54532 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 158 / Tuesday, August 16, 2016 / Proposed Rules 

Agenda of Public Meeting 

The agenda includes the following: 

(1) Introduction of speakers. 

(2) Overview of meeting format. 

(3) Background on proposed 

commercial anchorage. 

(4) Comments from interested 

persons. 

Comments may be delivered in written 

form at the public meeting and made 

part of the docket or delivered in oral 

presentations not to exceed 10 minutes. 

Information on Service for Individuals 

With Disabilities 

For information on facilities or 

services for individuals with disabilities 

or to request special assistance at the 

public meeting, contact LCDR Barbara 

Wilk at the telephone number or email 

address indicated under the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 

this notice. 

Public Meeting 

The Coast Guard will hold a public 

meeting regarding its ‘‘Anchorage 

Grounds; Lower Chesapeake Bay, Cape 

Charles, VA’’ advance notice of 

proposed rulemaking on Wednesday, 

August 17, 2016, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 

p.m., at Cape Charles Civic Center, 500 

Tazewell Avenue, Cape Charles, VA 

23310. A written summary of the 

meeting and comments will be placed in 

the docket. 

Dated: August 3, 2016. 

R.J. Wester, 

Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the 

Port Hampton Roads. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R03–OAR–2016–0350; FRL–9950–72– 

Region 3] 

Air Plan Approval; DC; Infrastructure 

Requirements for the 2012 PM2.5

NAAQS 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) proposes to approve the 

state implementation plan (SIP) revision 

submitted by the District of Columbia 

(the District) pursuant to the Clean Air 

Act (CAA). Whenever new or revised 

national ambient air quality standards 

(NAAQS) are promulgated, the CAA 

requires states to submit a plan for the 

implementation, maintenance, and 

enforcement of such NAAQS. The plan 

is required to address basic program 

elements including, but not limited to, 

regulatory structure, monitoring, 

modeling, legal authority, and adequate 

resources necessary to assure attainment 

and maintenance of the standards. 

These elements are referred to as 

infrastructure requirements. The District 

has made a submittal addressing the 

infrastructure requirements for the 2012 

annual fine particulate matter (PM2.5) 

NAAQS. This action is being taken 

under the CAA. In the Final Rules 

section of this Federal Register, EPA is 

approving the District’s SIP submittal as 

a direct final rule without prior proposal 

because the Agency views this as a 

noncontroversial submittal and 

anticipates no adverse comments. A 

more detailed description of the state 

submittal and EPA’s evaluation is 

included in a technical support 

document (TSD) prepared in support of 

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 September 15, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R03– 

OAR–2016–0350 at http://

www.regulations.gov, or via email to 

fernandez.cristina@epa.gov. For 

comments submitted at Regulations.gov, 

follow the online instructions for 

submitting comments. Once submitted, 

comments cannot be edited or removed 

from Regulations.gov. For either manner 

of submission, the EPA may publish any 

comment received to its public docket. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

confidential business information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. The EPA will generally not 

consider comments or comment 

contents located outside of the primary 

submission (i.e. on the web, cloud, or 

other file sharing system). For 

additional submission methods, please 

contact the person identified in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

For the full EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit 

http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/

commenting-epa-dockets. A copy of the 

TSD is available, upon request, from the 

EPA Regional Office listed in this 

document or is also available 

electronically within the Docket for this 

rulemaking action. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ruth Knapp, (215) 814–2191, or by 

email at knapp.ruth@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: August 4, 2016. 

Shawn M. Garvin, 

Regional Administrator, Region III. 

[FR Doc. 2016–19389 Filed 8–15–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R03–OAR–2016–0210; FRL–9950–70– 

Region 3] 

Approval and Promulgation of Air 

Quality Implementation Plans; Virginia; 

Case by Case Reasonably Available 

Control Technology for the 2008 

8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard (NAAQS) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) proposes to approve the 

state implementation plan (SIP) revision 

submitted by the Commonwealth of 

Virginia for inclusion of revised Virginia 

regulations in the Virginia SIP which 

incorporate EPA’s compliance date for 

implementation of case-by-case 

reasonably available control technology 

(RACT) determinations 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 Commonwealth’s SIP 


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submittal 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. 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 September 15, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R03– 

OAR–2016–0210 at http://

www.regulations.gov, or via email to 

fernandez.cristina@epa.gov. For 

comments submitted at Regulations.gov, 

follow the online instructions for 

submitting comments. Once submitted, 

comments cannot be edited or removed 

from Regulations.gov. For either manner 

of submission, the EPA may publish any 

comment received to its public docket. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

confidential business information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. The EPA will generally not 

consider comments or comment 

contents located outside of the primary 

submission (i.e. on the web, cloud, or 

other file sharing system). For 

additional submission methods, please 

contact the person identified in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

For the full EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit 

http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/

commenting-epa-dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Leslie Jones Doherty, (215) 814–3409 or 

by email at jones.leslie@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: August 2, 2016. 

Shawn M. Garvin, 

Regional Administrator, Region III. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 648 

[Docket No. 160126052–6052–01] 

RIN 0648–BF72 

Fisheries of the Northeastern United 

States; Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery; 

Amendment 19 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: NMFS proposes to approve 

and implement through regulations 

measures included in Amendment 19 to 

the Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery 

Management Plan, which the New 

England Fishery Management Council 

adopted and submitted to NMFS for 

approval. Amendment 19 would 

establish a specifications process 

outside of the current framework 

adjustment process to implement 

management measures that are typically 

adjusted on an annual or biennial basis 

and change the start of the scallop 

fishing year from March 1 to April 1. 

This amendment is intended to 

streamline the development and 

implementation of annual specifications 

and reduce the administrative burden. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

September 15, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: The Council developed an 

environmental assessment (EA) for this 

action that describes the proposed 

measures and other considered 

alternatives and provides a thorough 

analysis of the impacts of the proposed 

measures and alternatives. Copies of the 

Amendment, the EA, and the Regulatory 

Impact Review (RIR) are available upon 

request from Thomas A. Nies, Executive 

Director, New England Fishery 

Management Council, 50 Water Street, 

Newburyport, MA 01950. 

You may submit comments on this 

document, identified by NOAA–NMFS– 

2016–0028, by either of the following 

methods: 

• Electronic Submission: Submit all 

electronic public comments via the 

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. Go to 

www.regulations.gov/

#!docketDetail;D=NOAA-NMFS-2016- 

0028, click the ‘‘Comment Now!’’ icon, 

complete the required fields, and enter 

or attach your comments. 

• Mail: John K. Bullard, Regional 

Administrator, NMFS, Greater Atlantic 

Regional Fisheries Office, 55 Great 

Republic Drive, Gloucester, MA 01930. 

Mark the outside of the envelope, 

‘‘Comments on Scallop Amendment 19 

Proposed Rule.’’ 

Instructions: Comments sent by any 

other method, to any other address or 

individual, or received after the end of 

the comment period, may not be 

considered by NMFS. All comments 

received are a part of the public record 

and will generally be posted for public 

viewing on www.regulations.gov 

without change. All personal identifying 

information (e.g., name, address, etc.), 

confidential business information, or 

otherwise sensitive information 

submitted voluntarily by the sender will 

be publicly accessible. NMFS will 

accept anonymous comments (enter 

‘‘N/A’’ in the required fields if you wish 

to remain anonymous). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Travis Ford, Fishery Policy Analyst, 

978–281–9233. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The scallop fishery’s management 

unit ranges from the shorelines of Maine 

through North Carolina to the outer 

boundary of the Exclusive Economic 

Zone. The Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery 

Management Plan (FMP), established in 

1982, includes a number of amendments 

and framework adjustments that have 

revised and refined the fishery’s 

management. The Council has had to 

rely on the framework adjustment 

process to set scallop fishery measures, 

often referred to as specifications, that 

occur annually or biennially. Typically, 

these specifications include annual 

catch limits, days-at-sea (DAS), 

rotational area management, possession 

limits, access area trip allocations, 

individual fishing quota (IFQ) 

allocations, and allocations for vessels 

with Northern Gulf of Maine permits. 

These framework adjustments often 

include other management measures to 

the FMP and are often implemented 2 

to 3 months after the March 1 start of 

the scallop fishing year (March 1 

through February 28/29). 

Amendment 4 to the Scallop FMP (59 

FR 2757, January 19, 1994), was a major 


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