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§ 1091.111 Construction of time limits. 

(a) General rule. In computing any 

period of time prescribed by this part, 

or by order of the Assistant Director or 

Director, the date of the act or event that 

commences the designated period of 

time is not included. The last day so 

computed is included unless it is a 

Saturday, Sunday, or Federal holiday as 

set forth in 5 U.S.C. 6103(a). When the 

last day is a Saturday, Sunday, or 

Federal holiday, the period runs until 

the end of the next day that is not a 

Saturday, Sunday, or Federal holiday. 

Intermediate Saturdays, Sundays, and 

Federal holidays are included in the 

computation of time, except when the 

time period within which an act is to be 

performed is ten days or less, not 

including any additional time allowed 

for in paragraph (c) of this section. 

(b) Filing or service of papers. Filing 

and service are deemed to be effective: 

(1) In the case of personal service or 

same day commercial courier delivery, 

upon actual receipt by the person 

served; 

(2) In the case of overnight 

commercial delivery service, U.S. 

Express Mail delivery, or first class, 

registered, or certified mail, upon 

deposit in or delivery to an appropriate 

point of collection; or 

(3) In the case of electronic 

transmission, including email, upon 

transmission. 

(c) Calculation of time for service and 

filing of responsive papers. Whenever a 

time limit is measured by a prescribed 

period from the service of any notice or 

paper, the applicable time limits are 

calculated as follows: 

(1) If service is made by first class, 

registered, or certified mail, add three 

calendar days to the prescribed period; 

(2) If service is made by express mail 

or overnight delivery service, add one 

calendar day to the prescribed period; or 

(3) If service is made by electronic 

transmission, add one calendar day to 

the prescribed period. 

§ 1091.112 Change of time limits and effect 

of deadlines. 

(a) Except as otherwise provided by 

law, the Assistant Director until the 

issuance of a recommended 

determination, or the Director at any 

time thereafter, may extend the time 

limits prescribed by this part or by any 

notice or order issued pursuant to this 

part. Any request for an extension of a 

time limit by a respondent must be for 

good cause shown, in writing, and filed 

with the Assistant Director or Director, 

as appropriate. The mere filing of a 

written request for an extension does 

not alleviate a respondent of the 

obligation to meet an applicable time 

limit absent written confirmation that 

an extension has been granted. 

(b) In considering all requests for 

extensions of time filed pursuant to 

paragraph (a) of this section, the 

Assistant Director or Director, as 

appropriate, shall adhere to a policy of 

strongly disfavoring such requests, 

except in circumstances where the 

requesting party makes a strong showing 

that the denial of the request would 

substantially prejudice its case. 

(c) Deadlines for action by the Deputy, 

Assistant Director or the Director 

established in this part confer no 

substantive rights on respondents. 

§ 1091.113 Voluntary consent to Bureau’s 

authority. 

(a) Notwithstanding any other 

provision, pursuant to a consent 

agreement agreed to by the Bureau, a 

person may voluntarily consent to the 

Bureau’s supervisory authority under 12 

U.S.C. 5514, and such voluntary consent 

agreement shall not be subject to any 

right to judicial review. 

(b) The consent agreement of any 

person, pursuant to paragraph (a) of this 

section, that specifies the duration of 

time that such person will be subject to 

the Bureau’s authority under 12 U.S.C. 

5514 shall not be eligible for a petition 

for termination of order pursuant to 

§ 1091.110, and a respondent entering 

into a consent agreement waives any 

right to judicial review of such consent 

agreement. 

§ 1091.114 Notice and response included 

in adjudication proceeding otherwise 

brought by the Bureau. 

(a) Notwithstanding sections 

§ 1091.102 through § 1091.104, the 

Bureau may, in its sole discretion, 

provide the notice and opportunity to 

respond required by 12 U.S.C. 

5514(a)(1)(C) in a notice of charges 

otherwise brought by the Bureau 

pursuant to 12 CFR 1081.200 and the 

adjudication proceedings pursuant to 

that part. 

(b) If the Bureau chooses to proceed 

in the manner described in paragraph 

(a) of this section, it shall so indicate in 

the notice of charges, and any order of 

the Director resulting from the notice of 

charges shall constitute the order 

referred to in 12 U.S.C. 5514(a)(1)(C). 

(c) If the Bureau proceeds pursuant to 

paragraph (a) of this section, the 

provisions of § 1091.100 through 

§ 1091.113 will be inapplicable to such 

proceeding. If the Bureau proceeds 

pursuant to this part, then the 

provisions of 12 CFR part 1081 shall be 

inapplicable to such proceedings. 

§ 1091.115 No limitation on relief sought in 

civil action or administrative adjudication. 

Nothing in this part shall be 

construed to limit the relief the Bureau 

may seek in any civil action or 

administrative adjudication, including 

but not limited to, seeking an order to 

have a person deemed subject to the 

Bureau’s supervisory authority under 12 

U.S.C. 5514 for the reasons set forth in 

12 U.S.C. 5514(a)(1)(C) or otherwise. 

Dated: May 20, 2012. 

Richard Cordray, 

Director, Bureau of Consumer Financial 

Protection. 

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BILLING CODE 4810–AM–P 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

Copyright Office 

37 CFR Part 201 

[Docket No. RM 2012–4] 

Electronic Filing in the Copyright 

Office of Notices of Intention To Obtain 

a Section 115 Compulsory License 

AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of 

Congress. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: The Copyright Office is 

proposing to amend its regulations for 

filing Notices of Intention to obtain a 

Section 115 compulsory license with 

the Copyright Office to provide an 

option for electronically filing the 

notice. By law, such notices may be 

filed in the Office only when the public 

records of the Copyright Office do not 

identify the copyright owner of the 

musical work and include an address at 

which notice can be served. In addition, 

the Copyright Office is proposing to 

clarify in its regulations that it does not 

examine Notices of Intention filed with 

the Office for legal sufficiency and to 

include a Privacy Act Advisory 

Statement. 

DATES: Comments are due no later than 

5:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time July 9, 

2012. 

ADDRESSES: The Copyright Office 

strongly prefers that comments be 

submitted electronically. A rulemaking 

page containing a comment form is 

posted on the Copyright Office Web site 

at http://copyright.gov/docs/section115/ 

efilings/comments/. The Web site 

interface requires submitters to 

complete a form specifying name and 

organization, as applicable, and to 

upload comments as an attachment via 

a browse button. To meet accessibility 

standards, all comments must be 

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uploaded in a single file in either the 

Adobe Portable Document File (PDF) 

format that contains searchable, 

accessible text (not an image); Microsoft 

Word; WordPerfect; Rich Text Format 

(RTF); or ASCII text file format (not a 

scanned document). The maximum file 

size is 6 megabytes (MB). The name of 

the submitter and organization should 

appear on both the form and the face of 

the comments. All comments will be 

posted publicly on the Copyright Office 

Web site exactly as they are received, 

along with names and organizations. If 

electronic submission of comments is 

not feasible, please contact the 

Copyright Office at 202–707–8380 for 

special instructions. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tanya Sandros, Deputy General 

Counsel, or Stephen Ruwe, AttorneyAdvisor, Copyright GC/I&R, P.O. Box 

70400, Washington, DC 20024. 

Telephone: (202) 707–8380. Telefax: 

(202) 707–8366. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 115 of the Copyright Act, 17 

U.S.C., provides that ‘‘[w]hen 

phonorecords of a nondramatic musical 

work have been distributed to the public 

in the United States under the authority 

of the copyright owner, any other 

person * * * may, by complying with 

the provisions of this section, obtain a 

compulsory license to make and 

distribute phonorecords of the work.’’ 

17 U.S.C. 115(a)(1). 

Included among the conditions that 

must be met to use the Section 115 

compulsory license is the requirement 

that a person who wishes to obtain a 

compulsory license ‘‘shall, before or 

within thirty days after making, and 

before distributing any phonorecords of 

the work, serve notice of intention to do 

so on the copyright owner. If the 

registration or other public records of 

the Copyright Office do not identify the 

copyright owner and include an address 

at which notice can be served, it shall 

be sufficient to file the notice of 

intention in the Copyright Office. The 

notice shall comply, in form, content, 

and manner of service, with 

requirements that the Register of 

Copyrights shall prescribe by 

regulation.’’ 17 U.S.C. 115(b)(1). 

In 2004, the Copyright Office 

(‘‘Office’’) amended 37 CFR 201.18, the 

regulations governing Notices of 

Intention to obtain a Section 115 

compulsory license (‘‘Notices’’), in order 

to make the license more functional. 69 

FR 34578 (June 22, 2004). Among the 

2004 amendments to 37 CFR 201.18 was 

a provision that allowed that a Notice 

‘‘may designate any number of 

nondramatic musical works, provided 

that the copyright owner of each 

designated work or, in the case of any 

work having more than one copyright 

owner, any one of the copyright owners 

is the same and that the information 

required under paragraphs (d)(1)(i) 

through (iv) of this section does not vary 

[i.e., name and contact information of 

licensee; name and contact information 

of primary entity making and 

distributing phonorecords, and 

information concerning yearly 

accounting periods]. For purposes of 

this section, a Notice which lists 

multiple works shall be considered a 

composite filing of multiple Notices and 

fees shall be paid accordingly if filed in 

the Copyright Office under paragraph (f) 

of this section (i.e., a separate fee, in the 

amount set forth in § 201.3(e)(1), shall 

be paid for each work listed in the 

Notice).’’ 37 CFR 201.18(a)(4). The 2004 

amendments also allowed licensees to 

serve Notices directly on copyright 

owners or designated agents by means 

of an electronic transmission when the 

copyright owner or designated agent has 

a written public policy that it can 

accommodate such submissions. 37 CFR 

201.18(a)(7). 

Earlier in the 2004 rulemaking 

process the Office also considered 

whether to allow a licensee to file a 

Notice in the Office in an electronic 

format. The Office determined that it 

was not prepared to accept 

electronically filed Notices because it 

did not have in place the systems that 

would accommodate such filings but 

that the Office anticipated that such 

filings would be accepted in the future. 

The Office did provide that in the case 

where the licensee intends to license a 

high volume of nondramatic musical 

works under section 115 and would 

endure significant hardships if required 

to submit the Notices under the 

standard practices, the licensee may 

contact the Licensing Division of the 

Copyright Office to inquire whether 

special arrangements could be made for 

submission of the Notice electronically. 

69 FR 11566, 11570 (March 11, 2004). 

The Office is aware of a growing need 

for an electronic filing system for filing 

Section 115 Notices with the Copyright 

Office because of the large number of 

works being used under the compulsory 

license where service of the Notice 

cannot be made effectively on the 

copyright owner. To meet this need, the 

Office is now preparing to accept 

specific types of electronically filed 

Notices addressing multiple 

nondramatic musical works. Hence, the 

Office is proposing to amend its 

regulations in § 201.18 by providing for 

use of an online system for submission 

of Notices covering multiple 

nondramatic musical works. 

II. Proposed Procedures and Regulatory 

Amendments 

The Office proposes to amend its 

regulations to allow prospective 

licensees to make electronic filings of 

Notices addressing multiple 

nondramatic musical works, provided 

that the information required under 

paragraphs (d)(1)(i) through (iv) of 

§ 201.18 does not vary. In addition, the 

Office is proposing to clarify its rules for 

submission of Notices in a paper format 

that contain multiple titles of 

nondramatic musical works. 

The Office has reviewed the Notices 

recently filed with the Licensing 

Division in the traditional paper format 

and observed that parties have filed 

such Notices that address multiple 

works for which the public records of 

the Office do not identify the copyright 

owner. Although paragraph (d)(1)(v)(C) 

of § 201.18 requires that a Notice 

include the copyright owner of the work 

only ‘‘if known,’’ the Office has not 

questioned Notices filed in a paper 

format addressing multiple works where 

such ‘‘unknown’’ ownership is shared 

across each work addressed in the 

Notice, i.e., no copyright owner can be 

identified for any of the works listed. 

Such paper filings do not present a 

problem for the Office to process. The 

Office is now entering key pieces of 

information, e.g., name of the song, 

licensee, and date received, from the 

Notice into a spreadsheet (currently 

located on the Copyright Office Web 

page at http://www.copyright.gov/ 

licensing/115.pdf), making it possible to 

identify easily who filed a Notice for a 

particular work. However, because the 

current rules do not expressly address 

the Office’s acceptance of Notices with 

multiple titles in the case where no 

copyright owner of any of the works can 

be identified, the Office proposes to 

amend its regulations to clarify that a 

Notice filed in a paper format may list 

multiple works in a single Notice when 

any of the following circumstances 

apply: in the case where no copyright 

owner can be identified from the 

Copyright Office records for any of the 

works listed in the Notice; in the case 

where the copyright owner of each work 

listed in the Notice is the same and the 

records of the Copyright Office do not 

include an address at which notice can 

be served; or for works having more 

than one copyright owner, in the case 

where the works listed in the Notice 

share a common copyright owner and 

the records of the Copyright Office do 

not include an address at which notice 

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can be served on any of the copyright 

owners for the subject works. The Office 

is maintaining these distinctions for the 

paper filings at this time because it 

provides more concise information to 

the public reviewing the Notices and 

facilitates the recordkeeping process for 

the Office. 

The Office has also determined that 

Notices addressing multiple 

nondramatic musical works may be 

submitted electronically as XML files. 

Electronically submitted Notices will be 

maintained in a database that can be 

searched using any of the included 

fields of information. While the search 

capability of the electronically filed 

Notices will not be directly available to 

the public for technical reasons during 

the initial rollout of this service, a 

request may be made to the Licensing 

Division for a search of the database 

during the interim period. As such, the 

Office proposes to allow Notices to be 

filed in the Office in electronic format 

regardless of whether the copyright 

owner of each designated work is the 

same, provided that the Notice does not 

include a nondramatic musical work 

when the identity and address of at least 

one of its copyright owners may be 

found in the public record of the 

Copyright Office. 

As part of the process of accepting 

electronically filed Notices, the Office is 

also proposing to adopt regulations 

governing payment for electronically 

filed Notices in order to provide a 

means to authenticate the licensee 

submitting the Notice (see below) and to 

facilitate an efficient implementation of 

the interim system. Specifically, the 

Office is proposing that during the 

introduction of the online filing process, 

parties that wish to use the Office’s 

online system for electronically filing 

Notices be required to maintain a 

deposit account pursuant to § 201.6(b) 

of the Copyright Office regulations for 

payment of the Notice filing fees set 

forth in § 201.3(e)(1) of the Office’s 

regulations, an option that can be easily 

implemented. See Circular 5: How to 

Open and Maintain a Copyright Office 

Deposit Account at: http:// 

www.copyright.gov/circs/circ05.pdf. Use 

of a deposit account will allow the 

Office to make any necessary fee 

payments immediately and it avoids the 

need to solve the technological and 

security issues associated with 

providing a credit card payment in this 

first iteration of the system. 

In addition, the Office proposes not to 

require an electronic signature during 

the initial rollout of the filing process, 

although the Office anticipates adding 

an electronic signature requirement in 

later versions of the system. Instead, a 

remitter will have to create an online 

account to file the Notice electronically 

and, as noted above, provide payment 

via a Copyright Office deposit account. 

The Office is adopting this approach 

because the online system will be able 

to use the deposit account information 

to reasonably verify and authenticate 

the identity of the person submitting 

and validating Notices. In addition, the 

Office will require that the person 

submitting the Notices provide contact 

information and attest to his or her 

authority to file Notices on behalf of the 

subject Licensee. 

In order to accommodate a filer of a 

Notice identifying only one or a few 

titles who does not have a deposit 

account, the Office intends in the future 

to upgrade the online filing system to 

require an electronic signature and to 

accept additional payment options, e.g., 

credit card payments. At the moment, 

however, the focus is on offering a 

mechanism for filing Notices with large 

numbers of titles in a manner that can 

easily be administered by the Office at 

this time. The Office is also reviewing 

its fee for filing Notices as part of a 

larger project to review its fees for 

registration and services. Any changes 

to the fees for filing Notices of Intention 

to Obtain a Compulsory License will be 

addressed in that process. See 77 FR 

18742 (March 28, 2012). 

III. Additional Amendments 

The Office is also taking this 

opportunity to clarify the extent to 

which the Office examines the Notices. 

First, the Office does not examine 

Notices for legal sufficiency. Rather, the 

determination of whether a Notice filed 

in the Office is sufficient as a matter of 

law under this section shall, if 

necessary, be made by a court of 

competent jurisdiction. For that reason, 

a person or entity filing a Notice of 

Intention to obtain a Section 115 

compulsory license should take care to 

comply with all the statutory and 

regulatory requirements pertaining to 

such Notices. However, the Office will 

notify a prospective licensee when a 

Notice was not accompanied by 

payment of the required fee. Such a 

Notice is considered an incomplete 

submission and the Notice shall be 

deemed filed only as of the date the 

Office has received both the Notice and 

the applicable fee. 

In addition, the Office is proposing to 

amend its regulations for Notices to 

include a Privacy Act Advisory 

Statement in § 201.18 in addition to 

providing this information on its Web 

site. The Privacy Act Advisory 

Statement fulfills the Office’s obligation 

to notify the public that Notices with 

personally identifying information filed 

with the Office become public records. 

IV. Pilot Program 

While the Office is proposing to 

amend its regulations to accept 

electronic filing of the Section 115 

Notices of Intent to Obtain a 

Compulsory License, it needs to fully 

test the system before making it 

available to the public for actual, valid 

submissions of Notices. Thus, members 

of the public are invited to participate 

in a Beta test of the proposed electronic 

system. Parties wishing to participate in 

Beta testing should contact Tracie 

Coleman in the Licensing Division of 

the Copyright Office at 202–707–3600, 

tmau@loc.gov. The Beta testing will 

require participants to upload ‘‘test’’ 

Notices to the Beta version of the 

electronic system to ensure proper 

functionality. ‘‘Test’’ Notices uploaded 

during the Beta testing phase will not 

require the submission of a filing fee, 

and they will not have any legal effect 

or otherwise be considered valid for 

licensing purposes. The Beta testing will 

be limited to selected participants until 

system testing is complete. 

V. Conclusion 

The Copyright Office hereby seeks 

comment from the public on the 

proposals identified herein concerning 

Notices of Intention to obtain a Section 

115 compulsory license. 

List of Subjects in 37 CFR Part 201 

Copyright. 

Proposed Regulation 

In consideration of the foregoing, the 

Copyright Office proposes to amend part 

201 of 37 CFR as follows: 

PART 201—GENERAL PROVISIONS 

1. The authority citation for part 201 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 17 U.S.C. 702. 

§ 201.4 [Amended] 

2. Amend § 201.4(a)(1)(iii) by 

removing ‘‘Original, signed notices’’ at 

the beginning of the paragraph and 

adding ‘‘Notices’’ in its place. 

3. Amend § 201.18 as follows: 

a. By revising paragraph (a)(4); 

b. By adding a new paragraph (e)(5); 

c. By redesignating paragraph (g) as 

new paragraph (h); 

d. By adding a new paragraph (g); 

e. By adding a new paragraph (i). 

The additions and revisions to 

§ 201.18 read as follows: 

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§ 201.18 Notice of intention to obtain a 

compulsory license for making and 

distributing phonorecords of nondramatic 

musical works. 

(a) * * * 

(4) A Notice of Intention shall be 

served or filed for nondramatic musical 

works embodied, or intended to be 

embodied, in phonorecords made under 

the compulsory license. For purposes of 

this section and subject to 

subparagraphs (ii) and (iii), a Notice 

filed with the Copyright Office which 

lists multiple works shall be considered 

a single Notice and fees shall be paid in 

accordance with the fee schedule set 

forth in § 201.3(e)(1) if filed in the 

Copyright Office under paragraph (f)(3) 

of this section. Payment of the 

applicable fees for a Notice submitted 

electronically under this paragraph shall 

be made through a deposit account 

established under § 201.6(b). 

(i) Except as provided for in 

paragraph (a)(7), a Notice of Intention 

served on a copyright owner or agent of 

a copyright owner may designate any 

number of nondramatic musical works 

provided that that the information 

required under paragraphs (d)(1)(i) 

through (iv) of this section does not vary 

and that the copyright owner of each 

designated work is the same, or in the 

case of any work having more than one 

copyright owner, that any one of the 

copyright owners is the same and is the 

copyright owner served. 

(ii) A Notice of Intention filed in the 

Copyright Office in paper form may 

designate any number of nondramatic 

musical works provided that that the 

information required under paragraphs 

(d)(1)(i) through (iv) of this section does 

not vary, and that the copyright owner 

of each designated work (or, in the case 

of works having more than one 

copyright owner, any one of the 

copyright owners) is the same and the 

registration records or other public 

records of the Copyright Office do not 

identify the copyright owner(s) of such 

work(s) and include an address for any 

such owner(s) at which notice can be 

served. For purposes of this 

subparagraph, in the case of works 

having more than one copyright owner, 

a single Notice must identify an actual 

person or entity as the common 

copyright owner; the common copyright 

owner may not be identified as 

‘‘unknown.’’ However, a single Notice 

may include multiple works for which 

no copyright owners can be identified 

for any of the listed works. 

(iii) A Notice of Intention filed in the 

Copyright Office in electronic format 

may designate multiple nondramatic 

musical works, regardless of whether 

the copyright owner of each designated 

work (or, in the case of any work having 

more than one copyright owner, any one 

of the copyright owners) is the same, 

provided that the information required 

under paragraphs (d)(1)(i) through (iv) 

of this section does not vary, and that 

for any designated work, the records of 

the Copyright Office do not include an 

address at which notice can be served. 

* * * * * 

(e) * * * 

(5) If the Notice is filed in the Office 

electronically, the person or entity 

intending to obtain the compulsory 

license or a duly authorized agent of 

such person or entity shall, rather than 

signing the Notice, attest that he or she 

has the appropriate authority of the 

licensee, including any related entities 

listed, if applicable, to submit the 

electronically filed Notice on behalf of 

the licensee. 

* * * * * 

(g) Filing date and legal sufficiency of 

Notices. The Copyright Office will 

notify a prospective licensee when a 

Notice was not accompanied by 

payment of the required fee. Notices 

shall be deemed filed as of the date the 

Office receives both the Notice and the 

fee, if applicable. If the prospective 

licensee fails to remit the required fee, 

the Notice will be deemed not to have 

been filed with the Office. However, the 

Copyright Office does not review 

Notices for legal sufficiency or interpret 

the content of any Notice filed with the 

Copyright Office under this section. 

Furthermore, the Copyright Office does 

not screen Notices for errors or 

discrepancies and it does not generally 

correspond with a prospective licensee 

about the sufficiency of a Notice. If any 

issue (other than an issue related to fees) 

arises as to whether a Notice filed in the 

Copyright Office is sufficient as a matter 

of law under this section, that issue 

shall be determined not by the 

Copyright Office, but shall be subject to 

determination by a court of competent 

jurisdiction. Prospective licensees are 

therefore cautioned to review and 

scrutinize Notices to assure their legal 

sufficiency before filing them in the 

Copyright Office. 

(h) Harmless errors. Harmless errors 

in a Notice that do not materially affect 

the adequacy of the information 

required to serve the purposes of section 

115(b)(1) of title 17 of the United States 

Code, shall not render the Notice 

invalid. 

(i) Privacy Act Advisory Statement. 

The authority for receiving the 

personally identifying information 

included within a Notice of Intention to 

obtain a compulsory license is found in 

17 U.S.C. 115 and § 201.18. Personally 

identifying information is any personal 

information that can be used to identify 

or trace an individual, such as name, 

address or telephone numbers. 

Furnishing the information set forth in 

§ 201.18 is voluntary. However, if the 

information is not furnished, it may 

affect the sufficiency of Notice of 

Intention to obtain a compulsory license 

and may not entitle the prospective 

licensee to the benefits available under 

17 U.S.C. 115. The principal uses of the 

requested information are the 

establishment and maintenance of a 

public record of the Notices of Intention 

to obtain a compulsory license received 

in the Licensing Division of the 

Copyright Office. Other routine uses 

include public inspection and copying, 

preparation of public indexes, 

preparation of public catalogs of 

copyright records including online 

catalogs, and preparation of search 

reports upon request. 

Dated: May 18, 2012 

Maria A. Pallante, 

Register of Copyrights. 

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BILLING CODE 1410–33–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R04–OAR–2010–0935, FRL–9677–9] 

Approval and Promulgation of Air 

Quality Implementation Plans; State of 

Florida; Regional Haze State 

Implementation Plan 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: EPA is proposing a limited 

approval of two revisions to the Florida 

state implementation plan (SIP) 

submitted by the State of Florida 

through the Florida Department of 

Environmental Protection (FDEP) on 

March 19, 2010, and August 31, 2010. 

Additionally, EPA is proposing a 

limited approval of a draft SIP revision 

submitted by FDEP on April 13, 2012, 

for parallel processing. Collectively, 

these three SIP revisions address 

regional haze for the first 

implementation period. Specifically, 

these SIP revisions address the 

requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA 

or Act), and EPA’s rules that require 

states to prevent any future and remedy 

any existing anthropogenic impairment 

of visibility in mandatory Class I areas 

(national parks and wilderness areas) 

caused by emissions of air pollutants 

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