August 3, 2012 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The EPA has been requested to hold a public hearing on its proposed rule, ``National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for the Portland Cement Manufacturing Industry and Standards of Performance for Portland Cement Plants,'' which was published in the Federal Register on July 18, 2012. The EPA will hold the hearing on August 16, 2012, in Arlington, Texas.

This is an amendment of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for Public Assistance Only for the State of Florida (FEMA-4068-DR), dated 07/09/2012. Incident: Tropical Storm Debby. Incident Period: 06/23/2012 through 07/26/2012. Effective Date: 07/26/2012. Physical Loan Application Deadline Date: 09/07/2012. Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan Application Deadline Date: 04/09/2013.

This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of rimsulfuron in or on chicory roots and tops. Interregional Research Project No. 4 (IR-4) requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA).

In response to requests by interested parties, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain pasta (``pasta'') from Italy for the period of review (``POR'') July 1, 2010, through June 30, 2011. This review covers the following seven companies: Botticelli Mediterraneo S.a.r.l. (``Botticelli''), Fiamma Vesuviana S.r.L. (``Fiamma''), Industria Alimentare Filiberto Bianconi 1947 S.p.A. (``Filiberto''), Pastificio Fratelli Cellino, S.r.l. (``Fratelli''), Pastificio Attilio Mastromauro Granoro S.r.L. (``Granoro''), Rummo S.p.A. Molino e Pastificio and its affiliates (``Rummo''), and Pastificio Zaffiri (``Zaffiri''). We preliminarily find that Rummo, Filiberto, Fratelli, and Zaffiri sold subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) (dumping). We further find that there were no exports of subject merchandise to the United States during the POR by Fiamma and Botticelli. Finally, in response to its request for revocation and because this would be the third year of no dumping by Granoro, we preliminarily intend to revoke the antidumping duty order with regard to Granoro. If these preliminary results are adopted in the final results of this administrative review, we will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') to assess antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise during the POR. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.

We preliminarily determine that large residential washers (washers) from Mexico are being sold, or are likely to be sold, in the United States at less than fair value (LTFV), as provided in section 733(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Interested parties are invited to comment on this preliminary determination. Because we are postponing the final determination, we will make our final determination not later than 135 days after the date of publication of this preliminary determination in the Federal Register.

This notice proposes initial year 2013 aggregate production quotas for controlled substances in schedules I and II of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and assessment of annual needs for the list I chemicals ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine.

We are announcing receipt of a proposed amendment to the Ohio regulatory program under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). Ohio's proposed amendment updates the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC) to address issues raised by OSM regarding consistency of Ohio's surface mining program with the final Federal rule relative to Ownership and Control, Permit and Application Information and Transfer, and Assignment or Sale of Permit Rights, which became effective December 3, 2007. The proposed amendment specifically alters the following regulations within the OAC: Definitions; Incorporation by reference; Permit applications, requirements for legal, financial, compliance, and related information; Permit applications, revisions, and renewals, and transfers, assignments, and sales of permit rights; Improvidently issued permits; and Enforcement and Individual civil penalties. By submittal of this proposed amendment, Ohio intends to revise its approved program pursuant to the additional flexibility afforded by the revised Federal regulations and SMCRA, as amended, to ensure Ohio's proposed regulatory provisions are no less effective than the corresponding regulations. This document provides the times and locations that the Ohio program and proposed amendment are available for public inspection, the comment period during which you may submit written comments on this amendment, and the procedures that we will follow for the public hearing, if one is requested.

Under Section 122(h) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (``CERCLA''), notice is hereby given of two proposed administrative settlements for recovery of past response costs concerning the Buckbee-Mears Co. Superfund Site located in Cortland, Cortland County, New York (the ``Site'') with each of the following settling parties: the City of Cortland (``City'') and the County of Cortland (``County'')(collectively the ``Municipal Settlements''). In order to resolve competing liens on two parcels of land within the Site (``Properties''), the Municipal Settlements provide that the City and the County agree to facilitate the sale and redevelopment of the Properties. In addition, if the Properties are sold pursuant to a pending foreclosure action by the State Bank of India, New York Branch (the ``Bank''), the Bank will pay to the City, in full satisfaction of the City's tax lien, the greater of $302,881 (being the amount of City Taxes in arrears as of September 29, 2006) or fifteen percent (15%) of the proceeds from the sale of the Properties, and the Bank will pay to the County $2,120 in full satisfaction of its tax lien, after the Bank is paid $150,000 attributable to the costs of marketing and selling the Properties. Any proceeds from the Bank's foreclosure sale remaining after the above payments to the Bank, the City and the County, shall be distributed in proportion to the percentage that the following amounts represent in relation to the combined total of said amounts: (1) For EPA, $8,323,204; (2) for the Bank, $8,434,911; (3) for the City, $1,194,043 minus the greater of $302,881 or fifteen percent (15%) of the proceeds from the sale of the Properties. Also under the terms of the Municipal Agreements, if the Properties are not sold through the Bank's foreclosure action, the City and County will foreclosure on the Properties, transfer the Properties and pay to EPA 50% of the selling price, after the transaction costs associated with the sale have been paid. The transaction costs are capped at $5,000 for the County and $150,000 for the City. EPA has also agreed to discharge its CERCLA Section 107(l) lien on the Properties and has agreed to waive any windfall lien it may have on the Properties under CERCLA Section 107(r). For thirty (30) days following the date of publication of this notice, the Agency will receive written comments relating to the Municipal Agreements. The Agency will consider all comments received and may modify or withdraw its consent to the two settlements if comments received disclose facts or considerations which indicate that either of the settlements is inappropriate, improper, or inadequate.

The EPA is announcing that it is using its authority under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to extend by up to 1 year the deadline for promulgating initial area designations for the primary sulfur dioxide (SO2) national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) that was promulgated in June 2010. With this extension, the EPA is now required to complete initial designations for this NAAQS by June 3, 2013.

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Small Business Administration's intentions to request approval on a new and/or currently approved information collection.

This is an amendment of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the State of Florida (FEMA-4068-DR), dated 07/03/ 2012. Incident: Tropical Storm Debby. Incident Period: 06/23/2012 and continuing through 07/26/2012. Effective Date: 07/26/2012. Physical Loan Application Deadline Date: 09/04/2012. EIDL Loan Application Deadline Date: 04/03/2013.

The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research is announcing a 4-day public workshop entitled ``Gastroenterology Regulatory Endpoints and the Advancement of Therapeutics (GREAT).'' The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum to consider issues related to endpoints that can support drug development in the following disease areas: Eosinophilic esophagitis, pediatric and adult inflammatory bowel disease, and parenteral nutrition-associated liver disease.

This action adds products and services to the Procurement List that will be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.

The Caribbean Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold a meeting.

On April 4, 2012, notice was published on page 20476 of the Federal Register (volume 77, number 65) of determinations made by the Department of State pertaining to the exhibition ``Nicolai Fechin.'' The referenced notice is corrected here to include additional objects as part of the exhibition. Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 Stat. 2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 note, et seq.), Delegation of Authority No. 234 of October 1, 1999, and Delegation of Authority No. 236-3 of August 28, 2000, I hereby determine that the additional objects to be included in the exhibition ``Nicolai Fechin,'' imported from abroad for temporary exhibition within the United States, are of cultural significance. The additional objects are imported pursuant to loan agreements with the foreign owners or custodians. I also determine that the exhibition or display of the exhibit objects at the Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, from on or about August 18, 2012, until on or about January 13, 2013, the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, from on or about February 2, 2013, until on or about April 7, 2013, and at possible additional exhibitions or venues yet to be determined, is in the national interest. I have ordered that Public Notice of these Determinations be published in the Federal Register.

We are advising the public that a draft environmental assessment has been prepared by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service relative to the proposed release of Aphelinus glycinis for the biological control of the soybean aphid, Aphis glycines, in the continental United States. We are making this environmental assessment available to the public for review and comment.

We are soliciting public comment on whether and how we should amend our process for responding to domestic chrysanthemum white rust (CWR) outbreaks and the importation of plant material that is a host of CWR. Domestically, CWR host plants must be surveyed and, if found to be infected with CWR, must undergo quarantine, destruction, treatment, or other sanitation measures called for in our National Management Plan. The importation of CWR host plants for planting from a number of countries and localities is currently prohibited to prevent the introduction of CWR into the United States. In addition, importation of cut flowers of CWR host plants from countries where CWR is known to occur is currently restricted. We are reevaluating our current regulatory strategy in order to improve the effectiveness and economic efficiency of our programs. After evaluating public comment on the issues presented in this document, we will determine whether to propose changes to our existing regulations.

This action extends the closing and award dates for a Notice of Funding Availability for the Small Business Transportation Resource Center that was published on July19, 2012, 77 FR 36034. USDOT OSDBU is extending the closing date to allow eligible entities time to adequately submit a proposal.

As authorized by 46 U.S.C. 12121, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for such a waiver has been received by MARAD. The vessel, and a brief description of the proposed service, is listed below.

EPA is proposing to approve in part, and conditionally approve in part, the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions, submitted by the Commonwealth of Kentucky through the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, Division for Air Quality (DAQ), as demonstrating that the Commonwealth meets the requirements of sections 110(a)(1) and (2) of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) for the 1997 annual and 2006 24- hour fine particulate matter (PM2.5) national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). Kentucky certified that the Kentucky SIP contains provisions that ensure the 1997 annual and 2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS are implemented, enforced, and maintained in Kentucky (hereafter referred to as ``infrastructure submission''). EPA is now taking three related actions on Kentucky DAQ's infrastructure submissions for the Commonwealth. First, EPA is proposing to determine that Kentucky DAQ's infrastructure submissions, provided to EPA on August 26, 2008, and July 17, 2012, satisfy certain required infrastructure elements for the 1997 annual and 2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS. Second, EPA is proposing to approve several Kentucky Revised Statutes (KRS) into the SIP to address element 110(a)(2)(E)(ii), that relates to state board requirements. Third, with respect to sections 110(a)(2)(C) and 110(a)(2)(J) as they relate to PSD requirements, EPA is proposing to conditionally approve the SIP submissions as meeting these requirements.

EPA is proposing to partially approve and partially disapprove State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the State of Nevada to address the requirements of section 110(a)(1) and 110(a)(2) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) for the 1997 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) and the 1997 and 2006 NAAQS for fine particulate matter (PM2.5). Section 110(a) of the CAA requires that each State adopt and submit a SIP for the implementation, maintenance, and enforcement of each NAAQS promulgated by the EPA. On February 1, 2008, February 26, 2008, September 15, 2009, and December 4, 2009 the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP) submitted revisions to Nevada's SIP, which describe the State's provisions for implementing, maintaining, and enforcing the standards listed above. On July 5, 2012, NDEP submitted a supplement to these SIP revisions, including certain statutory and regulatory provisions. We encourage the State to submit a revised SIP to address the deficiencies identified in this proposal, and we stand ready to work with the State to develop a revised plan. We are taking comments on this proposal and plan to follow with a final action.

The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and continuing collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This program helps to assure that requested data can be provided in the desired format, reporting burden (time and financial resources) is minimized, collection instruments are clearly understood, and the impact of collection requirements on respondents can be properly assessed. Currently, the Mine Safety and Health Administration is soliciting comments concerning the extension of the information collection for 30 CFR 44.9, 44.10, and 44.11. OMB last approved this information collection request on January 8, 2010. The package expires on January 31, 2013.