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7413(a)(3) and 7413(d), has assessed a 

civil penalty for these violations: 

249 South 51st Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 

85043; 

808 County Road, Monett, MO 65708; 

200 Economic Drive, Commerce, TX 

75248. 

EPA will not issue an order in this 

proceeding prior to the close of the 

public comment period. 

Dated: January 20, 2010. 

Bernadette Rappold, 

Director, Special Litigation and Projects 

Division, Office of Enforcement and 

Compliance Assurance. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9107–3, EPA–HQ–OW–2008–0238] 

Modification to 2008 National Pollutant 

Discharge Elimination System 

(NPDES) General Permit for 

Stormwater Discharges Associated 

With Construction Activities 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA Regions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 

8, 9, and 10 today are modifying the 

2008 National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System (NPDES) general 

permits for stormwater discharges 

associated with construction activity in 

order to extend by one year the 

expiration date of the permit. 

Hereinafter, these NPDES general 

permits will be referred to as ‘‘permit’’ or 

‘‘2008 construction general permit’’ or 

‘‘2008 CGP.’’ The 2008 CGP was 

originally issued for a period of two (2) 

years. Today, EPA is modifying the CGP 

in order to extend the 2 year term of the 

2008 CGP by one year so that it expires 

on June 30, 2011, instead of June 30, 

2010, resulting in a permit that will be 

in effect for a total period of three (3) 

years. By Federal law, no NPDES permit 

may be issued for a period that exceeds 

five (5) years. 

DATES: EPA is modifying its 2008 

Construction General Permit by 

extending the permit by one year. This 

permit modification is effective on 

January 20, 2010. The 2008 

Construction General Permit will now 

expire on midnight June 30, 2011, 

instead of June 30, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Greg 

Schaner, Water Permits Division, Office 

of Wastewater Management (Mail Code: 

4203M), Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., EPA East, Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: (202) 564–0721; fax 

number: (202) 564–6431; e-mail address: 

schaner.greg@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does This Action Apply to Me? 

If a discharger chooses to apply for 

coverage under the 2008 CGP, the 

permit provides specific requirements 

for preventing contamination of 

stormwater discharges from the 

following construction activities: 

Category Examples of affected entities 

North American 

Industry Classification System 

(NAICS) code 

Industry ............. Construction site operators disturbing 1 or more acres of land, or less than 1 acre but part of a larger common plan of development or sale if the larger common plan will ultimately disturb 1 acre or more, and performing the following activities: 

Building, Developing and General Contracting ................................................................................................ 233 

Heavy Construction .......................................................................................................................................... 234 

EPA does not intend the preceding 

table to be exhaustive, but provides it as 

a guide for readers regarding entities 

likely to be regulated by this action. 

This table lists the types of activities 

that EPA is now aware of that could 

potentially be affected by this action. 

Other types of entities not listed in the 

table could also be affected. To 

determine whether your facility is 

affected by this action, you should 

carefully examine the definition of 

‘‘construction activity’’ and ‘‘small 

construction activity’’ in existing EPA 

regulations at 40 CFR 122.26(b)(14)(x) 

and 122.26(b)(15), respectively. If you 

have questions regarding the 

applicability of this action to a 

particular entity, consult the person 

listed for technical information in the 

preceding ‘‘FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT’’ section. 

Eligibility for coverage under the 2008 

CGP is limited to operators of ‘‘new 

projects’’ or ‘‘unpermitted ongoing 

projects.’’ A ‘‘new project’’ is one that 

commences after the effective date of 

the 2008 CGP. An ‘‘unpermitted ongoing 

project’’ is one that commenced prior to 

the effective date of the 2008 CGP, yet 

never received authorization to 

discharge under the 2003 CGP or any 

other NPDES permit covering its 

construction-related stormwater 

discharges. This permit is effective only 

in those areas where EPA is the 

permitting authority. A list of eligible 

areas is included in Appendix B of the 

2008 CGP. 

B. How Can I Get Copies of This 

Document and Other Related 

Information? 

1. Docket. EPA has established an 

official public docket for this action 

under Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OW– 

2008–0238. The official public docket is 

the collection of materials that is 

available for public viewing at the Water 

Docket in the EPA Docket Center, (EPA/ 

DC) EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. Although all documents in 

the docket are listed in an index, some 

information is not publicly available, 

i.e., Confidential Business Information 

(CBI) or other information whose 

disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Publicly available docket materials are 

available electronically through http:// 

www.regulations.gov and in hard copy 

at the EPA Docket Center Public 

Reading Room, open from 8:30 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

excluding legal holidays. The telephone 

number for the Public Reading Room is 

(202) 566–1744 and the telephone 

number for the Water Docket is (202) 

566–2426. 

2. Electronic Access. You may access 

this Federal Register document 

electronically through the EPA Internet 

under the ‘‘Federal Register’’ listings at 

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/. Electronic 

versions of the final permit and fact 

sheet are available at EPA’s stormwater 

Web site http://www.epa.gov/npdes/ 

stormwater. 

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An electronic version of the public 

docket is available through EPA’s 

electronic public docket and comment 

system, EPA Dockets. You may use EPA 

Dockets at http://www.regulations.gov/ 

fdmspublic/component/main view 

public comments, access the index 

listing of the contents of the official 

public docket, and to access those 

documents in the public docket that are 

available electronically. Once in the 

system, select ‘‘search’’, then key in the 

appropriate docket identification 

number. 

Certain types of information will not 

be placed in the EPA Dockets. 

Information claimed as CBI and other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute, which is not 

included in the official public docket, 

will not be available for public viewing 

in EPA’s electronic public docket. EPA 

policy is that copyrighted material will 

not be placed in EPA’s electronic public 

docket but will be available only in 

printed, paper form in the official public 

docket. Although not all docket 

materials may be available 

electronically, you may still access any 

of the publicly available docket 

materials through the docket facility 

identified in Section I.B.1. 

C. Response to Public Comments 

EPA received 4 comments on the 

proposal to extend the 2008 CGP. All 

commenters were supportive of EPA’s 

proposed extension. Three of the 

commenters recommended that EPA 

modify the 2008 CGP to extend the 

expiration date of the permit for 3 years, 

so that the permit would expire on June 

30, 2013, instead of the proposed 

expiration date of June 30, 2011, thus 

making it a 5-year permit. EPA declined 

to adopt the commenter’s 

recommendation. It is important to 

minimize the delay in issuing a new 

CGP that incorporates the new federal 

requirements for the discharges from 

construction and development sites, 

which were published in the Federal 

Register December 1, 2009. 74 FR 

62996. For a copy of the ‘‘Construction 

and Development Effluent Limitations 

Guidelines’’ (or ‘‘C&D rule’’), and other 

related information, go to http:// 

www.epa.gov/guide/construction/. 

The 2008 CGP was issued for a shorter 

term than the statutorily allowed 5 years 

so that the newly promulgated C&D rule 

requirements could be incorporated into 

the permit as soon as practicable. Many 

States will be looking at the Agency’s 

next CGP to gain insight into how to 

implement the C&D ELG requirements 

into permits. The C&D ELG established 

numeric effluent limitations and 

monitoring requirements, both of which 

may be new to the large number of 

construction sites throughout the 

country. EPA would like to issue the 

next CGP implementing these 

requirements as soon as possible. By 

promulgating a final CGP that 

incorporates the C&D ELG by June 30, 

2011 EPA will assist State agencies that 

must reissue their permits in the next 

few years and incorporate the C&D ELG 

into their permits. 

One commenter further recommended 

that EPA make modifications to the 

2008 CGP in addition to the one-year 

extension of the permit. This 

commenter specifically recommended 

that EPA take the opportunity to 

streamline the CGP and the process for 

authorizing dischargers, such as through 

a simplified option for single lot 

construction projects, a simplified 

qualified local program option, and a 

certification of no pollutant discharge 

added to the permit. EPA is aware of the 

issues that the commenter has raised; 

however, EPA is not inclined to make 

further modifications to the 2008 CGP at 

this time beyond the one-year extension. 

The expiration date of the 2008 CGP is 

the only issue for which EPA proposed 

a modification; EPA believes the issues 

raised by the commenter, which will 

require a significant amount of time to 

consider for incorporation into the 

permit, are best contemplated for the 

new permit to be issued prior to June 

30, 2011. 

D. Who Are The EPA Regional Contacts 

for This Permit? 

For EPA Region 1, contact Jessica Hing 

at tel.: (617) 918–1560 or e-mail at 

hing.jessica@epa.gov. 

For EPA Region 2, contact Stephen 

Venezia at tel.: (212) 637–3856 or email at venezia.stephen@epa.gov, or 

for Puerto Rico, contact Sergio 

Bosques at tel.: (787) 977–5838 or email at bosques.sergio@epa.gov. 

For EPA Region 3, contact Garrison 

Miller at tel.: (215) 814–5745 or e-mail 

at miller.garrison@epa.gov. 

For EPA Region 5, contact Brian Bell at 

tel.: (312) 886–0981 or e-mail at 

bell.brianc@epa.gov. 

For EPA Region 6, contact Brent Larsen 

at tel.: (214) 665–7523 or e-mail at: 

larsen.brent@epa.gov. 

For EPA Region 7, contact Mark 

Matthews at tel.: (913) 551–7635 or email at: matthews.mark@epa.gov. 

For EPA Region 8, contact Greg Davis at 

tel.: (303) 312–6314 or e-mail at: 

davis.gregory@epa.gov. 

For EPA Region 9, contact Eugene 

Bromley at tel.: (415) 972–3510 or email at bromley.eugene@epa.gov. 

For EPA Region 10, contact Dick 

Hetherington at tel.: (206) 553–1941 

or e-mail at 

hetherington.dick@epa.gov. 

II. Background of Permit 

A. Statutory and Regulatory History 

The Clean Water Act (‘‘CWA’’) 

establishes a comprehensive program 

‘‘to restore and maintain the chemical, 

physical, and biological integrity of the 

Nation’s waters.’’ 33 U.S.C. 1251(a). The 

CWA also includes the objective of 

attaining ‘‘water quality which provides 

for the protection and propagation of 

fish, shellfish and wildlife.’’ 33 U.S.C. 

1251(a)(2)). To achieve these goals, the 

CWA requires EPA to control discharges 

through the issuance of National 

Pollutant Discharge Elimination System 

(‘‘NPDES’’) permits, which may be 

issued for fixed terms that may not 

exceed five (5) years. 33 U.S.C. 

1342(b)(1)(B). 

Section 405 of the Water Quality Act 

of 1987 (WQA) added section 402(p) of 

the Clean Water Act (CWA), which 

directed EPA to develop a phased 

approach to regulate stormwater 

discharges under the NPDES program. 

EPA published a final regulation in the 

Federal Register on the first phase of 

this program on November 16, 1990, 

establishing permit application 

requirements for ‘‘storm water 

discharges associated with industrial 

activity.’’ See 55 FR 47990. EPA defined 

the term ‘‘storm water discharge 

associated with industrial activity’’ in a 

comprehensive manner to cover a wide 

variety of facilities. Construction 

activities, including activities that are 

part of a larger common plan of 

development or sale, that ultimately 

disturb at least five acres of land and 

have point source discharges to waters 

of the U.S. were included in the 

definition of ‘‘industrial activity’’ 

pursuant to 40 CFR 122.26(b)(14)(x). 

Phase II of the stormwater program was 

published in the Federal Register on 

December 8, 1999, and required NPDES 

permits for discharges from construction 

sites disturbing at least one acre, but 

less than five acres, including sites that 

are part of a larger common plan of 

development or sale that will ultimately 

disturb at least one acre but less than 

five acres, pursuant to 40 CFR 

122.26(b)(15)(i). See 64 FR 68722. EPA 

is proposing to extend the expiration 

date of the 2008 CGP under the statutory 

and regulatory authority cited above. 

NPDES permits issued for 

construction stormwater discharges are 

required under Section 402(a)(1) of the 

CWA to include conditions for meeting 

technology-based effluent limits 

established under Section 301 and, 

where applicable, Section 306. Once an 

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effluent limitations guideline or new 

source performance standard is 

promulgated in accordance with these 

sections, NPDES permits are required to 

incorporate limits based on such 

limitations and standards. See 40 CFR 

122.44(a)(1). Prior to the promulgation 

of national effluent limitations and 

standards, permitting authorities 

incorporate technology-based effluent 

limitations on a best professional 

judgment basis. CWA section 

402(a)(1)(B); 40 CFR 125.3(a)(2)(ii)(B). 

B. Summary of 2008 CGP 

EPA announced the issuance of the 

2008 CGP on July 14, 2008. See 73 FR 

40338. Construction operators choosing 

to be covered by the 2008 CGP must 

certify in their notice of intent (NOI) 

that they meet the requisite eligibility 

requirements, described in Part 1.3 of 

the permit. If eligible, operators are 

authorized to discharge under this 

permit in accordance with Part 2. 

Permittees must install and implement 

control measures to meet the effluent 

limits applicable to all dischargers in 

Part 3, and must inspect such 

stormwater controls and repair or 

modify them in accordance with Part 4. 

The permit in Part 5 requires all 

construction operators to prepare a 

stormwater pollution prevention plan 

(SWPPP) that identifies all sources of 

pollution, and describes control 

measures used to minimize pollutants 

discharged from the construction site. 

Part 6 details the requirements for 

terminating coverage under the permit. 

The 2008 CGP permit provides 

coverage for discharges from 

construction sites that occur in areas not 

covered by an approved State NPDES 

program. EPA Regions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 

8, 9, and 10 issued the 2008 CGP to 

replace the expired 2003 CGP for 

operators of new and unpermitted 

ongoing construction projects. The 

geographic coverage and scope of the 

2008 CGP is listed in Appendix B of the 

permit. 

C. What Is EPA’s Rationale for the 

Modification of the 2008 CGP for a OneYear Extension of the Expiration Date? 

As stated above, any NPDES permit 

issued after the effective date of the C&D 

rule, whether issued by EPA or an 

authorized state, must incorporate the 

substantive technology-based 

requirements of the rule into the permit. 

The effective date of the C&D rule is 

February 1, 2010. Therefore, EPA’s next 

permit, which will be issued after the 

effective date of the C&D rule, will 

require that the requirements of the rule 

be incorporated into the permit. While 

as discussed above, EPA wants to issue 

a CGP that incorporates the C&D ELG as 

soon as possible in order to provide 

guidance to state permitting authorities, 

today’s one-year extension is necessary 

due to EPA’s judgment that an extension 

of one year is needed to provide 

sufficient time to incorporate the new 

C&D rule requirements, provide 

guidance to state permitting authorities, 

and to be able to manage the additional 

actions and initiatives that are being 

undertaken at the same time by the 

Agency. Without the one-year 

extension, EPA fears that it would be 

left with an inadequate amount of time 

to issue a new CGP, placing potentially 

thousands of construction projects at 

risk of discharging without an effective 

stormwater permit. 

Prior to the extension, the 2008 CGP 

would have expired on June 30, 2010, 

giving EPA approximately seven months 

to propose and finalize a new CGP. In 

EPA’s judgment, the seven-month 

period would have been insufficient to 

properly draft new requirements that 

reflect the C&D rule, and to modify 

these permit conditions in response to 

public comments. The seven-month 

timeframe to propose and finalize a new 

permit would have been impracticable 

based on EPA’s past experience in 

issuing stormwater general permits, in 

general, and with the construction 

general permit specifically. In the past, 

EPA required an estimated eighteen 

months to propose and finalize the 2003 

CGP, and a similar amount of time for 

the previous construction general 

permits. While EPA does not believe the 

2008 Multi-Sector General Permit 

(MSGP) for stormwater discharges 

associated with industrial activities was 

typical, that permit required almost 

three years to finalize after the proposed 

permit was published. Beyond 

incorporating updated modifications to 

the permit based on changes to the 

technology-based and water qualitybased effluent limitations into the 

permit, EPA is required to conduct 

many additional tasks that are 

automatically required of final Federal 

actions, such as conducting 

consultations under the Endangered 

Species Act and National Historic 

Properties Act, obtaining CWA section 

401 certifications for the permit from 

States and Indian Country lands, 

providing the public with an 

opportunity to comment, and 

responding to all comments received 

during the public comment period. 

Separately, these tasks have historically 

required more than seven months. The 

combined effect of these tasks, which 

are each necessary to issue a general 

permit, on EPA’s schedule for permit 

issuance is to make a seven-month 

permit issuance timeframe 

impracticable. 

While a seven-month schedule to 

finalize a new CGP would be 

impracticable under the circumstances, 

as discussed above, what would have 

made this period of time even more 

challenging is the incorporation of the 

new Federal C&D rule requirements into 

the general permit. The C&D rule has 

introduced several concepts that may be 

new to most construction sites, 

including the requirement for certain 

sized construction sites to comply with 

a numeric effluent limitation for 

turbidity. Additionally, the nonnumeric effluent limitations in the C&D 

ELG will need to be properly translated 

into permit conditions and modified 

based on public comments received. 

The additional one-year extension will 

ensure that the Agency has sufficient 

time to accomplish these tasks. 

Also weighing heavily in favor of 

extending the expiration date of the 

2008 CGP are the risks associated with 

failing to issue a replacement permit 

prior to the 2008 CGP’s original 

expiration date. If EPA fails to issue a 

new CGP before the expiration of the 

2008 CGP, no new construction projects 

would be able to be eligible for coverage 

by the 2008 CGP, leaving individual 

NPDES permits as the only available 

option for permitting new projects. The 

sole reliance on individual permits will 

mean that discharge authorizations will 

be delayed due to the greater amount of 

time and Agency resources that are 

required for developing and issuing 

individual permits. EPA is unwilling to 

risk the possibility of such delays. The 

one-year extension to the 2008 CGP’s 

expiration date will provide the Agency 

with the time needed to issue a new 

permit, without any gaps in permit 

coverage. 

D. EPA’s Authority To Modify NPDES 

Permits 

EPA regulations establish when the 

permitting authority may make 

modifications to existing NPDES 

permits. In relevant part, EPA 

regulations state that ‘‘[w]hen the 

Director receives any information * * * 

he or she may determine whether or not 

one or more of the causes listed in 

paragraph (a) * * * of this section for 

modification * * * exist. If cause exists, 

the Director may modify * * * the 

permit accordingly, subject to the 

limitations of 40 CFR 124.5(c).’’ 40 CFR 

122.62. For purposes of this Federal 

Register notice, the relevant cause for 

modification is at 40 CFR 122.62(a)(2), 

which states a permit may be modified 

when ‘‘[t]he Director has received new 

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information’’ and that information was 

not available at the time of permit 

issuance * * * and would have 

justified the application of different 

permit conditions at the time of 

issuance.’’ Pursuant to EPA regulations, 

‘‘[w]hen a permit is modified, only the 

conditions subject to the modification 

are reopened.’’ 40 CFR 122.62. 

In the case of the 2008 CGP, a permit 

modification is justified based on the 

new information EPA received since 

issuance of the 2008 CGP in July 2008, 

in terms of the new actions EPA is 

planning or undertaking that are putting 

new demands on the Agency’s available 

resources in the NPDES stormwater 

program. New actions and the resulting 

resource demands have come about as a 

result of EPA’s desire to respond to the 

2008 National Research Council report, 

Urban Stormwater Management in the 

United States (see http://www.epa.gov/ 

npdes/pubs/nrc_stormwaterreport.pdf), 

and to take action under the President’s 

May 2009 Executive Order on 

Chesapeake Bay Protection and 

Restoration (see http:// 

www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ 

Executive-Order-Chesapeake-BayProtection-and-Restoration/). Related to 

these efforts, EPA has announced its 

intention to initiate a national 

rulemaking to establish a program to 

reduce stormwater discharges from new 

development and redevelopment, and to 

make other regulatory improvements to 

strengthen its stormwater program. 

Refer to http://www.epa.gov/npdes/ 

stormwater/rulemaking. EPA’s meeting 

these new demands, while 

implementing new Federal 

requirements for the construction and 

development industry, is not practical 

in a seven-month time period. 

Additionally, at the time of the 2008 

CGP was issued, EPA did not know the 

final content of the C&D ELG. If this 

information was available at the time of 

permit issuance, it would have justified 

EPA establishing an expiration date for 

the 2008 CGP later than midnight June 

30, 2010. As a result, cause exists under 

EPA regulations to justify modification 

of the 2008 CGP to extend the expiration 

date of the permit from midnight June 

30, 2010 to midnight June 30, 2011. 

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

et seq. 

Dated: January 20, 2010. 

Curt Spalding, 

Regional Administrator, EPA Region 1. 

Dated: January 20, 2010. 

Carl-Axel P. Soderberg, 

Division Director, Caribbean Environmental 

Protection Division, EPA Region 2. 

Dated: January 20, 2010. 

Barbara A. Finazzo, 

Division Director, Division of Environmental 

Planning & Protection, EPA Region 2. 

Dated: January 20, 2010. 

Jon M. Capacasa, 

Director, Water Protection Division, EPA 

Region 3. 

Dated: January 20, 2010. 

Timothy C. Henry, 

Associate Director, Water Division, EPA 

Region 5. 

Dated: January 20, 2010. 

Miguel I. Flores, 

Director, Water Quality Protection Division, 

EPA Region 6. 

Dated: January 20, 2010. 

William A. Spratlin, 

Director, Wetlands and Pesticides Division, 

EPA Region 7. 

Dated: January 20, 2010. 

Stephen S. Tuber, 

Assistant Regional Administrator, Office of 

Partnerships & Regulatory Assistance, EPA 

Region 8. 

Dated: January 20, 2010. 

Alexis Strauss, 

Director, Water Division, EPA Region 9. 

Dated: January 20, 2010. 

Michael A. Bussell, 

Director, Office of Water and Watersheds, 

EPA Region 10. 

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EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE 

UNITED STATES 

Sunshine Act Meeting Notice 

ACTION: Notice of a Partially Open 

Meeting of the Board of Directors of the 

Export-Import Bank of the United 

States. 

TIME AND PLACE: Thursday, January 28, 

2010 at 9:30 a.m. The meeting will be 

held at Ex-Im Bank in Room 1143, 811 

Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 

20571. 

Open Agenda Items 

ITEM NO. 1: Ex-Im Bank Advisory 

Committee (16th & 17th Members) for 

2010. 

ITEM NO. 2: Ex-Im Bank Sub-Saharan 

Africa Advisory Committee for 2010. 

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: The meeting will 

be open to public observation for Items 

No. 1 & 2 only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Office of the Secretary, 811 Vermont 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20571, 

(202) 565–3957. 

Jonathan J. Cordone, 

Senior Vice President and General Counsel. 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[CC Docket No. 92–237; DA 10–101] 

Next Meeting of the North American 

Numbering Council 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: On January 20, 2010, the 

Commission released a public notice 

announcing the February 18, 2010 

meeting and agenda of the North 

American Numbering Council (NANC). 

The intended effect of this action is to 

make the public aware of the NANC’s 

next meeting and agenda. 

DATES: Thursday, February 18, 2010, 

9:30 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: Competition Policy 

Division, Wireline Competition Bureau, 

Federal Communications Commission, 

Portals II, 445 Twelfth Street, SW., Suite 

5–C162, Washington, DC 20554. 

Requests to make an oral statement or 

provide written comments to the NANC 

should be sent to Deborah Blue. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Deborah Blue, Special Assistant to the 

Designated Federal Officer (DFO) at 

(202) 418–1466 or 

Deborah.Blue@fcc.gov. The fax number 

is: (202) 418–1413. The TTY number is: 

(202) 418–0484. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Released: 

January 20, 2010. 

The North American Numbering 

Council (NANC) has scheduled a 

meeting to be held Thursday, February 

18, 2010, from 9:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. 

The meeting will be held at the Federal 

Communications Commission, Portals 

II, 445 Twelfth Street, SW., Room TW– 

C305, Washington, DC. This meeting is 

open to members of the general public. 

The FCC will attempt to accommodate 

as many participants as possible. The 

public may submit written statements to 

the NANC, which must be received two 

business days before the meeting. In 

addition, oral statements at the meeting 

by parties or entities not represented on 

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