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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Docket No. FAA-2020-0281]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments;
Clearance of a Renewed Approval of Information Collection:
Certification of Repair Stations, Part 145 of Title 14, CFR

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA
invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) approval to renew an information
collection. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting comments on the following collection of information was
published on March 20, 2020, no comments were received. The collection
involves the applicant entering information onto and submitting the FAA
Form 8310-3, Application for Repair Station Certificate and/or Rating
to the appropriate FAA field office. Persons requesting to obtain an
initial Air Agency Certificate to operate as an FAA certificated repair
station or request changes to an existing repair station (air agency)
certificate do so by submitting the request through the submission of
the FAA Form 8310-3. This form is available to the applicant/respondent
via www.faa.gov, email, in person, or by mail.
    The FAA Form 8310-3, Application for Repair Station Certificate
and/or Ratings captures information such as, but not limited to;
official name of repair station, location where business is conducted,
official mailing address, any doing business as name, changes in
ratings, or if initial certification, ratings sought, changes in
location or housing and facilities, change in name or ownership, or any
other purpose for which the applicant requests, including a request for
approval to contract maintenance functions to outside entities.
    The FAA has identified an inaccuracy in how burden calculations are
determined associated with initial repair station certifications and
subsequent changes to an existing repair station certificate. The FAA
has identified that the information collected through the FAA Form
8310-3 does not capture the entire repair station certification
activities or changes to an existing certificate. OMB Control Number
2120-0682 is not only authorizing the Agency to receive information
collected on the FAA Form 8310-3, but should also encapsulate the
entire calculation burden associated with repair station certification
and subsequent changes to an existing certificate.
    Once burden calculations associated with repair station
certification activities are properly assessed, the FAA will publish a
new notice to the Federal Register capturing the entire burden
calculation for repair station certification and subsequent changes to
an existing certificate.

DATES: Written comments should be submitted by July 6, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Traugott Ludwig, by email at:
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>phone:<PHONE_NUMBER>.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of
this information collection, including (a) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for FAA's performance; (b) the
accuracy of the estimated burden; (c) ways for FAA to enhance the
quality, utility and clarity of the information collection; and (d)
ways that the burden could be minimized without reducing the quality of
the collected information.
    OMB Control Number: 2120-0682.
    Title: Certification of Repair Stations, Part 145 of Title 14, CFR.
    Form Numbers: FAA Form 8310-3.
    Type of Review: Clearance of a renewal of an information
collection.
    Background: The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment
period soliciting comments on the following collection of information
was published on March 20, 2020 (85 FR 18325). The FAA's authority to
issue rules on aviation safety is found in Title 49 of the United
States Code. Subtitle I, section

106, describes the authority of the FAA Administrator. Subtitle VII,
Aviation Programs, describes in more detail the scope of the agency's
authority.
    Rulemaking was promulgated under the authority described in title
49, subtitle VII, part A, subpart III, section 44701, General
requirements, and section 44707, Examining and rating air agencies.
Under section 44701, the FAA may prescribe regulations and standards in
the interest of safety for inspecting, servicing, and overhauling
aircraft, aircraft engines, propellers, and appliances. The FAA may
also prescribe equipment and facilities for, and the timing and manner
of, inspecting, servicing, and overhauling these items. Under section
44707, the FAA may examine and rate repair stations. 14 Part 145 is
within the scope of section 44707.
    14 CFR part 145 prescribes the requirements for the issuance of
repair station certificates. The FAA Form 8310-3, Application for
Repair Station Certificate and/or Rating is available to the applicant
who wishes to obtain initial repair station certification or submit
changes to an existing air agency certificate. The applicant
voluntarily submits the application to the appropriate FAA office by
mail or email for review and acceptance. The applicant enters the
information required for certification or changes to the existing
certificate, which consists of; official name of repair station,
location where business is conducted, official mailing address, any
doing business as name, changes in ratings, or if initial
certification, ratings sought, changes in location or housing and
facilities, change in name or ownership, or any other purpose for which
the applicant requests, including a request for approval to contract
maintenance functions to outside entities. Once the FAA reviews the
submitted application and finds the applicant has the ability to comply
with the 14 CFR part 145 requirements for certification, an air agency
certificate and ratings is issued. The FAA retains a copy of the
application in the FAA office that issued the certificate for an
indefinite time or a time-period specified by the Agency's Records
Management Order 1350.14B, mandated by the Federal Records Act of 1950,
as amended. The applicant is not required to retain a copy of the form.
The FAA does not provide other persons or entities with information
contained in the form.
    Respondents: There were a total of 129 applications submitted to
the FAA in fiscal year (FY) 2019. Out of the 129 applications, 64
applications were for submitted for initial certification.
    Frequency: Information is collected on occasion. One time for
initial certification and when or if an existing certificated repair
station request changes to their certificate.
    Estimated Average Burden per Response: 15 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 32.25 hours annual burden for
FY2019. There is no requirement for a respondent to submit this form
annually.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on June 1, 2020.
Susan Traugott Ludwig,
 Aviation Safety Inspector, Federal Aviation Administration, Office of
Safety Standards, Aircraft Maintenance Division, Repair Station Branch,
AFS-340.
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[Notices]
[Pages 19761-19762]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2018-0774; FRL-10007-87-OMS]

Information Collection Request Submittal to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; Evaluating End User Satisfaction of EPA's
Research Products (New)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an
information collection request (ICR), Evaluating End User Satisfaction
of EPA's Research Products (EPA ICR Number 2593.01, OMB Control Number
2080-NEW) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and
approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a new
request. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal
Register on September 13, 2019 during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller
description of the ICR is given in this notice, including the ICR's
estimated burden and cost to the public. 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.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before May 8, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2018-0774, to (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (EPA's preferred
method), by email to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>or by mail to: EPA Docket
Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; and (2) OMB via email to
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Address comments to OMB Desk Officer for
EPA.
    EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in the
public docket without change including any personal information
provided, unless the comment includes profanity, threats, information
claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sean Paul, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of Program Accountability and Resource
Management, Office of Research and Development, Mail Code 41182, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202)
564-7099; fax number:<PHONE_NUMBER>; email address<EMAIL_ADDRESS>
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents, which explain in
detail the information that EPA will be collecting, are available in
the public docket for this ICR. The docket can be viewed online at
www.regulations.gov or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC West,
Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC. The telephone
number for the Docket Center is<PHONE_NUMBER>. For additional
information about EPA's public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Abstract: The purpose of this information collection is to survey
stakeholders currently using the EPA's Office of Research and
Development's (ORD) scientific research products to increase
transparency and public participation, and to ascertain the quality,
usability, and timeliness of the research products. ORD will collect
these data to inform the annual end of year performance reporting to
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that will be published each
year in the Annual Performance Report (APR), which is part of the
President's Budget Request and mandated under the Government
Performance and Results Act (GPRA). The survey results will be used to
estimate the degree to which ORD research products meet customer needs
and will enable the improvement of the development and delivery of
products. Some of the information reported on the form is confidential,
which will be withheld from the public pursuant to Section 107(1) of
the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. Participation is voluntary.
    Form numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: Life, physical and social science
professionals.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: Voluntary.
    Estimated number of respondents: 250 (total).

    Frequency of response: Annually.
    Total estimated burden: 83 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5
CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $4,785 (per year) which includes $0
annualized capital or O&M costs.
    Changes in estimates: The new burden in this ICR survey of
individuals currently using ORD's products, which is part of a new
framework to evaluate ORD's scientific research products.

Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. ER11-3247-000]

Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc.; Notice of

Filing

    Take notice that, on June 27, 2011, Midwest Independent

Transmission System Operator, Inc. submitted an amendment to its March

31, 2011 filed Facilities Construction Agreement with Northern States

Power Company et al., in the above captioned docket, with information

required under the Commission's regulations. Such filing served to

reset the filing date in this proceeding.

    Any person desiring to intervene or to protest this filing must

file in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission's Rules of

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). Protests will be

considered by the Commission in determining the appropriate action to

be taken, but will not serve to make protestants parties to the

proceeding. Any person wishing to become a party must file a notice of

intervention or motion to intervene, as appropriate. Such notices,

motions, or protests must be filed on or before the comment date.

Anyone filing a motion to intervene or protest must serve a copy of

that document on the Applicant and all the parties in this proceeding.

    The Commission encourages electronic submission of protests and

interventions in lieu of paper using the ``eFiling'' link at http://www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file electronically should submit an

original and 14 copies of the protest or intervention to the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC

20426.

    This filing is accessible on-line at http://www.ferc.gov, using the

``eLibrary'' link and is available for review in the Commission's

Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. There is an ``eSubscription''

link on the Web site that enables subscribers to receive e-mail

notification when a document is added to a subscribed docket(s). For

assistance with any FERC Online service, please e-mail

<EMAIL_ADDRESS>or call<PHONE_NUMBER> (toll free). For

TTY, call<PHONE_NUMBER>.

    Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time on July 18, 2011.

    Dated: June 29, 2011.

Kimberly D. Bose,

Secretary.

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-60763; File No. SR-NYSE-2009-94]

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Notice of Filing and Immediate
Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change by New York Stock Exchange LLC To
Modify Its Requirements With Respect to Quarterly Earnings Releases

October 1, 2009.
    Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(``Exchange Act''),\1\ and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\2\ notice is hereby
given that on September 16, 2009, New York Stock Exchange, LLC (the
``NYSE'' or the ``Exchange'') filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (``Commission'') the proposed rule change as described in
Items I, II, and III below, which Items have been prepared by the
Exchange. The Exchange has designated this proposal eligible for
immediate effectiveness pursuant to Rule 19b-4(f)(6) \3\ under the
Exchange Act. The Commission is publishing this notice to solicit
comments on the proposed rule change from interested persons.
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I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of Substance
of the Proposed Rule Change

    The Exchange proposes to amend Section 203.02 of the Listed Company
Manual to provide that companies can disseminate their quarterly
earnings releases by means of any Regulation Fair Disclosure
(``Regulation FD'') compliant method (or combination of methods). This
filing also amends Section 203.01 to provide that the press release
required under that section must be published in a manner consistent
with the guidance provided in Section 202.06(C) for companies complying
with the Exchange's timely release policy by issuing a press release.
    The text of the proposed rule change is available on the Exchange's
Web site (http://www.nyse.com), at the Exchange's Office of the
Secretary and at the Commission's Public Reference room.

II. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change

    In its filing with the Commission, the self-regulatory organization
included statements concerning the purpose of and basis for the
proposed rule change and discussed any comments it received on the
proposed rule change. The text of these statements may be examined at
the places specified in Item IV below. The NYSE has prepared summaries,
set forth in Sections A, B and C below, of the most significant aspects
of such statements.

A. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change

1. Purpose
    Section 203.02 of the Listed Company Manual requires any listed
company that is required to file interim financial statements with the
SEC to release to the press an interim earnings release as soon as its
interim financial statements are available. Section 203.02 refers the
reader to Section 202.06 for an understanding of how to issue a
quarterly earnings release in a manner consistent with the Exchange's
immediate release policy. Section 202.06(A) explicitly states that
annual and quarterly earnings releases are always subject to the
immediate release policy.
    The Exchange recently amended Section 202.06 to provide that listed
companies can comply with the Exchange's immediate release policy by
disseminating the information using any method (or combination of
methods) that constitutes compliance with Regulation FD.\4\ The
Exchange now proposes to amend Section 203.02 to harmonize its
requirements with those of Section 202.06 as amended, by providing that
companies can disseminate their quarterly earnings releases in
compliance with the timely alert policy as recently amended.
Consequently, companies will have the option of disseminating their
quarterly earnings releases either by issuing a press release or by
using any other method (or combination of methods) that constitutes
compliance with Regulation FD. The Exchange believes that this is
consistent with Nasdaq's approach to quarterly earnings releases under
its immediate release policy.\5\
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    \4\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 59823 (April 27,
2009), 74 FR 20516 (May 4, 2009) (SR-NYSE-2009-40).
    \5\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 46288 (July 31,
2002), 67 FR 51306 (August 7, 2002) (SR-NASD-2002-85) (the ``Nasdaq
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    Section 203.01 requires any company that does not comply with the
SEC's proxy rules to post to its Web site a prominent undertaking in
the English language to provide all holders (including preferred
stockholders and bondholders) the ability, upon request, to receive a
hard copy of the company's complete audited financial statements free
of charge and simultaneously issue a press release stating that its
annual report has been filed with the SEC. This press release must also
specify the company's Web site address and indicate that shareholders
have the ability to receive a hard copy of the company's complete
audited financial statements free of charge upon request. Section
203.01 currently provides that this press release must be published
pursuant to the Exchange's press release policy. In order to clarify
this requirement in light of the recent amendment to Section 202.06,
the Exchange proposes to revise Section 203.01 to specify that the
press release requirement of Section 203.01 may only be complied with
by issuing a press release in a manner consistent with the immediate
release policy for press releases and not by any other means permitted
by the immediate release policy.
2. Statutory Basis
    The Exchange believes that the proposed rule change is consistent
with Section 6(b) \6\ of the Exchange Act in general and furthers the
objectives of Section 6(b)(5) of the Exchange Act,\7\ in particular in
that it is designed to promote just and equitable principles of trade,
to foster cooperation and coordination with persons engaged in
regulating, clearing, settling, processing information with respect to,
and facilitating transactions in securities, to remove impediments to
and perfect the mechanism of a free and open market and a national
market system, and, in general, to protect investors and the public
interest. The Exchange believes that the proposed amendment is
consistent with the investor protection objectives of Exchange Act in
that it harmonizes the Exchange's immediate release policies with
respect to quarterly reporting with the SEC's requirements in
Regulation FD and makes clear that the press release required by
Section 203.01 in connection with the filing of a listed company's
annual report must be disseminated in compliance with the press release
policy of Section 202.06 and not by any other Regulation FD compliant
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B. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Burden on Competition

    The Exchange does not believe that the proposed rule change will
impose any burden on competition that is not

necessary or appropriate in furtherance of the purposes of Exchange
Act.

C. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Comments on the Proposed
Rule Change Received From Members, Participants, or Others

    Written comments were neither solicited nor received.

III. Date of Effectiveness of the Proposed Rule Change and Timing for
Commission Action

    Because the proposed rule change: (i) Does not significantly affect
the protection of investors or the public interest; (ii) does not
impose any significant burden on competition; and (iii) does not become
operative for 30 days after the date of the filing, or such shorter
time as the Commission may designate if consistent with the protection
of investors and the public interest, provided that the self-regulatory
organization has given the Commission written notice of its intent to
file the proposed rule change at least five business days prior to the
date of filing of the proposed rule change or such shorter time as
designated by the Commission, the proposed rule change has become
effective pursuant to Section 19(b)(3)(A) of Exchange Act \8\ and Rule
19b-4(f)(6) thereunder.\9\
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    At any time within 60 days of the filing of such proposed rule
change, the Commission may summarily abrogate such rule change if it
appears to the Commission that such action is necessary or appropriate
in the public interest, for the protection of investors, or otherwise
in furtherance of the purposes of Exchange Act.

IV. Solicitation of Comments

    Interested persons are invited to submit written data, views and
arguments concerning the foregoing, including whether the proposed rule
change is consistent with the Exchange Act. Comments may be submitted
by any of the following methods:

Electronic Comments

     Use the Commission's Internet comment form (http://
www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml); or
     Send an e-mail to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Please include
File Number SR-NYSE-2009-94 on the subject line.

Paper Comments

     Send paper comments in triplicate to Elizabeth M. Murphy,
Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street, NE.,
Washington, DC 20549-1090.

All submissions should refer to File Number SR-NYSE-2009-94. This file
number should be included on the subject line if e-mail is used. To
help the Commission process and review your comments more efficiently,
please use only one method. The Commission will post all comments on
the Commission's Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov/rules/
sro.shtml). Copies of the submission, all subsequent amendments, all
written statements with respect to the proposed rule change that are
filed with the Commission, and all written communications relating to
the proposed rule change between the Commission and any person, other
than those that may be withheld from the public in accordance with the
provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be available for inspection and
copying in the Commission's Public Reference Room, on official business
days between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Copies of the filing also
will be available for inspection and copying at the principal office of
the Exchange. All comments received will be posted without change; the
Commission does not edit personal identifying information from
submissions. You should submit only information that you wish to make
available publicly. All submissions should refer to File Number SR-
NYSE-2009-94 and should be submitted on or before October 29, 2009.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets,
pursuant to delegated authority.\10\
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Florence E. Harmon,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. FDA-2016-N-0001]

Facilitating Antibacterial Drug Development for Patients With
Unmet Need and Developing Antibacterial Drugs That Target a Single
Species Media; Public Workshop

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of public workshop.

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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing a public
workshop regarding antibacterial drug development for patients with
unmet need and developing antibacterial drugs that target a single
species. FDA is interested in discussing the scientific challenges
pertaining to such development programs, including enrollment
challenges, clinical trial designs, and trial population. This public
workshop is intended to provide information for and gain perspective
from health care providers, other U.S. government Agencies, public
health organizations, academic experts, and industry on various aspects
of drug development for new antibacterial drugs for patients with unmet
need and new antibacterial drugs that target a single species. The
input from this public workshop will also help in developing topics for
future discussion.

DATES: The public workshop will be held on July 18, 2016, from 8:30
a.m. to 5 p.m. and July 19, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. See the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for registration information.

ADDRESSES: The public workshop will be held at FDA's White Oak campus,
10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 31 Conference Center, the Great Room
(Rm. 1503), Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002. Entrance for the public
workshop participants (non-FDA employees) is through Building 1 where
routine security check procedures will be performed. For parking and
security information, please refer to http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WorkingatFDA/BuildingsandFacilities/WhiteOakCampusInformation/ucm241740.htm.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lori Benner and/or Jessica Barnes,
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration,
10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 22, Rm. 6221 Silver Spring, MD 20993-
0002,<PHONE_NUMBER>.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FDA is announcing a public workshop
regarding antibacterial drug development for patients with unmet need
and developing antibacterial drugs that target a single species.
Discussions will focus on potential development pathways, aspects of
clinical trials including patient population, trial designs, and
endpoints, and the role of clinical trial networks in antibacterial
drug development.
    Registration: Registration is free for the public workshop.
Interested parties are encouraged to register early. Seating will be
available on a first-come, first-served basis. To register
electronically, email registration information (including name, title,
firm name, address, telephone, and fax number) to
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Persons without access to the Internet can
call<PHONE_NUMBER> to register.
    If you need special accommodations due to a disability, please
contact Jessica Barnes or Lori Benner (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT) at least 7 days in advance.
    Agenda: The workshop draft Agenda will be made available at: http://wwwfda.gov/Drugs/NewsEvents/ucm497650.htm at least 2 days prior to the
meeting. The Agency encourages individuals, industry, health care
professionals, researchers, public health organizations and other
interested persons to attend this public workshop.
    Transcripts: Please be advised that as soon as a transcript is
available, it will be accessible at http://www.regulations.gov. It may
be viewed at the Division of Dockets Management (HFA-305), Food and
Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.
A transcript will also be available in either hardcopy or on CD-ROM,
after submission of a Freedom of Information request. The Freedom of
Information office address is available on the Agency's Web site at
http://www.fda.gov. Transcripts will also be available on the Internet
at: http://wwwfda.gov/Drugs/NewsEvents/ucm497650.htm approximately 45
days after the workshop.

    Dated: May 24, 2016.
Leslie Kux,
Associate Commissioner for Policy.
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P-16-0449 Sanitized Support Documents Index:
 P-16-0449 Sanitized Determination Document (linked)
 P-16-0449 Sanitized CHEM Report (attached)
 P-16-0449 Sanitized ECO Report (attached)
 P-16-0449 Sanitized ENG Report (attached)
 P-16-0449 Sanitized EXP Report (attached)
 P-16-0449 Sanitized Fate Report (attached)
 P-16-0449 Sanitized HLTH Report_POST-FOCUS FINAL (attached)


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

14 CFR Part 39

[Docket No. FAA-2010-0523; Directorate Identifier 2010-CE-018-AD]
RIN 2120-AA64

Airworthiness Directives; Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (Type
Certificate No. A00010WI Previously Held by Raytheon Aircraft Company)
Model 390 Airplanes

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).

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SUMMARY: We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for
certain Hawker Beechcraft Corporation Model 390 airplanes. This
proposed AD would require inspecting for installation of certain serial
number (S/N) starter generators and replacing the starter generator if
one with an affected serial number is found. This proposed AD results
from reports that starter generators with deficient armature insulating
materials may have been installed on certain airplanes. We are
proposing this AD to detect and replace starter generators with
defective armature insulating materials. This condition could result in
the loss of operation of one or both starter generators with consequent
loss of all non-battery electrical power.

DATES: We must receive comments on this proposed AD by July 6, 2010.

ADDRESSES: Use one of the following addresses to comment on this
proposed AD:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
     Fax:<PHONE_NUMBER>.
     Mail: U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket
Operations, M-30, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590.
     Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket
Operations, M-30, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
    For service information identified in this proposed AD, contact
Hawker Beechcraft Corporation, 9709 East Central, Wichita, Kansas
67201; telephone:<PHONE_NUMBER>; fax:<PHONE_NUMBER>; Internet:
https://

www.hawkerbeechcraft.com/service_support/pubs/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kevin Schwemmer, Aerospace Engineer,
FAA, Wichita Aircraft Certification Office, 1801 Airport Road, Room
100, Wichita, Kansas 67209; telephone:<PHONE_NUMBER>; fax: (316) 946-
4107; e-mail<EMAIL_ADDRESS>
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Comments Invited

    We invite you to send any written relevant data, views, or
arguments regarding this proposed AD. Send your comments to an address
listed under the ADDRESSES section. Include the docket number, ``FAA-
2010-0523; Directorate Identifier 2010-CE-018-AD'' at the beginning of
your comments. We specifically invite comments on the overall
regulatory, economic, environmental, and energy aspects of the proposed
AD. We will consider all comments received by the closing date and may
amend the proposed AD in light of those comments.
    We will post all comments we receive, without change, to http://
www.regulations.gov, including any personal information you provide. We
will also post a report summarizing each substantive verbal contact we
receive concerning this proposed AD.

Discussion

    We have received reports that certain serial number starter
generators with deficient armature insulating materials may have been
installed on Hawker Beechcraft Corporation Model 390 airplanes. Starter
generators with deficient armature fabrication may result in loss of
operation of one or both starter generators in flight.
    This condition could result in the loss of operation of one or both
starter generators with consequent loss of all non-battery electrical
power.

Relevant Service Information

    We have reviewed Hawker Beechcraft Mandatory Service Bulletin SB
24-3963, issued May 2009, and AMETEK Advanced Industries, Inc.
Mandatory Service Bulletin--Number: 2009-0414, dated April 2009.
    The service information describes procedures for:
     Inspection for starter generators with serial numbers that
may have the deficient armature materials; and
     Removal and replacement of starter generators with the
affected serial numbers.

FAA's Determination and Requirements of the Proposed AD

    We are proposing this AD because we evaluated all information and
determined the unsafe condition described previously is likely to exist
or develop on other products of the same type design. This proposed AD
would require an inspection for suspect starter generators and their
replacement if found.

Costs of Compliance

    We estimate that this proposed AD would affect 213 airplanes in the
U.S. registry.
    We estimate the following costs to do the proposed inspection:

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                                                                            Total cost per    Total cost on U.S.
                Labor cost                           Parts cost                airplane            operators
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.5 work-hour x $85 per hour = $42.50......  Not applicable..............             $42.50           $9,052.50
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    We estimate the following costs to do any necessary replacements
that would be required based on the results of the proposed inspection.
We have no way of determining the number of airplanes that may need
this replacement:

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                                                        Total cost per
           Labor cost                 Parts cost           airplane
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10 work-hours (5 work-hours per   $4,069 per side =              $8,988
 side) x $85 per hour = $850.      $8,138.
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Authority for This Rulemaking

    Title 49 of the United States Code specifies the FAA's authority to
issue rules on aviation safety. Subtitle I, Section 106, describes the
authority of the FAA Administrator. Subtitle VII, Aviation Programs,
describes in more detail the scope of the Agency's authority.
    We are issuing this rulemaking under the authority described in
Subtitle VII, Part A, Subpart III, Section 44701, ``General
requirements.'' Under that section, Congress charges the FAA with
promoting safe flight of civil aircraft in air commerce by prescribing
regulations for practices, methods, and procedures the Administrator
finds necessary for safety in air commerce. This regulation is within
the scope of that authority because it addresses an unsafe condition
that is likely to exist or develop on products identified in this
rulemaking action.

Regulatory Findings

    We have determined that this proposed AD would not have federalism
implications under Executive Order 13132. This proposed AD would not
have a substantial direct effect 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.
    For the reasons discussed above, I certify that the proposed
regulation:
    1. Is not a ``significant regulatory action'' under Executive Order
12866;
    2. Is not a ``significant rule'' under the DOT Regulatory Policies
and Procedures (44 FR 11034, February 26, 1979); and
    3. Will not have a significant economic impact, positive or
negative, on a substantial number of small entities under the criteria
of the Regulatory Flexibility Act.
    We prepared a regulatory evaluation of the estimated costs to
comply with this proposed AD and placed it in the AD docket.

Examining the AD Docket

    You may examine the AD docket that contains the proposed AD, the
regulatory evaluation, any comments received, and other information on
the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov; or in person at the Docket
Management Facility between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays. The Docket Office (telephone<PHONE_NUMBER>)
is located at the street address stated in the ADDRESSES section.
Comments will be available in the AD docket shortly after receipt.

List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 39

    Air transportation, Aircraft, Aviation safety, Incorporation by
reference, Safety.

The Proposed Amendment

    Accordingly, under the authority delegated to me by the
Administrator, the FAA proposes to amend 14 CFR part 39 as follows:

PART 39--AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES

    1. The authority citation for part 39 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113, 44701.

Sec.  39.13  [Amended]

    2. The FAA amends Sec.  39.13 by adding the following new AD:

Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (Type Certificate No. A00010WI
Previously Held By Raytheon Aircraft Company): Docket No. FAA-2010-
0523; Directorate Identifier 2010-CE-018-AD.

Comments Due Date

    (a) We must receive comments on this airworthiness directive
(AD) action by July 6, 2010.

Affected ADs

    (b) None.

Applicability

    (c) This AD applies to Model 390 airplanes, serial numbers RB-4
through RB-257, RB-259 through RB-265, RB-268, and RB-269, that are
certificated in any category.

Subject

    (d) Air Transport Association of America (ATA) Code 24: Electric
Power.

Unsafe Condition

    (e) This AD results from reports that starter generators with
deficient armature insulating materials may have been installed on
certain airplanes. We are issuing this AD to detect and replace
starter generators with deficient armature insulating materials.
This condition could result in the loss of operation of one or both
starter generators with consequent loss of all non-battery
electrical power.

Compliance

    (f) To address this problem, you must do the following, unless
already done:

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               Actions                             Compliance                            Procedures
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(1) Inspect both starter generators   Within the next 25 hours time-in-     Follow Hawker Beechcraft Mandatory
 for a starter generator with an       service (TIS) after the effective     Service Bulletin SB 24-3963, dated
 affected serial number.               date of this AD.                      May 2009; and AMETEK Advanced
                                                                             Industries, Inc. Mandatory Service
                                                                             Bulletin--Number: 2009-0414, dated
                                                                             April 2009.
(2) If only one suspect starter       Replace the starter generator at      Follow Hawker Beechcraft Mandatory
 generator with an affected serial     whichever of the following times      Service Bulletin SB 24-3963, dated
 number is found on the airplane       occurs first after the inspection     May 2009; and AMETEK Advanced
 during the inspection required in     where the affected starter            Industries, Inc. Mandatory Service
 paragraph (f)(1) of this AD,          generator is found:                   Bulletin--Number: 2009-0414, dated
 replace the starter generator.       (i) Within the next 200 hours TIS;     April 2009.
                                         (ii) The next scheduled
                                          inspection; or
                                         (iii) Within the next 6 months.
(3) If two starter generators with    Replace one starter generator within  Follow Hawker Beechcraft Mandatory
 an affected serial number are found   the next 25 hours TIS after the       Service Bulletin SB 24-3963, dated
 during the inspection required in     inspection where the affected         May 2009; and AMETEK Advanced
 paragraph (f)(1) of this AD,          starter generator was found.          Industries, Inc. Mandatory Service
 replace both starter generators.      Replace the second starter            Bulletin--Number: 2009-0414, dated
                                       generator at whichever of the         April 2009.
                                       following times occurs first after
                                       the inspection where the affected
                                       starter generator is found:
                                         (A) Within the next 200 hours
                                          TIS;
                                         (B) The next scheduled
                                          inspection; or
                                         (C) Within the next 6 months.
(4) Use the form (Figure 1 of this    Within 10 days after the inspection   Send the report to the FAA at the
 AD) to report the results of the      required in paragraph (f)(1) of       address specified in paragraph (g)
 inspections required in paragraph     this AD.                              of this AD.
 (f)(1) of this AD. The Office of
 Management and Budget (OMB)
 approved the information collection
 requirements contained in this
 regulation under the provisions of
 the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980
 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) and
 assigned OMB Control Number
 2120[dash]0056.
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                                         FAA-2010-0523 Inspection Report
 (If the inspection required in paragraph (f)(1) of this AD was done before the effective date of this AD, this
                      report does not need to be completed and returned to the Wichita ACO)
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Airplane Model
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Airplane Serial Number
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Airplane Tachometer Hours at Time of
 Inspection
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Right Hand Starter Generator serial number
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Left Hand Starter Generator serial number
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Does the RH Starter Generator fall within the  No                   If yes, replace and document replacement
 suspect lot?                                                        starter generator serial number.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Does the LH Starter Generator fall within the  No                   If yes, replace and document replacement
 suspect lot?                                                        starter generator serial number.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If both Starter Generators serial numbers      No                   If yes, describe and document which starter
 fell within the suspect lot, was only one                           generator needs to be replaced.
 Starter Generator replaced?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Were any other discrepancies noticed during
 the inspection?
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                                                 Send report to:
  Kevin Schwemmer, Aerospace Engineer, FAA, Wichita Aircraft Certification Office, 1801 Airport Road, Room 100,
                                               Wichita, KS 67209.
                                            fax: (316) 946[dash]4107.
                                        e-mail<EMAIL_ADDRESS>
                                                    Figure 1
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Alternative Methods of Compliance (AMOCs)

    (g) The Manager, Wichita Aircraft Certification Office (ACO),
FAA, has the authority to approve AMOCs for this AD, if requested
using the procedures found in 14 CFR 39.19. Send information to
ATTN: Kevin Schwemmer, Aerospace Engineer, FAA, Wichita ACO, 1801
Airport Road, Room 100, Wichita, Kansas 67209; telephone: (316) 946-
4174; fax:<PHONE_NUMBER>; e-mail<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Before
using any approved AMOC on any airplane to which the AMOC applies,
notify your appropriate principal inspector (PI) in the FAA Flight
Standards District Office (FSDO), or lacking a PI, your local FSDO.

Related Information

    (h) To get copies of the service information referenced in this
AD, contact Hawker Beechcraft Corporation, 9709 East Central,
Wichita, Kansas 67201; telephone:<PHONE_NUMBER>; fax: (316) 676-
6614; Internet: https://www.hawkerbeechcraft.com/service_support/
pubs/. To view the AD docket, go to U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M-30, West Building Ground Floor,
Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, or
on the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov.

    Issued in Kansas City, Missouri, on May 14, 2010.
Kim Smith,
Manager, Small Airplane Directorate, Aircraft Certification Service.
[FR Doc. 2010-12300 Filed 5-20-10; 8:45 am]
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[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 60 (Monday, March 30, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16719-16720]
[FR Doc No: 2015-07130]

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Submission for OMB Review; 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 6c-7; SEC File No. 270-269, OMB Control No. 3235-0276.

    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'') has submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget a request for extension of the previously
approved collection of information discussed below.
    Rule 6c-7 (17 CFR 270.6c-7) under the Investment Company Act of
1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a-1 et seq.) (``1940 Act'') provides exemption from
certain provisions of Sections 22(e) and 27 of the 1940 Act for
registered separate accounts offering variable annuity contracts to
certain employees of Texas institutions of higher education
participating in the Texas Optional Retirement Program. There are

approximately 50 registrants governed by Rule 6c-7. The burden of
compliance with Rule 6c-7, in connection with the registrants obtaining
from a purchaser, prior to or at the time of purchase, a signed
document acknowledging the restrictions on redeem ability imposed by
Texas law, is estimated to be approximately 3 minutes per response for
each of approximately 2,300 purchasers annually (at an estimated $64
per hour),\1\ for a total annual burden of 115 hours (at a total annual
cost of $7,360).
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    \1\ $64/hour figure for a Compliance Clerk is from SIFMA's
Office Salaries in the Securities Industry 2013 survey, modified by
Commission staff to account for an 1800-hour work year and
multiplied by 2.93 to account for bonuses, firm size, employee
benefits and overhead.
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    Rule 6c-7 requires that the separate account's registration
statement under the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77a et seq.)
include a representation that Rule 6c-7 is being relied upon and is
being complied with. This requirement enhances the Commission's ability
to monitor utilization of and compliance with the rule. There are no
recordkeeping requirements with respect to Rule 6c-7.
    The estimate of average burden hours is made solely for the
purposes of the Paperwork Reduction Act, and is not derived from a
comprehensive or even a representative survey or study of the costs of
Commission rules or forms. The Commission does not include in the
estimate of average burden hours the time preparing registration
statements and sales literature disclosure regarding the restrictions
on redeem ability imposed by Texas law. The estimate of burden hours
for completing the relevant registration statements are reported on the
separate PRA submissions for those statements. (See the separate PRA
submissions for Form N-3 (17 CFR 274.11b) and Form N-4 (17 CFR
274.11c).)
    Complying with the collection of information requirements of the
rules is necessary to obtain a benefit. 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 control number.
    The public may view the background documentation for this
information collection at the following Web site, www.reginfo.gov.
Comments should be directed to: (i) Desk Officer for the Securities and
Exchange Commission, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget, Room 10102, New Executive Office
Building, Washington, DC 20503, or by sending an email to:
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>and (ii) 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>Comments must be submitted to OMB within 30
days of this notice.

    Dated: March 24, 2015.
Brent J. Fields,
Secretary.
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relevant. See section II.B; section III.A.
    We note too that OMB Circular A-4 highlights the special challenges
associated with the valuation of health outcomes for children and
infants, because it is ``rarely feasible to measure a child's
willingness to pay for health improvement'' and market valuations such
as increased ``wage premiums demanded by workers to accept hazardous
jobs are not readily transferred to rules that accomplish health gains
for children.'' Circular A-4 at 31. We take comment on whether a BCA,
on its own, is an appropriate tool to make a determination of whether
to regulate under CAA section 112(n)(1)(A), given that it may not
meaningfully capture all the societal interests the statute intends the
EPA to consider. See Guidelines, Appendix A at A-7 (``In some cases a
policy may be considered desirable even if the benefits do not outweigh
the costs, particularly if there are ethical or equity concerns.'').
    With those caveats, we propose to reaffirm using a BCA approach,
based on the 2011 RIA performed as part of the original MATS
rulemaking, as another way to make the CAA section 112(n)(1)(A)
determination of whether it is appropriate to regulate HAP emissions
from EGUs.
    Applying the alternative approach, based on the 2011 RIA, we
propose to find that it is appropriate to regulate EGUs for HAP under
CAA section 112(n)(1)(A). In the 2011 RIA, the total benefits of MATS
were estimated to vastly exceed the total costs of the regulation. As
we found when applying the 2016 alternative approach, the formal BCA
that the EPA performed for the 2012 MATS Final Rule estimated that the
final MATS rule would yield annual monetized total benefits (in 2007
dollars) of between $37 billion to $90 billion using a 3-percent
discount rate and between $33 billion to $81 billion using a 7-percent
discount rate; this compares to projected annual compliance costs of
$9.6 billion. This estimate of benefits was limited to those health
outcomes the EPA was able to monetize. Despite the fact that these
estimates captured only a portion of the benefits of the rule,
excluding many important HAP and criteria pollutant-related endpoints
which the Agency was unable to monetize (see section III.A.4) and
instead discussed qualitatively in the 2011 RIA, it was clear that MATS
was projected to generate overwhelmingly net positive effects on
society. We continue to think that the BCA approach independently
supports the conclusion that regulation of HAP emissions from EGUs is
appropriate.
    Although as discussed in section III.B.2 it was not possible for
the EPA to update the entire comprehensive cost estimate found in the
2011 RIA, we think the new information presented in sections III.A and
III.B directionally supports the net benefits calculation of the 2016
alternative approach. That is, we have attempted to quantify additional
risks, including risks of premature death from heart attacks that
result from exposure to methylmercury associated with domestic EGU
emissions, and we believe the 2011 RIA's projected cost was almost
certainly significantly overestimated. Therefore, we propose that if
BCA is a reasonable tool to use in the context of the EPA's
determination under CAA section 112(n)(1)(A), newer data collected
since 2011 overwhelmingly support an affirmative determination.
Further, that both analytical approaches to addressing the inquiry
posed by Michigan lead to the same result reinforces the reasonableness
of the EPA's ultimate decision that it is appropriate and necessary to
regulate HAP emissions from EGUs after considering cost.
    In this proposal, the EPA has re-examined the extensive record,
amassed over 2 decades, identifying the advantages of regulating HAP
from EGUs and evaluating the costs of doing so. We have, for purposes
of this proposal, also updated information on both benefits and costs.
Of note, we find that new scientific literature indicates that
methylmercury exposure from EGUs, absent regulation, poses
cardiovascular and neurodevelopmental risks to all Americans and
particularly those most exposed to this pollution. With respect to
costs, we explain the combination of factors that occurred since the
promulgation of MATS that leads us to believe that the projected,
sector-level $9.6 billion estimate of the cost of compliance of the
rule in 2015

was almost certainly significantly overestimated. We propose two
different approaches to considering all of this information, applying
first a totality-of-the-circumstances methodology weighing of benefits
and costs and focusing particularly on those factors that we were
instructed by the statute to study under CAA section 112(n)(1), and
next using a formal benefit-cost approach consistent with established
guidance and economic principles. Under either approach, whether
looking at only the information available at the time of our initial
decision to regulate or at all currently available information, we
propose to conclude that it remains appropriate and necessary to
regulate EGUs for HAP. Substantial emission reductions have occurred
after implementation of MATS, the emission limits established pursuant
to the Agency's 2012 affirmative appropriate and necessary
determination, and these limits provide the only Federal guarantee of
these emission reductions from EGUs, which, absent regulation, were the
largest domestic anthropogenic source of a number of HAP. Finalizing
this affirmative threshold determination would provide important
certainty about the future of MATS for regulated industry, states,
other stakeholders, and the American public. We take comment on the
information relied upon in this proposal and the EPA's proposed
approaches to considering that information for this determination.

IV. Summary of Cost, Environmental, and Economic Impacts

    The EPA estimates that there are 557 existing EGUs located at 265
facilities that are subject to the MATS rule. Because the EPA is not
proposing any amendments to the MATS rule, there would not be any cost,
environmental, or economic impacts as a result of the proposed action.

V. Request for Comments and for Information To Assist With Review of
the 2020 RTR

    On January 20, 2021, President Biden signed Executive Order 13990,
``Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to
Tackle the Climate Crisis'' (86 FR 7037; January 25, 2021). That order,
among other things, instructs the EPA to consider publishing a proposed
rule suspending, revising, or rescinding the May 22, 2020 final action,
``National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and
Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units--Reconsideration of
Supplemental Finding and Residual Risk and Technology Review.'' The
2020 Final Action contained two distinct, but related, final actions--
(1) a reconsideration of the 2016 Supplemental Finding and (2) the RTR.
This notice fulfills the Agency's obligation to address the first
action. We solicit comments on all aspects of this proposed action.
    Separate from this proposal, the EPA has initiated a review of the
RTR, taking into account the latest information available on the
experience of EGUs in complying with MATS and implementing measures to
reduce HAP emissions. As previously noted, since MATS was promulgated
in 2012, power sector emissions of mercury, acid gas HAP, and non-
mercury metal HAP have decreased by about 86 percent, 96 percent, and
81 percent, respectively, as compared to 2010 emissions levels (Table 4
at 84 FR 2689, February 7, 2019). While EGUs remain the largest
domestic emitter of mercury (and other HAP), their emissions and
contribution to total mercury in the environment is significantly less
now than before MATS implementation. The EPA is seeking input into how
both of these facts should factor into its review of the RTR.
    In this notice, the EPA is soliciting information to allow for a
more thorough review of the 2020 MATS RTR. The EPA is soliciting
broadly for any data or information--including risk-related
information--that will assist in the review of the RTR. The EPA is also
soliciting specifically for any information on performance or cost of
new or additional control technologies, improved methods of operation,
or other practices and technologies that may result in cost-effective
reductions of HAP emissions from coal- or oil-fired EGUs. In addition,
the EPA is interested in receiving information on improvements or
upgrades to existing controls that may result in cost-effective
reductions of HAP emissions from coal- or oil-fired EGUs. The EPA also
seeks information on the cost or performance of technologies and
practices relating to monitoring of HAP emissions, and control of HAP
emissions during startup and shutdown events, that could result in
cost-effective reductions in HAP or assure improved operation of
existing controls. We are seeking input from all interested
stakeholders, including states, owners of EGUs, technology vendors and
developers, and communities impacted by the emissions from EGUs.

VI. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews

    Additional information about these statutes and Executive Orders
can be found at https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/laws-and-executive-orders.

A. Executive Order 12866: Regulatory Planning and Review and Executive
Order 13563: Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review

    This action is a significant regulatory action that was submitted
to OMB for review under Executive Order 12866. Any changes made in
response to OMB recommendations have been documented in the docket. The
EPA does not project any incremental costs or benefits associated with
this action because it does not impose standards or other requirements
on affected sources.

B. Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)

    This action does not impose any new information collection burden
under the PRA. OMB has previously approved the information collection
activities contained in the existing regulations and has assigned OMB
control number 2060-0567. This action does not impose an information
collection burden because the EPA is not proposing any changes to the
information collection requirements.

C. Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA)

    I certify that this action will not have a significant economic
impact on a substantial number of small entities under the RFA. This
action will not impose any requirements on small entities. The EPA does
not project any incremental costs or benefits associated with this
action because it does not impose standards or other requirements on
affected sources.

D. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA)

    This action does not contain an unfunded mandate of $100 million or
more as described in UMRA, 2 U.S.C. 1531-1538, and does not
significantly or uniquely affect small governments. The action imposes
no enforceable duty on any state, local, or tribal governments or the
private sector.

E. Executive Order 13132: Federalism

    This action does not have federalism implications. It will 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.

F. Executive Order 13175: Consultation and Coordination With Indian
Tribal Governments

    This action does not have tribal implications as specified in
Executive

Order 13175. The executive order defines tribal implications as
``actions that have substantial direct effects on one or more Indian
tribes, on the relationship between the Federal Government and Indian
tribes, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities between
the Federal Government and Indian tribes.'' Revocation of the 2020
determination that it is not appropriate and necessary to regulate HAP
emissions from coal- and oil-fired EGUs under CAA section 112 and
reaffirmation of the 2016 Supplemental Finding that it remains
appropriate and necessary to regulate HAP emissions from EGUs after
considering cost would not have a substantial direct effect on one or
more tribes, change the relationship between the Federal Government and
tribes, or affect the distribution of power and responsibilities
between the Federal Government and Indian tribes. Thus, Executive Order
13175 does not apply to this action.

G. Executive Order 13045: Protection of Children From Environmental
Health Risks and Safety Risks

    This action is not subject to Executive Order 13045 because it is
not economically significant as defined in Executive Order 12866, and
because this action does not impose new regulatory requirements that
might present a disproportionate risk to children. This action
reaffirms the 2016 Supplemental Finding that it is appropriate and
necessary to regulate HAP emissions from U.S. EGUs, but does not impose
control requirements, which were implemented through MATS (77 FR 9304;
February 16, 2012). While this action does not impose or change any
standards or other requirements, it addresses the underpinning for the
HAP emission standards in MATS. The EPA believes the reductions in HAP
emissions achieved under MATS have provided and will continue to
provide significant benefits to children in the form of improved
neurodevelopment and respiratory health and reduced risk of adverse
outcomes. Analyses supporting the 2012 MATS Final Rule estimated
substantial health improvements for children in 2016 in the form of
130,000 fewer asthma attacks, 3,100 fewer emergency room visits due to
asthma, 6,300 fewer cases of acute bronchitis, and approximately
140,000 fewer cases of upper and lower respiratory illness. See 77 FR
9441 (February 16, 2012). Reaffirming the appropriate and necessary
determination assures those benefits will continue to accrue among
children.

H. Executive Order 13211: Actions Concerning Regulations That
Significantly Affect Energy Supply, Distribution, or Use

    This action is not a ``significant energy action'' because it is
not likely to have a significant adverse effect on the supply,
distribution, or use of energy. This action is not anticipated to have
impacts on emissions, costs, or energy supply decisions for the
affected electric utility industry as it does not impose standards or
other requirements on affected sources.

I. National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act (NTTAA)

    This action does not involve technical standards.

J. Executive Order 12898: Federal Actions To Address Environmental
Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations

    The EPA believes that this action will not have disproportionately
high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority
populations, low-income populations, and/or indigenous peoples, as
specified in Executive Order 12898 (59 FR 7629; February 16, 1994),
because it does not impose standards or other requirements on affected
sources and is limited in scope to only consider whether it is
appropriate and necessary to regulate HAP emissions from coal- and oil-
fired EGUs. While this action does not impose or modify any standards
or other requirements, it provides the underpinning for the emission
standards regulating HAP from EGUs. As documented in both the NAS Study
and Mercury Study, fish and seafood consumption is the primary route of
human exposure to methylmercury originating from U.S. EGUs, with
populations engaged in subsistence-levels of consumption being of
particular concern. As shown in section III.A.5 of this preamble,
certain minority, low-income, and indigenous populations are more
likely to experience elevated exposures, thus higher health risks
relative of the general population due to subsistence fishing.
Furthermore, subpopulations with the higher exposure tend to overlap
with those subpopulations that are particularly vulnerability to small
changes in health risk because of other social determinants of health
(e.g., lack of access to health care and access to strong schooling),
thereby compounding the implications of the implications of mercury
exposure. Reaffirming the appropriate and necessary determination
assures that the reduction in risks achieved by MATS continue.

Michael S. Regan,
Administrator.
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-57284; File No. SR-NYSEArca-2008-16]

Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing
and Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change To Amend Rules
Pertaining to the Terms of Index Option Contracts

February 7, 2008.
    Pursuant to section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(the ``Act'') \1\ and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\2\ notice is hereby given
that on January 30, 2007, NYSE Arca, Inc. (``NYSE Arca'' or
``Exchange'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(``Commission'') the proposed rule change as described in Items I and
II below, which Items have been prepared substantially by NYSE Arca.
NYSE Arca filed the proposed rule change as a ``non-controversial''
proposed rule change pursuant to section 19(b)(3)(A) of the Act \3\ and
Rule 19b-4(f)(6) thereunder,\4\ which renders it effective

upon filing with the Commission. The Commission is publishing this
notice to solicit comments on the proposed rule change from interested
persons.
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    \1\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
    \2\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
    \3\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A).
    \4\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4(f)(6).
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I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of Substance
of the Proposed Rule Change

    NYSE Arca proposes to amend Rule 5.19(a) (Terms of Index Option
Contracts) to allow the listing of up to seven expiration months for
options on certain broad-based indexes. NYSE Arca proposes to implement
the proposed rule change immediately.
    The text of the proposed rule change is available at http://www.nyse.com
, the principal office of NYSE Arca, and the Commission's

Public Reference Room.

II. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change

    In its filing with the Commission, NYSE Arca included statements
concerning the purpose of and basis for the proposed rule change. The
text of these statements may be examined at the places specified in
Item IV below. NYSE Arca has prepared summaries, set forth in sections
A, B, and C below, of the most significant aspects of such statements.

A. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change

1. Purpose
    NYSE Arca proposes to amend Rule 5.19 (Terms of Index Options
Contracts) to allow the Exchange to list up to seven expiration months
for broad-based security index options upon which a constant three-
month volatility index is calculated. Currently, Rule 5.19(a)(3)
permits the Exchange to list only six expiration months in any index
options at any one time.
    Volatility products offer investors a unique set of tools for
hedging. For example, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (``CBOE'')
Volatility Index (``VIX'') options, first introduced in February 2006,
have proven to be one of CBOE's most successful new products ever
listed, currently averaging over 90,000 contracts traded per day. In a
recent proposal, CBOE explained that it plans to introduce new
volatility products and new volatility indexes in the near future,
including the CBOE S&P 500 Three-Month Volatility Index (``VXV'').\5\
Similar to the VIX, the VXV is a measure of S&P 500 implied volatility,
the volatility implied by S&P option prices. Instead of reflecting a
constant one-month implied volatility period, however, VXV is designed
to reflect the implied volatility of an option with a constant three
months to expiration. Since there is only one day on which an option
has exactly three months to expiration, VXV is calculated as a weighted
average of options expiring immediately before and immediately after
the three-month standard.
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    \5\ CBOE calculates volatility indexes on other broad-based
security indexes, such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average index
(``DJX''), the Nasdaq-100 index (``NDX''), and the Russell 2000
index (``RUT''). CBOE may calculate a constant three-month
volatility index on DJX, NDX, or RUT in the future. See Securities
Exchange Act Release No. 56821 (November 20, 2007), 72 FR 66210
(November 27, 2007) (SR-CBOE-2007-82) (``CBOE proposal'').
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    Accordingly, an index calculator would need to use four consecutive
expiration months in order to calculate a constant three-month
volatility index. Under the current application of NYSE Arca Rule
5.19(a)(3), the Exchange generally lists three consecutive near term
months and three months on a quarterly expiration cycle. One of the
three consecutive near term months is always a quarterly month;
however, that near term contract month (which is also a quarterly
month) is not included as part of the three months listed on a
quarterly expiration cycle. Therefore, in order to permit the addition
of four consecutive near term months under current Rule 5.19(a)(3), the
Exchange would only be able to list two months on a quarterly
expiration cycle. Because of customer demand and other investment
strategy reasons for having three months on a quarterly expiration
cycle, the Exchange is seeking to increase, from six to seven, the
number of expiration months for broad-based security index options upon
which a constant three-month volatility index is calculated.
    Proposed Rule 5.19(a)(3)(A) will permit the Exchange to list up to
seven expiration months at any one time for any broad-based security
index option contracts (e.g., NDX, RUT) upon which any exchange
calculates a constant three-month volatility index.
    Without this proposed rule, if a three-month volatility index is
calculated using only three consecutive near term months, this would
result in the VXV's being calculated with options expiring three months
apart about one-third of the time. Another one-third of the time, VXV
would be calculated with options expiring two months apart. And the
final one-third of the time, VXV would be calculated with options
expiring one month apart. As a result, the calculation of the three-
month VXV under the current rules would render the VXV subject to
inconsistencies that may make the index unattractive as an underlying
for volatility products. The proposed rule change will permit the
Exchange, eight times a year, to add an additional seventh month in
order to maintain four consecutive near term contract months.\6\
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    \6\ Examples illustrating the need for a seventh month in order
to maintain four consecutive near term contract months can be found
in the CBOE proposal, supra note 5.
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    Therefore, the Exchange believes that the addition of a fourth
consecutive near term month for broad-based security index options upon
which a constant three-month volatility index is calculated will result
in a consistent calculation in which the option series that bracket
three months to expiration will always expire one month apart. In order
to accommodate the listing of a fourth consecutive near term month and
to maintain the listing of three months on a quarterly expiration
cycle, the Exchange proposes to increase, from six to seven, the number
of expiration months for broad-based security indexes on which a
constant three-month volatility index is calculated.
    The Exchange also proposes making minor technical changes to
certain subparagraphs contained in Rule 5.19(a) in order to accommodate
the new rule.
    NYSE Arca has analyzed its capacity and represents that it believes
the Exchange and the Options Price Reporting Authority have the
necessary systems capacity to handle the additional traffic associated
with the additional listing of a seventh contract month in order to
maintain four consecutive near term contract months for those broad-
based security index options upon which a constant three-month
volatility index is calculated.
2. Statutory Basis
    The proposed rule change is consistent with the provisions of
section 6 of the Act,\7\ in general, and with sections 6(b)(1) and
(b)(5) of the Act,\8\ in particular, in that the proposal is designed
to promote just and equitable principles of trade, to foster
cooperation and coordination with persons engaged in regulating,
clearing, settling, processing information with respect to, and
facilitating transactions in securities, to remove impediments to and
perfect the mechanism of a free and open market and a national market
system, and, in general, to protect investors and the public interest.
NYSE Arca believes that the proposed rule

change is needed to remain competitive with other self-regulatory
organizations that have listed the additional option series.
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    \7\ 15 U.S.C. 78f.
    \8\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(1) and (b)(5).
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B. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Burden on Competition

    NYSE Arca does not believe that the proposed rule change will
impose any burden on competition that is not necessary or appropriate
in furtherance of the purposes of the Act.

C. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Comments on the Proposed
Rule Change Received From Members, Participants or Others

    Written comments were neither solicited nor received.

III. Date of Effectiveness of the Proposed Rule Change and Timing for
Commission Action

    Because the foregoing proposed rule change does not: (i)
Significantly affect the protection of investors or the public
interest; (ii) impose any significant burden on competition; and (iii)
become operative for 30 days from the date on which it was filed, or
such shorter time as the Commission may designate, it has become
effective pursuant to section 19(b)(3)(A) of the Act \9\ and Rule 19b-
4(f)(6) thereunder.\10\
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    \9\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A).
    \10\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4(f)(6).
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    A proposed rule change filed under 19b-4(f)(6) normally may not
become operative prior to 30 days after the date of filing.\11\
However, Rule 19b-4(f)(6)(iii) \12\ permits the Commission to designate
a shorter time if such action is consistent with the protection of
investors and the public interest. The Exchange has requested that the
Commission waive the 30-day operative delay, to permit the Exchange to
list options on the Fund immediately. The Commission believes that
waiving the 30-day operative delay is consistent with the protection of
investors and the public interest. The Commission notes that another
self-regulatory organization recently adopted a substantially similar
rule change that was effective upon filing,\13\ and that this filing
raises no new regulatory issues.
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    \11\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4(f)(6). In addition, Rule 19b-4(f)(6)(iii)
requires a self-regulatory organization to give the Commission
written notice of its intent to file the proposed rule change at
least five business days prior to the date of filing of the proposed
rule change, or such shorter time as designated by the Commission.
NYSE Arca has complied with this requirement.
    \12\ Id.
    \13\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 57104 (January 4,
2008), 73 FR 2070 (January 11, 2008) (SR-ISE-2007-113).
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    The Commission believes that increasing, from six to seven, the
number of expiration months for broad-based security indexes on which
an Exchange calculates a constant three-month volatility index (to
accommodate a fourth consecutive near-term month while maintaining the
listing of three months on a quarterly expiration cycle) will result in
a more consistent and predictable calculation in which the option
series that bracket three months to expiration will always expire one
month apart, thereby promoting just and equitable principles of trade
while protecting investors and the public interest. The Commission also
notes the Exchange's representations that it possesses the necessary
systems capacity to handle the additional traffic associated with the
additional listing of a seventh contract month in order to maintain
four consecutive near-term contract months for those broad-based
security index options upon which the Exchange calculates a constant
three-month volatility index. The Commission hereby grants the
Exchange's request and designates the proposal as operative upon
filing.\14\
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    \14\ For purposes only of waiving the 30-day operative delay of
this proposal, the Commission has considered the proposed rule's
impact on efficiency, competition, and capital formation. 15 U.S.C.
78c(f).
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    At any time within 60 days of the filing of the proposed rule
change, the Commission may summarily abrogate such rule change if it
appears to the Commission that such action is necessary or appropriate
in the public interest, for the protection of investors, or otherwise
in furtherance of the purposes of the Act.

IV. Solicitation of Comments

    Interested persons are invited to submit written data, views, and
arguments concerning the foregoing, including whether the proposed rule
change is consistent with the Act. Comments may be submitted by any of
the following methods:

Electronic Comments

     Use the Commission's Internet comment form (http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml.
); or     Send an e-mail to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Please include

File No. SR-NYSEArca-2008-16 on the subject line.

Paper Comments

     Send paper comments in triplicate to Nancy M. Morris,
Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, Station Place, 100 F
Street, NE., Washington, DC 20549-1090.

All submissions should refer to File Number SR-NYSEArca-2008-16. This
file number should be included on the subject line if e-mail is used.
To help the Commission process and review your comments more
efficiently, please use only one method. The Commission will post all
comments on the Commission's Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml
). Copies of the submission, all subsequent amendments,

all written statements with respect to the proposed rule change that
are filed with the Commission, and all written communications relating
to the proposed rule change between the Commission and any person,
other than those that may be withheld from the public in accordance
with the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be available for inspection
and copying in the Commission's Public Reference Room, on official
business days between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Copies of such
filing also will be available for inspection and copying at the
principal office of NYSE Arca. All comments received will be posted
without change; the Commission does not edit personal identifying
information from submissions. You should submit only information that
you wish to make available publicly. All submissions should refer to
File Number SR-NYSEArca-2008-16 and should be submitted on or before
March 5, 2008.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets,
pursuant to delegated authority.\15\
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    \15\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
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Florence E. Harmon,
Deputy Secretary.
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