Enhancing 1605b: Site Map
Enhancing 1605b: Key Documents and Links

Update: On January 31, 2007, DOE published in the Federal Register an Interim Final Rule referencing corrected Technical Guidelines dated January 2007. The Interim Final Rule provides for 20 days of public comment. Any comments should be sent to 1605bguidelines.comments@hq.doe.gov by no later than February 20, 2007. All comments received will be posted on the web in the coming weeks. Unless public comment necessitates changes, the corrected Technical Guidelines will become effective 30 days after publication, which is March 2, 2007. The January 2007 Technical Guidelines correct factual and drafting errors, eliminate inconsistencies, update certain references, clarify intent, and modify or eliminate certain inappropriate calculation methods that were included the March 2006 Technical Guidelines currently referenced by the General Guidelines. All of the changes made are fully consistent with the General Guidelines published in the Federal Register on April 21, 2006, and DOE’s original intent. In the future, DOE will consider additional changes to the Technical Guidelines in response to specific proposals or when it conducts the periodic reviews provided for in 10 CFR 300.1(f).

The forms and instructions developed by the Energy Information Administration will be modified, as necessary, to reflect the corrected Technical Guidelines. DOE anticipates that these modified forms and instructions will be finalized soon after the corrected Technical Guidelines become effective. In parallel, EIA continues to develop the software necessary to permit web-based reporting under the revised guidelines. At this time, EIA anticipates enabling web-based reporting to begin by September 2007. For more information on EIA’s efforts to implement the revised guidelines, go to: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/frntvrgg.html

For more information on the revised General Guidelines click here

For more information on the Presidential directive that initiated these revisions and on the previous versions of the guidelines made available for public comment, the public comments received and the records of the public workshops held, see Background.