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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA–R09–OAR–2007–0421b; FRL–8452–2]
Revisions to the California State
Implementation Plan, South Coast Air
Quality Management District
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve
revisions to the South Coast Air Quality
Management District (SCAQMD) portion
of the California State Implementation
Plan (SIP). These revisions concern
volatile organic compound (VOC)
emissions from refinery flares and
storage tanks at petroleum facilities. We
are proposing to approve local rules to
regulate these emission sources under
the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990
(CAA or the Act).
DATES: Any comments on this proposal
must arrive by September 27, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments,
identified by docket number EPA–R09–
OAR–2007–0421b, by one of the
following methods:
1. Federal eRulemaking Portal:
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
online instructions.
2. E-mail: steckel.andrew@epa.gov.
3. Mail or deliver: Andrew Steckel
(Air-4), U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street,
San Francisco, CA 94105–3901.
Instructions: All comments will be
included in the public docket without
change and may be made available
online at www.regulations.gov,
including any personal information
provided, unless the comment includes
Confidential Business Information (CBI)
or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Information that
you consider CBI or otherwise protected
should be clearly identified as such and
should not be submitted through
www.regulations.gov or e-mail.
www.regulations.gov is an ‘‘anonymous
access’’ system, and EPA will not know
your identity or contact information
unless you provide it in the body of
your comment. If you send e-mail
directly to EPA, your e-mail address
will be automatically captured and
included as part of the public comment.
If EPA cannot read your comment due
to technical difficulties and cannot
contact you for clarification, EPA may
not be able to consider your comment.
Docket: The index to the docket for
this action is available electronically at
www.regulations.gov and in hard copy
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at EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street,
San Francisco, California. While all
documents in the docket are listed in
the index, some information may be
publicly available only at the hard copy
location (e.g., copyrighted material), and
some may not be publicly available in
either location (e.g., CBI). To inspect the
hard copy materials, please schedule an
appointment during normal business
hours with the contact listed in the FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jerald S. Wamsley, EPA Region IX, at
either (415) 947–4111, or
wamsley.jerry@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
proposal addresses SCAQMD Rules
1178—Further Control of VOC
Emissions from Storage Tanks at
Petroleum Facilities and 1118—Control
of Emissions from Refinery Flares. In
the Rules and Regulations section of this
Federal Register, we are approving
these local rules in a direct final action
without prior proposal because we
believe these SIP revisions are not
controversial. However, if we receive
adverse comments, we will publish a
timely withdrawal of the direct final
rule and address the comments in
subsequent action based on this
proposed rule. Please note that if we
receive adverse comment on an
amendment, paragraph, or section of
this rule and if that provision may be
severed from the remainder of the rule,
we may adopt as final those provisions
of the rule that are not the subject of an
adverse comment.
We do not plan to open a second
comment period, so anyone interested
in commenting should do so at this
time. If we do not receive adverse
comments, no further activity is
planned. For further information, please
see the direct final action.
Dated: July 3, 2007.
Laura Yoshii,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA–R06–OAR–2007–0285; FRL–8460–1]
Approval and Promulgation of Air
Quality Implementation Plans; Texas;
Shipyard Facilities and Provisions for
Distance Limitations, Setbacks, and
Buffers in Standard Permits
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
AGENCY:
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Proposed rule.
SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve
a State Implementation Plan (SIP)
revision for the State of Texas. This
revision adds provisions which
incorporate the evaluation of emissions
from dockside vessels when reviewing
applications for permits for new and
modified sources and certain other
administrative changes to its air
permitting requirements. It also adds
provisions concerning compliance with
distance limitations, setbacks, and
buffers at facilities that are authorized to
construct or modify under an air quality
standard permit. The Commission
submitted this amendment to EPA to
process as a revision to the Texas SIP.
This action is being taken under section
110 of the Federal Clean Air Act (the
Act).
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before September 27,
2007.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to
Mr. Stanley M. Spruiell, Air Permits
Section (6PD–R), Environmental
Protection Agency, 1445 Ross Avenue,
Suite 1200, Dallas, Texas 75202–2733.
Comments may also be submitted
electronically or through hand delivery/
courier by following the detailed
instructions in the ADDRESSES section of
the direct final rule located in the rules
section of this Federal Register.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Stanley M. Spruiell, Air Permits Section
(6PD–R), Environmental Protection
Agency, Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue,
Suite 700, Dallas, Texas 75202–2733,
telephone (214) 665–7212; fax number
214–665–7263; e-mail address
Spruiell.stanley@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the
final rules section of this Federal
Register, EPA is approving the State’s
SIP submittal as a direct final rule
without prior proposal because the
Agency views this as a noncontroversial
submittal and anticipates no adverse
comments. A detailed rationale for the
approval is set forth in the direct final
rule. If no relevant adverse comments
are received in response to this action,
no further activity is contemplated. If
EPA receives relevant adverse
comments, the direct final rule will be
withdrawn and all public comments
received will be addressed in a
subsequent final rule based on this
proposed rule. EPA will not institute a
second comment period. Any parties
interested in commenting on this action
should do so at this time. Please note
that if EPA receives adverse comment
on an amendment, paragraph, or section
of this rule and if that provision may be
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severed from the remainder of the rule,
EPA may adopt as final those provisions
of the rule that are not the subject of an
adverse comment.
For additional information, see the
direct final rule which is located in the
rules section of this Federal Register.
Dated: August 16, 2007.
Richard E. Greene,
Regional Administrator, Region 6.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
42 CFR Part 73
Possession, Use, and Transfer of
Select Agents and Toxins
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The select agents and toxins
listed in 42 CFR part 73 include those
regulated only by the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS)
(42 CFR 73.3), as well as those overlap
select agents and toxins regulated by
both HHS and the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) (42 CFR 73.4). In
response to USDA’s proposal to no
longer regulate ten select agents and
toxins currently listed as ‘‘overlap’’
agents and toxins, we are proposing to
move those ten select agents and toxins
from the overlap select agents and
toxins section to the HHS select agents
and toxins section.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before October 29, 2007.
Comments received after October 29,
2007 will be considered to the extent
practicable.
ADDRESSES: Comments on the changes
to the list of select agents and toxins
should be marked ‘‘Comments on the
changes to the list of select agents and
toxins’’ and mailed to: Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention,
Division of Select Agents and Toxins,
1600 Clifton Road, MS A–46, Atlanta,
GA 30333. Comments may be e-mailed
to: SAPcomments@cdc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robbin Weyant, Director, Division of
Select Agents and Toxins, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 1600
Clifton Rd., MS A–46, Atlanta, GA
30333. Telephone: (404) 718–2000.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Public
Health Security and Bioterrorism
Preparedness and Response Act of 2002,
Subtitle A of Public Law 107–188 (42
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U.S.C. 262a) (the Bioterrorism
Preparedness Act), required the HHS
Secretary to establish by regulation a list
of each biological agent and each toxin
that has the potential to pose a severe
threat to public health and safety. In
determining whether to include an
agent or toxin on the list, the HHS
Secretary considered the effect on
human health of exposure to an agent or
toxin; the degree of contagiousness of
the agent or toxin and the methods by
which the agent or toxin is transferred
to humans; the availability and
effectiveness of pharmacotherapies and
immunizations to treat and prevent
illnesses resulting from an agent or
toxin; the potential for an agent or toxin
to be used as a biological weapon; and
the needs of children and other
vulnerable populations. Once
established, the Bioterrorism
Preparedness Act requires that the HHS
Secretary review and republish the list
of select agents and toxins on at least a
biennial basis.
The HHS Secretary promulgated the
current select agents and toxins list in
a final rule amending Part 73 of title 42
of the Code of Federal Regulations,
published on March 18, 2005, and made
effective on April 18, 2005. The select
agents and toxins list found in Part 73
is divided into two sections. The select
agents and toxins listed in section 73.3
(HHS select agents and toxins) are those
select agents and toxins regulated only
by HHS. The select agents and toxins
listed in section 73.4 (Overlap select
agents and toxins) are those select
agents and toxins regulated by HHS and
USDA under the provisions of the
Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act
of 2002.
The Agricultural Bioterrorism
Protection Act of 2002, Subtitle B of
Public Law 107–188 (7 U.S.C. 8401) (the
Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection
Act), requires the USDA Secretary to
establish by regulation a list of each
biological agent and each toxin that the
Secretary determines has the potential
to pose a severe threat to animal or plant
health or animal or plant products. In
determining whether to include an
agent or toxin on the list, the USDA
Secretary considered the effect of
exposure to the agent or toxin on animal
or plant health, and on the production
and marketability of animal or plant
products; the pathogenicity of the agent
or the toxicity of the toxin and the
methods by which the agent or toxin is
transferred to animals and plants; the
availability and effectiveness of
pharmacotherapies and prophylaxis to
treat and prevent any illness caused by
the agent or toxin; and the potential of
an agent or toxin for use as a biological
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weapon. The USDA Secretary is also
required to conduct a biennial review of
the USDA select agents and toxins list.
HHS completed its biennial review on
February 22, 2007 and determined that
it would neither add nor remove any
agents or toxins from its select agents
and toxins list. To assist with the
biennial review, HHS reviewed
recommendations provided by subject
matter experts and the
Intragovernmental Select Agents and
Toxins Advisory Committee (ISATTAC).
The ISATTAC is comprised of Federal
government employees from the CDC,
the National Institutes of Health (NIH),
the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), the USDA/Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service (APHIS),
USDA/Agricultural Research Service
(ARS), USDA/CVB (Center for
Veterinary Biologics) and the
Department of Defense (DOD).
After conducting its biennial review,
USDA has proposed that it will no
longer regulate ten of the select agents
and toxins currently listed as ‘‘overlap’’
select agents and toxins in section 73.4.
If their decision becomes final, HHS
will move those ten select agents and
toxins from section 73.4 to section 73.3.
Published in today’s Federal Register is
USDA’s proposal to remove from Part
121 of Title 9 of the Code of Federal
Regulations the following agents and
toxins: Botulinum neurotoxins;
Botulinum neurotoxin producing
species of Clostridium, Coxiella
burnetti, Francisella tularensis,
Coccidioides immitis, Eastern equine
encephalitis virus, T–2 toxin,
Staphylococcal enterotoxins,
Shigatoxin, and Clostridium perfringens
epsilon toxin. Comments regarding
USDA’s proposal to no longer regulate
ten select agents and toxins currently
listed as ‘‘overlap’’ agents and toxins
should be sent to USDA.
Regulatory Analyses
Paperwork Reduction Act
The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3507(d)), requires that the
HHS consider the impact of paperwork
and other information collection
burdens imposed on the public. We
have determined no new information
collection requirements are associated
with this proposed rule.
Executive Order 12866 and Regulatory
Flexibility Act
This action has been determined not
significant for purposes of Executive
Order 12866, and therefore, has not
been reviewed by the Office of
Management and Budget. The
Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R06-OAR-2007-0285; FRL-8460-1]
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans;
Texas; Shipyard Facilities and Provisions for Distance Limitations,
Setbacks, and Buffers in Standard Permits
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve a State Implementation Plan (SIP)
revision for the State of Texas. This revision adds provisions which
incorporate the evaluation of emissions from dockside vessels when
reviewing applications for permits for new and modified sources and
certain other administrative changes to its air permitting
requirements. It also adds provisions concerning compliance with
distance limitations, setbacks, and buffers at facilities that are
authorized to construct or modify under an air quality standard permit.
The Commission submitted this amendment to EPA to process as a revision
to the Texas SIP. This action is being taken under section 110 of the
Federal Clean Air Act (the Act).
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before September 27,
2007.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to Mr. Stanley M. Spruiell, Air
Permits Section (6PD-R), Environmental Protection Agency, 1445 Ross
Avenue, Suite 1200, Dallas, Texas 75202-2733. Comments may also be
submitted electronically or through hand delivery/courier by following
the detailed instructions in the ADDRESSES section of the direct final
rule located in the rules section of this Federal Register.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Stanley M. Spruiell, Air Permits
Section (6PD-R), Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6, 1445 Ross
Avenue, Suite 700, Dallas, Texas 75202-2733, telephone (214) 665-7212;
fax number 214-665-7263; e-mail address Spruiell.stanley@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the final rules section of this Federal
Register, EPA is approving the State's SIP submittal as a direct final
rule without prior proposal because the Agency views this as a
noncontroversial submittal and anticipates no adverse comments. A
detailed rationale for the approval is set forth in the direct final
rule. If no relevant adverse comments are received in response to this
action, no further activity is contemplated. If EPA receives relevant
adverse comments, the direct final rule will be withdrawn and all
public comments received will be addressed in a subsequent final rule
based on this proposed rule. EPA will not institute a second comment
period. Any parties interested in commenting on this action should do
so at this time. Please note that if EPA receives adverse comment on an
amendment, paragraph, or section of this rule and if that provision may
be
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severed from the remainder of the rule, EPA may adopt as final those
provisions of the rule that are not the subject of an adverse comment.
For additional information, see the direct final rule which is
located in the rules section of this Federal Register.
Dated: August 16, 2007.
Richard E. Greene,
Regional Administrator, Region 6.
[FR Doc. E7-16830 Filed 8-27-07; 8:45 am]
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