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31Energy Conservation Program for Consumer 

Products: Publication of the Petition for Waiver and 

Granting of the Application for Interim Waiver of 

Samsung Air Conditioning From the DOE 

Residential and Commercial Package Air 

Conditioner and Heat Pump Test Procedures (Case 

No. CAC–009), 70 FR 9629, at 9630 (Feb. 28, 2005) 

(Samsung Interim Waiver). See 10 CFR 

431.201(e)(3) (2005). See also R410A Interim 

Waiver at 14860. 

32R410A Interim Waiver at 14860. 

33Samsung Interim Waiver at 9630. 

34R410A Interim Waiver at 14860. DOE made the 

same statement in the Samsung Interim Waiver, 

concluding that ‘‘in those instances where the likely 

success of the Petition for Waiver has been 

demonstrated, based upon DOE having granted a 

waiver for a similar product design, it is in the 

public interest to have similar products tested and 

rated for energy consumption on a comparable 

basis.’’ 70 FR at 9630. 

35Samsung Interim Waiver; Energy Conservation 

Program for Consumer Products: Publication of the 

Petition for Waiver of Fujitsu General Limited From 

the DOE Residential Air Conditioner and Heat 

Pump Test Procedures (Case No. CAC–010), 70 FR 

5980 (Feb. 4, 2005). 

36 10 CFR 431.201(a)(1) (2005). 

the Petition for Waiver.’’31 MEUS will 

experience economic hardship if the 

application for interim waiver is denied. 

Additionally, precedent indicates that DOE 

will likely grant MEUS’s petition for waiver. 

Finally, it is in the public interest to grant an 

interim waiver. Therefore, MEUS respectfully 

requests DOE to grant the application for 

interim waiver. 

MEUS plans to introduce the new WR2 

and WY products into the U.S. market early 

in the first quarter of 2007. The procedure for 

granting a petition for waiver is a timeconsuming process—DOE must publish the 

petition in the Federal Register, allow time 

for public comment, and then consider any 

comments before it makes a decision. Thus, 

the process typically takes a number of 

months. If an interim waiver is not granted, 

MEUS will suffer economic hardship because 

MEUS will be required to delay its 

introduction of these products to U.S. 

customers. 

In addition, DOE will likely grant MEUS’s 

petition for waiver. As described above, the 

design characteristics which prevented 

testing of the basic model of the products 

listed in the 2004 CITY MULTI Waiver and 

the R410A Interim Waiver are present for the 

new WR2 and WY models as well. The best 

evidence that DOE is likely to grant this 

waiver petition is the fact that it granted a 

similar petition in the 2004 CITY MULTI 

Waiver, and granted an interim waiver for the 

R410A products on the basis that ‘‘it appears 

likely that the [R410A] Petition for Waiver 

will be granted.’’32 DOE also granted an 

interim waiver to Samsung Air Conditioning 

in 2005 stating that Samsung’s petition 

would likely be granted because Samsung’s 

products are quite similar to the MEUS’s 

CITY MULTI products, for which DOE 

already granted a waiver.33

Finally, DOE’s regulations state that the 

Assistant Secretary may grant an interim 

waiver if he determines that it would be 

desirable for public policy reasons to grant 

immediate relief pending a determination for 

the Petition for Waiver. In response to 

MEUS’s Application for Interim Waiver for 

its R410A products, DOE stated that ‘‘in 

those instances where the likely success of 

the Petition for Waiver has been 

demonstrated, based upon DOE having 

granted a waiver for a similar product design, 

it is in the public interest to have similar 

products tested and rated for energy 

consumption on a comparable basis.’’34

MEUS’s WR2 and WY CITY MULTI products 

are similar to the R22 and R410A CITY 

MULTI products, as well as the products for 

which Samsung Air Conditioning and Fujitsu 

General Limited were granted interim 

waivers,35 and they will suffer the same 

testing obstacles as those products. 

Therefore, since it is in the public interest 

to have similar products tested and rated on 

a comparable basis, DOE should grant 

MEUS’s Application for Interim Waiver. 

IX. Conclusion 

MEUS seeks a waiver of the applicable test 

procedures for the products listed in Section 

IV above. Such a waiver is necessary because 

the basic WR2 and WY CITY MULTI models 

‘‘contain[] one or more design characteristics 

which * * * prevent testing of the basic 

model according to the prescribed test 

procedures.’’ 36 MEUS respectfully asks the 

Department of Energy to grant a waiver from 

existing test standards until such time as an 

appropriate test procedure is developed and 

adopted for this class of products. MEUS 

expects to continue working with ARI and 

DOE to develop appropriate test procedures. 

MEUS further requests DOE to grant its 

request for an interim waiver while its 

Petition for Waiver is pending. 

If you have any questions or would like to 

discuss this request, please contact Paul 

Doppel, at (678) 376–2923, or Douglas Smith 

at (202) 298–1902. We greatly appreciate 

your attention to this matter. 

Sincerely, 

William Rau, 

Senior Vice President and General Manager, 

HVAC Advanced Products Division, 

Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA, Inc., 

4300 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, 

Suwanee, GA 30024. 

Mitsubishi Electric 

Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA, Inc. 

HVAC Advanced Products Division 3400 

Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, Suwanee, 

GA 30024 

CERTIFICATE 

I hereby certify that I have this day served 

the foregoing Petition for Waiver and 

Application for Interim Waiver upon the 

following company known to Mitsubishi 

Electric & Electronics USA, Inc. to currently 

market systems in the United States which 

appear to be similar to the WR2 and WY 

CITY MULTI VRFZ system design. I have 

notified this manufacturer that the Assistant 

Secretary for Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy will receive and consider 

timely written comments on the Application 

for Interim Waiver. 

Daikin AC (Americas), Inc., 

1645 Wallace Drive, Suite 110, Carrollton, TX 

75006, Attn: Mike Bregenzer, VP and 

GM. 

Dated this 30th day of October 2006. 

William Rau, 

Senior Vice President and General Manager, 

HVAC Advanced Products Division, 

Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA, Inc., 

3400 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, Suwanee, 

GA 30024. 

[FR Doc. E7–6628 Filed 4–6–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[IC07–580–001, FERC Form 580] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities, Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Extension 

April 3, 2007. 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of section 3507 of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 

U.S.C. 3507, the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission) 

has submitted the information 

collection described below to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and extension of this 

information collection requirement. Any 

interested person may file comments 

directly with OMB and should address 

a copy of those comments to the 

Commission as explained below. The 

Commission received comments from 

two entities in response to an earlier 

Federal Register notice of December 14, 

2006 (71 FR 75238–75239) and has 

provided responses to the commenters 

in its submission to OMB. Copies of the 

submission were also submitted to the 

commenters. 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information are due by May 7, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Address comments on the 

collection of information to the Office of 

Management and Budget, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission Desk Officer. Comments to 

OMB should be filed electronically, c/o 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov and 

include the OMB Control No. as a point 

of reference. The Desk Officer may be 

reached by telephone at 202–395–4650. 

A copy of the comments should also be 

sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, Office of the Executive 

Director, ED–34, Attention: Michael 

Miller, 888 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. Comments may 

be filed either in paper format or 

electronically. Those persons filing 


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electronically do not need to make a 

paper filing. For paper filings an 

original and 14 copies, of such 

comments should be submitted to the 

Secretary of the Commission, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426 

and should refer to Docket No. IC07–

580–001. 

Documents filed electronically via the 

Internet must be prepared in 

WordPerfect, MS Word, Portable 

Document Format, or ASCII format. To 

file the document, access the 

Commission’s Web site at http:// 

www.ferc.gov and click on ‘‘Make an EFiling,’’ and then follow the instructions 

for each screen. First time users will 

have to establish a user name and 

password. The Commission will send an 

automatic acknowledgement to the 

sender’s e-mail address upon receipt of 

comments. User assistance for electronic 

filings is available at 202–502–8258 or 

by e-mail to efiling@ferc.gov. Comments 

should not be submitted to this e-mail 

address. 

All comments may be viewed, printed 

or downloaded remotely via the Internet 

through FERC’s homepage using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket 

number excluding the last three digits in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. For user assistance, contact 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at (866) 208–3676. or for TTY, 

contact (202) 502–8659. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Miller may be reached by 

telephone at (202) 502–8415, by fax at 

(202) 273–0873, and by e-mail at 

michael.miller@ferc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description 

The information collection submitted 

for OMB review contains the following: 

1. Collection of Information: FERC 

580 ‘‘Interrogatory on Fuel and Energy 

Purchase Practices, Docket No. IN79–6’’. 

2. Sponsor: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission. 

3. Control No.: 1902–0137. 

The Commission is now requesting 

that OMB approve and extend the 

expiration date for an additional three 

years with no changes to the existing 

collection. The information filed with 

the Commission is mandatory. 

4. Necessity of the Collection of 

Information: Submission of the 

information is necessary for the 

Commission to carry out its 

responsibilities in implementing the 

statutory provisions of the Federal 

Power Act (FPA). The FPA was 

amended by the Public Utility 

Regulatory Policies Act (49 Stat.851; 16 

U.S.C. 824d) to require the Commission 

to review ‘‘not less frequently than 

every two (2) years * * * of practices 

* * * to ensure efficient use of 

resources (including economical 

purchase and use of fuel and electric 

energy) * * *’’ The collection of this 

information is specifically required by 

Federal statue (FPA Section 205(f)) and 

thus the Commission lacks authority to 

allow waivers for the filing of this 

information. In addition, the 

Commission entertains requests for 

confidential treatment pursuant to 18 

CFR 388.112 for the coal mine price 

data and coal rail transportation cost 

data submitted in response to questions 

3(i) and 3(1.2), respectively, only when 

disclosure would violate the terms of a 

confidentiality clause of a rail 

transportation contract. No other 

requests for confidential treatment are 

considered. The information is used to: 

(1) Review as mandated by statute, fuel 

purchase and cost recovery practices to 

ensure efficient use of resources, 

including economical purchase and use 

of fuel and electric energy, under fuel 

adjustment clauses on file with the 

Commission; (2) evaluate fuel costs in 

individual rate filings; (3) to supplement 

periodic utility audits. The information 

has also been used by the Energy 

Information Administration under a 

Congressional mandate to study various 

aspects of coal, oil, and gas 

transportation rates. 

5. Respondent Description: The 

respondent universe currently 

comprises 114 companies (on average) 

subject to the Commission’s 

jurisdiction. 

6. Estimated Burden: 3,600 total 

hours, 114 respondents (average), 57 

responses per respondent, and 63.16 

hour per response (rounded off and 

average time) 

7. Estimated Cost Burden to 

respondents: 3,600 hours/2080 hours 

per years × $122,137 per year = 

$211,391. The cost per respondent is 

equal to $1,854. 

Statutory Authority: Statutory provisions 

of sections 205(a) and (e) of the Federal 

Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 824d. 

Philis J. Posey, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–6561 Filed 4–6–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RP07–370–000] 

Colorado Interstate Gas Company; 

Notice of Tariff Filing 

April 3, 2007. 

Take notice that on March 28, 2007, 

Colorado Interstate Gas Company (CIG) 

tendered for filing as part of its FERC 

Gas Tariff, First Revised Volume No. 1, 

the tariff sheets listed in Appendix to 

the filing, to become effective May 28, 

2007. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest this filing must file in 

accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214). Protests will be considered by 

the Commission in determining the 

appropriate action to be taken, but will 

not serve to make protestants parties to 

the proceeding. Any person wishing to 

become a party must file a notice of 

intervention or motion to intervene, as 

appropriate. Such notices, motions, or 

protests must be filed in accordance 

with the provisions of § 154.210 of the 

Commission’s regulations (18 CFR 

154.210). Anyone filing an intervention 

or protest must serve a copy of that 

document on the Applicant. Anyone 

filing an intervention or protest on or 

before the intervention or protest date 

need not serve motions to intervene or 

protests on persons other than the 

Applicant. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper using the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible on-line at 

http://www.ferc.gov, using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive e-mail notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 


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