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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy
Comments on Draft Roadmap on
Manufacturing Research and
Development for the Hydrogen
Economy
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice and request for comment.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Department of Energy
requests comment on its draft Roadmap
on Manufacturing Research and
Development (R&D) for the Hydrogen
Economy. This draft roadmap is
designed to guide research and
development of manufacturing
processes to reduce the cost and
enhance the reliability of critical
hydrogen and fuel cell components and
systems.
DATES: The draft roadmap will be open
for public comment until April 24,
2006.
ADDRESSES: The draft roadmap is
available at https://
www.hydrogen.energy.gov. Address all
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comments on this roadmap via the Web
site at https://www.hydrogen.energy.gov/
manufacturing_form.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
JoAnn Milliken, U.S. Department of
Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, Mail Station EE–2H,
Attn: JoAnn Milliken, 1000
Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20585–0121, Phone:
(202) 586–2480, e-mail
JoAnn.Milliken@ee.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
mission of DOE’s Hydrogen, Fuel Cells
and Infrastructure Technologies
Program is to research, develop and
validate fuel cell and hydrogen
production, delivery, and storage
technologies. Hydrogen from diverse
domestic resources will then be used in
a clean, safe, reliable, and affordable
manner in fuel cell vehicles and
stationary power applications.
Development of hydrogen energy will
ensure that the United States has an
abundant, reliable, and affordable
supply of clean energy to maintain the
Nation’s prosperity throughout the 21st
century.
The President established the
Hydrogen Fuel Initiative and the
Manufacturing Initiative to meet critical
national needs that involve energy
security, environmental quality, and
economic well-being. The Hydrogen
Fuel Initiative aims to reverse America’s
growing dependence on imported oil by
developing the technology needed for
commercially viable hydrogen-powered
fuel cells. The Manufacturing Initiative,
which addresses the entire
manufacturing sector in the United
States, will strengthen American
manufacturing, create new jobs, and
help U.S. manufacturers become more
competitive in the global marketplace.
The Roadmap on Manufacturing R&D
for the Hydrogen Economy describes
activities at the intersection of these two
initiatives. Manufacturing covers a
broad range of components and systems
related to hydrogen production and
delivery, fuel cells, and hydrogen
storage. The transition to a hydrogen
economy will take decades. Significant
challenges must be overcome to move
from today’s components and systems,
built using laboratory-scale fabrication
technologies, to high-volume
commercially manufactured products.
Essential manufacturing needs for the
initial transition to a hydrogen economy
include distributed production and
delivery, on-board vehicle storage, and
polymer electrolyte membrane fuel
cells.
The roadmap identifies the challenges
to manufacturing the hydrogen
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production, storage, and fuel cell
technologies that will be required for
the initial transition to the hydrogen
economy. R&D of manufacturing
processes will play a pivotal role in
reducing cost of hydrogen technologies
and in building the supplier base
needed to move the U.S. toward a clean
and sustainable energy future.
Based on the results of a July 2005
workshop, the roadmap consolidates
recommendations of hydrogen and fuel
cell experts from industry, universities,
and national laboratories. Led by the
DOE and the National Institute of
Standards and Technology, the
workshop and roadmap are the result of
a collaboration of the Interagency
Working Group on Manufacturing R&D
established through the President’s
National Science and Technology
Council. See the press release from
Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman at
https://www.energy.gov/print/3098.htm.
The roadmap is posted on the Internet
at the Web site identified in the
ADDRESSES section of this notice.
The goal of the DOE Hydrogen
Program is to develop the technology
needed for commercially viable
hydrogen-powered fuel cells by 2015.
Through public-private partnerships,
the DOE is working to reduce the cost
and enhance the durability of hydrogen
technologies to enable industry to put
fuel cell vehicles in the showroom and
provide hydrogen at refueling stations
by 2020.
For more information about the DOE
Hydrogen Program, visit https://
www.hydrogen.energy.gov.
Issued in Washington, DC, on February 17,
2006.
Douglas L. Faulkner,
Acting Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency
and Renewable Energy.
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Alabama 8-hour ozone redesignation
and maintenance demonstration, dated
January 27, 2006, by the Alabama
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Management (ADEM), are adequate for
transportation conformity purposes. On
March 2, 1999, the D.C. Circuit Court
ruled that submitted State
Implementation Plans (SIPs) cannot be
used for transportation conformity
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result of EPA’s finding, the Birmingham
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ozone maintenance plan for future
conformity determinations.
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Wood can also be reached by telephone
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at wood.amanetta@epa.gov. The finding
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site: https://www.epa.gov/otaq/
transp.htm (once there, click on the
‘‘Transportation Conformity’’ text icon,
then look for ‘‘Adequacy Review of SIP
Submissions’’).
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Background
Today’s notice is simply an
announcement of a finding that EPA has
already made. EPA Region 4 sent a letter
to ADEM on February 2, 2006, stating
that the MVEBs in the submitted
Birmingham, Alabama 8-hour ozone
maintenance plan, dated January 27,
2006, are adequate. The Birmingham,
Alabama 8-hour ozone maintenance
area is comprised of Jefferson and
Shelby Counties. EPA’s adequacy
comment period ran from November 17,
2005, through December 19, 2005.
During EPA’s adequacy comment period
no adverse comments were received.
This finding has also been announced
on EPA’s conformity Web site: https://
www.epa.gov/otaq/transp/conform/
adequacy.htm, (once there, look for
‘‘What SIP submissions are currently
under EPA Adequacy Review?’’). The
adequate MVEBs are provided in the
following table:
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Transportation conformity is required
by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act,
as amended in 1990. EPA’s conformity
rule requires that transportation plans,
programs and projects conform to state
air quality implementation plans and
establishes the criteria and procedures
for determining whether or not they do.
Conformity to a SIP means that
transportation activities will not
produce new air quality violations,
worsen existing violations, or delay
timely attainment of the national
ambient air quality standards.
The criteria by which EPA determines
whether a SIP’s MVEBs are adequate for
transportation conformity purposes are
outlined in 40 CFR 93.118(e)(4). Please
note that an adequacy review is separate
from EPA’s completeness review, and it
also should not be used to prejudge
EPA’s ultimate approval of the SIP.
Even if EPA finds the MVEBs adequate,
the Agency may later determine that the
SIP itself is not approvable.
EPA has described the process for
determining the adequacy of submitted
SIP budgets in guidance (May 14, 1999,
memorandum entitled ‘‘Conformity
Guidance on Implementation of March
2, 1999, Conformity Court Decision’’).
EPA has followed this guidance in
making this adequacy determination.
This guidance is incorporated into
EPA’s July 1, 2004, final rulemaking
entitled, ‘‘ Transportation Conformity
Rule Amendments for the New 8-hour
Ozone and PM2.5 National Ambient Air
Quality Standards and Miscellaneous
Revisions for Existing Areas;
Transportation Conformity Rule
Amendments: Response to Court
Decision and Additional Rule Changes’’
(69 FR 40004).
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notifying the public that EPA has found
that the Motor Vehicle Emissions
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Comments on Draft Roadmap on Manufacturing Research and
Development for the Hydrogen Economy
AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice and request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy requests comment on its draft Roadmap
on Manufacturing Research and Development (R&D) for the Hydrogen
Economy. This draft roadmap is designed to guide research and
development of manufacturing processes to reduce the cost and enhance
the reliability of critical hydrogen and fuel cell components and
systems.
DATES: The draft roadmap will be open for public comment until April
24, 2006.
ADDRESSES: The draft roadmap is available at https://
www.hydrogen.energy.gov. Address all comments on this roadmap via the
Web site at https://www.hydrogen.energy.gov/manufacturing_form.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. JoAnn Milliken, U.S. Department of
Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Mail Station
EE-2H, Attn: JoAnn Milliken, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington,
DC 20585-0121, Phone: (202) 586-2480, e-mail JoAnn.Milliken@ee.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The mission of DOE's Hydrogen, Fuel Cells
and Infrastructure Technologies Program is to research, develop and
validate fuel cell and hydrogen production, delivery, and storage
technologies. Hydrogen from diverse domestic resources will then be
used in a clean, safe, reliable, and affordable manner in fuel cell
vehicles and stationary power applications. Development of hydrogen
energy will ensure that the United States has an abundant, reliable,
and affordable supply of clean energy to maintain the Nation's
prosperity throughout the 21st century.
The President established the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative and the
Manufacturing Initiative to meet critical national needs that involve
energy security, environmental quality, and economic well-being. The
Hydrogen Fuel Initiative aims to reverse America's growing dependence
on imported oil by developing the technology needed for commercially
viable hydrogen-powered fuel cells. The Manufacturing Initiative, which
addresses the entire manufacturing sector in the United States, will
strengthen American manufacturing, create new jobs, and help U.S.
manufacturers become more competitive in the global marketplace. The
Roadmap on Manufacturing R&D for the Hydrogen Economy describes
activities at the intersection of these two initiatives. Manufacturing
covers a broad range of components and systems related to hydrogen
production and delivery, fuel cells, and hydrogen storage. The
transition to a hydrogen economy will take decades. Significant
challenges must be overcome to move from today's components and
systems, built using laboratory-scale fabrication technologies, to
high-volume commercially manufactured products. Essential manufacturing
needs for the initial transition to a hydrogen economy include
distributed production and delivery, on-board vehicle storage, and
polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells.
The roadmap identifies the challenges to manufacturing the hydrogen
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production, storage, and fuel cell technologies that will be required
for the initial transition to the hydrogen economy. R&D of
manufacturing processes will play a pivotal role in reducing cost of
hydrogen technologies and in building the supplier base needed to move
the U.S. toward a clean and sustainable energy future.
Based on the results of a July 2005 workshop, the roadmap
consolidates recommendations of hydrogen and fuel cell experts from
industry, universities, and national laboratories. Led by the DOE and
the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the workshop and
roadmap are the result of a collaboration of the Interagency Working
Group on Manufacturing R&D established through the President's National
Science and Technology Council. See the press release from Energy
Secretary Samuel W. Bodman at https://www.energy.gov/print/3098.htm. The
roadmap is posted on the Internet at the Web site identified in the
ADDRESSES section of this notice.
The goal of the DOE Hydrogen Program is to develop the technology
needed for commercially viable hydrogen-powered fuel cells by 2015.
Through public-private partnerships, the DOE is working to reduce the
cost and enhance the durability of hydrogen technologies to enable
industry to put fuel cell vehicles in the showroom and provide hydrogen
at refueling stations by 2020.
For more information about the DOE Hydrogen Program, visit https://
www.hydrogen.energy.gov.
Issued in Washington, DC, on February 17, 2006.
Douglas L. Faulkner,
Acting Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
[FR Doc. 06-1704 Filed 2-22-06; 8:45 am]
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