[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 11 (Wednesday, January 18, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5549-5550]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-01037]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy


Request for Information--Challenges and Opportunities for 
Sustainable Development of Hydropower in Undeveloped Stream Reaches of 
the United States; Notice of Reopening of Comment Period

AGENCY: Water Power Technologies Office, Office of Energy Efficiency 
and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy (DOE).

ACTION: Notice of reopening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: On November 9, 2016, the Water Power Technologies Office 
(WPTO) within the Department of Energy (DOE) issued a request for 
information (RFI) in the Federal Register to invite input from the 
public regarding challenges and opportunities associated with 
hydropower development in undeveloped stream-reaches. The WPTO is 
reopening the comment period until February 10, 2017, to provide 
interested parties with additional time to submit comments.

DATES: Responses must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. (ET) on 
Friday, February 10, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Responses to this RFI must be submitted electronically to 
[email protected] as Microsoft Word (.docx) attachments to an 
email, and be no more than 6 pages in length, 12 point font, 1 inch 
margins. It is recommended that attachments with file sizes exceeding 
25 MB be compressed (i.e., zipped) to ensure message delivery. Please 
include in the subject line ``Comments for RFI''. Only electronic 
responses will be accepted.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions may be directed to: Rajesh 
Dham, Water Power Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 
Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585, Phone: (202) 287-6675, 
Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 9, 2016, the Water Power 
Technologies Office (WPTO) within the Department of Energy (DOE) issued 
a request for information (RFI) in the

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Federal Register (81 FR 78795) inviting input from the public regarding 
challenges and opportunities associated with hydropower development in 
undeveloped stream-reaches. Through the RFI, the WPTO also sought input 
on the focus and structure of a potential funding opportunity to 
support research and development of advanced and/or non-traditional 
transformative hydropower technologies and project designs capable of 
avoiding or minimizing environmental and social effects of new cost-
competitive hydropower development in undeveloped stream-reaches of the 
United States. The comment period ended December 16, 2016. After 
receiving several requests for additional time to prepare and submit 
comments, the WPTO has decided to reopen the period for submitting 
comments.
    The WPTO will accept responses to the RFI received no later than 
February 10, 2017, and deems any comments received by that time to be 
timely submitted.
    Guidance for Submitting Documents: DOE invites all interested 
parties to submit responses by no later than 5:00 p.m. (ET) on February 
10, 2017. Responses to this RFI must be submitted electronically to 
[email protected] as Microsoft Word (.docx) attachments to an 
email, and be no more than 6 pages in length, 12 point font, 1 inch 
margins. Only electronic responses will be accepted.
    Respondents are requested to provide the following information at 
the start of their response to this RFI:
     Company/institution name;
     Company/institution contact;
     Contact's address, phone number, and email address.
    Pursuant to 10 CFR 1004.11, any person submitting information that 
he or she believes to be confidential and exempt by law from public 
disclosure should submit via email, postal mail, or hand delivery/
courier two well marked copies: One copy of the document marked 
``confidential'' including all the information believed to be 
confidential, and one copy of the document marked ``non confidential'' 
with the information believed to be confidential deleted. Submit these 
documents via email or on a CD, if feasible. DOE will make its own 
determination about the confidential status of the information and 
treat it according to its determination.
    Factors of interest to DOE when evaluating requests to treat 
submitted information as confidential include: (1) A description of the 
items; (2) whether and why such items are customarily treated as 
confidential within the industry; (3) whether the information is 
generally known by or available from other sources; (4) whether the 
information has previously been made available to others without 
obligation concerning its confidentiality; (5) an explanation of the 
competitive injury to the submitting person that would result from 
public disclosure; (6) when such information might lose its 
confidential character due to the passage of time; and (7) why 
disclosure of the information would be contrary to the public interest.
    It is DOE's policy that all comments may be included in the public 
docket, without change and as received, including any personal 
information provided in the comments (except information deemed to be 
exempt from public disclosure).

    Issued in Washington, DC on January 11, 2017.
Jim Ahlgrimm,
Acting Director, Water Power Technologies Office.
[FR Doc. 2017-01037 Filed 1-17-17; 8:45 am]
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