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methods, under Executive Order 12898 

(59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994). 

In addition, this rule does not have 

tribal implications, as specified by 

Executive Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, 

November 9, 2000), because the 

proposed rule merely makes a required 

determination based on air quality data 

and would neither impose substantial 

direct compliance costs on tribal 

governments, nor preempt tribal law, 

the requirements of sections 5(b) and 

5(c) of the Executive Order do not apply 

to this rule. Consistent with EPA policy, 

EPA nonetheless provided a 

consultation opportunity to the 

Shoshone-Bannock Tribes in a letter to 

the Chairman of the Fort Hall Business 

Council, dated January 25, 2010, 

offering the Tribes the opportunity to 

consult on this determination and have 

meaningful and timely input into this 

proposed decision. In the spirit of 

Executive Order 13175, and consistent 

with EPA policy to promote 

communications between EPA and 

tribal governments, EPA specifically 

solicits additional comment on this 

proposed rule from tribal officials. 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 81 

Environmental protection, Air 

pollution control, Intergovernmental 

relations, Particulate matter, Reporting 

and recordkeeping requirements. 

Dated: May 3, 2010. 

Dennis J. McLerran, 

Regional Administrator, EPA Region 10. 

[FR Doc. 2010–11139 Filed 5–12–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 98 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2009–0927; FRL–9150–9] 

Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse 

Gases: Notice of Data Availability; 

Default Emission Factors for 

Semiconductor Manufacturing Refined 

Process Categories 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Data availability and request for 

comment. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is making available to the 

public draft default emission factors for 

semiconductor manufacturing refined 

process categories. On April 12, 2010 

EPA published a proposed rule, 

Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse 

Gases: Additional Sources of 

Fluorinated GHGs (75 FR 18652) which 

included proposed methods for 

monitoring and reporting greenhouse 

gases (GHGs) from electronics 

manufacturing. More specifically, as one 

option for monitoring and reporting, 

EPA proposed semiconductor 

manufacturers estimate emissions using 

default emission factors for nine distinct 

process categories. For each default 

emission factor, EPA proposed a range 

of values differentiated by production 

technology generation (i.e., wafer size). 

Based on additional information 

received since the publication of the 

proposed rule, EPA has developed draft 

emission factors for the proposed 

process categories. EPA is making those 

draft emission factors as well as the 

underlying data that was used to 

develop the draft emission factors 

available to the public for review and 

comment in the report, Draft Emission 

Factors for Refined Semiconductor 

Manufacturing Process Categories. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before June 14, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2009–0927 by one of the following 

methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: 

GHGReportingFGHG@epa.gov. 

• Fax: (202) 566–1741. 

• Mail: EPA Docket Center, Attention 

Docket OAR–2009–0927, Mail code 

2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

• Hand/Courier Delivery: EPA Docket 

Center, Public Reading Room, Room 

3334, EPA West Building, Attention 

Docket OAR–2009–0927, 1301 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20004. 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–2009– 

0927. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received 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 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 http:// 

www.regulations.gov. The http:// 

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 e-mail comment directly 

to EPA without going through http:// 

www.regulations.gov your e-mail 

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 docket 

are listed in the http:// 

www.regulations.gov index. Although 

listed in the index, some information is 

not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Certain other 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

will be publicly available only in hard 

copy. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either 

electronically in http:// 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

EPA’s Docket Center, Public Reading 

Room, EPA West Building, Room 3334, 

1301 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20004. This Docket 

Facility 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: 

Kirsten Cappel, Climate Change 

Division, Office of Atmospheric 

Programs (MC–6207J), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: (202) 343–9556; fax 

number: (202) 343–2202; e-mail address: 

cappel.kirsten@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Outline 

1. What is today’s action? 

2. What information is EPA making available 

for review and comment? 

3. How does this information relate to the 

proposed rule Mandatory Reporting of 

Greenhouse Gases: Additional Sources of 

Fluorinated GHGs? 

4. Where can I get the information? 

5. What is EPA taking comment on and what 

supporting documentation do I need to 

include in my comments? 


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1EPA initially proposed monitoring and reporting 

methods for electronics manufacturing in 

Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases (74 FR 

16448). 

6. What should I consider as I prepare my 

comments for EPA? 

7. Submitting Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) 

1. What is today’s action? 

This notice of data availability 

(NODA) provides for public review and 

comment draft emission factors for the 

nine proposed refined semiconductor 

process categories differentiated by 

production technology generation (i.e., 

wafer size). The draft emission factors 

are being made available in Draft 

Emission Factors for Refined 

Semiconductor Manufacturing Process 

Categories. In Draft Emission Factors for 

Refined Semiconductor Manufacturing 

Process Categories EPA also presents 

detailed information on how the draft 

emission factors were developed and 

the underlying data used to develop the 

draft emission factors. 

2. What information is EPA making 

available for review and comment? 

EPA is making available for review 

and comment draft default emission 

factors for semiconductor 

manufacturing refined process 

categories in Draft Emission Factors for 

Refined Semiconductor Manufacturing 

Process Categories. EPA is also making 

available to the public the underlying 

emissions measurement data that were 

used to develop the draft emission 

factors. 

3. How does this information relate to 

the proposed rule Mandatory Reporting 

of Greenhouse Gases: Additional 

Sources of Fluorinated GHGs? 

On April 12, 2010 EPA published a 

proposed rule (Mandatory Reporting of 

Greenhouse Gases: Additional Sources 

of Fluorinated GHGs (75 FR 18652)) 

revising and supplementing its initial 

proposed actions to require reporting of 

fluorinated greenhouse gas (fluorinated 

GHG) emissions from certain source 

categories.1 In that rule EPA proposed 

requirements for monitoring and 

reporting GHG emissions from 

electronics manufacturing, which 

includes facilities that manufacture 

semiconductors, photovoltaic cells (PV), 

micro-electro-mechanical systems 

(MEMS), and liquid crystal displays 

(LCDs). For semiconductor 

manufacturing, as one option, EPA 

proposed a method based on a refined 

set of process categories. More 

specifically, EPA proposed nine process 

categories differentiated by wafer 

diameter sizes of 150 mm, 200 mm and 

300 mm. For each of the nine proposed 

process categories, EPA proposed to 

establish default emission factors within 

a range of values. EPA used the term 

‘‘NA’’ where currently available 

information did not exist to support a 

range. Within each process category, the 

emission factor ranges accounted for (1) 

the mass fraction of the input gas that 

is utilized during (i.e., not emitted from) 

the process and (2) the mass of each 

fluorinated GHG by-product formed as a 

fraction of the mass of the dominant 

fluorinated GHG input used. EPA 

proposed ranges because it had not yet 

received sufficient data to select a 

specific value within each range. 

In its proposal, EPA requested 

comment on the nine process categories 

that were proposed. In particular, EPA 

requested comment on whether the 

categories should be further refined to 

better capture the variability in emission 

rates among fluorinated GHG using 

manufacturing activities (e.g., whether 

any additional categories should be 

added or whether the proposed 

categories should be combined, and the 

definition of those categories). 

EPA also stated that if additional data 

were received in a timely fashion, EPA 

might develop draft emission factors for 

each category prior to the issuance of a 

final rule, differentiating among wafer 

sizes to the extent feasible. EPA noted 

that it would use a method of 

aggregation similar to the 2006 IPCC 

factor development methodology. EPA 

is making available, for public review 

and comment, draft emission factors for 

each of the nine proposed refined 

process categories in Draft Emission 

Factors for Refined Semiconductor 

Manufacturing Process Categories. 

It is important to note that in addition 

to an approach where EPA would 

publish draft emission factors for the 

nine proposed process categories, in its 

proposal, EPA stated that it is 

considering other approaches for 

monitoring and reporting emissions 

from semiconductor manufacturing. 

Please refer to the Electronics 

Manufacturing section of the notice 

titled Mandatory Reporting of 

Greenhouse Gases: Additional Sources 

of Fluorinated GHGs (75 FR 18652) for 

a detailed discussion of the additional 

alternatives that EPA is considering for 

monitoring and reporting GHG 

emissions from semiconductor 

manufacturing. 

4. Where can I get the information? 

All of the information can be obtained 

through the Air Docket and at http:// 

www.regulations.gov (see ADDRESSES

section above for docket contact 

information). 

5. What is EPA taking comment on and 

what supporting documentation do I 

need to include in my comments? 

EPA requests comment on topics 

including, but not limited to the 

following: 

• The representativeness and 

reliability of the draft emission factors 

for each process category based on 

measurements conducted. Where 

commenters provide data (i.e., emission 

measurement results), EPA encourages 

the submission of supporting 

information such as details of the 

method used to characterize process 

equipment emissions. 

• The validity of applying 200 mm 

processing technology emission factors 

to 150 mm processing technology 

emission factors, and potential 

alternatives for drawing analogies for 

150 mm processing technology emission 

factors. Where commenters provide data 

(e.g., emission factors), EPA encourages 

the submission of supporting 

information such as details of the 

method used to characterize process 

equipment emissions. 

X Method used to form the draft 

emission factors, including EPA’s 

method for averaging the factors that 

account for gas utilization and byproduct formation for multi-gas 

chemistries. 

X The potential merits and 

disadvantages of consolidating emission 

factors by process category across all 

wafer technologies and how EPA could 

weight emission factors collected from 

various wafer technology equipment. 

X Number of significant figures to 

provide in emission factor tables for 

both gas utilization and by-product 

formation factors. 

X Alternatives to the analogies EPA 

used to assign gas utilization and byproduct formation factors when 

information for a gas or category is not 

currently available. 

X The merits and disadvantages of 

maintaining three wafer-technology 

categories compared to combining them 

into a single category. 

X The merits and disadvantages of 

reducing the number of etching 

categories from four to three (from 

oxide, nitride, silicon and metal etch to, 

for example, dielectric, silicon and 

metal etch categories), reducing the 

number of wafer cleaning categories 

from two to one, or reducing the number 

of categories for both etching and wafer 

cleaning. 

6. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for EPA? 

You may find the following 

suggestions helpful for preparing your 

comments: 


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1. Explain your views as clearly as 

possible. 

2. Describe any assumptions that you 

used. 

3. Provide any technical information 

or data you used that support your 

views. 

4. Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns. 

5. Offer alternatives. 

6. Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

7. To ensure proper receipt by EPA, 

identify the appropriate docket 

identification number in the subject line 

on the first page of your response. It 

would also be helpful if you provided 

the name, date, and Federal Register 

citation related to your comments. 

7. Submitting Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) 

Do not submit information you are 

claiming as CBI to EPA through http:// 

www.regulations.gov or e-mail. Clearly 

mark the part of the information that 

you claim to be CBI. Information so 

marked will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR part 2. For CBI information in 

a disk or CD ROM that you mail to EPA, 

mark the outside of the disk or CD ROM 

as CBI and then identify electronically 

within the disk or CD ROM the specific 

information that is claimed as CBI. In 

addition to one complete version of the 

comment that includes information 

claimed as CBI, a copy of the comment 

that does not contain the information 

claimed as CBI must be submitted for 

inclusion in the public docket. 

Dated: May 6, 2010. 

Brian J. McLean, 

Director, Office of Atmospheric Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2010–11430 Filed 5–12–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 

46 CFR Parts 520 and 532 

[Docket No. 10–03] 

NVOCC Negotiated Rate 

Arrangements; Notice of Public 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Federal Maritime Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Commission has 

determined to hold a public meeting on 

May 24, 2010 to receive oral comments 

concerning the Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking published May 7, 2010 (75 

FR 25150) regarding NVOCC Negotiated 

Rate Arrangements. 

DATES: Requests to participate in the 

Public Meeting are due by May 14, 

2010. 

ADDRESSES: Address all requests to 

appear to: Karen V. Gregory, Secretary, 

Federal Maritime Commission, 800 

North Capitol Street, NW., Room 1046, 

Washington, DC 20573–0001, (202) 523– 

5725, E-mail: secretary@fmc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Karen V. Gregory, Secretary, Federal 

Maritime Commission, 800 North 

Capitol Street, NW., Room 1046, 

Washington, DC 20573–0001, (202) 523– 

5725, E-mail: secretary@fmc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 

29, 2010, the Federal Maritime 

Commission issued a Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking (‘‘NPRM’’) 

proposing a new part 532, providing an 

exemption for non-vessel-operating 

common carriers (‘‘NVOCCs’’) agreeing 

to negotiated rate arrangements from 

certain provisions and requirements of 

the Shipping Act of 1984 and certain 

provisions and requirements of the 

Commission’s regulations. The NPRM 

also announced that the Commission 

would hold a public meeting if any 

member of the public made a request to 

make oral comments. Such a request has 

been received and the Commission has 

determined to convene this public 

meeting on May 24, 2010. The meeting 

will be held in the Commission’s Main 

Hearing Room, Room 100, 800 North 

Capitol Street, NW., Washington, DC. 

Requests to appear at the meeting 

must be filed with the Office of the 

Secretary no later than 5 p.m. on May 

14, 2010, and include the name, street 

address, e-mail address, telephone 

number, and the name of your company 

or employer, if any. Parties wishing to 

participate should also provide a brief 

statement describing the nature of their 

business, e.g., Federal government 

agencies, OTIs, associations, 

consultants, tariff publisher and vesseloperating common carriers. 

Requests to appear should be 

addressed to the Office of the Secretary 

and submitted: By e-mail as an 

attachment (Microsoft Word) sent to 

secretary@fmc.gov; by facsimile to 202– 

523–0014; or by U.S. mail or courier to 

Federal Maritime Commission, 800 

North Capitol Street, NW., Washington, 

DC 20573. Please note, to avoid delay, 

e-mail or facsimile submissions are 

encouraged. The Commission will 

announce the time of the meeting, the 

order of presentation, and time 

allotment prior to the May 24, 2010 

meeting. 

By the Commission. 

Karen V. Gregory, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–11425 Filed 5–12–10; 8:45 am] 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 54 

[WC Docket No. 10–90; GN Docket No. 09– 

51, WC Docket No. 05–337; FCC 10–58] 

Connect America Fund, A National 

Broadband Plan for Our Future, HighCost Universal Service Support 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications 

Commission (Commission) delivered to 

Congress a National Broadband Plan 

recommending that the Commission 

adopt cost-cutting measures for existing 

voice support and create a Connect 

America Fund, without increasing the 

overall size of the Fund, to support the 

provision of broadband communications 

in areas that would be unserved without 

such support or that depend on 

universal service support for the 

maintenance of existing broadband 

service. This document and the 

companion Notice of Inquiry is the first 

in a series of proceedings to implement 

that vision. This proceeding will 

develop the detailed analytic foundation 

necessary for the Commission to 

distribute funds in an efficient, targeted 

manner that avoids waste and 

minimizes burdens on American 

consumers. This document seeks 

comment on specific common-sense 

reforms to cap growth and cut 

inefficient funding in the legacy highcost support mechanisms and to shift 

the savings toward broadband 

communications. 

DATES: Comments on the proposed rules 

are due on or before July 12, 2010, and 

reply comments are due on or before 

August 11, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by WC Docket No. 10–90, GN 

Docket No. 09–51, WC Docket No. 05– 

337, by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Federal Communications 

Commission’s Web Site: http:// 

fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs2/. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• People with Disabilities: Contact the 

FCC to request reasonable 


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