The Department of Energy (DOE) is developing an information collection request to the OMB for extension under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The informat...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is developing 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 approval of its collection, titled BPA Generic Benchmarking Surveys, OMB Control Number 1910-NEW. The proposed collection will be a retrospective analysis of existing construction and design standards in power transmission through comparison
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with standards in use by comparable entities.
DATES:
Comments regarding this collection must be received on or before October 13, 2026. If you anticipate that you will be submitting comments but find it difficult to do so within the period 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) 881-9493.
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 Attn: Stephanie Noell, Privacy Program, by email at
privacy@bpa.gov,
or by telephone at (503) 230-3881.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
This information collection request contains:
(1)
OMB No.:
1910-NEW;
(2)
Information Collection Request Title:
BPA Generic Benchmarking Surveys;
(3)
Type of Request:
New;
(4)
Purpose:
this information collection would allow for BPA to survey the standards in use throughout our industry to ensure that our standards are consistent with others and learning from industry, respondents would be engineers, logisticians, and others within stakeholder organizations such as the North American Transmission Forum;
(5)
Annual Estimated Number of Respondents:
300;
(6)
Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses:
300;
(7)
Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours:
300;
(8)
Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden:
$19,572.
This document of the Department of Energy was signed on August 24, 2026, by Candice D. Palen, Information Collection Clearance Manager, Bonneville Power Administration, 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 8, 2026.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain
16 U.S.C. 832a(c)