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(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might the Department enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might the Department minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

Title of Collection: Experimental Sites 

Data Collection Instrument. 

OMB Control Number: 1845–NEW. 

Type of Review: A new information 

collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: Private 

Sector. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 25. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 275. 

Abstract: This data collection 

instrument will be used to collect 

specific information/performance data 

for analysis of the experiments. This 

effort will assist the Department in 

obtaining and compiling information to 

help determine change in the 

administration and delivery of Title IV 

programs. Institutions volunteer to 

become an experimental site to provide 

recommendations on the impact and 

effectiveness of proposed regulations or 

new management initiatives. 

Dated: May 30, 2013. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

[Docket No. EERE–2012–BT–BC–0030] 

DOE Participation in Development of 

the International Energy Conservation 

Code 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) participates in the process 

administered by the International Code 

Council (ICC) to develop the 

International Energy Conservation Code 

(IECC). DOE’s participation in this 

process was outlined in a previous 

Federal Register notice published on 

April 19, 2013. As a participant in the 

IECC development process, DOE intends 

to submit public comments on actions 

taken on DOE’s code change proposals 

and technical analysis at the ICC 

Committee Action Hearings held in 

Dallas, Texas in April 2013. DOE is 

requesting stakeholder feedback on its 

draft public comments prior to 

submission to the ICC. This notice 

outlines the process by which DOE will 

seek stakeholder feedback and submit 

public comments to the ICC. 

DATES: Comments on DOE’s draft public 

comments to the ICC must be provided 

by June 30, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by any of the following 

methods: 

• Email: EnergyCodeDevelopment

2012BC0030@ee.doe.gov. Include ‘‘IECC 

public comment’’ in the subject line of 

the message. 

• Postal Mail: Mr. Jeremiah Williams, 

U.S. Department of Energy, Office of 

Energy Efficiency and Renewable 

Energy, Building Technologies Office, 

Mailstop EE–2J, 1000 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585– 

0121, Please submit one signed paper 

original. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Mr. 

Jeremiah Williams, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, 950 L’Enfant 

Building, Room 6052, 950 L’Enfant 

Plaza, Washington, DC 20024 

• Instructions: All submissions must 

include the agency name, Department of 

Energy, and ‘‘IECC public comments’’ 

for these draft public comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jeremiah Williams, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Building 

Technologies Office, Mailstop EE–2J, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121, 

Telephone: (202) 287–1941, Email: 

jeremiah.williams@ee.doe.gov. 

For legal issues contact Kavita 

Vaidyanathan, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of the General Counsel, 

Forrestal Building, Mailstop GC–71, 

1000 Independence Ave. SW., 

Washington, DC 20585, Telephone: 

(202) 586–0669, Email: 

kavita.vaidyanathan@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 

supports the International Energy 

Conservation Code (IECC) by 

participating in the code development 

administered by the International Code 

Council (ICC). DOE’s participation in 

this process was outlined in a previous 

Federal Register notice published on 

April 19, 2013 (78 FR 23550). As a 

participant in the IECC development 

process, DOE submitted code change 

proposals for the IECC, and recently 

defended its proposals at the April 2013 

ICC Committee Action Hearings (results 

are available at http://www.iccsafe.org/ 

cs/codes/Pages/Dallas-B-Results.aspx). 

The next step in the current IECC 

development cycle is for participants to 

submit public comments on actions 

taken at the recent ICC Committee 

Action Hearings in anticipation of the 

ICC Public Comment Hearings to be 

held in October 2013. 

A. Statutory Requirements 

Title III of the Energy Conservation 

and Production Act, as amended 

(ECPA), establishes requirements related 

to energy conservation standards for 

new buildings (42 U.S.C. 6831–6837). 

Section 307(b) of ECPA directs DOE to 

support voluntary building energy codes 

by periodically reviewing the technical 

and economic basis of the voluntary 

building codes, recommending 

amendments to such codes, seeking 

adoption of all technologically feasible 

and economically justified energy 

efficiency measures, and otherwise 

participate in any industry process for 

review and modification of such codes 

(42 U.S.C. 6836(b)). 

B. Background 

The IECC serves as a model building 

energy code and is adopted by many 

U.S. states, territories, the District of 

Columbia, and localities across the 

nation. Development of the IECC is 

administered by the ICC, with revisions 

taking place every three years under the 

ICC governmental consensus process. 

Any party can propose changes to the 

IECC with proposed code changes 

subject to the bylaws, policies and 

procedures as defined by the ICC. Code 

change proposals are discussed and 

voted on at the ICC Committee Action 

Hearings. The next step in the IECC 

development cycle is for stakeholders to 

submit public comments on actions 

taken at the recent ICC Committee 

Action Hearings in anticipation of the 

ICC Public Comment Hearings. 

ICC’s code development process is 

described at http://www.iccsafe.org/cs/ 

codes/pages/default.aspx. 

II. DOE Public Comments for the IECC 

Code change proposals for the IECC 

were heard at the ICC Committee Action 

Hearings conducted April 21–30, 2013 

in Dallas, Texas. Continuing its 

participation in the IECC development 

process, DOE has drafted public 

comments on its code change proposals 

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and technical analysis for submission to 

the ICC. DOE is requesting stakeholder 

feedback on its draft public comments 

prior to submission to the ICC. The 

process by which DOE developed its 

draft public comments, as well as 

instructions for how to submit feedback, 

is described in the following sections. 

DOE Development of Public Comments 

Based on actions taken at the ICC 

Committee Action Hearings, DOE has 

identified actions where DOE believes a 

committee action should be 

reconsidered for its code change 

proposals and technical analysis, and 

drafted associated comments. DOE 

comments are currently available for 

public review at http://www.

energycodes.gov/development. DOE will 

not provide responses to individual 

comments, but will consider any and all 

comments timely submitted in 

developing final public comments prior 

to submission to the ICC. Stakeholder 

feedback received will be available at 

http://www.regulations.gov/#!docket

Detail;D=EERE-2012-BT-BC-0030. DOE 

will submit final public comments to 

ICC on or before the ICC July 15, 2013 

deadline. 

DOE’s Participation at the IECC Public 

Comment Hearings 

At ICC hearings, DOE communicates 

its position on code change proposals 

and associated public comments as 

follows: DOE will defend its proposals 

and public comments. While DOE 

cannot enter into joint code change 

proposals or public comments (outside 

of proposals or public comments 

submitted jointly with another federal 

agency), DOE intends to support 

efficiency concepts from the perspective 

of its own analysis. DOE may also 

recognize a code change proposal or 

public comment to the extent that the 

code change proposal or provisions 

within the proposal are the same as a 

DOE code change proposal or provisions 

within a DOE code change proposal. 

Again, however, such an indication 

would not constitute an endorsement of 

a proposal or associated public 

comment. 

Ex Parte Communications 

DOE anticipates that it or its 

contractors may be contacted regarding 

its code change proposals and 

associated public comments prior to or 

during the IECC Public Comment 

Hearings. While DOE code change 

proposals and public comments for the 

IECC are not regulations, DOE will 

follow ex parte communication policy 

for such communications. Guidance on 

ex parte communications was published 

on January 21, 2009 (74 FR 4685) and 

can be found at http://energy.gov/gc/ 

downloads/guidance-ex-partecommunications. Note that such 

communications will be reflected in the 

public docket consistent with the ex 

parte guidance. 

DOE maintains an organizational 

membership with the ICC. As an ICC 

governmental member, DOE will 

exercise voting privileges as defined by 

the guiding ICC rules and procedures. 

III. Public Participation in the 

Development of DOE Public Comments 

The public is invited to submit 

comments on DOE’s draft public 

comments. Comments must be provided 

by the date specified in the DATES

section of this notice using any of the 

methods described in the ADDRESSES

section of this notice. If you submit 

information that you believe to be 

exempt by law from public disclosure, 

you should submit one complete copy, 

as well as one copy from which the 

information claimed to be exempt by 

law from public disclosure has been 

deleted. DOE is responsible for the final 

determination with regard to disclosure 

or nondisclosure of the information and 

for treating it accordingly under the 

DOE Freedom of Information 

regulations at 10 CFR 1004.11. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 30, 

2013. 

Roland Risser, 

Director, Building Technologies Office, 

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. 

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BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA HQ–OECA–2012–0978; FRL–9820–2] 

Access by United States 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA) Contractors to Information 

Claimed as Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) Submitted under 

Clean Air Act (CAA), Title I, Programs 

and Activities Air, and Title II Emission 

Standards for Moving Sources, and 

Act To Prevent Pollution From Ships 

(APPS) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The United States 

Environmental Protection Agency’s 

(EPA’s) Office of Enforcement and 

Compliance Assurance (OECA) plans to 

authorize various contractors to access 

information that will be submitted to 

EPA under the Clean Air Act (CAA) 

Titles I and II and the Act to Prevent 

Pollution from Ships (APPS) that may 

be claimed as, or may be determined to 

be, confidential business information 

(CBI). Access to this information, which 

is collected under the CAA Titles I and 

II and APPS, will begin on June 10, 

2013. 

DATES: EPA will accept comments on 

this Notice through June 10, 2013. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jeffrey Kimes, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1595 Wynkoop St., 8MSU, 

Denver, CO 80202; telephone number: 

(303) 312–6445; fax number (303) 312– 

6003; email address: 

kimes.jeffrey@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Does this notice apply to me? 

This action is directed to the general 

public. However, this action may be of 

particular interest to certain parties, 

including: motor vehicle manufacturers 

and importers; engine manufacturers 

and importers; motor vehicle fuel and 

fuel additive producers and importers; 

manufacturers, importers and 

distributors of motor vehicle and engine 

emission control equipment and parts; 

and any other parties subject to the 

regulations found in 40 CFR Parts 79, 

80, 85, 86, 89–92, 94, 1033, 1039, 1042, 

1043, 1045, 1048, 1051, 1054, 1060, 

1065, and 1068. 

This Federal Register notice may be 

of particular relevance to parties that 

have submitted data to EPA under the 

above-listed regulations. Because other 

parties may also be interested, EPA has 

not attempted to describe all the specific 

parties that may be affected by this 

action. If you have further questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

to a particular party, please contact the 

person listed in FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

II. How can I get copies of this 

document and other related 

information? 

A. Electronically 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this Federal Register notice under 

Docket EPA HQ–OECA–2012–0978. All documents in the docket are 

identified in the docket index available 

at http://www.regulations.gov. Although 

listed in the index, some information is 

not publicly available, such as CBI or 

other information for which disclosure 

is restricted by statute. Certain 

materials, such as copyrighted material, 

will only be available in hard copy at 

the EPA Docket Center. 

B. EPA Docket Center 

Materials listed under Docket EPA 

HQ–OECA–2012–0978 will be available 

for public viewing at the EPA Docket 

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