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previously entered and that is currently
in FAPIIS.
Please note that, if the total value of
your currently active grants, cooperative
agreements, and procurement contracts
from the Federal Government exceeds
$10,000,000, the reporting requirements
in 2 CFR part 200, Appendix XII,
require you to report certain integrity
information to FAPIIS semiannually.
Please review the requirements in 2 CFR
part 200, Appendix XII, if this grant
plus all the other Federal funds you
receive exceed $10,000,000.
VI. Award Administration Information
1. Award Notices: If your application
is successful, we will notify your U.S.
Representative and U.S. Senators and
send you a Grant Award Notification
(GAN); or we may send you an email
containing a link to access an electronic
version of your GAN. We may notify
you informally, also.
If your application is not evaluated or
not selected for funding, we will notify
you.
2. Administrative and National Policy
Requirements: We identify
administrative and national policy
requirements in the application package
and reference these and other
requirements in the Applicable
Regulations section of this notice.
We reference the regulations outlining
the terms and conditions of an award in
the Applicable Regulations section of
this notice and include these and other
specific conditions in the GAN. The
GAN also incorporates your approved
application as part of your binding
commitments under the grant.
3. Open Licensing Requirements:
Unless an exception applies, if you are
awarded a grant under this competition,
you will be required to openly license
to the public grant deliverables created
in whole, or in part, with Department
grant funds. When the deliverable
consists of modifications to pre-existing
works, the license extends only to those
modifications that can be separately
identified and only to the extent that
open licensing is permitted under the
terms of any licenses or other legal
restrictions on the use of pre-existing
works. Additionally, a grantee or
subgrantee that is awarded competitive
grant funds must have a plan to
disseminate these public grant
deliverables. This dissemination plan
can be developed and submitted after
your application has been reviewed and
selected for funding. For additional
information on the open licensing
requirements please refer to 2 CFR
3474.20.
4. Reporting: (a) If you apply for a
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ensure that you have in place the
necessary processes and systems to
comply with the reporting requirements
in 2 CFR part 170 should you receive
funding under the competition. This
does not apply if you have an exception
under 2 CFR 170.110(b).
(b) At the end of your project period,
you must submit a final performance
report, including financial information,
as directed by the Secretary. If you
receive a multiyear award, you must
submit an annual performance report
that provides the most current
performance and financial expenditure
information as directed by the Secretary
under 34 CFR 75.118. The Secretary
may also require more frequent
performance reports under 34 CFR
75.720(c). For specific requirements on
reporting, please go to www.ed.gov/
fund/grant/apply/appforms/
appforms.html.
5. Performance Measures: The
Department will use the following
performance measures in assessing the
successful performance of the Open
Textbooks Pilot program grants:
a. The number of students who
enrolled in courses that use open
textbooks developed through the grant;
b. The number of students who
completed courses which used the open
textbooks developed through the grant;
c. Student and faculty evaluations of
the quality of the open textbooks
compared with other kinds of textbooks
they have used, the ease of use of these
materials and the cost savings
associated with the use of open
textbooks;
d. The average cost savings per
student;
e. The total cost savings for students
who used open textbooks compared to
students in the same course of study
who used traditional textbooks;
f. The number and percentage of
courses among consortium members
that adopted the use of open textbooks,
where appropriate, as opposed to those
that continued to use paper or electronic
textbooks; and
g. The number of institutions outside
of the consortium that adopted the use
of the open textbooks produced through
the grant.
VII. 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.
Electronic Access to This Document:
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the document published in the Federal
Register. You may access the official
edition of the Federal Register and the
Code of Federal Regulations via the
Federal Digital System at: www.gpo.gov/
fdsys. At this site you can view this
document, as well as all other
documents of this Department
published in the Federal Register, in
text or Portable Document Format
(PDF). To use PDF you must have
Adobe Acrobat 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: July 24, 2018.
Diane Auer Jones,
Principal Deputy Under Secretary, Delegated
to Perform the Duties of Under Secretary and
Assistant Secretary, Office of Postsecondary
Education.
[FR Doc. 2018–16264 Filed 7–27–18; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Agency Information Collection
Extension
U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

EIA has submitted an
information collection request as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. The information collection
requests a three-year extension with
changes to Form EIA–846,
‘‘Manufacturing Energy Consumption
Survey’’ (MECS), OMB Control Number
1905–0169. Form EIA–846 collects data
from the U.S. manufacturing sector on
energy consumption, expenditures,
shipments of energy offsite, end use
consumption, building characteristics,
participation in energy management
programs, technologies, and fuel
switching capacity.
DATES: Comments regarding this
proposed information collection must
be received on or before August 29,
2018. 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
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soon as possible. The Desk Officer may
be telephoned at (202) 395–4718.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be sent to the DOE Desk Officer:
Brandon Debruhl, Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Room 10102,
735 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
20503. Email: Brandon_F_DeBruhl@
omb.eop.gov; and to Tom Lorenz, Office
of Energy Consumption and Efficiency
Statistics, Forrestal Building, EI–22,
U.S. Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Avenue SW, Washington,
DC 20585 or by fax at (202) 586–9753,
or by email at [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Tom Lorenz at the contact
information given above or by email at
[email protected]. Form EIA–846
and its instructions are available on the
internet at https://www.eia.gov/survey/
form/eia_846/proposed/2018/form.pdf.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
information collection request contains:
(1) OMB No. 1905–0169;
(2) Information Collection Request
Title: Manufacturing Energy
Consumption Survey;
(3) Type of Request: Three-year
extension with changes;
(4) Purpose: Form EIA–846 is a selfadministered sample survey designed to
collect energy consumption and
expenditures data from establishments
in the manufacturing sector; i.e., North
American Industry Classification
System (NAICS) codes 31–33. The
previous MECS required respondents to
complete multiple collection forms
depending on an establishment’s
primary business activity classification
under NAICS. The increased use of
technology by means of an internet data
collection system has allowed the MECS
to eliminate the need to have multiple
forms;
(4a) Changes to Information
Collection:
• Questions about Tire-Derived Fuel:
EIA will collect data about tire-derived
fuel (TDF) in the Waste Oils and Tars,
and Waste Byproduct Gases section of
the questionnaire starting on page 35 of
Form EIA–846A. The new questions
will be inserted after questions 138–139,
specifically from those industries, Paper
(NAICS 322) and Nonmetallic Mineral
Products (NAICS 327) that use TDF as
an energy source. EIA currently asks
respondents to report TDF on the MECS
in a section titled, ‘‘Other.’’ The change
to report TDF as a separate category will
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regarding where to report this
information. The questions on TDF are
the same questions that have previously
been asked about this energy source:
Purchases; expenditures; transfers-in;
amount produced on-site; whether it’s a
product/byproduct of another energy
source consumed on-site; and fuel
consumption. Over the past three MECS
cycles, TDF has become a growing
energy source within the ‘‘Other’’
section and accounts for over half of the
energy consumed that is reported in that
section. Previous data collection cycles
may have undercounted the use of TDF
because some establishments did not
know where to report their TDF
volumes. By directly asking for these
data as a separate data element, EIA will
improve the coverage and accuracy of
the use of this energy source.
• Question 16 about electric
generation with less than one-megawatt
nameplate capacity was added. EIA will
collect data about small-scale (less than
one megawatt) distributed electricity
generation occurring at U.S.
manufacturing establishments. EIA will
add a Yes/No question about distributed
generation to the electricity section of
the MECS to monitor manufacturing
establishments that use non-renewable
distributed generation. Distributed
generation is a subset of ‘‘distributed
energy resources’’ which are modular,
moderately sized generation sources
that are used to produce electricity, or
combined heat and power (CHP), near
the site of end use. EIA expects that
generation from non-renewable, smallscale distributed generation (e.g., micro
turbines, fuel cells, natural gas generator
sets, and diesel generator sets below one
megawatt) will increase in the future.
This increase in non-renewable, smallscale distributed generation is expected
to continue because of a variety of
factors, including increased demand for
reliable and resilient power,
deployment mandates (e.g., renewable
portfolio standards), improved
technology and decreased cost of
distributed generation, low natural gas
prices, and high retail electricity rates.
(5) Annual Estimated Number of
Respondents: 15,000;
(6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: 3,750;
(7) Annual Estimated Number of
Burden Hours: 34,565;
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: The cost of
the burden hours is estimated to be
$2,616,225 (34,565 burden hours times
$75.69 per hour). EIA estimates that
there are no additional costs to
respondents associated with the surveys
other than the costs associated with the
burden hours.

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Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the
Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974,
Pub. L. 93–275, codified as 15 U.S.C. 772(b)
and the DOE Organization Act of 1977, Pub.
L. 95–91, codified at 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.
Issued in Washington, DC, on July 17,
2018.
Nanda Srinivasan,
Director, Office of Survey Development and
Statistical Integration, U.S. Energy
Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 2018–16250 Filed 7–27–18; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. EL18–186–000]

PATH Allegheny Transmission
Company, LLC; Notice of Petition for
Declaratory Order
Take notice that on July 23, 2018,
pursuant to Rule 207 of the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission’s
(Commission) Rules of Practice and
Procedure, 18 CFR 385.207 (2017),
PATH Allegheny Transmission
Company, LLC and its subsidiaries,
PATH Allegheny Virginia Transmission
Corporation (PATH–VA) and PATH
Allegheny Maryland Transmission
Corporation (PATH–MD), (together,
PATH AYE) filed a petition requesting
the Commission issue a declaratory
order determining that PATH AYE’s
distribution of paid-in capital to its
ultimate parent company—FirstEnergy
Corp., will not violate section 305(a) of
the Federal Power Act,1 as more fully
explained in the petition.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest this filing must file in
accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of
the Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214).
Protests will be considered by the
Commission in determining the
appropriate action to be taken, but will
not serve to make protestants parties to
the proceeding. Any person wishing to
become a party must file a notice of
intervention or motion to intervene, as
appropriate. Such notices, motions, or
protests must be filed on or before the
comment date. Anyone filing a motion
to intervene or protest must serve a copy
of that document on the Petitioner.
The Commission encourages
electronic submission of protests and
interventions in lieu of paper using the
‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov.
Persons unable to file electronically
should submit an original and 5 copies
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