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findings and draft recommendations 

from the Task Group ‘‘Applying Best 

Business Practices for Corporate 

Performance Management to DoD.’’ 

Meeting Agenda: 

12:30 p.m.–1:45 p.m. Task Group 

Outbrief and Board Deliberations, 

‘‘Applying Best Business Practices 

for Corporate Performance 

Management to DoD’’ 

Public’s Accessibility to the Meeting: 

Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b and 41 CFR 

102–3.140 through 102–3.165, and the 

availability of space, this meeting is 

open to the public. Seating is limited 

and is on a first-come basis. All 

members of the public who wish to 

attend the public meeting must contact 

Ms. Debora Duffy at the number listed 

in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT no 

later than 12:00 p.m. on Monday, April 

22, 2013 to register and make 

arrangements for a Pentagon escort, if 

necessary. Public attendees requiring 

escort should arrive at the Pentagon 

Metro Entrance with sufficient time to 

complete security screening no later 

than 12:10 p.m. on April 25. To 

complete security screening, please 

come prepared to present two forms of 

identification and one must be a 

pictured identification card. 

Dated: April 16, 2013. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Extension of Public Comment Period 

for the Draft Environmental Impact 

Statement for U.S. Navy F–35C West 

Coast Homebasing 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: A Notice of Availability for 

the Department of the Navy’s (DoN) 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

(EIS) for the U.S. Navy F–35C West 

Coast Homebasing was published in the 

Federal Register by the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency on 

February 15, 2013 (78 FR 11171). The 

public review period ends on April 22, 

2013. This notice announces an 

extension of the public comment period 

until May 7, 2013. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Naval Facilities Engineering Command 

Southwest, Attn: Code EV21.AK (F–35C 

EIS Project Manager), 1220 Pacific 

Highway, Building 1, 5th Floor, San 

Diego, CA 92132. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice announces an extension of the 

public comment period until May 7, 

2013. Comments may be submitted in 

writing to Naval Facilities Engineering 

Command Southwest, Attn: Code 

EV21.AK (F–35C EIS Project Manager), 

1220 Pacific Highway, Building 1, 5th 

Floor, San Diego, CA 92132 or 

electronically via the project Web site 

(www.navyf35cwestcoasteis.com). All 

written comments must be postmarked 

or received (online) by May 7, 2013, to 

ensure they become part of the official 

record. All comments will be addressed 

in the Final EIS. 

A copy of the Draft EIS (with the Draft 

Clean Air Act Conformity 

Determination) is available for 

electronic viewing or download at 

www.navyf35cwestcoasteis.com. In 

addition, paper copies of the Draft EIS 

are available for public review at the 

following libraries: 

1. City of El Centro Public Library, 

1140 North Imperial Avenue, El Centro, 

California 92243. 

2. City of Imperial Public Library, 200 

West 9th Street, Imperial, California 

92251. 

3. Imperial County Free Library, 

Holtville Branch, 101 East 6th Street, 

Holtville, California 92250. 

4. Imperial County Free Library, 

Heber Branch, 1078 Dogwood Road, 

Heber, California 92257. 

5. Imperial County Free Library, 

Seeley Library Services provided at the 

Seeley Community Church, 1774 West 

Rio Vista Street, Seeley, California 

92243. 

6. Kings County Library, Lemoore 

Branch, 457 C Street, Lemoore, 

California 93245. 

7. Kings County Library, Hanford 

Branch, 401 North Douty Street, 

Hanford, California 93230. 

8. Fresno County Public Library, 

Central Library, 2420 Mariposa Street, 

Fresno, California 93721. 

9. Fresno County Public Library, 

Riverdale Branch Library, 20975 

Malsbary Avenue, Riverdale, California 

93656. 

10. West Hills College Lemoore 

Library, 555 College Avenue, Lemoore, 

California 93245. 

Dated: April 8, 2013. 

C.K. Chiappetta, 

Lieutenant Commander, Office of the Judge 

Advocate General, U.S. Navy, Federal 

Register Liaison Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Draft Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Statement for the Long-Term 

Management and Storage of Elemental 

Mercury 

AGENCY: Department of Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) announces the availability of the 

Draft Long-Term Management and 

Storage of Elemental Mercury 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement (Mercury Storage SEIS, DOE/ 

EIS–0423–S1) for public comment. As 

required by the Mercury Export Ban Act 

of 2008 (hereafter referred to as ‘‘the 

Act’’), DOE plans to identify a facility or 

facilities for the long-term management 

and storage of elemental mercury 

generated in the United States (U.S.) To 

this end, DOE issued the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for the 

Long-Term Management and Storage of 

Elemental Mercury (Mercury Storage 

EIS, DOE/EIS–0423, January 2011) to 

analyze reasonable alternatives, in 

accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), for 

locating and developing such a facility. 

Subsequently, DOE identified three 

additional, reasonable alternative 

locations in the vicinity of its Waste 

Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, 

NM. On June 5, 2012, DOE announced 

its intent to prepare a supplement to the 

Mercury Storage EIS and held a 30-day 

public scoping period. This Draft 

Mercury Storage Supplemental EIS 

(Draft Mercury Storage SEIS or Draft 

SEIS) considered all comments received 

during the public scoping period. 

DATES: DOE invites public comment on 

this Draft Mercury Storage SEIS during 

a 45-day public coment period 

commencing with the date of 

publication of this Notice in the Federal 

Register, and ending on June 3, 2013. In 

preparing the Mercury Storage SEIS, 

DOE will consider all comments 

received or postmarked by that date. 

Comments received after that date will 

be considered to the extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: DOE will hold two public 

hearings during the public comment 

period. The dates, times and locations of 

the public hearings are as follows. 

May 7, 2013 

Open house 5:00 p.m.—6:00 p.m. 

Public hearing 6:00 p.m.—9:00 p.m. 

Skeen-Whitlock Building Auditorium 

DOE, Carlsbad Field Office 

4021 National Parks Highway 

Carlsbad, New Mexico 88220 

May 9, 2013 

Open house 5:00 p.m.—6:00 p.m. 

Public hearing 6:00 p.m.—9:00 p.m. 

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Crowne Plaza Albuquerque Hotel 

1901 University Blvd. NE 

Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102. 

Written comments not submitted 

during the public hearings may be 

mailed to: 

Mr. David Levenstein, Document 

Manager, Office of Environmental 

Compliance (EM–11), U.S. 

Department of Energy, Post Office Box 

2612, Germantown, Maryland 20874 

Written comments may also be 

submitted via the Draft Mercury Storage 

EIS Web site at http:// 

mercurystorageeis.com/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request further information about the 

Draft Mercury Storage SEIS or the 

Mercury Storage EIS, or to be placed on 

the distribution list for the Final 

Mercury Storage SEIS, use either of the 

methods (mail or Web site) listed under 

ADDRESSES. The Draft Mercury Storage 

SEIS contains a Summary, all chapters, 

appendices and other text within one 

volume, and includes a CD ROM of the 

full Draft Mercury Storage SEIS and the 

full 2011 Mercury Storage EIS. 

For general information concerning 

DOE’s NEPA process, please contact: 

Ms. Carol M. Borgstrom, Director, Office 

of NEPA Policy and Compliance (GC– 

54), U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585. Telephone: 

(202) 586–4600, by fax at (202) 586– 

7031, by email at 

askNEPA@hq.doe.gov or leave a 

message at 1–800–472–2756. The 

Draft Mercury Storage SEIS is 

available on the Internet at http:// 

www.energy.gov/NEPA/ and on the 

project Web site at http:// 

mercurystorageeis.com/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008 

(Pub. L. 110–414) amends the Toxic 

Substances Control Act (TSCA) (15 

U.S.C. 2605(f)) to prohibit the sale, 

distribution, or transfer by Federal 

agencies to any other Federal agency, 

any state or local government agency, or 

any private individual or entity, of any 

elemental mercury under the control or 

jurisdiction of a Federal agency (with 

certain limited exceptions). It also 

amends TSCA (15 U.S.C. 2611(c)) to 

prohibit the export of elemental 

mercury from the U.S. effective January 

1, 2013 (subject to certain essential use 

exemptions). Section 5 of the Act, LongTerm Storage, amends the Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA, 

42 U.S.C. 6939f) and directs DOE to 

designate a facility or facilities for the 

long-term management and storage of 

elemental mercury generated within the 

U.S. 

To evaluate the range of reasonable 

alternatives for siting, constructing and 

operating a facility or facilities to meet 

its obligations under the Act, DOE 

prepared the Mercury Storage EIS in 

accordance with NEPA and its 

implementing regulations (40 CFR parts 

1500–1508 and 10 CFR part 1021) and 

issued the Mercury Storage EIS in 

January 2011 (76 FR 5145). The Mercury 

Storage EIS and related NEPA 

documents are available at the Web sites 

listed under ADDRESSES. DOE estimated 

that up to approximately 10,000 metric 

tons of elemental mercury would need 

to be managed and stored at the DOE 

facility during the 40-year period of 

analysis. These estimates do not include 

approximately 4,400 metric tons of 

elemental mercury that the Department 

of Defense (DOD) stores at its facility in 

Hawthorne, Nevada. 

Purpose and Need for Action 

DOE’s purpose and need for action 

remains unchanged from the 2011 

Mercury Storage EIS. That is, DOE 

needs to designate a facility or facilities 

for the long-term management and 

storage of elemental mercury generated 

within the U.S., as required by the Act. 

Proposed Action 

As also stated in the 2011 Mercury 

Storage EIS, DOE proposes to construct 

one or more new facilities and/or select 

one or more existing facilities (including 

modification as needed) for the longterm management and storage of 

elemental mercury in accordance with 

the Act. Facilities to be constructed as 

well as existing or modified facilities 

must comply with applicable 

requirements of section 5(d) of the Act, 

Management Standards for a Facility, 

including the requirements of the Solid 

Waste Disposal Act as amended by the 

Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.), and other 

permitting requirements. 

Proposed Alternatives 

The January 2011 Mercury Storage 

EIS evaluated seven candidate sites for 

the facility or facilities, as well as a No 

Action Alternative as required under 

NEPA. The candidate sites are: DOE 

Grand Junction Disposal site near Grand 

Junction, Colorado; DOE Hanford site 

near Richland, Washington; Hawthorne 

Army Depot near Hawthorne, Nevada; 

DOE Idaho National Laboratory near 

Idaho Falls, Idaho (2 locations); DOE 

Kansas City Plant in Kansas City, 

Missouri; DOE Savannah River Site near 

Aiken, South Carolina; and Waste 

Control Specialists, LLC, site near 

Andrews, Texas. 

Since publication of the 2011 Mercury 

Storage EIS, DOE has reconsidered the 

range of reasonable alternatives 

evaluated in that EIS and on June 5, 

2012, DOE announced its intent to 

prepare a supplement to the Mercury 

Storage EIS (77 FR 33204). DOE held 

two public meetings during a 30-day 

public scoping period and considered 

all comments received during that 

period in preparing this Draft SEIS. 

The scope of this Draft Mercury 

Storage SEIS includes three locations for 

a long-term mercury storage facility at or 

near the WIPP site, which DOE operates 

for disposal of defense transuranic 

waste. The additional locations 

evaluated in the Draft Mercury Storage 

SEIS are in: Section 20, Township 22 

South, Range 31 East within the land 

subject to the WIPP Land Withdrawal 

Act (Pub. L. 102–579) as amended; 

Section 10, Township 22 South, Range 

31 East, in the vicinity of WIPP, but 

outside of the lands withdrawn by the 

WIPP Land Withdrawal Act; and 

Section 35, Township 22 South, Range 

31 East, also outside of the lands 

withdrawn by the WIPP Land 

Withdrawal Act. Each of these locations 

is suitable for an above-ground storage 

facility and can take advantage of 

existing roads and other infrastructure. 

DOE identified the Waste Control 

Specialists, LLC location near Andrews, 

Texas, as the Preferred Alternative in 

the 2011 Mercury Storage EIS. DOE has 

not changed its preferred alternative in 

the Draft Mercury Storage SEIS; 

however, the preferred alternative may 

or may not change as a result of public 

comment on this draft and further 

analysis in completing the Final 

Mercury Storage SEIS. 

Among the potential health and 

environmental impacts evaluated in the 

Draft Mercury Storage SEIS is an 

evaluation of the potential cumulative 

impacts of constructing and operating a 

facility for long-term management and 

storage of elemental mercury with the 

ongoing and planned operations of 

WIPP for disposal of defense transuranic 

waste. The Draft Mercury Storage SEIS 

also considers the potential disposal of 

greater-than-Class C waste (Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for the 

Disposal of Greater-Than-Class C 

(GTCC) Low-level Radioactive Waste 

and GTCC-Like Waste (DOE/EIS–0375, 

February 2011)), which included two 

separately identified locations at WIPP 

and the WIPP vicinity. 

Public Participation in the SEIS Process 

At each public hearing, DOE 

representatives will be available during 

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1See http://www.iccsafe.org/cs/codes/pages/ 

default.aspx. 2See http://www.energycodes.gov/development. 

an open house to greet stakeholders and 

review presentational materials. 

Participants wishing to speak during 

each public hearing will be asked to 

register and will be given 10 minutes to 

speak, in the order in which 

participants have signed up. Once all 

those who wish to speak have had an 

opportunity to do so, participants will 

be given additional time until time for 

the public hearings to conclude. A court 

reporter will record the proceedings at 

each public hearing. 

DOE invites Federal agencies, state, 

local, and tribal governments, and the 

general public to comment on the Draft 

Mercury Storage SEIS during the public 

comment period. DOE will consider all 

public comments on the Draft SEIS 

equally in preparing the Final Mercury 

Storage SEIS. Any comments received 

after the deadline will be considered to 

the extent practicable. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on April 16, 

2013. 

Mark Gilbertson, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Site 

Restoration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

[Docket No. EERE–2012–BT–BC–0030] 

Department of Energy’s (DOE) 

Participation in Development of the 

International Energy Conservation 

Code 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The DOE participates in the 

code development process of the 

International Code Council (ICC), which 

produces the International Energy 

Conservation Code (IECC). DOE will 

continue to publish code change 

proposals for the IECC before submitting 

them to the ICC to allow interested 

parties an opportunity to provide 

suggested revisions, enhancements to 

and comments on DOE code change 

proposals. This notice outlines the 

process by which DOE produces code 

change proposals, and participates in 

the ICC code development process. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jeremiah Williams, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency 

and Renewable Energy, Building 

Technologies Office, Mailstop EE–2J, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121, 

Telephone: (202) 287–1941, Email: 

jeremiah.williams@ee.doe.gov. 

Kavita Vaidyanathan, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Office of the 

General Counsel, Forrestal Building, 

Mailstop GC–71, 1000 Independence 

Ave. SW., Washington, DC 20585, 

Telephone: (202) 586–0669, Email: 

kavita.vaidyanathan@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 

supports the International Energy 

Conservation Code (IECC) by 

participating in the code development 

processes administered by the 

International Code Council (ICC). As a 

participant in this process, DOE 

considers and evaluates concepts to be 

submitted as proposed changes to the 

IECC (‘‘code’’). This Notice outlines the 

process by which DOE produces code 

change proposals, and participates in 

the ICC code development process. Note 

that, if approved through the ICC code 

development process, DOE’s proposed 

changes would be contained in the next 

edition of the IECC. 

A. Statutory Requirements 

Title III of the Energy Conservation 

and Production Act, as amended 

(ECPA), establishes requirements related 

to energy conservation standards for 

new buildings. (42 U.S.C. 6831–6837). 

Section 307 (b) of ECPA directs DOE to 

support voluntary building energy codes 

by periodically reviewing the technical 

and economic basis of the voluntary 

building codes, recommending 

amendments to such codes, seeking 

adoption of all technologically feasible 

and economically justified energy 

efficiency measures, and otherwise 

participate in any industry process for 

review and modification of such codes. 

(42 U.S.C. 6836(b)) 

B. Background 

The IECC serves as a model building 

energy code and is adopted by many 

U.S. states, territories, the District of 

Columbia, and localities across the 

nation. Development of the IECC is 

administered by the ICC, with revisions 

taking place every three years under the 

ICC governmental consensus process. 

Any party can propose changes to the 

IECC with proposed code changes 

subject to the bylaws, policies and 

procedures as defined by the ICC.1

II. DOE’s Participation in the ICC Code 

Development Process 

As described above, under ECPA, one 

of the methods by which DOE supports 

the upgrade of voluntary building 

energy codes is through participation in 

the IECC development process. DOE 

participates in the ICC code 

development process by: 

1. Developing code change proposals 

for submission to the ICC; 

2. Gathering public input on DOE 

code change proposals from interested 

parties prior to submitting them to ICC; 

3. Conducting necessary technical 

analyses to document the validity of 

DOE code change proposals; and 

4. Participating in the ICC code 

development hearings. 

DOE Proposal Development 

DOE seeks to advance energy 

efficiency in the IECC by strengthening 

the code where cost-effective, and 

improving the criteria to be more easily 

understood, applied, implemented and 

enforced. Prior to submitting code 

change proposals to the ICC, DOE has 

and will continue to publish code 

change proposals that it has developed, 

along with documentation of concepts, 

for public review and comment at: 

http://www.energycodes.gov/ 

development. This represents an 

opportunity for parties to provide 

information they wish DOE to be aware 

of during the evaluation of proposals for 

the IECC. Following the opportunity for 

public review and comment DOE will 

not provide responses to individual 

comments, but will consider any and all 

comments timely submitted in 

developing final code change proposals. 

Final proposals will be posted at the 

same web address for public viewing 

prior to submitting to the ICC. 

DOE Technical Analysis 

In developing concepts for 

submission to the ICC, DOE conducts a 

series of analyses to evaluate energy 

savings and economic impacts of 

potential code change proposals. As this 

analysis is completed, resources have 

been and will be published online, 

including: the DOE residential costeffectiveness methodology, energy and 

economic assumptions, energy 

simulation models, investigations into 

special topic areas, and draft proposal 

language. Any interested party wishing 

to review or build-upon the DOE 

analysis can access it via the DOE 

Building Energy Codes Web site.2

DOE references all analysis and 

supporting documentation as required 

by the ICC. Analysis performed by DOE 

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