95208 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 231 / Monday, December 2, 2024 / Notices 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dorina Aliu, Water Division, Drinking 

Water and Groundwater Protection 

Section, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region 2, 290 Broadway, FL 24, 

New York, NY 10007–1823; telephone 

number: (929) 930–0689; email address: 

Aliu.Dorina@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: All 

interested parties are invited to submit 

written comments on this determination 

and may request a hearing. All 

comments will be considered, and if 

necessary, EPA will issue a response. 

Frivolous or insubstantial requests for a 

hearing will be denied by the Regional 

Administrator. If a substantial request 

for a public hearing is made by January 

2, 2025, a public hearing will be held. 

A request for public hearing shall 

include the following: (1) The name, 

address, and telephone number of the 

individual, organization, or other entity 

requesting a hearing; (2) a brief 

statement of the requesting person’s 

interest in the Regional Administrator’s 

determination and of information that 

the requesting person intends to submit 

at such hearing; and (3) the signature of 

the individual making the request; or, if 

the request is made on behalf of an 

organization or other entity, the 

signature of a responsible official of the 

organization or other entity. 

Authority: Section 1413 of the Safe 

Drinking Water Act, as amended (1996), 

and 40 CFR part 142 of the National 

Primary Drinking Water Regulations. 

Lisa P. Garcia, 

Regional Administrator, Region 2. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OGC–2024–0251; FRL–12440–01– 

OGC] 

Proposed Settlement Agreement, 

Federal Insecticide, Rodenticide, and 

Fungicide Act 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed settlement 

agreement and request for public 

comment. 

SUMMARY: Consistent with Consent 

Decrees and Settlement Agreements to 

Resolve Environmental Claims Against 

the Agency (March 18, 2022), EPA is 

giving notice of and seeking comment 

on a proposed settlement agreement for 

In re Center for Biological Diversity, No. 

21–1270 (D.C. Circuit) and Center for 

Biological Diversity v. Environmental 

Protection Agency, No. 23–1329 (D.C. 

Circuit). Defendant-Intervenors—who 

represent the registrants for products 

contain cyantraniliprole—do not oppose 

this proposed settlement agreement. 

DATES: Comments are due by January 2, 

2025. 

ADDRESSES: Please submit your 

comments online at https://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Instructions: All comments should 

include the Docket ID (EPA–HQ–OGC– 

2024–0251) for this action. Submitted 

comments will be posted without 

change to https://www.regulations.gov, 

including any personal information 

provided. For detailed instructions on 

commenting, see the ‘‘Public Comment 

on the Proposed Settlement Agreement’’ 

heading of the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jori 

Reilly-Diakun (Pesticides and Toxic 

Substances Law Office, Office of 

General Counsel, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency), (202) 564–9567, 

reillydiakun.jori@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining a Copy of the Proposed 

Stipulated Settlement Agreement 

The official public docket for this 

action contains a copy of the proposed 

settlement agreement. The official 

public docket is available for public 

viewing at the Office of Environmental 

Information (OEI) Docket in the EPA 

Docket Center, EPA West, Room 3334, 

1301 Constitution Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center 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 

Public Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, 

and the telephone number for the OEI 

Docket is (202) 566–1752. 

The electronic version of the public 

docket for this action also contains a 

copy of the proposed settlement 

agreement. The electronic version of the 

public docket is available at https://

www.regulations.gov/docket/EPA-HQOGC-2024-0251. 

II. Background on the Proposed 

Settlement Agreement 

This proposed settlement agreement 

follows petitions for review in the 

United States Court of Appeals for the 

District of Columbia (D.C. Circuit) of 

EPA’s decisions granting pesticide 

registrations and amendments to those 

registrations under the Federal 

Insecticide, Rodenticide, and Fungicide 

Act (FIFRA) for products containing the 

active ingredient cyantraniliprole. 

On June 30, 2017, the D.C. Circuit 

addressed the initial petition for review 

and remanded the registration decisions 

to EPA without vacatur for EPA to 

address its obligations under the 

Endangered Species Act (ESA). Center 

for Biological Diversity v. Environmental 

Protection Agency, 861 F.3d 174 (D.C. 

Cir. 2017). In 2021, Petitioners filed a 

writ of mandamus with the D.C. Circuit, 

seeking to compel action by EPA in 

accordance with the Court’s 2017 order. 

On November 22, 2022, the D.C. Circuit 

held that EPA had unreasonably 

delayed in complying with its 2017 

order and ordered EPA to complete 

effects determinations for 

cyantraniliprole and replace its previous 

registration orders with orders 

consistent with the ESA by September 

2023. In re Center for Biological 

Diversity, 53 F.4th 665 (D.C. Cir. 2022). 

In September 2023, EPA completed its 

final biological evaluation for 

cyantraniliprole and initiated ESA 

section 7 consultation with the U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service and the 

National Marine Fisheries Service, 

before granting registrants’ requests to 

amend the registrations for products 

containing cyantraniliprole. See EPA– 

HQ–OPP–2011–0668. EPA filed a Notice 

of Completion with the D.C. Circuit in 

In re Center for Biological Diversity on 

October 4, 2023. Petitioners filed a new 

petition for review challenging EPA’s 

September 2023 registration 

amendments. Center for Biological 

Diversity v. Environmental Protection 

Agency, No. 23–1329 (D.C. Circuit). 

This proposed settlement agreement 

would resolve any remaining claims 

against EPA in these cases. In the 

proposed settlement, EPA would agree 

to implement any final Biological 

Opinion for cyantraniliprole no later 

than 12 months from the date that each 

Service issues a final Biological Opinion 

or the deadline set by each Service for 

implementing its final Biological 

Opinion—whichever is earlier—with 

several options for extension, if 

appropriate. 

III. Public Comment on the Proposed 

Settlement Agreement 

EPA will accept written comments on 

the proposed settlement until January 2, 

2025 from anyone who is not a named 

party to the litigation in question. EPA 

or the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) 

may decide to withdraw consent to 

enter the proposed settlement agreement 

if the comments indicate that such 

consent is inappropriate. However, the 

terms of the proposed settlement 

agreement will be affirmed unless EPA 

or DOJ so decide based on the 

comments. 


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Please submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OGC–2024–0251, through https://

www.regulations.gov. Once submitted, 

comments cannot be edited or removed 

from this docket. EPA may publish any 

comment received to its public docket. 

Do not submit any information you 

consider to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Multimedia submissions (e.g., audio, 

video) must be accompanied by a 

written comment. EPA will consider the 

written comment to be the official 

comment, and it should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. EPA will generally not consider 

comments or comment contents located 

outside of the primary submission (e.g., 

on the web, cloud, or other file sharing 

system). For additional submission 

methods, the full EPA public comment 

policy, information about CBI or 

multimedia submissions, and general 

guidance on making effective 

comments, please visit https://

www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epadockets. For additional information 

about submitting information identified 

as CBI, please contact the person listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

If you submit an electronic comment, 

EPA recommends that you include your 

name, mailing address, and an email 

address or other contact information in 

the body of your comment. This ensures 

that you can be identified as the 

submitter of the comment and allows 

EPA to contact you in case EPA cannot 

read your comment due to technical 

difficulties or needs further information 

on the substance of your comment. Any 

identifying or contact information 

provided in the body of a comment will 

be included as part of the comment that 

is placed in the official public docket 

and made available in EPA’s electronic 

public docket. 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. 

Use of the https://

www.regulations.gov website to submit 

comments to EPA electronically is 

EPA’s preferred method for receiving 

comments. The electronic public docket 

system is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ 

system, which means EPA will not 

know your identity, email address, or 

other contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

Please ensure that your comments are 

submitted within the specified comment 

period. Comments received after the 

close of the comment period will be 

marked ‘‘late.’’ EPA is not required to 

consider these late comments. 

Dated: November 25, 2024. 

Randolph L. Hill, 

Associate General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2024–28121 Filed 11–29–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–0999; FR ID 264781] 

Information Collection Being Reviewed 

by the Federal Communications 

Commission 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burdens, and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (PRA), the Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC or 

Commission) invites the general public 

and other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection. 

Comments are requested concerning: 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Commission, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

the accuracy of the Commission’s 

burden estimate; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected; ways to minimize 

the burden of the collection of 

information on the respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology; and ways to 

further reduce the information burden 

on small business concerns with fewer 

than 25 employees. The FCC may not 

conduct or sponsor a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) control number. No 

person shall be subject to any penalty 

for failing to comply with a collection 

of information subject to the PRA that 

does not display a valid OMB control 

number. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted on or before January 31, 2025. 

If you anticipate that you will be 

submitting comments but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this Notice, you should 

advise the contact listed below as soon 

as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to 

Cathy Williams, FCC, via email: PRA@

fcc.gov and to Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information about the 

information collection, contact Cathy 

Williams at (202) 418–2918. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control No.: 3060–0999. 

Title: Hearing Loss Compatible 

Wireless Handsets Section 20.19 and 

Hearing Aid Compatibility Act. 

Form Numbers: FCC Form 655 and 

FCC Form 855. 

Type of Review: Revision to the 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities. 

Number of Respondents: 934 

respondents; 934 responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 13.92 

hours per response (average). 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

and annual reporting requirements, 

recordkeeping requirements, and thirdparty disclosure requirements. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. Statutory 

authority for this information collection 

is contained in 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), 

157, 160, 201, 202, 214, 301, 303, 308, 

309(j), 310 and 610 of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended. 

Total Annual Burden: 12,998 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: No cost. 

Needs and Uses: The Commission is 

requesting that the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approve a revision to the Commission’s 

currently approved information 

collection for OMB Control No. 3060– 

0999. This information collection relates 

to the Commission’s Hearing Loss 

Compatible Wireless Handsets rules at 

section 20.19 of the Commission’s rules. 

This revision is necessary to implement 

the final rules that the Commission 

adopted on October 17, 2024, in a 

Report and Order, WT Docket No. 23– 

388, FCC 24–112, that the Commission 

released on October 18, 2024. This 

Report and Order revised the heading of 

section 20.19 of the Commission’s rules 

from ‘‘Hearing aid-compatible mobile 

handsets’’ to ‘‘Hearing loss compatible 

wireless handsets.’’ In addition, the 

revisions that the Commission adopted 

to section 20.19(b)(3)(iii), (f), (h), and 

(i)(4)–(5) constitute new or modified 

information collections subject to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), Public Law 104–13. These rules 

will become effective following OMB’s 

completion of its review of these revised 

rules. Once OMB completes its review 

of these revisions, the Commission will 

publish a document in the Federal 


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