Department of Energy 2023 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In Commodities US LLC (the Applicant or In Commodities) has applied for authorization to transmit electric energy from the United States to Canada pursuant to the Federal Power Act.

On March 29, 2021, the U.S. Department of Energy (``DOE'') published a final rule that amended the test procedure for room air conditioners (``room ACs''). This document corrects errors in the amended regulatory text as it appeared in the March 2021 final rule. Neither the errors nor the corrections in this document affect the substance of the rulemaking or any conclusions reached in support of the final rule.

In this notice, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is forecasting the representative average unit costs of five residential energy sources for the year 2023 pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (Act). The five sources are electricity, natural gas, No. 2 heating oil, propane, and kerosene.

This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Savannah River Site. The Federal Advisory Committee Act requires that public notice of this meeting be announced in the Federal Register.

On June 7, 2016, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE or the Department) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) in the Federal Register proposing to amend its current Chronic Beryllium Disease Prevention Program (CBDPP) regulations. In the NOPR, DOE proposed an action level of 0.05 micrograms of beryllium per cubic meter of air ([mu]g/m\3\), calculated as an 8-hour time-weighted average (TWA), but declined to propose a short-term exposure limit (STEL). In this supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (SNOPR), DOE solicits comments on an alternative proposed action level of 0.1 [mu]g/ m\3\, calculated as an 8-hour TWA exposure, and a STEL of 2.0 [mu]g/ m\3\ measured over a period of fifteen minutes. DOE is also proposing to set its own TWA permissible exposure limit (PEL) for airborne beryllium, which is consistent with the TWA PEL currently set by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), rather than adopt OSHA's current or any future 8-hour TWA PEL. The proposed amendments are intended to improve and strengthen the current CBDPP regulations and are applicable to DOE contractors and Federal employees who are, were, or potentially were exposed to beryllium at DOE sites.

On August 16, 2023, the Department of Energy's (DOE) Grid Deployment Office published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) to propose amendments to its regulations for the timely coordination of Federal authorizations for proposed interstate electric transmission facilities pursuant to the Federal Power Act (FPA). This document announces a public meeting to be held on August 23, 2023, to discuss the proposal.

This notice announces an open hybrid meeting with a virtual option for members and the public of the 21st Century Energy Workforce Advisory Board (EWAB). The Federal Advisory Committee Act requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.

This notice announces a virtual meeting of the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC). The Federal Advisory Committee Act requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.