[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 28 (Friday, February 9, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 9141]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02712]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

National Nuclear Security Administration


Minor Construction Threshold Increase

AGENCY: National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice is being issued under the authority the Atomic 
Energy Defense Act as amended by the James M. Inhofe National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023. The Department is adjusting the 
minor construction threshold to account for inflation. The threshold is 
being increased from $30 million to $34 million.

DATES: The new minor construction threshold is effective on February 9, 
2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Thomas Wilson, Office of 
Infrastructure, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of 
Energy. Telephone: (301) 903-2173, or email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    The James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2023 provides the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security 
Administration (DOE/NNSA) Administrator with pilot authority to adjust 
the minor construction threshold to account for inflation at any point 
until December 1, 2025. Under this authority, the Administrator must 
submit a report to the congressional defense committees describing the 
method used to calculate the adjustment, wait a period of 30 days, and 
then publish the adjusted threshold to the Federal Register before it 
can take effect.
    NNSA submitted the required report to the congressional defense 
committees on January 9, 2024. The 30-day waiting period ended on 
February 8, 2024. The publication of this notice implements the new 
minor construction threshold of $34 million.

Signing Authority

    This document of Department of Energy was signed February 5, 2024, 
by Jill Hruby, Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and Administrator, 
NNSA, 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 February 6, 2024.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2024-02712 Filed 2-8-24; 8:45 am]
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