81_FR_90138 81 FR 89899 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES) Please

81 FR 89899 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES) Please

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 239 (December 13, 2016)

Page Range89899-89900
FR Document2016-29778

The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 239 (Tuesday, December 13, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 239 (Tuesday, December 13, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 89899-89900]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-29778]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Building for 
Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES) Please

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 
Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort 
to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public 
and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on 
proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before February 13, 
2017.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 
Paperwork Clearance Officer, Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th 
and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet 
at [email protected]).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should 
be directed to Joshua D. Kneifel, (301) 975-6857 or 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract

    Over the last 23 years, the Engineering Laboratory of the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed and 
automated an approach for measuring the life-cycle environmental and 
economic performance of building products. Known as BEES (Building for 
Environmental and Economic Sustainability), the tool reduces complex, 
science-based technical content (e.g., over 500 material and energy 
flows from raw material extraction through product disposal) to 
decision-enabling results and delivers them in a visually intuitive 
graphical format. BEES Please is a voluntary program to collect data 
from product manufacturers so that the environmental performance of 
their products may be evaluated scientifically using BEES. NIST will 
publish in BEES Online (http://ws680.nist.gov/bees) an aggregated 
version of the data collected from manufacturers that protects data 
confidentiality, subject to manufacturer's review and approval. BEES 
measures environmental performance using the environmental life-cycle 
assessment approach specified in the International Organization for 
Standardization (ISO) 14040 series of standards. All stages in the life 
of a product are analyzed: Raw material acquisition, manufacture, 
transportation, installation, use, and recycling and waste management. 
Economic performance is measured using the ASTM International standard 
life-cycle cost method (E 917), which covers the costs of initial 
investment, replacement, operation, maintenance and repair, and 
disposal.

II. Method of Collection

    Data on materials use, energy consumption, waste, and environmental 
releases will be collected using an electronic, MS Excel-based 
questionnaire. An electronic, MS Word-based User Manual accompanies the 
questionnaire to help in its completion.

III. Data

    OMB Control Number: 0693-0036.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Review: Renewal (of a current information collection) with 
changes.
    Affected Public: Business or other for profit organizations.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 30.
    Estimated Time per Response: 62 hours and 30 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1875.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $0.

IV. Request for Comments

    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden 
(including hours and cost) of the

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proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways 
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and/or included in the request for OMB approval of this information 
collection; they also will become a matter of public record.

Sheleen Dumas,
PRA Departmental Lead, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-29778 Filed 12-12-16; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 239 / Tuesday, December 13, 2016 / Notices 89899 liquidate appropriate entries without 4. Discussion of the Methodology Sustainability), the tool reduces regard to antidumping duties.9 a. Non-Market Economy Country Status complex, science-based technical b. Separate Rates content (e.g., over 500 material and Cash Deposit Requirements c. PRC-Wide Entity energy flows from raw material The following cash deposit d. Surrogate Country e. Comparisons to Normal Value extraction through product disposal) to requirements will be effective upon decision-enabling results and delivers f. Determination of Comparison Method publication of the final results of this g. Results of Differential Pricing Analysis them in a visually intuitive graphical review for shipments of the subject h. Date of Sale format. BEES Please is a voluntary merchandise from the PRC entered, or i. Export Price program to collect data from product withdrawn from warehouse, for j. Value Added Tax manufacturers so that the environmental consumption on or after the publication k. Normal Value performance of their products may be date, as provided by sections l. Factor Valuations evaluated scientifically using BEES. 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For the m. Currency Conversion NIST will publish in BEES Online companies listed above that have a 5. Recommendation (http://ws680.nist.gov/bees) an separate rate, the cash deposit rate will [FR Doc. 2016–29843 Filed 12–12–16; 8:45 am] aggregated version of the data collected be that established in the final results of BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P from manufacturers that protects data this review (except, if the rate is zero or confidentiality, subject to de minimis, then zero cash deposit will manufacturer’s review and approval. be required); (2) for previously DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BEES measures environmental investigated or reviewed PRC and non- performance using the environmental PRC exporters not listed above that National Institute of Standards and Technology life-cycle assessment approach specified received a separate rate in a prior in the International Organization for segment of this proceeding, the cash Standardization (ISO) 14040 series of deposit rate will continue to be the Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Building for standards. All stages in the life of a existing exporter-specific rate; (3) for all product are analyzed: Raw material PRC exporters of subject merchandise Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES) Please acquisition, manufacture, that have not been found to be entitled transportation, installation, use, and to a separate rate, the cash deposit rate AGENCY: National Institute of Standards recycling and waste management. will be that for the PRC-wide entity; and and Technology (NIST), Commerce. Economic performance is measured (4) for all non-PRC exporters of subject ACTION: Notice. using the ASTM International standard merchandise which have not received life-cycle cost method (E 917), which their own rate, the cash deposit rate will SUMMARY: The Department of covers the costs of initial investment, be the rate applicable to the PRC Commerce, as part of its continuing replacement, operation, maintenance exporter that supplied that non-PRC effort to reduce paperwork and and repair, and disposal. exporter. These deposit requirements, respondent burden, invites the general when imposed, shall remain in effect public and other Federal agencies to II. Method of Collection until further notice. take this opportunity to comment on Data on materials use, energy Notification to Importers proposed and/or continuing information consumption, waste, and environmental collections, as required by the releases will be collected using an This notice also serves as a Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. preliminary reminder to importers of electronic, MS Excel-based DATES: Written comments must be questionnaire. An electronic, MS Word- their responsibility under 19 CFR submitted on or before February 13, 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate based User Manual accompanies the 2017. questionnaire to help in its completion. regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments III. Data of the relevant entries during the POR. to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer, OMB Control Number: 0693–0036. Failure to comply with this requirement Form Number(s): None. could result in the Department’s Department of Commerce, Room 6616, Type of Review: Renewal (of a current presumption that reimbursement of 14th and Constitution Avenue NW., information collection) with changes. antidumping duties occurred and the Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Affected Public: Business or other for subsequent assessment of double Internet at JJessup@doc.gov). profit organizations. antidumping duties. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Estimated Number of Respondents: These preliminary results are issued Requests for additional information or 30. and published in accordance with copies of the information collection Estimated Time per Response: 62 sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the instrument and instructions should be hours and 30 minutes. Act. directed to Joshua D. Kneifel, (301) 975– Estimated Total Annual Burden Dated: December 1, 2016. 6857 or joshua.kneifel@nist.gov. Hours: 1875. Paul Piquado, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Estimated Total Annual Cost to Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Public: $0. I. Abstract Compliance. IV. Request for Comments Over the last 23 years, the Engineering Appendix pmangrum on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES Laboratory of the National Institute of Comments are invited on: (a) Whether List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Standards and Technology (NIST) has the proposed collection of information Decision Memorandum developed and automated an approach is necessary for the proper performance 1. Summary for measuring the life-cycle of the functions of the agency, including 2. Case History environmental and economic whether the information shall have 3. Scope of the Order performance of building products. practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Known as BEES (Building for agency’s estimate of the burden 9 See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2). 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89900 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 239 / Tuesday, December 13, 2016 / Notices proposed collection of information; (c) RP/PEIS). The RP/PEIS was prepared and_Programmatic_Environmental_ ways to enhance the quality, utility, and under the authority of Comprehensive Impact_Statement_for_Restoration_ clarity of the information to be Environmental Response, Resulting_from_the_Kalamazoo_River_ collected; and (d) ways to minimize the Compensation, and Liability Act Natural_Resource_Damage_ burden of the collection of information (CERCLA) of 1980 and was also Assessment.pdf. Electronic on respondents, including through the developed to comply with the Federal correspondence regarding it can be use of automated collection techniques agency decision-making requirements of submitted to rc.compliance@noaa.gov. or other forms of information the National Environmental Policy Act Otherwise, please submit any written technology. of 1969 (NEPA) and NOAA’s comments via U.S. mail to the Comments submitted in response to environmental review procedures responsible official named in the this notice will be summarized and/or (NOAA Administrative Order 216–6, as ADDRESSES section. included in the request for OMB preserved by NAO 216–6A). The Dated: December 7, 2016. approval of this information collection; document was designed to solicit public Carrie Selberg, they also will become a matter of public opinion on a proposed restoration Deputy Director, Office of Habitat record. program for the Kalamazoo River Conservation, National Marine Fisheries Sheleen Dumas, natural resource damage assessment Service. (NRDA). This ROD documents the [FR Doc. 2016–29792 Filed 12–12–16; 8:45 am] PRA Departmental Lead, Office of the Chief Information Officer. Trustees’ decision to select Alternative BILLING CODE 3510–22–P C and conduct restoration within the [FR Doc. 2016–29778 Filed 12–12–16; 8:45 am] Kalamazoo River watershed (described BILLING CODE 3510–13–P in the RP/PEIS in Section 3.2.3). This DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE alternative would consist of a mixture of aquatic habitat restoration, riparian and National Oceanic and Atmospheric DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE wetland habitat restoration, dam Administration National Oceanic and Atmospheric removal for river and fish passage RIN 0648–XF038 Administration restoration, and habitat conservation actions in the Kalamazoo River Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic RIN 0648–XE808 watershed, including potential projects Zone Off Alaska; North Pacific Halibut in tributaries. Through this alternative, and Sablefish Individual Fishing Quota Record of Decision for the Kalamazoo the Trustees could conduct restoration Cost Recovery Programs River Natural Resources Damage actions in locations that have not been Assessment: Final Restoration Plan affected by PCBs, including projects in AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries and Programmatic Environmental tributaries other than Portage Creek, and Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Impact Statement in remediated areas that were Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries previously contaminated with PCBs. Commerce. Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and This alternative also includes the two ACTION: Notice of standard prices and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), specific projects to restore aquatic fee percentage. Commerce. connectivity on the Kalamazoo River by ACTION: Notice of availability of a removing dams in and near Otsego, SUMMARY: NMFS publishes the Record of Decision. Michigan. The Trustees selected this individual fishing quota (IFQ) standard alternative since it allows the most prices and fee percentage for cost SUMMARY: The NOAA National Marine flexibility to meet the Trustees’ recovery for the IFQ Program for the Fisheries Service (NMFS) announces the restoration objectives, both in terms of halibut and sablefish fisheries of the availability of the Record of Decision geographic location and timing. The North Pacific (IFQ Program). The fee (ROD) for the Kalamazoo River Natural scale of restoration activity that will be percentage for 2016 is 3.0 percent. This Resources Damage Assessment: Final implemented by the Trustees under the action is intended to provide holders of Restoration Plan and Programmatic RP/PEIS will depend upon the halibut and sablefish IFQ permits with Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS). resolution of natural resource damage the 2016 standard prices and fee The NMFS Office of Habitat claims with the parties responsible for percentage to calculate the required Conservation Director signed the ROD poly-chlorinated biphenyl releases. payment for IFQ cost recovery fees due on November 29, 2016, which Under CERCLA, settlements received by by January 31, 2017. constitutes the agency’s final decision. the Trustees, either through negotiated DATES: Effective December 13, 2016. ADDRESSES: Patricia A. Montanio, or adjudicated processes, must be used FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carl Director, Office of Habitat Conservation, to restore, rehabilitate, replace, and/or Greene, Fee Coordinator, 907–586–7105. National Oceanic and Atmospheric acquire the equivalent of those natural SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Administration, 1315 East-West resources that have been injured. The Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Final RP/PEIS will guide future Trustee Background FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie decision-making regarding the NMFS Alaska Region administers the Sims, NOAA Restoration Center, 4840 expenditure of settlements and the IFQ Program in the North Pacific. The South State Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan implementation of restoration activities. IFQ Program is a limited access system pmangrum on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES 48108–9719. The NOAA RC is not soliciting authorized by the Magnuson-Stevens SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The comments on the PEIS but will consider Fishery Conservation and Management Kalamazoo River Trustees prepared the any comments submitted that would Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act) and the Final Restoration Plan and assist us in preparing future NEPA Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982. Programmatic Environmental Impact documents. An electronic copy of the Fishing under the IFQ Program began in Statement for Restoration Resulting PEIS is available at: https:// March 1995. Regulations implementing from the Kalamazoo River Natural darrp.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/case- the IFQ Program are set forth at 50 CFR Resource Damage Assessment (Final documents/Final_Restoration_Plan_ part 679. VerDate Sep<11>2014 15:08 Dec 12, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\13DEN1.SGM 13DEN1


Document Created: 2016-12-13 02:44:30
Document Modified: 2016-12-13 02:44:30
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesWritten comments must be submitted on or before February 13, 2017.
ContactRequests for additional information or copies of the information collection instrument and instructions should be directed to Joshua D. Kneifel, (301) 975-6857 or [email protected]
FR Citation81 FR 89899 
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