[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 151 (Friday, August 6, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 47583]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-19404]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Proposed Agency Information Collection

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice and Request for OMB Review and Comment.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) has submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance, a proposal for collection of 
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995. The proposed collection will provide information for use in an 
impact evaluation of DOE's Solar Decathlon Program. The collection 
consists of four questionnaires addressed to (1) homeowners who visited 
a Solar Decathlon, (2) homeowners who did not visit a Solar Decathlon, 
(3) former students who participated in their school's Solar Decathlon 
entry, and (4) former students who did not participate in a Solar 
Decathlon entry. The questionnaires will collect information on the 
respondents' knowledge of solar energy and energy efficiency and on 
installations of solar-energy and energy-efficiency equipment with 
which the respondents have been personally involved. The former-student 
questionnaires will also collect information on types of employment 
since leaving college.

DATES: Comments regarding this collection must be received on or before 
September 7, 2010. 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 DOE Desk Officer at OMB of 
your intention to make a submission as soon as possible. The Desk 
Officer may be telephoned at 202-395-4650.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be sent to the:

DOE Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office 
of Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10102, 
735 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503; And to:
Jeffery Dowd, Solar Decathlon Evaluation Lead, EE-3B, Forrestal 
Building, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW., 
Washington, DC 20585, (O) 202-586-7258, (Fax) 202-586-2176, 
[email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jeffery Dowd, Solar Decathlon Evaluation Lead, EE-3B, Forrestal 
Building, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW., 
Washington, DC 20585, (O) 202-586-7258, (Fax) 202-586-2176, 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request 
contains: (1) OMB No. New; (2) Information Collection Request Title: 
DOE Solar Decathlon Impact Evaluation Surveys; (3) Type of Request: New 
collection; (4) Purpose: The information collected by this information 
collection will be used for an impact evaluation of the Solar Decathlon 
Program. The evaluation will contribute to the effective 
administration, monitoring, and management of the Solar Decathlon 
Program; and for measuring attainment of DOE's program goals as 
required by the Government Performance and Results Act and the Office 
of Management and Budget's Program Assessment Rating Tool. The likely 
respondents are homeowners and former college students as described in 
the SUMMARY; (5) Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: 810; (6) 
Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses: 810; (7) Annual Estimated 
Number of Burden Hours: 104; (8) Annual Estimated Reporting and 
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: None.

    Statutory Authority: Department of Energy Organization Act of 
1977 (42 U.S.C. 5815(b)); Government Performance and Results Act (31 
U.S.C. 1115(a)); Executive Order 13450, November 13, 2007; and Memo, 
Peter R. Orszag, Director, Office of Management and Budget, 
``Increased Emphasis on Program Evaluations,'' dated October 7, 
2009.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on July 21, 2010.
Scott Hine,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary-Business Administration (DAS-BA), 
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
[FR Doc. 2010-19404 Filed 8-5-10; 8:45 am]
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