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[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. AD12-8-000]

Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-922); Comment
Request

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, DOE.

ACTION: Comment request.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, 44 USC 3507(a)(1)(D), the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (Commission or FERC) is submitting the new information
collection FERC-922, ``Performance Metrics in Regions Outside ISOs and
RTOs,'' to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review of the
information collection requirements. Any interested person may file
comments directly with OMB and should address a copy of those comments
to the Commission as explained below. The Commission issued a Notice in
the Federal Register (77 FR 12832, 3/2/2012) requesting public
comments. FERC received a comment from Edison Electric Institute (EEI)
regarding the burden estimate as discussed further below. FERC also
received comments on the specific metrics. These latter comments are
summarized and addressed in the Commission Staff Report. The Commission
Staff Report can be obtained via the Commission's eLibrary system (at
http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp) by searching under Docket
No. AD12-8. The report will not be published in the Federal Register.

DATES: Comments on the collection of information are due by November
21, 2012.

ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB, identified by FERC-922, should be
sent via email to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs:
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission Desk Officer. The Desk Officer may also be reached via
telephone at<PHONE_NUMBER>.
    A copy of the comments should also be sent to the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, identified by the Docket No. AD12-8-000, by
either of the following methods:
     eFiling at Commission's Web Site: http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp.
     Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Secretary of the Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,
Washington, DC 20426.
    Instructions: All submissions must be formatted and filed in
accordance with submission guidelines at: http://www.ferc.gov/help/submission-guide.asp. For user assistance contact FERC Online Support
by email at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>or by phone at:<PHONE_NUMBER>
(toll-free), or<PHONE_NUMBER> for TTY.
    Docket: Users interested in receiving automatic notification of
activity in this docket or in viewing/downloading comments and
issuances in this docket may do so at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/docs-filing.asp.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellen Brown may be reached by email at
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>by telephone at<PHONE_NUMBER>, and by fax at
(202) 273-0873.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: FERC-922, Performance Metrics in Regions outside ISOs and
RTOs.
    OMB Control No.: To be determined.
    Type of Request: Approval of a new information collection.
    Abstract: The collection of information requires those public
utilities outside of ISOs and RTOs that choose to participate to
provide information responding to the attached metrics on a periodic
basis. This includes the submission of price data and information
relating to reliability, transmission planning, requests for service,
and system capacity. The information submitted by participating
utilities would be used to help develop a common set of metrics for
both ISO/RTO markets and non-ISO/RTO markets, and for evaluating market
performance thereafter.
    The Chairman has reviewed the proposed metrics and has determined

that the metrics and data gathered thereunder are necessary. These
requirements conform to the Commission's need for efficient information
collection, communication, and management within the energy industry.
The Chairman is assured, by means of internal review, that there is
specific, objective support for the burden estimates associated with
the information collection requirements.
    Type of Respondents: Participants in Non-ISO/RTO markets.
    Comment on Burden Estimate: In its solicitation for comments,
Commission Staff estimated the public reporting burden for
participating utilities to be approximately 140 hours per respondent
for each report.

Comment

    EEI asserts that the response time could be as high as 300-400
hours.

Response

    Commission Staff will adjust the burden estimate based on EEI's
high estimate of 300-400 hours. Commission Staff considers EEI's
estimate to reflect the most time that it would take an entity to
respond to the metrics. While Commission Staff recognizes that this
report requires additional metrics and narrative discussions,
Commission Staff nevertheless continues to conclude that 140 hours
still represents a reasonable estimate of the burden, since much of the
data required should be readily available to the responding utilities.
However, in recognition of the fact that the burden will vary from
entity to entity, we will revise our estimate to 245 hours per
respondent, which is the mid-point between these estimates.
    Estimate of Annual Burden: \1\ Commission Staff estimates the total
Public Reporting Burden for this information collection as:
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    \1\ Burden is defined as the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or
disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. For
further explanation of what is included in the information
collection burden, see 5 CFR 1320.3 (2012).

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                                                 Number of        Number of      Average burden
            FERC-922 requirements               respondents     responses per      hours per       Total annual
                                                  annually        respondent        response       burden hours
                                                         (1)              (2)              (3)      (1)x(2)x(3)
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Metrics Data Collection.....................  ...............  ...............             140            1,540
Write Performance Analysis..................              11                1               85              935
Management Review...........................  ...............  ...............              20              220
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    Total...................................  ...............  ...............  ...............           2,695
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    Cost to Comply: Commission Staff has projected the cost of
compliance to be $184,460.
    Technical Expertise = $168,300 (1,540 hours data collection + 935
hours report completion @ $68 per hour).
    Management Review = $17,160 (220 hours report review @ $78 per
hour).
    Cost per hour figures are calculated using Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) data.\2\ The technical expertise category factors in
the median wage for an engineer, analyst, attorney and economist. The
management category factors in the median wage for general and
operations managers. Based on BLS data,\3\ both cost figures have been
adjusted to include benefits (benefits represent 29.5% of the total
hourly figure).
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    \2\ See http://bls.gov/oes/current/naics3_221000.htm.
    \3\ See http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm.

    Dated: October 15, 2012.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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[Page 45200]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 15088-000]

Daybreak Power, Inc.; Notice of Surrender of Preliminary Permit

    Take notice that Daybreak Power, Inc., permittee for the proposed
Halverson Canyon Pumped Storage Project No. 15088, has requested that
its preliminary permit be terminated. The permit was issued on June 28,
2021 and would have expired on May 31, 2025. The project would have
been located at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Lake Roosevelt in
Lincoln County, Washington.
    The preliminary permit for Project No. 15088 will remain in effect
until the close of business, August 9, 2023. But, if the Commission is
closed on this day, then the permit remains in effect until the close
of business on the next day in which the Commission is open.\1\ New
applications for this site may not be submitted until after the permit
surrender is effective.
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    \1\ 18 CFR 385.2007(a)(2) (2020).

    Dated: July 10, 2023.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

WASHINGTON, DC

Issued by the Department of Transportation on July 6, 2004

   NOTICE OF ACTION TAKEN -- DOCKET OST-2004-17986

________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________

This serves as notice to the public of the action described below, taken
by the Department official indicated (no additional confirming order
will be issued in this matter).

Joint Application of Air Wisconsin Airlines Corporation, Chautauqua
Airlines, Inc., Mesa Airlines, Inc., Republic Airline, Inc., Shuttle
America Corp., SkyWest Airlines, Inc., Trans States Airlines, Inc.
(Joint Applicants) filed 5/28/2004 for:

XX  Statement of Authorization pursuant to 14 CFR Part 212 , on an
interim basis, to:

for a 90-day period, enable the Joint Applicants to carry the codes of
certain foreign carriers (described below) on services that Joint
Applicants operate as United Express, pending finalization and
Departmental review of relevant contractual agreements.  The Joint
Applicants state that such Statement of Authorization will facilitate
continuity of code-share services offered by certain foreign carriers,
all of which are members of the Star Alliance and code-share partners of
United Air Lines, Inc., on United Express flights heretofore operated
between U.S. points by Atlantic Coast Airlines, Inc. (ACA)  Each of the
Joint Applicants requests authorization to display the two-letter
designator code of any of the foregoing foreign carrier partners on
flights operated by that Joint Applicant as United Express between any
points in the United States.  The Joint Applicants notify the Department
that they intend to code share between Chicago (ORD) and/or Washington,
DC (IAD), on the one hand, and other U.S. points, on the other, as
listed in Attachment A, as initial points of service.

The Joint Applicants state that over the forthcoming weeks, ACA is due
to terminate all of its services as a United Express carrier.  United
has entered into agreements with each of the Joint Applicants to operate
those flights in place of ACA, with such transition process scheduled to
be completed by August 5, 2004.  They further state that the foreign
carrier partners (with few exceptions) do not have pre-existing
code-share relationships with any of the Joint Applicants and therefore
additional authorization is required to enable them to continue to
display their designator codes on established United Express routes
currently operated by ACA.  The Joint Applicants thus request a limited
statement of authorization for an initial 90-day period, pending the
award of similar authority of indefinite duration following the
Department’s review of the above-referenced code-share arrangements
that will be submitted to the Department.

They further state that prior to the expiration of the 90-day period,
the Joint Applicants expect to file with the Department of
Transportation in the above-captioned docket definitive code-share
agreements with the foreign partners, along with a request that the
Department, subject to its review of those agreements and consistent
with DOT policy, grant a statement or statements of authorization of
indefinite duration, subject to usual conditions the Department
generally attaches to such code-share authority.  The Joint Applicants
state that approval of this application will facilitate continuity of
existing code-share services for passengers and will help minimize the
regulatory burdens on the Department arising from the operational
change-over of United Express services from ACA to the Joint Applicants.

No objections were received to the joint application.

Applicant rep:  Jeffrey A. Manley<PHONE_NUMBER>  DOT Analyst:  Linda
Senese<PHONE_NUMBER>

D I S P O S I T I O N

XX  Granted, (subject to conditions, see below)

The above action was effective when taken:  July 6, 2004 through October
4, 2004.

Action taken by:   Karan A. Bhatia

		    Assistant Secretary for Aviation

		        and International Affairs

Conditions:  The limited Statement of Authorization granted above is
subject to the following conditions:

The interim statements of authorization are effective only for a period
of 90 days.  Within that 90 days each of the Joint Applicants must
submit, for Department approval, an acceptable signed code-share
agreement with each of the foreign partner carriers with which each of
the Joint Applicants intends to conduct code-share operations within the
United States.

The Joint Applicants and/or foreign carrier partners must notify the
Department no later than 30 days before they begin any new code-share
service under the code-share services authorized here.  Such notice
shall identify the market(s) to be served, which carrier will be
operating the aircraft in the code-share market added, and the date on
which the service will begin.  (Such notices shall be filed in Docket
OST-2004-17986.)

Once a code-share agreement has been submitted and approved by the
Department, the Joint Applicants/foreign carrier partners must agree to
promptly notify the Department (Office of International Aviation) if the
code-share agreement providing for the code-share operations is no
longer effective or the carriers decide to cease operating any or all of
the approved code-share services. Such condition is applicable to each
of the code-share arrangements identified in the joint application.
(Such notice should be filed in Docket OST-2004-17986.)

The code-sharing operations conducted under this authority must comply
with Part 257 and with any amendments to the Department’s regulations
concerning code-share arrangements that may be adopted.  Notwithstanding
any provisions in the contract between the carriers, our approval here
is expressly conditioned upon the requirements that the subject foreign
air transportation be sold in the name of the carrier holding out such
service in computer reservation systems and elsewhere; that the carrier
selling such transportation (i.e., the carrier shown on the ticket)
accept responsibility for the entirety of the code share journey for all
obligations established in its contract of carriage with the passenger;
and that the passenger liability of the operating carrier be unaffected.

The authority granted here is specifically conditioned so that neither
the Joint Applicants nor the foreign carrier partners shall give any
force or effect to any contractual provisions between themselves that
are contrary to these conditions.

We may amend, modify, or revoke this authority at any time without
hearing.

An electronic version of this document is available on the World Wide
Web at:

http://dms.dot.gov//reports/reports_aviation.asp

										Attachment A

US POINTS SERVED BY UNITED EXPRESS FROM

CHICAGO O’HARE AND/OR WASHINGTON DULLES

Between Washington Dulles and Chicago O’Hare and:

Akron/Canton, OH				Lexington, KY

Albany, NY					Lincoln, NE

Allentown/Bethlehem, PA			Louisville, KY

Appleton, WI					Madison, WI

Atlanta, GA					Manchester, NH

Austin, TX					Memphis, TN

Binghamton, NY				Milwaukee, WI

Birmingham, AL				Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN

Bloomington, IL					Moline, IL

Boston, MA					Nashville, TN

Buffalo, NY					New Orleans, LA

Burlington, VT					New York, NY (JFK)

Cedar Rapids, IA				New York, NY (LGA)

Central Wisconsin (Wausau), WI			Newark, NJ

Charleston, SC					Norfolk, VA

Charleston, WV					Oklahoma City, OK

Charlotte, NC					Peoria, IL

Charlottesville, VA				Philadelphia, PA

Cincinnati, OH					Pittsburgh, PA

Cleveland, OH					Portland, ME

Colorado Springs, CO				Providence, RI

Columbia, SC					Raleigh/Durham, NC

Columbus, OH					Richmond, VA

Dayton, OH					Roanoke, VA

Des Moines, IA					Rochester, NY

Detroit, MI					Saginaw, MI

Fargo, ND					Savannah, GA

Fort Wayne, IN					Sioux Falls, SD

Grand Radids, MI				South Bend, IN

Green Bay, WI					Springfield, IL

Greensboro, NC					Springfield, MO

Greenville/Spartanburg, SC			State College, PA

Harrisburg, PA					St. Louis, MO

Hartford, CT					Syracuse, NY

Indianapolis, IN					Traverse City, MI

Jacksonville, FL					Tulsa, OK

Kalamazoo, MI					White Plains, NY

Kansas City, MO				Wichita, KS

Knoxville, TN					Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, PA

Lansing, MI

 The foreign carriers named are: Air Canada, All Nippon Airways Co.
Ltd., Austrian Airlines, Österreichische Luftverkehrs AG, British
Midland Airways Limited, Deutsche Lufthansa AG, and Scandinavian
Airlines System (collectively, the “foreign carrier partners”).

 The Joint Applicants state if any of the Joint Applicants plan to
introduce code-share service in conjunction with any of the foreign
carrier partners in other city pairs not listed in the attachment, they
will notify the Department in advance in writing.  The Joint Applicants
give notice of their intent to display the designator codes of the
foreign carrier partners in conjunction with flights the Joint
Applicants will operate as United Express.  They state that “[F]or
purposes of satisfying the Department’s standard requirement that
carriers provide advance notice of any new city pair in which the
designator code of a foreign carrier will be displayed, the Joint
Applicants request that such notice given by any of the Joint Applicants
with respect to code sharing by any of the foreign carrier partners be
deemed notice given by each of the other Joint Applicants.  Such an
approach, which will minimize the administrative burden on the
Department and the Joint Applicants, [they maintain] is necessary to
accommodate routine United Express schedule and other operational
changes.” (Application at 4, fn 5)

 Exceptions cited are Department Action on Application of
SkyWest/Lufthansa, OST-03-16724 dated January 6, 2004; Department action
on application of Air Wisconsin/Air Canada, OST-02-12050, dated April
16, 2002; and pending application of SkyWest, dated May 21, 2004 in
Docket OST-04-17955 (SkyWest/Air Canada).

 In the circumstances presented, we will be prepared to entertain
requests for waivers from the 30-day advance filing period for these
notices.

 We expect this notification to be received within ten (10) days after
such non-effectiveness or of such decision.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-9949-04-OA]

Notification of Two Public Teleconferences of the Science
Advisory Board; Environmental Economics Advisory Committee

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office announces two public teleconferences of the
Environmental Economics Advisory Committee (EEAC) to review its draft
report regarding the EPA's proposed methodology for updating its
mortality risk valuation estimates for policy analysis.

DATES: The SAB Environmental Economics Advisory Committee will conduct
public teleconferences on August 4 and August 5, 2016. Each of the
teleconferences will begin at 1:00 p.m. and end at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern
Time).

ADDRESSES: The teleconferences will be conducted by telephone only.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public who wants
further information concerning the public teleconferences may contact
Dr. Thomas Armitage, Designated Federal Officer (DFO), EPA Science
Advisory Board Staff Office (1400R), U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460; by
telephone at<PHONE_NUMBER> or via email at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>
General information concerning the EPA SAB can be found at http://www.epa.gov/sab.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Background: The SAB was established pursuant to the Environmental
Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act (ERDDAA),
codified at 42 U.S.C. 4365, to provide independent scientific and
technical advice to the Administrator on the technical basis for Agency
positions and regulations. The SAB is a federal advisory committee
chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C.,
App. 2. The SAB will comply with the provisions of FACA and all
appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural policies. Pursuant to FACA and
EPA policy, notice is hereby given that the SAB Environmental Economics
Advisory Committee will hold two public teleconferences to discuss its
draft report on the EPA's methodology for updating its mortality risk
valuation estimates for policy analysis. The committee will provide
advice to the Administrator through the chartered SAB.
    The EPA's Office of Policy requested advice on proposed
improvements to the Agency's methodology for estimating benefits
associated with reduced risk of mortality. This methodology takes into
account the amounts that individuals are willing to pay for reductions
in mortality risk. The resulting values are combined into an estimate
known as the value of statistical life (VSL) which is used in
regulatory benefit-cost analysis. The EPA also requested that the SAB
review options for accounting for changes in the VSL over time as real
income grows, known as income elasticity of willingness to pay. The EPA
submitted the following documents to the SAB for review: (1) Valuing
Mortality Risk for Policy: A Meta-analytic Approach, a white paper
prepared by the EPA Office of Policy to describe the Agency's
interpretation and application of SAB recommendations received in July
2011 regarding updates to the EPA's estimates of mortality risk
valuation; (2) The Effect of Income on the Value of Mortality and
Morbidity Risk Reductions, a report prepared for the EPA's Office of
Air and Radiation on options for updating the Agency's recommended
estimate for the income elasticity of the value of statistical life;
and (3) Recommended Income Elasticity and Income Growth Estimates:
Technical Memorandum, an EPA memorandum providing supplementary
information to the report. The SAB Environmental Economics Advisory
Committee met on March 7-8, 2016, to receive agency briefings, hear
public comments, and deliberate on responses to the EPA charge
questions (81 FR 4296-4297). The committee also held teleconferences on
June 16 and June 17, 2016 to discuss its draft report with responses to
the charge questions (81 FR 30535-30536). The purpose of the
teleconferences described in this notice is to continue the discussion
of the committee's draft report. The two committee teleconferences will
be conducted as one complete meeting beginning on August 4, 2016 and
continuing on August 5, 2016, if needed to complete agenda items.
Additional information about this SAB advisory activity can be found at
the following URL: http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_activites/Valuing%20fatal%20risk%20for%20policy?OpenDocument.
    Technical Contacts: Any technical questions concerning the EPA
documents reviewed by the SAB should be directed to Dr. Nathalie Simon
in the EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics, by telephone
at<PHONE_NUMBER> or by email at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>    Availability of Meeting Materials: Prior to the meeting, the
teleconference agenda, draft committee report, and other materials will
be available on the SAB Web site at http://www.epa.gov/sab.
    Procedures for Providing Public Input: Public comment for
consideration by EPA's federal advisory committees and panels has a
different purpose from public comment provided to EPA program offices.
Therefore, the process for submitting comments to a federal advisory
committee is different from the process used to submit comments to an
EPA program office. Federal advisory committees and panels, including
scientific advisory committees, provide independent advice to the EPA.
Interested members of the public may submit relevant information on the
topic of this advisory activity, and/or the group conducting the
activity, for the SAB to consider during the advisory process. Input
from the public to the SAB will have the most impact if it provides
specific scientific or technical information or analysis for SAB
committees and panels to consider or if it relates to the clarity or
accuracy of the technical information. Members of the public wishing to
provide comment should contact the DFO directly. Oral Statements: In
general, individuals or groups requesting an oral presentation at the
teleconference will be limited to three minutes. Interested parties
wishing to provide comments should contact Dr. Armitage, DFO, in
writing (preferably via email) at the contact information noted above
by July 28, 2016, to be placed on the list of public speakers for the
meeting. Written Statements: Written statements will be accepted
throughout the advisory process; however, for timely consideration by
committee members, statements should be supplied to the DFO (preferably
via email) at the contact information noted above by July 28, 2016. It
is the SAB Staff Office general policy to post written comments on the
Web page for advisory meetings. Submitters are requested to provide an
unsigned version of each document because the SAB Staff Office does not
publish documents with signatures on its Web sites. Members of the
public should be aware that their personal contact information, if
included in any written comments, may be posted to the SAB Web site.
Copyrighted material will not be posted without explicit permission of
the copyright holder.

    Accessibility: For information on access or services for
individuals with disabilities, please contact Dr. Armitage at the
contact information provided above. To request accommodation of a
disability, please contact Dr. Armitage preferably at least ten days
prior to the meeting to give EPA as much time as possible to process
your request.

    Dated: July 5, 2016.
Thomas H. Brennan,
Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
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