Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 185 / Tuesday, September 26, 2017 / Proposed Rules 44753 

back to the original position, 26°56′00′′ 

N., 082°21′11′′ W. 

(2) Spectator Area. All waters of the 

Gulf of Mexico contained with the 

following points: 26°55′33′′ N., 

082°22′21′′ W., thence to position 

26°54′14′′ N., 082°21′35′′ W., thence to 

position 26°54′11′′ N., 082°21′40′′ W., 

thence to position 26°55′31′′ N., 

082°22′26′′ W., thence back to position 

26°55′33′′ N., 082°22′21′′ W. 

(3) Enforcement Area. All waters of 

the Gulf of Mexico encompassed within 

the following points: 26°56′09′′ N., 

082°22′12′′ W., thence to position 

26°54′13′′ N., 082°21′03′′ W., thence to 

position 26°53′58′′ N., 082°21′43′′ W., 

thence to position 26°55′56′′ N., 

082°22′48′′ W., thence back to position 

26°56′09′′ N., 082°22′12′′ W. 

(b) Definition. The term ‘‘designated 

representative’’ means Coast Guard 

Patrol Commanders, including Coast 

Guard coxswains, petty officers, and 

other officers operating Coast Guard 

vessels, and Federal, state, and local 

officers designated by or assisting the 

COTP St. Petersburg in the enforcement 

of the regulated areas. 

(c) Regulations. 

(1) All persons and vessels are 

prohibited from entering, transiting 

through, anchoring in, or remaining 

within the Race Area unless an 

authorized race participant. 

(2) Designated representatives may 

control vessel traffic throughout the 

enforcement area as determined by the 

prevailing conditions. 

(3) All vessels are to be anchored and/ 

or operate at a No Wake Speed in the 

spectator area. On-scene designated 

representatives will direct spectator 

vessels to the spectator area. 

(4) Persons and vessels may request 

authorization to enter, transit through, 

anchor in, or remain within the 

regulated areas by contacting the COTP 

St. Petersburg by telephone at (727) 

824–7506, or a designated 

representative via VHF radio on channel 

16. If authorization is granted by the 

COTP St. Petersburg or a designated 

representative, all persons and vessels 

receiving such authorization must 

comply with the instructions of the 

COTP St. Petersburg or a designated 

representative. 

(d) Enforcement Period. This rule will 

be enforced daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

on the third weekend of November 

(Friday, Saturday and Sunday). 

Dated: September 20, 2017. 

Holly L. Najarian, 

Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the 

Port Saint Petersburg. 

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BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R06–OAR–2017–0129; FRL–9967–64– 

Region 6] 

Approval and Promulgation of 

Implementation Plans; Louisiana; 

Regional Haze State Implementation 

Plan 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Clean 

Air Act (CAA or the Act), the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

is amending our recent proposal to 

approve a revision to the Louisiana 

State Implementation Plan (SIP) for 

regional haze submitted for parallel 

processing on August 24, 2017. On July 

13, 2017, we proposed to approve a SIP 

revision by the State of Louisiana 

through the Louisiana Department of 

Environmental Quality (LDEQ) to 

address certain Best Available Retrofit 

Technology requirements under 

Regional Haze for the Entergy R. S. 

Nelson facility (Nelson), which is an 

electric generating unit in Calcasieu 

Parish. We now amend that proposal, by 

proposing to approve a compliance date 

three years from the effective date of the 

final EPA approval of the SIP revision 

for Nelson to meet an emission limit for 

sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before October 26, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket No. EPA–R06– 

OAR–2017–0129, at http://

www.regulations.gov or via email to 

huser.jennifer@epa.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, please 

contact Jennifer Huser, 214–665–7347, 

huser.jennifer@epa.gov. 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/commentingepa-dockets. 

Docket: The index to the docket for 

this action is available electronically at 

www.regulations.gov and in hard copy 

at the EPA Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, 

Suite 700, Dallas, Texas. While all 

documents in the docket are listed in 

the index, some information may be 

publicly available only at the hard copy 

location (e.g., copyrighted material), and 

some may not be publicly available at 

either location (e.g., CBI). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jennifer Huser, 214–665–7347, 

huser.jennifer@epa.gov. To inspect the 

hard copy materials, please schedule an 

appointment with Ms. Huser or Mr. Bill 

Deese at 214–665–7253. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document wherever 

‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean 

the EPA. 

I. Background 

Regional haze is visibility impairment 

that is produced by a multitude of 

sources and activities which are located 

across a broad geographic area and emit 

fine particles (PM2.5) (e.g., sulfates, 

nitrates, organic carbon, elemental 

carbon, and soil dust) and their 

precursors. Fine particle precursors, 

such as SO2, react in the atmosphere to 

form PM2.5, which also impair visibility 

by scattering and absorbing light. The 

CAA’s visibility protection program 

helps to protect clear views in national 

parks and wilderness areas identified as 

‘‘Class I Federal areas’’ (CAA section 

169A, 40 CFR 51 subpart P and 40 CFR 

81 subpart D). Vistas in these areas are 

often obscured by visibility-impairing 

pollutants caused by emissions from 

numerous sources located over a wide 

geographic area. The program requires 

SIPs to address visibility-impairing 

pollutants. For more information on 

regional haze, visibility protection, and 

SIPs please see our May 19, 2017 and 

July 13, 2017 Federal Register proposals 

for Louisiana EGUs discussed below. 

These proposals can be accessed 

through regulations.gov (docket EPA– 

R06–OAR–207–0129). 

On May 19, 2017, we published a 

proposal to approve a Louisiana SIP 

revision to address regional haze 

requirements for EGUs with the 

exception of the Entergy R. S. Nelson 

EGU (Entergy Nelson) in Calcasieu 

Parish (82 FR 22936). On July 13, 2017, 

we published a proposal to approve a 

proposed Louisiana SIP revision 

44754 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 185 / Tuesday, September 26, 2017 / Proposed Rules 

submitted for parallel processing to 

address regional haze requirements for 

Entergy Nelson (82 FR 32294). In the 

July 13, 2017 action, we proposed to 

approve an SO2 emissions limit of 0.6 

pounds per million British Thermal 

Units (lbs/MMBtu) at Entergy Nelson 

Unit 6. The compliance date we 

proposed to approve was no later than 

the effective date of our approval of a 

final SIP. On August 24, 2017, Louisiana 

submitted a letter explaining its intent 

to revise the compliance date in its SIP 

for Entergy Nelson Unit 6 based on a 

public comment received during the 

State’s comment period. On June 21, 

2017, Entergy, the owner and operator 

of Nelson, submitted a comment to 

LDEQ on the proposed SIP. The 

comment letter requests a three-year 

period for the transition to the proposed 

SO2 limit for Nelson Unit 6. Entergy’s 

letter explains that coal contracts are in 

place for the next three years. Entergy 

requests this longer compliance time to 

allow the company’s fuel procurement 

to transition to new mines with lower 

sulfur coal. As a result, Louisiana’s 

revised compliance date for Entergy 

Nelson Unit 6 to meet the SO2 emissions 

limit is three years from the effective 

date of our approval of the SIP revision. 

II. The EPA’s Evaluation 

We sent clarifying questions via email 

to Entergy regarding their need for three 

years to comply with the emission limit 

of 0.6 lbs/MMBtu. The questions and 

Entergy’s response are included in the 

docket. A compliance date of three years 

from the effective date of our approval 

of the SIP revision allows time for 

Entergy Nelson to ensure that Unit 6 is 

able to continuously meet a SO2

emissions limit of 0.6 lbs/MMBtu once 

the emission limit becomes enforceable. 

We believe this is a reasonable basis to 

allow three years for Nelson Unit 6 to 

comply with this limit, and this change 

meets the requirement that BART be 

installed and operational ‘‘as 

expeditiously as practicable, but in no 

event later than five years after approval 

of the [SIP].’’ 40 CFR 51.308(e)(1)(v). As 

a result, we propose to approve this SIP 

revision when it is submitted to EPA. 

III. Proposed Action 

EPA amends our proposal to approve 

a Louisiana regional haze SIP revision 

submitted on August 24, 2017 to allow 

a compliance date three years from the 

effective date of the final EPA approval 

of the SIP revision for Unit 6 of the 

Entergy Nelson EGU to meet a SO2

emissions limit of 0.6 lbs/MMBtu. 

IV. Incorporation by Reference 

In this action, we are proposing to 

include in a final rule regulatory text 

that includes incorporation by 

reference. In accordance with the 

requirements of 1 CFR 51.5, we are 

proposing to incorporate by reference 

revisions to the Louisiana regulations as 

described in the Proposed Action 

section above. We have made, and will 

continue to make, these documents 

generally available electronically 

through www.regulations.gov and/or in 

hard copy at the EPA Region 6 office. 

V. Statutory and Executive Order 

Reviews 

Under the CAA, the Administrator is 

required to approve a SIP submission 

that complies with the provisions of the 

Act and applicable Federal regulations. 

42 U.S.C. 7410(k); 40 CFR 52.02(a). 

Thus, in reviewing SIP submissions, the 

EPA’s role is to approve state choices, 

provided that they meet the criteria of 

the CAA. Accordingly, this action 

merely proposes to approve state law as 

meeting Federal requirements and does 

not impose additional requirements 

beyond those imposed by state law. For 

that reason, this action: 

• Is not a ‘‘significant regulatory 

action’’ subject to review by the Office 

of Management and Budget under 

Executive Orders 12866 (58 FR 51735, 

October 4, 1993), 13563 (76 FR 3821, 

January 21, 2011) and 13771 (82 FR 

9339, February 2, 2017); 

• Does not impose an information 

collection burden under the provisions 

of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.); 

• Is certified as not having a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities 

under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 

U.S.C. 601 et seq.); 

• Does not contain any unfunded 

mandate or significantly or uniquely 

affect small governments, as described 

in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act 

of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–4); 

• Does not have Federalism 

implications as specified in Executive 

Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 

1999); 

• Is not an economically significant 

regulatory action based on health or 

safety risks subject to Executive Order 

13045 (62 FR 19885, April 23, 1997); 

• Is not a significant regulatory action 

subject to Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 

28355, May 22, 2001); 

• Is not subject to requirements of 

section 12(d) of the National 

Technology Transfer and Advancement 

Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 note) because 

this action does not involve technical 

standards; and 

• Does not provide EPA with the 

discretionary authority to address, as 

appropriate, disproportionate human 

health or environmental effects, using 

practicable and legally permissible 

methods, under Executive Order 12898 

(59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994). 

In addition, the SIP is not approved to 

apply on any Indian reservation land or 

in any other area where EPA or an 

Indian tribe has demonstrated that a 

tribe has jurisdiction. 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 relations, 

Nitrogen dioxide, Particulate matter, 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements, Regional haze, Sulfur 

dioxides, Visibility. 

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

Dated: September 20, 2017. 

Samuel Coleman, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 6. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Parts 51, 61, and 69 

[WC Docket No: 10–90; CC Docket No. 01– 

92] 

Parties Asked To Refresh the Record 

on Intercarrier Compensation Reform 

Related to the Network Edge, Tandem 

Switching and Transport, and Transit 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Commission invites 

interested parties to update the record 

on issues raised by the Commission in 

the 2011 Intercarrier Compensation 

(ICC) Transformation Further Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) 

regarding the network edge for traffic 

that interconnects with the Public 

Switched Telephone Network, tandem 

switching and transport, and transit (the 

non-access traffic functional equivalent 

of tandem switching and transport). The 

Commission seeks updated comment in 

light of regulatory and marketplace 

developments that have occurred since 

the 2011 ICC Transformation FNPRM, 

including the transition of certain