have all of its
jurisdictional rates and tariffs on file
with the Commission and make them
available for public inspection, within
such time and in such form as the
Commission may designate. Section
205(d) of the FPA requires that every
public utility must provide notice to the
Commission and the public of any
changes to its jurisdictional rates and
tariffs, file such changes with the
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for public inspection, in such manner as
directed by the Commission. In
addition, FPA section 206 requires the
Commission, upon complaint or its own
motion, to modify existing rates or
services that are found to be unjust,
unreasonable, unduly discriminatory or
preferential. FPA section 207 requires
the Commission upon complaint by a
state commission and a finding of
insufficient interstate service, to order
the rendering of adequate interstate
service by public utilities, the rates for
which would be filed in accordance
with FPA sections 205 and 206.
In Orders Nos. 671 and 671–A,1 the
Commission revised its regulations that
govern qualifying small power
production and cogeneration facilities.
Among other things, the Commission
eliminated certain exemptions from rate
regulation that were previously
available to qualifying facilities (QFs).
New qualifying facilities may need to
make tariff filings if they do not meet
the new exemption requirements.
FERC implemented the Congressional
mandate of the Energy Policy Act of
2005 (EPAct 2005) to establish criteria
for new qualifying cogeneration
facilities by: (1) Amending the
exemptions available to qualifying
facilities from the FPA and from
PUHCA [resulting in the burden
imposed by FERC–914, the subject of
this statement]; (2) ensuring that these
facilities are using their thermal output
in a productive and beneficial manner;
that the electrical, thermal, chemical
and mechanical output of new
qualifying cogeneration facilities is used
fundamentally for industrial,
commercial, residential or industrial
purposes; and there is continuing
progress in the development of efficient
electric energy generating technology;
(3) amending the FERC Form 556 2 to
reflect the criteria for new qualifying
cogeneration facilities; and (4)
eliminating ownership limitations for
qualifying cogeneration and small
power production facilities. The
Commission satisfied the statutory
mandate and its continuing obligation to
review its policies encouraging
cogeneration and small power
production, energy conservation,
efficient use of facilities and resources
1 Revised Regulations Governing Small Power
Production and Cogeneration Facilities, Order No.
671, 71 FR 7852 (2/15/2006), FERC Stats. & Regs.
¶ 31,203 (2006); and Revised Regulations Governing
Small Power Production and Cogeneration
Facilities, Order 671–A, 71 FR 30585 (5/30/2006),
in Docket No. RM05–36.
2 The FERC–556 is cleared separately as OMB
Control No. 1902–0075 and is not a subject of this
notice.

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