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LBJ, Room 6W208D, Washington, DC
20202–4537.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Jennifer
Timmons, (202)-987–1295.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department of Education (ED), in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general
public and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed,
revised, and continuing collections of
information. This helps the Department
assess the impact of its information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. It also
helps the public understand the
Department’s information collection
requirements and provide the requested
data in the desired format. ED is
soliciting comments on the proposed
information collection request (ICR) that
is described below. The Department of
Education is especially interested in
public comment addressing the
following issues: (1) Is this collection
necessary to the proper functions of the
Department; (2) will this information be
processed and used in a timely manner;
(3) is the estimate of burden accurate;
(4) how might the Department enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (5) how
might the Department minimize the
burden of this collection on the
respondents, including through the use
of information technology. Please note
that written comments received in
response to this notice will be
considered public records.
Title of Collection: Liquidation
Extension Request Template.
OMB Control Number: 1810–0771.
Type of Review: Extension without
change of a currently approved
collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: State,
Local, and Tribal Governments Total
Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 104.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 2,080.
Abstract: This is a request for
approval for an extension of the OMB
approved 1810–0771 collection by the
Office of State and Grantee Relations
(SGR) in the Office of Elementary and
Secondary Education (OESE) at the U.S.
Department of Education (ED) for the
Elementary and Secondary School
Education Relief (ESSER) fund and the
Governor’s Emergency Education Relief
(GEER) fund authorized by the
Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic
Security Act of 2020, Public Law 116–
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Economic Security Act (CARES Act).
The CARES–ESSER (ALN 84.425D)
program is a $13 billion formula grant
program allocated to State educational
agencies (SEA) for use in responding to
and recovering from the COVID–19
pandemic. The CARES–GEER (ALN
84.425C) program is a $2.9 billion
formula grant program allocated to
Governors for the purpose of providing
local educational agencies (LEAs),
institutions of higher education (IHEs),
and other education related entities
with emergency assistance to address
the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
A liquidation extension request will be
required in order for an SEA or
Governor’s office to receive approval to
liquidate funds beyond the 120-day
liquidation period following the period
of availability of September 30, 2022.
The Department will use the grantee’s
request to review and recommend
approval for a liquidation extension
request.
Dated: October 4, 2022.
Kun Mullan,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and
Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division,
Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of
Planning, Evaluation and Policy
Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Agency Information Collection
Extension
Department of Energy.
Notice of request for comments.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

The Department of Energy
(DOE), pursuant to the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, intends to
extend for three years, an information
collection request with the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). The
collections in this package are
applicable to contract management in
DOE, collected by DOE to monitor and
manage the safety performance of its
contractors and to fulfill federal
reporting requirements. The information
obtained from DOE contractors is used
by Department management at the
appropriate levels to manage the work
pertaining to environment, safety and
health throughout DOE and will include
automated reporting of information into
the following systems: Computerized
Accident/Incident Reporting System
(CAIRS); Occurrence Reporting and
Processing System (ORPS); Radiation
Exposure Monitoring System (REMS);
Annual Fire Protection Summary
Application; Safety Basis Information

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System; and DOE OPEXShare Lessons
Learned System.
DATES: Comments regarding this
proposed information collection must
be received on or before December 6,
2022. If you anticipate any difficulty in
submitting comments within that
period, contact the person listed in the
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section as soon as possible.
Written comments may be
sent to Baldev Dhillon, EHSS–74,
Germantown Building, U.S. Department
of Energy, 1000 Independence Ave. SW,
Washington, DC 20585–1290, or by
email at [email protected], or
information about the collection
instruments may be obtained at https://
energy.gov/ehss/information-collection.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Baldev Dhillon, EHSS–74, (301) 903–
0990, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Comments
are invited on: (a) Whether the extended
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
This information collection request
contains:
(1) OMB No.: 1910–0300.
(2) Information Collection Request
Titled: Environment, Safety and Health.
(3) Type of Review: Renewal.
(4) Purpose: The collections are used
by DOE to exercise management
oversight and control over its
contractors in the ways in which the
DOE contractors provide goods and
services for DOE organizations and
activities in accordance with the terms
of their contract(s); the applicable
statutory, regulatory and mission
support requirements of the
Department.
(5) Annual Estimated Number of
Respondents: 775.
(6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: 73,040.
(7) Annual Estimated Number of
Burden Hours: 33,771.
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $151,448.
Statutory Authority: Section 641 of
the Department of Energy Organization
ADDRESSES:

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Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. 7251, and the
following additional authorities:
Computerized Accident/Incident
Reporting System (CAIRS): DOE Order
231.1B (November 28, 2012).
Occurrence Reporting and Processing
System (ORPS): DOE Order 232.2A
(October 4, 2019).
Radiation Exposure Monitoring
System (REMS): 10 CFR part 835; DOE
Order 231.1B (November 28, 2012).
Annual Fire Protection Summary
Application: DOE Order 231.1B
(November 28, 2012).
Safety Basis Information System: 10
CFR part 830; DOE Order 231.1B
(November 28, 2012).
DOE OPEXShare Lessons Learned
System: DOE Order 210.2A (April 8,
2011).
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of
Energy was signed on September 29,
2022, by Todd N. Lapointe, Acting
Director, The Office of Environment,
Health, Safety and Security pursuant to
delegated authority from the Secretary
of Energy. That document with the
original 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 4,
2022.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S.
Department of Energy.
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Capabilities of Universities and
Private-Sector Firms for Providing
Technical Assistance to States, U.S.
Territories, Indian Tribes, and Other
Eligible Entities To Enhance the
Resilience of Electricity Delivery
Systems
Grid Deployment Office (GDO),
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Request for information.
AGENCY:

The U.S Department of
Energy (DOE) is seeking information
from universities and private-sector
firms, including non-profit

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organizations, on their capabilities for
providing assistance to States, U.S.
Territories, Indian Tribes, and other
eligible entities to enhance their ability
to plan and implement strategies for
improving the resilience of systems that
deliver electric power. Towards that
aim, DOE requests that interested
parties provide responses to the set of
questions presented within this notice.
DOE intends to use this information to
ascertain the best available resources
and approach for carrying out a
technical assistance program under the
Infrastructure Improvement and Jobs
Act of 2021 (IIJA).
DATES: Responses to the RFI must be
received by no later than 5:00 p.m. EDT
on November 21, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties are to
submit responses to the following email
address: [email protected]. Include
‘‘40101 TA RFI’’ in the subject line of
the email. Responses must be provided
as a Microsoft Word (.docx) or PDF
attachment to the email, and no more
than 10 pages in length, 12-point font,
1-inch margins. It is recommended that
attachments with file sizes exceeding
25MB be compressed (i.e., zipped) to
ensure message delivery. Only
electronic responses will be accepted.
For ease of replying and to aid
categorization of your responses, please
copy and paste the RFI questions,
including the question numbering, and
use them as a template for your
response. Respondents may answer as
many or as few questions as they wish.
Respondents are requested to provide
the following information at the start of
their response to this RFI:
• Company/institution name.
• Company/institution contact.
• Contact’s address, phone number,
and email address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joe
Paladino, (202) 586–0020, 40101TA@
hq.doe.gov. Submitting inquiries to the
email address is preferred.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
purpose of the IIJA section 40101,
Preventing Outages and Enhancing the
Resilience of the Electric Grid, is to help
States, U.S. Territories, Indian Tribes,
and other entities eligible to receive
funding deploy a variety of measures to
improve the resilience of the electric
grid against disruptive events in which
the operations of the electric grid are
disrupted, preventively shut off, or
cannot operate safely due to extreme
weather, wildfire, natural disasters, or
cyber-attacks.1 These measures may
1 The entirety of the Infrastructure Investment
and Jobs Act (IIJA), Public Law 117–58, is available
at: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/

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range from hardening assets to
deploying more advanced practices and
grid technologies, including energy
storage systems and microgrids, for
improving resilience.
Under this program, DOE is interested
in helping entities better understand the
implication of threats to their electricity
delivery system and determine
strategies for improving its resilience.
This may include the formulation of
planning guidelines that set priorities
for mitigating impacts to critical
facilities and services, as well as for
investments that will lead to measurable
enhancements in the resilience of
infrastructure intended to provide
reliable electric power. In addition, DOE
will encourage the application of energy
justice principles in efforts to determine
and implement resilience measures so
that the benefits derived from them are
realized in an equitable manner by all.2
The technical assistance envisioned
would apply expert capabilities in
several areas including, for example:
1. Forecasting methods and tools to
determine customer electricity demand,
the adoption of distributed energy
resources, and weather/climate
parameters (e.g., temperature, rainfall,
windspeed, flooding/inundation) at
national, regional, and local levels.
2. Risk assessment methods, tools,
and processes to examine risks and their
impacts on energy infrastructure,
essential human services (e.g., water
supply and emergency services), and
vulnerable populations to prioritize
resilience investments.
3. Modeling and simulation methods
and tools to determine the severity and
impact of threats on energy and
electricity infrastructure at national,
regional, and local levels.
4. Methods and tools for multiobjective decision analysis to enable the
prioritization of electric infrastructure
investment options across a range of
policy objectives.
5. Methods and tools for addressing
energy equity (e.g., relating to
procedural, distributive, and restorative
energy justice principles) in the
determination of resilience measures.3
6. Cost-effectiveness methods and
tools to ascertain the appropriateness
and benefit of infrastructure
investments to aid decision-making.
house-bill/3684/text. IIJA Section 40101 defines an
eligible entity as being (a) an electric grid operator,
(b) an electricity storage operator, (c) an electricity
generator, (d) a transmission owner or operator, (e)
a distribution provider, (f) a fuel supplier, and (g)
any other relevant entity, as determined by DOE.
2 Information on DOE’s Justice40 Initiative is
available at: https://www.energy.gov/diversity/
justice40-initiative.
3 Ibid.

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