[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 232 (Tuesday, December 7, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69232-69233]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-26427]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Agency Information Collection Extension

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

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 its collection for Superior Energy Performance 
50001 (SEP 50001) Certification and 50001 Ready Recognition, OMB 
Control Number 1910-5177. The proposed collection will relate to 
tracking partner participation and calculating the energy efficiency 
impact of DOE's Superior Energy Performance certification and 50001 
Ready recognition programs.

DATES: Comments regarding this collection must be received on or before 
January 6, 2022. 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: Ethan Rogers, EE-5A/Forrestal 
Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585, by fax at 
202-287-6093, or by email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request 
contains:
    (1) OMB No.: 1910-5177;
    (2) Information Collection Request Title: Superior Energy 
Performance 50001 (SEP 50001) Certification and 50001 Ready 
Recognition;
    (3) Type of Request: Renewal;
    (4) Purpose: This Information Collection Request applies to the 
Department of Energy (DOE) voluntary ISO 50001 programs for industrial 
facilities: Superior Energy Performance[supreg] (SEP[supreg]) and 50001 
ReadyTM recognition. SEP is an energy efficiency 
certification and recognition program for commercial, institutional, 
and industrial facilities demonstrating excellence in energy management 
as well as continual improvement in energy efficiency through third-
party verified energy performance. 50001 Ready recognition is a self-
attestation of the implementation of an ISO 50001 energy management 
system without the need for external audits. Respondents include 
commercial, institutional, and industrial facilities. For SEP 50001, 
additional respondents include SEP 50001 Verification Bodies.
    (5) Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: 450;
    (6) Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses: 450;
    (7) Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 450;
    (8) Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: 
$31,452.
    Statutory Authority: Accelerating Investment in Industrial Energy 
Efficiency. Executive Order 13624, 77 FR 54779 (Aug. 30, 2012); 42 
U.S.C. 16191.

Signing Authority

    This document of the Department of Energy was signed on November 
24, 2021, by Rebecca Jones-Albertus, Acting Director, Advanced 
Manufacturing Office, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 
pursuant to delegated authority from the Secretary of Energy. That 
document with the original signature and date is

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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 December 1, 2021.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2021-26427 Filed 12-6-21; 8:45 am]
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