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Dated: June 26, 2014. 

James F. Manning, 

Chief of Staff of Federal Student Aid, 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Quadrennial Energy Review: Notice of 

Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Policy and 

Systems Analysis, Secretariat, 

Quadrennial Energy Review Task Force, 

Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: At the direction of the 

President, the U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE or Department), as the 

Secretariat for the Quadrennial Energy 

Review Task Force (QER) Task Force 

will convene a public meeting to 

discuss and receive comments on issues 

related to the Quadrennial Energy 

Review. 

DATES: The sixth public meeting will be 

held on Monday, July 21, 2014, 

beginning at 9:00 a.m. Written 

comments are welcome, especially 

following the public meeting, and 

should be submitted within 60 days of 

the meeting. 

ADDRESSES: The Pittsburgh meeting will 

be held at the Rashid Auditorium, 

Hillman Center, Carnegie Mellon 

University, 4902 Forbes Avenue, 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213. 

You may submit written comments to: 

QERComments@hq.doe.gov or by U.S. 

mail to the Office of Energy Policy and 

Systems Analysis, EPSA–60, QER 

Meeting Comments, U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue 

SW., Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

For the July 21 Public Meeting, please 

title your comment ‘‘Natural Gas 

Transmission, Storage & Distribution, 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 21, 

2014’’. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Adonica Renee Pickett, EPSA–90, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Office of Energy 

Policy and Systems Analysis, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

Telephone: (202) 586–9168 Email: 

Adonica.Pickett@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

January 9, 2014, President Obama 

issued a Presidential Memorandum— 

Establishing a Quadrennial Energy 

Review. To accomplish this review, the 

Presidential Memorandum establishes a 

Quadrennial Energy Review Task Force 

to be co-chaired by the Director of the 

Office of Science and Technology 

Policy, and the Director of the Domestic 

Policy Council. Under the Presidential 

Memorandum, the Secretary of Energy 

shall provide support to the Task Force, 

including support for coordination 

activities related to the preparation of 

the Quadrennial Energy Review Report, 

policy analysis and modeling, and 

stakeholder engagement. 

The DOE, as the Secretariat for the 

Quadrennial Energy Review Task Force, 

will hold a series of public meetings to 

discuss and receive comments on issues 

related to the Quadrennial Energy 

Review. 

The initial focus for the Quadrennial 

Energy Review will be our Nation’s 

infrastructure for transporting, 

transmitting, storing and delivering 

energy. Our current infrastructure is 

increasingly challenged by 

transformations in energy supply, 

markets, and patterns of end use; issues 

of aging and capacity; impacts of 

climate change; and cyber and physical 

threats. Any vulnerability in this 

infrastructure may be exacerbated by the 

increasing interdependencies of energy 

systems with water, 

telecommunications, transportation, and 

emergency response systems. The first 

Quadrennial Energy Review Report will 

serve as a roadmap to help address these 

challenges. 

The Department of Energy has a broad 

role in energy policy development and 

the largest role in implementing the 

Federal Government’s energy research 

and development portfolio. Many other 

executive departments and agencies also 

play key roles in developing and 

implementing policies governing energy 

resources and consumption, as well as 

associated environmental impacts. In 

addition, non-Federal actors are crucial 

contributors to energy policies. Because 

most energy and related infrastructure is 

owned by private entities, investment 

by and engagement of the private sector 

is necessary to develop and implement 

effective policies. State and local 

policies; the views of nongovernmental, 

environmental, faith-based, labor, and 

other social organizations; and 

contributions from the academic and 

non-profit sectors are also critical to the 

development and implementation of 

effective energy policies. 

An interagency Quadrennial Energy 

Review Task Force, which includes 

members from all relevant executive 

departments and agencies (agencies), 

will develop an integrated review of 

energy policy that integrates all of these 

perspectives. It will build on the 

foundation provided in the 

Administration’s Blueprint for a Secure 

Energy Future of March 30, 2011, and 

Climate Action Plan released on June 

25, 2013. The Task Force will offer 

recommendations on what additional 

actions it believes would be appropriate. 

These may include recommendations on 

additional executive or legislative 

actions to address the energy challenges 

and opportunities facing the Nation. 

July 21, 2014 Public Meeting: Natural 

Gas Transmission, Storage & 

Distribution 

On July 21, 2014, the DOE will hold 

a public meeting in Pittsburgh, 

Pennsylvania. The July 21, 2014, public 

meeting will feature facilitated panel 

discussions, followed by an open 

microphone session. Persons desiring to 

speak during the open microphone 

session at the public meeting should 

come prepared to speak for no more 

than 5 minutes and will be 

accommodated on a first-come, firstserve basis, according to the order in 

which they register to speak on a signin sheet available at the meeting 

location, on the morning of the meeting. 

In advance of the meeting, DOE 

anticipates making publicly available a 

briefing memorandum providing useful 

background information regarding the 

topics under discussion at the meeting. 

DOE will post this memorandum on its 

Web site: http://energy.gov. 

Submitting comments via email. 

Submitting comments by email to the 

QER email address will require you to 

provide your name and contact 

information in the transmittal email. 

Your contact information will be 

viewable to DOE staff only. Your contact 

information will not be publicly 

viewable except for your first and last 

names, organization name (if any), and 

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document attached to your comment. 

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containing comments, and any 

documents submitted with the 

comments. 

Do not submit to the QER email 

address (QERcomments@hq.doe.gov) 

information for which disclosure is 

restricted by statute, such as trade 

secrets and commercial or financial 

information (hereinafter referred to as 

Confidential Business Information 

(CBI)). Comments submitted to the QER 

email address cannot be claimed as CBI. 

Comments received through the email 

address will waive any CBI claims for 

the information submitted. For 

information on submitting CBI, see the 

Confidential Business Information 

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If you do not want your personal 

contact information to be publicly 

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comment or any accompanying 

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contact information in a cover letter. 

Include your first and last names, email 

address, telephone number, and 

optional mailing address. The cover 

letter will not be publicly viewable as 

long as it does not include any 

comments. 

Include contact information each time 

you submit comments, data, documents, 

and other information to DOE. If you 

submit via mail or hand delivery/

courier, please provide all items on a 

CD, if feasible, in which case it is not 

necessary to submit printed copies. No 

telefacsimiles (faxes) will be accepted. 

Comments, data, and other 

information submitted to DOE 

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PDF (preferred), Microsoft Word or 

Excel, WordPerfect, or text (ASCII) file 

format. Provide documents that are not 

secured, written in English, and are free 

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Confidential Business Information. 

Pursuant to 10 CFR 1004.11, any person 

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believed to be confidential deleted. 

Submit these documents via email or on 

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determination about the confidential 

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according to its determination. 

Confidential information should be 

submitted to the Confidential QER email 

address: QERConfidential@hq.doe.gov 

Factors of interest to DOE when 

evaluating requests to treat submitted 

information as confidential include: (1) 

A description of the items; (2) whether 

and why such items are customarily 

treated as confidential within the 

industry; (3) whether the information is 

generally known by or available from 

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information has previously been made 

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concerning its confidentiality; (5) an 

explanation of the competitive injury to 

the submitting person which would 

result from public disclosure; (6) when 

such information might lose its 

confidential character due to the 

passage of time; and (7) why disclosure 

of the information would be contrary to 

the public interest. It is DOE’s policy 

that all comments may be included in 

the public docket, without change and 

as received, including any personal 

information provided in the comments 

(except information deemed to be 

exempt from public disclosure). 

Issued in Washington, DC, on June 26, 

2014. 

Michele Torrusio, 

QER Secretariat, QER Interagency Task Force, 

U.S. Department of Energy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Microgrid Competition 

AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of a competition. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) announced the 

administration of an incentive prize 

competition titled ‘‘Microgrid 

Competition.’’ The goal of this 

Department of Energy Incentive Prize 

Competition is to support 

implementation of microgrids to 

enhance resiliency of the U.S. grid and 

to provide a cleaner and more efficient 

and cost-effective power system. The 

concept of this Competition originated 

from the Resilience Incentive Prizes 

Workshop that was sponsored by the 

Sandy Rebuilding Task Force to harness 

innovation and generate breakthroughs 

in energy infrastructure resilience and 

to help communities become more 

resilient to future events that may occur. 

The Competition is in further support of 

the DOE-led grand challenges to make 

the U.S. grid more resilient. 

DATES: See Key Challenge Dates and 

Deadlines in SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. 

ADDRESSES: The Microgrid Competition 

is available at http://www.energy.gov/

microgridchallenge. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions regarding this Competition, 

its requirements, or evaluation criteria 

can be submitted to 

MicrogridCompetition@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Key Challenge Dates and Deadlines 

Submission Period: July 1, 2014, to 

August 29, 2014, 11:59 p.m. EDT. 

Judging Period: September 2, 2014, to 

September 30, 2014. 

Data Validation Period: October 1, 

2014, to October 20, 2014. 

Announcement of Winners: October 

22, 2014, to October 31, 2014. 

II. Introduction 

The Competition will award prizes for 

operational microgrids in the U.S. with 

interconnected distributed energy 

resources (DER) that provide 

uninterruptible power to critical 

facilities and services during 

emergencies. Critical facilities and 

services are defined by the Contestants, 

but typically involve those associated 

with preserving public health and 

safety. Under this Competition, critical 

facilities and services are grouped into 

the following six segments: Municipal 

facilities; commercial facilities; 

industrial facilities and activities; 

emergency shelters; healthcare and 

hospitals; and other government 

facilities. Each Submission must clearly 

identify for which one of the six 

competition segments it is being 

entered. Contestants also are encouraged 

to partner with local utilities in the 

Competition submission. 

III. The Prizes 

A total of $600,000 in prizes is 

considered to be awarded under this 

Competition, i.e., one award of $100,000 

in each of the six segments. The award 

will recognize the operational microgrid 

in each segment that has had the best 

current performance, with evidential 

data of the record, in enhancing grid 

resiliency and providing a cleaner and 


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