This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains notices to the public of the proposed

issuance of rules and regulations. The

purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

rule making prior to the adoption of the final

rules.

Proposed Rules Federal Register

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Vol. 76, No. 61 

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

5 CFR Chapter XXI 

12 CFR Chapters I, V, XV, and XVIII 

17 CFR Chapter IV 

19 CFR Chapter I 

26 CFR Chapter I 

27 CFR Chapter I 

31 CFR Subtitle A and Chapters I, II, IV 

through VIII, IX, and X 

48 CFR Chapter 10 

Reducing Regulatory Burden; 

Retrospective Review Under E.O. 

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AGENCY: Department of the Treasury. 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: On January 18, 2011, the 

President issued Executive Order 13563, 

‘‘Improving Regulation and Regulatory 

Review,’’ which sets forth principles and 

requirements designed to promote 

public participation, improve 

integration and innovation, increase 

flexibility, ensure scientific integrity, 

and increase retrospective analysis of 

existing rules. The Department of the 

Treasury, in its effort to improve 

Treasury regulations, invites interested 

members of the public to submit 

comments on its preliminary plan to 

review retrospectively its regulations 

and to submit suggestions as to which 

Treasury regulations should be 

modified, expanded, streamlined, or 

repealed. 

DATES: Comment due date: April 29, 

2011. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this notice according to the instructions 

below. All submissions must refer to the 

document title. Treasury encourages the 

early submission of comments. 

Electronic Submission of Comments. 

Interested persons must submit 

comments electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Electronic 

submission of comments allows the 

commenter maximum time to prepare 

and submit a comment, ensures timely 

receipt, and enables the Department to 

make them available to the public. 

Comments submitted electronically 

through the http://www.regulations.gov 

Web site can be viewed by other 

commenters and interested members of 

the public. 

Commenters should follow the 

instructions provided on that site to 

submit comments electronically. 

Public Inspection of Comments. All 

properly submitted comments will be 

available for inspection and 

downloading at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Additional Instructions. In general, 

comments received, including 

attachments and other supporting 

materials, are part of the public record 

and are immediately available to the 

public. Do not enclose any information 

in your comment or supporting 

materials that you consider confidential 

or inappropriate for public disclosure. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Office of the Assistant General Counsel 

for General Law, Ethics, and Regulation 

at guidance@treasury.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background—Executive Order 13563 

On January 18, 2011, the President 

signed Executive Order 13563, 

‘‘Improving Regulation and Regulatory 

Review,’’ which outlines the following 

guiding principles: 

• Consistent with law, agencies must 

consider costs and benefits of its 

regulations and choose the least 

burdensome path. 

• The regulatory process must be 

transparent and include public 

participation. 

• Agencies must attempt to 

coordinate, simplify, and harmonize 

regulations to reduce costs and promote 

certainty for businesses and the public. 

• Agencies must consider approaches 

that maintain freedom of choice and 

flexibility, including disclosure of 

relevant information to the public. 

• Regulations must be guided by 

objective scientific evidence. 

Section 6 of Executive Order 13563 

emphasizes the importance of 

retrospective analysis of rules and 

requires agencies to ‘‘develop and 

submit to the Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs a preliminary plan, 

consistent with law and its resources 

and regulatory priorities, under which 

the agency will periodically review its 

existing significant regulations to 

determine whether any such regulations 

should be modified, expanded, 

streamlined, or repealed so as to make 

the agency’s regulatory program more 

effective or less burdensome in 

achieving the regulatory objectives.’’ 

Request for Comments 

The Department of the Treasury, in 

implementing Executive Order 13563, 

invites public comments on two areas of 

interest. First, comments are invited 

concerning the development of its 

preliminary plan to periodically review 

existing significant regulations. Second, 

Treasury invites comments about which 

regulations should be modified, 

expanded, streamlined, or repealed in 

order to make the Department’s 

regulations more effective or less 

burdensome or both. Although Treasury 

welcomes general comments, in 

addressing these two areas, commenters 

are encouraged to respond to the 

questions below: 

1. What factors should Treasury 

consider in selecting and prioritizing 

existing rules for retrospective review? 

2. Which regulatory programs are 

working well and should serve as a 

model for other Treasury programs? 

3. Are there Treasury rules that are 

outdated or contrary to recently enacted 

statutes, or otherwise in need of 

updating? 

4. In which Treasury regulations are 

there opportunities to use new 

information technologies to improve or 

ease burdens? 

5. How often should Treasury review 

its existing regulations? 

6. Are there any Treasury rules that 

duplicate requirements or contain 

conflicting requirements, either with 

another Treasury bureau or another 

Federal agency? If so, please identify 

and explain how these duplicative or 

conflicting requirements could be 

modified. 

7. How can Treasury improve public 

outreach and increase public 

participation in the rulemaking process? 

8. Please provide any additional 

information that will help the 

Department to develop and implement 

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its preliminary plan for retrospective 

review of regulations. 

The Department advises that this 

notice and request for comments is 

issued for information and policy 

development purposes. Although the 

Department encourages responses to 

this notice, such comments do not bind 

the Department to taking any further 

actions related to the submission. 

George W. Madison, 

General Counsel, Department of the Treasury. 

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BILLING CODE 4810–25–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

10 CFR Part 431 

[Docket No. EERE–2010–BT–STD–0003] 

RIN 1904–AC19 

Energy Conservation Standards for 

Commercial Refrigeration Equipment: 

Public Meeting and Availability of the 

Preliminary Technical Support 

Document 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting and 

availability of preliminary technical 

support document. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) will hold a public meeting 

to discuss and receive comments on the 

equipment classes that DOE plans to 

analyze for establishing energy 

conservation standards for commercial 

refrigeration equipment; the analytical 

framework, models, and tools that DOE 

is using to evaluate standards for this 

equipment; the results of preliminary 

analyses performed by DOE for this 

equipment; the potential energy 

conservation standard levels derived 

from these analyses that DOE could 

consider for this equipment; and any 

other issues relevant to the development 

of energy conservation standards for 

commercial refrigeration equipment. In 

addition, DOE encourages written 

comments on these subjects. To inform 

interested parties and facilitate this 

process, DOE has prepared an agenda, a 

preliminary technical support document 

(preliminary TSD), and briefing 

materials. 

DATES: DOE will hold a public meeting 

on Tuesday, April 19, 2011, from 9 a.m. 

to 2 p.m. in Washington, DC. 

Additionally, DOE plans to allow for 

participation in the public meeting via 

webinar. DOE will accept comments, 

data, and other information regarding 

this rulemaking before or after the 

public meeting, but no later than May 

16, 2011. See section IV, ‘‘Public 

Participation,’’ of this notice of public 

meeting (NOPM) for details. 

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be 

held at the U.S. Department of Energy, 

Forrestal Building, Room 8E–089, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. Please 

note that foreign nationals participating 

in the public meeting are subject to 

advance security screening procedures 

which require advance notice prior to 

attendance of the public meeting. If a 

foreign national wishes to participate in 

the public meeting, please inform DOE 

of this fact as soon as possible by 

contacting Ms. Brenda Edwards at (202) 

586–2945 so that the necessary 

procedures can be completed. 

Interested persons may submit 

comments, identified by docket number 

EERE–2010–BT–STD–0003 or 

Regulation Identification Number (RIN) 

1904–AC19, by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• E-mail: CRE–2010–STD– 

0003@ee.doe.gov. Include the docket 

number EERE–2010–BT–STD–0003 

and/or RIN 1904–AC19 in the subject 

line of the message. 

• Postal Mail: Ms. Brenda Edwards, 

U.S. Department of Energy, Building 

Technologies Program, Mailstop EE–2J, 

Public Meeting for Commercial 

Refrigeration Equipment, EERE–2010– 

BT–STD–0003, 1000 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585– 

0121. Telephone (202) 586–2945. Please 

submit one signed paper original. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Ms. Brenda 

Edwards, U.S. Department of Energy, 

Building Technologies Program, 6th 

Floor, 950 L’Enfant Plaza, SW., 

Washington, DC 20024. Telephone (202) 

586–2945. Please submit one signed 

paper original. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the docket number or RIN 

for this rulemaking. For detailed 

instructions on submitting comments 

and additional information on the 

rulemaking process, see section IV, 

‘‘Public Participation,’’ of this document. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or a copy of 

the transcript of the public meeting or 

comments received, go to the U.S. 

Department of Energy, 6th Floor, 950 

L’Enfant Plaza, SW., Washington, DC 

20024, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. Please call Ms. Brenda 

Edwards at (202) 586–2945 for 

additional information regarding 

visiting the Resource Room. 

DOE has prepared an agenda, a 

preliminary TSD, and briefing materials, 

which are available at: http:// 

www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/ 

appliance_standards/commercial/ 

refrigeration_equipment.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Direct requests for additional 

information to Mr. Charles Llenza, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 

Building Technologies, EE–2J, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121, (202) 586– 

2192. E-mail: 

Charles.Llenza@ee.doe.gov. In the Office 

of General Counsel, contact Mr. Michael 

Kido, U.S. Department of Energy, Office 

of the General Counsel, GC–71, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121, (202) 586– 

8145, Michael.Kido@hq.doe.gov; or Ms. 

Elizabeth Kohl, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of the General Counsel, 

GC–71, 1000 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20585–0121, (202) 

586–7796, Elizabeth.Kohl@hq.doe.gov. 

For information on how to submit or 

review public comments and on how to 

participate in the public meeting, 

contact Ms. Brenda Edwards, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 

Building Technologies Program, EE–2J, 

1000 Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

Telephone (202) 586–2945. E-mail: 

Brenda.Edwards@ee.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Statutory Authority 

II. History of Standards Rulemaking for 

Commercial Refrigeration Equipment 

A. Background 

B. Current Rulemaking Process 

III. Summary of the Analyses Performed by 

DOE 

A. Engineering Analysis 

B. Markups To Determine Installed Price 

C. Energy Use Analysis 

D. Life-Cycle Cost and Payback Period 

Analyses 

E. National Impact Analysis 

F. Submission of Comments 

IV. Public Participation 

A. Attendance at Public Meeting 

B. Procedure for Submitting Requests To 

Speak 

C. Conduct of Public Meeting 

D. Submission of Comments 

V. Approval of the Office of the Secretary 

I. Statutory Authority 

Title III of the Energy Policy and 

Conservation Act of 1975, as amended, 

(EPCA or the Act) sets forth a variety of 

provisions designed to improve energy 

efficiency. Part B of Title III (42 U.S.C. 

6291–6309) provides for the Energy 

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