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STATUS: Open. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: This public 

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the Government in the Sunshine Act, 

the Board’s implementing regulations 

for the Government in the Sunshine Act, 

and the Board’s Operating Procedures. 

The objective of this public business 

meeting is for the Board to obtain 

testimony from the DNFSB staff on their 

completed and documented efforts to 

date regarding oversight of emergency 

preparedness and response, with a 

special emphasis on Board 

Recommendation 2014–1, and provide 

an opportunity for the Board to 

deliberate on these topics. The meeting 

will proceed in accordance with the 

meeting agenda, which is posted on the 

Board’s public Web site at 

www.dnfsb.gov. 

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comment@dnfsb.gov, or calling the 

Office of the General Counsel at (202) 

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close of business on September 19, 

2017. The Board asks that commenters 

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on the number of persons who register. 

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receipt of additional materials. 

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and a recording will be posted soon 

after. A transcript of these sessions and 

the associated correspondence will be 

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the meeting, conduct further reviews, 

and otherwise exercise its authority 

under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 

as amended. 

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4016. 

Dated: September 15, 2017. 

Sean Sullivan, 

Chairman. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20160 Filed 9–18–17; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 3670–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Extension of the Application Deadline 

Date for the Fiscal Year 2017; Promise 

Neighborhoods Program Grant 

Application 

AGENCY: Office of Innovation and 

Improvement, Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Acting Assistant Deputy 

Secretary for Innovation and 

Improvement extends, for certain 

prospective eligible applicants 

described elsewhere in this notice, the 

deadline date for transmittal of 

applications for new awards for fiscal 

year (FY) 2017 under the Promise 

Neighborhoods program, Catalog of 

Federal Domestic Assistance Number 

84.215N. The Acting Assistant Deputy 

Secretary takes this action to allow more 

time for the preparation and submission 

of applications by prospective eligible 

applicants affected by the severe storms 

and flooding beginning on August 25, 

2017, in Texas or Louisiana. 

The extension of the application 

deadline date for this competition is 

intended to help affected eligible 

applicants compete fairly with other 

eligible applicants under this 

competition. 

DATES: Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: October 6, 2017. Deadline 

for Intergovernmental Review: 

December 6, 2017. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Adrienne Hawkins, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

Room 4W256, Washington, DC 20202. 

Telephone: (202) 453–5638. Email 

address: PromiseNeighborhoods@

ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) or a text 

telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay 

Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877– 

8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 

21, 2017, we published in the Federal 

Register (82 FR 33881) a notice inviting 

applications for new awards for FY 2017 

for the Promise Neighborhoods 

competition (NIA). The application 

deadline in the NIA was September 5, 

2017. We are extending this competition 

for applicants in Texas or Louisiana in 

order to allow applicants more time to 

prepare and submit their applications. 

Eligibility: The extension of the 

application deadline date in this notice 

applies to eligible applicants under the 

Promise Neighborhoods program that 

are located in Texas or Louisiana. 

In accordance with the NIA, an 

eligible applicant for the Promise 

Neighborhoods program: 

(1) Is representative of the geographic 

area proposed to be served; 

(2) Is one of the following: 

(a) A nonprofit organization that 

meets the definition of a nonprofit 

under 34 CFR 77.1(c), which may 

include a faith-based nonprofit 

organization. 

(b) An institution of higher education 

as defined by section 101(a) of the 

Higher Education Act of 1965, as 

amended. 

(c) An Indian tribe (as defined in the 

NIA); 

(3) Currently provides at least one of 

the solutions from the applicant’s 

proposed continuum of solutions in the 

geographic area proposed to be served; 

and 

(4) Operates or proposes to work with 

and involve in carrying out its proposed 

project, in coordination with the 

school’s local educational agency (LEA), 

at least one public elementary or 

secondary school that is located within 

the identified geographic area that the 

grant will serve. 

In the case of an eligible applicant 

that is a partnership, the extension of 

the application deadline date applies if 

any of the entities required to be part of 

the partnership (i.e., a nonprofit 

organization, an LEA, or a consortium of 

schools) are located in Texas or 

Louisiana. 

An eligible applicant submitting an 

application under the extended 

deadline must provide a certification in 

its application that it meets the criteria 

for doing so and be prepared to provide 

appropriate supporting documentation, 

if requested. If such an eligible 

applicant is submitting its application 

electronically, the submission of the 

application serves as the eligible 

applicant’s attestation that it meets the 


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43952 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 181 / Wednesday, September 20, 2017 / Notices 

1For editorial reasons, upon codification in the 

U.S. Code, Part B was redesignated as Part A. 

2All references to EPCA in this document refer 

to the statute as amended through the Energy 

Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015 (EEIA), Public 

Law 114–11 (April 30, 2015). 

criteria for submitting an application by 

the extended deadline. 

Note: All information in the NIA published 

on July 21, 2017 (82 FR 33881) for this 

competition remains the same, except for the 

deadline date. 

Program Authority: The Promise 

Neighborhoods program is authorized 

under section 4624 of the Elementary 

and Secondary Education Act of 1965 

(ESEA), as amended by the Every 

Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) (20 U.S.C. 

7273–7274). 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

an accessible format (e.g., braille, large 

print, audiotape, or compact disc) on 

request to the program contact person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free internet access to the 

official edition of the Federal Register 

and the Code of Federal Regulations is 

available via the Federal Digital System 

at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you 

can view this document, as well as all 

other documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Portable Document Format 

(PDF). To use PDF you must have 

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. 

You may also access documents of the 

Department published in the Federal 

Register by using the article search 

feature at: www.federalregister.gov. 

Specifically, through the advanced 

search feature at this site, you can limit 

your search to documents published by 

the Department. 

Dated: September 15, 2017. 

Margo Anderson, 

Acting Assistant Deputy Secretary for 

Innovation and Improvement. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20070 Filed 9–19–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

[Case No. CAC–051] 

Notice of Petition for Waiver of 

Johnson Controls, Inc. (JCI) From the 

Department of Energy Central Air 

Conditioners and Heat Pumps Test 

Procedure, and Granting of Interim 

Waiver 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of petition for waiver, 

notice of grant an interim waiver, and 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces receipt 

of and publishes a petition for waiver 

from JCI seeking an exemption from 

specified portions of the U.S. 

Department of Energy (DOE) test 

procedure for determining the efficiency 

of central air conditioners (CAC) and 

heat pumps (HP). According to JCI, 

testing its CAC and HP basic models 

that use variable-speed, oil-injected 

scroll compressors (VSS systems) with 

only a 20-hour break-in period produces 

results unrepresentative of their true 

energy consumption characteristics, and 

would provide materially inaccurate 

comparative data. JCI requests that in 

lieu of the 20-hour break-in limit, it be 

permitted to test its VSS systems with 

a 72-hour break-in period. This notice 

also grants JCI an interim waiver from 

the DOE CAC and HP test procedure for 

its specified basic models, subject to use 

of the alternative test procedure as set 

forth in this notice. DOE solicits 

comments, data, and information 

concerning JCI’s petition and its 

suggested alternate test procedure. 

DATES: DOE will accept comments, data, 

and information with respect to the JCI 

Petition until October 20, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by case number ‘‘CAC–051’’ 

and Docket number ‘‘EERE–2017–BT– 

WAV–0037,’’ by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Email: JohnsonControlsCAC051

waiver@ee.doe.gov Include the case 

number [Case No. CAC–051] in the 

subject line of the message. Submit 

electronic comments in WordPerfect, 

Microsoft Word, PDF, or ASCII file 

format, and avoid the use of special 

characters or any form of encryption. 

• Postal Mail: Ms. Lucy Debutts, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Building 

Technologies Office, Mailstop EE–5B, 

Petition for Waiver Case No. CAC–051, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. If 

possible, please submit all items on a 

compact disc (CD), in which case it is 

not necessary to include printed copies. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Appliance 

and Equipment Standards Program, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Building 

Technologies Office, 950 L’Enfant Plaza 

SW., 6th Floor, Washington, DC, 20024. 

Telephone: (202) 287–1445. If possible, 

please submit all items on a CD, in 

which case it is not necessary to include 

printed copies. 

The docket Web page can be found at 

http://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=

EERE-2017-BT-WAV-0037. The docket 

Web page will contain simple 

instruction on how to access all 

documents, including public comments, 

in the docket. 

Docket: The docket, which includes 

Federal Register notices, comments, 

and other supporting documents/ 

materials, is available for review at 

www.regulations.gov. All documents in 

the docket are listed in the 

www.regulations.gov index. However, 

some documents listed in the index, 

such as those containing information 

that is exempt from public disclosure, 

may not be publicly available. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Lucy Debutts, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Building Technologies Program, 

Mail Stop EE–2J, Forrestal Building, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

Telephone: (202) 287–1604. Email: AS_

Waiver_Requests@ee.doe.gov. 

Mr. Pete Cochran, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of the General Counsel, 

Mail Stop GC–33, Forrestal Building, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0103. 

Telephone: (202) 586–9496. Email: 

peter.cochran@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background and Authority 

Title III, Part B 1 of the Energy Policy 

and Conservation Act of 1975 (EPCA), 

Public Law 94–163 (42 U.S.C. 6291– 

6309, as codified) established the 

Energy Conservation Program for 

Consumer Products Other Than 

Automobiles, which includes central air 

conditioners and heat pumps.2 Part B 

includes definitions, test procedures, 

labeling provisions, energy conservation 

standards, and the authority to require 

information and reports from 

manufacturers. Further, Part B requires 

the Secretary of Energy to prescribe test 

procedures that are reasonably designed 

to produce results that measure energy 

efficiency, energy use, or estimated 

operating costs during a representative 

average-use cycle, and that are not 

unduly burdensome to conduct. (42 

U.S.C. 6293(b)(3)) The test procedure for 

central air conditioners and heat pumps 

is contained in 10 CFR part 430, subpart 

B, appendix M (referred to in this notice 


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