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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ER13–1100–000] 

Energy Technology Savings LLC; 

Supplemental Notice That Initial 

Market-Based Rate Filing Includes 

Request for Blanket Section 204 

Authorization 

This is a supplemental notice in the 

above-referenced proceeding, of Energy 

Technology Savings LLC’s application 

for market-based rate authority, with an 

accompanying rate schedule, noting that 

such application includes a request for 

blanket authorization, under 18 CFR 

part 34, of future issuances of securities 

and assumptions of liability. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest should file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, 

in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214). Anyone filing a motion to 

intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Applicant. 

Notice is hereby given that the 

deadline for filing protests with regard 

to the applicant’s request for blanket 

authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of 

future issuances of securities and 

assumptions of liability is April 10, 

2013. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http:// 

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with Internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 5 copies 

of the intervention or protest to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

The filings in the above-referenced 

proceeding(s) are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system by 

clicking on the appropriate link in the 

above list. They are also available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an eSubscription link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive email notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please email 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Dated: March 21, 2013. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–06992 Filed 3–26–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2012–0442; FRL–9382–5] 

FIFRA Pesticide Registration Review 

and ESA Consultation Processes; 

Stakeholder Input; Notice of 

Availability 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing the 

availability of the final paper describing 

enhanced opportunities for stakeholder 

input during its review of pesticide 

registrations under the Federal 

Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 

Act (FIFRA) and associated 

consultations under the Endangered 

Species Act (ESA). The paper was 

jointly prepared by EPA, the U.S. 

Department of Agriculture (USDA), and 

the National Marine Fisheries Service 

(NMFS) in the U.S. Department of 

Commerce and the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (USFWS) in the 

Department of Interior (collectively, the 

Services). The paper describes 

significant changes to EPA’s registration 

review process intended to facilitate 

ESA pesticide consultations and 

coordination across these Federal 

agencies, and calls for a greater role for 

USDA. EPA accepted public comment 

on the proposed changes for 60 days, 

and then reviewed the comments 

received. Subsequently, EPA, USDA, 

and the Services revised the paper to 

outline specific roles and 

responsibilities for each agency, and to 

provide clarifying information on focus 

meetings and the timing for public 

input. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Richard P. Keigwin, Jr., Pesticide Reevaluation Division (7501P), Office of 

Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001; 

telephone number: (703) 308–8000; fax 

number: (703) 308–8005; email address: 

Keigwin.Richard@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

You may be potentially affected by 

this action if you manufacture, buy, sell, 

distribute, or use pesticide products. 

B. How can I get copies of this document 

and other related information? 

The docket for this action, identified 

by docket identification (ID) number 

EPA–HQ–OPP–2012–0442, is available 

at http://www.regulations.gov or at the 

Office of Pesticide Programs Regulatory 

Public Docket (OPP Docket) in the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West 

Bldg., Rm. 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. 

NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001. The 

Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 

a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays. The 

telephone number for the Public 

Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and 

the telephone number for the OPP 

Docket is (703) 305–5805. Please review 

the visitor instructions and additional 

information about the docket available 

at http://www.epa.gov/dockets. 

II. Background 

EPA is announcing the availability of 

a document titled, ‘‘Enhancing 

Stakeholder Input in the Pesticide 

Registration Review and ESA 

Consultation Processes and 

Development of Economically and 

Technologically Feasible Reasonable 

and Prudent Alternatives.’’ A copy of 

this document is available in the docket 

at http://www.regulations.gov under 

docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2012– 

0442. The document describes changes 

to EPA’s pesticide registration review 

program and how it conducts 

consultation with the Services under 

section 7 of the ESA. In an effort to be 

responsive to stakeholders’ desires for a 

mechanism to get information into the 

registration review process as early as 

possible, EPA is holding ‘‘focus’’ 

meetings at the start of registration 

review for each active ingredient. In 

response to stakeholders’ desires for a 

more open, reliable, and transparent 

pesticide consultation process, EPA will 

initiate any needed formal ESA 

consultations at a later stage in the 

review process. Consulting later in the 

registration review process allows EPA 

to develop more refined ecological risk 

assessments and to engage affected 

stakeholders in discussions that should 

result in more focused consultation 

packages inclusive of mitigation for 

listed species. There is a consensus that 

EPA and the Services should engage 

informally and early in the consultation 

process, but that formal consultation 

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should be reserved until EPA’s 

ecological risk assessment and proposed 

decision are more fully formed. This 

approach has the potential to maximize 

the opportunity to effect changes that 

provide protections for species and their 

designated critical habitat, lessen the 

impacts on agriculture, and narrow the 

scope of the Federal action. 

Additionally, the document describes 

EPA’s plans to reach out to pesticide 

users potentially affected to discuss the 

technological and economic feasibility 

of reasonable and prudent alternatives 

(RPAs) intended to avoid jeopardy to 

threatened and/or endangered species. 

The USDA’s relationships with the 

agricultural community provide a 

critical link between EPA’s expertise on 

pesticides and the Services’ expertise on 

listed species’ locations, status and 

biology. 

Finally, the document describes the 

process by which public comments 

received on RPAs will be summarized 

and organized by EPA and provided to 

the Services, who will prepare a 

document to be included in the 

administrative record of the 

consultation explaining how comments 

were considered, and if appropriate, 

how the final biological opinion was 

modified to address the comments. The 

Services will provide the document to 

EPA, and both the Services and EPA 

will make the document available to the 

public upon request. These process 

changes are intended to provide clarity 

and transparency to the ESA section 7 

consultation process for pesticides. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, 

Endangered species, Pesticide 

registration review, Section 7 ESA 

consultation. 

Dated: March 19, 2013. 

Steven Bradbury, 

Director, Office of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2013–06920 Filed 3–26–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2013–0121; FRL–9381–9] 

Registration Review; Pesticide 

Dockets Opened for Review and 

Comment and Other Docket Acts 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: With this document, EPA is 

opening the public comment period for 

several registration reviews. Registration 

review is EPA’s periodic review of 

pesticide registrations to ensure that 

each pesticide continues to satisfy the 

statutory standard for registration, that 

is, the pesticide can perform its 

intended function without unreasonable 

adverse effects on human health or the 

environment. Registration review 

dockets contain information that will 

assist the public in understanding the 

types of information and issues that the 

Agency may consider during the course 

of registration reviews. Through this 

program, EPA is ensuring that each 

pesticide’s registration is based on 

current scientific and other knowledge, 

including its effects on human health 

and the environment. This document 

also announces the Agency’s intent not 

to open registration review dockets for 

iodomethane or ethametsulfuronmethyl. Iodomethane and 

ethametsulfuron-methyl are undergoing 

phase-outs of all U.S. pesticide 

registrations. The cancellations of the 

iodomethane end use registrations 

became effective on December 31, 2012, 

and the cancellation of the sole 

technical product registration will 

become effective on December 1, 2015. 

The cancellations of all 

ethametsulfuron-methyl product 

registrations became effective on 

February 20, 2013. Therefore, 

iodomethane and ethametsulfuronmethyl are not scheduled for review 

under the registration review program. 

This document also announces the 

registration review case closures for the 

pesticides alkyl amine hydrochloride 

(case #3051) and halofenozide (case 

#7425), and the availability of their 

respective Case Closure Documents. The 

cancellation of all alkyl amine 

hydrochloride registrations became 

effective on October 17, 2012. The 

cancellation of all U.S. halofenozide 

registrations became effective December 

21, 2012. These case closure are being 

announced herein with no comment 

period. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before May 28, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments 

identified by the docket identification 

(ID) number for the specific pesticide of 

interest provided in the table in Unit 

III.A., by one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

• Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/ 

DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 

NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: To make special 

arrangements for hand delivery or 

delivery of boxed information, please 

follow the instructions at http:// 

www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html. 

Additional instructions on 

commenting or visiting the docket, 

along with more information about 

dockets generally, is available at 

http://www.epa.gov/dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

pesticide specific information contact: 

The Chemical Review Manager 

identified in the table in Unit III.A. for 

the pesticide of interest. 

For general information contact: Jane 

Robbins, Pesticide Re-evaluation 

Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (703) 308–0048; fax number: 

(703) 308–8090; email address: 

robbins.jane@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general, and may be of interest to a 

wide range of stakeholders including 

environmental, human health, 

farmworker, and agricultural advocates; 

the chemical industry; pesticide users; 

and members of the public interested in 

the sale, distribution, or use of 

pesticides. Since others also may be 

interested, the Agency has not 

attempted to describe all the specific 

entities that may be affected by this 

action. 

B. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to EPA through 

regulations.gov or email. Clearly mark 

the part or all of the information that 

you claim to be CBI. For CBI 

information in a disk or CD–ROM that 

you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the 

disk or CD–ROM as CBI and then 

identify electronically within the disk or 

CD–ROM the specific information that 

is claimed as CBI. In addition to one 

complete version of the comment that 

includes information claimed as CBI, a 

copy of the comment that does not 

contain the information claimed as CBI 

must be submitted for inclusion in the 

public docket. Information so marked 

will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR part 2. 

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