Department of Energy September 2022 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is issuing this NOI to notify interested parties of DOE's intent to immediately commence on-the-record hearings before Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) in civil penalty cases for violations of DOE's conservation standards and certification requirements. This NOI also provides the web address for the procedures that will govern these hearings.

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), which will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for a review of the information collection requirements.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announces the notice of availability (NOA) and invites public comment on its Clean Hydrogen Production Standard (CHPS) Draft Guidance. The draft guidance contains the initial proposal for the CHPS, as required by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Specifically, in the draft guidance, DOE establishes a target for the lifecycle (i.e., well-to-gate) emissions intensity of hydrogen production, based on the IIJA definition of the term ``clean hydrogen'' and other factors set forth in section 40315(b) of the IIJA.

The Department of Energy hereby publishes a notice of open meeting on October 25, 2022, of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB). This meeting will be held virtually for members of the public and in-person at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Rd., Oak Ridge, TN 37830 for SEAB members only.

In accordance with Division C of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010 and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance, the Department of Energy (DOE) is publishing this notice to advise the public on the availability of the FY 2020 Service Contract Inventory Analysis Plan and FY 2019 Service Contract Inventory Analysis. This inventory provides information on service contract actions over $150,000 that DOE completed in FY 2020. The inventory has been developed in accordance with guidance issued by the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP). FY 2020 government-wide service contract inventory can be found at https:/ /www.acquisition.gov/service-contract-inventory. The Department of Energy's service contract inventory data is included in the government- wide inventory posted on the above link and the government-wide inventory can be filtered to display the inventory data for the Department. DOE has posted its FY 2019 Service Contract Inventory Analysis and FY 2020 Service Contract Inventory Analysis Plan at: https://energy.gov/management/downloads/service-contract-inve ntory.

This notice announces an in-person/virtual hybrid meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Hanford. The Federal Advisory Committee Act requires that public notice of this meeting be announced in the Federal Register.