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automatic deletion of all such evidence, 

information, and documents. 

§ 44.303 Determination. 

(a) Within 120 days of the receipt of 

a charge, the Special Counsel shall 

undertake an investigation of the charge 

and determine whether to file a 

complaint with respect to the charge. 

(b) If the Special Counsel determines 

not to file a complaint with respect to 

such charge by the end of the 120-day 

period, or decides to continue the 

investigation of the charge beyond the 

120-day period, the Special Counsel 

shall, by the end of the 120-day period, 

issue letters to the charging party and 

respondent by certified mail notifying 

both parties of the Special Counsel’s 

determination. 

(c) When a charging party receives a 

letter of determination issued pursuant 

to paragraph (b) of this section, the 

charging party, other than an officer of 

the Department of Homeland Security, 

may file a complaint directly before an 

administrative law judge in the Office of 

the Chief Administrative Hearing 

Officer (OCAHO) within 90 days after 

his or her receipt of the Special 

Counsel’s letter of determination. The 

charging party’s complaint must be filed 

with OCAHO as provided in 28 CFR 

part 68. 

(d) The Special Counsel’s failure to 

file a complaint with respect to such 

charge with OCAHO within the 120-day 

period shall not affect the right of the 

Special Counsel to continue to 

investigate the charge or later to bring a 

complaint before OCAHO. 

(e) The Special Counsel may seek to 

intervene at any time in any proceeding 

brought by a charging party before 

OCAHO. 

§ 44.304 Special Counsel acting on own 

initiative. 

(a) The Special Counsel may, on the 

Special Counsel’s own initiative, 

conduct investigations respecting unfair 

immigration-related employment 

practices when there is reason to believe 

that a person or other entity has engaged 

or is engaging in such practices, and 

shall notify a respondent by certified 

mail of the commencement of the 

investigation. 

(b) The Special Counsel may file a 

complaint with OCAHO when there is 

reasonable cause to believe that an 

unfair immigration-related employment 

practice has occurred no more than 180 

days prior to the date on which the 

Special Counsel opened an investigation 

of that practice. 

§ 44.305 Regional offices. 

The Special Counsel, in accordance 

with regulations of the Attorney 

General, shall establish such regional 

offices as may be necessary to carry out 

the Special Counsel’s duties. 

Dated: August 4, 2016. 

Loretta E. Lynch, 

Attorney General. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R01–OAR–2012–0865; A–1–FRL– 

9950–59–Region 1] 

Air Plan Approval; NH; Control of 

Volatile Organic Compound Emissions 

From Minor Core Activities 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a 

State Implementation Plan (SIP) 

revision submitted by the State of New 

Hampshire on October 4, 2012. The 

revision clarifies Reasonably Available 

Control Technology (RACT) 

requirements as they apply to minor 

core activities of volatile organic 

compound (VOC) sources. The intended 

effect of this action is to propose 

approval of these requirements into the 

New Hampshire SIP. This action is 

being taken in accordance with the 

Clean Air Act. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before September 14, 

2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R01– 

OAR–2012–0865 at http://

www.regulations.gov, or via email to 

Mackintosh.David@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: 

David L. Mackintosh, Air Quality 

Planning Unit, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, EPA New England 

Regional Office, 5 Post Office Square— 

Suite 100, (Mail code OEP05–2), Boston, 

MA 02109–3912, tel. 617–918–1584, fax 

617–918–0668, email 

Mackintosh.David@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the 

Final Rules Section of this Federal 

Register, EPA is approving the State’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 detailed rationale for the 

approval is set forth in the direct final 

rule. If no adverse comments are 

received in response to this action rule, 

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. 

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. 

For additional information, see the 

direct final rule which is located in the 

Rules Section of this Federal Register. 

Dated: August 1, 2016. 

H. Curtis Spalding, 

Regional Administrator, EPA New England. 

[FR Doc. 2016–19125 Filed 8–12–16; 8:45 am] 

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