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Dated: June 24, 2009. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy 

(DOE). 

ACTION: Notice and Request for the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) Review and Comment. 

SUMMARY: DOE has submitted to OMB 

for clearance, a proposal for collection 

of information under the provisions of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

The proposed collection will allow 

respondents to submit applications for a 

National Priority Project Designation 

(NPPD) as called for by Section 1405 of 

the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 

2005). 

DATES: Comments regarding this 

collection must be received on or before 

July 29, 2009. If you anticipate that you 

will be submitting comments, but find 

it difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, please 

advise the OMB Desk Officer of your 

intention to make a submission as soon 

as possible. The Desk Officer may be 

telephoned at 202–395–4650. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent to the: 

DOE Desk Officer, Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Room 

10102, 735 17th Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20503. And to Patrick Shipp, Office of Information and 

Business Management Systems (EE– 

3C), Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, U.S. Department 

of Energy, 1000 Independence Ave., 

SW., Washington, DC 20585. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Patrick Shipp, Office of 

Information and Business Management 

Systems (EE–3C), Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Washington, DC 

20585, (202) 586–7769; Jody Barringer, 

Office of Information and Business 

Management Systems (EE–3C), Office of 

Energy Efficiency and Renewable 

Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, 

Washington, DC 20585, (202) 586–5404; 

or by e-mail at nppd@ee.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

information collection request contains: 

(1) OMB No.: New; (2) Information 

Collection Request Title: National 

Priority Project Designation; (3) Type of 

Request: New collection; (4) Purpose: 

This collection of information is a form 

that DOE will make available 

electronically on the internet and which 

persons or organizations seeking NPPD 

under Section 1405 of EPAct 2005 (Pub. 

L. 109–58) must use in applying for 

such designation. The draft application 

is available at http:// 

www.eere.energy.gov/office_eere/docs/ 

npp_application.doc. DOE is publishing 

as an attachment to this notice the 

guidelines for requesting NPPD. The 

purpose of Presidential designation is to 

recognize energy projects that have 

advanced the field of renewable energy 

technology and contributed to North 

American energy independence; (5) 

Type of Respondents: Public and Private 

Sector; (6) Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 20; (7) Estimated Number 

of Burden Hours: 400 annually. Statutory Authority: Energy Policy 

Act of 2005, Public Law 109–58. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on June 16, 

2009. 

Steven G. Chalk, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy. 

Appendix 

Department of Energy 

Guidelines for National Priority Project 

Designation 

Presidential National Priority Project 

Designation (NPPD) may be earned by 

organizations involved in projects that 

are leading the way in using energy 

efficiency and renewable energy 

technologies. This designation, 

established by Section 1405 of the 

Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Pub. L. 109– 

58) provides the President of the United 

States and the Secretary of Energy with 

a mechanism to recognize projects that 

are making the greatest strides in 

helping North America reduce its 

dependence on fossil fuels and promote 

domestic energy security. Projects that receive NPPD will be 

highlighted by the Department of Energy 

(DOE) as transformational energy 

efficiency and renewable energy leaders. 

DOE will work with recipients and with 

national media sources to spotlight 

these projects as models for the rest of 

the country and the world. 

I. Eligible Projects 

A. Categories of Projects 

DOE will accept applications for 

NPPD in the following project 

categories: 

(1) Grid-Scale Generation by Wind 

and Biomass Energy Projects. To be 

eligible for NPPD, a wind or biomass 

project must provide electricity to the 

national power grid, rather than 

electricity designed to serve only 

specific end users. 

A wind energy project is any 

installation of technologies that 

generates electricity, fuel or other usable 

energy by harnessing the power of wind. 

A biomass energy project is any 

installation of technologies that generate 

electricity, fuel or other usable energy 

derived from biomass, and may include 

co-firing or co-gasification techniques if 

biomass is responsible for 51 percent or 

more of the energy produced. The term 

‘‘biomass’’ means any lignin waste 

material that is segregated from other 

waste materials and is determined to be 

nonhazardous by the Administrator of 

the Environmental Protection Agency; 

and any solid, nonhazardous, cellulosic 

material that is derived from— 

(A) Any of the following forest-related 

resources: mill residues, pre-commercial 

thinnings, slash, brush, or nonmerchantable material; 

(B) solid wood waste materials, 

including waste pallets, crates, dunnage, 

manufacturing and construction wood 

wastes (other than pressure-treated, 

chemically treated, or painted wood 

wastes), and landscape or right-of-way 

tree trimmings; but not including 

municipal solid waste (garbage), gas 

derived from the biodegradation of solid 

waste, or paper that is commonly 

recycled; 

(C) agriculture wastes, including 

orchard tree crops, vineyard, grain, 

legumes, sugar, and other crop byproducts or residues; and livestock 

waste nutrients; or 

(D) a plant that is grown exclusively 

as a fuel for the production of 

electricity. 

(2) Distributed Generation by 

Photovoltaic and Fuel Cell Energy 

Projects. A photovoltaic or fuel cell 

project must produce distributed 

generation to be eligible for NPPD. DOE 

considers distributed generation to be 

any power source that is designed to 

power an end user within a radius of 

one mile from the source. 


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1For purposes of the National Priority Project 

Designation, the National Renewable Energy 

Laboratory has defined the term ‘‘capacity’’ to mean 

the maximum amount of energy that can be 

generated or stored by a device at any given time. 

For example, the capacity for a wind turbine would 

be the maximum electricity (Watts) it could 

generate given ideal wind speeds. The capacity of 

an energy storage device would be the total amount 

of energy that can be stored in the device under 

ideal conditions. 

A photovoltaic energy project is any 

installation of technologies that converts 

light directly into electricity through a 

solid-state, semiconductor process. 

A fuel cell energy project is any 

application of technologies that uses 

fuel cells to transport energy. The term 

‘‘fuel cell’’ means a device that directly 

converts the chemical energy of a fuel 

and an oxidant into electricity by 

electrochemical processes occurring at 

separate electrodes in the device. 

(3) Building Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy Projects. This 

category of eligible projects consists of 

energy-efficient buildings and buildingbased renewable energy projects. 

An energy-efficient building project is 

one that will retrofit an existing 

building or build a new building such 

that the building performs all of its 

intended roles while using significantly 

less energy than conventional building 

stock. DOE considers the term ‘‘new 

building’’ to mean a building that is 

completed to the point of being ready 

for occupancy not earlier than two years 

before the date of the application for 

NPPD. 

A renewable energy project is one 

using technology that generates 

electricity or usable energy in the form 

of heat, steam, or fuel from any of the 

following sources: solar, wind, biomass, 

landfill gas, ocean (including tidal, 

wave, current, and thermal), geothermal, 

municipal solid waste, or new 

hydroelectric generation capacity 

achieved from increased efficiency or 

additions of new capacity at an existing 

hydroelectric project. 

(4) First-in-Class Building Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy 

Projects. DOE considers a first-in-class 

project to be one that incorporates a new 

energy-related technology or technique 

not used before, not used in the same 

manner before, or not used on the same 

scale before. 

B. Time of Construction 

DOE will accept award applications 

both for projects that are being planned 

(are under construction or will begin 

construction within the next two years) 

and projects that are complete (were 

completed within the past two years). 

II. Designation Criteria 

To obtain NPPD, a project must: 

• Utilize energy-efficient or 

renewable energy technologies and fit 

into one of the four categories of 

projects identified in Section I.A. of 

these guidelines; 

• Be located within the United States; 

and 

• Meet the following criteria (for 

applicable category): 

» For wind and biomass—the project 

must involve the installation of not less 

than 30 megawatts of renewable energy 

generation capacity.1

» For PV and fuel cells—the project 

must involve the installation of not less 

than 3 megawatts of renewable energy 

generation capacity. 

» For buildings—the project must 

have all of the following attributes: 

fi Meet guidelines for Leadership in 

Energy and Environmental Design 

(LEED) certification (any level); 

fi Use whole-building integration of 

energy efficiency and environmental 

performance design and technology, 

including advanced building controls; 

fi Use renewable energy for at least 

50 percent of the energy consumption of 

the project; 

fi Use ENERGY STAR®-labeled 

products wherever possible; and 

fi Include at least 5 million square 

feet of enclosed space (not necessarily 

all in one building or at a single site). 

‘‘Enclosed’’ means space closed off from 

the elements that is heated, cooled, or 

both. 

• For first-in-class building projects— 

the project must represent a first-inclass use of renewable energy or a new 

paradigm of building-integrated 

renewable energy use or energy 

efficiency. Any project establishing a 

new paradigm would need to include 

techniques that fundamentally change 

the assumptions made about energy 

systems as they relate to building 

science. This category could potentially 

include innovative project-financing 

approaches. There are no scale 

parameters for first-in-class building 

projects. 

III. DOE Review and Designation 

A. Selection Process 

After the close of the application 

period, DOE will review the 

applications and determine which 

projects have the potential to receive 

NPPD. DOE will ask the applicants of 

those projects to have a professional 

engineer inspect their project and certify 

that the information contained in their 

application is correct. The professional 

engineer may be an employee of the 

applicant organization. Once this is 

done, DOE will consider these projects 

to be ‘‘certified projects.’’ A certified 

project is one that is reasonably 

expected to meet the selection criteria 

set forth in these Guidelines. 

DOE technical staff will then conduct 

an additional review of all certified 

projects. This review may involve 

follow-up questions for the applicant 

organization. At the conclusion of this 

review, the Secretary of Energy will 

select a maximum of three projects in 

each category to be recommended to the 

President for designation as that year’s 

National Priority Projects (NPP). While 

DOE will accept award applications in 

all four project categories, the Secretary 

of Energy may not recommend NPPD for 

projects in all categories. 

Any organization that applies for 

NPPD may remove its project from 

consideration at any time. 

B. Promotion of Designated Projects 

Organizations whose projects are 

designated by the President as NPP will 

receive recognition from DOE in the 

form of: 

• Receipt of a NPPD medal at a 

national event; 

• National news releases; 

• Prominent recognition on the DOE 

Web site; and 

• Other suitable forms of publicity 

and recognition 

C. Additional Information 

(1) Applicants may request 

confidentiality of information that they 

believe is exempt by law from public 

disclosure; this information must be 

clearly marked on the application by the 

applicant. DOE intends to honor 

requests for nondisclosure of 

information to the extent permitted by 

law, and it will make a final 

determination with regard to disclosure 

or nondisclosure of the information in 

accordance with DOE’s Freedom of 

Information regulations (10 CFR 

1004.11). 

(2) Submission of an application for 

designation does not create any 

obligation on DOE to grant such 

designation. 

(3) Questions or requests for 

additional information about NPPD 

should be directed to nppd@ee.doe.gov. 

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Notice of Cancellation of the Global 

Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement (PEIS) 

AGENCY: Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. 

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