60478 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 189 / Thursday, September 29, 2011 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technical 

Advisory Committee (HTAC) 

AGENCY: Department of Energy, Office of 

Energy Efficiency and Renewable 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Hydrogen and Fuel Cell 

Technical Advisory Committee (HTAC) 

was established under section 807 of the 

Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) (Pub. 

L. 109–58; 119 Stat. 849). The Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that publish 

notice of these meetings be announced 

in the Federal Register. 

DATES: Thursday, November 3, 2011; 

9 a.m.–6:15 p.m. 

Friday, November 4, 2011; 9 a.m.– 

2:45 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: L’Enfant Plaza Hotel DC, 

480 L’Enfant Plaza, SW., Washington, 

DC 20024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Please send an e-mail to: 

HTAC@nrel.gov 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Meeting: To provide 

advice, information, and 

recommendations to the Secretary on 

the program authorized by Title VIII of 

EPAct. 

Tentative Agenda: (Subject to change; 

updates will be posted on the website 

at: http://hydrogen.energy.gov and 

copies of the final agenda will available 

the date of the meeting). 

• Public Comment. 

• Coordination with Efficiency and 

Renewable Advisory Committee. 

• Impact of Natural Gas Supply on 

Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Market. 

• Industry Presentations. 

• Status Cost and Performance of 

Battery Technology. 

• Vehicle Battery Charging Cost. 

• European Large-Scale Hydrogen 

Storage of Renewable Electricity. 

• Financing Hydrogen and Fuel Cell 

Technologies. 

• State Initiatives. 

Public Participation: Members of the 

public are welcome to observe the 

business of the meeting of HTAC and to 

make oral statements during the 

specified period for public comment. 

The public comment period will take 

place between 9:15 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. 

on November 3, 2011. To attend the 

meeting and/or to make oral statements 

regarding any of the items on the 

agenda, please send an e-mail to: 

HTAC@nrel.gov at least five business 

days before the meeting. Please indicate 

if you will be attending the meeting, 

whether you want to make an oral 

statement, and what organization you 

represent (if appropriate). Members of 

the public will be heard in the order in 

which they sign up for the public 

comment period. Oral comments should 

be limited to two minutes in length. 

Reasonable provision will be made to 

include the scheduled oral statements 

on the agenda. The Chair of the 

committee will make every effort to hear 

the views of all interested parties and to 

facilitate the orderly conduct of 

business. If you would like to file a 

written statement with the committee, 

you may do so either by submitting a 

hard copy at the meeting or by 

submitting an electronic copy by e-mail 

to: HTAC@nrel.gov. 

Minutes: The minutes of the meeting 

will be available for public review at the 

following Web site: http:// 

hydrogen.energy.gov. 

Issued at Washington, DC on September 

23, 2011. 

LaTanya R. Butler, 

Acting Deputy Committee Management 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2011–25058 Filed 9–28–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Record of Decision, Texas Clean 

Energy Project 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Record of decision. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) announces its decision to 

continue to provide financial support to 

the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP). 

DOE prepared an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) (DOE/EIS–0444) to 

assess the environmental impacts 

associated with the TCEP, a project that 

Summit Texas Clean Energy, LLC 

(Summit) would design, construct, and 

operate. The project will demonstrate 

advanced power systems using 

integrated gasification combined-cycle 

(IGCC) technology to generate 400 

megawatts (gross) of electric power from 

coal and will put 130 to 213 megawatts 

on the power grid while capturing 

approximately 90 percent of its carbon 

dioxide (CO2) emissions. The project 

will sequester approximately 2.5 to 3.0 

million tons (2.3 to 2.7 million metric 

tonnes) of CO2 per year. The CO2 will 

be delivered through a regional pipeline 

network to existing oil fields in the 

Permian Basin of West Texas for use in 

enhanced oil recovery (EOR) by thirdparties. The plant will also produce 

urea, argon, and sulfuric acid for sale in 

commercial markets. Because of its 

multiple products, the facility is 

referred to as a polygeneration (polygen) 

plant. The plant will be built on a 600- 

acre (243-hectare) oil field site in Ector 

County, Texas, north of the community 

of Penwell, and will continue in 

commercial operation for 30 to 50 years. 

DOE’s proposed action, as described 

in the EIS, is to provide cost-shared 

financial assistance under DOE’s Clean 

Coal Power Initiative (CCPI) using a 

combination of American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (Pub. 

L. 111–5) funds and other CCPI program 

funds. After careful consideration of the 

potential environmental impacts and 

other factors such as program goals and 

objectives, DOE has decided to provide, 

through a cooperative agreement with 

Summit, $450 million in cost-shared 

funding, which is approximately 26 

percent of the project’s total capital cost 

of $1.73 billion (2009 dollars). The 

balance of project funding is expected to 

come from private sector investors and 

lenders. 

ADDRESSES: The Final EIS is available 

on the National Energy Technology 

Laboratory’s Web site at: http:// 

www.netl.doe.gov/publications/others/ 

nepa/index.html and on the DOE NEPA 

Web site at: http://energy.gov/nepa. 

Copies of the EIS may be obtained from 

Mr. Mark L. McKoy, Environmental 

Manager, U.S. Department of Energy, 

National Energy Technology Laboratory, 

P.O. Box 880, Morgantown, WV 26507– 

0880; telephone: 304–285–4426; tollfree number: 1–800–432–8330 (ext 

4426); fax: 304–285–4403; or e-mail: 

mmckoy@netl.doe.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

obtain additional information about this 

project, the EIS, or this Record of 

Decision (ROD), contact Mr. McKoy by 

the means specified above under 

ADDRESSES. For general information on 

the DOE NEPA process, contact Ms. 

Carol M. Borgstrom, Director, Office of 

NEPA Policy and Compliance (GC–54), 

U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585; telephone: 202– 

586–4600; fax: 202–586–7031; or leave a 

toll-free message at: 1–800–472–2756. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOE 

prepared this ROD pursuant to the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), 

Council on Environmental Quality’s 

(CEQ’s) regulations for implementing 

the procedural provisions of NEPA [40 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Parts 

1500–1508], DOE’s NEPA regulations 

(10 CFR Part 1021), and DOE’s 

Compliance with Floodplain and 

Wetland Environmental Review 

Requirements (10 CFR Part 1022). This 


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