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guidance related to postsecondary 

education programs, that have a policy 

impact. We are now announcing two 

public hearings that will supplement 

this effort by seeking public input on 

Department regulations and guidance 

specific to postsecondary education 

programs that may be appropriate for 

repeal, replacement, or modification. 

This includes regulations and guidance 

for the Federal Student Aid programs 

authorized under title IV of the Higher 

Education Act of 1965, as amended, as 

well as regulations and guidance for the 

institutional service, international and 

foreign language education, and student 

service programs. 

Public Hearings 

We will hold two public hearings: 

• September 26, 2017, at Salt Lake 

Community College—Miller Campus, 

9750 South 300 West, Karen Gail Miller 

Conference Center, Copper Creek Room 

A&B, Sandy, Utah 84070. 

• October 4, 2017, at the U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Ave. SW., Barnard Auditorium, 

Washington, DC 20202. 

The public hearings will be held from 

9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., local time. 

Individuals who would like to present 

comments at the public hearings must 

register by sending an email to 

operegreformhearings@ed.gov. The 

email should include the name of the 

presenter along with the public hearing 

at which the individual would like to 

speak, the general topic(s) the 

individual would like to address, and a 

general timeframe during which the 

individual would like to speak (for 

example, a presenter could indicate 

morning or afternoon, or before 11:00 

a.m. or after 3:00 p.m.). We will attempt 

to accommodate each speaker’s 

preference, but, if we are unable to do 

so, we will make the determination on 

a first-come first-served basis, based on 

the time and date the email was 

received. It is likely that each 

participant will be limited to five 

minutes. The Department will notify 

registrants of the location and time slot 

reserved for them. An individual may 

make only one presentation at the 

public hearings. If we receive more 

registrations than we are able to 

accommodate, the Department reserves 

the right to reject the registration of an 

entity or individual that is affiliated 

with an entity or individual that is 

already scheduled to present comments, 

and to select among registrants to ensure 

that a broad range of entities and 

individuals is allowed to present. We 

will accept walk-in registrations for any 

remaining time slots on a first-come 

first-served basis, beginning at 8:30 a.m. 

on the day of the public hearing at the 

Department’s on-site registration table. 

Registration is not required to observe 

the public hearings; however, space may 

be limited. 

The Department will post transcripts 

of the hearings to https://www2.ed.gov/ 

policy/highered/reg/reform/2017/ 

index.html. Although the Department 

will not be videoing the hearings, as this 

is a public meeting, speakers should be 

aware that they may be filmed or 

recorded by members of the public. 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document in 

an accessible format (e.g., braille, large 

print, audiotape, or compact disc) or 

register to present comments by 

contacting Wendy Macias, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Ave. SW., Room 6C111, Washington, DC 

20202. Telephone: (202) 203–9155 or by 

email: Wendy.Macias@ed.gov. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free internet access to the 

official edition of the Federal Register 

and the Code of Federal Regulations is 

available via the Federal Digital System 

at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you 

can view this document, as well as all 

other documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Portable Document Format 

(PDF). To use PDF you must have 

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. You may also 

access documents of the Department 

published in the Federal Register by 

using the article search feature at: 

www.federalregister.gov. Specifically, 

through the advanced search feature at 

this site, you can limit your search to 

documents published by the 

Department. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1098a. 

Dated: August 22, 2017. 

Kathleen A. Smith, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary 

Education. 

[FR Doc. 2017–18104 Filed 8–24–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R07–OAR–2017–0143; FRL–9966–58– 

Region 7] 

Air Plan Approval; Iowa; Amendment 

to the Administrative Consent Order, 

Grain Processing Corporation, 

Muscatine, Iowa 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a 

revision to the State Implementation 

Plan (SIP) submitted by the State of 

Iowa for the purpose of incorporating an 

amendment to the Administrative 

Consent Order (ACO), Grain Processing 

Corporation (GPC), Muscatine, Iowa. 

The revision amends the ACO to change 

the date for completion of performance 

testing to allow the state more time to 

complete processing air construction 

permit applications submitted by GPC 

and specify testing requirements as 

appropriate in the final permits. This 

revision will not impact the schedule 

for installation and operation of control 

equipment, will not alter any other 

compliance dates, and will not 

adversely affect air quality in 

Muscatine, Iowa. In the ‘‘Rules and 

Regulations’’ section of this Federal 

Register, we are approving the state’s 

SIP revisions as a direct final rule 

without a prior proposed rule. If we 

receive no adverse comment, we will 

not take further action on this proposed 

rule. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

September 25, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R07– 

OAR–2017–0143, to http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Once submitted, comments cannot be 

edited or removed from Regulations.gov. 

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. The 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, 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: 

Heather Hamilton, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Air Planning and 

Development Branch, 11201 Renner 

Boulevard, Lenexa, Kansas 66219 at 


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(913) 551–7039, or by email at 

hamilton.heather@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

document proposes to take action on a 

SIP revision submitted by the State of 

Iowa for the purpose of incorporating an 

amendment to the Administrative 

Consent Order (ACO) with Grain 

Processing Corporation (GPC), 

Muscatine, Iowa. 

The state held a 30-day comment 

period, during which no comments 

were received. 

Additional information with respect 

to this proposed rule is included in the 

Technical Support Document that is 

part of this docket. 

We have published a direct final rule 

approving the State’s SIP revision (s) in 

the ‘‘Rules and Regulations’’ section of 

this Federal Register, because we view 

this as a noncontroversial action and 

anticipate no relevant adverse comment. 

We have explained our reasons for this 

action in the preamble to the direct final 

rule. If we receive no adverse comment, 

we will not take further action on this 

proposed rule. If we receive adverse 

comment, we will withdraw the direct 

final rule and it will not take effect. We 

would address all public comments in 

any subsequent final rule based on this 

proposed rule. 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. 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52 

Environmental protection, Air 

pollution control, Incorporation by 

reference, Particulate matter, Reporting 

and recordkeeping requirements. 

Dated: August 9, 2017. 

Edward H. Chu, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 7. 

[FR Doc. 2017–17418 Filed 8–24–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 54 

[AU Docket No. 17–182; WC Docket No. 10– 

90; FCC 17–101] 

Comment Sought on Competitive 

Bidding Procedures and Certain 

Program Requirements for the 

Connect America Fund Phase II 

Auction (Auction 903) 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal 

Communications Commission 

(Commission) initiates the pre-auction 

process for the Connect America Fund 

Phase II auction (Phase II auction, 

auction, or Auction 903). The 

Commission proposes and seeks 

comment on the procedures to be used 

in the Phase II auction. The Phase II 

auction will award up to $1.98 billion 

over 10 years to service providers that 

commit to offer voice and broadband 

services to fixed locations in unserved 

high-cost areas. The auction is 

scheduled to begin in 2018. A guide that 

provides further technical and 

mathematical detail regarding the 

bidding, assignment, and support 

amount determination procedures 

proposed in this document, as well as 

examples for potential bidders, is 

available at: http://transition.fcc.gov/ 

Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/ 

db0804/DA-17-733A1.pdf. 

DATES: Comments are due on or before 

September 18, 2017 and reply 

comments are due on or before October 

18, 2017. If you anticipate that you will 

be submitting comments, but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this document, you 

should advise the contact listed below 

as soon as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be filed 

using the Commission’s Electronic 

Comment Filing System (ECFS). See 

Electronic Filing of Documents in 

Rulemaking Proceedings, 63 FR 24121 

(1998). 

D Electronic Filers: Comments may be 

filed electronically using the Internet by 

accessing the ECFS: http://apps.fcc.gov/ 

ecfs/. 

D Paper Filers: Parties who choose to 

file by paper must file an original and 

one copy of each filing. If more than one 

docket or rulemaking number appears in 

the caption of this proceeding, filers 

must submit two additional copies for 

each additional docket or rulemaking 

number. Filings can be sent by hand or 

messenger delivery, by commercial 

overnight courier, or by first-class or 

overnight U.S. Postal Service mail. All 

filings must be addressed to the 

Commission’s Secretary, Office of the 

Secretary, Federal Communications 

Commission. 

D All hand-delivered or messengerdelivered paper filings for the 

Commission’s Secretary must be 

delivered to FCC Headquarters at 445 

12th St. SW., Room TW–A325, 

Washington, DC 20554. The filing hours 

are 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. All hand 

deliveries must be held together with 

rubber bands or fasteners. Any 

envelopes and boxes must be disposed 

of before entering the building. 

D Commercial overnight mail (other 

than U.S. Postal Service Express Mail 

and Priority Mail) must be sent to 9300 

East Hampton Drive, Capitol Heights, 

MD 20743. 

D U.S. Postal Service first-class, 

Express, and Priority mail must be 

addressed to 445 12th Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20554. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Heidi Lankau or Katie King, 

Telecommunications Commission, 

Wireline Competition Bureau, (202) 

418–7400 or TTY: (202) 418–0484; Mark 

Montano or Angela Kung, Auctions and 

Spectrum Access Division, Wireless 

Telecommunications Bureau, (202) 418– 

0660. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

synopsis of the Commission’s document 

in AU Docket No. 17–182; WC Docket 

No. 10–90; FCC 17–101, released on 

August 4, 2017. The full text of this 

document is available for public 

inspection during regular business 

hours in the FCC Reference Center, 

Room CY–A257, 445 12th St. SW., 

Washington, DC 20554 or at the 

following Internet address: http://

transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_

Business/2017/db0807/FCC-17- 

101A1.pdf. 

Pursuant to sections 1.415 and 1.419 

of the Commission’s rules, 47 CFR 

1.415, 1.419, interested parties may file 

comments and reply comments on or 

before the dates indicated above in AU 

Docket No. 17–182 and WC Docket No. 

10–90. 

I. Introduction 

1. By this document, the Commission 

initiates the pre-auction process for the 

Connect America Fund Phase II auction 

(Phase II auction, auction, or Auction 

903). The Phase II auction will award up 

to $198 million annually for 10 years to 

service providers that commit to offer 

voice and broadband services to fixed 

locations in unserved high-cost areas. 

The auction is scheduled to begin in 

2018. 

2. Auction 903 will be the first 

auction to award ongoing high-cost 

universal service support through 

competitive bidding in a multipleround, reverse auction. Through this 

auction, the Commission intends to 

maximize the value the American 

people receive for the universal service 

dollars it spends, balancing higherquality services with cost efficiencies. 

Therefore, the auction is designed to 

select bids from providers that would 

deploy high-speed broadband and voice 

services in unserved communities for 

lower relative levels of support. 


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