Natural Disaster Procedures: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Activities of the Corps of Engineers, 1340-1341 [2023-00300]

Download as PDF 1340 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 6 / Tuesday, January 10, 2023 / Proposed Rules promulgating any rule likely to result in a Federal mandate that may result in the expenditure by State, local, and tribal Governments, in the aggregate, or by the private sector, of $100 million or more in any one year. If a budgetary impact statement is required, section 205 of the Unfunded Mandates Act also requires the agency to identify and consider a reasonable number of regulatory alternatives before promulgating the rule. We have determined that the proposed rule will not result in expenditures by State, local, and tribal Governments, in the aggregate, or by the private sector, of $100 million or more in any one year. Accordingly, we have not prepared a budgetary impact statement or specifically addressed any regulatory alternatives. V. Proposed Regulations List of Subjects in 31 CFR Part 208 Banks, banking, Debit cards, Disbursements, Electronic funds transfers, Federal payments, Treasurysponsored accounts. For the reasons set out in the preamble, we propose to amend 31 CFR part 208 as follows: Title 31: Money and Finance: Treasury PART 208—MANAGEMENT OF FEDERAL AGENCY DISBURSEMENTS 1. The authority citation for part 208 continues to read as follows: ■ Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 12 U.S.C. 90, 265, 266, 1767, 1789a; 31 U.S.C. 321, 3122, 3301, 3302, 3303, 3321, 3325, 3327, 3328, 3332, 3335, 3336, 6503. * * * * * 2. Amend § 208.4 by: a. Revising paragraph (a)(1)(ii); b. Adding a new paragraph (a)(3) and redesignating paragraphs (a)(3) through (a)(7) as paragraphs (a)(4) through (a)(8); ■ c. Revising paragraphs (a)(4), (a)(7), and (a)(8); ■ d. Revising paragraph (b); and ■ e. Adding a new paragraph (c). The revisions and additions read as follows: ■ ■ ■ khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with PROPOSALS § 208.4 Waivers. (a) * * * (ii) * * * However, if Treasury provides an agency with an option to begin delivering a type of payment to a Treasury-sponsored account, the agency must file a waiver request with Treasury to make payments of that type by any means other than by electronic funds transfer. * * * * * (3) Where the payment is in a foreign currency and Treasury does not support electronic payment in that currency. VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:55 Jan 09, 2023 Jkt 259001 (4) * * * An agency must file a waiver request with Treasury (which must be approved by Treasury) to extend this waiver beyond 120 days after the disaster is declared. * * * * * (7) Where the agency does not expect to make multiple payments to the same recipient within a one-year period on a regular, recurring basis but only if the payments are made to an individual or a small business concern where ‘‘small business concern’’ has the meaning given the term in section 3 of the Small Business Act at 15 U.S.C. 632. (8) * * * An agency must file a waiver request with Treasury (which must be approved by Treasury) to utilize this waiver. (b) An individual who requests a waiver under paragraphs (a)(1)(iv) and (v) or an agency who requests a waiver under paragraphs (a)(1)(ii), (a)(4), or (a)(8) of this section shall provide, in writing, to Treasury a certification supporting that request, in such form that Treasury may prescribe. The individual shall attest to the certification before a notary public, or otherwise file the certification in such form that Treasury may prescribe. Treasury reserves the right to reject any waiver request it receives. (c) If application of an agency’s waiver, together with any waiver request previously granted under paragraphs (a)(1)(ii), (a)(4), or (a)(8), would, in Treasury’s determination, lead to the agency initiating an unusually large number or proportion of payments by means other than electronic funds transfer, Treasury reserves the right to nullify the waiver in this class of cases and require the agency to work with Treasury to identify and implement ways to make the payments by electronic funds transfer. * * * * * ■ 3. Amend § 208.7 by: ■ a. Redesignating the existing language as paragraph (a); and ■ b. Adding a new paragraph (b). The revision and addition read as follows: § 208.7 Agency responsibilities. (a) An agency shall put into place procedures that allow recipients to provide the information necessary for the delivery of payments to the recipient by electronic funds transfer to an account at the recipient’s financial institution or a Treasury-sponsored account. (b) Upon request from Treasury, an agency shall provide Treasury with a list of the employer identification PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 numbers (EINs) assigned to the agency that the agency has used to make or receive a Federal intragovernmental payment during the 12-month period preceding the request from Treasury as well as a list of the EINs for all Federal agencies to whom the agency has made a Federal intragovernmental payment during the same 12-month period. * * * * * ■ 4. Amend § 208.9 by revising paragraph (b) to read as follows: § 208.9 Compliance. * * * * * (b) If an agency fails to make payment by electronic funds transfer as prescribed under this part, Treasury will consider that payment to be not timely pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3335, as electronic funds transfer payments are processed, disbursed, and settled more quickly than checks and, accordingly, Treasury may assess a charge to the agency pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3335. David Lebryk, Fiscal Assistant Secretary. [FR Doc. 2022–28458 Filed 1–9–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4810–35–P DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers 33 CFR Part 203 [COE–2021–0008] RIN 0710–AA78 Natural Disaster Procedures: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Activities of the Corps of Engineers AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. Proposed rule; extension of comment period. ACTION: On November 15, 2022, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) published a proposed rule to revise its natural disaster procedures under this part of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which implements a section of the Flood Control Act of 1941, as amended. The comment period was originally scheduled to end on January 17, 2023, and we received requests to extend the comment period. I am extending the comment period by 30 days to provide a 90-day comment period for this proposed rule. Comments previously submitted do not need to be resubmitted, as they have already been incorporated into the administrative SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\10JAP1.SGM 10JAP1 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 6 / Tuesday, January 10, 2023 / Proposed Rules record and will be fully considered in the Corps’ decision-making process for this rulemaking action. DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule published at 87 FR 68386 on November 15, 2022 is extended. Written comments must be submitted on or before February 16, 2023. ADDRESSES: Submittal of comments may be accomplished, identified by docket number COE–2021–0008, by any of the following methods: Federal eRulemaking Portal: https:// www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Email: 33CFR203@usace.army.mil. Include the docket number, COE–2021– 0008, in the subject line of the message. Mail: HQ, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ATTN: 33CFR203/CECW– HS/3H63, 441 G Street NW, Washington DC 20314–1000. Hand Delivery/Courier: Due to security requirements, we cannot receive comments by hand delivery or courier. Instructions: Instructions for submitting comments are provided in the proposed rule published on November 15, 2022 (87 FR 68386). Consideration will be given to all comments received by February 16, 2023. Mr. Willem H. A. Helms, Office of Homeland Security, Directorate of Civil Works, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, at (202) 761–5909 or willem.h.helms@ usace.army.mil. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: In the November 15, 2022, issue of the Federal Register (87 FR 68386), the Corps published a proposed rule to revise its natural disaster procedures under this part of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which implements a section of the Flood Control Act of 1941, as amended. Revisions will incorporate advances in risk-informed decisionmaking approaches and disaster response lessons learned, as well as recent amendments to this section of the Flood Control Act of 1941. We have received requests for an extension of the comment period for the proposed rule. The Corps finds that a 30-day extension of the comment period for this proposed rule is warranted. Therefore, the comment period for this proposed rule is extended until February 16, 2023. khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with PROPOSALS SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Michael L. Connor, Assistant Secretary of the Army, (Civil Works). [FR Doc. 2023–00300 Filed 1–9–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3720–58–P VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:55 Jan 09, 2023 Jkt 259001 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA–R05–OAR–2021–0294; FRL–9831–01– R5] Air Plan Approval; Illinois; VOC RACT Requirements for Aerospace Manufacturing and Rework Operations Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. AGENCY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve State Implementation Plan (SIP) rule revisions submitted by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA or Illinois) on April 13, 2021, and supplemented by a Clean Air Act (CAA) section 110(l) demonstration submitted on October 6, 2022. Illinois requests that EPA approve rule revisions related to control of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from aerospace manufacturing and rework facilities into Illinois’ SIP. These rule revisions are approvable because they are consistent with the Control Techniques Guidelines (CTG) for Aerospace Manufacturing and Rework Operations published by EPA in 1997, and satisfy the moderate VOC reasonably available control technology (RACT) requirements of CAA section 182(b)(2) for aerospace facilities in the Illinois portion of the St. Louis nonattainment area (Metro-East area) under the 2015 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS or standard). The Metro-East area consists of Madison, Monroe, and St. Clair counties in Illinois. DATES: Comments must be received on or before February 9, 2023. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R05– OAR–2021–0294 at https:// www.regulations.gov, or via email to arra.sarah@epa.gov. For comments submitted at Regulations.gov, follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or removed from Regulations.gov. For either manner of submission, 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 SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 1341 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, please contact the person identified in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. For 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: Kathleen Mullen, Environmental Engineer, Attainment Planning and Maintenance Section, Air Programs Branch (AR–18J), Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 353–3490, Mullen.Kathleen@epa.gov. The EPA Region 5 office is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding Federal holidays and facility closures due to COVID–19. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document whenever ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean EPA. I. What is EPA proposing? EPA is proposing to approve rule revisions to title 35 of the Illinois Administrative Code (Ill. Adm. Code) part 211 (Definitions and General Provisions) and part 219 (Organic Material Emission Standards and Limitations for the Metro-East Area). These rule revisions implement the control of VOC emissions from aerospace manufacturing and rework operations and satisfy the moderate VOC RACT requirements of CAA section 182(b)(2) for aerospace facilities in the Metro-East Area under the 2015 ozone standard. II. What is the background for these actions? VOCs contribute to the production of ground-level ozone, or smog, which harms human health and the environment. CAA sections 172(c)(1) and 182(b)(2) require states to implement RACT in ozone nonattainment areas classified as moderate (and higher). Specifically, these areas are required to implement RACT for all major VOC sources and for all sources covered by a CTG. A CTG is a document issued by EPA which establishes a ‘‘presumptive norm’’ for RACT for a specific VOC source category. States must submit rules to implement RACT or negative declarations when no such sources exist for CTG source categories. E:\FR\FM\10JAP1.SGM 10JAP1

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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 6 (Tuesday, January 10, 2023)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 1340-1341]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-00300]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers

33 CFR Part 203

[COE-2021-0008]
RIN 0710-AA78


Natural Disaster Procedures: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery 
Activities of the Corps of Engineers

AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.

ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: On November 15, 2022, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the 
Corps) published a proposed rule to revise its natural disaster 
procedures under this part of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), 
which implements a section of the Flood Control Act of 1941, as 
amended. The comment period was originally scheduled to end on January 
17, 2023, and we received requests to extend the comment period. I am 
extending the comment period by 30 days to provide a 90-day comment 
period for this proposed rule. Comments previously submitted do not 
need to be resubmitted, as they have already been incorporated into the 
administrative

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record and will be fully considered in the Corps' decision-making 
process for this rulemaking action.

DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule published at 87 FR 
68386 on November 15, 2022 is extended. Written comments must be 
submitted on or before February 16, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Submittal of comments may be accomplished, identified by 
docket number COE-2021-0008, by any of the following methods:
    Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 
instructions for submitting comments.
    Email: [email protected]. Include the docket number, COE-
2021-0008, in the subject line of the message.
    Mail: HQ, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ATTN: 33CFR203/CECW-HS/
3H63, 441 G Street NW, Washington DC 20314-1000.
    Hand Delivery/Courier: Due to security requirements, we cannot 
receive comments by hand delivery or courier.
    Instructions: Instructions for submitting comments are provided in 
the proposed rule published on November 15, 2022 (87 FR 68386). 
Consideration will be given to all comments received by February 16, 
2023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Willem H. A. Helms, Office of 
Homeland Security, Directorate of Civil Works, U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers, at (202) 761-5909 or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the November 15, 2022, issue of the 
Federal Register (87 FR 68386), the Corps published a proposed rule to 
revise its natural disaster procedures under this part of the Code of 
Federal Regulations (CFR), which implements a section of the Flood 
Control Act of 1941, as amended. Revisions will incorporate advances in 
risk-informed decision-making approaches and disaster response lessons 
learned, as well as recent amendments to this section of the Flood 
Control Act of 1941.
    We have received requests for an extension of the comment period 
for the proposed rule. The Corps finds that a 30-day extension of the 
comment period for this proposed rule is warranted. Therefore, the 
comment period for this proposed rule is extended until February 16, 
2023.

Michael L. Connor,
Assistant Secretary of the Army, (Civil Works).
[FR Doc. 2023-00300 Filed 1-9-23; 8:45 am]
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