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Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 39 / Wednesday, March 1, 2017 / Notices
12:10 p.m.–12:20 p.m.—Wrap-up and
Adjourn March 2017 Meeting of the
EAC
The meeting agenda may change to
accommodate EAC business. For EAC
agenda updates, see the EAC Web site
at: http://energy.gov/oe/services/
electricity-advisory-committee-eac.
Public Participation: The EAC
welcomes the attendance of the public
at its meetings. Individuals who wish to
offer public comments at the EAC
meeting may do so on Thursday, March
30, 2017, but must register at the
registration table in advance.
Approximately 5 minutes will be
reserved for public comments. Time
allotted per speaker will depend on the
number who wish to speak but is not
expected to exceed three minutes.
Anyone who is not able to attend the
meeting, or for whom the allotted public
comments time is insufficient to address
pertinent issues with the EAC, is invited
to send a written statement to Mr.
Matthew Rosenbaum.
You may submit comments, identified
by ‘‘Electricity Advisory Committee
Open Meeting,’’ by any of the following
methods:
• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier:
Matthew Rosenbaum, Office of
Electricity Delivery and Energy
Reliability, U.S. Department of Energy,
Forrestal Building, Room 8G–017, 1000
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585.
• Email: matthew.rosenbaum@
hq.doe.gov. Include ‘‘Electricity
Advisory Committee Open Meeting’’ in
the subject line of the message.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
identifier. All comments received will
be posted without change to http://
energy.gov/oe/services/electricityadvisory-committee-eac, including any
personal information provided.
• Docket: For access to the docket, to
read background documents or
comments received, go to http://
energy.gov/oe/services/electricityadvisory-committee-eac.
The following electronic file formats are
acceptable: Microsoft Word (.doc), Corel
Word Perfect (.wpd), Adobe Acrobat
(.pdf), Rich Text Format (.rtf), plain text
(.txt), Microsoft Excel (.xls), and
Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt). If you
submit information that you believe to
be exempt by law from public
disclosure, you must submit one
complete copy, as well as one copy from
which the information claimed to be
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has been deleted. You must also explain
the reasons why you believe the deleted
information is exempt from disclosure.
DOE is responsible for the final
determination concerning disclosure or
nondisclosure of the information and for
treating it in accordance with the DOE’s
Freedom of Information regulations (10
CFR 1004.11).
Note: Delivery of the U.S. Postal Service
mail to DOE may be delayed by several
weeks due to security screening. DOE,
therefore, encourages those wishing to
comment to submit comments electronically
by email. If comments are submitted by
regular mail, the Department requests that
they be accompanied by a CD or diskette
containing electronic files of the submission.

Minutes: The minutes of the EAC
meeting will be posted on the EAC Web
page at: http://energy.gov/oe/services/
electricity-advisory-committee-eac.
They can also be obtained by contacting
Mr. Matthew Rosenbaum at the address
above.
Issued in Washington, DC, on February 24,
2017.
LaTanya R. Butler,
Deputy Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017–03976 Filed 2–28–17; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
CIPSEA Confidentiality Pledge
Revision Notice
U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy.

AGENCY:

Notice and request for
comments.

ACTION:

The U.S. Energy Information
Administration invites public comment
on the recent revisions that have been
made to the confidentiality pledge it
provides to its respondents. These
revisions became effective upon
publication of an emergency Federal
Register notice that announced EIA’s
revised confidentiality pledge that it
provides to its respondents under the
Confidential Information Protection and
Statistical Efficiency Act. These
revisions are required by the passage
and implementation of provisions of the
Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
of 2015 which permit and require the
Secretary of the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) to provide
Federal civilian agencies’ information
technology systems with cybersecurity
protection for their Internet traffic.

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More details on this announcement
are presented in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section below.
DATES: Comments regarding these
confidentiality pledge revisions must be
received on or before May 1, 2017. If
you anticipate difficulty in submitting
comments within that period, contact
the person listed in ADDRESSES as soon
as possible.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and/or
questions about this notice should be
addressed to Jacob Bournazian, U.S.
Energy Information Administration,
1000 Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585 or by fax at 202–
586–3045 or by email at
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jacob Bournazian, U.S. Energy
Information Administration, 1000
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585, phone: 202–
586–5562 (this is not a toll-free
number), email: jacob.bournazian@
eia.gov. Because of delays in the receipt
of regular mail related to security
screening, respondents are encouraged
to use electronic communications.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 44
U.S.C. 3506(e), and 44 U.S.C. 3501
(note), EIA revised the confidentiality
pledge(s) it provides to survey
respondents under the Confidential
Information Protection and Statistical
Efficiency Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 (note))
(CIPSEA) in a Federal Register notice
released on January 12, 2017 in 82 FR
3764. These revisions were required by
provisions of the Federal Cybersecurity
Enhancement Act of 2015 (Pub. L. 114–
11, Division N, Title II, Subtitle B, Sec.
223), which permit and require the
Secretary of the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) to provide
Federal civilian agencies’ information
technology systems with cybersecurity
protection for their Internet traffic.
Federal statistics provide key
information that the Nation uses to
measure its performance and make
informed choices about budgets,
employment, health, investments, taxes,
and a host of other significant topics.
The overwhelming majority of Federal
surveys are conducted on a voluntary
basis. Respondents, ranging from
businesses to households to institutions,
may choose whether or not to provide
the requested information. Many of the
most valuable Federal statistics come
from surveys that ask for highly
sensitive information such as
proprietary business data from
companies or particularly personal
information or practices from
individuals. Strong and trusted
confidentiality and exclusively

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statistical use pledges under the
Confidential Information Protection and
Statistical Efficiency Act (CIPSEA) and
similar statistical confidentiality
pledges are effective and necessary in
honoring the trust that businesses,
individuals, and institutions, by their
responses, place in statistical agencies.
Under CIPSEA and similar statistical
confidentiality protection statutes, many
Federal statistical agencies make
statutory pledges that the information
respondents provide will be seen only
by statistical agency personnel or their
sworn agents, and will be used only for
statistical purposes. CIPSEA and similar
statutes protect the confidentiality of
information that agencies collect solely
for statistical purposes and under a
pledge of confidentiality. These acts
protect such statistical information from
administrative, law enforcement,
taxation, regulatory, or any other nonstatistical use and immunize the
information submitted to statistical
agencies from legal process. Moreover,
many of these statutes carry criminal
penalties of a Class E felony (fines up to
$250,000, or up to five years in prison,
or both) for conviction of a knowing and
willful unauthorized disclosure of
covered information.
As part of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2016
signed on December 17, 2015, the
Congress included the Federal
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015
(Pub. L. 114–113, Division N, Title II,
Subtitle B, Sec. 223). This Act, among
other provisions, permits and requires
DHS to provide Federal civilian
agencies’ information technology
systems with cybersecurity protection
for their Internet traffic. The technology
currently used to provide this protection
against cyber malware is known as
Einstein 3A; it electronically searches
Internet traffic in and out of Federal
civilian agencies in real time for
malware signatures.
When such a signature is found, the
Internet packets that contain the
malware signature are moved to a
secured area for further inspection by
DHS personnel. Because it is possible
that such packets entering or leaving a
statistical agency’s information
technology system may contain a small
portion of confidential statistical data,
statistical agencies can no longer
promise their respondents that their
responses will be seen only by statistical
agency personnel or their sworn agents.
However, they can promise, in
accordance with provisions of the
Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
of 2015, that such monitoring can be
used only to protect information and
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risks, thereby, in effect, providing
stronger protection to the integrity of the
respondents’ submissions.
The DHS cybersecurity program’s
objective is to protect Federal civilian
information systems from malicious
malware attacks. The Federal statistical
system’s objective is to ensure that the
DHS Secretary performs those essential
duties in a manner that honors the
Government’s statutory promises to the
public to protect their confidential data.
Given that the Department of Homeland
Security is not a Federal statistical
agency, both DHS and the Federal
statistical system worked to balance
both objectives and achieve these
mutually reinforcing objectives.
Accordingly, DHS and Federal
statistical agencies, in cooperation with
their parent departments, developed a
Memorandum of Agreement for the
installation of Einstein 3A cybersecurity
protection technology to monitor their
Internet traffic.
However, EIA’s current CIPSEA
statistical confidentiality pledge
promises that respondents’ data will be
seen only by statistical agency
personnel or their sworn agents. Since
it is possible that DHS personnel could
see some portion of those confidential
data in the course of examining the
suspicious Internet packets identified by
Einstein 3A sensors, EIA needs to revise
its confidentiality pledge to reflect this
process change.
Therefore, EIA is providing this notice
to alert the public of this revision to its
confidentiality pledge in an efficient
and coordinated fashion. Below is a
listing of EIA’s current Paperwork
Reduction Act OMB numbers and
information collection titles and their
associated revised confidentiality
pledge(s) for the Information Collections
whose confidentiality pledges will
change to reflect the statutory
implementation of DHS’ Einstein 3A
monitoring for cybersecurity protection
purposes.
The following EIA statistical
confidentiality pledge will now apply to
the Information Collections whose
Paperwork Reduction Act Office of
Management and Budget numbers and
titles are listed below.
The information you provide on Form
EIA–XXX will be used for statistical purposes
only and is confidential by law. In
accordance with the Confidential Information
Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of
2002 and other applicable Federal laws, your
responses will not be disclosed in
identifiable form without your consent. Per
the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
of 2015, Federal information systems are
protected from malicious activities through
cybersecurity screening of transmitted data.

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Every EIA employee, as well as every agent,
is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both if he
or she makes public ANY identifiable
information you reported.

A shorter version of the CIPSEA pledge
is used for telephone surveys:
The information you provide on Form
EIA–xxx will be used for statistical purposes
only and is confidential by law. Per the
Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of
2015, Federal information systems are
protected from malicious activities through
cybersecurity screening of transmitted data.
Every EIA employee, as well as every agent,
is subject to a jail term, a fine, or both if he
or she makes public ANY identifiable
information you reported.
OMB No: 1905–0174 Petroleum Marketing
Program
Form EIA–863, ‘‘Petroleum Product Sales
Identification Survey’’
Form EIA–878, ‘‘Motor Gasoline Price
Survey’’
Form EIA–888, ‘‘On-Highway Diesel Fuel
Price Survey’’
OMB No: 1905–0175 Natural Gas Data
Collection Program
Form EIA–910, ‘‘Monthly Natural Gas
Marketers Survey’’
Form EIA–912, ‘‘Weekly Underground
Natural Gas Storage Report’’
OMB No: 1905–0205 Monthly Natural Gas
Production Report
Form EIA–914, ‘‘Monthly Crude Oil, Lease
Condensate, and Natural Gas Production
Report’’
OMB No: 1905–0160 Uranium Data Program
Form EIA–851Q, ‘‘Domestic Uranium
Production Report—Quarterly’’
Form EIA–851A, ‘‘Domestic Uranium
Production Report—Annual’’
Form EIA–858, ‘‘Uranium Marketing
Annual Survey’’
OMB No: 1905–0145 Commercial Buildings
Energy Consumption Survey
Form EIA–871, ‘‘Commercial Buildings
Energy Consumption Survey’’
OMB No. 1905–0092 Residential Energy
Consumption Survey
Form EIA–457, ‘‘Residential Energy
Consumption Survey’’
Issued in Washington, DC, on February 23,
2017.
Nanda Srinivasan,
Director, Office of Survey Development and
Statistical Integration, U.S. Energy
Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 2017–03971 Filed 2–28–17; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #1
Take notice that the Commission
received the following electric rate
filings:
Docket Numbers: ER17–772–001.

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