18536 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 63 / Wednesday, April 2, 2014 / Notices 

accruing interest on outstanding Direct 

Subsidized Loans. 

[FR Doc. 2014–07294 Filed 4–1–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

State Energy Advisory Board (STEAB) 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open teleconference. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

teleconference call of the State Energy 

Advisory Board (STEAB). The Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463; 86 Stat.770) requires that public 

notice of these meetings be announced 

in the Federal Register. 

DATES: Thursday, April 17, 2014 from 

3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EDT). To receive 

the call-in number and passcode, please 

contact the Board’s Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO) at the address or phone 

number listed below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie 

Hughes, STEAB Designated Federal 

Officer, U.S. Department of Energy, 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, 1000 Independence 

Ave. SW., Washington DC 20585. Phone 

number 202–320–9703, and email at: 

Julie.Hughes@ee.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Board: To make 

recommendations to the Assistant 

Secretary for the Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy 

regarding goals and objectives, 

programmatic and administrative 

policies, and to otherwise carry out the 

Board’s responsibilities as designated in 

the State Energy Efficiency Programs 

Improvement Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101– 

440). 

Tentative Agenda: Follow-up from 

March’s in-person live Board meeting, 

receive STEAB Task Force updates, and 

look at next-steps and action items to 

maintain momentum. 

Public Participation: The meeting is 

open to the public. Written statements 

may be filed with the Board either 

before or after the meeting. Members of 

the public who wish to make oral 

statements pertaining to agenda items 

should contact Julie Hughes at the 

address or telephone number listed 

above. Requests to make oral comments 

must be received five days prior to the 

meeting; reasonable provision will be 

made to include requested topic(s) on 

the agenda. The Chair of the Board is 

empowered to conduct the meeting in a 

fashion that will facilitate the orderly 

conduct of business. 

Minutes: The minutes of the meeting 

will be available for public review and 

copying within 60 days on the STEAB 

Web site at: www.steab.org. 

Issued at Washington, DC, on March 26, 

2014. 

LaTanya R. Butler, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2014–07355 Filed 4–1–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

[Case No. VHE–002] 

Notice of Petition for Waiver and Grant 

of Interim Waiver of Empire Comfort 

Systems From the DOE Vented Home 

Heating Equipment Test Procedure 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of Petition for Waiver, 

Granting of Application for Interim 

Waiver, and Request for Public 

Comments. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces receipt 

of and publishes the Empire Comfort 

Systems Inc. (Empire) petition for 

waiver from the U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) test procedure for 

determining the energy consumption of 

vented home heating equipment. The 

waiver request pertains to Empire’s 

specified models of condensing-type 

vented heaters. The existing test 

procedure does not apply to condensing 

heaters. Empire asks that it be permitted 

to use the DOE test procedure proposed 

in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

(NOPR) for Direct Heating Equipment 

and Pool Heaters published in the 

Federal Register on October 24, 2013 

(78 FR 63410), as an alternate test 

procedure to account for the energy 

consumption of its condensing-type 

direct heating equipment (DHE) models. 

DOE notes that only one of the basic 

model numbers submitted in the 

petition is a covered product subject to 

the test methods for vented home 

heating equipment. Today’s notice also 

grants Empire an interim waiver from 

the DOE test procedure applicable to 

direct heating equipment for the one 

basic model number properly included 

in the petition, subject to use of the 

alternative test procedure set forth in 

this notice. DOE solicits comments, 

data, and information concerning 

Empire’s petition and the suggested 

alternate test procedure. 

DATES: DOE will accept comments, data, 

and information with respect to the 

Empire Petition until, but no later than 

May 2, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by case number VHE–002, by 

any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Email: AS_Waiver_Requests@

ee.doe.gov. Include the case number 

[Case No. VHE–002] in the subject line 

of the message. Submit electronic 

comments in WordPerfect, Microsoft 

Word, PDF, or ASCII file format, and 

avoid the use of special characters or 

any form of encryption. 

• Postal Mail: Ms. Brenda Edwards, 

U.S. Department of Energy, Building 

Technologies Office, Mailstop EE–5B, 

Petition for Waiver Case No. VHE–002, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

Telephone: (202) 586–2945. If possible, 

please submit all items on a compact 

disc (CD), in which case it is not 

necessary to include printed copies. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Ms. Brenda 

Edwards, U.S. Department of Energy, 

Building Technologies Office, 950 

L’Enfant Plaza SW., Suite 600, 

Washington, DC 20024. If possible, 

please submit all items on a CD, in 

which case it is not necessary to include 

printed copies. 

Docket: The docket, which includes 

Federal Register notices, comments, 

and other supporting documents/

materials, is available for review at 

www.regulations.gov. All documents in 

the docket are listed in the 

www.regulations.gov index. However, 

some documents listed in the index, 

such as those containing information 

that is exempt from public disclosure, 

may not be publicly available. 

For further information on how to 

submit a comment, or review other 

public comments and the docket, 

contact Ms. Brenda Edwards at (202) 

586–2945 or by email: 

Brenda.Edwards@ee.doe.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Bryan Berringer, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Building Technologies Office, 

Mail Stop EE–5B, 1000 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585– 

0121. Telephone: (202) 586–0371. 

Email: Bryan.Berringer@ee.doe.gov. 

Mr. Eric Stas, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of the General Counsel, 

Mail Stop GC–71, 1000 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585– 

0103. Telephone: (202) 586–9507. 

Email: Eric.Stas@hq.doe.gov. 

For information on how to submit or 

review public comments, contact Ms. 


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