Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 224 / Monday, November 21, 2016 / Notices 83235 

Issued in Washington, DC, on November 

15, 2016. 

Michael Berube, 

Director, Vehicle Technologies Office, Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2016–27939 Filed 11–18–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9955–42-Region 9] 

Section 9 Lease Site, Coconino 

County, AZ; Notice of Proposed 

CERCLA Settlement Agreement for 

Recovery of Past Response Costs 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 

122(i) of the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, Compensation 

and Liability Act of 1980, as amended 

(CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is 

hereby given of a proposed 

administrative settlement with two 

parties for recovery of response costs 

concerning the Section 9 Lease Site in 

Coconino County, Arizona. The 

settlement is entered into pursuant to 

Section 122(h)(1) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 

9622(h)(1), and it requires the settling 

parties to pay $230,000 to the United 

States Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA). The settlement includes a 

covenant not to sue the settling parties 

for certain costs pursuant to Sections 

106 or 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 

9606 or 9607(a). For thirty (30) days 

following the date of publication of this 

Notice in the Federal Register, the 

Agency will receive written comments 

relating to the settlement. The Agency 

will consider all comments received and 

may modify or withdraw its consent to 

the settlement if comments received 

disclose facts or considerations which 

indicate the proposed settlement is 

inappropriate, improper, or inadequate. 

The Agency’s response to any comments 

received will be available for public 

inspection at 75 Hawthorne Street, San 

Francisco, CA 94105. 

DATES: Pursuant to Section 122(i) of 

CERCLA, EPA will receive written 

comments relating to this proposed 

settlement for thirty (30) days following 

the date of publication of this Notice in 

the Federal Register. 

ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is 

available for public inspection at EPA 

Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San 

Francisco, California. A copy of the 

proposed settlement may be obtained 

from Joshua Wirtschafter, EPA Region 

IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, ORC–3, San 

Francisco, CA 94105, telephone number 

415–972–3912. Comments should 

reference the Section 9 Lease Site, 

Coconino County, Arizona, and should 

be addressed to Joshua Wirtschafter at 

the above address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joshua Wirtschafter, Assistant Regional 

Counsel (ORC–3), Office of Regional 

Counsel, U.S. EPA Region IX, 75 

Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 

94105; phone: (415) 972–3912; fax: (417) 

947–3570; email: wirtschafter.joshua@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Parties to the Proposed Settlement: 

Babbitt Ranches, LLC and C.O. Bar, Inc. 

Dated: November 4, 2016. 

Enrique Manzanilla, 

Director, Superfund Division, U.S. EPA, 

Region IX. 

[FR Doc. 2016–27978 Filed 11–18–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OGC–2016–0643; FRL 9955–41– 

OGC] 

Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air 

Act Citizen Suit 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed consent 

decree; request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended 

(‘‘CAA’’ or the ‘‘Act’’), notice is hereby 

given of a proposed consent decree to 

address a lawsuit filed by Donald van 

der Vaart, in his official capacity as 

Secretary of North Carolina Department 

of Environmental Quality (‘‘NCDEQ’’), 

and by NCDEQ (collectively 

‘‘Plaintiffs’’) in the United States District 

Court for the Eastern District of North 

Carolina: Donald van der Vaart, et al. v. 

McCarthy, et al., No. 4:16–cv–01946– 

SBA (E.D. N.C.). On June 24, 2016, 

Plaintiffs filed an amended complaint 

alleging that Gina McCarthy, in her 

official capacity as Administrator of the 

United States Environmental Protection 

Agency (‘‘EPA’’) failed to perform duties 

mandated by CAA to take final action to 

approve or disapprove the December 9, 

2013 Petition submitted by several 

states within the Ozone Transport 

Region (‘‘OTR’’) requesting EPA to 

expand the OTR to include North 

Carolina, among other states. The 

proposed consent decree would 

establish deadlines for EPA to take 

certain specified actions with respect to 

the December 9, 2013 Petition related to 

North Carolina. 

DATES: Written comments on the 

proposed consent decree must be 

received by December 21, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID number EPA– 

HQ–OGC–2016–0643, online at 

www.regulations.gov. For comments 

submitted at www.regulations.gov, 

follow the online instructions for 

submitting comments. Once submitted, 

comments cannot be edited or removed 

from www.regulations.gov. 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 generally 

will 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: 

Alexander Bond, Air and Radiation Law 

Office (2344A), Office of General 

Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone: (202) 

564–3822; fax number: (202) 564–5603; 

email address: Bond.Alexander@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Additional Information About the 

Proposed Consent Decree 

On June 24, 2016, Plaintiffs filed an 

amended complaint alleging that EPA 

failed to perform duties mandated by 

CAA to take final action to approve or 

disapprove the December 9, 2013 

Petition submitted by several states 

within the OTR requesting EPA to 

expand the OTR pursuant to 42 U.S.C 

7506a(a) to include North Carolina and 

several other states. Under the terms of 

the proposed consent decree, EPA must 

sign a notice for public comment that 

proposes certain actions regarding the 

December 9, 2013 Petition as to the 

State of North Carolina, no later than 

January 18, 2017, and must sign a final 


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