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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 56 / Thursday, March 25, 2021 / Proposed Rules market shares by efficiency level. DOE
also seeks input on similar historic data from 20162020.
Issue 19: DOE also requests information on expected future trends in efficiency for consumer boiler product classes, including the relative market shares of condensing versus noncondensing products in the market for gas-fired and oil-fired hot water boilers in the absence of amended efficiency standards.
Issue 20: DOE requests 20162020
data on the fraction of sales in the residential and commercial sector for consumer boilers.
Issue 21: DOE requests comment on the anticipated future market share of higher-efficiency products, such as condensing gas-fired and oil-fired hot water boilers, as compared to lessefficient products for each consumer boiler product class.
III. Submission of Comments DOE invites all interested parties to submit in writing by the date specified under the DATES heading of this document, comments and information on matters addressed in this RFI and on other matters relevant to DOEs early assessment of whether more-stringent energy conservation standards are warranted for consumer boilers.
Submitting comments via http
www.regulations.gov. The http
www.regulations.gov web page requires you to provide your name and contact information. Your contact information will be viewable to DOE Building Technologies staff only. Your contact information will not be publicly viewable except for your first and last names, organization name if any, and submitter representative name if any.
If your comment is not processed properly because of technical difficulties, DOE will use this information to contact you. If DOE
cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, DOE may not be able to consider your comment.
However, your contact information will be publicly viewable if you include it in the comment or in any documents attached to your comment. Any information that you do not want to be publicly viewable should not be included in your comment, nor in any document attached to your comment. If this instruction is followed, persons viewing comments will see only first and last names, organization names, correspondence containing comments, and any documents submitted with the comments.
Do not submit to http
www.regulations.gov information for
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which disclosure is restricted by statute, such as trade secrets and commercial or financial information hereinafter referred to as Confidential Business Information CBI. Comments submitted through http
www.regulations.gov cannot be claimed as CBI. Comments received through the website will waive any CBI claims for the information submitted. For information on submitting CBI, see the Confidential Business Information section.
DOE processes submissions made through http www.regulations.gov before posting. Normally, comments will be posted within a few days of being submitted. However, if large volumes of comments are being processed simultaneously, your comment may not be viewable for up to several weeks. Please keep the comment tracking number that http
www.regulations.gov provides after you have successfully uploaded your comment.
Submitting comments via email.
Comments and documents submitted via email also will be posted to http
www.regulations.gov. If you do not want your personal contact information to be publicly viewable, do not include it in your comment or any accompanying documents. Instead, provide your contact information in a cover letter.
Include your first and last names, email address, telephone number, and optional mailing address. The cover letter will not be publicly viewable as long as it does not include any comments.
Include contact information each time you submit comments, data, documents, and other information to DOE.
Telefacsimiles faxes will not be accepted.
Comments, data, and other information submitted to DOE
electronically should be provided in PDF preferred, Microsoft Word or Excel, WordPerfect, or text ASCII file format. Provide documents that are not secured, written in English, and free of any defects or viruses. Documents should not contain special characters or any form of encryption and, if possible, they should carry the electronic signature of the author.
Campaign form letters. Please submit campaign form letters by the originating organization in batches of between 50 to 500 form letters per PDF or as one form letter with a list of supporters names compiled into one or more PDFs. This reduces comment processing and posting time.
Confidential Business Information.
Pursuant to 10 CFR 1004.11, any person submitting information that he or she
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believes to be confidential and exempt by law from public disclosure should submit via email two well-marked copies: One copy of the document marked confidential including all the information believed to be confidential, and one copy of the document marked non-confidential with the information believed to be confidential deleted. DOE
will make its own determination about the confidential status of the information and treat it according to its determination.
It is DOEs policy that all comments may be included in the public docket, without change and as received, including any personal information provided in the comments except information deemed to be exempt from public disclosure.
DOE considers public participation to be a very important part of the process for developing test procedures and energy conservation standards. DOE
actively encourages the participation and interaction of the public during the comment period in each stage of this process. Interactions with and between members of the public provide a balanced discussion of the issues and assist DOE in the process. Anyone who wishes to be added to the DOE mailing list to receive future notices and information about this process should contact Appliance and Equipment Standards Program staff at 202 287
1445 or via email at ApplianceStandardsQuestions@
ee.doe.gov.
Signing Authority This document of the Department of Energy was signed on March 18, 2021, by Kelly Speakes-Backman, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting 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.

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