Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 189 / Thursday, September 29, 2011 / Proposed Rules 60405 

whether to accept a petition based on 

the stage of the rulemaking process at 

which the request is made and the 

merits of the petition. A substantively 

meritorious petition may be denied if 

the petition comes so late in the process 

that adequate notice and comment 

cannot be accommodated within the 

statutory time frame of the rulemaking 

process. The mere fact that an interested 

party was unaware of this proceeding or 

of any particular exemptions proposed 

in this proceeding is not a valid 

justification for a late submission. If a 

petition is accepted, the Register will 

publish the proposal in the Federal 

Register and announce deadlines for 

comments. If a petition is denied, the 

Register will set forth the reasons for the 

denial in a letter to the petitioner. All 

petitions and responses will become 

part of the public record in this 

rulemaking process. 

Dated: September 23, 2011. 

Maria A. Pallante, 

Register of Copyrights. 

[FR Doc. 2011–25106 Filed 9–28–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 1410–30–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2011–0561; FRL–9469–2] 

Revisions to the California State 

Implementation Plan, Santa Barbara 

Air Pollution Control District, 

Sacramento Municipal Air Quality 

Management District and South Coast 

Air Quality Management District 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve 

revisions to the Santa Barbara Air 

Pollution Control District (SBAPCD), 

Sacramento Municipal Air Quality 

Management District (SMAQMD) and 

South Coast Air Quality Management 

District (SCAQMD) portions of the 

California State Implementation Plan 

(SIP). These revisions concern volatile 

organic compound (VOC) emissions 

from solvent cleaning machines and 

solvent cleaning operations and oil and 

gas production wells. We are proposing 

to approve local rules to regulate these 

emission sources under the Clean Air 

Act as amended in 1990 (CAA or the 

Act). 

DATES: Any comments on this proposal 

must arrive by October 31, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, 

identified by docket number EPA–R09– 

OAR–2011–0561, by one of the 

following methods: 

1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions. 

2. E-mail: steckel.andrew@epa.gov. 

3. Mail or deliver: Andrew Steckel 

(Air-4), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, 

San Francisco, CA 94105–3901. 

Instructions: All comments 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 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Information that 

you consider CBI or otherwise protected 

should be clearly identified as such and 

should not be submitted through http:// 

www.regulations.gov or e-mail. http:// 

www.regulations.gov is an ‘‘anonymous 

access’’ system, and EPA will not know 

your identity or contact information 

unless you provide it in the body of 

your comment. If you send e-mail 

directly to EPA, your e-mail address 

will be automatically captured and 

included as part of the public comment. 

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: Generally, documents in the 

docket for this action are available 

electronically at http:// 

www.regulations.gov and in hard copy 

at EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, 

San Francisco, California. While all 

documents in the docket are listed at 

http://www.regulations.gov, some 

information may be publicly available 

only at the hard copy location (e.g., 

copyrighted material, large maps), and 

some may not be publicly available in 

either location (e.g., CBI). To inspect the 

hard copy materials, please schedule an 

appointment during normal business 

hours with the contact listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Adrianne Borgia, EPA Region IX, (415) 

972–3576, borgia.adrianne@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

proposal addresses the following local 

rules: SBAPCD Rule 321, ‘‘Solvent 

Cleaning Machines and Solvent 

Cleaning’’, SMAQMD Rule 466, 

‘‘Solvent Cleaning’’, SCAMQD Rule 

1171, ‘‘Solvent Cleaning Operations’’ 

and SCAMQD Rule 1148.1, ‘‘Oil and 

Gas Production Wells.’’ In the Rules and 

Regulations section of this Federal 

Register, we are approving these local 

rules in a direct final action without 

prior proposal because we believe these 

SIP revisions are not controversial. If we 

receive adverse comments, however, we 

will publish a timely withdrawal of the 

direct final rule and address the 

comments in subsequent action based 

on this proposed rule. Please note that 

if we receive adverse comment on an 

amendment, paragraph, or section of 

this rule and if that provision may be 

severed from the remainder of the rule, 

we may adopt as final those provisions 

of the rule that are not the subject of an 

adverse comment. 

We do not plan to open a second 

comment period, so anyone interested 

in commenting should do so at this 

time. If we do not receive adverse 

comments, no further activity is 

planned. For further information, please 

see the direct final action. 

Dated: September 7, 2011. 

Jared Blumenfeld, 

Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

[FR Doc. 2011–24689 Filed 9–28–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

46 CFR Part 160 

[Docket No. USCG–2011–0076] 

RIN 1625–AB60 

Inflatable Personal Flotation Devices 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: On March 30, 2011, the Coast 

Guard published a direct final rule that 

notified the public of the Coast Guard’s 

intent to harmonize structural and 

performance standards for inflatable 

recreational personal flotation devices 

(PFDs) with current voluntary industry 

consensus standards, and to slightly 

modify regulatory text in anticipation of 

a future rulemaking addressing the 

population for which inflatable 

recreational PFDs are approved (76 FR 

17561). As discussed below, we have 

received an adverse comment on the 

direct final rule, and have withdrawn 

the direct final rule in a notice of 

withdrawal published separately in this 

issue of the Federal Register. The Coast 

Guard seeks comment on the issues 

raised by the commenters and proposes 

to make the same changes to the current 

regulatory text, as modified below. 


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