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V2525–D5, V2527–A5, V2527E–A5,
V2527M–A5, V2528–D5, V2530–A5, and
V2533–A5, engines with either of the
following installed:
(1) High-pressure turbine (HPT) stage 1
hub, part number (P/N) 2A5001, with a serial
number (S/N) listed in Table 1, Appendix A,
of IAE Non-Modification Service Bulletin
(NMSB) No. V2500–ENG–72–0661, Revision
1, dated February 5, 2016; or
(2) HPT stage 2 hub, P/N 2A4802, with an
S/N listed in Table 2, Appendix A, of IAE
NMSB No. V2500–ENG–72–0661, Revision 1,
dated February 5, 2016.
(d) Unsafe Condition
This AD was prompted by the fracture of
the HPT stage 2 hub during flight, which
resulted in an in-flight shutdown, undercowl
fire, and smoke in the cabin. We are issuing
this AD to prevent failure of the HPT stage
1 or HPT stage 2 hubs, which could result in
uncontained HPT blade release, damage to
the engine, and damage to the airplane.
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(e) Compliance
Comply with this AD within the
compliance times specified, unless already
done.
(1) Inspect the HPT stage 1 hub, P/N
2A5001, and HPT stage 2 hub, P/N 2A4802,
at the next shop visit or as follows,
whichever comes first:
(i) For hubs with 0 to 7,000 CSN, before
accumulating 13,000 CSN;
(ii) For hubs with 7,001 to 11,000 CSN,
within 6,000 cycles from the effective date of
this AD or before accumulating 15,000 CSN,
whichever occurs first;
(iii) For hubs with 11,001 to 15,500 CSN,
within 4,000 cycles from the effective date of
this AD or before accumulating 17,000 CSN,
whichever occurs first;
(iv) For hubs with 15,501 CSN or greater,
within 1,500 cycles from the effective date of
this AD.
(2) Use Accomplishment Instructions,
paragraphs 2.A., 2.C., and 2.D., of IAE NMSB
No. V2500–ENG–72–0661, Revision 1, dated
February 5, 2016, to inspect the HPT stage 1
hub, P/N 2A5001.
(3) Use Accomplishment Instructions,
paragraphs 2.E., 2.G., and 2H., of IAE NMSB
No. V2500–ENG–72–0661, to inspect the
HPT stage 2 hub, P/N 2A4802.
(4) Remove from service any HPT stage 1
hub, P/N 2A5001, or HPT stage 2 hub, P/N
2A4802, that fail the inspections required by
paragraphs (e)(2) and (e)(3) of this AD, and
replace with a part that is eligible for
installation.
(f) Definition
For the purpose of this AD, a ‘‘shop visit’’
is the induction of an engine into the shop
for maintenance involving the separation of
pairs of major mating engine flanges, except
that the separation of engine flanges solely
for the purposes of transportation without
subsequent engine maintenance does not
constitute an engine shop visit.
(g) Alternative Methods of Compliance
(AMOCs)
The Manager, Engine Certification Office,
FAA, may approve AMOCs for this AD. Use
the procedures found in 14 CFR 39.19 to
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make your request. You may email your
request to: ANE-AD-AMOC@faa.gov.
(h) Related Information
(1) For more information about this AD,
contact Brian Kierstead, Aerospace Engineer,
Engine Certification Office, FAA, Engine &
Propeller Directorate, 1200 District Avenue,
Burlington, MA 01803; phone: 781–238–
7772; fax: 781–238–7199; email:
brian.kierstead@faa.gov.
(2) For service information identified in
this proposed AD, contact International Aero
Engines AG, 400 Main Street, East Hartford,
CT 06118; phone: 860–368–3700; fax: 860–
368–4600; email: iaeinfo@iaev2500.com;
Internet: https://www.iaeworld.com.
(3) You may view this service information
at the FAA, Engine & Propeller Directorate,
1200 District Avenue, Burlington, MA. For
information on the availability of this
material at the FAA, call 781–238–7125.
Issued in Burlington, Massachusetts, on
March 24, 2016.
Colleen M. D’Alessandro,
Manager, Engine & Propeller Directorate,
Aircraft Certification Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of Workers’ Compensation
Programs
20 CFR Part 30
RIN 1240–AA08
Claims for Compensation Under the
Energy Employees Occupational
Illness Compensation Program Act
Office of Workers’
Compensation Programs, Department of
Labor.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking;
reopening of comment period.
AGENCY:
The Department of Labor is
reopening and extending the comment
period for the notice of proposed
rulemaking it published on November
18, 2015 (80 FR 72296). The Department
originally allowed a 60-day comment
period that was scheduled to close on
January 19, 2016, but on that date
extended the comment period another
30 days through February 18, 2016 (81
FR 2787). This notice indicates that the
comment period is being reopened as of
April 5, 2016 and extended for an
additional period. The comment period
for the information collection
requirements in the proposed rule
ended on December 18, 2015, and that
period is not being reopened.
DATES: The comment period for the
notice of proposed rulemaking
published on November 18, 2015 (80 FR
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72296) and extended at 81 FR 2787
(January 19, 2016) is reopened. The
Department will accept written
comments on the notice of proposed
rulemaking from interested parties that
are submitted from April 5, 2016
through May 9, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Parties may submit
comments on the regulations in the
proposed rule, identified by Regulatory
Information Number (RIN) 1240–AA08,
by any ONE of the following methods:
Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: The
Internet address to submit comments on
the regulations in the proposed rule is
www.regulations.gov. Follow the Web
site instructions for submitting
comments. Comments will also be
available for public inspection on the
Web site.
Mail or Hand Delivery: Submit written
comments by mail to Rachel P. Leiton,
Director, Division of Energy Employees
Occupational Illness Compensation,
Office of Workers’ Compensation
Programs, U.S. Department of Labor,
Room C–3321, 200 Constitution Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20210. The
Department will only consider mailed
comments that have been postmarked
by the U.S. Postal Service or other
delivery service on or before the
deadline for comments.
Instructions: All comments must cite
RIN 1240–AA08 that has been assigned
to this rulemaking. Receipt of any
comments, whether by Internet, mail or
hand delivery, will not be
acknowledged.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rachel P. Leiton, Director, Division of
Energy Employees Occupational Illness
Compensation, Office of Workers’
Compensation Programs, U.S.
Department of Labor, Room C–3321, 200
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20210, Telephone: 202–693–0081
(this is not a toll-free number).
Individuals with hearing or speech
impairments may access this telephone
number via TTY by calling the toll-free
Federal Information Relay Service at 1–
800–877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
response to requests from members of
the public, the Department has decided
to reopen the public comment period for
the notice of proposed rulemaking it
published on November 18, 2015 (80 FR
72296). The Department originally
allowed a 60-day comment period that
was scheduled to close on January 19,
2016, but on that date extended the
comment period another 30 days
through February 18, 2016 (81 FR 2787).
The comment period is being reopened
as of April 5, 2016 and extended
through May 9, 2016. The comment
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period for the information collection
requirements in the proposed rule
ended on December 18, 2015, and that
period is not being reopened.
The notice of proposed rulemaking
contains changes to update the
regulations governing the
administration of the Energy Employees
Occupational Illness Compensation
Program Act of 2000, as amended
(EEOICPA or Act), 42 U.S.C. 7384 et
seq., which was originally enacted on
October 30, 2000. The initial version of
EEOICPA established a compensation
program (known as Part B of the Act) to
provide a uniform lump-sum payment
of $150,000 and medical benefits as
compensation to covered employees
who had sustained designated illnesses
due to their exposure to radiation,
beryllium or silica while in the
performance of duty for DOE and
certain of its vendors, contractors and
subcontractors. Part B of the Act also
provides for payment of compensation
to certain survivors of these covered
employees, and for payment of a smaller
uniform lump-sum ($50,000) to
individuals (who would also receive
medical benefits), or their survivors,
who were determined to be eligible for
compensation under section 5 of the
Radiation Exposure Compensation Act
(RECA), 42 U.S.C. 2210 note, by the
Department of Justice. Primary
responsibility for the administration of
Part B of the Act was assigned to DOL
by Executive Order 13179 (‘‘Providing
Compensation to America’s Nuclear
Weapons Workers’’) of December 7,
2000 (65 FR 77487).
The initial version of EEOICPA also
created a second program (known as
Part D of the Act) that required DOE to
establish a system by which DOE
contractor employees (and their eligible
survivors) could seek assistance from
DOE in obtaining state workers’
compensation benefits if a Physicians
Panel determined that the employee in
question had sustained a covered illness
as a result of work-related exposure to
a toxic substance at a DOE facility. A
positive panel finding that was accepted
by DOE required DOE, to the extent
permitted by law, to order its contractor
not to contest the claim for state
workers’ compensation benefits.
However, Congress amended EEOICPA
in Subtitle E of Title XXXI of the Ronald
W. Reagan National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005,
Public Law 108–375, 118 Stat. 1811,
2178 (October 28, 2004), by abolishing
Part D of the Act and creating a new Part
E (codified at 42 U.S.C. 7385s through
7385s-15) that it assigned to DOL for
administration. Part E established a new
system of variable federal payments for
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DOE contractor employees, uranium
workers covered by section 5 of RECA,
and eligible survivors of such
employees.
The Department’s proposed rule
would amend certain of the existing
regulations governing its administration
of Parts B and E of EEOICPA to conform
them to current administrative practice,
based on its experience administering
the Act since 2001, to bring further
clarity to the regulatory description of
the claims adjudication process, and to
improve the administration of the Act.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of
March, 2016.
Leonard J. Howie III,
Director, Office of Workers’ Compensation
Programs.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA–R04–OAR–2015–0518; FRL–9944–50Region 4]
Air Plan Approval; North Carolina;
Regional Haze
Environmental Protection
Agency.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a
revision to North Carolina’s regional
haze State Implementation Plan (SIP),
submitted by the North Carolina
Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (NC DENR) on October 31,
2014, that relies on an alternative to
Best Available Retrofit Technology
(BART) to satisfy BART requirements
for electric generating units (EGUs)
formerly subject to the Clean Air
Interstate Rule (CAIR). EPA also
proposes to find that final approval of
this SIP revision would correct the
deficiencies that led to EPA’s limited
disapproval of the State’s regional haze
SIP on June 7, 2012, and proposes to
convert EPA’s June 27, 2012, limited
approval to a full approval. This
submittal addresses the requirements of
the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) and
EPA’s rules that require states to prevent
any future, and remedy any existing,
manmade impairment of visibility in
mandatory Class I areas caused by
emissions of air pollutants from
numerous sources located over a wide
geographic area (also referred to as the
regional haze program). States are
required to assure reasonable progress
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toward the national goal of achieving
natural visibility conditions in Class I
areas.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before April 26, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R04–
OAR–2015–0518 at https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
Once submitted, comments cannot be
edited or removed from Regulations.gov.
EPA may publish any comment received
to its public docket. Do not submit
electronically any information you
consider to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Multimedia submissions (audio, video,
etc.) must be accompanied by a written
comment. The written comment is
considered the official comment and
should include discussion of all points
you wish to make. EPA will generally
not consider comments or comment
contents located outside of the primary
submission (i.e. on the web, cloud, or
other file sharing system). For
additional submission methods, the full
EPA public comment policy,
information about CBI or multimedia
submissions, and general guidance on
making effective comments, please visit
https://www2.epa.gov/dockets/
commenting-epa-dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michele Notarianni, Air Regulatory
Management Section, Air Planning and
Implementation Branch, Air, Pesticides
and Toxics Management Division, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street SW.,
Atlanta, Georgia 30303–8960. Ms.
Notarianni can be reached by telephone
at (404) 562–9031 or via electronic mail
at Notarianni.Michele@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Table of Contents
I. Background for EPA’s Proposed
Action
A. Overview of the Regional Haze Rule
Regional haze is visibility impairment
that is produced by a multitude of
sources and activities which are located
across a broad geographic area and emit
fine particles (e.g., sulfates, nitrates,
organic carbon, elemental carbon, and
soil dust) and their precursors (e.g.,
sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides
(NOX), and in some cases, ammonia and
volatile organic compounds). Fine
particle precursors react in the
atmosphere to form fine particulate
matter (PM2.5) which impairs visibility
by scattering and absorbing light.
Visibility impairment reduces the
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
20 CFR Part 30
RIN 1240-AA08
Claims for Compensation Under the Energy Employees Occupational
Illness Compensation Program Act
AGENCY: Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; reopening of comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor is reopening and extending the comment
period for the notice of proposed rulemaking it published on November
18, 2015 (80 FR 72296). The Department originally allowed a 60-day
comment period that was scheduled to close on January 19, 2016, but on
that date extended the comment period another 30 days through February
18, 2016 (81 FR 2787). This notice indicates that the comment period is
being reopened as of April 5, 2016 and extended for an additional
period. The comment period for the information collection requirements
in the proposed rule ended on December 18, 2015, and that period is not
being reopened.
DATES: The comment period for the notice of proposed rulemaking
published on November 18, 2015 (80 FR 72296) and extended at 81 FR 2787
(January 19, 2016) is reopened. The Department will accept written
comments on the notice of proposed rulemaking from interested parties
that are submitted from April 5, 2016 through May 9, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Parties may submit comments on the regulations in the
proposed rule, identified by Regulatory Information Number (RIN) 1240-
AA08, by any ONE of the following methods:
Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: The Internet address to submit
comments on the regulations in the proposed rule is
www.regulations.gov. Follow the Web site instructions for submitting
comments. Comments will also be available for public inspection on the
Web site.
Mail or Hand Delivery: Submit written comments by mail to Rachel P.
Leiton, Director, Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness
Compensation, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, U.S. Department
of Labor, Room C-3321, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC
20210. The Department will only consider mailed comments that have been
postmarked by the U.S. Postal Service or other delivery service on or
before the deadline for comments.
Instructions: All comments must cite RIN 1240-AA08 that has been
assigned to this rulemaking. Receipt of any comments, whether by
Internet, mail or hand delivery, will not be acknowledged.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rachel P. Leiton, Director, Division
of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation, Office of
Workers' Compensation Programs, U.S. Department of Labor, Room C-3321,
200 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210, Telephone: 202-693-
0081 (this is not a toll-free number).
Individuals with hearing or speech impairments may access this
telephone number via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information
Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In response to requests from members of the
public, the Department has decided to reopen the public comment period
for the notice of proposed rulemaking it published on November 18, 2015
(80 FR 72296). The Department originally allowed a 60-day comment
period that was scheduled to close on January 19, 2016, but on that
date extended the comment period another 30 days through February 18,
2016 (81 FR 2787). The comment period is being reopened as of April 5,
2016 and extended through May 9, 2016. The comment
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period for the information collection requirements in the proposed rule
ended on December 18, 2015, and that period is not being reopened.
The notice of proposed rulemaking contains changes to update the
regulations governing the administration of the Energy Employees
Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000, as amended
(EEOICPA or Act), 42 U.S.C. 7384 et seq., which was originally enacted
on October 30, 2000. The initial version of EEOICPA established a
compensation program (known as Part B of the Act) to provide a uniform
lump-sum payment of $150,000 and medical benefits as compensation to
covered employees who had sustained designated illnesses due to their
exposure to radiation, beryllium or silica while in the performance of
duty for DOE and certain of its vendors, contractors and
subcontractors. Part B of the Act also provides for payment of
compensation to certain survivors of these covered employees, and for
payment of a smaller uniform lump-sum ($50,000) to individuals (who
would also receive medical benefits), or their survivors, who were
determined to be eligible for compensation under section 5 of the
Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), 42 U.S.C. 2210 note, by the
Department of Justice. Primary responsibility for the administration of
Part B of the Act was assigned to DOL by Executive Order 13179
(``Providing Compensation to America's Nuclear Weapons Workers'') of
December 7, 2000 (65 FR 77487).
The initial version of EEOICPA also created a second program (known
as Part D of the Act) that required DOE to establish a system by which
DOE contractor employees (and their eligible survivors) could seek
assistance from DOE in obtaining state workers' compensation benefits
if a Physicians Panel determined that the employee in question had
sustained a covered illness as a result of work-related exposure to a
toxic substance at a DOE facility. A positive panel finding that was
accepted by DOE required DOE, to the extent permitted by law, to order
its contractor not to contest the claim for state workers' compensation
benefits. However, Congress amended EEOICPA in Subtitle E of Title XXXI
of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 2005, Public Law 108-375, 118 Stat. 1811, 2178 (October 28, 2004),
by abolishing Part D of the Act and creating a new Part E (codified at
42 U.S.C. 7385s through 7385s-15) that it assigned to DOL for
administration. Part E established a new system of variable federal
payments for DOE contractor employees, uranium workers covered by
section 5 of RECA, and eligible survivors of such employees.
The Department's proposed rule would amend certain of the existing
regulations governing its administration of Parts B and E of EEOICPA to
conform them to current administrative practice, based on its
experience administering the Act since 2001, to bring further clarity
to the regulatory description of the claims adjudication process, and
to improve the administration of the Act.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of March, 2016.
Leonard J. Howie III,
Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs.
[FR Doc. 2016-07488 Filed 4-4-16; 8:45 am]
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