Notice2023-11380
Notice of Availability of Interim Guidance on Packaging, Transportation, Receipt, Management, Short-Term and Long-Term Storage of Elemental Mercury, Extension of Public Comment Period
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Published
May 30, 2023
Issuing agencies
Energy Department
Abstract
On May 2, 2023, a Federal Register Notice was issued that announced the Notice of Availability (NOA) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Interim Guidance on Packaging, Transportation, Receipt, Management, Short-Term and Long-Term Storage of Elemental Mercury (Interim Guidance). The NOA contained errors that limited the public's ability to review and comment on the Interim Guidance. A correction was issued in the Federal Register on May 9, 2023. Following a request to extend the comment period, DOE is extending the public comment period for the Interim Guidance from June 1, 2023, to July 3, 2023.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 103 (Tuesday, May 30, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 34491]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-11380]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Notice of Availability of Interim Guidance on Packaging,
Transportation, Receipt, Management, Short-Term and Long-Term Storage
of Elemental Mercury, Extension of Public Comment Period
AGENCY: Office of Environmental Management, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comments: extension of
public comment period.
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SUMMARY: On May 2, 2023, a Federal Register Notice was issued that
announced the Notice of Availability (NOA) of the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) Interim Guidance on Packaging, Transportation, Receipt,
Management, Short-Term and Long-Term Storage of Elemental Mercury
(Interim Guidance). The NOA contained errors that limited the public's
ability to review and comment on the Interim Guidance. A correction was
issued in the Federal Register on May 9, 2023. Following a request to
extend the comment period, DOE is extending the public comment period
for the Interim Guidance from June 1, 2023, to July 3, 2023.
DATES: The comment period for the NOA published on May 2, 2023 (88 FR
27495), and corrected on May 9, 2023 (88 FR 29896), is extended to July
3, 2023. DOE will consider all comments submitted or postmarked by July
3, 2023. Comments submitted to DOE concerning the Interim Guidance
prior to this announcement do not need to be resubmitted as a result of
this extension of the comment period.
ADDRESSES: Additional information regarding the Interim Guidance and
other related documents are available online at: <a href="https://www.energy.gov/em/long-term-management-and-storage-elemental-mercury">https://www.energy.gov/em/long-term-management-and-storage-elemental-mercury</a>.
<bullet> Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f79396819e93d99f9682909f83b79f86d9939892d9909881"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8febeef9e6eba1e7eefae8e7fbcfe7fea1ebe0eaa1e8e0f9">[email protected]</span></a>. Please submit comments as
an email message or email attachment (i.e., Microsoft Word or PDF file
format) without encryption.
<bullet> Postal Mail: Please submit comments by U.S. Mail to David
Haught, Office of Environmental Management, U.S. Department of Energy,
EM-4.22, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions concerning the Interim
Guidance can be sent to David Haught, Office of Environmental
Management, U.S. Department of Energy, EM-4.22, 1000 Independence
Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585, (301) 903-1765, or to
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#462227302f22682e2733212e32062e376822292368212930"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d0b4b1a6b9b4feb8b1a5b7b8a490b8a1feb4bfb5feb7bfa6">[email protected]</span></a>.
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of Energy was signed on May 23,
2023, by Kristen G. Ellis, Acting Associate Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Regulatory and Policy Affairs, Office of Environmental
Management. 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 May 24, 2023.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2023-11380 Filed 5-26-23; 8:45 am]
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