Production Engineering and Commercialization of Residential Highly Insulating Windows, 9107-9108 [E8-3005]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 33 / Tuesday, February 19, 2008 / Notices be received at the address listed below no later than April 4, 2008. Office of the Assistant General Counsel for Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20585. ADDRESSES: John T. Lucas, Office of the Assistant General Counsel for Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property, U.S. Department of Energy, Forrestal Building, Room 6F– 067, 1000 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20585; Telephone (202) 586–2939. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: 35 U.S.C. 209 provides federal agencies with authority to grant exclusive licenses in federally-owned inventions, if, among other things, the agency finds that the public will be served by the granting of the license. 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Paul A. Gottlieb, Assistant General Counsel for Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property. [FR Doc. E8–3010 Filed 2–15–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6450–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Nevada Department of Energy. Notice of open meeting. 9107 Minutes: Minutes will be available by writing to Rosemary Rehfeldt at the address listed above or at the following Web site: https://www.ntscab.com/ MeetingMinutes.htm. Issued at Washington, DC on February 13, 2008. Rachel Samuel, Deputy Advisory Committee Management Officer. [FR Doc. E8–3008 Filed 2–15–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6450–01–P AGENCY: ACTION: SUMMARY: This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Nevada Test Site. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of this meeting be announced in the Federal Register. DATES: Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 6 p.m. ADDRESSES: Beatty Community Center, 100A Avenue S, Beatty, Nevada 89003. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rosemary Rehfeldt, Board Administrator, 232 Energy Way, M/S 505, North Las Vegas, Nevada 89030. Phone: (702) 657–9088; Fax (702) 295– 5300 or E-mail: ntscab@nv.doe.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Purpose of the Board: The purpose of the Board is to make recommendations to DOE in the areas of environmental restoration, waste management, and related activities. Tentative Agenda 1. Presentation on the Underground Test Area (UGTA) Committee’s Well Recommendation Reports. 2. Review of CAB’s participation in UGTA’s Technical Working Group meetings. 3. Review of Nevada Test Site ‘‘TRU in Trenches’’ update. Public Participation: The meeting is open to the public. Written statements may be filed with the Board either before or after the meeting. Individuals who wish to make oral presentations pertaining to agenda items should contact Rosemary Rehfeldt at the telephone number listed above. The request must be received five days prior to the meeting and reasonable provision will be made to include the presentation in the agenda. The Deputy Designated Federal Officer is empowered to conduct the meeting in a fashion that will facilitate the orderly conduct of business. Individuals wishing to make public comment will be provided a maximum of five minutes to present their comments. PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Production Engineering and Commercialization of Residential Highly Insulating Windows Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy. ACTION: Program Notice. AGENCY: SUMMARY: The National Energy Technology Laboratory, on behalf of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Building Technologies Program, intends to issue a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to select and fund approximately two teams to develop, manufacturer, and commercialize cost effective, highly insulating windows with an NFRC Uvalue rating of 0.20 BTU/hr-Ft2-°F or lower. DATES: This FOA is expected to be issued on or about April 21, 2008. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marc LaFrance, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Program Office EE– 2J, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585–0121, (202) 586– 9142, Email: Marc.Lafrance@ee.doe.gov C. Edward Christy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, P.O. Box 880, M/S E–02, Morgantown, WV 26507, (304) 285–4604, E-mail: Eddie.Christy@netl.doe.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The projects are expected to be for a period of 12 to 24 months and will require a 50–50 industry cost shared effort with the Department of Energy. Awards are expected to be made in FY09 in the October to December 2008 timeframe, with approximately $2,000,000 of government funding over a two year period. Proposing entities should be led by a domestic window, glass, or production equipment manufacturer or component supplier. Partnerships with entities that can offer high volume distribution to facilitate market penetration will be encouraged. The DOE’s long term window R&D goals are E:\FR\FM\19FEN1.SGM 19FEN1 9108 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 33 / Tuesday, February 19, 2008 / Notices to develop the next generation of windows that offer dynamic solar control and U values of 0.10 BTU/hr-Ft2°F. However, these longer term efforts are not the subject of this financial opportunity. The purpose of this effort is for near term product and production engineering development of highly insulating windows that have U-values of 0.2 BTU/hr-Ft2-°F or less that can be cost effective in the 2010–2012 timeframe for a broad range of applications in colder climates. FedBizOpps and Grants.gov provide e-mail notification services to interested parties who want to receive information about the posting of an acquisition or financial assistance opportunity. Register for funding opportunity notices at https://www.grants.gov/search/ subscribeAdvanced.do. Issued in Morgantown, WV, on February 4, 2008. C. Edward Christy, Director, Buildings and Industrial Technologies Division. [FR Doc. E8–3005 Filed 2–15–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6450–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. IC08–521–000; FERC–521] Commission Information Collection Activities, Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Extension February 11, 2008. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy. ACTION: Notice of proposed information collection and request for comments. AGENCY: SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(a) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the information collection described below. Comments in consideration of the collection of information are due April 15, 2008. ADDRESSES: An example of this collection of information may be obtained from the Commission’s Documents & Filing Web site (https:// www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp) or by contacting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Attn: Michael Miller, Office of the Executive Director, ED–34 Rm. 42–39, 888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. Comments may be filed either in paper format or electronically. Those parties filing electronically do not need to make a paper filing. For paper filing, the original and 14 copies of such comments should be submitted to the Office of the Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426 and refer to Docket No. IC08–521–000. Documents filed electronically via the Internet must be prepared in an acceptable filing format and in compliance with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission submission guidelines. Complete filing instructions and acceptable filing formats are available at (https://www.ferc.gov/help/ submission-guide/electronic-media.asp). To file the document electronically, access the Commission’s Web site and click on Documents & Filing, E-Filing (https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ efiling.asp), and then follow the instructions for each screen. First time users will have to establish a user name and password. The Commission will send an automatic acknowledgement to the sender’s e-mail address upon receipt of comments. All comments may be viewed, printed or downloaded remotely via the Internet through FERC’s homepage using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. For user assistance, contact fercolinesupport@ferc.gov or toll-free at (866) 208–3676. Or for TTY, contact (202) 502–8659. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Miller may be reached by telephone at (202) 502–8415, by fax at DATES: (202) 273–0873, and by e-mail at michael.miller@ferc.gov. The information collected under the requirements of FERC–521 ‘‘Payments for Benefits from Headwater Benefits’’ (OMB No. 1902–0087) is used by the Commission to implement the statutory provisions of section 10(f) of the Federal Power Act (FPA) (16 U.S.C. 803). The FPA authorizes the Commission to determine headwater benefits received by downstream hydropower project owners. Headwater benefits are the additional energy production possible at a downstream hydropower project resulting from the regulation of river flows by an upstream storage reservoir. When the Commission completes a study of a river basin, it determines headwater benefits charges that will be apportioned among the various downstream beneficiaries. A headwater benefits charge, and the cost incurred by the Commission to complete an evaluation are paid by downstream hydropower project owners. In essence, the owners of non-federal hydropower projects that directly benefit from a headwater(s) improvement must pay an equitable portion of the annual charges for interest, maintenance, and depreciation of the headwater project to the U.S. Treasury. The regulations provide for apportionment of these costs between the headwater project and downstream projects based on downstream energy gains and propose equitable apportionment methodology that can be applied to all rivers basins in which headwater improvements are built. The data the Commission requires owners of non-federal hydropower projects to file for determining annual charges is specified in 18 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 11. Action: The Commission is requesting a three-year extension of the current expiration date, with no changes to the existing collection of data. Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this collection is estimated as: SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Number of responses per respondent Average burden hours per response Total annual burden hours (1) (2) (3) (1)×(2)×(3) 3 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with NOTICES Number of respondents annually 1 40 120 Estimated cost burden to respondents is $7,291.00. (120 hours/2080 hours per year times $126,384 per year average per employee = $7,291.00). The cost per respondent is $2,430.00 VerDate Aug<31>2005 16:52 Feb 15, 2008 Jkt 214001 The reporting burden includes the total time, effort, or financial resources expended to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide the information including: (1) Reviewing instructions; (2) developing, acquiring, installing, and PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 utilizing technology and systems for the purposes of collecting, validating, verifying, processing, maintaining, disclosing and providing information; (3) adjusting the existing ways to comply with any previously applicable E:\FR\FM\19FEN1.SGM 19FEN1

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[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 33 (Tuesday, February 19, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9107-9108]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-3005]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Production Engineering and Commercialization of Residential 
Highly Insulating Windows

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of 
Energy.

ACTION: Program Notice.

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SUMMARY: The National Energy Technology Laboratory, on behalf of the 
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Building 
Technologies Program, intends to issue a Funding Opportunity 
Announcement (FOA) to select and fund approximately two teams to 
develop, manufacturer, and commercialize cost effective, highly 
insulating windows with an NFRC U-value rating of 0.20 BTU/hr-
Ft\2\-[deg]F or lower.

DATES: This FOA is expected to be issued on or about April 21, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marc LaFrance, U.S. Department of 
Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Program 
Office EE-2J, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585-0121, 
(202) 586-9142, Email: Marc.Lafrance@ee.doe.gov C. Edward Christy, 
National Energy Technology Laboratory, P.O. Box 880, M/S E-02, 
Morgantown, WV 26507, (304) 285-4604, E-mail: 
Eddie.Christy@netl.doe.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The projects are expected to be for a period 
of 12 to 24 months and will require a 50-50 industry cost shared effort 
with the Department of Energy. Awards are expected to be made in FY09 
in the October to December 2008 timeframe, with approximately 
$2,000,000 of government funding over a two year period. Proposing 
entities should be led by a domestic window, glass, or production 
equipment manufacturer or component supplier. Partnerships with 
entities that can offer high volume distribution to facilitate market 
penetration will be encouraged. The DOE's long term window R&D goals 
are

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to develop the next generation of windows that offer dynamic solar 
control and U values of 0.10 BTU/hr-Ft\2\-[deg]F. However, 
these longer term efforts are not the subject of this financial 
opportunity. The purpose of this effort is for near term product and 
production engineering development of highly insulating windows that 
have U-values of 0.2 BTU/hr-Ft\2\-[deg]F or less that can be 
cost effective in the 2010-2012 timeframe for a broad range of 
applications in colder climates.
    FedBizOpps and Grants.gov provide e-mail notification services to 
interested parties who want to receive information about the posting of 
an acquisition or financial assistance opportunity. Register for 
funding opportunity notices at https://www.grants.gov/search/
subscribeAdvanced.do.

    Issued in Morgantown, WV, on February 4, 2008.
C. Edward Christy,
Director, Buildings and Industrial Technologies Division.
 [FR Doc. E8-3005 Filed 2-15-08; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6450-01-P

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