Department of Energy March 2019 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The U.S. Department of Energy (``DOE'') announces receipt of and publishes a petition for waiver from Store It Cold, which seeks a waiver from the test procedure used for determining the efficiency of walk-in cooler refrigeration system basic models. Store It Cold seeks to use an alternate test procedure to address issues involved in testing certain basic models identified in its petition. Store It Cold asserts in its petition that for the specified [deg]CoolBot[supreg] Walk-In Cooler refrigeration system basic models taking ``refrigerant- side'' measurements with refrigerant mass flow meters yields results that are unrepresentative of the basic models' true energy consumption characteristics and provides materially inaccurate comparative data. Accordingly, Store It Cold seeks to test and rate the basic models identified in its petition using its recommended alternate test procedure, in which the refrigeration capacity is measured using psychrometric ``air-side'' measurements. This document announces that DOE is granting Store It Cold with an interim waiver from DOE's walk-in cooler refrigeration system test procedure for the specified basic models, subject to use of the alternate test procedure as set forth in the Interim Waiver Order. DOE solicits comments, data, and information concerning Store It Cold's petition and its suggested alternate test procedure to inform its final decision on Store It Cold's waiver request.

Puget Sound Energy, Inc. (Applicant or PSE) has applied for authorization to transmit electric energy from the United States to Canada pursuant to the Federal Power Act.

The Office of Fossil Energy (FE) of the Department of Energy (DOE) gives notice of receipt of an application (Application), filed on February 26, 2019, and supplemented on March 13, 2019, by Annova LNG Common Infrastructure, LLC (Annova). The Application requests long- term, multi-contract authorization to export domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) in a volume equivalent to approximately 360 billion cubic feet per year (Bcf/yr) of natural gas (0.986 Bcf per day). Annova seeks to export the LNG by vessel from its proposed natural gas liquefaction and export facilities to be located on the Brownsville Ship Channel in Cameron County, Texas (the Project), to any country with which the United States does not have a free trade agreement (FTA) requiring national treatment for trade in natural gas, and with which trade is not prohibited by U.S. law or policy (non-FTA countries).

In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) is soliciting public comment on the currently approved information collection, FERC-740 (Availability of E-Tag Information to Commission Staff).