Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petition for Objection to State Operating Permit for Georgia-Pacific Consumer Operations LLC, Crossett Paper Operations, Ashley County, Arkansas, 16005-16006 [2023-05261]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 50 / Wednesday, March 15, 2023 / Notices ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [CERCLA–07–2023–0005; FRL–10752–01– R7] Proposed CERCLA Settlement Agreement for the Newton County Mine Tailings Superfund Site, Newton County, Missouri Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice; request for public comment. AGENCY: In accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (‘‘CERCLA’’), notice is hereby given by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (‘‘EPA’’), Region 7, of a proposed settlement agreement (‘‘Agreement’’) with Environmental Quality Management, Inc. (‘‘EQM’’) for the Newton County Mine Tailings Superfund Site (‘‘Site’’), Newton County, Missouri. DATES: Comments must be received on or before April 14, 2023. ADDRESSES: You may send comments by email to Kate Curl at curl.kate@epa.gov or by mail to Kate Curl, U.S. EPA, Office of Regional Counsel, 11201 Renner Boulevard, Lenexa, Kansas 66219. Comments should reference the Newton County Mine Tailings Superfund Site, CERCLA Section 122(h) Settlement Agreement, Docket No. CERCLA–07– 2023–0005. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A copy of the proposed settlement may be obtained from Kate Curl, Attorney, Office of Regional Counsel, U.S. EPA Region 7, 11201 Renner Boulevard, Lenexa, Kansas 66219; telephone number: (913) 551–7745; email address: curl.kate@epa.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the proposed CERCLA section 122(h) settlement agreement, Environmental Quality Management, Inc. agrees to reimburse EPA for $1,678,330.40 plus an additional sum of interest on that amount calculated from May 12, 2022, through the date of payment for past response costs incurred in connection with EQM’s disposal of leadcontaminated backfill soil in Granby City Park in September and October 2016 as part of its work as a contractor to remediate areas of the Newton County Mine Tailings Superfund Site. EQM’s placement of contaminated backfill in Granby City Park required EPA, between July 2020 and March 2021, to re-remediate approximately 43% of the Granby City Park area that lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:48 Mar 14, 2023 Jkt 259001 EQM had already remediated causing EPA to incur additional response costs. For thirty (30) days following the date of publication of this document, EPA will receive written comments relating to the proposed agreement. EPA will consider all comments received and may modify or withdraw its consent to the proposed agreement if comments received disclose facts or considerations that indicate that the proposed agreement is inappropriate, improper, or inadequate. EPA’s response to any comments received will be available for public inspection at the EPA Region 7 Office, located at, 11201 Renner Boulevard, Lenexa, Kansas 66219. Robert D. Jurgens, Director, Superfund & Emergency Management Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7. [FR Doc. 2023–05202 Filed 3–14–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [FRL–10768–01–R6] Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petition for Objection to State Operating Permit for GeorgiaPacific Consumer Operations LLC, Crossett Paper Operations, Ashley County, Arkansas Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of final Order on Petition for objection to Clean Air Act title V operating permit. AGENCY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator signed an Order dated February 22, 2023, granting in part and denying in part two Petitions dated February 19, 2018 and October 30, 2019 (collectively the Petitions) from Crossett Concerned Citizens for Environmental Justice (the Petitioners). The Petitions requested that the EPA Administrator object to a Clean Air Act (CAA) title V operating permit issued by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) to Georgia-Pacific Consumer Operations LLC (Georgia-Pacific) for its Crossett Paper Operations located in Ashley County, Arkansas. ADDRESSES: The EPA requests that you contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section to view copies of the final Order, the Petition, and other supporting information. Out of an abundance of caution for members of the public and our staff, the EPA Region 6 office may be closed to the public to reduce the risk SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00054 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 16005 of transmitting COVID–19. Please call or email the contact listed below if you need alternative access to the final Order and Petition, which are available electronically at: https://www.epa.gov/ title-v-operating-permits/title-v-petitiondatabase. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan Ehrhart, EPA Region 6 Office, Air Permits Section, (214) 665–2295, ehrhart.jonathan@epa.gov. The CAA affords EPA a 45-day period to review and object to, as appropriate, operating permits proposed by state permitting authorities under title V of the CAA. Section 505(b)(2) of the CAA authorizes any person to petition the EPA Administrator to object to a title V operating permit within 60 days after the expiration of the EPA’s 45-day review period if the EPA has not objected on its own initiative. Petitions must be based only on objections to the permit that were raised with reasonable specificity during the public comment period provided by the State, unless the petitioner demonstrates that it was impracticable to raise these issues during the comment period or unless the grounds for the issue arose after this period. The EPA received two petitions from Crossett Concerned Citizens for Environmental Justice dated February 19, 2018 and October 30, 2019 (collectively the Petitions), requesting that the EPA Administrator object to the issuance of operating permit No. 0597– AOP–R19, issued by ADEQ to the Georgia-Pacific Consumer Operations, LLC for its Crossett Paper Operations located in Ashley County, Arkansas. The Petitions claim that the ADEQ unlawfully circumvented the public’s right to a full 60-day petition period, that ADEQ’s permit does not comply with the CAA’s substantive requirements, and that the permit fails to incorporate a compliance schedule as the CAA requires. On February 22, 2023, the EPA Administrator issued an Order granting in part and denying in part the Petitions. The Order explains the basis for EPA’s decision. Sections 307(b) and 505(b)(2) of the CAA provide that a petitioner may request judicial review of those portions of an order that deny issues in a petition. Any petition for review shall be filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the appropriate circuit no later than May 15, 2023. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: E:\FR\FM\15MRN1.SGM 15MRN1 16006 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 50 / Wednesday, March 15, 2023 / Notices Dated: March 8, 2023. David Garcia, Director, Air and Radiation Division, Region 6. [FR Doc. 2023–05261 Filed 3–14–23; 8:45 am] [MB Docket No. 22–162; DA 22–5149; FR ID 130443] TEGNA Inc., SGCI Holdings III LLC, and CMG Media Operating Company, LLC, Applications for Transfer of Control and Assignment of Certain Subsidiaries BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [FRL–10789–01–OA; EPA–HQ–OEJECR– 2023–0099] AGENCY: White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council; Notice of Charter Renewal SUMMARY: Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Notice. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of charter renewal. AGENCY: Notice is hereby given that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined that, in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) is necessary and in the public interest in connection with the performance of duties imposed on the agency by law. Accordingly, WHEJAC will be renewed for an additional twoyear period. The purpose of the WHEJAC is to provide independent advice and recommendations to the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and to the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council (IAC) on how to increase the Federal Government’s efforts to address current and historic environmental injustice. The WHEJAC will provide advice and recommendations about broad cross-cutting issues related, but not limited, to issues of environmental justice and pollution reduction, energy, climate change mitigation and resiliency, environmental health, and racial inequity. The WHEJAC’s efforts will include a broad range of strategic, scientific, technological, regulatory, community engagement, and economic issues related to environmental justice. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Inquiries may be directed to Karen L. Martin, WHEJAC Designated Federal Officer, U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460; by telephone at 202–564–0203; via email at whejac@epa.gov. SUMMARY: lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Matthew Tejada, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Environmental Justice, Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights. [FR Doc. 2023–05318 Filed 3–14–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:48 Mar 14, 2023 Jkt 259001 This document commences a hearing in connection with a series of applications filed by TEGNA Inc. (TEGNA), SGCI Holdings III LLC (SGCI Holdings), and CMG Media Operating Company, LLC (CMG) seeking Commission consent to the transfer of control and/or assignment of broadcast television station licenses. By this document, the Media Bureau has designated two discrete substantial and material questions of fact for hearing, namely: (1) are the Transactions structured in a way that is likely to trigger a rate increase harmful to consumers, as a result of contractual clauses that take immediate effect after the consummation of the Transactions, and (2) will the Transactions reduce or impair localism, including whether they will result in labor reductions at local stations. DATES: Persons desiring to participate as parties in the hearing shall file a petition for leave to intervene no later than April 14, 2023. ADDRESSES: File documents with the Office of the Secretary, Federal Communications Commission, 45 L Street NE, Washington, DC 20554, with a copy mailed to each party to the proceeding. Each document that is filed in this proceeding must display on the front page the docket number of this hearing, ‘‘MB Docket No. 22–162.’’ FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeremy Miller, Media Bureau, at (202) 418–1507 or jeremy.miller@fcc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Hearing Designation Order (Order), MB Docket No. 22–162, MB 22–149, adopted and released on February 24, 2023. The complete text of this document, including attachments and any related document, is available on the Commission’s website at https:// www.fcc.gov/transaction/standardgeneral-tegna or by using the search function on the Commission’s Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) web page at www.fcc.gov/ecfs. Alternative formats are available to persons with disabilities by sending an PO 00000 Frm 00055 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 email to FCC504@fcc.gov or by calling the Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418–0530 (voice), (202) 418–0432 (TTY). Summary of the Hearing Designation Order In four sets of applications initially filed on March 18, 2022 and last amended on April 1, 2022, TEGNA Inc. (TEGNA), SGCI Holdings III LLC (SGCI Holdings), and CMG Media Operating Company, LLC (CMG) (collectively, the Applicants) sought consent to transfer control of TEGNA to SGCI Holdings, as well as three other sets of applications filed contemporaneously seeking consent for a series of related transactions: (1) the transfer of control of the four full power television stations of Community News Media LLC (CNM) to a wholly-owned subsidiary of CMG; (2) the transfer of control of Teton Parent Corp. (TPC), the parent company of licensee WFXT(TV), Boston, Massachusetts, from a wholly-owned subsidiary of CMG to SGCI Holdings; and (3) immediately upon consummation of the merger of TEGNA with TPC, the assignment of the licenses of four full-power television stations from subsidiaries of post-merger TEGNA to indirect, wholly-owned subsidiaries of CMG (collectively, the Transactions). In addition, the Applicants and affiliated entities filed letters with the Commission putting forth certain commitments, including (1) a December 16, 2022 letter from SGCI Holdings and Standard General, L.P. addressing ‘‘the applicability of retransmission consent agreements to the TEGNA stations that will be controlled by Standard General L.P. and SGCI Holdings . . . following the [Transactions],’’ Letter from Soohyung Kim, SGCI Holdings and Standard General, L.P., to Marlene H. Dortch, FCC, Dkt. No. 22–162 (filed Dec. 16, 2022) (SG Waiver Letter); and (2) a December 22, 2022 letter from SGCI Holdings and Standard General, L.P. addressing concerns raised regarding reduction of local jobs after consummation of the Transactions, Letter from Soohyung Kim, SGCI Holdings and Standard General, L.P., to Marlene H. Dortch, FCC, Dkt. No. 22– 162 (filed Dec. 22, 2022) (SG Staffing Letter)). Multiple parties filed petitions and other formal pleadings seeking, among other things, to dismiss or deny the Transactions. These parties’ arguments include objections that the structure of the Transactions would unfairly harm subscribers through increased multichannel video programming distributors (MVPD) subscription prices resulting from the triggering of after- E:\FR\FM\15MRN1.SGM 15MRN1

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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 15, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16005-16006]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-05261]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-10768-01-R6]


Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petition for Objection to 
State Operating Permit for Georgia-Pacific Consumer Operations LLC, 
Crossett Paper Operations, Ashley County, Arkansas

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of final Order on Petition for objection to Clean Air 
Act title V operating permit.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator signed 
an Order dated February 22, 2023, granting in part and denying in part 
two Petitions dated February 19, 2018 and October 30, 2019 
(collectively the Petitions) from Crossett Concerned Citizens for 
Environmental Justice (the Petitioners). The Petitions requested that 
the EPA Administrator object to a Clean Air Act (CAA) title V operating 
permit issued by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality 
(ADEQ) to Georgia-Pacific Consumer Operations LLC (Georgia-Pacific) for 
its Crossett Paper Operations located in Ashley County, Arkansas.

ADDRESSES: The EPA requests that you contact the individual listed in 
the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section to view copies of the final 
Order, the Petition, and other supporting information. Out of an 
abundance of caution for members of the public and our staff, the EPA 
Region 6 office may be closed to the public to reduce the risk of 
transmitting COVID-19. Please call or email the contact listed below if 
you need alternative access to the final Order and Petition, which are 
available electronically at: https://www.epa.gov/title-v-operating-permits/title-v-petition-database.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan Ehrhart, EPA Region 6 Office, 
Air Permits Section, (214) 665-2295, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CAA affords EPA a 45-day period to 
review and object to, as appropriate, operating permits proposed by 
state permitting authorities under title V of the CAA. Section 
505(b)(2) of the CAA authorizes any person to petition the EPA 
Administrator to object to a title V operating permit within 60 days 
after the expiration of the EPA's 45-day review period if the EPA has 
not objected on its own initiative. Petitions must be based only on 
objections to the permit that were raised with reasonable specificity 
during the public comment period provided by the State, unless the 
petitioner demonstrates that it was impracticable to raise these issues 
during the comment period or unless the grounds for the issue arose 
after this period.
    The EPA received two petitions from Crossett Concerned Citizens for 
Environmental Justice dated February 19, 2018 and October 30, 2019 
(collectively the Petitions), requesting that the EPA Administrator 
object to the issuance of operating permit No. 0597-AOP-R19, issued by 
ADEQ to the Georgia-Pacific Consumer Operations, LLC for its Crossett 
Paper Operations located in Ashley County, Arkansas. The Petitions 
claim that the ADEQ unlawfully circumvented the public's right to a 
full 60-day petition period, that ADEQ's permit does not comply with 
the CAA's substantive requirements, and that the permit fails to 
incorporate a compliance schedule as the CAA requires.
    On February 22, 2023, the EPA Administrator issued an Order 
granting in part and denying in part the Petitions. The Order explains 
the basis for EPA's decision.
    Sections 307(b) and 505(b)(2) of the CAA provide that a petitioner 
may request judicial review of those portions of an order that deny 
issues in a petition. Any petition for review shall be filed in the 
United States Court of Appeals for the appropriate circuit no later 
than May 15, 2023.


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    Dated: March 8, 2023.
David Garcia,
Director, Air and Radiation Division, Region 6.
[FR Doc. 2023-05261 Filed 3-14-23; 8:45 am]
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