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Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 248 / Wednesday, December 28, 2022 / Notices

Dated: December 21, 2022.
Amy B. Coyle,
Deputy General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2022–28157 Filed 12–27–22; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED–2022–SCC–0131]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Comment Request;
Form for Maintenance of Effort Waiver
Requests
Office of Elementary and
Secondary Education (OESE),
Department of Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
1995, the Department is proposing an
extension without change of a currently
approved information collection request
(ICR).
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before January
27, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for proposed
information collection requests should
be submitted within 30 days of
publication of this notice. Click on this
link www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain to access the site. Find this
information collection request (ICR) by
selecting ‘‘Department of Education’’
under ‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ then
check the ‘‘Only Show ICR for Public
Comment’’ checkbox. Reginfo.gov
provides two links to view documents
related to this information collection
request. Information collection forms
and instructions may be found by
clicking on the ‘‘View Information
Collection (IC) List’’ link. Supporting
statements and other supporting
documentation may be found by
clicking on the ‘‘View Supporting
Statement and Other Documents’’ link.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Todd
Stephenson, 202–205–1645.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department 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
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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: Form for
Maintenance of Effort Waiver Requests.
OMB Control Number: 1810–0693.
Type of Review: An extension without
change of a currently approved ICR.
Respondents/Affected Public: State,
Local, and Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 20.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 1,600.
Abstract: Section 8521(a) of the
Elementary and Secondary Education
Act of 1965, as amended by the Every
Student Succeeds Act (ESEA) provides
that a local educational agency (LEA)
may receive funds under Title I, Part A
and other ESEA ‘‘covered programs’’ for
any fiscal year only if the State
educational agency (SEA) finds that
either the combined fiscal effort per
student or the aggregate expenditures of
the LEA and the State with respect to
the provision of free public education
by the LEA for the preceding fiscal year
was not less than 90 percent of the
combined fiscal effort or aggregate
expenditures for the second preceding
fiscal year. This provision is the
maintenance of effort (MOE)
requirements for LEAs under the ESEA.
If an LEA fails to meet the MOE
requirement, under section 8521(b) of
the ESEA, the SEA must reduce the
amount of funds allocated under the
programs covered by the MOE
requirement in any fiscal year in the
exact proportion by which the LEA fails
to maintain effort by falling below 90
percent of either the combined fiscal
effort per student or aggregate
expenditures, if the LEA has also failed
to maintain effort for 1 or more of the
5 immediately preceding fiscal years. In
reducing an LEA’s allocation because it
failed to meet the MOE requirement, the
SEA uses the measure most favorable to
the LEA. Section 8521(c) gives the U.S.
Department of Education (ED) the
authority to waive the ESEA’s MOE
requirement for an LEA if it would be
equitable to grant the waiver due to an
exceptional or uncontrollable
circumstance such as a natural disaster
or a change in the organizational
structure of the LEA or a precipitous
decline in the LEA’s financial resources.
If an MOE waiver is granted, the
reduction required by section 8521(b)
does not occur for that year. A request
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discretionary. Only an LEA that has
failed to maintain effort and that
believes its failure justifies a waiver
would request one. To review an MOE
waiver request, ED relies primarily on
expenditure, revenue, and other data
relevant to an LEA’s request provided
by the SEA. To assist an SEA with
submitting this information, ED
developed an MOE waiver form as part
of the 2009 Title I, Part A Waiver
Guidance, which covered a range of
waivers that ED invited at that time. The
purpose of this request is to renew
approval for the MOE waiver form. This
collection includes burden at the SEA
level.
Dated: December 22, 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
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice of request for comments.
AGENCY:

The Department of Energy
(DOE) invites public comment on a
proposed collection of information that
DOE is developing for submission to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) pursuant to the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. The information
collection request, State Energy Program
(SEP), was previously approved on
August 31, 2020, under OMB Control
Number 1910–5126 and its current
expiration date is August 31, 2023. This
ICR will include SEP Annual
Appropriations and Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). This ICR
makes updates to the SEP reporting
metrics to ensure the requested
information can be shared on an annual
basis with Congress.
DATES: Comments regarding this
proposed information collection must
be received on or before January 27,
2023. 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) 881–8585.
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Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 248 / Wednesday, December 28, 2022 / Notices
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 information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
30-day Review—Open for Public
Comments’’ or by using the search
function.
Greg Davoren by email to the
following address: Greg.davoren@
ee.doe.gov with the subject line ‘‘State
Energy Program (OMB NO. 1910–5126)’’
included in the message.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Greg Davoren, EE–5W, U.S.
Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Ave. SW, Washington,
DC 20585–0121 or by email or phone at
[email protected], (202) 287–
1706.
ADDRESSES:

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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.: 1910–5126;
(2) Information Collection Request
Titled: ‘‘State Energy Program (SEP)’’;
(3) Type of Review: Extension of a
Currently Approved Collection;
(4) Purpose: To collect information on
the status of grantee activities related to
SEP Annual Appropriations and IIJAtotal activities funded through with
grant funds; expenditures; and results,
to ensure that program funds are being
used appropriately, effectively and
expeditiously. SEP Annual
Appropriations: On March 15, 2022, the
President signed the Consolidated
Appropriations Act of 2021, which
appropriated $56,500,000 to the SEP for
formula grants allocation. As noted in
SEPN 22–01, SEP Grantees will be
required to report metrics related to the
expenditure of these funds.
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(IIJA): In addition to the reporting
documents for the SEP’s annual
appropriations, this collection also
includes reporting for the $790 million
delivered by IIJA. IIJA was passed by
Congress on November 6, 2021 ‘‘to
authorize funds for Federal-aid
highways, highway safety programs, and
transit programs, and for other
purposes.’’ The State Energy Program is
listed as an IIJA recipient under Title 1:
Grid Infrastructure and Resiliency
within Division D—Energy;
(5) Annual Estimated Number of
Respondents: 56;
(6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: 1,288;
(7) Annual Estimated Number of
Burden Hours: 25,088;
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden:
$1,187,164.16.
Statutory Authority: Title 42, chapter
77, subchapter III, part B of the United
States Code (U.S.C.), (42 U.S.C. 6321 et
seq.). All grant awards made under this
program shall comply with applicable
laws including, but not limited to, the
SEP statutory authority (42 U.S.C. 6321
et seq.), 10 CFR part 420, and 2 CFR part
200 as amended by 2 CFR part 910.
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of
Energy was signed on November 22,
2022, by Francisco Alejandro Moreno,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy,
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 December
22, 2022.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S.
Department of Energy.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 5944–000]

Moretown Hydroelectric, LLC; Notice
of Authorization for Continued Project
Operation
The license for the Moretown No.8
Hydroelectric Project No. 5944 was
issued for a period ending November 30,
2022.
Section 15(a)(1) of the FPA, 16 U.S.C.
808(a)(1), requires the Commission, at
the expiration of a license term, to issue
from year-to-year an annual license to
the then licensee(s) under the terms and
conditions of the prior license until a
new license is issued, or the project is
otherwise disposed of as provided in
section 15 or any other applicable
section of the FPA. If the project’s prior
license waived the applicability of
section 15 of the FPA, then, based on
section 9(b) of the Administrative
Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 558(c), and as
set forth at 18 CFR 16.21(a), if the
licensee of such project has filed an
application for a subsequent license, the
licensee may continue to operate the
project in accordance with the terms
and conditions of the license after the
minor or minor part license expires,
until the Commission acts on its
application. If the licensee of such a
project has not filed an application for
a subsequent license, then it may be
required, pursuant to 18 CFR 16.21(b),
to continue project operations until the
Commission issues someone else a
license for the project or otherwise
orders disposition of the project.
If the project is subject to section 15
of the FPA, notice is hereby given that
an annual license for Project No. 5944
is issued to the Moretown
Hydroelectric, LLC for a period effective
December 1, 2022, through November
30, 2023, or until the issuance of a new
license for the project or other
disposition under the FPA, whichever
comes first. If issuance of a new license
(or other disposition) does not take
place on or before November 30, 2023,
notice is hereby given that, pursuant to
18 CFR 16.18(c), an annual license
under section 15(a)(1) of the FPA is
renewed automatically without further
order or notice by the Commission,
unless the Commission orders
otherwise.
If the project is not subject to section
15 of the FPA, notice is hereby given
that Moretown Hydroelectric, LLC is
authorized to continue operation of the
Moretown No.8 Hydroelectric Project
under the terms and conditions of the

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