[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 210 (Thursday, October 30, 2014)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 64517-64518]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-25814]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

10 CFR Part 430

[Docket Number EERE-2014-BT-STD-0031]
RIN 1904-AD20


Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products: Energy 
Conservation Standards for Residential Furnaces

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of 
Energy.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) is planning to hold a public 
meeting to demonstrate the analytical tools developed by the agency in 
support of a proposed rule to consider amended energy conservation 
standards for residential non-weatherized gas furnaces and mobile home 
gas furnaces.

DATES: Meeting: DOE will hold a public meeting on Friday, November 7, 
2014 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Washington, DC. In addition, DOE 
plans to broadcast the public meeting via webinar. You may attend the 
public meeting either in person or via webinar. Registration 
information, participant instructions, and information about the 
capabilities available to webinar participants will be published in 
advance on DOE's Web site at: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/appliance_standards/product.aspx/productid/72. Webinar participants are 
responsible for ensuring their systems are compatible with the webinar 
software.

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be held at the U.S. Department of 
Energy, Forrestal Building, Room 4A-104, 1000 Independence Avenue SW., 
Washington, DC 20585. To attend, please notify Ms. Brenda Edwards at 
(202) 586-2945. Please note that foreign nationals visiting DOE 
Headquarters are subject to advance security screening procedures. Any 
foreign national wishing to participate in the meeting should advise 
DOE as soon as possible by contacting Ms. Edwards to initiate the 
necessary procedures. Please also note that any person wishing to bring 
a laptop into the Forrestal Building will be required to obtain a 
property pass. Visitors should avoid bringing laptops, or allow an 
extra 45 minutes. Persons may also attend the public meeting via 
webinar.
    Due to the REAL ID Act implemented by the Department of Homeland 
Security (DHS), there have been recent changes regarding identification 
(ID) requirements for individuals wishing to enter Federal buildings 
from specific States and U.S. territories. As a result, driver's 
licenses from the following States or territory will not be accepted 
for building entry, and instead, one of the alternate forms of ID 
listed below will be required.
    DHS has determined that regular driver's licenses (and ID cards) 
from the following jurisdictions are not acceptable for entry into DOE 
facilities: Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, Louisiana, Maine, 
Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Oklahoma, and Washington. 
Acceptable alternate forms of Photo-ID include: U.S. Passport or 
Passport Card; an Enhanced Driver's License or Enhanced ID-Card issued 
by the States of Minnesota, New York or Washington (Enhanced licenses 
issued by these States are clearly marked Enhanced or Enhanced Driver's 
License); a military ID or other Federal government-issued Photo-ID 
card.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. John Cymbalsky, U.S. Department of 
Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Building 
Technologies Office, EE-5B, 1000 Independence Avenue SW.,Washington, DC 
20585-0121. Telephone: (202) 287-1692. Email: 
[email protected].
    Mr. Eric Stas, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of the General 
Counsel, GC-33, 1000 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585. 
Telephone: (202) 586-9507, Email: [email protected].
    For information on how to attend the public meeting, contact Ms. 
Brenda Edwards, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency 
and Renewable Energy, Building Technologies Office, 1000 Independence 
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585-0121. Telephone: (202) 586-2945. 
Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Energy (DOE) is holding a 
public meeting to demonstrate the analytical tools developed by the 
agency in support of a notice of proposed rule (NOPR) to consider 
amended energy conservation standards for residential non-weatherized 
gas furnaces and mobile home gas furnaces.
    On April 24, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of 
Columbia Circuit issued an order adopting a settlement agreement in 
litigation that, among other things, vacated DOE's minimum energy 
conservation standards for residential non-weatherized gas furnaces and 
mobile home gas furnaces and remanded the proceeding back to DOE for 
further rulemaking regarding those products. The settlement agreement 
included a provision that, ``In the rulemaking on remand, DOE will make 
available to the public the data gathered and analyzed by the agency 
prior to publication of a proposed rule. DOE will endeavor to post such 
data as they become available during the agency's development of a 
proposed rule. At a minimum, the agency will make such data available 
to the public within 30 days after the Office of Management and Budget 
receives a draft proposed rule from DOE.''
    In fulfillment of that obligation, DOE released the following 
documents on DOE's Web site at: http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketBrowser;rpp=25;po=0;dct=SR% 252BO;D=EERE-2014-BT-STD-0031.
     Preliminary draft NOPR life-cycle cost spreadsheet;
     Preliminary NOPR national impact analysis spreadsheet; and
     Preliminary NOPR Government Regulatory Impact Model.
    The scheduled meeting is intended to demonstrate to interested 
parties DOE's analytical tools and to provide them with an opportunity 
to ask questions and offer feedback for DOE to consider in its use of 
the analytical tools, as applied in each energy conservation standards 
rulemaking. While DOE will demonstrate these analytical tools with the 
content provided in the residential non-weatherized gas furnace and 
mobile home gas furnace rulemaking, and will entertain questions 
related to that

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content, the public meeting will not address any deliberative issues 
related to that specific rulemaking docket. DOE will hold a public 
meeting to solicit comment on any proposal to amend standards for 
residential non-weatherized gas furnaces and mobile home gas furnaces 
after a proposed rule concerning those furnaces has been issued. A 
court reporter will be present at the meeting to record the proceedings 
and to prepare a transcript. A transcript of the public meeting will be 
posted on the DOE Web site and will be included in the docket for this 
rulemaking. In addition, any person may buy a copy of the transcript 
from the transcribing reporter.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on October 23, 2014.
Kathleen B. Hogan,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency, Energy Efficiency and 
Renewable Energy.
[FR Doc. 2014-25814 Filed 10-29-14; 8:45 am]
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