[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 62 (Friday, March 30, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13740-13741]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-06458]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Proposed Agency Information Collection

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of 
Energy (DOE).

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, pursuant to the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, a three-year extension to its collection of 
information titled: Budget Justification, OMB No. 1910-5162. The 
proposed collection will establish application consistency for numerous 
Grant and Cooperative Agreement application packages from potential and 
chosen recipients. This effort will also streamline processes and 
provide applicants with a clear and straightforward tool to assist with 
project budgeting. In addition it will endow DOE reviewers with 
adequate information to determine if proposed costs are allowable, 
allocable, and reasonable.

DATES: Comments regarding this continued information collection must be 
received on or before May 5, 2018. 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: 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: U.S. Department of Energy, Golden Field Office, 15013 
Denver West Parkway, Golden, CO 80401-3111, Attn: James Cash.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should 
be directed to James Cash, U.S. Department of Energy, Golden Field 
Office, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, CO 80401-3111, or by phone 
(240) 562-1456, or by email at [email protected]. The information 
collection instrument, titled ``Budget Justification'' may also be 
viewed at https://energy.gov/eere/funding/downloads/budget-justification-eere-335-and-3351.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request 
contains:
    (1) OMB No. 1910-5162, Budget Justification;
    (2) Information Collection Request Title: Budget Justification;
    (3) Type of Request: Renewal;
    (4) Purpose: This collection of information is necessary in order 
for DOE to identify allowable, allocable, and reasonable recipient 
project costs

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eligible for Grants and Cooperative Agreements under Energy Efficiency 
and Renewable Energy (EERE) programs;
    (5) Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: 400;
    (6) Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses: 400;
    (7) Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 24 hours, per 
response;
    (8) Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: 
$940.80 per one time response;
    (9) Statutory Authority: Section 989(a) EPACT 2005 [Merit Review] 
{42 U.S.C. 16353(a){time} ; Section 646 DOE Organization Act 
[Contracts] {42 U.S.C. 7256(a){time} ; and 31 U.S.C. 503 (the Chief 
Financial Officers Act, Functions of the Deputy Director for 
Management), 31 U.S.C. 1111 (Improving Economy and Efficiency of the 
United States Government), 41 U.S.C. 1101-1131 (the Office of Federal 
Procurement Policy Act), Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1970, and 
Executive Order 11541 (``Prescribing the Duties of the Office of 
Management and Budget and the Domestic Policy Council in the Executive 
Office of the President''), the Single Audit Act Amendments of 1996, 
(31 U.S.C. 7501-7507), as well as The Federal Program Information Act 
(Pub. L. 95-220 and Pub. L. 98-169, as amended, codified at 31 U.S.C. 
6101-6106).

    Issued in Golden, CO, on March 22, 2018.
Derek Passarelli,
Director, Golden Field Office, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of 
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Golden Field Office.
[FR Doc. 2018-06458 Filed 3-29-18; 8:45 am]
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