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TABLE III—TEST INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM 10/01/2023 TO 10/31/2023.—Continued 

Case No. Received date Type of test information Chemical substance 

P-20-0122, P-20-0139, P-20-0140, 

P-20-0141, P-20-0142.

10/6/2023 PAG 2A Direct Photolysis 

Study Report,.

PAG 3A Direct Photolysis 

Study Report,.

PAG 5 Direct Photolysis Study 

Report.

(S) 1-(4-tert-butylphenyl)tetrahydro[2- 14C]thiophen-1-ium nonaflate; (S) (4- 

hydroxy[U-14C]phenyl)-diphenyl-sulfonium trifluoromethanesulfonate; (S) 

tris(4-tert-butyl[mono-U14C]phenyl)sulfonium nonaflate. 

P-20-0145, P-20-0147, P-20-0152, 

P-20-0155, P-20-0159.

10/6/2023 PAG 2A Direct Photolysis 

Study Report,.

PAG 3A Direct Photolysis 

Study Report,.

PAG 5 Direct Photolysis Study 

Report.

(S) 1-(4-tert-butylphenyl)tetrahydro[2- 14C]thiophen-1-ium nonaflate; (S) (4- 

hydroxy[U-14C]phenyl)-diphenyl-sulfonium trifluoromethanesulfonate; (S) 

tris(4-tert-butyl[mono-U14C]phenyl)sulfonium nonaflate. 

P-17-0178, P-18-0013, P-18-0014, 

P-18-0037, P-19-0078.

10/6/2023 PAG 2A Direct Photolysis 

Study Report,.

PAG 3A Direct Photolysis 

Study Report,.

PAG 5 Direct Photolysis Study 

Report.

(S) 1-(4-tert-butylphenyl)tetrahydro[2- 14C]thiophen-1-ium nonaflate; (S) (4- 

hydroxy[U-14C]phenyl)-diphenyl-sulfonium trifluoromethanesulfonate; (S) 

tris(4-tert-butyl[mono-U14C]phenyl)sulfonium nonaflate. 

P-22-0129, P-23-0050 ............................... 10/6/2023 PAG 2A Direct Photolysis 

Study Report,.

PAG 3A Direct Photolysis 

Study Report,.

PAG 5 Direct Photolysis Study 

Report.

(S) 1-(4-tert-butylphenyl)tetrahydro[2- 14C]thiophen-1-ium nonaflate; (S) (4- 

hydroxy[U-14C]phenyl)-diphenyl-sulfonium trifluoromethanesulfonate; (S) 

tris(4-tert-butyl[mono-U14C]phenyl)sulfonium nonaflate. 

P-19-0079, P-19-0111, P-19-0112, 

P-19-0114, P-19-0133.

10/27/2023 PAG 2 Direct Photolysis Study 

Report.

(S) tri[mono-U-14C]phenylsulfonium 2- 

(adamantane-1- carbonyloxy)-1,1- 

difluoro-ethanesulfonate. 

P-20-0122, P-20-0139, P-20-0140, 

P-20-0141, P-20-0142.

10/27/2023 PAG 2 Direct Photolysis Study 

Report.

(S) tri[mono-U-14C]phenylsulfonium 2- 

(adamantane-1- carbonyloxy)-1,1- 

difluoro-ethanesulfonate 

P-20-0145, P-20-0147, P-20-0152, 

P-20-0155, P-20-0159.

10/27/2023 PAG 2A Direct Photolysis 

Study Report.

(S) tri[mono-U-14C]phenylsulfonium 2- 

(adamantane-1- carbonyloxy)-1,1- 

difluoro-ethanesulfonate. 

P-22-0129, P-23-0050 ............................... 10/27/2023 PAG 2 Direct Photolysis Study 

Report.

(S) tri[mono-U-14C]phenylsulfonium 2- 

(adamantane-1- carbonyloxy)-1,1- 

difluoro-ethanesulfonate 

P-17-0178, P-18-0013, P-18-0014, 

P-18-0037, P-19-0078.

10/27/2023 PAG 2 Direct Photolysis Study 

Report.

(S) tri[mono-U-14C]phenylsulfonium 2- 

(adamantane-1- carbonyloxy)-1,1- 

difluoro-ethanesulfonate. 

P-11-0557 .................................................. 10/31/2023 Annual reporting of Certificate 

of Analysis test data and import volumes.

(G) 2-Propenoic acid, 2-methyl-, 2-hydroxyethyl ester, telomers with C18– 

26-alkyl acrylate, 1-dodecanethiol, N- 

(hydroxymethyl)-2-methyl-2- 

propenamide, polyfluorooctyl methacrylate and vinylidene chloride, 2,2’-[1 ,2- 

diazenediylbis(1- 

methylethylidene)bis[4,5-dihydro-1 Himidazole] hydrochloride (1 :2)-initiated. 

If you are interested in information 

that is not included in these tables, you 

may contact EPA’s technical 

information contact or general 

information contact as described under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT to 

access additional non-CBI information 

that may be available. 

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq. 

Dated: November 13, 2023. 

Pamela Myrick, 

Director, Project Management and Operations 

Division, Office of Pollution Prevention and 

Toxics. 

[FR Doc. 2023–25437 Filed 11–16–23; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL OP–OFA–095] 

Notice of Adoption of a Bureau of 

Indian Affairs Categorical Exclusion 

Under the National Environmental 

Policy Act 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of adoption of categorical 

exclusion. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) has adopted a Bureau of 

Indian Affairs’ (BIA) categorical 

exclusion (CE) for waste management 

activities involving remediation of 

hazardous waste sites under the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) for use by the EPA’s 

Contaminated Alaska Native Claims 

Settlement Act (ANCSA) Lands 

Assistance Program. This notice 

describes the categories of proposed 

actions for which EPA intends to use 

BIA’s CE and describes the consultation 

between the agencies. 

DATES: This action is effective upon 

publication. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Melissa Winters, Manager, Pollution 

Prevention and Communities Branch, 

Land, Chemicals, and Redevelopment 

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winters.melissa@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

NEPA and CEs 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act, as amended at, 42 U.S.C. 4321– 

4347 (NEPA), requires all Federal 

agencies to assess the environmental 

impact of their actions. Congress 

enacted NEPA in order to encourage 

productive and enjoyable harmony 

between humans and the environment, 

recognizing the profound impact of 

human activity and the critical 

importance of restoring and maintaining 

environmental quality to the overall 

welfare of humankind. 42 U.S.C. 4321, 

4331. NEPA’s twin aims are to ensure 

agencies consider the environmental 

effects of their proposed actions in their 

decision-making processes and inform 

and involve the public in that process. 

42 U.S.C. 4331. NEPA created the 

Council on Environmental Quality 

(CEQ), which promulgated NEPA 

implementing regulations, 40 CFR parts 

1500 through 1508 (CEQ regulations). 

To comply with NEPA, agencies 

determine the appropriate level of 

review—an environmental impact 

statement (EIS), environmental 

assessment (EA), or CE. 42 U.S.C. 4336. 

If a proposed action is likely to have 

significant environmental effects, the 

agency must prepare an EIS and 

document its decision in a record of 

decision. 42 U.S.C. 4336. If the 

proposed action is not likely to have 

significant environmental effects or the 

effects are unknown, the agency may 

instead prepare an EA, which involves 

a more concise analysis and process 

than an EIS. 42 U.S.C. 4336. Following 

the EA, the agency may conclude the 

process with a finding of no significant 

impact if the analysis shows that the 

action will have no significant effects. If 

the analysis in the EA finds that the 

action is likely to have significant 

effects, however, then an EIS is 

required. 

Under NEPA and the CEQ regulations, 

a Federal agency also can establish 

CEs—categories of actions that the 

agency has determined normally do not 

significantly affect the quality of the 

human environment—in their agency 

NEPA procedures. 42 U.S.C. 4336(e)(1); 

40 CFR 1501.4, 1507.3(e)(2)(ii), 

1508.1(d). If an agency determines that 

a CE covers a proposed action, it then 

evaluates the proposed action for 

extraordinary circumstances in which a 

normally excluded action may have a 

significant effect. 40 CFR 1501.4(b). If 

no extraordinary circumstances are 

present or if further analysis determines 

that the extraordinary circumstances do 

not involve the potential for significant 

environmental impacts, the agency may 

apply the CE to the proposed action 

without preparing an EA or EIS. 42 

U.S.C. 4336(a)(2), 40 CFR 1501.4. If the 

extraordinary circumstances have the 

potential to result in significant effects, 

the agency is required to prepare an EA 

or EIS. 

Section 109 of NEPA, enacted as part 

of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, 

allows a Federal agency to ‘‘adopt’’ or 

use another agency’s CEs for a category 

of proposed agency actions. 42 U.S.C. 

4336(c). To use another agency’s CEs 

under section 109, an agency must 

identify the relevant CEs listed in 

another agency’s (‘‘establishing agency’’) 

NEPA procedures that cover its category 

of proposed actions or related actions; 

consult with the establishing agency to 

ensure that the proposed adoption of the 

CE to a category of actions is 

appropriate; identify to the public the 

CE that the agency plans to use for its 

proposed actions; and document 

adoption of the CE. Id. This notice 

describes EPA’s adoption of BIA’s CE 

under section 109 of NEPA to use in 

EPA’s program and funding 

opportunities administered by EPA. 

EPA’s Program 

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement 

Act (ANCSA) was enacted in 1971 to 

settle aboriginal claims to public lands 

through the conveyance of 46 million 

acres of land to Alaska Native regional 

and village corporations and the transfer 

of one billion dollars from the state and 

federal governments as compensation 

for remaining claims. Some of the lands 

promised and conveyed to corporations 

pursuant to the settlement in ANCSA 

were contaminated. The contaminants 

on some of these lands—which include 

arsenic, asbestos, lead, mercury, 

pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, 

and petroleum products—pose health 

and other concerns to Indigenous 

Alaskans and communities and are 

present in quantities above state and 

federal clean-up levels, negatively 

impacting subsistence resources and 

hampering cultural, social, and 

economic activities. 

In the fiscal year 2023 omnibus bill, 

Congress appropriated $20 million for 

EPA to establish and implement a grant 

program to assist Alaska tribal entities 

with addressing contamination on 

ANCSA lands that were contaminated at 

the time of conveyance. EPA has 

initiated a new Contaminated ANCSA 

Lands Assistance Program to assist 

Alaska tribal and Alaska Native 

Corporation entities with addressing 

contamination on ANCSA lands. 

The Contaminated ANCSA Lands 

Assistance Program addresses 

contamination left by Federal 

departments and agencies on land that 

was subsequently conveyed to Alaska 

Native Corporations under the ANCSA. 

The activities to be funded involve 

remediation of hazardous materials sites 

in compliance with applicable Federal 

laws. Eligible entities include federally 

recognized Indian Tribal Governments 

(Tribes) in Alaska, Alaska Native 

Regional Corporations, Alaskan Native 

Village Corporations, Alaska Native 

Nonprofit Organizations, Alaska Native 

Nonprofit Associations, and Intertribal 

consortia. The objectives of the EPA 

program are to provide funding to 

eligible entities to carry out cleanup 

activities at ANCSA sites that were 

contaminated at the time of conveyance. 

II. BIA Categorical Exclusion 

EPA has identified the following BIA 

CE listed in the Department of the 

Interior’s Departmental Manual (516 DM 

10.5(K)(2)). 

K. Waste Management. 

(2) Activities involving remediation of 

hazardous waste sites if done in 

compliance with applicable federal 

laws, such as the Resource Conservation 

and Recovery Act (Pub. L. 94–580), 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act (Pub. L. 96–516) or Toxic 

Substances Control Act (Pub. L. 94– 

469). 

EPA intends to apply this CE for 

EPA’s grants awarded under its 

Contaminated ANSCA Lands Assistance 

Program when applicable. 

III. Consultation With BIA and 

Determination of Appropriateness 

EPA consulted with BIA on the 

appropriateness of EPA’s adoption of 

the CE in September 2023. EPA and 

BIA’s consultation included a review of 

BIA’s experience developing and 

applying the CE, as well as the types of 

actions for which EPA plans to utilize 

the CE. The EPA actions under the 

Contaminated ANCSA Lands Assistance 

Program are very similar to the type of 

projects that BIA funds and therefore 

the impacts of EPA projects will be very 

similar to the impacts of BIA projects, 

which are not significant, absent the 

existence of extraordinary 

circumstances that could involve 

potentially significant impacts. 

Therefore, EPA has determined that its 

proposed use of the CE as described in 

this notice is appropriate. 


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IV. Consideration of Extraordinary 

Circumstances 

When applying this CE, EPA will 

consider whether the proposed action 

has the potential to result in significant 

effects as described in EPA’s 

extraordinary circumstances listed at 40 

CFR 6.204(b). EPA defines extraordinary 

circumstances as circumstances that 

may cause a significant environmental 

effect such that a proposed action that 

otherwise meets the requirements of a 

CE may not be categorically excluded. 

40 CFR 6.102(b)(6). In addition, in 

consultation with BIA, the EPA 

determined that it will also apply two 

applicable Department of the Interior 

extraordinary circumstances regarding 

Indian sacred sites and invasive species 

(43 CFR. 46.215(k) and (l)) when 

evaluating a proposed action. 

V. Notice to the Public and 

Documentation of Adoption 

This notice serves to identify to the 

public and document EPA’s adoption of 

BIA’s CE. The notice identifies the types 

of actions to which EPA will apply the 

CE, as well as the considerations that 

EPA will use in determining whether an 

action is within the scope of the CE. 

Dated: November 14, 2023. 

Timothy Hamlin, 

Director, Land, Chemicals, and 

Redevelopment Division, EPA Region 10. 

[FR Doc. 2023–25505 Filed 11–16–23; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL OP–OFA–096] 

Environmental Impact Statements; 

Notice of Availability 

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal 

Activities, General Information 202– 

564–5632 or https://www.epa.gov/nepa. 

Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact 

Statements (EIS) 

Filed November 3, 2023 10 a.m. EST 

Through November 13, 2023 10 a.m. 

EST 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9. 

Notice: Section 309(a) of the Clean Air 

Act requires that EPA make public its 

comments on EISs issued by other 

Federal agencies. EPA’s comment letters 

on EISs are available at: https://

cdxapps.epa.gov/cdx-enepa-II/public/ 

action/eis/search. 

EIS No. 20230160, Draft, USFWS, OR, 

Draft Environmental Impact 

Statement for the Barred Owl 

Management Strategy, Comment 

Period Ends: 01/16/2024, Contact: 

Robin Bown 503–231–6923. 

EIS No. 20230161, Final, NMFS, WA, 

The Makah Tribe Request to Hunt 

Gray Whales, Review Period Ends: 12/ 

18/2023, Contact: Grace Ferrara 206– 

526–6172. 

Amended Notice 

EIS No. 20230153, Final, USDA, WA, 

ADOPTION—Odessa Subarea Special 

Study Columbia Basin Project To 

Replace Groundwater Currently Used 

for Irrigation Grant Adams Walla 

Walla and Franklin Counties WA, 

Review Period Ends: 12/04/2023, 

Contact: Jules Riley 539–323–2941. 

Revision to FR Notice Published 11/ 

3/2023; Correction to Review Period 

Due Date from December 11, 2023 to 

December 4, 2023. 

Dated: November 13, 2023. 

Julie Smith, 

Acting Director, NEPA Compliance Division, 

Office of Federal Activities. 

[FR Doc. 2023–25454 Filed 11–16–23; 8:45 am] 

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EXPORT–IMPORT BANK 

[Public Notice: EIB–2023–0018] 

Application for Final Commitment for a 

Long-Term Loan or Financial 

Guarantee in Excess of $100 million: 

AP089502XX 

AGENCY: Export-Import Bank of the 

United States. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This Notice is to inform the 

public the Export-Import Bank of the 

United States (‘‘EXIM’’) has received an 

application for final commitment for a 

long-term loan or financial guarantee in 

excess of $100 million. Comments 

received within the comment period 

specified below will be presented to the 

EXIM Board of Directors prior to final 

action on this Transaction. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before December 12, 2023 to be 

assured of consideration before final 

consideration of the transaction by the 

Board of Directors of EXIM. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted through Regulations.gov at 

www.regulations.gov. To submit a 

comment, enterEIB–2023–0018 under 

the heading ‘‘Enter Keyword or ID’’ and 

select Search. Follow the instructions 

provided at the Submit a Comment 

screen. Please include your name, 

company name (if any) and EIB–2023– 

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Reference: AP089502XX. 

Purpose and Use: 

Brief description of the purpose of the 

transaction: To support the export of 

U.S.-manufactured locomotives to 

Ukraine. 

Brief non-proprietary description of 

the anticipated use of the items being 

exported: To be used for rail freight and 

passenger transport services in Ukraine 

and between Ukraine and other 

countries. 

To the extent that EXIM is reasonably 

aware, the items being exported are not 

expected to produce exports or provide 

services in competition with the 

exportation of goods or provision of 

services by a United States industry. 

Parties: 

Principal Supplier: Wabtec 

Corporation. 

Obligor: Joint Stock Company 

‘‘Ukrainian Railways’’. 

Guarantor(s): Government of Ukraine. 

Description of Items Being Exported: 

Locomotives. 

Information on Decision: Information 

on the final decision for this transaction 

will be available in the ‘‘Summary 

Minutes of Meetings of Board of 

Directors’’ on https://www.exim.gov/ 

news/meeting-minutes. 

Confidential Information: Please note 

that this notice does not include 

confidential or proprietary business 

information; information which, if 

disclosed, would violate the Trade 

Secrets Act; or information which 

would jeopardize jobs in the United 

States by supplying information that 

competitors could use to compete with 

companies in the United States. 

Authority: Section 3(c)(10) of the ExportImport Bank Act of 1945, as amended (12 

U.S.C. 635a(c)(10)). 

Joyce B. Stone, 

Assistant Corporate Secretary. 

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Records 

AGENCY: Federal Housing Finance 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of a modified system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, 

as amended, (Privacy Act), the Federal 

Housing Finance Agency (FHFA or 

Agency) is proposing to modify the 

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