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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Notice of Request for Information (RFI)
Regarding Inflation Reduction Act
Home Efficiency and Electrification
Rebate Programs
Office of State and Community
Energy Programs, Department of Energy
(DOE).
ACTION: Request for information (RFI).
AGENCY:
The U.S. Department of
Energy’s (DOE) Office of State and
Community Energy Programs (SCEP)
invites public input for its Request for
Information (RFI) number DE–FOA–DE–
FOA–0002981 regarding the
development of best practices for the
Home Energy Rebate programs in
accordance with the Inflation Reduction
Act (IRA). Responses to this RFI will be
used for planning purposes to develop
one or multiple opportunities to assist
states, territories, Indian Tribes, as well
as potentially other entities, in
designing, managing, and improving the
Home Energy Rebate programs.
DATES: Responses to the RFI must be
received no later than 8 p.m. EDT on
March 3, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Responses to this RFI may
be submitted in two ways. DOE prefers
responses that are submitted via this
online form: https://forms.office.com/g/
iuwKCbKpJK. The form includes
response boxes for all 59 questions
SUMMARY:
Program name
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Home Efficiency
Rebates.
established the Home Energy Rebates
programs.
SCEP intends to use principles of
equity and justice to guide IRA
implementation of these programs,
consistent with the Biden
Administration’s commitments to
ensure that overburdened, underserved,
and underrepresented individuals and
communities have access to federal
resources. The IRA implementation
processes should advance equity for all,
including people of color and others
who have been historically underserved,
marginalized, and adversely affected by
persistent poverty and inequality. IRA
implementation efforts for the Home
Energy Rebates programs support the
goal that 40 percent of the overall
benefits of certain federal investments
flow to disadvantaged communities (the
Justice40 Initiative).4
The implementation of the Home
Energy Rebates programs aims to help
American households save money on
energy bills, upgrade to clean energy
equipment and improve energy
efficiency, and reduce indoor and
outdoor air pollution. DOE estimates
that the historic home energy efficiency
and electrification consumer rebates
authorized will save households up to
$1 billion annually. More information
about the Home Energy Rebate programs
can be found on the program’s website.5
SCEP is working to distribute these
funds so that households across the
country can soon access these benefits.
Congress has structured these rebate
programs to be developed and
implemented by State Energy Offices
and Indian Tribes, with DOE providing
guidance, support, and oversight. SCEP
is seeking to build upon the agency’s
knowledge of home energy efficiency
and electrification technologies, tools,
and programs through this RFI.
The following table describes the
purpose, funding levels, and eligible
entities for the Home Efficiency Rebates
and Home Electrification Rebates
programs.
Authorizing
statute
Funds available
Eligible
recipient(s)
Purpose
IRA Sec. 50121
$4.3 billion for the period of fiscal
years through September 30,
2031.
States ...............
State energy office ‘‘receiving a grant pursuant to
this section shall provide rebates to homeowners and aggregators for whole-house energy saving retrofits[.]’’
1 Inflation Reduction Act, Public Law 117–169
(August 16, 2022).
2 Codified at 42 U.S.C. 18795.
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included in this RFI. Respondents may
answer as many or as few questions as
they wish. Using this online form will
allow DOE to sort and compare
responses by question, which will help
agency staff to more easily analyze the
responses to inform program guidance.
Responses may also be submitted by
email to IRAHomeRebates@hq.doe.gov.
Responses must be provided as a
Microsoft Word (.docx) attachment to
the email, with no more than 10 pages
in length, 12-point font, 1-inch margins.
It is recommended that attachments
with file sizes exceeding 25MB be
compressed (i.e., zipped) to ensure
message delivery. If submitting
responses via email, please identify the
specific question number and topic area
to which your response is directed, if
applicable. Respondents may answer as
many or as few questions as they wish.
The RFI is located at https://eereexchange.energy.gov/. SCEP does not
intend to respond to individual
submissions or publish a compendium
of responses.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions may be addressed to Michael
Forrester, email at IRAHomeRebates@
hq.doe.gov or (202) 586–1215. Further
instruction can be found in the RFI
document posted on https://eereexchange.energy.gov/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August
16, 2022, President Biden signed the
Inflation Reduction Act.1 The energy
and climate provisions of this bill
include tax credits for clean energy
technologies, $8.8 billion in residential
energy efficiency rebates, $200 million
for energy efficiency contractor training,
and billions more for clean energy
research and development, community
investment, energy justice, and
permitting processes. IRA section
50121, Home Energy PerformanceBased, Whole House Rebates (referred to
as Home Efficiency Rebates) 2 and
section 50122, High-Efficiency Electric
Home Rebate Program (referred to as
Home Electrification Rebates) 3
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3 Codified
at 42 U.S.C. 18795a.
Order 14008, ‘‘Tackling the Climate
Crisis at Home and Abroad,’’ 86 FR 7619 (Jan. 27,
2021).
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Program name
Home Electrification Rebates.
Authorizing
statute
Funds available
IRA Sec. 50122
$4.275 billion to States and $225
million to Indian Tribes through
September 30, 2031.
Purpose
The purpose of this RFI is to solicit
input from States, Indian Tribes, local
governments, energy contractors, labor
organizations, manufacturers of energy
efficient home equipment and materials,
community-based organizations,
environmental and housing justice
organizations, disadvantaged
communities, and other stakeholders to
inform the DOE’s program guidance for
the home efficiency and electrification
rebate programs. This is solely a request
for information and not a Funding
Opportunity Announcement. SCEP is
not accepting applications through the
release of this RFI. SCEP will consider
responses to this RFI as it develops
program guidance, expected to be issued
as an Administrative and Legal
Requirements Document in 2023.
Specifically, SCEP is interested in
public input on questions across the
following categories:
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Accessible and Equitable Program Design
Tribal Implementation of the Home
Electrification Rebates
Designing Programs for Maximum Impact
Integrating Existing Incentives and Programs
Opt-In Tools, Resources, Technical
Assistance, and Partnerships
Income Verification
Estimating and Measuring Energy Savings
Eligible Technologies for Rebates
Data Access and Sharing
Compliance and Quality Assurance
Job Creation and Quality
Buy American and Supply Chain
Considerations
Open Response
Confidential Business Information:
According 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, postal mail, or
hand delivery 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.
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.
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Eligible
recipient(s)
States and Indian Tribes.
Purpose
The Secretary shall award grants to ‘‘State energy
offices and Indian Tribes to establish a high-efficiency electric home rebate program under
which rebates shall be provided to eligible entities for qualified electrification projects.’’
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of
Energy was signed on January 17, 2023,
by Dr. Henry McKoy, Director of the
Office of State and Community Energy
Programs, 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 January 25,
2023.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S.
Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2023–01873 Filed 1–30–23; 8:45 am]
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Incidental to Reprocessing Evaluation
for Vitrified Low Activity Waste and
Secondary Wastes at the Hanford Site,
Washington and Waste Incidental to
Reprocessing Determination
U.S. Department of Energy.
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AGENCY:
ACTION:
The U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) announces the availability
of the Final Waste Incidental to
Reprocessing Evaluation for Vitrified
Low-Activity Waste and Secondary
Wastes at the Hanford Site, Washington
(Final WIR Evaluation) and associated
Waste Incidental to Reprocessing
Determination for Vitrified Low-Activity
Waste and Secondary Wastes at the
Hanford Site, Washington (WIR
Determination). The WIR Determination
documents DOE’s determination that
vitrified low-activity waste (VLAW) and
secondary wastes generated by, or
derived from, such vitrification using
the direct feed low-activity waste
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(DFLAW) approach are wastes that are
incidental to the reprocessing of spent
nuclear fuel, are not high-level
radioactive waste (HLW), and are to be
managed as low-level radioactive waste
(LLW), pursuant to DOE Order 435.1,
Radioactive Waste Management, and
DOE Manual 435.1–1, Radioactive
Waste Management Manual. DOE
consulted with the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) and considered
comments from States, Tribal Nations,
stakeholders and the public before
preparing the Final WIR Evaluation and
WIR Determination.
ADDRESSES: The Final WIR Evaluation
and WIR Determination are available on
the internet at https://www.hanford.gov/
page.cfm/VitrifiedLowActivityWaste for
public review.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information about the Final WIR
Evaluation or the WIR Determination,
please contact Mr. Gary L. Pyles by mail
at U.S. Department of Energy, Office of
River Protection, P.O. Box 450, MSIN
H6–60, Richland, Washington 99352, by
phone at (509) 376–2670, or by email at
gary.pyles@rl.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Hanford site currently stores radioactive
waste in underground storage tanks. The
waste was generated, in part, by the
prior reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel
during the Manhattan Project and Cold
War eras, for defense-related nuclear
research, development and weaponsproduction activities. Hanford’s current
mission focuses on the cleanup and
remediation of those wastes and
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decided to separate the tank waste into
a low-activity waste stream and a highlevel radioactive waste stream.
The Final WIR Evaluation concerns
approximately 23.5 million gallons
(Mgal) of separated, pretreated and
vitrified low activity waste from some of
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secondary wastes generated by, or
derived from, such vitrification of the
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Notice of Request for Information (RFI) Regarding Inflation
Reduction Act Home Efficiency and Electrification Rebate Programs
AGENCY: Office of State and Community Energy Programs, Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Request for information (RFI).
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of State and
Community Energy Programs (SCEP) invites public input for its Request
for Information (RFI) number DE-FOA-DE-FOA-0002981 regarding the
development of best practices for the Home Energy Rebate programs in
accordance with the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Responses to this
RFI will be used for planning purposes to develop one or multiple
opportunities to assist states, territories, Indian Tribes, as well as
potentially other entities, in designing, managing, and improving the
Home Energy Rebate programs.
DATES: Responses to the RFI must be received no later than 8 p.m. EDT
on March 3, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Responses to this RFI may be submitted in two ways. DOE
prefers responses that are submitted via this online form: https://forms.office.com/g/iuwKCbKpJK. The form includes response boxes for all
59 questions included in this RFI. Respondents may answer as many or as
few questions as they wish. Using this online form will allow DOE to
sort and compare responses by question, which will help agency staff to
more easily analyze the responses to inform program guidance.
Responses may also be submitted by email to
[email protected]. Responses must be provided as a Microsoft
Word (.docx) attachment to the email, with no more than 10 pages in
length, 12-point font, 1-inch margins. It is recommended that
attachments with file sizes exceeding 25MB be compressed (i.e., zipped)
to ensure message delivery. If submitting responses via email, please
identify the specific question number and topic area to which your
response is directed, if applicable. Respondents may answer as many or
as few questions as they wish. The RFI is located at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/. SCEP does not intend to respond to individual
submissions or publish a compendium of responses.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions may be addressed to Michael
Forrester, email at [email protected] or (202) 586-1215.
Further instruction can be found in the RFI document posted on https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed
the Inflation Reduction Act.\1\ The energy and climate provisions of
this bill include tax credits for clean energy technologies, $8.8
billion in residential energy efficiency rebates, $200 million for
energy efficiency contractor training, and billions more for clean
energy research and development, community investment, energy justice,
and permitting processes. IRA section 50121, Home Energy Performance-
Based, Whole House Rebates (referred to as Home Efficiency Rebates) \2\
and section 50122, High-Efficiency Electric Home Rebate Program
(referred to as Home Electrification Rebates) \3\ established the Home
Energy Rebates programs.
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\1\ Inflation Reduction Act, Public Law 117-169 (August 16,
2022).
\2\ Codified at 42 U.S.C. 18795.
\3\ Codified at 42 U.S.C. 18795a.
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SCEP intends to use principles of equity and justice to guide IRA
implementation of these programs, consistent with the Biden
Administration's commitments to ensure that overburdened, underserved,
and underrepresented individuals and communities have access to federal
resources. The IRA implementation processes should advance equity for
all, including people of color and others who have been historically
underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty
and inequality. IRA implementation efforts for the Home Energy Rebates
programs support the goal that 40 percent of the overall benefits of
certain federal investments flow to disadvantaged communities (the
Justice40 Initiative).\4\
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
\4\ Executive Order 14008, ``Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home
and Abroad,'' 86 FR 7619 (Jan. 27, 2021).
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The implementation of the Home Energy Rebates programs aims to help
American households save money on energy bills, upgrade to clean energy
equipment and improve energy efficiency, and reduce indoor and outdoor
air pollution. DOE estimates that the historic home energy efficiency
and electrification consumer rebates authorized will save households up
to $1 billion annually. More information about the Home Energy Rebate
programs can be found on the program's website.\5\
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
\5\ Accessible at https://stage.energy.gov/scep/home-energy-rebate-program.
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SCEP is working to distribute these funds so that households across
the country can soon access these benefits. Congress has structured
these rebate programs to be developed and implemented by State Energy
Offices and Indian Tribes, with DOE providing guidance, support, and
oversight. SCEP is seeking to build upon the agency's knowledge of home
energy efficiency and electrification technologies, tools, and programs
through this RFI.
The following table describes the purpose, funding levels, and
eligible entities for the Home Efficiency Rebates and Home
Electrification Rebates programs.
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Program name Authorizing statute Funds available Eligible recipient(s) Purpose
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Home Efficiency Rebates............. IRA Sec. 50121........ $4.3 billion for the period States................ State energy office ``receiving a
of fiscal years through grant pursuant to this section shall
September 30, 2031. provide rebates to homeowners and
aggregators for whole-house energy
saving retrofits[.]''
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Home Electrification Rebates........ IRA Sec. 50122........ $4.275 billion to States States and Indian The Secretary shall award grants to
and $225 million to Indian Tribes. ``State energy offices and Indian
Tribes through September Tribes to establish a high-
30, 2031. efficiency electric home rebate
program under which rebates shall be
provided to eligible entities for
qualified electrification
projects.''
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Purpose
The purpose of this RFI is to solicit input from States, Indian
Tribes, local governments, energy contractors, labor organizations,
manufacturers of energy efficient home equipment and materials,
community-based organizations, environmental and housing justice
organizations, disadvantaged communities, and other stakeholders to
inform the DOE's program guidance for the home efficiency and
electrification rebate programs. This is solely a request for
information and not a Funding Opportunity Announcement. SCEP is not
accepting applications through the release of this RFI. SCEP will
consider responses to this RFI as it develops program guidance,
expected to be issued as an Administrative and Legal Requirements
Document in 2023. Specifically, SCEP is interested in public input on
questions across the following categories:
Accessible and Equitable Program Design
Tribal Implementation of the Home Electrification Rebates
Designing Programs for Maximum Impact
Integrating Existing Incentives and Programs
Opt-In Tools, Resources, Technical Assistance, and Partnerships
Income Verification
Estimating and Measuring Energy Savings
Eligible Technologies for Rebates
Data Access and Sharing
Compliance and Quality Assurance
Job Creation and Quality
Buy American and Supply Chain Considerations
Open Response
Confidential Business Information: According 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, postal mail, or hand delivery 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. 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.
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of Energy was signed on January 17,
2023, by Dr. Henry McKoy, Director of the Office of State and Community
Energy Programs, 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 January 25, 2023.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2023-01873 Filed 1-30-23; 8:45 am]
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