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in the past due to a lack of 

appropriations for the hydroelectric 

production incentive. The conference 

report to the Fiscal Year 2014 Omnibus 

Appropriations bill, however, includes 

$3,600,000 for conventional 

hydropower under section 242 of EPAct 

2005. 

In response, DOE developed draft 

guidance intended to describe the 

application process and the information 

necessary for DOE to make a 

determination of eligibility under 

section 242. The draft guidance is 

available at: http://energy.gov/eere/

water/water-power-program. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on June 26, 

2014. 

David Danielson, 

Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2014–15553 Filed 7–1–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

Bioenergy Technologies Office; 

Request for Information (RFI) 

Regarding Integrated Biorefinery 

Lessons Learned and Best Practices 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE), Bioenergy Technologies 

Office (BETO), invites public comment 

on its Request for Information (RFI) 

regarding Integrated Biorefinery Lessons 

Learned and Best Practices. The purpose 

of this RFI is to solicit feedback from 

industry, academia, research 

laboratories, government agencies, and 

other stakeholders on issues related to 

lessons learned and best practices 

developed during the design, financing, 

construction, commissioning, startup, 

shakedown and operations of pilot-, 

demonstration-, and commercial-scale 

integrated biorefineries. 

DATES: Comments regarding the RFI 

must be received on or before July 15, 

2014. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be emailed 

to: IBR_LL_RFI@go.doe.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information 

should be directed to: 

IBR_LL_RFI@go.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office 

of Energy Efficiency and Renewable 

Energy (EERE), within the Department 

of Energy (DOE), accelerates 

development and facilitates deployment 

of energy efficiency and renewable 

energy technologies. EERE, through its 

Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) 

is seeking public comment on Integrated 

Biorefinery Lessons Learned and Best 

Practices. Since 2006, many companies 

that specialize in converting biomass to 

fuels and products have taken the next 

step to build and operate integrated 

pilot-, demonstration-, and commercialscale facilities. During the design, 

financing, and construction of these 

projects many lessons learned and best 

practices have been developed. BETO 

compiles and updates the lesson learned 

and best practices information from its 

portfolio of integrated biorefinery 

projects as they move forward towards 

completion. 

At a series of recent workshops 

conducted by BETO to garner industry 

input on potential Funding Opportunity 

Announcements (FOAs), BETO was 

repeatedly informed that the 

dissemination of lessons learned and 

best practices was of great interest to the 

bioindustry. BETO recognizes that some 

lessons learned and best practices may 

be considered business sensitive, 

proprietary, privileged or otherwise 

confidential information. As such, 

BETO does not generally release this 

type of information without prior 

approval. However, lessons learned and 

best practices that are of a general and 

common nature can be shared and it is 

BETO’s objective to help advance the 

state of the bioenergy technology 

industry as a whole by compiling and 

disseminating this type of high-level, 

cross-cutting information. 

One way in which BETO is 

attempting to focus its efforts in this 

area is to request industry input through 

this Request for Information (RFI). 

BETO hopes to collect information 

regarding what lessons learned and best 

practices the industry has developed 

and is interested in, discover what 

lessons learned and best practices the 

industry is willing to share, and provide 

a forum in which to share this 

information with the bioenergy 

community. Assuming sufficient 

interest is provided in response to this 

RFI and meaningful data can be 

collected, BETO anticipates 

inaugurating an interactive forum 

focused on lessons learned and best 

practices at its upcoming Biomass 2014 

Conference (http://www.energy.gov/ 

eere/bioenergy/biomass-2014-growingfuture-bioeconomy), which is currently 

scheduled to be held on July 29–30, 

2014 in Washington, DC. In its RFI, DOE 

requests comments, information, and 

recommendations on Lessons Learned 

and Best practices associated with the 

design financing, construction, 

commissioning, startup, shakedown and 

operations of pilot-, demonstration-, and 

commercial-scale integrated 

biorefineries. Because information 

received in response to this RFI may be 

used to structure future programs and 

FOAs and/or otherwise be made 

available to the public, respondents are 

strongly advised to clearly and 

conspicuously mark any business 

sensitive, proprietary, privileged or 

otherwise confidential information in 

their response. The RFI, titled, 

‘‘Integrated Biorefinery Lessons Learned 

and Best Practices’’, is available at: 

https://eere-exchange.energy.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on: June 25, 

2014. 

Jonathan Male, 

Technology Office Director, Bioenergy 

Technologies Office, Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2014–15511 Filed 7–1–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

Notice of Request for Information (RFI) 

on Fuel Cells for Continuous On-Board 

Recharging Application for Battery 

Electric Light-Duty Vehicles 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Request for Information. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) invites public comment 

on its Request for Information (RFI) 

number DE–FOA–0001145 regarding 

Fuel Cells for Continuous On-Board 

Recharging Application for Battery 

Electric Light-Duty Vehicles. The RFI 

document is posted at https://eereexchange.energy.gov/. 

The RFI solicits feedback from 

industry, academia, research 

laboratories, government agencies, and 

other stakeholders on issues related to 

the technical and economic feasibility of 

commercializing fuel cell range 

extenders for available battery electric 

vehicles (BEVs) in the United States 

market. The Department of Energy is 

specifically interested in information on 

BEV makes and models where an aftermarket modification to extend the 

vehicle range using a Polymer 

Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cell 

system would be most feasible. This is 

solely a request for information and not 

a Funding Opportunity Announcement 

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