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authority for initial area designations, 

EPA must designate as nonattainment 

any area that violates the NAAQS and 

any nearby area that contributes to 

ambient air quality in the violating area. 

Air quality data from 2018–2020 

indicate that ambient Pb concentrations 

in Stark County do not meet the 

NAAQS, and, therefore, some area in 

Stark County and possibly additional 

areas in surrounding counties must be 

redesignated as nonattainment. The 

absence of monitored violations in 

nearby counties is not a sufficient 

reason to eliminate nearby counties as 

candidates for nonattainment status. 

The technical analysis identified the 

monitor that was showing a violation of 

the standards (‘‘violating monitor’’) and 

evaluated nearby areas for contributions 

to ambient Pb concentrations in the 

area. To determine the boundaries of an 

area where violations support a 

nonattainment designation, the 2008 

Final Rule for the Pb NAAQS adopted 

guidance (2008 EPA Pb Guidance) 

stated that the perimeter of a county 

containing the violating monitor would 

be the initial presumptive boundary for 

nonattainment areas. If the intended 

boundaries are smaller than the full 

county, the EPA requires a 

demonstration to show that violations 

are not occurring in the excluded 

portions of the county and that the 

excluded portions are not source areas 

that contribute to the observed 

violations. To justify establishing either 

a larger or smaller area, the 2008 EPA 

Pb Guidance indicated the following 

eight factors should be considered.14

(1) Air quality in potentially included 

versus excluded areas; 

(2) Emissions in areas potentially 

included versus excluded from the 

nonattainment area; 

(3) Level of control of emission 

sources; 

(4) Population density and degree of 

urbanization including commercial 

development in included versus 

excluded areas; 

(5) Expected growth (including extent, 

pattern, and rate of growth); 

(6) Meteorology (weather/transport 

patterns); 

(7) Geography/topography (mountain 

ranges or other air basin boundaries); 

and 

(8) Jurisdictional boundaries (e.g., 

counties, air districts, reservations, etc.). 

In addition to an analysis of the eight 

factors above, states can choose to 

recommend Pb nonattainment 

boundaries by using one, or a 

combination of the following 

techniques: 

• Qualitative analysis; 

• Spatial interpolation of air quality 

monitoring data; or 

• Air quality simulation by 

dispersion modeling.15

The EPA’s detailed evaluation of the 

violating monitoring site, contributing 

sources, and intended area boundaries 

based on the weight of evidence of the 

previously identified factors is included 

in the TSD, which is located in the 

docket for this intended redesignations 

action. EPA’s intended boundaries of 

the relevant area encompass the 

portions of Stark County that are 

bounded on the north by State Route 

OH–153 (12th Street NE; Mahoning 

Road), on the east by Broadway Avenue, 

on the south by State Route OH–172 

(Tucarawas Street E; Lincoln Street E), 

and the west by State Route OH–43— 

Northbound (Cherry Avenue NE). A 

map showing the boundaries of our 

intended nonattainment area for Canton, 

Ohio is included in the TSD. 

Panagiotis E. Tsirigotis, 

Director, Office of Air Quality Planning & 

Standards. 

[FR Doc. 2022–09405 Filed 5–2–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 271 

[EPA–R09–RCRA–2021–0628; FRL–9760– 

01–R9] 

Hawaii: Authorization of State 

Hazardous Waste Management 

Program Revisions 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed action/decision/ 

authorization. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is proposing to authorize 

changes to Hawaii’s hazardous waste 

program under the Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). 

These changes were outlined in an 

application to the EPA and correspond 

to certain federal rules promulgated 

between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2020 

(also known as RCRA Clusters XXV to 

XXVIII) and for authorization of stateinitiated changes that are equivalent to 

or more stringent than the federal 

program. The EPA reviewed Hawaii’s 

application and has determined that 

these changes satisfy all requirements 

needed to qualify for final authorization. 

Elsewhere, in the ‘‘Rules and 

Regulations’’ section of this Federal 

Register, we are authorizing Hawaii for 

these changes as a direct final 

authorization without a prior proposed 

action. If we receive no adverse 

comment, we will not take further 

action on this proposed authorization. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before June 2, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to 

EPA, identified by Docket ID No. EPA– 

R09–RCRA–2021–0628, at https:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Once submitted, comments cannot be 

edited or removed from Regulations.gov. 

EPA may publish any comment received 

to its public docket. Do not submit 

electronically any information you 

consider to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Multimedia submissions (audio, video, 

etc.) must be accompanied by a written 

comment. The written comment is 

considered the official comment and 

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 (i.e., on the web, cloud, or 

other file sharing system). The https:// 

www.regulations.gov website 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 https:// 

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. 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 FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dani 

Allen-Williams, AllenWilliams.Dani@

epa.gov, 415–942–3800. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

document proposes to take action on 

Hawaii’s changes to its hazardous waste 

management program under the 

Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act (RCRA), as amended. We have 

published a direct final action 

authorizing these changes in the ‘‘Rules 

and Regulations’’ section of this issue of 

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this as a noncontroversial action and 

anticipate no adverse comment. We 

have explained our reasons for this 

action in the preamble to the direct final 

authorization. 

If we receive no adverse comment, we 

will not take further action on this 

proposed rulemaking. If we receive 

adverse comment, we will withdraw the 

direct final authorization and it will not 

take effect. We would then address all 

public comments in a subsequent final 

action and base any further decision on 

the authorization of the state program 

changes after considering all comments 

received during the comment period. 

We do not intend to institute a second 

comment period on this action. Any 

parties interested in commenting must 

do so at this time. For further 

information, please see the information 

provided in the ADDRESSES section of 

this document. 

Authority: This action is issued under the 

authority of sections 2002(a), 3006, and 

7004(b) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act as 

amended, 42 U.S.C. 6912(a), 6926, and 

6974(b). 

Dated: April 25, 2022. 

Martha Guzman Aceves, 

Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

50 CFR Part 17 

[Docket No. FWS–HQ–ES–2021–0156; 

FF09E21000 FXES1111090FEDR223] 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants; Review of Species That 

Are Candidates for Listing as 

Endangered or Threatened; Annual 

Notification of Findings on 

Resubmitted Petitions; Annual 

Description of Progress on Listing 

Actions 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notification of review. 

SUMMARY: In this candidate notification 

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

Wildlife Service (Service), present an 

updated list of plant and animal species 

that we regard as candidates for or have 

proposed for addition to the Lists of 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants under the Endangered 

Species Act of 1973, as amended. This 

document also includes our findings on 

resubmitted petitions and describes our 

progress in revising the Lists of 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants (Lists) during the period 

October 1, 2020, through September 30, 

2021. Combined with other decisions 

for individual species that were 

published separately from this CNOR in 

the past year, the current number of 

species that are candidates for listing is 

27 (as of September 30, 2021). 

Identification of candidate species can 

assist environmental planning efforts by 

providing advance notice of potential 

listings, and by allowing landowners, 

resource managers, States, Tribes, range 

countries, and other stakeholders to take 

actions to alleviate threats and thereby 

possibly remove the need to list species 

as endangered or threatened. Even if we 

subsequently list a candidate species, 

the early notice provided here could 

result in more options for species 

management and recovery by prompting 

earlier candidate conservation measures 

to alleviate threats to the species. 

DATES: We will accept information on 

any of the species in this document at 

any time. 

ADDRESSES: This document is available 

on the internet at https://

www.regulations.gov and https://

www.fws.gov/endangered/what-we-do/ 

cnor.html. 

Species assessment forms with 

information and references on a 

particular candidate species’ range, 

status, habitat needs, and listing priority 

assignment are available for review on 

our website (https://ecos.fws.gov/tess_

public/reports/candidate-speciesreport). Please submit any new 

information, materials, comments, or 

questions of a general nature on this 

document to the address listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Please submit any new information, 

materials, comments, or questions 

pertaining to a particular species to the 

address of the Regional Director or 

Branch Chief in the appropriate office 

listed under Request for Information in 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chief, Branch of Domestic Listing, U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service, MS: ES, 5275 

Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041– 

3803 (telephone 703–358–2673). 

Individuals in the United States who are 

deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have 

a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, 

TDD, or TeleBraille) to access 

telecommunications relay services. 

Individuals outside the United States 

should use the relay services offered 

within their country to make 

international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 

(Act; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), as 

amended, requires that we identify 

species of wildlife and plants that are 

endangered or threatened based solely 

on the best scientific and commercial 

data available. As defined in section 3 

of the Act, an endangered species is any 

species that is in danger of extinction 

throughout all or a significant portion of 

its range, and a threatened species is 

any species that is likely to become an 

endangered species within the 

foreseeable future throughout all or a 

significant portion of its range. Through 

the Federal rulemaking process, we add 

species that meet these definitions to 

the List of Endangered and Threatened 

Wildlife in title 50 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (CFR) at § 17.11 (50 

CFR 17.11) or the List of Endangered 

and Threatened Plants at 50 CFR 17.12. 

As part of this process, we maintain a 

list of species that we regard as 

candidates for listing. A candidate 

species is one for which we have on file 

sufficient information on biological 

vulnerability and threats to support a 

proposal for listing as endangered or 

threatened, but for which preparation 

and publication of a proposal is 

precluded by higher priority listing 

actions. We may identify a species as a 

candidate for listing after we have 

conducted an evaluation of its status— 

either on our own initiative, or in 

response to a petition we have received. 

If we have made a finding on a petition 

to list a species, and have found that 

listing is warranted, but precluded by 

other higher priority listing actions, we 

will add the species to our list of 

candidates. 

We maintain this list of candidates for 

a variety of reasons: (1) To notify the 

public that these species are facing 

threats to their survival; (2) to provide 

advance knowledge of potential listings 

that could affect decisions of 

environmental planners and developers; 

(3) to provide information that may 

stimulate and guide conservation efforts 

that will remove or reduce threats to 

these species and possibly make listing 

unnecessary; (4) to request input from 

interested parties to help us identify 

those candidate species that may not 

require protection under the Act, as well 

as additional species that may require 

the Act’s protections; and (5) to request 

necessary information for setting 

priorities for preparing listing proposals. 

We encourage collaborative 

conservation efforts for candidate 

species and offer technical and financial 

assistance to facilitate such efforts. For 

additional information regarding such 


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