80_FR_46429 80 FR 46280 - Final 2014 Effluent Guidelines Program Plan and 2014 Annual Effluent Guidelines Review Report

80 FR 46280 - Final 2014 Effluent Guidelines Program Plan and 2014 Annual Effluent Guidelines Review Report

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 149 (August 4, 2015)

Page Range46280-46280
FR Document2015-18877

This notice announces the availability of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Final 2014 Effluent Guidelines Program Plan and EPA's 2014 Annual Effluent Guidelines Review Report. Section 304(m) of the Clean Water Act requires EPA to biennially publish a plan for new and revised effluent guidelines, after public notice and comment. The Plan identifies any new or existing industrial categories selected for effluent guidelines and provides a schedule. EPA typically publishes a preliminary plan upon which the public is invited to comment, and then publishes a final plan thereafter. EPA published the Preliminary 2014 Plan on September 16, 2014, and received public comment on it.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 149 (Tuesday, August 4, 2015)
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Final 2014 Effluent Guidelines Program Plan and 2014 Annual 
Effluent Guidelines Review Report

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability of the Environmental 
Protection Agency's (EPA) Final 2014 Effluent Guidelines Program Plan 
and EPA's 2014 Annual Effluent Guidelines Review Report. Section 304(m) 
of the Clean Water Act requires EPA to biennially publish a plan for 
new and revised effluent guidelines, after public notice and comment. 
The Plan identifies any new or existing industrial categories selected 
for effluent guidelines and provides a schedule. EPA typically 
publishes a preliminary plan upon which the public is invited to 
comment, and then publishes a final plan thereafter. EPA published the 
Preliminary 2014 Plan on September 16, 2014, and received public 
comment on it.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. William F. Swietlik, Engineering 
and Analysis Division, Office of Water, 4303T, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC., 
20460; telephone number: (202) 566-1129; fax number: (202) 566-1053; 
email address: [email protected]

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

    A. Supporting Documents--Key documents providing additional 
information about EPA's 2014 annual review and the Final 2014 Plan 
include the 2014 Effluent Guidelines Review Report and the Final 2014 
Effluent Guidelines Program Plan.
    B. How can I get copies of these documents and other related 
information?
    1. Docket. EPA has established official public dockets for these 
actions under Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2014-0170. The official public 
docket is the collection of materials that is available for public 
viewing at the Water Docket in the EPA Docket Center, (EPA/DC) EPA 
West, Room 3334, 1301Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460.
    2. Electronic Access. You can access this Federal Register document 
electronically through the United States government online source for 
Federal regulations at http://www.regulations.gov.
    3. Internet access. Copies of the supporting documents are 
available at http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/lawsguidance/cwa/304m/index.cfm

II. How Is This Document Organized?

    The outline of this notice follows.

A. Legal Authority
B. Summary of the Final 2014 Effluent Guidelines Program Plan

A. Legal Authority

    This notice is published under the authority of the CWA, 33 U.S.C. 
1251, et seq., and in particular sections 301(d), 304(b), 304(g), 
304(m), 306, 307(b) and 308 of the Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311(d), 1314(b), 
1314(g), 1314(m), 1316, 1317(b), and 1318.

B. Summary of the Final 2014 Effluent Guidelines Program Plan

    EPA prepared the Final 2014 Effluent Guidelines Program Plan (the 
Plan) pursuant to Clean Water Act section 304(m). The Plan provides a 
summary of EPA's review of effluent guidelines and pretreatment 
standards, consistent with CWA sections 301(d), 304(b), 304(g), 304(m), 
and 307(b). It includes EPA's evaluation of indirect discharge 
categories that do not have categorical pretreatment standards for the 
purpose of identifying potential new categories for which pretreatment 
standards under CWA section 307(b) might be warranted. From these 
reviews, the Plan identifies any new or existing industrial categories 
selected for effluent guidelines, and provides a schedule. In addition, 
the Plan presents any new or existing categories of industry selected 
for further review and analysis. The Final 2014 Plan and the 2014 
Annual Review Report can be found at http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/lawsguidance/cwa/304m/index.cfm

    Dated: July 24, 2015.
Kenneth J. Kopocis,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water.
[FR Doc. 2015-18877 Filed 8-3-15; 8:45 am]
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                                              to hourly values prior to air quality                   ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION                              electronically through the United States
                                              modeling. This may be done with                         AGENCY                                                government online source for Federal
                                              temporal profiles in several steps, such                                                                      regulations at http://
                                                                                                      [EPA–HQ–OW–2014–0170; FRL—9931–67–
                                              as annual-to-month, month-to-day, and                   OW]                                                   www.regulations.gov.
                                              day-to-hour. The exact method used                                                                              3. Internet access. Copies of the
                                              depends on the type of emissions being                  RIN 2040–ZA24
                                                                                                                                                            supporting documents are available at
                                              processed. The EPA seeks comment on                     Final 2014 Effluent Guidelines Program                http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/
                                              the allocation of the emission                          Plan and 2014 Annual Effluent                         lawsguidance/cwa/304m/index.cfm
                                              inventories to month, day, and hour for                 Guidelines Review Report
                                              all types of emission processes. In                                                                           II. How Is This Document Organized?
                                              particular, the EPA seeks information                   AGENCY: Environmental Protection
                                                                                                      Agency (EPA).                                           The outline of this notice follows.
                                              that could help improve the temporal
                                              allocation in 2017 of emissions from                    ACTION: Notice of availability.                       A. Legal Authority
                                              EGUs, nonroad mobile sources,                                                                                 B. Summary of the Final 2014 Effluent
                                                                                                      SUMMARY:   This notice announces the                    Guidelines Program Plan
                                              residential wood combustion sources,
                                                                                                      availability of the Environmental
                                              and the temporal allocation of vehicle
                                                                                                      Protection Agency’s (EPA) Final 2014                  A. Legal Authority
                                              miles traveled needed to model onroad                   Effluent Guidelines Program Plan and
                                              mobile sources. The EPA seeks local-                    EPA’s 2014 Annual Effluent Guidelines                    This notice is published under the
                                              and region-specific data that can be                    Review Report. Section 304(m) of the                  authority of the CWA, 33 U.S.C. 1251,
                                              used to improve the temporal allocation                 Clean Water Act requires EPA to                       et seq., and in particular sections 301(d),
                                              of emissions data.                                      biennially publish a plan for new and                 304(b), 304(g), 304(m), 306, 307(b) and
                                                 • Spatial surrogates. Spatial                        revised effluent guidelines, after public             308 of the Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311(d),
                                              surrogates are used to allocate county-                 notice and comment. The Plan identifies               1314(b), 1314(g), 1314(m), 1316,
                                              level emissions to the grid cells used for              any new or existing industrial categories             1317(b), and 1318.
                                              air quality modeling. The EPA requests                  selected for effluent guidelines and
                                                                                                      provides a schedule. EPA typically                    B. Summary of the Final 2014 Effluent
                                              comment on the spatial surrogates used
                                                                                                      publishes a preliminary plan upon                     Guidelines Program Plan
                                              to spatially allocate the 2011 and 2017
                                              emissions. The same spatial surrogates                  which the public is invited to comment,                 EPA prepared the Final 2014 Effluent
                                              are used in the base and future years.                  and then publishes a final plan                       Guidelines Program Plan (the Plan)
                                                                                                      thereafter. EPA published the
                                                 • Chemical speciation. Prior to air                  Preliminary 2014 Plan on September 16,
                                                                                                                                                            pursuant to Clean Water Act section
                                              quality modeling, the pollutants in the                                                                       304(m). The Plan provides a summary of
                                                                                                      2014, and received public comment on
                                              emission inventories must be converted                  it.                                                   EPA’s review of effluent guidelines and
                                              into the chemical species used by the air                                                                     pretreatment standards, consistent with
                                                                                                      FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
                                              quality model using speciation profiles.                                                                      CWA sections 301(d), 304(b), 304(g),
                                                                                                      William F. Swietlik, Engineering and
                                              The speciation profiles provided are                                                                          304(m), and 307(b). It includes EPA’s
                                                                                                      Analysis Division, Office of Water,
                                              consistent with version 4.4 of the                      4303T, U.S. Environmental Protection                  evaluation of indirect discharge
                                              SPECIATE database. The EPA requests                     Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue                      categories that do not have categorical
                                              comment on the provided speciation                      NW., Washington, DC., 20460;                          pretreatment standards for the purpose
                                              profiles, as well as any information that               telephone number: (202) 566–1129; fax                 of identifying potential new categories
                                              could help improve the speciation of oil                number: (202) 566–1053; email address:                for which pretreatment standards under
                                              and gas emissions in both the eastern                   swietlik.william@epa.gov                              CWA section 307(b) might be warranted.
                                              and western U.S. in 2017. Oil and gas                   SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:                            From these reviews, the Plan identifies
                                              speciation information, along with VOC                                                                        any new or existing industrial categories
                                              to TOG adjustment factors that are used                 I. General Information                                selected for effluent guidelines, and
                                              to compute methane emissions, would                       A. Supporting Documents—Key                         provides a schedule. In addition, the
                                              be of the most use at the county or oil/                documents providing additional                        Plan presents any new or existing
                                              gas basin level of detail and also for                  information about EPA’s 2014 annual                   categories of industry selected for
                                              each distinct process at oil and gas                    review and the Final 2014 Plan include                further review and analysis. The Final
                                              drilling/production facilities (e.g., glycol            the 2014 Effluent Guidelines Review                   2014 Plan and the 2014 Annual Review
                                              dehydrators).                                           Report and the Final 2014 Effluent                    Report can be found at http://
                                                                                                      Guidelines Program Plan.                              water.epa.gov/lawsregs/lawsguidance/
                                                 To aid in the interpretation of the                    B. How can I get copies of these
                                              provided data files and how they relate                                                                       cwa/304m/index.cfm
                                                                                                      documents and other related
                                              to the aspects of the data on which the                                                                         Dated: July 24, 2015.
                                                                                                      information?
                                              EPA is requesting comment, the EPA                        1. Docket. EPA has established official             Kenneth J. Kopocis,
                                              has provided a summary document in                      public dockets for these actions under                Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water.
                                              the docket that describes in more detail                Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OW–2014–                         [FR Doc. 2015–18877 Filed 8–3–15; 8:45 am]
                                              the provided data and summary files.                    0170. The official public docket is the               BILLING CODE 6560–50–P
                                                Dated: July 23, 2015.                                 collection of materials that is available
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                                              Stephen D. Page,
                                                                                                      for public viewing at the Water Docket
                                                                                                      in the EPA Docket Center, (EPA/DC)
                                              Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and
                                                                                                      EPA West, Room 3334,
                                              Standards.
                                                                                                      1301Constitution Ave. NW.,
                                              [FR Doc. 2015–18878 Filed 8–3–15; 8:45 am]
                                                                                                      Washington, DC 20460.
                                              BILLING CODE 6560–50–P                                    2. Electronic Access. You can access
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CollectionFederal Register
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of availability.
ContactMr. William F. Swietlik, Engineering and Analysis Division, Office of Water, 4303T, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC., 20460; telephone number: (202) 566-1129; fax number: (202) 566-1053;
FR Citation80 FR 46280 
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