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sciences, compared to the average
minority enrollment in the same fields
in the three-year period immediately
prior to the beginning of the current
grant; and (2) the percentage of minority
students enrolled at four-year minority
institutions in the fields of engineering
or physical or biological sciences who
graduate within six years of enrollment.
Please see the application package for
details of data collection and reporting
requirements for these measures.
5. Continuation Awards: In making a
continuation award under 34 CFR
75.253, the Secretary considers, among
other things: Whether a grantee has
made substantial progress in achieving
the goals and objectives of the project;
whether the grantee has expended funds
in a manner that is consistent with its
approved application and budget; and,
if the Secretary has established
performance measurement
requirements, the performance targets in
the grantee’s approved application.
In making a continuation grant, the
Secretary also considers whether the
grantee is operating in compliance with
the assurances in its approved
application, including those applicable
to Federal civil rights laws that prohibit
discrimination in programs or activities
receiving Federal financial assistance
from the Department (34 CFR 100.4,
104.5, 106.4, 108.8, and 110.23).
VII. Agency Contacts
Dr.
Bernadette Hence, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW.,
Room 4C115, Washington, DC 20202.
Telephone: (202) 453–7913 or by email:
[email protected].
If you use a TDD or a TTY, call the
FRS, toll free, at 1–800–877–8339.

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VIII. Other Information
Accessible Format: Individuals with
disabilities can obtain this document
and a copy of the application package in
an accessible format (e.g., Braille, large
print, audiotape, or compact disc) on
request to the program contact person
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT in section VII of this notice.
Electronic Access to This Document:
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and the Code of Federal Regulations is
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Reader, which is available free at the
site.
You may also access documents of the
Department published in the Federal
Register by using the article search
feature at www.federalregister.gov.
Specifically, through the advanced
search feature at this site, you can limit
your search to documents published by
the Department.
Dated: October 18, 2016.
Lynn B. Mahaffie,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy,
Planning, and Innovation, Delegated the
Duties of the Assistant Secretary for
Postsecondary Education.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Nevada
Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of open meeting.
AGENCY:

This notice announces a
meeting of the Environmental
Management Site-Specific Advisory
Board (EM SSAB), Nevada. The Federal
Advisory Committee Act requires that
public notice of this meeting be
announced in the Federal Register.
DATES: Wednesday, November 9, 2016—
4:00 p.m.
ADDRESSES: Clark County Government
Center, 500 South Grand Central
Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada 89155.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Barbara Ulmer, Board Administrator,
232 Energy Way, M/S 167, North Las
Vegas, Nevada 89030. Phone: (702) 630–
0522; Fax (702) 295–2025 or Email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose of the Board: The purpose of
the Board is to make recommendations
to DOE–EM and site management in the
areas of environmental restoration,
waste management, and related
activities.
SUMMARY:

Tentative Agenda
1. Briefing and Recommendation
Development for Clean Slate II Path
Forward—Work Plan Item #2
2. Election of Vice-Chair
Public Participation: The EM SSAB,
Nevada, welcomes the attendance of the
public at its advisory committee
meetings and will make every effort to
accommodate persons with physical
disabilities or special needs. If you
require special accommodations due to
a disability, please contact Barbara
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the meeting at the phone number listed
above. Written statements may be filed
with the Board either before or after the
meeting. Individuals who wish to make
oral presentations pertaining to agenda
items should contact Barbara Ulmer at
the telephone number listed above. The
request must be received five days prior
to the meeting and reasonable provision
will be made to include the presentation
in the agenda. The Deputy Designated
Federal Officer is empowered to
conduct the meeting in a fashion that
will facilitate the orderly conduct of
business. Individuals wishing to make
public comments can do so during the
15 minutes allotted for public
comments.
Minutes: Minutes will be available by
writing to Barbara Ulmer at the address
listed above or at the following Web
site: http://www.nnss.gov/NSSAB/
pages/MM_FY16.htm.
Authority: Pub. L. 92–463, 86 Stat. 770.
Issued at Washington, DC on October 17,
2016.
LaTanya R. Butler,
Deputy Committee Management Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Proposed Agency Information
Collection Extension With Changes
U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), U.S. 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 with changes, under
the provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, for the Electric
Power and Renewable Electricity
Surveys (OMB Control Number 1905–
0129) information collection. EIA
requests a three-year clearance with
changes for the following forms:
D Form EIA–63B, ‘‘Photovoltaic Module
Shipments Report’’
D Form EIA–411, ‘‘Coordinated Bulk
Power Supply Program Report’’
D Form EIA–826, ‘‘Monthly Electric
Utility Sales and Revenue Report with
State Distributions’’ (will be replaced
by EIA–861M)
D Form EIA–860, ‘‘Annual Electric
Generator Report’’
D Form EIA–860M, ‘‘Monthly Update to
the Annual Electric Generator Report’’
D Form EIA–861, ‘‘Annual Electric
Power Industry Report’’
D Form EIA–861S, ‘‘Annual Electric
Power Industry Report (Short Form)’’

SUMMARY:

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D Form EIA–861M, ‘‘Monthly Electric
Power Industry Report’’ (will replace
EIA–826)
D Form EIA–923, ‘‘Power Plant
Operations Report’’
D Form EIA–930, ‘‘Balancing Authority
Operations Report’’
DATES: Comments regarding this
collection must be received on or before
November 21, 2016. 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 or contacted by email at
[email protected].
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, Chad_S_
[email protected]
And to
Rebecca Peterson, Electricity2017@
eia.gov, U.S. Energy Information
Administration, Mail Stop EI–23,
Forrestal Building, 1000
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585, (Email is
preferred)

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Direct any requests for additional
information or copies of the information
collection instruments and instructions
to Rebecca Peterson at Electricity2017@
eia.gov or at 202–586–4509. The
collection instruments and instructions
are also available on the Internet at:
http://www.eia.gov/survey/changes/
electricity/solar/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
information collection request contains:
(1) OMB No.: 1905–0129;
(2) Information Collection Request
Title: Electricity and Renewables Power
Surveys;
(3) Type of Request: Extension, with
changes of a currently approved
collection;
(4) Purpose: The electricity and
renewables surveys collect data from
entities involved in the production,
transmission, delivery, and sale of
electricity, and in maintaining the
reliable operation of the power system.
The data collected are the primary
source of information on the nation’s
electric power industry. EIA uses the
data collected on the electric power
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agencies, the electric power industry,
and the public; and as input to the
National Energy Modeling System
(NEMS) and to EIA’s other forecasting
and analytical activities. Other users of
the data include policy makers,
regulators, energy market analysts, and
the energy industries.
Changes to the currently approved
forms in this package can be
summarized as follows:
• Form EIA–63B: Change from a
monthly only to an annual and monthly
collection and eliminate questions about
photovoltaic cells which will result in a
significant decrease in burden;
• Form EIA–411: Discontinue the
collection of historical information
associated with demand, capacity,
transactions, and reserve margins;
• Form EIA–826: Discontinue this
form and replace it with Form EIA–
861M (see further below);
• Form EIA–860: Require plants in
Puerto Rico to begin reporting and add
questions concerning storage capacity,
solar generators, virtual net metering
agreements, and planned retirement
dates of environmental equipment;
• Form EIA–860M: Add questions
regarding net metering agreements
involving newly operable solar
generators;
• Form EIA–861: Add questions
regarding small scale storage and virtual
net metered capacity;
• Form EIA–861 M (which replaces
the Form EIA–826): Add questions
regarding capacity;
• Form EIA–923: Reduce the current
monthly sample via a more efficient
model-based cutoff design; require
plants in Puerto Rico to begin reporting,
remove data protection for coal and
petroleum stocks, collect the mercury
removal rate for environmental
equipment, collect data from plants that
are operating under test conditions;
• Form EIA–930: Require respondents
to report hourly sub-regional demand,
hourly net generation by standard fuel
type, and their hourly total actual
demand within 30 minutes (instead of
the current 60 minutes) of the end of the
data hour.
(5) Annual Estimated Number of
Respondents: The annual estimated
number of respondents on the electric
and solar surveys is 16,770;
(6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: The annual estimated
number of total responses is 65,716;
(7) Annual Estimated Number of
Burden Hours: The annual estimated
number of burden hours is 152,120
which represents an increase of 10,975
burden hours from the prior renewal of
this collection. Most of the overall
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percent increase in survey respondents
due to rapid growth in the electric
power industry. To a smaller extent, the
increase is due to additional questions
that are needed on certain surveys to
optimize data coverage while adding
only a minimal increase in burden and
to the requirement for plants in Puerto
Rico to begin reporting on the Forms
EIA–860 and EIA–923.
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost burden: New
respondents will incur a one-time total
startup cost of $14,400. This will apply
to the 25 power companies in Puerto
Rico that will be new respondents (25
companies times 8 hours times $72.02
per hour, the current hourly rate for an
EIA employee). EIA estimates that for
each of these companies it will take 8
hours to configure their reporting
systems, review instructions, search
their data systems and receive
authentication for EIA’s Single Sign-on
Internet Data Collection System in order
to report electronically. Additional costs
to respondents are not anticipated
beyond costs associated with response
burden. This information is maintained
in the normal course of business. The
total annual cost of burden hours to the
respondents for all nine surveys is
estimated to be $10,955,682 (152,120
burden hours times $72.02 per hour).
Other than the cost of burden hours, EIA
estimates that there are no additional
costs for generating, maintaining, and
providing the information.
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, October 14,
2016.
Nanda Srinivasan,
Director, Office of Survey Development and
Statistical Integration, U.S. Energy
Information Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge
Reservation
Department of Energy.
Notice of open meeting.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

This notice announces a
meeting of the Environmental
Management Site-Specific Advisory
Board (EM SSAB), Oak Ridge
Reservation.
DATES: Wednesday, November 9, 2016,
6:00 p.m.
ADDRESSES: Department of Energy
Information Center, Office of Science
SUMMARY:

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