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recordkeeping and reporting 

requirements faced by those CAFOs that 

do seek NPDES permit coverage, it 

significantly narrowed the scope of 

CAFOs that need to seek NPDES permit 

coverage. More specifically, the court 

vacated the requirement that CAFOs 

that ‘‘discharge or proposed to 

discharge’’ seek NPDES permit 

coverage, and ruled instead that only 

those CAFOs that experience actual 

discharges need permits. The resulting 

projected decline in NPDES CAFO 

permittees is estimated to cause a 

reduction of 636,192 hours for private 

respondents and 638 for State 

respondents. 

What is the next step in the process for 

these ICRs? 

EPA will consider the comments 

received and amend the ICR as 

appropriate. The final ICR package will 

then be submitted to OMB for review 

and approval pursuant to 5 CFR 

1320.12. At that time, EPA will issue 

another Federal Register notice 

pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.5(a)(1)(iv) to 

announce the submission of the ICR to 

OMB and the opportunity to submit 

additional comments to OMB. If you 

have any questions about this ICR or the 

approval process, please contact the 

technical person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Dated: September 9, 2013. 

Andrew D. Sawyers, 

Director, Office of Wastewater Management. 

[FR Doc. 2013–22627 Filed 9–16–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2006–0947; FRL—9901–08– 

OAR] 

Proposed Information Collection 

Request; Comment Request; NOX

Budget Trading Program To Reduce 

the Regional Transport of Ozone 

(Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency is planning to submit an 

information collection request (ICR), 

‘‘Information Collection Request 

Renewal for the NOX Budget Trading 

Program to Reduce the Regional 

Transport of Ozone’’ (EPA ICR No. 

1857.06, OMB Control No. 2060–0445) 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

Before doing so, EPA is soliciting public 

comments on specific aspects of the 

proposed information collection as 

described below. This is a proposed 

extension of the ICR, which is currently 

approved through February 28, 2014. 

An Agency may not conduct or sponsor 

and a person is not required to respond 

to a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before November 18, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2006–0947. online using 

www.regulations.gov (our preferred 

method), by email to a-and-r-docket@

epamail.epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA 

Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. 

EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes profanity, threats, 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Karen VanSickle, Clean Air Markets 

Division, Office of Air and Radiation, 

(6204J), Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 343–9220; fax number: 

(202) 343–2361; email address: 

vansickle.karen@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Supporting documents which explain in 

detail the information that the EPA will 

be collecting are available in the public 

docket for this ICR. The docket can be 

viewed online at www.regulations.gov 

or in person at the EPA Docket Center, 

EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC. The telephone number for the 

Docket Center is 202–566–1744. For 

additional information about EPA’s 

public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/ 

dockets. 

Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the PRA, EPA is soliciting comments 

and information to enable it to: (i) 

Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (ii) evaluate the 

accuracy of the Agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(iii) enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (iv) minimize the burden 

of the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including through 

the use of appropriate automated 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. EPA will consider the 

comments received and amend the ICR 

as appropriate. The final ICR package 

will then be submitted to OMB for 

review and approval. At that time, EPA 

will issue another Federal Register 

notice to announce the submission of 

the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to 

submit additional comments to OMB. 

Abstract: The NOX Budget Trading 

Program is a market-based cap and trade 

program created to reduce emissions of 

nitrogen oxides (NOX) from power 

plants and other large combustion 

sources in the eastern United States. 

NOX is a prime ingredient in the 

formation of ground-level ozone (smog), 

a pervasive air pollution problem in 

many areas of the eastern United States. 

The NOX Budget Trading Program was 

designed to reduce NOX emissions 

during the warm summer months, 

referred to as the ozone season, when 

ground-level ozone concentrations are 

highest. In 2009 the program was 

replaced by the Clean Air Interstate Rule 

Ozone Season Trading Program 

(CAIROS). Although the trading 

program was replaced after the 2008 

compliance season, this information 

collection is being renewed for two 

reasons. First, some industrial sources 

in certain States are still required to 

monitor and report emissions data to 

EPA under these rules, so we will 

account for their burden. Second, the 

Agency may at some future time, 

reinstitute the NOX Budget Trading 

Program. For example, this might 

happen if both the CAIR and CAIR 

replacement rules were vacated by the 

Court. All data received by EPA will be 

treated as public information. An 

agency may not conduct or sponsor, and 

a person is not required to respond to, 

a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. The OMB control numbers for 

EPA’s regulations in 40 CFR are listed 

in 40 CFR part 9. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: Entities 

potentially affected by this action are 

those which participate in the NOX

Budget Trading Program to Reduce the 

Regional Transport of Ozone. 


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Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

mandatory (Sections 110(a) and 301(a) 

of the Clean Air Act). 

Estimated number of respondents: 

EPA estimates that there are 122 former 

NOX Budget Trading Program units that 

will continue to conduct monitoring in 

accordance with Part 75 solely under 

the NOX SIP call. 

Frequency of response: yearly, 

quarterly, occasionally. 

Total estimated burden: 57,586 hours 

(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.3(b). 

Total estimated cost: $7,466.951 (per 

year), includes $3,777,000 annualized 

capital or operation & maintenance 

costs. 

Changes in Estimates: There is no 

increase in hours in the total estimated 

respondent burden compared with the 

ICR currently approved by OMB. 

Dated: August 29, 2013. 

Reid Harvey, 

Director, Clean Air Markets Division. 

[FR Doc. 2013–22602 Filed 9–16–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies 

The companies listed in this notice 

have applied to the Board for approval, 

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company 

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) 

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 

225), and all other applicable statutes 

and regulations to become a bank 

holding company and/or to acquire the 

assets or the ownership of, control of, or 

the power to vote shares of a bank or 

bank holding company and all of the 

banks and nonbanking companies 

owned by the bank holding company, 

including the companies listed below. 

The applications listed below, as well 

as other related filings required by the 

Board, are available for immediate 

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 

indicated. The applications will also be 

available for inspection at the offices of 

the Board of Governors. Interested 

persons may express their views in 

writing on the standards enumerated in 

the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the 

proposal also involves the acquisition of 

a nonbanking company, the review also 

includes whether the acquisition of the 

nonbanking company complies with the 

standards in section 4 of the BHC Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise 

noted, nonbanking activities will be 

conducted throughout the United States. 

Unless otherwise noted, comments 

regarding each of these applications 

must be received at the Reserve Bank 

indicated or the offices of the Board of 

Governors not later than October 15, 

2013. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 

(Adam M. Drimer, Assistant Vice 

President) 701 East Byrd Street, 

Richmond, Virginia 23261–4528: 

1. Fairmount Bancorp, Inc., Rosedale, 

Maryland, to become a bank holding 

company upon the conversion of 

Fairmount Bank, Rosedale, Maryland, to 

a state chartered commercial bank. 

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (E. 

Ann Worthy, Vice President) 2200 

North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201– 

2272: 

1. ZT Acquisitions, Inc., and ZT 

Financial Holdings, Inc., both of 

Houston, Texas, to become bank holding 

companies through the acquisition of 

First National Bank of Colorado City, 

Colorado City, Texas. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, September 12, 2013. 

Margaret McCloskey Shanks, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2013–22595 Filed 9–16–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P 

FEDERAL RETIREMENT THRIFT 

INVESTMENT BOARD 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: 9:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) 

September 23, 2013. 

PLACE: 10th Floor Board Meeting Room, 

77 K Street NE., Washington, DC 20002. 

STATUS: Parts will be open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Parts Open to the Public 

1. Approval of the Minutes of the 

August 9, 2013 Board Member 

Meeting 

2. Thrift Savings Plan Activity Reports 

by the Executive Director 

a. Monthly Participant Activity Report 

b. Monthly Investment Policy Report 

c. Legislative Report 

3. Quarterly Metrics 

4. ERM Report 

5. Budget Review and Approval 

6. 2014 Board Meeting Calendar 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Kimberly Weaver, Director, Office of 

External Affairs, (202) 942–1640. 

Dated: September 13, 2013. 

James B. Petrick, 

Secretary, Federal Retirement Thrift 

Investment Board. 

[FR Doc. 2013–22667 Filed 9–13–13; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6760–01–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—on the dates 

indicated—of the waiting period 

provided by law and the premerger 

notification rules. The listing for each 

transaction includes the transaction 

number and the parties to the 

transaction. 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. 

EARLY TERMINATIONS GRANTED AUGUST 1, 2013 THRU AUGUST 30, 2013 

08/02/2013 ............................................................... 20131091 G Crestview Partners II, L.P.; DSW Holding Company, LLC; 

Crestview Partners II, L.P. 

20131095 G Riverstone Global Energy and Power Fund; Apache Corporation; 

Riverstone Global Energy and Power Fund. 

20131096 G TPG VI DE AIV II, L.P.; Envision RX Options Holdings Inc.; TPG VI 

DE AIV II, L.P. 

20131102 G ASAC II LP; Activision Blizzard, Inc.; ASAC II LP. 

20131119 G Abbott Laboratories; OptiMedica Corporation; Abbott Laboratories. 


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