Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 159 / Friday, August 16, 2013 / Proposed Rules 49993 

Dated: July 26, 2013. 

Jared Blumenfeld, 

Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

[FR Doc. 2013–19874 Filed 8–15–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 300 

[EPA–HQ–SFUND–1986–0005; FRL–9846–3] 

National Oil and Hazardous 

Substances Pollution Contingency 

Plan; National Priorities List: Partial 

Deletion of the Torch Lake Superfund 

Site 

AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency Region 5 is issuing a 

Notice of Intent to Delete the Quincy 

Smelter and Calumet Lake parcels of 

OU3 of the Torch Lake Superfund Site 

(Site), located in Houghton County, 

Michigan, from the National Priorities 

List (NPL) and requests public 

comments on this proposed action. The 

NPL, promulgated pursuant to Section 

105 of the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, 

Compensation, and Liability Act 

(CERCLA) of 1980, as amended, is an 

appendix of the National Oil and 

Hazardous Substances Pollution 

Contingency Plan (NCP). EPA with the 

concurrence of the State of Michigan, 

through the Michigan Department of 

Environmental Quality (MDEQ), has 

determined that all appropriate 

response actions under CERCLA, other 

than operation, maintenance, and five 

year reviews, at these identified parcels 

have been completed. However, this 

deletion does not preclude future 

actions under Superfund. 

This partial deletion pertains to the 

surface tailings and slag deposits of the 

Quincy Smelter and Calumet Lake 

parcels of OU3. The following parcels or 

areas will remain on the NPL and are 

not being considered for deletion as part 

of this action: Dollar Bay, Point Mills, 

Boston Pond, and North Entry. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

September 16, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID no. EPA–HQ– 

SFUND–1986–0005, by one of the 

following methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: Nefertiti DiCosmo, Remedial 

Project Manager, at 

mailto:dicosmo.nefertiti@epa.gov or 

Dave Novak, Community Involvement 

Coordinator, at novak.dave@epa.gov. 

• Fax: Gladys Beard at (312) 697– 

2077. 

• Mail: Nefertiti DiCosmo, Remedial 

Project Manager, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (SR–6J), 77 West 

Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60604, 

(312) 886–6148 or Dave Novak, 

Community Involvement Coordinator, 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

(SI–7J), 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 

Chicago, IL 60604, (312) 886–7478 or 

toll free at 1 (800) 621–8431. 

• Hand delivery: Dave Novak, 

Community Involvement Coordinator, 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

(SI–7J), 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 

Chicago, IL 60604. Such deliveries are 

only accepted during the docket’s 

normal hours of operation, and special 

arrangements should be made for 

deliveries of boxed information. The 

normal business hours are Monday 

through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

CST, excluding federal holidays. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID no. EPA–HQ–SFUND–1986– 

0005. 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 or email. 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 email comment directly 

to EPA without going through http://

www.regulations.gov, your email 

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 the 

hard copy. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either 

electronically at http://

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at: 

• U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency Region 5, 77 West Jackson 

Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60604, Phone: 

(312) 353–1063, Hours: Monday 

through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

CST, excluding federal holidays. 

• Lake Linden/Hubbell Public Library, 

601 Calumet Street, Lake Linden, MI 

49945, Phone: (906) 296–6211, 

Summer Hours: Tuesday and 

Thursday, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. EST; 

Wednesday, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. 

EST, Winter Hours: Monday through 

Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST 

(when school is in session); Tuesday 

and Thursday, 3:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. 

EST 

• Portage Lake District Library, 58 

Huron Street, Houghton, MI 49931, 

Phone: (906) 482–4570, Hours: 

Monday through Thursday, 10:00 a.m. 

to 8:00 p.m. EST; Friday, 10:00 a.m. 

to 5:00 p.m. EST; and Saturday, 10:00 

a.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nefertiti DiCosmo, Remedial Project 

Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency (SR–6J), 77 West Jackson 

Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60604, (312) 

886–6148, dicosmo.nefertiti@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the 

‘‘Rules and Regulations’’ section of 

today’s Federal Register, we are 

publishing a direct final Notice of 

Partial Deletion for the Quincy Smelter 

and Calumet Lake parcels of OU3 of the 

Torch Lake Superfund Site without 

prior Notice of Intent for Partial 

Deletion because EPA views this as a 

noncontroversial revision and 

anticipates no adverse comment. We 

have explained our reasons for this 

deletion in the preamble to the direct 

final Notice for Partial Deletion, and 

those reasons are incorporated herein. If 

we receive no adverse comment(s) on 

this partial deletion action, we will not 

take further action on this Notice of 

Intent for Partial Deletion. If we receive 

adverse comment(s), we will withdraw 

the direct final Notice for Partial 

Deletion, and it will not take effect. We 

will, as appropriate, address all public 

comments in a subsequent final Notice 

of Partial Deletion based on this Notice 

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49994 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 159 / Friday, August 16, 2013 / Proposed Rules 

of Intent for Partial Deletion. We will 

not institute a second comment period 

on this Notice of Intent for Partial 

Deletion. Any parties interested in 

commenting must do so at this time. 

For additional information, see the 

direct final Notice of Partial Deletion 

which is located in the ‘‘Rules and 

Regulations’’ section of this Federal 

Register. 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 300 

Environmental protection, Air 

pollution control, Chemicals, Hazardous 

waste, Hazardous substances, 

Intergovernmental relations, Penalties, 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements, Superfund, Water 

pollution control, Water supply. 

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1321(c)(2); 42 U.S.C. 

9601–9657; E.O. 12777, 56 FR 54757, 3 CFR, 

1991 Comp., p. 351; E.O. 12580, 52 FR 2923; 

3 CFR, 1987 Comp., p. 193. 

Dated: July 25, 2013. 

Susan Hedman, 

Regional Administrator, Region 5. 

[FR Doc. 2013–19758 Filed 8–15–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

41 CFR Part 102–117 

[FMR Case 2013–102–1; Docket 2013–0009, 

Sequence 1] 

RIN 3090–AJ35 

Federal Management Regulation 

(FMR); Obligating Authority 

AGENCY: Office of Governmentwide 

Policy (OGP), General Services 

Administration (GSA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. General Services 

Administration (GSA) is proposing to 

amend the Federal Management 

Regulation (FMR) to recommend that 

agencies, as defined in § 102–117.25, 

provide written authority to 

Transportation Officers who acquire 

transportation services utilizing a rate 

tender acquisition. This written 

authority would help agencies manage 

the billions of dollars that the 

Government spends annually on 

transportation. This proposed rule, if 

adopted, would describe procedures 

that agencies should follow to delegate 

authority to Transportation Officers and 

includes experience and training 

requirements that a Transportation 

Officer should meet before being 

authorized to acquire transportation 

services. 

DATES: Interested parties should submit 

comments in writing on or before 

October 15, 2013 to be considered in the 

formulation of a final rule. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments in 

response to FMR Case 2013–102–1 by 

any of the following methods: 

• Regulations.gov: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Submit comments 

via the Federal eRulemaking portal by 

searching for ‘‘FMR Case 2013–102–1’’ 

and selecting the link ‘‘Submit a 

Comment’’ that corresponds with ‘‘FMR 

Case 2013–102–1’’. Follow the 

instructions provided at the ‘‘Submit a 

Comment’’ screen. Please include your 

name, company name (if any), and 

‘‘FMR Case 2013–102–1’’ on your 

attached document. 

• Mail: General Services 

Administration, Regulatory Secretariat 

(MVCB), 1800 F Street NW., ATTN: 

Hada Flowers, Washington, DC 20405– 

0001. 

Instructions: Please submit comments 

only and cite FMR Case 2013–102–1, in 

all correspondence related to this case. 

All comments received will be posted 

without change to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal and/or business confidential 

information provided. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Lee Gregory, Office of Asset and 

Transportation Management (MA), 

Office of Governmentwide Policy (OGP), 

at 202–501–1533 or by email at 

lee.gregory@gsa.gov. Please cite FMR 

Case 2013–102–1. For information 

pertaining to status or publication 

schedules contact the Regulatory 

Secretariat at 202–501–4755. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Background 

Agencies are authorized to procure 

transportation services either through 

the Federal Acquisition Regulation 

(FAR), by utilizing a contract, or via 49 

U.S.C. 10721 (for rail transportation), 49 

U.S.C. 13712 (for surface 

transportation), or 49 U.S.C. 15504 (for 

pipeline transportation) utilizing rate 

tenders. 

Rate tenders are an alternative method 

of acquiring transportation services that 

is neither mandatory nor exclusive. In 

order to determine which method is 

better suited for the acquisition of 

transportation services, an evaluation of 

the transportation services to be 

acquired must be made. The FMR 

discusses the criteria for choosing 

between rate tender and FAR 

acquisitions in FMR sections 102– 

117.30 through 102–117.55. 

The FAR requires that a Contracting 

Officer (CO) receive clear instructions in 

writing regarding the contracting 

officer’s authority (48 CFR 1.603–3). 

Contracts may be entered into and 

signed on behalf of the Government 

only by a contracting officer. In contrast 

there is no analogous regulation for 

Federal Transportation Officers under 

which an appointing official authorizes 

them to acquire transportation services. 

However, some agencies have 

delegations of authority or other agency 

procedures in place for their workforce. 

A Transportation Officer that acquires 

transportation services through a rate 

tender acquisition should be qualified 

and trained in transportation 

management or have relevant 

transportation experience in order to 

manage a rate tender acquisition 

properly. 

GSA published a proposed rule in the 

Federal Register on May 4, 2005 (70 FR 

23078) to add the recommendation that 

transportation managers who obligate 

Government funds for rate tender 

procurements must be properly 

authorized in writing, which certifies 

that the transportation manager is 

competent and trained in transportation 

management and has the authority to 

commit Government funds for the 

procurement of transportation or 

transportation services. Comments were 

received from four agencies (U.S. 

Department of State, Internal Revenue 

Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

and Federal Aviation Administration). 

Applicable comments were 

incorporated into this current proposed 

rule, such as expanding time to phase 

program implementation, identifying 

activities that would not require a 

warrant, and providing flexibility for the 

program and requirements to the 

agency. Due to the length of time since 

the publication of the 2005 proposed 

rule, and because GSA’s position on this 

issue has evolved, GSA is publishing 

this new proposed rule. 

Section 3(a)(1) of the Travel and 

Transportation Reform Act of 1998 (the 

Act), Public Law 105–264, amended 31 

U.S.C. 3322(c)(1), holding disbursing 

officials personally liable for 

overpayments other than an 

overpayment for the use of improper 

transportation rates or classifications if 

the Administrator of General Services 

has determined that verification by a 

prepayment audit will not adequately 

protect the interests of the Government. 

Similarly, section 3(a)(2) of the Act 

amended 31 U.S.C. 3528(a)(5), requiring 

certifying officials to verify 

transportation rates and classifications 

and holding such officials personally 

liable for overpayments unless the 

overpayment occurred solely because a 

prepayment audit did not verify the rate 

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