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provisions has its own criteria and 

process that must be followed; no 

exceptions are automatic. 

Prior essential use applications were 

typically for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) 

for metered dose inhalers (MDIs). The 

Parties last authorized an essential use 

exemption for the United States 

allowing the production of CFCs for 

MDIs in 2008 for the 2010 calendar year. 

Effective December 31, 2013, all CFCcontaining MDIs have been removed 

from the Food and Drug 

Administration’s (FDA’s) list of 

essential uses found at 21 CFR 2.125(e). 

The United States has not nominated 

halons for aviation safety as an essential 

use. If EPA were to receive an 

application for halons for aviation 

safety, EPA would work with other 

relevant Federal agencies to establish 

the process for reviewing applications 

for this use. 

II. Essential Use Nomination Process 

Entities requesting essential use 

exemptions should send a completed 

application to EPA on the candidate use 

by September 30, three years prior to the 

year of the intended use. Upon receipt 

of applications, EPA will review the 

information and work with other 

interested Federal agencies as required 

in section 604 of the Clean Air Act to 

determine whether the candidate use 

satisfies Clean Air Act requirements, as 

well as whether it meets the essential 

use criteria adopted by the Parties to the 

Montreal Protocol and warrants 

nomination by the United States for an 

exemption. 

All Parties, including the United 

States, must transmit nominations to the 

UNEP Ozone Secretariat by January 31 

to be considered by the Parties at their 

annual meeting at the end of that year. 

The UNEP Ozone Secretariat forwards 

nominations to the Montreal Protocol’s 

Technical and Economic Assessment 

Panel (TEAP) and its relevant Technical 

Options Committee (TOC). The TOC 

and the TEAP review the nomination to 

determine whether it meets the criteria 

for an essential use established by 

Decisions IV/25, XII/2, XV/5, and XVI/ 

12, and to make recommendations to the 

Parties for essential use exemptions. 

The Parties then consider those 

recommendations at their annual 

meeting before making a final decision. 

An essential use exemption is granted 

to the nominating Party for a specific 

quantity of a specified ODS for a 

specific time period. If the Parties 

determine that a specified use of a 

controlled substance is essential and 

authorize an exemption from the 

Protocol’s production and consumption 

phaseout, EPA may then take domestic 

action to allow the production and 

consumption to the extent consistent 

with the Clean Air Act. 

III. Information Required for Essential 

Use Applications 

In the past, EPA had annually issued 

a notice requesting applications for 

essential use exemptions. Through this 

action, EPA provides the opportunity to 

submit applications for essential use 

exemptions for class I substances for all 

future control periods (calendar years). 

Applications requesting essential use 

allowances should include information 

that U.S. Government agencies and the 

Parties to the Protocol can use to 

evaluate the candidate use according to 

the criteria in the Decisions described 

above. Applications that fail to include 

sufficient information may not be 

nominated. 

Specifically, all applications 

submitted to EPA should include the 

information requested in the current 

version of the TEAP Handbook on 

Essential Use Nominations, which as of 

the date of this notice was last updated 

in 2009. The handbook is available 

electronically on the internet at http:// 

ozone.unep.org/teap/Reports/TEAP_

Reports/EUN-Handbook2009.pdf. EPA 

requests that applications contain the 

following information, as described in 

the handbook, in order for the U.S. to 

provide sufficient information to the 

Montreal Protocol’s technical review 

bodies within the nomination: 

1. A detailed description of the use 

that is the subject of the nomination; 

2. Details of the type, quantity, and 

quality of the controlled substance that 

is requested to satisfy the use; 

3. The period of time and the annual 

quantities of the controlled substances 

that are requested; 

4. An explanation of why the 

nominated volumes and the intended 

use of these quantities are necessary for 

health and/or safety, or critical for the 

functioning of society; 

5. An explanation of what other 

alternatives and substitutes are 

currently available and what steps are 

being taken to implement those 

alternatives and substitutes; 

6. An explanation of why alternatives 

and substitutes are not sufficient or 

appropriate to eliminate the proposed 

use; 

7. A description of the measures that 

are proposed to eliminate all 

unnecessary emissions, including 

design considerations and maintenance 

procedures; 

8. An explanation of what efforts are 

being undertaken to employ other 

measures for this application in the 

future; 

9. A description of the efforts that 

have been made to acquire stockpiled or 

recycled controlled substance for this 

application both domestically and 

internationally as well as an explanation 

of what efforts have been made to 

establish banks for the controlled 

substance; and 

10. A description of any other barriers 

encountered in attempts to eliminate the 

use of the controlled substance for this 

application. 

In addition, applicants should specify 

which exemption in CAA section 604 

they are seeking: the exemption for 

medical devices at section 604(d)(2) or 

the exemption for aviation safety at 

section 604(d)(3). Each of these statutory 

exemptions has its own process and 

criteria that would need to be satisfied 

prior to any regulatory action 

authorizing the exemption. 

The Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) has approved the information 

collection requirements contained in 

this notice under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq. and has assigned OMB 

control number 2060–0170. 

Dated: May 30, 2014. 

Paul Gunning, 

Acting Director, Office of Atmospheric 

Programs. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[ER–FRL–9015–3] 

Environmental Impact Statements; 

Notice of Availability 

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal 

Activities, General Information (202) 

564–7146 or http://www.epa.gov/ 

compliance/nepa/. 

Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact 

Statements 

Filed 05/27/2014 Through 05/30/2014 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9. 

Notice 

Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act 

requires that EPA make public its 

comments on EISs issued by other 

Federal agencies. EPA’s comment letters 

on EISs are available at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/ 

eisdata.html. 

EIS No. 20140162, Final EIS, FAA, TX, 

SpaceX Texas Launch Site, Review 

Period Ends: 07/07/2014, Contact: 

Stacey Zee 202–267–9305. 

EIS No. 20140163, Draft EIS (Tiering), 

NASA, FL, Tier 2—Mars 2020 

Mission, Comment Period Ends: 07/ 


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21/2014, Contact: George Tahu 202– 

258–0016. 

EIS No. 20140164, Final Supplement, 

FHWA, NCDOT, NC, Monroe 

Connector/Bypass, Contact: George 

Hoops 919–707–6022, Under MAP–21 

section 1319, FHWA has issued a 

single FSEIS and ROD. Therefore, the 

30-day wait/review period under 

NEPA does not apply to this action. 

EIS No. 20140165, Draft EIS, USACE, 

WA, Skagit River Flood Risk 

Management General Investigation, 

Comment Period Ends: 07/21/2014, 

Contact: Hannah Hadley 206–764– 

6950. 

EIS No. 20140166, Draft EIS, USACE, 

WA, BP Cherry Point Dock, Comment 

Period Ends: 08/06/2014, Contact: 

Olivia Romano 206–764–6960. 

Amended Notices 

EIS No. 20130365, Draft EIS, NMFS, 

USFWS, BR, CA, Bay Delta 

Conservation Plan, Comment Period 

Ends: 07/29/2014, Contact: Ryan 

Wulff 916–930–3733. 

Revision to the FR Notice Published 

02/21/2014; Extending Comment Period 

from 06/13/2014 to 07/29/2014; The 

U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau 

of Reclamation and Fish and Wildlife 

Service, the U.S. Department of 

Commerce’s National Marine Fisheries 

Service are joint lead agencies for the 

above project. 

Dated: May 3, 2014. 

Cliff Rader, 

Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office 

of Federal Activities. 

[FR Doc. 2014–13231 Filed 6–5–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2004–0202; FRL–9911–37] 

Pentachloronitrobenzene (PCNB); 

Notice of Receipt of Requests To 

Voluntarily Amend Registrations To 

Terminate Certain Uses 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 

Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), EPA is issuing 

a notice of receipt of requests by the 

registrant to voluntarily amend PCNB 

registrations for one manufacturing-use 

product and two end-use products to 

terminate or delete a number of uses. 

The requests would delete the use of 

Technical Grade PCNB (EPA 

Registration #5481–197) for formulation 

into products for use as seed treatments 

(except for the treatment of cloves of 

garlic) and products for use on certain 

non-residential terrestrial non-food 

crops. The requests also would 

terminate the use of the PCNB product 

with EPA Registration #5481–8988 on 

bedding plants, flowering plants, foliage 

plants, and bulb crops, and the use of 

the PCNB product with EPA 

Registration #5481–8992 on bedding 

plants, flowering plants, foliage plants, 

azaleas, camellias, gladiolus (broadcast), 

and cut flowers. These use deletion 

requests are detailed in Table 1 in Unit 

III. The requests would not terminate 

the last PCNB products registered for 

use in the United States. EPA intends to 

grant these requests at the close of the 

comment period for this announcement 

unless the Agency receives substantive 

comments within the comment period 

that would merit its further review of 

the requests, or unless the registrant 

withdraws its request(s). If these 

requests are granted, any sale, 

distribution, or use of products listed in 

this notice will be permitted after the 

uses are deleted only if such sale, 

distribution, or use is consistent with 

the terms as described in the final order. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before July 7, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2004–0202, by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

• Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/ 

DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 

NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: To make special 

arrangements for hand delivery or 

delivery of boxed information, please 

follow the instructions at http://

www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.htm. 

Additional instructions on commenting 

or visiting the docket, along with more 

information about dockets generally, is 

available at http://www.epa.gov/

dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jill 

Bloom, Pesticide Re-evaluation Division 

(7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

(703) 308–8019; fax number: (703) 308– 

7070; email address: bloom.jill@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general, and may be of interest to a 

wide range of stakeholders including 

environmental, human health, and 

agricultural advocates; the chemical 

industry; pesticide users; and members 

of the public interested in the sale, 

distribution, or use of pesticides. Since 

others also may be interested, the 

Agency has not attempted to describe all 

the specific entities that may be affected 

by this action. 

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). 

ii. Follow directions. The Agency may 

ask you to respond to specific questions 

or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

iii. Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

iv. Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

v. If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

vi. Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns and suggest 

alternatives. 

vii. Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

viii. Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 


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