Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 13 / Wednesday, January 21, 2015 / Notices 2923 

Dated: January 14, 2015. 

Kate Mullan, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00788 Filed 1–20–15; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

State Energy Advisory Board; Notice 

of Open Teleconference 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of Open Teleconference. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

teleconference call of the State Energy 

Advisory Board (STEAB). The Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463; 86 Stat. 770) requires that public 

notice of these meetings be announced 

in the Federal Register. 

DATES: Thursday, February 19th 2015 

from 3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (ET). To 

receive the call-in number and 

passcode, please contact the Board’s 

Designated Federal Officer at the 

address or phone number listed below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Monica Neukomm, Policy Advisor, 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Ave. SW., 

Washington, DC 20585. Phone number 

202–287–5189, and email 

moinca.neukomm@ee.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Board: To make 

recommendations to the Assistant 

Secretary for the Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy 

regarding goals and objectives, 

programmatic and administrative 

policies, and to otherwise carry out the 

Board’s responsibilities as designated in 

the State Energy Efficiency Programs 

Improvement Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101– 

440). 

Tentative Agenda: Receive STEAB 

Task Force updates on action items and 

revised objectives for FY 2015, discuss 

follow-up discussion opportunities and 

engagement with EERE staff who 

participated in the January meeting, 

discuss upcoming FY 2015 Board 

meetings, and receive updates on 

member activities within their states. 

Public Participation: The meeting is 

open to the public. Written statements 

may be filed with the Board either 

before or after the meeting. Members of 

the public who wish to make oral 

statements pertaining to agenda items 

should contact Monica Neukomm at the 

address or telephone number listed 

above. Requests to make oral comments 

must be received five days prior to the 

meeting; reasonable provision will be 

made to include requested topic(s) on 

the agenda. The Chair of the Board is 

empowered to conduct the meeting in a 

fashion that will facilitate the orderly 

conduct of business. 

Minutes: The minutes of the meeting 

will be available for public review and 

copying within 60 days on the STEAB 

Web site at: www.steab.org. 

Issued at Washington, DC, on January 14, 

2015. 

LaTanya R. Butler, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Quadrennial Technology Review 

Framing Document 

AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary 

for Science and Energy, Quadrennial 

Technology Review Task Force, 

Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of availability and 

request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE or Department) has 

initiated the second Quadrennial 

Technology Review (QTR). The DOE– 

QTR–2015 Framing Document has been 

developed as a principle means of 

facilitating stakeholder engagement in 

the QTR process. The framing document 

describes the Nation’s energy landscape 

and challenges, important research, 

development, demonstration and 

deployment (RDD&D) opportunities 

across energy supply and end-uses in 

working towards addressing U.S. 

energy-linked economic, environmental, 

and national security challenges. The 

insight gained from QTR process will 

provide essential information for 

decision-makers as they develop 

funding decisions, approaches to 

public-private partnerships, and other 

strategic actions over the next five years. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted on or before February 20, 

2015. 

ADDRESSES: A copy of the framing 

document can be found at http:// 

www.energy.gov/qtr. 

Comments may be submitted 

electronically to: DOEQTR2015@hq.doe.gov or by U.S. mail to 

the Office of the Under Secretary of 

Science and Energy, S–4, QTR Meeting 

Comments, U.S. Department of Energy, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Sam Baldwin, S–4, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of the Under Secretary for 

Science and Energy, 1000 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585– 

0121. Telephone: (202) 586–0927. 

Email: DOE-QTR2015@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

nation faces serious energy-linked 

economic, environmental, and security 

challenges. Addressing these challenges 

requires an aggressive plan for our 

science and energy enterprise while 

ensuring that America maintains its 

leadership in a broad range of science 

and technology activities. These 

activities include basic and applied 

research in the physical sciences, 

developing the next generation of 

computational technology and 

developing and maintaining world class 

scientific user facilities. The output of 

the QTR process will be coordinated 

with the Quadrennial Energy Review 

(QER). These planning products will 

build and extend existing strategic, 

program and budget planning activities 

within the Science and Energy offices 

and are expected to inform ongoing 

budget discussions. 

The QTR 2015, focusing on DOE 

energy technology RDD&D activities, 

builds upon the first QTR in 2011, and 

complements the work of the QER, 

which focuses on government-wide 

energy policy. The 2011 QTR was 

developed in response to the Report to 

the President on ‘‘Accelerating the Pace 

of Change in Energy Technologies 

through an Integrated Federal Energy 

Policy’’ by the President’s Council of 

Advisors on Science and Technology. 

The first QTR defined a framework for 

understanding and discussing energy 

system challenges, established a set of 

priorities for the Department, and 

explained to stakeholders the roles of 

DOE and the national laboratories, the 

broader government, the private sector, 

academia, and innovation in energy 

transformation. 

QTR 2015 will describe the nation’s 

energy landscape and the dramatic 

changes that have taken place in the last 

four years. Specifically, it will begin by 

building on the first QTR and 

identifying what has changed in the 

technologies reviewed within it since 

2011. It will then identify the RDD&D 

activities, opportunities, and pathways 

forward to help address our national 

energy challenges. QTR 2015 will 

approach the analysis from a strong 

systems perspective, it will explore the 

integration of science and energy 

technology RDD&D, it will examine 

cross-cutting technology RDD&D, and it 


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