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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 219 / Wednesday, November 17, 2021 / Notices

identify potential compliance issues
ahead of more comprehensive
monitoring, decreasing the need for
enforcement action and minimizing
burden for grantees.
Dated: November 12, 2021.
Kate Mullan,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and
Clearance Governance and Strategy Division,
Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of
Planning, Evaluation and Policy
Development.
[FR Doc. 2021–25047 Filed 11–16–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
U.S. Energy Information
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Proposed Extension
U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

EIA invites public comment
on the proposed three-year extension of
the following Oil and Gas Reserves
System Survey Forms, as required under
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995;
extension without changes of Form
EIA–64A, Annual Report of the Origin
of Natural Gas Liquids Production;
extension without changes of Form
EIA–23L, Annual Report of Domestic
Oil and Gas Reserves, County Level
Report; and continued suspension of
Form EIA–23S, Annual Survey of
Domestic Oil and Gas Reserves,
Summary Level Report.
DATES: EIA must receive all comments
on this proposed information collection
no later than January 18, 2022. If you
anticipate any difficulties in submitting
your comments by the deadline, contact
the person listed in the ADDRESSES
section of this notice as soon as
possible.
SUMMARY:

Submit comments
electronically to [email protected] or
mail comments to Mr. Steven Grape, EI–
24, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Avenue SW, Washington,
DC 20585, or by fax at (202) 586–4420.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you need additional information,
contact Mr. Steven Grape, U.S. Energy
Information Administration, telephone
(202) 586–1868, or by email at
[email protected]. The forms and
instructions are available on EIA’s
website at https://www.eia.gov/survey/.

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This
information collection request contains:
(1) OMB No.: 1905–0057;
(2) Information Collection Request
Title: Oil and Gas Reserves System;
(3) Type of Request: Three year
extension without changes of the
currently approved Form EIA–64A;
extension without changes of the
currently approved Form EIA–23L; and
continued suspension of collection of
the currently approved Form EIA–23S
(suspended).
(4) Purpose: In response to Public Law
95–91 Section 657, estimates of U.S. oil
and gas reserves are to be reported
annually. Many U.S. government
agencies have an interest in the
definitions of proved oil and gas
reserves and the quality, reliability, and
usefulness of estimates of reserves.
Among these are the U.S. Energy
Information Administration (EIA),
Department of Energy; Bureau of Ocean
Energy Management (BOEM),
Department of Interior; Internal Revenue
Service (IRS), Department of the
Treasury; and the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC). Each of
these organizations has specific
purposes for collecting, using, or
estimating proved reserves. The EIA has
a congressional mandate to provide
accurate annual estimates of U.S.
proved crude oil, natural gas, and
natural gas liquids reserves, and EIA
presents annual reserves data in EIA
Web reports to meet this requirement.
The BOEM maintains estimates of
proved reserves to carry out their
responsibilities in leasing, collecting
royalty payments, and regulating the
activities of oil and gas companies on
Federal waters. Accurate reserve
estimates are important, as the BOEM is
second only to the IRS in generating
Federal revenue. For the IRS, proved
reserves and occasionally probable
reserves are an essential component of
calculating taxes for companies owning
or producing oil and gas. The SEC
requires publicly traded petroleum
companies to annually file a reserves
statement as part of their 10–K filing.
The basic purpose of the 10–K filing is
to give the investing public a clear and
reliable financial basis to assess the
relative value, as a financial asset, of a
company’s reserves, especially in
comparison to other similar oil and gas
companies. The Government also uses
the resulting information to develop
national and regional estimates of
proved reserves of domestic crude oil,
natural gas, and natural gas liquids to
facilitate national energy policy
decisions. These estimates are essential
to the development, implementation,
and evaluation of energy policy and

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legislation. Data are used directly in EIA
Web reports concerning U.S. crude oil,
natural gas, and natural gas liquids
reserves, and are incorporated into a
number of other Web reports and
analyses;
(5) Annual Estimated Number of
Respondents: Forms EIA–23L/23S/64A:
1,100;
(6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: Forms EIA–23L/23S/
64A: 1,100;
(7) Annual Estimated Number of
Burden Hours: 24,800 hours;
Form EIA–23L Annual Survey of
Domestic Oil and Gas Reserves,
County Level Report: 110 hours (120
large operators); 40 hours (140
medium operators); 15 hours (240
small operators): 22,400 hours
Form EIA–23S Annual Survey of
Domestic Oil and Gas Reserves,
Summary Level Report: 4 hours (small
operators): 0 hours (Currently
suspended)
Form EIA–64A Annual Report of the
Origin of Natural Gas Liquids
Production: 4 hours (600 natural gas
plant operators): 2,400 hours
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $2,024,920
(24,800 burden hours times $81.65 per
hour). EIA estimates that respondents
will have no additional costs associated
with the surveys other than the burden
hours and the maintenance of the
information during the normal course of
business.
Comments are invited on whether or
not: (a) The proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of agency functions,
including whether the information will
have a practical utility; (b) EIA’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used, is accurate; (c) EIA
can improve the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information it will collect;
(d) EIA can minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, such as automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology; (e) All data
items collected on Form EIA–23L are
necessary for the proper performance of
agency functions, and if not which data
items could be removed without
affecting practical utility; and (f) The
ability to upload the Form EIA–23L data
in a standard file format (xlsx, csv, txt,
xml, ectc.) would improve data
preparation and reduce burden
compared to the current process.
Statutory Authority: 15 U.S.C. 772(b)
and 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.

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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 219 / Wednesday, November 17, 2021 / Notices
Signed in Washington, DC, on November,
10, 2021.
Samson A. Adeshiyan,
Director, Office of Statistical Methods and
Research, U.S. Energy Information
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2021–25025 Filed 11–16–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 5261–023]

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Green Mountain Power Corporation;
Notice of Application Accepted for
Filing and Soliciting Motions To
Intervene and Protests
Take notice that the following
hydroelectric application has been filed
with the Commission and is available
for public inspection.
a. Type of Application: Subsequent
Minor License.
b. Project No.: 5261–023.
c. Date filed: August 27, 2021.
d. Applicant: Green Mountain Power
Corporation.
e. Name of Project: Newbury
Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: On the Wells River, in the
town of Newbury, Orange County,
Vermont. The project does not occupy
any federal land.
g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power
Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r).
h. Applicant Contact: John Greenan,
Green Mountain Power Corporation,
2152 Post Road, Rutland, VT 05701;
Phone at (802) 770–2195, or email at
John.Greenan@
greenmountainpower.com.
i. FERC Contact: Adam Peer at (202)
502–8449, or [email protected].
j. Deadline for filing motions to
intervene and protests: 60 days from the
issuance date of this notice.
The Commission strongly encourages
electronic filing. Please file using the
Commission’s eFiling system at https://
ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx.
For assistance, please contact FERC
Online Support at
[email protected], (866)
208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659
(TTY).
In lieu of electronic filing, you may
submit a paper copy. Submissions sent
via the U.S. Postal Service must be
addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room
1A, Washington, DC 20426.
Submissions sent via any other carrier
must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose,
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Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue,
Rockville, Maryland 20852. All filings
must clearly identify the project name
and docket number on the first page:
Newbury Hydroelectric Project (P–
5261–023).
The Commission’s Rules of Practice
require all intervenors filing documents
with the Commission to serve a copy of
that document on each person on the
official service list for the project.
Further, if an intervenor files comments
or documents with the Commission
relating to the merits of an issue that
may affect the responsibilities of a
particular resource agency, they must
also serve a copy of the document on
that resource agency.
k. This application has been accepted,
but is not ready for environmental
analysis at this time.
l. The Newbury Project consists of: (1)
An 11.4-acre impoundment at a normal
water surface elevation of 463.9 feet
mean sea level; (2) a 26 foot-high by 90foot-long concrete gravity dam that
includes a 73.3-foot-long spillway
topped with 5-foot-high pneumatic crest
gates; (3) a seasonally installed, 8-footlong by 4-foot-wide steel sluice box on
the south side of the spillway to provide
downstream fish passage; (4) an 11.2foot-wide, 9-foot-long intake structure
with trash racks, connected to a 5-footdiameter, 435-foot-long underground
steel penstock; (5) a powerhouse
containing a single 315-kilowatt turbinegenerator unit; (6) a second 50-kilowatt
turbine-generator unit located outside of
the powerhouse approximately 75-feet
downstream of the dam along the
bypassed reach; (7) a 125-foot-long
tailrace; (8) three 150-foot-long
generator leads that create a 480 Volt, 3
phase 150-foot-long underground
transmission line connected to three
pole mounted 167 kilovolt-ampere stepup transformers; and (9) appurtenant
facilities. The project creates a 590-footlong bypassed reach of the Wells River.
The current license requires Green
Mountain Power Corporation to: (1)
Operate the project in run-of-river
mode; (2) release a continuous bypassed
reach minimum flow of 50 cubic feet
per second (cfs) from April 15 to June
10 and 25 cfs during the remainder of
the year; and (3) release a year-round,
continuous aesthetic flow of 5 cfs over
the dam. The average annual generation
of the project is approximately 882
megawatt-hours.
Green Mountain Power Corporation
proposes to: (1) Continue operating the
project in run-of-river mode; (2) release
new bypassed reach minimum flows of
35 cfs from May 15 to October 15 and
30 cfs from October 16 to May 14; (3)
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over the dam from May 15 to October
15 during daytime hours and no
aesthetic flow the remainder of the year;
and (4) construct a hand-carry access
area at the head of the project
impoundment for recreational boaters.
m. In addition to publishing the full
text of this document in the Federal
Register, the Commission provides all
interested persons an opportunity to
view and/or print the contents of this
document via the internet through the
Commission’s Home Page (http://
www.ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link.
Enter the docket number excluding the
last three digits in the docket number
field to access the document. At this
time, the Commission has suspended
access to the Commission’s Public
Reference Room, due to the
proclamation declaring a National
Emergency concerning the Novel
Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued
by the President on March 13, 2020. For
assistance, contact FERC Online
Support at FERCOnllineSupport@
ferc.gov or call toll-free, (886) 208–3676
or TTY, (202) 502–8659.
You may also register online at http://
www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.
asp to be notified via email of new
filings and issuances related to this or
other pending projects. For assistance,
contact FERC Online Support.
n. Anyone may submit a protest or a
motion to intervene in accordance with
the requirements of Rules of Practice
and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.210,
385.211, and 385.214. In determining
the appropriate action to take, the
Commission will consider all protests
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 protests or
motions to intervene must be received
on or before the specified deadline date
for the particular application.
All filings must (1) bear in all capital
letters the title ‘‘PROTEST’’ or
‘‘MOTION TO INTERVENE;’’ (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
protesting or intervening; and (4)
otherwise comply with the requirements
of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005.
Agencies may obtain copies of the
application directly from the applicant.
A copy of any protest or motion to
intervene must be served upon each
representative of the applicant specified
in the particular application.
o. Procedural schedule: The
application will be processed according
to the following schedule. Revisions to

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