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organizations and small governmental 

jurisdictions); 

• Tuesday, September 26, 2017— 

environment and public advocacy; 

• Tuesday, October 3, 2017— 

conservation, e.g., hunters and anglers; 

• Tuesday, October 10, 2017— 

construction and transportation; 

• Tuesday, October 17, 2017— 

agriculture; 

• Tuesday, October 24, 2017— 

industry; 

• Tuesday, October 31, 2017— 

mining; 

• Tuesday, November 7, 2017— 

scientific organizations and academia; 

• Tuesday, November 14, 2017— 

stormwater, wastewater management 

and drinking water agencies; and 

• Tuesday, November 21, 2017—open 

to general public. 

The agencies are also planning an inperson meeting with small entities, 

which will be held on Monday, October 

23, 2017, from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Eastern 

Time at the U.S. EPA’s Headquarters 

located at 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20003. To 

facilitate the building security process, 

and to request reasonable 

accommodation, those who wish to 

attend must contact Joan B. Rogers 

(202–564–6568 or rogers.joanb@

epa.gov), no later than Friday, October 

13, 2017. RSVPs will be accepted until 

October 13, or until room capacity has 

been reached (100 max), whichever 

occurs first. 

Dated: August 18, 2017. 

John Goodin, 

Acting Director, Office of Wetlands, Oceans 

and Watersheds, Office of Water, 

Environmental Protection Agency. 

Dated: August 18, 2017. 

Douglas W. Lamont, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army 

(Project Planning and Review), performing 

the duties of the Assistant Secretary of the 

Army for Civil Works. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R03–OAR–2017–0394; FRL–9966–95– 

Region 3] 

Approval and Promulgation of Air 

Quality Implementation Plans; 

Maryland; Approval of an Alternative 

Volatile Organic Compound Emission 

Standard 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) proposes to approve the 

state implementation plan (SIP) revision 

submitted by the State of Maryland. 

This revision incorporates by reference 

a Maryland Department of the 

Environment (MDE) order that 

establishes an alternative volatile 

organic compound (VOC) emission 

standard for National Gypsum Company 

(NGC) to ensure that it remains a minor 

VOC source. In the Final Rules section 

of this issue of the Federal Register, 

EPA is approving Maryland’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. If no adverse comments are 

received in response to this action, 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. 

DATES: Comments must be received in 

writing by September 27, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R03– 

OAR–2017–0394 at http://

www.regulations.gov, or via email to 

stahl.cynthia@epa.gov. For comments 

submitted at Regulations.gov, follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. Once submitted, comments 

cannot be edited or removed from 

Regulations.gov. For either manner of 

submission, the 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). For additional submission 

methods, please contact the person 

identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section. For the 

full EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit 

http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gregory A. Becoat, (215) 814–2036, or 

by email at becoat.gregory@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For 

further information, please see the 

information provided in the direct final 

action, with the same title, that is 

located in the ‘‘Rules and Regulations’’ 

section of this issue of the Federal 

Register publication. 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. 

Dated: August 12, 2017. 

Cecil Rodrigues, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region III. 

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