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1CEQ CCUS Report (June 2021), https://

www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ 

CEQ-CCUS-Permitting-Report.pdf. 

2See, e.g., CEQ CCUS Report, ‘‘Executive 

Summary’’ (June 2021), https://

www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ 

CEQ-CCUS-Permitting-Report.pdf. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cynthia Gillham, Consumer Product 

Safety Commission, 4330 East-West 

Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; (301) 

504–7991, or by email to: cgillham@

cpsc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

December 10, 2021, CPSC published a 

notice in the Federal Register to 

announce the agency’s intention to seek 

extension of approval of the collection 

of information. 86 FR 70476. The 

Commission received no comments. 

Accordingly, CPSC seeks renewal 

approval for the following collection of 

information: 

Title: Safety Standard for the 

Flammability of Carpets and Rugs and 

Standard for the Flammability of Small 

Carpets and Rugs. 

OMB Number: 3041–0017. 

Type of Review: Renewal of 

collection. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Affected Public: Manufacturers and 

importers of carpets and rugs. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

Approximately 120 firms are subject to 

the information collection requirements 

under the FFA. An estimated 100 firms 

issue a general conformity certificate 

(GCC) or a children’s product certificate 

(CPC). In addition, an estimated 20 

firms elect to issue a guaranty of 

compliance with the FFA. Staff 

estimates that the average firm issuing a 

GCC, CPC, or guaranty under the FFA is 

required to conduct, on average, 100 

tests per year, although the actual 

number of tests required by a given firm 

may vary, depending upon the number 

of carpet styles and the annual 

production volume. 

Estimated Time per Response: For 

firms issuing a GCC or CPC, staff 

estimates that the time to conduct each 

test is 2.0 hours, including the time 

required to establish and maintain the 

test records. For firms issuing a guaranty 

of compliance, staff estimates that the 

time to conduct each test is 2.5 hours, 

including the time required to establish 

and maintain the test records. 

Total Estimated Annual Burden: Staff 

estimates the total annualized burden to 

respondents to be 25,000 hours (20,000 

hours for firms that issue a GCC/CPC 

plus 5,000 hours for firms that issue a 

guaranty of compliance). 

Total Estimated Annual Cost to 

Respondents: The total annualized costs 

to all respondents for the hour burden 

for collection of information is 

estimated to be as high as $1,557,750 

using a mean hourly employer cost-perhour-worked of $62.31 (Bureau of Labor 

Statistics: Total compensation rates for 

management, professional, and related 

occupations, June 2021) (25,000 hours × 

$62.31). 

General Description of Collection: The 

Standard for the Surface Flammability 

of Carpets and Rugs (16 CFR part 1630) 

and the Standard for the Surface 

Flammability of Small Carpets and Rugs 

(16 CFR part 1631) establish 

requirements to reduce the flammability 

of carpets and rugs. The standards’ 

provisions include requirements for 

testing and recordkeeping for 

manufacturers and importers who 

furnish guaranties subject to the carpet 

and rug flammability standards. 

Separate from the guaranties, the 

Consumer Product Safety Improvement 

Act of 2008 (CPSIA) established product 

certification requirements for applicable 

consumer product safety standards and 

rules. 15 U.S.C. 2063. Manufacturers 

and importers of carpets and rugs 

intended for general use must certify in 

a GCC that the product complies with 

the applicable standards based on 

testing or a reasonable testing program. 

Manufacturers and importers of 

children’s carpets and rugs must certify 

in a CPC that the product complies with 

the applicable standards based on 

testing by a CPSC accredited third-party 

conformity assessment body. 

Alberta E. Mills, 

Secretary, Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

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BILLING CODE 6355–01–P 

COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL 

QUALITY 

[CEQ–2022–0001] 

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and 

Sequestration Guidance 

AGENCY: Council on Environmental 

Quality (CEQ). 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: Consistent with the Utilizing 

Significant Emissions with Innovative 

Technologies (USE IT) Act, the Council 

on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is 

announcing the availability of and 

seeking comment on an interim 

guidance document, ‘‘Carbon Capture, 

Utilization, and Sequestration 

Guidance,’’ to assist Federal agencies 

with the regulation and permitting of 

CCUS activities in the United States. 

DATES: CEQ must receive comments by 

March 18, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number CEQ– 

2022–0001, by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: (202) 456–6546. 

• Mail: Council on Environmental 

Quality, 730 Jackson Place NW, 

Washington, DC 20503. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, 

‘‘Council on Environmental Quality,’’ 

and docket number, CEQ–2022–0001. 

All comments received will be posted 

without change to https://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. Do not 

submit electronically any information 

you consider to be private, Confidential 

Business Information (CBI), or other 

information, the disclosure of which is 

restricted by statute. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to https://

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amy B. Coyle, Deputy General Counsel, 

730 Jackson Place NW, Washington, DC 

20503, (202) 395–5750 or Amy.B.Coyle@

ceq.eop.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Utilizing Significant Emissions 

with Innovative Technologies (USE IT) 

Act, Public Law 116–260, div. S, 102, 

134 Stat. 1182, 2243 (2020), the Council 

on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is 

issuing this guidance for Federal 

agencies on the facilitation of reviews 

associated with the deployment of 

carbon capture, utilization, and 

sequestration (CCUS) projects and 

carbon dioxide pipelines, and to 

support the efficient, orderly, and 

responsible deployment of CCUS 

projects and carbon dioxide pipelines, 

where appropriate. This guidance is 

consistent with CEQ’s report, ‘‘Council 

on Environmental Quality Report to 

Congress on Carbon Capture, 

Utilization, and Sequestration’’ (CEQ 

CCUS Report or Report) issued in June 

2021.1

Context 

The CEQ CCUS Report 2 recognized 

that to reach the President’s ambitious 

climate goal of net-zero emissions 

economy-wide by 2050, the United 

States will likely have to capture, 

transport, and permanently sequester 

significant quantities of carbon dioxide. 

There is growing scientific consensus 


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3See, e.g., Alexander Zoelle, et al., ‘‘Bituminous 

Coal and Natural Gas to Electricity: >90% Capture 

Cases Technical Note,’’ DOE/NETL–2022/3222 

(Dec. 2021); https://www.netl.doe.gov/projects/files/ 

BituminousCoalandNaturalGastoElectricity_

TechnicalNote_Final_123021.pdf; Y. Du, et al., 

‘‘Zero- and negative-emissions fossil-fired power 

plants using CO2 capture by conventional aqueous 

amines+,’’ Int’l Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 

(Oct. 2021), https://doi.org/10.1016/ 

j.ijggc.2021.103473; Patrick Brandl, et al., ‘‘Beyond 

90% capture: Possible, but at what cost?,’’ Int’l 

Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control (Feb. 2021), 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2020.103239. 

4See, e.g., CEQ CCUS Report, ‘‘Key Findings,’’ 

‘‘Section 5.1,’’ and ‘‘Appendix A’’ (June 2021), 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/ 

2021/06/CEQ-CCUS-Permitting-Report.pdf. 

5See, e.g., Effective Use of Programmatic NEPA 

Reviews (Dec. 18, 2014), https://ceq.doe.gov/docs/ 

ceq-regulations-and-guidance/Effective_Use_of_

Programmatic_NEPA_Reviews_Final_Dec2014_

searchable.pdf. 

6See, e.g., 40 CFR 1501.11; 43 CFR 46.140. 

that, while the first priority for 

addressing climate change must be to 

avoid emissions, CCUS technologies 

and permanent sequestration are likely 

needed to prevent the worst impacts of 

climate change. CCUS deployment can 

and should reduce emissions of other 

kinds of pollution in addition to carbon 

pollution, protect communities from 

increases in cumulative pollution, and 

maintain and create good, unionfriendly jobs across the country. 

CCUS refers to a set of technologies 

that remove carbon dioxide from the 

emissions of point sources or the 

atmosphere, and either transport it, 

compress it, and inject it deep in the 

earth’s crust (and monitor sites to verify 

safe and secure storage operations), or 

transform it for use in industrial 

processes or as feedstock for useful 

commercial products. Technical and 

economic feasibility of carbon capture at 

significant rates has been established in 

the literature.3

In many cases, the carbon dioxide 

must be transported, usually by 

pipeline, for permanent and verifiable 

sequestration. There are important 

differences between point-source carbon 

capture and carbon dioxide removal 

from the ambient air (CDR). However, 

per Congressional direction, and, for the 

purposes of this guidance, CCUS 

includes approaches such as direct air 

capture (DAC), which captures carbon 

dioxide from the ambient air, and 

bioenergy with carbon capture and 

sequestration (BECCS) techniques, 

where transportation and permanent 

and verifiable sequestration is required 

to meet climate goals. The 

Administration recognizes the 

imperative for CCUS actions to be 

considered in a timely manner and in 

the context of a strong regulatory regime 

that includes early consultation with 

Tribal Nations and meaningful 

engagement with communities, 

stakeholders, and other sovereigns. 

To advance these aims, the President 

is committed to increasing support for 

CCUS research, development, 

demonstration, and deployment 

(RDD&D), enhancing the Section 45Q 

tax incentive for CCUS (Internal 

Revenue Code of 1986, as amended 

(‘‘Section 45Q’’)), appropriately 

implementing the robust and effective 

regulatory regime that exists in the 

United States, and ensuring that CCUS 

technologies are informed by 

community perspectives and are 

consistent with the Administration’s 

climate, public health, and economic 

goals. 

To reach the President’s ambitious 

domestic climate goal of net-zero 

emissions economy-wide by 2050, the 

United States will likely have to 

capture, transport, and permanently 

sequester significant quantities of 

carbon dioxide. As explained in more 

detail below, deploying CCUS 

technologies will require agencies to 

manage and complete sound, effective, 

and efficient environmental analyses 

under a variety of statutes, while also 

ensuring that CCUS systems deliver 

desired societal outcomes with broad 

and deep public support. These 

outcomes should generate societal net 

benefits, including emissions 

reductions. In short, the successful 

widespread deployment of responsible 

CCUS will require strong and effective 

permitting, efficient regulatory regimes, 

meaningful public engagement early in 

the review and deployment process, and 

measures to safeguard public health and 

the environment. Agencies have already 

taken actions in the past decade to 

develop a robust CCUS regulatory 

framework to protect the environment 

and public health across multiple 

statutes. This framework requires 

monitoring and compliance with a 

variety of reporting requirements. This 

guidance is intended to address 

opportunities for clarifications and 

improvements to ensure that CCUS is 

responsibly scaled in a timely manner, 

while maintaining the integrity of 

public health, the environment, and the 

economy. 

Guidance 

CEQ issues the following guidance to 

facilitate reviews associated with the 

deployment of CCUS and to promote the 

efficient, orderly, and responsible 

development and permitting of CCUS 

projects at an increased scale in line 

with the Administration’s climate, 

economic, and public health goals. 

1. Facilitating Federal Decision Making 

on CCUS Projects and Carbon Dioxide 

Pipelines 

The process for permitting a CCUS 

project is similar to that for any 

industrial activity, and the CEQ CCUS 

Report 4 recognized that the Federal 

Government has an existing regulatory 

framework that is capable of 

safeguarding the environment, public 

health, and public safety as CCUS 

projects move forward. The Report also 

provided an inventory of Federal 

permits and reviews that are potentially 

relevant to any CCUS project. 

Likewise, the Report identified a 

number of areas where CEQ could work 

with agencies to continue to facilitate 

efficient, orderly, and responsible 

deployment of CCUS. For example, 

federally funded CCUS projects or 

CCUS activities on federally managed 

lands may trigger obligations under a 

variety of statutes including the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA); the National Historic 

Preservation Act; the Clean Water Act; 

the Clean Air Act; the Safe Drinking 

Water Act; the Marine Protection, 

Research, and Sanctuaries Act; the 

Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act; the 

Endangered Species Act (ESA); the 

Marine Mammal Protection Act, the 

Migratory Bird Treaty Act; the Bald and 

Golden Eagle Protection Act; the Natural 

Gas Pipeline Safety Act; the Rivers and 

Harbors Act of 1899; the Federal Land 

Policy and Management Act; and the 

Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act. 

Other safety, environmental, and 

ecological requirements may also apply. 

To facilitate the deployment of CCUS 

in the United States, in line with the 

Administration’s climate and economic 

goals, agencies should consider 

developing programmatic 

environmental reviews,5 such as tiered 

documents or programmatic 

environmental impact statements 

(PEISs) under NEPA, or programmatic 

biological opinions under the ESA, 

where such analyses can facilitate more 

efficient and effective environmental 

reviews of multiple projects while 

maintaining strong community 

engagement.6

For example, a PEIS could be 

prepared for a region where agencies 

anticipate review of multiple CCUS 

projects. In 2012, the Department of 

Energy (DOE) and Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) completed a PEIS 

that evaluated actions that would 

facilitate utility-scale solar energy 

development on public lands in six 


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7See DOE and BLM, ‘‘Solar Energy Development 

Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement’’ 

(July 2012), https://solareis.anl.gov/documents/ 

fpeis/index.cfm. 

8See Bureau of Land Management Solar Energy 

Program, ‘‘Endangered Species Act Section 7 

Compliance’’ (August 2013), https://

blmsolar.anl.gov/program/laws/esa/. 

southwestern states.7 That same year, 

BLM also worked with the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service to complete a 

programmatic consultation under the 

ESA addressing the solar energy 

program’s potential effects on listed 

species.8 Agencies could apply a similar 

approach in the CCUS context, 

preparing programmatic analyses 

assessing impacts associated with the 

deployment of CCUS, such as to help 

identify appropriate areas for CCUS 

project deployment. 

As always, agencies conducting NEPA 

analyses regarding proposed CCUS 

actions must analyze all reasonably 

foreseeable direct, indirect, and 

cumulative effects, including 

cumulative pollution from numerous 

sources. Agencies should work with 

communities and Tribes during the 

scoping phase to identify alternatives to 

the proposed action, including 

alternatives that reduce environmental 

impacts, especially on overburdened 

and underserved communities. 

The USE IT Act established CCUS as 

a sector under Title 41 of the Fixing 

America’s Surface Transportation 

(FAST–41) Act. However, the Federal 

Permitting Infrastructure Permitting 

Council has not received any CCUS 

project applications for FAST–41 

coverage as of the issuance of this 

guidance; therefore, agencies have not 

had the opportunity to develop a 

comprehensive permitting timetable for 

any CCUS project. CEQ recommends 

that the Permitting Council Executive 

Director, in consultation with the 

Permitting Council member agencies, 

establish an appropriate facilitating 

agency for each general CCUS project 

category. CEQ also recommends that the 

Permitting Council Executive Director, 

in consultation with the Permitting 

Council member agencies, develop for 

each category of CCUS project 

recommended performance schedules. 

Identification of the environmental 

reviews and authorizations most 

commonly required will help facilitate 

timely reviews of such projects. 

Separately, agencies may also consider 

implementing memoranda of 

understanding to establish the process 

by which they will collaborate on 

anticipated CCUS projects and related 

activities. 

Carbon dioxide pipelines and 

permanent sequestration are critical to 

the future nationwide deployment of 

CCUS. Extensive analysis identifies the 

priority pathways and necessary 

pipeline infrastructure required to 

achieve CCUS and permanent 

sequestration at a climate-relevant scale 

across all industries, but significant 

investments, planning, and community 

engagement and analysis are required. 

An expanded carbon dioxide pipeline 

and sequestration network in the United 

States should be accompanied by close 

monitoring and enforcement of existing 

regulations and development of new 

tools to monitor and improve safety 

while also reducing the number of 

incidents that result in leakage of carbon 

dioxide. 

To facilitate effective permanent 

sequestration, the Infrastructure 

Investment and Jobs Act (the IIJA) 

provides additional funding for 

implementation of the Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) Class VI 

Underground Injection Control (UIC) 

Program, including funds that could 

enable increased staff capacity and 

training at agencies with geological 

sequestration permitting authorities, 

and providing grants for States with UIC 

Class VI primary enforcement authority 

(primacy) or to States seeking primacy. 

The IIJA also expands the Carbon 

Storage Validation and Testing 

Demonstration Program at DOE to 

include a large-scale carbon storage 

commercialization program to 

demonstrate the feasibility, site 

characterization, permitting and 

construction stages of permanent, 

commercial-scale geologic sequestration 

projects. In addition, the IIJA amended 

the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 

to authorize the Secretary of the Interior 

to grant leases, easements, and rights-ofway to support CCUS activities on the 

outer continental shelf (OCS). It also 

required the Department of the Interior 

(DOI) to promulgate related regulations 

within a year. CEQ will collaborate with 

agencies and monitor progress related to 

these activities and regulations in the 

coming months, including authorizing 

use of geologic pore space on Federal 

lands. 

To build public confidence and 

increase transparency in geologic carbon 

sequestration activities, CEQ further 

recommends that agencies responsible 

for greenhouse gas inventories and 

related reporting, such as EPA, include 

provisions that increase transparency 

regarding CCUS activities in the United 

States. For example, the EPA could 

consider enhancing reporting for CCUS 

and carbon capture and utilization 

(CCU) in proposed rule revisions to the 

Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. 

Transparently and reliably 

quantifying the amount of carbon 

dioxide permanently sequestered also 

requires monitoring and verification, 

which is required as part of the EPA’s 

UIC Class VI permitting and Greenhouse 

Gas Reporting Program requirements for 

geologic sequestration of carbon 

dioxide. For additional transparency 

regarding geologic sequestration 

activities in the United States, agencies 

such as DOI, DOE, and the National 

Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA) should 

consider expanding existing efforts, and 

(when feasible) implementing a national 

program for monitoring deep geologic 

carbon sequestration. 

On pipelines, the IIJA establishes the 

Carbon Dioxide Transportation 

Infrastructure Finance and Innovation 

Program to provide flexible Federal 

loans and grants for building carbon 

dioxide pipelines designed with excess 

capacity. Because multiple Federal and 

State agencies will be responsible for 

planning and permitting priority 

pipeline pathways, and in order to 

ensure that these actions are aligned 

with climate, economic, and public 

health objectives, CEQ will convene the 

relevant agencies to assess opportunities 

for improvement in carbon dioxide 

pipeline permitting. 

CEQ also recommends that the 

agencies with oversight authority for 

carbon dioxide pipelines update 

regulations, as appropriate, to address 

the deployment of CCUS technologies. 

For example, the impacts of climate 

change should be planned for and 

addressed in the design, construction, 

and maintenance of carbon dioxide 

pipelines. Agencies with regulatory 

authority, such as the Department of 

Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and 

Hazardous Materials Safety 

Administration, should consider 

updating criteria for geohazard risk 

evaluation and emergency planning and 

enforce the application of those criteria 

to carbon dioxide and other pipeline 

operations in the United States. In 

addition, agencies should provide 

updated training for first responders 

regarding potential carbon dioxide 

pipeline incidents. Agencies should also 

consider developing and applying 

protocols for safety monitoring and 

enforcement that also consider the 

company’s capacity to respond to an 

incident should one occur, evaluating 

financial risk. 

2. Public Engagement and 

Interdisciplinary Research 

The scale of implementation of CCUS 

likely to be required to achieve climate 

goals understandably raises concerns 


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9See, e.g., E.O. 12898, Federal Actions to Address 

Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and 

Low-Income Populations (Feb. 11, 1994); 

Environmental Justice: Guidance Under the 

National Environmental Policy Act (Dec. 10, 1997), 

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-02/ 

documents/ej_guidance_nepa_ceq1297.pdf; 

Promising Practices for EJ Methodologies in NEPA 

Reviews (Mar. 2016), https://www.epa.gov/sites/ 

default/files/2016-08/documents/nepa_promising_

practices_document_2016.pdf. 

10See, e.g., CEQ CCUS Report at 40 (June 2021), 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/ 

2021/06/CEQ-CCUS-Permitting-Report.pdf. 

about public health and environmental 

impacts, as well as questions about who 

stands to benefit from the deployment of 

these systems. Responsible CCUS 

projects should engage communities 

and Tribes in co-development of 

projects and approaches; protect 

communities from pollution; and 

incorporate environmental justice and 

equity considerations, especially in 

communities that are already exposed to 

multiple pollution sources. 

CEQ recommends that agencies 

undertake measures to facilitate a 

transparent process and meaningful 

public engagement. In addition to 

developing robust Tribal consultation 

and stakeholder engagement plans and 

conducting regular engagement, 

agencies should prioritize the 

development and application of 

environmental justice best practices for 

CCUS efforts.9 Actions that should be 

taken include: 

• Evaluating the impacts of proposed 

CCUS actions on potential host 

communities early in the planning 

process; 

• Providing information about the 

impacts, costs and benefits of CCUS in 

advance of Tribal consultation and 

stakeholder engagement; 

• Consulting Tribal Nations on 

potential CCUS projects in a manner 

that strengthens Nation-to-Nation 

relationships; 

• Avoiding the imposition of 

additional burdens on overburdened 

and underserved communities, 

including by evaluating direct, indirect, 

and cumulative effects and identifying 

and implementing appropriate 

mitigation and avoidance measures; and 

• Ensuring transparent decisions and 

accountability to Tribes and 

communities with respect to any 

applicable mitigation measures 

designed to reduce environmental 

impacts. 

When feasible, CEQ further 

recommends that agencies with 

substantial CCUS technology 

development and deployment activities 

initiate interdisciplinary RDD&D 

programs and robust community 

engagement in the context of CCUS 

technology deployment. This can help 

to ensure that RDD&D on CCUS is 

informed by diverse academic 

perspectives and aligned with 

community objectives and goals. These 

agencies include DOE, EPA, DOT, and 

the National Science Foundation. The 

White House Office of Science and 

Technology Policy should coordinate 

this interdisciplinary research. 

3. Understanding Environmental 

Impacts 

The CEQ CCUS Report also 

highlighted the need to further assess 

and quantify potential impacts on local 

criteria air pollutants and other 

emissions resulting from carbon capture 

retrofits at industrial facilities in 

response to concerns regarding potential 

cumulative emissions from single and/ 

or multiple sources.10 In addition to 

assessing criteria pollutants associated 

with CCUS activities, agencies should 

also assess carbon dioxide emissions 

from project infrastructure. OCS 

sequestration projects should further 

consider possible impacts on water 

column carbonate chemistry. 

CEQ recommends that agencies, 

including EPA and DOE, collaborate on 

studies regarding the effect of carbon 

capture deployment on air quality in the 

United States. Such studies will be 

coordinated by CEQ, and may include 

evaluating use of air dispersion 

modeling as part of comprehensive air 

quality impacts analysis and will be 

used to develop additional guidance for 

considering air quality impacts as part 

of the planning and permitting process 

for CCUS activities. CEQ also 

recommends that agencies, including 

DOE, EPA, DOI, and NOAA, collaborate 

on additional studies that are needed to 

better monitor and verify CCUS results 

and understand the impacts to living 

marine resources associated with 

geologic sequestration and monitoring 

efforts on the OCS. 

In addition, CEQ recommends that 

agencies share best practices with 

respect to data collection and reporting 

on CCUS projects. For example, DOE 

now requires recipients of funding to 

collect and report data regarding the 

non-carbon dioxide air emissions 

associated with carbon capture projects. 

4. Carbon Capture and Utilization and 

Carbon Dioxide Removal 

Each technical approach for CCU and 

CDR differs in technical maturity, 

market potential, cost, and carbon 

dioxide reduction potential. Each may 

also have different societal and 

environmental impacts and benefits. 

Enabling commercialization of CCU and 

CDR will ultimately require increased 

transparency to build public confidence 

in the emissions reductions associated 

with these projects and their durability. 

Such transparency can be accomplished 

through publicly available analyses, 

such as life-cycle analyses, and/or the 

establishment of standards or 

certification for products. 

Commercialization of CCU and CDR can 

be further expedited through Federal 

procurement and other economic 

incentives. The IIJA supports 

engineered carbon removal, including 

by creating regional DAC hubs. 

Agencies with activities and 

responsibilities for CCU and CDR 

regulations, standards, and greenhouse 

gas reporting, such as EPA, DOE, the 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology, and other relevant 

agencies, should consider consolidating 

and publishing a repository for lifecycle analysis (LCA) methodology, 

results, and information related to CCU 

and CDR, building on existing 

collaboration through the Federal LCA 

Commons. As DOE further develops 

standards and certifications needed to 

facilitate the commercialization of CCU 

technologies as required in the IIJA, 

CEQ recommends that DOE and other 

agencies with equities in CCUS 

standards consider evaluating how 

standards and certifications can increase 

Federal procurement of CCU, CCUS, 

and CDR technologies. 

Brenda Mallory, 

Chair. 

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BILLING CODE 3325–F2–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Extension of Application Deadline 

Date; Application for New Awards; 

Statewide Family Engagement Centers 

AGENCY: Office of Elementary and 

Secondary Education, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: On December 20, 2021, the 

Department of Education (Department) 

published in the Federal Register a 

notice inviting applications (NIA) for 

the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Statewide 

Family Engagement Centers (SFEC) 

Program competition, Assistance Listing 

Number 84.310A. Because the SFEC 

application package was not posted on 

Grants.gov until January 10, 2022, we 

are extending the deadline for 

transmittal of applications to March 11, 

2022. We are also extending the 


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