Agency Information Collection Extension
| Published date | 20 July 2021 |
| Citation | 86 FR 38326 |
| Record Number | 2021-15355 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Energy Department,Energy Information Administration |
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Environmental Management Site-
Specific Advisory Board, Northern New
Mexico
AGENCY
: Office of Environmental
Management, Department of Energy.
ACTION
: Notice of open virtual meeting.
SUMMARY
: This notice announces an
online virtual combined meeting of the
Consent Order Committee and Risk
Evaluation and Management Committee
of the Environmental Management Site-
Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB),
Northern New Mexico. The Federal
Advisory Committee Act requires that
public notice of this online virtual
meeting be announced in the Federal
Register.
DATES
: Wednesday, August 18, 2021
1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
ADDRESSES
: This meeting will be held
virtually via Webex. To attend, please
contact Menice Santistevan by email,
Menice.Santistevan@em.doe.gov, no
later than 5:00 p.m. MT on Monday,
August 16, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Menice Santistevan, Northern New
Mexico Citizens’ Advisory Board
(NNMCAB), 94 Cities of Gold Road,
Santa Fe, NM 87506. Phone (505) 995–
0393 or Email: Menice.Santistevan@
em.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
:
Purpose of the Board: The purpose of
the Board is to make recommendations
to DOE–EM and site management in the
areas of environmental restoration,
waste management, and related
activities.
Purpose of the Consent Order
Committee (COC): It is the mission of
the COC to review the Consent Order,
evaluate its strengths and weaknesses,
and make recommendation as to how to
improve the Consent Order. It is also
within the mission of this committee to
review and ensure implementation of
NNMCAB Recommendation 2019–02,
Improving the Utility of the Consent
Order with Supplementary Information.
The COC will work with the NNMCAB
Risk Evaluation and Management
Committee to review the risk-based
approaches used to determine the
prioritization of cleanup actions, as well
as the ‘‘relative risk ranking’’ of the
campaigns, targets, and milestones by
the NNMCAB, to be recommended for
use by the DOE EM Los Alamos Field
Office (EM–LA) both within and outside
of those activities covered by the
Consent Order.
Purpose of the Risk Evaluation and
Management Committee (REMC): The
REMC provides external citizen-based
oversight and recommendations to the
DOE EM–LA on human and ecological
health risk resulting from historical,
current, and future hazardous and
radioactive legacy waste operations at
Los Alamos National Laboratory
(LANL). The REMC will, to the extent
feasible, stay informed of DOE EM–LA
and LANL’s environmental restoration
and long-term environmental
stewardship programs and plans. The
REMC will also work with the
NNMCAB COC to provide DOE EM–LA
and LANL with the public’s desires in
determining cleanup priorities. The
REMC will prepare recommendations
that represent to the best of committee’s
knowledge and ability to determine, the
public’s position on human and
ecological health risk issues pertaining
to direct radiation or contaminant
exposure to soils, air, surface and
groundwater quality, or the agricultural
and ecological environment.
Tentative Agenda
•Approval of Agenda
•Old Business
•New Business
ÆReport from Nominating Committee
ÆElection of Chair and Vice Chair for
Fiscal Year 2022
•Overview of Natural Resource Damage
Assessment (NRDA)
•Public Comment Period
•Presentation by the Pueblo de San
Ildefonso Environmental Office
•Update from Deputy Designated
Federal Officer
Public Participation: The online
virtual meeting is open to the public. To
sign up for public comment, please
contact Menice Santistevan by email,
Menice.Santistevan@em.doe.gov, no
later than 5:00 p.m. MT on Monday,
August 16, 2021. Written statements
may be filed with the Committees either
before or within five days after the
meeting by sending them to Menice
Santistevan at the aforementioned email
address. The Deputy Designated Federal
Officer is empowered to conduct the
meeting in a fashion that will facilitate
the orderly conduct of business.
Individuals wishing to make public
comments will be provided a maximum
of five minutes to present their
comments.
Minutes: Minutes will be available by
writing or calling Menice Santistevan at
the address or telephone number listed
above. Minutes and other Board
documents are on the internet at: http://
energy.gov/em/nnmcab/meeting-
materials.
Signed in Washington, DC, on July 14,
2021.
LaTanya Butler,
Deputy Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021–15356 Filed 7–19–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Agency Information Collection
Extension
AGENCY
: U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE).
ACTION
: Notice.
SUMMARY
: EIA submitted an information
collection request for extension as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. The information collection
requests a three-year extension of its
Form EIA–63C, Densified Biomass Fuel
Report, OMB Control Number 1905–
0209. The report is part of EIA’s
comprehensive energy data program.
Form EIA–63C collects monthly data on
the manufacture, shipment, exports,
energy characteristics, and sales of
densified biomass fuels and other
densified biomass fuel products data
from facilities that manufacture
densified biomass fuel products (pellet
fuels), for energy applications.
DATES
: Comments on this information
collection must be received no later
than August 19, 2021. 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 particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Connor Murphy, EI–23, U.S. Energy
Information Administration, telephone
(202) 287–5982, email Connor.Murphy@
eia.gov. The form and instructions are
available at https://www.eia.gov/survey/
#eia-63.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
:
This information collection request
contains:
(1) OMB No.: 1905–0209;
(2) Information Collection Request
Title: Densified Biomass Fuel Report;
(3) Type of Request: Three-year
extension without changes;
(4) Purpose: Form EIA–63C is part of
EIA’s comprehensive energy data
program. The survey collects
information on the manufacture,
shipment, exports, energy
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characteristics, and sales of pellet fuels
and other densified biomass fuel
products data from facilities that
manufacture densified biomass fuel
products, primarily pellet fuels, for
energy applications. The data collected
on Form EIA–63C are a primary source
of information for the nation’s growing
production of biomass products for
heating and electric power generation,
and for use in both domestic and foreign
markets.
(5) Annual Estimated Number of
Respondents: 106;
(6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: 1,041;
(7) Annual Estimated Number of
Burden Hours: 1,433;
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: The cost of
the burden hours is estimated to be
$117,004 (1,433 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.
Statutory Authority: 15 U.S.C. 772(b),
42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.
Signed in Washington, DC, on July 14th,
2021.
Samson A. Adeshiyan,
Director, Office of Statistical Methods and
Research, U.S. Energy Information
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2021–15355 Filed 7–19–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Agency Information Collection
Proposed Extension
AGENCY
: U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION
: Notice and request for
comments.
SUMMARY
: EIA invites public comment
on the proposed three-year extension,
with changes, to the Generic Clearance
for Questionnaire Testing, Evaluation,
and Research, as required under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. EIA–
882T, Generic Clearance for
Questionnaire Testing, Evaluation, and
Research, provides EIA with the
authority to utilize qualitative and
quantitative methodologies to pretest
questionnaires and validate the quality
of data collected on EIA’s surveys. EIA
uses EIA–882T to meet its obligation to
publish, and otherwise make available
independent, high-quality statistical
data to federal government agencies,
state and local governments, the energy
industry, researchers, and the general
public.
DATES
: EIA must receive all comments
on this proposed information collection
no later than September 20, 2021. 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.
ADDRESSES
: Submit comments
electronically to Gerson Morales by
email at Gerson.Morales@eia.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Gerson Morales, U.S. Energy
Information Administration, telephone
(202) 586–7077, or by email at
Gerson.Morales@eia.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
: This
information collection request contains:
(1) OMB No.: 1905–0186;
(2) Information Collection Request
Title: Generic Clearance for
Questionnaire Testing, Evaluation, and
Research;
(3) Type of Request: Three-year
extension with changes;
(4) Purpose: The U.S. Energy
Information Administration (EIA) is
requesting a three-year approval from
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) to utilize qualitative and
quantitative methodologies to pretest
questionnaires and validate the quality
of the data that is collected on EIA and
DOE survey forms. Through the use of
these methodologies, EIA will conduct
research studies to improve the quality
of energy data being collected, reduce or
minimize survey respondent burden,
and increase agency efficiency. This
authority would also allow EIA to
improve data collection in order to meet
the needs of EIA’s customers while also
staying current in the evolving nature of
the energy industry.
The specific methods proposed for the
coverage by this clearance are described
below. Also outlined is the legal
authority for these voluntary
information gathering activities.
The following methods are proposed:
Pilot Surveys. Pilot surveys conducted
under this clearance will generally be
methodological studies, and will always
employ statistically representative
samples. The pilot surveys will replicate
all components of the methodological
design, sampling procedures (where
possible), and questionnaires of the full
scale survey. Pilot surveys will normally
be utilized when EIA undertakes a
complete redesign of a particular data
collection methodology or when EIA
undertakes data collection in new
energy areas, such as HGL production,
alternative fueled motor vehicles, and
other emerging areas of the energy
sector where data collection would
provide utility to EIA.
Cognitive Interviews. Cognitive
interviews are typically one-on-one
interviews in which the respondent is
usually asked to ‘‘think aloud’’ or is
asked ‘‘retrospective questions’’ as he or
she answers questions, reads survey
materials, defines terminology, or
completes other activities as part of a
typical survey process. A number of
different techniques may be involved
including, asking respondents what
specific words or phrases mean or
asking respondents probing questions to
determine how they estimate, calculate,
or determine specific data elements on
a survey. The objectives of these
cognitive interviews are to identify
problems of ambiguity or
misunderstanding, examine the process
that respondents follow for reporting
information, assess survey respondents’
ability to report new information, or
identify other difficulties respondents
have answering survey questions in
order to reduce measurement error from
estimates based on a survey.
Respondent Debriefings. Respondent
debriefings conducted under this
clearance will generally be
methodological or cognitive research
studies. The debriefing form is
administered after a respondent
completes a questionnaire either in
paper format, electronically, or through
in-person interviews. The debriefings
contain probing questions to determine
how respondents interpret the survey
questions, how much time and effort
was spent completing the questionnaire,
and whether they have problems in
completing the survey/questionnaire.
Respondent debriefings also are useful
in determining potential issues with
data quality and in estimating
respondent burden.
Usability Testing. Usability tests are
similar to cognitive interviews in which
a respondent is typically asked to ‘‘think
aloud’’ or asked ‘‘retrospective
questions’’ as he or she reviews an
electronic questionnaire, website, visual
aid, or hard copy survey form. The
objective of usability testing is to check
that respondents can easily and
intuitively navigate electronic survey
collection programs, websites, and other
survey instruments to submit their data
to EIA.
Focus Groups. Focus groups, in
person, online, or by phone, involve
group sessions guided by a moderator
who follows a topic guide containing
questions or subjects focused on a
particular issue rather than adhering to
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