[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 60 (Tuesday, March 29, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18008-18009]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-06584]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Notice of Request for Information (RFI) on Designing Equitable, 
Sustainable, and Effective Revolving Loan Fund Programs

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

ACTION: Request for information (RFI).

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invites public comment on 
its request for information (RFI) regarding promising, innovative, and 
best practices for designing revolving loan funds (RLFs). The purpose 
of the RFI is to collect stakeholder feedback to inform DOE's program 
guidance for States developing RLFs with funding made available through 
the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, ``Energy efficiency 
revolving loan fund capitalization grant program.''

DATES: Responses to the RFI must be received by no later than 11:59 
p.m. EST on May 6th, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are to submit comments electronically to 
[email protected]. Include ``Designing Equitable, 
Sustainable, and Effective Revolving Loan Fund Programs RFI Response'' 
in the subject line of the email. Responses must be provided as 
attachments to an email. Responses must be provided as a Microsoft Word 
(.docx) attachment to the email, and no more than 5 pages in length, 
12-point font, 1-inch margins. If possible, copy and paste the RFI 
sections as a template for your responses. It is recommended that 
attachments with file sizes exceeding 25MB be compressed (i.e., zipped) 
to ensure message delivery. Only electronic responses will be accepted. 
The complete RFI document is located at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions may be addressed to 
[email protected] or to Julie Howe at 720-356-1628 or 
[email protected]. Further instruction can be found in the RFI 
document posted on EERE Exchange at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Energy's (DOE) 
Weatherization and Intergovernmental Programs Office, in coordination 
with DOE's Building Technologies Office, seeks input on promising, 
innovative, and best practices for designing revolving loan funds 
(RLFs) from private lenders, investors, labor groups, community 
development organizations, environmental justice organizations, 
disadvantaged communities, States, local governments, and other energy 
system stakeholders. Pursuant to the implementation of section 40502 of 
the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Public Law 117-58, DOE is 
seeking to create program guidance that will assist States, as well as 
potentially other entities,\1\ in designing, managing, and improving 
RLFs. (42 U.S.C. 18792)
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    \1\ Under DOE's State Energy Program regulations, a ``State'' is 
defined as ``a State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or any 
territory or possession of the United States.'' 40 CFR 420.2.
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    Responses from this request for information (RFI) will be used to 
inform DOE's program support documentation to help States in creating, 
augmenting, or refining their RLFs to drive successful and equitable 
outcomes. This documentation may also be used to support States in 
drafting their applications to DOE or their own program design 
documentation.
    Specific questions can be found in the RFI available at: https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/. This is solely a request for information and 
not a Funding Opportunity Announcement. DOE is not accepting 
applications at this time.
    Confidential Business Information: 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 two well-marked copies: One copy of the document marked 
``confidential'' including all the

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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.
    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).
    Signing Authority: This document of the Department of Energy was 
signed on March 23, 2022, by Kelly J. Speakes-Backman, Principal Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy pursuant 
to delegated authority from the Secretary of Energy. That document with 
the original signature and date is maintained by DOE. For 
administrative purposes only, and in compliance with requirements of 
the Office of the Federal Register, the undersigned DOE Federal 
Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to sign and submit the 
document in electronic format for publication, as an official document 
of the Department of Energy. This administrative process in no way 
alters the legal effect of this document upon publication in the 
Federal Register.

    Signed in Washington, DC, on March 24, 2022.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2022-06584 Filed 3-28-22; 8:45 am]
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