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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Meeting of the Historically Black
Colleges and Universities Capital
Financing Advisory Board
Office of Postsecondary
Education, Historically Black Colleges
and Universities Capital Financing
Board, U.S. Department of Education.
ACTION: Announcement of an open
meeting.
AGENCY:
This notice sets forth the
agenda, time, and location of an
upcoming open meeting of the
Historically Black Colleges and
Universities Capital Financing Advisory
Board (Board). Notice of this meeting is
required by Section 10(a)(2) of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act and is
intended to notify the public of the
opportunity to attend.
DATES: The Board meeting will be held
on Tuesday, April 3, 2018, 10:00 a.m.–
2:00 p.m., Central Time, in Room 313
(Bowden Alumni Center), Sutton
Learning Center Building, St. Philip’s
College, 1801 Martin Luther King Drive,
San Antonio, TX 78203.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Adam H. Kissel, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Higher Education
Programs and the Designated Federal
Official for the Board, U.S. Department
of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue
SW, Washington, DC 20202; telephone:
(202) 453–6808; email: Adam.Kissel@
ed.gov.
SUMMARY:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The Historically Black Colleges and
Universities Capital Financing Advisory
Board’s Statutory Authority and
Function: The Historically Black
Colleges and Universities Capital
Financing Advisory Board (Board) is
authorized by Title III, Part D, Section
347 of the Higher Education Act of
1965, as amended in 1998 (20 U.S.C.
1066f). The Board is established within
the Department of Education to provide
advice and counsel to the Secretary and
the designated bonding authority as to
the most effective and efficient means of
implementing construction financing on
historically black college and university
campuses and to advise Congress
regarding the progress made in
implementing the Historically Black
Colleges and Universities Capital
Financing Program (Program).
Specifically, the Board will provide
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advice as to the capital needs of
Historically Black Colleges and
Universities, how those needs can be
met through the Program, and what
additional steps might be taken to
improve the operation and
implementation of the Program.
Meeting Agenda: The purpose of this
meeting is to update the Board on
current program activities, set future
meeting dates, enable the Board to make
recommendations to the Secretary on
the current capital needs of Historically
Black Colleges and Universities, and
discuss recommendations regarding
how the Board might increase its
effectiveness.
There will be an opportunity for
members of the public to provide oral
comment on Tuesday, April 3, 2018,
1:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Please be advised
that comments cannot exceed five (5)
minutes and must pertain to issues
within the scope of the Board’s
authority. Members of the public
interested in submitting written
comments may do so by submitting
comments to the attention of Adam H.
Kissel, 400 Maryland Avenue SW,
Washington, DC, 20202. Comments
must be postmarked no later than
Tuesday, March 27, 2018, to be
considered for discussion during the
meeting. Comments should pertain to
the work of the Board or the Program.
Access to Records of the Meeting: The
official verbatim transcripts of the
Board’s public meeting will be made
available for public inspection no later
than 60 calendar days following a
meeting.
Pursuant to the FACA, 5 U.S.C. App.
as amended, Section 10(b), the public
may also inspect meeting materials at
https://www2.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/
list/hbcu-finance.html. Reasonable
Accommodations: The meeting site is
accessible to individuals with
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aid or service to participate in the
meeting (e.g., interpreting service,
assistive listening device, or materials in
an alternate format), notify the contact
person listed in this notice at least two
weeks before the scheduled meeting
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received after that date, though, we may
not be able to make available the
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it.
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DATES:
Authority: Title III, Part D, Section 347, of
the Higher Education Act of 1965, as
amended in 1998 (20 U.S.C. 1066f).
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Frank T. Brogan,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and
delegated the duties of the Assistant
Secretary, Office of Planning, Evaluation and
Policy Development, Delegated the duties of
the Assistant Secretary, Office of
Postsecondary Education.
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Notice of Request for Information (RFI)
on Critical Water Issues Prize
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Office of Energy Efficiency and
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AGENCY:
The U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE), Office of Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy
(EERE), seeks information from the
public to understand the key technical
and other barriers that may prevent
long-term access to low-cost water
supplies that could be best addressed
through challenges and prize
competitions. DOE may use the
information provided through this
Request for Information (RFI) to develop
challenges and prize competitions to
address low-cost water problems. For
the purposes of this RFI, challenges and
prize competitions are tools and
approaches the Federal government and
others can use to engage a broad range
of stakeholders, including the general
public, to develop solutions to difficult
problems. Challenges and prize
competitions rely on competitive
structures to drive innovation among
participants and usually offer rewards
(financial and/or other) to winners and/
or finalists. This RFI is not designed to
solicit input on DOE’s broader water
research and development (R&D) efforts.
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Responses to the RFI must be
received no later than 5:00 p.m. (ET) on
May 14, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties are to
submit comments electronically to
WaterPrizeRFI@ee.doe.gov no later than
5:00 p.m. (ET) on May 14, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions may be addressed to: Andre
de Fontaine, Office of Energy Efficiency
& Renewable Energy, 1000
Independence Ave. SW, Washington,
DC 20585. Telephone: (202)-586–6585.
Email: andre.defontaine@ee.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
II. Purpose
III. Request for Information Categories and
Questions
IV. Guidance for Submitting Documents
I. Background
Water is a critical resource for human
health, economic growth, and
agricultural productivity. The United
States has benefitted from access to
generally low-cost water supplies, but
new challenges are emerging that, if left
unaddressed, could threaten this
paradigm. For example, traditional
freshwater sources are coming under
stress from competing uses in a growing
number of U.S. regions. A range of water
quality problems are impacting human
health and the environment, while
municipal water and wastewater
treatment systems face billions of
dollars in unmet infrastructure
investment needs, which will likely
increase as population grows, and water
and wastewater treatment requirements
become more stringent.1 This will put
upward pressure on water and sewer
rates, which have already experienced
steady increases, on a national average,
over the last several years.2
Energy is a key resource that modern
water systems need to function
properly. DOE has conducted
substantial work to explore issues and
advance solutions related to the energywater nexus,3 a term used to describe
1 Arzbaecher, C., K. Parmenter, R. Ehrhard, and J.
Murphy. 2013. Electricity Use and Management in
the Municipal Water Supply and Wastewater
Industries. Palo Alto, CA: Electric Power Research
Institute and Water Research Foundation. https://
www.waterrf.org/PublicReportLibrary/4454.pdf.
2 DOE (Department of Energy). 2017. Water and
Wastewater Annual Price Escalation Rates for
Selected Cities across the United States.
Washington, DC: DOE. https://www.energy.gov/
sites/prod/files/2017/10/f38/water_wastewater_
escalation_rate_study.pdf.
3 See, DOE. 2014. The Water-Energy Nexus:
Challenges and Opportunities. Washington, DC:
DOE. https://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2014/07/
f17/Water%20Energy%20Nexus%20Full%20
Report%20July%202014.pdf.
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the interconnected nature of energy and
water systems. This RFI contains a
category of questions that specifically
target the energy-water nexus, and
energy is a theme that runs through
several, if not all, of the other categories.
With the exception of the energy-water
nexus category, however, respondents
should not limit themselves to energy
issues in their responses. DOE is
interested in collecting broad
information that helps define the key
water issues that could be addressed
through challenges and prize
competitions whether they concern
energy explicitly, implicitly, or not at
all. Responses collected through this
RFI may be shared with other agencies
to help them craft related prize
competitions and challenges.
DOE recognizes that local, state,
Federal, private, and non-profit actors
are working to address water challenges
using a range of mechanisms, including
policy changes, early stage R&D, and
grant funding. For example, DOE’s
Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO)
is developing an early stage R&D
program to develop technologies that
advance the cost-effective and energy
efficient production of treated water
from a range of conventional and nonconventional sources. AMO has
conducted substantial stakeholder
engagement to support this early stage
R&D effort, including three workshops
and a separate RFI issued in June of
2017. This RFI differs from the June
request in that it seeks input from the
public specifically on the water
problems that could be best addressed
through challenges and prize
competitions. Additionally, it asks how
those challenges and prize competitions
could be structured to achieve
maximum results.
In challenges and prize competitions,
a given prize sponsor will define a
problem and offer a reward for a
solution.4 Rewards can be monetary as
well as non-monetary, such as national
recognition, testing and validation of
technologies, access to experts and
specialists, and other organizational
support. A key characteristic of
challenges and prize competitions is
they clearly define a problem without
prescribing a particular solution path.
Participation in prize competitions is
generally open to a wide range of
participants, with financial or other
rewards provided at the end of the
competition after a designated target or
goal has been reached. This contrasts
4 For an overview of challenges and prize
competitions, see Hendrix, M. 2014. The Power of
Prizes: Incentivizing Radical Innovation.
Washington, DC: U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Foundation.
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[FR Doc No: 2018-05535]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Meeting of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Capital Financing Advisory Board
AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Historically Black Colleges
and Universities Capital Financing Board, U.S. Department of Education.
ACTION: Announcement of an open meeting.
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SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the agenda, time, and location of an
upcoming open meeting of the Historically Black Colleges and
Universities Capital Financing Advisory Board (Board). Notice of this
meeting is required by Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act and is intended to notify the public of the opportunity
to attend.
DATES: The Board meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 3, 2018, 10:00
a.m.-2:00 p.m., Central Time, in Room 313 (Bowden Alumni Center),
Sutton Learning Center Building, St. Philip's College, 1801 Martin
Luther King Drive, San Antonio, TX 78203.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adam H. Kissel, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Higher Education Programs and the Designated Federal
Official for the Board, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland
Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20202; telephone: (202) 453-6808; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Capital Financing
Advisory Board's Statutory Authority and Function: The Historically
Black Colleges and Universities Capital Financing Advisory Board
(Board) is authorized by Title III, Part D, Section 347 of the Higher
Education Act of 1965, as amended in 1998 (20 U.S.C. 1066f). The Board
is established within the Department of Education to provide advice and
counsel to the Secretary and the designated bonding authority as to the
most effective and efficient means of implementing construction
financing on historically black college and university campuses and to
advise Congress regarding the progress made in implementing the
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Capital Financing Program
(Program). Specifically, the Board will provide advice as to the
capital needs of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, how
those needs can be met through the Program, and what additional steps
might be taken to improve the operation and implementation of the
Program.
Meeting Agenda: The purpose of this meeting is to update the Board
on current program activities, set future meeting dates, enable the
Board to make recommendations to the Secretary on the current capital
needs of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and discuss
recommendations regarding how the Board might increase its
effectiveness.
There will be an opportunity for members of the public to provide
oral comment on Tuesday, April 3, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Please be
advised that comments cannot exceed five (5) minutes and must pertain
to issues within the scope of the Board's authority. Members of the
public interested in submitting written comments may do so by
submitting comments to the attention of Adam H. Kissel, 400 Maryland
Avenue SW, Washington, DC, 20202. Comments must be postmarked no later
than Tuesday, March 27, 2018, to be considered for discussion during
the meeting. Comments should pertain to the work of the Board or the
Program.
Access to Records of the Meeting: The official verbatim transcripts
of the Board's public meeting will be made available for public
inspection no later than 60 calendar days following a meeting.
Pursuant to the FACA, 5 U.S.C. App. as amended, Section 10(b), the
public may also inspect meeting materials at https://www2.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hbcu-finance.html. Reasonable Accommodations: The meeting
site is accessible to individuals with disabilities. If you will need
an auxiliary aid or service to participate in the meeting (e.g.,
interpreting service, assistive listening device, or materials in an
alternate format), notify the contact person listed in this notice at
least two weeks before the scheduled meeting date. We will attempt to
meet a request received after that date, though, we may not be able to
make available the requested auxiliary aid or service because of
insufficient time to arrange it.
Electronic Access to This Document: The official version of this
document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free
internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the
Code of Federal Regulations is available via the Federal Digital System
at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you
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can view this document, as well as all other documents of this
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documents published by the Department.
Authority: Title III, Part D, Section 347, of the Higher
Education Act of 1965, as amended in 1998 (20 U.S.C. 1066f).
Frank T. Brogan,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and delegated the duties of the
Assistant Secretary, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy
Development, Delegated the duties of the Assistant Secretary, Office of
Postsecondary Education.
[FR Doc. 2018-05535 Filed 3-16-18; 8:45 am]
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