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Dated: March 19, 2013. 

James W. Runcie, 

Chief Operating Officer, Federal Student Aid. 

[FR Doc. 2013–06653 Filed 3–21–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge 

Reservation 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of Open Meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Environmental 

Management Site-Specific Advisory 

Board (EM SSAB), Oak Ridge 

Reservation. The Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463, 86 Stat. 

770) requires that public notice of this 

meeting be announced in the Federal 

Register. 

DATES: Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 6:00 

p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Department of Energy 

Information Center, Office of Science 

and Technical Information, 1 

Science.gov Way, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 

37830. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Melyssa P. Noe, Federal Coordinator, 

Department of Energy Oak Ridge 

Operations Office, P.O. Box 2001, EM– 

90, Oak Ridge, TN 37831. Phone (865) 

241–3315; Fax (865) 576–0956 or email: 

noemp@oro.doe.gov or check the Web 

site at www.oakridge.doe.gov/em/ssab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Board: The purpose of 

the Board is to make recommendations 

to DOE–EM and site management in the 

areas of environmental restoration, 

waste management, and related 

activities. 

Tentative Agenda 

• Welcome and Announcements. 

• Comments from the Deputy 

Designated Federal Officer. 

• Comments from the DOE, 

Tennessee Department of Environment 

and Conservation, and Environmental 

Protection Agency Liaisons. 

• Public Comment Period. 

• Presentation on EM Portfolio Plans. 

• Additions/Approval of Agenda. 

• Motions/Approval of March 13, 

2013 Meeting Minutes. 

• Status of Recommendations with 

DOE. 

• Committee Reports. 

• Federal Coordinator Report. 

• Adjourn. 

Public Participation: The EM SSAB, 

Oak Ridge, welcomes the attendance of 

the public at its advisory committee 

meetings and will make every effort to 

accommodate persons with physical 

disabilities or special needs. If you 

require special accommodations due to 

a disability, please contact Melyssa P. 

Noe at least seven days in advance of 

the meeting at the phone number listed 

above. Written statements may be filed 

with the Board either before or after the 

meeting. Individuals who wish to make 

oral statements pertaining to the agenda 

item should contact Melyssa P. Noe at 

the address or telephone number listed 

above. Requests must be received five 

days prior to the meeting and reasonable 

provision will be made to include the 

presentation in the agenda. The Deputy 

Designated Federal Officer is 

empowered to conduct the meeting in a 

fashion that will facilitate the orderly 

conduct of business. Individuals 

wishing to make public comments will 

be provided a maximum of five minutes 

to present their comments. 

Minutes: Minutes will be available by 

writing or calling Melyssa P. Noe at the 

address and phone number listed above. 

Minutes will also be available at the 

following Web site: http:// 

www.oakridge.doe.gov/em/ssab/ 

minutes.htm. 

Issued at Washington, DC, on March 15, 

2013. 

LaTanya R. Butler, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2013–06611 Filed 3–21–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable 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 2013 pursuant to 

the Energy Policy and Conservation 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 22, 2013 and 

will remain in effect until further notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

John Cymbalsky, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency 

and Renewable Energy Forrestal 

Building, Mail Station EE–2J 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121, (202) 

287–1692, Rep_Average_ 

Unit_Costs@ee.doe.gov. 

Francine Pinto, Esq. U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of General Counsel 

Forrestal Building, Mail Station GC– 

72, 1000 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0103, (202) 

586–7432, 

Francine.Pinto@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

323 of the Energy Policy and 

Conservation Act (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 


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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 http://www.ftc.gov/ 

appliances. 

DOE last published representative 

average unit costs of residential energy 

in a Federal Register notice entitled, 

‘‘Energy Conservation Program for 

Consumer Products: Representative 

Average Unit Costs of Energy’’, dated 

April 26, 2012, 77 FR 24940. 

On April 22, 2013, the cost figures 

published in today’s notice will become 

effective and supersede those cost 

figures published on April 26, 2012. The 

cost figures set forth in today’s notice 

will be effective until further notice. 

DOE’s Energy Information 

Administration (EIA) has developed the 

2013 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 March 2013, EIA ShortTerm 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 2008–2012 

averages for these fuels. The source for 

these price data is the February 2013, 

Monthly Energy Review DOE/EIA–0035 

(2013/02). The Short-Term Energy 

Outlook and the Monthly Energy Review 

are available on the EIA Web site at 

http://www.eia.doe.gov. Propane prices 

are econometric modeling projections 

based on historical Weekly Petroleum 

Status Report winter prices and Mont 

Belvieu (Texas) spot and futures prices. 

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 2013 representative average unit 

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

are set forth in Table 1, and will become 

effective April 22, 2013. They will 

remain in effect until further notice. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on March 12, 

2013. 

David Danielson, 

Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy. 

TABLE 1—REPRESENTATIVE AVERAGE UNIT COSTS OF ENERGY FOR FIVE RESIDENTIAL ENERGY SOURCES (2013) 

Type of energy Per million Btu 1 In commonly used terms As required by test 

procedure 

Electricity ................................................................ $35.46 12.1¢/kWh 2 3 .......................................................... $0.121/kWh 

Natural Gas ............................................................ 10.87 $1.087/therm 4 or $11.12/MCF 5 6 ........................... $0.00001087/Btu 

No. 2 Heating Oil .................................................... 27.40 $3.80/gallon 7 .......................................................... $0.00002740/Btu 

Propane .................................................................. 26.39 $2.41/gallon 8 .......................................................... $0.00002639/Btu 

Kerosene ................................................................ 31.19 $4.21/gallon 9 .......................................................... $0.00003119/Btu 

Sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Short-Term Energy Outlook (March 12, 2013) and Monthly Energy Review (February 25, 

2013). 

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 1,023 Btu. 

7For the purposes of this table, one gallon of No. 2 heating oil has an energy equivalence of 138,690 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. 2013–06618 Filed 3–21–13; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 14491–000; Project No. 13579– 

002] 

Western Minnesota Municipal Power 

Agency; FFP Qualified Hydro 14, LLC; 

Notice of Competing Preliminary 

Permit Applications Accepted for 

Filing and Soliciting Comments, 

Motions To Intervene, and Competing 

Applications 

On February 1, 2013, Western 

Minnesota Municipal Power Agency 

and FFP Qualified Hydro 14, LLC filed 

preliminary permit applications 

pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal 

Power Act proposing to study the 

feasibility of a hydropower project, to be 

located at the existing Saylorville Lock 

and Dam on the Des Moines River, in 

the city of Johnston in Polk County, 

Iowa. FFP Qualified Hydro 14, LLC’s 

application is for a successive 

preliminary permit. Saylorville Lock 

and Dam is owned by the United States 

government and operated by the United 

States Army Corps of Engineers. The 

sole purpose of a preliminary permit, if 

issued, is to grant the permit holder 

priority to file a license application 

during the permit term. A preliminary 

permit does not authorize the permit 

holder to perform any land-disturbing 

activities or otherwise enter upon lands 

or waters owned by others without the 

owner’s express permission. 

Western Minnesota Municipal Power 

Agency’s proposed project would 

consist of: (1) A new 80-foot-long by 35- 

foot-wide by 95-foot-high concrete 

intake; (2) three new 14-foot-diameter 

by 740-foot long conduits; (3) a new 

100-foot-long by 50-foot-wide concrete 

powerhouse with three 5-megawatt 

(MW) turbines, having a combined 

generating capacity of 15 MW; (4) three 

new 7.5–MW generator units; (5) a 100- 

foot-long by 75-foot-wide substation; (6) 

a new 3.73-mile-long, 69-kilovolt 

transmission line; and (7) appurtenant 

facilities. The project would have an 

estimated annual generation of 66 

gigawatt-hours. 

Applicant Contact: Mr. Raymond J. 

Wahle, 3724 W. Avera Drive, Sioux 

Falls, SD 57109; (605) 330–6963. 

FFP Qualified Hydro 14, LLC’s 

proposed project would consist of: (1) A 

new 400-foot-long by 300-foot-wide 


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