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State citation Title/subject Effective date EPA approval date Explanation 

11–60.1–40 ............................. Volatile organic compound 

water separation.

11/14/2003 4/27/2012 [Insert page number where the document 

begins].

New regulation. 

11–60.1–41 ............................. Pump and compressor requirements.11/14/2003 4/27/2012 [Insert page number where the document 

begins].

New regulation. 

11–60.1–42 ............................. Waste gas disposal ............... 11/14/2003 4/27/2012 [Insert page number where the document 

begins].

New regulation. 

11–60.1–51 ............................. Definitions .............................. 11/14/2003 4/27/2012 [Insert page number where the document 

begins].

Supersedes 11–60–1. 

11–60.1–53 ............................. Agricultural burning: permit 

requirement.

11/14/2003 4/27/2012 [Insert page number where the document 

begins].

Supersedes 11–60–19. 

11–60.1–54 ............................. Agricultural burning: applications.11/14/2003 4/27/2012 [Insert page number where the document 

begins].

Supersedes 11–60–20. 

11–60.1–56 ............................. Agricultural burning: recordkeeping and monitoring.11/14/2003 4/27/2012 [Insert page number where the document 

begins].

Supersedes 11–60–22. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 60 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2009–0559; FRL–9664–9] 

RIN 2060–AP90 

Denial of Reconsideration Petitions on 

Standards of Performance for New 

Stationary Sources and Emission 

Guidelines for Existing Sources: 

Sewage Sludge Incineration Units 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Denial of petitions for 

reconsideration. 

SUMMARY: The EPA is providing notice 

that it has denied two petitions for 

reconsideration of a final rule published 

in the Federal Register on March 21, 

2011. The rule established new source 

performance standards and emission 

guidelines for sewage sludge 

incineration units located at wastewater 

treatment facilities designed to treat 

domestic sewage sludge, and was issued 

pursuant to the EPA’s authority under 

Clean Air Act section 129 to regulate 

solid waste incineration units. After 

publication of the rule, the EPA 

received petitions for reconsideration of 

the final rule from the National 

Association of Clean Water Agencies 

(NACWA) (dated May 24, 2011) and the 

Sierra Club (dated May 20, 2011). After 

carefully considering the petitions and 

supporting information, in reaching a 

decision on the petitions, EPA 

Administrator Lisa P. Jackson denied 

the petitions for reconsideration on 

April 6, 2012, in separate letters to the 

petitioners. EPA denied the petitions 

because they fail to meet the procedural 

test for reconsideration under CAA 

section 307(d)(7)(B), and/or are not of 

central relevance to the outcome of the 

rule, both of which are necessary 

conditions precedent to granting 

reconsideration. The letters explain in 

detail EPA’s reasons for the denials. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Amy Hambrick, Sector Policies and 

Programs Division (E143–03), Office of 

Air Quality Planning and Standards, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 

27711; telephone number: (919) 541– 

0964; fax number: (919) 541–3470; 

email address: hambrick.amy@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. How can I get copies of this document 

and other related information? 

This Federal Register notice, the 

petitions for reconsideration, and the 

letters denying the petitions for 

reconsideration are available in the 

docket that the EPA established for the 

‘‘Standards of Performance for New 

Stationary Sources and Emission 

Guidelines for Existing Sources: Sewage 

Sludge Incineration Units’’ under 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2009– 

0559. The document identification 

numbers for the petitions for 

reconsideration are: Sierra Club, EPA– 

HQ–OAR–2009–0559–0173; and 

NACWA, EPA–HQ–OAR–2009–0559– 

0174 (petition). The document 

identification number for EPA’s 

response letters are EPA–HQ–OAR– 

2009–0559–0181. All documents in the 

docket are listed on the 

www.regulations.gov Web site. Although 

listed in the index, some information is 

not publicly available, e.g., confidential 

business information or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Certain other 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

is not placed on the Internet and will be 

publicly available only in hard copy 

form. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either 

electronically through 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the EPA Docket Center (Air Docket), 

EPA/DC, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC. The 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 Air 

Docket is (202) 566–1742. 

This Federal Register notice, the 

petitions for reconsideration and the 

letters denying the petitions can also be 

found on the EPA’s Web site at http:// 

www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/129/ssi/ 

ssipg.html. The ‘‘Standards of 

Performance for New Stationary Sources 

and Emission Guidelines for Existing 

Sources: Sewage Sludge Incineration 

Units’’ rules were published in the 

Federal Register on March 21, 2011, at 

76 FR 15372. 

II. Judicial Review 

Any petitions for review of the letters 

denying the petitions for 

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reconsideration described in this Notice 

must be filed in the Court of Appeals for 

the District of Columbia Circuit by June 

26, 2012. 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 60 

Environmental protection, 

Administrative practice and procedure, 

Air pollution control, Intergovernmental 

relations, Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements. 

Dated: April 18, 2012. 

Lisa P. Jackson, 

Administrator. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 4 

[PS Docket No. 11–82; FCC 12–22] 

Extension of the Commission’s Rules 

Regarding Outage Reporting to 

Interconnected Voice Over Internet 

Protocol Service Providers and 

Broadband Internet Service Providers 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the 

Commission extends the outage 

reporting requirements of the 

Commission’s rules to interconnected 

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) 

service providers and defers action with 

respect to reporting of outages of 

broadband Internet services. In addition, 

the NPRM for The Proposed Extension 

of Part 4 of the Commission’s Rules 

Regarding Outage Reporting to 

Interconnected Voice Over Internet 

Protocol Service Providers and 

Broadband Internet Service Providers 

proposal included reporting of both 

outages based on the complete loss of 

service and those where, while service 

is technically available, technical 

conditions effectively prevent 

communication. The rule adopted 

applies only to outages resulting from 

complete loss of service and only to 

interconnected VoIP services. Collecting 

this data will help the Commission help 

ensure the Nation’s 9–1–1 systems are 

as reliable and resilient as possible and 

also allow the Commission to monitor 

compliance with the statutory 9–1–1 

obligations of interconnected VoIP 

service providers. 

DATES: The rules in this document 

contain information collection 

requirements that have not been 

approved by OMB. The Federal 

Communications Commission will 

publish a document in the Federal 

Register announcing the effective date. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gregory Intoccia, Special Counsel, 

Cybersecurity and Communications 

Reliability Division, Public Safety and 

Homeland Security Bureau, (202) 418– 

1470 or gregory.intoccia@fcc.gov 

(email). For additional information 

concerning the Paperwork Reduction 

Act information collection requirements 

contained in this document, contact 

Judith Boley-Herman, (202) 418–0214 or 

PRA@fcc.gov (email). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

summary of the Commission’s Report 

and Order in PS Docket No. 11–82, FCC 

12–22, released to the public on 

February 21, 2012, and NPRM released 

in Federal Register in Vol. 76, No. 111, 

June 9, 2011; and correction Vol. 76, No. 

121, June 23, 2011. The full text of the 

document is available for public 

inspection during regular business 

hours in the FCC Reference Center, 

Room CY–A257, 445 12th Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20554, or online at 

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/ 

Daily_Business/2012/db0221/FCC-12- 

22A1.pdf. 

Initial Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 

Document FCC 11–184 seeks 

comment on potential new information 

collection requirements. If the 

Commission adopts any new 

information collection requirement, the 

Commission will publish another notice 

in the Federal Register inviting the 

public to comment on the requirements, 

as required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13 (44 

U.S.C. 3501–3520). In addition, 

pursuant to the Small Business 

Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, the 

Commission seeks comment on how it 

might ‘‘further reduce the information 

collection burden for small business 

concerns with fewer than 25 

employees.’’ 

Synopsis 

I. Introduction 

1. Consumers are increasingly using 

interconnected VoIP services in lieu of 

traditional telephone service. 

Interconnected VoIP services allow a 

wireline or wireless user generally to 

receive calls from and make calls to the 

legacy public telephone network, 

including calls to 9–1–1. As of the end 

of 2010, 31 percent of U.S. residential 

telephone subscriptions were provided 

by interconnected VoIP providers, an 

increase of 21 percent from the previous 

year. The public’s increased reliance on 

interconnected VoIP services is also 

reflected in 9–1–1 usage trends; 

approximately 31 percent of residential 

wireline 9–1–1 calls are made using 

VoIP service. The availability and 

resilience of our communications 

infrastructure, specifically 9–1–1, 

directly impacts public safety and the 

ability of our first responders to fulfill 

their critical mission. The most effective 

way to maintain emergency 

preparedness is to work continuously to 

minimize the incidence of routine 

outages. 

2. The Commission’s public safety 

mission is one of its core functions. In 

2008, Congress affirmed the 

Commission’s efforts to accomplish this 

mission by codifying the requirement 

for interconnected VoIP providers to 

provide 9–1–1 services. Also, 

Presidential Directives and Executive 

Orders and related documents charge 

the Commission with ensuring the 

resilience and reliability of the Nation’s 

commercial and public safety 

communications infrastructure. The 

Commission also has the responsibility 

to ensure continuous operations and 

reconstitution of critical 

communications and services, and plays 

an active role in Emergency Support 

Function 2 (ESF2), the communications 

branch of the National Response 

Framework, which guides the Nation’s 

conduct during an all-hazards response. 

Executive Order 12472, which 

establishes the National 

Communications System, the functions 

of which include coordination of the 

planning for and provision of national 

security and emergency preparedness 

communications for the Federal 

government, also requires Commission 

participation. 

3. There is cause to be concerned 

about the ability of interconnected VoIP 

subscribers to reach emergency services 

when they need them. In the past 

several years, a series of significant VoIP 

outages has increased our concern about 

the availability of 9–1–1 over VoIP 

service. Unlike other outages of voice 

service, VoIP outages are not reported to 

the Commission because the current 

outage reporting requirements apply 

only to traditional voice and paging 

communications services over wireline, 

wireless, cable, and satellite, but not to 

outages affecting interconnected VoIP 

services. Without detailed information 

about these outages, the Commission is 

unable to know whether and how well 

providers are meeting their statutory 

obligation to provide 9–1–1 and 

Enhanced 9–1–1 (E9–1–1) service. 

4. Seeking to ensure the availability of 

9–1–1 service, this Report and Order: 

Extends the Commission’s mandatory 

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