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ACTION: Request for information; 

extension of comment period. 

SUMMARY: On February 9, 2024, the U.S. 

Department of Energy (DOE) published 

a request for information (RFI) seeking 

comment on a notional Manufacturing 

Capital Connector (MCC) to support 

applicants seeking clean energy 

manufacturing funding opportunities 

and/or tax credits. The RFI established 

a March 4, 2024, deadline for the 

submission of written comments. DOE 

is extending the comment period to 

March 15, 2024. 

DATES: The comment period for the RFI 

published on February 9, 2024 (89 FR 

9132) is extended. DOE will accept 

comments responding to this RFI 

submitted on or before March 15, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may 

submit comments electronically to 

CapitalConnector-RFI@hq.doe.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions may be addressed to Rachel 

Gould, CapitalConnector-RFI@

hq.doe.gov or (202) 586–6116. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

February 9, 2024, the U.S. Department 

of Energy (DOE) published a request for 

information (RFI) in the Federal 

Register (89 FR 9132). DOE issued this 

RFI to gauge interest in, and invite input 

on the design of, a notional 

Manufacturing Capital Connector (MCC) 

that would support applicants seeking 

clean energy manufacturing funding 

opportunities and/or tax credits. To 

help inform the interest in and design 

of the MCC for clean energy 

manufacturing programs, DOE is 

seeking public input on the potential 

structure, benefits, and risks of the 

proposed MCC from potential capital 

providers and clean energy 

manufacturing program applicants or 

selectees. The RFI specifically welcomes 

comment in response to a series of 

questions aimed at applicants or 

selectees and at potential capital 

providers. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on February 28, 

2024, by Giulia Siccardo, Director, 

Office of Manufacturing and Energy 

Supply Chains, pursuant to delegated 

authority from the Secretary of Energy. 

That document with the original 

signature and date is maintained by 

DOE. For administrative purposes only, 

and in compliance with requirements of 

the Office of the Federal Register, the 

undersigned DOE Federal Register 

Liaison Officer has been authorized to 

sign and submit the document in 

electronic format for publication, as an 

official document of the Department of 

Energy. This administrative process in 

no way alters the legal effect of this 

document upon publication in the 

Federal Register. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on February 28, 

2024. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer,U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2024–04508 Filed 3–1–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

National Nuclear Security 

Administration 

Record of Decision for Adoption of 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s 

(NRC) Environmental Impact Statement 

Related to the Operating License for 

the SHINE Medical Isotope Production 

Facility 

AGENCY: National Nuclear Security 

Administration, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Record of decision. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy’s National Nuclear Security 

Administration (DOE/NNSA) intends to 

issue a modification to its cooperative 

agreement with SHINE Technologies, 

DE–NA0004010, to revise the scope of 

the agreement to include cost-shared 

funding for facility construction. 

Issuance of the modification is subject 

to satisfactory completion of pricing and 

other technical reviews. The 

environmental impacts of this proposed 

action have been addressed in the U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

NUREG–2183 and NUREG–2183, 

Supplement 1. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on NNSA’s National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

process, please contact Mr. James 

Sanderson, NEPA Compliance Officer, 

National Nuclear Security 

Administration, Office of General 

Counsel, at jim.sanderson@nnsa.doe.gov 

or (202) 586–1402. This Record of 

Decision is available at https://

energy.gov/nepa. The NRC EIS and 

supplement are available at: https://

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/nuregs/staff/sr2183/ 

index.html (titles: NUREG–2183— 

Environmental Impact Statement for the 

Construction Permit for the SHINE 

Medical Radioisotope Production 

Facility Final Report and NUREG–2183, 

Supplement 1, ‘‘Environmental Impact 

Statement Related to the Operating 

License for the SHINE Medical Isotope 

Production Facility’’ Final Report). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. 

medical community depends on a 

reliable supply of the radioisotope 

molybdenum-99 (Mo–99) for nuclear 

medical diagnostic procedures. Mo–99’s 

decay product, technetium–99m (Tc– 

99m), is used in over 40,000 medical 

procedures in the United States each 

day to diagnose heart disease and 

cancer, to study organ structure and 

function, and to perform other 

important medical applications. In 

2012, Congress passed the American 

Medical Isotopes Production Act, which 

directed NNSA to establish a 

technology-neutral program to support 

the establishment of domestic supplies 

of Mo–99 without the use of highly 

enriched uranium (HEU). NNSA has 

implemented this by competitively 

awarding 50/50 percent cost-shared 

cooperative agreements to commercial 

entities and providing funds to DOE’s 

National Laboratories to support 

development of non-HEU Mo–99 

production technologies. Currently, the 

scope of NNSA’s cooperative agreement 

with SHINE Technologies includes 

activities such as equipment 

procurement but does not include 

facility construction. 

In 2015, the NRC and NNSA issued 

NUREG–2183, ‘‘Environmental Impact 

Statement for the Construction Permit 

for the SHINE Medical Radioisotope 

Production Facility’’ (NRC 2015), which 

discussed the environmental impacts of 

constructing, operating, and 

decommissioning the SHINE Medical 

Isotope Production Facility (SHINE 

facility) in Janesville, Wisconsin. In 

2016, at the conclusion of its safety and 

environmental reviews, the NRC issued 

a construction permit for the SHINE 

facility (NRC 2016). In July 2019, SHINE 

Medical Technologies, LLC (SHINE) 

submitted to the NRC an application for 

an operating license for the SHINE 

facility. When a final environmental 

impact statement (FEIS) has been 

prepared in connection with the 

issuance of a construction permit for a 

facility, the NRC is required to prepare 

a supplement to the FEIS in connection 

with any issuance of an operating 

license for that facility in accordance 

with 10 Code of Federal Regulations 

(CFR) 51.95(b). This supplement 

updates the prior environmental review 

and only covers matters that differ from 

those or that reflect significant new 

information relative to that discussed in 

the FEIS. Accordingly, in response to 

SHINE’s operating license application, 

NRC and NNSA staff issued NUREG– 

2183, Supplement 1, which considered 


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1Section 157.205(f) provides that a protested 

prior notice filing shall be treated as though it had 

filed a case-specific application under NGA section 

7, unless, pursuant to section 157.205(g), the 

protestor withdraws its protest within 30 days after 

protests were due. 

whether there is any new information 

with respect to the environment or the 

environmental impacts of the SHINE 

facility, including information that is 

different from that considered in 

NUREG–2183. NRC staff did not 

identify any information that presented 

a considerably different picture of the 

environmental consequences of 

constructing, operating, and 

decommissioning the SHINE facility. 

After weighing the environmental, 

economic, technical, and other benefits 

against environmental and other costs, 

NRC staff’s recommendation, unless 

safety issues mandate otherwise, was 

that the operating license be issued as 

proposed. NRC staff based its 

recommendation on the following: the 

application, including SHINE’s 

supplemental environmental report; 

consultation with Federal, State, Tribal, 

and local agencies; the staff’s 

independent review; and the 

consideration of public comments. 

Decision 

NNSA intends to issue a modification 

to its cooperative agreement with SHINE 

Technologies, DE–NA0004010, to revise 

the scope of the agreement to include 

cost-share funding for facility 

construction to support deployment of 

this non-HEU Mo–99 production 

technology. Issuance of the modification 

is subject to satisfactory completion of 

pricing and other technical reviews. 

This modification reflects a reallocation 

of funding previously awarded to DE– 

NA0004010 and does not increase the 

agreement’s total funding level. 

Basis for Decision 

The environmental impacts of this 

proposed action have been previously 

addressed in NUREG–2183, 

‘‘Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Construction Permit for the SHINE 

Medical Radioisotope Production 

Facility,’’ and NUREG–2183, 

Supplement 1, ‘‘Environmental Impact 

Statement Related to the Operating 

License for the SHINE Medical Isotope 

Production Facility.’’ NNSA was a 

cooperating agency for both the EIS and 

supplement and after an independent 

review and determined that its 

comments and suggestions were 

satisfied per 40 CFR 1506.3(b)(2). 

NNSA’s proposed action is substantially 

the same as the proposed action 

analyzed in NRC’s EIS and supplement. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on January 31, 2024 

by Jill Hruby, Under Secretary for 

Nuclear Security and Administrator, 

NNSA, pursuant to delegated authority 

from the Secretary of Energy. That 

document with the original signature 

and date is maintained by DOE. For 

administrative purposes only, and in 

compliance with requirements of the 

Office of the Federal Register, the 

undersigned DOE Federal Register 

Liaison Officer has been authorized to 

sign and submit the document in 

electronic format for publication, as an 

official document of the Department of 

Energy. This administrative process in 

no way alters the legal effect of this 

document upon publication in the 

Federal Register. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on February 27, 

2024. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2024–04397 Filed 3–1–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings 

Take notice that the Commission has 

received the following Natural Gas 

Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings: 

Filings in Existing Proceedings 

Docket Numbers: RP23–1032–001. 

Applicants: Osaka Gas Trading & 

Export LLC. 

Description: Osaka Gas Trading & 

Export LLC submits Annual Report of 

Purchased Capacity pursuant to the 

October 20, 2023 Order. 

Filed Date: 2/26/24. 

Accession Number: 20240226–5102. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 3/11/24. 

Docket Numbers: RP24–412–001. 

Applicants: Guardian Pipeline, L.L.C. 

Description: Tariff Amendment: 

Amendment to Electric Power Cost 

Recovery Surcharge Adjustment to be 

effective 4/1/2024. 

Filed Date: 2/23/24. 

Accession Number: 20240223–5205. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 3/6/24. 

Any person desiring to protest in any 

the above proceedings must file in 

accordance with Rule 211 of the 

Commission’s Regulations (18 CFR 

385.211) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. 

The filings are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system (https://

elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/search/ 

fercgensearch.asp) by querying the 

docket number. 

eFiling is encouraged. More detailed 

information relating to filing 

requirements, interventions, protests, 

service, and qualifying facilities filings 

can be found at:http://www.ferc.gov/ 

docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For 

other information, call (866) 208–3676 

(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. 

The Commission’s Office of Public 

Participation (OPP) supports meaningful 

public engagement and participation in 

Commission proceedings. OPP can help 

members of the public, including 

landowners, environmental justice 

communities, Tribal members and 

others, access publicly available 

information and navigate Commission 

processes. For public inquiries and 

assistance with making filings such as 

interventions, comments, or requests for 

rehearing, the public is encouraged to 

contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@

ferc.gov. 

Dated: February 26, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–04417 Filed 3–1–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP24–27–000] 

Kern River Gas Transmission 

Company; Notice of Staff Protest to 

Proposed Blanket Certificate Activity 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission (FERC or Commission) staff 

(Protestor) hereby protests the prior 

notice request filed under the provisions 

of the Commission’s regulations at part 

157, subpart F, by Kern River Gas 

Transmission Company (Kern River) on 

December 15, 2023, in the abovereferenced docket. Pursuant to its Part 

157, subpart F, blanket certificate 

authority, Kern River proposes to 

construct and operate the Lanes 

Crossing Meter Station (Project), within 

Kern River’s existing Victorville Meter 

Station at the High Desert Power Plant, 

San Bernardino County, California. 

Protestor seeks to have this prior notice 

request processed as a case-specific 

application filed under section 7(c) of 

the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Part 157, 

subpart A, of the Commission’s 

regulations.1

Protestor notes that Kern River did 

not provide a copy of a finding by the 

California State Historic Preservation 


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