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title 40 of the CFR. CROMERR 

establishes electronic reporting as an 

acceptable regulatory alternative to 

paper reporting and establishes 

requirements to assure that electronic 

documents are as legally dependable as 

their paper counterparts. Under Subpart 

D of CROMERR, state, tribe or local 

government agencies that receive, or 

wish to begin receiving, electronic 

reports under their EPA-authorized 

programs must apply to EPA for a 

revision or modification of those 

programs and get EPA approval. Subpart 

D also provides standards for such 

approvals based on consideration of the 

electronic document receiving systems 

that the state, tribe, or local government 

will use to implement the electronic 

reporting. Additionally, in § 3.1000(b) 

through (e) of 40 CFR Part 3, Subpart D 

provides special procedures for program 

revisions and modifications to allow 

electronic reporting, to be used at the 

option of the state, tribe or local 

government in place of procedures 

available under existing programspecific authorization regulations. An 

application submitted under the 

Subpart D procedures must show that 

the state, tribe or local government has 

sufficient legal authority to implement 

the electronic reporting components of 

the programs covered by the application 

and will use electronic document 

receiving systems that meet the 

applicable Subpart D requirements. 

On July 22, 2009, the State of 

Connecticut Department of 

Environmental Protection (CTDEP) 

submitted an application for its Net 

Discharge Monitoring Report (NetDMR) 

electronic document receiving system 

for revision or modification of EPAauthorized programs under title 40 CFR. 

EPA reviewed CTDEP’s request to 

revise/modify its EPA-authorized 

programs and, based on this review, 

EPA determined that the application 

met the standards for approval of 

authorized program revisions/ 

modifications set out in 40 CFR part 3, 

subpart D. In accordance with 40 CFR 

3.1000(d), this notice of EPA’s decision 

to approve Connecticut’s request for 

revision/modification to certain of its 

authorized programs is being published 

in the Federal Register. 

Specifically, EPA has approved 

CTDEP’s request for revision/ 

modification to the following authorized 

programs to allow electronic reporting 

for the specified reports: 40 CFR Part 

123–NPDES State Program 

Requirements and Part 403—General 

Pretreatment Regulations For Existing 

And New Sources Of Pollution 

programs for electronic reporting of 

discharge monitoring report information 

submitted under 40 CFR Parts 122 and 

403. 

CTDEP was notified of EPA’s 

determination to approve its application 

with respect to the authorized programs 

listed above. 

Dated: December 22, 2009. 

Lisa Schlosser, 

Director, Office of Information Collection. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–SFUND–2009–0907; FRL–9100–8] 

RIN 2050–ZA05 

Draft Recommended Interim 

Preliminary Remediation Goals for 

Dioxin in Soil at CERCLA and RCRA 

Sites 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability and 

announcement of public comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA or the Agency) is 

announcing a 50-day public comment 

period for draft recommended interim 

preliminary remediation goals (PRGs) 

developed in the Draft Recommended 

Interim Preliminary Remediation Goals 

for Dioxin in Soil at Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, 

Compensation, and Liability Act 

(CERCLA) and Resource Conservation 

and Recovery Act (RCRA) Sites. EPA’s 

Office of Solid Waste and Emergency 

and Emergency Response (OSWER) has 

developed the draft recommended 

interim PRGs for dioxin in soil. These 

draft recommended interim PRGs were 

calculated using existing, peer-reviewed 

toxicity values and current EPA 

equations and default exposure 

assumptions. 

This Federal Register notice is 

intended to provide an opportunity for 

public comment on the draft 

recommended interim PRGs. EPA will 

consider any public comments 

submitted in accordance with this 

notice and may revise the draft 

recommended interim PRGs thereafter. 

DATES: Comments may be submitted in 

writing by February 26, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

SFUND–2009–0907, by one of the 

following methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov. Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: OSWER.Docket@epa.gov. 

• Mail: EPA Docket Center, 

Environmental Protection Agency, Mail 

Code: 5305T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

• Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center 

(EPA/DC), Room 3334, EPA West 

Building, 1301 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20460, Attention 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–SFUND–2009– 

0907. Deliveries are only accepted from 

8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays. 

Special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–SFUND–2009– 

0907. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change and may be 

made available online at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes information 

claimed to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Do not submit information that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected by statute through http:// 

www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The 

http://www.regulations.gov Web site is 

an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means EPA will not know your identity 

or contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

If you send an e-mail comment directly 

to EPA, without going through http:// 

www.regulations.gov, your e-mail 

address will be automatically captured 

and included as part of the comment 

that is placed in the public docket and 

made available on the Internet. If you 

submit an electronic comment, EPA 

recommends that you include your 

name and other contact information in 

the body of your comment and with any 

disk or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA 

cannot read your comment due to 

technical difficulties and cannot contact 

you for clarification, EPA may not be 

able to consider your comment. 

Electronic files should avoid the use of 

special characters, any form of 

encryption, and be free of any defects or 

viruses. 

Docket: This Federal Register notice 

and supporting documentation are 

available in a docket EPA has 

established under Docket ID No. EPA– 

HQ–SFUND–2009–0907. All documents 

in the docket are listed in the http:// 

www.regulations.gov index. Although 

listed in the index, some information is 

not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Certain other 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

will be publicly available only in hard 

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1Toxicity equivalents consider the toxicity of the 

less toxic dioxin-like compounds as fractions of the 

toxicity of the most toxic compound (2,3,7,8- 

TCDD). Each compound is attributed a specific 

‘‘Toxic Equivalency Factor’’ (TEF). This factor 

indicates the degree of toxicity compared to 2,3,7,8- 

TCDD, which is given a reference value of 1. 

copy. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either 

electronically in http:// 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the OSWER Docket, EPA West, Room 

3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue,. NW., 

Washington, DC. The 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, and the telephone number for 

the OSWER docket is (202) 566–0270. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Marlene Berg, Office of Superfund 

Remediation and Technology 

Innovation, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Mail Code: 5204P, Washington, 

DC 20460; by telephone/voicemail at 

(703) 603–8701; Fax: (703) 603–9112; or 

via e-mail at berg.marlene@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Preliminary remediation goals (PRGs) 

generally are chemical-specific 

concentration goals for specific media 

(e.g., soil, sediment, water and air) and 

land use combinations at CERCLA sites. 

They are intended to serve as a point of 

departure in the remedy selection 

process and generally are used as a 

target in conjunction with site-specific 

information (e.g., exposure frequency) 

during the initial development, analysis, 

and selection of cleanup alternatives. As 

discussed in the National Oil and 

Hazardous Substances Pollution 

Contingency Plan (NCP) (40 CFR 

300.430(e)(2)(i)) preliminary 

remediation goals are typically 

developed from readily available 

information. Preliminary remediation 

goals should be modified, as necessary, 

when more site-specific information 

becomes available (e.g., exposure 

frequency). 

In May 2009, EPA Administrator Lisa 

P. Jackson committed to accelerating the 

Agency’s work currently underway to 

reassess the human health risks from 

exposures to dioxin. EPA’s Science Plan 

for Activities Related to Dioxins in the 

Environment (http://cfpub.epa.gov/ 

ncea/cfm/ 

recordisplay.cfm?deid=209690) details a 

plan, with interim milestones, for 

completion of the Agency’s dioxin 

reassessment. By the end of 2010, EPA 

expects to complete the dioxin 

reassessment and release it to the 

public, subject to further consideration 

of the science and the scope and 

complexity of the revisions. 

Several site-specific investigations 

and decisions involving dioxin may 

need to be made before the dioxin 

reassessment is finalized. Therefore, 

Administrator Jackson directed the 

Office of Solid Waste and Emergency 

Response (OSWER) to develop draft 

recommended interim PRGs by the end 

of 2009 that are informed by the best 

available peer-reviewed science. The 

recommended interim PRGs, when 

finalized, will allow EPA to continue to 

make progress on key site-specific 

investigations and decisions while the 

dioxin reassessment is on-going. Also, 

development of the recommended 

interim PRGs at this juncture allows 

EPA to include the dermal absorption 

pathway of dioxin. The information to 

estimate the dermal pathway was not 

available when EPA last recommended 

PRGs for dioxin in soil in 1998. 

OSWER reviewed the Agency’s 

current dioxin cleanup guidance and 

related work by other entities, including 

the states, other countries, and other 

federal agencies with the goal of 

developing guidance containing 

recommended interim PRGs informed 

by the best available peer-reviewed 

science. Once the recommended interim 

PRGs are finalized, they are intended to 

be considered by EPA regions until the 

Agency issues its final dioxin 

reassessment; at that time, OSWER may 

issue updated recommended PRGs 

based on the final dioxin reassessment. 

After publication of the final dioxin 

reassessment and any subsequent 

updated PRG guidance, EPA regions 

would then re-evaluate, as appropriate, 

cleanup decisions at CERCLA sites to 

ensure that cleanups are still protective. 

States which apply the final 

recommended interim PRGs to RCRA 

sites may choose to re-evaluate, as 

appropriate, cleanup decisions based on 

the recommended interim PRGs as well. 

The draft guidance presents current 

OSWER technical and policy 

recommendations regarding PRGs for 

soil contaminated with dioxin. While 

OSWER developed the draft guidance 

for facility response actions under 

CERCLA and RCRA corrective action, 

other regulators, including the States, 

may find it useful in their programs, 

although they may choose to use 

alternative assessments consistent with 

their own programs and policies. In 

addition, EPA may use and accept other 

technically sound approaches after 

appropriate review, either at its own 

initiative or at the suggestion of other 

interested parties. The draft guidance 

does not impose any requirements or 

obligations on EPA, the States, other 

Federal agencies, or the regulated 

community. It is important to 

understand that the draft guidance does 

not substitute for statutes that EPA 

administers or their implementing 

regulations, nor is it a regulation itself. 

Thus, the draft guidance does not 

impose legally binding requirements on 

EPA, the States, or the regulated 

community, and may not apply to a 

particular situation based upon the 

specific circumstances. Rather, the draft 

guidance suggests approaches that may 

be used at particular sites as 

appropriate, given site-specific 

circumstances. 

In developing these draft 

recommended interim PRGs, OSWER, 

EPA’s Office of Research and 

Development and other EPA offices 

reviewed current soil cleanup levels and 

dioxin toxicity values used by the states, 

the U.S. Department of Health and 

Human Services’ Agency for Toxic 

Substances and Disease Registry and 

other countries (see docket #EPA–HQ– 

SFUND–2009–0907 for State Soil 

Cleanup Levels for Dioxin and Review of 

International Soil Levels for Dioxin). 

Based on this evaluation, OSWER 

considered EPA’s currently 

recommended PRGs for CERCLA and 

RCRA sites (http://www.epa.gov/ 

superfund/resources/remedy/pdf/92- 

00426-s.pdf), which are 1 ppb (parts per 

billion) (or 1,000 ppt (parts per trillion)) 

for dioxin toxicity equivalents (TEQs) 1

in residential soil, and a level within the 

range of 5 ppb (or 5,000 ppt) and 20 ppb 

(or 20,000 ppt) in commercial/industrial 

soil, where exposure is due to direct 

contact. Three key components of EPA’s 

current recommended PRGs were reevaluated: available toxicity values, 

generic exposure assumptions and the 

cancer risk level. 

These draft recommended interim 

PRGs are informed by the best available 

peer-reviewed science, as well as the 

work of states and other agencies. Based 

on a consideration of oral and dermal 

exposures to dioxin, EPA has developed 

the following draft recommended 

interim PRGs for dioxin in soil: 72 ppt 

for residential soil and 950 ppt for 

commercial/industrial soil. EPA 

believes that these draft recommended 

interim PRGs would generally provide 

adequate protection against non-cancer 

effects, and generally should protect 

against cancer effects at approximately 

the 1E–05 risk level (1 in 100,000). 

These recommended interim PRGs are 

within EPA’s protective risk range of 

1E–04 to 1E–06 (see 40 CFR 

300.430(e)(2)(i)(A)), and are more 

protective than the 1998 PRGs. 

In addition, consistent with the NCP 

(40 CFR 300.430(e)(2)(i)(A)), EPA is 

considering (and requesting comment 

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on) an alternative concentration of 3.7 

ppt TEQ in residential soil and 17 ppt 

TEQ in commercial/industrial soil as 

draft interim PRGs. These alternative 

draft interim PRGs would be protective 

for cancer and non-cancer effects and 

are consistent with the NCP provision 

for PRGs reflecting a 1E–06 risk level as 

a point of departure for determining 

remediation goals. OSWER notes that 

PRGs based on a 1E–06 cancer risk level 

would likely be within or possibly 

below the average concentration of 

dioxins in rural U.S. soils. Generally, it 

is OSWER’s policy not to clean below 

background (for more information about 

this policy visit http://cfpub.epa.gov/ 

ncea/CFM/ 

recordisplay.cfm?deid=150944). 

Dated: December 30, 2009. 

Mathy Stanislaus, 

Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste 

and Emergency Response. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

Granting of Request for Early 

Termination of the Waiting Period 

Under the Premerger Notification 

Rules 

Section 7A of the Clayton Act, 15 

U.S.C. 18a, as added by Title II of the 

Hart-Scott Rodino Antitrust 

Improvements Act of 1976, requires 

persons contemplating certain mergers 

or acquisitions to give the Federal Trade 

Commission and the Assistant Attorney 

General advance notice and to wait 

designated periods before 

consummation of such plans. Section 

7A(b)(2) of the Act permits the agencies, 

in individual cases, to terminate this 

waiting period prior to its expiration 

and requires that notice of this action be 

published in the Federal Register. 

The following transactions were 

granted early termination of the waiting 

period provided by law and the 

premerger notification rules. The grants 

were made by the Federal Trade 

Commission and the Assistant Attorney 

General for the Antitrust Division of the 

Department of Justice. Neither agency 

intends to take any action with respect 

to these proposed acquisitions during 

the applicable waiting period. 

TRANSACTION GRANTED EARLY TERMINATION

ET date Trans No. ET req 

status Party name 

02–NOV–09 .............................................................. 20100028 G Compuware Corporation. 

G Gomez, Inc. 

G Gomez, Inc. 

03–NOV–09 .............................................................. 20100047 G J&F Participacoes S.A. 

G Controlling Holding. 

G Controlling Holding. 

20100052 G H.I.G. Bayside Debt and LBO Fund II, L.P. 

G Dr. Rodolfo Gari and Mrs. Laurie Gari. 

G Business IT Solutions of Tampa, Inc. 

G Medical Billing Solutions, LLC. 

G Sarasota Anesthesia Services, LLC. 

G Surgery Partners of Coral Gables, LLC. 

G Armenia Surgery Center, Inc. 

G APS of Merritt Island, LLC. 

G APS of Bradenton, LLC. 

G Anesthesia Professional Services, Inc. 

G Anesthesia Management Services, LLC. 

G Surgery Partners of Lake Mary, LLC. 

G Weschase Anesthesiology Professional Services, Inc. 

G Tampa Pain Relief Center, Inc. 

G Surgery Partners, LLC. 

G Surgery Partners of Lake Worth, LLC. 

G Surgery Partners of Merritt Island, LLC. 

G Surgery Partners of Millenia, LLC. 

G Surgery Partners of New Tampa, LLC. 

G Surgery Partners of Park Place, LLC. 

G Surgery Partners of Sarasota, LLC. 

G Surgery Partners of Westchase, LLC. 

G Surgery Partners of West Kendall, L.L.C. 

20100057 G Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 

G Capmark Financial Group Inc. 

G Capmark Capital Inc. 

G Capmark Finance Inc. 

04–NOV–09 .............................................................. 20100017 G Rohm Co., Ltd. 

G Kionix, Inc. 

G Kionix, Inc. 

20100053 G Occidental Petroleum Corporation. 

G Citigroup Inc. 

G Phibro, LLC. 

05–NOV–09 .............................................................. 20100058 G Leucadia National Corporation. 

G Capmark Financial Group Inc. 

G Capmark Capital Inc. 

G Capmark Finance Inc. 

06–NOV–09 .............................................................. 20100078 G Kok Thay Lim. 

G Empire Resorts, Inc. 

G Empire Resorts, Inc. 

20100081 G Carlyle Partners V L.P. 

G TA IX L.P. 

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