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(2) A rate incentive may be included 

in a percentage change in rates 

calculation if it meets the following 

criteria: 

(i) The rate incentive is in the form of 

a discount or can be easily translated 

into a discount; 

(ii) Sufficient billing determinants are 

available for the rate incentive to be 

included in the percentage change in 

rate calculation for the class, which may 

be adjusted based on known mail 

characteristics or historical volume data 

(as opposed to forecasts of mailer 

behavior); and 

(iii) The rate incentive is either: 

(A) A rate of general applicability; or 

(B) A rate not of general applicability 

that satisfies the following 

requirements: 

(1) The rate incentive is not only 

available upon the written agreement of 

both the Postal Service and a mailer, or 

group of mailers, or a foreign postal 

operator; 

(2) The rate incentive is applicable to 

all mail meeting standards established 

by the Mail Classification Schedule, the 

Domestic Mail Manual, and the 

International Mail Manual; 

(3) The rate incentive does not benefit 

only a single mailer; 

(4) The rate incentive is designed to 

increase volume; and 

(5) A mailer’s eligibility for the rate 

incentive depends on the mailer’s 

sending, in a specified period of time 

(which must not be less than three 

months) a volume of mail of specified 

products that exceeds a specified 

threshold volume of mail, provided that 

such threshold volume of mail is not 

less than the volume of the specified 

products that the mailer sent in the 

specified period of time in the 

immediately preceding fiscal year or 

calendar year. 

(3) The Commission may require 

submission of such information as it 

deems necessary to ensure that rate 

incentives included in the percentage 

change in rates calculation comply with 

the requirements of this section. 

(g)(1) Mail volumes sent at rates under 

a negotiated service agreement or a rate 

incentive that is not a rate of general 

applicability are to be included in the 

calculation of the percentage change in 

rates under this section as though they 

paid the appropriate rates of general 

applicability, except as provided in 

paragraph (f)(2) of this section. Where it 

is impractical to identify the rates of 

general applicability (e.g., because 

unique rate categories are created for a 

mailer), the volumes associated with the 

mail sent under the terms of the 

negotiated service agreement or the rate 

incentive that is not a rate of general 

applicability shall be excluded from the 

calculation of the percentage change in 

rates. 

* * * * * 

By the Commission. 

Erica A. Barker, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22125 Filed 9–27–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7710–FW–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 271 

[EPA–R03–RCRA–2024–0046; FRL–11702– 

01–R3] 

West Virginia: Final Authorization of 

State Hazardous Waste Management 

Program Revisions 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The state of West Virginia has 

applied to the United States 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

for final authorization of revisions to its 

hazardous waste program under the 

Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act (RCRA). EPA has determined that 

these revisions satisfy all requirements 

needed to qualify for final authorization, 

subject to public comment. Therefore, in 

the ‘‘Rules and Regulations’’ section of 

this Federal Register, we are 

authorizing West Virginia for these 

changes as a final action without a prior 

proposed rule. If we receive no adverse 

comment, we will not take further 

action on this proposed rule. 

DATES: Send written comments by 

October 30, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R03– 

RCRA–2024–0046, at 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Once submitted, comments cannot be 

edited or removed from 

www.regulations.gov. The EPA may 

publish any comment received to its 

public docket. Do not submit 

electronically any information you 

consider to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

the disclosure of which is restricted by 

statute. Multimedia submissions (audio, 

video, etc.) must be accompanied by a 

written comment. The written comment 

is considered the official comment and 

should include discussion of all points 

you wish to make. The EPA will 

generally not consider comments or 

comment contents located outside of the 

primary submission (i.e. on the web, 

cloud, or other file sharing system). For 

additional submission methods, the full 

EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit 

https://www.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets. 

The EPA encourages electronic 

submittals, but if you are unable to 

submit electronically or need other 

assistance, please contact Priscilla Ortiz 

Carrero, the contact listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section 

below. Please also contact Priscilla Ortiz 

Carrero if you need assistance in a 

language other than English or if you are 

a person with disabilities who needs a 

reasonable accommodation at no cost to 

you. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Priscilla Ortiz Carrero, RCRA Programs 

Branch; Land, Chemicals, and 

Redevelopment Division, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency 

Region 3, Four Penn Center, 1600 John 

F. Kennedy Blvd. (Mail code 3LD31), 

Philadelphia, PA 19103–2852; phone: 

(215) 814–3428, email: 

ortizcarrero.priscilla@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

document proposes to take action on 

West Virginia ’s revisions to its 

hazardous waste management program 

under the Resource Conservation and 

Recovery Act (RCRA), as amended. We 

have published a direct final rule 

authorizing these revisions in the 

‘‘Rules and Regulations’’ section of this 

issue of the Federal Register because we 

view this as a noncontroversial action 

and anticipate no adverse comment. We 

have explained our reasons for this 

action in the preamble to the direct final 

rule. 

If we receive no adverse comment, we 

will not take further action on this 

proposed rule. If we receive adverse 

comment pertaining to the State 

revisions, we will withdraw the final 

action and it will not take effect. We 

would then address all public 

comments in a subsequent final action 

and base any further decision on the 

authorization of the State program 

revisions after considering all comments 

received during the comment period. 

We do not intend to institute a second 

comment period on this action. Any 

parties interested in commenting must 

do so at this time. For further 

information, please see the information 

provided in the ADDRESSES section of 

this document. 

Authority: This action is issued under the 

authority of sections 2002(a), 3006 and 


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79492 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 189 / Monday, September 30, 2024 / Proposed Rules 

7004(b) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as 

amended, 42 U.S.C. 6912(a), 6926, 6974(b). 

Adam Ortiz, 

Regional Administrator, EPA Region 3. 

[FR Doc. 2024–21664 Filed 9–27–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 54 

[WC Docket No. 21–31; Report No. 3219; 

FR ID 247697] 

Petitions for Reconsideration of Action 

in Rulemaking Proceeding 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Petition for Reconsideration. 

SUMMARY: Petitions for Reconsideration 

(Petitions) have been filed in the 

Commission’s proceeding by Sasha 

Horwitz, on behalf of Los Angeles 

Unified School District, and Kristen 

Corra, on behalf of Schools, Health & 

Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition, 

the Open Technology Institute at New 

America, the Benton Institute for 

Broadband & Society, the Consortium 

for School Networking, and Common 

Sense Media. 

DATES: Oppositions to the Petitions 

must be filed on or before October 15, 

2024. Replies to oppositions to the 

Petitions must be filed on or before 

October 25, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications 

Commission, 45 L Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20554. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information on this 

proceeding, contact Molly O’Conor of 

the Telecommunications Access Policy 

Division, Wireline Telecommunications 

Bureau, at Molly.OConor@fcc.gov or 

(202) 418–7400. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

summary of the Commission’s 

document, Report No. 3219, released 

September 24, 2024. The full text of the 

Petitions can be accessed online via the 

Commission’s Electronic Comment 

Filing System at: http://fcc.gov/ecfs/. 

The Commission will not send a 

Congressional Review Act (CRA) 

submission to Congress or the 

Government Accountability Office 

pursuant to the CRA, 5 U.S.C. 

801(a)(1)(A), because no rules are being 

adopted by the Commission. 

Subject: Addressing the Homework 

Gap through the E-Rate Program (WC 

Docket No. 21–31). 

Number of Petitions Filed: 2. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22399 Filed 9–27–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Parts 600 and 622 

[Docket No. 240920–0248] 

RIN 0648–BM94 

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of 

Mexico, and South Atlantic; Fishery 

Management Plans of Puerto Rico, St. 

Croix, and St. Thomas and St. John; 

Amendment 2 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: NMFS proposes to implement 

management measures described in 

Amendment 2 to the Puerto Rico 

Fishery Management Plan (FMP), 

Amendment 2 to the St. Croix FMP, and 

Amendment 2 to the St. Thomas and St. 

John FMP (jointly Amendment 2), as 

prepared by the Caribbean Fishery 

Management Council (Council). If 

implemented, this proposed rule and 

Amendment 2 would prohibit and 

restrict the use of certain net gear in 

U.S. Caribbean Federal waters and 

would require a descending device to be 

available and ready for use on vessels 

when fishing for federally managed reef 

fish species in U.S. Caribbean Federal 

waters. The purpose of this proposed 

rule and Amendment 2 is to protect 

habitats and species from the potential 

negative impacts associated with the use 

of certain net gear and to enhance the 

survival of released reef fish in U.S. 

Caribbean Federal waters. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received no later than October 30, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: A plain language summary 

of this proposed rule is available at 

https://www.regulations.gov/docket/ 

NOAA-NMFS-2024-0084. You may 

submit comments on this document, 

identified by ‘‘NOAA–NMFS–2024– 

0084’’ by either of the following 

methods: 

• Electronic Submission: Submit all 

electronic public comments via the 

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. Visit 

https://www.regulations.gov and type 

‘‘NOAA–NMFS–2024–0084’’ in the 

Search box. Click on the ‘‘Comment’’ 

icon, complete the required fields, and 

enter or attach your comments. 

• Mail: Submit written comments to 

Maria Lopez-Mercer, Southeast Regional 

Office, NMFS, 263 13th Avenue South, 

St. Petersburg, FL 33701. 

Instructions: Comments sent by any 

other method, to any other address or 

individual, or received after the end of 

the comment period, may not be 

considered by NMFS. All comments 

received are a part of the public record 

and will generally be posted for public 

viewing on https://www.regulations.gov 

without change. All personal identifying 

information (e.g., name, address, etc.), 

confidential business information, or 

otherwise sensitive information 

submitted voluntarily by the sender will 

be publicly accessible. NMFS will 

accept anonymous comments (enter ‘‘N/ 

A’’ in the required fields if you wish to 

remain anonymous). 

An electronic copy of Amendment 2, 

which includes a fishery impact 

statement, an environmental 

assessment, a regulatory impact review, 

and a Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) 

analysis, may be obtained from the 

Southeast Regional Office website at 

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/action/ 

amendment-2-puerto-rico-st-croix-andst-thomas-and-st-john-fisherymanagement-plans-trawl. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maria Lopez-Mercer, NMFS Southeast 

Regional Office, 727–824–5305, 

maria.lopez@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS, 

with the advice of the Council, manages 

the Puerto Rico, St. Croix, and St. 

Thomas and St. John fisheries in U.S. 

Caribbean Federal waters under the 

Puerto Rico, St. Croix, and St. Thomas 

and St. John FMPs. The Council 

prepared the FMPs, which the Secretary 

of Commerce approved, and NMFS 

implements the FMPs through 

regulations at 50 CFR part 622 under the 

authority of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act). 

Background 

The Magnuson-Stevens Act requires 

NMFS and the regional fishery 

management councils to prevent 

overfishing and achieve, on a 

continuing basis, the optimum yield 

from federally managed fish stocks to 

ensure that fishery resources are 

managed for the greatest overall benefit 

to the nation, particularly with respect 

to providing food production and 

recreational opportunities, and 

protecting marine ecosystems. The 


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