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1 17 CFR 200.735–8(b)(1). 

2 17 CFR 200.735–8(b)(1). 

3 5 U.S.C. 601(2) and 5 U.S.C. 804(3)(C). 

4 5 U.S.C. 804. 

5 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520. 

6 17 CFR 240.23(a)(2). 

7 17 CFR 240.23(a). 

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51. 

(2) You must use the following service 

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AD, unless the AD specifies otherwise. 

(3) The following service information was 

approved for IBR on April 11, 2012. 

(i) Thielert Aircraft Engines (TAE) GmbH, 

TAE Service Bulletin (SB) No. TM TAE 125– 

1007 P1, Revision 3, October 17, 2011. 

(4) The following service information was 

approved for IBR on July 13, 2010 (75 FR 

32253, June 8, 2010). 

(i) Thielert Aircraft Engines (TAE) GmbH, 

TAE SB No. TM TAE 125–1007 P1, Revision 

2, April 29, 2009. 

(ii) Thielert Aircraft Engines (TAE) GmbH, 

TAE SB No. TM TAE 125–1009 P1, Revision 

3, dated October 14, 2009. 

(iii) Thielert Aircraft Engines (TAE) GmbH, 

TAE SB No. TM TAE 125–0020, including 

Annexes A and B, Revision 1, dated 

November 25, 2009. 

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TAE SB No. TM TAE 125–0018, Revision 1, 

dated November 12, 2008. 

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Lichtenstein, Germany, phone: +49–37204– 

696–0; fax: +49–37204–696–2912; email: 

info@centurion-engines.com. 

(6) You may review copies of the 

referenced service information at the FAA, 

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information on the availability of this 

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(7) You may also review copies of the 

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to: http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/ 

cfr/ibr_locations.html. 

Issued in Burlington, Massachusetts, on 

February 24, 2012. 

Peter A. White, 

Manager, Engine & Propeller Directorate, 

Aircraft Certification Service. 

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COMMISSION 

17 CFR Part 200 

[Release No. 34–66502] 

Rules of Organization; Conduct and 

Ethics; and Information and Requests 

AGENCY: Securities and Exchange 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final rule; technical 

amendment. 

SUMMARY: The Securities and Exchange 

Commission (‘‘SEC’’ or ‘‘Commission’’) 

is making technical amendments to the 

rule under which former members and 

employees of the Commission are 

required to file with the Commission a 

statement concerning their practice 

outside the government. The 

amendments change the office 

responsible for processing these 

statements and provide a means of filing 

a statement electronically. 

DATES: Effective: March 7, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Shira Pavis Minton, Ethics Counsel, 

202–551–7938, Office of the Ethics 

Counsel, Securities and Exchange 

Commission, 100 F Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20549–9150. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

SEC Conduct Rule 8(b) 1 requires that 

any former member or employee of the 

Commission who, within 2 years after 

ceasing to be such, is employed or 

retained as the representative of any 

person outside the government in any 

matter in which it is contemplated that 

he or she will appear before the 

Commission, or communicate with the 

Commission or its employees, shall, 

within ten days of such retainer or 

employment, or of the time when 

appearance before, or communication 

with the Commission or its employees 

is first contemplated, file with the 

Secretary of the Commission a statement 

which includes: (i) A description of the 

contemplated representation; (ii) An 

affirmative representation that the 

former employee while on the 

Commission’s staff had neither personal 

and substantial responsibility nor 

official responsibility for the matter 

which is the subject of the 

representation; and (iii) The name of the 

Commission Division or Office in which 

the person had been employed. 

In order to increase efficiency, the 

Commission is adopting a technical 

amendment to require that SEC conduct 

rule 8(b) submissions be sent to the 

Office of the Ethics Counsel rather than 

the Secretary of the Commission and 

provide a means of filing a statement 

electronically.2

II. Administrative Law Matters 

Under the Administrative Procedure 

Act, notice of proposed rulemaking is 

not required when an agency, for good 

cause, finds that notice and public 

comment are impracticable, 

unnecessary, or contrary to the public 

interest. The amendments are technical 

changes, adopted solely to update 

references to a statutory provision that 

remains unchanged except for its 

designation. For this reason, the 

Commission finds that it is unnecessary 

to publish notice of these amendments. 

Similarly, the amendments do not 

require analysis under the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act or analysis of major rule 

status under the Small Business 

Regulatory Fairness Act. For purposes of 

Regulatory Flexibility Act analysis, the 

term ‘‘rule’’ means any rule for which 

the agency publishes a general notice of 

proposed rulemaking, and for purposes 

of Congressional review of agency 

rulemaking, the term ‘‘rule’’ does not 

include any rule of agency organization, 

procedure or practice that does not 

substantially affect the rights or 

obligations of non-agency parties.3

Because these rules relate solely to the 

agency’s organization, procedure, or 

practice and do not substantially affect 

the rights or obligations of non-agency 

parties, they are not subject to the Small 

Business Regulatory Enforcement 

Fairness Act.4 Finally, these 

amendments do not contain any new 

collection of information requirements 

as defined by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995, as amended.5

III. Cost-Benefit Analysis 

The Commission is sensitive to the 

costs and benefits imposed by its rules. 

The amendments adopted today are 

technical in nature and will produce the 

benefit of facilitating the efficient 

operation of the Commission. The 

Commission also believes that these 

rules will not impose any costs on nonagency parties, or that if there are any 

such costs, they are negligible. 

IV. Consideration of Burden on 

Competition 

Section 23(a)(2) 6 of the Exchange Act 

requires the Commission, in adopting 

rules under the Exchange Act, to 

consider the competitive effects of such 

rules. Because this amendment merely 

makes technical changes to an existing 

requirement, no competitive advantages 

or disadvantages would be created. 

V. Statutory Authority and Text of 

Amendments 

We are adopting these technical 

amendments under the authority set 

forth in Section 23(a) 7 of the Exchange 

Act. 


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1Effective June 15, 2004, EPA designated the 

Atlanta Area as a marginal area under the 1997 8- 

hour ozone NAAQS. Subsequently, EPA took action 

to reclassify the Area to moderate for the 1997 8- 

hour ozone NAAQS. Moderate areas for the 1997 8- 

hour ozone NAAQS had an applicable attainment 

date of June 15, 2010, unless the area qualified for 

an extension. On November 30, 2010, EPA took 

final action to extend the applicable attainment date 

for the Atlanta Area to June 15, 2011. See 75 FR 

73969 for more information. 

List of Subjects 17 CFR Part 200 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Organization and functions 

(Government agencies), Reporting and 

recordkeeping requirements. 

Text of Amendments 

For the reasons set out in the 

preamble, Title 17, Chapter II of the 

Code of Federal Regulations is amended 

as follows: 

PART 200—RULES OF 

ORGANIZATION; CONDUCT AND 

ETHICS; AND INFORMATION AND 

REQUESTS 

Subpart M—Regulation Concerning 

Conduct of Members and Employees 

and Former Members and Employees 

of the Commission 

■ 1. The authority citation for Part 200, 

Subpart M, continues to read in part as 

follows: 

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 77s, 77sss, 78w, 80a– 

37, 80b–11; E.O. 11222, 3 CFR, 1964–1965 

Comp., p. 36; 5 CFR 735.104; 5 CFR 2634; 

and 5 CFR 2635, unless otherwise noted. 

■ 2. Section 200.735–8 is amended as 

follows: 

■ a. In paragraph (b)(1) introductory text 

by removing the phrase ‘‘Secretary of 

the Commission’’ and adding in its 

place ‘‘Office of the Ethics Counsel’’; 

■ b. Paragraph (b)(2) is redesignated as 

paragraph (b)(3) and new paragraph 

(b)(2) is added to read as follows: 

§ 200.735–8 Practice by former members 

and employees of the Commission. 

* * * * * 

(b) * * * 

(2) The statement required by 

paragraph (b)(1) of this section may be 

filed electronically based on 

instructions provided by the Office of 

the Ethics Counsel at www.sec.gov, or 

filed in paper by mailing to the U.S. 

Securities & Exchange Commission, 

Office of the Ethics Counsel, 100 F 

Street NE., Washington, DC 20549– 

9150. 

* * * * * 

Dated: March 1, 2012. 

Elizabeth M. Murphy, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2012–5454 Filed 3–6–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R04–OAR–2010–1036; FRL–9643–2] 

Approval and Promulgation of 

Implementation Plans and 

Designations of Areas for Air Quality 

Planning Purposes; Georgia; Atlanta; 

Determination of Attainment by 

Applicable Attainment Date for the 

1997 8-Hour Ozone Standards 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: EPA is determining that the 

Atlanta, Georgia, 1997 8-hour ozone 

nonattainment Area (hereafter referred 

to as ‘‘the Atlanta Area’’ or ‘‘the Area’’) 

has attained the 1997 8-hour ozone 

national ambient air quality standards 

(NAAQS) by its applicable attainment 

date of June 15, 2011. The 

determination of attainment was made 

by EPA on June 23, 2011, and was based 

on quality-assured and certified 

monitoring data for the 2008–2010 

monitoring period. The Atlanta Area is 

comprised of Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, 

Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, 

Dekalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, 

Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, Henry, Newton, 

Paulding, Rockdale, Spalding and 

Walton Counties in Georgia. In this 

action EPA is determining that the 

above-identified Area attained the 1997 

8-hour ozone NAAQS by its applicable 

attainment date. EPA is finalizing this 

action because it is consistent with the 

Clean Air Act (CAA) and its 

implementing regulations. Additionally, 

in this action EPA is clarifying an 

inadvertent citation error in the 

proposed approval for this action. 

DATES: This final rule is effective on 

April 6, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: EPA has established a 

docket for this action under Docket ID 

Number EPA–R04–OAR–2010–1036. All 

documents in the docket are listed in 

the www.regulations.gov Web site. 

Although listed in the electronic docket, 

some information is not publicly 

available, i.e., confidential business 

information (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 form. 

Publicly available docket materials are 

available either electronically through 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy for 

public inspection during normal 

business hours at the Regulatory 

Development Section, Air Planning 

Branch, Air, Pesticides and Toxics 

Management Division, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street SW., 

Atlanta, Georgia 30303–8960. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information regarding this attainment 

determination, contact Mr. Sean 

Lakeman, Regulatory Development 

Section, Air Planning Branch, Air, 

Pesticides and Toxics Management 

Division, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street 

SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303–8960. 

Telephone number: (404) 562–9043; 

email address: lakeman.sean@epa.gov. 

For information regarding 8-hour ozone 

NAAQS, contact Ms. Jane Spann, 

Regulatory Development Section, at the 

same address above. Telephone number: 

(404) 562–9029; email address: 

spann.jane@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. What action is EPA taking? 

II. What is the effect of this action? 

III. What is EPA’s final action? 

IV. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews 

I. What action is EPA taking? 

Based on EPA’s review of the qualityassured and certified monitoring data 

for 2008–2010, and in accordance with 

section 181(b)(2) of the CAA and EPA’s 

regulations, EPA is determining that the 

Atlanta Area attained the 1997 8-hour 

ozone NAAQS by the applicable 

attainment date of June 15, 2011.1

On June 23, 2011, EPA published a 

determination of attainment for the 

Atlanta Area, which served to suspend 

the requirements for the State to submit 

an attainment demonstration and 

associated reasonably available control 

measures (RACM), reasonable further 

progress (RFP) plan, contingency 

measures, and other planning State 

Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions 

related to attainment of the 1997 8-hour 

ozone NAAQS so long as the Area 

continues to attain the 1997 8-hour 

ozone NAAQS. See 76 FR 36873. This 

final rulemaking also includes useful 

background information on the 8-hour 

ozone NAAQS relevant to the Atlanta 

Area. Today’s action finalizes EPA’s 

determination that the Atlanta Area 

attained the 1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS 


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