This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains notices to the public of the proposed

issuance of rules and regulations. The

purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

rule making prior to the adoption of the final

rules.

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Vol. 79, No. 241 

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 

ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE OF 

THE FEDERAL REGISTER 

1 CFR Chapter I 

[ACFR–2014–0001] 

RIN 3095–AB84 

Revision of Regulations 

AGENCY: Administrative Committee of 

the Federal Register. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: On October 28, 2014, the 

Administrative Committee of the 

Federal Register (ACFR) published a 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and 

requested comments through December 

29, 2014. The ACFR received a formal 

request to extend the comment period. 

The ACFR is, therefore, extending the 

comment period until January 28, 2015. 

DATES: The comment period for the 

proposed rule published on October 28, 

2014 (79 FR 64133), has been extended. 

The ACFR will accept comments until 

January 28, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified using the subject line of this 

document, by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Email: Fedreg.legal@nara.gov. 

Include the subject line of this 

document in the subject line of the 

message. 

• Mail: The Office of the Federal 

Register (F), The National Archives and 

Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi 

Road, College Park, MD 20740–6001. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Office of 

the Federal Register, 800 North Capitol 

Street NW., Suite 700, Washington, DC 

20002. 

Docket materials are available at the 

Office of the Federal Register, 800 North 

Capitol Street NW., Suite 700, 

Washington, DC 20002, 202–741–6030. 

Please contact the persons listed in the 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section to schedule your inspection of 

docket materials. The Office of the 

Federal Register’s official hours of 

business are Monday through Friday, 

8:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m., excluding 

Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Miriam Vincent, Acting Director of 

Legal Affairs and Policy, Office of the 

Federal Register, at Fedreg.legal@

nara.gov, or 202–741–6030. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

October 28, 2014 (79 FR 64133), the 

Administrative Committee of the 

Federal Register (ACFR) published a 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and 

requested comments through December 

29, 2014. The ACFR proposed to update 

its regulations for the Federal Register 

system to clarify certain policies and to 

reflect current procedures and 

technological advances. The proposal 

would also revise the regulatory text to 

make it more readable and consistent 

with plain language principles. 

The ACFR received a formal request 

to extend the comment period on the 

petition for an additional 90 days, 

making the total time to comment 150 

days. After considering the request, the 

ACFR decided to extend the comment 

period an additional 30 days, to January 

28, 2015. This extension gives 

commenters additional time to consider 

the proposal and submit comments on 

its merits. 

By Order of the Committee. 

Amy P. Bunk, 

Acting Secretary, Administrative Committee 

of the Federal Register. 

[FR Doc. 2014–29415 Filed 12–15–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 1505–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Agricultural Marketing Service 

7 CFR Part 27 

[Doc. #AMS–CN–14–0050] 

RIN 0581–AD38 

Defining Bona Fide Cotton Spot 

Markets for the World Cotton Futures 

Contract 

AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Agricultural Marketing 

Service (AMS) is proposing to amend 

the regulatory language to designate 

which bona fide cotton spot markets 

will be used to determine actual 

commercial differences in value for 

various grades above or below the basis 

grade in the settlement of World cotton 

futures contracts on the Intercontinental 

Exchange (ICE). Designating bona fide 

cotton spot markets for the World cotton 

futures contract in the regulatory 

language will allow for AMS to collect 

spot market price data and publish spot 

quotes for the settlement of these 

specific contracts. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before January 16, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons may 

comment on the proposed rule using the 

following procedures: 

• Internet: http://

www.regulations.gov. 

• Mail: Comments may be submitted 

by mail to: Darryl Earnest, Deputy 

Administrator, Cotton & Tobacco 

Program, AMS, USDA, 3275 Appling 

Road, Room 11, Memphis, TN 38133. 

Comments should be submitted in 

triplicate. All comments should 

reference the docket number and the 

date and the page of this issue of the 

Federal Register. All comments will be 

available for public inspection during 

regular business hours at Cotton & 

Tobacco Program, AMS, USDA, 3275 

Appling Road, Memphis, TN 38133. A 

copy of this notice may be found at: 

www.ams.usda.gov/cotton/

rulemaking.htm. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Darryl Earnest, Deputy Administrator, 

Cotton & Tobacco Program, AMS, 

USDA, 3275 Appling Road, Room 11, 

Memphis, TN 38133. Telephone (901) 

384–3060, facsimile (901) 384–3021, or 

email darryl.earnest@ams.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Executive Order 12866 and Executive 

Order 13563 

Executive Orders 12866 and 13563 

direct agencies to access all costs and 

benefits of available regulatory 

alternatives and, if regulation is 

necessary, to select regulatory 

approaches that maximize net benefits 

(including potential economic, 

environmental, public health, and safety 

effects, distributive impacts and equity). 

Executive Order 13563 emphasizes the 

importance of quantifying both costs 

and benefits, reducing costs, 

harmonizing rules, and promoting 

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flexibility. This action has been 

designated as a ‘‘non-significant 

regulatory action’’ under § 3(f) of 

Executive Order 12866 and therefore 

has not been reviewed by the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). 

Executive Order 13175 

This action has been reviewed in 

accordance with the requirements of 

Executive Order 13175, Consultation 

and Coordination with Indian Tribal 

Governments. The review reveals that 

this regulation would not have 

substantial and direct effects on Tribal 

governments and would not have 

significant Tribal implications. 

Executive Order 12988 

This proposed rule has been reviewed 

under Executive Order 12988, Civil 

Justice Reform. It is not intended to 

have retroactive effect. There are no 

administrative procedures that must be 

exhausted prior to any judicial 

challenge to the provisions of this rule. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

Pursuant to requirements set forth in 

the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) (5 

U.S.C. 601–612), AMS has considered 

the economic impact of this action on 

small entities and has determined that 

its implementation will not have a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small businesses. 

The purpose of the RFA is to fit 

regulatory actions to the scale of 

businesses subject to such actions so 

that small businesses will not be 

disproportionately burdened. There are 

approximately sixty cotton merchant 

organizations of various sizes active in 

trading U.S. cotton. Many of these 

cotton merchants are small businesses 

under the criteria established by the 

Small Business Administration (13 CFR 

121.201). Small business entities that 

are merchants in the U.S. cotton 

industry are defined as having fewer 

than 100 employees. Amendments to 

the regulation concerning bona fide 

cotton spot market designations will not 

significantly affect small businesses as 

defined in the RFA because: 

(1) How spot prices are estimated are 

not expected to be impacted by this 

action; 

(2) Business practices of the U.S. 

cotton industry are not expected to 

change as a result of this action; 

(3) Costs associated with providing 

market news services will not be 

significantly changed by this action; 

(4) Market news services are paid for 

by appropriated funds, therefore users 

are not charged fees for the provision of 

the services. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

In compliance with OMB regulations 

(5 CFR part 1320), which implement the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 

U.S.C. 3501), the information collection 

requirements contained in the 

provisions to be amended by this 

proposed rule have been previously 

approved by OMB and were assigned 

OMB control number 0581–0009, Cotton 

Classification and Market News Service. 

Background 

The Secretary of Agriculture is 

authorized under the United States 

Cotton Futures Act (7 U.S.C. 15b) to 

designate at least five bona fide cotton 

spot markets from which cotton price 

information can be collected. A spot 

market—also called the ‘‘cash market’’ 

or ‘‘physical market’’—is a market 

where commodities are sold on the spot 

for cash at current market prices and 

delivered immediately. Designation of 

these bona fide cotton spot markets and 

the determination of which counties 

and states compose each of these spot 

markets was most recently published in 

the Federal Register on April 30, 2013 

(78 FR 25181). For each of these bona 

fide cotton spot markets, the Cotton and 

Tobacco Program of the Agricultural 

Marketing Service collects market price 

information under the United States 

Cotton Futures Act (7 U.S.C. 15b), the 

Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act (7 

U.S.C. 473b) and the Agricultural 

Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 

1622(g)). This price information is then 

used to calculate price differences for 

the settlement of cotton futures 

contracts. 

In order to better manage price risk in 

the global cotton market, the American 

Cotton Shippers Association (ACSA) 

and the International Cotton Association 

(ICA) requested that the Intercontinental 

Exchange (ICE) offer a World cotton 

futures contract. In response, ICE 

announced its intention to begin 

offering World cotton contracts 

beginning in the fourth quarter of 2015. 

To determine actual commercial 

differences in value for various grades 

above or below the basis grade in the 

settlement of this new World cotton 

futures contract, AMS has been asked by 

these same stakeholders to collect and 

publish cotton spot market price 

information relevant to the World cotton 

contract. Therefore, AMS proposes to 

amend § 27.94 to designate the same 

bona fide cotton spot markets for the 

World cotton futures contract as have 

been designated for the No. 2 cotton 

futures contract. 

List of Subjects in 7 CFR Part 27 

Commodity futures, cotton. 

For the reasons set forth in the 

preamble, 7 CFR part 27 is proposed to 

be amended as follows: 

PART 27—[Amended] 

■ 1. The authority citation for 7 CFR 

part 27 continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 15b, 7 U.S.C. 473b, 7 

U.S.C. 1622(g). 

■ 2. In § 27.94, paragraph (a) is revised 

to read as follows: 

§ 27.94 Spot markets for contract 

settlement purposes. 

* * * * * 

(a) For cotton delivered in settlement 

of any Cotton No. 2 or World Cotton 

contract on the Intercontinental 

Exchange (ICE); the spot markets are 

Southeastern, North and South Delta, 

Eastern Texas and Oklahoma, West 

Texas, and Desert Southwest. 

* * * * * 

Dated: December 11, 2014. 

Rex A. Barnes, 

Associate Administrator, Agricultural 

Marketing Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–02–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2014–0703; FRL–9919–51– 

Region 9] 

Revisions to the California State 

Implementation Plan, Feather River Air 

Quality Management District 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve 

revisions to the Feather River Air 

Quality Management District 

(FRAQMD) portion of the California 

State Implementation Plan (SIP). These 

revisions concern emissions of 

particulate matter (PM), volatile organic 

compounds (VOCs) and oxides of 

nitrogen (NOX) from wood heating 

devices and open burning. We are 

proposing to approve local rules to 

regulate these emission sources under 

the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act). 

DATES: Any comments on this proposal 

must arrive by January 15, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, 

identified by docket number EPA–R09– 

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