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Western Area Power Administration Applicant Profile Data

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OMB: 1910-5136

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filed, but only those who file a motion
to intervene in accordance with the
Commission’s Rules may become a
party to the proceeding. Any comments,
protests, or motions to intervene must
be received on or before the specified
deadline date for the particular
application.
o. Filing and Service of Responsive
Documents: Any filing must (1) bear in
all capital letters the title
‘‘COMMENTS’’, ‘‘PROTEST’’, or
‘‘MOTION TO INTERVENE’’ as
applicable; (2) set forth in the heading
the name of the applicant and the
project number of the application to
which the filing responds; (3) furnish
the name, address, and telephone
number of the person commenting,
protesting, or intervening; and (4)
otherwise comply with the requirements
of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005.
All comments, motions to intervene, or
protests must set forth their evidentiary
basis. Any filing made by an intervenor
must be accompanied by proof of
service on all persons listed in the
service list prepared by the Commission
in this proceeding, in accordance with
18 CFR 385.2010.
Dated: October 1, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020–22158 Filed 10–6–20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Western Area Power Administration
Agency Information Collection
Extension
Western Area Power
Administration, DOE.
ACTION: Submission for Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) review;
comment request.
AGENCY:

The Department of Energy
(DOE) has submitted an information
collection request to the OMB for
extension under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The
information collection requests a threeyear extension of Western Area Power
Administration’s (WAPA) Applicant
Profile Data (APD), OMB Control
Number 1910–5136. The proposed
collection is necessary for the proper
performance of WAPA’s functions.
WAPA markets a limited amount of
Federal hydropower. Due to the high
demand for WAPA’s power, WAPA
needs the ability to collect information
under the information collection request
in order to evaluate who may receive an
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specific marketing plans. This APD
public process only determines the
information WAPA will collect in its
information collection request. The
actual allocation of Federal power will
be conducted through a separate
marketing plan process outside the
scope of this APD process.
DATES: Comments regarding this
collection must be received on or before
November 6, 2020. 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 OMB Desk Officer of
your intention to make a submission as
soon as possible. The Desk Officer may
be telephoned at (202) 395–4718.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Erin Green, Power Marketing and
Energy Services Specialist, Western
Area Power Administration, P.O. Box
281213, Lakewood, CO 80228,
telephone (720) 962–7016, or email
[email protected]. The proposed APD
form is available on WAPA’s website at
www.wapa.gov/PowerMarketing/Pages/
applicant-profile-data.aspx.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
information collection request contains:
(1) OMB No.: 1910–5136; (2)
Information Collection Request Title:
Western Area Power Administration
(WAPA) Applicant Profile Data; (3)
Type of Review: Renewal; (4) Purpose:
WAPA is collecting—and will continue
to collect—the data under its APD to
properly perform its function of
marketing a limited amount of Federal
hydropower. The information WAPA
collects is voluntary. Due to the high
demand for WAPA’s power and limited
amount of available power, WAPA will
use the information collected in the
APD—and has used the information
collected under the current OMBapproved control number—pursuant to
its marketing plans, to determine an
applicant’s eligibility for an allocation
of Federal power. As a result, the
information WAPA collects under its
APD is both necessary and useful.
WAPA notes the Paperwork Reduction
Act is the process whereby WAPA
obtains approval from OMB to collect
information from the public. It is a legal
requirement WAPA must comply with
before requesting an interested party

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submit an application for power. The
Paperwork Reduction Act process is not
the process in which interested parties
apply for a new allocation of Federal
power. The allocation of power from
WAPA is outside the scope of this
process and is completed in a separate
marketing plan process by each WAPA
region, when required; (5) Annual
Estimated Number of Respondents:
33.333; (6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: 33.333; (7) Annual
Estimated Number of Burden Hours:
250; (8) Annual Estimated Reporting
and Recordkeeping Cost Burden:
$32,046.98.
Statutory Authority: Reclamation
Laws are a series of laws arising from
the Desert Land Act of 1877 and
include, but are not limited to: The
Desert Land Act of 1877, Reclamation
Act of 1902, Reclamation Project Act of
1939, and the Acts authorizing each
individual project such as the Central
Valley Project Authorizing Act of 1937.
See Ch. 107, 19 stat. 377 (1877), Ch.
1093, 32 Stat. 388 (1902), Ch. 418, 53
Stat. 1187 (1939), Ch. 832, 50 Stat. 844,
850 (1937), all as amended and
supplemented. The Reclamation Act of
1902 established the Federal
reclamation program. See Ch. 1093, 32
Stat. 388 (1902), as amended and
supplemented. The basic principle of
the Reclamation Act of 1902 was that
the United States, through the Secretary
of the Interior, would build and operate
irrigation works from the proceeds of
public land sales in the sixteen arid
Western states (a seventeenth was later
added). The Reclamation Project Act of
1939 expanded the purposes of the
reclamation program and specified
certain terms for contracts that the
Secretary of the Interior enters into to
furnish water and power. See Ch. 418,
53 Stat. 1187 (1939), as amended and
supplemented. In 1977, the Department
of Energy Organization Act transferred
the power marketing functions of the
Department of the Interior to the
Secretary of Energy, acting by and
through a separate Administrator for
WAPA. See 42 U.S.C. 7152(a)(1)(D).
Section 5 of the Flood Control Act of
1944 is read in pari materia with
Reclamation Laws with respect to
WAPA. See Act of December 22, 1944,
Ch. 665, 58 Stat. 887, as amended and
supplemented.
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of
Energy was signed on September 30,
2020, by Mark A. Gabriel,
Administrator, Western Area Power
Administration, pursuant to delegated
authority from the Secretary of Energy.
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signature and date, is maintained by
DOE. For administrative purposes only,
and in compliance with requirements of
the Office of the Federal Register, the
undersigned DOE Federal Register
Liaison Officer has been authorized to
sign and submit the document in
electronic format for publication, as an
official document of the Department of
Energy. This administrative process in
no way alters the legal effect of this
document upon publication in the
Federal Register.
Signed in Washington, DC, on October 2,
2020.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S.
Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2020–22168 Filed 10–6–20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
[OMB 3060–0004; FRS 17099]

Information Collection Being Reviewed
by the Federal Communications
Commission
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork burdens, and as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (PRA), the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC or
Commission) invites the general public
and other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on the
following information collections.
Comments are requested concerning:
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Commission, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
the accuracy of the Commission’s
burden estimate; ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected; ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on the respondents,
including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology; and ways to
further reduce the information
collection burden on small business
concerns with fewer than 25 employees.
The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a
collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) control
number. No person shall be subject to
any penalty for failing to comply with

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a collection of information subject to the
PRA that does not display a valid OMB
control number.
DATES: Written PRA comments should
be submitted on or before December 7,
2020. 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, you should
advise the contact listed below as soon
as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to
Nicole Ongele, FCC, via email PRA@
fcc.gov and to [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information about the
information collection, contact Nicole
Ongele, (202) 418–2991.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–0004.
Title: Sections 1.1307 and 1.1311,
Guidelines for Evaluating the
Environmental Effects of
Radiofrequency Exposure.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Individuals or
households, Business or other for-profit,
Not-for-profit institutions, and State,
Local or Tribal government.
Number of Respondents and
Responses: 335,441 Respondents;
335,441 Responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 0.0833
hours (5 minutes)¥20 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion
reporting requirement and third-party
disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to
obtain or retain benefits. Statutory
authority for this Information collection
is contained in 47 U.S.C. 154(i), 302,
303, 303(r), and 307.
Total Annual Burden: 41,997 hours.
Total Annual Costs: $2,933,431.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: No
impact(s).
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
There is a minimal exemption from the
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5
U.S.C. 552(b)(4), and 47 CFR 0.459 of
the Commission’s rules, that is granted
for trade secrets and privileged or
confidential commercial or financial
information, which may be submitted to
the Commission as part of the
documentation of test results. No other
assurances of confidentiality are
provided to respondents.
Needs and Uses: The Commission
will submit this revised information
collection to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) after this 60-day
comment period in order to obtain the
full three-year clearance.
This information collection is a result
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the National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) of 1969. NEPA requires that
each federal agency evaluate the impact
of ‘‘major actions significantly affecting
the quality of the human environment.’’
It is the FCC’s opinion that this is the
most efficient and reasonable method of
complying with NEPA with regard to
the environmental issue of
radiofrequency radiation from FCCregulated transmitters.
The December 2019 RF Exposure
Second Report and Order, ET Docket
Nos. 03–137 and 13–184, FCC 19–126,
amended §§ 1.1307, 2.1091 and 2.1093
requiring approval by OMB under the
Paperwork Reduction Act (85 FR 18131,
April 1, 2020). The Commission
subsequently stated that the
amendments to these rules affects
information collections under the
Paperwork Reduction Act. 85 FR 33578
(June 2, 2020). Revision to information
collection effected by amendments to
§§ 2.1091 and 2.1093 is reported
separately under OMB Information
Collection 3060–0057.
In amended § 1.1307, the Commission
revised its implementing rules to reflect
modern technology and current uses.
The Commission streamlined the
criteria for determining when an
applicant or licensee is exempt from our
radio frequency (RF) exposure
evaluation criteria by replacing servicebased exemptions with a formula-based
approach. For those applicants and
licensees who do not qualify for an
exemption, the Commission provided
more flexibility to establish compliance
with our RF exposure limits. The
Commission also specified methods that
RF equipment operators can use to
mitigate the risk of excess exposure,
both to members of the public and
trained workers (such as training,
supervision, and signage). The amended
rules provide more efficient, practical,
and consistent RF exposure evaluation
procedures and mitigation measures to
help ensure compliance with the
existing RF exposure limits.
Most of the changes to § 1.1307
represent clarification or simplification
of existing requirements and are not
expected to significantly increase or
decrease the estimated burden to
respondents or to the Federal
government. To address components of
the amended requirements that were not
included in previous burden estimates,
isolated revisions were made to the
burden estimates as summarized in the
supporting statement of the Information
Collection. To update burden estimates
based on most recently available data,
the Commission also adjusted the total
number of respondents/responses, the
total annual hourly burden, and the

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