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1The parenthetical reference provides a reference 

for information located in DOE’s rulemaking 

docket. (Docket No. EERE–2020–BT–TP–0011, 

which is maintained at www.regulations.gov/ 

#!docketDetail;D=EERE-2020-BT-TP-0011). The 

references are arranged as follows: (Commenter 

name, comment docket ID number, page of that 

document). 

Technologies Office, EE–5B, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20585–0121. Telephone: (202) 586– 

9870. Email: 

ApplianceStandardsQuestions@

ee.doe.gov. 

Mr. Michael Kido, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of the General Counsel, 

GC–33, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

Telephone: (202) 586–8145. Email: 

Michael.Kido@hq.doe.gov. 

For further information on how to 

submit a comment or review other 

public comments and the docket contact 

the Appliance and Equipment 

Standards Program staff at (202) 287– 

1445 or by email: 

ApplianceStandardsQuestions@

ee.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

December 17, 2021, DOE published a 

NOPR proposing to amend the existing 

scope of the DOE test procedures for 

electric motors consistent with related 

industry changes for nomenclature and 

test procedure developments (i.e., for 

air-over electric motors, submersible 

electric motors, electric motors greater 

than 500 horsepower, electric motors 

considered small, inverter-only electric 

motors, and synchronous electric 

motors); add test procedures, metric, 

and supporting definitions for 

additional electric motors covered 

under the proposed scope; and update 

references to industry standards to 

reference current versions. (86 FR 

71710) Furthermore, DOE proposed to 

adopt industry provisions related to the 

prescribed test conditions to further 

ensure the comparability of testing. In 

addition, DOE proposed to update 

certain testing instructions to reduce 

manufacturer burden. Further, DOE 

proposed to amend the provisions 

pertaining to certification testing and 

determination of represented values for 

electric motors other than dedicatedpurpose pool pump motors, apply these 

provisions to the additional electric 

motors proposed for inclusion in the 

scope of the test procedure, and to move 

both provisions consistent with the 

location of other certification 

requirements for other covered products 

and equipment. Finally, DOE proposed 

to add provisions pertaining to 

certification testing and determination 

of represented values for dedicatedpurpose pool pump motors. DOE is 

seeking comment from interested parties 

on these proposals. 

Interested parties in the matter, 

NEMA (on January 25, 2022) and the 

Hydraulic Institute (on January 26, 

2022) requested an extension of the 

public comment period for 30 

additional days (NEMA, No. 9 at p. 1; 

HI, No. 11 at p.1).1 NEMA commented 

that the extension is necessary due to 

delays in developing their responses 

given the proposed scope of products 

along with the extent of information to 

be gathered. HI commented more time is 

needed for the pump industry to review 

and provide comment relating to the 

testing of submersible motors. 

DOE has reviewed the requests and is 

extending the comment period to allow 

additional time for interested parties to 

submit comments. The proposed rule 

was published in the Federal Register 

on December 17, 2021, and a 60-day 

comment period was provided from the 

date of publication. In light of the 

submitted requests, DOE believes that 

additional time is warranted, and that 

extending the comment period until the 

end of the month of February is 

sufficient. Therefore, DOE is extending 

the comment period until February 28, 

2022. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on January 28, 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 

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 31, 

2022. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2022–02281 Filed 2–3–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 27 

[Docket No. FAA–2021–0943; Special 

Conditions No. 27–21–01–SC] 

Special Conditions: Robinson 

Helicopter Company Model R66 

Helicopter; Pressure Refueling 

Provisions 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed special 

conditions. 

SUMMARY: This action proposes special 

conditions for the Robinson Helicopter 

Company (RHC) Model R66 helicopter. 

This helicopter will have a novel or 

unusual design feature when compared 

to the state of technology envisioned in 

the airworthiness standards for normal 

category helicopters. This design feature 

is a pressure refueling system. The 

applicable airworthiness regulations do 

not contain adequate or appropriate 

safety standards for this design feature. 

These proposed special conditions 

contain the additional safety standards 

that the Administrator considers 

necessary to establish a level of safety 

equivalent to that established by the 

existing airworthiness standards. 

DATES: Send comments on or before 

March 7, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments identified 

by Docket No. FAA–2021–0943 using 

any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRegulations Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov/ and follow 

the online instructions for sending your 

comments electronically. 

• Mail: Send comments to Docket 

Operations, M–30, U.S. Department of 

Transportation (DOT), 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, Room W12–140, West 

Building Ground Floor, Washington, 

DC, 20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: Take 

comments to Docket Operations in 

Room W12–140 of the West Building 

Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, Washington, DC, between 9 

a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

• Fax: Fax comments to Docket 

Operations at 202–493–2251. 

Privacy: Except for Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) as described 

in the following paragraph, and other 

information as described in title 14, 

Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) 

11.35, the FAA will post all comments 

received without change to http://

www.regulations.gov/, including any 

personal information you provide. The 


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FAA will also post a report 

summarizing each substantive verbal 

contact received about these special 

conditions. 

Confidential Business Information: 

CBI is commercial or financial 

information that is both customarily and 

actually treated as private by its owner. 

Under the Freedom of Information Act 

(FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552), CBI is exempt 

from public disclosure. If your 

comments responsive to these special 

conditions contain commercial or 

financial information that is customarily 

treated as private, that you actually treat 

as private, and that is relevant or 

responsive to these special conditions, it 

is important that you clearly designate 

the submitted comments as CBI. Please 

mark each page of your submission 

containing CBI as ‘‘PROPIN.’’ The FAA 

will treat such marked submissions as 

confidential under the FOIA, and the 

indicated comments will not be placed 

in the public docket of these special 

conditions. Submissions containing CBI 

should be sent to Monica Abboud, 

Propulsion Section, AIR–794, Los 

Angeles ACO Branch, Aircraft 

Certification Service, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 3960 Paramount 

Boulevard, Lakewood, California 90712; 

telephone (562) 627–5223; email 

monica.m.abboud@faa.gov. Comments 

the FAA receives, which are not 

specifically designated as CBI, will be 

placed in the public docket for these 

special conditions. 

Docket: Background documents or 

comments received may be read at 

http://www.regulations.gov/ at any time. 

Follow the online instructions for 

accessing the docket or go to Docket 

Operations in Room W12–140 of the 

West Building Ground Floor at 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, 

DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Monica Abboud, Propulsion Section, 

AIR–794, Los Angeles ACO Branch, 

Aircraft Certification Service, Federal 

Aviation Administration, 3960 

Paramount Boulevard, Lakewood, 

California 90712; telephone (562) 627– 

5223; email monica.m.abboud@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Comments Invited 

The FAA invites interested people to 

take part in this rulemaking by sending 

written comments, data, or views. The 

most helpful comments reference a 

specific portion of the special 

conditions, explain the reason for any 

recommended change, and include 

supporting data. 

The FAA will consider all comments 

received by the closing date for 

comments. The FAA may change these 

special conditions based on the 

comments received. 

Background 

On July 15, 2021, RHC applied for a 

change to Type Certificate No. 

R00015LA for the Model R66 helicopter. 

This change incorporated a pressure 

fueling system in the Model R66 

helicopter. The RHC Model R66 

helicopter, which is a derivative of the 

earlier models of the Model R66 

helicopter currently approved under 

Type Certificate No. R00015LA, is a part 

27 normal category helicopter. It is a 

single turbine engine helicopter with a 

four-passenger maximum passenger 

capacity and has a maximum gross 

weight, with no external load, of up to 

2,700 pounds depending on the model 

configuration. 

Type Certification Basis 

Under the provisions of 14 CFR 

21.101, RHC must show that the Model 

R66 helicopter, as changed, continues to 

meet the applicable provisions of the 

regulations listed in Type Certificate No. 

R00015LA or the applicable regulations 

in effect on the date of application for 

the change, except for earlier 

amendments as agreed upon by the 

FAA. 

If the Administrator finds that the 

applicable airworthiness regulations 

(e.g., 14 CFR part 27) do not contain 

adequate or appropriate safety standards 

for the RHC Model R66 helicopter 

because of a novel or unusual design 

feature, special conditions are 

prescribed under the provisions of 

§ 21.16. 

Special conditions are initially 

applicable to the model for which they 

are issued. Should the type certificate 

for that model be amended later to 

include any other model that 

incorporates the same novel or unusual 

design feature, or should any other 

model already included on the same 

type certificate be modified to 

incorporate the same novel or unusual 

design feature, these special conditions 

would also apply to the other model 

under § 21.101. 

In addition to the applicable 

airworthiness regulations and special 

conditions, the RHC Model R66 

helicopter must comply with the noise 

certification requirements of 14 CFR 

part 36. 

The FAA issues special conditions, as 

defined in 14 CFR 11.19, in accordance 

with § 11.38, and they become part of 

the type certification basis under 

§ 21.101. 

Novel or Unusual Design Feature 

The RHC Model R66 helicopter will 

incorporate the following novel or 

unusual design feature: 

A pressure refueling system, which 

will allow for optional pressure fueling. 

Discussion 

RHC proposes to modify the Model 

R66 helicopter by incorporating a 

pressure refueling system that would 

allow for optional pressure fueling from 

a fueling port on the right side of the 

fuselage and the existing gravity system 

via the fuel filler cap on top of the main 

fuel tank. This modification would 

provide faster, easier, and safer refueling 

when the engines are running and rotors 

turning compared to the existing fueling 

system located on the top of the main 

fuel tank. The pressure refueling system 

cannot be used for defueling and would 

include a crash-resistant fuel hose that 

runs from the fueling port on the right 

side to an inlet at the top of the fuel tank 

on the left side of the helicopter. 

Part 27 does not contain requirements 

for pressure refueling for normal 

category helicopters. However, 14 CFR 

29.979, amendment 29–12, effective 

February 1, 1977, provides these 

requirements for transport category 

helicopters. Accordingly, these 

proposed special conditions are based 

on § 29.979 to provide requirements for 

the inclusion of the optional pressure 

refueling system on the Model R66 

helicopters. 14 CFR 29.979 includes 

standards for pressure refueling and 

fueling provisions below fuel level on 

transport category rotorcraft. 

This regulation is intended to prevent 

hazards to ground crew, flight crew, and 

occupants by reducing the probability of 

exposure to hazardous quantities of fuel 

due to spillage and ensuring the 

pressure refueling/defueling system is 

designed to prevent overfilling the fuel 

tank and to withstand an ultimate load 

overpressure event without failure. 

Section 29.979(a) requires each 

fueling connection below the fuel level 

in each tank have a means to prevent 

the escape of hazardous quantities of 

fuel from that tank in case of 

malfunction of the fuel entry valve. 

Section 29.979(b) requires systems 

intended for pressure refueling have a 

means in addition to the normal means 

for limiting the tank content to prevent 

damage to the tank in case of failure of 

the normal means. 

Section 29.979(c) requires the 

rotorcraft pressure fueling system (not 

fuel tanks and fuel tank vents) to 

withstand an ultimate load that is 2.0 

times the load arising from the 

maximum pressure, including surge, 


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that is likely to occur during fueling. 

The maximum surge pressure must be 

established with any combination of 

tank valves being either intentionally or 

inadvertently closed. 

Section 29.979(d) requires the 

rotorcraft defueling system (not 

including fuel tanks and fuel tank vents) 

to withstand an ultimate load that is 2.0 

times the load arising from the 

maximum permissible defueling 

pressure (positive or negative) at the 

rotorcraft fueling connection. The 

design proposed by RHC does not 

include defueling capability. 

The proposed special conditions 

contain the additional safety standards 

that the Administrator considers 

necessary to establish a level of safety 

equivalent to that established by the 

existing airworthiness standards. 

Applicability 

These special conditions are 

applicable to the RHC Model R66 

helicopter. Should RHC apply at a later 

date for a change to the type certificate 

to include another model incorporating 

the same novel or unusual design 

feature, these special conditions would 

apply to that model as well. 

Conclusion 

This action affects only a certain 

novel or unusual design feature on one 

model of helicopter. It is not a rule of 

general applicability. 

List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 27 

Aircraft, Aviation safety, Reporting 

and recordkeeping requirements. 

Authority Citation 

The authority citation for these 

special conditions is as follows: 

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 106(g), 40113, 

44701, 44702, 44704. 

The Proposed Special Conditions 

Accordingly, the Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) proposes the 

following special conditions as part of 

the type certification basis for Robinson 

Helicopter Company Model R66 

helicopters. 

The pressure refueling system must be 

designed and installed as follows: 

(a) Each fueling connection below the 

fuel level in each tank must have the 

means to prevent the escape of 

hazardous quantities of fuel from that 

tank in case of malfunction of the fuel 

entry valve. 

(b) For systems intended for pressure 

refueling, a means in addition to the 

normal means for limiting the tank 

content must be installed to prevent 

damage to the fuel tank in case of failure 

of the normal means. 

(c) The rotorcraft pressure fueling 

system (not fuel tanks and fuel tank 

vents) must withstand an ultimate load 

that is 2.0 times the load arising from 

maximum pressure, including a surge, 

that is likely to occur during fueling. 

The maximum surge pressure must be 

established with any combination of 

tank valves being either intentionally or 

inadvertently closed. 

Issued in Kansas City, Missouri, on 

February 1, 2022. 

Patrick R. Mullen, 

Manager, Technical Innovation Policy 

Branch, Policy and Innovation Division, 

Aircraft Certification Service. 

[FR Doc. 2022–02387 Filed 2–3–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 71 

[Docket No. FAA–2021–0028; Airspace 

Docket No. 21–ASO–41] 

RIN 2120–AA66 

Proposed Amendment of Class E 

Airspace; Dyersburg, TN 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking 

(NPRM). 

SUMMARY: This action proposes to 

amend Class E surface airspace in 

Dyersburg, TN, as the Nally Dunston 

non-directional beacon (NDB) has been 

decommissioned, and associated 

approaches cancelled for Dyersburg 

Regional Airport. This action would 

update the airport name and geographic 

coordinates. In addition, this action 

would also make an editorial change 

replacing the term Airport/Facility 

Directory with the term Chart 

Supplement in the legal description of 

associated Class E airspace. Controlled 

airspace is necessary for the safety and 

management of instrument flight rules 

(IFR) operations in the area. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before March 21, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments on this 

proposal to: The United States 

Department of Transportation, Docket 

Operations, 1200 New Jersey Avenue 

SE, West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, Washington, DC 20590–0001; 

Telephone: (800) 647–5527, or (202) 

366–9826. You must identify the Docket 

No. FAA–2021–0028; Airspace Docket 

No. 21–ASO–41 at the beginning of your 

comments. You may also submit 

comments through the internet at 

https://www.regulations.gov. 

FAA Order JO 7400.11F Airspace 

Designations and Reporting Points and 

subsequent amendments can be viewed 

online at https://www.faa.gov/air_

traffic/publications/. For further 

information, you can contact the 

Airspace Policy Group, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20591; 

Telephone: (202) 267–8783. FAA Order 

JO 7400.11F is also available for 

inspection at the National Archives and 

Records Administration (NARA). For 

information on the availability of FAA 

Order JO 7400.11F at NARA, email 

fr.inspection@nara.gov or go to https:// 

www.archives.gov/federal-register/cfr/ 

ibr-locations.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Fornito, Operations Support Group, 

Eastern Service Center, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 1701 Columbia Avenue, 

College Park, GA 30337; Telephone 

(404) 305–6364. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority for This Rulemaking 

The FAA’s authority to issue rules 

regarding aviation safety is found in 

Title 49 of the United States Code. 

Subtitle I, Section 106, describes the 

authority of the FAA Administrator. 

Subtitle VII, Aviation Programs, 

describes in more detail the scope of the 

agency’s authority. This rulemaking is 

promulgated under the authority 

described in Subtitle VII, Part A, 

Subpart I, Section 40103. Under that 

section, the FAA is charged with 

prescribing regulations to assign the use 

of airspace necessary to ensure the 

safety of aircraft and the efficient use of 

airspace. This regulation is within the 

scope of that authority, as it would 

amend airspace in Dyersburg, TN, to 

support IFR operations in the area. 

Comments Invited 

Interested persons are invited to 

comment on this proposed rulemaking 

by submitting such written data, views, 

or arguments, as they may desire. 

Comments that provide the factual basis 

supporting the views and suggestions 

presented are particularly helpful in 

developing reasoned regulatory 

decisions on the proposal. Comments 

are specifically invited on the overall 

regulatory, aeronautical, economic, 

environmental, and energy-related 

aspects of the proposal. 

Communications should identify both 

docket numbers (Docket No. FAA– 

2021–0028 and Airspace Docket No. 21– 

ASO–41) and be submitted in triplicate 

to DOT Docket Operations (see 


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