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on environmental issues. EPA also believes 

that a permit applicant’s efforts to 

meaningfully engage an overburdened 

community are an important way to promote 

environmental justice. EPA agrees with the 

message that many stakeholders send: 

collaborations between permit applicants and 

the surrounding neighborhoods achieve 

greater environmental protections, more 

profitable operations, and more sustainable 

communities. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9693–1] 

Proposed Consent Decree 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed consent 

decree; request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended 

(‘‘Act’’), notice is hereby given of a 

proposed consent decree to resolve two 

lawsuits filed by various parties and 

consolidated in the United States 

District Court for the District of 

Columbia. Plaintiffs filed the lawsuits 

under the Act alleging that EPA has 

violated a nondiscretionary duty under 

the Clean Air Act, to complete a fiveyear review of the national ambient air 

quality standards (‘‘NAAQS’’) for 

particulate matter. Under the terms of 

the proposed consent decree, EPA 

agrees that no later than December 14, 

2012, EPA shall sign a notice of final 

rulemaking setting forth its final 

decision concerning its review of the 

NAAQS for particulate matter and 

promulgating such revisions to the 

NAAQS and/or promulgating such new 

NAAQS as may be appropriate. 

DATES: Written comments on the 

proposed settlement agreement must be 

received by July 26, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID number EPA– 

HQ–OGC–2012–0474, online at 

www.regulations.gov (EPA’s preferred 

method); by email to 

oei.docket@epa.gov; by mail to EPA 

Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mailcode: 2822T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; or by 

hand delivery or courier to EPA Docket 

Center, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. Comments on a disk or CD– 

ROM should be formatted in Word or 

ASCII file, avoiding the use of special 

characters and any form of encryption, 

and may be mailed to the mailing 

address above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Steven Silverman, Air and Radiation 

Law Office (2344A), Office of General 

Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone: (202) 

564–5523; fax number (202) 564–5603; 

email address: 

silverman.steven@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Additional Information About the 

Proposed Consent Decree 

This proposed consent decree would 

potentially resolve lawsuits 

consolidated in the United States 

District Court for the District of 

Columbia that were filed by the 

following plaintiffs: American Lung 

Association and National Parks 

Conservation Association (Civil Action 

No. 1:12–cv–00243–RLW), and the State 

of New York, et al. (Civil Action No. 

1:12–cv–00531–RLW). Plaintiffs filed 

the lawsuits under the Act alleging that 

EPA has violated a nondiscretionary 

duty under the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 

7409(d)(1), to complete a five-year 

review of the NAAQS for particulate 

matter. Under the terms of the proposed 

consent decree, EPA agrees that no later 

than December 14, 2012, EPA shall sign 

a notice of final rulemaking setting forth 

its final decision pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 

7409(d)(1) concerning its review of the 

NAAQS for particulate matter and 

promulgating such revisions to the 

NAAQS and/or promulgating such new 

NAAQS as may be appropriate in 

accordance with 42 U.S.C. 7408 and 

7409(b); that EPA shall seek expedited 

publication in the Federal Register of 

the notice of final rulemaking; and shall 

establish the effective date of the final 

decision such that any final rule shall 

become effective, barring intervening 

congressional or judicial action, on the 

earliest date that complies with the 

Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 801 

et seq. 

For a period of thirty (30) days 

following the date of publication of this 

notice, the Agency will accept written 

comments relating to the proposed 

consent decree from persons who were 

not named as parties or intervenors to 

the litigation in question. EPA or the 

Department of Justice may withdraw or 

withhold consent to the proposed 

consent decree if the comments disclose 

facts or considerations that indicate that 

such consent is inappropriate, 

improper, inadequate, or inconsistent 

with the requirements of the Act. Unless 

EPA or the Department of Justice 

determines, based on any comment 

submitted, that consent to this decree 

should be withdrawn, the terms of the 

consent decree will be affirmed. 

II. Additional Information About 

Commenting on the Proposed Consent 

Decree 

A. How can I get a copy of the proposed 

consent decree? 

The official public docket for this 

action (identified by Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–OGC–2012–0474) contains a 

copy of the proposed consent decree. 

The official public docket is available 

for public viewing at the Office of 

Environmental Information (OEI) Docket 

in the EPA Docket Center, EPA West, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. 

NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center 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 OEI 

Docket is (202) 566–1752. 

An electronic version of the public 

docket is available through 

www.regulations.gov. You may use the 

www.regulations.gov to submit or view 

public comments, access the index 

listing of the contents of the official 

public docket, and to access those 

documents in the public docket that are 

available electronically. Once in the 

system, key in the appropriate docket 

identification number then select 

‘‘search’’. 

It is important to note that EPA’s 

policy is that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing online at www.regulations.gov 

without change, unless the comment 

contains copyrighted material, CBI, or 

other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Information 

claimed as CBI and other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute 

is not included in the official public 

docket or in the electronic public 

docket. EPA’s policy is that copyrighted 

material, including copyrighted material 

contained in a public comment, will not 

be placed in EPA’s electronic public 

docket but will be available only in 

printed, paper form in the official public 

docket. Although not all docket 

materials may be available 

electronically, you may still access any 

of the publicly available docket 

materials through the EPA Docket 

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B. How and to whom do I submit 

comments? 

You may submit comments as 

provided in the ADDRESSES section. 

Please ensure that your comments are 

submitted within the specified comment 

period. Comments received after the 

close of the comment period will be 

marked ‘‘late.’’ EPA is not required to 

consider these late comments. 

If you submit an electronic comment, 

EPA recommends that you include your 

name, mailing address, and an email 

address or other contact information in 

the body of your comment and with any 

disk or CD ROM you submit. This 

ensures that you can be identified as the 

submitter of the comment and allows 

EPA to contact you in case EPA cannot 

read your comment due to technical 

difficulties or needs further information 

on the substance of your comment. Any 

identifying or contact information 

provided in the body of a comment will 

be included as part of the comment that 

is placed in the official public docket, 

and made available in EPA’s electronic 

public docket. 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. 

Use of the www.regulations.gov Web 

site to submit comments to EPA 

electronically is EPA’s preferred method 

for receiving comments. The electronic 

public docket system is an ‘‘anonymous 

access’’ system, which means EPA will 

not know your identity, email address, 

or other contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

In contrast to EPA’s electronic public 

docket, EPA’s electronic mail (email) 

system is not an ‘‘anonymous access’’ 

system. If you send an email comment 

directly to the Docket without going 

through www.regulations.gov, your 

email address is automatically captured 

and included as part of the comment 

that is placed in the official public 

docket, and made available in EPA’s 

electronic public docket. 

Dated: June 19, 2012. 

Lorie J. Schmidt, 

Associate General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2012–15603 Filed 6–25–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Notice of Public Information Collection 

Approved by the Office of Management 

and Budget 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of public information 

collection approved by the Office of 

Management and Budget. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications 

Commission has received the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval for the following public 

information collection(s) pursuant to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501–3520). An agency may not 

conduct or sponsor a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid OMB control number, 

and no person is required to respond to 

a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jane 

C. Kelly, Jane.Kelly@fcc.gov, or by 

phone on (202) 418–2832. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–1003. 

OMB Approval Date: June 8, 2012. 

Expiration Date: June 30, 2015. 

Title: Communications Disaster 

Information Reporting System (DIRS). 

Form No.: Not applicable. 

Number of Respondents/Responses: 

6,750 respondents; 6,750 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 0.1– 

0.50 hours. 

Total Annual Burden: 4,725. 

Total Annual Cost: None. 

Obligation To Respond: Voluntary. 

The statutory authority for this 

collection is contained in 47 U.S.C. 

154(i), 218, 303(r) of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

The Commission acknowledges and 

agrees that is consistent with the 

primary objective of the DIRS to treat 

filings as confidential. We will work 

with respondents to ensure that their 

concerns regarding the confidentiality of 

DIRS filings are resolved in a manner 

consistent with Commission rules. 

Needs and Uses: The Commission 

submitted this information collection to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) as a revision and received a three 

year approval from OMB for the 

collection. 

In response to the events of 

September 11, 2001, the Federal 

Communications Commission 

(Commission or FCC) created an 

Emergency Contact Information System 

to assist the Commission in ensuring 

rapid restoration of communications 

capabilities after disruption by a 

terrorist threat or attack, and to ensure 

that public safety, public health, and 

other emergency and defense personnel 

have effective communications services 

available to them in the immediate 

aftermath of any terrorist attack within 

the United States. The Commission 

submitted, and OMB approved, a 

collection through which key 

communications providers could 

voluntarily provide contact information. 

The Commission’s Public Safety and 

Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) 

updated the Emergency Contact 

Information system with a Disaster 

Information Reporting System (DIRS) 

that uses electronic forms to collect 

Emergency Contact Information forms 

and through which participants may 

inform the Commission of damage to 

communications infrastructure and 

facilities and may request resources for 

restoration. The Commission updated 

the process by increasing the number of 

reporting entities to ensure inclusion of 

wireless, wireline, broadcast, cable and 

satellite communications providers. 

In recent years, communications have 

evolved from a circuit-switched network 

infrastructure to broadband networks. 

The Commission is seeking to extend 

the Disaster Information Reporting 

System to include interconnected Voice 

over Internet Protocol and broadband 

Internet Service Providers. Increasing 

numbers of consumers, businesses, and 

government agencies rely on broadband 

and interconnected VoIP services for 

everyday and emergency 

communications needs, including vital 

9–1–1 services. It is therefore imperative 

that the Disaster Information Reporting 

System be expanded to include these 

new technologies in order for the 

Commission the gain an accurate 

picture of communications landscape 

during disasters. Therefore, the 

Commission has revised its DIRS screen 

shots and is including a copy of the 

DIRS user manual for which the 

Commission has received OMB 

approval on June 8, 2012. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[AU Docket No. 12–25; DA 12–947] 

Mobility Fund Phase I Auction 

Supplemental Short-Form Instructions 

and Other Information 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the 

Commission’s Wireless 

Telecommunications and Wireline 


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