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VI. Award Administration Information 

1. Award Notices: If your application 

is successful, we notify your U.S. 

Representative and U.S. Senators and 

send you a Grant Award Notification 

(GAN). We may notify you informally, 

also. 

If your application is not evaluated or 

not selected for funding, we notify you. 

2. Administrative and National Policy 

Requirements: We identify 

administrative and national policy 

requirements in the application package 

and reference these and other 

requirements in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. 

We reference the regulations outlining 

the terms and conditions of an award in 

the Applicable Regulations section of 

this notice and include these and other 

specific conditions in the GAN. The 

GAN also incorporates your approved 

application as part of your binding 

commitments under the grant. 

3. Reporting: (a) If you apply for a 

grant under this competition, you must 

ensure that you have in place the 

necessary processes and systems to 

comply with the reporting requirements 

in 2 CFR part 170 should you receive 

funding under the competition. This 

does not apply if you have an exception 

under 2 CFR 170.110(b). 

(b) At the end of your project period, 

you must submit a final performance 

report, including financial information, 

as directed by the Secretary. If you 

receive a multi-year award, you must 

submit an annual performance report 

that provides the most current 

performance and financial expenditure 

information as directed by the Secretary 

under 34 CFR 75.118. The Secretary 

may also require more frequent 

performance reports under 34 CFR 

75.720(c). For specific requirements on 

reporting, please go to www.ed.gov/ 

fund/grant/apply/appforms/ 

appforms.html. 

4. Performance Measures: The 

Government Performance and Results 

Act of 1993 (GPRA) directs Federal 

departments and agencies to improve 

the effectiveness of their programs by 

engaging in strategic planning, setting 

outcome-related goals for programs, and 

measuring program results against those 

goals. The goal of the AFP is to reduce 

cost barriers to obtaining AT devices 

and services by providing alternative 

financing mechanisms that allow 

individuals with disabilities and their 

family members, guardians, advocates, 

and authorized representatives to 

purchase AT devices and services. The 

following measure has been developed 

for evaluating the overall effectiveness 

of the AFP: The cumulative amount 

loaned to individuals with disabilities 

per $1 million in cumulative Federal 

investment. Grantees will report data for 

use in calculating these measures 

through the data collection system 

required by the Secretary as stated in 

paragraph (8) in the list of required 

assurances in the absolute priority in 

this notice. 

VII. Agency Contact 

For Further Information Contact: 

Robert Groenendaal, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

Room 5025, PCP, Washington, DC 

20202–2800. Telephone: (202) 245–7393 

or by email: robert.groenendaal@ed.gov. 

If you use a TDD or a TTY, call the 

FRS, toll free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

VIII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

an accessible format (e.g., braille, large 

print, audiotape, or compact disc) by 

contacting the Grants and Contracts 

Services Team, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

Room 5075, PCP, Washington, DC 

20202–2550. Telephone: (202) 245– 

7363. If you use a TDD, call the FRS, toll 

free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the 

official edition of the Federal Register 

and the Code of Federal Regulations is 

available via the Federal Digital System 

at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you 

can view this document, as well as all 

other documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Adobe Portable Document 

Format (PDF). To use PDF you must 

have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. 

Dated: August 3, 2012. 

Alexa Posny, 

Assistant Secretary for Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services. 

[FR Doc. 2012–19477 Filed 8–7–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9713–5] 

Final National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System (NPDES) General 

Permit for Discharges From the Oil and 

Gas Extraction Point Source Category 

to Coastal Waters in Texas 

(TXG330000) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of NPDES General Permit 

Renewal. 

SUMMARY: EPA Region 6 today 

announces issuance of the final NPDES 

general permit for the Coastal Waters of 

Texas (No. TXG330000) for discharges 

from existing and new dischargers and 

New Sources in the Coastal and Stripper 

Subcategories of the Oil and Gas 

Extraction Point Source Category as 

authorized by section 402 of the Clean 

Water Act, (CWA). This permit renewal 

authorizes discharges from exploration, 

development, and production facilities 

discharging to the coastal waters of 

Texas. The draft permit was proposed in 

the Federal Register on March 30, 2012. 

EPA Region 6 has considered all 

comments received and makes few 

changes to the proposed permit: pH 

limit for formation test fluids and fecal 

coliform limit only for oyster water. 

DATES: This permit was issued and 

effective on July 31, 2012 and expires 

July 30, 2017. This effective date is 

necessary to provide dischargers with 

the immediate opportunity to comply 

with Clean Water Act requirements in 

light of the expiration of the 2007 

permit on July 6, 2012. In accordance 

with 40 CFR 23, this permit shall be 

considered issued for the purpose of 

judicial review on August 22, 2012. 

Under section 509(b) of the CWA, 

judicial review of this general permit 

can be held by filing a petition for 

review in the United States Court of 

Appeals within 120 days after the 

permit is considered issued for judicial 

review. Under section 509(b)(2) of the 

CWA, the requirements in this permit 

may not be challenged later in civil or 

criminal proceedings to enforce these 

requirements. In addition, this permit 

may not be challenged in other agency 

proceedings. Deadlines for submittal of 

notices of intent are provided in Part 

I.A.2 of the permit. 

ADDRESSES: A copy of the Region’s 

responses to comments and the final 

permit may be obtained from the EPA 

Region 6 Internet site: http:// 

www.epa.gov/region6/water/npdes/ 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Diane Smith, Region 6, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1445 

Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202–2733. 

Telephone: (214) 665–2145. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

permit prohibits the discharge of 

drilling fluid, drill cuttings, produced 

sand and well treatment, completion 

and workover fluids. Discharges of 

dewatering effluents from reserve pits 

are also prohibited. Produced water 

discharges are prohibited, except from 

wells in the Stripper Subcategory 

located east of the 98th meridian whose 

produced water comes from the Carrizo/ 

Wilcox, Reklaw or Bartosh formations in 

Texas as authorized by the previous 

permit. Discharges of produced waters 

from new stripper wells to an impaired 

waterbody that is impaired for dissolved 

oxygen are prohibited. The discharge of 

deck drainage, formation test fluids, 

sanitary waste, domestic waste and 

miscellaneous discharges is authorized. 

More stringent requirements are 

established to regulate discharges to 

water quality-impaired waterbodies. 

Pursuant to section 316(b) of the Clean 

Water Act (CWA), requirements for new 

facilities are also established in the final 

permit. Major changes also include 

definition of ‘‘operator’’, acute toxicity 

test for produced water, spill prevention 

best management practices, and 

electronic reporting requirements. To 

obtain discharge authorization, 

operators of such facilities must submit 

a new Notice of Intent (NOI). To 

determine whether your facility, 

company, business, organization, etc. is 

regulated by this action, you should 

carefully examine the applicability 

criteria in Part I, Section A.1 of this 

permit. 

Other Legal Requirements: State 

certification under section 401 of the 

CWA; consistency with the Texas 

Coastal Management Program; and 

compliance with National 

Environmental Policy Act, Endangered 

Species Act, Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act, 

Historic Preservation Act, Paperwork 

Reduction Act, and Regulatory 

Flexibility Act requirements are 

discussed in the Region’s responses to 

comments. 

Dated: July 31, 2012. 

William K. Honker, 

Acting Director, Water Quality Protection 

Division, EPA Region 6. 

[FR Doc. 2012–19398 Filed 8–7–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9713–6] 

Proposed Settlement Agreement, 

Clean Air Act Citizen Suit 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Proposed Settlement 

Agreement; Request for Public 

Comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

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

(‘‘Act’’), 42 U.S.C. 7413(g), notice is 

hereby given of a proposed settlement 

agreement to address a lawsuit filed in 

the United States District Court for the 

Middle District of Louisiana: Louisiana 

Environmental Action Network v. EPA, 

No. 3:12–cv–00088–JTT–JDK (M.D. La). 

On or about February 15, 2012, 

Louisiana Environmental Action 

Network filed a complaint that EPA 

failed to perform its nondiscretionary 

duty pursuant to section 505(b)(2) of the 

Act, 42 U.S.C. 7661d(b)(2), to grant or 

deny, within 60 days after it was filed, 

a petition requesting that EPA object to 

a proposed title V operating permit for 

the Noranda Alumina, LLC alumina 

processing facility in Gramercy, St. John 

the Baptist Parish, Louisiana issued by 

the Louisiana Department of 

Environmental Quality (‘‘LDEQ’’). 

Under the terms of the proposed 

settlement agreement, EPA would be 

required to sign its response to 

Plaintiff’s petition by December 15, 

2012. 

DATES: Written comments on the 

proposed settlement agreement must be 

received by September 7, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID number EPA– 

HQ–OGC–2012–0573, online at 

www.regulations.gov (EPA’s preferred 

method); by email to 

oei.docket@epa.gov; mailed 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: 

Gretchen Graves, Esq., Air and 

Radiation Law Office (2344A), Office of 

General Counsel, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone: (202) 564–5581; fax number 

(202) 564–5603; email address: 

graves.gretchen@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Additional Information About the 

Proposed Consent Decree 

The proposed settlement agreement 

would settle Plaintiff’s claims in a title 

V deadline suit concerning a petition to 

object to a permit issued by the 

Louisiana Department of Environmental 

Quality for the Noranda alumina 

processing facility. The proposed 

settlement agreement would require 

EPA to sign its response to Plaintiff’s 

petition by December 15, 2012. Once 

EPA grants or denies the petition, EPA 

would be required to expeditiously 

deliver notice of its response to Plaintiff. 

Under the settlement agreement, once 

EPA has met these obligations, Plaintiff 

shall file a motion for voluntary 

dismissal, with prejudice. 

For a period of thirty (30) days 

following the date of publication of this 

notice, the Agency will receive written 

comments relating to the proposed 

settlement agreement 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 settlement agreement 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 

that consent to the settlement agreement 

should be withdrawn, the terms of the 

agreement will be affirmed. 

II. Additional Information About 

Commenting on the Proposed 

Settlement Agreement 

A. How can I get a copy of the 

settlement agreement? 

Direct your comments to the official 

public docket for this action under 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OGC–2012– 

0573 which contains a copy of the 

settlement agreement. 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, 


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