[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 96 (Monday, May 18, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29711-29712]
[FR Doc No: 2020-10515]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-10009-57-OAR]

Allocations of Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Allowances From New
Unit Set-Asides for 2020 Control Periods

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of data availability.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is providing notice
of the availability of data on emission allowance allocations to
certain units under the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) trading
programs. EPA has completed preliminary calculations for the first
round of allocations of allowances from the CSAPR new unit

set-asides (NUSAs) for the 2020 control periods and has posted
spreadsheets containing the calculations on EPA's website. EPA will
consider timely objections to the preliminary calculations (including
objections concerning the identification of units eligible for
allocations) before determining the final amounts of the first-round
allocations.

DATES: Objections to the information referenced in this notice must be
received on or before June 17, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Submit your objections via email to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>
Include ``2020 NUSA allocations'' in the email subject line and include
your name, title, affiliation, address, phone number, and email address
in the body of the email.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions concerning this action
should be addressed to Jason Kuhns at<PHONE_NUMBER> or
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>or Andrew Reighart at<PHONE_NUMBER> or
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under each CSAPR trading program where EPA
is responsible for determining emission allowance allocations, a
portion of each state's emissions budget for the program for each
control period is reserved in a NUSA (and in an additional Indian
country NUSA in the case of states with Indian country within their
borders) for allocation to certain units that would not otherwise
receive allowance allocations. The procedures for identifying the
eligible units for each control period and for allocating allowances
from the NUSAs and Indian country NUSAs to these units are set forth in
the CSAPR trading program regulations at 40 CFR 97.411(b) and 97.412
(NOX Annual), 97.511(b) and 97.512 (NOX Ozone
Season Group 1), 97.611(b) and 97.612 (SO2 Group 1),
97.711(b) and 97.712 (SO2 Group 2), and 97.811(b) and 97.812
(NOX Ozone Season Group 2). Each NUSA allowance allocation
process involves up to two rounds of allocations to eligible units,
termed ``new'' units, followed by the allocation to ``existing'' units
of any allowances not allocated to new units.
    This notice concerns preliminary calculations for the first round
of NUSA allowance allocations for the 2020 control periods. Generally,
the allocation procedures call for each eligible unit to receive a
first-round 2020 NUSA allocation equal to its 2019 control period
emissions as reported under 40 CFR part 75 unless the total of such
allocations to all eligible units would exceed the amount of allowances
in the NUSA, in which case the allocations are reduced on a pro-rata
basis. EPA notes that, under 40 CFR 97.406(c)(3), 97.506(c)(3),
97.606(c)(3), 97.706(c)(3), and 97.806(c)(3), a unit's emissions
occuring before its monitor certification deadline are not considered
to have occurred during a control period and consequently are not
included in the emission amounts used to determine NUSA allocations.
    The detailed unit-by-unit data and preliminary allowance allocation
calculations are set forth in Excel spreadsheets titled
``CSAPR_NUSA_2020_NOX_Annual_1st_Round_Prelim_Data'',
``CSAPR_NUSA_2020_NOX_OS_1st_Round_Prelim_Data'', and
``CSAPR_NUSA_2020_SO2_1st_Round_Prelim_Data,'' available on
EPA's website at https://www.epa.gov/csapr/new-unit-set-aside-notices-data-availability-nusa-noda-cross-state-air-pollution-rule. Each of the
spreadsheets contains a separate worksheet for each state covered by
that program showing, for each unit identified as eligible for a first-
round NUSA allocation, (1) the unit's emissions in the 2019 control
period (annual or ozone season as applicable), (2) the maximum first-
round 2020 NUSA allowance allocation for which the unit is eligible
(typically the unit's emissions in the 2019 control period), (3)
various adjustments to the unit's maximum allocation, many of which are
necessary only if the NUSA pool is oversubscribed, and (4) the
preliminary calculation of the unit's first-round 2020 NUSA allowance
allocation.
    Each state worksheet also contains a summary showing (1) the
quantity of allowances initially available in that state's 2020 NUSA,
(2) the sum of the first-round 2020 NUSA allowance allocations that
will be made to new units in that state, assuming there are no
corrections to the data, and (3) the quantity of allowances that would
remain in the 2020 NUSA for use in second-round allocations to new
units (or ultimately for allocation to existing units), again assuming
there are no corrections to the data.
    Objections should be strictly limited to the data and calculations
upon which the NUSA allowance allocations are based and should be
emailed to the address identified in ADDRESSES. Objections must
include: (1) Precise identification of the specific data and/or
calculations the commenter believes are inaccurate, (2) new proposed
data and/or calculations upon which the commenter believes EPA should
rely instead to determine allowance allocations, and (3) the reasons
why EPA should rely on the commenter's proposed data and/or
calculations and not the data referenced in this notice.
    EPA notes that an allocation or lack of allocation of allowances to
a given unit does not constitute a determination that CSAPR does or
does not apply to the unit. EPA also notes that, under 40 CFR
97.411(c), 97.511(c), 97.611(c), 97.711(c), and 97.811(c), allocations
are subject to potential correction if a unit to which allowances have
been allocated for a given control period is not actually an affected
unit as of the start of that control period.

(Authority: 40 CFR 97.411(b), 97.511(b), 97.611(b), 97.711(b), and
97.811(b).)

Reid P. Harvey,
Director, Clean Air Markets Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs,
Office of Air and Radiation.
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[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 64 (Tuesday, April 3, 2018)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 14232-14234]
[FR Doc No: 2018-06748]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 62

[EPA-R05-OAR-2018-0113; FRL-9976-13-Region 5]

Air Plan Approval; Ohio; Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste
Incinerator Withdrawal for Designated Facilities and Pollutants

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to
approve Ohio's request for withdrawal of the previously approved
Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerator (HMIWI) State Plan. The
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) submitted its HMIWI
withdrawal on January 24, 2018, certifying that there is only one HMIWI
unit currently operating in the state of Ohio and requesting that the
Federal Plan apply to the single source in the State.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before May 3, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R05-
OAR-2018-0113, at http://www.regulations.gov or via email to
[email protected]. 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, 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: Margaret Sieffert, Environmental
Engineer, Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West Jackson
Boulevard (AT-18J), Chicago, Illinois 60604,<PHONE_NUMBER>,
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document whenever ``we,''
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean EPA. This supplementary information
section is arranged as follows:

I. Background
II. Proposed EPA Action
III. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews

I. Background

    Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (Act) requires that EPA develop
regulations providing that states must submit to EPA plans establishing
standards of performance for certain existing sources of pollutants. A
standard of performance would apply to the existing source if it were
an existing source, and if the pollutants are noncriteria pollutants
(i.e., pollutants for which there is no national ambient air quality
standard) and are not on a list published under section 108 of the Act
or emitted from a source category regulated under section 112 of the
Act. Section 129 of the Act, and 40 CFR part 60, subpart B, apply the
section 111(d) requirements to existing solid waste combustors,
including HMIWIs, and provide that EPA should include, as part of the
performance standards, emissions guidelines (EGs) that include the plan
elements required by section 129.
    The regulation at 40 CFR part 60, subpart B contains general
provisions applicable to the adoption and submittal of state plans for
subject facilities under sections 111(d) and 129 (111(d)/129 plan). 40
CFR part 62, subpart A provides the procedural framework for the
submission of the plans.
    EPA promulgated new source performance standards and EGs for HMIWIs
on September 15, 1997 (62 FR 48382), and amended them most recently on
October 6, 2009 (74 FR 51367) and April 4, 2011 (76 FR 18407). The
standards and EGs are codified at 40 CFR part 60, subparts Ce and Ec,
respectively.
    States were required to revise plans for existing HMIWIs, pursuant
to sections 111(d) and 129 of the Act and 40 CFR part 60, subpart B.
OEPA submitted a HMIWI State Plan on October 18, 2005. EPA approved the
State Plan under 40 CFR 62.8880, and the State Plan became effective on
August 6, 2007 (72 FR 36605). On May 13, 2013, EPA finalized the
Federal Plan under 40 CFR part 62, subpart HHH (78 FR 28052).
    A HMIWI unit as defined in 40 CFR 60.31e, means any device that
combusts any amount of hospital waste and/or medical/infectious waste.
The designated facilities to which the original EG's applied were
existing HMIWI units that: (1) For which construction was commenced on
or before June 20, 1996, or for which modification was commenced on or
before March 16, 1998; or (2) For which construction was commenced
after June 20, 1996, but no later than December 1, 2008, or for which
modification is commenced after March 16, 1998, but no later than April
6, 2010.
    On January 21, 2018, OEPA submitted its HMIWI withdrawal, in which
it certifies that there is only one HMIWI unit currently operating in
Ohio. On January 18, 2013, OEPA confirmed that two of the four HMIWI
units had shut down. Since that time an additional HMIWI unit has shut
down. The only remaining HMIWI unit is at Stericycle, Inc, located in
Warren, OH. Because there is only one source, OEPA is requesting that
the previously approved State Plan be withdrawn and that the Federal
Plan apply to the source.
    Although Section 111(d) requires States to submit State Plans, EPA
understands that the extensive amendments that would be required by
OEPA to revise Ohio's previously approved State Plan to make it
consistent with the revisions would be disproportionate to the single
affected source in Ohio. EPA's Federal Plan implementing the EG's would
apply to the remaining source in Ohio (as well as to any existing
affected sources if found at a later date). Ohio would be implementing
and enforcing the Federal Plan through its Title V permitting process.
This action should not be construed as an approval of a State Plan or
delegation of the Federal Plan and that Ohio's Section 111(d)/129
obligations are separate from Ohio's obligations under Title V of the
Act. Ohio understands and accepts this limitation.

II. Proposed EPA Action

    EPA is proposing to approve Ohio's request for withdrawal of a
previously approved State Plan and amending 40 CFR part 62 to reflect
OEPA's withdrawal. OEPA submitted its HMIWI withdrawal on January 21,
2018 certifying that there is only one HMIWI unit, as defined under 40
CFR 60.31e, currently operating in the state of Ohio and requested that
the Federal Plan apply to the single source in the State. EPA
understands that the extensive amendments that would be required by
OEPA to revise Ohio's previously approved State Plan to make it
consistent with the revisions would be disproportionate to the single
affected source in Ohio, and is proposing to approve the withdrawal and
have the Federal Plan apply to the known affected source.

III. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews

General Requirements

    This action is not a ``significant regulatory action'' under the
terms of Executive Order 12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993) and
therefore is not subject to review by the Office of Management and
Budget under Executive Orders 12866 and 13563 (76 FR 3821, January 21,
2011). For this reason, this action is also not subject to Executive
Order 13211, ``Actions Concerning Regulations That Significantly Affect
Energy Supply, Distribution, or Use'' (66 FR 28355, May 22, 2001). This
action is not an Executive Order 13771 (82 FR 9339, February 2, 2017)
regulatory action because this action is not significant under E.O.
12866. This action merely approves state law as meeting Federal
requirements and merely notifies the public of EPA' approval for a
withdrawal of a previously approved HMIWI State Plan. This action
imposes no requirements beyond those imposed by the state. Accordingly,
the Administrator certifies that this proposed rule will not have a
significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities
under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.). Because
this rulemaking

approves pre-existing requirements under state law and does not impose
any additional enforceable duty beyond that required by state law, it
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). This proposed rule 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 rulemaking 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). This action also does not have
Federalism implications because it does not have substantial direct
effects on the States, on the relationship between the national
government and the States, or on the distribution of power and
responsibilities among the various levels of government, as specified
in Executive Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 1999). This action
merely approves a withdrawal, and does not alter the relationship or
the distribution of power and responsibilities established in the Act.
This rulemaking also is not subject to Executive Order 13045 (62 FR
19885, April 23, 1997), because it approves a withdrawal.
    In reviewing section 111(d)/129 plan submissions, EPA's role is to
approve State choices, provided that they meet the criteria of the Act.
With regard to withdrawals for designated facilities received by EPA
from states, EPA's role is to notify the public of the approval of the
State's withdrawal and revise 40 CFR part 62 accordingly. In this
context, in the absence of a prior existing requirement for the State
to use voluntary consensus standards (VCS), EPA has no authority to
disapprove a section 111(d)/129 withdrawal for failure to use VCS. It
would thus be inconsistent with applicable law for EPA, when it reviews
a section 111(d)/129 withdrawal, to use VCS in place of a section
111(d)/129 withdrawal submission that otherwise satisfies the
provisions of the Act. Thus, the requirements of section 12(d) of the
National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272
note) do not apply. This rulemaking does not impose an information
collection burden under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 62

    Environmental protection, Administrative practice and procedure,
Air pollution control, Hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerators,
Intergovernmental relations, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.

    Dated: March 20, 2018.
Edward H. Chu,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5.
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MEMORANDUM

DATE:		November 25, 2014

TO:		Clean Power Plan for Existing Power Plants; Docket Id: OAR - 2013-0602

FROM:	John Bradfield, EPA - OAQPS

SUBJECT:	September 16, 2014 Meeting between Joe Goffman, EPA and Santee Cooper Regarding Proposed Clean Power Plan for Existing Power Plants
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SUMMARY
On September 16, 2014, Joe Goffman met with Santee Cooper to discuss issues concerning the proposed Clean Power Plan for existing power plants and nuclear power facilities that are under construction.

Attendees
Pamela Williams, Senior Vice President of Corporate Services, Santee Cooper
Elizabeth Warner, Vice President of Legal Services, Santee Cooper
Stephen Fotis, Counsel, Van Ness Feldman LLP
Janet Anderson, Counsel, Van Ness Feldman LLP
Joe Goffman, EPA


[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 143 (Thursday, July 25, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 45010]
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[File No. 500-1]

In the Matter of Camelot Entertainment Group, Inc., Cavico Corp.,
Global 8 Environmental Technologies, Inc., GTC Telecom Corp., ICF
Corporation, and New NRG, Inc.; Order of Suspension of Trading

July 23, 2013.
    It appears to the Securities and Exchange Commission that there is
a lack of current and accurate information concerning the securities of
Camelot Entertainment Group, Inc. because it has not filed any periodic
reports since the period ended September 30, 2010.
    It appears to the Securities and Exchange Commission that there is
a lack of current and accurate information concerning the securities of
Cavico Corp. because it has not filed any periodic reports since the
period ended September 30, 2010.
    It appears to the Securities and Exchange Commission that there is
a lack of current and accurate information concerning the securities of
Global 8 Environmental Technologies, Inc. because it has not filed any
periodic reports since the period ended June 30, 2009.
    It appears to the Securities and Exchange Commission that there is
a lack of current and accurate information concerning the securities of
GTC Telecom Corp. because it has not filed any periodic reports since
the period ended March 31, 2007.
    It appears to the Securities and Exchange Commission that there is
a lack of current and accurate information concerning the securities of
ICF Corporation because it has not filed any periodic reports since the
period ended September 30, 2005.
    It appears to the Securities and Exchange Commission that there is
a lack of current and accurate information concerning the securities of
New NRG, Inc. because it has not filed any periodic reports since the
period ended December 31, 2006.
    The Commission is of the opinion that the public interest and the
protection of investors require a suspension of trading in the
securities of the above-listed companies. Therefore, it is ordered,
pursuant to Section 12(k) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, that
trading in the securities of the above-listed companies is suspended
for the period from 9:30 a.m. EDT on July 23, 2013, through 11:59 p.m.
EDT on August 5, 2013.

    By the Commission.
Jill M. Peterson,
Assistant Secretary.
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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 34 (Wednesday, February 22, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11394-11395]
[FR Doc No: 2017-03425]

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Upon Written Request, Copies Available From: Securities and Exchange
Commission, Office of FOIA Services, 100 F Street NE., Washington, DC
20549-2736.

Extension:
    Rule 203A-2(d), SEC File No. 270-630, OMB Control No. 3235-0689.

    Notice is hereby given that pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the ``Commission'') is soliciting comments on the collections of
information summarized below. The Commission plans to submit this
existing collection of information to the Office of Management and
Budget (``OMB'') for extension and approval.
    The title of the collection of information is: ``Exemption for
Certain Multi-State Investment Advisers (Rule 203A-2(d)).'' Its
currently approved OMB control number is 3235-0689. An agency may not
conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a
collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number.
    Pursuant to section 203A of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940
(the ``Act'') (15 U.S.C. 80b-3a), an investment adviser that is
regulated or required to be regulated as an investment adviser in the
state in which it maintains its principal office and place of business
is prohibited from registering with the Commission unless that adviser
has at least $25 million in assets under management or advises a
Commission-registered investment company. Section 203A also prohibits
from Commission registration an adviser that: (i) Has assets under
management between $25 million and $100 million; (ii) is required to be
registered as an investment adviser with the state in which it
maintains its principal office and place of business; and (iii) if
registered, would be subject to examination as an adviser by that state
(a ``mid-sized adviser''). A mid-sized adviser that otherwise would be
prohibited may register with the Commission if it would be required to
register with 15 or more states. Similarly, Rule 203A-2(d) under the
Act (17 CFR 275.203a-2(d)) provides that the prohibition on
registration with the Commission does not apply to an investment
adviser that is required to register in 15 or more states. An
investment adviser relying on this exemption also must: (i) Include a
representation on Schedule D of Form ADV that the investment adviser
has concluded that it must register as an investment adviser with the
required number of states; (ii) undertake to withdraw from registration
with the Commission if the adviser indicates on an annual updating
amendment to Form ADV that it would be required by the laws of fewer
than 15 states to register as an investment adviser with the state; and
(iii) maintain in an easily accessible place a record of the states in
which the investment adviser has determined it would, but for the
exemption, be required to register for a period of not less than five
years from the filing of a Form ADV relying on the rule.
    Respondents to this collection of information are investment
advisers required to register in 15 or more states absent the exemption
that rely on rule 203A-2(d) to register with the Commission. The
information collected under rule 203A-2(d) permits the Commission's
examination staff to determine an adviser's eligibility for
registration with the Commission under this exemptive rule and is also
necessary for the Commission staff to use in its examination and
oversight program. This collection of information is codified at 17 CFR
275.203a-2(d) and is mandatory to qualify for and maintain Commission
registration eligibility under rule 203A-2(d). Responses to the
recordkeeping requirements under rule 203A-2(d) in the context of the
Commission's examination and oversight program are generally kept
confidential.
    The estimated number of investment advisers subject to the
collection of information requirements under the rule is 142. These
advisers will incur an average one-time initial burden of approximately
8 hours, and an average ongoing burden of approximately 8 hours per
year, to keep records sufficient to demonstrate that they meet the 15-
state threshold. These estimates are based on an estimate that each
year an investment adviser will spend approximately 0.5 hours creating
a record of its determination whether it must register as an investment
adviser with each of the 15 states required to rely on the exemption,
and approximately 0.5 hours to maintain these records. Accordingly, we
estimate that rule 203A-2(d) results in an annual aggregate burden of
collection for SEC-registered investment advisers of a total of 1,136
hours. Estimates of average burden hours are made solely for the
purposes of the Paperwork Reduction Act, and are not derived from a
comprehensive or even a representative survey or study of the costs of
Commission rules and forms.
    Written comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of
the burden of the collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected; and (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
respondents, including through the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information technology. Consideration will
be given to comments and suggestions submitted in writing within 60
days of this publication.
    Please direct your written comments to Pamela Dyson, Director/Chief
Information Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, C/O Remi
Pavlik-Simon, 100 F Street NE.,

Washington, DC 20549; or send an email to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>
    Dated: February 15, 2017.
Eduardo A. Aleman,
Assistant Secretary.
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