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All other information in the NIA
remains the same.
Correction:
In FR Doc. 2023–05120 appearing on
page 15689 in the Federal Register
published on March 14, 2023, we make
the following correction:
On page 15689, under DATES in the
middle column, we are revising the
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications
so that the date reads as follows: May
15, 2023.
Program Authority: Section 6205 of
the ESEA (20 U.S.C. 7515); Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2023.
Accessible Format: On request to the
contact person listed under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT, individuals with
disabilities can obtain this notice, the
NIA, and a copy of the application in an
accessible format. The Department will
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James F. Lane,
Senior Advisor, Office of the Secretary.
Delegated the Authority to Perform the
Functions and Duties of the Assistant
Secretary Office of Elementary and Secondary
Education.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Proposed Agency Information
Collection
Office of the Under Secretary
for Infrastructure, U.S. Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice and request for comment.
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The Department of Energy
(DOE) invites public comment on a
proposed collection of information that
DOE is developing for submission to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for clearance, pursuant to the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Comments regarding this
proposed information collection request
(ICR) must be received on or before May
19, 2023. If you anticipate any difficulty
in submitting comments within that
period, contact the person listed in the
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section as soon as possible.
Written comments may be
sent to Julius Goldberg-Lewis, 1000
Independence Ave. SW, Washington,
DC 20585, (240) 364–4382, or by email
at [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A
copy of this information collection
request, with applicable supporting
documentation, may be obtained by
contacting Julius Goldberg-Lewis, U.S.
Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Ave. SW, Washington,
DC 20585, (240) 364–4382, or by email
at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (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.
This proposed information collection
request contains:
(1) OMB No.: 1910–5197;
(2) Information Collection Request
Title: Output and Outcome Metrics for
Financial Assistance and Rebates;
(3) Type of Request: Extension of an
ICR;
(4) Purpose: Given the historic level of
investment represented by
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
programs, it is incumbent on DOE to
transparently track, report, and
communicate the outcomes of DOE’s
financial assistance and rebate
programs. Executive Order 14052
directs federal agencies to prioritize
‘‘investing public dollars efficiently and
equitably, working to avoid waste, and
focusing on measurable outcomes for
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the American people.’’ This guidance
specifies the uniform collection,
measurement, and reporting
methodologies necessary for a set of key
metrics that DOE can use to
communicate the outcomes and outputs
of funds awarded, ensuring consistency,
transparency, and accountability to
support Administration and program
objectives. This Information Collection
addresses a set of key cross-cutting
metrics that will track across DOE
programs to assess and communicate
DOE’s progress toward meeting key
agency priorities, including creating
quality jobs, supporting domestic
manufacturing, increasing equity and
justice, reducing greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions, and providing pathways to
private sector uptake. The metrics will
inform transparent and consistent
reporting of the key metrics across DOE
awards and will include project-level
location data covering outcomes and
outputs for specific communities,
allowing DOE to better understand who
is affected by DOE funded programs and
how. This approach will enable DOE to
report metrics at the agency, office,
portfolio, and program levels and will
provide data that can help evaluate the
efficiency and equity of the programs,
educate the design and implementation
of future programs, and identify and
address potential waste. DOE proposes
to collect information through
applications and supporting documents
information necessary to determine that
whether rebate applicants meet the
specified statutory criteria to receive
payments under the equipment rebate
programs;
(5) Annual Estimated Number of
Respondents: 59,625;
(6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: 88,125;
(7) Annual Estimated Number of
Burden Hours: 98,250;
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $6,286,035;
(9) Statutory Authority: Federal Grant
and Cooperative Agreement Act, 31
U.S.C. 6301–6308; section 3506(c)(2)(A)
of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(Pub. L. 104–13).
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of
Energy was signed on March 14, 2023,
by Kathleen Hogan, Principal Deputy
Under Secretary for Infrastructure,
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
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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 March 14,
2023.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S.
Department of Energy.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Notice of Availability of the Final Waste
Incidental To Reprocessing Evaluation
for the Test Bed Initiative
Demonstration and Waste Incidental
To Reprocessing Determination
Office of Environmental
Management, U.S. Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:

The U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) announces the availability
of the Final Waste Incidental to
Reprocessing Evaluation for the Test
Bed Initiative Demonstration, U.S.
Department of Energy (Final WIR
Evaluation) and associated Waste
Incidental to Reprocessing
Determination for the Test Bed Initiative
Demonstration at the Hanford Site,
Washington (WIR Determination). The
Final WIR Evaluation demonstrates that
the waste from DOE’s proposed Test
Bed Initiative (TBI) Demonstration is
waste incidental to reprocessing of
spent nuclear fuel, is not high-level
radioactive waste (HLW), and may be
managed as low-level radioactive waste
(LLW). DOE prepared the Final WIR
Evaluation pursuant to DOE Order
435.1, Radioactive Waste Management,
and the criteria in Chapter II.B.(2)(a) of
DOE Manual 435.1–1, Radioactive
Waste Management Manual. DOE
consulted with the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) on the Draft Waste
Incidental to Reprocessing Evaluation
for the Test Bed Initiative
Demonstration (Draft WIR Evaluation)
and made the Draft WIR Evaluation
available for comments from States,
Tribal Nations, stakeholders and the
public. DOE prepared the Final WIR
Evaluation after carefully considering
comments received from the NRC,
States, Tribal Nations, stakeholders and
the public, and after performing
revisions of analyses and technical
documents. Based on the Final WIR
Evaluation, DOE determined that the

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pretreated and solidified waste is
incidental to reprocessing of spent
nuclear fuel, is non-HLW, and is to be
managed as LLW.
ADDRESSES: The Final WIR Evaluation
and WIR Determination are available on
the internet at https://www.hanford.gov/
page.cfm/TestBedInitiative for public
review.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information about the Final WIR
Evaluation or WIR Determination,
please contact Mr. Richard Valle by mail
at U.S. Department of Energy, Office of
River Protection, P.O. Box 450, MSIN
H6–60, Richland, WA 99352, by phone
at (509) 376–7256, or by email at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOE
currently stores radioactive waste in
underground tanks at the Hanford Site
in the State of Washington. The waste
was generated, in part, by the prior
reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel for
defense-related activities during the
Manhattan Project and Cold War eras.
Hanford’s current mission focuses on
the cleanup and remediation of those
wastes and ultimate closure of the site.
As part of that mission, DOE is
retrieving waste from the Hanford tanks,
separating the low-activity waste (LAW)
from other waste in the Hanford tanks
and vitrifying (immobilizing in a glass
matrix) some of the LAW. DOE has not
selected a supplemental treatment
method for the remaining LAW in the
Hanford tanks.1 The proposed TBI
Demonstration would demonstrate a
potential supplemental LAW treatment
approach.
The Final WIR Evaluation concerns
approximately 2,000 gallons of waste
from Hanford Tank SY–101, which,
under the proposed TBI Demonstration,
will be pretreated at the Hanford Site to
remove most key radionuclides, then
treated and solidified (grouted) at an
offsite, permitted, commercial facility
and disposed of at a licensed and
permitted mixed low-level radioactive
waste disposal facility outside the State
of Washington. For the proposed TBI
Demonstration, about 2,000 gallons of
Tank SY–101 supernate (the uppermost
liquid layer of the tank waste that
contains low levels of insoluble, longlived radionuclides) will be pretreated
using: in-tank settling, followed by
decanting, filtering, and processing
through ion exchange media. The
decanting (pumping without disturbing
the underlying saltcake layer), filtering
and ion exchange pretreatment will take
1 See Record of Decision for the Final Tank
Closure and Waste Management Environmental
Impact Statement for the Hanford Site, Richland,
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place within an In Tank Pretreatment
System, installed in Tank SY–101. The
pretreated liquid will be transferred into
totes (Type A shipping packages).
Trucks will transport the shipping
packages to a commercial treatment
facility, either Perma-Fix Northwest in
Richland, Washington, EnergySolutions,
near Clive, Utah, Perma-Fix Diversified
Scientific Services Inc., in Kingston,
Tennessee, or Waste Control Specialists
LLC, near Andrews, Texas. At the offsite
treatment facility, the waste will be
solidified in a grout matrix. DOE plans
to dispose of the treated and solidified
waste as mixed LLW at either the
EnergySolutions disposal facility near
Clive, Utah or the Waste Control
Specialists Federal Waste Facility (WCS
FWF), near Andrews, Texas.
Implementation of the proposed
offsite treatment and offsite disposal is
contingent upon completion of analysis
and issuance of a decision document as
required by the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969, as amended, 42
U.S.C. 4321, et seq. (NEPA). DOE
prepared a Draft Environmental
Assessment for the proposed TBI
Demonstration, Draft Environmental
Assessment of the Test Bed Initiative
Demonstration (DOE/EA–2086) (Draft
EA) and provided it to the host and
affected States and Indian Tribes, for a
14-day comment period, on August 17,
2021. The Draft EA evaluated DOE’s
proposal to transport and solidify the
pretreated liquid LAW at licensed and
permitted commercial treatment
facilities off the Hanford Site. The Draft
EA also evaluated DOE’s proposal to
dispose of the solidified waste at an
offsite, licensed and permitted
commercial disposal facility. The Draft
EA also evaluated the No Action
Alternative. DOE has prepared the Final
Environmental Assessment of the Test
Bed Initiative Demonstration (DOE/EA–
2086), after considering comments
received on the Draft EA. The Final EA
will be made available at https://
energy.gov/nepa.
DOE issued DOE Order 435.1 and
DOE Manual 435.1–1 under the
authority of the Atomic Energy Act of
1954, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 2011 et
seq., the Energy Reorganization Act, 42
U.S.C. 5801 et seq., and the Department
of Energy Organization Act, 42 U.S.C.
7101, et. seq. Section II.B.(2)(a) of DOE
Manual 435.1–1 sets forth criteria for
determining, based on an evaluation,
whether waste is incidental to
reprocessing, is not HLW, and may be
managed as LLW. Those criteria, in
relevant part, are that the wastes: ‘‘(1)
have been processed, or will be
processed, to remove key radionuclides
to the maximum extent that is

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