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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/ genpermit/index.htm.


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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,