Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 165 / Monday, August 28, 2023 / Notices 58575 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Environmental 

Management Site-Specific Advisory 

Board (EM SSAB), Savannah River Site. 

The Federal Advisory Committee Act 

requires that public notice of this 

meeting be announced in the Federal 

Register. 

DATES: Tuesday, September 26, 2023; 

9:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m. EDT 

ADDRESSES: Aiken Senior Life Center, 

1310 East Pine Log Road, Aiken, SC 

29803. 

The meeting will also be streamed on 

YouTube, no registration is necessary; 

links for the livestream can be found on 

the following website: https://

cab.srs.gov/srs-cab.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amy Boyette, Office of External Affairs, 

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), 

Savannah River Operations Office, P.O. 

Box A, Aiken, SC, 29802; Phone: (803) 

952–6120; or Email: amy.boyette@

srs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Board: The purpose of 

the Board is to provide advice and 

recommendations concerning the 

following EM site-specific issues: cleanup activities and environmental 

restoration; waste and nuclear materials 

management and disposition; excess 

facilities; future land use and long-term 

stewardship. The Board may also be 

asked to provide advice and 

recommendations on any EM program 

components. 

Tentative Agenda 

Chair Update 

Agency Updates 

Subcommittee Updates 

Program Presentations 

Public Comments 

Board Business 

Public Participation: The meeting is 

open to the public. To provide a safe 

meeting environment, seating may be 

limited; attendees should register for inperson attendance by sending an email 

to srscitizensadvisoryboard@srs.gov no 

later than 4:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, 

September 22, 2023. The EM SSAB, 

Savannah River Site, welcomes the 

attendance of the public at its advisory 

committee meetings and will make 

every effort to accommodate persons 

with physical disabilities or special 

needs. If you require special 

accommodations due to a disability, 

please contact Amy Boyette at least 

seven days in advance of the meeting at 

the telephone number listed above. 

Written statements may be filed with 

the Board via email either before or after 

the meeting. Individuals who wish to 

make oral statements pertaining to 

agenda items should submit their 

request to srscitizensadvisoryboard@

srs.gov. Requests must be received five 

days prior to the meeting and reasonable 

provision will be made to include the 

presentation in the agenda. Comments 

will be accepted after the meeting, by no 

later than 4:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday, 

October 3, 2023. Please submit 

comments to srscitizensadvisoryboard@

srs.gov. The Deputy Designated Federal 

Officer is empowered to conduct the 

meeting in a fashion that will facilitate 

the orderly conduct of business. 

Individuals wishing to make oral public 

comments will be provided a maximum 

of five minutes to present their 

comments. Individuals wishing to 

submit written public comments should 

email them as directed above. 

Minutes: Minutes will be available by 

emailing or calling Amy Boyette at the 

email address or telephone number 

listed above. Minutes will also be 

available at the following website: 

https://cab.srs.gov/srs-cab.html. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on August 23, 

2023. 

LaTanya Butler, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18483 Filed 8–25–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Energy Conservation Program for 

Consumer Products: Representative 

Average Unit Costs of Energy 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, the U.S. 

Department of Energy (DOE) is 

forecasting the representative average 

unit costs of five residential energy 

sources for the year 2023 pursuant to 

the Energy Policy and Conservation Act 

(Act). The five sources are electricity, 

natural gas, No. 2 heating oil, propane, 

and kerosene. 

DATES: The representative average unit 

costs of energy contained in this notice 

will become effective September 27, 

2023 and will remain in effect until 

further notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mr. John Cymbalsky, U.S. Department 

of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency 

and Renewable Energy, EE–5B, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20585–0121, Telephone: (202) 287– 

1692, Email: 

ApplianceStandardsQuestions@

ee.doe.gov. 

Ms. Amelia Whiting, U.S. Department 

of Energy, Office of General Counsel, 

GC–33, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC 20585–0103, 

Telephone: (202) 586–2588, Email: 

Amelia.Whiting@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

323 of the Energy Policy and 

Conservation Act requires that DOE 

prescribe test procedures for the 

measurement of the estimated annual 

operating costs or other measures of 

energy consumption for certain 

consumer products specified in the Act. 

(42 U.S.C. 6293(b)(3)) These test 

procedures are found in title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

430, subpart B. 

Section 323(b)(3) of the Act requires 

that the estimated annual operating 

costs of a covered product be calculated 

from measurements of energy use in a 

representative average use cycle or 

period of use and from representative 

average unit costs of the energy needed 

to operate such product during such 

cycle. (42 U.S.C. 6293(b)(3)) The section 

further requires that DOE provide 

information to manufacturers regarding 

the representative average unit costs of 

energy. (42 U.S.C. 6293(b)(4)) This cost 

information should be used by 

manufacturers to meet their obligations 

under section 323(c) of the Act. Most 

notably, these costs are used to comply 

with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) 

requirements for labeling. 

Manufacturers are required to use the 

revised DOE representative average unit 

costs when the FTC publishes new 

ranges of comparability for specific 

covered products, 16 CFR part 305. 

Interested parties can also find 

information covering the FTC labeling 

requirements at https://www.ftc.gov/ 

appliances. 

DOE last published representative 

average unit costs of residential energy 

in a Federal Register notice entitled, 

‘‘Energy Conservation Program for 

Consumer Products: Representative 

Average Unit Costs of Energy’’, dated 

March 7, 2022, 87 FR 12681. 

On September 27, 2023, the cost 

figures published in this notice will 

become effective and supersede those 

cost figures published on March 7, 2022. 

The cost figures set forth in this notice 

will be effective until further notice. 

DOE’s Energy Information 

Administration (EIA) has developed the 

2023 representative average unit aftertax residential costs found in this 

notice. These costs for electricity, 

natural gas, and No. 2 heating oil are 

based on simulations used to produce 


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the August 2023, EIA Short-Term 

Energy Outlook (EIA releases the 

Outlook monthly). The representative 

average unit after-tax cost for propane is 

based on the U.S. residential sector 

prices found in the Annual Energy 

Outlook 2023, AEO2023) (March 16, 

2023). The representative average unit 

after-tax cost for kerosene is derived 

from its price relative to that of heating 

oil, based on the 2010 to 2013 averages 

of the U.S. refiner price to end users, 

which include all the major energyconsuming sectors in the U.S. for these 

fuels. The source for these price data is 

the July 2023, Monthly Energy Review 

DOE/EIA–0035(2023/7). The ShortTerm Energy Outlook, the Monthly 

Energy Review, and the Annual Energy 

Outlook are available on the EIA 

website at https://www.eia.doe.gov. For 

more information on the data sources 

used in this notice, contact the National 

Energy Information Center, Forrestal 

Building, EI–30, 1000 Independence 

Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585, 

Telephone: (202) 586–8800, Email: 

infoctr@eia.doe.gov. 

The 2023 representative average unit 

costs under section 323(b)(4) of the Act 

are set forth in Table 1, and will become 

effective September 27, 2023. They will 

remain in effect until further notice. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on August 23, 2023, 

by Francisco Alejandro Moreno, Acting 

Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency 

and Renewable Energy, 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 August 23, 

2023. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

TABLE 1—REPRESENTATIVE AVERAGE UNIT COSTS OF ENERGY FOR FIVE RESIDENTIAL ENERGY SOURCES (2023) 

Type of energy Per million 

Btu 1 In commonly used terms As required by test procedure 

Electricity ................................................................... $46.19 15.76¢/kWh 2 3 .......................................................... $0.158/kWh. 

Natural Gas ............................................................... 13.97 $1.397/therm 4 or $14.49/MCF 5 6 ............................ $0.00001397/Btu. 

No. 2 Heating Oil ...................................................... 28.36 $3.89/gallon 7 ........................................................... $0.00002836/Btu. 

Propane .................................................................... 32.62 $2.98/gallon 8 ........................................................... $0.00003262/Btu. 

Kerosene .................................................................. 33.52 $4.53/gallon 9 ........................................................... $0.00003352/Btu. 

Sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Short-Term Energy Outlook (August 8, 2023), Annual Energy Outlook (March 16, 2023), and 

Monthly Energy Review (July 26, 2023). 

Notes: Prices include taxes. 1Btu stands for British thermal units. 

2 kWh stands for kilowatt hour. 

3 1 kWh = 3,412 Btu. 

4 1 therm = 100,000 Btu. 

5 MCF stands for 1,000 cubic feet. 

6For the purposes of this table, one cubic foot of natural gas has an energy equivalence of 1,037 Btu. 

7For the purposes of this table, one gallon of No. 2 heating oil has an energy equivalence of 137,381 Btu. 

8For the purposes of this table, one gallon of liquid propane has an energy equivalence of 91,333 Btu. 

9For the purposes of this table, one gallon of kerosene has an energy equivalence of 135,000 Btu. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18532 Filed 8–25–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ER23–2668–000] 

Richfield Solar Energy LLC; 

Supplemental Notice That Initial 

Market-Based Rate Filing Includes 

Request for Blanket Section 204 

Authorization 

This is a supplemental notice in the 

above-referenced proceeding of 

Richfield Solar Energy LLC’s 

application for market-based rate 

authority, with an accompanying rate 

tariff, noting that such application 

includes a request for blanket 

authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of 

future issuances of securities and 

assumptions of liability. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest should file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, 

in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214). Anyone filing a motion to 

intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Applicant. 

Notice is hereby given that the 

deadline for filing protests with regard 

to the applicant’s request for blanket 

authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of 

future issuances of securities and 

assumptions of liability, is September 

11, 2023. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http://

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

may mail similar pleadings to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 

20426. Hand delivered submissions in 

docketed proceedings should be 

delivered to Health and Human 

Services, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

In addition to publishing the full text 

of this document in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

document via the internet through the 

Commission’s Home Page (http://

www.ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number excluding the 

last three digits in the docket number 

field to access the document. At this 

time, the Commission has suspended 

access to the Commission’s Public 


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