Department of Energy May 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This notice announces an open meeting of the Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee under Section 9008(d) of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that agencies publish these notices in the Federal Register to allow for public participation. This notice announces the meeting of the Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee.

DOE gives notice of the Decision and Order (Case No. RF-008) that grants to the Whirlpool Corporation (Whirlpool) a Waiver from the DOE electric refrigerator and refrigerator-freezer test procedure, for its product line containing relative humidity sensors and adaptive control anti-sweat heaters. Under today's Decision and Order, Whirlpool shall be required to test and rate its refrigerator-freezers with adaptive control anti-sweat heaters according to an alternate test procedure that takes this technology into account when measuring energy consumption.

Western Area Power Administration (Western), Upper Great Plains Region, a Federal power marketing agency of the Department of Energy (DOE), hereby announces its Post-2010 Resource Pool Allocation Procedures. The Energy Planning and Management Program (Program) provides for establishing project-specific resource pools and allocating power from these pools to new preference customers and other appropriate purposes as determined by Western. Western, in accordance with the Program, is finalizing procedures to administer a Federal power resource pool increment of up to 1 percent (approximately 20 megawatts) of the long-term marketable resource of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin ProgramEastern Division (P-SMBPED) that will become available January 1, 2011 (Post-2010 Resource Pool). Western proposed procedures in the Federal Register on October 15, 2008 (73 FR 61109), and responses to public comments received pertaining to the proposed procedures are included in this notice. Western will publish a notice of proposed allocations in the Federal Register after the effective date of this notice.

The Department of Energy (DOE) published on May 16, 2008, a proposed rule concerning its financial assistance regulation. That proposed rule included a recodification of 10 CFR part 600. However, DOE inadvertently omitted one phrase from the existing part 600. This action will afford interested members of the public the opportunity to comment on the continued inclusion of this phrase in DOE's financial assistance regulations.