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of the public comment and input 

submitted focused on expressing 

opposition or support for the announced 

ELGs for Shale Gas Extraction, Coalbed 

Methane Extraction and Dental 

Amalgam. A few comments provided a 

small amount of information and ideas 

on the 304(m) planning process in 

general; nanomaterial discharges; the 

disposal of unused pharmaceuticals; 

and on the ore mining and dressing 

study report. 

E. Summary of the Process for 2012 

Annual Reviews 

EPA conducted four new targeted 

review methodologies to better identify 

new industries or industry processes at 

existing industries that may need new 

or revised effluent guidelines and 

standards for the 2012 reviews. These 

methodologies included: 

• Identifying pass-through pollutants 

in sewage sludge using the 2009 

Targeted National Sewage Sludge 

Survey (TNSSS). 

• Identifying new pollutants and 

industry discharges using data and 

information from EPA’s toxic substances 

control programs. 

• Identifying new waste streams 

generated from new air pollution 

controls associated with Clean Air Act 

rulemakings. 

• Identifying new industries through 

potential TRI expansion sectors. 

These new targeted review 

methodologies are further described in 

the Preliminary 2012 Plan available for 

review at: http://water.epa.gov/ 

lawsregs/lawsguidance/cwa/304m/ 

index.cfm. 

EPA has modified its annual review 

process to conduct a toxicity ranking 

analysis for industry only during the 

odd numbered years and additional 

targeted reviews of industry during the 

even numbered years. 

F. Request for Comment and 

Information 

EPA requests comments and 

information on the Preliminary 2012 

Effluent Guidelines Program Plan and 

on the 2011 Annual Effluent Guidelines 

Review Report in the following areas. 

1. Data Sources and Methodologies 

EPA solicits comments on whether it 

used the correct evaluation factors, 

criteria, and data sources in conducting 

its 2011 annual review and developing 

this Plan. EPA also solicits comment on 

other data sources EPA can use in its 

annual reviews and biennial planning 

process. 

2. Methodologies for the 2012 Annual 

Reviews 

EPA solicits comments on its methods 

for the 2012 Annual Reviews and for 

subsequent even numbered year 

reviews. EPA used targeted industrial 

review methods during 2012, as 

described above. Specifically, EPA 

solicits comment on data and other 

sources of available information or 

approaches that EPA could consider for 

the annual reviews in subsequent even 

years, or comments regarding the 

targeted approaches described above 

and in the Preliminary 20122 Plan. 

3. The Preliminary 2012 Effluent 

Guidelines Program Plan 

EPA solicits comments on its 

Preliminary 2012 Plan, including the 

data and information used to support 

the findings and conclusions stated in 

the Preliminary 2012 Plan. EPA also 

solicits comments on the proposed 

decisions to not identify any industry 

categories for the development of new 

or revised effluent guidelines and to 

delist the Coalbed Methane Extraction 

subcategory and Chlorine and 

Chlorinated Hydrocarbon 

Manufacturing from the effluent 

guidelines plan. 

4. Implementation Issues Related to 

Existing Effluent Guidelines and 

Pretreatment Standards 

As a factor in its decision-making, 

EPA considers opportunities to 

eliminate inefficiencies or impediments 

to pollution prevention or technological 

innovation, or opportunities to promote 

innovative approaches such as water 

quality trading, including within-plant 

trading. Consequently, EPA solicits 

comments on implementation issues 

related to existing effluent guidelines 

and pretreatment standards. 

5. Innovation and Technology in the 

Effluent Guidelines Program 

EPA is requesting public comment 

and ideas on the subject of technology 

innovation. EPA seeks public input and 

comment on the following questions 

and related themes: 

—Are there new, innovative pollution 

control or pollution prevention 

technologies that can be used by any 

of the existing 57 categories of 

industry with effluent limitations 

guidelines? 

—Are there innovative manufacturing 

approaches that can be used by 

industries to reduce or prevent their 

wastewater discharges? 

—How can EPA’s effluent limitations 

guidelines program enhance 

technology transfer to catalyze and 

harness innovation to solve industrial 

wastewater problems, both now and 

in the future? 

—How can EPA better foster 

consideration of innovative 

technologies through the effluent 

guidelines planning process? 

Nancy K. Stoner, 

Acting Assistant Administrator for Water. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9844–5] 

Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air 

Act Citizen Suit 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed consent 

decree; request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended 

(CAA or the Act), notice is hereby given 

of a proposed consent decree to address 

a lawsuit filed by Sierra Club (Plaintiff) 

in the United States District Court for 

the District of Columbia: Sierra Club v. 

Jackson, No.1:12–cv–01237–ESH 

(D.D.C.). On or about July 26, 2012, the 

plaintiff filed a complaint alleging that 

EPA had failed to take action on certain 

State Implementation Plan (SIP) 

submittals by the states of New Jersey 

and Michigan. Specifically, the 

complaint alleged that EPA had failed to 

make a finding that the state of New 

Jersey did not submit SIP revisions 

addressing the nonattainment New 

Source Review requirements for the 

1997 fine particulate matter National 

Ambient Air Quality Standard (1997 

PM2.5 NAAQS) in the State of New 

Jersey portion of the PhiladelphiaWilmington nonattainment area. The 

complaint further alleged that EPA had 

failed to take final action on the 

attainment demonstration, contingency 

measures, emission inventory and 

Reasonably Available Control Measures 

or Reasonably Available Control 

Technology (RACM/RACT), 

requirements for the 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS 

in both the State of Michigan’s SIP 

submittal for the Detroit-Ann Arbor 

nonattainment area and the New Jersey 

SIP submittal for the State of New Jersey 

portion of the Philadelphia-Wilmington 

nonattainment area. The complaint also 

alleged that EPA failed to publish a 

notice of determination in the Federal 

Register regarding whether the DetroitAnn Arbor area had attained the 1997 

PM2.5 NAAQS by the applicable 

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attainment date. The proposed consent 

decree establishes deadlines for EPA to 

take certain actions. 

DATES: Written comments on the 

proposed consent decree must be 

received by September 6, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID number EPA– 

HQ–OGC–2013–0553, online at 

www.regulations.gov (EPA’s preferred 

method); by email to 

oei.docket@epa.gov; mailed to EPA 

Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mailcode: 2822T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; or by 

hand delivery or courier to EPA Docket 

Center, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. Comments on a disk or CD– 

ROM should be formatted in Word or 

ASCII file, avoiding the use of special 

characters and any form of encryption, 

and may be mailed to the mailing 

address above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Winifred N. Okoye, Air and Radiation 

Law Office (2344A), Office of General 

Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone: (202) 

564–5446; fax number (202) 564–5603; 

email address: okoye.winifred@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Additional Information About the 

Proposed Consent Decree 

The proposed consent decree would 

resolve a lawsuit seeking to compel 

action by the Administrator to take final 

action under section 110(k)(3) and (4), 

42 U.S.C. 7410(k)(3) and (4), to approve 

or disapprove, in whole or in part 

certain States of New Jersey and 

Michigan SIP submittals. 

The proposed consent decree requires 

EPA, on or before September 30, 2013, 

to sign and thereafter promptly forward 

to the Office of Federal Register for 

review and publication a notice of final 

action addressing whether the State of 

New Jersey has failed to submit SIP 

revisions addressing the nonattainment 

New Source Review requirements for 

the 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS in the State of 

New Jersey portion of the PhiladelphiaWilmington nonattainment area. The 

proposed consent decree also requires 

EPA, on or before November 30, 2013, 

to sign and thereafter promptly forward 

to the Office of Federal Register for 

review and publication a notice taking 

final action on the attainment 

demonstration, contingency measures, 

emission inventory and Reasonably 

Available Control Measures or 

Reasonably Available Control 

Technology (RACM/RACT), 

requirements for the 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS 

in the State of New Jersey SIP submittal 

for the State of New Jersey portion of the 

Philadelphia-Wilmington 

nonattainment area. EPA is not 

required, however, to act on any 

submission or portion thereof that is 

withdrawn prior to the applicable 

deadline. Because the state of Michigan 

withdrew its SIP submission for the 

attainment demonstration for the 

Detroit-Ann Arbor 1997 PM2.5

nonattainment area, on May 20, 2013, 

the proposed consent decree does not 

require EPA to act on this submission or 

any portion thereof. 

The proposed consent decree also 

states that the consent decree can be 

modified by either the parties, or the 

court following a motion by a party and 

a response thereto. In addition, the 

parties agree to informally resolve Sierra 

Club’s claim for litigation costs pursuant 

to section 304(d), 42 U.S.C. 7604(d), but 

that the court would retain jurisdiction 

to resolve that claim. 

For a period of thirty (30) days 

following the date of publication of this 

notice, the Agency will receive written 

comments relating to the proposed 

consent decree from persons who were 

not named as parties or intervenors to 

the litigation in question. EPA or the 

Department of Justice may withdraw or 

withhold consent to the proposed 

consent decree if the comments disclose 

facts or considerations that indicate that 

such consent is inappropriate, 

improper, inadequate, or inconsistent 

with the requirements of the Act. Unless 

EPA or the Department of Justice 

determines, based on any comment 

which may be submitted, that consent to 

the consent decree should be 

withdrawn, the terms of the decree will 

be affirmed. 

II. Additional Information About 

Commenting on the Proposed Consent 

Decree 

A. How can I get a copy of the consent 

decree? 

Direct your comments to the official 

public docket for this action under 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OGC- 2013– 

0553, which contains a copy of the 

consent decree. The official public 

docket is available for public viewing at 

the Office of Environmental Information 

(OEI) Docket in the EPA Docket Center, 

EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC. The EPA Docket Center Public 

Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

excluding legal holidays. The telephone 

number for the Public Reading Room is 

(202) 566–1744, and the telephone 

number for the OEI Docket is (202) 566– 

1752. 

An electronic version of the public 

docket is available through 

www.regulations.gov. You may use the 

www.regulations.gov to submit or view 

public comments, access the index 

listing of the contents of the official 

public docket, and to access those 

documents in the public docket that are 

available electronically. Once in the 

system, select ‘‘search,’’ then key in the 

appropriate docket identification 

number. 

It is important to note that EPA’s 

policy is that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing online at www.regulations.gov 

without change, unless the comment 

contains copyrighted material, CBI, or 

other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Information 

claimed as CBI and other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute 

is not included in the official public 

docket or in the electronic public 

docket. EPA’s policy is that copyrighted 

material, including copyrighted material 

contained in a public comment, will not 

be placed in EPA’s electronic public 

docket but will be available only in 

printed, paper form in the official public 

docket. Although not all docket 

materials may be available 

electronically, you may still access any 

of the publicly available docket 

materials through the EPA Docket 

Center. 

B. How and to whom do I submit 

comments? 

You may submit comments as 

provided in the ADDRESSES section. 

Please ensure that your comments are 

submitted within the specified comment 

period. Comments received after the 

close of the comment period will be 

marked ‘‘late.’’ EPA is not required to 

consider these late comments. 

If you submit an electronic comment, 

EPA recommends that you include your 

name, mailing address, and an email 

address or other contact information in 

the body of your comment and with any 

disk or CD ROM you submit. This 

ensures that you can be identified as the 

submitter of the comment and allows 

EPA to contact you in case EPA cannot 

read your comment due to technical 

difficulties or needs further information 

on the substance of your comment. Any 

identifying or contact information 

provided in the body of a comment will 

be included as part of the comment that 

is placed in the official public docket, 

and made available in EPA’s electronic 

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public docket. If EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

EPA may not be able to consider your 

comment. 

Use of the www.regulations.gov Web 

site to submit comments to EPA 

electronically is EPA’s preferred method 

for receiving comments. The electronic 

public docket system is an ‘‘anonymous 

access’’ system, which means EPA will 

not know your identity, email address, 

or other contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

In contrast to EPA’s electronic public 

docket, EPA’s electronic mail (email) 

system is not an ‘‘anonymous access’’ 

system. If you send an email comment 

directly to the Docket without going 

through www.regulations.gov, your 

email address is automatically captured 

and included as part of the comment 

that is placed in the official public 

docket, and made available in EPA’s 

electronic public docket. 

Dated: July 31, 2013. 

Lorie J. Schmidt, 

Associate General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2013–19073 Filed 8–6–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 

Notice of Agreements Filed 

The Commission hereby gives notice 

of the filing of the following agreements 

under the Shipping Act of 1984. 

Interested parties may submit comments 

on the agreements to the Secretary, 

Federal Maritime Commission, 

Washington, DC 20573, within ten days 

of the date this notice appears in the 

Federal Register. Copies of the 

agreements are available through the 

Commission’s Web site (www.fmc.gov) 

or by contacting the Office of 

Agreements at (202) 523–5793 or 

tradeanalysis@fmc.gov. 

Agreement No.: 002206–006. 

Title: California Association of Port 

Authorities—Northwest Marine 

Terminal Association Terminal 

Discussion Agreement. 

Parties: California Association of Port 

Authorities and Northwest Marine 

Terminal Association. 

Filing Party: Patti A. Fulghum, 

Executive Officer; Northwest Marine 

Terminal Association; P.O. Box 5684; 

Bellevue, WA 98006. 

Synopsis: The amendment reflects the 

addition of the Port of St. Helens, 

Oregon as a member to the Northwest 

Marine Terminal Association. 

Agreement No.: 009335–007. 

Title: Northwest Marine Terminal 

Association, Inc. Agreement. 

Parties: Port of Anacortes; Port of 

Astoria; Port of Bellingham; Port of Coos 

Bay; Port of Everett; Port of Grays 

Harbor; Port of Kalama; Port of 

Longview; Port of Olympia; Port of Port 

Angeles; Port of Portland; Port of 

Seattle; Port of St. Helens; Port of 

Tacoma; and Port of Vancouver, USA. 

Filing Party: Patti A. Fulghum; 

Executive Officer; Northwest Marine 

Terminal Association, Inc.; P.O. Box 

5684; Bellevue, WA 98006. 

Synopsis: The amendment reflects the 

addition of the Port of St. Helens, 

Oregon as member to the agreement. 

Agreement No.: 012184–001. 

Title: Crowley/Maersk Line Panama— 

U.S. Space Charter Agreement. 

Parties: Crowley Latin America 

Services, LLC and A.P. Moller-Maersk 

A/S. 

Filing Party: Wayne R. Rohde, Esq.; 

Cozen O’Connor; 1627 I Street NW., 

Suite 1100; Washington, DC 20006– 

4007. 

Synopsis: The agreement adjusts the 

amount of space and the number of 

reefer plugs to be provided. 

Agreement No.: 201162–010. 

Title: NYSA-ILA Assessment 

Agreement. 

Parties: International Longshoremen’s 

Association and New York Shipping 

Association. 

Filing Parties: Donato Caruso, Esq.; 

The Lambos Firm; 303 South Broadway, 

Suite 410; Tarrytown, NY 10591 and 

Andre Mazzola, Esq.; Marrinan & 

Mazzola Mardon, P.C.; 26 Broadway, 

17th Floor; New York, NY 10004. 

Synopsis: The amendment extends 

the agreement and reduces the 

assessment for all house containers 

within 260 miles, except in the 

Bermuda trade effective August 1, 2013. 

Dated: August 2, 2013. 

By Order of the Federal Maritime 

Commission. 

Rachel E. Dickon, 

Assistant Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–19081 Filed 8–6–13; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Notice of a Department of Health and 

Human Services Public Meeting and 

Request for Comments on Matters 

Related to the Protection of Human 

Subjects and Research Studying 

Standard of Care Interventions; 

Amended Notice of Meeting 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, 

Department of Health and Human 

Services. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: On June 26, 2013, the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS) published in the Federal 

Register an announcement of a public 

meeting to be held on August 28, 2013, 

to discuss how certain provisions of the 

HHS protection of human subjects 

should be applied to research studying 

one or more interventions which are 

used as standard of care treatment in the 

non-research context (78 FR 38343). 

In the June 26, 2013 meeting 

announcement, HHS stated that 

presenters will be scheduled to speak at 

the public meeting in the order in which 

they register. Notice is hereby provided 

that HHS may group presenters 

according to the topic of their 

presentation. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Jerry Menikoff, Director, Office for 

Human Research Protections, 

Department of Health and Human 

Services, 1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 

200; Rockville, MD 20852, 240–453– 

6900; email Jerry.Menikoff@hhs.gov. 

DATED: August 1, 2013. 

Howard K. Koh, 

Assistant Secretary for Health. 

[FR Doc. 2013–19056 Filed 8–6–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4150–36–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Board of Scientific Counselors, 

National Center for Health Statistics 

In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463), the Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC), National 

Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) 

announces the following meeting of the 

aforementioned committee: 

TIMES AND DATES: 11:00 a.m.—5:30 p.m., 

September 19, 2013; 8:30 a.m.—1:00 

p.m., September 20, 2013. 

PLACE: NCHS Headquarters, 3311 

Toledo Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 

20782 

STATUS: This meeting is open to the 

public; however, visitors must be 

processed in accordance with 

established federal policies and 

procedures. For foreign nationals or 

non-US citizens, pre-approval is 

required (please contact Gwen Mustaf, 

301–458–4500, glm4@cdc.gov or 

Virginia Cain, vcain@cdc.gov at least 10 

days in advance for requirements). All 

visitors are required to present a valid 

form of picture identification issued by 

a state, federal or international 

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