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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R05–OAR–2015–0008; FRL–9934–10– 

Region 5] 

Air Plan Approval; Illinois; Volatile 

Organic Compounds Definition 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: Under the Clean Air Act, the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

is proposing to approve a revision to the 

Illinois State Implementation Plan. The 

revision amends the Illinois 

Administrative Code by updating the 

definition of volatile organic material or 

volatile organic compounds to exclude 

2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene. This revision 

is in response to an EPA rulemaking in 

2013 which exempted this compound 

from the Federal definition of volatile 

organic compounds on the basis that the 

compound makes a negligible 

contribution to tropospheric ozone 

formation. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before November 4, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R05– 

OAR–2015–0008, by one of the 

following methods: 

1. www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

2. Email: blakley.pamela@epa.gov. 

3. Fax: (312) 692–2450. 

4. Mail: Pamela Blakley, Chief, 

Control Strategies Section, Air Programs 

Branch (AR–18J), U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson 

Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604. 

5. Hand Delivery: Pamela Blakley, 

Chief, Control Strategies Section, Air 

Programs Branch (AR–18J), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 77 

West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 

Illinois 60604. Such deliveries are only 

accepted during the Regional Office 

normal hours of operation, and special 

arrangements should be made for 

deliveries of boxed information. The 

Regional Office official hours of 

business are Monday through Friday, 

8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding 

Federal holidays. 

Please see the direct final rule which 

is located in the Rules section of this 

Federal Register for detailed 

instructions on how to submit 

comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Anthony Maietta, Environmental 

Protection Specialist, Control Strategies 

Section, Air Programs Branch (AR–18J), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 

Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 353–8777 

maietta.anthony@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the 

Final Rules section of this Federal 

Register, EPA is approving the State’s 

SIP submittal as a direct final rule 

without prior proposal because the 

Agency views this as a noncontroversial 

submittal and anticipates no adverse 

comments. A detailed rationale for the 

approval is set forth in the direct final 

rule. If no adverse comments are 

received in response to this rule, no 

further activity is contemplated. If EPA 

receives adverse comments, the direct 

final rule will be withdrawn and all 

public comments received will be 

addressed in a subsequent final rule 

based on this proposed rule. EPA will 

not institute a second comment period. 

Any parties interested in commenting 

on this action should do so at this time. 

Please note that if EPA receives adverse 

comment on an amendment, paragraph, 

or section of this rule and if that 

provision may be severed from the 

remainder of the rule, EPA may adopt 

as final those provisions of the rule that 

are not the subject of an adverse 

comment. For additional information, 

see the direct final rule which is located 

in the Rules section of this Federal 

Register. 

Dated: September 8, 2015. 

Susan Hedman, 

Regional Administrator, Region 5. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 70 

[EPA–R03–OAR–2015–0594; FRL–9935–09– 

Region 3] 

Clean Air Act Title V Operating Permit 

Program Revision; West Virginia 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a 

revision to the West Virginia Title V 

Operating Permit Program submitted by 

the State of West Virginia on June 17, 

2015. The West Virginia Title V 

Operating Permit Program is 

implemented through its ‘‘Requirement 

for Operating Permits’’ rule, codified at 

Title 45, Series 30 of the West Virginia 

Code of State Regulations (45CSR30). 

The June 17, 2015 revision amends West 

Virginia 45CSR30 to increase the annual 

Title V operating permit fees collected 

by the West Virginia Department of 

Environmental Protection (WVDEP). 

The Title V Operating Permit fees paid 

annually by individual Title V operating 

permit holders are used by the WVDEP 

to implement and oversee the West 

Virginia Title V Operating Permit 

Program. This action is being taken 

under section 502 of the Clean Air Act 

(CAA). 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before November 4, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID Number EPA– 

R03–OAR–2015–0594 by one of the 

following methods: 

A. www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

B. Email: Campbell.Dave@epa.gov. 

C. Mail: EPA–R03–OAR–2015–0594, 

David Campbell, Associate Director, 

Office of Permits and State Programs, 

Mailcode 3AP10, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Region III, 1650 

Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

19103. 

D. Hand Delivery: At the previouslylisted EPA Region III address. 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 to 

Docket ID No. EPA–R03–OAR–2015– 

0594. 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 

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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. 

Docket: All documents in the 

electronic docket are listed in the 

www.regulations.gov index. Although 

listed in the index, some information is 

not publicly available, i.e., CBI or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Certain other 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

is not placed on the Internet and will be 

publicly available only in hard copy 

form. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either 

electronically in www.regulations.gov or 

in hard copy during normal business 

hours at the Air Protection Division, 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region III, 1650 Arch Street, 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. 

Copies of the State submittal are 

available at the West Virginia 

Department of Environmental 

Protection, Division of Air Quality, 601 

57th Street SE., Charleston, West 

Virginia 25304. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

Wentworth, (215) 814–2183, or by email 

at wentworth.paul@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

EPA granted full approval of the West 

Virginia Title V Operating Permit 

Program effective November 19, 2001. 

See 66 FR 50325. Under 40 CFR 70.9(a) 

and (b), an approved state Title V 

operating permits program must require 

that the owners or operators of part 70 

sources pay annual fees, or the 

equivalent over some other period, that 

are sufficient to cover the permit 

program costs and ensure that any fee 

required under 40 CFR 70.9 is used 

solely for permit program costs. The fee 

schedule must result in the collection 

and retention of revenues sufficient to 

cover the permit program 

implementation and oversight costs. 

West Virginia’s initial Title V permit 

emission fee, established in 1994 at 

45CSR30.8, was $18 per ton of regulated 

pollutant as emitted by individual 

sources subject to the West Virginia 

Title V Operating Permit Program. 

Subject sources are not required to pay 

annual fees for emissions in excess of 

4,000 tons per year. West Virginia’s fee 

has been not been increased or adjusted 

since 1994. 

West Virginia has determined that its 

Title V annual emission fee revenues 

collected are no longer sufficient to 

cover the cost of implementing and 

overseeing the West Virginia Title V 

Operating Permit Program. Installation 

of air pollution control technology over 

the past two decades on major 

stationary sources, the retirement or 

curtailment of operations by major 

sources, and the conversion at many 

major facilities from burning coal or oil 

to burning natural gas have resulted in 

significant reductions in the emission of 

regulated pollutants that are subject to 

annual emission fees. Thus, the amount 

of annual Title V Operating Permit fees 

West Virginia has collected has 

decreased dramatically. 

Therefore, West Virginia amended its 

fee provisions at 45CSR30.8 to increase 

the annual emission fee from $18 per 

ton to $25 per ton of regulated pollutant 

as emitted by individual sources subject 

to the West Virginia Title V Operating 

Permit Program. Fees remain capped at 

4,000 tons per year from an individual 

source. West Virginia has submitted this 

program revision for review and action 

by EPA. 

II. Summary of Program Revision 

In the June 17, 2015 program revision 

submittal, West Virginia included 

revisions to 45CSR30.8 which was 

amended to increase West Virginia’s 

annual emission fees for its Title V 

Operating Permit Program. Annual fees 

are increased to $25 per ton of 

emissions of a regulated pollutant from 

an individual source subject to the West 

Virginia Title V Operating Permit 

Program. The previous rate was $18 per 

ton of regulated pollutant. Fees are 

capped at 4,000 tons per year from an 

individual source. The revised fee rate 

is designed to cover all reasonable costs 

required to implement and administer 

the West Virginia Title V Operating 

Permit Program as required by 40 CFR 

70.9(a) and (b). These costs include 

those for activities such as: Reviewing 

and processing preconstruction and 

operating permits, conducting 

inspections, responding to complaints 

and pursuing enforcement actions, 

emissions and ambient air monitoring, 

preparing applicable regulations and 

guidance, modeling, analyses, 

demonstrations, emission inventories, 

and tracking emissions. 

Without this fee increase, West 

Virginia anticipates funds will not be 

sufficient to adequately sustain its Title 

V Operating Permit Program in a 

manner that is consistent with state and 

Federal requirements. If funds were to 

become insufficient to sustain an 

adequate Title V program in West 

Virginia, EPA may determine that West 

Virginia has not taken ‘‘significant 

action to assure adequate administration 

and enforcement of the Program’’ and 

take subsequent action as required 

under 40 CFR 70.10(b) and (c) which 

could lead to EPA withdrawal of 

approval of the West Virginia Title V 

Operating Permit Program. Were that to 

occur, EPA would have the authority 

and obligation to implement a Federal 

Title V operating permit program in 

West Virginia pursuant to 40 CFR part 

71. The withdrawal of program approval 

could also lead to the imposition of 

mandatory and discretionary sanctions 

under the CAA. 

III. EPA Analysis of Program Revision 

The June 17, 2015 Title V Operating 

Permit Program revision consists of 

amendments to West Virginia’s rules 

which establish annual emission fees 

under Title V of the CAA. This 

rulemaking proposes approval of West 

Virginia’s increase of the annual Title V 

fees paid by the owner or operator of a 

Title V facility in West Virginia from 

$18 per ton of regulated air pollutant to 

$25 per ton because the revision meets 

requirements in section 502 of the CAA 

and 40 CFR 70.9 for the collection of 

sufficient Title V fees to cover permit 

program implementation and oversight 

costs. The emission fees apply to 

emissions up to 4,000 tons of any 

regulated pollutant. The proposed 

revision does not establish a fee 

structure for carbon dioxide or other 

greenhouse gases (GHGs). EPA’s rules 

do not mandate revisions to state Title 

V programs to account for GHG 

emissions. 

IV. Proposed Action 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 70.4(i)(2), EPA is 

proposing to approve a revision to the 

West Virginia Title V Operating Permit 

Program submitted on June 17, 2015 to 

increase the annual Title V fees paid by 

the owners or operators of all facilities 

required to obtain an operating permit 

under the West Virginia Title V 

Operating Permit Program. The revision 

meets the relevant requirements of 

section 502 of the CAA and 40 CFR 

70.9. EPA is soliciting public comments 

on the issues discussed in this 

document. These comments will be 

considered before taking final action. 

V. Statutory and Executive Order 

Reviews 

This proposed action merely proposes 

to approve state law as meeting Federal 

requirements and imposes no additional 

requirements beyond those imposed by 

state law. For that reason, this proposed 

action: 

• Is not a ‘‘significant regulatory 

action’’ subject to review by the Office 

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of Management and Budget under 

Executive Order 12866 (58 FR 51735, 

October 4, 1993); 

• Does not impose an information 

collection burden under the provisions 

of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.); 

• Is certified as not having a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities 

under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 

U.S.C. 601 et seq.); 

• Does not contain any unfunded 

mandate or significantly or uniquely 

affect small governments, as described 

in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act 

of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–4); 

• Does not have Federalism 

implications as specified in Executive 

Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 

1999); 

• Is not an economically significant 

regulatory action based on health or 

safety risks subject to Executive Order 

13045 (62 FR 19885, April 23, 1997); 

• Is not a significant regulatory action 

subject to Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 

28355, May 22, 2001); 

• Is not subject to requirements of 

Section 12(d) of the National 

Technology Transfer and Advancement 

Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 note) because 

application of those requirements would 

be inconsistent with the CAA; and 

• Does not provide EPA with the 

discretionary authority to address, as 

appropriate, disproportionate human 

health or environmental effects, using 

practicable and legally permissible 

methods, under Executive Order 12898 

(59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994). 

In addition, this proposed approval of 

the revision to West Virginia’s Title V 

Operating Permit Program which 

increases permit fees does not have 

tribal implications as specified by 

Executive Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, 

November 9, 2000), because the program 

is not approved to apply in Indian 

country located in the state, and EPA 

notes that it will not impose substantial 

direct costs on tribal governments or 

preempt tribal law. 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 70 

Environmental protection, 

Administrative practice and procedure, 

Air pollution control, Carbon monoxide, 

Incorporation by reference, 

Intergovernmental relations, Lead, 

Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone, Particulate 

matter, Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements, Sulfur oxides, Volatile 

organic compounds. 

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

Dated: September 21, 2015. 

Shawn M. Garvin, 

Regional Administrator, Region III. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 54 

[WC Docket Nos. 11–42, 09–197 & 10–90; 

DA 15–1036] 

Lifeline and Link Up Reform and 

Modernization; Telecommunications 

Carriers Eligible for Universal Service 

Support; Connect America Fund 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Petition for reconsideration; 

reopening of comment periods. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal 

Communications Commission 

(Commission) reopens the comment 

periods for oppositions and replies to 

oppositions to CTIA—The Wireless 

Association (CTIA)’s Petition for Partial 

Reconsideration of the Commission’s 

Order on Reconsideration requiring 

Eligible Telecommunications Carriers 

(ETCs) to retain documentation 

demonstrating subscriber eligibility for 

the Lifeline Program. 

DATES: The comment periods for the 

petition for reconsideration published 

on September 2, 2015 (80 FR 53088), are 

reopened. Opposition Filing Deadline is 

October 8, 2015. Replies to Opposition 

Filing Deadline is October 19, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit 

oppositions, identified by WC Docket 

Nos. 11–42, 09–197 or 10–90, by any of 

the following methods: 

• Electronic Filers: Comments may be 

filed electronically using the Internet by 

accessing the ECFS: http://

fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs2/. 

• People with Disabilities: Contact the 

FCC to request reasonable 

accommodations (accessible format 

documents, sign language interpreters, 

CART, etc.) by email: FCC504@fcc.gov 

or phone: 202–418–0530 or TTY: 202– 

418–0432. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher Cook, Wireline Competition 

Bureau at (202) 418–7400 or TTY (202) 

418–0484. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

synopsis of the Wireline Competition 

Bureau’s document in WC Docket Nos. 

11–42, 09–197 and 10–90; DA 15–1036, 

released September 16, 2015. The 

complete text of these documents are 

available for inspection and copying 

during normal business hours in the 

FCC Reference Information Center, 

Portals II, 445 12th Street SW., Room 

CY–A257, Washington, DC 20554 or at 

the following Internet address: https://

www.fcc.gov/document/ctia-reconpetition-extension-order-pn. 

1. On June 18, 2015, the Federal 

Communications Commission adopted 

an Order on Reconsideration (Order on 

Reconsideration) in which, among other 

matters, the Commission required 

eligible telecommunications carriers 

(ETCs) to retain documentation 

demonstrating subscriber eligibility for 

the Lifeline Program. On August 13, 

2015, CTIA—The Wireless Association 

(CTIA) filed a Petition for Partial 

Reconsideration of the Commission’s 

Order on Reconsideration. 

2. On August 26, 2015, a Public 

Notice was issued announcing that any 

oppositions to the CTIA Petition must 

be filed within 15 days of public notice 

of the CTIA Petition in the Federal 

Register. Additionally, the Public 

Notice announced that any replies to 

oppositions to the CTIA Petition must 

be filed within 10 days after the time for 

filing oppositions has expired. On 

September 2, 2015, notice of the CTIA 

Petition was published in the Federal 

Register, which established a September 

17, 2015 opposition filing deadline and 

September 28, 2015 reply to opposition 

filing deadline. 

3. On September 9, 2015, the Center 

for Democracy & Technology, Free 

Press, New America Foundation’s Open 

Technology Institute, and Public 

Knowledge (Requestors) jointly filed a 

motion to extend the established 

opposition filing deadline for the CTIA 

Petition by 30 days. In support of their 

motion, the Requestors point out that 

certain of the comments that were 

recently filed pursuant to the 

Commission’s Second Further Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking (Second FNPRM) 

in the above captioned proceeding 

specifically raise issues that are relevant 

to the CTIA Petition. The Requestors 

also argue that a 30-day extension is in 

the public interest because a number of 

reply comments may be filed on issues 

relevant to the CTIA Petition by the 

September 30th deadline. The 

Requestors also cite the Commission’s 

recent IT-modernization efforts, which 

made some already-filed comments 

inaccessible to the public for several 

days, and intervening holidays as 

circumstances that help to justify an 

extension in this case. 

4. The Commission does not routinely 

grant extensions of time. Here, however, 

the Requestors have pointed to a 

potential relationship between issues 

addressed in the CTIA Petition and 

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