Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 150 / Monday, August 9, 2021 / Proposed Rules 43469 

Tribe of Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas 

Indian Colony has areas of Indian 

country geographically located within 

the Clark County 1997 ozone 

maintenance area. In those areas of 

Indian country, the proposed rule does 

not have tribal implications and will not 

impose substantial direct costs on tribal 

governments or preempt tribal law as 

specified by Executive Order 13175 (65 

FR 67249, November 9, 2000). 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52 

Environmental protection, Air 

pollution control, Incorporation by 

reference, Intergovernmental 

regulations, Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone, 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements, Volatile organic 

compounds. 

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

Dated: July 19, 2021. 

Deborah Jordan, 

Acting Regional Administrator, EPA Region 

IX. 

[FR Doc. 2021–16644 Filed 8–6–21; 8:45 am] 

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AGENCY 

40 CFR Parts 86 and 600 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2021–0208; FRL–8824–01– 

OAR] 

RIN 2060–AV13 

Public Hearing for Revised 2023 and 

Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle 

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notification of public hearing. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is announcing a virtual 

public hearing to be held August 25, 

2021, on its proposal for the ‘‘Revised 

2023 and Later Model Year Light-Duty 

Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions 

Standards,’’ which was signed on July 

29, 2021. An additional session will be 

held on August 26th if necessary, to 

accommodate the number of testifiers 

that sign-up to testify. EPA is proposing 

to revise the greenhouse gas (GHG) 

emissions standards for light-duty 

vehicles for 2023 and later model years 

to make the standards more stringent. 

DATES: EPA will hold a virtual public 

hearing on August 25, 2021. An 

additional session will be held on 

August 26th if necessary to 

accommodate the number of testifiers 

that sign-up to testify. Please refer to the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for 

additional information on the public 

hearing. 

ADDRESSES: The virtual public hearing 

will be held on August 25, 2021. An 

additional session will be held on 

August 26th if necessary to 

accommodate the number of testifiers 

that sign-up to testify. The hearing will 

convene at 9:30 a.m. Eastern and will 

conclude when the last pre-registered 

speaker has testified but no later than 

8:00 p.m. Eastern. All hearing attendees 

(including those who do not intend to 

provide testimony) should notify the 

contact person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT by August 18, 

2021, preferably by email to ASDRegistration@epa.gov. Additional 

information regarding the hearing 

appears below under SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tad 

Wysor, Office of Transportation and Air 

Quality, Assessment and Standards 

Division (ASD), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 2000 Traverwood 

Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48105; telephone 

number: (734) 214–4332; email address: 

ASD-Registration@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

is proposing to revise the greenhouse 

gas (GHG) emissions standards for lightduty vehicles for 2023 and later model 

years to make the standards more 

stringent. On January 20, 2021, 

President Biden issued Executive Order 

13990 ‘‘Protecting Public Health and the 

Environment and Restoring Science To 

Tackle the Climate Crisis’’ directing 

EPA to consider whether to propose 

suspending, revising, or rescinding the 

standards previously revised under the 

‘‘The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient 

(SAFE) Vehicles Rule for Model Years 

2021–2026 Passenger Cars and Light 

Trucks,’’ promulgated in April 2020. 

The SAFE rule significantly weakened 

the standards established in 2012 for 

this time period. Based on our updated 

assessment, EPA is proposing under the 

Clean Air Act to revise the GHG 

standards to be more stringent than the 

SAFE rule standards in each model year 

from 2023 through 2026. EPA is also 

proposing to include several flexibilities 

to ease the auto manufacturers’ 

transition to the more stringent 

standards, including incentives for the 

production of vehicles with zero or 

near-zero emissions technology. In 

addition, EPA is proposing some 

technical amendments to clarify and 

streamline our regulations. The 

proposed revised standards would 

result in significant net benefits. The 

‘‘Revised 2023 and Later Model Year 

Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas 

Emissions Standards’’ proposal was 

signed on July 29th and will be 

published separately in the Federal 

Register. The pre-publication version is 

available at https://www.epa.gov/ 

regulations-emissions-vehicles-andengines/proposed-rule-revise-existingnational-ghg-emissions. 

Participation in Virtual Public Hearing 

Please note that EPA is deviating from 

its typical approach for public hearings. 

Because of current CDC 

recommendations, as well as state and 

local orders for social distancing to limit 

the spread of COVID–19, EPA is not 

holding in-person public meetings at 

this time. 

EPA will begin pre-registering 

speakers for the hearing upon 

publication of this document in the 

Federal Register. To register to speak at 

the virtual hearing, please contact the 

person listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section, preferably 

by email to ASD-Registration@epa.gov. 

The last day to pre-register to speak at 

the hearing will be August 18, 2021. 

Each commenter will have 3 minutes 

to provide oral testimony. EPA may ask 

clarifying questions during the oral 

presentations but will not respond to 

the presentations at that time. EPA 

recommends submitting the text of your 

oral comments as written comments to 

the rulemaking docket. Written 

statements and supporting information 

submitted during the comment period 

will be considered with the same weight 

as oral comments and supporting 

information presented at the public 

hearing. 

Please note that any updates made to 

any aspect of the hearing logistics, 

including any change to the date of the 

hearing or a potential additional session 

on August 26, 2021, will be posted 

online at the light-duty vehicle GHG 

rule website https://www.epa.gov/ 

regulations-emissions-vehicles-andengines/proposed-rule-revise-existingnational-ghg-emissions. While EPA 

expects the hearing to go forward as set 

forth above, please monitor our website 

or contact the person listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section to 

determine if there are any updates. EPA 

does not intend to publish a document 

in the Federal Register announcing 

updates. 

If you require the services of a 

translator or special accommodations 

such as audio description, please preregister for the hearing and describe 

your needs by August 18, 2021. EPA 

may not be able to arrange 

accommodations without advance 

notice. 


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43470 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 150 / Monday, August 9, 2021 / Proposed Rules 

How can I get copies of the proposed 

action and other related information? 

EPA has established a docket for this 

action under Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2021–0208. EPA has also 

developed a website for this proposal, 

which is available at https://

www.epa.gov/regulations-emissionsvehicles-and-engines/proposed-rulerevise-existing-national-ghg-emissions. 

Please refer to the notice of proposed 

rulemaking for detailed information on 

accessing information related to the 

proposal. 

Dated: July 29, 2021. 

William Charmley, 

Director, Assessment and Standards Division, 

Office of Transportation and Air Quality, 

Office of Air and Radiation. 

[FR Doc. 2021–16598 Filed 8–6–21; 8:45 am] 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 73 

[MB Docket No. 21–130; RM–11897; DA 21– 

843; FR ID 40086] 

Television Broadcasting Services 

Portland, Oregon 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Commission has before it 

a petition for rulemaking filed by 

KPTV–KPDX Broadcasting Corporation 

(Petitioner), the licensee of KPTV (FOX), 

channel 12, Portland, Oregon. The 

Petitioner requests the substitution of 

channel 21 for channel 12 at in the DTV 

Table of Allotments. 

DATES: Comments must be filed on or 

before September 8, 2021 and reply 

comments on or before September 23, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 45 

L Street NE, Washington, DC 20554. In 

addition to filing comments with the 

FCC, interested parties should serve 

counsel for the Petitioner as follows: 

Christina Burrow, Esq., Cooley LLP, 

1299 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 

700, Washington, DC 20004. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joyce Bernstein, Media Bureau, at (202) 

418–1647 or Joyce.Bernstein@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In support 

of its channel substitution request, the 

Petitioner states that the Commission 

has recognized that VHF channels have 

certain characteristics that pose 

challenges for their use in providing 

digital television service, including 

propagation characteristics that allow 

undesired signals and noise to be 

receivable at relatively far distances and 

nearby electrical devices to cause 

interference. According to the 

Petitioner, it has received numerous 

complaints of poor or no reception from 

viewers, and explains the importance of 

a strong over-the-air signal in the 

Portland area during emergencies, 

when, it states, cable and satellite 

service may go out of operation. Finally, 

the Petitioner demonstrated that the 

channel 21 noise limited contour would 

fully encompass the existing channel 12 

contour, and an analysis using the 

Commission’s TVStudy software 

indicates that Petitioner’s proposal 

would result in an increase in 

population served. 

This is a synopsis of the 

Commission’s Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking, MB Docket No. 21–130; 

RM–11897; DA 21–843, adopted July 15, 

2021, and released July 16, 2021. The 

full text of this document is available for 

download at https://www.fcc.gov/edocs. 

To request materials in accessible 

formats (braille, large print, computer 

diskettes, or audio recordings), please 

send an email to FCC504@fcc.gov or call 

the Consumer & Government Affairs 

Bureau at (202) 418–0530 (VOICE), (202) 

418–0432 (TTY). 

This document does not contain 

information collection requirements 

subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act 

of 1995, Public Law 104–13. In addition, 

therefore, it does not contain any 

proposed information collection burden 

‘‘for small business concerns with fewer 

than 25 employees,’’ pursuant to the 

Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 

2002, Public Law 107–198, see 44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(4). Provisions of the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act of 1980, 5 U.S.C. 601– 

612, do not apply to this proceeding. 

Members of the public should note 

that all ex parte contacts are prohibited 

from the time a Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking is issued to the time the 

matter is no longer subject to 

Commission consideration or court 

review, see 47 CFR 1.1208. There are, 

however, exceptions to this prohibition, 

which can be found in Section 1.1204(a) 

of the Commission’s rules, 47 CFR 

1.1204(a). 

See Sections 1.415 and 1.420 of the 

Commission’s rules for information 

regarding the proper filing procedures 

for comments, 47 CFR 1.415 and 1.420. 

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 73 

Television. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Thomas Horan, 

Chief of Staff, Media Bureau. 

Proposed Rule 

For the reasons discussed in the 

preamble, the Federal Communications 

Commission proposes to amend 47 CFR 

part 73 as follows: 

PART 73—RADIO BROADCAST 

SERVICES 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 73 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 155, 301, 303, 

307, 309, 310, 334, 336, 339. 

■ 2. In § 73.622 in paragraph (i), amend 

the Post-Transition Table of DTV 

Allotments under Oregon by revising 

the entry for Portland to read as follows: 

§ 73.622 Digital television table of 

allotments. 

* * * * * 

(i) * * * 

Community Channel No. 

* * * * * 

OREGON 

* * * * * 

Portland ..................... 8, *10, 21, 40, 43, 45 

* * * * * 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

50 CFR Part 17 

[Docket No. FWS–HQ–ES–2020–0146; 

FF09E22000 FXES11180900000 212] 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants; Review of Foreign Species 

That Are Candidates for Listing as 

Endangered or Threatened; Annual 

Description of Progress on Listing 

Actions 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notification of review. 

SUMMARY: In this candidate notice of 

review (CNOR), we, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service), present an 

updated list of foreign plant and animal 

species that we regard as candidates for 

or have proposed for addition to the 

Lists of Endangered and Threatened 


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