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flexibility. This action has been 

designated as a ‘‘non-significant 

regulatory action’’ under § 3(f) of 

Executive Order 12866 and therefore 

has not been reviewed by the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). 

Executive Order 13175 

This action has been reviewed in 

accordance with the requirements of 

Executive Order 13175, Consultation 

and Coordination with Indian Tribal 

Governments. The review reveals that 

this regulation would not have 

substantial and direct effects on Tribal 

governments and would not have 

significant Tribal implications. 

Executive Order 12988 

This proposed rule has been reviewed 

under Executive Order 12988, Civil 

Justice Reform. It is not intended to 

have retroactive effect. There are no 

administrative procedures that must be 

exhausted prior to any judicial 

challenge to the provisions of this rule. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

Pursuant to requirements set forth in 

the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) (5 

U.S.C. 601–612), AMS has considered 

the economic impact of this action on 

small entities and has determined that 

its implementation will not have a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small businesses. 

The purpose of the RFA is to fit 

regulatory actions to the scale of 

businesses subject to such actions so 

that small businesses will not be 

disproportionately burdened. There are 

approximately sixty cotton merchant 

organizations of various sizes active in 

trading U.S. cotton. Many of these 

cotton merchants are small businesses 

under the criteria established by the 

Small Business Administration (13 CFR 

121.201). Small business entities that 

are merchants in the U.S. cotton 

industry are defined as having fewer 

than 100 employees. Amendments to 

the regulation concerning bona fide 

cotton spot market designations will not 

significantly affect small businesses as 

defined in the RFA because: 

(1) How spot prices are estimated are 

not expected to be impacted by this 

action; 

(2) Business practices of the U.S. 

cotton industry are not expected to 

change as a result of this action; 

(3) Costs associated with providing 

market news services will not be 

significantly changed by this action; 

(4) Market news services are paid for 

by appropriated funds, therefore users 

are not charged fees for the provision of 

the services. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

In compliance with OMB regulations 

(5 CFR part 1320), which implement the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 

U.S.C. 3501), the information collection 

requirements contained in the 

provisions to be amended by this 

proposed rule have been previously 

approved by OMB and were assigned 

OMB control number 0581–0009, Cotton 

Classification and Market News Service. 

Background 

The Secretary of Agriculture is 

authorized under the United States 

Cotton Futures Act (7 U.S.C. 15b) to 

designate at least five bona fide cotton 

spot markets from which cotton price 

information can be collected. A spot 

market—also called the ‘‘cash market’’ 

or ‘‘physical market’’—is a market 

where commodities are sold on the spot 

for cash at current market prices and 

delivered immediately. Designation of 

these bona fide cotton spot markets and 

the determination of which counties 

and states compose each of these spot 

markets was most recently published in 

the Federal Register on April 30, 2013 

(78 FR 25181). For each of these bona 

fide cotton spot markets, the Cotton and 

Tobacco Program of the Agricultural 

Marketing Service collects market price 

information under the United States 

Cotton Futures Act (7 U.S.C. 15b), the 

Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act (7 

U.S.C. 473b) and the Agricultural 

Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 

1622(g)). This price information is then 

used to calculate price differences for 

the settlement of cotton futures 

contracts. 

In order to better manage price risk in 

the global cotton market, the American 

Cotton Shippers Association (ACSA) 

and the International Cotton Association 

(ICA) requested that the Intercontinental 

Exchange (ICE) offer a World cotton 

futures contract. In response, ICE 

announced its intention to begin 

offering World cotton contracts 

beginning in the fourth quarter of 2015. 

To determine actual commercial 

differences in value for various grades 

above or below the basis grade in the 

settlement of this new World cotton 

futures contract, AMS has been asked by 

these same stakeholders to collect and 

publish cotton spot market price 

information relevant to the World cotton 

contract. Therefore, AMS proposes to 

amend § 27.94 to designate the same 

bona fide cotton spot markets for the 

World cotton futures contract as have 

been designated for the No. 2 cotton 

futures contract. 

List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 27 

Commodity futures, cotton. 

For the reasons set forth in the 

preamble, 7 CFR part 27 is proposed to 

be amended as follows: 

PART 27—[Amended] 

■ 1. The authority citation for 7 CFR 

part 27 continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 15b, 7 U.S.C. 473b, 7 

U.S.C. 1622(g). 

■ 2. In § 27.94, paragraph (a) is revised 

to read as follows: 

§ 27.94 Spot markets for contract 

settlement purposes. 

* * * * * 

(a) For cotton delivered in settlement 

of any Cotton No. 2 or World Cotton 

contract on the Intercontinental 

Exchange (ICE); the spot markets are 

Southeastern, North and South Delta, 

Eastern Texas and Oklahoma, West 

Texas, and Desert Southwest. 

* * * * * 

Dated: December 11, 2014. 

Rex A. Barnes, 

Associate Administrator, Agricultural 

Marketing Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–02–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2014–0703; FRL–9919–51– 

Region 9] 

Revisions to the California State 

Implementation Plan, Feather River Air 

Quality Management District 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve 

revisions to the Feather River Air 

Quality Management District 

(FRAQMD) portion of the California 

State Implementation Plan (SIP). These 

revisions concern emissions of 

particulate matter (PM), volatile organic 

compounds (VOCs) and oxides of 

nitrogen (NOX) from wood heating 

devices and open burning. We are 

proposing to approve local rules to 

regulate these emission sources under 

the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act). 

DATES: Any comments on this proposal 

must arrive by January 15, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, 

identified by docket number EPA–R09– 

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OAR–2014–0703, by one of the 

following methods: 

1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions. 

2. Email: steckel.andrew@epa.gov. 

3. Mail or deliver: Andrew Steckel 

(Air-4), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, 

San Francisco, CA 94105–3901. 

Instructions: All comments 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 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Information that 

you consider CBI or otherwise protected 

should be clearly identified as such and 

should not be submitted through 

www.regulations.gov or email. 

www.regulations.gov is an ‘‘anonymous 

access’’ system, and EPA will not know 

your identity or contact information 

unless you provide it in the body of 

your comment. If you send email 

directly to EPA, your email address will 

be automatically captured and included 

as part of the public comment. 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: Generally, documents in the 

docket for this action are available 

electronically at www.regulations.gov 

and in hard copy at EPA Region IX, 75 

Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, 

California 94105–3901. While all 

documents in the docket are listed at 

www.regulations.gov, some information 

may be publicly available only at the 

hard copy location (e.g., copyrighted 

material, large maps), and some may not 

be publicly available in either location 

(e.g., CBI). To inspect the hard copy 

materials, please schedule an 

appointment during normal business 

hours with the contact listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christine Vineyard, EPA Region IX, 

(415) 947–4125, vineyard.christine@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

proposal addresses the following local 

rules: (1) FRAQMD Rule 2.0, Open 

Burning and (2) FRAQMD Rule 3.17, 

Wood Heating Devices. In the Rules and 

Regulations section of this Federal 

Register, we are approving these local 

rules in a direct final action without 

prior proposal because we believe these 

SIP revisions are not controversial. If we 

receive adverse comments, however, we 

will publish a timely withdrawal of the 

direct final rule and address the 

comments in subsequent action based 

on this proposed rule. Please note that 

if we receive adverse comment on an 

amendment, paragraph, or section of 

this rule and if that provision may be 

severed from the remainder of the rule, 

we may adopt as final those provisions 

of the rule that are not the subject of an 

adverse comment. 

We do not plan to open a second 

comment period, so anyone interested 

in commenting should do so at this 

time. If we do not receive adverse 

comments, no further activity is 

planned. For further information, please 

see the direct final action. 

Dated: October 16, 2014. 

Jared Blumenfeld, 

Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Parts 60 and 63 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2004–0505; FRL–9920–49– 

OAR] 

RIN 2060–AS42 

Completion of Requirement To 

Promulgate Emissions Standards 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: In this action, the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

proposes that it has completed its 

statutory obligation of the Clean Air Act 

to promulgate emissions standards for 

source categories accounting for not less 

than ninety percent of the aggregated 

emissions of each of the seven 

hazardous air pollutants enumerated in 

section 112(c)(6). This document 

explains the basis for the agency’s 

conclusion that it completed this 

obligation in February of 2011, 

identifies the promulgated standards 

that collectively satisfy the obligation, 

and provides the public an opportunity 

to comment. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before February 17, 2015. 

Public Hearing. If anyone contacts the 

EPA requesting to speak at a public 

hearing by December 22, 2014, a public 

hearing will be held on December 31, 

2014 at the U.S. EPA building at 109 

T.W. Alexander Drive, Research 

Triangle Park, NC 27711. If you are 

interested in requesting a public hearing 

or attending the public hearing, contact 

Ms. Virginia Hunt at (919) 541–0832 or 

at hunt.virginia@epa.gov. If the EPA 

holds a public hearing, the EPA will 

keep the record of the hearing open for 

30 days after completion of the hearing 

to provide an opportunity for 

submission of rebuttal and 

supplementary information. Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, comments on 

the information collection provisions 

are best assured of having full effect if 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) receives a copy of your 

comments on or before January 15, 

2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–OAR–2004–0505, by one of the 

following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Agency Web site: http://www.epa.

gov/oar/docket.html. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments 

on the EPA Air and Radiation Docket 

Web site. 

• Email: a-and-r-docket@epa.gov. 

Include EPA–HQ–OAR–2004–0505 in 

the subject line of the message. 

• Fax: Fax your comments to: (202) 

566–9744, Attention Docket ID Number 

EPA–HQ–OAR–2004–0505. 

• Mail: Environmental Protection 

Agency, EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), 

Mail Code 28221T, Attention Docket ID 

No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2004–0505, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. Please mail a copy of your 

comments on the information collection 

provisions to the Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), Attn: 

Desk Officer for the EPA, 725 17th 

Street NW., Washington, DC 20503. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: EPA 

Docket Center, Room 3334, EPA WJC 

West Building, 1301 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20004, 

Attention Docket ID Number EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2004–0505. 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 Number EPA–HQ–OAR– 

2004–0505. The EPA 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 

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