12680 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 44 / Monday, March 7, 2022 / Notices 

Title and OMB Number: EAC Progress 

Report; 86 FR 73747 (Page 73747– 

73748, Document Number: 2021–28199) 

Purpose 

This proposed information collection 

was previously published in the Federal 

Register on December 28, 2021 and 

allowed 60 days for public comment. In 

compliance with Section 3507(a)(1)(D) 

of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) 

of 1995, EAC has submitted to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) a 

request for review and approval of the 

information collection listed below. The 

purpose of this notice is to allow an 

additional 30 days for public comment 

from all interested individuals and 

organizations. 

The EAC Office of Grants 

Management (EAC/OGM) is responsible 

for distributing, monitoring and 

providing technical assistance to states 

and grantees on the use of federal funds. 

EAC/OGM also reports on how the 

funds are spent to Congress, negotiates 

indirect cost rates with grantees, and 

resolves audit findings on the use of 

HAVA funds. 

The EAC Progress Report has been 

developed for both interim and final 

progress reports for grants issued under 

HAVA authority. This revised format 

builds upon that report for the various 

grant awards given by EAC and provides 

terminology clarification. The Progress 

Report will directly benefit award 

recipients by making it easier for them 

to administer federal grant and 

cooperative agreement programs 

through standardization of the types of 

information required in progress 

reports—thereby reducing their 

administrative effort and costs. 

Public Comments 

We are soliciting public comments to 

permit the EAC to: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary for 

the proper functions of the Office of 

Grants Management. 

• Evaluate the accuracy of our 

estimate of burden for this proposed 

collection, including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used. 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected. 

• Minimize the reporting burden on 

those who are to respond, including the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Please note that comments submitted 

in response to this Notice are public 

record. Before including any detailed 

personal information, you should be 

aware that your comments as submitted, 

including your personal information, 

will be available for public review. OMB 

approval is requested for 3 years. 

Respondents: All EAC grantees. 

Annual Reporting Burden 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

EAC grant Instrument Total number 

of respondents 

Total number 

of responses 

per year 

Average 

burden hours 

per 

response 

Annual 

burden hours 

251 .................................................... EAC–PNR ........................................ 35 2 1 70 

101 .................................................... EAC–PNR ........................................ 20 2 1 40 

Election Security ............................... EAC–PNR ........................................ 56 2 1 112 

CARES .............................................. EAC–PNR ........................................ 15 2 1 30 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 252 

The estimated cost of the annualized 

cost of this burden is: $5,727.96, which 

is calculated by taking the annualized 

burden (252 hours) and multiplying by 

an hourly rate of $22.73 (GS–8/Step 5 

hourly basic rate). 

Amanda Joiner, 

Acting General Counsel, U.S. Election 

Assistance Commission. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Amended Record of Decision for the 

Long-Term Management and Storage 

of Elemental Mercury 

AGENCY: Office of Environmental 

Management, U.S. Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Amended record of decision. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) is issuing this Amended 

Record of Decision (AROD) to amend its 

previous AROD for the long-term 

management and storage of elemental 

mercury published in the Federal 

Register on October 6, 2020. This AROD 

withdraws the decision to store at Waste 

Control Specialists (WCS) certain 

elemental mercury to which DOE 

accepts the conveyance of title pursuant 

to a legal settlement or proceeding. 

ADDRESSES: For electronic copies of this 

Amended Record of Decision, the 

October 6, 2020, Amended Record of 

Decision, the December 6, 2019, Record 

of Decision, or any of the documents 

prepared under the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

related to long-term management and 

storage of elemental mercury, please go 

to the following website: https://

www.energy.gov/nepa/nepa-documents. 

For paper copies, please contact Dave 

Haught at DOE, Office of Environmental 

Management, Office of Waste Disposal 

(EM–4.22), 1000 Independence Avenue 

SW, Washington, DC 20585 or at 

David.Haught@hq.doe.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information on the management 

and storage of elemental mercury, 

please contact Dave Haught at 

David.Haught@hq.doe.gov or visit 

https://www.energy.gov/em/long-termmanagement-and-storage-elementalmercury. For general information on the 

Office of Environmental Management’s 

NEPA process, please contact Bill 

Ostrum, at William.Ostrum@hq.doe.gov 

and at (202) 586–2513. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Pursuant to Section 5(a)(1)–(2) of the 

Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008 (Pub. 

L. 110–414), and the Frank R. 

Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st 

Century Act, (Pub. L. 114–182) (herein 

together referred to as MEBA) (42 U.S.C. 

6939f(a)(1)–(2)), the U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) was directed to designate 

and have operational a facility or 

facilities of DOE for the long-term 

management and storage of elemental 

mercury generated within the United 

States. On December 6, 2019, DOE 

published a record of decision (ROD) in 

the Federal Register (84 FR 66890) 

announcing DOE’s decision to designate 

the Waste Control Specialists (WCS) site 

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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] 

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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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