Department of Energy November 2012 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Combined Notice of Filings
Document Number: 2012-28969
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-30
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings
Document Number: 2012-28964
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-30
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #1
Document Number: 2012-28963
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-30
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #1
Document Number: 2012-28962
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-30
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings
Document Number: 2012-28961
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-30
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #2
Document Number: 2012-28960
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-30
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #1
Document Number: 2012-28959
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-30
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #2
Document Number: 2012-28958
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-30
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #1
Document Number: 2012-28957
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-30
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #2
Document Number: 2012-28956
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-30
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Transfer of the Kansas City Plant, Kansas City, MO
Document Number: 2012-28713
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-30
Agency: Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration
Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), and the Council on Environmental Quality and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) regulations implementing NEPA, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a semi-autonomous agency within DOE, announces its intention to prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the transfer of the Kansas City Plant (KCP) (DOE/EA-1947), which is an NNSA-owned property at the Bannister Federal Complex (BFC). Concurrently, NNSA is canceling the Notice of Intent issued on January 23, 2012 (77 FR 3259) for the preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement for the Disposition of the Bannister Federal Complex, Kansas City, Missouri, and Notice of Wetlands Involvement (DOE/EIS-0475).
Revisions to Electric Quarterly Report Filing Process
Document Number: 2012-28230
Type: Rule
Date: 2012-11-30
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) amends its regulations to change the process for filing Electric Quarterly Reports (EQR). Due to technology changes that will render the current filing process outmoded, ineffective, and unsustainable, the Commission will discontinue the use of Commission-distributed software to file an EQR. Instead, the Commission adopts a web-based approach to filing EQRs that will allow a public or non-public utility to file an EQR directly through the Commission's Web site, either through a web interface or by submitting an Extensible Mark-Up Language-formatted file. By adopting a process with two options for filing EQRs, the Commission seeks to provide the flexibility needed to accommodate a public or non-public utility's technical preference. The Commission also requires a public or non-public utility to identify itself with a company identification number rather than the existing software-based EQR identifier. The changes to the process for filing EQRs will apply to EQR filings beginning with the third quarter 2013 EQR, which will provide data for July through September 2013.
Ameren Corporation; Notice of Filing
Document Number: 2012-28874
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-29
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
City of Vernon, California; Notice of Filing
Document Number: 2012-28872
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-29
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Falck, David P.; Notice of Filing
Document Number: 2012-28871
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-29
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-912); Comment Request
Document Number: 2012-28870
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-29
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) is submitting the information collection FERC-912, Cogeneration and Small Power Production, PURPA Section 210(m) Regulations for Termination or Reinstatement of Obligation to Purchase or Sell, to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review of the information collection requirements. Any interested person may file comments directly with OMB and should address a copy of those comments to the Commission as explained below. The Commission issued a Notice in the Federal Register (77 FR 58365, 09/20/2012) requesting public comments. FERC received no comments on the FERC-912 and is making this notation in its submittal to OMB.
PacifiCorp Energy; Notice of Corrected Process Plan and Schedule
Document Number: 2012-28868
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-29
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Cobra Pipeline Ltd.; Notice of Petition for Rate Approval
Document Number: 2012-28867
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-29
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Commission Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; Extension
Document Number: 2012-28842
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-28
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 USC 3506(c)(2)(A), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) is soliciting public comment on the currently approved information collections, FERC-60 (Annual Report of Centralized Service Companies), FERC-61 (Narrative Description of Service Company Functions), and FERC-555A (Preservation of Records Companies and Service Companies Subject to PUHCA \1\).
Agency Information Collection Extension
Document Number: 2012-28814
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-28
Agency: Department of Energy
The EIA has submitted an information collection request to the OMB for extension under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The information collection requests a three-year extension of the Form NWPA-830G, ``Appendix GStandard Remittance Advice for Payment of Fees,'' including Annex A to Appendix G, OMB Control Number 1901-0260. Form NWPA-830G is an Appendix to the Standard Contract for Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and/or High-Level Radioactive Waste, entered into by DOE and the generators or owners of spent nuclear fuel. The proposed collection will continue to collect data on quarterly fee payments paid into the Nuclear Waste Fund and on the amount of net electricity generated and sold, upon which the fees are based. There are no proposed changes to the survey forms.
PacifiCorp
Document Number: 2012-28749
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-592); Comment Request; Extension
Document Number: 2012-28747
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) is soliciting public comment on the currently approved information collection, Standards of Conduct for Transmission Provider; and Marketing Affiliates of Interstate Pipelines.
Agency Information Collection Extension
Document Number: 2012-28712
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-27
Agency: Department of Energy, U.s. Energy Information Administration
EIA has submitted, under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, an information collection request to the OMB for a three-year extension, with changes, of its Petroleum Supply Reporting System (PSRS) information collection (OMB 1905-0165). The Petroleum Supply Reporting System consists of weekly and monthly petroleum and biofuels supply surveys and an annual refinery survey of capacity, crude oil receipts, and fuels consumed. EIA proposes the following changes to several Petroleum Supply Reporting System surveys: (1) Move to site level weekly reporting of all bulk terminal activity on an expanded version of Form EIA-805, ``Weekly Bulk Terminal and Blender Report;'' (2) discontinue weekly reporting on Form EIA-801, ``Weekly Bulk Terminal Report;'' (3) discontinue reporting the maximum sustainable fuel ethanol capacity on Form EIA-819, ``Monthly Oxygenate Report;'' (4) include the Form EIA- 22M in the PSRS data collection, (5) change the data protections for specific data elements on Forms EIA-810, EIA-819 and EIA-22M and publicly release these data elements in identifiable form (a) monthly atmospheric crude oil distillation reported on Form EIA-810, ``Monthly Refinery Report;'' (b) ethanol nameplate production capacity reported on Form EIA-819, ``Monthly Oxygenate Report;'' and (c) biodiesel production capacity reported on Form EIA- 22M, ``Monthly Biodiesel Production Survey;'' and (6) discontinue application of disclosure avoidance procedures to U.S. and regional biodiesel production and stocks data reported on Form EIA-22M. This change will make the data protection policy for biodiesel production and stocks consistent with the policy applied to all other data released in the Petroleum Supply Monthly and Petroleum Supply Annual reports.
Proposed Change to Data Protection
Document Number: 2012-28701
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-27
Agency: Department of Energy, U.s. Energy Information Administration
This notice pertains to Forms EIA-3, the Quarterly Coal Consumption and Quality ReportManufacturing and Transformation/ Processing Coal Plants and Commercial and Institutional Coal Users; EIA-5, the Quarterly Coal Consumption and Quality ReportCoke Plants; EIA-7A, the Coal Production and Preparation ReportCoal Mines and Preparation Plants; and EIA-8A, the Coal Stocks ReportTraders and Brokers. DOE's proposed changes will release or publish data received from mandatory respondents that is not company identifiable, and does not satisfy the criteria for an exemption under the Freedom of Information Act or satisfy the requirements of the Trade Secrets Act. No changes are proposed for the standby surveys Forms: EIA-1, Weekly Coal Monitoring ReportGeneral Industries and Blast Furnaces; EIA-4, Weekly Coal Monitoring ReportCoke Plants; EIA-6Q, Quarterly Coal ReportCoal Producers and Distributors; and EIA-20, Weekly Coal Monitoring Report of Coal Burning Utilities and Independent Power Producers. Prior to 2011, data reported on Forms EIA-1, EIA-3, EIA-4, EIA-5, EIA-6Q, EIA-8A, and EIA-20 were protected to the extent it satisfied exemption criteria under the Freedom of Information Act and the Trade Secrets Act. Disclosure limitation procedures were applied to all data. The data protection policy for Form EIA-7A was similar except that the name and address of the responding company, the mine or plant type, and location were considered public information. Effective January, 2011, EIA changed the data protection policy for Forms EIA-3, EIA-5, EIA-7A and EIA-8A from protecting the data as described above, to release all data reported in company identifiable form with the exception of cost data. Cost data are protected and not released in company identifiable form to the extent it satisfies exemption criteria under the Freedom of Information Act and the Trade Secrets Act. Disclosure limitation procedures (suppression methods) are applied to protect against the identifiability of the reported cost data. No changes were made to the pre-2011 protection policy for Forms EIA-1, EIA-4, EIA-6Q, and EIA-20. The U.S. Energy Information Administration proposes to change and strengthen the data protection provisions on Forms EIA-3, EIA-5, EIA-7A and EIA-8A. Currently, data reported on these forms are not protected except for certain selected cost and revenue data elements. For Forms EIA-3, EIA-5 and EIA-8A, EIA proposes to protect company information reported on these forms from public release in identifiable form to the extent it satisfies exemption criteria under the Freedom of Information Act and the Trade Secrets Act. However, disclosure limitation procedures will not be applied to the Stateand regional-level, statistical, and quantity data published from these surveys. Thus, there may be some statistics that are based on data from fewer than three respondents that may affect the identifiability of reported data. Disclosure limitation procedures will be applied to cost data reported on Forms EIA-3 and EIA-5 and revenue data reported on Forms EIA-7A and EIA-8A. With regards to Form EIA-7A only, the name and address of the responding company, the mine or plant type, and location will continue to be considered public information. These data elements will continue to be released in EIA's public use files and will not be protected from disclosure in identifiable form when releasing statistical aggregate (State-level) information. These data elements are currently released on the EIA Web site in the Form EIA-7A public use file, along with company identifiable MSHA data, which are also not protected. All other information reported on Form EIA-7A will be protected from public release in identifiable form to the extent it satisfies exemption criteria under the Freedom of Information Act and the Trade Secrets Act. All proposed changes to the data protection provisions for Forms EIA-3, EIA-5, EIA-7A and EIA-8A will be retroactive and apply to data reported for calendar years 2011 and 2012. Applying this change retroactively to data reported for 2011 preserves the continuity of certain data series and provides continuity for the main components of EIA's pre-2011 data protection policy.
Agency Information Collection Extension
Document Number: 2012-28700
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-27
Agency: Department of Energy, U.s. Energy Information Administration
EIA has submitted a request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to revise a currently-approved data collection under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. EIA proposes the following changes to Form EIA-886, Annual Survey of Alternative Fueled Vehicles, data collection: (1) The addition of a new vehicle classification code to allow EIA to capture data on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), which are new to the alternative fuel industry, and (2) the redesign of the questionnaire for the purposes of improving data quality and reducing reporting burdens on respondents to the data collection. The Form EIA-886 data are collected from suppliers and users of alternative-fueled vehicles (AFVs). EIA uses data from these groups as a basis for estimating total AFV and alternative transportation fuel (ATF) use in the U.S. These data serve as market analysis tools for federal/state agencies, AFV suppliers, vehicle fleet managers, and other interested organizations and persons. The data are used to satisfy the annual reporting requirements to Congress by providing statistical measures on the extent to which the objectives of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 are being achieved. These data are also needed to satisfy numerous public requests for detailed information on AFVs and ATFs (in particular, the number of AFVs distributed by state, as well as the amount and location of the ATFs being consumed).
Combined Notice of Filings
Document Number: 2012-28573
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-26
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
State Energy Advisory Board (STEAB)
Document Number: 2012-28568
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-26
Agency: Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
This notice announces a teleconference call of the State Energy Advisory Board (STEAB). The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463; 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.
California Independent System Operator Corporation; Notice Establishing Answer Period to Limited Emergency Protest
Document Number: 2012-28549
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-26
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #1
Document Number: 2012-28548
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-26
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Records Governing Off-the-Record Communications; Public Notice
Document Number: 2012-28547
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-26
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Moss Bluff Hub, LLC; Notice of Filing
Document Number: 2012-28545
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-26
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Magic Valley Pipeline, L.P.; Notice of Filing
Document Number: 2012-28544
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-26
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Washington Gas Light Company; Notice of Petition for Rate Approval
Document Number: 2012-28543
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-26
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Petal Gas Storage, L.L.C., Hattiesburg Industrial Gas Sales, L.L.C.; Notice of Offer of Settlement
Document Number: 2012-28542
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-26
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Enterprise Liquids Pipeline LLC; Notice of Petition for Declaratory Order
Document Number: 2012-28471
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-26
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Dominion Transmission, Inc.; Notice of Application
Document Number: 2012-28469
Type: Notice
Date: 2012-11-26
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Energy Conservation Program: Test Procedures for Residential Dishwashers, Dehumidifiers, and Conventional Cooking Products; Correction.
Document Number: 2012-28451
Type: Rule
Date: 2012-11-23
Agency: Department of Energy
The Department of Energy is correcting a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of October 31, 2012. The rule established new test procedures for residential dishwashers and dehumidifiers, and amended the currently applicable test procedure for conventional cooking products under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act.
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