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for management and storage of up to 

6,800 metric tons (7,480 tons) of 

elemental mercury pursuant to Section 

5(a)(1) of MEBA. Two domestic 

generators of elemental mercury 

subsequently filed complaints in United 

States District Court challenging, among 

other things, the ROD designating the 

WCS site as a DOE facility for the longterm management and storage of 

elemental mercury (Coeur Rochester, 

Inc. v. Brouillette et al., Case No. 1:19– 

cv–03860–RJL (D.D.C. filed December 

31, 2019); Nevada Gold Mines LLC v. 

Brouillette et al., Case No. 1:20–cv– 

00141–RJL (D.D.C. filed January 17, 

2020)). On August 21, 2020, DOE and 

Nevada Gold Mines, LLC (NGM) 

executed a settlement agreement 

intended to resolve NGM’s complaint in 

its entirety. Under the settlement 

agreement with NGM, DOE agreed to 

withdraw the designation of WCS as a 

facility of DOE for the purpose of longterm management and storage of 

elemental mercury, and DOE agreed to 

accept title to and store 112 metric tons 

of elemental mercury that is currently in 

temporary storage at NGM facilities. On 

October 6, 2020, DOE published an 

AROD in the Federal Register (85 FR 

63105) withdrawing the designation of 

the WCS site pursuant to MEBA as the 

DOE facility for long-term management 

and storage of elemental mercury. In 

that October 6, 2020, AROD, DOE also 

decided to store at WCS certain 

elemental mercury to which DOE 

accepts the conveyance of title pursuant 

to a legal settlement or proceeding. DOE 

did not store mercury at WCS as a result 

of the AROD and is not currently storing 

any mercury at the WCS site. The lease 

agreement between DOE and WCS for 

management and storage of elemental 

mercury expired on June 4, 2021. 

On May 24, 2021, DOE published in 

the Federal Register (86 FR 27838) a 

notice of intent to prepare a second 

Long-Term Management and Storage of 

Elemental Mercury Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(Mercury Storage SEIS–II, DOE/EIS– 

0423–S2). This Mercury Storage SEIS–II 

would supplement both the 2011 

Environmental Impact Statement for the 

Long-Term Management and Storage of 

Elemental Mercury (DOE/EIS–0423) and 

the 2013 Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Statement for the Long-Term 

Management and Storage of Elemental 

Mercury (DOE/EIS–0423–S1) by 

updating these previous analyses of 

potential environmental impacts and 

analyzing additional alternatives, in 

accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and 

will inform DOE’s decision related to 

designation of a facility or facilities for 

the long-term management and storage 

of elemental mercury as required in 

MEBA Section 5(a)(1). 

To address the elemental mercury 

subject to the settlement agreement, on 

February 4, 2022, DOE issued a Request 

for Task Order Proposals seeking 

proposals to provide ancillary services 

for the interim long-term management 

and storage of up to 120 MT of 

elemental mercury. DOE will evaluate 

received proposals to determine how to 

proceed with the interim long-term 

management and storage of the 

elemental mercury for which DOE 

accepts title prior to designation of a 

long-term elemental mercury storage 

facility. 

Amended Decision 

This AROD rescinds DOE’s decision 

in the October 6, 2020, AROD to store 

at WCS certain elemental mercury to 

which DOE accepts the conveyance of 

title pursuant to a legal settlement or 

proceeding. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the U.S. 

Department of Energy was signed on 

March 1, 2022, by William I. White, 

Senior Advisor for Environmental 

Management, Office of Environmental 

Management, 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 the 

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 U.S. 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 March 2, 

2022. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2022–04775 Filed 3–4–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Energy Conservation Program for 

Consumer Products: Representative 

Average Unit Costs of Energy 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, the U.S. 

Department of Energy (DOE) is 

forecasting the representative average 

unit costs of five residential energy 

sources for the year 2022 pursuant to 

the Energy Policy and Conservation Act 

(Act). The five sources are electricity, 

natural gas, No. 2 heating oil, propane, 

and kerosene. 

DATES: The representative average unit 

costs of energy contained in this notice 

will become effective April 6, 2022 and 

will remain in effect until further notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mr. John Cymbalsky, U.S. Department 

of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency 

and Renewable Energy, EE–5B, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20585–0121, (202) 287–1692, 

ApplianceStandardsQuestions@

ee.doe.gov. 

Ms. Francine Pinto, U.S. Department 

of Energy, Office of General Counsel, 

GC–33, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC 20585–0103, (202) 586– 

2588, Francine.Pinto@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

323 of the Energy Policy and 

Conservation Act requires that DOE 

prescribe test procedures for the 

measurement of the estimated annual 

operating costs or other measures of 

energy consumption for certain 

consumer products specified in the Act. 

(42 U.S.C. 6293(b)(3)) These test 

procedures are found in Title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

430, subpart B. 

Section 323(b)(3) of the Act requires 

that the estimated annual operating 

costs of a covered product be calculated 

from measurements of energy use in a 

representative average use cycle or 

period of use and from representative 

average unit costs of the energy needed 

to operate such product during such 

cycle. (42 U.S.C. 6293(b)(3)) The section 

further requires that DOE provide 

information to manufacturers regarding 

the representative average unit costs of 

energy. (42 U.S.C. 6293(b)(4)) This cost 

information should be used by 

manufacturers to meet their obligations 

under section 323(c) of the Act. Most 

notably, these costs are used to comply 

with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) 

requirements for labeling. 

Manufacturers are required to use the 

revised DOE representative average unit 

costs when the FTC publishes new 

ranges of comparability for specific 

covered products, 16 CFR part 305. 

Interested parties can also find 

information covering the FTC labeling 

requirements at https://www.ftc.gov/ 

appliances. 

DOE last published representative 

average unit costs of residential energy 


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12682 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 44 / Monday, March 7, 2022 / Notices 

in a Federal Register notice entitled, 

‘‘Energy Conservation Program for 

Consumer Products: Representative 

Average Unit Costs of Energy’’, dated 

August 25, 2021, 86 FR 47482. 

On April 6, 2022, the cost figures 

published in this notice will become 

effective and supersede those cost 

figures published on August 25, 2021. 

The cost figures set forth in this notice 

will be effective until further notice. 

DOE’s Energy Information 

Administration (EIA) has developed the 

2022 representative average unit aftertax residential costs found in this 

notice. These costs for electricity, 

natural gas, No. 2 heating oil, and 

propane are based on simulations used 

to produce the February 2022, EIA 

Short-Term Energy Outlook (EIA 

releases the Outlook monthly). The 

representative average unit after-tax cost 

for kerosene is derived from its price 

relative to that of heating oil, based on 

the 2010 to 2013 averages of the U.S. 

refiner price to end users, which 

include all the major energy-consuming 

sectors in the U.S. for these fuels. The 

source for these price data is the January 

2022, Monthly Energy Review DOE/EIA– 

0035(2022/1). The representative 

average unit after-tax cost for propane is 

derived from its price relative to that of 

heating oil, based on the 2021 averages 

of the U.S. residential sector prices 

found in the Annual Energy Outlook 

2021, AEO2021) (February 3, 2021). The 

Short-Term Energy Outlook, the 

Monthly Energy Review, and the Annual 

Energy Outlook are available on the EIA 

website at https://www.eia.doe.gov. For 

more information on the data sources 

used in this Notice, contact the National 

Energy Information Center, Forrestal 

Building, EI–30, 1000 Independence 

Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585, 

(202) 586–8800, email: infoctr@

eia.doe.gov. 

The 2022 representative average unit 

costs under section 323(b)(4) of the Act 

are set forth in Table 1, and will become 

effective April 6, 2022. They will 

remain in effect until further notice. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on March 1, 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 March 2, 

2022. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

TABLE 1—REPRESENTATIVE AVERAGE UNIT COSTS OF ENERGY FOR FIVE RESIDENTIAL ENERGY SOURCES

[2022] 

Type of energy Per million 

Btu 1 In commonly used terms As required by test procedure 

Electricity ....................................................................... $41.79 14.26¢/kWh 2 3 .................... $0.143/kWh. 

Natural Gas ................................................................... 12.09 $1.209/therm 4 or $12.56/ 

MCF 5 6.

$0.00001209/Btu. 

No. 2 Heating Oil ........................................................... 25.11 $3.45/gallon 7 ...................... $0.00002511/Btu. 

Propane ......................................................................... 24.46 $2.23/gallon 8 ...................... $0.00002446/Btu. 

Kerosene ....................................................................... 29.73 $4.01/gallon 9 ...................... $0.00002973/Btu. 

Sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Short-Term Energy Outlook (February 8, 2022), Annual Energy Outlook (February 3, 2021), 

and Monthly Energy Review (January 27, 2022). 

Notes: Prices include taxes. 1Btu stands for British thermal units. 

2 kWh stands for kilowatt hour. 

3 1 kWh = 3,412 Btu. 

4 1 therm = 100,000 Btu. 

5 MCF stands for 1,000 cubic feet. 

6For the purposes of this table, one cubic foot of natural gas has an energy equivalence of 1,039 Btu. 

7For the purposes of this table, one gallon of No. 2 heating oil has an energy equivalence of 13,738 Btu. 

8For the purposes of this table, one gallon of liquid propane has an energy equivalence of 91,333 Btu. 

9For the purposes of this table, one gallon of kerosene has an energy equivalence of 135,000 Btu. 

[FR Doc. 2022–04765 Filed 3–4–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 3407–087] 

Big Wood Canal Company; Notice of 

Intent To File License Application, 

Filing of Pre-Application Document, 

Approving Use of the Traditional 

Licensing Process 

a. Type of Filing: Notice Approving 

the Use of the Traditional Licensing 

Process. 

b. Project No.: 3407–087. 

c. Date Filed: January 3, 2022. 

d. Submitted By: Big Wood Canal 

Company. 

e. Name of Project: Magic Reservoir 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On the Big Wood River in 

the Blaine and Camas Counties, Idaho. 

The project occupies land within the 

U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM). 

g. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR part 5 of 

the Commission’s Regulations. 

h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Nicholas E. 

Josten, 2742 Saint Charles Ave, Idaho 

Falls, ID 83404, (208) 520–5135. 

i. FERC Contact: Maryam Zavareh at 

(202) 502–8474 or email at 

Maryam.zavareh@ferc.gov. 


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