Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 21 / Wednesday, February 1, 2006 / Proposed Rules 5211 

Distribution, or Use’’ (66 FR 28355, May 

22, 2001). 

National Technology Transfer 

Advancement Act 

Section 12(d) of the National 

Technology Transfer and Advancement 

Act of 1995 (NTTAA), 15 U.S.C. 272, 

requires Federal agencies to use 

technical standards that are developed 

or adopted by voluntary consensus to 

carry out policy objectives, so long as 

such standards are not inconsistent with 

applicable law or otherwise impractical. 

In reviewing SIP submissions, EPA’s 

role is to approve state choices, 

provided that they meet the criteria of 

the Clean Air Act. Absent a prior 

existing requirement for the state to use 

voluntary consensus standards, EPA has 

no authority to disapprove a SIP 

submission for failure to use such 

standards, and it would thus be 

inconsistent with applicable law for 

EPA to use voluntary consensus 

standards in place of a program 

submission that otherwise satisfies the 

provisions of the Clean Air Act. 

Therefore, the requirements of section 

12(d) of the NTTA do not apply. 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52 

Environmental protection, Air 

pollution control, Intergovernmental 

relations. 

Dated: January 19, 2006. 

Bharat Mathur, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5. 

[FR Doc. E6–1367 Filed 1–31–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2005–0557b; FRL–8025–1] 

Revisions to the California State 

Implementation Plan, Ventura County 

Air Pollution Control District, YoloSolano Air Quality Management 

District 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve 

revisions to the Ventura County Air 

Pollution Control District (VCAPCD) 

and Yolo-Solano Air Quality 

Management District (YSAQMD) 

portions of the California State 

Implementation Plan (SIP). These 

revisions concern volatile organic 

compound (VOC) emissions from 

polyester resin material use operations 

and organic liquid chemical storage and 

transfer operations. We are proposing to 

approve local rules to regulate these 

emission sources under the Clean Air 

Act as amended in 1990 (CAA or the 

Act). 

DATES: Any comments on this proposal 

must arrive by March 3, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, 

identified by docket number [DOCKET 

NUMBER], by one of the following 

methods: 

1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

on-line instructions. 

2. E-mail: 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 http://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 http:// 

www.regulations.gov or e-mail. http:// 

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 e-mail 

directly to EPA, your e-mail 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. 

Docket: The index to the docket for 

this action is available electronically at 

http://www.regulations.gov and in hard 

copy at EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne 

Street, San Francisco, California. While 

all documents in the docket are listed in 

the index, some information may be 

publicly available only at the hard copy 

location (e.g., copyrighted material), 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: 

Jerald S. Wamsley, EPA Region IX, at 

either (415) 947–4111, or 

wamsley.jerry@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

proposal addresses local rules VCAPCD 

74.14 and YSAQMD 2.21. 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. 

However, if we receive adverse 

comments, 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: December 22, 2005. 

Jane Diamond, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

[FR Doc. 06–892 Filed 1–31–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND 

COMMUNITY SERVICE 

45 CFR Part 2554 

RIN 3045–AA42 

Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act 

AGENCY: Corporation for National and 

Community Service. 

ACTION: Proposed rule with request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Corporation for National 

and Community Service (Corporation) 

proposes regulations to implement the 

Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 

1986 (Act). The Act authorizes certain 

Federal agencies, including the 

Corporation, to impose, through 

administrative adjudication, civil 

penalties and assessments against any 

person who makes, submits, or presents 

a false, fictitious, or fraudulent claim or 

written statement to the agency. The 

proposed regulations establish the 

procedures the Corporation will follow 

in implementing the provisions of the 

Act and specifies the hearing and appeal 

rights of persons subject to penalties 

and assessments under the Act. They 

also designate the Corporation’s Chief 

Financial Officer to act on behalf of the 

Chief Executive Officer in carrying out 

certain duties and responsibilities under 

the regulations. 

DATES: The comment period expires on 

April 3, 2006. Comments received after 


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