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plans may be offered as ‘‘church plans’’ 

(described above) to individual 

churches as a means of pooling their 

risk. The Departments seek comment on 

whether different accommodations are 

needed for such plans. 

In addition, the Departments are 

aware that 28 States have adopted laws 

requiring that certain health insurance 

issuers provide contraceptive coverage. 

Some of these laws contain exemptions 

related to religious organizations, but 

the scope of the exemptions varies 

among the States. Generally, Federal 

health insurance coverage regulation 

creates a floor to which States may add 

consumer protections, but may not 

subtract. This means that, in States with 

broader religious exemptions than that 

in the final regulations, the exemptions 

will be narrowed to align with that in 

the final regulations because this will 

help more consumers. Organizations 

that qualify for an exemption under 

State law but do not qualify for the 

exemption under the final regulations 

may be eligible for the temporary 

enforcement safe harbor. During this 

transition period, State laws that require 

contraceptive coverage with narrower or 

no religious exemptions will continue. 

The Departments seek comment on the 

interaction between these State laws 

and the intended regulations on which 

we are seeking comment in this notice 

and on the extent to which there is a 

need for consistency between any 

Federal regulations and these State 

laws. Similarly, the Departments solicit 

comment on what other Federal or State 

laws or accounting rules governing 

funding and accounting could affect the 

proposed options described herein. 

In addition, the Departments solicit 

information on the number of 

potentially affected issuers and religious 

organizations as well as their plan 

participants and beneficiaries; the 

administrative cost of providing 

separate contraceptive coverage, 

including details regarding the nature of 

the costs (for example, one-time systems 

changes or ongoing administrative 

costs); and the average costs and savings 

to health plans, plan participants and 

beneficiaries, and the public of 

providing contraceptive coverage. 

D. Additional Input 

The 90-day comment period is 

designed to encourage maximum input 

into the development of an 

accommodation for religious 

organizations with religious objections 

to providing contraceptive coverage 

while ensuring the availability of 

contraceptive coverage without cost 

sharing for plan participants and 

beneficiaries. The Departments seek 

comments on the ideas and questions 

outlined in this ANPRM as well as new 

suggestions to achieve its goals. The 

Departments also intend to hold 

listening sessions to ensure all voices 

are heard. This will not be the only 

opportunity for comment. The 

subsequent notice of proposed 

rulemaking will also include a public 

comment period. The Departments aim 

to ensure that the final accommodation 

is fully vetted and published in advance 

of the expiration of the temporary 

enforcement safe harbor. 

Steven T. Miller, 

Deputy Commissioner for Services and 

Enforcement, Internal Revenue Service. 

Signed this day of March 14, 2012. 

Phyllis C. Borzi. 

Assistant Secretary, Employee Benefits 

Security Administration, Department of 

Labor. 

Dated: March 15, 2012. 

Marilyn Tavenner, 

Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare 

& Medicaid Services. 

Approved: March 15, 2012. 

Kathleen Sebelius, 

Secretary, Department of Health and Human 

Services. 

[FR Doc. 2012–6689 Filed 3–16–12; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 4120–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 63 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2011–0435; FRL–9650–3] 

RIN 2060–AR02 

National Emission Standards for 

Hazardous Air Pollutant Emissions: 

Group IV Polymers and Resins; 

Pesticide Active Ingredient Production; 

and Polyether Polyols Production 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Reopening of public comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: On January 9, 2012, the EPA 

proposed amendments to three national 

emission standards for hazardous air 

pollutants: National Emission Standards 

for Hazardous Air Pollutant Emissions: 

Group IV Polymers and Resins; National 

Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 

Pollutants for Pesticide Active 

Ingredient Production; and National 

Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 

Pollutants for Polyether Polyols 

Production. The EPA is reopening the 

comment period until March 30, 2012. 

The EPA received a request for this 

reopening from the Sierra Club. The 

Sierra Club requested the reopening in 

order to analyze data and review the 

proposed amendments. EPA finds this 

request to be reasonable due to the 

multiple source categories involved in 

this action. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before March 30, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2011–0435, by one of the 

following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: a-and-r-docket@epa.gov. 

Attention Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2011–0435. 

• Fax: (202) 566–9744. Attention 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2011– 

0435. 

• Mail: U.S. Postal Service, send 

comments to: EPA Docket Center, EPA 

West (Air Docket), Attention Docket ID 

No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2011–0435, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Mailcode: 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

Please include a total of two copies. In 

addition, please mail a copy of your 

comments on the information collection 

provisions to the Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), Attn: 

Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street 

NW., Washington, DC 20503. 

• Hand Delivery: U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, EPA West (Air 

Docket), Room 3334, 1301 Constitution 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20004. 

Attention Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2011–0435. Such deliveries are 

only accepted during the Docket’s 

normal hours of operation, and special 

arrangements should be made for 

deliveries of boxed information. 

Instructions. Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2011– 

0435. The EPA’s policy is that all 

comments received will be included in 

the public docket without change and 

may be made available online at 

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 through www.regulations.gov 

or email. The www.regulations.gov Web 

site is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, 

which means the EPA will not know 

your identity or contact information 

unless you provide it in the body of 

your comment. If you send an email 

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going through www.regulations.gov, 

your email 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, the 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 the EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

the 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. For additional 

information about the EPA’s public 

docket, visit the EPA Docket Center 

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

epahome/dockets.htm. 

Docket. The EPA has established a 

docket for this rulemaking under Docket 

ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2011–0435. All 

documents in the docket are listed in 

the 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, is not placed on 

the Internet and will be publicly 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the EPA Docket Center, EPA West, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. 

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 EPA Docket Center is 

(202) 566–1742. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions about this proposed action, 

contact Mr. Nick Parsons, Sector 

Policies and Programs Division (E143– 

01), Office of Air Quality Planning and 

Standards, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Research Triangle 

Park, NC 27711; telephone number: 

(919) 541–5372; fax number: (919) 541– 

0246; email address: 

parsons.nick@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For the 

reasons noted above, the public 

comment period will be reopened until 

March 30, 2012. 

How can I get copies of the proposed 

rule and other related information? 

The proposed rule titled, National 

Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 

Pollutant Emissions: Group IV Polymers 

and Resins; Pesticide Active Ingredient 

Production; and Polyether Polyols 

Production, was published on January 9, 

2012 (77 FR 1268). EPA has established 

the public docket for the proposed 

rulemaking under docket ID No. EPA– 

HQ–OAR–2011–0435, and a copy of the 

proposed rule is available in the docket. 

Information on how to access the docket 

is presented above in the ADDRESSES

section. 

Dated: March 9, 2012. 

Gina McCarthy, 

Assistant Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2012–6807 Filed 3–20–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 70 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2011–0955; FRL–9649–4] 

Proposed Approval of Revision of Five 

California Clean Air Act Title V 

Operating Permits Programs 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve 

revisions to the Operating Permits (Title 

V) programs of the Monterey Bay 

Unified Air Pollution Control District 

(MBUAPCD), San Luis Obispo County 

Air Pollution Control District 

(SLOCAPCD), Santa Barbara County Air 

Pollution Control District (SBCAPCD), 

South Coast Air Quality Management 

District (SCAQMD), and Ventura County 

Air Pollution Control District 

(VCAPCD). These program revisions 

will require sources with the potential 

to emit (PTE)of greenhouse gas (GHG) 

above the thresholds in EPA’s Tailoring 

Rule that have not been previously 

subject to Title V for other reasons to 

obtain a Title V permit. See ‘‘Prevention 

of Significant Deterioration and Title V 

Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule; Final 

Rule,’’ (the Tailoring Rule), 75 FR 31514 

(June 3, 2010). We are taking comments 

on this proposal and plan to follow with 

a final action. 

DATES: Any comments must arrive by 

April 20, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, 

identified by docket number EPA–R09– 

OAR–2011–0955, by one of the 

following methods: 

1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions. 

2. Email: R9airpermits@epa.gov. 

3. Mail or deliver: Gerardo Rios (Air3), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, 

San Francisco, CA 94105–3901. 

Instructions: All comments will be 

included in the public docket without 

change and may be made available 

online at www.regulations.gov, 

including any personal information 

provided, unless the comment includes 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Information that 

you consider CBI or otherwise protected 

should be clearly identified as such and 

should not be submitted through 

www.regulations.gov or email. 

www.regulations.gov is an ‘‘anonymous 

access’’ system, and EPA will not know 

your identity or contact information 

unless you provide it in the body of 

your comment. If you send email 

directly to EPA, your email address will 

be automatically captured and included 

as part of the public comment. 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: EPA has established a docket 

for this action under EPA–R09–OAR– 

2011–0955. Generally, documents in the 

docket for this action are available 

electronically at www.regulations.gov or 

in hard copy at EPA Region IX, 75 

Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 

94105. While all documents are listed at 

www.regulations.gov, some information 

may be publicly available only at the 

hard copy location (e.g., copyrighted 

material, large maps, multi-volume 

reports), and some may not be publicly 

available in either location (e.g., CBI). 

To inspect the hard copy materials, 

please schedule an appointment during 

normal business hours with the contact 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Roger Kohn, EPA Region IX, (415) 972– 

3973, kohn.roger@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document, ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’ 

and ‘‘our’’ refer to EPA. 

Table of Contents 

I. The State’s Submittal 

A. What rules did the State submit? 

II. The Part 70 Operating Permits Program 

A. What is the Part 70 operating permits 

program? 

B. How did EPA revise Part 70 to address 

Title V permitting of GHG sources? 


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