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north to land from a line connecting the 

following points 47°37.36′ N, 122°42.29′ 

W and 47°37.74′ N, 122° 40.64′ W. 

(2) All waters of Lake Washington 

south of the interstate 90 bridge and 

north of Andrew’s Bay, WA to include 

all waters east of the shoreline within 

the following points: 47°34.15′ N, 

122°16.40′ W; 47°34.31′ N, 122°15.96′ 

W; 47°35.18′ N, 122°16.31′ W; 47°35.00′ 

N, 122°16.71′ W. 

(3) All waters of Lake Sammamish 

south to land from a line connecting the 

following points 47°33.810′ N, 

122°04.810′ and 47°33.810′ N 

122°03.674′ W. 

(b) Notice of Enforcement or 

Suspension of Enforcement. This 

special local regulation will be activated 

and thus subject to enforcement, under 

the following conditions: the Coast 

Guard must receive and approve a 

marine event permit for each 

hydroplane event in accordance with 33 

CFR part 100. The Captain of the Port 

will provide notice of the enforcement 

of this special local regulation by all 

appropriate means to ensure the widest 

dissemination among the affected 

segments of the public, as practicable; 

such means of notification may include 

but are not limited to, Broadcast Notice 

to Mariners or Local Notice to Mariners. 

(c) Regulations. (1) When this special 

local regulation is enforced, nonparticipant vessels are prohibited from 

entering the designated race areas 

unless authorized by the designated onscene Patrol Commander. 

Spectator craft may remain in 

designated spectator areas but must 

follow the directions of the designated 

on-scene Patrol Commander. The event 

sponsor may also function as the 

designated on-scene Patrol Commander. 

Spectator craft entering, exiting or 

moving within the spectator area must 

operate at speeds which will create a 

minimum wake. 

(2) Emergency Signaling. A succession 

of sharp, short signals by whistle or 

horn from vessels patrolling the areas 

under the discretion of the designated 

on-scene Patrol Commander shall serve 

as a signal to stop. Vessels signaled shall 

stop and shall comply with the orders 

of the patrol vessel. Failure to do so may 

result in expulsion from the area, 

citation for failure to comply, or both. 

Dated: November 24, 2010. 

G.T. Blore, 

Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Commander, 

Thirteenth Coast Guard District. 

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BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 60 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2010–0960; FRL–9254–9] 

Call for Information: Information 

Related to the Development of 

Emission-Estimating Methodologies 

for Animal Feeding Operations 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Call for information. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency is publishing this Call for 

Information to solicit quality-assured 

emissions and process data that are 

relevant to developing emissionsestimating methodologies for animal 

feeding operations. EPA may use the 

data to supplement the emissions and 

process data collected under the 

National Air Emission Monitoring Study 

for animal feeding operations. 

DATES: Information must be received on 

or before March 7, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your information, 

identified by Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–OAR–2010–0960, by one of the 

following methods: 

http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

data. 

E-mail: Send your information via 

electronic mail to a-and-rdocket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID 

Number EPA–HQ–OAR–2010–0960. 

Facsimile: Fax your comments to 

(202) 566–1741, Attention Docket ID 

Number EPA–HQ–OAR–2010–0960. 

Mail: Send your information to: EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mailcode 6102T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, Attention 

Docket ID Number EPA–HQ–OAR– 

2010–0960. Please include two copies. 

We request that a separate copy also be 

sent to the contact person identified 

below (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT). 

Hand Delivery: Deliver your 

information to: EPA Docket Center 

(EPA/DC), EPA West Building, Room 

3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, Attention 

Docket ID Number EPA–HQ–OAR– 

2010–0960. Such deliveries are only 

accepted during the normal hours of 

operation (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays) and special arrangements 

should be made for deliveries of boxed 

information. 

Instructions: Direct your data and 

information to Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–OAR–2010–0960. EPA’s policy is 

that all information received will be 

included in the public docket and may 

be made available on-line at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the submission includes information 

claimed to be 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 e-mail. 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 

information. If you send an e-mail 

directly to EPA without going through 

http://www.regulations.gov, your e-mail 

address will be automatically captured 

and included as part of the information 

that is placed in the public docket and 

made available on the Internet. If you 

submit the electronic data and 

information, EPA recommends that you 

include your name and other contact 

information in the body of your 

information and with any disk or CD– 

ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read 

your information due to technical 

difficulties and cannot contact you for 

clarification, EPA may not be able to 

consider your information. Electronic 

files should avoid the use of special 

characters or any form of encryption, 

and should be free of any defects or 

viruses. 

Docket: EPA has established a docket 

for this action under Docket ID Number 

EPA–HQ–OAR–2010–0960. 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 hard copy form. 

Publicly available docket materials are 

available either electronically in http:// 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

EPA’s Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA 

West Building, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC. 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 EPA’s 

Docket Center is (202) 566–1742. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Larry Elmore, Natural Resources and 

Commerce Group, Sector Policies and 

Programs Division, (E143–03), 


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Environmental Protection Agency, 

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711; 

telephone number: (919) 541–5433; 

Facsimile number: (919) 541–3470; 

e-mail address: elmore.larry@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Acronyms and Abbreviations. The 

following terms and acronyms are used 

in this document: 

AFOs Animal Feeding Operations 

CAA Clean Air Act 

CBI Confidential Business Information 

CD ROM Compact Disc-Read Only Memory 

CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation and Liability Act 

EEM Emissions-Estimating Methodology 

EPCRA Emergency Planning and 

Community Right-To-Know Act 

H2S Hydrogen Sulfide 

lb/hr Pounds per Hour 

NAEMS National Air Emission Monitoring 

Study 

NH3 Ammonia 

PM Particulate Matter 

PM10 PM less than 10 micrometers in 

diameter 

PM2.5 PM less than 2.5 micrometers in 

diameter 

ppmv Parts per Million by Volume 

TSP Total Suspended Particulate 

VOC Volatile Organic Compounds 

Organization of This Document. The 

following outline is provided to aid in 

locating information in this preamble. 

Table of Contents 

I. General Information 

A. What is the purpose of this action? 

B. What specific information is EPA 

seeking? 

C. Submitting Confidential Business 

Information 

I. General Information 

A. What is the purpose of this action? 

In 2005, EPA offered AFOs an 

opportunity to participate in a voluntary 

consent agreement (70 FR 4958) referred 

to as the Air Compliance Agreement. 

Under the Air Compliance Agreement, 

participating AFOs provided, among 

other things, the funding for the 

NAEMS, a two-year, nationwide 

industry-run emissions monitoring 

study of the broiler, egg-layer, swine, 

and dairy industries. The NAEMS began 

in the summer of 2007 and consisted of 

25 monitoring sites located in 10 states. 

The study collected process and 

emissions data for PM10, PM2.5, TSP, 

H2S, NH3, and VOC from a 

representative sample of animal housing 

structures and manure storage and 

treatment units across the country. EPA 

plans to use these data to develop EEMs 

for AFOs, which will help AFOs 

determine and comply with their 

regulatory responsibilities under the 

CAA, CERCLA, and EPCRA. Additional 

information regarding the NAEMS can 

be found at: http://www.epa.gov/ 

agriculture/airmonitoringstudy.html. 

EPA committed in the January 2005 

Federal Register notice that it will use 

data generated from the NAEMS and all 

other available, relevant data to develop 

EEMs. Through this Call for 

Information, EPA is requesting that 

interested parties submit data that are 

relevant to EPA’s effort to develop 

EEMs. 

B. What specific information is EPA 

seeking? 

EPA is requesting emissions and 

process data for broiler, egg-layer, 

swine, dairy, beef, and turkey AFOs. 

While EPA is interested in all air 

pollutants emissions data from AFOs, 

we are specifically seeking PM10, PM2.5, 

TSP, H2S, NH3, and VOC emissions data 

and related process information for 

animal confinement and manure storage 

and treatment processes. 

Consistent with the Air Compliance 

Agreement, EPA is focusing in the near 

term on developing EEMs for AFOs. 

However, we acknowledge the 

recommendation made by the National 

Academy of Sciences in its December 

2002 final report (‘‘Air Emissions from 

Animal Feeding Operations: Current 

Knowledge, Future Needs’’) that EPA 

develop a process-based modeling 

approach that incorporates ‘‘mass 

balance’’ constraints to determine 

emissions from AFOs. Unfortunately, 

manure land application sites, which 

are a necessary component for 

developing a process-based approach, 

were not part of the NAEMS. Although 

our current focus is on developing the 

EEMs, we envision developing a 

process-based modeling approach at a 

later date. Thus, EPA is also requesting 

process and emissions data for land 

application of manure. 

We will review all of the information 

available to us. To ensure compatibility 

with the NAEMS data, the emissions 

and related process data provided to 

EPA should be accompanied, to the 

extent possible, by documentation that 

contains detailed descriptions of the 

following parameters, as applicable. 

General information: 

• Description of AFO process 

measured (e.g., animal confinement 

structure; manure storage and treatment 

unit; land application site). 

• Location of AFO process measured 

(e.g., physical address, latitude/ 

longitude coordinates of facility). 

• Beginning and ending dates of the 

monitoring period. 

Monitoring data: 

• Quality assurance and quality 

control plan. 

• Site monitoring plan. 

• Test methods, instrumentation, and 

standard operating procedures used to 

collect emissions and process data 

measurements. 

• Results of audits conducted on 

instruments and procedures. 

• Field notes and associated 

documentation collected during the 

study. 

• Emissions data (unanalyzed or 

analyzed) and associated process data. 

• Meteorological data, including 

average ambient temperature, relative 

humidity, pressure, wind speed, wind 

direction, and insolation (solar 

radiation), for each day that the study 

was conducted. 

• Production data (e.g., number of 

eggs produced per day or quantity of 

milk produced per day). 

• Calculations and assumptions used 

to convert concentration data (e.g., 

ppmv) into mass emissions (e.g., lb/hr). 

Animal confinement structures: 

• Dimensions of structures 

monitored. 

• Designed and permitted animal 

capacity. 

• Type, age, number, and weight of 

animals contained in the confinement 

structure over the duration of the 

monitoring period. 

• Manure management system (e.g., 

pull-plug pit, scrape). 

• Manure removal activities over the 

duration of the monitoring period. 

• Ventilation method (i.e., natural or 

mechanical). 

• Calculations and assumptions used 

to estimate the ventilation rate of the 

monitored confinement structure. 

• Calibration procedures for 

instruments (e.g., flow meters, fan 

relays) used to collect data for 

calculating ventilation rate of the 

monitored confinement structure. 

• Nitrogen content of process inputs 

and outputs (e.g., feed, water, bedding, 

eggs, milk). 

• Nitrogen content of manure 

excreted. 

• Description of any control device or 

work practice used in the monitored 

structure to reduce emissions. 

Manure storage and treatment 

processes: 

• Type, age, number, and weight of 

animals contributing manure to the 

storage and treatment process over the 

monitoring period. 

• Dimensions of storage/treatment 

unit monitored (e.g., storage pile, tank, 

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• Depth of settled solids in storage/ 

treatment unit. 

• Temperature, pH, and reduction/ 

oxidation potential of manure contained 

in the storage/treatment unit. 

• Moisture, total solids, volatile 

solids, total Kjeldahl nitrogen, and 

ammoniacal nitrogen content and pH of 

manure entering storage and treatment 

process over the monitoring period. 

Manure land application sites: 

• Type, age, number, and weight of 

animals contributing manure to the land 

application site. 

• Method used to apply manure (e.g., 

direct injection, broadcast spreading 

and frequency of application. 

• Area (e.g., acres, square feet) used 

for manure application over the 

monitoring period. 

• Quantity and moisture content of 

manure applied. 

With regard to the format of the 

information, we request that emissions, 

process, and production data be 

submitted to EPA in Microsoft® Excel®

spreadsheet or Access® database format. 

In cases where the emissions, process, 

and production data correspond to time 

increments shorter than one hour, 

please provide sufficient information 

and supporting documentation with the 

data to allow EPA to develop emission 

estimates on a per-hour and per-day 

basis. For all formats, please clearly 

label the units of measure of emissions, 

process, and production data submitted. 

C. Submitting Confidential Business 

Information 

Do not submit information you 

consider to be CBI electronically 

through http://www.regulations.gov or 

e-mail. Send or deliver information 

identified as CBI to only the following 

address: Mr. Larry Elmore, c/o Office of 

Air Quality Planning and Standards 

(OAQPS) Document Control Officer 

(Room C404–02), U.S. EPA, Research 

Triangle Park, NC 27711, Attention 

Docket ID Number EPA–HQ–OAR– 

2010–0960. 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 

information claimed as CBI, a copy of 

the information that does not contain 

the information claimed as CBI must be 

submitted for inclusion in the public 

docket. Information marked as CBI will 

not be disclosed except in accordance 

with procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 

2. 

If you have any questions about CBI 

or the procedures for claiming CBI, 

please consult the person identified in 

the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section. 

Dated: December 14, 2010. 

Gina McCarthy, 

Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and 

Radiation. 

[FR Doc. 2011–1011 Filed 1–18–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 98 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2010–0929 and EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2010–0964; FRL–9252–4] 

Extension of Comment Period on 

Change to the Reporting Date for 

Certain Data Elements Required Under 

the Mandatory Reporting of 

Greenhouse Gases Rule; and Public 

Hearing and Extension of Comment 

Period on Call for Information on 

Inputs to Emission Equations Under 

the Mandatory Reporting of 

Greenhouse Gases Rule 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Public hearing notice and 

extension of public comment periods. 

SUMMARY: On December 27, 2010, EPA 

concurrently published a proposed 

Change to the Reporting Date for Certain 

Data Elements Required Under the 

Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse 

Gases Rule and a Call for Information on 

Inputs to Emission Equations Under the 

Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse 

Gases Rule. In this action, EPA is 

providing notice of a public hearing on 

the Call for Information, to be held on 

February 3, 2011, and extending the 

comment period for both actions until 

March 7, 2011. 

DATES: Comments. This action extends 

the comment period for the proposed 

Change to the Reporting Date for Certain 

Data Elements Required Under the 

Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse 

Gases Rule (75 FR 81350). Comments 

must be received on or before March 7, 

2011. This action also extends the 

comment period for the Call for 

Information on Inputs to Emission 

Equations Under the Mandatory 

Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule (75 

FR 81366). Comments must be received 

on or before March 7, 2011. 

Public Hearing. EPA will hold a 

hearing on the Call for Information on 

Inputs to Emission Equations Under the 

Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse 

Gases Rule (75 FR 81366). The hearing 

will be conducted on February 3, 2011, 

in the Washington, DC area. EPA will 

provide further information about both 

hearings on its Web page: http:// 

www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ 

ghgrulemaking.html. 

ADDRESSES: 

Proposed Change to the Reporting Date 

for Certain Data Elements Required 

Under the Mandatory Reporting of 

Greenhouse Gases Rule 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2010– 

0929, by one of the following methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

E-mail: GHGReportingCBI@epa.gov. 

Include Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR– 

2010–0929 (and/or RIN number) in the 

subject line of the message. 

Fax: (202) 566–1741. 

Mail: Environmental Protection 

Agency, EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), 

Mailcode 2822T, Attention Docket ID 

No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2010–0929, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. 

Hand/Courier Delivery: EPA Docket 

Center, Public Reading Room, EPA West 

Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20004. 

Such deliveries are only accepted 

during the Docket’s normal hours of 

operation, and special arrangements 

should be made for deliveries of boxed 

information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2010– 

0929. 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 e-mail. 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 e-mail comment directly 

to EPA without going through http:// 

www.regulations.gov your e-mail 

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 


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