42817 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 165 / Friday, August 24, 2018 / Proposed Rules 
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 
AGENCY 
40 CFR Parts 85 and 86 
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration 
49 CFR Parts 523, 531, 533, 536, and 
537 
[NHTSA–2018–0067; EPA–HQ–OAR–2018– 
0283; FRL–9981–74–OAR] 
RIN 2127–AL76; RIN 2060–AU09 
The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient 
(SAFE) Vehicles Rule for Model Years 2021–2026 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks 
AGENCY : National Highway Traffic 
Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 
ACTION : Announcement of public 
hearings. 
SUMMARY : EPA and NHTSA are 
announcing public hearings to be held for the joint proposed ‘‘Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule for Model Years 2021–2026 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks,’’ (SAFE Vehicles Rule) issued on August 2, 2018. NHTSA will also accept comment on NHTSA’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Draft EIS), available on NHTSA’s website at www.nhtsa.gov/corporate- average-fuel-economy/safe. Three 
hearings will be held, on September 24, September 25, and September 26, 2018. The agencies will assume that all oral comments presented at the hearing are addressed to the joint proposed rules only, unless speakers specifically reference NHTSA’s Draft EIS in oral or written testimony. 
DATES : NHTSA and EPA will jointly 
hold three public hearings on the following dates: September 24, 2018 in Fresno, California; September 25, 2018 in Dearborn, Michigan; and September 26, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The hearings will start at 10 a.m. local time and continue until 5:00 p.m. or until everyone has had a chance to speak. If you would like to present oral testimony at one of these public hearings, please contact the person identified under 
FOR FURTHER  
INFORMATION CONTACT , at least ten days 
before the hearing. 
ADDRESSES : The September 24, 2018 
hearing will be held at the The Grand 1401, 1401 Fulton Street, Fresno, California 93721. The September 25, 2018 hearing will be held at the Dearborn Inn, 20301 Oakwood Boulevard, Dearborn, Michigan 48124. The September 26, 2018 hearing will be held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel & Suites Pittsburgh Downtown, One Bigelow Square, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219. The hearings will be held at sites accessible to individuals with disabilities. 
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT : If 
you would like to present oral testimony at a public hearing, please contact Kil- Jae Hong at NHTSA by the date specified under 
DATES , at kil-jae.hong@
dot.gov. Please provide the following 
information: Name, affiliation, address, email address, telephone and fax numbers (if applicable), time you wish to speak (morning, afternoon) if there is a preference, and whether you require accommodations such as a sign language interpreter or translator. 
Questions concerning the proposed 
rules should be addressed to NHTSA: James Tamm, Office of Rulemaking, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: (202) 493–0515. EPA: Chris Lieske, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, Assessment and Standards Division (ASD), Environmental Protection Agency, 2000 Traverwood Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48105; telephone number: (734) 214–4584; fax number: (734) 214–4816; email address: lieske.christopher@epa.gov. You may 
learn more about the proposal by visiting NHTSA’s or EPA’s web pages at http://www.nhtsa.gov/corporate- average-fuel-economy/safe or https://
www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions- vehicles-and-engines/safer-and- affordable-fuel-efficient-vehicles- proposed, or by searching the public 
dockets (NHTSA–2018–0067 (for the proposed rule) or NHTSA–2017–0069 (for the Draft EIS); EPA–HQ–OAR– 2018–0283) at www.regulations.gov. 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION : The 
purpose of the public hearings is to provide the public an opportunity to present oral comments regarding NHTSA and EPA’s proposals for the SAFE Vehicles Rule. These hearings also offer an opportunity for the public to provide oral comments regarding NHTSA’s Draft EIS, accompanying the proposed NHTSA fuel economy standards. The agencies will assume that all oral comments presented at the hearing are addressed to the joint proposed rules only, unless speakers specifically reference NHTSA’s Draft EIS in oral or written testimony. 
The SAFE Vehicles Rule, if finalized, 
would amend certain existing Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and tailpipe carbon dioxide emissions standards for passenger cars and light trucks and establish new standards, all covering model years 2021 through 2026. More specifically, NHTSA is proposing new CAFE standards for model years 2022 through 2026 and amending its 2021 model year CAFE standards because they are no longer maximum feasible standards, and EPA is proposing to amend its carbon dioxide emissions standards for model years 2021 through 2025 because they are no longer appropriate and reasonable in addition to establishing new standards for model year 2026. The preferred alternative is to retain the model year 2020 standards (specifically, the footprint target curves for passenger cars and light trucks) for both programs through model year 2026, but comment is sought on a range of alternatives discussed throughout this document. Compared to maintaining the post-2020 standards set forth in 2012, current estimates indicate that the proposed SAFE Vehicles Rule would save over 500 billion dollars in societal costs and reduce highway fatalities by 12,700 lives (over the lifetimes of vehicles through MY 2029). U.S. fuel consumption would increase by about half a million barrels per day (2–3 percent of total daily consumption, according to the Energy Information Administration), emissions would increase by 7,400 million metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2100, and would impact the global climate by 3/1000th of one degree Celsius by 2100, also when compared to the standards set forth in 2012. 
The proposal for which EPA and 
NHTSA are holding the public hearings was signed on August 2, 2018 and the pre-publication version is available at the web pages listed above under 
FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT and, also 
in the rulemaking dockets. NHTSA’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement is available on NHTSA’s web page and in NHTSA’s docket for the EIS, both referenced above. We expect the official proposal to be published in the Federal Register soon. Please note that the pre- 
publication version of the proposal specified that the agencies would hold three public hearings in Washington DC, Detroit Michigan, and Los Angeles California, with details to be announced in a forthcoming Federal Register notice. The agencies have decided instead to hold three public hearings, in Fresno California, Dearborn, Michigan, and Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, as specified above in this notice. Once NHTSA and EPA learn how many people have registered to speak at each 
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public hearing, we will allocate an 
appropriate amount of time to each participant, allowing time for necessary breaks. In addition, we will reserve a block of time for anyone else in the audience who wishes to give an oral presentation. For planning purposes, each speaker should anticipate speaking for approximately five minutes. We request that you bring three copies of your statement or other material for the EPA and NHTSA panels. To accommodate as many speakers as possible, we prefer that speakers not use technological aids (e.g., audio-visuals, 
computer slideshows). However, if you wish to do so, you must notify the contact persons in the 
FOR FURTHER  
INFORMATION CONTACT section above. 
You also must make arrangements to provide your presentation or any other aids to NHTSA and EPA in advance of the hearing in order to facilitate set-up. 
NHTSA and EPA will conduct the 
hearings informally, and technical rules of evidence will not apply. We will arrange for a written transcript of each hearing and keep the official record of each hearing open for 30 days to allow speakers to submit supplementary information to the dockets listed above. Panel members may ask clarifying questions during the oral presentations, but will not respond to the presentations at that time. You may make arrangements for copies of the transcripts directly with the court reporter. 
Written statements and supporting 
information submitted during the comment period will be considered with the same weight as oral comments and supporting information presented at the public hearings. To be assured of consideration, written comments on the proposal must be received by the date indicated in the Federal Register once the document publishes. Written comments on NHTSA’s Draft EIS must be received or uploaded to NHTSA’s docket for the EIS by September 24, 2018. 
Raymond R. Posten, 
Associate Administrator for Rulemaking, 
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. 
Amanda Gunasekara, Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for 
Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency. 
[FR Doc. 2018–18418 Filed 8–23–18; 8:45 am] 
BILLING CODE 4910–59–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 
AGENCY 
40 CFR Part 180 
[EPA–HQ–OPP–2018–0577; FRL–9982–37] 
Receipt of Several Pesticide Petitions 
Filed for Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various Commodities 
AGENCY : Environmental Protection 
Agency (EPA). 
ACTION : Notification of filing of petitions 
and request for comment. 
SUMMARY : This document announces the 
Agency’s receipt of several initial filings of pesticide petitions requesting the establishment or modification of regulations for residues of pesticide chemicals in or on various commodities. 
DATES : Comments must be received on 
or before September 24, 2018. 
ADDRESSES : Submit your comments, 
identified by the docket identification (ID) number and the pesticide petition number (PP) of interest as shown in the body of this document, by one of the following methods: 
•Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 
instructions for submitting comments. Do not submit electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 
•Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental 
Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/ DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460–0001. 
•Hand Delivery: To make special 
arrangements for hand delivery or delivery of boxed information, please follow the instructions at http://www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html. 
Additional instructions on commenting 
or visiting the docket, along with more information about dockets generally, is available at http://www.epa.gov/ dockets. 
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT : 
Michael Goodis, Registration Division (RD) (7505P), main telephone number: (703) 305–7090, email address: RDFRNotices@epa.gov; or Robert 
McNally, Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division (BPPD) (7511P), main telephone number: (703) 305– 7090, email address: BPPDFRNotices@epa.gov. The mailing address for each 
contact person is: Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460–0001. As part of the mailing address, include the contact person’s name, division, and mail code. The division to contact is listed at the end of each pesticide petition summary. 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION : 
I. General Information 
A. Does this action apply to me? 
You may be potentially affected by 
this action if you are an agricultural 
producer, food manufacturer, or pesticide manufacturer. The following list of North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) codes is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather provides a guide to help readers determine whether this document applies to them. Potentially affected entities may include: 
•Crop production (NAICS code 111). 
•Animal production (NAICS code 
112). 
•Food manufacturing (NAICS code 
311). 
•Pesticide manufacturing (NAICS 
code 32532). 
If you have any questions regarding 
the applicability of this action to a particular entity, consult the person listed under 
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION  
CONTACT for the division listed at the 
end of the pesticide petition summary of interest. 
B. What should I consider as I prepare 
my comments for EPA? 
1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 
information to EPA through regulations.gov or email. Clearly mark 
the part or all of the information that you claim to be CBI. For CBI information in a disk or CD–ROM that you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the disk or CD–ROM as CBI and then identify electronically within the disk or CD–ROM the specific information that is claimed as CBI. In addition to one complete version of the comment that includes information claimed as CBI, a copy of the comment that does not contain the information claimed as CBI must be submitted for inclusion in the public docket. Information so marked will not be disclosed except in accordance with procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2. 
2. Tips for preparing your comments. 
When preparing and submitting your comments, see the commenting tips at http://www.epa.gov/dockets/ comments.html. 
3. Environmental justice. EPA seeks to 
achieve environmental justice, the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of any group, including minority and/or low-income populations, in the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. To help address potential environmental justice 
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