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and Package Services machinable
parcels, and Standard Mail Marketing
parcels 6 ounces or more, as combined
machinable parcels as shown in the
table below.
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text of 21.3.3 as follows:]
21.3.3 Combining Standard Mail,
Parcel Select, and Package Services
Parcels (APPS-Machinable)
Prepare and enter Standard Mail,
Parcel Select, Parcel Select Lightweight,
and Package Services irregular parcels,
and Standard Mail Marketing parcels
(weighing at least 2 ounces, but less
than 6 ounces, that are not tubes, rolls,
triangles, or similarly irregularly shaped
parcels) as combined APPS-machinable
parcels as shown in the table below.
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[Revise the heading and introductory
text of 21.3.4 as follows:]
21.3.4 Combining Standard Mail,
Parcel Select, and Package Services
Irregular Parcels (Not APPSMachinable)
Prepare and enter Standard Mail,
Parcel Select, Parcel Select Lightweight,
and Package Services, and Standard
Mail Marketing parcels under 2 ounces,
as combined not APPS-machinable
parcels as shown in the table below.
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Technical Specifications
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6.0 Standards for Barcoded Tray
Labels, Sack Labels, and Container
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subcategories of Parcel Select
Lightweight immediately above the
‘‘Combined Package Services and Parcel
Select Parcels’’ subcategory as follows:]
PARCEL SELECT LIGHTWEIGHT
MACHINABLE PARCELS
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670
STD MACH 5D.
STD MACH 5D SCH.
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STD MACH ASF.
STD MACH NDC.
STD MACH WKG.
PARCEL SELECT LIGHTWEIGHT
IRREGULAR PARCELS
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5-digit
scheme
sacks.
SCF sacks ....
ASF sacks ....
NDC sacks ....
mixed NDC
sacks.
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STD IRREG 5D.
STD IRREG 5D SCH.
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This rule is effective January 11,
2012.
ADDRESSES: Mail or deliver written
comments to the Manager, Payment
Technology, U.S. Postal Service, 475
L’Enfant Plaza SW., Room 3660,
Washington, DC 20260–0911. Copies of
all written comments will be available
for inspection and photocopying
between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday
through Friday, at the Payment
Technology office.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Hank Heren, Business Programs
Specialist, Payment Technology, U.S.
Postal Service, at (309) 671–8926.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This final
rule is intended to assure that the same
general rules apply to third-party
organizations as apply to the PES
providers. The PES providers must
ensure that any third party acting on
their behalf performing any function
maintains the same facilities, records,
and procedures to safeguard the security
of the PES.
List of Subjects in 39 CFR Part 501
Postal Service.
Accordingly, for the reasons stated, 39
CFR part 501 is amended as follows:
PART 501—AUTHORIZATION TO
MANUFACTURE AND DISTRIBUTE
POSTAGE EVIDENCING SYSTEMS
1. The authority citation for 39 CFR
part 501 continues to read as follows:
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Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a); 39 U.S.C. 101,
401, 403, 404, 410, 2601, 2605, Inspector
General Act of 1978, as amended (Pub. L. 95–
452, as amended); 5 U.S.C. App. 3.
2. Section 501.3 is amended by
revising paragraph (d) and adding
paragraph (e) as follows:
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§ 501.3 Postage Evidencing System
provider qualification.
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Stanley F. Mires,
Attorney, Legal Policy & Legislative Advice.
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heading ‘‘Parcel Select’’ immediately
above the ‘‘Parcel Select Machinable
Parcels’’ subcategory as follows:]
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We will publish an appropriate
amendment to 39 CFR part 111 to reflect
these changes.
6.2.4 3-Digit Content Identifier
Numbers
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5-digit
scheme
sacks.
ASF sacks ....
NDC sacks ....
mixed NDC
sacks.
maintain regulatory controls over agents
operating third-party locations at
domestic or international (off shore)
facilities.
DATES:
PACKAGE SERVICES
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and Sack Labels
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POSTAL SERVICE
39 CFR Part 501
Authority To Manufacture and
Distribute Postage Evidencing
Systems
Postal ServiceTM.
Final rule.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: This rule clarifies the
responsibility of the providers of
Postage Evidencing Systems (PES) to
safeguard customer information and
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(d) As the provider bears the ultimate
responsibility to ensure customer
information will not be compromised at
any domestic or off shore locations, the
provider (as well as its agent operating
domestic or off shore locations) will not
cause or permit data to be released other
than for the operation of the third-party
location. The provider shall notify its
customer that data relating to its
systems is being housed by a third-party
location, and shall provide a copy
thereof to the Postal Service of such
notice to its customers. To the extent
that any unauthorized release takes
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place, the vendor shall notify the Postal
Service immediately upon discovery of
any unauthorized use or disclosure of
data or any other breach or improper
disclosure of data of this agreement by
the provider (as well as its agent
operating the third-party location) and
will cooperate with the Postal Service in
every reasonable way to help the Postal
Service regain possession of the data
and prevent its further unauthorized use
or disclosure. In the event that the
Postal Service cannot regain possession
of the data or prevent its further
unauthorized use or disclosure, the
provider shall indemnify the Postal
Service from damages resulting from its
(or such third-party) actions.
(e) Have, or establish, and keep under
its active supervision and control
adequate facilities for the control,
distribution, and maintenance of PES
and their replacement or secure disposal
or destruction when necessary and
appropriate.
Stanley F. Mires,
Attorney, Legal Policy & Legislative Advice.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA–R03–OAR–2011–0872; FRL–9504–7]
Approval and Promulgation of Air
Quality Implementation Plans; Virginia;
General Conformity Requirements for
Federal Agencies Applicable to Federal
Actions
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Direct final rule.
EPA is taking direct final
action to approve revisions to the
Commonwealth of Virginia State
Implementation Plan (SIP). The revision
consists of a regulation adopted by
Virginia to incorporate revisions to
Federal general conformity
requirements promulgated in July of
2006 and in April of 2010. EPA is
approving this Virginia SIP revision to
update its state general conformity
requirements rule for Federal agencies
applicable to Federal actions (Virginia’s
General Conformity Rule) to align with
the Federal General Conformity
Requirements Rule. This approval
action is being taken in accordance with
the requirements of the Clean Air Act
(CAA).
DATES: This rule is effective on February
10, 2012, without further notice, unless
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EPA receives adverse written comment
by January 11, 2012. If EPA receives
such comments, it will publish a timely
withdrawal of the direct final rule in the
Federal Register and inform the public
that the rule will not take effect.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID Number EPA–
R03–OAR–2011–0872 by one of the
following methods:
A. www.regulations.gov. Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
B. Email: fernandez.cristina@epa.gov.
C. Mail: EPA–R03–OAR–2011–0872,
Cristina Fernandez, Associate Director,
Office of Air Program Planning,
Mailcode 3AP30, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Region III, 1650
Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
19103.
D. Hand Delivery: At the previously
listed EPA Region III address. Such
deliveries are only accepted during the
Docket’s normal hours of operation, and
special arrangements should be made
for deliveries of boxed information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
Docket ID No. EPA–R03–OAR–2011–
0872. EPA’s policy is that all comments
received 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 information
claimed to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise
protected through www.regulations.gov
or email. The www.regulations.gov Web
site is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system,
which means EPA will not know your
identity or contact information unless
you provide it in the body of your
comment. If you send an email
comment directly to EPA without going
through www.regulations.gov, your
email address will be automatically
captured and included as part of the
comment that is placed in the public
docket and made available on the
Internet. If you submit an electronic
comment, EPA recommends that you
include your name and other contact
information in the body of your
comment and with any disk or CD–ROM
you submit. 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. Electronic files should avoid
the use of special characters, any form
of encryption, and be free of any defects
or viruses.
Docket: All documents in the
electronic docket are listed in the
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listed in the index, some information is
not publicly available, i.e., CBI or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Certain other
material, such as copyrighted material,
is not placed on the Internet and will be
publicly available only in hard copy
form. Publicly available docket
materials are available either
electronically in www.regulations.gov or
in hard copy during normal business
hours at the Air Protection Division,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Region III, 1650 Arch Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.
Copies of the State submittal are
available at the Virginia Department of
Environmental Quality, 629 East Main
Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brian Rehn, (215) 814–2176, or by email
at rehn.brian@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Throughout this document, whenever
‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean
EPA. The following outline is provided
to aid in locating information in this
preamble.
I. Summary of General Conformity
Requirements and the SIP Revision
A. What is general conformity and how
does it affect air quality?
II. Virginia’s General Conformity SIP
Revision
III. General Information Pertaining to SIP
Submittals From the Commonwealth of
Virginia
IV. What action is EPA taking?
V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
A. General Requirements
B. Submission to Congress and the
Comptroller General
C. Petitions for Judicial Review
I. Summary of General Conformity
Requirements and the SIP Revision
A. What is general conformity and how
does it affect air quality?
The intent of the general conformity
requirement is to prevent the air quality
impacts of Federal actions from causing
or contributing to a violation of a
National Ambient Air Quality Standard
(NAAQS) or interfering with the
purpose of a SIP. Under the CAA as
amended in 1990, Congress recognized
that actions taken by Federal agencies
could affect state and local agencies’
abilities to attain and maintain the
NAAQS. Section 176(c) of the CAA, as
codified in Title 42 of the United States
Code (42 U.S.C. 7506), requires Federal
agencies assure that their actions
conform to the applicable SIP for
attaining and maintaining compliance
with the NAAQS. General conformity is
defined to apply to NAAQS established
pursuant to section 109 of the CAA,
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POSTAL SERVICE
39 CFR Part 501
Authority To Manufacture and Distribute Postage Evidencing
Systems
AGENCY: Postal Service\TM\.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: This rule clarifies the responsibility of the providers of
Postage Evidencing Systems (PES) to safeguard customer information and
maintain regulatory controls over agents operating third-party
locations at domestic or international (off shore) facilities.
DATES: This rule is effective January 11, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Mail or deliver written comments to the Manager, Payment
Technology, U.S. Postal Service, 475 L'Enfant Plaza SW., Room 3660,
Washington, DC 20260-0911. Copies of all written comments will be
available for inspection and photocopying between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, at the Payment Technology office.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hank Heren, Business Programs
Specialist, Payment Technology, U.S. Postal Service, at (309) 671-8926.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This final rule is intended to assure that
the same general rules apply to third-party organizations as apply to
the PES providers. The PES providers must ensure that any third party
acting on their behalf performing any function maintains the same
facilities, records, and procedures to safeguard the security of the
PES.
List of Subjects in 39 CFR Part 501
Postal Service.
Accordingly, for the reasons stated, 39 CFR part 501 is amended as
follows:
PART 501--AUTHORIZATION TO MANUFACTURE AND DISTRIBUTE POSTAGE
EVIDENCING SYSTEMS
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1. The authority citation for 39 CFR part 501 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a); 39 U.S.C. 101, 401, 403, 404, 410,
2601, 2605, Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended (Pub. L. 95-
452, as amended); 5 U.S.C. App. 3.
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2. Section 501.3 is amended by revising paragraph (d) and adding
paragraph (e) as follows:
Sec. 501.3 Postage Evidencing System provider qualification.
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(d) As the provider bears the ultimate responsibility to ensure
customer information will not be compromised at any domestic or off
shore locations, the provider (as well as its agent operating domestic
or off shore locations) will not cause or permit data to be released
other than for the operation of the third-party location. The provider
shall notify its customer that data relating to its systems is being
housed by a third-party location, and shall provide a copy thereof to
the Postal Service of such notice to its customers. To the extent that
any unauthorized release takes
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place, the vendor shall notify the Postal Service immediately upon
discovery of any unauthorized use or disclosure of data or any other
breach or improper disclosure of data of this agreement by the provider
(as well as its agent operating the third-party location) and will
cooperate with the Postal Service in every reasonable way to help the
Postal Service regain possession of the data and prevent its further
unauthorized use or disclosure. In the event that the Postal Service
cannot regain possession of the data or prevent its further
unauthorized use or disclosure, the provider shall indemnify the Postal
Service from damages resulting from its (or such third-party) actions.
(e) Have, or establish, and keep under its active supervision and
control adequate facilities for the control, distribution, and
maintenance of PES and their replacement or secure disposal or
destruction when necessary and appropriate.
Stanley F. Mires,
Attorney, Legal Policy & Legislative Advice.
[FR Doc. 2011-31726 Filed 12-9-11; 8:45 am]
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