Monday, September 14, 2009

Environmental Federal Register, Vol. 74, No. 176, September 14, 2009

Federal Register
Vol. 74, No. 176
Monday, September 14, 2009
 
Note: There were no nationally applicable announcements from U.S. EPA today.
 
There are 2 announcements in this issue
 
    1. ENERGY/Wind - NM. DOI/Fish and Wildlife Service. Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee; Announcement of Public Meeting
 
    2. WATER, GLAKES - PR/NMs. DHS/Coast Guard. Standards for Living Organisms in Ships' Ballast Water Discharged in U.S. Waters
  
 

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ISSUE CODES:  AIR - Air; ALL - Cross-Media, ecosystems, Env. Justice; CLIMATE - Climate Change, Global Warming; DRINK - Drinking Water, SDWA, Underground Injection; ENERGY - Energy; GLAKES  - Great Lakes; HAZ - Hazardous Waste, RCRA, HSWA, DOT/RSPA, Some Nuclear (NRC); LAND - Land Use, Forests; P2 - Pollution Prevention, Sustainability, Recycling, Pjt. XL; REMED - Remediation, Brownfields, Superfund; TANKS - AST, UST; TOXICS = Toxics, TRI, TSCA, Pesticides, Risks, RTK; TRANSPORT -  Transportation; SOLID - Solid Waste, RCRA Subtitle D; WATER - Surface Water, NPS, NPDES, Wetlands; WILDLIFE = Wildlife, Biodiversity, Endangered Species.
TYPE CODES: ANPR - Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking; FR - Final Rule; FRD - Direct final rule; FRI - Interim final rule; ICR - Information Collection Request; ND - Notice of data, information, reports, etc. availability; NF - Notice of Fuding Opportunity; NM - Notice of Meeting; NS - Notice of administrative/court settlement; PR - Proposed Rule; ROD - Record of decision.
 
 

ANNOUNCEMENT 1


Subject: ENERGY/Wind - NM. DOI/Fish and Wildlife Service. Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee; Announcement of Public Meeting
 
[Federal Register: September 14, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 176)]
[Notices]              
[Page 47018]
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[FWS-R9-FHC-2009-N191; 94300-1122-0000-Z2]

Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee; Announcement of
Public Meeting

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), will host a
Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee (Committee) meeting
September 29 through October 1, 2009. The meeting is open to the
public. The meeting agenda will include discussion of the current draft
Recommendations to the Secretary.

DATES: The meeting is scheduled for September 29 through October 1,
2009. For session times, see ``Session Times'' under SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.

ADDRESSES: We will hold the meeting at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, 4401 N. Fairfax Drive, Room 530, Arlington, VA 22203. For more
information, see ``Meeting Location Information.''

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rachel London, Division of Habitat and
Resource Conservation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, (703) 358-2161.
 
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ANNOUNCEMENT 2


Subject: WATER, GLAKES - PR/NMs. DHS/Coast Guard. Standards for Living Organisms in Ships' Ballast Water Discharged in U.S. Waters
 
[Federal Register: September 14, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 176)]
[Proposed Rules]              
[Page 46964-46965]

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 151

46 CFR Part 162

[USCG-2001-10486]
RIN 1625-AA32

Standards for Living Organisms in Ships' Ballast Water Discharged
in U.S. Waters

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces a series of public meetings to
receive comments on a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) entitled
``Standards for Living Organisms in Ships' Ballast Water Discharged in
U.S. Waters'' that published in the Federal Register on Friday, August
28, 2009.

DATES: Public meetings will be held in the Seattle, WA (September 28,
2009), New Orleans, LA (September 30, 2009), Chicago, IL (October 2,
2009), Washington, DC (October 8, 2009), Oakland, CA (October 27,
2009), and New York, NY (October 29, 2009) areas to provide
opportunities for oral comments. Written comments and related material
may also be submitted to Coast Guard personnel specified at those
meetings for inclusion in the official docket for this rulemaking. The
comment period for the NPRM closes on November 27, 2009. All comments
and related material submitted after the meeting must either be
submitted to our online docket via http://www.regulations.gov on or
before November 27, 2009 or reach the Docket Management Facility by
that date.

ADDRESSES: The public meetings will be held in the Seattle, WA
(September 28, 2009), New Orleans, LA (September 30, 2009), Chicago, IL
(October 2, 2009), Washington, DC (October 8, 2009), Oakland, CA
(October 27, 2009), and New York, NY (October 29, 2009) areas. The
specific locations and details will be announced in the Federal
Register when they are finalized.
    You may submit written comments identified by docket number USCG-
2001-10486 before or after the meetings using any one of the following
methods:
    (1) Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
    (2) Fax: 202-493-2251.
    (3) Mail: Docket Management Facility (M-30), U.S. Department of
Transportation, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590-0001.
    (4) Hand delivery: Same as mail address above, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. The telephone
number is 202-366-9329.
    To avoid duplication, please use only one of these four methods.
Our online docket for this rulemaking is available on the Internet at
http://www.regulations.gov under docket number USCG-2001-10486.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions on this proposed
rulemaking, call or e-mail Mr. John Morris, Project Manager,
Environmental Standards Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters,
telephone 202-372-1433, e-mail: John.C.Morris@uscg.mil. If you have
questions on viewing or submitting material to the docket, call Ms.
Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, Docket Operations, telephone 202-366-
9826.
 
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