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Signed: June 11, 2015. Rulings Division, Alcohol and Tobacco by TTB of the wine produced in that John J. Manfreda, Tax and Trade Bureau, 1310 G Street area. NW., Box 12, Washington, DC 20005; Administrator. Requirements [FR Doc. 2015–15037 Filed 6–17–15; 8:45 am] phone 202–453–1039, ext. 175. Section 4.25(e)(2) of the TTB BILLING CODE 4810–31–P SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: regulations (27 CFR 4.25(e)(2)) outlines Background on Viticultural Areas the procedure for proposing the DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY establishment of an AVA and provides TTB Authority that any interested party may petition Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Section 105(e) of the Federal Alcohol TTB to establish a grape-growing region Bureau Administration Act (FAA Act), 27 as an AVA. Petitioners may use the U.S.C. 205(e), authorizes the Secretary same procedures to request changes 27 CFR Part 9 of the Treasury to prescribe regulations involving existing AVAs. Section 9.12(c) of the TTB regulations (27 CFR 9.12(c)) [Docket No. TTB–2015–0008; Notice No. for the labeling of wine, distilled spirits, 152] and malt beverages. The FAA Act prescribes standards for petitions for provides that these regulations should, modifying established AVAs. Petitions RIN 1513–AC21 among other things, prohibit consumer to expand an established AVA must deception and the use of misleading include the following: Proposed Expansion of the Willamette • statements on labels and ensure that Evidence that the region within the Valley Viticultural Area labels provide the consumer with proposed expansion area boundary is AGENCY: Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and adequate information as to the identity nationally or locally known by the name Trade Bureau, Treasury. and quality of the product. The Alcohol of the established AVA; • An explanation of the basis for ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) administers the FAA Act defining the boundary of the proposed SUMMARY: The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax expansion area; pursuant to section 1111(d) of the • and Trade Bureau (TTB) proposes to Homeland Security Act of 2002, A narrative description of the expand the approximately 5,360-square codified at 6 U.S.C. 531(d). The features of the proposed expansion area mile ‘‘Willamette Valley’’ viticultural Secretary has delegated various affecting viticulture, including climate, area in northwestern Oregon by authorities through Treasury geology, soils, physical features, and approximately 29 square miles. The Department Order 120–01, dated elevation, that make the proposed established Willamette Valley December 10, 2013, to the TTB expansion area similar to the viticultural area and the proposed Administrator to perform the functions established AVA and distinguish it from expansion area do not lie within any and duties in the administration and adjacent areas outside the established other viticultural area. TTB designates enforcement of this law. AVA boundary; • The appropriate United States viticultural areas to allow vintners to Part 4 of the TTB regulations (27 CFR better describe the origin of their wines Geological Survey (USGS) map(s) part 4) authorizes TTB to establish showing the location of the proposed and to allow consumers to better definitive viticultural areas and regulate identify wines they may purchase. TTB expansion area, with the boundary of the use of their names as appellations of the proposed expansion area clearly invites comments on this proposed origin on wine labels and in wine addition to its regulations. drawn thereon; and advertisements. Part 9 of the TTB • A detailed narrative description of DATES: Comments must be received by regulations (27 CFR part 9) sets forth the the proposed expansion area boundary August 17, 2015. standards for the preparation and based on USGS map markings. ADDRESSES: Please send your comments submission of petitions for the on this notice of proposed rulemaking to establishment or modification of Petition To Expand the Willamette one of the following addresses: American viticultural areas (AVAs) and Valley AVA • Internet: http://www.regulations.gov lists the approved American viticultural TTB received a petition from Steve (via the online comment form for this areas. Thomson, the executive vice president notice of proposed rulemaking as posted Definition of King Estate Winery in Eugene, within Docket No. TTB–2015–0008 at Oregon, proposing to expand the ‘‘Regulations.gov,’’ the Federal e- Section 4.25(e)(1)(i) of the TTB established ‘‘Willamette Valley’’ AVA in rulemaking portal); regulations (27 CFR 4.25(e)(1)(i)) defines northwestern Oregon. The Willamette • U.S. Mail: Director, Regulations and a viticultural area for American wine as Valley AVA (27 CFR 9.90) was Rulings Division, Alcohol and Tobacco a delimited grape-growing region having established by T.D. ATF–162, which Tax and Trade Bureau, 1310 G Street distinguishing features, as described in published in the Federal Register on NW., Box 12, Washington, DC 20005; or part 9 of the regulations, and a name December 1, 1983 (48 FR 54221). The • Hand delivery/courier in lieu of and a delineated boundary, as Willamette Valley AVA covers mail: Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and established in part 9 of the regulations. approximately 5,360 square miles in Trade Bureau, 1310 G Street NW., Suite These designations allow vintners and Benton, Lane, Linn, Clackamas, Lincoln, 400, Washington, DC 20005. consumers to attribute a given quality, Marion, Multnomah, Polk, Tillamook, See the Public Participation section of reputation, or other characteristic of a Washington, and Yamhill Counties. The this notice of proposed rulemaking for wine made from grapes grown in an area Willamette Valley AVA is not located specific instructions and requirements to the wine’s geographic origin. The within any other AVA, but it does for submitting comments, and for establishment of AVAs allows vintners contain six smaller AVAs: Chehalem information on how to request a public to describe more accurately the origin of Mountains, Dundee Hills, Eola-Amity hearing or view or obtain copies of the their wines to consumers and helps Hills, McMinnville, Ribbon Ridge, and petition and supporting materials. consumers to identify wines they may Yamhill-Carlton. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: purchase. Establishment of an AVA is The proposed expansion area is Karen A. Thornton, Regulations and neither an approval nor an endorsement located in Lane County adjacent to the

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southern tip of the existing Willamette describe the wine as coming from north-northeasterly along the elevation Valley AVA boundary and covers ‘‘Willamette,’’ ‘‘Willamette Valley,’’ or contour until it joins the current approximately 29 square miles. The ‘‘Willamette, Oregon.’’ The petition Willamette Valley AVA boundary near King Estate Winery operates one of the states that these wine lists demonstrate Lorane. The proposed expansion area two commercial vineyards covering a that sellers and consumers currently would not extend south into Douglas total of 508 acres located within the associate the wines made in the County because the Douglas County line proposed expansion area, and has proposed expansion area with the forms the northern boundary of the provided information that the second Willamette Valley AVA, even though Umpqua River Valley AVA (27 CFR vineyard affected is also in favor of the the King Estate Winery does not market 9.89), which has features that are proposed expansion. King Estate Winery or label the wines as such. distinctive from those of the Willamette and the second vineyard each have a Valley AVA. Boundary Evidence winery within the proposed expansion Both the established Willamette area. A third winery would also be The Willamette Valley AVA is a long, Valley AVA and the proposed included; however, it does not operate narrow region encompassing the expansion area are surrounded to the a vineyard within the proposed Willamette River basin. The AVA is west, east, and immediate south by expansion area. The vineyards and the approximately 120 miles long and 60 high, steep mountains. To the east are wineries did not exist when the miles wide. The current AVA boundary the Cascade Mountains, and to the west Willamette Valley AVA was established begins at the intersection of the are the Coast Range Mountains. To the in 1983 and currently are not located Multnomah-Columbia County line and south are the Calapooya Mountains, as within any AVA. The petition included the Oregon-Washington boundary. The well as the Umpqua River Valley. letters from the president of the current boundary then proceeds Distinguishing Features Willamette Valley Wineries Association southward, primarily following the and the president of the Oregon meandering 1,000-foot elevation As justification of the expansion area, Winegrowers Association in support of contour, into Lane County. South of the which is based on similarities in the proposed expansion. According to city of Eugene and north of the Siuslaw distinguishing features, the expansion the petition, the soils, climate, and River, the current AVA boundary briefly petition quotes the original Willamette topography of the proposed expansion leaves the 1,000-foot elevation contour Valley AVA petition, which stated, ‘‘[I]t area are consistent with those of the near Panther Creek and follows a series is the intention of the Oregon established AVA. Unless otherwise of straight lines drawn between marked Winegrowers Association to define this noted, all information and data features on the USGS maps before area as broadly as geographical data and pertaining to the proposed expansion reconnecting with the 1,000-foot viticultural experience will allow, so as area contained in this document come elevation contour near the community not to stifle experimentation in new from the petition and its supporting of Lorane. The current boundary then sites. * * * If any such sites come to exhibits. follows the elevation contour as it light during the evaluation of this meanders southward to Sharps Creek, to petition, we would urge they be Name Evidence a point near the Lane-Douglas County included in the final description of the The petition provides evidence that line. The current boundary then follows viticultural area.’’ According to the the proposed expansion area is the 1,000-foot elevation contour as it petition, the proposed expansion area associated with the established turns northward and returns to the contains the same climate, soils, and Willamette Valley AVA. King Estate Oregon-Washington boundary. topography as the established Winery, where the petitioner is the According to T.D. ATF–162, the 1,000- Willamette Valley AVA. The expansion executive vice president, is located foot elevation contour was chosen to petition concludes that, had the two within the proposed expansion area and form the majority of the AVA boundary vineyards in the proposed expansion has a ‘‘Eugene, Oregon’’ mailing because 1,000 feet is the maximum area existed at the time the Willamette address. The city of Eugene is located elevation for successful viticulture in Valley AVA was established, the within the current boundaries of the this region of Oregon. proposed expansion area would have Willamette Valley AVA. The petition The boundary of the proposed been included because the region shares also states that the two vineyards expansion area would modify the characteristics similar to those of the located within the proposed expansion portion of the current AVA boundary established AVA. Those characteristics area are included in the National that follows the straight lines drawn are discussed in detail below. Agricultural Statistics Service’s annual between marked features on the USGS compilation of vineyard statistics within maps near Panther Creek, in the Climate the region called the ‘‘South Willamette southwestern portion of the AVA. The The petition compared the climate of Valley.’’ proposed expansion boundary would the proposed expansion area to that of Finally, the petition includes excerpts not use straight lines between points but the established Willamette Valley AVA from wine lists from 11 different instead would continue to follow the and the surrounding regions. The restaurants across the United States and 1,000-foot elevation contour to the Lane- petition included a map generated using one in Denmark that offer wines from Douglas county line. The proposed the PRISM mapping system 1 that the King Estate Winery. Although wines expansion area boundary would then showed the growing degree day 2 (GDD) from the King Estate Winery use proceed east along the Lane–Douglas accumulations and average growing ‘‘Oregon’’ as the appellation of origin on county line until it rejoins the 1,000-foot season temperatures throughout the their labels, the restaurant wine lists all elevation contour, and then proceed proposed expansion area, the

1 The PRISM climate data mapping system data, and at the time the petition was submitted, the season, measured in annual growing degree days combined climate normals gathered from weather most recent climate normals available were from (GDD), defines climatic regions. One GDD stations, along with other factors such as elevation, the period of 1971–2000. (PRISM Climate Group, accumulates for each degree Fahrenheit that a day’s longitude, slope angles, and solar aspect to estimate Oregon State University, http:// mean temperature is above 50 degrees, the the general climate patterns for the proposed AVA prism.oregonstate.edu, created 4 February 2004.) minimum temperature required for grapevine and the surrounding regions. Climate normals are 2 In the Winkler climate classification system, growth (‘‘General Viticulture,’’ by Albert J. Winkler, only calculated every 10 years, using 30 years of annual heat accumulation during the growing University of California Press, 1974, pages 61–64).

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established AVAs within the Willamette regions. The following tables summarize Valley AVA, and the surrounding the data from the map:

TABLE 1—AVERAGE GROWING SEASON TEMPERATURES [Degrees Fahrenheit (F)]

Average Average Average Location minimum maximum mean temperature temperature temperature

Proposed Expansion Area ...... 58.2 59.1 58.6

Temperatures Within Willamette Valley AVA

Chehalem Mountains AVA ...... 55.9 59.8 58.7 Eola-Amity Hills AVA ...... 57.6 59.5 58.8 McMinnville AVA ...... 57.1 59.6 58.9 Yamhill-Carlton AVA ...... 56.8 59.9 59.0 Ribbon Ridge AVA ...... 58.5 59.4 59.0 Dundee Hills AVA ...... 57.7 59.7 59.1

Temperatures South of Willamette Valley AVA and Proposed Expansion Area

Umpqua Valley AVA ...... 55.9 61.5 59.3

TABLE 2—GROWING DEGREE DAY ACCUMULATIONS

Average Average Average Location minimum maximum mean accumulations accumulations accumulations

Proposed Expansion Area ...... 1780 1935 1862

GDD Accumulations Within Willamette Valley AVA

Chehalem Mountains AVA ...... 1382 2093 1885 Eola-Amity Hills AVA ...... 1683 2048 1906 McMinnville AVA ...... 1597 2059 1919 Yamhill-Carlton AVA ...... 1544 2124 1930 Ribbon Ridge AVA ...... 1843 2016 1931 Dundee Hills AVA ...... 1692 2077 1946

GDD Accumulations South of Willamette Valley AVA and Proposed Expansion Area

Umpqua Valley AVA ...... 1415 2468 2007

The PRISM data shows that during are more similar to those accumulations south of the vineyard. The data was the growing season, the proposed than to the higher GDD accumulations collected from each station from April 1 expansion area and the six established of the Umpqua Valley AVA. through October 31 from 2008 through AVAs within the larger Willamette The petition also included 2012. Although data from Eugene was Valley AVA all have lower average information on the growing season included in the petition, the petitioner mean temperatures and average temperatures, rainfall amounts, and states that the data from that location is maximum temperatures and higher GDD accumulations from a private not a good representative of average minimum temperatures than the weather station at the King Estate temperatures within the nearby portions Umpqua Valley AVA. Growing season Vineyard, within the proposed of the Willamette Valley AVA because temperatures within the proposed expansion area, and from regional the weather station is located at the expansion area are most similar to those weather stations located in Cottage Eugene airport and represents a warmer in the Chehalem Mountains, Eola-Amity Grove, Eugene, and Drain, Oregon. urban-biased climate. Therefore, Hills, and McMinnville AVAs. Although According to the petition, Cottage Grove although all the climate data provided the average GDD accumulations within is approximately 11 miles east of the in the petition is available for viewing the proposed expansion area are lower King Estate Vineyard, Eugene is in Docket No. TTB–2015–0008, the than those of the six established AVAs approximately 18 miles northeast of the Eugene data has been omitted from the within the Willamette Valley AVA, they vineyard, and Drain is just over 15 miles following table:

TABLE 3—GROWING SEASON CLIMATE DATA

Description 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Average

King Estate Vineyard (within proposed expansion area)

Average Mean Temperature (degrees F) ...... 57 .2 58 .4 57 .0 56 .8 58.5 57.6

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TABLE 3—GROWING SEASON CLIMATE DATA—Continued

Description 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Average

GDD Accumulations...... 1827 2001 1709 1697 1957 1838 Total Precipitation (inches) ...... 6 .84 12.06 21.36 14 .09 11 .84 13 .24

Cottage Grove, OR (east of proposed expansion area, within Willamette Valley AVA)

Average Mean Temperature (degrees F) ...... 58 .3 59 .8 58 .2 57 .8 58.8 58.6 GDD Accumulations...... 2037 2277 1945 1864 2033 2031 Total Precipitation (inches) ...... 10 .32 14 .84 22 .85 17 .47 17.07 16.51

Drain, OR (south of proposed expansion area, in Umpqua Valley AVA)

Average Mean Temperature (Degrees F) ...... 59 .9 60 .8 60 .0 59.8 60 .9 60 .3 GDD Accumulations...... 2302 2467 2280 2238 2419 2341 Total Precipitation (inches) ...... 7 .63 12.96 23.06 14 .04 15 .04 14 .55

The data shows that although Peavine series are the ninth, eleventh, Elevations within the area range from precipitation amounts within the and twelfth most common soils within approximately 500 to 1,200 feet. proposed expansion area are similar to the Willamette Valley, respectively. Vineyards within the proposed the precipitation amounts for Cottage T.D. ATF–162, which established the expansion area are planted on hillsides Grove (located within the Willamette Willamette Valley AVA, did not at elevations between approximately Valley AVA) and Drain (located within describe the soils of the AVA or the 600 feet and 1,050 feet. the Umpqua Valley AVA), the proposed surrounding regions in great detail, only The topography of the proposed expansion area’s GDD accumulations noting that the soils within the AVA expansion area is similar to that of the are more similar to those of the were silty loams and clay loams, while established Willamette Valley AVA. The Willamette Valley location. the surrounding regions contained established AVA is composed of rolling Additionally, the proposed expansion ‘‘mountain soils.’’ The proposed hills and valleys between the Coast area’s average mean temperatures are expansion petition describes the soils Range Mountains, which are to the west more similar to that of the Willamette outside both the proposed expansion of the established AVA, and the Cascade Valley location. The data from the King area and the Willamette Valley AVA in Mountains, which are to its east. The Estate Winery weather station, within more detail. According to the petition, Coast Range Mountains shelter the AVA the proposed expansion area, is also the Peavine soils that are found both in from much of the marine air. Elevations similar to that generated by the PRISM the proposed expansion area and the within the AVA are between mapping system for the entire proposed Willamette Valley AVA are also present approximately 115 feet and 1,630 feet. expansion area, which is summarized in in the surrounding regions outside the Vineyards are planted on hillsides at tables 1 and 2. AVA and the proposed expansion area. elevations between 200 feet and 1,300 However, the region outside the AVA Soils feet. Both the Willamette Valley AVA also contains Blanchley, Honeygrove and the proposed expansion area are The petition included an analysis of Complex, Bohanon, Preacher, Klickitat, surrounded by the higher, more the soils of the proposed expansion Kirney, and Digger Complex soils, mountainous Cascade Mountains to the area. According to the analysis, the five which are not found in either the east of the two areas, the Calapooya most common soil series within the proposed expansion region or the Mountains to their south, and the Coast proposed expansion area are, from most Willamette Valley AVA. Additionally, Range Mountains to their west. to least common, the Bellpine, the petition notes that, with the Willakenzie, Dupee, Jory, and Peavine exception of the Peavine soils, the soils Much of the land within the series. These five soils cover outside the proposed expansion area Willamette Valley AVA is part of the approximately 74 percent of the and the Willamette Valley AVA are all Willamette Valley watershed. However, proposed expansion area. These soils in the ‘‘udic’’ moisture regime of soil the petition notes that there are portions are also considered to be in the ‘‘xeric’’ classification. Udic soils are common in of the AVA that drain into other rivers, moisture regime of soil classification. humid climates where rainfall is evenly including ‘‘significant acres of land’’ in Xeric soils are common in regions with distributed throughout the year. As a the northern portion of the AVA that a ‘‘Mediterranean’’ climate, which result, udic soils typically retain even drain into the Columbia River. Other consists of cool, moist winters and amounts of moisture throughout the portions of the AVA drain into the warm, dry summers. As a result of the year, unlike the drier xeric soils of the Sandy River and the Siuslaw River. The warm, dry summers, xeric soils proposed expansion area and the proposed expansion area drains into typically retain little water by the end Willamette Valley AVA. both the Willamette River and the of the growing season. Siuslaw River. By contrast, the region According to the petition, there are 23 Topography south of the proposed expansion area soil series present within the Willamette The proposed expansion area is and the Willamette Valley AVA drains Valley AVA, including all five of the located on the leeward side of the Coast exclusively into the Umpqua River. most common soil series found within Range Mountains, which shelter the TTB Determination the proposed expansion area. The most proposed expansion area from most of common soils within the Willamette the cool, moist marine air that flows TTB concludes that the petition to Valley AVA are from the Jory series, inward from the Pacific Ocean. The expand the boundaries of the followed by soils of the Willakenzie terrain of the proposed expansion area established Willamette Valley AVA series. Soils of the Bellpine, Dupee, and is comprised of foothills and valleys. merits consideration and public

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comment, as invited in this notice of information in support of your Confidentiality proposed rulemaking. comments. All submitted comments and Boundary Description Submitting Comments attachments are part of the public record and subject to disclosure. Do not See the narrative description of the You may submit comments on this enclose any material in your comments boundary of the petitioned-for notice of proposed rulemaking by using that you consider to be confidential or expansion area in the proposed one of the following three methods: inappropriate for public disclosure. regulatory text published at the end of • Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: You this proposed rule. may send comments via the online Public Disclosure Maps comment form posted with this notice TTB will post, and you may view, of proposed rulemaking within Docket copies of this notice of proposed To document the existing and No. TTB–2015–0008 on rulemaking, selected supporting proposed boundaries of the Willamette ‘‘Regulations.gov,’’ the Federal materials, and any online or mailed Valley AVA, the petitioner provided a e-rulemaking portal, at http:// comments received about this proposal copy of the required map, and it is listed www.regulations.gov. A direct link to within Docket No. TTB–2015–0008 on below in the proposed regulatory text. that docket is available under Notice the Federal e-rulemaking portal, Impact on Current Wine Labels No. 152 on the TTB Web site at Regulations.gov, at http:// http://www.ttb.gov/wine/wine- www.regulations.gov. A direct link to For a wine to be labeled with a rulemaking.shtml. Supplemental files that docket is available on the TTB Web viticultural area name or with a brand may be attached to comments submitted site at http://www.ttb.gov/wine/wine_ name that includes an AVA name, at via Regulations.gov. For complete rulemaking.shtml under Notice No. 152. least 85 percent of the wine must be instructions on how to use You may also reach the relevant docket derived from grapes grown within the Regulations.gov, visit the site and click through the Regulations.gov search page area represented by that name, and the on the ‘‘Help’’ tab. at http://www.regulations.gov. For wine must meet the other conditions • U.S. Mail: You may send comments information on how to use listed in § 4.25(e)(3) of the TTB via postal mail to the Director, Regulations.gov, click on the Web site’s regulations (27 CFR 4.25(e)(3)). If the Regulations and Rulings Division, ‘‘Help’’ tab. wine is not eligible for labeling with an Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade All posted comments will display the AVA name and that name appears in the Bureau, 1310 G Street NW., Box 12, commenter’s name, organization (if brand name, then the label is not in Washington, DC 20005. any), city, and State, and, in the case of compliance and the bottler must change • Hand Delivery/Courier: You may mailed comments, all address the brand name and obtain approval of hand-carry your comments or have them information, including email addresses. a new label. Similarly, if the AVA name hand-carried to the Alcohol and TTB may omit voluminous attachments appears in another reference on the Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, 1310 G or material that the Bureau considers label in a misleading manner, the bottler Street NW., Suite 400, Washington, DC unsuitable for posting. would have to obtain approval of a new 20005. You may also view copies of this notice of proposed rulemaking, all label. Different rules apply if a wine has Please submit your comments by the related petitions, maps and other a brand name containing an AVA name closing date shown above in this notice supporting materials, and any electronic or other viticulturally significant term of proposed rulemaking. Your or mailed comments that TTB receives that was used as a brand name on a comments must reference Notice No. about this proposal by appointment at label approved before July 7, 1986. See 152 and include your name and mailing the TTB Information Resource Center, § 4.39(i)(2) of the TTB regulations (27 address. Your comments also must be 1310 G Street NW., Washington, DC CFR 4.39(i)(2)) for details. made in English, be legible, and be 20005. You may also obtain copies at 20 The approval of the proposed written in language acceptable for expansion of the Willamette Valley cents per 8.5- x 11-inch page. Please public disclosure. TTB does not note that TTB is unable to provide AVA would not affect any other existing acknowledge receipt of comments, and viticultural area. The expansion of the copies of USGS maps or other similarly- TTB considers all comments as sized documents that may be included Willamette Valley AVA would allow originals. vintners to use ‘‘Willamette Valley’’ as as part of the AVA petition. Contact In your comment, please clearly state TTB’s information specialist at the an appellation of origin for wines made if you are commenting for yourself or on primarily from grapes grown within the above address or by telephone at 202– behalf of an association, business, or 453–2270 to schedule an appointment proposed expansion area if the wines other entity. If you are commenting on meet the eligibility requirements for the or to request copies of comments or behalf of an entity, your comment must other materials. appellation. include the entity’s name, as well as Public Participation your name and position title. If you Regulatory Flexibility Act comment via Regulations.gov, please TTB certifies that this proposed Comments Invited enter the entity’s name in the regulation, if adopted, would not have TTB invites comments from interested ‘‘Organization’’ blank of the online a significant economic impact on a members of the public on whether it comment form. If you comment via substantial number of small entities. should expand the Willamette Valley postal mail or hand delivery/courier, The proposed regulation imposes no AVA as proposed. TTB is specifically please submit your entity’s comment on new reporting, recordkeeping, or other interested in receiving comments on the letterhead. administrative requirement. Any benefit similarity of the proposed expansion You may also write to the derived from the use of an AVA name area to the established Willamette Administrator before the comment would be the result of a proprietor’s Valley AVA, as well as the differences closing date to ask for a public hearing. efforts and consumer acceptance of between the proposed expansion area The Administrator reserves the right to wines from that area. Therefore, no and the areas outside the Willamette determine whether to hold a public regulatory flexibility analysis is Valley AVA. Please provide specific hearing. required.

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Executive Order 12866 the Siuslaw River and the intersection and comments on the proposals must be It has been determined that this of Siuslaw River Road and Fire Road, to received on or before July 21, 2015. The proposed rule is not a significant the 1,000 foot contour line; hearing will be held on August 10, 11, (15) Generally southeast along the regulatory action as defined by and 12, and continuing through August meandering 1,000 foot contour line, Executive Order 12866 of September 30, 13, 2015 (if necessary) beginning each crossing onto the Roseburg, Oregon 1993. Therefore, no regulatory day at 9 a.m. EDT. map, to the intersection of the 1,000 foot assessment is required. ADDRESSES: The hearing will be held in contour line with the Lane/Douglas the Ce´sar E. Cha´vez Memorial Drafting Information County line; Auditorium at the U.S. Department of Karen A. Thornton of the Regulations (16) East along the Lane/Douglas Labor, Frances Perkins Building, 200 and Rulings Division drafted this notice County line approximately 3.8 miles to Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, of proposed rulemaking. the intersection with the 1,000 foot DC 20210. You may submit a request to contour line just east of the South Fork testify at the hearing by any of the List of Subjects in 27 CFR Part 9 of the Siuslaw River; following methods: Wine. (17) Generally north, then northeast • Email to [email protected], subject along the 1,000 foot contour line around line: Conflict of Interest Rule Hearing. Proposed Regulatory Amendment Spencer Butte, and then generally south • Mail: Office of Regulations and For the reasons discussed in the to a point along the Lane/Douglas Interpretations, Employee Benefits preamble, TTB proposes to amend title County line 0.5 mile north of Interstate Security Administration, Attn: Conflict 27, chapter I, part 9, Code of Federal Highway 99; of Interest Rule Hearing, Room N–5655, Regulations, as follows: * * * * * U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Signed: June 11, 2015. Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, PART 9—AMERICAN VITICULTURAL DC 20210. AREAS John J. Manfreda, Administrator. Requests to testify must be received by ■ 1. The authority citation for part 9 [FR Doc. 2015–15036 Filed 6–17–15; 8:45 am] 5:00 p.m. EDT, July 24, 2015. continues to read as follows: BILLING CODE 4810–31–P You may submit comments on the proposed rule and proposed prohibited Authority: 27 U.S.C. 205. transaction exemptions by the methods Subpart C—Approved American EMPLOYEE BENEFITS SECURITY identified below. Viticultural Areas ADMINISTRATION For the proposed rule, identified by RIN 1210–AB32, by any of the following ■ 2. Section 9.90 is amended by revising 29 CFR Parts 2509, 2510, and 2550 methods: paragraph (b) introductory text, adding Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// new paragraph (b)(4), removing RIN 1210–AB32; 1210–ZA25 www.regulations.gov. Follow paragraphs (c)(11) through (c)(13), instructions for submitting comments. Hearing on Definition of the Term redesignating paragraphs (c)(14) through Email: [email protected]. Include RIN ‘‘Fiduciary’’; Conflict of Interest Rule- (c)(32) as paragraphs (c)(18) through 1210–AB32 in the subject line of the Retirement Investment Advice and (c)(36), and adding new paragraphs message. Related Proposed Prohibited (c)(11) through (c)(17) to read as follows: Mail: Office of Regulations and Transaction Exemptions Interpretations, Employee Benefits § 9.90 Willamette Valley. AGENCY: Employee Benefits Security Security Administration, Attn: Conflict * * * * * Administration, Labor. of Interest Rule, Room N–5655, U.S. (b) Approved maps. The approved ACTION: Notice of hearing and extension Department of Labor, 200 Constitution maps for determining the boundaries of of comment period. Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210. the Willamette Valley viticultural area Hand Delivery/Courier: Office of are three U.S.G.S. Oregon maps scaled SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that Regulations and Interpretations, 1:250,000 and one U.S.G.S. Oregon map the Employee Benefits Security Employee Benefits Security scaled 1:24,000. They are entitled: Administration (EBSA) will hold a Administration, Attn: Conflict of * * * * * public hearing on August 10, 11, and 12, Interest Rule, Room N–5655, U.S. (4) ‘‘Letz Creek, OR’’ (revised 1984). and continuing through August 13, 2015 Department of Labor, 200 Constitution (c) * * * (if necessary) to consider issues Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210. (11) Northeast, then southeast along attendant to adopting a regulation For the proposed prohibited the 1,000 foot contour line concerning its proposed conflict of transactions exemptions, identified by approximately 12 miles to its interest rule and related proposed RIN 1210–ZA25, by any of the following intersection with the R5W/R6W range prohibited transaction exemptions. The methods: line; Department also is extending the date Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// (12) South along the R5W/R6W range by which comments may be submitted www.regulations.gov at Docket ID line approximately 0.25 mile to the on the proposed rule and proposed new number: EBSA–2014–0016. Follow the intersection with the 1,000 foot contour and amended exemptions. Public instructions for submitting comments. line; comments on the proposals may now be Email to: [email protected]. Include RIN (13) Generally southeast along the submitted to the Department on or 1210–ZA25 in the subject line of the meandering 1,000 foot contour line, before July 21, 2015. message. crossing onto the Letz Creek map, to a DATES: The comment periods for the Fax to: (202) 693–8474. Include RIN point on the 1,000 foot contour line proposed rule and six proposed 1210–ZA25 in the subject line of the located due north of the intersection of prohibited transaction exemptions message. Siuslaw River Road and Fire Road; published on April 20, 2015 (80 FR Mail: Office of Exemption (14) South in a straight line 21928, 21960, 22004, 22034, 22010, Determinations, Employee Benefits approximately 0.55 mile, crossing over 22021, and 21989) have been extended, Security Administration, U.S.

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