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6402, 6404, 6806, 7011, 7212, 7342, 7606, 

7805; 31 U.S.C. 9301, 9303, 9304, 9306. 

9. Section 44.61 is amended by 

adding a new paragraph (c) to read as 

follows: 

§ 44.61 Removals, withdrawals, and 

shipments authorized. 

* * * * * 

(c) Tobacco products and cigarette 

papers and tubes removed from a 

factory or an export warehouse, and 

cigars withdrawn from a customs 

bonded warehouse, without payment of 

tax under this subpart may not be 

substituted for imported merchandise 

for purposes of drawback of tax under 

section 313(j)(2) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1313(j)(2)). 

See 19 CFR 191.32(b)(4). 

10. Section 44.221 is amended by 

designating the existing text as 

paragraph (a) and adding a new 

paragraph (b) to read as follows: 

§ 44.221 Application of drawback of tax. 

* * * * * 

(b) Tobacco products and cigarette 

papers and tubes on which drawback is 

allowed under this subpart may not be 

substituted for imported merchandise 

for purposes of drawback of tax under 

section 313(j)(2) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1313(j)(2)). 

See 19 CFR 191.32(b)(4). 

* * * * * 

Signed: September 3, 2009. 

John J. Manfreda, 

Administrator. 

Approved: September 17, 2009. 

Timothy E. Skud, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary (Tax, Trade, and 

Tariff Policy). 

[FR Doc. E9–24791 Filed 10–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4810–31–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

33 CFR Part 151 

46 CFR Part 162 

[USCG–2001–10486] 

RIN 1625–AA32 

Standards for Living Organisms in 

Ships’ Ballast Water Discharged in 

U.S. Waters 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice; extension of comment 

periods. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is extending 

the periods for public comment on the 

notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) 

and the Draft Programmatic 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(DPEIS) for the rulemaking entitled 

‘‘Standards for Living Organisms in 

Ships’ Ballast Water’’ (Docket No. 

USCG–2001–10486). 

DATES: Comments and related material 

for the NPRM and the DPEIS must either 

be submitted to our online docket via 

http://www.regulations.gov on or before 

the new date for the close of the 

comment period, December 4, 2009, or 

reach the Docket Management Facility 

by that date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Coast Guard docket 

number USCG–2001–10486 to the 

Docket Management Facility at the U.S. 

Department of Transportation. To avoid 

duplication, please use only one of the 

following methods: 

(1) Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

http://www.regulations.gov. 

(2) Mail: Docket Management Facility 

(M–30), U.S. Department of 

Transportation, West Building Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590– 

0001. 

(3) Hand delivery: Docket 

Management Facility (M–30), U.S. 

Department of Transportation, West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. The telephone 

number is 202–366–9329. 

(4) Fax: 202–493–2251. 

To avoid duplication, please use only 

one of these four methods. See the 

‘‘Public Participation and Request for 

Comments’’ portion of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

below for instructions on submitting 

comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions on this proposed 

rulemaking, call or e-mail Mr. John 

Morris, Project Manager, Environmental 

Standards Division, U.S. Coast Guard 

Headquarters, telephone 202–372–1433, 

e-mail John.C.Morris@uscg.mil. If you 

have questions on viewing or submitting 

material to the docket, call Ms. Renee 

Wright, Chief, Dockets, Department of 

Transportation, telephone 202–366– 

9826. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Public Participation and Request for 

Comments 

We encourage you to participate in 

this aspect of the rulemaking by 

submitting comments and related 

materials. All comments received will 

be posted, without change, to http:// 

www.regulations.gov and will include 

any personal information you have 

provided. 

Submitting Comments 

If you submit a comment, please 

include the docket number for this 

rulemaking (USCG–2001–10486), 

indicate the specific section of the 

document to which each comment 

applies, and provide a reason for each 

suggestion or recommendation. You 

may comment on either the NPRM or 

the DPEIS or both. You may submit your 

comments and material online or by fax, 

mail, or hand delivery, but please use 

only one of these means. We 

recommend that you include your name 

and a mailing address, an e-mail 

address, or a phone number in the body 

of your document so that we can contact 

you if we have questions regarding your 

submission. 

To submit your comment online, go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and click on 

the ‘‘submit a comment’’ box, which 

will then become highlighted in blue. 

Insert ‘‘USCG–2001–10486’’ in the 

Keyword box, click ‘‘Search’’, and then 

click on the balloon shape in the 

Actions column. If you submit your 

comments by mail or hand delivery, 

submit them in an unbound format, no 

larger than 81⁄2 by 11 inches, suitable for 

copying and electronic filing. If you 

submit comments by mail and would 

like to know that they reached the 

Facility, please enclose a stamped, selfaddressed postcard or envelope. 

We will consider all comments and 

material received during the comment 

period and may change this proposed 

rule or the DPEIS based on your 

comments. 

Viewing Comments and Documents 

To view comments, as well as 

documents mentioned in this preamble 

as being available in the docket, go to 

http://www.regulations.gov at any time. 

Enter the docket number for this 

rulemaking (USCG–2001–10486) in the 

Keyword box, and click ‘‘Search’’. You 

may also visit the Docket Management 

Facility in Room W12–140 on the 

ground floor of the DOT West Building, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. We have an 

agreement with the Department of 

Transportation to use the Docket 

Management Facility. 

Privacy Act 

Anyone can search the electronic 

form of all comments received into any 

of our dockets by the name of the 

individual submitting the comment (or 


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1Petition of the United States Postal Service 

Requesting Initiation of a Proceeding to Consider a 

Proposed Change in Analytic Principles (Proposal 

Twenty), October 6, 2009 (Petition). 

signing the comment, if submitted on 

behalf of an association, business, labor 

union, etc.). You may review a Privacy 

Act notice regarding our public dockets 

in the January 17, 2008, issue of the 

Federal Register (73 FR 3316). 

Background and Purpose 

On August 28, 2009, the Coast Guard 

published an NPRM entitled ‘‘Standards 

for Living Organisms in Ships’ Ballast 

Water Discharged in U.S. Waters’’ in the 

Federal Register (74 FR 44632). The 

comment period for the NPRM was to 

close on November 27, 2009. On the 

same day, the Coast Guard also 

published a Notice of Availability in the 

Federal Register informing the public 

that the DPEIS for the ‘‘Standards for 

Living Organisms in Ships’ Ballast 

Water Discharged in U.S. Waters’’ 

rulemaking had been added to the 

docket and was available for public 

comment (74 FR 44673). The August 28, 

2009 Notice of Availability for the 

DPEIS stated that the public comment 

period for the DPEIS would close on 

November 27, 2009. 

Council on Environmental Quality 

regulations at 40 CFR part 1506.10 state 

that ‘‘(a) The Environmental Protection 

Agency shall publish a notice in the 

Federal Register each week of the 

environmental impact statements filed 

during the preceding week. The 

minimum time periods set forth in this 

section shall be calculated from the date 

of publication of this notice. (b) No 

decision on the proposed action shall be 

made or recorded under Sec. 1505.2 by 

a Federal agency until the later of the 

following dates: (1) Ninety days after 

publication of the notice described 

above in paragraph (a) of this section for 

a draft environmental impact 

statement.’’ The Environmental 

Protection Agency did not publish their 

notice of availability for the DPEIS until 

September 4, 2009. Accordingly, the 

Coast Guard has decided to extend the 

comment periods for both the NPRM 

and the DPEIS in order to ensure that 

the public has adequate time to submit 

comments regarding these important 

proposals. The comment period for the 

NPRM and the DPEIS will now close on 

December 4, 2009. 

Additionally, you are reminded that 

you may comment on any aspect of the 

rulemaking, including on any comments 

placed in the docket. We may change 

the proposed rule or the DPEIS in 

response to the comments received. 

Dated: October 8, 2009. 

J.G. Lantz, 

Director of Commercial Regulations and 

Standards, U.S. Coast Guard. 

[FR Doc. E9–24745 Filed 10–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–15–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

39 CFR Part 3050 

[Docket No. RM2010–1; Order No. 311] 

Periodic Reporting Rules 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed rulemaking; 

availability of rulemaking petition. 

SUMMARY: This document announces a 

proposed rulemaking in response to a 

recent Postal Service petition involving 

periodic reporting rules. It concerns a 

new Postal Service special study 

updating the density factors that are 

used to distribute certain attributable 

transportation costs in two cost 

segments (Nos. 8 and 14). The public is 

invited to comment. 

DATES: Comments are due October 28, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically via the Commission’s 

Filing Online system at 

http:www.prc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephen L. Sharfman, General Counsel, 

at 202–789–6824 or 

stephen.sharfman@prc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

October 6, 2009, the Postal Service filed 

a petition to initiate an informal 

rulemaking proceeding to consider 

changes in the analytical methods 

approved for use in periodic reporting.1

The Petition explains that the Postal 

Service has conducted a new special 

study for the purpose of updating 

density factors used to distribute vehicle 

service drive attributable costs in Cost 

Segment 8 and attributable 

transportation costs in Cost Segment 14. 

The data-collection method is similar to 

the previous special study described in 

Library Reference USPS–LR–K–33 in 

Docket No. R2001–1. See id., Proposal 

20 at 1. 

The attachment to the Postal Service’s 

Petition explains its proposal in more 

detail, including the background, 

objective, rationale, and estimated 

impact. For illustrative purposes, the 

Postal Service provides a table showing 

the impact of distributing FY 2008 

highway, rail, and vehicle service driver 

costs based on the new and existing 

density factors. See id., Proposal 20 at 

3. 

It is ordered: 

1. The Petition of the United States 

Postal Service Requesting Initiation of a 

Proceeding to Consider a Proposed 

Change in Analytic Principles (Proposal 

Twenty), filed October 6, 2009, is 

granted. 

2. The Commission establishes Docket 

No. RM2010–1 to consider the matters 

raised by the Postal Service’s Petition. 

3. Interested persons may submit 

comments on or before October 28, 

2009. 

4. The Commission will determine the 

need for reply comments after review of 

the initial comments. 

5. Cassie D’Souza is designated to 

serve as the Public Representative 

representing the interests of the general 

public in this proceeding. 

6. The Secretary shall arrange for 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. 

By the Commission. 

Shoshana M. Grove, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–24860 Filed 10–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7710–FW–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R05–OAR–2009–0120; FRL–8968–2] 

Approval and Promulgation of Air 

Quality Implementation Plans; Indiana; 

Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan 

Updates; Limited Maintenance Plan 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve 

a request submitted by the Indiana 

Department of Environmental 

Management (IDEM) on January 12, 

2009, for a State Implementation Plan 

(SIP) revision of the carbon monoxide 

(CO) ‘‘Limited Maintenance Plan’’ 

update for Lake and Marion Counties, 

Indiana. These Limited Maintenance 

Plans demonstrate continued attainment 

of the CO National Ambient Air Quality 

Standard for Lake and Marion counties 

for an additional ten years. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before November 16, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R05– 


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