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.

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Vol. 87, No. 10 

Friday, January 14, 2022 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

10 CFR Part 460 

[EERE–2009–BT–BC–0021] 

RIN 1904–AC11 

Energy Conservation Program: Energy 

Conservation Standards for 

Manufactured Housing 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notification and reopening of 

public comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) has issued the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

Proposed Energy Conservation 

Standards for Manufactured Housing 

(DOE/EIS–0550). DOE prepared this 

Draft EIS in support of a rulemaking 

announced in the supplemental notice 

of proposed rulemaking (SNOPR) 

proposing amended energy conservation 

standards for manufactured housing on 

August 26, 2021 (August 2021 MH 

SNOPR). DOE invites interested parties 

to comment on how analysis presented 

in the Draft EIS should inform the final 

energy conservation standards for 

manufactured housing. 

DATES: DOE will accept comments, data, 

and information regarding how the Draft 

EIS should inform DOE’s final energy 

conservation standards for 

manufactured housing received no later 

than February 28, 2022. See section III, 

‘‘Public Participation,’’ for details. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

encouraged to submit comments using 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Alternatively, interested persons may 

submit comments by email to: 

Manufactured_Housing@ee.doe.gov. 

Any comments submitted must provide 

docket number EERE–2009–BT–BC– 

0021 and/or regulatory information 

number (RIN) number 1904–AC11. 

Submit electronic comments in 

WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, PDF, or 

ASCII file format, and avoid the use of 

special characters or any form of 

encryption. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice are separate from comments 

provided as part of the public review of 

the Draft EIS. See the EIS website 

(https://ecs-mh.evs.anl.gov/) for 

information on that public comment 

process. 

Although DOE has routinely accepted 

public comment submissions through a 

variety of mechanisms, including postal 

mail and hand delivery/courier, the 

Department has found it necessary to 

make temporary modifications to the 

comment submission process in light of 

the ongoing Covid–19 pandemic. DOE is 

currently suspending receipt of public 

comments via postal mail and hand 

delivery/courier for this rulemaking. If a 

commenter finds that this change poses 

an undue hardship, please contact 

Appliance Standards Program staff at 

(202) 586–1445 to discuss the need for 

alternative arrangements. Once the 

Covid–19 pandemic health emergency is 

resolved, DOE anticipates resuming all 

of its regular options for public 

comment submission, including postal 

mail and hand delivery/courier. 

No telefacsimilies (faxes) will be 

accepted. For detailed instructions on 

submitting comments and additional 

information on the rulemaking process, 

see section III of this document. 

Docket: The docket for this activity, 

which includes Federal Register 

notices, comments, and other 

supporting documents/materials, is 

available for review at 

www.regulations.gov. All documents in 

the docket are listed in the 

www.regulations.gov index. However, 

not all documents listed in the index 

may be publicly available, such as 

information that is exempt from public 

disclosure. 

The docket web page can be found at 

www.regulations.gov/docket?D=EERE– 

2009–BT–BC–0021. The docket web 

page contains instructions on how to 

access all documents, including public 

comments, in the docket. See section III 

for information on how to submit 

comments through 

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

John Cymbalsky, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Building 

Technologies Program (EE–2J), 1000 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20585; 202–287–1692; 

john.cymbalsky@ee.doe.gov. 

Mr. Matthew Ring, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of the General Counsel 

(GC–33), 1000 Independence Avenue 

SW, Washington, DC 20585; 202–586– 

2555; matthew.ring@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Background 

II. Request for Comment on the Rulemaking 

Proceeding 

III. Public Participation 

IV. Approval of the Office of the Secretary 

I. Background 

DOE has proposed amended energy 

conservation standards for 

manufactured housing and is 

maintaining both a rulemaking 

proceeding and an associated NEPA 

proceeding. In the rulemaking 

proceeding, DOE published a 

supplemental notice of proposed 

rulemaking (SNOPR) proposing 

amended energy conservation standards 

for manufactured housing on August 26, 

2021 (August 2021 MH SNOPR). 86 FR 

47744. In the August 2021 MH SNOPR, 

DOE’s primary proposal was the 

‘‘tiered’’ approach, based on the 2021 

IECC, wherein a subset of the energy 

conservation standards would be less 

stringent for certain manufactured 

homes in light of the cost-effectiveness 

considerations required by statute. 

Under the tiered proposal, two sets of 

standards would be established in 

proposed 10 CFR part 460, subpart B 

(i.e., Tier 1 and Tier 2). 

On October 26, 2021, DOE published 

a NODA regarding updated inputs and 

results of corresponding analyses and 

invited interested parties to comment on 

these analyses. 86 FR 59042 (October 

2021 NODA). In addition, DOE 

reopened the public comment period on 

the SNOPR through November 26, 2021. 

DOE explained that it would consider 

the updated inputs and corresponding 

analyses, as well as comments on the 

inputs and analyses, as part of the 

rulemaking. In addition, DOE stated it 

may further revise the analysis 

presented in this rulemaking based on 

any new or updated information or data 

it obtains and encouraged stakeholders 

to provide any additional data or 

information that may inform the 

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In the NEPA proceeding, on July 7, 

2021, DOE published a notice of intent 

(NOI) to prepare an environmental 

impact statement for energy 

conservation standards for 

manufactured housing, to invite public 

comments on the EIS scope, and to 

conduct public scoping meetings. 86 FR 

35773 (July 7, 2021). DOE conducted 

online meetings July 21 and July 22, 

2021, and invited oral comments on the 

scope of the EIS, with written comments 

invited through August 6, 2021. DOE 

has announced the availability of, and is 

seeking comment on, the Draft EIS. 

More information is available on the EIS 

website (https://ecs-mh.evs.anl.gov/). 

II. Request for Comment on the 

Rulemaking Proceeding 

DOE is re-opening comment on the 

rulemaking proceeding to consider how 

the Draft EIS should inform the final 

energy conservation standards for 

manufactured housing The Draft EIS 

analyzes price-based alternatives based 

around a $63,000 threshold for 

manufacturer retail list price and 

different wall insulation requirements. 

It also analyzes alternatives based on 

size of the manufactured housing (single 

sections and multiple sections with 

differences in wall insultation 

requirements), untiered alternatives 

with only differences in wall insultation 

requirements, and a no action 

alternative (i.e., no DOE standard). 

Stakeholders are encouraged to provide 

comment on the alternatives, 

assumptions, and analyses presented in 

the Draft EIS through the EIS process as 

described on the EIS website (https://

ecs-mh.evs.anl.gov/). 

Through this document, DOE invites 

comments in the docket for this 

rulemaking specifically on how the 

analyses and results presented in the 

Draft EIS should inform DOE’s final rule 

for energy conservation standards for 

manufactured housing. 

III. Public Participation 

DOE is interested in receiving 

comments on how aspects of the data 

and analysis presented in the Draft EIS 

and supporting documentation should 

inform DOE’s final energy conservation 

standards for manufactured housing. 

Submission of Comments 

DOE will accept comments, data, and 

information regarding this document, 

but no later than the date provided in 

the DATES section at the beginning of 

this document. Interested parties may 

submit comments, data, and other 

information using any of the methods 

described in the ADDRESSES section at 

the beginning of this document. 

Submitting comments via 

www.regulations.gov. The 

www.regulations.gov web page will 

require you to provide your name and 

contact information. Your contact 

information will be viewable to DOE 

Building Technologies staff only. Your 

contact information will not be publicly 

viewable except for your first and last 

names, organization name (if any), and 

submitter representative name (if any). 

If your comment is not processed 

properly because of technical 

difficulties, DOE will use this 

information to contact you. If DOE 

cannot read your comment due to 

technical difficulties and cannot contact 

you for clarification, DOE may not be 

able to consider your comment. 

However, your contact information 

will be publicly viewable if you include 

it in the comment itself or in any 

documents attached to your comment. 

Any information that you do not want 

to be publicly viewable should not be 

included in your comment, nor in any 

document attached to your comment. 

Otherwise, persons viewing comments 

will see only first and last names, 

organization names, correspondence 

containing comments, and any 

documents submitted with the 

comments. 

Do not submit to www.regulations.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 through 

www.regulations.gov cannot be claimed 

as CBI. Comments received through the 

website will waive any CBI claims for 

the information submitted. For 

information on submitting CBI, see the 

Confidential Business Information 

section. 

DOE processes submissions made 

through www.regulations.gov before 

posting. Normally, comments will be 

posted within a few days of being 

submitted. However, if large volumes of 

comments are being processed 

simultaneously, your comment may not 

be viewable for up to several weeks. 

Please keep the comment tracking 

number that www.regulations.gov 

provides after you have successfully 

uploaded your comment. 

Submitting comments via email. 

Comments and documents submitted 

via email also will be posted to 

www.regulations.gov. If you do not want 

your personal contact information to be 

publicly viewable, do not include it in 

your comment or any accompanying 

documents. Instead, provide your 

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. No 

telefacsimiles (‘‘faxes’’) will be 

accepted. 

Comments, data, and other 

information submitted to DOE 

electronically should be provided in 

PDF (preferred), Microsoft Word or 

Excel, or text (ASCII) file format. 

Provide documents that are not secured, 

that are written in English, and that are 

free of any defects or viruses. 

Documents should not contain special 

characters or any form of encryption 

and, if possible, they should carry the 

electronic signature of the author. 

Campaign form letters. Please submit 

campaign form letters by the originating 

organization in batches of between 50 to 

500 form letters per PDF or as one form 

letter with a list of supporters’ names 

compiled into one or more PDFs. This 

reduces comment processing and 

posting time. 

Confidential Business Information. 

Pursuant 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 via email two well-marked 

copies: One copy of the document 

marked ‘‘confidential’’ including all the 

information believed to be confidential, 

and one copy of the document marked 

‘‘non-confidential’’ with the information 

believed to be confidential deleted. DOE 

will make its own determination about 

the confidential status of the 

information and treat it according to its 

determination. 

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). 

IV. Approval of the Office of the 

Secretary 

The Secretary of Energy has approved 

publication of this notice and reopening of comment period. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on January 10, 2022, 

by Kelly J. Speakes-Backman, Principal 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 

pursuant to delegated authority from the 

Secretary of Energy. That document 

with the original signature and date is 


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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 January 11, 

2022. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2022–00679 Filed 1–13–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

10 CFR Chapter I 

[NRC–2021–0173] 

Operational Leakage 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft regulatory issue summary; 

public meeting and request for 

comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is seeking public 

comment on a draft regulatory issue 

summary (RIS) Operational Leakage. 

The NRC staff seeks to clarify regulatory 

requirements for all licensees of boiling 

and pressurized water reactors that 

apply to operational leakage. This draft 

RIS is a clarification for the NRC 

requirements for evaluation, control, 

and treatment of operational leakage in 

systems required to be operable by plant 

technical specifications (TS). 

DATES: Submit comments by March 15, 

2022. Comments received after this date 

will be considered if it is practical to do 

so, but the Commission is able to ensure 

consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods; 

however, the NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal Rulemaking Website: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2021–0173. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individuals listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• Mail comments to: Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–7– 

A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, ATTN: Program Management, 

Announcements and Editing Staff. 

For additional direction on obtaining 

information and submitting comments, 

see ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brian Benney, telephone: 301–415– 

2767, email: Brian.Benney@nrc.gov, and 

Jay Collins, telephone: 301–415–4038, 

email: Jay.Collins@nrc.gov. Both are 

staff in the Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation at the U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2021– 

0173 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

action. You may obtain publicly 

available information related to this 

action by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2021–0173. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly 

available documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. To begin the search, select 

‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For 

problems with ADAMS, please contact 

the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) 

reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301– 

415–4737, or by email to 

PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. The RIS 2022– 

XX, Operational Leakage, is available in 

ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML21166A122. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents, 

by appointment, at the PDR, Room P1 

B35, One White Flint North, 11555 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 

20852. To make an appointment to visit 

the PDR, please send an email to 

PDR.Resource@nrc.gov or call 1–800– 

397–4209 or 301–415–4737, between 

8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (ET), Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

B. Submitting Comments 

The NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal Rulemaking website (https://

www.regulations.gov). Please include 

Docket ID NRC–2021–0173 in your 

comment submission. 

The NRC cautions you not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in your comment submission. 

The NRC will post all comment 

submissions at https://

www.regulations.gov as well as enter the 

comment submissions into ADAMS. 

The NRC does not routinely edit 

comment submissions to remove 

identifying or contact information. 

If you are requesting or aggregating 

comments from other persons for 

submission to the NRC, then you should 

inform those persons not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

they do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in their comment submission. 

Your request should state that the NRC 

does not routinely edit comment 

submissions to remove such information 

before making the comment 

submissions available to the public or 

entering the comment into ADAMS. 

II. Background 

This RIS is intended for all holders of 

operating licenses and combined 

licenses for nuclear power reactors, 

except those who have permanently 

ceased operations and have certified 

that fuel has been permanently removed 

from the reactor vessel. 

Operational leakage is leakage 

through a flaw in the pressure retaining 

boundary of American Society of 

Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler 

and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC) Code 

Class 1, 2 or 3 systems, structures, and 

components (SSC) discovered during 

the operational life of the nuclear power 

plant outside any ASME BPVC-required 

pressure test. The term ‘‘through-wall’’ 

describes a condition that extends from 

one surface to another surface in a 

component. If through-wall operational 

leakage is observed from an ASME 

BPVC Class 1, 2 or 3 SSC, and the 

structural integrity of the SSC must be 

established to conclude that the system 

remains operable, then the methods 

described in the provisions of the 

applicable inservice inspection 

requirements, as specified in paragraph 

50.55a(g) of title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations, must be used. 

These methods require analysis in 

accordance with the original 

construction code, the implementation 

of an NRC-approved ASME BPVC Code 

Case, or Nonmandatory Appendix U of 

ASME BPVC, Section XI, to verify 

structural integrity or perform a repair/ 

replacement activity. 


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