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are received in response to this action 

no further activity is contemplated. If 

EPA receives relevant adverse 

comments, the direct final rule will be 

withdrawn and all public comments 

received will be addressed in a 

subsequent final rule based on this 

proposed rule. EPA will not institute a 

second comment period. Any parties 

interested in commenting on this action 

should do so at this time. 

For additional information, see the 

direct final rule which is located in the 

rules section of this Federal Register. 

Dated: May 4, 2015. 

Ron Curry, 

Regional Administrator, Region 6. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R03–OAR–2014–0759; FRL–9927–71– 

Region 3] 

Approval and Promulgation of Air 

Quality Implementation Plans; District 

of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia; 

2011 Base Year Emissions Inventories 

for the Washington, DC-MD-VA 

Nonattainment Area for the 2008 

Ozone National Ambient Air Quality 

Standard 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) proposes to approve the 

State Implementation Plan (SIP) 

revisions submitted by the District of 

Columbia, the State of Maryland, and 

the Commonwealth of Virginia 

(collectively, the States). The submittals 

are comprised of the 2011 base year 

emissions inventories for the 

Washington, DC-MD-VA nonattainment 

area for the 2008 8-hour ozone national 

ambient air quality standard (NAAQS). 

In the Final Rules section of this 

Federal Register, EPA is approving the 

States’ SIP submittals as a direct final 

rule without prior proposal because the 

Agency views this as a noncontroversial 

submittal and anticipates no adverse 

comments. A detailed rationale for the 

approval is set forth in the direct final 

rule and EPA’s Technical Support 

Document (TSD) prepared in support of 

this rulemaking action. The TSD is 

available in the Docket for this 

rulemaking action. If no adverse 

comments are received in response to 

this action, no further activity is 

contemplated. If EPA receives adverse 

comments, the direct final rule will be 

withdrawn and all public comments 

received will be addressed in a 

subsequent final rule based on this 

proposed rule. EPA will not institute a 

second comment period. Any parties 

interested in commenting on this action 

should do so at this time. 

DATES: Comments must be received in 

writing by June 12, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID Number EPA– 

R03–OAR–2014–0759 by one of the 

following methods: 

A. www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

B. Email: fernandez.cristina@epa.gov. 

C. Mail: EPA–R03–OAR–2014–0759, 

Cristina Fernandez, Associate Director, 

Office of Air Program Planning, 

Mailcode 3AP30, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Region III, 1650 

Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

19103. 

D. Hand Delivery: At the previouslylisted EPA Region III address. Such 

deliveries are only accepted during the 

Docket’s normal hours of operation, and 

special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–R03–OAR–2014– 

0759. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change, and may be 

made available online at 

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 www.regulations.gov 

or email. The www.regulations.gov Web 

site is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, 

which means EPA will not know your 

identity or contact information unless 

you provide it in the body of your 

comment. If you send an email 

comment directly to EPA without going 

through www.regulations.gov, your 

email 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 disk or CD–ROM 

you submit. 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. Electronic files should avoid 

the use of special characters, any form 

of encryption, and be free of any defects 

or viruses. 

Docket: All documents in the 

electronic docket are listed in the 

www.regulations.gov index. Although 

listed in the index, some information is 

not publicly available, i.e., CBI 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 in www.regulations.gov or 

in hard copy during normal business 

hours at the Air Protection Division, 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region III, 1650 Arch Street, 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. 

Copies of the State submittal are 

available at the District of Columbia 

Department of the Environment, Air 

Quality Division, 1200 1st Street NE., 

5th floor, Washington, DC 20002; the 

Maryland Department of the 

Environment, 1800 Washington 

Boulevard, Suite 705, Baltimore, 

Maryland 21230; and the Virginia 

Department of Environmental Quality, 

629 East Main Street, Richmond, 

Virginia 23219. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Marilyn Powers, (215) 814–2308, or by 

email at powers.marilyn@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For 

further information, please see the 

information provided in the direct final 

action, with the same title, that is 

located in the ‘‘Rules and Regulations’’ 

section of this Federal Register 

publication. Please note that if EPA 

receives adverse comment on an 

amendment, paragraph, or section of 

this rule and if that provision may be 

severed from the remainder of the rule, 

EPA may adopt as final those provisions 

of the rule that are not the subject of an 

adverse comment. 

Dated: May 4, 2015. 

William C. Early, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region III. 

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CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD 

INVESTIGATION BOARD 

40 CFR Part 1600 

Organization and Functions of the 

Chemical Safety and Hazard 

Investigation Board 

AGENCY: Chemical Safety and Hazard 

Investigation Board. 


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ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: This proposed rule augments 

40 CFR part 1600, which governs the 

administration of the Chemical Safety 

and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB). 

The proposed rule adds a requirement 

for the chairperson to add notation votes 

that have been calendared for public 

discussion to the agenda of a public 

meeting within 90 days of the 

calendared notation vote. The proposed 

rule also adds a requirement for the 

chairperson to conduct a minimum of 

four public meetings per year in 

Washington, DC. Following publication 

of this proposed rule, the CSB welcomes 

and will consider public comment, and 

then proceed to a final rule. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before June 12, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit written 

comments concerning this proposed 

rule via U.S. mail or email. Written 

comments may be sent by U.S. mail to 

Kara Wenzel, Assistant General 

Counsel, Chemical Safety and Hazard 

Investigation Board, 2175 K Street NW., 

Suite 400, Washington, DC, 20037. You 

may submit electronic comments to: 

kara.wenzel@csb.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kara 

Wenzel, CSB Assistant General Counsel, 

202–261–7625. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

proposed rule will promote increased 

transparency and accountability for 

Board activities. It aligns with the Open 

Government principles of transparency, 

participation, and collaboration, as 

outlined in the Memorandum on 

Transparency and Open Government 

(74 FR 4685, Jan. 26, 2009). The Board 

conducts some of its business through a 

process of notation voting. In notation 

voting, Board Members may vote to 

approve, disapprove, or calendar a 

notation item for discussion at a public 

meeting. The addition of a rule for the 

consideration of calendared notation 

votes within 90 days of the calendaring 

action will ensure that calendaring is 

used in the way it was intended. The 

addition will allow Board Members to 

use calendaring to prompt timely public 

discussion on a topic before they vote 

on it, at their discretion. It has the 

added effect of providing an additional 

opportunity for stakeholder input on 

Board activities. 

The other portion of the new 

proposed rule will require the CSB 

chairperson to schedule at least four 

public meetings in Washington, DC, 

each year. It will permit other Board 

Members to add items for discussion to 

the agendas of such CSB public 

meetings. It will also ensure that these 

meetings consider, at a minimum, 

calendared notation votes, current 

investigations and other important 

mission-related activities, and quarterly 

agency action plan progress. This 

portion of the proposed rule is intended 

to increase the transparency of Board 

actions, to promote the Board’s 

accountability to the public, and to 

ensure regular, relevant feedback is 

received from stakeholders related to 

the agency’s mission work. 

Statutory Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 

552(a)(1); 42 U.S.C. 7412(r)(6)(N). 

Regulatory Impact 

Administrative Procedure Act: 5 

U.S.C. 553(b)(3)(A), provides that when 

regulations involve matters of agency 

organization, procedure, or practice, the 

agency may publish regulations in final 

form. Because this proposed rule is 

intended to promote public 

participation and transparency for 

Board activities, the Board will accept 

and consider public comments up to 30 

days before issuing a final rule. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act: The 

Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 

et seq.) requires that a rule that has a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities, 

small businesses, or small organizations 

must include an initial regulatory 

flexibility analysis describing the 

regulation’s impact on such small 

entities. This analysis need not be 

undertaken if the agency has certified 

that the regulation will not have a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities. 5 

U.S.C. 605(b). The CSB has considered 

the impact of this rule under the 

Regulatory Flexibility Act, and certifies 

that a final rule will not have a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities. 

Paperwork Reduction Act: The CSB 

reviewed this proposed rule to 

determine whether it invokes issues that 

would subject it to the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA). While the PRA 

applies to agencies and collections of 

information conducted or sponsored by 

the CSB, the Act, 44 U.S.C. 3518(c), 

exempts collections of information that 

occur ‘‘during the conduct of . . . an 

administrative action, investigation, or 

audit involving an agency against 

specific individuals or entities,’’ except 

for investigations or audits ‘‘undertaken 

with reference to a category of 

individual or entities such as a class of 

licensees or an entire industry.’’ The 

rule proposed below fits squarely within 

this exemption, as it deals entirely with 

administrative matters internal to the 

agency. Therefore, we have determined 

that the PRA does not apply to this rule. 

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 

1995: The proposed rule does not 

require the preparation of an assessment 

statement in accordance with the 

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 

1995, 2 U.S.C. 1531. This proposed rule 

does not include a federal mandate that 

may result in the annual expenditure by 

state, local, and tribal governments, in 

the aggregate, or by the private sector, of 

more than the annual threshold 

established by the Act ($128 million in 

2006, adjusted annually for inflation). 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 1600 

Administrative practice and 

procedure. 

Dated: May 6, 2015. 

Mark Griffon, 

Board Member. 

Accordingly, for the reasons set forth 

in the preamble, the Chemical Safety 

and Hazard Investigation Board 

proposes to amend 40 CFR part 1600 as 

follows: 

PART 1600—ORGANIZATION AND 

FUNCTIONS OF THE CHEMICAL 

SAFETY AND HAZARD 

INVESTIGATION BOARD 

■ 1. The authority citation continues to 

read as follows: 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 552(a)(1); 42 

U.S.C. 7412(r)(6)(N). 

■ 2. Amend § 1600.5 by revising 

paragraph (b) and adding paragraph (c) 

to read as follows: 

§ 1600.5 Quorum and voting requirements. 

* * * * * 

(b) Voting. The Board votes on items 

of business in meetings conducted 

pursuant to the Government in the 

Sunshine Act. Alternatively, whenever a 

Member of the Board is of the opinion 

that joint deliberation among the 

members of the Board upon any matter 

at a meeting is unnecessary in light of 

the nature of the matter, impracticable, 

or would impede the orderly disposition 

of agency business, such matter may be 

disposed of by employing notation 

voting procedures. A written notation of 

the vote of each participating Board 

member shall be recorded by the 

General Counsel who shall retain it in 

the records of the Board. If a Board 

member votes to calendar a notation 

item, the Board must consider the 

calendared notation item at a public 

meeting of the Board within 90 days of 

the date on which the item is 

calendared. A notation vote to schedule 

a public meeting may not be calendared. 

The Chairperson shall add any 

calendared notation item to the agenda 

for the next CSB public meeting if one 


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is to occur within 90 days or to schedule 

a special meeting to consider any 

calendared notation item no later than 

90 days from the calendar action. 

(c) Public Meetings and Agendas. The 

Chairperson, or in the absence of a 

chairperson, a member designated by 

the Board, shall schedule a minimum of 

four public meetings per year in 

Washington, DC, to take place during 

the months of October, January, April, 

and July. 

(1) Agenda. The Chairperson, or in 

the absence of a chairperson, a member 

designated by the Board, shall be 

responsible for preparation of a final 

meeting agenda. The final agenda may 

not differ in substance from the items 

published in the Sunshine Act notice 

for that meeting. Any member may 

submit agenda items related to CSB 

business for consideration at any public 

meeting, and the Chairperson shall 

include such items on the agenda. At a 

minimum, each quarterly meeting shall 

include the following agenda items: 

(i) Consideration and vote on any 

notation items calendared since the date 

of the last public meeting; 

(ii) A review by the Board of the 

schedule for completion of all open 

investigations, studies, and other 

important work of the Board; and 

(iii) A review and discussion by the 

Board of the progress in meeting the 

CSB’s Annual Action Plan. 

(2) Publication of agenda information. 

The Chairperson shall be responsible for 

posting information related to any 

agenda item that is appropriate for 

public release on the CSB Web site no 

less than two days prior to a public 

meeting. 

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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

48 CFR Parts 1842 and 1852 

RIN 2700–AE14 

Denied Access to NASA Facilities 

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration (NASA) is 

proposing to amend the NASA FAR 

Supplement (NFS) to delete the 

observance of legal holidays clause with 

its alternates and replace it with a new 

clause that prescribes conditions and 

procedures pertaining to the closure of 

NASA facilities. 

DATES: Interested parties should submit 

comments to NASA at the address 

below on or before July 13, 2015 to be 

considered in formulation of the final 

rule. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may 

submit comments, identified by RIN 

number 2700–AE14 via the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Comments may also be submitted to 

Andrew O’Rourke (Room 5L32), NASA 

Headquarters, Office of Procurement, 

Contract and Grant Policy Division, 

Washington, DC 20546. Comments may 

also be submitted to Andrew O’Rourke 

via email at andrew.orourke@NASA.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Andrew O’Rourke, NASA Office of 

Procurement, Contract and Grant Policy 

Division, 202–358–4560, email: 

andrew.orourke@nasa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Background 

NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) clause 

1852.242–72, Observance of Legal 

Holidays, is included in Agency 

contracts where contractor performance 

is to be performed on a NASA facility. 

It was intended to identify dates that 

Government employees would not be 

available and provide notification to 

contractors of those dates considering 

that the absence of Government 

employees might impact contractor 

performance or contractor access to 

NASA facilities. Further, the same 

clause has two alternates, the first 

addresses contractors who are denied 

access to NASA workspaces within a 

NASA facility and the second addresses 

other instances, such as weather and 

safety emergencies, which could result 

in contractors being denied access to the 

entire NASA facility. Recent events, 

especially the Government shut-down 

during October 2013, have revealed a 

need for NASA to be more specific and 

to differentiate between these two 

conditions when contractor employees 

may be denied access to NASA 

workspaces or the entire NASA facility. 

The fact that Government employees 

may not be at a NASA facility is not an 

automatic reason for contractor 

personnel not to be required to be 

present at their required NASA 

workspace on a NASA facility. Unless a 

contractor is denied access to the NASA 

facility, contractors are expected to 

perform in accordance with their 

contractual requirements. This proposed 

NFS change provides clarity and 

information beneficial to NASA 

contractors that are denied access to a 

NASA facility when a NASA facility is 

closed to all personnel. Specifically, the 

change would delete the prescription at 

NFS 1842.7001, Observance of Legal 

Holidays, in its entirety, and clause 

1852.242–72, Observance of Legal 

Holidays, with alternates, and replace it 

with the prescription at NFS 1842.7001 

Denied Access to NASA Facilities and 

clause 1852.242–72, Denied Access to 

NASA Facilities. The clause would be 

included in solicitations and contracts 

where contractor personnel would be 

required to work onsite at a NASA 

facility. 

B. Executive Orders 12866 and 13563 

Executive Orders (E.O.s) 12866 and 

13563 direct agencies to assess all costs 

and benefits of available regulatory 

alternatives and, if regulation is 

necessary, to select regulatory 

approaches that maximize net benefits 

(including potential economic, 

environmental, public health and safety 

effects, distributive impacts, and 

equity). E.O. 13563 emphasizes the 

importance of quantifying both costs 

and benefits, of reducing costs, of 

harmonizing rules, and of promoting 

flexibility. This proposed rule is not a 

significant regulatory action under 

section 3(f) of Executive Order 12866. 

This rule is not a major rule under 5 

U.S.C. 804. 

C. Regulatory Flexibility Act 

NASA does not expect this proposed 

rule to have a significant economic 

impact on a substantial number of small 

entities within the meaning of the 

Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601, 

et seq. This proposed rule attempts to 

provide clarity and information 

beneficial to NASA contractors that are 

denied access to a NASA facility when 

a NASA facility is closed. This proposed 

rule imposes no new reporting 

requirements. This proposed rule does 

not duplicate, overlap, or conflict with 

any other Federal rules. No alternatives 

were identified that would meet the 

objectives of this proposed rule. NASA 

invites comments from small business 

concerns and other interested parties on 

the expected impact of this proposed 

rule on small entities. NASA will also 

consider comments from small entities 

concerning the existing regulations in 

subparts affected by this proposed rule 

in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 610. 

Interested parties must submit such 

comments separately and should cite 5 

U.S.C. 610 (RIN number 2700–AE14) in 

correspondence. 

D. Paperwork Reduction Act 

The proposed rule contains no 

information collection requirements that 

require the approval of the Office of 


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