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information, as appropriate. To protect 

the privacy interests of the individual or 

individuals involved, personally 

identifiable information has been 

redacted, as appropriate. 

Part B—Assistance for Education of All 

Children With Disabilities 

Section 614—Evaluations, Eligibility 

Determinations, Individualized 

Education Programs, and Educational 

Placements 

Topic Addressed: Individualized 

Education Programs 

Æ Letter dated May 21, 2013, to New 

England Juvenile Defender Center 

President Christopher Northrop, 

regarding parent participation at 

individualized education program (IEP) 

team meetings. 

Æ Dear Colleague Letter dated June 

19, 2013, regarding the requirements in 

Part B of the IDEA to provide braille 

instruction for children who are blind or 

visually impaired. 

Section 615—Procedural Safeguards 

Topic Addressed: Discipline Procedures 

Æ Letter dated April 2, 2013, to Utah 

State Director of Special Education 

Glenna Gallo, regarding the 

requirements in Part B of the IDEA that 

apply to functional behavioral 

assessments. 

Part C—Infants and Toddlers With 

Disabilities 

Section 636—Individulaized Family 

Service Plan 

Topic Addressed: Natural Environments 

Æ Letter dated April 18, 2013, to Utah 

Provider Consortium Chairperson 

Marsha Johnson, regarding the meaning 

of community settings for purposes of 

meeting the natural environments 

requirement in Part C of the IDEA. 

Section 639—Procedural Safeguards 

Topic Addressed: Confidentiality of 

Records 

Æ Letter dated May 8, 2013, to North 

Texas Rehabilitation Center Early 

Childhood Intervention Program 

Director Charlcie Flinn, regarding the 

confidentiality requirements that apply 

to early intervention records of infants 

and toddlers with disabilities in Part C 

of the IDEA and the Family Educational 

Rights and Privacy Act. 

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Dated: January 6, 2014. 

Michael K. Yudin, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Special 

Education and Rehabilitative Services. 

[FR Doc. 2014–00171 Filed 1–8–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY, REGION 9 

[FRL–9905–23–Region 9] 

Reissuance of National Pollutant 

Discharge Elimination System 

(NPDES) General Permit for Offshore 

Oil and Gas Exploration, Development 

and Production Operations Off 

Southern California 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability of final 

NPDES general permit. 

SUMMARY: EPA Region 9 is today 

publishing this notice of availability of 

its final general NPDES permit (permit 

No. CAG280000) for discharges from 

offshore oil and gas exploration, 

development and production facilities 

located in Federal waters off the coast 

of Southern California. The general 

permit establishes effluent limitations, 

prohibitions, and other conditions for 

discharges from facilities that engage in 

such operations within the geographic 

coverage area of the general permit. The 

general permit applies to 23 existing 

development and production platforms 

as well as to any new exploratory 

drilling operations located in and 

discharging to the specified lease blocks 

on the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf 

covered by the permit. The new general 

permit replaces the previous general 

permit issued on September 22, 2004 

(69 FR 56761). 

DATES: For purposes of judicial review 

the permit is considered issued on 

January 23, 2014. The final permit was 

signed on December 20, 2013 and is 

effective on March 1, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: The final general permit 

and other related documents in the 

administrative record are on file and 

may be inspected any time between 8:30 

a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays, at the 

following address: U.S. EPA, Region 9, 

NPDES Permits Office (WTR–5), 75 

Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 

94105–3901. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Eugene Bromley, EPA, Region 9, NPDES 

Permits Office (WTR–5), 75 Hawthorne 

Street, San Francisco, California 94105– 

3901, or telephone (415) 972–3510. 

Copies of the final general permit, 

Addendum to Fact Sheet and the 

Response to Public Comments will be 

provided upon request and are also 

available at EPA, Region 9’s Web site at: 

http://www.epa.gov/region9/water/

npdes/permits.html. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public 

notice of Region 9’s tentative decision to 

issue the permit was published in the 

Federal Register on December 20, 2012 

(77 FR 75429), and in the Santa Barbara 

News-Press on December 19, 2012. The 

public comment period closed on 

February 4, 2013. Region 9 received 

written comments from eight parties 

concerning the proposed permit. Region 

9 prepared a separate document 

(Response to Public Comments) which 

discusses these comments in more 

detail and Region 9’s responses to the 

comments. 

For the most part, the final permit is 

very similar to the permit proposed in 

December 2012. However, the 

monitoring requirements for produced 

water discharges were revised based on 

public comments and also discussions 

between Region 9 and California Coastal 

Commission (CCC) staff concerning 

Region 9’s consistency determination 

for the permit pursuant to the Coastal 

Zone Management Act (CZMA). Region 

9 also added a requirement to maintain 

an inventory of the chemicals used to 

formulate well treatment, completion 

and workover fluids, and if there is a 

discharge of the fluids, to report the 

chemical formulation with the quarterly 

discharge monitoring report. This 

requirement was added in response to 

recent concerns regarding the potential 

effects of discharges of fluids used for 

offshore hydraulic fracturing operations. 

The final permit also includes a 

number of technical corrections and 

other relatively minor revisions based 

on public comment or other sources. 

These revisions are discussed in more 

detail in the Response to Public 

Comments and the final Addendum to 

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B. Endangered Species Act (ESA). The 

ESA and its implementing regulations 

(50 CFR Part 402) require EPA to ensure, 

in consultation with the Secretary of the 

Interior or Commerce, that any action 

authorized, funded or carried out by 

EPA is not likely to jeopardize the 

continued existence of any threatened 

or endangered species or adversely 

affect its critical habitat. 

For the 2004 permit, Region 9 

concluded that the authorized 

discharges would not affect listed 

species or critical habitat for the species. 

For the general permit reissuance, 

Region 9 reconsidered this matter, but 

again concluded that the discharges 

would not affect such species. Region 9 

also forwarded the draft permit and fact 

sheet to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service (USFWS) and the National 

Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) for 

review and comment on Region 9’s 

conclusion, but no comments were 

received. 

C. Coastal Zone Management Act 

(CZMA). The CZMA provides that a 

Federal license or permit for activities 

affecting the coastal zone of a state may 

not be granted until a state with an 

approved Coastal Management Plan 

(CMP) concurs that the activities 

authorized by the permit are consistent 

with the CMP. In California, the CZMA 

authority is the CCC. 

In accordance with the requirements 

of the CZMA and its implementing 

regulations at 15 CFR Part 930, Region 

9 submitted a consistency determination 

for the draft permit to the CCC in a letter 

dated December 20, 2012. Region 9 and 

CCC staff also met in spring 2013 to 

discuss the permit and conditions 

necessary to ensure consistency with 

the CMP. Based on those discussions, 

Region 9 submitted an amended 

consistency determination in a letter 

dated May 2, 2013. At a public meeting 

held on June 12, 2013, the CCC 

concurred with Region 9’s consistency 

determination. 

D. Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act. The 

1996 amendments to the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and 

Management Act set forth a number of 

new mandates for NMFS, regional 

fishery management councils, and 

Federal agencies to identify and protect 

important marine and anadromous fish 

habitat. Regional fishery management 

councils, with assistance from NMFS, 

are required to delineate essential fish 

habitat (EFH). 

The Magnuson-Stevens Act requires 

that Federal agencies consult with 

NMFS on all actions undertaken by the 

agency which may adversely affect EFH. 

For the 2004 general permit, EPA 

concluded that the discharges would 

not have a significant adverse effect on 

EFH. After a consultation was held 

regarding the 2004 permit, NMFS 

concurred with Region 9’s conclusion. 

For the general permit reissuance, 

Region 9 reconsidered the effects of the 

discharges on EFH, but again concluded 

that the discharges would not have a 

significant adverse effect on EFH. The 

draft permit and fact sheet were 

forwarded to NMFS for review and 

comment on Region 9’s conclusion, but 

no comments were received. 

E. Permit Appeal Procedures. Within 

120 days following the date the permit 

is considered issued for purposes of 

judicial review, any interested person 

may appeal the permit decision in the 

Federal Court of Appeals in accordance 

with Section 509(b)(1) of the CWA. 

Persons affected by a general permit 

may not challenge the conditions of a 

general permit as a right in further 

Agency proceedings. They may instead 

either challenge the general permit in 

court, or apply for an individual permit 

as specified at 40 CFR 122.21 (and 

authorized at 40 CFR 122.28), and then 

petition the Environmental Appeals 

Board to review any condition of the 

individual permit (40 CFR 124.19). 

F. Regulatory Flexibility Act. The 

Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601 

et seq, requires that EPA prepare a 

regulatory flexibility analysis for 

regulations that have a significant 

impact on a substantial number of small 

entities. The permit issued today is not 

a ‘‘rule’’ subject to the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act. EPA prepared a 

regulatory flexibility analysis, however, 

on the promulgation of the Offshore 

Subcategory guidelines on which many 

of the permit’s effluent limitations are 

based. That analysis has shown that 

issuance of this permit would not have 

a significant impact on a substantial 

number of small entities. 

G. Paperwork Reduction Act. The 

information collection required by this 

final permit has been approved by 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 

3501 et. seq., in submissions made for 

the NPDES permit program and 

assigned OMB control numbers 2040– 

0086 (NPDES permit application) and 

2040–0004 (discharge monitoring 

reports). 

Authority: Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1251 

et seq. 

Dated: December 20, 2013. 

Jane Diamond, 

Director, Water Division, EPA Region 9. 

[FR Doc. 2014–00156 Filed 1–8–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Change in Bank Control Notices; 

Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or 

Bank Holding Company 

The notificants listed below have 

applied under the Change in Bank 

Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and 

§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12 

CFR 225.41) to acquire shares of a bank 

or bank holding company. The factors 

that are considered in acting on the 

notices are set forth in paragraph 7 of 

the Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)). 

The notices are available for 

immediate inspection at the Federal 

Reserve Bank indicated. The notices 

also will be available for inspection at 

the offices of the Board of Governors. 

Interested persons may express their 

views in writing to the Reserve Bank 

indicated for that notice or to the offices 

of the Board of Governors. Comments 

must be received not later than January 

24, 2014. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 

(Adam M. Drimer, Assistant Vice 

President) 701 East Byrd Street, 

Richmond, Virginia 23261–4528: 

1. Randolph Gillespie Rogers, 

Hartsville, South Carolina; to acquire 

voting shares of Regional Bankshares, 

Inc., and thereby indirectly acquire 

voting shares of Heritage Community 

Bank, both in Hartsville, South Carolina. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, January 6, 2014. 

Michael J. Lewandowski, 

Associate Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2014–00140 Filed 1–8–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

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 applications listed below, as well 

as other related filings required by the 

Board, are available for immediate 

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 

indicated. The applications will also be 

available for inspection at the offices of 


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