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EIS No. 20130353, Draft EIS, BLM, CA, 

Soda Mountain Solar Project, 

Comment Period Ends: 03/03/2014, 

Contact: Jeff Childers 951–697–5308. 

EIS No. 20130354, Final EIS, FHWA, FL, 

Crosstown Expressway Extension, 

Review Period Ends: 12/30/2013, 

Contact: Cathy Kendall 850–553– 

2225. 

Amended Notices 

EIS No. 20130335, Final EIS, BLM, NV, 

Pan Mine Project, Review Period 

Ends: 12/19/2013, Contact: Miles 

Kreidler 775–289–1893 Revision to 

FR Notice Published 11/20/2013; 

Extending Review Period from 12/16/ 

2013 to 12/19/2013. 

EIS No. 20130348, Draft EIS, BLM, UT, 

TransWest Express Transmission 

Project, Contact: Sharon Knowlton 

307–775–6124; Revision to FR Notice 

Published 11/22/2013; Retracted due 

to erroneous filing. 

Dated: November 25, 2013. 

Cliff Rader, 

Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office 

of Federal Activities. 

[FR Doc. 2013–28658 Filed 11–27–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2013–0747; FRL–9903–35– 

OAR] 

Notice of Receipt of Petitions for a 

Waiver of the Renewable Fuel 

Standard 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA has received a number of 

petitions for a waiver of the renewable 

fuel standards that would apply in 2014. 

The American Petroleum Institute (API) 

and the American Fuel & Petrochemical 

Manufacturers (AFPM) submitted a joint 

petition to the Administrator, dated 

August 13, 2013, on behalf of their 

members requesting a partial waiver of 

the 2014 applicable volumes under the 

RFS. Subsequently, several refining 

companies submitted individual 

petitions to the Administrator that also 

request a waiver of the 2014 applicable 

volumes. Section 211(o)(7)(A) of the 

Clean Air Act allows the Administrator 

of the EPA to waive the national volume 

requirements of the renewable fuel 

standard program in whole or in part if 

the Administrator determines that 

implementation of those requirements 

would severely harm the economy or 

environment of a State, a region, or the 

United States, or that there is 

inadequate domestic supply. EPA is 

inviting comment on all issues relevant 

to the petitions for a waiver that have 

been submitted. Comments submitted in 

response to a related Federal Register 

notice proposing the 2014 volume 

requirements will be considered to also 

have been submitted to the docket for 

this notice. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before January 28, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2013–0747, by one of the 

following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-Mail: a-and-r-docket@epa.gov. 

• Fax: (202) 566–1741. 

• Mail: Air and Radiation Docket, 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2013– 

0479, Environmental Protection Agency, 

Mailcode: 6102T, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

Please include a total of two copies. 

• Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center, 

Public Reading Room, EPA West 

Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

Such deliveries are only accepted 

during the Docket’s normal hours of 

operation, and special arrangements 

should be made for deliveries of boxed 

information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments on 

the petitions for a waiver of the 2014 

volume requirements to Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–OAR–2013–0747. Comments 

submitted in response to a related 

Federal Register notice proposing the 

2014 volume requirements, docket 

EPA–HQ–OAR–2013–0479, will be 

considered to also have been submitted 

to Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2013– 

0747. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change and may be 

made available online at 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes information 

claimed to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Do not submit information that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected through www.regulations.gov 

or email. The www.regulations.gov Web 

site is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, 

which means EPA will not know your 

identity or contact information unless 

you provide it in the body of your 

comment. If you send an email 

comment directly to EPA without going 

through www.regulations.gov, your 

email address will be automatically 

captured and included as part of the 

comment that is placed in the public 

docket and made available on the 

Internet. If you submit an electronic 

comment, EPA recommends that you 

include your name and other contact 

information in the body of your 

comment and with any disk or CD–ROM 

you submit. If EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

EPA may not be able to consider your 

comment. Electronic files should avoid 

the use of special characters, any form 

of encryption, and be free of any defects 

or viruses. For additional information 

about EPA’s public docket visit the EPA 

Docket Center homepage at http://

www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Korotney, Office of 

Transportation and Air Quality, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions 

Laboratory, 2565 Plymouth Road, Ann 

Arbor, MI 48105; telephone number: 

(734) 214–4507; fax number: (734) 214– 

4050; email address: korotney.david@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. How can I access the docket and/or 

submit comments? 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this Notice under Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–OAR–2013–0747 which is 

available for online viewing at 

www.regulations.gov, or in person 

viewing at the EPA/DC Docket Center 

Public Reading Room, 1301 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Room 3334, Washington, 

DC. The EPA/DC Public Reading Room 

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

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

Reading Room is 202–566–1744, and the 

telephone number for the Air and 

Radiation Docket is 202–566–1742. 

Use www.regulations.gov to obtain a 

copy of the waiver requests, submit or 

view public comments, access the index 

listing of the contents of the docket, and 

to access those documents in the public 

docket that are available electronically. 

Once in the system, select ‘‘search,’’ 

then key in the docket ID number 

identified in this document. 

II. Background 

The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) 

program began in 2006 pursuant to the 

Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct), 

which added a renewable fuel program 

to the Clean Air Act (CAA, or ‘‘Act’’). 

The statutory provisions for the RFS 

program were subsequently modified 

through the Energy Independence and 

Security Act of 2007 (EISA), and EPA 

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requirements on March 26, 2010 (75 FR 

14670). The transition from the 

requirements of EPAct to the 

requirements of EISA generally occurred 

on July 1, 2010. 

EISA establishes annual ‘‘applicable 

volumes’’ for four categories of 

renewable fuel: cellulosic biofuel, 

biomass based diesel, advanced biofuel, 

and total renewable fuel. The statute 

specifies increasing applicable volumes 

through 2022 for all fuel types except 

biomass-based diesel, for which 

applicable volumes are specified 

through 2012. For years after those 

specified in the statute, EPA is to 

establish the applicable volumes after 

consideration of specified factors. The 

statute requires that EPA annually 

establish percentage standards that will 

ensure that required annual volumes of 

renewable fuels are used. However, 

EISA also provides the Administrator 

with authority to waive the applicable 

volumes of renewable fuels in 

appropriate circumstances. 

The required volumes and associated 

percentage standards under the RFS 

program for the 2014 compliance year 

are being proposed in a related Federal 

Register notice. Under the RFS program, 

obligated parties, typically gasoline or 

diesel refiners or importers, are required 

to meet annual percentage standards to 

be in compliance. EPA sets these 

percentages, called the RFS percentage 

standards or RFS standards. Renewable 

identification numbers, or RINs, are 

assigned by renewable fuel producers to 

each gallon of qualifying renewable fuel 

that they produce, and serve as a means 

for demonstrating compliance by the 

obligated parties. RINs can be acquired 

by obligated parties who purchase 

renewable fuel with assigned RINs, or 

they can be purchased by obligated 

parties from other parties who have 

accumulated more RINs than necessary 

for their own compliance. Aside from 

using current-year RINs to demonstrate 

compliance in a given year, obligated 

parties may also choose (a) to use 

available RINs from the prior year 

towards the current year’s requirement, 

up to a 20 percent cap, and/or (b) to 

carry forward a compliance deficit that 

can be satisfied in the next compliance 

year. 

Section 211(o)(7)(A) of the Act allows 

the Administrator, in consultation with 

the Secretary of Agriculture and the 

Secretary of Energy, to waive the 

national volume requirements of the 

RFS, in whole or in part, upon petition 

by one or more States, or by any party 

subject to the requirements of the RFS 

program. The Administrator may also 

waive the volume requirements on her 

own motion. A waiver may be issued if 

the Administrator determines, after 

public notice and opportunity for 

comment, that implementation of the 

RFS volume requirement would 

severely harm the economy or 

environment of a State, a region, or the 

United States, or that there is an 

inadequate domestic supply. If a waiver 

is granted, it can last no longer than one 

year but may be renewed by the 

Administrator after consultation with 

the Secretary of Agriculture and the 

Secretary of Energy. 

III. What is today’s action? 

The American Petroleum Institute 

(API) and the American Fuel & 

Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) 

submitted a petition to the 

Administrator, dated August 13, 2013, 

on behalf of their members requesting a 

partial waiver of the 2014 applicable 

volumes under the RFS. Subsequently, 

several refining companies submitted 

individual petitions to the 

Administrator that also request a waiver 

of the 2014 applicable volumes; nearly 

all of the petitions from individual 

companies incorporate the API/AFPM 

petition by reference. All of the petition 

letters are available in the docket, and 

any additional similar requests 

submitted to EPA will also be docketed 

and considered together with requests 

already received. EPA is seeking 

comment on the petitions for a waiver 

of the 2014 renewable fuel standard and 

matters relevant to EPA’s consideration 

of those petitions. 

The petitions generally argue that 

there is an inadequate domestic supply 

of renewable fuel and therefore RINs for 

2014, due both to ethanol ‘‘blendwall’’ 

constraints and limitations on the 

production of non-ethanol fuels like 

biodiesel. Petitioners argue that this 

inadequate supply of renewable fuel 

(and RINs) will lead to an inadequate 

supply of gasoline and diesel, because 

refiners and importers, faced with a 

shortage of RINs, will reduce their 

production of gasoline and diesel for the 

domestic market. Petitioners argue that 

this will in turn severely harm the 

economy based on increased domestic 

gasoline and diesel prices. Petitioners 

attached an analysis, dated October 

2012, conducted by NERA Economic 

Consulting, titled ‘‘Economic Impacts 

Resulting from Implementation of RFS2 

Program [sic].’’ The petition requests 

that EPA exercise its waiver authorities 

under section 211(o)(7) to reduce the 

required national volume of total 

renewable fuel and advanced biofuel to 

certain specified levels. 

In a separate action that proposes the 

applicable RFS percentage standards for 

2014, EPA is proposing to waive part of 

the 2014 statutory RFS volumes. 

Specifically, in the separate Federal 

Register Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

for the 2014 standards, EPA is 

proposing to find that there is an 

inadequate domestic supply of 

renewable fuels in 2014 under section 

211(o)(7)(A). EPA is also proposing to 

reduce the applicable volume of 

cellulosic biofuel under section 

211(o)(7)(D). Based on these findings, 

EPA is proposing to reduce the 

applicable volumes of total renewable 

fuel and advanced biofuel. EPA is not, 

however, proposing to find that 

implementation of the standards would 

severely harm the economy. In its 

separate proposal to establish the 2014 

RFS volumes and percentage standards, 

EPA discusses in detail the legal, 

technical, and policy considerations 

that are the basis for its proposal. 

EPA recognizes that there is 

significant overlap in the supporting 

data and issues raised in the petitions 

for a waiver and EPA’s rulemaking to set 

the RFS percentage standards for 2014. 

Therefore, for the convenience of the 

parties and to avoid duplicative 

submissions by parties to both dockets, 

EPA will treat all comments and other 

information submitted to the docket for 

the 2014 RFS rulemaking (EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2013–0479) as also submitted to 

the docket for the petitions for a waiver 

(EPA–HQ–OAR–2013–0747). Therefore, 

parties will only need to submit 

additional comments or information to 

docket EPA–HQ–OAR–2013–0747 if 

those comments and information are 

intended solely for the petitions for a 

waiver and not for the rulemaking to set 

the 2014 RFS standards. EPA requests 

that such comments on the waiver 

petitions be submitted in the same time 

frame as comments on the rulemaking 

proposal. In light of the overlap in 

issues between the rulemaking proposal 

and petitions for waiver, EPA expects 

that our determination on the substance 

of the petitions for a partial waiver of 

the 2014 statutory volumes will be 

issued at the same time that EPA issues 

a final rule establishing the 2014 RFS 

standards. 

EPA is issuing this notice to solicit 

comments and information on all of the 

issues raised in the petitions for a 

waiver. 

Commenters should include data or 

specific examples in support of their 

comments in order to aid the 

Administrator in evaluating the requests 

for a waiver and determining what 

action if any is appropriate in light of all 

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Dated: November 15, 2013. 

Janet G. McCabe, 

Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Air 

and Radiation. 

[FR Doc. 2013–28301 Filed 11–27–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–1017; FRL–9902–77] 

Methiocarb, Lambda-Cyhalothrin, 

Permethrin and Prodiamine; Notice of 

Receipt of Requests To Voluntarily 

Cancel and Amend Registration(s) To 

Terminate Certain Uses 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 

Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), EPA is issuing 

a notice of receipt of requests by the 

registrants to voluntarily amend their 

Methiocarb, Lambda-Cyhalothrin, 

Permethrin and Prodiamine product 

registrations to delete one or more uses. 

EPA intends to grant these requests at 

the close of the comment period for this 

announcement unless the Agency 

receives substantive comments within 

the comment period that would merit its 

further review of the requests, or unless 

the registrants withdraw its requests. If 

these requests are granted, any sale, 

distribution, or use of products listed in 

this notice will be permitted after the 

use has been deleted only if such sale, 

distribution, or use is consistent with 

the terms as described in the final order. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before December 30, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–1017, by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

• Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/ 

DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: To make special 

arrangements for hand delivery or 

delivery of boxed information, please 

follow the instructions at http://

www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.htm. 

Additional instructions on 

commenting or visiting the docket, 

along with more information about 

dockets generally, is available at http: 

//www.epa.gov/dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

W. Pates, Jr. Pesticide Re-Evaluation 

Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (703) 308–8195; email address: 

pates.john@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general, and may be of interest to a 

wide range of stakeholders including 

environmental, human health, and 

agricultural advocates; the chemical 

industry; pesticide users; and members 

of the public interested in the sale, 

distribution, or use of pesticides. Since 

others also may be interested, the 

Agency has not attempted to describe all 

the specific entities that may be affected 

by this action. 

B. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to EPA through 

regulations.gov or email. Clearly mark 

the part or all of the information that 

you claim to be CBI. For CBI 

information in a disk or CD–ROM that 

you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the 

disk or CD–ROM as CBI and then 

identify electronically within the disk or 

CD–ROM the specific information that 

is claimed as CBI. In addition to one 

complete version of the comment that 

includes information claimed as CBI, a 

copy of the comment that does not 

contain the information claimed as CBI 

must be submitted for inclusion in the 

public docket. Information so marked 

will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR part 2. 

2. Tips for preparing your comments. 

When submitting comments, remember 

to: 

i. Identify the document by docket ID 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

ii. Follow directions. The Agency may 

ask you to respond to specific questions 

or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

iii. Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

iv. Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

v. If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

vi. Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns and suggest 

alternatives. 

vii. Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

viii. Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

II. Background on the Receipt of 

Requests To Cancel and/or Amend 

Registrations To Delete Uses 

This notice announces receipt by EPA 

of requests from registrants Wagner 

Regulatory Associates, Inc., on behalf of 

Willowood Lambda Cyhalothrin LLC, 

Gowan Company, Farnam Companies, 

Inc., Pyxis Regulatory Consulting, Inc. 

on behalf of Alligare, LLC. and 

Makhteshim Agan of North America, 

Inc. (MANA) to delete certain uses of 

Methiocarb, Lambda-Cyhalothrin, 

Permethrin and Prodiamine product 

registrations. In letters dated September 

10, 2013, September 27, 2013, 

September 20, 2013, October 28, 2013 

and October 31, 2013 the Gowan 

Company, Wagner Regulatory 

Associates, Inc., Farnam Companies, 

Inc., Pyxis Regulatory Consulting, Inc. 

and MANA requested EPA to cancel 

certain uses of pesticide product 

registrations identified in Tables 1 and 

2 of Unit II., respectively. Specifically, 

Gowan Company voluntarily requested 

the removal/deletion of domestic 

outdoor uses and nonresidential turf 

uses from the Methiocarb technical 

label. The registrant also requested a 30- 

day comment period, and waived the 

180-day comment period. Wagner 

Regulatory Associates, Inc. voluntarily 

requested the cancellation of indoor and 

outdoor residential uses from the 

Willowood Lambda-Cyhalothrin 

technical label. The registrant requested 

a 30-day comment period, and waived 

the 180-day comment period. Farnam 

Companies, Inc. voluntarily requested 

the cancellation of dog use from the 

Permethrin Farnam Purge Plus 

Insecticide label. The registrant 

requested a 30-day comment period, 

and waived the 180-day comment 

period. Pyxis Regulatory Consulting, 

Inc. voluntarily requested the use 

deletion of weed control of drainage 

ditches in California and Arizona from 

the Alligare Prodiamine 4L and 65 WG 

Herbicide labels. The registrant 

requested a 30-day comment period, 

and waived the 180-day comment 

period. MANA voluntarily requested the 

termination of the drainage ditch uses 


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