[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 58 (Friday, March 25, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17077-17078]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-06307]


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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 the DOE Loan Guarantees for Energy Projects, 
OMB Control Number 1910-5134.

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DATES: Comments regarding this collection must be received on or before 
April 25, 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) 881-8585.

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: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should 
be directed to Knight Elsberry, 
[email protected], (202) 287-6646. The 
collection instruments can be viewed at: https://www.energy.gov/lpo/title-17-governing-documents (Title XVII solicitations); and https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2020/01/f70/DOE-LPO_TELGP_Solicitation_16Jan20.pdf (TELGP solicitations).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request 
contains: (1) OMB No.: 1910-5134; (2) Information Collection Request 
Title: DOE Loan Guarantees for Energy Projects; (3) Type of Request: 
Extension; (4) Purpose: This information collection package covers 
collection of information necessary to evaluate applications for loan 
guarantees submitted under Title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, 
as amended, 16516 (Title XVII), 42 U.S.C. 16511, and under Section 
2602(c) of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, as amended (TELGP), 25 U.S.C. 
3502(c). Applications for loan guarantees submitted to DOE in response 
to a solicitation under Title XVII or TELGP must contain certain 
information. This information will be used to analyze whether a project 
is eligible for a loan guarantee and to evaluate the application under 
criteria specified in the final regulations implementing Title XVII, 
located at 10 CFR part 609, and adopted by DOE for purposes of TELGP, 
with certain immaterial modifications and omissions. The collection of 
this information is critical to ensure that the government has 
sufficient information to determine whether applicants meet the 
eligibility requirements to qualify for a DOE loan guarantee under 
Title XVII or TELGP, as the case may be, and to provide DOE with 
sufficient information to evaluate an applicant's project using the 
criteria specified in 10 CFR part 609 (for Title XVII applications) or 
the applicable solicitation (for TELGP applications); (5) Annual 
Estimated Number of Respondents: 92; (6) Annual Estimated Number of 
Total Responses: 92; (7) Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 
12,190; (8) Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: 
$2,490,900.
    Statutory Authority: Title XVII and TELGP authorize the collection 
of information.

Signing Authority

    This document of the Department of Energy was signed on March 21, 
2022, by Jigar Shah, Executive Director, Loan Programs Office, 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 March 22, 2022.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2022-06307 Filed 3-24-22; 8:45 am]
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