78836 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 187 / Thursday, September 26, 2024 / Proposed Rules 

(89 FR 60985), which proposed changes 

to existing restrictions under the Export 

Administration Regulations (15 CFR 

parts 730 through 744) on military and 

intelligence end uses and end users and 

related U.S. persons activities controls, 

as well as the proposed addition of a 

military-support end-user control. On 

that same day, the Department of State 

published a complementary proposed 

rule entitled ‘‘International Traffic in 

Arms Regulations: Revisions to 

Definition and Controls Related to 

Defense Services’’ (89 FR 60980) 

proposing a revision to the definition of 

defense service at 22 CFR 120.32 of the 

International Traffic in Arms 

Regulations (22 CFR parts 120 through 

130) and additions to the United States 

Munitions List at 22 CFR 121.1. In 

response to requests from the regulated 

community, the Department of 

Commerce is extending the comment 

period for this rule (RIN 0694–AJ43) by 

15 days. 

* * * * * 

Thea D. Rozman Kendler, 

Assistant Secretary for Export 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22146 Filed 9–24–24; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 3510–33–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of Industry and Security 

15 CFR Parts 736, 744, and 774 

[Docket No. 240923–0250] 

RIN 0694–AI35 

Export Administration Regulations: 

Crime Controls and Expansion/Update 

of U.S. Persons Controls; Extension of 

Comment Period 

AGENCY: Bureau of Industry and 

Security, Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: On July 29, 2024, the Bureau 

of Industry and Security (BIS) published 

in the Federal Register a proposed rule, 

‘‘Export Administration Regulations: 

Crime Controls and Expansion/Update 

of U.S. Persons Controls’’ with 

comments originally due September 27, 

2024. This notification extends the 

deadline for written comments to 

October 15, 2024. This extension is 

being made to allow for commenters to 

have additional time to review the 

proposed rule and to benefit from the 

significant amount of public outreach 

that BIS is conducting on the rule in 

preparing their comments. Extending 

the public comment period will not in 

any way undermine the rule or national 

security of the United States. 

DATES: The comments period for the 

proposed rule published July 29, 2024, 

at 89 FR 60998 is extended. Comments 

must be received by BIS no later than 

October 15, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Comments on this rule may 

be submitted to the Federal rulemaking 

portal (www.regulations.gov). The 

regulations.gov ID for the rule entitled 

‘‘Export Administration Regulations: 

Crime Controls and Expansion/Update 

of U.S. Persons Controls’’ is BIS–2023– 

0006. Please refer to RIN 0694–AI35 in 

all comments. 

All filers using the portal should use 

the name of the person or entity 

submitting the comments as the name of 

their files, in accordance with the 

instructions below. Anyone submitting 

business confidential information 

should clearly identify the business 

confidential portion at the time of 

submission, file a statement justifying 

nondisclosure and referring to the 

specific legal authority claimed, and 

provide a non-confidential version of 

the submission. For comments 

submitted electronically containing 

business confidential information, the 

file name of the business confidential 

version should begin with the characters 

‘‘BC.’’ Any page containing business 

confidential information must be clearly 

marked ‘‘BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL’’ 

on the top of that page. The 

corresponding non-confidential version 

of those comments must be clearly 

marked ‘‘PUBLIC.’’ The file name of the 

non-confidential version should begin 

with the character ‘‘P.’’ Any 

submissions with file names that do not 

begin with either a ‘‘BC’’ or a ‘‘P’’ will 

be assumed to be public and will be 

made publicly available through https:// 

www.regulations.gov. Commenters 

submitting business confidential 

information are encouraged to scan a 

hard copy of the non-confidential 

version to create an image of the file, 

rather than submitting a digital copy 

with redactions applied, to avoid 

inadvertent redaction errors which 

could enable the public to read business 

confidential information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions specific to the human rights 

or foreign-security end-user provisions 

set forth in the rule entitled, ‘‘Export 

Administration Regulations: Crime 

Controls and Expansion/Update of U.S. 

Persons Controls’’ contact Anthony 

Christino, Director Human Rights and 

Embargoes Division, 

Anthony.Christino@bis.doc.gov, Phone: 

(202) 482–3241. For general questions, 

contact Hillary Hess, Director 

Regulatory Policy Division, rpd2@

bis.doc.gov. Include, ‘‘Human Rights 

End Users’’ on subject line of emails. 

Phone: (202) 482–2440. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On July 29, 2024, the Bureau of 

Industry and Security (BIS) published in 

the Federal Register a proposed rule 

entitled, ‘‘Export Administration 

Regulations: Crime Controls and 

Expansion/Update of U.S. Persons 

Controls’’ (89 FR 60998), which 

proposed to establish certain ForeignSecurity End User (FSEU) and ‘‘U.S. 

persons’’ activities controls and 

Commerce Control List-based (CCL) 

controls. The proposed additions of the 

foreign-security end user control and 

‘‘U.S. persons’’ activities controls would 

implement expanded authority under 

the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 

(ECRA), as amended, to control certain 

‘‘U.S. persons’’ activities under the EAR. 

BIS is proposing amendments to control 

‘‘support’’ furnished by ‘‘U.S. persons’’ 

to identified FSEUs. In addition, BIS is 

proposing to add to the CCL two new 

unilateral item controls on facial 

recognition technology. 

In response to requests from the 

regulated community, the Department of 

Commerce is extending the comment 

period for 15 days. 

* * * * * 

Thea D. Rozman Kendler, 

Assistant Secretary for Export 

Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Food and Drug Administration 

21 CFR Part 173 

[Docket No. FDA–2023–F–2319] 

PHM Brands; Withdrawal of Food 

Additive Petition 

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, 

HHS. 

ACTION: Notification; withdrawal of 

petition. 

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug 

Administration (FDA or we) is 

announcing the withdrawal, without 

prejudice to a future filing, of a food 

additive petition (FAP 2A4832) 

proposing that the food additive 

regulations for chlorine dioxide be 

amended to provide for an additional 

method for producing the additive. 


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DATES: The food additive petition was 

withdrawn on March 4, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to https://

www.regulations.gov and insert the 

docket number found in brackets in the 

heading of this document into the 

‘‘Search’’ box and follow the prompts, 

and/or go to the Dockets Management 

Staff, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, 

Rockville, MD 20852. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Karen Hall, Center for Food Safety and 

Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug 

Administration, 5001 Campus Dr., 

College Park, MD 20740, 240–402–9195. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a notice 

published in the Federal Register of 

June 21, 2023 (88 FR 40122), we 

announced that we had filed a food 

additive petition (FAP 2A4832), 

submitted by Burdock Group 

Consultants on behalf of PHM Brands, 

730 17th Street, Denver, Colorado 

80202. The petition proposed to amend 

the food additive regulations in 

§ 173.300 (21 CFR 173.300 Chlorine 

dioxide) to provide for production of the 

additive via an electrolytic method from 

a brine solution containing chloride 

salts. PHM Brands has now withdrawn 

the petition without prejudice to a 

future filing (21 CFR 171.7). 

Dated: September 20, 2024. 

Lauren K. Roth, 

Associate Commissioner for Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2024–21934 Filed 9–25–24; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R05–OAR–2020–0385; FRL–12224– 

01–R5] 

Determination of Attainment by the 

Attainment Date; Michigan; St. Clair 

2010 Sulfur Dioxide Nonattainment 

Area 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is proposing to determine 

that the St. Clair, MI sulfur dioxide 

(SO2) nonattainment area attained the 

2010 1-hour primary SO2 national 

ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) 

by the date of September 12, 2021. This 

determination is based on annual SO2

emissions data, modeled data, and 

certified ambient air quality data from 

EPA’s December 7, 2021, Clean Data 

Determination for St. Clair, as well as 

publicly available additional supporting 

2020 data. This action, if finalized, will 

address EPA’s obligation under the 

Clean Air Act (CAA) to determine 

whether the St. Clair SO2 nonattainment 

area (referred to hereafter as the St. Clair 

area, or simply the area) attained the 

2010 SO2 NAAQS by the September 12, 

2021, attainment date. 

DATES: Written comments for this 

proposed rule must be received on or 

before October 28, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R05– 

OAR–2020–0385 at https://

www.regulations.gov or via email to 

arra.Sarah@epa.gov. For comments 

submitted at Regulations.gov, follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. Once submitted, comments 

cannot be edited or removed from the 

docket. EPA may publish any comment 

received to its public docket. Do not 

submit to EPA’s docket at https://

www.regulations.gov any information 

you consider to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI), Proprietary 

Business Information (PBI), or other 

information whose disclosure 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. 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, please contact the person 

identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section. For the 

full EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI, PBI, or 

multimedia submissions, and general 

guidance on making effective 

comments, please visit https://

www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epadockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alexis Bender, Air and Radiation 

Division (AR–18J), Environmental 

Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West 

Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 

60604, (312) 886–9497, bender.alexis@

epa.gov. The EPA Region 5 office is 

open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, excluding 

Federal holidays and facility closures 

due to COVID–19. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document whenever 

‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean 

EPA. 

I. Background 

A. The 2010 1-Hour Primary SO2

NAAQS 

Under section 109 of the CAA, EPA 

has established primary and secondary 

NAAQS for certain pervasive air 

pollutants (referred to as ‘‘criteria 

pollutants’’) and conducts periodic 

reviews of the NAAQS to determine 

whether they should be revised or 

whether new NAAQS should be 

established. 

On June 22, 2010 (75 FR 35520), EPA 

published in the Federal Register a 

strengthened, primary 1-hour SO2

NAAQS, establishing a new standard at 

a level of 75 ppb, based on the 3-year 

average of the annual 99th percentile of 

daily maximum 1-hour average 

concentrations of SO2. This revised SO2

NAAQS provided increased protection 

of public health and provided for 

revocation of the 1971 primary annual 

and 24-hour SO2 standards for most 

areas of the country following area 

designations under the new NAAQS. 

B. Designations and Attainment Dates 

for the 2010 SO2 NAAQS 

Following promulgation of a new or 

revised NAAQS, EPA is required to 

designate all areas of the country as 

either ‘‘attainment,’’ ‘‘nonattainment,’’ 

or ‘‘unclassifiable,’’ pursuant to CAA 

section 107(d)(1). On July 12, 2016 (81 

FR 45039), EPA finalized its second 

round of initial designations under the 

2010 SO2 NAAQS. During the second 

round of designations, the St. Clair area 

of Michigan was designated as 

nonattainment for the 2010 SO2 NAAQS 

(40 CFR 81.323) based on modeling of 

actual emissions for the designated area. 

CAA section 191(a) directs states 

containing an area designated 

nonattainment for the 2010 SO2 NAAQS 

to develop and submit a nonattainment 

area State Implementation Plan (SIP) to 

EPA within 18 months of the effective 

date of an area’s designation as 

nonattainment. The Michigan 

Department of Environment, Great 

Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) was required 

to submit a SIP by March 12, 2018, to 

bring the St. Clair area into attainment 

by the attainment date of September 12, 

2021. 

EGLE submitted a request for a Clean 

Data Determination (CDD) on July 24, 

2020. When a nonattainment area is 

attaining the 2010 SO2 NAAQS based on 

the most recent available data, EPA may 

issue a CDD suspending planning 

requirements. EPA issued a CDD for the 

St. Clair area based on monitoring and 

modeling data for the 2017–2019 period 

via a final rule published on December 

7, 2021 (86 FR 69173). 


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