Notice2024-01013
Agency Information Collection Extension
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Published
January 19, 2024
Issuing agencies
Energy DepartmentWestern Area Power Administration
Abstract
The Department of Energy (DOE) has submitted an information collection request to the OMB for extension under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The information collection requests a 3-year extension of Western Area Power Administration's (WAPA) Applicant Profile Data (APD), OMB Control Number 1910-5136. The proposed collection is necessary for the proper performance of WAPA's functions. WAPA markets a limited amount of Federal hydropower. Due to the high demand for WAPA's power, WAPA needs the ability to collect information under the information collection request in order to evaluate who may receive an allocation of Federal power pursuant to specific marketing plans. This APD public process only determines the information WAPA will collect in its information collection request. The actual allocation of Federal power will be conducted through a separate marketing plan process outside the scope of this APD process.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 13 (Friday, January 19, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3650-3651]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-01013]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Western Area Power Administration
Agency Information Collection Extension
AGENCY: Western Area Power Administration, DOE.
ACTION: Submission for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) review;
comment request.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) has submitted an information
collection request to the OMB for extension under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The information collection requests a
3-year extension of Western Area Power Administration's (WAPA)
Applicant Profile Data (APD), OMB Control Number 1910-5136. The
proposed collection is necessary for the proper performance of WAPA's
functions. WAPA markets a limited amount of Federal hydropower. Due to
the high demand for WAPA's power, WAPA needs the ability to collect
information under the information collection request in order to
evaluate who may receive an allocation of Federal power pursuant to
specific marketing plans. This APD public process only determines the
information WAPA will collect in its information collection request.
The actual allocation of Federal power will be conducted through a
separate marketing plan process outside the scope of this APD process.
DATES: Comments regarding this collection must be received on or before
February 20, 2024. 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) 395-4718.
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 Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Please contact Mr. Christopher Magee,
Records and Information Management Program Manager, Western Area Power
Administration, PO Box 281213, Lakewood, CO 80228, telephone (720) 962-
7139, or email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d1b2bcb0b6b4b491a6b0a1b0ffb6bea7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1f7c727e787a7a5f687e6f7e31787069">[email protected]</span></a>. The proposed APD form is available on
WAPA's website at <a href="https://www.wapa.gov/power-marketing/applicant-profile-data/">https://www.wapa.gov/power-marketing/applicant-profile-data/</a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request
contains: (1) OMB No.: 1910-5136; (2) Information Collection Request
Title: Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) Applicant Profile Data;
(3) Type of Review: Renewal; (4) Purpose: WAPA is collecting--and will
continue
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to collect--the data under its APD to properly perform its function of
marketing a limited amount of Federal hydropower. The information WAPA
collects is voluntary. Due to the high demand for WAPA's power and
limited amount of available power, WAPA will use the information
collected in the APD--and has used the information collected under the
current OMB-approved control number--pursuant to its marketing plans,
to determine an applicant's eligibility for an allocation of Federal
power. As a result, the information WAPA collects under its APD is both
necessary and useful.
WAPA notes the Paperwork Reduction Act is the process whereby WAPA
obtains approval from OMB to collect information from the public. It is
a legal requirement WAPA must comply with before requesting an
interested party submit an application for power. The Paperwork
Reduction Act process is not the process in which interested parties
apply for a new allocation of Federal power. The allocation of power
from WAPA is outside the scope of this process and is completed in a
separate marketing plan process by each WAPA region, when required; (5)
Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: 33; (6) Annual Estimated Number
of Total Responses: 33; (7) Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours:
248; and (8) Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden:
$36,944.
Statutory Authority: The Reclamation Act of 1902 established the
Federal reclamation program. See Ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388 (1902), as
amended and supplemented. The basic principle of the Reclamation Act of
1902 was that the United States, through the Secretary of the Interior,
would build and operate irrigation works from the proceeds of public
land sales in sixteen arid Western states (a seventeenth, Texas, was
added in 1906). The Reclamation Project Act of 1939 expanded the
purposes of the reclamation program and specified certain terms for
contracts that the Secretary of the Interior enters into to furnish
water and power. See Ch. 418, 53 Stat. 1187 (1939), as amended and
supplemented. Section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944, as amended,
is read in pari materia with the Reclamation Laws with respect to WAPA.
See Ch. 665, 58 Stat. 887, as amended and supplemented. In 1977,
section 302 of the Department of Energy Organization Act transferred
the power marketing functions of the Department of the Interior to the
Secretary of Energy, acting by and through a separate Administrator for
WAPA. See 42 U.S.C. 7152 (a)(1)(D). Under this authority, WAPA markets
Federal hydropower.
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of Energy was signed on January 12,
2024, by Tracey LeBeau Administrator, 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 January 16, 2024.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2024-01013 Filed 1-18-24; 8:45 am]
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