Department of Energy March 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents
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York Generation Company LLC, Complainant v. PJM Interconnection, LLC, Respondent Notice of Complaint
Modification of Interchange and Transmission Loading Relief Reliability Standards; and Electric Reliability Organization Interpretation of Specific Requirements of Four Reliability Standards
Pursuant to section 215 of the Federal Power Act (FPA), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) approves Reliability Standard IRO-006-4, submitted to the Commission for approval by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). The Reliability
Proposed Agency Information Collection
The proposed Industrial Labor Relations Collection will request information from the Department of Energy Facilities Management Contractors for contract administration, management oversight and cost control. The information collection will assist the Department in evaluating the implementation of the contractors' work force restructuring plans and apprise the Department of significant labor- management developments at DOE contractor sites. This information will be used to ensure that Department contractors recruit and retain a workforce in accordance with the terms of their contract and in compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements as identified by contract.
Energy Information Administration; Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
The EIA is soliciting comments on the proposed three-year extension to Form NWPA-830R, ``Appendix GStandard Remittance Advice for Payment of Fees (including Annex A and Annex B to Appendix G).''
Energy Conservation Standards for Certain Consumer Products and Commercial and Industrial Equipment
The Department of Energy (DOE) is publishing this technical amendment to place the energy conservation standards and test procedures, and related definitions, prescribed in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA 2007) for certain consumer products and commercial and industrial equipment in the Code of Federal Regulations.
Request for Expressions of Interest in Hosting a Facility or Facilities for the Long-Term Management and Storage of Elemental Mercury
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking Expressions of Interest from Federal agencies and from the private sector regarding potential locations for a facility or facilities where DOE can store and manage elemental mercury pursuant to the Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008 (the Act). The Act directs DOE to designate by January 1, 2010, a facility or facilities of DOE for the long-term management and storage of elemental mercury. At least one such facility must be operational by January 1, 2013. DOE intends to initiate an Environmental Impact Statement in early 2009 and seeks to identify facilities to consider as potential alternatives. Accordingly, respondents to this Request for Expressions of Interest may have the facilities they identify considered during the environmental review scoping process. This is a request for expressions of interest. No proposals are allowed.
Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge Reservation
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Oak Ridge Reservation. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of this meeting be announced in the Federal Register.
Procedural Rules for DOE Nuclear Activities
The Department of Energy (DOE) is today publishing a final rule to amend its Procedural Rules for DOE Nuclear Activities at Part 820 to be consistent with section 610 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Public Law 109-58 (EPAct of 2005), signed into law by President Bush on August 8, 2005. Section 610 amends provisions in section 234A. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (AEA) concerning civil penalty assessments against certain DOE contractors, subcontractors and suppliers. Specifically, this final rule revises DOE regulations at section 820.20 to be consistent with the changes under section 610 of the EPAct of 2005.
Energy Conservation Program for Certain Industrial Equipment: Energy Conservation Standards and Test Procedures for Commercial Heating, Air-Conditioning, and Water-Heating Equipment
The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 (EPCA), as amended, directs the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to establish energy conservation standards for certain commercial and industrial equipment, including commercial heating, air-conditioning, and water- heating equipment. Of particular relevance here, the statute also requires that each time the corresponding industry standardthe American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE)/Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) Standard 90.1is amended, DOE must assess whether there is a need to update the uniform national energy conservation standards for the same equipment covered under EPCA. ASHRAE officially released an amended version of this industry standard (ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007) on January 10, 2008, thereby triggering DOE's related obligations under EPCA. Specifically, pursuant to EPCA, DOE assessed whether the revised ASHRAE efficiency levels are more stringent than the existing Federal energy conservation standards; and for those equipment classes for which ASHRAE set more-stringent efficiency levels (i.e., commercial packaged boilers), analyzed the economic and energy savings potential of amended national energy conservation standards (at both the new ASHRAE Standard 90.1 levels and more-stringent efficiency levels). DOE has tentatively concluded that the statutory criteria have been met for commercial packaged boilers and water-cooled and evaporatively- cooled commercial package air conditioners and heat pumps with a cooling capacity at or above 240,000 Btu/h and less than 760,000 Btu/h, thereby justifying consideration of national energy conservation standards set at the revised levels in ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007. Furthermore, DOE has tentatively concluded that clear and convincing evidence does not exist, as would justify more-stringent standard levels than the efficiency levels in ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007 for commercial packaged boilers. DOE has also tentatively concluded that there are no water-cooled and evaporatively-cooled commercial package air conditioners and heat pumps with a cooling capacity at or above 240,000 Btu/h and less than 760,000 Btu/h being currently manufactured, and therefore, it is not possible to assess the economic and energy savings potential for adopting efficiency levels at or above the ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007 efficiency levels for such equipment. Accordingly, in this notice, DOE is proposing to amend the energy conservation standards for commercial packaged boilers and to adopt a new energy conservation standard for water-cooled and evaporatively- cooled commercial package air conditioners and heat pumps with a cooling capacity at or above 240,000 Btu/h and less than 760,000 Btu/h at the efficiency levels specified by ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007. DOE is also proposing related amendments to its test procedures for commercial packaged boilers. In addition, DOE is announcing a public meeting to receive comment on its proposal and related issues.
Office of International Regimes and Agreements; Proposed Subsequent Arrangement
This notice has been issued under the authority of Section 131 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2160). The Department is providing notice of a proposed ``subsequent arrangement'' under the Agreement for Cooperation Between the United States of America and the Government of the Argentine Republic Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy and the Agreement Between the United States of America and Australia Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy. This subsequent arrangement concerns the retransfer of 1.84 grams of uranium, 1.64 grams of which is in the isotope U-235, from the Comision Nacional De Energia Atomica (CNEA), Ezeiza, Argentina, to the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO) in Lucas Heights, Australia. The material, which is currently in the form uranium ore concentrates (U3O8) and is located at CNEA's Instrumentation and Control Department, will be transferred to ANSTO for use at the Australian Replacement Research Reactor as internal sensitive material of five fission counters. CNEA originally obtained the material from the United States under a general license. In accordance with Section 131 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, we have determined that this subsequent arrangement is not inimical to the common defense and security. This subsequent arrangement will take effect no sooner than fifteen days after the date of publication of this notice.
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