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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Proposed Subsequent Arrangement

U.S. Department of Energy

National Nuclear Security
Administration, Department of Energy.

Information Collection Extension

AGENCY:

Proposed subsequent
arrangement.

ACTION:

This document is being
issued under the authority of the
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.
The Department is providing notice of a
proposed subsequent arrangement
under the Agreement for Cooperation
Concerning Civil Uses of Atomic Energy
Between the Government of the United
States of America and the Government
of Canada and the Agreement for
Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of
Nuclear Energy between the United
States of America and the European
Atomic Energy Community (Euratom).

SUMMARY:

This subsequent arrangement
will take effect no sooner than
September 14, 2018.

DATES:

Mr.
Sean Oehlbert, Office of
Nonproliferation and Arms Control,
National Nuclear Security
Administration, Department of Energy.
Telephone: 202–586–3806 or email:
[email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

This
subsequent arrangement concerns the
retransfer of 369,822,000 g of U.S.obligated natural uranium hexafluoride
UF6 (67.6%), 250,000,000 g of which is
uranium, from Cameco Corporation
(Cameco) in Ontario, Canada, to
URENCO Ltd. in Capenhurst, United
Kingdom. The material, which is
currently located at Cameco in Port
Hope, Ontario, Canada, will be used for
toll enrichment by URENCO at its
facility in Capenhurst, United Kingdom.
The material was originally obtained by
Cameco from Cameco Resources—Crow
Butte Operation, pursuant to export
license XSOU8798.
In accordance with section 131a. of
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
amended, it has been determined that
this subsequent arrangement concerning
the retransfer of nuclear material of
United States origin will not be inimical
to the common defense and security of
the United States of America.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Dated: August 1, 2018.
For the Department of Energy.
Brent K. Park,
Deputy Administrator, Defense Nuclear
Nonproliferation.
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Office of Fossil Energy,
Department of Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

FE invites public comments
on the proposed collection of
information, Form FE–746R Natural Gas
Imports and Exports, as required under
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
FE requests a three-year extension, with
changes, of Form FE–746R, OMB
Control Number 1901–0294. Form FE–
746R collects information from
prospective and actual importers and
exporters of natural gas. Data collected
on Form FE–746R are published by
DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE) in
monthly and quarterly publications, and
are republished by EIA as part of its
natural gas supply and demand
statistics. Additionally, the data enable
FE to monitor trade activity and support
FE’s market and regulatory analyses.
DATES: FE must receive all comments on
this proposed information collection no
later than October 29, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments to
Marc Talbert, FE–34, U.S. Department of
Energy, Office of Oil and Natural Gas,
Office of Fossil Energy, P.O. Box 44375,
Washington, DC 20026–4375.
Submission by email to marc.talbert@
hq.doe.gov is recommended.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you need additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument, contact Marc Talbert by
telephone at (202) 586–7991, or by
email at [email protected].
Access to the proposed form and
instructions can be found at http://
energy.gov/fe/services/natural-gasregulationlguidelines-filingmonthlyreports.
SUMMARY:

This
information collection request contains:
(1) OMB No. 1901–0294;
(2) Information Collection Request
Title: Natural Gas Import and Export
Application;
(3) Type of Request: Renewal with
changes;
(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

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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, as part of its effort to comply
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), provides
the general public and other Federal
agencies with opportunities to comment
on collections of energy information
conducted by or in conjunction with
EIA. DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
is delegated the authority to regulate
natural gas imports and exports under
section 3 of the Natural Gas Act of 1938,
15 U.S.C. 717b. In order to carry out its
delegated responsibility, FE requires
those persons seeking to import and/or
export natural gas to file an application
providing basic information on the
scope and nature of the proposed
import/export activity. Once an
importer and/or exporter receives
authorization from FE, they are required
to submit monthly reports of all import
and/or export transactions. Form FE–
746R collects critical information on
U.S. natural gas trade including: name
of the importer/exporter; country of
origin/destination; international point of
entry/exit; name of supplier; volume;
price; transporter; geographic market
served; and duration of supply contract
on a monthly basis. The data are
aggregated and the statistical aggregates
are published in Natural Gas Imports
and Exports, The Natural Gas Monthly,
and other reports produced by FE and
EIA. The data are used to ensure
compliance with the terms and
conditions of the authorizations. In
addition, the data are used to monitor
North American gas trade, which, in
turn, enables the Federal government to
perform market and regulatory analyses;
improve the capability of industry and
the government to respond to any future
energy-related supply problems; and
keep the general public informed of
international natural gas trade.
(4a) Proposed Changes to Information
Collection: Form FE–746 collects
information for all modes of natural gas
transportation that are used for
importing to and/or exporting from the
United States, including by pipeline
and, in the case of liquefied natural gas
(LNG), imports and exports by vessel.
FE proposes a change to the
confidentiality policy for select
information reported on Form FE–746R.
Under FE’s current practice, FE
publishes aggregate price information
for natural gas imports and exports by
pipeline at the point of entry or exit, but
publishes prices at the cargo level for
exports and imports of LNG by vessel.

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Existing authorization holders raised
concerns to FE that the release of their
LNG price data at the cargo level may
cause competitive harm to them. To
address this issue, FE proposes to align
price data reporting for natural gas
imports and exports by vessel—
including LNG—with current data
release policies for pipeline import and
export movements. Specifically, FE
proposes to publish only volumeweighted average import and export
prices for LNG and other modes of
natural gas transportation by point of
entry or exit, as is currently the practice
for pipeline imports and exports. Thus,
instead of a price being published for
each LNG cargo imported or exported, a
monthly volume-weighted average price
will be published for each point of LNG
import or export.
FE proposes the following change in
the confidentiality policy for Form FE–
746. The current statement ‘‘Information
reported on Form FE–746R will be
considered public information and may
be publicly released in company
identifiable form’’ will be replaced with
the new data confidentiality statement
that will read: ‘‘The following
information that is reported on Form
FE–746R will be protected and not
disclosed to the public to the extent that
it satisfies the criteria for exemption
under the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552, as amended, and
the Department of Energy (DOE)
regulations, 10 CFR 1004.11,
implementing the FOIA.
• The Price at Import or Export Point.
• In the case of natural gas imports
and exports for all modes of
transportation except pipeline, The
name of the Specific Purchaser/End
User.’’
Questions pertaining to Specific
Purchaser/End User do not appear on
the version of Form FE–746R required
for pipeline imports and exports.
All other information reported on Form
FE–746R will be considered public
information and may be publicly released in
company identifiable form.
Data protection methods will not be
applied to the aggregate statistical data
published from submissions on Form FE–
746R. There may be some statistics that are
based on data from fewer than three import
or export transactions. In these cases, it may
be possible for a knowledgeable person to
closely estimate the information reported by
a specific respondent.

Transaction-level price information
for natural gas and LNG imports and
exports, including prices for individual
LNG import and export cargos, and the
name of the Specific Purchaser/End
User, will not be publicly released. No
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specific customers/end users is
currently published. Natural gas import
and export price information, including
prices for LNG imports and exports, will
be aggregated and published by point of
entry or exit in FE’s and EIA’s data
publications featuring natural gas
import/export information, including
the Office of Fossil Energy’s LNG
Monthly and EIA’s Natural Gas
Monthly.
FE also proposes to collect heat
content in Btu per cubic foot for LNG
imports and exports to account for
variations in the heat content of gas
being imported from and exported to
various countries, so that import and
export volume data may be analyzed
according to objective standardized
units of measurement. The heat content
information reported for LNG imports
and exports on Form FE–746R will not
be protected and may be publicly
released in company identifiable form.
(5) Annual Estimated Number of
Respondents: 371;
(6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: 4,452;
(7) Annual Estimated Number of
Burden Hours: 13,356;
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: The cost of
the burden hours is estimated to be
$1,010,916 (13,356 burden hours times
$75.69 per hour). FE estimates that
respondents will have no additional
costs associated with the surveys other
than burden hours.
Comments are invited on whether: (a)
The proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of agency functions, including whether
the information shall have practical
utility; (b) FE’s estimate of the burden
of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used,
is accurate; (c) FE can improve quality,
utility, and clarity of the information it
will collect; and (d) FE can minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, such as
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
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)
and Section 3 of the Natural Gas Act of 1938,
codified at 15 U.S.C. 717b.
Signed in Washington, DC, on August 24,
2018.
Shawn Bennett,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Oil and
Natural Gas.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OAR–2004–0093; FRL–9982–94–
OAR]

Information Collection Request
Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; Clean
Air Act Tribal Authority (Renewal)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) has submitted an
information collection request (ICR),
‘‘Clean Air Act Tribal Authority
(Renewal)’’ (EPA ICR No. 1676.07, OMB
Control No. 2060–0306) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a
proposed extension of the ICR, which is
currently approved through December
31, 2018. Public comments were
previously requested via the Federal
Register on May 15, 2018, during a 60day comment period. This notice allows
for an additional 30 days for public
comments. A fuller description of the
ICR is given below, including its
estimated burden and cost to the public.
An Agency may not conduct or sponsor
and a person is not required to respond
to a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before October 1, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID Number EPA–
HQ–2004–0093, to (1) EPA online using
www.regulations.gov (our preferred
method), by email to a-and-r-docket@
epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket
Center, Environmental Protection
Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC
20460, and (2) OMB via email to oira_
[email protected]. Address
comments to OMB Desk Officer for EPA.
EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public
docket without change including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes profanity, threats,
information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pat
Childers, Office of Air and Radiation,
Immediate Office, (6101A),
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC
20460; telephone number: 202–564–
1082; fax number: 202–564–0394; email
address: [email protected].
SUMMARY:

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