Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 216 / Tuesday, November 7, 2000 / Proposed Rules 66671

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Financial Management Service

31 CFR Part 205

Public Meetings on Proposed

Revisions to the Regulations

Implementing the Cash Management

Improvement Act

AGENCY: Financial Management Service,

Fiscal Service, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

SUMMARY: On October 12, 2000 the

Financial Management Service (FMS)

published a notice of proposed rule

making (NPRM) to revise the regulations

at 31 CFR Part 205 implementing the

Cash Management Improvement Act of

1990 (65 FR 60796). These regulations

govern the transfer of funds between the

Federal Government and States for

certain Federal assistance programs. As

a next step in the process, FMS is

holding public meetings to seek input

on all aspects of the NPRM. All parties

in attendance may give a prepared

statement and/or raise questions in the

meetings.

DATES: The public meetings will be held

on November 30, 2000 in San Francisco,

CA and on December 8, 2000 in

Washington, DC. Persons desiring to

attend must register by November 22,

2000. See supplementary information

section on how to register.

ADDRESSES: The first meeting will be

held in San Francisco at FMS’ San

Francisco Regional Financial Center,

390 Main Street, in Conference Rooms

A 7 B on the 6th Floor at 10 a.m. (PST).

The second meeting wil be held in

Washington, DC at the General Services

Administration Building, 7th and D

Streets (SW), in the GSA Auditorium at

10 a.m. (EST).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Oscar S. On ̃a, at (202) 874–6799, Martha

Thomas Mitchell, at (202) 874–6757, or

Matt Helfrich, at (202) 874–6754.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The Cash Management Improvement

Act (CMIA) was enacted to create

greater efficiency and equity in the

exchange of funds between the Federal

Government and the States. Prior to the

enactment of CMIA, Federal agencies

expressed concerns that States were

drawing down funds well in advance of

the time those funds were needed by the

States. States, on the other hand,

expressed concerns about having to pay

out their own funds in advance of

receiving funds from the Federal

Government.

CMIA, which requires the heads of

executive agencies to provide for the

timely disbursement of Federal funds in

accordance with regulations prescribed

by the Secretary of the Treasury, has

three major provisions designed to

address these issues:

• States and Federal agencies must

minimize the time between transfer of

funds from the U.S. Treasury and the

clearance of funds out of the accounts

of a State.

• The Secretary of the Treasury shall

enter into a Treasury-State Agreement

with each State which specifies the

funds transfer procedures for Federal

assistance programs.

• In general, States and the Federal

Government are respectively entitled to

interest when the other fails to make a

funds transfer in a timely fashion. States

owe the Federal Government interest for

the time Federal funds are in State

accounts before they are spent for

Federal assistance program purposes.

The Federal Government owes a State

interest if the State disburses its own

funds with obligational authority before

receiving Federal funds.

The notice of proposed rule making

(NPRM) updates the existing regulation

based upon eight years of program

implementation experience (since the

issuance of Part 205) on the part of

States, Federal program agencies, the

General Accounting Office and the

Department of the Treasury. The

concerns of all stakeholders were

considered in drafting the NPRM. The

proposed changes are:

• The NPRM raises the default dollar

thresholds that determine which

programs are subject to CMIA’s interest

provisions. This allows States to make

fewer programs subject to subpart A of

the rule, reducing the administrative

burden of tracking smaller dollar

volume programs, but retaining

coverage of the large dollar programs. A

State retains the option of retaining or

expanding program coverage by

applying a lower dollar threshold

amount.

• The NPRM makes Treasury-State

Agreements (TSAs) effective until

terminated instead of being valid for one

to five years. This provision enables

FMS and States to smooth the highvolume renegotiation process that exists

due to 47 States sharing July 1 as the

first day of the fiscal year. By reducing

the number of renegotiations each year,

FMS and States can focus resources on

efficient CMIA implementation.

• The NPRM eliminates restrictions

on allowable funding techniques. States

and FMS can agree to any funding

technique that meets certain

requirements, including reimbursable

funding.

• The CMIA provides that a State is

entitled to interest if it disburses its own

funds for program purposes in

accordance with Federal law, Federal

regulation, or Federal-State agreement.

Some agencies require States to obtain

agency approval of certain expenditures.

Those requirements may be set forth in

a Federal law, Federal regulation, or

Federal-State Agreement. The NPRM

requests comment on the nature and

operation of agency approval

requirements that currently are in place.

• The NPRM proposes that funds

transfers requested by States and later

allowed by Federal agencies for program

reasons by subject to the interest

provisions of CMIA. Disallowed fund

transfers are not addressed by the

current CMIA regulation. The NPRM

specifically seeks comment on the

implementation of this provision.

• The NPRM incorporates previously

issued Policy Statements into the

regulation. Over the past seven years,

FMS has issued a number of Policy

Statements clarifying proper CMIA

implementation. This draft integrates

the relevant Policy Statements into the

body of the regulation. Outdated Policy

Statements have been discarded.

• The NPRM raises the refund

transaction exemption threshold to

$50,000 (from $10,000). Adequate

coverage will be maintained and the

administrative burden of tracking small

dollar amounts will be eliminated.

• The NPRM requires that all

transfers of Federal funds be conducted

in accordance with the Debt Collection

Improvement Act (DCIA) of 1996. All

Federal funds transactions must be

conducted via Electronic Funds

Transfer (EFT).

• The NPRM has been reformatted in

accordance with the Administration’s

‘‘Plan Language’’ Executive

Memorandum issued on June 1, 1998.

The regulation has been rewritten in a

manner to make it easier to understand.

How to Register: Any person desiring

to attend either of the two public

meetings must register for the meetings

by November 22, 2000. Requests to

present a prepared statement at the

public meetings should be made at the

time of registration. This request should

include the topic(s) which will be

addressed, along with a brief

description of the statement.

Any restrictions on the length of the

prepared statement will depend on the

number of requests received. The FMS

staff will acknowledge receipt of

requests to present a prepared statement

and will inform participants of the

schedule for presentation.

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Registration for both public meetings

can be completed through the Internet.

The CMIA webpage, found http://

www.fms.treas.giv/policymia, will

provide an online registration form,

allowing all interested parties to register

for either public meeting. Registration

can also be done by any of the following

means: via email by sending your

request to cmiasignup@fms.treas.gov; by

facsimile transmission to fax number

(202) 874–6965; by phone by calling

Martha Thomas Mitchell at (202) 874–

6757 or Oscar S. On ̃a at (202) 874–6799;

by written request sent to Martha

Thomas Mitchell-Public Meetings, Cash

Management Policy and Planning

Division, Financial Management

Service, U.S. Department of the

Treasury, Room 404F, 401 14th Street,

SW, Washington, DC 20227, or hand

delivered on business days between

9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

Please be sure to include your name

and contact phone number, which

meeting you will attend, and the

organization or agency you represent.

Requests to present a prepared

statement at either meeting should be

made at the time of registration. The

online registration form will provide a

field to specify whether you would like

to participate. The topic to be addressed

in the testimony should be disclosed, as

well as a brief description of issues

which will be discussed. Requests to

present a statement should also be

disclosed in conjunction with

registration via email, fax, mail, or

telephone.

Please notify Oscar S. On ̃a, at (202)

874–6799 by November 22, 2000 if

auxiliary aids or services are needed,

including an interpreter or handicapped

access.

Dated: November 2, 2000.

Bettsy Lane,

Assistant Commissioner, Federal Finance

Financial Management Service.

[FR Doc. 00–28579 Filed 11–6–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4810–35–M

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

40 CFR Part 63

[FRL–6896–7]

RIN 2060–AH13

National Emission Standards for

Hazardous Air Pollutants: Municipal

Solid Waste Landfills

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

SUMMARY: This action proposes national

emission standards for hazardous air

pollutants (NESHAP) for municipal

solid waste (MSW) landfills. The

proposed rule is applicable to both

major and area landfill sources, and

contains the same requirements as the

Emission Guidelines and New Source

Performance Standards (EG/NSPS) for

MSW landfills. The proposed rule adds

startup, shutdown, and malfunction

(SSM) requirements, adds operating

condition deviations for out-of-bounds

monitoring parameters, and changes the

reporting frequency for one type of

report.

The proposed rule fulfills the

requirements of section 112(d) of the

Clean Air Act (CAA), which requires the

Administrator to regulate emissions of

hazardous air pollutants (HAP) listed in

section 112(b), and helps implement the

Urban Air Toxics Strategy developed

under section 112(k) of the CAA. The

intent of the standards is to protect the

public health by requiring new and

existing sources to control emissions of

HAP to the level reflecting the

maximum achievable control

technology (MACT). The HAP emitted

by MSW landfills include, but are not

limited to, vinyl chloride, ethyl

benzene, toluene, and benzene. Each of

the HAP emitted from MSW landfills

can cause adverse health effects

provided sufficient exposure. For

example, vinyl chloride can adversely

affect the central nervous system and

has been shown to increase the risk of

liver cancer in humans, while benzene

is known to cause leukemia in humans.

DATES: Comments. Submit comments on

or before January 8, 2001.

Public Hearing: If anyone contacts the

EPA requesting to speak at a public

hearing by November 27, 2000, a public

hearing will be held on December 7,

2000.

ADDRESSES: Comments. Written

comments should be submitted (in

duplicate, if possible) to: Air and

Radiation Docket and Information

Center (6102), Attention Docket No. A–

98–28, U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue,

NW, Washington, DC 20460. The EPA

requests a separate copy also be sent to

the contact person listed below (see FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).

Public Hearing. If a public hearing is

held, it will begin at 10:00 a.m. and will

be held at EPA’s Office of

Administration Auditorium in Research

Triangle Park, North Carolina, or an

alternate site nearby.

Docket. Docket No. A–98–28 for this

proposal and associated Docket No. A–

88–09 contain supporting information

used in developing the standards. These

dockets are located at the U.S. EPA, 401

M Street SW, Washington, DC 20460, in

Room M–1500, Waterside Mall (ground

floor, central mall), and may be

inspected from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.,

Monday through Friday, excluding legal

holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.

Michele Laur, Waste and Chemical

Processes Group, Emission Standards

Division (MD–13), Office of Air Quality

Planning and Standards, U.S. EPA,

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711,

telephone number (919) 541–5256,

facsimile number (919) 541–0246,

electronic mail (e-mail) address

laur.michele@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Comments. Comments and data may be

submitted by e-mail to: a-and-rdocket@epa.gov. Electronic comments

must be submitted as an ASCII file to

avoid the use of special characters and

encryption problems and will also be

accepted on disks in WordPerfect

version 5.1, 6.1 or Corel 8 file format.

All comments and data submitted in

electronic form must note the docket

number: Docket No. A–98–28. No

confidential business information (CBI)

should be submitted by e-mail.

Electronic comments may be filed

online at many Federal Depository

Libraries.

Commenters wishing to submit

proprietary information for

consideration must clearly distinguish

such information from other comments

and clearly label it ‘‘Confidential

Business Information’’. Send

submissions containing such

proprietary information directly to the

following address, and not to the public

docket, to ensure that proprietary

information is not inadvertently placed

in the docket: Attention: Ms. Michele

Laur, c/o OAQPS Document Control

Officer (Room 740B), U.S. EPA, 411 W.

Chapel Hill Street, Durham, NC 27701.

Do not submit CBI electronically.

The EPA will disclose information

identified as ‘‘Confidential Business

Information’’ only to the extent allowed

and by the procedures set forth in 40

CFR part 2. If no claim of confidentiality

accompanies a submission when it is

received by the EPA, the information

may be made available to the public

without further notice to the

commenter.

Public Hearing. Persons interested in

presenting oral testimony or inquiring

as to whether a hearing is to be held

should contact JoLynn Collins, Waste

and Chemical Processes Group,

Emission Standard Division (MD–13),

U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC