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Education Act of 1965 as amended by Public
Law 100–50 (20 U.S.C. 1098).
William J. Goggin,
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Student Financial Assistance.
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Notice Inviting Publishers To Submit
Tests for a Determination of Suitability
for Use in the National Reporting
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Office of Career, Technical, and
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AGENCY:
The Secretary of Education
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National Reporting System for Adult
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DATES: Deadline for transmittal of
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Educational Gain in the National
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American Institutes for Research, 1000
Thomas Jefferson Street NW.,
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Dated: August 24, 2015.
Johan E. Uvin,
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Electric Grid Resilience SelfAssessment Tool for Distribution
System
Office of Electricity Delivery
and Energy Reliability, U.S. Department
of Energy.
ACTION: Request for Information; reopening of comment period.
AGENCY:
On July 1, 2015, the
Department of Energy (DOE) published
in the Federal Register a Request for
Information (RFI) regarding the electric
grid resilience self-assessment tool for
distribution system and requested
public comment by August 17, 2015.
DOE is re-opening the original public
comment period of 45 days for this RFI.
DATES: The comment period for the RFI
published July 1, 2015 (80 FR 37606) is
re-opened. Written comments must be
received on or before October 26, 2015.
SUMMARY:
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Comments can be submitted
by any of the following methods and
must be identified by ‘‘EGRtool’’. By
email: EGRtool@hq.doe.gov. Include
‘‘EGRtool’’ in the subject line of the
message. By mail: Dan Ton, Office of
Electricity Delivery and Energy
Reliability, U.S. Department of Energy,
Forrestal Building, Room 6E–092, 1000
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585. Note: Delivery
of the U.S. Postal Service mail to DOE
may be delayed by several weeks due to
security screening. DOE, therefore,
encourages those wishing to comment to
submit comments electronically by
email.
ADDRESSES:
Mr.
Dan Ton, Office of Electricity Delivery
and Energy Reliability, U.S. Department
of Energy, Forrestal Building, Room 6E–
092, 1000 Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585 or by email at
EGRtool@hq.doe.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
On July 1,
2015, the DOE published a request for
information in the Federal Register (80
FR 37606). DOE is seeking comments
and information from interested parties
to inform the development of a pilot
project concerning an interactive selfassessment tool to understand the
relative resilience level of national
electric grid distribution systems to
extreme weather events. An interactive
tool could be used by distribution
utilities to identify opportunities for
enhancing resilience with new
technologies and/or procedures to
support investment planning and
related tariff filings. The focus of this
RFI is on the design and
implementation of the interactive selfassessment resilience tool.
The July 1 notice requested comments
and information from interested parties
to inform the development of a pilot
project concerning an interactive selfassessment tool by August 17, 2015.
DOE is re-opening the comment period
by 60 days to allow additional time for
more substantive comment on the
significant questions to which DOE is
seeking response. DOE believes that reopening the comment period to allow
additional time for interested parties to
submit comments is appropriate.
Therefore, DOE is re-opening the
comment period to provide interested
parties additional time to prepare and
submit comments and will consider any
comments received by that date.
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Issued in Washington, DC, on August 24,
2015.
Patricia A. Hoffman,
Assistant Secretary, Office of Electricity
Delivery and Energy Reliability.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy
Energy Conservation Program for
Consumer Products: Representative
Average Unit Costs of Energy
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy, Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In this notice, the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE) is
forecasting the representative average
unit costs of five residential energy
sources for the year 2015 pursuant to
the Energy Policy and Conservation Act.
The five sources are electricity, natural
gas, No. 2 heating oil, propane, and
kerosene.
DATES: The representative average unit
costs of energy contained in this notice
will become effective September 28,
2015 and will remain in effect until
further notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John
Cymbalsky, U.S. Department of Energy,
Office of Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy Forrestal Building,
Mail Station EE–5B, 1000 Independence
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585–
0121, (202) 287–1692, Rep_Average_
Unit_Costs@ee.doe.gov.
Francine Pinto, Esq. U.S. Department
of Energy, Office of General Counsel
Forrestal Building, Mail Station GC–33,
1000 Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585–0103, (202) 586–
7432, Francine.Pinto@hq.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
323 of the Energy Policy and
Conservation Act (Act) requires that
DOE prescribe test procedures for the
measurement of the estimated annual
operating costs or other measures of
energy consumption for certain
consumer products specified in the Act.
(42 U.S.C. 6293(b)(3)) These test
procedures are found in title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part
430, subpart B.
Section 323(b)(3) of the Act requires
that the estimated annual operating
costs of a covered product be calculated
from measurements of energy use in a
representative average use cycle or
period of use and from representative
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average unit costs of the energy needed
to operate such product during such
cycle. (42 U.S.C. 6293(b)(3)) The section
further requires that DOE provide
information to manufacturers regarding
the representative average unit costs of
energy. (42 U.S.C. 6293(b)(4)) This cost
information should be used by
manufacturers to meet their obligations
under section 323(c) of the Act. Most
notably, these costs are used to comply
with Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
requirements for labeling.
Manufacturers are required to use the
revised DOE representative average unit
costs when the FTC publishes new
ranges of comparability for specific
covered products, 16 CFR part 305.
Interested parties can also find
information covering the FTC labeling
requirements at https://www.ftc.gov/
appliances.
DOE last published representative
average unit costs of residential energy
in a Federal Register notice entitled,
‘‘Energy Conservation Program for
Consumer Products: Representative
Average Unit Costs of Energy’’, dated
March 18, 2014, 79 FR 15111.
On September 28, 2015, the cost
figures published in this notice will
become effective and supersede those
cost figures published on March 18,
2014. The cost figures set forth in this
notice will be effective until further
notice.
DOE’s Energy Information
Administration (EIA) has developed the
2015 representative average unit aftertax residential costs found in this
notice. These costs for electricity,
natural gas, No. 2 heating oil, and
propane are based on simulations used
to produce the August 2015, EIA ShortTerm Energy Outlook (EIA releases the
Outlook monthly). The representative
average unit after-tax cost for kerosene
is derived from its price relative to that
of heating oil, based on the 2010–to
2014 averages of the U.S. refiner price
to end users, which include all the
major energy-consuming sectors in the
U.S. for these fuels. The source for these
price data is the July 2015, Monthly
Energy Review DOE/EIA–0035 (2015/
07). The Short-Term Energy Outlook
and the Monthly Energy Review are
available on the EIA Web site at
https://www.eia.doe.gov. The
representative average unit after-tax cost
for propane is derived from its price
relative to that of heating oil, based on
the 2015 averages of the U.S. residential
sector prices found in the Annual
Energy Outlook 2015, DOE/EIA–0383
(2015). For more information on the
data sources used in this Notice, contact
the National Energy Information Center,
Forrestal Building, EI–30, 1000
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Electric Grid Resilience Self-Assessment Tool for Distribution
System
AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, U.S.
Department of Energy.
ACTION: Request for Information; re-opening of comment period.
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SUMMARY: On July 1, 2015, the Department of Energy (DOE) published in
the Federal Register a Request for Information (RFI) regarding the
electric grid resilience self-assessment tool for distribution system
and requested public comment by August 17, 2015. DOE is re-opening the
original public comment period of 45 days for this RFI.
DATES: The comment period for the RFI published July 1, 2015 (80 FR
37606) is re-opened. Written comments must be received on or before
October 26, 2015.
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ADDRESSES: Comments can be submitted by any of the following methods
and must be identified by ``EGRtool''. By email: EGRtool@hq.doe.gov.
Include ``EGRtool'' in the subject line of the message. By mail: Dan
Ton, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, U.S.
Department of Energy, Forrestal Building, Room 6E-092, 1000
Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585. Note: Delivery of the
U.S. Postal Service mail to DOE may be delayed by several weeks due to
security screening. DOE, therefore, encourages those wishing to comment
to submit comments electronically by email.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Dan Ton, Office of Electricity
Delivery and Energy Reliability, U.S. Department of Energy, Forrestal
Building, Room 6E-092, 1000 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC
20585 or by email at EGRtool@hq.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 1, 2015, the DOE published a request
for information in the Federal Register (80 FR 37606). DOE is seeking
comments and information from interested parties to inform the
development of a pilot project concerning an interactive self-
assessment tool to understand the relative resilience level of national
electric grid distribution systems to extreme weather events. An
interactive tool could be used by distribution utilities to identify
opportunities for enhancing resilience with new technologies and/or
procedures to support investment planning and related tariff filings.
The focus of this RFI is on the design and implementation of the
interactive self-assessment resilience tool.
The July 1 notice requested comments and information from
interested parties to inform the development of a pilot project
concerning an interactive self-assessment tool by August 17, 2015. DOE
is re-opening the comment period by 60 days to allow additional time
for more substantive comment on the significant questions to which DOE
is seeking response. DOE believes that re-opening the comment period to
allow additional time for interested parties to submit comments is
appropriate. Therefore, DOE is re-opening the comment period to provide
interested parties additional time to prepare and submit comments and
will consider any comments received by that date.
Issued in Washington, DC, on August 24, 2015.
Patricia A. Hoffman,
Assistant Secretary, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy
Reliability.
[FR Doc. 2015-21244 Filed 8-26-15; 8:45 am]
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