4456391 Environment, District Department of the - Notice of Public Hearing andNotice to Comment in Writing - LIHEAP and WAP State Plans for FiscalYear 2014

DISTRICT DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT

 

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

AND

NOTICE TO COMMENT IN WRITING

 

LIHEAP State Plan for Fiscal Year 2014 –

Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program

 

WAP State Plan for Fiscal Year 2014 –

Weatherization Assistance Program

 

Hearing: Tuesday, August 13, 2012, 4:00 pm

District Department of the Environment

1200 First Street, NE, 7^th Floor Conference Room 718

NoMa-Gallaudet University Metro Stop, Washington, D.C.

 

Written Comments due by:  August 23, 2012, 4:30 pm

 

The District Department of the Environment (“DDOE”) invites the public to present its views and comments on two aspects of its energy assistance:  (1) DDOE’s Fiscal Year 2014 Draft State Plan for the District’s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (“LIHEAP” or “the LIHEAP Program”) and  its FY 2014 Draft State Plan for Weatherization Assistance (“WAP”) (“State Plans”).  DDOE intends to review all components of the two State Plans at the public hearing.  Views may be expressed in person at the public hearing or in writing.

 

Authority for each program is provided by:

 

• Home Energy Assistance Act of 1980, in Title III of the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act of 1980, PL 96-223, §§ 301- 13 (Apr. 2, 1980), as amended; 42 USC 8601 et seq.;

 

• Low Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981, in Title XXVI of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, Public Law 97-35 (Aug. 13, 1981), as amended, 42 USCA § 8621 et seq.;

 

• Implementing regulations of the US Department of Health and Human Services, 45 CFR 96.80 et seq.;

 

• District Department of the Environment Establishment Act of 2005, §§ 101 et seq., effective February 15, 2006, as amended (D.C. Law 16-51; D.C. Official Code §§ 8-151.01 et seq. (2008 Repl. & 2013 Supp.)); 

 

• District of Columbia Office of Energy Act of 1980, §§ 2 et seq., effective March 4, 1981, as amended (D.C. Law 3-132; D.C. Official Code §§ 8-171.01 et seq. (2008 Repl. & 2013 Supp.));

 

• Clean and Affordable Energy Act of 2008, §§ 101 et seq., effective Oct. 22, 2008, as amended (D.C. Law 17-250; D.C. Official Code §§ 8-1773.01, 8-1774.01 et seq. (2008 Repl. & 2013 Supp.)); and

 

• Mayor’s Order 2006-61, dated June 14, 2006, and its delegations of authority.

 

Comments may be provided in person or in writing.  A person need not attend the public hearing in order to submit comments on a State Plan.

 

The public hearing will take place at the above-stated time and place.  The public hearing will continue until the presiding officer determines that everyone has had a meaningful opportunity to be heard.  The presiding officer may limit the time in which to comment.  A person who cannot be present at the opening time may reserve a time to speak, by contacting DDOE, as described below, in this notice.  A person attending the public hearing should check in with the guard in the building lobby, then go to DDOE’s reception desk on the 5^th floor. 

 

Written comments may be submitted directly to DDOE by mail, hand delivery, or email. Instructions for submitting written comments appear below, in this notice.  DDOE will accept written comments until Friday, August 23, 2013 at 4:30 p.m.

 

Obtaining text of a State Plan for LIHEAP or WAP.  Each  document will be available at DDOE’s website and from DDOE’s offices, as described below in this notice.  Each document will become available at the DDOE web page, described below, in this notice, as follows: 

 

The LIHEAP Draft State plan on Tuesday, July 30, 2013, at noon;

 

The WAP Draft State plan on Thursday, July 18, 2013, at noon. 

 

A person may obtain a copy of the document by any of the following methods:

 

- Download, by visiting DDOE’s website, green.dc.gov.  Look for the title/section, “Energy in DC”, click on it, choose “Energy Assistance and Weatherization” and click on it.   Page down to the section  titled “Publications” to find the document’s listing.  Click on it.  Follow the link to the document in PDF format, which can be downloaded;

 

- Email a request to [e-mail] with “Request copy of LIHEAP (or WAP, or both) State Plan 2014” in the subject line;

 

- In person by making an appointment to examine a copy in DDOE's offices at the 5th floor reception desk at the street address below (call DDOE reception at 202-535-2600 and mention the State Plan by name).  DDOE is located one block west of the NOMA Red Line Station, at the corner of M Street and First Street NE; or

 

- Write DDOE at 1200 First Street, N.E., 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20002, “Attn: Request copy of LIHEAP (or WAP, or both) State Plan 2014” on the outside of the letter.

 

The State Plan contact:  For additional information regarding the public hearing or written comments please send an email to [e-mail].

 

DDOE appreciates the time, insight, and expertise that go into submitting comments.  DDOE will carefully consider all of the comments that it receives.

 

Instructions for Submitting Written Comments

 

Written comments should: (1) identify the commenter, and commenter’s organization, if any; (2) be clearly marked “LIHEAP FY 2014” or “WAP FY 2014”, and be delivered in one of the following ways:  (a) mailed or hand-delivered to DDOE Energy Administration, Energy Assistance Branch, 1200 First Street, NE, Washington  DC 20002nergy Assistance Branch 1207 Taylor Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011posed to guessing on behalf of our funders.owledge?, marked “Attn: State Plan 2014”; (b) e-mailed to [e-mail], with the subject indicated as “State Plan 2014,”; or (c) delivered in person to the above address, with similar identification.