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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Parts 85 and 86 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

49 CFR Parts 523, 531, 533, 536, and 

537 

[NHTSA–2018–0067; EPA–HQ–OAR–2018– 

0283; FRL–9981–74–OAR] 

RIN 2127–AL76; RIN 2060–AU09 

The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient 

(SAFE) Vehicles Rule for Model Years 

2021–2026 Passenger Cars and Light 

Trucks 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA) and 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA). 

ACTION: Announcement of public 

hearings. 

SUMMARY: EPA and NHTSA are 

announcing public hearings to be held 

for the joint proposed ‘‘Safer Affordable 

Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule for 

Model Years 2021–2026 Passenger Cars 

and Light Trucks,’’ (SAFE Vehicles 

Rule) issued on August 2, 2018. NHTSA 

will also accept comment on NHTSA’s 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

(Draft EIS), available on NHTSA’s 

website at www.nhtsa.gov/corporateaverage-fuel-economy/safe. Three 

hearings will be held, on September 24, 

September 25, and September 26, 2018. 

The agencies will assume that all oral 

comments presented at the hearing are 

addressed to the joint proposed rules 

only, unless speakers specifically 

reference NHTSA’s Draft EIS in oral or 

written testimony. 

DATES: NHTSA and EPA will jointly 

hold three public hearings on the 

following dates: September 24, 2018 in 

Fresno, California; September 25, 2018 

in Dearborn, Michigan; and September 

26, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

The hearings will start at 10 a.m. local 

time and continue until 5:00 p.m. or 

until everyone has had a chance to 

speak. If you would like to present oral 

testimony at one of these public 

hearings, please contact the person 

identified under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT, at least ten days 

before the hearing. 

ADDRESSES: The September 24, 2018 

hearing will be held at the The Grand 

1401, 1401 Fulton Street, Fresno, 

California 93721. The September 25, 

2018 hearing will be held at the 

Dearborn Inn, 20301 Oakwood 

Boulevard, Dearborn, Michigan 48124. 

The September 26, 2018 hearing will be 

held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel 

& Suites Pittsburgh Downtown, One 

Bigelow Square, Pittsburgh, 

Pennsylvania 15219. The hearings will 

be held at sites accessible to individuals 

with disabilities. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you would like to present oral testimony 

at a public hearing, please contact KilJae Hong at NHTSA by the date 

specified under DATES, at kil-jae.hong@

dot.gov. Please provide the following 

information: Name, affiliation, address, 

email address, telephone and fax 

numbers (if applicable), time you wish 

to speak (morning, afternoon) if there is 

a preference, and whether you require 

accommodations such as a sign 

language interpreter or translator. 

Questions concerning the proposed 

rules should be addressed to NHTSA: 

James Tamm, Office of Rulemaking, 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590. 

Telephone: (202) 493–0515. EPA: Chris 

Lieske, Office of Transportation and Air 

Quality, Assessment and Standards 

Division (ASD), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 2000 Traverwood 

Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48105; telephone 

number: (734) 214–4584; fax number: 

(734) 214–4816; email address: 

lieske.christopher@epa.gov. You may 

learn more about the proposal by 

visiting NHTSA’s or EPA’s web pages at 

http://www.nhtsa.gov/corporateaverage-fuel-economy/safe or https://

www.epa.gov/regulations-emissionsvehicles-and-engines/safer-andaffordable-fuel-efficient-vehiclesproposed, or by searching the public 

dockets (NHTSA–2018–0067 (for the 

proposed rule) or NHTSA–2017–0069 

(for the Draft EIS); EPA–HQ–OAR– 

2018–0283) at www.regulations.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of the public hearings is to 

provide the public an opportunity to 

present oral comments regarding 

NHTSA and EPA’s proposals for the 

SAFE Vehicles Rule. These hearings 

also offer an opportunity for the public 

to provide oral comments regarding 

NHTSA’s Draft EIS, accompanying the 

proposed NHTSA fuel economy 

standards. The agencies will assume 

that all oral comments presented at the 

hearing are addressed to the joint 

proposed rules only, unless speakers 

specifically reference NHTSA’s Draft 

EIS in oral or written testimony. 

The SAFE Vehicles Rule, if finalized, 

would amend certain existing Corporate 

Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and 

tailpipe carbon dioxide emissions 

standards for passenger cars and light 

trucks and establish new standards, all 

covering model years 2021 through 

2026. More specifically, NHTSA is 

proposing new CAFE standards for 

model years 2022 through 2026 and 

amending its 2021 model year CAFE 

standards because they are no longer 

maximum feasible standards, and EPA 

is proposing to amend its carbon 

dioxide emissions standards for model 

years 2021 through 2025 because they 

are no longer appropriate and 

reasonable in addition to establishing 

new standards for model year 2026. The 

preferred alternative is to retain the 

model year 2020 standards (specifically, 

the footprint target curves for passenger 

cars and light trucks) for both programs 

through model year 2026, but comment 

is sought on a range of alternatives 

discussed throughout this document. 

Compared to maintaining the post-2020 

standards set forth in 2012, current 

estimates indicate that the proposed 

SAFE Vehicles Rule would save over 

500 billion dollars in societal costs and 

reduce highway fatalities by 12,700 

lives (over the lifetimes of vehicles 

through MY 2029). U.S. fuel 

consumption would increase by about 

half a million barrels per day (2–3 

percent of total daily consumption, 

according to the Energy Information 

Administration), emissions would 

increase by 7,400 million metric tons of 

carbon dioxide by 2100, and would 

impact the global climate by 3/1000th of 

one degree Celsius by 2100, also when 

compared to the standards set forth in 

2012. 

The proposal for which EPA and 

NHTSA are holding the public hearings 

was signed on August 2, 2018 and the 

pre-publication version is available at 

the web pages listed above under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT and, also 

in the rulemaking dockets. NHTSA’s 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

is available on NHTSA’s web page and 

in NHTSA’s docket for the EIS, both 

referenced above. We expect the official 

proposal to be published in the Federal 

Register soon. Please note that the prepublication version of the proposal 

specified that the agencies would hold 

three public hearings in Washington DC, 

Detroit Michigan, and Los Angeles 

California, with details to be announced 

in a forthcoming Federal Register 

notice. The agencies have decided 

instead to hold three public hearings, in 

Fresno California, Dearborn, Michigan, 

and Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, as 

specified above in this notice. Once 

NHTSA and EPA learn how many 

people have registered to speak at each 


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public hearing, we will allocate an 

appropriate amount of time to each 

participant, allowing time for necessary 

breaks. In addition, we will reserve a 

block of time for anyone else in the 

audience who wishes to give an oral 

presentation. For planning purposes, 

each speaker should anticipate speaking 

for approximately five minutes. We 

request that you bring three copies of 

your statement or other material for the 

EPA and NHTSA panels. To 

accommodate as many speakers as 

possible, we prefer that speakers not use 

technological aids (e.g., audio-visuals, 

computer slideshows). However, if you 

wish to do so, you must notify the 

contact persons in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section above. 

You also must make arrangements to 

provide your presentation or any other 

aids to NHTSA and EPA in advance of 

the hearing in order to facilitate set-up. 

NHTSA and EPA will conduct the 

hearings informally, and technical rules 

of evidence will not apply. We will 

arrange for a written transcript of each 

hearing and keep the official record of 

each hearing open for 30 days to allow 

speakers to submit supplementary 

information to the dockets listed above. 

Panel members may ask clarifying 

questions during the oral presentations, 

but will not respond to the 

presentations at that time. You may 

make arrangements for copies of the 

transcripts directly with the court 

reporter. 

Written statements and supporting 

information submitted during the 

comment period will be considered 

with the same weight as oral comments 

and supporting information presented at 

the public hearings. To be assured of 

consideration, written comments on the 

proposal must be received by the date 

indicated in the Federal Register once 

the document publishes. Written 

comments on NHTSA’s Draft EIS must 

be received or uploaded to NHTSA’s 

docket for the EIS by September 24, 

2018. 

Raymond R. Posten, 

Associate Administrator for Rulemaking, 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration. 

Amanda Gunasekara, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for 

Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

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BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 180 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2018–0577; FRL–9982–37] 

Receipt of Several Pesticide Petitions 

Filed for Residues of Pesticide 

Chemicals in or on Various 

Commodities 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notification of filing of petitions 

and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: This document announces the 

Agency’s receipt of several initial filings 

of pesticide petitions requesting the 

establishment or modification of 

regulations for residues of pesticide 

chemicals in or on various commodities. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before September 24, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by the docket identification 

(ID) number and the pesticide petition 

number (PP) of interest as shown in the 

body of this document, by one of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

• Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/ 

DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 

NW, Washington, DC 20460–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: To make special 

arrangements for hand delivery or 

delivery of boxed information, please 

follow the instructions at http://

www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html. 

Additional instructions on commenting 

or visiting the docket, along with more 

information about dockets generally, is 

available at http://www.epa.gov/ 

dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Goodis, Registration Division 

(RD) (7505P), main telephone number: 

(703) 305–7090, email address: 

RDFRNotices@epa.gov; or Robert 

McNally, Biopesticides and Pollution 

Prevention Division (BPPD) (7511P), 

main telephone number: (703) 305– 

7090, email address: BPPDFRNotices@

epa.gov. The mailing address for each 

contact person is: Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20460–0001. As part of 

the mailing address, include the contact 

person’s name, division, and mail code. 

The division to contact is listed at the 

end of each pesticide petition summary. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

You may be potentially affected by 

this action if you are an agricultural 

producer, food manufacturer, or 

pesticide manufacturer. The following 

list of North American Industrial 

Classification System (NAICS) codes is 

not intended to be exhaustive, but rather 

provides a guide to help readers 

determine whether this document 

applies to them. Potentially affected 

entities may include: 

• Crop production (NAICS code 111). 

• Animal production (NAICS code 

112). 

• Food manufacturing (NAICS code 

311). 

• Pesticide manufacturing (NAICS 

code 32532). 

If you have any questions regarding 

the applicability of this action to a 

particular entity, consult the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT for the division listed at the 

end of the pesticide petition summary of 

interest. 

B. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to EPA through 

regulations.gov or email. Clearly mark 

the part or all of the information that 

you claim to be CBI. For CBI 

information in a disk or CD–ROM that 

you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the 

disk or CD–ROM as CBI and then 

identify electronically within the disk or 

CD–ROM the specific information that 

is claimed as CBI. In addition to one 

complete version of the comment that 

includes information claimed as CBI, a 

copy of the comment that does not 

contain the information claimed as CBI 

must be submitted for inclusion in the 

public docket. Information so marked 

will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR part 2. 

2. Tips for preparing your comments. 

When preparing and submitting your 

comments, see the commenting tips at 

http://www.epa.gov/dockets/ 

comments.html. 

3. Environmental justice. EPA seeks to 

achieve environmental justice, the fair 

treatment and meaningful involvement 

of any group, including minority and/or 

low-income populations, in the 

development, implementation, and 

enforcement of environmental laws, 

regulations, and policies. To help 

address potential environmental justice 


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