Department of Energy 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is modifying its preferred alternatives for tank waste treatment and also for disposal of off-site waste in the Draft Tank Closure and Waste Management Environmental Impact Statement for the Hanford Site, Richland, Washington (Draft EIS, DOE/EIS-00391), made available for public comment on October 30, 2009 (74 FR 56194). This Draft EIS has been prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and its implementing regulations. The public comment period for the Draft EIS extends to March 19, 2010.

The Deputy Secretary of Energy confirmed and approved Rate Order No. WAPA-147 and Rate Schedules P-SED-F11 and P-SED-FP11, placing firm power and firm peaking power rates from the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin ProgramEastern Division (P-SMBPED) of the Western Area Power Administration (Western) into effect on an interim basis. The provisional rates will be in effect until the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) confirms, approves, and places them into effect on a final basis or until they are replaced by other rates. The provisional rates will provide sufficient revenue to pay all annual costs, including interest expense, and repay power investments and irrigation aid within the allowable periods.

This notice publishes the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Decision and Order in Case No. CAC-021, which grants a waiver to LG from the existing DOE test procedure applicable to commercial package central air conditioners and heat pumps. The waiver is specific to the LG variable speed and variable refrigerant volume Multi V (commercial) multi-split heat pumps and heat recovery systems. As a condition of this waiver, LG must test and rate its Multi V multi-split products according to the alternate test procedure set forth in this notice.

This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Portsmouth. 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.

This notice publishes the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Decision and Order in Case No. CAC-015, which grants a waiver to Mitsubishi Electric and Electronics USA, Inc. (Mitsubishi) from the existing DOE test procedure for commercial package water-source heat pumps. DOE is granting this waiver because these water-source multi- split heat pumps, like the air-source multi-split heat pumps that have been granted similar waivers, are too complex to test using the DOE test procedure. As a condition of this waiver, Mitsubishi must test and rate the energy consumption of the water-source WR2 and WY series models (from its CITY MULTI Variable Refrigerant Flow Zoning line of commercial package heat pump equipment) according to the alternate test procedure set forth in this notice.

This notice announces receipt of and publishes the General Electric Company's (GE's) Petition for Waiver (hereafter, ``petition'') from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) test procedure for determining the energy consumption of residential clothes dryers. The waiver request pertains to GE's specified single model line of condensing residential clothes dryers. The existing test procedure does not apply to condensing clothes dryers. In addition, today's notice grants GE an interim waiver from the DOE test procedures applicable to residential clothes dryers. DOE solicits comments, data, and information with respect to GE's petition.