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Type of Review: A revision of a
currently approved ICR.
Respondents/Affected Public:
Individuals and Households.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 913,713.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 456,857.
Abstract: The Department of
Education (Department) is requesting
emergency processing for a revision to
an existing information collection. The
Department provides this form, 1845–
0110 Public Service Loan Forgiveness
(PSLF) & Temporary Expanded PSLF
(TEPSLF) Certification & Application
form, which is used by student loan
borrowers to apply for Public Service
Loan Forgiveness (PSLF). Borrowers
complete this form to have their
qualifying employment certified and
their progress toward forgiveness
recorded in our system. They are
encouraged to submit this form annually
but are only required to submit it at the
point that they have reached the
requisite 120 qualifying months of
repayment.
On March 7, 2025, President Trump
signed an executive order titled
Restoring Public Service Loan
Forgiveness (E.O. 14325) making
individuals employed by organizations
whose activities have a substantial
illegal purpose ineligible for PSLF.
The Department held public hearings
on April 29 and May 1, 2025, and
engaged in the negotiated rulemaking
process by convening a committee of
higher education stakeholders and
experts in July of 2025. On August 18,
2026, the Department published a
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FR 90
FR 40154) and collected public
comments on the proposed regulations
until September 17, 2025.
As explained in the Final Regulations
published on October 31, 2025 (90 FR
48966), 34 CFR 685.219(i) required an
update to the approved Public Service
Loan Forgiveness Certification and
Application, OMB #1845–0110. To
comply with E.O. 14325, a revision to
the form was made to include the
addition of an attestation statement,
under penalty of perjury, that the
employer has not engaged in any
activity that has a substantial illegal
purpose on or after July 1, 2026.
On Tuesday, June 30, 2026, a Federal
judge vacated the rule; one day prior to
the rule becoming effective. The
Department is now removing the
attestation from the PSLF form in order
1 Burden is defined as the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or provide

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to comply with the court order. No other
changes have been made at this time.

[email protected]. You must
specify the Docket No. (IC26–36–000)
and the FERC Information Collection

number (FERC–521) in your email. If
you are unable to file electronically,
comments may be filed by USPS mail or
by hand (including courier) delivery:
• Mail via U.S. Postal Service only,
addressed to: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Secretary of the
Commission, 888 First Street NE,
Washington, DC 20426.
• Hand (including courier) delivery
to: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Secretary of the
Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue,
Rockville, MD 20852.
Docket: To view comments and
issuances in this docket, please visit
https://elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/search.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kayla Williams may be reached by
email at [email protected], or
by telephone at (202) 502–6468.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FERC–521, Payments for
Benefits from Headwater Improvements.
OMB Control No.: 1902–0087.
Type of Request: Three-year extension
of the FERC–521 information collection
requirements with no changes to the
reporting requirements.
Abstract: The purpose of FERC–521 is
to implement information collections
pursuant to Section 10(f) of the Federal
Power Act (FPA). Section 10(f) of the
FPA requires hydropower licensees to
reimburse upstream headwater project
owners for an equitable portion of the
benefits it receives as a result of
construction work related to headwater
improvements. These benefits, referred
to as headwater benefits, are the
additional energy production possible at
a downstream hydropower project
resulting from the regulation of river
flows by an upstream storage reservoir.
The Commission requires federal
agencies and owners of non-federal
hydropower projects to file data for
determining headwater benefits as
outlined in 18 Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) Part 11.
Type of Respondents: There are two
types of entities that respond, Federal
and Non-Federal storage and
hydropower project owners. The
Federal entities that typically respond
include the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers and the U.S. Department of
Interior Bureau of Reclamation. The
Non-Federal entities may consist of any
Municipal or Non-Municipal
hydropower project owner.
Estimate of Annual Burden 1 and
cost: 2 The Commission estimates the
total Public Reporting Burden for this
information collection as:

information to or for a federal agency. See 5 CFR
1320 for additional information on the definition of
information collection burden.

2 FERC estimates that industry hourly costs are
similar to the Commission FY 2026 average salary
plus benefits of $213,003 per year (or $102/hour).

Ross Santy,
Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning,
Evaluation and Policy Development.
[FR Doc. 2026–14053 Filed 7–10–26; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED–2026–SCC–1354]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Comment Request;
Foreign Gifts and Contracts
Disclosures
Correction
In notice document 2026–13078,
appearing on pages 39088–39089, in the
issue of Monday, June 29, 2026, make
the following correction:
On page 39088, in the second column,
in the DATES section, in the second and
third lines, ‘‘June 29, 2026.’’ should read
‘‘July 29, 2026.’’
[FR Doc. C1–2026–13078 Filed 7–10–26; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. IC26–36–000]

Commission Information Collection
Activities (Ferc–521); Comment
Request; Extension
AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, DOE.
ACTION: Notice of information collection

renewal and request for comments.
SUMMARY: In compliance with the

requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(Commission or FERC) is soliciting
public comment on FERC–521:
Payments for Benefits from Headwater
Improvements (OMB Control No 1902–
0087). There are no proposed changes to
the reporting requirements.
DATES: Comments on the collection of
information are due September 11,
2026.
ADDRESSES: Please submit

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Number of
respondents

Annual
number of
responses per
respondent

Total number
of responses

Average burden & cost
per response

Total annual burden
hours & total
annual cost

Cost per
respondent
($)

(1)

(2)

(1) * (2) = (3)

(4)

(3) * (4) = (5)

(5) ÷ (1)

40 hrs.; $4,080 ............

120 hrs.; $12,240 ........

Federal and Non-Federal project owners.

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Comments: Comments are invited on:
(1) whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Commission, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden and cost of the collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility
and clarity of the information collection;
and (4) ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Dated: July 8, 2026.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 4113–067]

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Oswego Hydro Partners, LP; Notice of
Waiver of Water Quality Certification
On February 27, 2024, Oswego Hydro
Partners, LP filed an application for a
license for the Phoenix Hydroelectric
Project (project) in the above captioned
docket. On June 6, 2025, the New York
State Department of Environmental
Conservation (New York DEC) received
a request for a Clean Water Act section
401(a)(1) water quality certification from
Oswego Hydro Partners, LP, in
conjunction with the above captioned
project.
On June 23, 2025, Commission staff
provided New York DEC with written
notice that the applicable reasonable
period of time for it to act on the
certification request was one (1) year
from the date of receipt of the request,
after which the certification requirement
would be waived if the certifying
authority failed to act by June 6, 2026.
Because New York DEC did not act by
June 6, 2026, we are notifying you
pursuant to section 401(a)(1) of the
Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1341(a)(1),

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that waiver of the certification
requirement has occurred.
(Authority: 18 CFR 2.1)
Dated: July 8, 2026.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2026–14078 Filed 7–10–26; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. CP26–545–000]

Steel Reef Pipelines US LLC; Notice of
Application and Establishing
Intervention Deadline

[FR Doc. 2026–14075 Filed 7–10–26; 8:45 am]

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Take notice that on June 17, 2026,
Steel Reef Pipelines US LLC (Steel Reef
Pipelines), 8131 Highway 2, Stanley,
North Dakota 58784, filed an
application under section 3 of the
Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Part 153 of
the Commission’s regulations requesting
authorization for its Border Crossing
Facilities Project (Project) which
consists of a 0.65-mile-long 10-inchdiameter segment of the Flat Lake
Access Pipeline gathering system to be
constructed by Steel Reef Pipelines 1
and a Presidential Permit for such
facilities. The Flat Lake Access Pipeline
is designed to export up to 80 million
cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of sour
natural gas from an existing Compressor
Station near Fortuna, North Dakota, to
the Flat Lake Gas Plant in
Saskatchewan, Canada, and to import
approximately 6 MMcf/d of fuel gas to
supply the Compressor Station (via a
collocated 6-inch-diameter pipeline), all
as more fully set forth in the application
1 The Flat Lake Access Pipeline will be an
approximately 8-mile-long gathering system to be
constructed by Steel Reef Pipelines to export
unprocessed sour natural gas from an existing
compressor station near Fortuna, North Dakota
across the international border to the existing Flat
Lake Gas Plant, located approximately 3 miles north
of the international border in Saskatchewan,
Canada. The 0.65-mile-long jurisdictional portion of
the Flat Lake Access Pipeline run from milepost
(MP) 0 at the Canada/United States border, to MP
0.65 in North Dakota.

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which is on file with the Commission
and open for public inspection.
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). From the Commission’s
Home Page on the internet, this
information is available on eLibrary.
The full text of this document is
available on eLibrary in PDF and
Microsoft Word format for viewing,
printing, and/or downloading. To access
this document in eLibrary, type the
docket number excluding the last three
digits of this document in the docket
number field.
User assistance is available for
eLibrary and the Commission’s website
during normal business hours from
FERC Online Support at (202) 502–6652
(toll free at 1–866–208–3676) or email at
[email protected], or the
Public Reference Room at (202) 502–
8371, TTY (202) 502–8659. Email the
Public Reference Room at
[email protected].
Any questions regarding the proposed
project should be directed to Jodi
Wilson, Vice President and General
Counsel, 1600, 333 7th Avenue SW,
Calgary, AB Canada T2P 2Z1, by phone
at (403) 263–8333, or by email at
[email protected].
Pursuant to section 157.9 of the
Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure,2 within 90 days of this
Notice the Commission staff will either:
complete its environmental review and
place it into the Commission’s public
record (eLibrary) for this proceeding; or
issue a Notice of Schedule for
Environmental Review. If a Notice of
Schedule for Environmental Review is
issued, it will indicate, among other
milestones, the anticipated date for the
Commission staff’s issuance of the final
environmental impact statement (FEIS)
or environmental assessment (EA) for
this proposal. The filing of an EA in the
Commission’s public record for this
proceeding or the issuance of a Notice
of Schedule for Environmental Review
will serve to notify federal and state
2 18 CFR 157.9.

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