Premerger Notification; Reporting and Waiting Period Requirements, 54256-54257 [2023-17143]

Download as PDF 54256 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 153 / Thursday, August 10, 2023 / Proposed Rules Preston Glenn Field, extending from the 4.6mile radius to 7.1 miles northeast of the airport, and within 1.2-miles each side of the 208° bearing of the airport, extending from the 4.6-mile radius to 6.5-miles southwest of the airport. * * * * * Issued in College Park, Georgia, on August 3, 2023. Lisa E. Burrows, Manager, Airspace & Procedures Team North, Eastern Service Center, Air Traffic Organization. [FR Doc. 2023–16947 Filed 8–9–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910–13–P FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 16 CFR Parts 801 and 803 RIN 3084–AB46 Premerger Notification; Reporting and Waiting Period Requirements Federal Trade Commission. Notice of proposed rulemaking; extension of comment period. AGENCY: ACTION: The Federal Trade Commission (‘‘FTC’’ or ‘‘Commission’’) is extending the deadline for filing comments on its notice of proposed rulemaking (‘‘NPRM’’) regarding the Premerger Notification; Reporting and Waiting Period Requirements. DATES: For the NPRM published in the Federal Register on June 27, 2023 (88 FR 42178), the comment deadline is extended from August 28, 2023, to September 27, 2023. ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a comment online or on paper by following the instructions in the Request for Comment part of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. Write ‘‘16 CFR parts 801–803— Hart-Scott-Rodino Coverage, Exemption, and Transmittal Rules, Project No. P239300’’’ on your comment, and file your comment online at https:// www.regulations.gov, by following the instructions on the web-based form. If you prefer to file your comment on paper, mail your comment to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite CC–5610, (Annex H), Washington, DC 20580. ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with PROPOSALS1 SUMMARY: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert L. Jones, Assistant Director, Premerger Notification Office, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission, 400 7th Street SW, Room CC–5301, Washington, DC 20024. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: VerDate Sep<11>2014 15:46 Aug 09, 2023 Jkt 259001 I. Comment Period Extension On June 27, 2023, the Commission announced and made public its notice of proposed rulemaking regarding the Hart-Scott-Rodino Coverage, Exemption, and Transmittal Rules (‘‘HSR Form Change’’), including its request for public comment on all aspects of the proposed rule. The NPRM was subsequently published in the Federal Register, with August 28, 2023, established as the deadline for the submission of comments. See 88 FR 42178 (June 29, 2023). Interested parties have requested an extension of the public comment period to give them additional time to respond to the NPRM’s request for comment. While the Commission believes that the current 60-day period—which is 62 days after public release of the notice of proposed rulemaking—is sufficient for meaningful comment and public participation, the Commission agrees to allow the public additional time to prepare and file comments. The Commission therefore extends the comment period to September 27, 2023, to provide commenters a total of 92 days from the public release of the NPRM on June 27, 2023. This is a 30-day extension of the 60-day comment period from publication in the Federal Register on June 29, 2023. II. Request for Comment You can file a comment online or on paper. For the Commission to consider your comment, we must receive it on or before September 27, 2023. Write ‘‘16 CFR parts 801–803—Hart-Scott-Rodino Coverage, Exemption, and Transmittal Rules, Project No. P239300’’ on your comment. Your comment—including your name and your state—will be placed on the public record of this proceeding, including, to the extent practicable, on the https:// www.regulations.gov website. Because of the agency’s security screening, postal mail addressed to the Commission will be subject to delay. We strongly encourage you to submit your comment online through https:// www.regulations.gov. To ensure the Commission considers your online comment, please follow the instructions on the web-based form. If you file your comment on paper, write ‘‘16 CFR parts 801–803—HartScott-Rodino Coverage, Exemption, and Transmittal Rules, Project No. P239300’’ on your comment and on the envelope, and mail your comment to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite CC– 5610, (Annex H), Washington, DC PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 20580. If possible, please submit your paper comment to the Commission by overnight service. Because your comment will be placed on the publicly accessible website, https://www.regulations.gov, you are solely responsible for making sure that your comment does not include any sensitive or confidential information. In particular, your comment should not contain sensitive personal information, such as your or anyone else’s Social Security number; date of birth; driver’s license number or other state identification number or foreign country equivalent; passport number; financial account number; or credit or debit card number. You are also responsible for making sure your comment does not include any sensitive health information, such as medical records or other individually identifiable health information. In addition, your comment should not include any ‘‘trade secret or any commercial or financial information which . . . is privileged or confidential,’’—as provided in Section 6(f) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR 4.10(a)(2)— including, in particular, competitively sensitive information such as costs, sales statistics, inventories, formulas, patterns, devices, manufacturing processes, or customer names. Comments containing material for which confidential treatment is requested must be filed in paper form, must be clearly labeled ‘‘Confidential,’’ and must comply with FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c). The written request for confidential treatment that accompanies the comment must include the factual and legal basis for the request, and must identify the specific portions of the comment to be withheld from the public record. See FTC Rule 4.9(b). Your comment will be kept confidential only if the General Counsel grants your request in accordance with the law and the public interest. Once your comment has been posted publicly at https:// www.regulations.gov—as legally required by FTC Rule 4.9(b), 16 CFR 4.9(b)—we cannot redact or remove your comment, unless you submit a confidentiality request that meets the requirements for such treatment under FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c), and the General Counsel grants that request. Visit the Commission’s website, www.ftc.gov, to read this publication and the news release describing it. The FTC Act and other laws that the Commission administers permit the collection of public comments to consider and use in this proceeding as appropriate. The Commission will consider all timely and responsive public comments that it receives on or E:\FR\FM\10AUP1.SGM 10AUP1 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 153 / Thursday, August 10, 2023 / Proposed Rules before September 27, 2023. For information on the Commission’s privacy policy, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, see https://www.ftc.gov/site-information/ privacy-policy. By direction of the Commission. April J. Tabor, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2023–17143 Filed 8–9–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6750–01–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA–R09–OAR–2022–0604; FRL–10574– 01–R9] Air Plan Approval; CA; San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District; Removal of Excess Emissions Provisions Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. AGENCY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (SJVAPCD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). The revisions were submitted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), on behalf of SJVAPCD, in response to EPA’s May 22, 2015, finding of substantial inadequacy and SIP call for certain provisions in the SIP related to exemptions and affirmative defenses applicable to excess emissions during startup, shutdown, and malfunction (SSM) events. EPA is proposing approval of the SIP revisions because the Agency has determined that they are in accordance with the requirements for SIP provisions under the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act). DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 11, 2023. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R09– OAR–2022–0604 at https:// www.regulations.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. The 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 ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with PROPOSALS1 SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 15:46 Aug 09, 2023 Jkt 259001 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. The 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, 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://www.epa.gov/dockets/ commenting-epa-dockets. If you need assistance in a language other than English or if you are a person with disabilities who needs a reasonable accommodation at no cost to you, please contact the person identified in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christine Vineyard, EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne St., San Francisco, CA 94105. By phone: (415) 947–4125 or by email at vineyard.christine@epa.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document wherever ‘‘we’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, it refers to EPA. Table of Contents I. Background II. Analysis of SIP Submission III. Proposed Action IV. Incorporation by Reference V. Statutory and Executive Orders Review I. Background On February 22, 2013, the EPA issued a Federal Register notice of proposed rulemaking outlining EPA’s policy at the time with respect to SIP provisions related to periods of SSM. EPA analyzed specific SSM SIP provisions and explained how each one either did or did not comply with the CAA with regard to excess emission events.1 For each SIP provision that EPA determined to be inconsistent with the CAA, EPA proposed to find that the existing SIP provision was substantially inadequate to meet CAA requirements and thus proposed to issue a SIP call under CAA section 110(k)(5). On September 17, 2014, EPA issued a document supplementing and revising what the Agency had previously proposed on February 22, 2013, in light of a D.C. Circuit decision that determined the 1 State Implementation Plans: Response to Petition for Rulemaking; Findings of Substantial Inadequacy; and SIP Calls to Amend Provisions Applying to Excess Emissions During Periods of Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunction, 78 FR 12460 (Feb. 22, 2013). PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 54257 CAA precludes authority of the EPA to create affirmative defense provisions applicable to private civil suits. EPA outlined its updated policy that affirmative defense SIP provisions are not consistent with CAA requirements. EPA proposed in the supplemental proposal document to apply its revised interpretation of the CAA to specific affirmative defense SIP provisions and proposed SIP calls for those provisions where appropriate (79 FR 55920, September 17, 2014). On June 12, 2015, pursuant to CAA section 110(k)(5), EPA finalized ‘‘State Implementation Plans: Response to Petition for Rulemaking; Restatement and Update of EPA’s SSM Policy Applicable to SIPs; Findings of Substantial Inadequacy; and SIP Calls to Amend Provisions Applying to Excess Emissions During Periods of Startup, Shutdown and Malfunction,’’ (80 FR 33839, June 12, 2015), hereafter referred to as the ‘‘2015 SSM SIP Action.’’ The 2015 SSM SIP Action clarified, restated, and updated EPA’s interpretation that SSM exemption and affirmative defense SIP provisions are inconsistent with CAA requirements. The 2015 SSM SIP Action found that certain SIP provisions in 36 states were substantially inadequate to meet CAA requirements and issued a SIP call to those states to submit SIP revisions to address the inadequacies. EPA established an 18month deadline by which the affected states had to submit such SIP revisions. States were required to submit corrective revisions to their SIPs in response to the SIP calls by November 22, 2016. EPA issued a Memorandum in October 2020 (2020 Memorandum), which stated that certain provisions governing SSM periods in SIPs could be viewed as consistent with CAA requirements.2 Importantly, the 2020 Memorandum stated that it ‘‘did not alter in any way the determinations made in the 2015 SSM SIP Action that identified specific state SIP provisions that were substantially inadequate to meet the requirements of the Act.’’ Accordingly, the 2020 Memorandum had no direct impact on the SIP call issued to SJVAPCD in 2015. The 2020 Memorandum did, however, indicate EPA’s intent at the time to review SIP calls that were issued in the 2015 SSM SIP Action to determine whether EPA should maintain, modify, or withdraw 2 October 9, 2020 memorandum ‘‘Inclusion of Provisions Governing Periods of Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunctions in State Implementation Plans,’’ from Andrew R. 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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 153 (Thursday, August 10, 2023)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 54256-54257]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-17143]


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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

16 CFR Parts 801 and 803

RIN 3084-AB46


Premerger Notification; Reporting and Waiting Period Requirements

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Trade Commission (``FTC'' or ``Commission'') is 
extending the deadline for filing comments on its notice of proposed 
rulemaking (``NPRM'') regarding the Premerger Notification; Reporting 
and Waiting Period Requirements.

DATES: For the NPRM published in the Federal Register on June 27, 2023 
(88 FR 42178), the comment deadline is extended from August 28, 2023, 
to September 27, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a comment online or on paper by 
following the instructions in the Request for Comment part of the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. Write ``16 CFR parts 801-803--
Hart-Scott-Rodino Coverage, Exemption, and Transmittal Rules, Project 
No. P239300''' on your comment, and file your comment online at https://www.regulations.gov, by following the instructions on the web-based 
form. If you prefer to file your comment on paper, mail your comment to 
the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the 
Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite CC-5610, (Annex H), 
Washington, DC 20580.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert L. Jones, Assistant Director, 
Premerger Notification Office, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade 
Commission, 400 7th Street SW, Room CC-5301, Washington, DC 20024.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Comment Period Extension

    On June 27, 2023, the Commission announced and made public its 
notice of proposed rulemaking regarding the Hart-Scott-Rodino Coverage, 
Exemption, and Transmittal Rules (``HSR Form Change''), including its 
request for public comment on all aspects of the proposed rule. The 
NPRM was subsequently published in the Federal Register, with August 
28, 2023, established as the deadline for the submission of comments. 
See 88 FR 42178 (June 29, 2023).
    Interested parties have requested an extension of the public 
comment period to give them additional time to respond to the NPRM's 
request for comment. While the Commission believes that the current 60-
day period--which is 62 days after public release of the notice of 
proposed rulemaking--is sufficient for meaningful comment and public 
participation, the Commission agrees to allow the public additional 
time to prepare and file comments. The Commission therefore extends the 
comment period to September 27, 2023, to provide commenters a total of 
92 days from the public release of the NPRM on June 27, 2023. This is a 
30-day extension of the 60-day comment period from publication in the 
Federal Register on June 29, 2023.

II. Request for Comment

    You can file a comment online or on paper. For the Commission to 
consider your comment, we must receive it on or before September 27, 
2023. Write ``16 CFR parts 801-803--Hart-Scott-Rodino Coverage, 
Exemption, and Transmittal Rules, Project No. P239300'' on your 
comment. Your comment--including your name and your state--will be 
placed on the public record of this proceeding, including, to the 
extent practicable, on the https://www.regulations.gov website.
    Because of the agency's security screening, postal mail addressed 
to the Commission will be subject to delay. We strongly encourage you 
to submit your comment online through https://www.regulations.gov. To 
ensure the Commission considers your online comment, please follow the 
instructions on the web-based form.
    If you file your comment on paper, write ``16 CFR parts 801-803--
Hart-Scott-Rodino Coverage, Exemption, and Transmittal Rules, Project 
No. P239300'' on your comment and on the envelope, and mail your 
comment to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of 
the Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite CC-5610, (Annex H), 
Washington, DC 20580. If possible, please submit your paper comment to 
the Commission by overnight service.
    Because your comment will be placed on the publicly accessible 
website, https://www.regulations.gov, you are solely responsible for 
making sure that your comment does not include any sensitive or 
confidential information. In particular, your comment should not 
contain sensitive personal information, such as your or anyone else's 
Social Security number; date of birth; driver's license number or other 
state identification number or foreign country equivalent; passport 
number; financial account number; or credit or debit card number. You 
are also responsible for making sure your comment does not include any 
sensitive health information, such as medical records or other 
individually identifiable health information. In addition, your comment 
should not include any ``trade secret or any commercial or financial 
information which . . . is privileged or confidential,''--as provided 
in Section 6(f) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and FTC Rule 
4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR 4.10(a)(2)--including, in particular, competitively 
sensitive information such as costs, sales statistics, inventories, 
formulas, patterns, devices, manufacturing processes, or customer 
names.
    Comments containing material for which confidential treatment is 
requested must be filed in paper form, must be clearly labeled 
``Confidential,'' and must comply with FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c). 
The written request for confidential treatment that accompanies the 
comment must include the factual and legal basis for the request, and 
must identify the specific portions of the comment to be withheld from 
the public record. See FTC Rule 4.9(b). Your comment will be kept 
confidential only if the General Counsel grants your request in 
accordance with the law and the public interest. Once your comment has 
been posted publicly at https://www.regulations.gov--as legally 
required by FTC Rule 4.9(b), 16 CFR 4.9(b)--we cannot redact or remove 
your comment, unless you submit a confidentiality request that meets 
the requirements for such treatment under FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 
4.9(c), and the General Counsel grants that request.
    Visit the Commission's website, www.ftc.gov, to read this 
publication and the news release describing it. The FTC Act and other 
laws that the Commission administers permit the collection of public 
comments to consider and use in this proceeding as appropriate. The 
Commission will consider all timely and responsive public comments that 
it receives on or

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before September 27, 2023. For information on the Commission's privacy 
policy, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, see 
https://www.ftc.gov/site-information/privacy-policy.

    By direction of the Commission.
April J. Tabor,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023-17143 Filed 8-9-23; 8:45 am]
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