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In the case of resources committed to New 

Entities Allocated by State referred to in 

Schedule D, the following is prescribed: 

A. Western is allocating 11.1 percent of the 

total Schedule D contingent capacity and 

firm energy to the Arizona Power Authority 

for allocation to New Allottees in the State 

of Arizona, for delivery commencing October 

1, 2017, for use in the Boulder City Area 

marketing area. 

B. Western is allocating 11.1 percent of the 

total Schedule D contingent capacity and 

firm energy to the Colorado River 

Commission of Nevada for allocation to New 

Allottees in the State of Nevada, for delivery 

commencing October 1, 2017, for use in the 

Boulder City Area marketing area. 

C. Western shall allocate 11.1 percent of 

the total Schedule D contingent capacity and 

firm energy to New Allottees within the State 

of California, for delivery commencing 

October 1, 2017, for use in the Boulder City 

Area marketing area. 

Section E. General Marketing Criteria. 

Western is establishing the following general 

marketing criteria to be used in the allocation 

of Schedule D contingent capacity and firm 

energy: 

A. General Eligibility Criteria 

Western will apply the following general 

eligibility criteria to applicants seeking a 

power allocation: 

(1) All qualified applicants must be eligible 

to enter into contracts under Section 5 of the 

Boulder Canyon Project Act (43 U.S.C. 617d) 

or be Federally recognized Indian tribes. 

(2) All qualified applicants must be located 

within the established Boulder City Area 

marketing area. 

B. General Allocation Criteria 

Western will apply the following general 

allocation criteria to applicants seeking an 

allocation of the 11.1 percent of Schedule D 

contingent capacity and firm energy to New 

Entities Allocated by State and the remaining 

66.7 percent of Schedule D contingent 

capacity and firm energy: 

(1) In the case of Arizona and Nevada, 

Schedule D contingent capacity and firm 

energy for New Allottees other than federally 

recognized Indian tribes shall be offered 

through the Arizona Power Authority and the 

Colorado River Commission of Nevada, 

respectively. Schedule D contingent capacity 

and firm energy allocated to federally 

recognized Indian tribes shall be contracted 

for directly with Western. 

(2) Western shall prescribe additional 

marketing criteria developed pursuant to a 

public process. 

Section F. Contract Offer Schedule. In the 

event that contract offers for Schedule A, 

Schedule B, or Schedule D are not accepted 

by existing contractors or new allottees, the 

following shall determine the distribution of 

the associated contingent capacity and firm 

energy: 

A. Schedule A and Schedule B 

If any existing contractor fails to accept an 

offered contract, Western shall offer the 

contingent capacity and firm energy thus 

available first to other entities in the same 

State listed in Schedule A and Schedule B, 

second to other entities listed in Schedule A 

and Schedule B, third to other entities in the 

same State that receive contingent capacity 

and firm energy under Schedule D, and last 

to other entities that receive contingent 

capacity and firm energy under Schedule D. 

B. Schedule D—66.7 Percent Allocated by 

Western 

Any of the 66.7 percent of Schedule D 

contingent capacity and firm energy that is to 

be allocated by Western that is not allocated 

and placed under contract by October 1, 

2017, shall be returned to those contractors 

shown in Schedule A and Schedule B in the 

same proportion as those contracts’ 

allocations of Schedule A and Schedule B 

contingent capacity and firm energy. 

C. Schedule D—33.3 Percent Allocated by 

State 

Any of the 33.3 percent of Schedule D 

contingent capacity and firm energy that is to 

be distributed within the States of Arizona, 

Nevada, and California that is not allocated 

and placed under contract by October 1, 

2017, shall be returned to the Schedule A 

and Schedule B contractors within the State 

in which the Schedule D contingent capacity 

and firm energy were to be distributed, in the 

same proportion as those contractors’ 

allocations of Schedule A and Schedule B 

contingent capacity and firm energy. 

Parts VII through VIII remain 

unchanged. 

Dated: June 7, 2012. 

Anthony H. Montoya, 

Acting Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2012–14572 Filed 6–13–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9687–5] 

Public Water System Supervision 

Program Revision for the State of 

Texas 

AGENCY: United States Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of tentative approval. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the State of Texas is revising its 

approved Public Water System 

Supervision Program. Texas has 

adopted the Lead and Copper Rule 

(LCR) Short-Term Revisions. EPA has 

determined that the proposed LCR 


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1OCTAMIX waiver decision, 53 FR 3636 

(February 8, 1988). 

2The co-solvents are any one or a mixture of 

ethanol, propanols, butanols, pentanols, hexanols, 

heptanols and octanols with the following 

constraints: the ethanol, propanols and butanols or 

mixtures thereof must compose a minimum of 60 

Continued 

Short-Term Revision submitted by 

Texas is no less stringent than the 

corresponding federal regulation. 

Therefore, EPA intends to approve the 

program revision. 

DATES: All interested parties may 

request a public hearing. A request for 

a public hearing must be submitted by 

July 16, 2012 to the Regional 

Administrator at the EPA Region 6 

address shown below. Frivolous or 

insubstantial requests for a hearing may 

be denied by the Regional 

Administrator. However, if a substantial 

request for a public hearing is made by 

July 16, 2012, a public hearing will be 

held. If no timely and appropriate 

request for a hearing is received and the 

Regional Administrator does not elect to 

hold a hearing on his own motion, this 

determination shall become final and 

effective on July 16, 2012. Any request 

for a public hearing shall include the 

following information: The name, 

address, and telephone number of the 

individual, organization, or other entity 

requesting a hearing; a brief statement of 

the requesting person’s interest in the 

Regional Administrator’s determination 

and a brief statement of the information 

that the requesting person intends to 

submit at such hearing; and the 

signature of the individual making the 

request, or, if the request is made on 

behalf of an organization or other entity, 

the signature of a responsible official of 

the organization or other entity. 

ADDRESSES: All documents relating to 

this determination are available for 

inspection between the hours of 

8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, at the following offices: 

Texas Commission on Environmental 

Quality, Water Supply Division, Public 

Drinking Water Section (MC–155), 

Building F, 12100 Park 35 Circle, 

Austin, TX 78753; and United States 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region 6, Drinking Water Section 

(6WQ–SD), 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 

1200, Dallas, Texas 75202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Damon McElroy, EPA Region 6, 

Drinking Water Section at the Dallas 

address given above or at telephone 

(214) 665–7159, or by email at 

mcelroy.damon@epa.gov. 

Authority: Section 1413 of the Safe 

Drinking Water Act, as amended (1996), and 

40 CFR part 142 of the National Primary 

Drinking Water Regulations. 

Dated: June 7, 2012. 

Samuel Coleman, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 6. 

[FR Doc. 2012–14570 Filed 6–13–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2011–0894; FRL–9681–1] 

Regulation of Fuel and Fuel Additives; 

Modification to Octamix Waiver 

(TOLAD) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency has reconsidered a portion of a 

fuel waiver granted to the Texas 

Methanol Corporation (Texas Methanol) 

under the Clean Air Act on February 8, 

1988. This waiver was previously 

reconsidered and modified on October 

28, 1988 in a Federal Register 

publication titled ‘‘Fuel and Fuel 

Additives; Modification of a Fuel 

Waiver Granted to the Texas Methanol 

Corporation.’’ Today’s notice approves 

the use of an alternative corrosion 

inhibitor, TOLAD MFA–10A, in Texas 

Methanol’s gasoline-alcohol fuel, 

OCTAMIX. 

ADDRESSES: EPA has established a 

docket for this action under Docket ID 

Number EPA–HQ–OAR–2011–0894. All 

documents and public comments in the 

docket are listed on the http:// 

www.regulations.gov Web site. 

Publically available docket materials are 

available either electronically through 

http://www.regulations.gov or in hard 

copy at the Air Docket, EPA 

Headquarters Library, Mail Code: 

2822T, EPA West Building, 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 holidays. The 

Public Reading Room is open from 

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

Friday, excluding holidays. The 

telephone number for the Public 

Reading Room is (202) 566–1742, and 

the facsimile number for the Air Docket 

is (202) 566–9744. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information regarding this notice 

contact, Joseph R. Sopata, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Office of Air and Radiation, Office of 

Transportation and Air Quality, (202) 

343–9034, fax number, (202) 343–2800, 

email address: sopata.joe@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 211(f)(1) of the Clean Air Act 

(CAA or the Act) makes it unlawful for 

any manufacturer of any fuel or fuel 

additive to first introduce into 

commerce, or to increase the 

concentration in use of, any fuel or fuel 

additive for use by any person in motor 

vehicles manufactured after model year 

1974, which is not substantially similar 

to any fuel or fuel additive utilized in 

the certification of any model year 1975, 

or subsequent model year, vehicle or 

engine under section 206 of the Act. The 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA 

or the Agency) last issued an 

interpretive rule on the phrase 

‘‘substantially similar’’ at 73 FR 22281 

(April 25, 2008). Generally speaking, 

this interpretive rule describes the types 

of unleaded gasoline that are likely to be 

considered ‘‘substantially similar’’ to 

the unleaded gasoline utilized in EPA’s 

certification program by placing limits 

on a gasoline’s chemical composition as 

well as its physical properties, 

including the amount of alcohols and 

ethers (oxygenates) that may be added to 

gasoline. Fuels that are found to be 

‘‘substantially similar’’ to EPA’s 

certification fuels may be registered and 

introduced into commerce. The current 

‘‘substantially similar’’ interpretive rule 

for unleaded gasoline allows no more 

than 2.7 percent oxygen by weight for 

certain ethers and alcohols. 

Section 211(f)(4) of the Act provides 

that upon application of any fuel or fuel 

additive manufacturer, the 

Administrator may waive the 

prohibitions of section 211(f)(1) if the 

Administrator determines that the 

applicant has established that the fuel or 

fuel additive, or a specified 

concentration thereof, will not cause or 

contribute to a failure of any emission 

control device or system (over the useful 

life of the motor vehicle, motor vehicle 

engine, nonroad engine or nonroad 

vehicle in which such device or system 

is used) to achieve compliance by the 

vehicle or engine with the emission 

standards to which it has been certified 

pursuant to sections 206 and 213(a) of 

the Act. The statute requires that the 

Administrator shall take final action to 

grant or deny an application after public 

notice and comment, within 270 days of 

receipt of the application. 

The Texas Methanol Corporation 

received a waiver under CAA section 

211(f)(4) for a gasoline-alcohol fuel 

blend, known as OCTAMIX,1 provided 

that the resultant fuel is composed of a 

maximum of 3.7 percent by weight 

oxygen, a maximum of 5 percent by 

volume methanol, a minimum of 2.5 

percent by volume co-solvents 2 and 


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