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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL 9949–59–Region 6; Permit 

NMG010000] 

Final National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System General Permit for 

Discharges From Concentrated Animal 

Feeding Operations in New Mexico 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Final NPDES general permit 

issuance. 

SUMMARY: The Director of the Water 

Quality Division, EPA Region 6, 

provides notice of reissuance of the 

National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System (NPDES) General 

Permit No. NMG010000 for existing and 

new dischargers in New Mexico, under 

the Concentrated Animal Feeding 

Operations (CAFO) Point Source 

Category and producing Horses, Dairy 

Cows, and Cattle other than Veal Calves, 

except those discharges on Indian 

Country. 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/

cafo/index.htm. 

DATES: This permit is effective, and is 

deemed issued for the purpose of 

judicial review, on September 1, 2016, 

and expires August 31, 2021. 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Evelyn Rosborough, Region 6, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1445 

Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202–2733. 

Telephone: (214) 665–7515. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Summary of Significant Changes From 

the Draft Permit 

Pursuant to section 402 of the Clean 

Water Act (CWA), 33 U.S.C. 1342, EPA 

proposed and solicited comments on 

NPDES general permit NMG010000 at 

FRL–9921–07–Region 6 (December 30, 

2014). Discharges eligible for coverage 

under the permit are from animal 

feeding operations that are defined as 

CAFOs or designated as CAFOs by the 

permitting authority and that are subject 

to 40 CFR part 412, subparts A (Horses) 

and C (Dairy Cows and Cattle Other 

than Veal Calves) and that discharge or 

propose to discharge pollutants to 

waters of the United States. The public 

comment period ended March 2, 2015. 

The State of New Mexico Environmental 

Department (NMED) received an 

extension to April 15, 2015, for certified 

comments. Region 6 received comments 

from the New Mexico Environment 

Department, New Mexico Farm & 

Livestock Bureau, New Mexico 

Department of Agriculture, Texas Cattle 

Feeders Association, Socially 

Responsible Agriculture Project, the 

New Mexico Environmental Law Center, 

Animal Legal Defense Fund, Sierra 

Club—Rio Grande Chapter, Amigos 

Bravos, Lea County Concerned Citizens, 

Rio Valle Concerned Citizens, and 

Mesquite Community Action 

Committee, Enviro Compliance 

Services, Inc., and Erika Brotzman. EPA 

Region 6 has considered all comments 

received. In response to those comments 

the following significant changes are 

made to the proposed permit. All 

changes are discussed in the response to 

comments documents. 

1. Permit Part II.A.5.a.ii. is revised to 

require calibration of land application 

equipment to be performed at least 

annually, in accordance with 

procedures and schedules to be 

established in the nutrient management 

plan for all equipment. 

2. Permit Part I.E.8. is updated to 

require Notice of Intent (NOI) and 

Nutrient Management Plan (NMP) 

submittals to NMED. 

3. Permit Part I.H, Change in 

Ownership is clarified and Permit Part 

I. E.9. is revised to remove the 7 day 

public review and comment for NOIs 

resulting from transfer of ownership of 

a facility with prior permit coverage. 

4. Permit Part II.A.2.a.v. is clarified 

regarding equipment inspection 

deficiencies to specify deficiencies not 

corrected in 30 days to be explained. 

5. Permit Part III. B. is revised to align 

facility closure requirements with New 

Mexico impoundment closure 

requirements. 

6. Permit Part III.C.1.b. is changed to 

require retention of the telephone 

number of the recipient of any 

transferred manure, litter or process 

wastewater. 

7. Permit Part V.A. is revised to 

change the annual report due date from 

January 31 to March 31. 

8. Other minor changes and 

clarifications. 

Other Legal Requirements 

A. State Certification 

Under section 401(a)(1) of the CWA, 

EPA may not issue a NPDES permit 

until the State or Tribal authority in 

which the discharge will occur grants or 

waives certification to ensure 

compliance with appropriate 

requirements of the CWA and State law. 

The New Mexico Environment 

Department issued the 401 certification 

on April 15, 2015. 

B. Other Regulatory Requirements 

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 

1973 requires Federal Agencies such as 

EPA to ensure, in consultation with the 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) 

and the National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS) (also known 

collectively as the ‘‘Services’’), that any 

actions authorized, funded, or carried 

out by the Agency (e.g., EPA issued 

NPDES permits authorizing discharges 

to waters of the United States) are not 

likely to jeopardize the continued 

existence of any Federally-listed 

endangered or threatened species or 

adversely modify or destroy critical 

habitat of such species (see 16 U.S.C. 

1536(a)(2), 50 CFR part 402 and 40 CFR 

122.49(c)). Today’s permit is consistent 

with the ESA section 7(a)(2) 

consultation between EPA-Region 6 and 

the USFWS—Albuquerque Field Office, 

concluded on November 17, 2015. 

Authority: Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1251 

et seq. 

Dated: July 14, 2016. 

William K. Honker, 

Director, Water Division, EPA Region 6. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9949–78–OLEM] 

The Hazardous Waste Electronic 

Manifest System Advisory Board: 

Request for Nominations 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Request for nominations. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) invites 

nominations of qualified candidates to 

be considered for a three-year 

appointment to fill one IT expert 

position on the Hazardous Waste 

Electronic Manifest System Advisory 

Board (the ‘‘Board’’). Pursuant to the 

Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest 

Establishment Act (the ‘‘e-Manifest Act’’ 


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or the ‘‘Act’’), EPA has established the 

Board to provide practical and 

independent advice, consultation, and 

recommendations to the EPA 

Administrator on the activities, 

functions, policies and regulations 

associated with the Hazardous Waste 

Electronic Manifest (e-Manifest) System. 

DATES: Nominations should be received 

on or before August 29, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Nominations should be 

submitted via email to eManifest@

epa.gov, and identified with ‘‘BOARD 

NOMINATION’’ in the subject line of 

the email. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred 

Jenkins, Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Office of Resource 

Conservation and Recovery, (MC: 

5303P), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC, 20460, Phone: 

703–308–7049; or by email: 

jenkins.fred@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The eManifest Act was signed into law on 

October 5, 2012 (http://www.gpo.gov/

fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s710enr/pdf/BILLS112s710enr.pdf). Under the terms of the 

e-Manifest Act, 42 U.S.C. 6939(g), EPA 

is required to establish a national 

electronic Information Technology (IT) 

manifest system. This system is to 

enable users of the uniform hazardous 

waste manifest forms (EPA Form 8700– 

22 and Continuation Sheet 8700–22A) 

to have the option to more efficiently 

track their hazardous waste shipments 

electronically, in lieu of the paper 

manifest, from the point of generation, 

during transportation, and to the point 

of receipt by an off-site facility that is 

permitted to treat, store, recycle, or 

dispose of the hazardous waste. 

Electronic manifests obtained from the 

national system will augment or replace 

the paper forms that are currently used 

for this purpose, and that result in 

substantial paperwork costs and other 

inefficiencies. Congress intended that 

EPA develop a system that, among other 

things, meets the needs of the user 

community and decreases the 

administrative burden associated with 

the current paper-based manifest system 

on the user community. The Agency 

anticipates that utilizing electronic 

manifests will the reduce burden by 

reporting facilities by 300,000 to 

700,000 hours annually, and will 

produce annualized and discounted cost 

savings over the initial six years of 

about $34 million. Undiscounted cost 

savings should reach $75 million or 

more each year, once the system is fully 

established and deployment costs have 

been paid off. To ensure that these goals 

are met, the Act directs EPA to establish 

the Board to assess the effectiveness of 

the electronic manifest system and make 

recommendations to the Administrator 

for improving the system. 

In addition, the e-Manifest Act directs 

EPA to develop a system that attracts 

sufficient user participation and service 

revenues to ensure the viability of the 

system. As a result, the Act provides 

EPA broad discretion to establish 

reasonable user fees, as the 

Administrator determines are necessary, 

to pay costs incurred in developing, 

operating, maintaining, and upgrading 

the system, including any costs incurred 

in collecting and processing data from 

any paper manifest submitted to the 

system after the system enters operation. 

The Board will meet to assess the 

adequacy and reasonableness of the 

service fees and, if necessary, make 

recommendations to the Administrator 

to adjust the fees accordingly. 

Prior to system deployment, the Board 

will be asked to provide 

recommendations on important system 

development matters and on potential 

increases or decreases to the amount of 

a service fee determined under the fee 

structure. Substantial system 

development planning work is 

underway. The Agency is utilizing lean 

start-up product development strategies 

with agile, user-centered design and 

development methodologies, and is 

currently conducting additional system 

development procurement activities. 

The Agency anticipates the initial 

system deployment to occur in 2018. 

The system will provide the 

functionality of the current paper 

manifest process, in a more efficient 

electronic workflow, and will meet all 

requirements specified in the e-Manifest 

Act and e-Manifest Final Rule, which 

was published on February 7, 2014 

(https://www3.epa.gov/epawaste/lawsregs/state/revision/frs/fr231.pdf). The 

initial system is envisioned to be a 

national, electronic system (internetbased) that will enable current users of 

the manifest form to sign, transmit, 

archive, and retrieve manifests 

electronically. The e-Manifest system is 

further envisioned to allow a fully 

electronic mobile workflow. The mobile 

workflow will provide both on-line and 

off-line capabilities which could enable 

users to complete an electronic manifest 

even when internet access is 

unavailable. EPA envisions that the 

system will provide all data processing 

(paper and electronic formats), data 

storage, and data reporting back out to 

industry and state users, as well as 

appropriate public accessibility of data. 

Finally, e-Manifest aligns with the 

Agency’s E-Enterprise business strategy. 

E-Enterprise for the Environment is a 

transformative 21st century strategy— 

jointly governed by states and EPA—for 

modernizing government agencies’ 

delivery of environmental protection. 

Under this strategy, the Agency will 

streamline its business processes and 

systems to reduce reporting burden on 

states and regulated facilities, and 

improve the effectiveness and efficiency 

of regulatory programs for EPA, states 

and tribes. 

Although the system has not been 

completed, the Board is established in 

accordance with the provisions of the, eManifest Act and the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App.2. 

The Board is in the public interest and 

supports EPA in performing its duties 

and responsibilities. Pursuant to the eManifest Act, the Board will be 

comprised of nine members, of which 

one member is the Administrator (or a 

designee), who will serve as 

Chairperson of the Board, and eight 

members will be individuals appointed 

by the EPA administrator: 

—At least two of whom have expertise 

in information technology (IT); 

—At least three of whom have 

experience in using, or represent 

users of, the manifest system to track 

the transportation of hazardous waste 

under federal and state manifest 

programs; and 

—At least three state representatives 

responsible for processing those 

manifests. 

The Board will meet at least annually 

as required by the e-Manifest Act. 

However, additional meetings may 

occur approximately once every six 

months or as needed and approved by 

the DFO. 

Member Nominations: Pursuant to the 

e-Manifest Act, the Board will assist the 

Agency in evaluating the effectiveness 

of the e-Manifest IT system and 

associated user fees; identifying key 

issues associated with the system, 

including the need (and timing) for user 

fee adjustments; system enhancements; 

and providing independent advice on 

matters and policies related to the eManifest program. The Board will 

provide recommendations on matters 

related to the operational activities, 

functions, policies, and regulations of 

EPA under the e-Manifest Act, 

including proposing actions to 

encourage the use of the electronic 

(paperless) system, and actions related 

to the E-Enterprise strategy that intersect 

with e-Manifest. These intersections 

may include issues such as business to 

business communications, performance 

standards for mobile devices, and Cross 

Media Electronic Reporting Rule 

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Any interested person and/or 

organization may nominate qualified 

individuals for membership. EPA values 

and welcomes diversity. In an effort to 

obtain nominations of diverse 

candidates, the Agency encourages 

nominations of women and men of all 

racial and ethnic groups. All candidates 

will be considered and screened against 

the criteria listed below as well as EPA’s 

Conflict of Interest (COI) and 

appearance of bias guidance (http://

www.epa.gov/peerreview/pdfs/spc_

peer_rvw_handbook_addendum.pdf and 

http://www.epa.gov/osa/pdfs/epaprocess-for-contractor.pdf). Currently 

there is one IT expert position available 

to be filled on the Board. The other 

positions have already been filled 

pursuant to EPA’s request for 

nominations that was previously 

published in the Federal Register (80 

FR 8643, February 18, 2015). 

IT nominees should have core 

competencies and experience in large 

scale systems and application 

development and integration, 

deployment and maintenance, user help 

desk and support, and expertise relevant 

to support the complexity of an eManifest system. Examples of this 

expertise may include but are not 

limited to: Expertise with web-based 

and mobile technologies, particularly 

that support large scale operations for 

geographically diverse users; expertise 

in IT security, including perspective on 

federal IT security requirements; 

expertise in electronic signature and 

user management approaches; expertise 

with scalable hosting solutions such as 

cloud-based hosting; and expertise in 

user experience. Existing knowledge of, 

or willingness to gain an understanding 

of EPA shared services and enterprise 

architecture is a plus as is experience in 

setting and managing fee-based systems 

in general. Additional criteria used to 

evaluate nominees include: 

• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and 

written communication skills; 

• Demonstrated experience 

developing group recommendations; 

• Willingness to commit time to the 

Board and demonstrated ability to work 

constructively on committees; 

• Absence of financial conflicts of 

interest; 

• Impartiality (including the 

appearance of impartiality); and 

• Background and experiences that 

would help members contribute to the 

diversity of perspectives on the Board, 

e.g., geographic, economic, social, 

cultural, educational backgrounds, 

professional affiliations, and other 

considerations. 

Nominations must include a resume, 

which provides the nominee’s 

background, experience and educational 

qualifications, as well as a brief 

statement (one page or less) describing 

the nominee’s interest in serving on the 

Board and addressing the other criteria 

previously described. Nominees are 

encouraged to provide any additional 

information that they believe would be 

useful for consideration, such as: 

Availability to participate as a member 

of the Board; how the nominee’s 

background, skills and experience 

would contribute to the diversity of the 

Board; and any concerns the nominee 

has regarding membership. Nominees 

should be identified by name, 

occupation, position, current business 

address, email, and telephone number. 

Interested candidates may selfnominate. The Agency will 

acknowledge receipt of nominations. 

The person selected for membership 

will receive compensation for travel and 

a nominal daily compensation (if 

appropriate) while attending meetings. 

Additionally, the selected candidate 

will be designated as a Special 

Government Employee (SGE) or 

consultant. Candidates designated as 

SGEs are required to fill out the 

‘‘Confidential Financial Disclosure 

Form for Environmental Protection 

Agency Special Government 

Employees’’ (EPA Form 3310–48). This 

confidential form provides information 

to EPA ethics officials to determine 

whether there is a conflict between the 

SGE’s public duties and their private 

interests, including an appearance of a 

loss of impartiality as defined by federal 

laws and regulations. One example of a 

potential conflict of interest may be for 

IT professional(s) serving in an 

organization that is awarded any related 

e-Manifest system development 

contract(s). 

Dated: July 15, 2016. 

Barnes Johnson, 

Director, Office of Resource Conservation and 

Recovery, Office of Land and Emergency 

Management. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 

Notice of Agreements Filed 

The Commission hereby gives notice 

of the filing of the following agreements 

under the Shipping Act of 1984. 

Interested parties may submit comments 

on the agreements to the Secretary, 

Federal Maritime Commission, 

Washington, DC 20573, within twelve 

days of the date this notice appears in 

the Federal Register. Copies of the 

agreements are available through the 

Commission’s Web site (www.fmc.gov) 

or by contacting the Office of 

Agreements at (202)-523–5793 or 

tradeanalysis@fmc.gov. 

Agreement No.: 012427. 

Title: CMA CGM/APL Panama— 

USWC Space Charter Agreement. 

Parties: CMA CGM, S.A.; APL Co. Pte 

Ltd; and American President Lines, Ltd. 

Filing Party: Draughn B. Arbona, Esq; 

CMA CGM (America) LLC; 5701 Lake 

Wright Drive; Norfolk, VA 23502. 

Synopsis: The agreement authorizes 

APL to charter space to CMA CGM in 

the trade between Panama and the U.S. 

West Coast. 

Agreement No.: 012428. 

Title: CMA CGM/ELJSA Asia—USEC 

Service Space Charter Agreement. 

Parties: CMA CGM S.A. and ELJSA 

Line Joint Service Agreement. 

Filing Party: Paul M. Keane, Esq.; 

Cichanowicz, Callan, Keane & DeMay, 

LLP; 50 Main Street, Suite 1045; White 

Plains, NY; 10606. 

Synopsis: The Agreement authorizes 

Evergreen to charter space to CMA CGM 

in the trade between Asia and the U.S. 

East Coast. 

By Order of the Federal Maritime 

Commission. 

Dated: July 22, 2016. 

Rachel E. Dickon, 

Assistant Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2016–17803 Filed 7–27–16; 8:45 am] 

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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Notice of Proposals To Engage in or 

To Acquire Companies Engaged in 

Permissible Nonbanking Activities 

The companies listed in this notice 

have given notice under section 4 of the 

Bank Holding Company Act (12 U.S.C. 

1843) (BHC Act) and Regulation Y, (12 

CFR part 225) to engage de novo, or to 

acquire or control voting securities or 

assets of a company, including the 

companies listed below, that engages 

either directly or through a subsidiary or 

other company, in a nonbanking activity 

that is listed in § 225.28 of Regulation Y 

(12 CFR 225.28) or that the Board has 

determined by Order to be closely 

related to banking and permissible for 

bank holding companies. Unless 

otherwise noted, these activities will be 

conducted throughout the United States. 

Each notice is available for inspection 

at the Federal Reserve Bank indicated. 

The notice also will be available for 

inspection at the offices of the Board of 

Governors. Interested persons may 

express their views in writing on the 

question whether the proposal complies 


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