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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Request for Information (RFI): Review
of Draft Version of DOE Energy-Water
Nexus State Policy Database
Office of Energy Policy and
Systems Analysis (EPSA), Department
of Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice of request for
information.
AGENCY:
The Department of Energy
(DOE) gives notice of a Request for
Information (RFI): ‘‘Review of Draft
Version of DOE Energy-Water Nexus
State Policy Database.’’ This RFI seeks
review and feedback from stakeholders
on the draft version of the DOE EnergyWater Nexus State Policy Database,
including over 1,700 state-level water
policies that affect energy systems. The
database is being developed by DOE’s
Office of Energy Policy and Systems
Analysis (DOE–EPSA). The draft or
‘‘beta’’ version of the database is
presented as a web tool at https://
energywaterpolicy.org. Categories of
policies in the database include surface
water rights; groundwater rights; water
discharge regulations for power plant
cooling water effluent, stormwater, and
wastewater from oil and gas production;
Underground Injection Control (UIC)
program regulations; state water plans;
regional watershed commissions;
reservoir and river operations; and
integrated energy and water policies.
The goals of the database are to facilitate
improved policy analysis, modeling,
visualization, and communication by
states, industry, utilities, academia,
federal agencies, and other stakeholders.
SUMMARY:
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Written comments and
information are requested on or before
August 4, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
encouraged to submit comments, which
must be submitted electronically to
EPSA.Database@hq.doe.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information may
be sent to Samuel Bockenhauer, U.S.
Department of Energy, Office of Energy
Policy and Systems Analysis, 1000
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585. Email:
samuel.bockenhauer@hq.doe.gov.
Phone: (202) 586–9016.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DATES:
Background
Present-day energy and water systems
are in many cases interconnected. Water
is used in most phases of energy
production and electricity generation.
Energy is required to extract, convey,
and deliver water of appropriate quality
for diverse human uses, and then again
to treat wastewaters prior to their return
to the environment. Historically, energy
and water systems have been developed,
managed, and regulated independently
and without significant
acknowledgement of the connections
between them. The energy and water
policy landscape is thus highly
fragmented, which can make it difficult
for industry, utilities, government, and
other stakeholder groups to effectively
balance energy and water goals.
Furthermore, much of the authority
for water policy lies at the level of
individual states. For example,
allocation of water rights and permitting
for water discharge are managed
primarily at the state level. The
particularly complex and fragmented
nature of water policies affecting energy
systems, as well as their variation across
different states, suggests that a
centralized, public database of water
policies affecting energy systems could
enable enhanced policy analysis,
modeling, visualization, and
communication by states, industry,
utilities, academia, federal agencies, and
other stakeholders.
Purpose
The purpose of this RFI is to solicit
feedback from industry, utilities,
academia, research laboratories,
government agencies, and other
stakeholders on the draft version of the
Energy-Water Nexus State Policy
Database available at https://
energywaterpolicy.org. Regarding the
draft version of the Energy-Water Nexus
State Policy Database, neither the
United States Government nor any
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agency thereof, nor any of their
employees, nor any of their contractors,
subcontractors or their employees,
makes any warranty, express or implied,
or assumes any legal liability or
responsibility for the accuracy,
completeness, or any third party’s use or
the results of such use of any
information, apparatus, product, or
process disclosed, or represents that its
use would not infringe privately owned
rights. Reference in the draft version of
the Energy-Water Nexus State Policy
Database to any specific commercial
product, process, or service by trade
name, trademark, manufacturer, or
otherwise, does not necessarily
constitute or imply its endorsement,
recommendation, or favoring by the
United States Government or any
agency thereof or its contractors or
subcontractors. This RFI is solely an
effort to gather information from
stakeholders to help inform DOE–EPSA
on whether a finalized version of such
a database would be useful and how it
might be designed.
Request for Information Categories and
Questions
DOE is particularly interested in
receiving comments and data on the
following:
1. Quality and Completeness of
Information. Are the policy descriptions
accurate and complete? Are they
current? Are the key functional pieces of
the policy easily accessible? What
additional information would be useful?
How could the descriptions be
streamlined? What other policies should
be included?
2. Functionality. How could the
functionality be improved in areas such
as user interface, search functionality,
sorting functionality, site structure, etc.?
3. Uses. How might you or your
organization use the database? What key
important questions could the database
help to answer? What visualizations
might you or your organization consider
using the database to develop?
4. Connection to Other Data Sources
or Initiatives. Are there other data
sources in industry, government,
academia, or other sectors that could be
connected to this database? If so, what
are these data sets and how might they
be beneficially connected or
coordinated with the database?
5. Users. Which stakeholder groups—
including groups in industry,
government, academia, etc.—might find
the database most useful and for what
purpose?
6. Maintenance. How should policy
developments be tracked and at what
frequency to keep the database current
and useful?
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Request for Information Response
Guidelines
(7) why disclosure of the information
would be contrary to the public interest.
Responses to this RFI must be
submitted electronically to
EPSA.Database@hq.doe.gov no later
than 11:59 p.m. (ET) on August 4, 2017.
Responses must be provided as
attachments to an email. It is
recommended that attachments with file
sizes exceeding 25MB be compressed
(i.e., zipped) to ensure message delivery.
Responses must be provided as a
Microsoft Word (.docx) or Microsoft
Excel (.xslx) attachment to the email.
Only electronic responses will be
accepted.
Please identify your answers by
responding to a specific question or
topic if applicable. Respondents may
answer as many or as few questions as
they wish. DOE–EPSA will not respond
to individual submissions or publish
publicly a compendium of responses. A
response to this RFI will not be viewed
as a binding commitment to develop or
pursue the project or ideas discussed.
Respondents are requested to provide
the following information at the start of
their response to this RFI:
• Company/institution name;
• Company/institution contact;
• Contact’s address, phone number,
and email address.
Issued in Washington, DC, on May 9, 2017.
Carol Battershell,
Acting Director, Office of Energy Policy and
Systems Analysis.
Confidential Business Information
Pursuant to 10 CFR 1004.11, any
person submitting information that he
or she believes to be confidential and
exempt by law from public disclosure
should submit via email two wellmarked copies: One copy of the
document marked ‘‘confidential’’
including all the information believed to
be confidential, and one copy of the
document marked ‘‘non-confidential’’
with the information believed to be
confidential deleted. DOE will make its
own determination about the
confidential status of the information
and treat it according to its
determination.
Factors of interest to DOE when
evaluating requests to treat submitted
information as confidential include: (1)
A description of the items; (2) whether
and why such items are customarily
treated as confidential within the
industry; (3) whether the information is
generally known by or available from
other sources; (4) whether the
information has previously been made
available to others without obligation
concerning its confidentiality; (5) an
explanation of the competitive injury to
the submitting person that would result
from public disclosure; (6) when such
information might lose its confidential
character due to the passage of time; and
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Administration
Agency Information Collection
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U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice and request for OMB
review and comment.
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The EIA has submitted an
information collection request to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for extension under the
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction
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requests a three-year extension of its
CIPSEA Confidentiality Pledge
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make permanent the modification to the
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approved on January 12, 2017, under
the emergency clearance under OMB
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And to Jacob.bournazian@eia.gov or
Jacob Bournazian, U.S. Energy
Information Administration, Mail Stop
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Request for Information (RFI): Review of Draft Version of DOE
Energy-Water Nexus State Policy Database
AGENCY: Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis (EPSA), Department
of Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice of request for information.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) gives notice of a Request for
Information (RFI): ``Review of Draft Version of DOE Energy-Water Nexus
State Policy Database.'' This RFI seeks review and feedback from
stakeholders on the draft version of the DOE Energy-Water Nexus State
Policy Database, including over 1,700 state-level water policies that
affect energy systems. The database is being developed by DOE's Office
of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis (DOE-EPSA). The draft or ``beta''
version of the database is presented as a web tool at https://energywaterpolicy.org. Categories of policies in the database include
surface water rights; groundwater rights; water discharge regulations
for power plant cooling water effluent, stormwater, and wastewater from
oil and gas production; Underground Injection Control (UIC) program
regulations; state water plans; regional watershed commissions;
reservoir and river operations; and integrated energy and water
policies. The goals of the database are to facilitate improved policy
analysis, modeling, visualization, and communication by states,
industry, utilities, academia, federal agencies, and other
stakeholders.
DATES: Written comments and information are requested on or before
August 4, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are encouraged to submit comments, which
must be submitted electronically to EPSA.Database@hq.doe.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information
may be sent to Samuel Bockenhauer, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of
Energy Policy and Systems Analysis, 1000 Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585. Email: samuel.bockenhauer@hq.doe.gov. Phone:
(202) 586-9016.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Present-day energy and water systems are in many cases
interconnected. Water is used in most phases of energy production and
electricity generation. Energy is required to extract, convey, and
deliver water of appropriate quality for diverse human uses, and then
again to treat wastewaters prior to their return to the environment.
Historically, energy and water systems have been developed, managed,
and regulated independently and without significant acknowledgement of
the connections between them. The energy and water policy landscape is
thus highly fragmented, which can make it difficult for industry,
utilities, government, and other stakeholder groups to effectively
balance energy and water goals.
Furthermore, much of the authority for water policy lies at the
level of individual states. For example, allocation of water rights and
permitting for water discharge are managed primarily at the state
level. The particularly complex and fragmented nature of water policies
affecting energy systems, as well as their variation across different
states, suggests that a centralized, public database of water policies
affecting energy systems could enable enhanced policy analysis,
modeling, visualization, and communication by states, industry,
utilities, academia, federal agencies, and other stakeholders.
Purpose
The purpose of this RFI is to solicit feedback from industry,
utilities, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and
other stakeholders on the draft version of the Energy-Water Nexus State
Policy Database available at https://energywaterpolicy.org. Regarding
the draft version of the Energy-Water Nexus State Policy Database,
neither the United States Government nor any
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agency thereof, nor any of their employees, nor any of their
contractors, subcontractors or their employees, makes any warranty,
express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility
for the accuracy, completeness, or any third party's use or the results
of such use of any information, apparatus, product, or process
disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately
owned rights. Reference in the draft version of the Energy-Water Nexus
State Policy Database to any specific commercial product, process, or
service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not
necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or
favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof or its
contractors or subcontractors. This RFI is solely an effort to gather
information from stakeholders to help inform DOE-EPSA on whether a
finalized version of such a database would be useful and how it might
be designed.
Request for Information Categories and Questions
DOE is particularly interested in receiving comments and data on
the following:
1. Quality and Completeness of Information. Are the policy
descriptions accurate and complete? Are they current? Are the key
functional pieces of the policy easily accessible? What additional
information would be useful? How could the descriptions be streamlined?
What other policies should be included?
2. Functionality. How could the functionality be improved in areas
such as user interface, search functionality, sorting functionality,
site structure, etc.?
3. Uses. How might you or your organization use the database? What
key important questions could the database help to answer? What
visualizations might you or your organization consider using the
database to develop?
4. Connection to Other Data Sources or Initiatives. Are there other
data sources in industry, government, academia, or other sectors that
could be connected to this database? If so, what are these data sets
and how might they be beneficially connected or coordinated with the
database?
5. Users. Which stakeholder groups--including groups in industry,
government, academia, etc.--might find the database most useful and for
what purpose?
6. Maintenance. How should policy developments be tracked and at
what frequency to keep the database current and useful?
Request for Information Response Guidelines
Responses to this RFI must be submitted electronically to
EPSA.Database@hq.doe.gov no later than 11:59 p.m. (ET) on August 4,
2017. Responses must be provided as attachments to an email. It is
recommended that attachments with file sizes exceeding 25MB be
compressed (i.e., zipped) to ensure message delivery. Responses must be
provided as a Microsoft Word (.docx) or Microsoft Excel (.xslx)
attachment to the email. Only electronic responses will be accepted.
Please identify your answers by responding to a specific question
or topic if applicable. Respondents may answer as many or as few
questions as they wish. DOE-EPSA will not respond to individual
submissions or publish publicly a compendium of responses. A response
to this RFI will not be viewed as a binding commitment to develop or
pursue the project or ideas discussed.
Respondents are requested to provide the following information at
the start of their response to this RFI:
Company/institution name;
Company/institution contact;
Contact's address, phone number, and email address.
Confidential Business Information
Pursuant to 10 CFR 1004.11, any person submitting information that
he or she believes to be confidential and exempt by law from public
disclosure should submit via email two well-marked copies: One copy of
the document marked ``confidential'' including all the information
believed to be confidential, and one copy of the document marked ``non-
confidential'' with the information believed to be confidential
deleted. DOE will make its own determination about the confidential
status of the information and treat it according to its determination.
Factors of interest to DOE when evaluating requests to treat
submitted information as confidential include: (1) A description of the
items; (2) whether and why such items are customarily treated as
confidential within the industry; (3) whether the information is
generally known by or available from other sources; (4) whether the
information has previously been made available to others without
obligation concerning its confidentiality; (5) an explanation of the
competitive injury to the submitting person that would result from
public disclosure; (6) when such information might lose its
confidential character due to the passage of time; and (7) why
disclosure of the information would be contrary to the public interest.
Issued in Washington, DC, on May 9, 2017.
Carol Battershell,
Acting Director, Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis.
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