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planned. For further information, please 

see the direct final action. 

Dated: November 18, 2011. 

Jared Blumenfeld, 

Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

[FR Doc. 2011–32476 Filed 12–19–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 63 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2010–1042; FRL–9609–1] 

RIN 2060–AQ90 

National Emission Standards for 

Hazardous Air Pollutants for Wool 

Fiberglass Manufacturing 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule; notice of public 

hearings and extension of public 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: The EPA published in the 

Federal Register on November 25, 2011, 

the proposed rules, ‘‘National Emission 

Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: 

Mineral Wool Production and Wool 

Fiberglass Manufacturing.’’ The EPA 

was asked to hold a public hearing only 

on the wool fiberglass rule. Therefore, 

EPA is making two announcements: 

first, a public hearing for the proposed 

Wool Fiberglass Manufacturing rule will 

be held on January 4, 2012 in Kansas 

City Kansas, and second, the comment 

period for the Wool Fiberglass 

Manufacturing proposed rules will be 

extended until February 3, 2012. 

DATES: The public hearing will be held 

on January 4, 2012. Comments must be 

received by February 3, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: The public hearing to be 

held on January 4, 2012, will be held at 

the Hilton Garden Inn, 520 Minnesota 

Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas 66101; 

telephone: (913) 342–7900. 

The public hearing will convene at 

2 p.m. and will continue until 8 p.m. A 

dinner break is scheduled from 5 p.m. 

until 6:30 p.m. The EPA will make 

every effort to accommodate all speakers 

that arrive and register before 8 p.m. 

The EPA’s Web site for the rulemaking, 

which includes the proposal and 

information about the hearings, can be 

found at: http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/ 

rrisk/rtrpg.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you would like to present oral testimony 

at the public hearing, please contact Ms. 

Pamela Garrett, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards, Sector Policies 

and Programs Division (D243–01), 

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 

27711; telephone: (919) 541–7966; fax 

number: (919) 541–5450; email address: 

garrett.pamela@epa.gov (preferred 

method for registering). The last day to 

register to present oral testimony in 

advance will be Friday, December 30, 

2011. If using email, please provide the 

following information: the time you 

wish to speak (afternoon or evening), 

name, affiliation, address, email address 

and telephone and fax numbers. Time 

slot preferences will be given in the 

order requests are received. Requests to 

speak will be taken the day of each of 

the hearings at the hearing registration 

desk, although preferences on speaking 

times may not be able to be fulfilled. If 

you will require the service of a 

translator, please let us know at the time 

of registration. 

Questions concerning the November 

25, 2011, proposed rule should be 

addressed to Susan Fairchild, Office of 

Air Quality Planning and Standards, 

Sector Policies and Programs Division 

(D 243–04), Environmental Protection 

Agency, Research Triangle Park, North 

Carolina 27711; telephone number: 

(919) 541–5167; facsimile number: (919) 

541–3207; email address: 

Fairchild.susan@epa.gov. 

Public hearing: The proposal for 

which the EPA is holding the public 

hearing was published in the Federal 

Register on November 25, 2011, and is 

available at: http://www.epa.gov/ttn/ 

atw/rrisk/rtrpg.html and also in the 

docket identified below. The public 

hearing will provide interested parties 

the opportunity to present oral 

comments regarding the EPA’s proposed 

standards, including data, views or 

arguments concerning the proposal. The 

EPA may ask clarifying questions during 

the oral presentations, but will not 

respond to the presentations at that 

time. Written statements and supporting 

information submitted during the 

comment period will be considered 

with the same weight as any oral 

comments and supporting information 

presented at the public hearing. 

Commenters should notify Ms. Garrett 

if they will need specific equipment or 

if there are other special needs related 

to providing comments at the public 

hearing. The EPA will provide 

equipment for commenters to make 

computerized slide presentations if we 

receive special requests in advance. Oral 

testimony will be limited to 5 minutes 

for each commenter. The EPA 

encourages commenters to bring a copy 

of their oral testimony along with any 

other information supporting their 

statements in electronic (via email or 

CD) or in hard copy form. A recorder 

will be present during the public 

hearing to record oral statements. All 

information submitted to the EPA 

during the public hearing and a 

transcribed copy of the oral statements 

will be entered into the docket. 

The public hearing schedule, 

including lists of speakers, will be 

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

www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/rrisk/rtrpg.html. 

Verbatim transcripts of the hearing and 

written statements will be included in 

the docket for the rulemaking. The EPA 

will make every effort to follow the 

schedule as closely as possible on the 

day of the hearing; however, please plan 

for the hearing to run either ahead of 

schedule or behind schedule. 

How can I get copies of this document 

and other related information? 

The EPA has established a docket for 

the proposed rule, ‘‘National Emission 

Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: 

Wool Fiberglass Manufacturing Risk and 

Technology Review,’’ under No. EPA– 

HQ–OAR–2010–1042, available at 

www.regulations.gov. 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 63 

Environmental protection, 

Administrative practice and procedure, 

Air pollution control, Hazardous 

substances, Intergovernmental relations, 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements. 

Dated: December 15, 2011. 

Mary E. Henigin, 

Acting Director, Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards. 

[FR Doc. 2011–32630 Filed 12–19–11; 8:45 a.m.] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 81 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2008–0476; FRL– 9608–6] 

EPA Responses to State and Tribal 

2008 Ozone Designation 

Recommendations: Notice of 

Availability and Public Comment 

Period 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability and public 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the EPA has posted its responses to state 

and tribal designation recommendations 

for the 2008 Ozone National Ambient 

Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) on the 

Agency’s Internet Web site. The EPA 

invites public comments on its 

responses during the comment period 


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specified in the DATES section. The EPA 

sent responses directly to the states and 

tribes on or about December 9, 2011, 

and intends to make final designation 

determinations for the 2008 Ozone 

NAAQS in spring 2012. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before January 19, 2012. Please refer 

to SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for 

additional information on the comment 

period. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–OAR– 

HQ–2008–0476, by one of the following 

methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov. Follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: a-and-r-docket@epa.gov. 

Attention Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR– 

2008–0476. 

• Fax: (202) 566–9744. Attention 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2008– 

0476. 

• Mail: Air Docket, Attention Docket 

ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2008–0476, 

Environmental Protection Agency, Mail 

Code: 6102T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 

NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

• Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center, 

1301 Constitution Avenue NW., Room 

3334, Washington, DC. 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–HQ–OAR–2008– 

0476. The 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 or other information whose 

disclosure is restricted by statute. Do 

not submit information that you 

consider to be confidential business 

information or otherwise protected 

through www.regulations.gov or email. 

The www.regulations.gov web site is an 

‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means the 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 the 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, the 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 the EPA is unable to read 

your comment and cannot contact you 

for clarification due to technical 

difficulties, the 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. For 

additional information about the EPA’s 

public docket, visit the EPA Docket 

Center homepage at http:// 

www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

For additional instructions on 

submitting comments, go to Section II of 

the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

of this document. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the www.regulations.gov 

index. Although listed in the index, 

some information is not publicly 

available, i.e., 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 in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the EPA Docket Center, EPA West, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue 

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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

general questions concerning this 

action, please contact Carla Oldham, 

U.S. EPA, Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards, Air Quality Planning 

Division, C539–04, Research Triangle 

Park, NC 27711, telephone (919) 541– 

3347, email at oldham.carla@epa.gov. 

For questions about areas in the EPA 

Region 1, please contact Richard 

Burkhart, U.S. EPA, telephone (617) 

918–1664, email at 

burkhart.richard@epa.gov. For 

questions about areas in the EPA Region 

2, please contact Bob Kelly, U.S. EPA, 

telephone (212) 637–3709, email at 

kelly.bob@email.gov. For questions 

about areas in the EPA Region 3, please 

contact Maria Pino, U.S. EPA, telephone 

(215) 814–2181, email at 

pino.maria@epa.gov. For questions 

about areas in the EPA Region 4, please 

contact Jane Spann, U.S. EPA, telephone 

(404) 562–9029, email at 

spann.jane@epa.gov. For questions 

about areas in the EPA Region 5, please 

contact Edward Doty, U.S. EPA, 

telephone (312) 886–6057, email at 

doty.edward@epa.gov. For questions 

about areas in the EPA Region 6, please 

contact Guy Donaldson, U.S. EPA, 

telephone (214) 665–7242, email at 

donaldson.guy@epa.gov. For questions 

about areas in the EPA Region 7, please 

contact Lachala Kemp, U.S. EPA, 

telephone (913) 551–7214, email at 

kemp.lachala@epa.gov. For questions 

about areas in the EPA Region 8, please 

contact Scott Jackson, U.S. EPA, 

telephone (303) 312–6107, email at 

jackson.scott@epa.gov. For questions 

about areas in the EPA Region 9, please 

contact John J. Kelly, U.S. EPA, 

telephone (415) 947–4151, email at 

kelly.johnj@epa.gov. For questions 

about areas in EPA Region 10, please 

contact Claudia Vaupel, U.S. EPA, 

telephone (206) 553–6121, email at 

vaupel.claudia@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background and Purpose 

On March 12, 2008, the EPA revised 

the NAAQS for ozone to provide 

increased protection of public health 

and welfare from ozone pollution (73 FR 

16436; March 27, 2008). The process for 

designating areas following 

promulgation of a new or revised 

NAAQS is contained in Clean Air Act 

(CAA) section 107(d) (42 U.S.C. 7407). 

Following the promulgation of a new or 

revised standard, each governor or tribal 

leader has an opportunity to 

recommend air quality designations, 

including the appropriate boundaries 

for nonattainment areas, to the EPA. The 

EPA considers these recommendations 

as part of its duty to promulgate the 

formal area designations and boundaries 

for the new or revised standards. By no 

later than 120 days prior to 

promulgating designations, the EPA is 

required to notify states and tribes of 

any intended modification to an area 

designation or boundary 

recommendation that the EPA deems 

necessary. On or around December 9, 

2011, the EPA notified states and tribes 

of its intended area designations for the 

2008 Ozone NAAQS. States and tribes 

now have an opportunity to 

demonstrate why they believe an 

intended modification by the EPA may 

be inappropriate. The EPA encouraged 

states and tribes to provide comments 

and additional information for 

consideration by the EPA in finalizing 

designations. The EPA plans to make 

final designation decisions for the 2008 

Ozone NAAQS in spring 2012. 

The purpose of this notice is to solicit 

public comments from interested parties 

other than states and tribes on the EPA’s 

recent responses to the state and tribal 


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designation recommendations for the 

2008 Ozone NAAQS. These responses 

can be found on the EPA’s Internet Web 

site at http://www.epa.gov/ 

ozonedesignations and also in the 

public docket for ozone designations at 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2008– 

0476. The CAA section 107(d) provides 

a process for designations that involves 

recommendations by states and tribes to 

the EPA and responses from the EPA to 

those parties, prior to the EPA 

promulgating final designations and 

boundaries. The EPA is not required 

under the CAA section 107(d) to seek 

public comment during the designation 

process, but is electing to do so for the 

2008 Ozone NAAQS in order to gather 

additional information for the EPA to 

consider before making final 

designations. The EPA invites public 

comment on its responses to states and 

tribes during the 30-day comment 

period provided by this notice. Due to 

the statutory timeframe for 

promulgating designations set out in the 

CAA section 107(d), the EPA will not be 

able to consider any public comments 

submitted after January 19, 2012. This 

notice and opportunity for public 

comment does not affect any rights or 

obligations of any state, tribe or the EPA 

which might otherwise exist pursuant to 

the CAA section 107(d). 

Please refer to the ADDRESSES section 

above in this document for specific 

instructions on submitting comments 

and locating relevant public documents. 

In establishing nonattainment area 

boundaries, the EPA is required to 

identify the area that does not meet the 

2008 Ozone NAAQS and any nearby 

area that is contributing to the area that 

does not meet that standard. We are 

particularly interested in receiving 

comments, supported by relevant 

information, if you believe that a 

specific geographic area that the EPA is 

proposing to identify as a nonattainment 

area should not be categorized by the 

CAA section 107(d) criteria as 

nonattainment, or if you believe that a 

specific area not proposed by the EPA 

to be identified as a nonattainment area 

should in fact be categorized as 

nonattainment using the CAA section 

107(d) criteria. Please be as specific as 

possible in supporting your views. 

• Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

• Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns, and suggest 

alternatives. 

• Explain your views as clearly as 

possible. 

• Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified in the DATES section 

above. 

II. Instructions for Submitting Public 

Comments 

What should I consider as I prepare my 

comments for the EPA? 

1. Submitting Confidential Business 

Information. Do not submit this 

information to the EPA through 

www.regulations.gov or email. Clearly 

mark the part or all of the information 

that you claim to be confidential 

business information. For confidential 

business information in a disk or CD– 

ROM that you mail to the EPA, mark the 

outside of the disk or CD–ROM as 

confidential business information and 

then identify electronically within the 

disk or CD–ROM the specific 

information that is claimed as 

confidential business information. In 

addition to one complete version of the 

comment that includes information 

claimed as confidential business 

information, a copy of the comment that 

does not contain the information 

claimed as confidential business 

information must be submitted for 

inclusion in the public docket. 

Information so marked will not be 

disclosed except in accordance with 

procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2. 

Send or deliver information identified 

as confidential business information 

only to the following address: Roberto 

Morales, U.S. EPA, Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards, Mail Code 

C404–02, Research Triangle Park, NC 

27711, telephone (919) 541–0880, email 

at morales.roberto@epa.gov, Attention 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2008– 

0476. 

2. Tips for Preparing Your Comments. 

When submitting comments, remember 

to: 

• Identify the rulemaking by docket 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

• Follow directions—The agency may 

ask you to respond to specific questions 

or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

• Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

• Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

• If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

• Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns, and suggest 

alternatives. 

• Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

• Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

III. Internet Web Site for Rulemaking 

Information 

The EPA has also established a Web 

site for this rulemaking at www.epa.gov/ 

ozonedesignations. The Web site 

includes the state and tribal designation 

recommendations, information 

supporting the EPA’s preliminary 

designation decisions, as well as the 

rulemaking actions and other related 

information that the public may find 

useful. 

Dated: December 13, 2011. 

Jennifer Noonan Edmonds, 

Acting Director, Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards. 

[FR Doc. 2011–32557 Filed 12–19–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Defense Acquisition Regulations 

System 

48 CFR Parts 201, 203, 204, 212, 213, 

217, 219, 222, 225, 233, 243, 252, 

Appendix I to Chapter 2 

RIN 0750–AH55 

Defense Federal Acquisition 

Regulation Supplement: Title 41 

Positive Law Codification—Further 

Implementation (DFARS Case 2012– 

D003) 

AGENCIES: Defense Acquisition 

Regulations System, Department of 

Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: DoD is proposing to amend 

the Defense Federal Acquisition 

Regulation Supplement to conform 

statutory titles to the new Positive Law 

Codification of Title 41, United States 

Code, ‘‘Public Contracts.’’ 

DATES: Comment Date: Comments on 

the proposed rule should be submitted 

in writing to the address shown below 

on or before February 21, 2012, to be 

considered in the formation of a final 

rule. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

identified by DFARS Case 2012–D003, 

using any of the following methods: 

Æ Regulations.gov: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Submit comments 

via the Federal eRulemaking portal by 

entering ‘‘DFARS Case 2012–D003’’ 

under the heading ‘‘Enter keyword or 


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