Notice2021-21573
Renewal of a Currently Approved Information Collection for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Financing Programs
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Published
October 5, 2021
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Energy Department
Abstract
The Department of Energy (DOE), pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, intends to extend for three years a currently approved collection of information with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The information collection request, Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program, was previously approved under OMB Control No. 1910-5150 and its current expiration date is September 30, 2021. The proposed collection will collect information on the status of Grantee activities, expenditures, and results, to ensure that program funds are being used appropriately, effectively, and expeditiously.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 190 (Tuesday, October 5, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54960-54961]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-21573]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Renewal of a Currently Approved Information Collection for the
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Financing Programs
AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE), pursuant to the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, intends to extend for three years a currently
approved collection of information with the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB). The information collection request, Energy Efficiency and
Conservation Block Grant Program, was previously approved under OMB
Control No. 1910-5150 and its current expiration date is September 30,
2021. The proposed collection will collect information on the status of
Grantee activities, expenditures, and results, to ensure that program
funds are being used appropriately, effectively, and expeditiously.
DATES: Comments regarding this collection must be received on or before
November 4, 2021. 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) 395-4650.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function, or to:
James Carlisle, EE-5W, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence
Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20585, Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#204a414d45530e4341524c49534c456045450e444f450e474f56"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="88e2e9e5edfba6ebe9fae4e1fbe4edc8ededa6ece7eda6efe7fe">[email protected]</span></a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should
be directed to: James Carlisle, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20585, Phone: (202) 287-1724, Fax:
(412) 386-5835, Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6f050e020a1c410c0e1d03061c030a2f0a0a410b000a41080019"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="117b707c74623f7270637d78627d745174743f757e743f767e67">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request
contains: (1) OMB No.: 1910-5150; (2) Information Collection Request
Title: Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program Financing
Programs; (3) Type of Review: Renewal
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of a Currently Approved Information Collection; (4) Purpose: To collect
information on the status of Financing Program activities,
expenditures, and results, to ensure that program funds are being used
appropriately, effectively and expeditiously; (5) Annual Estimated
Number of Respondents: 54; (6) Annual Estimated Number of Total
Responses: 101; (7) Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 303; (8)
Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $12,120.
Respondents, total responses, burden hours and the annual cost burden
have all been reduced over time because of the retirement of grants,
fewer programs and a lessened burden on reporting and recordkeeping
costs.
Statutory Authority: Title V, Subtitle E of the Energy Independence
and Security Act (EISA), Public Law 110-140 as amended (42 U.S.C. 17151
et seq.).
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of Energy was signed on September
27, 2021, by Kelly Speakes-Backman, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary and 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 September 29, 2021.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2021-21573 Filed 10-4-21; 8:45 am]
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