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Background 

Under the disability programs in titles 

II and XVI of the Act, we pay benefits 

to individuals who meet our rules for 

entitlement and have medically 

determinable physical or mental 

impairments that are severe enough to 

meet the statutory definition of 

disability. The rules for determining 

disability can be very complicated, but 

some individuals have such serious 

medical conditions that their conditions 

obviously meet our disability standards 

with minimal objective medical 

evidence alone. To better address the 

needs of these individuals, we are 

looking into ways to allow benefits as 

quickly as possible based on minimal 

objective medical information. 

Will we respond to your comments? 

We will carefully consider your 

comments, although we will not 

respond directly to comments sent in 

response to this notice or the hearing. 

Additional Hearings 

You may access the transcripts of our 

prior hearings at http:// 

www.socialsecurity.gov/ 

compassionateallowances/. We plan to 

hold additional hearings on other 

conditions and will announce those 

hearings with notices in the Federal 

Register. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Programs Nos. 96.001, Social Security— 

Disability Insurance; 96.006, Supplemental 

Security Income.) 

Dated: March 3, 2011. 

Michael J. Astrue, 

Commissioner of Social Security. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5464 Filed 3–9–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4191–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 

and Enforcement 

30 CFR Part 920 

[SATS No. MD–056–FOR; Docket ID: OSM 

2010–0008] 

Maryland Regulatory Program 

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM), 

Interior. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of 

comment period and notice of public 

hearing. 

SUMMARY: We are reopening and 

extending the public comment period 

and will be holding a public hearing on 

the proposed amendment to the State of 

Maryland’s approved regulatory 

program (the ‘‘Maryland program’’) 

published on January 28, 2011. The 

comment period is being reopened and 

extended in order to afford the public 

more time to comment and to allow 

enough time to hold a public hearing 

requested by a representative of the 

Sierra Club. We are also notifying the 

public of the date, time, and location for 

the public hearing. Maryland is 

proposing to add provisions to its 

program to regulate coal combustion 

byproducts (CCBs) and to establish 

requirements pertaining to the 

generation, storage, handling, 

processing, disposal, recycling, 

beneficial use, or other use of CCBs 

within the State. 

DATES: We will accept written 

comments until 4 p.m., local time on 

March 28, 2011. The public hearing will 

be held on March 21, 2011, at 6 p.m. 

local time. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by ‘‘MD–056–FOR; Docket ID: 

OSM–2010–0008’’ by either of the 

following two methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. The proposed rule 

has been assigned Docket ID: OSM– 

2010–0008. If you would like to submit 

comments through the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov and follow the 

instructions. 

Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: Mr. 

George Rieger, Chief, Pittsburgh Field 

Division,Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement, Three 

Parkway Center, Suite 300, Pittsburgh, 

PA 15220. 

Instructions: For detailed instructions 

on submitting comments and additional 

information on the rulemaking process, 

see III. Public Comment Procedures in 

the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

of the proposed rule published on 

January 28, 2011. 

Public Hearing: The public hearing 

will be held at the Annapolis Marriot 

Waterfront Hotel, 80 Compromise 

Street, Annapolis, Maryland 21401 on 

March 21, 2011, at 6 p.m. local time. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

George Rieger, Chief, Pittsburgh Field 

Division,Telephone: (412) 937–2153. 

E-mail: grieger@osmre.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

January 28, 2011, (76 FR 5103) we 

published a proposed rule that would 

revise the Maryland program. The 

revisions would add regulations to the 

Maryland program to regulate coal 

combustion byproducts and to establish 

requirements pertaining to the 

generation, storage, handling, 

processing, disposal, recycling, 

beneficial use, or other use of coal 

combustion byproducts (CCB) within 

the State. In total, these regulations 

pertain to all CCB activities in the State, 

not just surface coal mining and 

reclamation operations. However, a 

section of the added regulations 

specifically pertains to surface coal 

mining and reclamation operations and 

is proposed to be part of Maryland’s 

federally approved state program. The 

regulation specific to surface coal 

mining and reclamation operations has 

been added as a new regulation, 

Regulation .08 under COMAR 26.20.24, 

Special Performance Standards. 

Specifically, Maryland’s Regulation 

.08 Utilization of Coal Combustion 

Byproducts, will include paragraphs 

A–H on the Purpose and Scope, 

Conditions for Utilization, and Testing 

and Monitoring. Additionally, Maryland 

is adding a Coal Combustion 

Byproducts Utilization Request 

requirement that will require a solids 

analysis of the CCBs and a Toxicity 

Characteristics Leaching Procedure 

(TCLP) leachate analysis of the CCBs. 

Maryland may also impose additional 

controls or conditions on the use of 

CCBs as it sees fit for the protection of 

human health and the environment. 

On February 14, 2011, 

(Administrative Record Number MD– 

588–010), we received a request from an 

attorney representing the Maryland 

Chapter of the Sierra Club to extend the 

comment period and to hold a public 

hearing on the amendment. We are 

granting the request to extend the public 

comment period to afford the public 

more time to comment on the 

amendment and to allow enough time to 

schedule and hold the hearing. The 

date, time and location for the public 

hearing may be found under DATES and 

ADDRESSES above. 

The hearings will be open to anyone 

who would like to attend and/or testify. 

The primary purpose of the public 

hearing is to obtain your comments on 

the proposed rule so that we can 

prepare a complete and objective 

analysis of the proposal. The purpose of 

the hearing officer is to conduct the 

hearing and receive the comments 

submitted. Comments submitted during 

the hearing will be responded to in the 

preamble to the final rule, not at the 

hearing. We appreciate all comments 

but those most useful and likely to 

influence decisions on the final rule 

will be those that either involve 

personal experience or include citations 

to, and analyses of, the Surface Mining 

Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, its 

legislative history, its implementing 

regulations, case law, other State or 

Federal laws and regulations, data, 


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technical literature, or relevant 

publications. 

At the hearing, a court reporter will 

record and make a written record of the 

statements presented. This written 

record will be made part of the 

administrative record for the rule. If you 

have a written copy of your testimony, 

we encourage you to give us a copy. It 

will assist the court reporter in 

preparing the written record. Any 

disabled individual who needs 

reasonable accommodation to attend the 

public hearing is encouraged to contact 

the person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Dated: February 18, 2011. 

Thomas D. Shope, 

Regional Director, Appalachian Region. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5375 Filed 3–9–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–05–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 300 

[EPA–HQ–SFUND–2011–0057, 0058, 0061, 

0062, 0064, 0065, 0066, 0068, 0070, 0072, 

0074, 0075, 0076, 0077, 0078; FRL–9277– 

7] 

RIN 2050–AD75 

National Priorities List, Proposed Rule 

No. 54 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, 

Compensation, and Liability Act 

(‘‘CERCLA’’ or ‘‘the Act’’), as amended, 

requires that the National Oil and 

Hazardous Substances Pollution 

Contingency Plan (‘‘NCP’’) include a list 

of national priorities among the known 

releases or threatened releases of 

hazardous substances, pollutants, or 

contaminants throughout the United 

States. The National Priorities List 

(‘‘NPL’’) constitutes this list. The NPL is 

intended primarily to guide the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(‘‘EPA’’ or ‘‘the Agency’’) in determining 

which sites warrant further 

investigation. These further 

investigations will allow EPA to assess 

the nature and extent of public health 

and environmental risks associated with 

the site and to determine what CERCLAfinanced remedial action(s), if any, may 

be appropriate. This rule proposes to 

add 15 sites to the General Superfund 

section of the NPL. One of the sites 

included in this proposed rule, 

MolyCorp, Inc., was previously 

proposed in May 2000. MolyCorp, Inc. 

is being re-proposed with a revised HRS 

score that is based on extensive new 

sampling data. 

DATES: Comments regarding any of these 

proposed listings must be submitted 

(postmarked) on or before May 9, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Identify the appropriate 

Docket Number from the table below. 

DOCKET IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS BY SITE

Site name City/county, state Docket ID No. 

Blue Ledge Mine ................................................................................... Rogue River—Siskiyou National

Forest, CA.

EPA–HQ–SFUND–2011–0057. 

New Idria Mercury Mine ........................................................................ Idria, CA ........................................ EPA–HQ–SFUND–2011–0058. 

Sandoval Zinc Company ....................................................................... Sandoval, IL .................................. EPA–HQ–SFUND–2011–0061. 

Gary Development Landfill .................................................................... Gary, IN ......................................... EPA–HQ–SFUND–2011–0062. 

Sauer Dump .......................................................................................... Dundalk, MD ................................. EPA–HQ–SFUND–2011–0064. 

Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp—Columbus .............................................. Columbus, MS .............................. EPA–HQ–SFUND–2011–0065. 

Red Panther Chemical Company .......................................................... Clarksdale, MS .............................. EPA–HQ–SFUND–2011–0066. 

CTS of Asheville, Inc ............................................................................. Asheville, NC ................................ EPA–HQ–SFUND–2011–0068. 

Garfield Ground Water Contamination .................................................. Garfield, NJ ................................... EPA–HQ–SFUND–2011–0070. 

MolyCorp, Inc ........................................................................................ Questa, NM ................................... EPA–HQ–SFUND–2011–0072. 

New Cassel/Hicksville Ground Water Contamination ........................... New Cassel/Hicksville, NY ............ EPA–HQ–SFUND–2011–0074. 

Astoria Marine Construction Company ................................................. Astoria, OR ................................... EPA–HQ–SFUND–2011–0075. 

North Ridge Estates .............................................................................. Klamath Falls, OR ......................... EPA–HQ–SFUND–2011–0076. 

US Finishing/Cone Mills ........................................................................ Greenville, SC ............................... EPA–HQ–SFUND–2011–0077. 

Alamo Contaminated Ground Water ..................................................... Alamo, TN ..................................... EPA–HQ–SFUND–2011–0078. 

Submit your comments, identified by 

the appropriate Docket number, by one 

of the following methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: superfund.docket@epa.gov. 

• Mail: Mail comments (no facsimiles 

or tapes) to Docket Coordinator, 

Headquarters; U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency; CERCLA Docket 

Office; (Mail Code 5305T); 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.; 

Washington, DC 20460. 

• Hand Delivery or Express Mail: 

Send comments (no facsimiles or tapes) 

to Docket Coordinator, Headquarters; 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; 

CERCLA Docket Office; 1301 

Constitution Avenue, NW.; EPA West, 

Room 3334, Washington, DC 20004. 

Such deliveries are accepted only 

during the Docket’s normal hours of 

operation (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, excluding 

Federal holidays). 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

the appropriate Docket number (see 

table above). EPA’s policy is that all 

comments received will be included in 

the public Docket without change and 

may be made available online at 

http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information provided, 

unless the comment includes 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Do not submit 

information that you consider to be CBI 

or otherwise protected through http:// 

www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The 

http://www.regulations.gov Web site is 

an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system; that 

means EPA will not know your identity 

or contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

If you send an e-mail comment directly 

to EPA without going through http:// 

www.regulations.gov, your e-mail 

address will be automatically captured 

and included as part of the comment 

that is placed in the public Docket and 

made available on the Internet. If you 

submit an electronic comment, EPA 

recommends that you include your 

name and other contact information in 

the body of your comment and with any 


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