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We certify that this proposed
regulation, if adopted, would not have
a significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities.
The proposed regulation imposes no
new reporting, recordkeeping, or other
administrative requirement. Any benefit
derived from the use of a viticultural
area name would be the result of a
proprietor’s efforts and consumer
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This proposed rule is not a significant
regulatory action as defined by
Executive Order 12866, 58 FR 51735.
Therefore, it requires no regulatory
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County Green Valley’’ as the appellation
of origin will be revoked by operation of
this regulation on [INSERT DATE 2
YEARS AFTER EFFECTIVE DATE OF
THE FINAL RULE].
Signed: March 29, 2006.
John J. Manfreda,
Administrator.
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Wine.
Proposed Regulatory Amendment
For the reasons discussed in the
preamble, we propose to amend 27 CFR,
chapter 1, part 9, as follows:
PART 9–AMERICAN VITICULTURAL
AREAS
1. The authority citation for part 9
continues to read as follows:
Authority: 27 U.S.C. 205.
2. Section 9.57 is amended by revising
the section heading, paragraph (a), the
introductory text of paragraphs (b) and
(c), and by adding a new paragraph (d),
to read as follows:
§ 9.57 Green Valley of Russian River
Valley.
(a) Name. The name of the viticultural
area described in this section is ‘‘Green
Valley of Russian River Valley.’’ For
purposes of part 4 of this chapter,
‘‘Green Valley of Russian River Valley’’
is a term of viticultural significance.
(b) Approved Maps. The appropriate
maps for determining the boundary of
the Green Valley of Russian River Valley
viticultural area are three United States
Geological Survey maps. They are titled:
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(c) Boundary. The Green Valley of
Russian River Valley viticultural area is
located in Sonoma County, California.
The beginning point is located in the
northeastern portion of the ‘‘Camp
Meeker Quadrangle’’ map where the
line separating section 31 from section
32, in Township 8 North (T.8N.), Range
9 West (R.9W.) intersects River Road.
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(d) From December 21, 1983, until
[INSERT DATE ONE DAY BEFORE
EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE FINAL
RULE], the name of this viticultural area
was ‘‘Sonoma County Green Valley’’.
Effective [INSERT EFFECTIVE DATE
OF THE FINAL RULE], this viticulture
area is named ‘‘Green Valley of Russian
River Valley’’. Existing certificates of
label approval showing ‘‘Sonoma
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Coast Guard
33 CFR Part 151
[USCG–2006–24580]
Ballast Water Treatment Technology
and Analysis Methods
Coast Guard, DHS.
Request for public comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Subpart C—Approved American
Viticultural Areas
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
SUMMARY: The Coast Guard seeks public
assistance in gathering information
regarding the status of research and
development of ballast water
management systems and analytical
technologies/methods used in testing
ballast water management systems. The
Coast Guard may then provide this
information to the 55th Session of the
International Maritime Organization’s
(IMO) Marine Environment Protection
Committee (MEPC 55) to inform the
Committee during the review of the
status of the development of ballast
water management systems. Our
specific interest is in ballast water
management systems that have been
rigorously tested both in land-based test
platforms and on board ships. We are
also interested in technologies/methods
for rapid detection, enumeration, and
determination of organism viabilities in
ballast water.
DATES: Comments and related material
must reach the Docket Management
Facility on or before Friday, June 23,
2006.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Coast Guard docket
number USCG–2006–24580 to the
Docket Management Facility at the U.S.
Department of Transportation. To avoid
duplication, please use only one of the
following methods:
(1) Web site: https://dms.dot.gov.
(2) Mail: Docket Management Facility,
U.S. Department of Transportation, 400
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC
20590–0001.
(3) Fax: 202–493–2251.
(4) Delivery: Room PL–401 on the
Plaza level of the Nassif Building, 400
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through Friday, except Federal holidays.
The telephone number is 202–366–
9329.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
If
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you have questions on this notice,
contact LT Heather St. Pierre,
Environmental Standards Division, U.S.
Coast Guard, via the ballast water
information line at 202–267–2716 or via
e-mail at environmentalstandards@
comdt.uscg.mil. If you have questions
on viewing or submitting material to the
docket, call Renee V. Wright, Program
Manager, Docket Operations, telephone
202–493–0402.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Request for Comments
All comments received will be posted,
without change, to https://dms.dot.gov
and will include any personal
information you have provided. We
have an agreement with the Department
of Transportation (DOT) to use the
Docket Management Facility. Please see
DOT’s ‘‘Privacy Act’’ paragraph below.
Submitting comments: If you submit a
comment, please include your name and
address, identify the docket number for
this notice (USCG–2006–24580) and
give the reason for each comment. You
may submit your comments by
electronic means, mail, fax, or delivery
to the Docket Management Facility at
the address under ADDRESSES; but
please submit your comments by only
one means. If you submit them by mail
or delivery, submit them in an unbound
format, no larger than 81⁄2″ by 11″,
suitable for copying and electronic
filing. If you submit them by mail and
would like to know that they reached
the Facility, please enclose a stamped,
self-addressed postcard or envelope. We
will consider all comments received
during the comment period.
Viewing comments and documents:
To view comments, go to https://
dms.dot.gov at any time, click on
‘‘Simple Search,’’ enter the last five
digits of the docket number for this
rulemaking, and click on ‘‘Search.’’ You
may also visit the Docket Management
Facility in room PL–401 on the Plaza
level of the Nassif Building, 400
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC,
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Privacy Act: Anyone can search the
electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
review the Department of
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in the Federal Register published on
April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477), or you
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Background and Purpose
The Coast Guard is interested in
receiving information about the current
status of the development of ballast
water management systems.
Specifically, the Coast Guard requests
comments to be submitted based on two
categories:
• Ballast water management systems
that have been carefully tested at all
scales, including rigorous land-based
testing and tests on board ships; and
• Technologies/methods for rapid
detection, enumeration, and
determination of organism viabilities in
ballast water.
Ballast Water Management System
Submissions: For those submissions
pertaining to shipboard ballast water
management systems, specific areas
must be addressed for the submission to
be considered pertinent to the
discussion during the Review:
(1) Types and sizes of ships, ballast
capacities, flow rates, and the
geographic region in which the testing
occurred;
(2) The availability of commercial
infrastructure and support, including
sufficient manufacturing capacity to
meet initial requirements of the IMO’s
Ballast Water Convention (At MEPC 53,
it was estimated that between 300 and
500 vessels may be subject to the
Convention’s discharge requirement in
2009);
(3) Concise explanation of system
requirements, including space, power,
consumables, maintenance and
manning requirements; and
(4) Concise quantitative description of
the technology’s ability to meet IMO’s
Ballast Water Performance Standard
(Regulation D–2) under shipboard
circumstances identified in (1) above,
including specific information about the
ships on which the management system
meets this performance standard, and
whether or not the IMO guidelines for
approval of ballast water management
systems were employed.
Testing Technology/Methodology
Submissions: For those submissions
pertaining to testing ballast water,
submissions must address the following
areas:
(1) Types of organisms to which the
test technology or method applies;
(2) The intended purpose of the
technology/method (detection,
enumeration, viability assessment, etc.);
(3) Explanation of how this
technology/method will facilitate testing
of ballast water treatment systems; and
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(4) Cost of the technology/method, to
include capital costs and maintenance/
annual costs (including personnel,
special training, and expendable
supplies).
General Submission Information:
Submissions for both treatment and
testing technologies/methods must be
five pages or less (Times New Roman
font size 12, single spaced with a
minimum of one-inch margins) and
relate to the specific classifications of
organisms as expressed in the Ballast
Water Performance Standard
(Regulation D–2) of the IMO’s
International Convention for the Control
and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water
& Sediments. If deemed applicable and
pertinent to the discussions of the
meeting at IMO, the United States may
submit the documents on these
technologies and methods to MEPC 55
as information papers. These
information papers are documents
submitted to the Committee to make
note of, and sample papers can be
requested via the e-mail address and
phone number listed under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT. The Coast Guard
appreciates any assistance and
information offered by the public;
however, providing this information to
the Coast Guard does not guarantee the
information will be submitted to IMO.
Supporting information—including
relevant citations for reported results,
not intended for wider dissemination—
may also be provided. Such material
need not comply with the formatting
and page limitations described above.
Any material considered proprietary or
commercially sensitive should be
plainly marked as such. The Coast
Guard will retain all information
received, and may use the information
for development and implementation of
regulations and policies.
Dated: April 27, 2006.
Howard L. Hime,
Acting Director of Standards, Assistant
Commandant for Prevention, U.S. Coast
Guard.
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[Proposed Rules]
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[FR Doc No: E6-6628]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard
33 CFR Part 151
[USCG-2006-24580]
Ballast Water Treatment Technology and Analysis Methods
AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard seeks public assistance in gathering
information regarding the status of research and development of ballast
water management systems and analytical technologies/methods used in
testing ballast water management systems. The Coast Guard may then
provide this information to the 55th Session of the International
Maritime Organization's (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee
(MEPC 55) to inform the Committee during the review of the status of
the development of ballast water management systems. Our specific
interest is in ballast water management systems that have been
rigorously tested both in land-based test platforms and on board ships.
We are also interested in technologies/methods for rapid detection,
enumeration, and determination of organism viabilities in ballast
water.
DATES: Comments and related material must reach the Docket Management
Facility on or before Friday, June 23, 2006.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Coast Guard docket
number USCG-2006-24580 to the Docket Management Facility at the U.S.
Department of Transportation. To avoid duplication, please use only one
of the following methods:
(1) Web site: https://dms.dot.gov.
(2) Mail: Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590-0001.
(3) Fax: 202-493-2251.
(4) Delivery: Room PL-401 on the Plaza level of the Nassif
Building, 400
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Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays. The telephone number is 202-
366-9329.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this notice,
contact LT Heather St. Pierre, Environmental Standards Division, U.S.
Coast Guard, via the ballast water information line at 202-267-2716 or
via e-mail at environmentalstandards@comdt.uscg.mil. If you have
questions on viewing or submitting material to the docket, call Renee
V. Wright, Program Manager, Docket Operations, telephone 202-493-0402.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Request for Comments
All comments received will be posted, without change, to https://
dms.dot.gov and will include any personal information you have
provided. We have an agreement with the Department of Transportation
(DOT) to use the Docket Management Facility. Please see DOT's ``Privacy
Act'' paragraph below.
Submitting comments: If you submit a comment, please include your
name and address, identify the docket number for this notice (USCG-
2006-24580) and give the reason for each comment. You may submit your
comments by electronic means, mail, fax, or delivery to the Docket
Management Facility at the address under ADDRESSES; but please submit
your comments by only one means. If you submit them by mail or
delivery, submit them in an unbound format, no larger than 8\1/
2\ by 11, suitable for copying and electronic
filing. If you submit them by mail and would like to know that they
reached the Facility, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard
or envelope. We will consider all comments received during the comment
period.
Viewing comments and documents: To view comments, go to https://
dms.dot.gov at any time, click on ``Simple Search,'' enter the last
five digits of the docket number for this rulemaking, and click on
``Search.'' You may also visit the Docket Management Facility in room
PL-401 on the Plaza level of the Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street,
SW., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
Privacy Act: Anyone can search the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted on behalf
of an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review the
Department of Transportation's Privacy Act Statement in the Federal
Register published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477), or you may visit
https://dms.dot.gov.
Background and Purpose
The Coast Guard is interested in receiving information about the
current status of the development of ballast water management systems.
Specifically, the Coast Guard requests comments to be submitted based
on two categories:
Ballast water management systems that have been carefully
tested at all scales, including rigorous land-based testing and tests
on board ships; and
Technologies/methods for rapid detection, enumeration, and
determination of organism viabilities in ballast water.
Ballast Water Management System Submissions: For those submissions
pertaining to shipboard ballast water management systems, specific
areas must be addressed for the submission to be considered pertinent
to the discussion during the Review:
(1) Types and sizes of ships, ballast capacities, flow rates, and
the geographic region in which the testing occurred;
(2) The availability of commercial infrastructure and support,
including sufficient manufacturing capacity to meet initial
requirements of the IMO's Ballast Water Convention (At MEPC 53, it was
estimated that between 300 and 500 vessels may be subject to the
Convention's discharge requirement in 2009);
(3) Concise explanation of system requirements, including space,
power, consumables, maintenance and manning requirements; and
(4) Concise quantitative description of the technology's ability to
meet IMO's Ballast Water Performance Standard (Regulation D-2) under
shipboard circumstances identified in (1) above, including specific
information about the ships on which the management system meets this
performance standard, and whether or not the IMO guidelines for
approval of ballast water management systems were employed.
Testing Technology/Methodology Submissions: For those submissions
pertaining to testing ballast water, submissions must address the
following areas:
(1) Types of organisms to which the test technology or method
applies;
(2) The intended purpose of the technology/method (detection,
enumeration, viability assessment, etc.);
(3) Explanation of how this technology/method will facilitate
testing of ballast water treatment systems; and
(4) Cost of the technology/method, to include capital costs and
maintenance/annual costs (including personnel, special training, and
expendable supplies).
General Submission Information: Submissions for both treatment and
testing technologies/methods must be five pages or less (Times New
Roman font size 12, single spaced with a minimum of one-inch margins)
and relate to the specific classifications of organisms as expressed in
the Ballast Water Performance Standard (Regulation D-2) of the IMO's
International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships'
Ballast Water & Sediments. If deemed applicable and pertinent to the
discussions of the meeting at IMO, the United States may submit the
documents on these technologies and methods to MEPC 55 as information
papers. These information papers are documents submitted to the
Committee to make note of, and sample papers can be requested via the
e-mail address and phone number listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT. The Coast Guard appreciates any assistance and information
offered by the public; however, providing this information to the Coast
Guard does not guarantee the information will be submitted to IMO.
Supporting information--including relevant citations for reported
results, not intended for wider dissemination--may also be provided.
Such material need not comply with the formatting and page limitations
described above. Any material considered proprietary or commercially
sensitive should be plainly marked as such. The Coast Guard will retain
all information received, and may use the information for development
and implementation of regulations and policies.
Dated: April 27, 2006.
Howard L. Hime,
Acting Director of Standards, Assistant Commandant for Prevention, U.S.
Coast Guard.
[FR Doc. E6-6628 Filed 5-1-06; 8:45 am]
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