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bunkering and lightering operations. 

Suspend all cargo transfers. Disconnect 

transfer hoses and arms. Smaller vessels 

shall seek shelter in preparation for 

possible port closure. Regulated 

facilities shall secure or remove all 

missile hazards, dangerous cargo, 

containers and/or pallet stacks. 

Regulated facilities shall press up 

storage tanks to reduce wind damage. 

All facilities must continue to operate in 

accordance with approved Facility 

Security Plans and comply with the 

requirements of the Maritime 

Transportation Security Act. The COTP 

may make modifications as required. 

(4) Port Condition ZULU. Designated 

areas are closed to all vessel traffic 

except those specifically authorized by 

the COTP. Cargo operations are 

suspended, including bunkering and 

lightering. The COTP may make 

modifications as required. 

(5) Emergency restrictions for other 

disasters. Any severe weather, natural 

and/or other disasters that are 

anticipated to or has affected the Sector 

Houston-Galveston COTP zone may 

result in the prohibition of facility 

operations and vessel traffic transiting 

or remaining in the affected port. 

(6) Port Condition RECOVERY. 

Designated areas are closed to all 

commercial traffic and recreational 

vessels. Based on assessments of 

channel conditions, navigability 

concerns, and hazards to navigation, the 

COTP may permit vessel movements 

with restrictions. Restrictions may 

include, but are not limited to, 

preventing vessel movements, imposing 

draft, speed, size, horsepower or 

daylight restrictions or directing the use 

of specific routes. Vessels permitted to 

transit the regulated area shall comply 

with the lawful orders or directions 

given by the COTP or designated 

representative. 

(7) Safety zones notice. The Coast 

Guard COTP will notify the maritime 

community of periods during which the 

safety zone will be enforced via 

Broadcast Notice to Mariners and 

Marine Safety Information Bulletin or 

by on-scene designated representatives. 

(8) Regulated area notice. The Coast 

Guard will provide notice of the 

designated ports and/or waterways 

within the regulated area covered by 

each Port Condition or Emergency 

Restrictions via Broadcast Notice to 

Mariners, Marine Safety Information 

Bulletin or by on-scene designated 

representatives. 

(9) Exception. This section does not 

apply to authorized law enforcement 

agencies operating within the regulated 

area. 

(d) Enforcement periods. This section 

is subject to enforcement from 

September 11, 2024, through 11:59 p.m. 

on November 30, 2024 and will be 

enforced when Port Condition 

‘‘Whiskey’’ has been set, or at the 

discretion of the COTP if conditions 

deem it necessary until Port Condition 

RECOVERY is concluded. The Coast 

Guard will notify the maritime 

community of periods of enforcement 

via Broadcast Notice to Mariners and 

Marine Safety Information Bulletin or 

by on-scene designated representatives. 

Keith. M. Donohue, 

CAPT, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the Port 

Sector Houston-Galveston. 

[FR Doc. 2024–21116 Filed 9–18–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

34 CFR Chapter VI 

[Docket ID ED–2024–OPE–0098] 

Final Waiver and Extension of the 

Project Period for the Postsecondary 

Programs for Students With 

Intellectual Disabilities—National 

Technical Assistance and 

Dissemination Center (PPSID–NTAD) 

Program 

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary 

Education (OPE), Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Final waiver and extension of 

the project period. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Education 

(Department) waives the requirements 

in the Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations that 

generally prohibit project period 

extensions involving the obligation of 

additional Federal funds. The final 

waiver and extension is intended to 

enable one project under Assistance 

Listing Number 84.407C to receive 

funding for an additional period, not to 

exceed September 30, 2025. 

DATES: This final waiver and extension 

of the project period is effective 

September 19, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Shedita Alston, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Room 5C–131, Washington, DC 20202. 

Telephone: (202)453–7090. Email: 

Shedita.Alston@ed.gov. 

If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or 

have a speech disability and wish to 

access telecommunications relay 

services, please dial 7–1–1. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We 

published a proposed waiver and 

extension in the Federal Register on 

August 7, 2024 (89 FR 64399) to extend 

the project period for the current 

PPSID–NTAD Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 

grantee from September 30, 2024 to 

September 30, 2025, in order to align 

and coordinate the funding cycle of the 

PPSID–NTAD program with TPSID and 

the TPSID–Coordinating Center (TPSID– 

CC) program grants authorized under 

title VII, part D, subpart 2 of the Higher 

Education Act of 1965, as amended 

(HEA) (20 U.S.C. 1140f et seq.), and title 

VII, part D, subpart 4 of the HEA (20 

U.S.C. 1140q), respectively. There are 

no differences between the proposed 

waiver and extension and this final 

waiver and extension. 

Public Comment: In response to our 

invitation in the notice of proposed 

waiver and extension, 18 parties 

submitted comments on the waiver and 

extension. Generally, we do not address 

technical and other minor changes, or 

suggested changes that the law does not 

authorize us to make under applicable 

statutory authority. In addition, we do 

not address general comments that 

raised concerns not directly related to 

the proposed waiver and extension. 

Analysis of Comments and Changes: 

An analysis of the comments and of any 

changes since publication of the 

proposed waiver and extension follows. 

General Comments 

Comments: Eighteen commenters 

supported the waiver and extension. 

Discussion: We appreciate the support 

of the waiver and extension. 

Changes: None. 

Final Waiver and Extension 

We are extending the project period 

for the PPSID–NTAD FY 2021 grantee in 

order to align and coordinate the 

funding cycle of the PPSID–NTAD 

program with the TPSID–CC program 

grant authorized under title VII, part D, 

subpart 2 of the Higher Education Act 

of 1965, as amended (HEA) (20 U.S.C. 

1140f et seq.), and title VII, part D, 

subpart 4 of the HEA (20 U.S.C. 1140q), 

respectively. Aligning the ends of the 

project periods across grants allows the 

Department to better coordinate the 

TPSID program. While the technical 

assistance center and the coordinating 

center have different audiences for the 

dissemination of their research, aligning 

the funding for the grantees who are 

doing this work will improve the 

efficiency and cost effectiveness of the 

technical assistance and dissemination 

efforts, and will help ensure that both 

the TPSID grantees and other 

institutions that benefit from the 

research receive aligned supports from 

the centers. 


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For this reason, the Secretary is 

waiving the requirements in 34 CFR 

75.261(a) and (c)(2), which allow the 

extension of a project period only if the 

extension does not involve the 

obligation of additional Federal funds. 

The waiver allows the Department to 

issue a one-time FY 2024 continuation 

award to the current PPSID–NTAD 

program grantee estimated as follows: 

Institution State Award 

University of Massachusetts at Boston ................................................................................................................... MA $1,543,686 

Any activities carried out during the 

year of this continuation award must be 

consistent with the scope, goals, and 

objectives of the grantee’s application as 

approved in the FY 2021 competition. 

Additionally, 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(1) 

contains an exception to the 

requirement in 5 U.S.C. 553(d) that 

requires publication or service of a 

substantive rule shall be made not less 

than 30 days before its effective date for 

a substantive rule which grants or 

recognizes an exemption or relieves a 

restriction. Accordingly, the Department 

has elected to make this final Waiver 

and Extension effective on September 

19, 2024. 

Intergovernmental Review: This 

program is subject to Executive Order 

12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR 

part 79. One of the objectives of the 

Executive order is to foster an 

intergovernmental partnership and a 

strengthened federalism. The Executive 

order relies on processes developed by 

State and local governments for 

coordination and review of Federal 

financial assistance. 

This document provides early 

notification of our specific plans and 

actions for this program. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification 

The Secretary certifies that the final 

waiver and extension of the project 

period would not have a significant 

economic impact on a substantial 

number of small entities. The only small 

entities that will be affected by the final 

waiver and extension of the project 

period is the current grantee and any 

other potential applicants. 

The Secretary certifies that the final 

waiver and extension will not have a 

significant economic impact on these 

entities because the extension of an 

existing project period would impose 

minimal compliance costs to extend the 

existing project, and the activities 

required to support the additional year 

of funding would not impose additional 

regulatory burdens or require 

unnecessary Federal supervision. 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

This final waiver and extension does 

not contain any information collection 

requirements. 

Accessible Format: On request to the 

program contact person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, 

individuals with disabilities can obtain 

this document in an accessible format. 

The Department will provide the 

requestor with an accessible format that 

may include Rich Text Format (RTF) or 

text format (txt), a thumb drive, an MP3 

file, braille, large print, audiotape, 

compact disc, or other accessible format. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. You may access the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the 

Code of Federal Regulations at 

www.govinfo.gov. At this site you can 

view this document, as well as all other 

Department documents published in the 

Federal Register, in text or Portable 

Document Format (PDF). To use PDF 

you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, 

which is available free at the site. 

You may also access Department 

documents published in the Federal 

Register by using the article search 

feature at www.federalregister.gov. 

Specifically, through the advanced 

search feature at this site, you can limit 

your search to documents published by 

the Department. 

Nasser Paydar, 

Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary 

Education. 

[FR Doc. 2024–21277 Filed 9–18–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2023–0405; FRL–11263– 

02–R9] 

Air Plan Approval; Nevada; Washoe 

County Health District 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is taking final action to 

approve a revision to the Washoe 

County portion of the Nevada State 

Implementation Plan (SIP). This 

revision concerns emissions of 

particulate matter (PM) from 

woodburning devices. We are approving 

a local rule that regulates these emission 

sources under the Clean Air Act (CAA 

or the Act). 

DATES: This rule is effective October 21, 

2024. 

ADDRESSES: The EPA has established a 

docket for this action under Docket ID 

No. EPA–R09–OAR–2023–0405. All 

documents in the docket are listed on 

the https://www.regulations.gov 

website. Although listed in the index, 

some information is not publicly 

available, e.g., Confidential Business 

Information (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 through https://

www.regulations.gov, or please contact 

the person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section for 

additional availability information. If 

you need assistance in a language other 

than English or if you are a person with 

a disability who needs a reasonable 

accommodation at no cost to you, please 

contact the person identified in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christine Vineyard, EPA Region IX, 75 

Hawthorne St., San Francisco, CA 

94105; phone: (415) 947–4125; email: 

vineyard.christine@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document, ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’ 

and ‘‘our’’ refer to the EPA. 

Table of Contents 

I. Proposed Action 

II. Public Comments and EPA Responses 

III. EPA Action 

IV. Incorporation by Reference 

V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews 

I. Proposed Action 

On June 14, 2024 (89 FR 50543), the 

EPA proposed to approve the following 

rule into the Nevada SIP. 


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