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ACTION: Notice of final order on petition. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Administrator signed an 

Order dated October 9, 2024, denying a 

petition dated July 9, 2024, from Sierra 

Club. The petition requested that the 

EPA object to a Clean Air Act (CAA) 

title V operating permit issued by the 

Indiana Department of Environmental 

Management (IDEM) to Warrick Newco 

LLC for its aluminum production plant 

located in Newburgh, Warrick County, 

Indiana. 

ADDRESSES: The final order, the petition, 

and other supporting information are 

available for public inspection during 

normal business hours at the following 

address: Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region 5, Air and Radiation 

Division, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 

Chicago, Illinois 60604. This facility is 

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

Monday through Friday, excluding 

Federal holidays. We recommend that 

you contact the individual listed in the 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section before visiting the Region 5 

office. Additionally, the final order and 

petitions are available electronically at: 

https://www.epa.gov/title-v-operatingpermits/title-v-petition-database. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Priyanka Painuly, Air and Radiation 

Division (AR 18J), Environmental 

Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West 

Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 

60604, (312) 886–7569, 

painuly.priyanka@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA 

received a petition from the Sierra Club 

dated July 9, 2024, requesting that EPA 

object to the issuance of operating 

permit no. T173–46378–00007, issued 

by IDEM to Warrick Newco LLC for its 

aluminum production plant located in 

Newburgh, Warrick County, Indiana. On 

October 9, 2024, the EPA Administrator 

issued an Order denying the petition. 

The order explains the basis for EPA’s 

decision. 

Sections 307(b) and 505(b)(2) of the 

CAA provide that a petitioner may 

request judicial review of those portions 

of an order that deny issues in a 

petition. Any petition for review shall 

be filed in the United States Court of 

Appeals for the appropriate circuit no 

later than January 21, 2025. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq. 

Dated: November 18, 2024. 

Debra Shore, 

Regional Administrator, Region 5. 

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Notice of Availability of Draft National 

Pollutant Discharge Elimination 

System (NPDES) Massachusetts Small 

Municipal Separate Storm Sewer 

Systems General Permit 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability of Draft 

NPDES General Permit. 

SUMMARY: The Regional Administrator, 

U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency—Region 1 (EPA), is providing a 

Notice of Availability for the Draft 

National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System (NPDES) 

Massachusetts Small Municipal 

Separate Storm Sewer System General 

Permit (MA MS4 GP) for discharges to 

certain waters of the Commonwealth of 

Massachusetts. This Draft NPDES MA 

MS4 GP (‘‘Draft GP’’) establishes Notice 

of Intent (NOI) requirements, permit 

eligibility requirements, and conditions 

and practices for the management of 

stormwater discharges from small MS4s. 

The Draft GP is available on EPA Region 

1’s website at https://www.epa.gov/ 

npdes-permits/massachusetts-smallms4-general-permit and at 

www.regulations.gov, Docket No. EPA– 

R01–OW–2024–0493. The Fact Sheet for 

the Draft GP sets forth principal facts 

and the significant technical and legal 

issues considered in the development of 

the Draft General Permit and is also 

available at this website. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before February 20, 2025. 

The public comment process and the 

public hearing will be conducted in 

accordance with 40 CFR part 124, EPA’s 

Procedures for Decision making. All 

persons, including applicants, must 

raise all reasonably ascertainable issues 

and submit all reasonably available 

arguments supporting their positions on 

the Draft GP by the close of the public 

comment period, either by submitting 

written comments as listed in the 

ADDRESSES section of this Federal 

Register, or by submitting written or 

oral comments at the public hearing. 

EPA will hold a virtual public hearing 

in accordance with 40 CFR 124.12 and 

will provide interested parties with the 

opportunity to provide written and/or 

oral comments for the official draft 

permit record. The virtual public 

hearing will be held Tuesday, January 

28, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. EPA will begin 

pre-registering speakers for the hearing 

upon publication of this document in 

the Federal Register. To register to 

speak at the virtual hearing, please use 

the online registration form available at: 

https://www.epa.gov/npdes-permits/ 

massachusetts-small-ms4-generalpermit. On January 27, 2025, EPA will 

post a general agenda for the hearing 

that will list pre-registered speakers in 

approximate order at: https://

www.epa.gov/npdes-permits/ 

massachusetts-small-ms4-generalpermit. 

In reaching a final decision on this 

Draft GP, EPA will respond to all 

significant comments and make 

responses available to the public on 

EPA Region 1’s website. All comments 

must be postmarked or delivered 

electronically by the close of the public 

comment period. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments on the 

Draft GP, identified by Docket ID No. 

EPA–R01–OW–2024–0493, may be 

submitted via the Federal eRulemaking 

Portal at https://www.regulations.gov/ 

(enter Docket ID No. into search bar). 

In the event that interested parties 

cannot access the Portal, comments may 

be emailed to Danielle Gaito at 

gaito.danielle@epa.gov or provided via 

mail to: U.S. EPA Region 1, Water 

Division, Attn: Danielle Gaito, 5 Post 

Office Square, Suite 100, Mail Code 06– 

4, Boston, Massachusetts 02109–3912. If 

comments are submitted in hard copy 

form, please also email a copy to the 

EPA contact above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Additional information may be obtained 

from: Danielle Gaito, U.S. EPA Region 1, 

Water Division, Stormwater Permit 

Section at gaito.danielle@epa.gov or 

(617) 918–1297. The Administrative 

Record, including the Draft GP and Fact 

Sheet, are on file and may be inspected 

between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays, at 5 Post Office Square, 

Boston, MA. Requests to view the 

Administrative Record can made to the 

EPA contact above. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA is 

proposing to reissue three draft NPDES 

general permits for the discharge of 

stormwater from small MS4s to certain 

waters within the commonwealth of 

Massachusetts. The three permits are: 

MAR041000—Traditional cities and 

towns 

MAR042000—Non-traditional state, 

federal, county and other publicly 

owned systems 

MAR043000—Non-traditional 

transportation systems 

For convenience, EPA grouped these 

three distinct permits together in a 

single document (referred to as the draft 

‘‘permit’’ in singular) and have provided 


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a single fact sheet for all three. The Draft 

GP, appendices, and fact sheet are 

available at: https://www.epa.gov/ 

npdes-permits/massachusetts-smallms4-general-permit. 

The conditions in the Draft GP are 

established pursuant to Clean Water Act 

(CWA) section 402(p)(3)(B)(iii) to ensure 

that pollutant discharges from small 

MS4s are reduced to the Maximum 

Extent Practicable (MEP), protect water 

quality, and satisfy the appropriate 

requirements of the CWA. The Draft GP 

applies to small municipal separate 

storm sewer systems in Massachusetts 

as defined in the regulations at 40 CFR 

122.26(b)(16). When final, the Draft GP 

will replace the Final Massachusetts 

MS4 GP issued on April 4, 2016 and 

modified on December 7, 2020. This 

Draft GP carries forward and builds on 

the requirements of EPA’s previous MA 

small MS4 general permits. 

The non-numeric conditions and 

limits for stormwater discharges 

authorized under the Draft GP are in the 

form of best management practices 

(BMPs). The regulations at 40 CFR 

122.44(k)(2) provide that permits may 

include BMPs to control or abate the 

discharge of pollutants when authorized 

under section 402(p) of the CWA for 

control of stormwater discharges. Due to 

the variability associated with 

stormwater, EPA believes the use of 

BMPs is currently the most appropriate 

method to regulate discharges of 

stormwater from municipal systems. 

The Draft GP establishes requirements 

for small MS4s to ‘‘reduce the discharge 

of pollutants to the maximum extent 

practicable (MEP), including 

management practices, control 

techniques, and system, design and 

engineering methods’’ Section 

402(p)(3)(B)(iii) of the CWA. The Draft 

GP requires small MS4s to update and 

continue to implement a comprehensive 

stormwater management program 

(SWMP) to reduce the discharge of 

pollutants. Part 2.3 of the Draft GP 

requires small MS4s to implement a 

SWMP that includes the following 

minimum control measures: public 

education and outreach; public 

participation; illicit discharge detection 

and elimination; construction 

stormwater management; stormwater 

management in new development and 

redevelopment; and good housekeeping 

in municipal operations. EPA views the 

MEP standard in the CWA as an 

iterative process and, as such, 

requirements should continually adapt 

to current conditions and BMP 

effectiveness. Accordingly, the Draft GP 

advances the MEP requirements of the 

2016 MA MS4 Permit, particularly with 

respect to implementation of green 

infrastructure and low impact design 

elements. 

Section 402(p)(3)(B)(iii) of CWA 

authorizes EPA to include in an MS4 

permit ‘‘such other provisions as [EPA] 

determine[s] appropriate for control of 

. . . pollutants.’’ Parts 2.1 and 2.2 of the 

Draft GP carry forward water qualitybased effluent limitations from the 2016 

MA MS4 Permit to ensure that 

discharges do not cause or contribute to 

exceedances of water quality standards. 

The provisions, expressed in the form of 

additional control measures beyond the 

minimum control measures in the Part 

2.3 of the Draft GP, apply specifically to 

stormwater discharges to impaired 

waterbodies with and without an EPAapproved total maximum daily load 

(TMDL). The Draft GP extends these 

requirements to additional waterbodies 

for which EPA approved a TMDL or 

Alternative Restoration Plan since the 

issuance of the 2016 MA MS4 Permit. 

Other Legal Requirements: 

Endangered Species Act (ESA): The 

Draft GP does not authorize stormwater 

discharges which adversely affect any 

species listed as threatened or 

endangered under the ESA or which 

result in the adverse modification or 

destruction of designated critical 

habitat. EPA has updated the provisions 

related to the ESA. Concurrently with 

the public notice of the Draft GP, EPA 

is requesting concurrence with the 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration, National Marine 

Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) and 

the United States Fish and Wildlife 

Service with EPA’s preliminary finding 

based on the results of EPA’s assessment 

of the potential effects to endangered 

and threatened species and their critical 

habitats as a result of the issuance of the 

Draft MS4 GP. 

Essential Fish Habitat (EFH): In 

accordance with the 1996 Amendments 

(Pub. L. 104–267) to the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and 

Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

(1998)), the Draft GP does not authorize 

stormwater discharges whose direct or 

indirect impacts do not prevent or 

minimize adverse effects on any EFH. 

EPA determined that the permit action 

will not adversely affect the EFH of 

designated species. 16 U.S.C. 1855(b). 

Additional mitigation is not warranted 

under section 305(b)(2) of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Act. EPA is 

providing this determination to NOAA 

Fisheries for their review concurrent 

with the public notice of the Draft GP. 

National Historic Preservation Act 

(NHPA): The Draft GP does not 

authorize stormwater discharges which 

adversely affect properties listed or 

eligible for listing in the National 

Registry of Historic Places under the 

NHPA. Concurrently with the public 

notice of the Draft GP, EPA will initiate 

consultation under the NHPA related to 

the stormwater management activities 

under the Draft GP. 

Coastal Zone Management Act 

(CZMA): The CZMA, 16 U.S.C. 1451 et 

seq., and its implementing regulations 

(15 CFR part 930) require a 

determination that any federally 

licensed activity affecting the coastal 

zone with an approved Coastal Zone 

Management Program (CZMP) is 

consistent with the CZMA. Concurrent 

with the public notice of the Draft GP, 

EPA is requesting concurrence from the 

Massachusetts Coastal Program 

(MassCZM) with EPA’s Federal 

consistency review. 

Authority: This action is being taken 

under the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 

1251 et seq. 

David Cash, 

Regional Administrator, EPA Region 1. 

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Mergers of Bank Holding Companies 

The companies listed in this notice 

have applied to the Board for approval, 

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company 

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) 

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part 

225), and all other applicable statutes 

and regulations to become a bank 

holding company and/or to acquire the 

assets or the ownership of, control of, or 

the power to vote shares of a bank or 

bank holding company and all of the 

banks and nonbanking companies 

owned by the bank holding company, 

including the companies listed below. 

The public portions of the 

applications listed below, as well as 

other related filings required by the 

Board, if any, are available for 

immediate inspection at the Federal 

Reserve Bank(s) indicated below and at 

the offices of the Board of Governors. 

This information may also be obtained 

on an expedited basis, upon request, by 

contacting the appropriate Federal 

Reserve Bank and from the Board’s 

Freedom of Information Office at 

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request.htm. Interested persons may 

express their views in writing on the 

standards enumerated in the BHC Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). 

Comments received are subject to 

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