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hours with the contact listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cynthia Allen, EPA Region IX, (415) 

947–4120, allen.cynthia@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

proposal addresses the following local 

rules: AVAQMD Rule 1119; EKAPCD 

Rule 102; and SBCAPCD Rule 102. In 

the Rules and Regulations section of this 

Federal Register, we are approving 

these local rules and a rule rescission in 

a direct final action without prior 

proposal because we believe these SIP 

revisions are not controversial. If we 

receive adverse comments, however, we 

will publish a timely withdrawal of the 

direct final rule and address the 

comments in subsequent action based 

on this proposed rule. Please note that 

if we receive adverse comment on an 

amendment, paragraph, or section of 

this rule and if that provision may be 

severed from the remainder of the rule, 

we may adopt as final those provisions 

of the rule that are not the subject of an 

adverse comment. 

We do not plan to open a second 

comment period, so anyone interested 

in commenting should do so at this 

time. If we do not receive adverse 

comments, no further activity is 

planned. For further information, please 

see the direct final action. 

Dated: March 8, 2012. 

Jared Blumenfeld, 

Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

[FR Doc. 2012–10736 Filed 5–3–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 60 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2011–0660; FRL–9668–9] 

Standards of Performance for 

Greenhouse Gas Emissions for New 

Stationary Sources: Electric Utility 

Generating Units 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule; notice of public 

hearings. 

SUMMARY: The EPA published in the 

Federal Register on April 13, 2012, the 

proposed rule, ‘‘Standards of 

Performance for Greenhouse Gas 

Emissions for New Stationary Sources: 

Electric Utility Generating Units.’’ The 

EPA is making two announcements: 

first, two public hearings will be held 

for the proposed Standards of 

Performance for Greenhouse Gas 

Emissions for New Stationary Sources: 

Electric Utility Generating Units, and, 

second, the comment period for this 

rulemaking will be extended until June 

25, 2012. 

DATES: The public hearings will be held 

on May 24, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: There will be two public 

hearings held on May 24, 2012. The 

Washington, DC hearing will be held at 

the Ariel Rios East Building, in Room 

1153 located at 1301 Constitution 

Avenue, Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone (202) 564–1661. The Chicago, 

Illinois hearing will be held at the Ralph 

H. Metcalfe Federal Building in the Lake 

Michigan Room (12th Floor) located at 

77 West Jackson, Chicago, Illinois 

60603, telephone (312) 886–9404. 

For both the Washington, DC and 

Chicago, Illinois hearings, visitors must 

go through a metal detector, sign in with 

the security desk, be accompanied by an 

employee and show photo identification 

to enter the building. 

The public hearing in Washington, DC 

will convene at 8:30 a.m. and will 

continue until 4:30 p.m. A lunch break 

is scheduled from 12:00 p.m. until 

1:00 p.m. The EPA plans to conclude 

the hearing at 4:30 p.m. All Washington, 

DC times are Eastern Daylight Time 

(EDT). The public hearing in Chicago 

will convene at 8:30 a.m. and will 

continue until 4:30 p.m. A lunch break 

is scheduled from 12:00 p.m. until 

1:00 p.m. The EPA plans to conclude 

the hearing at 4:30 p.m. All Chicago 

times are Central Daylight Time (CDT). 

The EPA’s Web site for the rulemaking, 

which includes the proposal and 

information about the hearings, can be 

found at: http://epa.gov/ 

carbonpollutionstandard/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you would like to present oral testimony 

at the public hearing, please contact Ms. 

Pamela Garrett, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards, Sector Policies 

and Programs Division (D243–01), 

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 

27711; telephone: (919) 541–7966; fax 

number: (919) 541–5450; email address: 

garrett.pamela@epa.gov (preferred 

method for registering). The last day to 

register to present oral testimony in 

advance will be Friday May 18, 2012. If 

using email, please provide the 

following information: the time you 

wish to speak (morning or afternoon), 

name, affiliation, address, email address 

and telephone and fax numbers. Time 

slot preferences will be given in the 

order requests are received. 

Additionally, requests to speak will be 

taken the day of the hearings at the 

hearing registration desk and 

accommodated as time allows, although 

preferences on speaking times may not 

be able to be fulfilled. If you require the 

service of a translator, please let us 

know at the time of registration. 

Questions concerning the March 27, 

2012, proposed rule should be 

addressed to Mr. Christian Fellner, 

Office of Air Quality Planning and 

Standards, Sector Policies and Programs 

Division (D 243–04), Environmental 

Protection Agency, Research Triangle 

Park, North Carolina 27711; telephone 

number: (919) 541–4003; facsimile 

number: (919) 541–5450; email address: 

fellner.christian@epa.gov. 

Public hearing: The proposal for 

which the EPA is holding the public 

hearings was published in the Federal 

Register on April 13, 2012 (77 FR 

22392), and is available at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/carbonpollutionstandard/ 

and also in the docket identified below. 

The public hearings will provide 

interested parties the opportunity to 

present oral comments regarding the 

EPA’s proposed standards, including 

data, views or arguments concerning the 

proposal. The EPA may ask clarifying 

questions during the oral presentations, 

but will not respond to the 

presentations at that time. Written 

statements and supporting information 

submitted during the comment period 

will be considered with the same weight 

as any oral comments and supporting 

information presented at the public 

hearing. 

Commenters should notify Ms. Garrett 

if they will need specific equipment or 

if there are other special needs related 

to providing comments at the public 

hearings. The EPA will provide 

equipment for commenters to make 

computerized slide presentations if we 

receive special requests in advance. Oral 

testimony will be limited to 5 minutes 

for each commenter. The EPA 

encourages commenters to submit to the 

docket a copy of their oral testimony 

electronically (via email or CD) or in 

hard copy form. 

The public hearing schedules, 

including lists of speakers, will be 

posted on the EPA’s Web site at 

http://www.epa.gov/ 

carbonpollutionstandard/. Verbatim 

transcripts of the hearings and written 

statements will be included in the 

docket for the rulemaking. The EPA will 

make every effort to follow the schedule 

as closely as possible on the day of the 

hearings; however, please plan for the 

hearing to run either ahead of schedule 

or behind schedule. 

How can I get copies of this document 

and other related information? 

The EPA has established a docket for 

the proposed rule, ‘‘Standards of 


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Performance for Greenhouse Gas 

Emissions for New Stationary Sources: 

Electric Utility Generating Units’’ under 

No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2011–0660, 

available at www.regulations.gov. 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 63 

Environmental protection, 

Administrative practice and procedure, 

Air pollution control, Hazardous 

substances, Intergovernmental relations, 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements. 

Dated: April 30, 2012. 

Mary Henigin, 

Acting Director, Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards. 

[FR Doc. 2012–10825 Filed 5–3–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 180 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0802; FRL–9348–3] 

Receipt of a Pesticide Petition Filed for 

Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or 

on Various Commodities 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of filing of petition and 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: This document announces the 

Agency’s receipt of an initial filing of a 

pesticide petition requesting the 

establishment or modification of 

regulations for residues of pesticide 

chemicals in or on various commodities. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before May 14, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0802 and 

the pesticide petition number (PP), by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Office of Pesticide Programs 

(OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001. 

• Delivery: OPP Regulatory Public 

Docket (7502P), Environmental 

Protection Agency, Rm. S–4400, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. Deliveries 

are only accepted during the Docket 

Facility’s normal hours of operation 

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

Friday, excluding legal holidays). 

Special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. The 

Docket Facility telephone number is 

(703) 305–5805. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2009– 

0802 and the pesticide petition number 

(PP). EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the docket 

without change and may be made 

available online at http:// 

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 regulations.gov or 

email. The 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 

regulations.gov, your email address will 

be automatically captured and included 

as part of the comment that is placed in 

the 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. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the docket index available 

at http://www.regulations.gov. 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 

form. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either in the 

electronic docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or, if only 

available in hard copy, at the OPP 

Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S– 

4400, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 

2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The 

hours of operation of this Docket 

Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The Docket Facility telephone 

number is (703) 305–5805. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Andrew Bryceland, Biopesticides and 

Pollution Prevention Division (7511P), 

Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

(703) 305–6928; email address: 

bryceland.andrew@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

You may be potentially affected by 

this action if you are an agricultural 

producer, food manufacturer, or 

pesticide manufacturer. Potentially 

affected entities may include, but are 

not limited to: 

• Crop production (NAICS code 111). 

• Animal production (NAICS code 

112). 

• Food manufacturing (NAICS code 

311). 

• Pesticide manufacturing (NAICS 

code 32532). 

This listing is not intended to be 

exhaustive, but rather provides a guide 

for readers regarding entities likely to be 

affected by this action. Other types of 

entities not listed in this unit could also 

be affected. The North American 

Industrial Classification System 

(NAICS) codes have been provided to 

assist you and others in determining 

whether this action might apply to 

certain entities. If you have any 

questions regarding the applicability of 

this action to a particular entity, consult 

the person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

B. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to EPA through 

regulations.gov or email. Clearly mark 

the part or all of the information that 

you claim to be CBI. For CBI 

information in a disk or CD–ROM that 

you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the 

disk or CD–ROM as CBI and then 

identify electronically within the disk or 

CD–ROM the specific information that 

is claimed as CBI. In addition to one 

complete version of the comment that 

includes information claimed as CBI, a 

copy of the comment that does not 

contain the information claimed as CBI 

must be submitted for inclusion in the 

public docket. Information so marked 

will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR part 2. 

2. Tips for preparing your comments. 

When submitting comments, remember 

to: 

i. Identify the document by docket ID 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 


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