[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 190 (Tuesday, October 5, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54960-54961]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[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 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, or to: 
James Carlisle, EE-5W, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence 
Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20585, Email: [email protected].

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: [email protected].

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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