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1.0, may be found on EAC’s Web site at
www.eac.gov/open/comment.aspx.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on this
proposed information collection, please
contact Mr. Brian Hancock, Director,
Voting System Testing and Certification,
Washington, DC, (202) 566–3100, Fax:
(202) 566–1392.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In this notice, EAC seeks comments
on the paperwork burdens contained in
the current version of the Voting System
Test Laboratory Manual, Version 1.0
OMB Control Number 3265–0004 only.
Version 1.0 is the original version of the
Manual without changes or updates.
Current Information Collection
Request, Version 1.0
Title: Voting System Test Laboratory
Manual, Version 1.0.
OMB Number: 3265–0013.
Type of Review: Renewal.
Needs and Uses: Section 231(a) of the
Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA),
42 U.S.C. 15371(a), requires EAC to
‘‘provide for the testing, certification,
decertification, and recertification of
voting system hardware and software by
accredited laboratories.’’ To fulfill this
mandate, EAC has developed and
implemented the Voting System Test
Laboratory Program Manual, Version
1.0. This version is currently in use
under OMB Control Number 3265–0013.
Although participation in the program
in voluntary, adherence to the program’s
procedural requirements is mandatory
for participants.
Affected Public: Voting system
manufacturers.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 8.
Total Annual Responses: 8.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 200 hours.
Alice Miller,
Acting Executive Director, U.S. Election
Assistance Commission.
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[OE Docket No. EA–357–A]

Application to Export Electric Energy;
Hunt Electric Power Marketing, L.L.C.
Office of Electricity Delivery
and Energy Reliability, DOE.
ACTION: Notice of application.
AGENCY:

Hunt Electric Power
Marketing, L.L.C. (HEPM) has applied to
renew its authority to transmit electric

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energy from the United States to Mexico
pursuant to section 202(e) of the Federal
Power Act.
DATES: Comments, protests, or motions
to intervene must be submitted on or
before June 5, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Comments, protests,
motions to intervene, or requests for
more information should be addressed
to: Office of Electricity Delivery and
Energy Reliability, Mail Code: OE–20,
U.S. Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585–0350. Because
of delays in handling conventional mail,
it is recommended that documents be
transmitted by overnight mail, by
electronic mail to Electricity.Exports@
hq.doe.gov, or by facsimile to 202–586–
8008.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Exports of
electricity from the United States to a
foreign country are regulated by the
Department of Energy (DOE) pursuant to
sections 301(b) and 402(f) of the
Department of Energy Organization Act
(42 U.S.C. 7151(b), 7172(f)) and require
authorization under section 202(e) of
the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C.
824a(e)).
On August 31, 2009, DOE issued
Order No. EA–357, which authorized
HEPM to transmit electric energy from
the United States to Mexico as a power
marketer for a five-year term using
existing international transmission
facilities. That authority expires on
August 31, 2014. On April 14, 2014,
HEPM filed an application with DOE for
renewal of the export authority
contained in Order No. EA–357 for an
additional five-year term.
In its application, HEPM states that it
does not own any electric generating or
transmission facilities, and it does not
have a franchised service area. The
electric energy that HEPM proposes to
export to Mexico would be surplus
energy purchased from electric utilities,
Federal power marketing agencies, and
other entities within the United States.
The existing international transmission
facilities to be utilized by HEPM have
previously been authorized by
Presidential permits issued pursuant to
Executive Order 10485, as amended,
and are appropriate for open access
transmission by third parties.
Procedural Matters: Any person
desiring to be heard in this proceeding
should file a comment or protest to the
application at the address provided
above. Protests should be filed in
accordance with Rule 211 of the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC)
Rules of Practice and Procedures (18
CFR 385.211). Any person desiring to
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should file a motion to intervene at the
above address in accordance with FERC
Rule 214 (18 CFR 385.214). Five copies
of such comments, protests, or motions
to intervene should be sent to the
address provided above on or before the
date listed above.
Comments on the HEPM application
to export electric energy to Mexico
should be clearly marked with OE
Docket No. EA–357–A. An additional
copy is to be provided directly to
Geoffrey Street, Hunt Electric Power
Marketing, L.L.C., 1900 North Akard
Street, Dallas, TX 75201 and to James M.
Bushee, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan
LLP, One American Center, 600
Congress Avenue, Suite 2000, Austin,
TX 78701. A final decision will be made
on this application after the
environmental impacts have been
evaluated pursuant to DOE’s National
Environmental Policy Act Implementing
Procedures (10 CFR part 1021) and after
a determination is made by DOE that the
proposed action will not have an
adverse impact on the sufficiency of
supply or reliability of the U.S. electric
power supply system.
Copies of this application will be
made available by request to the
addresses provided above or by
accessing the program Web site at
http://energy.gov/node/11845.
Issued in Washington, DC, on April 30,
2014.
Brian Mills,
Director, Permitting and Siting, Office of
Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Agency Information Collection
Extension
U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), U.S. Department
of Energy.
ACTION: Agency Information Collection
Activities: Information Collection
Extension; Notice and Request for
Comments.
AGENCY:

EIA intends to revise and
extend for three years, Form EIA–914
‘‘Monthly Natural Gas Production
Report,’’ with the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) pursuant to the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
The revisions include increasing the
number of states for which natural gas
production will be collected. Gas
production has increased dramatically
in a few of the states outside the current

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EIA–914 states—for example,
Pennsylvania and Colorado, both of
which now out-produce two of the
original EIA–914 areas, New Mexico
and the Gulf of Mexico. Much of
Colorado’s new production is coalbed
methane, while Pennsylvania’s
production is largely from the Marcellus
shale formation. While production from
unconventional sources has risen,
production from more traditional
formations has declined, particularly in
the Gulf of Mexico and New Mexico, as
the emphasis on oil production has
increased. Pennsylvania and Colorado
are representative of quite a few states
that have demonstrated recent, large
production increases. Thus, EIA
considers it important to expand the
number of states for which natural gas
production data are collected.
Additionally, EIA also proposes to
add the collection of crude oil and lease
condensate production data at the state
level. Oil production in the United
States has grown recently and, in some
cases, dramatically after a long, gradual
decline. However, tight formations have
fueled a recent reversal of this trend. As
recently as April 2005 North Dakota was
the tenth-largest producer of crude oil in
the United States with less than 2
percent of U.S. production, but due to
developments in the Bakken formation,
is now the third-largest producer and
accounted for slightly more than 12
percent of U.S. production in November
2013. Similarly, Texas production,
which declined for many years,
dramatically increased over the last two
years as the projects in the Eagle Ford
formation came on-line and ramped up.
Increased production from tight
formations have more than offset natural
declines in the Gulf of Mexico,
California, Alaska, and elsewhere so
that exporting U.S. oil production has
become a seriously discussed topic.
Further, EIA proposes to collect statelevel crude oil and lease condensate
production by API gravity category. We
think that it’s important to collect oil
production by API gravity to inform the
growing discussion about exporting
crude oil. Proponents of exporting argue
that there are large amounts of light
crude oil presently produced in the
United States, too much for U.S.
refineries to process. Opponents of
exporting argue that there is far less
light crude oil being produced. Thus,
collecting crude oil production by API
gravity categories will inform the
debate. The categories have not been
determined yet. We expect that the final

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set of categories will include
‘‘unknown,’’ but we don’t expect much
production reported for this category.
Lastly, EIA plans to explore the
possibility of collecting sulfur content of
U.S. crude oil and lease condensate
production (either at the state level, or
national level). Categories of sulfur
content will be determined once the
availability of these data becomes
known.
Comments are invited on the
following issues: (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) whether the
proposed collection of crude oil and
lease condensate by API gravity category
is consistent with industry recordkeeping practices, as well as general
comments on potential respondents’
ability to provide such information, (c)
whether the potential respondents are
able to provide a measure of the sulfur
content by state, (d) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (e)
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.
DATES: Comments regarding this
proposed information collection must
be received on or before July 7, 2014. If
you anticipate difficulty in submitting
comments within that period, contact
the person listed in ADDRESSES as soon
as possible.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Neal
Davis. The mailing address is U.S.
Department of Energy, U.S. Energy
Information Administration, Attn: Neal
Davis, EI–24, Forrestal Building, 1000
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585. To ensure
receipt of the comments by the due date,
submission by email (neal.davis@
eia.gov) is recommended. Alternatively,
Neal Davis may be contacted by
telephone at 202–586–6581 or by fax at
202–287–1938.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the forms and instructions
should be directed to Neal Davis at the
contact information given above. Forms
and instructions are also available on
the Internet at: http://www.eia.gov/
survey/notice/ngforms2015.cfm.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
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(1) OMB No. 1905–0160;
(2) Information Collection Request
Title: Monthly Natural Gas Production
Report;
(3) Type of Request: Extension, with
changes, of a currently approved
collection
(4) Purpose: Form EIA–914, ‘‘Monthly
Natural Gas Production Report,’’
collects monthly data on the production
of natural gas in seven geographical
areas (Texas (including State offshore),
Louisiana (including State offshore),
Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming,
Federal Gulf of Mexico offshore and
Other States (defined as all remaining
states, except Alaska, in which the
operator produced natural gas during
the report month)). The data appear in
the ‘‘Monthly Natural Gas Gross
Production Report’’ on EIA’s Web site
and in the EIA publications, Monthly
Energy Review, Natural Gas Annual,
and Natural Gas Monthly.
(4a) Proposed Changes to Information
Collection:
The proposed changes include:
• Changing the title from ‘‘Monthly
Natural Gas Production Report’’ to
‘‘Monthly Crude Oil, Lease Condensate,
and Natural Gas Production Report.’’
• In Part 2, EIA is proposing to
remove several states from the ‘‘Other
States’’ category—Alabama, Arkansas,
California, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan,
Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota,
New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah,
and West Virginia—and collect both
gross withdrawals of natural gas and
natural gas lease production volumes for
a total of 21 states/areas including
‘‘Other States.’’ The ‘‘Other States’’
category will be retained, but only
include the states Arizona, Federal
California offshore, Florida, Illinois,
Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri,
Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, Tennessee,
South Dakota, and Virginia. EIA will
continue to collect Alaska natural gas
production directly from the state.
• EIA is proposing to add Part 3 to
Form EIA–914. Part 3 will collect total
monthly crude oil and lease condensate
production volumes for the 21 states/
areas discussed above, including API
gravity. Further, the production will be
collected for several categories based on
API gravity across each state. EIA plans
to include a measure of the sulfur
content (by state and API gravity) and is
interested in assessing the availability of
these data to respondents. The proposed
categories are shown below.

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≤20.0

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30.1 to 35.0

35.1 to 40.0

Note that it is expected that the
‘‘unknown’’ category will be rarely used
by the respondent companies, typically
under exceptional and temporary
circumstances.
(5) Estimated Number of Survey
Respondents: 600 respondents.
(6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: The annual number of
total responses is 7200. Annual
Estimated Number of Burden Hours:
The annual estimated burden is 21,600
hours.
(7) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: Additional
costs to respondents are not anticipated
beyond costs associated with response
burden hours.
(8) Comments submitted in response
to this notice will be summarized and/
or included in the request for OMB
approval of the form. They also will
become a matter of public record.
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 April 30,
2014.
Stephen J. Harvey,
Assistant Administrator for Energy Statistics,
U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 12496–002]

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Rugraw, LLC: Notice of Application
Tendered for Filing With the
Commission and Soliciting Additional
Study Requests
Take notice that the following
hydroelectric application has been filed
with the Commission and is available
for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: Major original
license
b. Project No.: 12496–002
c. Date filed: April 21, 2014
d. Applicant: Rugraw, LLC
e. Name of Project: Lassen Lodge
Hydroelectric Project
f. Location: On the South Fork Battle
Creek, nearby the Town of Mineral,
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45.1 to 50.0

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power
Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)–825(r)
h. Applicant Contact: Charlie Kuffner,
70 Paseo Mirasol, Tiburon, CA 94920;
(415) 652–8553
i. FERC Contact: Adam Beeco at (202)
502–8655; email—[email protected]
j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state,
local, and tribal agencies with
jurisdiction and/or special expertise
with respect to environmental issues
that wish to cooperate in the
preparation of the environmental
document should follow the
instructions for filing such requests
described in item l below. Cooperating
agencies should note the Commission’s
policy that agencies that cooperate in
the preparation of the environmental
document cannot also intervene. See, 94
FERC ¶ 61,076 (2001).
k. Pursuant to section 4.32(b)(7) of 18
CFR of the Commission’s regulations, if
any resource agency, Indian Tribe, or
person believes that an additional
scientific study should be conducted in
order to form an adequate factual basis
for a complete analysis of the
application on its merit, the resource
agency, Indian Tribe, or person must file
a request for a study with the
Commission not later than 60 days from
the date of filing of the application, and
serve a copy of the request on the
applicant.
l. Deadline for filing additional study
requests and requests for cooperating
agency status: June 20, 2014
The Commission strongly encourages
electronic filing. Please file additional
study requests and requests for
cooperating agency status using the
Commission’s eFiling system at http://
www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. For
assistance, please contact FERC Online
Support at FERCOnlineSupport@
ferc.gov, (866) 208–3676 (toll free), or
(202) 502–8659 (TTY). In lieu of
electronic filing, please send a paper
copy to: Secretary, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street
NE., Washington, DC 20426. The first
page of any filing should include docket
number P–12496–002.
m. The application is not ready for
environmental analysis at this time.
n. The proposed Lassen Lodge Project
consists of: (1) A 6-foot-high and 94foot-long diversion dam; (2) an
impoundment of approximately 0.5
acre; (3) a 20 by 10 foot enclosed
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penstock with a net head of 791 feet; (5)
a 50 by 50 foot powerhouse containing
one generating unit with a 5,000kilowatt capacity; (6) a 50 by 50 foot
substation area; (7) a 40 by 35 foot
switchyard; (8) 100 by 100 foot
multipurpose area; and (9) a new 12mile-long, 60-kilovolt transmission line.
The project is estimated to produce
approximately 25,000,000 kilowatthours annually.
o. A copy of the application is
available for review at the Commission
in the Public Reference Room or may 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. For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support. A copy is also available
for inspection and reproduction at the
address in item h above.
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, contact FERC Online
Support.
p. Procedural schedule: The
application will be processed according
to the following preliminary Hydro
Licensing Schedule. Revisions to the
schedule will be made as appropriate.
Issue Acceptance or Deficiency Letter.
Request Additional Information.
Issue Acceptance Letter ........
Issue Scoping Document 1
for Comments.
Request Additional Information (if necessary).
Issue Scoping Document 2
(if necessary).
Notice that application is
ready for environmental
analysis.
Notice of the availability of
the draft EA.
Notice of the availability of
the final EA.

June 2014
June 2014
September 2014
October 2014
December 2014
January 2015
January 2015

July 2015
October 2015

Dated: April 29, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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