Notice2024-03285
National Definition for a Zero Emissions Building: Part 1 Operating Emissions Version 1.00m Draft Criteria; Reopening of Public Comment Period
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Published
February 16, 2024
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Energy Department
Abstract
On January 9, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published in the Federal Register a Request for Information (RFI) regarding the creation of a standardized, verifiable basis for defining a zero emissions building by the White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy (Climate Policy Office), through DOE. The RFI provided for the submission of written comments by February 5, 2024. This notice announces a reopening of the public comment period for submitting comments in response to the RFI through March 6, 2024.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 33 (Friday, February 16, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 12330]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-03285]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
National Definition for a Zero Emissions Building: Part 1
Operating Emissions Version 1.00m Draft Criteria; Reopening of Public
Comment Period
AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Request for information; reopening of public comment period.
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SUMMARY: On January 9, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
published in the Federal Register a Request for Information (RFI)
regarding the creation of a standardized, verifiable basis for defining
a zero emissions building by the White House Office of Domestic Climate
Policy (Climate Policy Office), through DOE. The RFI provided for the
submission of written comments by February 5, 2024. This notice
announces a reopening of the public comment period for submitting
comments in response to the RFI through March 6, 2024.
DATES: The comment period for the RFI published on January 9, 2024 (89
FR 1086) is reopened. DOE will accept comments, data, and information
regarding this RFI received no later than March 6, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Responses to this RFI must be submitted electronically at
<a href="https://forms.office.com/g/Y0Ss3UFdL3">https://forms.office.com/g/Y0Ss3UFdL3</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hayes Jones, U.S. Department of
Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE),
Building Technologies Office, Commercial Buildings Integration, (202)
586-8873, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#85cde4fce0f6abcfeaebe0f6c5e0e0abe1eae0abe2eaf3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7d351c04180e53371213180e3d181853191218531a120b">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 9, 2024, DOE published in the
Federal Register a request for information (RFI) regarding the creation
of a standardized, verifiable basis for defining a zero emissions
building by the Climate Policy Office, through DOE. The RFI does not
pertain to a rulemaking action. In addition to other net-zero
emissions, economy-wide goals by 2050, within the building sector, the
Biden-Harris Administration has set the goal to make zero emissions
resilient new construction and retrofits comment practice by 2030.
Accomplishing these goals will require increasing efficiency and
expanding clean energy capacity. Zero emissions buildings will plug
into a grid that is rapidly becoming cleaner.
The American Gas Association, American Public Gas Association, and
National Propane Gas Association (``Joint Requesters'') have requested
a 30-day extension of the comment period to allow additional time for
preparation of their comments. The Joint Requesters explain that they
provide the energy needed to fuel residential, commercial, and
industrial buildings and are thus stakeholders in this proceeding. The
Joint Requesters explained that they need additional time to develop
comments that sufficiently analyze the impacts of the proposed
definition and because limited staff available during the comment
period would make it difficult to develop comments in response to the
RFI. Similarly, the National Association of Home Builders requested an
extension of the comment period because of staffing limitations and
concerns over the definition for which they would like additional time
to provide feedback.
DOE has determined that reopening the public comment period is
appropriate based on the foregoing reasons. DOE will consider any
comments received by 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) of March 6,
2024, and deems any comments received by that time to be timely
submitted.
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of Energy was signed on February 8,
2024, by Jeffrey Marootian, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 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 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 February 13, 2024.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2024-03285 Filed 2-15-24; 8:45 am]
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