This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains notices to the public of the proposed

issuance of rules and regulations. The

purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

rule making prior to the adoption of the final

rules.

Proposed Rules Federal Register

18784 

Vol. 80, No. 67 

Wednesday, April 8, 2015 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary 

2 CFR Part 1201 

[Docket DOT–OST–2015–0013] 

RIN 2105–AE38 

Geographic-Based Hiring Preferences 

in Administering Federal Awards 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Extension of comment period on 

proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: This action extends the 

comment period for the Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) 

proposing to amend the DOT’s 

implementation of the Governmentwide Uniform Administrative 

Requirements, Cost Principles, and 

Audit Requirements for Federal Awards 

to permit recipients and subrecipients to 

impose geographic-based hiring 

preferences whenever not otherwise 

prohibited by Federal statute. This 

NPRM was published in the Federal 

Register on March 6, 2015, at 80 FR 

12092. We are extending the end of the 

comment period from April 6, 2015, to 

May 6, 2015. The extension of the 

comment period is intended to provide 

all interested parties sufficient time 

prior to submit comments to the docket 

for this proposed rulemaking. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

May 6, 2015. Comments received after 

this date will be considered to the 

extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: You may file comments 

identified by the docket number DOT– 

OST–2015–0013 by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Ave. SE., Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Ave. SE., between 9:00 

a.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET, Monday through 

Friday, except Federal Holidays. 

• Fax: (202) 493–2251. 

Instructions: You must include the 

agency name and docket number DOT– 

OST–2015–0013 or the Regulatory 

Identification Number, RIN No. 2105– 

AE11, for the rulemaking at the 

beginning of your comment. All 

comments received will be posted 

without change to http://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. 

Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search 

the electronic form of all comments 

received in any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment if 

submitted on behalf of an association, a 

business, a labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 

19477–78), or you may visit http://

Docketslnfo.dot.gov. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to http://

www.regulations.gov or to the street 

address listed above. Follow the online 

instructions for accessing the docket. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Harkins, Deputy Assistant 

General Counsel for General Law (OST– 

C10), U.S. Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Ave. 

SE., Washington, DC 20590, 202–366– 

0590. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 

6, 2015, the Department published a 

NPRM proposing to amend the DOT’s 

implementation of the Governmentwide Uniform Administrative 

Requirements, Cost Principles, and 

Audit Requirements for Federal Awards 

to permit recipients and subrecipients to 

impose geographic-based hiring 

preferences whenever not otherwise 

prohibited by Federal statute. On March 

13, the American Public Transportation 

Association (APTA) posted a comment 

requesting DOT extent the comment 

period for this NPRM by 30 days to May 

6. With this notice, the DOT is granting 

this request by further extending the 

comment period to May 6. 

The DOT has also received a comment 

to the docket asking whether this 

proposed rule applies to rolling stock. 

The DOT specifically requests 

comments on this issue and whether the 

DOT should clarify the proposed rule’s 

application to the procurement of 

rolling stock. 

Issued this 1st day of April, 2015, in 

Washington, DC. 

Kathryn B. Thomson, 

General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2015–08084 Filed 4–7–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

10 CFR Part 430 

[Docket Number EERE–2014–BT–STD– 

0045] 

RIN 1904–AD48 

Energy Conservation Program for 

Consumer Products: Definitions for 

Residential Water Heaters 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking 

(NOPR). 

SUMMARY: The Energy Policy and 

Conservation Act of 1975 (EPCA), as 

amended, prescribes energy 

conservation standards for various 

consumer products and certain 

commercial and industrial equipment, 

including residential water heaters. 

EPCA also requires the U.S. Department 

of Energy (DOE) to determine whether 

more stringent amended standards 

would be technologically feasible and 

economically justified, and would save 

a significant amount of energy. 

Accordingly, DOE established amended 

energy conservation standards for 

several classes of residential water 

heaters in an April 2010 final rule. In 

this notice, DOE proposes to amend its 

definitions pertaining to residential 

water heaters and to clarify the 

applicability of energy conservation 

standards for residential water heaters 

that are utilized as a secondary back-up 

heat source in solar-thermal water 

heating systems. Specifically, DOE is 

proposing to create a definition for 

‘‘solar-assisted fossil fuel storage water 

heater’’ and ‘‘solar-assisted electric 

storage water heater’’ and clarify that 

water heaters meeting these definitions 

are not subject to the amended energy 


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