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200, Denver, Colorado 80202–2466, 

(303) 312–6437, ostrand.laurie@epa.gov. 

Dated: August 21, 2006. 

Robert E. Roberts, 

Regional Administrator, Region 8. 

[FR Doc. E6–14452 Filed 8–29–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 and 81 

[EPA–R05–OAR–2006–0399; FRL–8214–4] 

Determination of Attainment, Approval 

and Promulgation of Implementation 

Plans and Designation of Areas for Air 

Quality Planning Purposes; Indiana; 

Redesignation of Allen County 8-Hour 

Ozone Nonattainment Area to 

Attainment for Ozone 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: On May 30, 2006, the State of 

Indiana, through the Indiana 

Department of Environmental 

Management (IDEM), submitted, in 

final: A request to redesignate the 8- 

hour ozone National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard (NAAQS) 

nonattainment area of Allen County, 

Indiana, to attainment for the 8-hour 

ozone NAAQS; and a request for EPA 

approval of an Indiana State 

Implementation Plan (SIP) revision 

containing a 14-year maintenance plan 

for Allen County. Today, EPA is 

proposing to determine that the Allen 

County, Indiana ozone nonattainment 

area has attained the 8-hour ozone 

NAAQS. This determination is based on 

three years of complete, quality-assured 

ambient air quality monitoring data for 

the 2003–2005 ozone seasons that 

demonstrate that the 8-hour ozone 

NAAQS has been attained in the area. 

EPA is also proposing to approve 

Indiana’s request to redesignate the area 

to attainment for the 8-hour ozone 

standard and the State’s maintenance 

plan SIP revision. EPA’s proposed 

approval of the 8-hour ozone 

redesignation request is based on its 

determination that Allen County, 

Indiana has met the criteria for 

redesignation to attainment specified in 

the Clean Air Act. EPA is also proposing 

to approve, for purposes of 

transportation conformity, the motor 

vehicle emission budgets (MVEBs) for 

the year 2020 that are contained in the 

14-year 8-hour ozone maintenance plan 

for Allen County. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before September 29, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R05–

OAR–2006–0399, by one of the 

following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: mooney.john@epa.gov. 

• Fax: (312) 886–5824. 

• Mail: John M. Mooney, Chief, 

Criteria Pollutant Section, (AR–18J), 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 

Illinois 60604. 

• Hand Delivery: John M. Mooney, 

Chief, Criteria Pollutant Section, (AR–

18J), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 

Chicago, Illinois 60604. Such deliveries 

are only accepted during the Regional 

Office normal hours of operation, and 

special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. The 

Regional Office official hours of 

business are Monday through Friday, 

8:30 AM to 4:30 PM excluding Federal 

holidays. 

Please see the direct final rule which 

is located in the Rules section of this 

Federal Register for detailed 

instructions on how to submit 

comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Steven Rosenthal, Environmental 

Engineer, Criteria Pollutant Section, Air 

Programs Branch (AR–18J), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 

Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 886–6052, 

rosenthal.steven@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 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 16, 2006. 

Bharat Mathur, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5. 

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COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

45 CFR Part 706 

RIN 3035–AA02 

Employee Responsibilities and 

Conduct Residual Cross-References 

Regulation of the United States 

Commission on Civil Rights 

AGENCY: Commission on Civil Rights. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The United States 

Commission on Civil Rights 

(Commission) is proposing to repeal its 

old employee conduct regulations, 

which have been superseded by the 

executive branch Standards of Ethical 

Conduct, financial disclosure and 

financial interests regulations issued by 

the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) 

In place of its old regulations, the 

Commission is proposing to add a 

section of residual cross-references to 

those branchwide regulations as well as 

its proposed new supplemental 

standards regulations and certain 

executive branchwide conduct rules 

promulgated by the Office of Personnel 

Management (OPM). 

DATES: Comments should be submitted 

on or before September 29, 2006 to be 

considered in the formulation of final 

rules. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties should 

submit written comments to: United 

States Commission on Civil Rights, 

Office of the Staff Director, Attn: Emma 

Monroig, Solicitor and Designated 

Agency Ethics Official, Esq., 624 Ninth 

Street, NW., Suite 621, Washington, DC 

20425. E-mail comments should be 

addressed to emonroig@usccr.gov. 

Please cite 45 CFR part 706 in all 

correspondence related to these 

proposed revisions. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Emma Monroig, Esq., Solicitor and 

Designated Agency Ethics Official, 

Office of the Staff Director, United 

States Commission on Civil Rights, 624 

Ninth Street, NW., Suite 621, 

Washington, DC 20425, (202) 376–7796; 

Facsimile: (202) 376–1163. 


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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 1992, 

OGE issued a final rule setting forth 

uniform executive branch Standards of 

Ethical Conduct (generally effective on 

February 3, 1993) and an interim final 

rule on financial disclosure, and in 1996 

issued a final rule on financial interests 

for executive branch departments and 

agencies of the Federal Government and 

their employees. Those three executive 

branchwide regulations, as corrected 

and amended, are codified in 5 CFR 

parts 2634, 2635 and 2640. Together 

those regulations have superseded the 

old Commission regulations, based on 

prior OPM standards, on employee 

responsibilities and conduct at 45 CFR 

part 706 which the Commission is 

proposing to remove its superseded 

regulations, and add in place thereof, a 

new section containing residual crossreferences to the provisions at 5 CFR 

parts 2634, 2635 and 2640, as well as to 

the proposed new Commission 

regulation supplementing the executive 

branchwide standards that is being 

separately published today elsewhere in 

this issue of the Federal Register for 

codification in a new chapter LXVIII of 

5 CFR, to consist of part 7801. In 

addition, the Commission is proposing 

to include in its residual section a 

reference to the separate, specific 

executive branchwide provisions 

regarding gambling, safeguarding the 

examination process and conduct 

prejudicial to the Government which are 

set forth in 5 CFR part 735, as amended 

and reissued by OPM in 1992 and 2006. 

Those specific branchwide restrictions 

are not covered by in OGE’s Standards 

of Ethical Conduct regulation; 

furthermore, they are self-executing and 

do not require any department or agency 

republication. 

Matters of Regulatory Procedure 

Executive Orders 12866 and 12988 

Because this proposed rule relates to 

Commission personnel it is exempt from 

the provisions of Executive Orders 

12866 and 12988. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

It has been determined under the 

Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 

chapter 6) that this rule as proposed 

would not have a significant economic 

impact on a substantial number of small 

entities because it would primarily 

affect Commission employees. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

It has been determined that the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35) does not apply to this 

proposed rulemaking document, 

because it does not contain any 

information collection requirements that 

require the approval of the Office of 

Management and Budget. 

Congressional Review Act 

The Commission has determined that 

this rulemaking is not a rule as defined 

in 5 U.S.C. 804, and, thus, does not 

require review by Congress. 

List of Subjects in 45 CFR Part 706 

Conflict of interests, Government 

employees. 

Dated: August 24, 2006. 

Kenneth L. Marcus, 

Staff Director, United States Commission on 

Civil Rights. 

Dated: August 24, 2006. 

Emma Monroig, 

Solicitor and Designated Agency Ethics 

Official, United States Commission on Civil 

Rights. 

For the reasons set forth in this 

preamble, the Commission is proposing 

to revise 45 CFR part 706 to read as 

follows: 

PART 706—EMPLOYEE 

RESPONSIBILITIES AND CONDUCT 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 7301, 42 U.S.C. 

1975b(d). 

§ 766.1 Cross-references to employee 

ethical conduct standards, financial 

disclosure and financial interest regulations 

and other conduct rules. 

Employees of the United States 

Commission on Civil Rights are subject 

to the executive branch standards of 

ethical conduct contained in 5 CFR part 

2635, the Commission regulations at 5 

CFR part 7801 (as proposed in a 

separate proposed rule document 

published elsewhere in this issue of the 

Federal Register) which supplement the 

executive branchwide standards, the 

executive branch financial disclosure 

regulations contained in 5 CFR part 

2634, and the executive branch financial 

interests regulations contained in 5 CFR 

part 2640, as well as the executive 

branch employee responsibilities and 

conduct regulations contained in 5 CFR 

part 735. 

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BILLING CODE 6335–01–M 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

49 CFR Part 392 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2006–25660] 

RIN 2126–AB04 

Railroad-Highway Grade Crossing; 

Safe Clearance; Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The FMCSA announces that a 

public meeting will be held to discuss 

the problem of railroad-highway grade 

crossing crashes in which a commercial 

motor vehicle (CMV) is struck by a train 

because the driver of the CMV, for 

whatever reason, stops the vehicle prior 

to clearing the railroad track. The 

meeting is intended to promote the 

sharing of information between 

interested parties and FMCSA, the 

Federal Highway Administration 

(FHWA), and the Federal Railroad 

Administration (FRA) to ensure motor 

carriers and drivers are prepared to 

achieve full compliance with a 

forthcoming, statutorily mandated 

Federal rule to prohibit drivers from 

entering a railroad grade crossing unless 

there is sufficient room to clear the 

tracks completely without stopping. The 

meeting will provide all interested 

parties with an opportunity to voice 

their concerns about the potential costs 

and safety benefits of such a rule. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Wednesday, September 20, 2006, from 

9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Individuals who 

wish to make a formal presentation 

must contact Ms. Ryan Thompson at 

(703) 934–3432 or e-mail her at 

rthompson@icfi.com no later than 5 

p.m., e.t., September 15, 2006. 

Comments to the docket should be 

submitted no later than October 20, 

2006. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

Room 2230, Nassif Building, DOT 

Headquarters, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20590. You may also 

submit comments to the DOT Docket 

Management System (DMS), referencing 

Docket Number FMCSA–2006–25660, 

using any of the following methods: 

• Web Site: http://dmses.dot.gov. 

Follow the instructions for submitting 

comments on the DOT electronic docket 

site. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility; 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 400 

Seventh Street, SW., Nassif Building, 


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