Arkansas Administrative Code
Agency 016 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
Division 20 - Division of County Operations
Rule 016.20.10-003 - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Weatherization Assistance Program State Plan 2009-2012

CAA Executive Director Weatherization Directors (2)

-Other h. Public Service Commission i. Housing (2)

The term of office of PAC members shall be for three years and may be appointed to serve consecutive terms. Appointments shall be made during the regular meeting of the first quarter of the calendar year.

Members missing three consecutive regular meetings without cause, as determined by the total PAC membership, will be replaced at the next regular meeting of the PAC.

Program;

The undersigned certifies, to the best of his or her knowledge and belief that:

This certification is required by the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988 ( Pub. L. 100-690, Title V, Subtitle D) and is implemented through additions to the Debarment and Suspension regulations, published in the Federal Register on January 31, 1989, and May 25, 1990.

ALTERNATE I

(GRANTEES OTHER THAN INDIVIDUALS)

Applicant organizations which am described in section 501(cX4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and engage in lobbying activities after December 31, 1995, shall not be eligible for the receipt of Federal funds constituting an award, grant, or loan. Section 501(cX4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 covers:

Civic leagues or organizations not organized for profit but operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare, or local associations of employees, the membership of which is limited to the employees of a designated person or persons in a particular municipality and the net earnings of which are devoted exclusively to charitable, educational or recreational purposes.

As set forth in the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 ( Public Law 10465, December 19, 1995), as amended ["Simpson-Craig Amendment,‖ see Section 129 of The Balanced Budget Down-payment Art I (Public Law 104-99, January 26, 1996)], lobbyinq activities is defined broadly. (See section 3 of the Act.)

The undersigned certifies, to the best of his or her knowledge and better that: it IS NOT an organization described in section 50 1 (cX4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; OR that it IS an organization described in section 50 1 (cX4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, whid4 after December 31, 1995, HAS NOT engaged in any lobbying activities as defined in the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, as amended.

ALTERNATE II (GRANTEES WHO ARE INDIVIDUALS)

Submittal Requirement: In addition to the items listed below, the submittal package must include the energy audit procedures. This could include: a copy of the auditors' manual, a description of how energy audits are conducted and how different audit findings affect the auditor's actions and recommendations; and/or the detailed instructions for the data collections forms.

Submittal: The instruction manuals provided by DOE for use of NEAT and MHEA will be used.

Submittal Requirement: The submittal package must include a list of all the weatherization materials/measures that the audit considers. Those weatherization materials/measures to be funded with DOE-WAP monies should be noted. The submittal package must also include a statement that the requirements of Appendix A will be followed.

Submittal: Material costs will depend on solicited cost in each area. The subgrantee actual costs will be verified during monitoring visits by comparing contracts, invoices, and other cost data to NEAT and MHEA program files. General Heat Waste materials used will be coupled with Blower Door testing to determine the point at which the measures are not cost effective. All materials will conform to standards that apply from Appendix A.

Submittal Requirement: The narrative portion of the submittal package should state the type of weather data used, the published source of the weather data, the geographic locations for which the weather data will be used, and how the energy savings calculations use the weather data.

Submittal: The subgrantees will use the weather data from the NEAT and MHEA file most appropriate for local conditions, e.g., Little Rock, AR; Fort Smith, AR; Joplin, MO; Springfield, MO; Memphis, TN; Jackson, MS; Shreveport, LA.

Submittal Requirement: The narrative portion of the submittal package must describe the energy savings calculation algorithms (methods) and assumptions. Assumptions include a range of variables such as treatment of buffered envelope surfaces, treatment of solar insulation, wind, humidity, CD factor, if applicable, etc. It does not include default values which can be changed by the auditor.

Submittal: NEAT and MHEA are the energy audits used. The energy savings methods and assumptions are contained in the audits.

Submittal Requirement: In addition to the narrative description of the energy savings calculation methods and assumptions required by approval criterion #4, the submittal package should also include the input data, assumptions, and audit results (recommended measures) for two sample dwelling units typical of those weatherized by grantee's program.

Submittal: Audit results of two sample dwelling units of frame houses and audit results of two sample dwelling units of mobile homes have been submitted previously.

Submittal Requirement: Include the figures used for the lifetime of the materials and for the costs of materials and installation. State the sources of this information and how the values compare with current actual costs and lifetime values presently used.

Submittal: The number of years used for the lifetime of the materials to be considered by NEAT and MHEA is included in the software approved by the Department of Energy and will not be changed by Arkansas.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit procedures consider the rate of energy use. The energy audit procedures must consider energy efficiency as well as total energy savings. For example, replacing an existing space heater, currently heating one room, with a more energy efficient space heater, capable of heating several rooms, may not save any energy. However, the occupants would gain the use of more of their dwelling unit. If not handled as a health and safety measure, this measure would have to be cost justified by the audit. The only way to cost justify this measure would be to impute energy savings by calculating the amount of energy the inefficient space heater would have used to heat the several rooms now heated by the efficient space heater, and subtracting the estimated energy use of the new efficient space heater.

Other examples include instances where the occupant cannot afford to heat the dwelling to an adequate temperature or operate the furnace at all. Installing insulation and tuning up the furnace may now make the use of the furnace affordable. However, energy use is increased, not decreased. Again, if not handled as a health and safety measure, energy savings would have to be imputed to cost justify the insulation and/or the furnace tune-up through the audit. While not mandatory within the audit software, if used, the overall energy audit procedures must consider these types of circumstances.

Submittal: Arkansas will use all shell and equipment measures listed in the SETUP option of NEAT and MHEA. Emphasis on correct material and labor costs will ensure the SIR ranking is valid and can be applied until funds available for the dwelling are exhausted or the SIR becomes too small. Space heaters are justified as a health and safety measure. Heating system replacement will be a minimum of 85% Energy Efficiency Rating. The standard to replace constant burning pilot with electric ignition device on gas-fueled furnaces or boiler will conform to standards listed in Appendix A. All insulation will be installed at R-Values recommended by NEAT and MHEA.

Submittal Requirement: In States where cooling needs are significant, the list of weatherization materials/measures considered by the audit should include cooling measures. The narrative portion of the submittal package should describe how the energy audit considers cooling measures, including the algorithms and assumptions used. Internal gains, latent loads, and solar incidence must be considered.

DOE considers States with over 2,000 cooling degree days per year (65°F base) to have significant cooling needs and expect their audits to consider cooling measures. States with between 1,300 and 2,000 cooling degree days, whose audits do not consider cooling measures, must provide an adequate explanation why cooling measures are not considered.

Submittal: The only cooling measures installed will be those recommended by NEAT and MHEA. The standard for air conditioner replacement is a SEER 13. Materials for cooling measures will conform to standards listed in Appendix A.

Submittal Requirement: Describe the advanced diagnostic and assessment techniques that can be used as part of the energy audit. Such techniques may include blower doors, infrared cameras or detectors, various furnace testing procedures, health and safety testing, psychrometers, duct-leakage testing, bypass testing, etc. Describe how the results of this diagnostic work would be used and how the energy audit would consider the results of these techniques.

Submittal: An audit will be conducted on each house, as opposed to a priority list. Likewise, a blower door test will be conducted on each house. The default contained in the audit will not be used except under circumstances where the house is in such state of repair that an initial blower test cannot be conducted. Diagnostic equipment will be used to determine carbon monoxide levels on houses containing gas appliances before and after weatherization. Health and safety hazard costs will be keyed into the audits and will not be considered in the SIR. However, health and safety costs will be included in the maximum averages allowed by the Department of Energy.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit determines energy use and how this value is verified.

Submittal: Fuel costs that will be used will be determined by each subgrantee by conducting yearly averages.

Submittal Requirement: Show the SIR equation used by the audit and describe how future fuel cost savings are discounted to present value. If the State elects not to use the discount rate provided by DOE, show the discount rate to be used and its published source. Describe how fuel cost escalation is treated and show these factors, or refer to their source. (The discount and fuel cost escalation rates may be given here or under #16.) Show the costs included in the denominator of the SIR equation.

Submittal: The state assures that the discounted savings-to investment ratio will be greater or equal to one by using the discounted rate provided by DOE. Local subgrantees determine fuel cost escalation by contacting the local fuel supplier. State monitors verify this during their routine monitoring visits.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit accounts for the interaction between architectural and mechanical measures. Describe how, when moving from an architectural to a mechanical measure (or vice versa), the energy audit procedures adjust the estimated fuel cost savings of measures with lower non-interacted SIRS. Show that the energy audit procedures eliminate any measure whose interaction-adjusted SIR is less than one.

Submittal: NEAT and MHEA approved energy audits eliminate measures with less than an SIR of one and provide for the interaction between architectural and mechanical measures.

Submittal Requirement: Show the equation for the overall SIR used by the audit and describe how the energy audit ensures that the overall SIR is greater than or equal to one. List the costs included in the denominator of the overall SIR equation.

Submittal: The DOE approved audits provide for the inclusion of incidental repairs (including material, labor, and on-site supervisory personnel) in the overall SIR to assure that the overall SIR is greater than or equal to one.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit procedures identify health and safety hazards to be abated with DOE funds and how the material and labor costs of health and safety abatement are determined on each home.

Submittal: Health and safety hazards to be abated are contained in the health and safety plan that is included in the state plan.

Submittal Requirement: If not specified under #11, state the discount and fuel cost escalation rates to be used and their published source (if the DOE-provided discount rate is not used).

Submittal: DOE provided discount rate is used, as stated in #11.

Submittal Requirement: Provide any priority lists to be used and explain how the priority lists were developed. State the energy audit on which the priority lists are based and how it complies with §440.21(H), if different than the audit being submitted. If seeking approval just for a revalidated priority list(s), give the name of waiver audit and when it was approved. Describe the circumstances that will require a site-specific audit rather than the use of the priority lists and the audit to be used in such circumstances (in compliance with §440.12(h)).

Submittal: Priority lists are not used.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the representative sample of typical dwelling units for each major dwelling type was determined. Some States have indicated that fuel type and construction factors (assemblies) predict energy use (and weatherization energy savings) better than dwelling type. DOE will accept a representative sample determined on this basis, provided an adequate explanation is given to substantiate this method. Assuming the same representative sample was used for the priority lists and the GHW lists addressed in #19, only one discussion under #18 is required. If the samples for priority lists and GHW lists are different, a separate discussion of each is required, plus an explanation of why different samples were used.

Submittal: Priority lists are not used. General Heat Waste measures are required to have an SIR greater than or equal to one. Arkansas has only two typical dwelling units, the mobile home and the frame house. Two sample audits for each have been submitted previously.

Submittal Requirement: Provide any lists of general heat waste reduction weatherization materials to be used and state the circumstance under which such materials are presumed to be cost-effective. Describe how the lists were developed including the energy audit on which the lists are based. If different than the audit being submitted, describe how the audit on which the GHW list is based complies with §440.21(h). Provide documentation of a representative number of site-specific energy audits showing how these materials, in the circumstances and the amounts, were determined.

Under #18 above, describe how the representative sample of typical dwelling units was determined for the GHW list. See #18 for the discussion of representative samples.

Submittal: General Heat Waste measures will be required to have an SIR greater than or equal to one prior to installation on unit.

Submittal Requirement: In addition to the items listed below, the submittal package must include the energy audit procedures. This could include: a copy of the auditors' manual, a description of how energy audits are conducted and how different audit findings affect the auditor's actions and recommendations; and/or the detailed instructions for the data collections forms.

Submittal: The instruction manuals provided by DOE for use of NEAT and MHEA will be used.

Submittal Requirement: The submittal package must include a list of all the weatherization materials/measures that the audit considers. Those weatherization materials/measures to be funded with DOE-ARRA monies should be noted. The submittal package must also include a statement that the requirements of Appendix A will be followed.

Submittal: Material costs will depend on solicited cost in each area. The subgrantee actual costs will be verified during monitoring visits by comparing contracts, invoices, and other cost data to NEAT and MHEA program files. General Heat Waste materials used will be coupled with Blower Door testing to determine the point at which the measures are not cost effective. All materials will conform to standards that apply from Appendix A.

Submittal Requirement: The narrative portion of the submittal package should state the type of weather data used, the published source of the weather data, the geographic locations for which the weather data will be used, and how the energy savings calculations use the weather data.

Submittal: The subgrantees will use the weather data from the NEAT and MHEA file most appropriate for local conditions, e.g., Little Rock, AR; Fort Smith, AR; Joplin, MO; Springfield, MO; Memphis, TN; Jackson, MS; Shreveport, LA.

Submittal Requirement: The narrative portion of the submittal package must describe the energy savings calculation algorithms (methods) and assumptions. Assumptions include a range of variables such as treatment of buffered envelope surfaces, treatment of solar insulation, wind, humidity, CD factor, if applicable, etc. It does not include default values which can be changed by the auditor.

Submittal: NEAT and MHEA are the energy audits used. The energy savings methods and assumptions are contained in the audits.

Submittal Requirement: In addition to the narrative description of the energy savings calculation methods and assumptions required by approval criterion #4, the submittal package should also include the input data, assumptions, and audit results (recommended measures) for two sample dwelling units typical of those weatherized by grantee's program.

Submittal: Audit results of two sample dwelling units of frame houses and audit results of two sample dwelling units of mobile homes have been previously submitted.

Submittal Requirement: Include the figures used for the lifetime of the materials and for the costs of materials and installation. State the sources of this information and how the values compare with current actual costs and lifetime values presently used.

Submittal: The number of years used for the lifetime of the materials to be considered by NEAT and MHEA is included in the software approved by the Department of Energy and will not be changed by Arkansas.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit procedures consider the rate of energy use. The energy audit procedures must consider energy efficiency as well as total energy savings. For example, replacing an existing space heater, currently heating one room, with a more energy efficient space heater, capable of heating several rooms, may not save any energy. However, the occupants would gain the use of more of their dwelling unit. If not handled as a health and safety measure, this measure would have to be cost justified by the audit. The only way to cost justify this measure would be to impute energy savings by calculating the amount of energy the inefficient space heater would have used to heat the several rooms now heated by the efficient space heater, and subtracting the estimated energy use of the new efficient space heater.

Other examples include instances where the occupant cannot afford to heat the dwelling to an adequate temperature or operate the furnace at all. Installing insulation and tuning up the furnace may now make the use of the furnace affordable. However, energy use is increased, not decreased. Again, if not handled as a health and safety measure, energy savings would have to be imputed to cost justify the insulation and/or the furnace tune-up through the audit. While not mandatory within the audit software, if used, the overall energy audit procedures must consider these types of circumstances.

Submittal: Arkansas will use all shell and equipment measures listed in the SETUP option of NEAT and MHEA. Emphasis on correct material and labor costs will ensure the SIR ranking is valid and can be applied until funds available for the dwelling are exhausted or the SIR becomes too small. Space heaters are justified as a health and safety measure. Heating system replacement will be a minimum of 85% Energy Efficiency Rating. The standard to replace constant burning pilot with electric ignition device on gas-fueled furnaces or boiler will conform to standards listed in Appendix A. All insulation will be installed at R-Values recommended by NEAT and MHEA.

Submittal Requirement: In States where cooling needs are significant, the list of weatherization materials/measures considered by the audit should include cooling measures. The narrative portion of the submittal package should describe how the energy audit considers cooling measures, including the algorithms and assumptions used. Internal gains, latent loads, and solar incidence must be considered.

DOE considers States with over 2,000 cooling degree days per year (65°F base) to have significant cooling needs and expect their audits to consider cooling measures. States with between 1,300 and 2,000 cooling degree days, whose audits do not consider cooling measures, must provide an adequate explanation why cooling measures are not considered.

Submittal: The only cooling measures installed will be those recommended by NEAT and MHEA. The standard for air conditioner replacement is an SEER 11. Materials for cooling measures will conform to standards listed in Appendix A.

Submittal Requirement: Describe the advanced diagnostic and assessment techniques that can be used as part of the energy audit. Such techniques may include blower doors, infrared cameras or detectors, various furnace testing procedures, health and safety testing, psychrometers, duct-leakage testing, bypass testing, etc. Describe how the results of this diagnostic work would be use and how the energy audit would consider the results of these techniques.

Submittal: An audit will be conducted on each house, as opposed to a priority list. Likewise, a blower test will be conducted on each house. The default contained in the audit will not be used except under circumstances where the house is in such state of repair that an initial blower door test cannot be conducted. Diagnostic equipment will be used to determine carbon monoxide levels on houses containing gas appliances before and after weatherization. Health and safety hazard costs will be keyed into the audits and will not be considered in the SIR. However, health and safety costs will be included in the maximum averages allowed by the Department of Energy.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit determines energy use and how this value is verified.

Submittal: Fuel costs that will be used will be determined by each subgrantee by conducting yearly averages.

Submittal Requirement: Show the SIR equation used by the audit and describe how future fuel cost savings are discounted to present value. If the State elects not to use the discount rate provided by DOE, show the discount rate to be used and its published source. Describe how fuel cost escalation is treated and show these factors, or refer to their source. (The discount and fuel cost escalation rates may be given here or under #16.) Show the costs included in the denominator of the SIR equation.

Submittal: The state assures that the discounted savings-to investment ratio will be greater or equal to one by using the discounted rate provided by DOE. Local subgrantees determine fuel cost escalation by contacting the local fuel supplier. State monitors verify this during their routine monitoring visits.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit accounts for the interaction between architectural and mechanical measures. Describe how, when moving from an architectural to a mechanical measure (or vice versa), the energy audit procedures adjust the estimated fuel cost savings of measures with lower non-interacted SIRS. Show that the energy audit procedures eliminate any measure whose interaction-adjusted SIR is less than one.

Submittal: NEAT and MHEA approved energy audits eliminate measures with less than an SIR of one and provide for the interaction between architectural and mechanical measures.

Submittal Requirement: Show the equation for the overall SIR used by the audit and describe how the energy audit ensures that the overall SIR is greater than or equal to one. List the costs included in the denominator of the overall SIR equation.

Submittal: The DOE approved audits provide for the inclusion of incidental repairs (including material, labor, and on-site supervisory personnel) in the overall SIR to assure that the overall SIR is greater to or equal to one.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit procedures identify health and safety hazards to be abated with DOE funds and how the material and labor costs of health and safety abatement are determined on each home.

Submittal: Health and safety hazards to be abated are contained in the health and safety plan that is included in the state plan that is approved by DOE.

Submittal Requirement: If not specified under #11, state the discount and fuel cost escalation rates to be used and their published source (if the DOE-provided discount rate is not used).

Submittal: DOE provided discount rate is used, as stated in #11.

Submittal Requirement: Provide any priority lists to be used and explain how the priority lists were developed. State the energy audit on which the priority lists are based and how it complies with §440.21(H), if different than the audit being submitted. If seeking approval just for a revalidated priority list(s), give the name of waiver audit and when it was approved. Describe the circumstances that will require a site-specific audit rather than the use of the priority lists and the audit to be used in such circumstances (in compliance with §440.12(h)).

Submittal: Priority lists are not used.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the representative sample of typical dwelling units for each major dwelling type was determined. Some States have indicated that fuel type and construction factors (assemblies) predict energy use (and weatherization energy savings) better than dwelling type. DOE will accept a representative sample determined on this basis, provided an adequate explanation is given to substantiate this method. Assuming the same representative sample was used for the priority lists and the GHW lists addressed in #19, only one discussion under #18 is required. If the samples for priority lists and GHW lists are different, a separate discussion of each is required, plus an explanation of why different samples were used.

Submittal: Priority lists are not used. General Heat Waste measures are required to have a SIR greater than or equal to one. Arkansas has only two typical dwelling units, the mobile home and the frame house. Two sample audits for each have been previously submitted.

Submittal Requirement: In addition to the items listed below, the submittal package must include the energy audit procedures. This could include: a copy of the auditors' manual, a description of how energy audits are conducted and how different audit findings affect the auditor's actions and recommendations; and/or the detailed instructions for the data collections forms.

Submittal: The instruction manuals provided by DOE for use of NEAT and MHEA will be used.

Submittal Requirement: The submittal package must include a list of all the weatherization materials/measures that the audit considers. Those weatherization materials/measures to be funded with DOE-WAP monies should be noted. The submittal package must also include a statement that the requirements of Appendix A will be followed.

Submittal: Material costs will depend on solicited cost in each area. The subgrantee actual costs will be verified during monitoring visits by comparing contracts, invoices, and other cost data to NEAT and MHEA program files. General Heat Waste materials used will be coupled with Blower Door testing to determine the point at which the measures are not cost effective. All materials will conform to standards that apply from Appendix A.

Submittal Requirement: The narrative portion of the submittal package should state the type of weather data used, the published source of the weather data, the geographic locations for which the weather data will be used, and how the energy savings calculations use the weather data.

Submittal: The subgrantees will use the weather data from the NEAT and MHEA file most appropriate for local conditions, e.g., Little Rock, AR; Fort Smith, AR; Joplin, MO; Springfield, MO; Memphis, TN; Jackson, MS; Shreveport, LA.

Submittal Requirement: The narrative portion of the submittal package must describe the energy savings calculation algorithms (methods) and assumptions. Assumptions include a range of variables such as treatment of buffered envelope surfaces, treatment of solar insulation, wind, humidity, CD factor, if applicable, etc. It does not include default values which can be changed by the auditor.

Submittal: NEAT and MHEA are the energy audits used. The energy savings methods and assumptions are contained in the audits.

Submittal Requirement: In addition to the narrative description of the energy savings calculation methods and assumptions required by approval criterion #4, the submittal package should also include the input data, assumptions, and audit results (recommended measures) for two sample dwelling units typical of those weatherized by grantee's program.

Submittal: Audit results of two sample dwelling units of frame houses and audit results of two sample dwelling units of mobile homes have been previously submitted.

Submittal Requirement: Include the figures used for the lifetime of the materials and for the costs of materials and installation. State the sources of this information and how the values compare with current actual costs and lifetime values presently used.

Submittal: The number of years used for the lifetime of the materials to be considered by NEAT and MHEA is included in the software approved by the Department of Energy and will not be changed by Arkansas.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit procedures consider the rate of energy use. The energy audit procedures must consider energy efficiency as well as total energy savings. For example, replacing an existing space heater, currently heating one room, with a more energy efficient space heater, capable of heating several rooms, may not save any energy. However, the occupants would gain the use of more of their dwelling unit. If not handled as a health and safety measure, this measure would have to be cost justified by the audit. The only way to cost justify this measure would be to impute energy savings by calculating the amount of energy the inefficient space heater would have used to heat the several rooms now heated by the efficient space heater, and subtracting the estimated energy use of the new efficient space heater.

Other examples include instances where the occupant cannot afford to heat the dwelling to an adequate temperature or operate the furnace at all. Installing insulation and tuning up the furnace may now make the use of the furnace affordable. However, energy use is increased, not decreased. Again, if not handled as a health and safety measure, energy savings would have to be imputed to cost justify the insulation and/or the furnace tune-up through the audit. While not mandatory within the audit software, if used, the overall energy audit procedures must consider these types of circumstances.

Submittal: Arkansas will use all shell and equipment measures listed in the SETUP option of NEAT and MHEA. Emphasis on correct material and labor costs will ensure the SIR ranking is valid and can be applied until funds available for the dwelling are exhausted or the SIR becomes too small. Space heaters are justified as a health and safety measure. Heating system replacement will be a minimum of 85% Energy Efficiency Rating. The standard to replace constant burning pilot with electric ignition device on gas-fueled furnaces or boiler will conform to standards listed in Appendix A. All insulation will be installed at R-Values recommended by NEAT and MHEA.

Submittal Requirement: In States where cooling needs are significant, the list of weatherization materials/measures considered by the audit should include cooling measures. The narrative portion of the submittal package should describe how the energy audit considers cooling measures, including the algorithms and assumptions used. Internal gains, latent loads, and solar incidence must be considered.

DOE considers States with over 2,000 cooling degree days per year (65°F base) to have significant cooling needs and expect their audits to consider cooling measures. States with between 1,300 and 2,000 cooling degree days, whose audits do not consider cooling measures, must provide an adequate explanation why cooling measures are not considered.

Submittal: The only cooling measures installed will be those recommended by NEAT and MHEA. The standard for air conditioner replacement is an SEER 11. Materials for cooling measures will conform to standards listed in Appendix A.

Submittal Requirement: Describe the advanced diagnostic and assessment techniques that can be used as part of the energy audit. Such techniques may include blower doors, infrared cameras or detectors, various furnace testing procedures, health and safety testing, psychrometers, duct-leakage testing, bypass testing, etc. Describe how the results of this diagnostic work would be use and how the energy audit would consider the results of these techniques.

Submittal: An audit will be conducted on each house, as opposed to a priority list. Likewise, a blower test will be conducted on each house. The default contained in the audit will not be used except under circumstances where the house is in such state of repair that an initial blower test cannot be conducted. Diagnostic equipment will be used to determine carbon monoxide levels on houses containing gas appliances before and after weatherization. Health and safety hazard costs will be keyed into the audits and will not be considered in the SIR. However, health and safety costs will be included in the maximum averages allowed by the Department of Energy.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit determines energy use and how this value is verified.

Submittal: Fuel costs that will be used will be determined by each subgrantee by conducting yearly averages.

Submittal Requirement: Show the SIR equation used by the audit and describe how future fuel cost savings are discounted to present value. If the State elects not to use the discount rate provided by DOE, show the discount rate to be used and its published source. Describe how fuel cost escalation is treated and show these factors, or refer to their source. (The discount and fuel cost escalation rates may be given here or under #16.) Show the costs included in the denominator of the SIR equation.

Submittal: The state assures that the discounted savings-to investment ratio will be greater than or equal to one by using the discounted rate provided by DOE. Local subgrantees determine fuel cost escalation by contacting the local fuel supplier. State monitors verify this during their routine monitoring visits.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit accounts for the interaction between architectural and mechanical measures. Describe how, when moving from an architectural to a mechanical measure (or vice versa), the energy audit procedures adjust the estimated fuel cost savings of measures with lower non-interacted SIRS. Show that the energy audit procedures eliminate any measure whose interaction-adjusted SIR is less than one.

Submittal: NEAT and MHEA approved energy audits eliminate measures with less than an SIR of one and provide for the interaction between architectural and mechanical measures.

Submittal Requirement: Show the equation for the overall SIR used by the audit and describe how the energy audit ensures that the overall SIR is greater than or equal to one. List the costs included in the denominator of the overall SIR equation.

Submittal: The DOE approved audits provide for the inclusion of incidental repairs (including material, labor, and on-site supervisory personnel) in the overall SIR to assure that the overall SIR is greater than or equal to one.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit procedures identify health and safety hazards to be abated with DOE funds and how the material and labor costs of health and safety abatement are determined on each home.

Submittal: Health and safety hazards to be abated are contained in the health and safety plan that is included in the state plan that is updated annually and approved by DOE.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the representative sample of typical dwelling units for each major dwelling type was determined. Some States have indicated that fuel type and construction factors (assemblies) predict energy use (and weatherization energy savings) better than dwelling type. DOE will accept a representative sample determined on this basis, provided an adequate explanation is given to substantiate this method. Assuming the same representative sample was used for the priority lists and the GHW lists addressed in #19, only one discussion under #18 is required. If the samples for priority lists and GHW lists are different, a separate discussion of each is required, plus an explanation of why different samples were used.

Submittal: Priority lists are not used. General Heat Waste measures are required to have an SIR greater to or equal to one. Arkansas has only two typical dwelling units, the mobile home and the frame house. Two sample audits for each have been previously submitted.

Submittal Requirement: Provide any lists of general heat waste reduction weatherization materials to be used and state the circumstance under which such materials are presumed to be cost-effective. Describe how the lists were developed including the energy audit on which the lists are based. If different than the audit being submitted, describe how the audit on which the GHW list is based complies with §440.21(h). Provide documentation of a representative number of site-specific energy audits showing how these materials, in the circumstances and the amounts, were determined.

Under #18 above, describe how the representative sample of typical dwelling units was determined for the GHW list. See #18 for the discussion of representative samples.

Submittal: General Heat Waste measures will be required to have an SIR greater than or equal to one prior to installation on unit.

Submittal Requirement: In addition to the items listed below, the submittal package must include the energy audit procedures. This could include: a copy of the auditors' manual, a description of how energy audits are conducted and how different audit findings affect the auditor's actions and recommendations; and/or the detailed instructions for the data collections forms.

Submittal: The instruction manuals provided by DOE for use of NEAT and MHEA will be used.

Submittal Requirement: The submittal package must include a list of all the weatherization materials/measures that the audit considers. Those weatherization materials/measures to be funded with DOE-ARRA monies should be noted. The submittal package must also include a statement that the requirements of Appendix A will be followed.

Submittal: Material costs will depend on solicited cost in each area. The subgrantee actual costs will be verified during monitoring visits by comparing contracts, invoices, and other cost data to NEAT and MHEA program files. General Heat Waste materials used will be coupled with Blower Door testing to determine the point at which the measures are not cost effective. All materials will conform to standards that apply from Appendix A.

Submittal Requirement: The narrative portion of the submittal package should state the type of weather data used, the published source of the weather data, the geographic locations for which the weather data will be used, and how the energy savings calculations use the weather data.

Submittal: The subgrantees will use the weather data from the NEAT and MHEA file most appropriate for local conditions, e.g., Little Rock, AR; Fort Smith, AR; Joplin, MO; Springfield, MO; Memphis, TN; Jackson, MS; Shreveport, LA.

Submittal Requirement: The narrative portion of the submittal package must describe the energy savings calculation algorithms (methods) and assumptions. Assumptions include a range of variables such as treatment of buffered envelope surfaces, treatment of solar insulation, wind, humidity, CD factor, if applicable, etc. It does not include default values which can be changed by the auditor.

Submittal: NEAT and MHEA are the energy audits used. The energy savings methods and assumptions are contained in the audits.

Submittal Requirement: In addition to the narrative description of the energy savings calculation methods and assumptions required by approval criterion #4, the submittal package should also include the input data, assumptions, and audit results (recommended measures) for two sample dwelling units typical of those weatherized by grantee's program.

Submittal: Audit results of two sample dwelling units of frame houses and audit results of two sample dwelling units of mobile homes have been previously submitted.

Submittal Requirement: Include the figures used for the lifetime of the materials and for the costs of materials and installation. State the sources of this information and how the values compare with current actual costs and lifetime values presently used.

Submittal: The number of years used for the lifetime of the materials to be considered by NEAT and MHEA is included in the software approved by the Department of Energy and will not be changed by Arkansas.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit procedures consider the rate of energy use. The energy audit procedures must consider energy efficiency as well as total energy savings. For example, replacing an existing space heater, currently heating one room, with a more energy efficient space heater, capable of heating several rooms, may not save any energy. However, the occupants would gain the use of more of their dwelling unit. If not handled as a health and safety measure, this measure would have to be cost justified by the audit. The only way to cost justify this measure would be to impute energy savings by calculating the amount of energy the inefficient space heater would have used to heat the several rooms now heated by the efficient space heater, and subtracting the estimated energy use of the new efficient space heater.

Other examples include instances where the occupant cannot afford to heat the dwelling to an adequate temperature or operate the furnace at all. Installing insulation and tuning up the furnace may now make the use of the furnace affordable. However, energy use is increased, not decreased. Again, if not handled as a health and safety measure, energy savings would have to be imputed to cost justify the insulation and/or the furnace tune-up through the audit. While not mandatory within the audit software, if used, the overall energy audit procedures must consider these types of circumstances.

Submittal: Arkansas will use all shell and equipment measures listed in the SETUP option of NEAT and MHEA. Emphasis on correct material and labor costs will ensure the SIR ranking is valid and can be applied until funds available for the dwelling are exhausted or the SIR becomes too small. Space heaters are justified as a health and safety measure. Heating system replacement will be a minimum of 85% Energy Efficiency Rating. The standard to replace constant burning pilot with electric ignition device on gas-fueled furnaces or boiler will conform to standards listed in Appendix A. All insulation will be installed at R-Values recommended by NEAT and MHEA.

Submittal Requirement: In States where cooling needs are significant, the list of weatherization materials/measures considered by the audit should include cooling measures. The narrative portion of the submittal package should describe how the energy audit considers cooling measures, including the algorithms and assumptions used. Internal gains, latent loads, and solar incidence must be considered.

DOE considers States with over 2,000 cooling degree days per year (65°F base) to have significant cooling needs and expect their audits to consider cooling measures. States with between 1,300 and 2,000 cooling degree days, whose audits do not consider cooling measures, must provide an adequate explanation why cooling measures are not considered.

Submittal: The only cooling measures installed will be those recommended by NEAT and MHEA. The standard for air conditioner replacement is an SEER 11. Materials for cooling measures will conform to standards listed in Appendix A.

Submittal Requirement: Describe the advanced diagnostic and assessment techniques that can be used as part of the energy audit. Such techniques may include blower doors, infrared cameras or detectors, various furnace testing procedures, health and safety testing, psychrometers, duct-leakage testing, bypass testing, etc. Describe how the results of this diagnostic work would be used and how the energy audit would consider the results of these techniques.

Submittal: An audit will be conducted on each house, as opposed to a priority list. Likewise, a blower door test will be conducted on each house. The default contained in the audit will not be used except under circumstances where the house is in such state of repair that an initial blower test cannot be conducted. Diagnostic equipment will be used to determine carbon monoxide levels on houses containing gas appliances before and after weatherization. Health and safety hazard costs will be keyed into the audits and will not be considered in the SIR. However, health and safety costs will be included in the maximum averages allowed by the Department of Energy.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit determines energy use and how this value is verified.

Submittal: Fuel costs that will be used will be determined by each subgrantee by conducting yearly averages.

Submittal Requirement: Show the SIR equation used by the audit and describe how future fuel cost savings are discounted to present value. If the State elects not to use the discount rate provided by DOE, show the discount rate to be used and its published source. Describe how fuel cost escalation is treated and show these factors, or refer to their source. (The discount and fuel cost escalation rates may be given here or under #16.) Show the costs included in the denominator of the SIR equation.

Submittal: The state assures that the discounted savings-to investment ratio will be greater than or equal to one by using the discounted rate provided by DOE. Local subgrantees determine fuel cost escalation by contacting the local fuel supplier. State monitors verify this during their routine monitoring visits.

Approval Criterion: The energy audit procedures must assign priorities among weatherization materials in descending order of SIR and must account for interaction between architectural and mechanical measures. After adjusting the estimated fuel cost savings for interaction between measures, the energy audit procedures must eliminate any measure whose interaction-adjusted SIR is less than one.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit accounts for the interaction between architectural and mechanical measures. Describe how, when moving from an architectural to a mechanical measure (or vice versa), the energy audit procedures adjust the estimated fuel cost savings of measures with lower non-interacted SIRS. Show that the energy audit procedures eliminate any measure whose interaction-adjusted SIR is less than one.

Submittal: NEAT and MHEA approved energy audits eliminate measures with less than an SIR of one and provide for the interaction between architectural and mechanical measures.

Submittal Requirement: Show the equation for the overall SIR used by the audit and describe how the energy audit ensures that the overall SIR is greater than or equal to one. List the costs included in the denominator of the overall SIR equation.

Submittal: The DOE approved audits provide for the inclusion of incidental repairs (including material, labor, and on-site supervisory personnel) in the overall SIR to assure that the overall SIR is greater than to or equal to one.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit procedures identify health and safety hazards to be abated with DOE funds and how the material and labor costs of health and safety abatement are determined on each home.

Submittal: Health and safety hazards to be abated are contained in the health and safety plan that is included in the state plan that is updated annually and approved by DOE.

Submittal Requirement: If not specified under #11, state the discount and fuel cost escalation rates to be used and their published source (if the DOE-provided discount rate is not used).

Submittal: DOE provided discount rate is used, as stated in #11.

Submittal Requirement: Provide any priority lists to be used and explain how the priority lists were developed. State the energy audit on which the priority lists are based and how it complies with §440.21(H), if different than the audit being submitted. If seeking approval just for a revalidated priority list(s), give the name of waiver audit and when it was approved. Describe the circumstances that will require a site-specific audit rather than the use of the priority lists and the audit to be used in such circumstances (in compliance with §440.12(h)).

Submittal: Priority lists are not used.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the representative sample of typical dwelling units for each major dwelling type was determined. Some States have indicated that fuel type and construction factors (assemblies) predict energy use (and weatherization energy savings) better than dwelling type. DOE will accept a representative sample determined on this basis, provided an adequate explanation is given to substantiate this method. Assuming the same representative sample was used for the priority lists and the GHW lists addressed in #19, only one discussion under #18 is required. If the samples for priority lists and GHW lists are different, a separate discussion of each is required, plus an explanation of why different samples were used.

Submittal: Priority lists are not used. General Heat Waste measures are required to have an SIR greater to or equal to one. Arkansas has only two typical dwelling units, the mobile home and the frame house. Two sample audits for each have been previously submitted.

Submittal Requirement: Provide any lists of general heat waste reduction weatherization materials to be used and state the circumstance under which such materials are presumed to be cost-effective. Describe how the lists were developed including the energy audit on which the lists are based. If different than the audit being submitted, describe how the audit on which the GHW list is based complies with §440.21(h). Provide documentation of a representative number of site-specific energy audits showing how these materials, in the circumstances and the amounts, were determined.

Under #18 above, describe how the representative sample of typical dwelling units was determined for the GHW list. See #18 for the discussion of representative samples.

Submittal: General Heat Waste measures will be required to have an SIR greater than or equal to one prior to installation on unit.

Submittal Requirement: In addition to the items listed below, the submittal package must include the energy audit procedures. This could include: a copy of the auditors' manual, a description of how energy audits are conducted and how different audit findings affect the auditor's actions and recommendations; and/or the detailed instructions for the data collections forms.

Submittal: The instruction manuals provided by DOE for use of NEAT and MHEA will be used.

Submittal Requirement: The submittal package must include a list of all the weatherization materials/measures that the audit considers. Those weatherization materials/measures to be funded with DOE-WAP monies should be noted. The submittal package must also include a statement that the requirements of Appendix A will be followed.

Submittal: Material costs will depend on solicited cost in each area. The subgrantee actual costs will be verified during monitoring visits by comparing contracts, invoices, and other cost data to NEAT and MHEA program files. General Heat Waste materials used will be coupled with Blower Door testing to determine the point at which the measures are not cost effective. All materials will conform to standards that apply from Appendix A.

Submittal Requirement: The narrative portion of the submittal package should state the type of weather data used, the published source of the weather data, the geographic locations for which the weather data will be used, and how the energy savings calculations use the weather data.

Submittal: The subgrantees will use the weather data from the NEAT and MHEA file most appropriate for local conditions, e.g., Little Rock, AR; Fort Smith, AR; Joplin, MO; Springfield, MO; Memphis, TN; Jackson, MS; Shreveport, LA.

Submittal Requirement: The narrative portion of the submittal package must describe the energy savings calculation algorithms (methods) and assumptions. Assumptions include a range of variables such as treatment of buffered envelope surfaces, treatment of solar insulation, wind, humidity, CD factor, if applicable, etc. It does not include default values which can be changed by the auditor.

Submittal: NEAT and MHEA are the energy audits used. The energy savings methods and assumptions are contained in the audits.

Submittal Requirement: In addition to the narrative description of the energy savings calculation methods and assumptions required by approval criterion #4, the submittal package should also include the input data, assumptions, and audit results (recommended measures) for two sample dwelling units typical of those weatherized by grantee's program.

Submittal: Audit results of two sample dwelling units of frame houses and audit results of two sample dwelling units of mobile homes have been previously submitted.

Submittal Requirement: Include the figures used for the lifetime of the materials and for the costs of materials and installation. State the sources of this information and how the values compare with current actual costs and lifetime values presently used.

Submittal: The number of years used for the lifetime of the materials to be considered by NEAT and MHEA is included in the software approved by the Department of Energy and will not be changed by Arkansas.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit procedures consider the rate of energy use. The energy audit procedures must consider energy efficiency as well as total energy savings. For example, replacing an existing space heater, currently heating one room, with a more energy efficient space heater, capable of heating several rooms, may not save any energy. However, the occupants would gain the use of more of their dwelling unit. If not handled as a health and safety measure, this measure would have to be cost justified by the audit. The only way to cost justify this measure would be to impute energy savings by calculating the amount of energy the inefficient space heater would have used to heat the several rooms now heated by the efficient space heater, and subtracting the estimated energy use of the new efficient space heater.

Other examples include instances where the occupant cannot afford to heat the dwelling to an adequate temperature or operate the furnace at all. Installing insulation and tuning up the furnace may now make the use of the furnace affordable. However, energy use is increased, not decreased. Again, if not handled as a health and safety measure, energy savings would have to be imputed to cost justify the insulation and/or the furnace tune-up through the audit. While not mandatory within the audit software, if used, the overall energy audit procedures must consider these types of circumstances.

Submittal: Arkansas will use all shell and equipment measures listed in the SETUP option of NEAT and MHEA. Emphasis on correct material and labor costs will ensure the SIR ranking is valid and can be applied until funds available for the dwelling are exhausted or the SIR becomes too small. Space heaters are justified as a health and safety measure. Heating system replacement will be a minimum of 85% Energy Efficiency Rating. The standard to replace constant burning pilot with electric ignition device on gas-fueled furnaces or boiler will conform to standards listed in Appendix A. All insulation will be installed at R-Values recommended by NEAT and MHEA.

Submittal Requirement: In States where cooling needs are significant, the list of weatherization materials/measures considered by the audit should include cooling measures. The narrative portion of the submittal package should describe how the energy audit considers cooling measures, including the algorithms and assumptions used. Internal gains, latent loads, and solar incidence must be considered.

DOE considers States with over 2,000 cooling degree days per year (65°F base) to have significant cooling needs and expect their audits to consider cooling measures. States with between 1,300 and 2,000 cooling degree days, whose audits do not consider cooling measures, must provide an adequate explanation why cooling measures are not considered.

Submittal: The only cooling measures installed will be those recommended by NEAT and MHEA. The standard for air conditioner replacement is an SEER 11. Materials for cooling measures will conform to standards listed in Appendix A.

Submittal Requirement: Describe the advanced diagnostic and assessment techniques that can be used as part of the energy audit. Such techniques may include blower doors, infrared cameras or detectors, various furnace testing procedures, health and safety testing, psychrometers, duct-leakage testing, bypass testing, etc. Describe how the results of this diagnostic work would be use and how the energy audit would consider the results of these techniques.

Submittal: An audit will be conducted on each house, as opposed to a priority list. Likewise, a blower test will be conducted on each house. The default contained in the audit will not be used except under circumstances where the house is in such state of repair that an initial blower test cannot be conducted. Diagnostic equipment will be used to determine carbon monoxide levels on houses containing gas appliances before and after weatherization. Health and safety hazard costs will be keyed into the audits and will not be considered in the SIR. However, health and safety costs will be included in the maximum averages allowed by the Department of Energy.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit determines energy use and how this value is verified.

Submittal: Fuel costs that will be used will be determined by each subgrantee by conducting yearly averages.

Submittal Requirement: Show the SIR equation used by the audit and describe how future fuel cost savings are discounted to present value. If the State elects not to use the discount rate provided by DOE, show the discount rate to be used and its published source. Describe how fuel cost escalation is treated and show these factors, or refer to their source. (The discount and fuel cost escalation rates may be given here or under #16.) Show the costs included in the denominator of the SIR equation.

Submittal: The state assures that the discounted savings-to investment ratio will be greater or equal to one by using the discounted rate provided by DOE. Local subgrantees determine fuel cost escalation by contacting the local fuel supplier. State monitors verify this during their routine monitoring visits.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit accounts for the interaction between architectural and mechanical measures. Describe how, when moving from an architectural to a mechanical measure (or vice versa), the energy audit procedures adjust the estimated fuel cost savings of measures with lower non-interacted SIRS. Show that the energy audit procedures eliminate any measure whose interaction-adjusted SIR is less than one.

Submittal: NEAT and MHEA approved energy audits eliminate measures with less than an SIR of one and provide for the interaction between architectural and mechanical measures.

Submittal Requirement: Show the equation for the overall SIR used by the audit and describe how the energy audit ensures that the overall SIR is greater than or equal to one. List the costs included in the denominator of the overall SIR equation.

Submittal: The DOE approved audits provide for the inclusion of incidental repairs (including material, labor, and on-site supervisory personnel) in the overall SIR to assure that the overall SIR is greater to or equal to one.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit procedures identify health and safety hazards to be abated with DOE funds and how the material and labor costs of health and safety abatement are determined on each home.

Submittal: Health and safety hazards to be abated are contained in the health and safety plan that is included in the state plan that is approved by DOE.

Submittal Requirement: If not specified under #11, state the discount and fuel cost escalation rates to be used and their published source (if the DOE-provided discount rate is not used).

Submittal: DOE provided discount rate is used, as stated in #11.

Submittal Requirement: Provide any priority lists to be used and explain how the priority lists were developed. State the energy audit on which the priority lists are based and how it complies with §440.21(H), if different than the audit being submitted. If seeking approval just for a revalidated priority list(s), give the name of waiver audit and when it was approved. Describe the circumstances that will require a site-specific audit rather than the use of the priority lists and the audit to be used in such circumstances (in compliance with §440.12(h)).

Submittal: Priority lists are not used.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the representative sample of typical dwelling units for each major dwelling type was determined. Some States have indicated that fuel type and construction factors (assemblies) predict energy use (and weatherization energy savings) better than dwelling type. DOE will accept a representative sample determined on this basis, provided an adequate explanation is given to substantiate this method. Assuming the same representative sample was used for the priority lists and the GHW lists addressed in #19, only one discussion under #18 is required. If the samples for priority lists and GHW lists are different, a separate discussion of each is required, plus an explanation of why different samples were used.

Submittal: Priority lists are not used. General Heat Waste measures are required to have an SIR greater than to or equal to one. Arkansas has only two typical dwelling units, the mobile home and the frame house. Two sample audits for each have been previously submitted.

Submittal Requirement: Provide any lists of general heat waste reduction weatherization materials to be used and state the circumstance under which such materials are presumed to be cost-effective. Describe how the lists were developed including the energy audit on which the lists are based. If different than the audit being submitted, describe how the audit on which the GHW list is based complies with §440.21(h). Provide documentation of a representative number of site-specific energy audits showing how these materials, in the circumstances and the amounts, were determined.

Under #18 above, describe how the representative sample of typical dwelling units was determined for the GHW list. See #18 for the discussion of representative samples.

Submittal: General Heat Waste measures will be required to have an SIR greater than or equal to one prior to installation on unit.

Submittal Requirement: In addition to the items listed below, the submittal package must include the energy audit procedures. This could include: a copy of the auditors' manual, a description of how energy audits are conducted and how different audit findings affect the auditor's actions and recommendations; and/or the detailed instructions for the data collections forms.

Submittal: The instruction manuals provided by DOE for use of NEAT and MHEA will be used.

Submittal Requirement: The submittal package must include a list of all the weatherization materials/measures that the audit considers. Those weatherization materials/measures to be funded with DOE-ARRA monies should be noted. The submittal package must also include a statement that the requirements of Appendix A will be followed.

Submittal: Material costs will depend on solicited cost in each area. The subgrantee actual costs will be verified during monitoring visits by comparing contracts, invoices, and other cost data to NEAT and MHEA program files. General Heat Waste materials used will be coupled with Blower Door testing to determine the point at which the measures are not cost effective. All materials will conform to standards that apply from Appendix A.

Submittal Requirement: The narrative portion of the submittal package should state the type of weather data used, the published source of the weather data, the geographic locations for which the weather data will be used, and how the energy savings calculations use the weather data.

Submittal: The subgrantees will use the weather data from the NEAT and MHEA file most appropriate for local conditions, e.g., Little Rock, AR; Fort Smith, AR; Joplin, MO; Springfield, MO; Memphis, TN; Jackson, MS; Shreveport, LA.

Submittal Requirement: The narrative portion of the submittal package must describe the energy savings calculation algorithms (methods) and assumptions. Assumptions include a range of variables such as treatment of buffered envelope surfaces, treatment of solar insulation, wind, humidity, CD factor, if applicable, etc. It does not include default values which can be changed by the auditor.

Submittal: NEAT and MHEA are the energy audits used. The energy savings methods and assumptions are contained in the audits.

Submittal Requirement: In addition to the narrative description of the energy savings calculation methods and assumptions required by approval criterion #4, the submittal package should also include the input data, assumptions, and audit results (recommended measures) for two sample dwelling units typical of those weatherized by grantee's program.

Submittal: Audit results of two sample dwelling units of frame houses and audit results of two sample dwelling units of mobile homes have been previously submitted.

Submittal Requirement: Include the figures used for the lifetime of the materials and for the costs of materials and installation. State the sources of this information and how the values compare with current actual costs and lifetime values presently used.

Submittal: The number of years used for the lifetime of the materials to be considered by NEAT and MHEA is included in the software approved by the Department of Energy and will not be changed by Arkansas.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit procedures consider the rate of energy use. The energy audit procedures must consider energy efficiency as well as total energy savings. For example, replacing an existing space heater, currently heating one room, with a more energy efficient space heater, capable of heating several rooms, may not save any energy. However, the occupants would gain the use of more of their dwelling unit. If not handled as a health and safety measure, this measure would have to be cost justified by the audit. The only way to cost justify this measure would be to impute energy savings by calculating the amount of energy the inefficient space heater would have used to heat the several rooms now heated by the efficient space heater, and subtracting the estimated energy use of the new efficient space heater.

Other examples include instances where the occupant cannot afford to heat the dwelling to an adequate temperature or operate the furnace at all. Installing insulation and tuning up the furnace may now make the use of the furnace affordable. However, energy use is increased, not decreased. Again, if not handled as a health and safety measure, energy savings would have to be imputed to cost justify the insulation and/or the furnace tune-up through the audit. While not mandatory within the audit software, if used, the overall energy audit procedures must consider these types of circumstances.

Submittal: Arkansas will use all shell and equipment measures listed in the SETUP option of NEAT and MHEA. Emphasis on correct material and labor costs will ensure the SIR ranking is valid and can be applied until funds available for the dwelling are exhausted or the SIR becomes too small. Space heaters are justified as a health and safety measure. Heating system replacement will be a minimum of 85% Energy Efficiency Rating. The standard to replace constant burning pilot with electric ignition device on gas-fueled furnaces or boiler will conform to standards listed in Appendix A. All insulation will be installed at R-Values recommended by NEAT and MHEA.

Submittal Requirement: In States where cooling needs are significant, the list of weatherization materials/measures considered by the audit should include cooling measures. The narrative portion of the submittal package should describe how the energy audit considers cooling measures, including the algorithms and assumptions used. Internal gains, latent loads, and solar incidence must be considered.

DOE considers States with over 2,000 cooling degree days per year (65°F base) to have significant cooling needs and expect their audits to consider cooling measures. States with between 1,300 and 2,000 cooling degree days, whose audits do not consider cooling measures, must provide an adequate explanation why cooling measures are not considered.

Submittal: The only cooling measures installed will be those recommended by NEAT and MHEA. The standard for air conditioner replacement is an SEER 11. Materials for cooling measures will conform to standards listed in Appendix A.

Submittal Requirement: Describe the advanced diagnostic and assessment techniques that can be used as part of the energy audit. Such techniques may include blower doors, infrared cameras or detectors, various furnace testing procedures, health and safety testing, psychrometers, duct-leakage testing, bypass testing, etc. Describe how the results of this diagnostic work would be use and how the energy audit would consider the results of these techniques.

Submittal: An audit will be conducted on each house, as opposed to a priority list. Likewise, a blower door test will be conducted on each house. The default contained in the audit will not be used except under circumstances where the house is in such state of repair that an initial blower test cannot be conducted. Diagnostic equipment will be used to determine carbon monoxide levels on houses containing gas appliances before and after weatherization. Health and safety hazard costs will be keyed into the audits and will not be considered in the SIR. However, health and safety costs will be included in the maximum averages allowed by the Department of Energy.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit determines energy use and how this value is verified.

Submittal: Fuel costs that will be used will be determined by each subgrantee by conducting yearly averages.

Submittal Requirement: Show the SIR equation used by the audit and describe how future fuel cost savings are discounted to present value. If the State elects not to use the discount rate provided by DOE, show the discount rate to be used and its published source. Describe how fuel cost escalation is treated and show these factors, or refer to their source. (The discount and fuel cost escalation rates may be given here or under #16.) Show the costs included in the denominator of the SIR equation.

Submittal: The state assures that the discounted savings-to investment ratio will be greater or equal to one by using the discounted rate provided by DOE. Local subgrantees determine fuel cost escalation by contacting the local fuel supplier. State monitors verify this during their routine monitoring visits.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit accounts for the interaction between architectural and mechanical measures. Describe how, when moving from an architectural to a mechanical measure (or vice versa), the energy audit procedures adjust the estimated fuel cost savings of measures with lower non-interacted SIRS. Show that the energy audit procedures eliminate any measure whose interaction-adjusted SIR is less than one.

Submittal: NEAT and MHEA approved energy audits eliminate measures with less than a SIR of one and provide for the interaction between architectural and mechanical measures.

Submittal Requirement: Show the equation for the overall SIR used by the audit and describe how the energy audit ensures that the overall SIR is greater than or equal to one. List the costs included in the denominator of the overall SIR equation.

Submittal: The DOE approved audits provide for the inclusion of incidental repairs (including material, labor, and on-site supervisory personnel) in the overall SIR to assure that the overall SIR is greater than or equal to one.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit procedures identify health and safety hazards to be abated with DOE funds and how the material and labor costs of health and safety abatement are determined on each home.

Submittal: Health and safety hazards to be abated are contained in the health and safety plan that is included in the state plan that is approved by DOE.

Submittal Requirement: If not specified under #11, state the discount and fuel cost escalation rates to be used and their published source (if the DOE-provided discount rate is not used).

Submittal: DOE provided discount rate is used, as stated in #11.

Submittal Requirement: Provide any priority lists to be used and explain how the priority lists were developed. State the energy audit on which the priority lists are based and how it complies with §440.21(H), if different than the audit being submitted. If seeking approval just for a revalidated priority list(s), give the name of waiver audit and when it was approved. Describe the circumstances that will require a site-specific audit rather than the use of the priority lists and the audit to be used in such circumstances (in compliance with §440.12(h)).

Submittal: Priority lists are not used.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the representative sample of typical dwelling units for each major dwelling type was determined. Some States have indicated that fuel type and construction factors (assemblies) predict energy use (and weatherization energy savings) better than dwelling type. DOE will accept a representative sample determined on this basis, provided an adequate explanation is given to substantiate this method. Assuming the same representative sample was used for the priority lists and the GHW lists addressed in #19, only one discussion under #18 is required. If the samples for priority lists and GHW lists are different, a separate discussion of each is required, plus an explanation of why different samples were used.

Submittal: Priority lists are not used. General Heat Waste measures are required to have an SIR greater than or equal to one. Arkansas has only two typical dwelling units, the mobile home and the frame house. Two sample audits for each have been previously submitted.

Submittal Requirement: Provide any lists of general heat waste reduction weatherization materials to be used and state the circumstance under which such materials are presumed to be cost-effective. Describe how the lists were developed including the energy audit on which the lists are based. If different than the audit being submitted, describe how the audit on which the GHW list is based complies with §440.21(h). Provide documentation of a representative number of site-specific energy audits showing how these materials, in the circumstances and the amounts, were determined.

Under #18 above, describe how the representative sample of typical dwelling units was determined for the GHW list. See #18 for the discussion of representative samples.

Submittal: General Heat Waste measures will be required to have an SIR greater than or equal to one prior to installation on unit.

Submittal Requirement: In addition to the items listed below, the submittal package must include the energy audit procedures. This could include: a copy of the auditors' manual, a description of how energy audits are conducted and how different audit findings affect the auditor's actions and recommendations; and/or the detailed instructions for the data collections forms.

Submittal: The instruction manuals provided by DOE for use of NEAT and MHEA will be used.

Submittal Requirement: The submittal package must include a list of all the weatherization materials/measures that the audit considers. Those weatherization materials/measures to be funded with DOE-ARRA monies should be noted. The submittal package must also include a statement that the requirements of Appendix A will be followed.

Submittal: Material costs will depend on solicited cost in each area. The subgrantee actual costs will be verified during monitoring visits by comparing contracts, invoices, and other cost data to NEAT and MHEA program files. General Heat Waste materials used will be coupled with Blower Door testing to determine the point at which the measures are not cost effective. All materials will conform to standards that apply from Appendix A.

Submittal Requirement: The narrative portion of the submittal package should state the type of weather data used, the published source of the weather data, the geographic locations for which the weather data will be used, and how the energy savings calculations use the weather data.

Submittal: The subgrantees will use the weather data from the NEAT and MHEA file most appropriate for local conditions, e.g., Little Rock, AR; Fort Smith, AR; Joplin, MO; Springfield, MO; Memphis, TN; Jackson, MS; Shreveport, LA.

Submittal Requirement: The narrative portion of the submittal package must describe the energy savings calculation algorithms (methods) and assumptions. Assumptions include a range of variables such as treatment of buffered envelope surfaces, treatment of solar insulation, wind, humidity, CD factor, if applicable, etc. It does not include default values which can be changed by the auditor.

Submittal: NEAT and MHEA are the energy audits used. The energy savings methods and assumptions are contained in the audits.

Submittal Requirement: In addition to the narrative description of the energy savings calculation methods and assumptions required by approval criterion #4, the submittal package should also include the input data, assumptions, and audit results (recommended measures) for two sample dwelling units typical of those weatherized by grantee's program.

Submittal: Audit results of two sample dwelling units of frame houses and audit results of two sample dwelling units of mobile homes have been previously submitted.

Submittal Requirement: Include the figures used for the lifetime of the materials and for the costs of materials and installation. State the sources of this information and how the values compare with current actual costs and lifetime values presently used.

Submittal: The number of years used for the lifetime of the materials to be considered by NEAT and MHEA is included in the software approved by the Department of Energy and will not be changed by Arkansas.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit procedures consider the rate of energy use. The energy audit procedures must consider energy efficiency as well as total energy savings. For example, replacing an existing space heater, currently heating one room, with a more energy efficient space heater, capable of heating several rooms, may not save any energy. However, the occupants would gain the use of more of their dwelling unit. If not handled as a health and safety measure, this measure would have to be cost justified by the audit. The only way to cost justify this measure would be to impute energy savings by calculating the amount of energy the inefficient space heater would have used to heat the several rooms now heated by the efficient space heater, and subtracting the estimated energy use of the new efficient space heater.

Other examples include instances where the occupant cannot afford to heat the dwelling to an adequate temperature or operate the furnace at all. Installing insulation and tuning up the furnace may now make the use of the furnace affordable. However, energy use is increased, not decreased. Again, if not handled as a health and safety measure, energy savings would have to be imputed to cost justify the insulation and/or the furnace tune-up through the audit. While not mandatory within the audit software, if used, the overall energy audit procedures must consider these types of circumstances.

Submittal: Arkansas will use all shell and equipment measures listed in the SETUP option of NEAT and MHEA. Emphasis on correct material and labor costs will ensure the SIR ranking is valid and can be applied until funds available for the dwelling are exhausted or the SIR becomes too small. Space heaters are justified as a health and safety measure. Heating system replacement will be a minimum of 85% Energy Efficiency Rating. The standard to replace constant burning pilot with electric ignition device on gas-fueled furnaces or boiler will conform to standards listed in Appendix A. All insulation will be installed at R-Values recommended by NEAT and MHEA.

Submittal Requirement: In States where cooling needs are significant, the list of weatherization materials/measures considered by the audit should include cooling measures. The narrative portion of the submittal package should describe how the energy audit considers cooling measures, including the algorithms and assumptions used. Internal gains, latent loads, and solar incidence must be considered.

DOE considers States with over 2,000 cooling degree days per year (65°F base) to have significant cooling needs and expect their audits to consider cooling measures. States with between 1,300 and 2,000 cooling degree days, whose audits do not consider cooling measures, must provide an adequate explanation why cooling measures are not considered.

Submittal: The only cooling measures installed will be those recommended by NEAT and MHEA. The standard for air conditioner replacement is an SEER 11. Materials for cooling measures will conform to standards listed in Appendix A.

Submittal Requirement: Describe the advanced diagnostic and assessment techniques that can be used as part of the energy audit. Such techniques may include blower door doors, infrared cameras or detectors, various furnace testing procedures, health and safety testing, psychrometers, duct-leakage testing, bypass testing, etc. Describe how the results of this diagnostic work would be use and how the energy audit would consider the results of these techniques.

Submittal: An audit will be conducted on each house, as opposed to a priority list. Likewise, a blower door test will be conducted on each house. The default contained in the audit will not be used except under circumstances where the house is in such state of repair that an initial blower test cannot be conducted. Diagnostic equipment will be used to determine carbon monoxide levels on houses containing gas appliances before and after weatherization. Health and safety hazard costs will be keyed into the audits and will not be considered in the SIR. However, health and safety costs will be included in the maximum averages allowed by the Department of Energy.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit determines energy use and how this value is verified.

Submittal: Fuel costs that will be used will be determined by each subgrantee by conducting yearly averages.

Submittal Requirement: Show the SIR equation used by the audit and describe how future fuel cost savings are discounted to present value. If the State elects not to use the discount rate provided by DOE, show the discount rate to be used and its published source. Describe how fuel cost escalation is treated and show these factors, or refer to their source. (The discount and fuel cost escalation rates may be given here or under #16.) Show the costs included in the denominator of the SIR equation.

Submittal: The state assures that the discounted savings-to investment ratio will be greater than or equal to one by using the discounted rate provided by DOE. Local subgrantees determine fuel cost escalation by contacting the local fuel supplier. State monitors verify this during their routine monitoring visits.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit accounts for the interaction between architectural and mechanical measures. Describe how, when moving from an architectural to a mechanical measure (or vice versa), the energy audit procedures adjust the estimated fuel cost savings of measures with lower non-interacted SIRS. Show that the energy audit procedures eliminate any measure whose interaction-adjusted SIR is less than one.

Submittal: NEAT and MHEA approved energy audits eliminate measures with less than an SIR of one and provide for the interaction between architectural and mechanical measures.

Submittal Requirement: Show the equation for the overall SIR used by the audit and describe how the energy audit ensures that the overall SIR is greater than or equal to one. List the costs included in the denominator of the overall SIR equation.

Submittal: The DOE approved audits provide for the inclusion of incidental repairs (including material, labor, and on-site supervisory personnel) in the overall SIR to assure that the overall SIR is greater than or equal to one.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit procedures identify health and safety hazards to be abated with DOE funds and how the material and labor costs of health and safety abatement are determined on each home.

Submittal: Health and safety hazards to be abated are contained in the health and safety plan that is included in the state plan that is updated annually and approved by DOE.

Submittal Requirement: If not specified under #11, state the discount and fuel cost escalation rates to be used and their published source (if the DOE-provided discount rate is not used).

Submittal: DOE provided discount rate is used, as stated in #11.

Submittal Requirement: Provide any priority lists to be used and explain how the priority lists were developed. State the energy audit on which the priority lists are based and how it complies with §440.21(H), if different than the audit being submitted. If seeking approval just for a revalidated priority list(s), give the name of waiver audit and when it was approved. Describe the circumstances that will require a site-specific audit rather than the use of the priority lists and the audit to be used in such circumstances (in compliance with §440.12(h)).

Submittal: Priority lists are not used.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the representative sample of typical dwelling units for each major dwelling type was determined. Some States have indicated that fuel type and construction factors (assemblies) predict energy use (and weatherization energy savings) better than dwelling type. DOE will accept a representative sample determined on this basis, provided an adequate explanation is given to substantiate this method. Assuming the same representative sample was used for the priority lists and the GHW lists addressed in #19, only one discussion under #18 is required. If the samples for priority lists and GHW lists are different, a separate discussion of each is required, plus an explanation of why different samples were used.

Submittal: Priority lists are not used. General Heat Waste measures are required to have an SIR greater to or equal to one. Arkansas has only two typical dwelling units, the mobile home and the frame house. Two sample audits for each have been previously submitted.

Submittal Requirement: Provide any lists of general heat waste reduction weatherization materials to be used and state the circumstance under which such materials are presumed to be cost-effective. Describe how the lists were developed including the energy audit on which the lists are based. If different than the audit being submitted, describe how the audit on which the GHW list is based complies with §440.21(h). Provide documentation of a representative number of site-specific energy audits showing how these materials, in the circumstances and the amounts, were determined.

Under #18 above, describe how the representative sample of typical dwelling units was determined for the GHW list. See #18 for the discussion of representative samples.

Submittal: General Heat Waste measures will be required to have an SIR greater than or equal to one prior to installation on unit.

Submittal Requirement: In addition to the items listed below, the submittal package must include the energy audit procedures. This could include: a copy of the auditors' manual, a description of how energy audits are conducted and how different audit findings affect the auditor's actions and recommendations; and/or the detailed instructions for the data collections forms.

Submittal: The instruction manuals provided by DOE for use of NEAT and MHEA will be used.

Submittal Requirement: The submittal package must include a list of all the weatherization materials/measures that the audit considers. Those weatherization materials/measures to be funded with DOE-ARRA monies should be noted. The submittal package must also include a statement that the requirements of Appendix A will be followed.

Submittal: Material costs will depend on solicited cost in each area. The subgrantee actual costs will be verified during monitoring visits by comparing contracts, invoices, and other cost data to NEAT and MHEA program files. General Heat Waste materials used will be coupled with Blower Door testing to determine the point at which the measures are not cost effective. All materials will conform to standards that apply from Appendix A.

Submittal Requirement: The narrative portion of the submittal package should state the type of weather data used, the published source of the weather data, the geographic locations for which the weather data will be used, and how the energy savings calculations use the weather data.

Submittal: The subgrantees will use the weather data from the NEAT and MHEA file most appropriate for local conditions, e.g., Little Rock, AR; Fort Smith, AR; Joplin, MO; Springfield, MO; Memphis, TN; Jackson, MS; Shreveport, LA.

Submittal Requirement: The narrative portion of the submittal package must describe the energy savings calculation algorithms (methods) and assumptions. Assumptions include a range of variables such as treatment of buffered envelope surfaces, treatment of solar insulation, wind, humidity, CD factor, if applicable, etc. It does not include default values which can be changed by the auditor.

Submittal: NEAT and MHEA are the energy audits used. The energy savings methods and assumptions are contained in the audits.

Submittal Requirement: In addition to the narrative description of the energy savings calculation methods and assumptions required by approval criterion #4, the submittal package should also include the input data, assumptions, and audit results (recommended measures) for two sample dwelling units typical of those weatherized by grantee's program.

Submittal: Audit results of two sample dwelling units of frame houses and audit results of two sample dwelling units of mobile homes have been previously submitted.

Submittal Requirement: Include the figures used for the lifetime of the materials and for the costs of materials and installation. State the sources of this information and how the values compare with current actual costs and lifetime values presently used.

Submittal: The number of years used for the lifetime of the materials to be considered by NEAT and MHEA is included in the software approved by the Department of Energy and will not be changed by Arkansas.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit procedures consider the rate of energy use. The energy audit procedures must consider energy efficiency as well as total energy savings. For example, replacing an existing space heater, currently heating one room, with a more energy efficient space heater, capable of heating several rooms, may not save any energy. However, the occupants would gain the use of more of their dwelling unit. If not handled as a health and safety measure, this measure would have to be cost justified by the audit. The only way to cost justify this measure would be to impute energy savings by calculating the amount of energy the inefficient space heater would have used to heat the several rooms now heated by the efficient space heater, and subtracting the estimated energy use of the new efficient space heater.

Other examples include instances where the occupant cannot afford to heat the dwelling to an adequate temperature or operate the furnace at all. Installing insulation and tuning up the furnace may now make the use of the furnace affordable. However, energy use is increased, not decreased. Again, if not handled as a health and safety measure, energy savings would have to be imputed to cost justify the insulation and/or the furnace tune-up through the audit. While not mandatory within the audit software, if used, the overall energy audit procedures must consider these types of circumstances.

Submittal: Arkansas will use all shell and equipment measures listed in the SETUP option of NEAT and MHEA. Emphasis on correct material and labor costs will ensure the SIR ranking is valid and can be applied until funds available for the dwelling are exhausted or the SIR becomes too small. Space heaters are justified as a health and safety measure. Heating system replacement will be a minimum of 85% Energy Efficiency Rating. The standard to replace constant burning pilot with electric ignition device on gas-fueled furnaces or boiler will conform to standards listed in Appendix A. All insulation will be installed at R-Values recommended by NEAT and MHEA.

Submittal Requirement: In States where cooling needs are significant, the list of weatherization materials/measures considered by the audit should include cooling measures. The narrative portion of the submittal package should describe how the energy audit considers cooling measures, including the algorithms and assumptions used. Internal gains, latent loads, and solar incidence must be considered.

DOE considers States with over 2,000 cooling degree days per year (65°F base) to have significant cooling needs and expect their audits to consider cooling measures. States with between 1,300 and 2,000 cooling degree days, whose audits do not consider cooling measures, must provide an adequate explanation why cooling measures are not considered.

Submittal: The only cooling measures installed will be those recommended by NEAT and MHEA. The standard for air conditioner replacement is an SEER 11. Materials for cooling measures will conform to standards listed in Appendix A.

Submittal Requirement: Describe the advanced diagnostic and assessment techniques that can be used as part of the energy audit. Such techniques may include blower doors, infrared cameras or detectors, various furnace testing procedures, health and safety testing, psychrometers, duct-leakage testing, bypass testing, etc. Describe how the results of this diagnostic work would be used and how the energy audit would consider the results of these techniques.

Submittal: An audit will be conducted on each house, as opposed to a priority list. Likewise, a blower test will be conducted on each house. The default contained in the audit will not be used except under circumstances where the house is in such state of repair that an initial blower test cannot be conducted. Diagnostic equipment will be used to determine carbon monoxide levels on houses containing gas appliances before and after weatherization. Health and safety hazard costs will be keyed into the audits and will not be considered in the SIR. However, health and safety costs will be included in the maximum averages allowed by the Department of Energy.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit determines energy use and how this value is verified.

Submittal: Fuel costs that will be used will be determined by each subgrantee by conducting yearly averages.

Submittal Requirement: Show the SIR equation used by the audit and describe how future fuel cost savings are discounted to present value. If the State elects not to use the discount rate provided by DOE, show the discount rate to be used and its published source. Describe how fuel cost escalation is treated and show these factors, or refer to their source. (The discount and fuel cost escalation rates may be given here or under #16.) Show the costs included in the denominator of the SIR equation.

Submittal: The state assures that the discounted savings-to investment ratio will be greater or equal to one by using the discounted rate provided by DOE. Local subgrantees determine fuel cost escalation by contacting the local fuel supplier. State monitors verify this during their routine monitoring visits.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit accounts for the interaction between architectural and mechanical measures. Describe how, when moving from an architectural to a mechanical measure (or vice versa), the energy audit procedures adjust the estimated fuel cost savings of measures with lower non-interacted SIRS. Show that the energy audit procedures eliminate any measure whose interaction-adjusted SIR is less than one.

Submittal: NEAT and MHEA approved energy audits eliminate measures with less than an SIR of one and provide for the interaction between architectural and mechanical measures.

Submittal Requirement: Show the equation for the overall SIR used by the audit and describe how the energy audit ensures that the overall SIR is greater than or equal to one. List the costs included in the denominator of the overall SIR equation.

Submittal: The DOE approved audits provide for the inclusion of incidental repairs (including material, labor, and on-site supervisory personnel) in the overall SIR to assure that the overall SIR is greater to or equal to one.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the energy audit procedures identify health and safety hazards to be abated with DOE funds and how the material and labor costs of health and safety abatement are determined on each home.

Submittal: Health and safety hazards to be abated are contained in the health and safety plan that is included in the state plan that is approved by DOE.

Submittal Requirement: If not specified under #11, state the discount and fuel cost escalation rates to be used and their published source (if the DOE-provided discount rate is not used).

Submittal: DOE provided discount rate is used, as stated in #11.

Submittal Requirement: Provide any priority lists to be used and explain how the priority lists were developed. State the energy audit on which the priority lists are based and how it complies with §440.21(H), if different than the audit being submitted. If seeking approval just for a revalidated priority list(s), give the name of waiver audit and when it was approved. Describe the circumstances that will require a site-specific audit rather than the use of the priority lists and the audit to be used in such circumstances (in compliance with §440.12(h)).

Submittal: Priority lists are not used.

Submittal Requirement: Describe how the representative sample of typical dwelling units for each major dwelling type was determined. Some States have indicated that fuel type and construction factors (assemblies) predict energy use (and weatherization energy savings) better than dwelling type. DOE will accept a representative sample determined on this basis, provided an adequate explanation is given to substantiate this method. Assuming the same representative sample was used for the priority lists and the GHW lists addressed in #19, only one discussion under #18 is required. If the samples for priority lists and GHW lists are different, a separate discussion of each is required, plus an explanation of why different samples were used.

Submittal: Priority lists are not used. General Heat Waste measures are required to have an SIR greater than or equal to one. Arkansas has only two typical dwelling units, the mobile home and the frame house. Two sample audits for each have been previously submitted.

Submittal Requirement: Provide any lists of general heat waste reduction weatherization materials to be used and state the circumstance under which such materials are presumed to be cost-effective. Describe how the lists were developed including the energy audit on which the lists are based. If different than the audit being submitted, describe how the audit on which the GHW list is based complies with §440.21(h). Provide documentation of a representative number of site-specific energy audits showing how these materials, in the circumstances and the amounts, were determined.

Under #18 above, describe how the representative sample of typical dwelling units was determined for the GHW list. See #18 for the discussion of representative samples.

Submittal: General Heat Waste measures will be required to have an SIR greater than or equal to one prior to installation on unit.

BASIC RULES WHEN INJURIES OCCUR:

A house may be weatherized if it was previously weatherized prior to

September 30, 1994. Unless such dwelling unit has been damaged by fire, flood or act of God and repair of the damage to weatherization materials is not paid for by insurance.

MONITORING APPROACH

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REGULATION REFERENCE: 440.14(b)(9)(i)

Subgrantees are monitored a minimum of two times annually, but may be required more often if requested by the agency or is deemed necessary by the State Weatherization Office.

Monitoring and evaluation activities include:

Agency directors, fiscal staff, weatherization directors, crew supervisors, crew members, and contractors (labor only) doing business with local agencies;

Office of Energy, LIHEAP programs;

Civic groups, church groups, and human services agencies.

Subgrantees attendance at training is required. The weatherization training curriculum includes five different modules designed to meet the needs of the trainees:

Formats: Lecture, Film (Saving Energy at Home: Arkansas Energy Office Information); Books, pamphlets, etc.

Time: One Full Day

Weatherization T/TA will be provided in conjunction with the following activities:

Internal Revenue Services for proper procedures to follow as a self-employed person.

The Office of Community Services contracts with fifteen subgrantees.

Prior to the preparation of the final state plan, a proposed plan was prepared according to 440.14, paragraph (b) for a public hearing. Subgrantees and affected state agencies.

The monitor will be looking at the system the agency has for insuring that DOE regulations and requirements are being met. The areas, which the monitor assesses, include:

*Under the WAP Crisis Relief Plan, this requirement will be suspended.

FIELD GUIDE

FIELD GUIDE

As part of its annual grant guidance to the CAAs, OCS has issued a manual dealing with weatherization crews work in homes. The guidelines contained in the manual are meant to provide guidance on the installation of allowable measures in the Weatherization Assistance Program and to protect workers providing weatherization services. The manual is called the Arkansas Weatherization Field Guide.

The Southeast Weatherization Field Guide is published for the Department of Energy's Weatherization Assistance Program. Written as a reference document, the field guide provides step by step instructions on the process and procedures used in the Weatherization Assistance Program as well as client education and healthy safety procedures. Subgrantees will be required to use the field guide in the Weatherization Assistance Program and are encouraged to train new staff with this guide.

While the field guide was written for states in the southeastern portion of the country, all measures detailed in the field guide do not apply to Arkansas. Listed below are the measures that are not allowable measures in the Arkansas Weatherization Assistance Program.