Notice of Request for Information (RFI) on Designing Equitable, Sustainable, and Effective Revolving Loan Fund Programs, 18008-18009 [2022-06584]

Download as PDF lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 18008 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 60 / Tuesday, March 29, 2022 / Notices accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed, revised, and continuing collections of information. This helps the Department assess the impact of its information collection requirements and minimize the public’s reporting burden. It also helps the public understand the Department’s information collection requirements and provide the requested data in the desired format. ED is soliciting comments on the proposed information collection request (ICR) that is described below. The Department of Education is especially interested in public comment addressing the following issues: (1) Is this collection necessary to the proper functions of the Department; (2) will this information be processed and used in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate of burden accurate; (4) how might the Department enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (5) how might the Department minimize the burden of this collection on the respondents, including through the use of information technology. Please note that written comments received in response to this notice will be considered public records. Title of Collection: Education Stabilization Fund- Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER I/ESSER II/ARP ESSER Fund) Recipient Data Collection Form. OMB Control Number: 1810–0749. Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection. Respondents/Affected Public: State, Local, and Tribal Governments. Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 14,652. Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 2,051,943. Abstract: Under the current unprecedented national health emergency, the legislative and executive branches of government have come together to offer relief to those individuals and industries affected by the COVID–19 virus under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (Pub. L. 116–136) authorized on March 27, 2020, and expanded through the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations (CRRSA) Act, and the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act. The ESSER Fund awards grants to SEAs and for the purpose of providing local educational agencies (LEAs), including charter schools that are LEAs, as well as Outlying Areas, with emergency relief funds to address the impact that Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID–19) VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:01 Mar 28, 2022 Jkt 256001 has had, and continues to have, on elementary and secondary schools across the Nation. This information collection requests a revision for a three-year approval of the form which includes the addition of three items recently approved through the emergency collection, as well as technical changes to clarify reporting pertaining to ESSER services supporting extended instructional time and early childhood programs. Please refer to Attachments A–1 and A–2, which include the changes to the form; Attachment B, which addresses response to 60-day public comments, and Attachment C, which outlines the technical changes. Dated: March 24, 2022. Juliana Pearson, PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development. [FR Doc. 2022–06588 Filed 3–28–22; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4000–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Notice of Request for Information (RFI) on Designing Equitable, Sustainable, and Effective Revolving Loan Fund Programs Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy (DOE). ACTION: Request for information (RFI). AGENCY: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invites public comment on its request for information (RFI) regarding promising, innovative, and best practices for designing revolving loan funds (RLFs). The purpose of the RFI is to collect stakeholder feedback to inform DOE’s program guidance for States developing RLFs with funding made available through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, ‘‘Energy efficiency revolving loan fund capitalization grant program.’’ DATES: Responses to the RFI must be received by no later than 11:59 p.m. EST on May 6th, 2022. ADDRESSES: Interested parties are to submit comments electronically to EERevolvingLoanFund@ee.doe.gov. Include ‘‘Designing Equitable, Sustainable, and Effective Revolving Loan Fund Programs RFI Response’’ in the subject line of the email. Responses must be provided as attachments to an email. Responses must be provided as a Microsoft Word (.docx) attachment to the email, and no more than 5 pages in SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00035 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 length, 12-point font, 1-inch margins. If possible, copy and paste the RFI sections as a template for your responses. It is recommended that attachments with file sizes exceeding 25MB be compressed (i.e., zipped) to ensure message delivery. Only electronic responses will be accepted. The complete RFI document is located at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions may be addressed to EERevolvingLoanFund@ee.doe.gov or to Julie Howe at 720–356–1628 or julie.howe@ee.doe.gov. Further instruction can be found in the RFI document posted on EERE Exchange at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Weatherization and Intergovernmental Programs Office, in coordination with DOE’s Building Technologies Office, seeks input on promising, innovative, and best practices for designing revolving loan funds (RLFs) from private lenders, investors, labor groups, community development organizations, environmental justice organizations, disadvantaged communities, States, local governments, and other energy system stakeholders. Pursuant to the implementation of section 40502 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Public Law 117–58, DOE is seeking to create program guidance that will assist States, as well as potentially other entities,1 in designing, managing, and improving RLFs. (42 U.S.C. 18792) Responses from this request for information (RFI) will be used to inform DOE’s program support documentation to help States in creating, augmenting, or refining their RLFs to drive successful and equitable outcomes. This documentation may also be used to support States in drafting their applications to DOE or their own program design documentation. Specific questions can be found in the RFI available at: https://eereexchange.energy.gov/. This is solely a request for information and not a Funding Opportunity Announcement. DOE is not accepting applications at this time. 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 1 Under DOE’s State Energy Program regulations, a ‘‘State’’ is defined as ‘‘a State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or any territory or possession of the United States.’’ 40 CFR 420.2. E:\FR\FM\29MRN1.SGM 29MRN1 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 60 / Tuesday, March 29, 2022 / Notices information believed to be confidential, and one copy of the document marked ‘‘non-confidential’’ with the information believed to be confidential deleted. Submit these documents via email or on a CD, if feasible. DOE will make its own determination about the confidential status of the information and treat it according to its determination. It is DOE’s policy that all comments may be included in the public docket, without change and as received, including any personal information provided in the comments (except information deemed to be exempt from public disclosure). Signing Authority: This document of the Department of Energy was signed on March 23, 2022, by Kelly J. SpeakesBackman, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy pursuant to delegated authority from the Secretary of Energy. That document with the original signature and date is maintained by DOE. For administrative purposes only, and in compliance with requirements of the Office of the Federal Register, the undersigned DOE Federal Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to sign and submit the document in electronic format for publication, as an official document of the Department of Energy. This administrative process in no way alters the legal effect of this document upon publication in the Federal Register. Signed in Washington, DC, on March 24, 2022. Treena V. Garrett, Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy. [FR Doc. 2022–06584 Filed 3–28–22; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6450–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. IC22–9–000] Commission Information Collection Activities (Ferc–912); Comment Request; Extension Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, DOE. ACTION: Notice of information collection and request for comments. lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 AGENCY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:01 Mar 28, 2022 Jkt 256001 In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) is soliciting public comment on the currently approved information collection, FERC– 912 (PURPA Section 210(m) Notification Requirements Applicable to Cogeneration and Small Power Production Facilities). DATES: Comments on the collection of information are due May 31, 2022. ADDRESSES: Send written comments on FERC–912 (IC22–9–000) to the Commission. You may submit copies of your comments by one of the following methods: Electronic filing through https:// www.ferc.gov, is preferred. • Electronic Filing: Documents must be filed in acceptable native applications and print-to-PDF, but not in scanned or picture format. • For those unable to file electronically, comments may be filed by USPS mail or by hand (including courier) delivery. Æ Mail via U.S. Postal Service Only Addressed to: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Secretary of the Commission, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426. Æ Hand (including courier) delivery to: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, MD 20852. Instructions: FERC submissions must be formatted and filed in accordance with submission guidelines at: https:// www.ferc.gov. For user assistance, contact FERC Online Support by email at ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by phone at: (866) 208–3676 (toll-free). Docket: Users interested in receiving automatic notification of activity in this docket or in viewing/downloading comments and issuances in this docket may do so at https://www.ferc.gov/ferconline/overview. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellen Brown may be reached by email at DataClearance@FERC.gov, telephone at (202) 502–8663. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: FERC–912, PURPA Section 210(m) Notification Requirements Applicable to Cogeneration and Small Power Production Facilities. OMB Control No.: 1902–0237. Type of Request: Three-year extension of the FERC–912 information collection SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00036 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 18009 requirements with no changes to the current reporting requirements. Abstract: On 8/8/2005, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) 1 was signed into law. Section 1253(a) of EPAct 2005 amends Section 210 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) by adding subsection ‘‘(m),’’ that provides, based on a specified showing, for the termination and subsequent reinstatement of an electric utility’s obligation to purchase from, and sell energy and capacity to, qualifying facilities (QFs). In 2019 the Commission revised its regulations in 18 CFR 292.309–292.313 in Docket No. RM19–15–000 to account for industry changes. These industry changes include: The decrease in reliance on oil and natural gas, the increase of natural gas supply due to access of shale reserves, and the decreasing costs of renewable energy sources. Due to the modifications in the rulemaking, the Commission revised its information collection requirements. The Commission now collects the following information on FERC Form 912: • § 292.310: An electric utility’s application for the termination of its obligation to purchase energy from a QF, • § 292.311: An affected entity or person’s application to the Commission for an order reinstating the electric utility’s obligation to purchase energy from a QF, • § 292.312: An electric utility’s application for the termination of its obligation to sell energy and capacity to QFs, and • § 292.313: An affected entity or person’s application to the Commission for an order reinstating the electric utility’s obligation to sell energy and capacity to QFs.2 Type of Respondents: Electric utilities. Estimate of Annual Burden: 3 The Commission estimates the total Public Reporting Burden and cost for this information collection as follows: 1 Public Law 109–58, 119 Stat. 594 (2005). CFR 292.311 and 292.313. 3 Burden as the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. For further explanation of what is included in the information collection burden, refer to Title 5 Code of Federal Regulations 1320.3. 2 18 E:\FR\FM\29MRN1.SGM 29MRN1

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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 60 (Tuesday, March 29, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18008-18009]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-06584]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Notice of Request for Information (RFI) on Designing Equitable, 
Sustainable, and Effective Revolving Loan Fund Programs

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of 
Energy (DOE).

ACTION: Request for information (RFI).

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invites public comment on 
its request for information (RFI) regarding promising, innovative, and 
best practices for designing revolving loan funds (RLFs). The purpose 
of the RFI is to collect stakeholder feedback to inform DOE's program 
guidance for States developing RLFs with funding made available through 
the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, ``Energy efficiency 
revolving loan fund capitalization grant program.''

DATES: Responses to the RFI must be received by no later than 11:59 
p.m. EST on May 6th, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are to submit comments electronically to 
[email protected]. Include ``Designing Equitable, 
Sustainable, and Effective Revolving Loan Fund Programs RFI Response'' 
in the subject line of the email. Responses must be provided as 
attachments to an email. Responses must be provided as a Microsoft Word 
(.docx) attachment to the email, and no more than 5 pages in length, 
12-point font, 1-inch margins. If possible, copy and paste the RFI 
sections as a template for your responses. It is recommended that 
attachments with file sizes exceeding 25MB be compressed (i.e., zipped) 
to ensure message delivery. Only electronic responses will be accepted. 
The complete RFI document is located at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions may be addressed to 
[email protected] or to Julie Howe at 720-356-1628 or 
julie.[email protected]. Further instruction can be found in the RFI 
document posted on EERE Exchange at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Energy's (DOE) 
Weatherization and Intergovernmental Programs Office, in coordination 
with DOE's Building Technologies Office, seeks input on promising, 
innovative, and best practices for designing revolving loan funds 
(RLFs) from private lenders, investors, labor groups, community 
development organizations, environmental justice organizations, 
disadvantaged communities, States, local governments, and other energy 
system stakeholders. Pursuant to the implementation of section 40502 of 
the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Public Law 117-58, DOE is 
seeking to create program guidance that will assist States, as well as 
potentially other entities,\1\ in designing, managing, and improving 
RLFs. (42 U.S.C. 18792)
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    \1\ Under DOE's State Energy Program regulations, a ``State'' is 
defined as ``a State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or any 
territory or possession of the United States.'' 40 CFR 420.2.
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    Responses from this request for information (RFI) will be used to 
inform DOE's program support documentation to help States in creating, 
augmenting, or refining their RLFs to drive successful and equitable 
outcomes. This documentation may also be used to support States in 
drafting their applications to DOE or their own program design 
documentation.
    Specific questions can be found in the RFI available at: https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/. This is solely a request for information and 
not a Funding Opportunity Announcement. DOE is not accepting 
applications at this time.
    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

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information believed to be confidential, and one copy of the document 
marked ``non-confidential'' with the information believed to be 
confidential deleted. Submit these documents via email or on a CD, if 
feasible. DOE will make its own determination about the confidential 
status of the information and treat it according to its determination.
    It is DOE's policy that all comments may be included in the public 
docket, without change and as received, including any personal 
information provided in the comments (except information deemed to be 
exempt from public disclosure).
    Signing Authority: This document of the Department of Energy was 
signed on March 23, 2022, by Kelly J. Speakes-Backman, Principal Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy pursuant 
to delegated authority from the Secretary of Energy. That document with 
the original signature and date is maintained by DOE. For 
administrative purposes only, and in compliance with requirements of 
the Office of the Federal Register, the undersigned DOE Federal 
Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to sign and submit the 
document in electronic format for publication, as an official document 
of the Department of Energy. This administrative process in no way 
alters the legal effect of this document upon publication in the 
Federal Register.

    Signed in Washington, DC, on March 24, 2022.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2022-06584 Filed 3-28-22; 8:45 am]
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