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1 If a comment does not pertain to a particular

proposed regulation, please clearly identify the

comment as ‘‘Other,’’ followed by a brief

description of the issue to which the comment

pertains; e.g., ‘‘Other—Infrastructure.’’

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

19 CFR Part 351

Countervailing Duties

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of postponement of

public hearing on proposed

countervailing duty regulations and of

opportunity to file post-hearing

comments.

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce

(‘‘the Department’’) is postponing the

public hearing on the proposed

countervailing duty regulations

previously scheduled for September 9,

1997. The hearing will now be held on

October 17, 1997. The deadline for filing

post-hearing comments is now October

27, 1997.

DATES: A public hearing will be held at

10:00 on October 17, 1997. The deadline

for filing post-hearing comments is

October 27, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jennifer A. Yeske at (202) 482–0189.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On

February 26, 1997, the Department

published proposed countervailing duty

regulations containing changes resulting

from the Uruguay Round Agreements

Act (62 FR 8818). We requested and

received written comments from the

public. On July 21, 1997, we announced

that a public hearing would be held on

September 9, 1997 and that the deadline

for submitting post-hearing comments

was September 19, 1997 (62 FR 38948).

We are now postponing the public

hearing and the comment period.

Hearing

The public hearing on the proposed

countervailing duty regulations will

now be held at 10:00 on October 17,

1997, in room 4830 of the Herbert C.

Hoover Building at Pennsylvania

Avenue and 14th Street, N.W.,

Washington, D.C.

Comments (Format and Number of

Copies)

The Department will accept posthearing comments regarding any issues

raised at the hearing or in any written

comments previously submitted to the

Department. The deadline for the

submission of post-hearing comments is

now October 27, 1997. Each person

submitting a comment should include

his or her name and address, and give

reasons for any recommendation. To

facilitate their consideration by the

Department, comments regarding the

proposed regulations should be

submitted in the following format: (1)

identify each comment by reference to

the section and/or paragraph of these

proposed regulations to which the

comment pertains; 1 (2) begin each

comment on a separate page; (3)

concisely state the issue identified and

discussed in the comment; and (4)

provide a brief summary of the

comment (a maximum of 3 sentences)

and label the section ‘‘summary of the

comment.’’

To simplify the processing and

distribution of the public comments

pertaining to the Department’s proposed

regulations, parties are encouraged to

submit documents in electronic form

accompanied by an original and three

paper copies. All documents filed in

electronic form must be on DOS

formatted 3.5′′ diskettes, and must be

prepared in either WordPerfect format

or a format that the WordPerfect

program can convert and import into

WordPerfect. If possible, the Department

would appreciate the documents being

filed in either ASCII format or

WordPerfect, and containing generic

codes. The Department would also

appreciate the use of descriptive

filenames.

Dated: August 27, 1997.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

40 CFR Parts 52 and 70

[CA–001–PP; FRL–5885–7]

Clean Air Act Proposed Approval of

Title V Operating Permits Program

Revisions; Santa Barbara County Air

Pollution Control District, California

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

SUMMARY: The EPA proposes to approve

a revision to Rule 1301 of Regulation

XIII, both as a revision to the federallyapproved State Implementation Plan

(SIP) and as a revision to the title V

operating permit program to be adopted

by the Santa Barbara County Air

Pollution Control District (Santa

Barbara, SBCAPCD, or District). The

District submitted this rule to EPA on

August 11, 1997, and is scheduled to

adopt this rule on September 18, 1997,

for the purpose of allowing Department

of Defense facilities to become exempt

from title V of the Clean Air Act permit

requirements, if the source implements

an emission reduction plan that

achieves a minimum reduction of 10

tons per year of ozone precursors.

Amended Rule 1301 also identifies 9

stationary source designations for title V

purposes that will apply to a DoD

facility that implements an approved

emission reduction plan. It also allows

the exclusion of emissions from tactical

support equipment and infrastructure

building maintenance equipment from

the emissions used to determine if an

operating permit is required under

District Regulation XIII and title V of the

Clean Air Act.

This proposed rule will create

federally-enforceable requirements for

the emission reduction plan with

specific project milestones for DoD

facilities to meet. The actual emission

reduction plan will also be submitted

for incorporation into the SIP in a future

rulemaking.

DATES: Comments on this proposed

action must be received in writing by

October 3, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Comments must be

submitted to John Walser at EPA, AIR–

3, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco,

CA 94105. Copies of the rules and EPA’s

Technical Support Document for the

amended title V program and

prohibitory rule are available for public

inspection during normal business

hours at the following locations:

Permits Office (AIR–3), Air Division,

U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, Region IX, 75 Hawthorne

Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

Santa Barbara County Air Pollution

Control District, 26 Castilian Drive B–

23, Goleta, CA 93117

California Air Resources Board, 2020 L

Street, Sacramento, CA 95814

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John

Walser (telephone 415/744–1257),

Permits Office (AIR–3), Air Division,

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,

Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San

Francisco, CA 94105.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

On November 1, 1995, EPA published

in the Federal Register a final action of

interim approval for Santa Barbara’s

title V operating permits program (60 FR

55460) in accordance with title V of the

Act (as amended in 1990) and 40 CFR
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part 70 (the title V implementing

regulations). The District rules for title

V are contained in Regulation XIII of the

District Rules and Regulations. On

August 15, 1996, Santa Barbara adopted

revisions to Rule 1301, ‘‘Part 70

Operating Permits—General

Information’’ portion of Regulation XIII.

Rule 1301 is part of Regulation XIII.

These revisions apply to any source that

qualifies as a Part 70 source and meets

the requirements for exclusion of

military tactical support and/or

infrastructure building maintenance

equipment at a Department of Defense

facility. In Santa Barbara County, only

Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB)

meets these requirements. The revision

enables VAFB to comply with Rule 370,

the District’s prohibitory rule, which

limits the Base’s potential to emit to

below the title V applicability

thresholds and requires VAFB to reduce

its annual emissions rate of ozone

precursors by at least 10 tons through

the ENVVEST initiative. The rule

revision also includes emission

reduction plan requirements and

milestones to be approved by the

District and made federally-enforceable

by the EPA by incorporating the rule

revisions into the SIP for California, if

EPA finds that the planned emission

reductions are real, quantifiable, surplus

and enforceable.

ENVVEST is a pilot project pursuant

to the 1995 Memorandum of Agreement

between the DoD and EPA on

Regulatory Reinvention Projects testing

innovative approaches to environmental

protection. ENVVEST allows EPA and

the DoD to develop new ways to achieve

better overall environmental

performance at lower costs than

expected under existing regulatory

approaches.

The emission reductions will be

achieved through retrofits of equipment

(mostly boilers rated between 2 and 5

MMBtu/hr) currently exempt from the

permitting process. In lieu of obtaining

a Part 70 permit, VAFB will commit to

use its title V permitting funds to

implement an emission reduction plan

to reduce ozone precursors at the base

by at least 10 tons per year by November

15, 2002.

The District is enabling VAFB to

reprogram funds currently targeted

toward title V compliance to this

pollution prevention project by

modifying the definition of stationary

source to enable Department of Defense

(DoD) facilities (i.e., VAFB) to comply

with Rule 370. This proposed rule

change also includes the project

milestones as outlined in the

Vandenberg ENVVEST Final Project

Agreement (FPA). The proposed

changes are consistent with EPA’s

August 2, 1996 Guidance Memorandum

entitled ‘‘Major Source Determinations

for Military Installations under the Air

Toxics, New Source Review, and Title V

Operating Permit Programs of the Clean

Air Act (Act)’’, signed by John S. Seitz,

Director, Office of Air Quality Planning

and Standards (‘‘Military Guidance’’).

The proposed changes also enable the

source to exclude emissions from

equipment meeting the EPA definition

of nonroad engines (see 59 FR 31310

dated June 17, 1994) for Department of

Defense (DoD) facilities that are

participating in the EPA/DoD

Environmental Investment (ENVVEST)

pilot project.

Also, the District, the California Air

Resources Board (CARB) and EPA are

working together to ‘‘parallel process’’

this rule revision consistent with the

procedures outlined in 46 FR 44477 on

September 4, 1981. EPA Region IX will

work closely with CARB and the District

as they develop this regulation and

proceed through the rulemaking

process. CARB, the District, and EPA

will process this rule revision at the

same time and jointly review the

comments. EPA will commence its

official 30-day public review of the

proposed SIP approval of Rule 1301

through this document, which is nearly

concurrent with the District’s 30-day

public notice for adoption of the rule.

This parallel processing approach will

involve much earlier involvement of the

EPA in the SIP revision process and

thereby reduce the amount of time for

processing significantly.

II. Proposed Action

The EPA is proposing to approve the

submitted revisions to the District’s

operating permits program and

incorporate the submitted revisions into

the SIP for California. The District

amended the August 15, 1996 adopted

version of Rule 1301 and resubmitted it

on August 11, 1997. The most recent

revisions, scheduled for adoption on

September 18, 1997 by Santa Barbara,

are being made in order to allow VAFB

participation in the EPA/DoD proposed

ENVVEST pilot project and are not

adopted in response to the program

deficiencies identified by EPA in the

final interim approval action (60 FR

55460).

A. Analysis of Submission

The EPA has evaluated the submitted

rule revision and has determined that it

is consistent with 40 CFR part 70, and

the August 2, 1996 Military Guidance

Memorandum. The following is a brief

analysis of the key regulatory revisions

being acted on in today’s proposed

action. (Please refer to the Technical

Support Document for a more detailed

and complete analysis of the

submission.)

1. Definition of Major Stationary Source

As defined in 40 CFR part 70.2, major

source means any stationary source (or

any group of stationary sources that are

located on one or more contiguous or

adjacent properties, and are under

common control of the same person (or

persons under common control))

belonging to a single major industrial

grouping. A stationary source or group

of stationary sources shall be considered

part of a single industrial grouping if all

of the pollutant emitting activities at

such source or group of sources on

contiguous or adjacent properties belong

to the same Major Group (i.e., all have

the same two-digit code) as described in

the Standard Industrial Classification

Manual, 1987.

VAFB is the only DoD facility in

Santa Barbara County that is subject to

the revisions of the stationary source

definition in District Rule 1301. At

present the installation is defined as one

major stationary source. In accordance

with EPA’s Military Guidance

Memorandum and as part of the

ENVVEST pilot project, the proposed

changes allow VAFB to be considered

nine stationary sources and to

demonstrate that actual emissions for

each source (each under separate

common control, not determined to be

support facilities and have different

two-digit SIC codes) are less than 50

percent of the existing major source

threshold. For the purposes of the

ENVVEST pilot project, EPA has

assumed worst case analysis for

threshold levels and that Santa Barbara

County would be bumped-up from

moderate to serious ozone

nonattaniment status, and therefore the

major source threshold level would

drop from 100 tons/year (moderate) to

50 tons/year (serious).

EPA is proposing approval of the title

V operating permit program revisions

submitted to EPA on August 11, 1997,

both as part of the District’s title V

program and into the SIP. These

revisions do not correct the deficiencies

identified in the November 1, 1995 final

interim approval, and hence, do not

impact Santa Barbara’s interim approval

status.

Nothing in this action should be

construed as permitting or allowing or

establishing a precedent for any future

implementation plan. Each request for

revision to the state implementation

plan shall be considered separately in

light of specific technical, economic,

and environmental factors and in
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relation to relevant statutory and

regulatory requirements.

III. Administrative Requirements

A. Docket

Copies of Santa Barbara’s submittal

and other information relied upon for

the direct final actions are contained in

docket number CA–001–PP OPS

maintained at the EPA Regional Office.

The docket is an organized and

complete file of all the information

submitted to, or otherwise considered

by, EPA in the development of this

direct final rulemaking. The docket is

available for public inspection at the

location listed under the ADDRESSES

section of this document.

B. Regulatory Flexibility Act

The EPA’s actions under section 502

of the Act do not create any new

requirements, but simply address

revisions to Santa Barbara’s existing

operating permits program that was

submitted to satisfy the requirements of

40 CFR part 70. Because this action does

not impose any new requirements, it

does not have a significant impact on a

substantial number of small entities.

C. Unfunded Mandates

Under Section 202 of the Unfunded

Mandates Reform Act of 1995

(‘‘Unfunded Mandates Act’’), signed

into law on March 22, 1995, EPA must

prepare a budgetary impact statement to

accompany any proposed or final rule

that includes a federal mandate that

may result in estimated costs to state,

local, or tribal governments in the

aggregate; or to the private sector, of

$100 million or more. Under Section

205, EPA must select the most costeffective and least burdensome

alternative that achieves the objectives

of the rule and is consistent with

statutory requirements. Section 203

requires EPA to establish a plan for

informing and advising any small

governments that may be significantly

or uniquely impacted by the rule.

EPA has determined that the approval

action promulgated today does not

include a federal mandate that may

result in estimated costs of $100 million

or more to either state, local, or tribal

governments in the aggregate, or to the

private sector. This federal action

approves pre-existing requirements

under state or local law, and imposes no

new federal requirements. Accordingly,

no additional costs to state, local, or

tribal governments, or to the private

sector, result from this action.

D. Executive Order 12866

The Office of Management and Budget

has exempted this action from review

under Executive Order 12866.

List of Subjects

40 CFR Part 52

Environmental protection, air

pollution control, Carbon monoxide,

Hydrocarbons, Incorporation by

reference, Intergovernmental relations,

Lead, Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone,

Particulate matter, Sulfur oxides,

Volatile organic compounds.

40 CFR Part 70

Environmental protection,

Administrative practice and procedure,

Air pollution control, Hazardous

substances, Intergovernmental relations,

Operating permits, and Reporting and

recordkeeping requirements.

Dated: August 22, 1997.

John Wise,

Regional Administrator.

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

40 CFR Part 60

[AD–FRL–5887–4]

RIN 2060–AE56

Proposed Revision of Standards of

Performance for Nitrogen Oxide

Emissions From New Fossil-Fuel Fired

Steam Generating Units; Proposed

Revisions to Reporting Requirements

for Standards of Performance for New

Fossil-Fuel Fired Steam Generating

Units; Proposed Rule

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed revision; extension of

public comment period.

SUMMARY: The EPA is announcing the

extension of the public comment period

on the Proposed Revision of Standards

of Performance for Nitrogen Oxide

Emissions From New Fossil-Fuel Fired

Steam Generating Units and the

Proposed Revisions to Reporting

Requirements for Standards of

Performance for New Fossil-Fuel Fired

Steam Generating Units which were

published on July 9, 1997 (62 FR

36947).

DATES: Comments must be received on

or before October 8, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be

submitted in duplicate to: U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, The

Air and Radiation Docket and

Information Center (6102), 401 M Street,

SW, Room 1500, Washington, DC 20460.

Attention Docket Number A–92–71. The

docket may be inspected at the above

address between 8:00 a.m. and 5:30

p.m., Eastern time, on weekdays. A

reasonable fee may be charged for

copying.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Jim Eddinger [(919) 541–5426],

Combustion Group, Emission Standards

Division (MD–13), U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, Research Triangle

Park, North Carolina 27711.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In

response to a request from several

companies and trade groups, the EPA is

extending the public comment period

from September 8, 1997, to October 8,

1997, on the Proposed Revision of

Standards of Performance for Nitrogen

Oxide Emissions From New Fossil-Fuel

Fired Steam Generating Units and the

Proposed Revisions to Reporting

Requirements for Standards of

Performance for New Fossil-Fuel Fired

Steam Generating Units. The EPA agrees

that an extension of the comment period

will provide for more meaningful,

constructive comments on the proposed

revisions to the standards of

performance.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 60

Environmental protection, Air

pollution control, Intergovernmental

relations, Reporting and recordkeeping

requirements.

Dated: August 27, 1997.

Richard Wilson,

Acting Assistant Administrator for Office of

Air and Radiation.

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 76

[CS Docket No. 95–184; MM Docket No. 92–

260; FCC 97–304]

Telecommunications Services Inside

Wiring; Cable Home Wiring

AGENCY: Federal Communications

Commission.

ACTION: Proposed rule.

SUMMARY: The Commission invites

comments on proposed procedures for

the disposition of cable inside wiring

(including both the cable home wiring

within the premises of the individual

subscriber and the home run wiring

dedicated to an individual subscriber’s