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6The Secretary’s Strategy for the Management 

and Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-level 

Radioactive Waste, January 2013, endorses the key 

principles of the 2012 Blue Ribbon Commission on 

America’s Nuclear Future report and represents an 

initial basis for discussions among the 

Administration, the Congress, and other 

stakeholders toward a sustainable path forward for 

disposition of nuclear waste. 

impacts to workers when implementing 

the actions described herein. For 

example, DOE will continue to evaluate 

and implement, as appropriate, physical 

modifications to the H-Canyon facility 

and process chemistry changes that 

would reduce personnel exposure, 

facility effluents, and waste generation. 

Basis for Decision 

This amended decision reduces the 

overall cost of managing the currently 

stored fuel by eliminating the need for 

additional SNF storage racks in the LBasin SNF storage facility and allows for 

future receipt of foreign and domestic 

SNF, including continued receipt of 

HFIR cores from the Oak Ridge National 

Laboratory in support of DOE’s research 

and development mission. In addition, 

this amended decision will maximize 

near-term utilization of H-Canyon and 

expeditiously complete the mission 

This amended decision supports 

DOE’s ongoing approach for reducing 

the proliferation risks inherent in stocks 

of HEU by down-blending surplus HEU 

to LEU. The LEU would be available for 

use in commercial reactors such as 

those operated by TVA. In addition, 

operation of H-Canyon to process the 

SNF is consistent with section 3137 of 

the Floyd D. Spence Defense 

Authorization Act for fiscal year (FY) 

2001 (Pub. L. 106–398), as amended by 

section 3115 of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for FY 2004 (Pub. L. 

108–136), regarding the continued 

operation and maintenance of a high 

state of readiness of the H-Canyon 

facility at SRS. 

Given the expense involved in 

designing and constructing a new melt 

and dilute capability, and because an 

alternative processing technology 

(conventional processing) is readily 

available, DOE determined that melt 

and dilute is an unnecessarily costly 

duplication of treatment capability for 

aluminum-clad SNF. Conventional 

processing and down-blending the HEU 

to LEU, with vitrification rather than the 

recovery of plutonium, furthers the 

Nation’s non-proliferation goals. 

Although the Secretary of Energy has 

determined that Yucca Mountain is not 

a workable option for a geologic 

repository, DOE remains committed to 

meeting its obligations to safely dispose 

of SNF and HLW.6 While this Amended 

ROD will increase the number of 

canisters of vitrified HLW, this is not 

expected to significantly affect the 

quantity of vitrified HLW requiring 

management. 

Separately, the receipt of target 

residue materials from Canada in liquid 

form under the U.S. Foreign Research 

Reactor Acceptance Policy does not 

present significant new health or 

environmental concerns or impacts as 

described in the SA. The repatriation of 

U.S.-origin HEU from Canada will help 

ensure national and international safety 

and security by downblending this 

material to LEU that would be available 

for beneficial use in power reactors. 

This action is consistent with U.S. 

agreements regarding receipt of FRR 

materials in which involved countries 

with the economic ability to do so 

contribute to the costs of transportation 

and U.S. receipt, processing and 

disposition of the materials. 

In summary, the proposed use of 

conventional processing for a limited 

quantity of SNF as described in this 

amendment to DOE’s 2000 SNF ROD 

takes advantage of existing processes in 

existing facilities. It will allow nearterm progress in processing a portion of 

the inventory analyzed in the SRS SNF 

EIS currently stored on the site, thus 

freeing storage space for expected 

material receipts and avoiding the cost 

of creating additional space. The 

activities encompassed by this amended 

decision will not incur potential health 

or environmental impacts significantly 

different from those analyzed in existing 

NEPA reviews. These activities will 

strongly contribute to DOE’s 

commitment to the United States’ 

nuclear non-proliferation goals and are 

consistent with the U.S. and Canadian 

agreement reached at the Nuclear 

Security Summit in March 2012 to 

expand efforts to return U.S.-origin HEU 

currently stored in Canada to the U.S. 

Further, the actions resulting from this 

Amended ROD will contribute to the 

production of material that can be put 

to beneficial energy production for 

public use, thereby dispositioning some 

HEU out of South Carolina; and will 

contribute to an overall safe, secure, and 

cost-effective strategy for ongoing 

management of SNF and target residue 

materials at SRS. 

Issued in Washington, DC on March 29, 

2013. 

David Huizenga, 

Senior Advisor for Environmental 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2013–07994 Filed 4–4–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

Wireless Metering Challenge 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy 

(EERE) requests comments on the draft 

version of the Wireless Power Meter 

Challenge Specification. This draft is a 

set of performance specifications 

applicable to energy efficiency metering 

devices for use at the electrical panel 

level within commercial buildings. The 

specifications are intended to spur the 

development of new technologies in the 

wireless electric metering space. 

DATES: Comments on the Wireless Meter 

Challenge Specification must be 

received by 5 p.m. Eastern Standard 

Time April 26, 2013. 

DOE will be holding a webinar on 

April 30, 2013. Information regarding 

the webinar is provided in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted by electronic mail to 

wireless.meter@ee.doe.gov. 

For further information on how to 

submit comments, please see the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions regarding the submission of 

comments, technical questions, and 

questions regarding the Challenge, 

contact Jason Koman, Building 

Technologies Office, Mailstop EE–2J, 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue 

SW., Washington, DC 20585. Phone 

number: (202) 287–1578. Email: 

Jason.Koman@ee.doe.gov. 

For legal questions contact 

Christopher Calamita, U.S. Department 

of Energy, Office of the General Counsel, 

Forrestal Building, GC–71, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585. Phone number: 

(202) 586–1777. Email: 

christopher.calamita@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EERE is 

developing a challenge specification to 

spur the development of new, low cost 

wireless electric metering devices. In 

order to take action to reduce energy 

usage, owners and operators need to 

know how energy is being used in their 

buildings. Metering data provides 

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visibility to a building’s energy use. 

Energy costs can be reduced by taking 

action to resolve problems identified by 

examining metered data. While 

metering systems do not directly 

improve energy efficiency, metering 

systems enable focused energy 

efficiency actions. It is estimated that 

the use of metering systems result in 

energy efficiency actions that deliver 

electricity energy savings of at least 2% 

or more annually. Today, the cost of 

building and panel level metering 

systems is typically a key hurdle to 

implementing these technologies. 

Through the Wireless Power Meter 

Challenge, EERE is developing an 

aspirational but achievable performance 

specification for wireless metering 

devices at a low price point. The intent 

is to identify performance specifications 

that would meet the demand from the 

commercial building sector and leverage 

this demand to spur manufacturers to 

create new technologies. This model has 

been successfully deployed in the past 

through EERE’s Roof Top Unit 

Challenge (RTU) in which DOE 

provided a similar performance 

specification that had not yet been 

offered on the market and 

manufacturers responded with 

compliant technologies, resulting in the 

most efficient products available on the 

market. 

The Wireless Power Meter Challenge 

Specification is supported by the 

Building Technologies Office (BTO) 

Commercial Building Integration (CBI) 

team. In developing the draft 

Specification, EERE has considered 

input from Federal Agencies and 

individual comments from commercial 

building owners. This will be the first 

time EERE has issued a notice 

requesting general public comment on 

the Specification. 

EERE is providing an opportunity for 

public comment on the technical 

provisions laid out in the Specification. 

EERE may give further consideration to 

certain technical elements and 

subsequently make changes to the 

Specification as a result of issues 

identified by commenters. The draft 

Specification is available at http:// 

www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/ 

commercial/bba_wireless metering.html. 

DOE intends to host a webinar on 

April 30, 2013, to provide information 

on the development of the Specification. 

Interested parties should check the 

above Web page regularly for 

information regarding the webinar and 

Challenge, as it becomes available. 

Issues on Which DOE Seeks Comment 

DOE is seeking comments and views 

of interested parties on the following 

issues: 

Æ The performance requirements laid 

out in the specification. 

Æ The price targets laid out in the 

specification. 

Æ The applicability of the 

performance requirements to various 

types of commercial buildings. 

Æ The feasibility of developing a 

technology that meets the performance 

and price targets laid out in the 

specification. 

Submission of Comments 

DOE will accept comments, data, and 

information regarding the draft 

Specification no later than the date 

specified under the DATES heading. 

Comments, data, and information 

submitted via DOE’s email address 

should be provided in WordPerfect, 

Microsoft Word, PDF, or text (ASCII) file 

format. Interested parties should avoid 

the use of special characters or any form 

of encryption, and wherever possible, 

comments should include the electronic 

signature of the author. Comments, data, 

and information submitted to DOE via 

regular mail may include one signed 

paper original. 

According to 10 CFR 1004.11, any 

person submitting information that he 

or she believes to be confidential and 

exempt by law from public disclosure 

should submit two copies: one copy of 

the document including all the 

information believed to be confidential, 

and one copy of the document that does 

not include the information believed to 

be confidential. DOE will make its own 

determination as to the confidential 

status of the information and treat it 

according to its determination. 

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 

other sources; 

(4) Whether the information has 

previously been made available to 

others without obligation concerning its 

confidentiality; 

(5) An explanation of the competitive 

injury to the submitting person which 

would result from public disclosure; 

(6) A date upon which such 

information might lose its confidential 

nature due to the passage of time; and 

(7) Why disclosure of the information 

would be contrary to the public interest. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on March 29, 

2013. 

Kathleen B. Hogan, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency 

and Renewable Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2013–07972 Filed 4–4–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9530–3] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities OMB Responses 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This document announces the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) responses to Agency Clearance 

requests, in compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et. seq.). An agency may not 

conduct or sponsor, and a person is not 

required to respond to, a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

The OMB control numbers for EPA 

regulations are listed in 40 CFR part 9 

and 48 CFR chapter 15. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rick 

Westlund (202) 566–1682, or email at 

westlund.rick@epa.gov and please refer 

to the appropriate EPA Information 

Collection Request (ICR) Number. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Responses To Agency Clearance 

Requests 

OMB Approvals 

EPA ICR Number 0155.11; 

Certification of Pesticide Applicators 

(Renewal); 40 CFR parts 152 and 171; 

was approved on 03/01/2013; OMB 

Number 2070–0029; expires on 02/28/ 

2015; Approved without change. 

EPA ICR Number 1899.07; NSPS for 

Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste 

Incinerators; 40 CFR part 60 subparts A 

and Ce; and 40 CFR part 62 subparts A 

and HHH; was approved on 03/01/2013; 

OMB Number 2060–0422; expires on 

03/31/2016; Approved without change. 

EPA ICR Number 2436.02; Hazardous 

Chemical Reporting: Revisions to the 

Emergency and Hazardous Chemical 

Inventory Forms (Tier I and Tier II) 

(Final Rule); 40 CFR part 370; was 

approved on 03/01/2013; OMB Number 

2050–0206; expires on 03/31/2016; 

Approved without change. 

EPA ICR Number 1062.13; NSPS for 

Coal Preparation and Processing Plants; 

40 CFR part 60 subparts A and Y; was 

approved on 03/08/2013; OMB Number 

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