[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 195 (Wednesday, October 7, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63272-63273]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-22168]


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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 
three-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 
November 6, 2020. 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 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: Ms. Erin Green, Power Marketing and 
Energy Services Specialist, Western Area Power Administration, P.O. Box 
281213, Lakewood, CO 80228, telephone (720) 962-7016, or email 
[email protected]. The proposed APD form is available on WAPA's website 
at www.wapa.gov/PowerMarketing/Pages/applicant-profile-data.aspx.

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 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: 33.333; (6) Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses: 
33.333; (7) Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 250; (8) Annual 
Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $32,046.98.
    Statutory Authority: Reclamation Laws are a series of laws arising 
from the Desert Land Act of 1877 and include, but are not limited to: 
The Desert Land Act of 1877, Reclamation Act of 1902, Reclamation 
Project Act of 1939, and the Acts authorizing each individual project 
such as the Central Valley Project Authorizing Act of 1937. See Ch. 
107, 19 stat. 377 (1877), Ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388 (1902), Ch. 418, 53 
Stat. 1187 (1939), Ch. 832, 50 Stat. 844, 850 (1937), all as amended 
and supplemented. 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 the sixteen arid Western states (a seventeenth was later 
added). 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. In 
1977, 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). Section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 is 
read in pari materia with Reclamation Laws with respect to WAPA. See 
Act of December 22, 1944, Ch. 665, 58 Stat. 887, as amended and 
supplemented.

Signing Authority

    This document of the Department of Energy was signed on September 
30, 2020, by Mark A. Gabriel, Administrator, Western Area Power 
Administration, pursuant to delegated authority from the Secretary of 
Energy. That document, with the original

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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 October 2, 2020.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
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