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analytical method for residues is not 

applicable. It is expected that, when 

used as proposed, prohydrojasmon will 

not result in residues that are of 

toxicological concern. 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 180 

Environmental protection, 

Agricultural commodities, Feed 

additives, Food additives, Pesticides 

and pests, Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements. 

Dated: February 2, 2012. 

Keith Matthews, 

Director, Biopesticides and Pollution 

Prevention Division, Office of Pesticide 

Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2012–3422 Filed 2–14–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Parts 280 and 281 

[EPA–HQ–UST–2011–0301; FRL–9631–6] 

RIN 2050–AG46 

Revising Underground Storage Tank 

Regulations—Revisions to Existing 

Requirements and New Requirements 

for Secondary Containment and 

Operator Training 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: EPA is extending the public 

comment period for the proposed 

changes to the 1988 underground 

storage tank (UST) technical, financial 

responsibility, and state program 

approval regulations published in the 

Federal Register on November 18, 2011 

(76 FR 71708) (FRL–9485–5). These 

changes establish federal requirements 

that are similar to key portions of the 

Energy Policy Act of 2005; they also 

update certain 1988 UST regulations. 

Proposed changes include: Adding 

secondary containment requirements for 

new and replaced tanks and piping; 

adding operator training requirements; 

adding periodic operation and 

maintenance requirements for UST 

systems; removing certain deferrals; 

adding new release prevention and 

detection technologies; updating codes 

of practice; making editorial and 

technical corrections; and updating state 

program approval requirements to 

incorporate these new changes. These 

changes will likely protect human 

health and the environment by 

increasing the number of prevented UST 

releases and quickly detecting them, if 

they occur. This document extends the 

comment period for 60 days, from 

February 16, 2012 until April 16, 2012. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before April 16, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

UST–2011–0301, by one of the 

following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: mcdermott.elizabeth@epa.

gov. 

• Mail: EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OPA–2009– 

0880, Mail Code 2822T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. 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 St. NW., Washington, DC 

20503. 

• Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center 

(EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW., Washington DC 

20460. Attention Docket ID No. EPA– 

HQ–UST–2011–0301. 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–UST–2011– 

0301. 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 EPA will not know your 

identity or contact information unless 

you provide it in the body of your 

comment. If you send an email 

comment directly to EPA without 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, 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. For additional information 

about EPA’s public docket, visit the EPA 

Docket Center homepage at http://www.

epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

Docket: 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, 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 Docket, EPA/ 

DC, 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 (EPA/DC) is (202) 566– 

0276. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elizabeth McDermott, OSWER/OUST 

(5401P), Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: 703–603–7175; email address: 

mcdermott.elizabeth@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

document extends the public comment 

period established in the Federal 

Register on November 18, 2011. In that 

document EPA proposed changes that 

establish federal requirements that are 

similar to key portions of the Energy 

Policy Act of 2005; they also update 

certain 1988 UST regulations. Several 

potential commenters requested an 

extension to the comment period. EPA 

is hereby extending the comment 

period, which was set to end on 

February 16, 2012, to April 16, 2012. To 

submit comments, please follow the 

detailed instructions as provided under 

ADDRESSES. If you have questions, 

consult the individual listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

List of Subjects 

40 CFR Part 280 

Environmental protection, 

Administrative practice and procedures, 

Confidential business information, 

Groundwater, Hazardous materials, 

Petroleum, Reporting and recordkeeping 

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tanks, Water pollution control, Water 

supply. 

40 CFR Part 281 

Environmental protection, 

Administrative practice and procedures, 

Hazardous materials, Petroleum, State 

program approval, Underground storage 

tanks. 

Dated: February 8, 2012. 

Carolyn Hoskinson, 

Director, Office of Underground Storage 

Tanks, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency 

Response. 

[FR Doc. 2012–3589 Filed 2–14–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 300 

[Docket No. 120118051–1693–01] 

RIN 0648–BB64 

International Fisheries; Western and 

Central Pacific Fisheries for Highly 

Migratory Species; High Seas 

Transshipment Prohibitions 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce 

ACTION: Advance notice of proposed 

rulemaking; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: NMFS is considering 

promulgating regulations under the 

authority of the Western and Central 

Pacific Fisheries Convention 

Implementation Act (WCPFC 

Implementation Act) to prohibit the 

transshipment of highly migratory 

species (HMS) on the high seas to or 

from certain types of U.S. vessels that 

operate in the area of application of the 

Convention on the Conservation and 

Management of Highly Migratory Fish 

Stocks in the Western and Central 

Pacific Ocean (Convention). These 

regulations would implement certain 

decisions of the Commission for the 

Conservation and Management of 

Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the 

Western and Central Pacific Ocean 

(Commission or WCPFC) in order to 

meet the obligations of the United States 

under the Convention. NMFS issues this 

advance notice of proposed rulemaking 

to solicit information and comments 

about HMS transshipment activities by 

U.S. vessels, and the potential effects 

of a prohibition on high seas 

transshipments in the Convention Area. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted in 

writing by April 16, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Comments on this advance 

notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR), 

identified by NOAA–NMFS–2012–0001, 

may be sent to either of the following 

addresses: 

• Electronic submission: Submit all 

electronic public comments via the 

Federal e-Rulemaking portal http:// 

www.regulations.gov; or 

• Mail: Mail written comments to 

Michael D. Tosatto, Regional 

Administrator, NMFS, Pacific Islands 

Regional Office (PIRO), 1601 Kapiolani 

Blvd., Suite 1110, Honolulu, HI 96814– 

4700. 

Instructions: Comments must be 

submitted to one of the two addresses to 

ensure that the comments are received, 

documented, and considered by NMFS. 

Comments sent to any other address or 

individual, or received after the end of 

the comment period, may not be 

considered. All comments received are 

part of the public record and generally 

will be posted for public viewing on 

http://www.regulations.gov without 

change. All personal identifying 

information (for example, name and 

address) voluntarily submitted by the 

commenter may be publicly accessible. 

Do not submit confidential business 

information or otherwise sensitive or 

protected information. NMFS will 

accept anonymous comments (enter 

‘‘N/A’’ in the relevant required fields if 

you wish to remain anonymous). 

Attachments to electronic comments 

will be accepted in Microsoft Word or 

Excel, WordPerfect, or Adobe PDF file 

formats only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rini 

Ghosh, NMFS PIRO, (808) 944–2273. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic Access 

This advance notice of proposed 

rulemaking is also accessible at http:// 

www.gpoaccess.gov/fr. 

Background on the Convention and the 

WCPFC 

The Convention Area comprises the 

majority of the western and central 

Pacific Ocean. A map showing the 

boundaries of the Convention Area can 

be found on the WCPFC Web site at: 

http://www.wcpfc.int/doc/conventionarea-map. The Convention focuses on 

the conservation and management of 

HMS and the management of fisheries 

for HMS. 

As a Contracting Party to the 

Convention and a Member of the 

WCPFC, the United States is obligated 

to implement the decisions of the 

WCPFC. The WCPFC Implementation 

Act (16 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.) authorizes 

the Secretary of Commerce, in 

consultation with the Secretary of State 

and the Secretary of the Department in 

which the United States Coast Guard is 

operating (currently the Department of 

Homeland Security), to promulgate such 

regulations as may be necessary to carry 

out the obligations of the United States 

under the Convention, including the 

decisions of the WCPFC. The authority 

to promulgate regulations has been 

delegated to NMFS. 

WCPFC Decision Regarding the 

Prohibition of Transshipments on the 

High Seas in the Convention Area 

At its Sixth Regular Annual Session, 

in December 2009, the WCPFC adopted 

Conservation and Management Measure 

(CMM) 2009–06, ‘‘Conservation and 

Management Measure on the Regulation 

of Transhipment.’’ The CMM, available 

with other decisions of the WCPFC at 

http://www.wcpfc.int/conservation-andmanagement-measures, furthers the 

objectives of Article 29 of the 

Convention and includes specific 

obligations for WCPFC Members, 

Participating Territories, and 

Cooperating Non-Members (collectively, 

CCMs) to regulate transshipment 

activities in the Convention Area and 

transshipments elsewhere of HMS 

caught in the Convention Area. NMFS is 

implementing the majority of the 

provisions of CMM 2009–06 in a 

separate rulemaking proceeding (see 

NOAA–NMFS–2011–0281 at 

www.regulations.gov). 

Under the Convention, CCMs are 

obligated with limited exceptions to 

prohibit transshipments at sea involving 

purse seine vessels in the Convention 

Area. NMFS has implemented this 

prohibition (see 50 CFR 300.216(b)). 

CMM 2009–06 contains a provision 

obligating CCMs to prohibit their vessels 

(other than purse seine vessels) from 

transshipping HMS on the high seas in 

the Convention Area, subject to certain 

considerations. The prohibition does 

not apply to vessels for which the flag 

CCM has determined that it is 

impracticable for them to operate 

without being able to transship on the 

high seas, and has advised the WCPFC 

of such. Paragraph 37 of CMM 2009–06 

sets forth interim guidelines for CCMs to 

use in making such determinations. 

CMM 2009–06 calls for the WCPFC to 

consider adopting definitive guidelines 

in 2012. 

Under the interim guidelines, vessels 

are to be excepted from the prohibition 

on transshipment on the high seas when 

the flag CCM determines that: (1) The 

prohibition of transshipment on the 

high seas would cause a significant 


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