81 FR 42576 - Draft Environmental Assessment for Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, “Energy Conservation Standards for Manufactured Housing” With Request for Information on Impacts to Indoor Air Quality

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 126 (June 30, 2016)

Page Range		42576-42577
FR Document		2016-15328

Section 413 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) directs the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to establish energy conservation standards for manufactured housing. Section 413 further directs DOE to base its energy conservation standards on the most recent version of the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) and any supplements to that document, except where DOE finds that the IECC is not cost effective or where a more stringent standard would be more cost effective, based on the impact of the IECC on the purchase price of manufactured housing and on total lifecycle construction and operating costs. On June 17, 2016, DOE published a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register pertaining to energy efficiency for manufactured housing. Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) has prepared a draft environmental assessment (EA) to evaluate the environmental impacts of this proposed action. DOE is seeking public comment on the environmental issues addressed in the EA. In conjunction with issuance of this draft EA for public review and comment, DOE is issuing a request for information that will help it analyze potential impacts on indoor air quality (IAQ) from the proposed energy conservation standards, in particular sealing manufactured homes tighter.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 126 (Thursday, June 30, 2016)

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 126 (Thursday, June 30, 2016)]
[Proposed Rules]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

10 CFR Part 460


Draft Environmental Assessment for Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 
``Energy Conservation Standards for Manufactured Housing'' With Request 
for Information on Impacts to Indoor Air Quality

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. 
Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of availability; request for public comment, and request 
for information.

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SUMMARY: Section 413 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 
2007 (EISA) directs the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to establish 
energy conservation standards for manufactured housing. Section 413 
further directs DOE to base its energy conservation standards on the 
most recent version of the International Energy Conservation Code 
(IECC) and any supplements to that document, except where DOE finds 
that the IECC is not cost effective or where a more stringent standard 
would be more cost effective, based on the impact of the IECC on the 
purchase price of manufactured housing and on total lifecycle 
construction and operating costs. On June 17, 2016, DOE published a 
notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register pertaining to 
energy efficiency for manufactured housing.
    Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, 
DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) has 
prepared a draft environmental assessment (EA) to evaluate the 
environmental impacts of this proposed action. DOE is seeking public 
comment on the environmental issues addressed in the EA. In conjunction 
with issuance of this draft EA for public review and comment, DOE is 
issuing a request for information that will help it analyze potential 
impacts on indoor air quality (IAQ) from the proposed energy 
conservation standards, in particular sealing manufactured homes 
tighter.

DATES: Comments regarding this draft EA and/or information on IAQ must 
be received on or before August 15, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be sent to Roak Parker at U.S. 
Department of Energy, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, CO 80401, or 
by email at [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the draft environmental assessment should be directed to Roak

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Parker at [email protected] or by telephone at (240) 562-1645. 
The draft environmental assessment also is available for viewing in the 
Golden Public Reading Room at: www.energy.gov/node/1840021.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOE has published a notice of proposed 
rulemaking in the Federal Register pertaining to energy efficiency for 
manufactured housing. 81 FR 39756 (June 17, 2016). Pursuant to the 
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 
seq.), DOE EERE has prepared a draft environmental assessment (EA) to 
evaluate the environmental impacts of this proposed action. DOE is 
seeking public comment on the environmental issues addressed in the EA. 
In conjunction with issuance of this draft EA for public review and 
comment, DOE is issuing a request for information that will help it 
analyze potential impacts on indoor air quality (IAQ) from the proposed 
energy conservation standards, in particular sealing manufactured homes 
tighter.
    Statutory Authority: National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) (42 
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.).

    Issued in Golden, CO, on June 21, 2016.
Robin L. Sweeney,
Director, Environment, Safety and Health Office, Office of Energy 
Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
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APHIS and the facility must agree on all Background DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
parameters, such as time, routing, and
conveyance, by which the consignment The Act authorized the establishment 10 CFR Part 460
will move from the port of entry or of a national beef promotion and
points of origin in the United States to research program. The final Order was Draft Environmental Assessment for
the treatment facility. If APHIS and the published in the Federal Register (51 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking,
facility cannot reach agreement in FR 21632) on July 18, 1986, and the ‘‘Energy Conservation Standards for
advance on these parameters then no collection of assessments began on Manufactured Housing’’ With Request
consignments may be moved to that October 1, 1986. The program is for Information on Impacts to Indoor
facility until an agreement has been administered by the Cattlemen’s Beef Air Quality
reached. Promotion and Research Board, AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and
* * * * * appointed by the Secretary of Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of
Done in Washington, DC, this 24th day of Agriculture from industry nominations, Energy.
June 2016. and composed of 100 cattle producers ACTION: Notice of availability; request
Kevin Shea, and importers. The program is funded for public comment, and request for
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health by a $1-per-head assessment on information.
Inspection Service. producer marketing of cattle in the U.S.
and on imported cattle, as well as an SUMMARY: Section 413 of the Energy
[FR Doc. 2016–15568 Filed 6–29–16; 8:45 am] Independence and Security Act of 2007
equivalent amount on imported beef
BILLING CODE 3410–34–P (EISA) directs the U.S. Department of
and beef products. The U.S. Customs
Energy (DOE) to establish energy
and Border Protection Service collects
conservation standards for
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE assessments from importers. manufactured housing. Section 413
On March 16, 2016, AMS published further directs DOE to base its energy
Agricultural Marketing Service
in the Federal Register (81 FR 14022) a conservation standards on the most
7 CFR Part 1260 proposed rule amending the Order recent version of the International
established under the Act to add Energy Conservation Code (IECC) and
Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) any supplements to that document,
[No. AMS–LPS–15–0084] except where DOE finds that the IECC
codes for veal and veal products not
currently covered under the Order and is not cost effective or where a more
Amendment to the Beef Promotion and
to update the carcass weight for stringent standard would be more cost
Research Rules and Regulations;
imported veal carcasses used to effective, based on the impact of the
Withdrawal
determine the assessment rate for IECC on the purchase price of
AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, imported veal and veal products. manufactured housing and on total
USDA. lifecycle construction and operating
Following publication, AMS costs. On June 17, 2016, DOE published
ACTION: Withdrawal of proposed rule. discovered an error in the carcass a notice of proposed rulemaking in the
weight of imported veal carcasses used Federal Register pertaining to energy
SUMMARY: This document informs the
to determine the assessment rate for efficiency for manufactured housing.
public that the Agricultural Marketing
imported veal and veal products. The Pursuant to the National
Service (AMS) of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) is withdrawing the correct weight used to calculate the Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of
proposed rule published in the Federal assessment rate was published as 151 1969, DOE Office of Energy Efficiency
Register (81 FR 14022) on March 16, pounds, but the correct weight is 154 and Renewable Energy (EERE) has
2016, regarding the Beef Promotion and pounds. In addition, the industry prepared a draft environmental
Research Order (Order) established recently requested the formula for how assessment (EA) to evaluate the
under the Beef Promotion and Research the assessment rate for imported veal environmental impacts of this proposed
Act of 1985 (Act). The proposed rule is and veal products is calculated. As a action. DOE is seeking public comment
being withdrawn because of an error result of both the discovered error and on the environmental issues addressed
noted in the formula determining the the industry request, AMS is in the EA. In conjunction with issuance
assessment rate on imported veal withdrawing the proposed rule and will of this draft EA for public review and
carcass weight and to provide the publish a new proposed rule with the comment, DOE is issuing a request for
calculation to establish the assessment corrected carcass weight and formula. information that will help it analyze
rate on importer veal and veal products. potential impacts on indoor air quality
Dated: June 17, 2016. (IAQ) from the proposed energy
DATES: The proposed rule published on Elanor Starmer, conservation standards, in particular
March 26, 2016 (81 FR 14022), is sealing manufactured homes tighter.
Administrator, Agricultural Marketing
withdrawn. Service. DATES: Comments regarding this draft
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: [FR Doc. 2016–14823 Filed 6–29–16; 8:45 am] EA and/or information on IAQ must be
Michael Dinkel, Agricultural Marketing BILLING CODE 3410–02–P received on or before August 15, 2016.
Specialist; Research and Promotion ADDRESSES: Written comments should
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Division, Room 2610–S; Livestock, be sent to Roak Parker at U.S.
Poultry, and Seed Program; AMS, Department of Energy, 15013 Denver
USDA, STOP 0249; 1400 Independence West Parkway, Golden, CO 80401, or by
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250– email at RulemakingEAs@ee.doe.gov.
0249; facsimile 202/720–1125; FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
telephone 301/352–7497, or by email at Requests for additional information or
Michael.Dinkel@ams.usda.gov. copies of the draft environmental
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: assessment should be directed to Roak

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Parker at RulemakingEAs@ee.doe.gov or included with the criteria to illustrate personnel, and people who live in
by telephone at (240) 562–1645. The how the criteria are applied. workers’ dormitories.
draft environmental assessment also is DATES: To ensure consideration,
Applying the usual residence concept
available for viewing in the Golden comments must be received by August to real living situations means that
Public Reading Room at: 1, 2016. people will not always be counted at the
www.energy.gov/node/1840021. place where they happen to be staying
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments on Census Day (April 1, 2020) or at the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOE has
regarding the proposed ‘‘2020 Census time they complete their census
published a notice of proposed Residence Rule and Residence
rulemaking in the Federal Register questionnaire. For example, some of the
Situations’’ to Karen Humes, Chief, ways that the Census Bureau applies the
pertaining to energy efficiency for Population Division, U.S. Census
manufactured housing. 81 FR 39756 concept of usual residence include the
Bureau, Room 6H174, Washington, DC following:
(June 17, 2016). Pursuant to the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of
20233; or Email [POP.2020.Residence • People who are away from their
.Rule@census.gov]. usual residence while on vacation or on
1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), DOE EERE
has prepared a draft environmental FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: a business trip on Census Day are
assessment (EA) to evaluate the Population and Housing Programs counted at their usual residence.
Branch, U.S. Census Bureau, 6H185, • People who live at more than one
environmental impacts of this proposed
Washington, DC 20233, telephone (301) residence during the week, month, or
action. DOE is seeking public comment
763–2381; or Email [POP.2020 year are counted at the place where they
on the environmental issues addressed
.Residence.Rule@census.gov]. live most of the time.
in the EA. In conjunction with issuance • People without a usual residence
of this draft EA for public review and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
are counted where they are staying on
comment, DOE is issuing a request for Census Day.
A. Background
information that will help it analyze • People in certain types of group
potential impacts on indoor air quality The U.S. Census Bureau is committed facilities 1 on Census Day are counted at
(IAQ) from the proposed energy to counting every person in the 2020 the group facility.
conservation standards, in particular Census once, only once, and in the right
sealing manufactured homes tighter. place. The fundamental reason that the 2. Reviewing the ‘‘2020 Census
Statutory Authority: National decennial census is conducted is to Residence Rule and Residence
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) (42 fulfill the Constitutional requirement Situations’’
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). (Article I, Section 2) to apportion the Every decade, the Census Bureau
Issued in Golden, CO, on June 21, 2016. seats in the U.S. House of undertakes a review of the ‘‘Residence
Robin L. Sweeney,
Representatives among the states. Thus, Rule and Residence Situations’’ to
for a fair and equitable apportionment, ensure that the concept of usual
Director, Environment, Safety and Health
Office, Office of Energy Efficiency and
it is crucial that the Census Bureau residence is interpreted and applied as
Renewable Energy. counts everyone in the right place intended in the decennial census, and
[FR Doc. 2016–15328 Filed 6–29–16; 8:45 am]
during the decennial census. that these interpretations are consistent
The residence criteria are used to with the intent of the Census Act of
BILLING CODE 6450–01–P
determine where people are counted 1790, which was authored by a Congress
during each decennial census. Specific that included many of the framers of the
residence situations are included with U.S. Constitution and directed that
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE the criteria to illustrate how the criteria people were to be counted at their usual
Bureau of the Census are applied. residence. This review also serves as an
1. The Concept of Usual Residence opportunity to identify new or changing
15 CFR Chapter I living situations resulting from societal
The Census Act of 1790 established change, and to create or revise the
[Docket Number 160526465–6465–01] the concept of ‘‘usual residence’’ as the guidance regarding those situations in a
main principle in determining where way that is consistent with the concept
Proposed 2020 Census Residence people were to be counted, and this
Criteria and Residence Situations of usual residence.
concept has been followed in all This decade, as part of the review, the
AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, subsequent censuses. ‘‘Usual residence’’ Census Bureau requested public
Department of Commerce. has been defined as the place where a comment on the ‘‘2010 Census
ACTION: Proposed criteria and request for
person lives and sleeps most of the time. Residence Rule and Residence
comment. This place is not necessarily the same as Situations’’ through the Federal
a person’s voting residence or legal Register (80 FR 28950) on May 20, 2015,
SUMMARY: The Bureau of the Census residence. to allow the public to recommend any
(U.S. Census Bureau) is providing Determining usual residence is changes they would like to be
notification and requesting comment on straightforward for most people. considered for the 2020 Census. The
the proposed ‘‘2020 Census Residence However, given our nation’s wide Census Bureau received 252 comment
Rule and Residence Situations.’’ In diversity in types of living submission letters or emails that
addition, this document contains a arrangements, the concept of usual contained 262 total comments. (Some
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summary of comments received in residence has a variety of applications. comment submissions included
response to the May 20, 2015, Federal Some examples include people comments or suggestions on more than
Register document, as well as the experiencing homelessness, people with
Census Bureau’s responses to those a seasonal/second residence, people in 1 In this document, ‘‘group facilities’’ (referred to

comments. The residence criteria are prisons, people in the process of also as ‘‘group quarters’’ (GQ)) are defined as places
where people live or stay in group living
used to determine where people are moving, people in hospitals, children in arrangements, which are owned or managed by an
counted during each decennial census. shared custody arrangements, college entity or organization providing housing and/or
Specific residence situations are students, live-in employees, military services for the residents.

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Collection		Federal Register
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Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Proposed Rules
Action		Notice of availability; request for public comment, and request for information.
Dates		Comments regarding this draft EA and/or information on IAQ must be received on or before August 15, 2016.
Contact		Requests for additional information or copies of the draft environmental assessment should be directed to Roak Parker at [email protected] or by telephone at (240) 562-1645. The draft environmental assessment also is available for viewing in the Golden Public Reading Room at: www.energy.gov/node/1840021.
FR Citation		81 FR 42576