80_FR_62751 80 FR 62551 - Sewage Treatment Technology-Type Approval of Marine Sanitation Devices

80 FR 62551 - Sewage Treatment Technology-Type Approval of Marine Sanitation Devices

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Coast Guard

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 200 (October 16, 2015)

Page Range62551-62552
FR Document2015-26363

The Coast Guard will conduct a public workshop in Washington, DC to discuss sewage treatment technologies, issues concerning testing of marine sanitation devices for type approval, and issues concerning gray water. This workshop is intended to be an interactive exchange of information between policymakers, industry experts, and interested members of the public.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 200 (Friday, October 16, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 200 (Friday, October 16, 2015)]
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[FR Doc No: 2015-26363]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

[Docket No. USCG-2015-0950]


Sewage Treatment Technology--Type Approval of Marine Sanitation 
Devices

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard will conduct a public workshop in Washington, 
DC to discuss sewage treatment technologies, issues concerning testing 
of marine sanitation devices for type approval, and issues concerning 
gray water. This workshop is intended to be an interactive exchange of 
information between policymakers, industry experts, and interested 
members of the public.

DATES: The workshop will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, December 8 
and 9, 2015 beginning at 9:30 a.m. and ending at 4 p.m., Eastern Time. 
This workshop is open to the public. Please note that the workshop has 
a limited number of seats and may close early if all business is 
finished. Contact the Coast Guard (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) 
by December 4, 2015 to reserve seating. The comment period for the 
docket closes January 9, 2016.

ADDRESSES: The workshop will be held in conference rooms 8, 9, and 10 
of the Department of Transportation Headquarters Building, 1200 New 
Jersey Ave. SE., Washington, DC 20590. The building is accessible by 
public transportation (Navy Yard subway station) or taxi. Parking for 
privately-owned vehicles is available nearby. Due to security 
requirements, each visitor must present a valid government-issued photo 
identification (for example, a driver's license) in order to gain 
entrance to the building. Contact the Coast Guard (see FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT) to facilitate the security process related to 
building access, or to request reasonable accommodation.
    You may submit comments identified by docket number USCG-2015-0950 
using the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov. See 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for further instructions on submitting 
comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions concerning the 
workshop, please call or email Mr. Wayne Lundy, U.S. Coast Guard; 
telephone 202-372-1379, email [email protected] or Ms. Katherine 
Weiler, Environmental Protection Agency; telephone 202-566-1280, email 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Your comment is important to us. If you 
submit a comment, please include the docket number shown at the 
beginning of this notice and provide a reason for each suggestion or 
recommendation.
    We encourage you to submit comments through the Federal eRulemaking 
Portal at http://www.regulations.gov. If your material cannot be 
submitted using http://www.regulations.gov, contact us (see FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT) for alternate instructions. Documents mentioned in 
this notice, and all public comments, are in our online docket at 
http://www.regulations.gov and can be viewed by following that Web 
site's instructions. Additionally, if you go to the online docket and 
sign up for email alerts, you will be notified when comments are posted 
or a final rule is published.
    We accept anonymous comments. All comments received will be posted 
without change to http://www.regulations.gov and will include any 
personal information you have provided. For more about privacy and the 
docket, you may review a Privacy Act notice regarding the Federal 
Docket Management System in the March 24, 2005, issue of the Federal 
Register (70 FR 15086).
    This workshop is sponsored by the Coast Guard and the Environmental 
Protection Agency and is intended to be an interactive exchange of 
information between policymakers, industry experts, and interested 
members of the public. The primary topics that will be discussed 
include:
     Sewage treatment technologies;
     Issues concerning testing of marine sanitation devices for 
type approval;
     Simple on board checks for verifying performance of marine 
sanitation devices;
     Impact of gray water on the environment;
     Impact on the ship from processing gray water;
     Technologies for processing of gray water;
     Analytes for considering technologies treating gray water;
     Issues associated with existing federal standards and 
MARPOL Annex IV equipment standards (International Maritime 
Organization (IMO) resolution MEPC.227(64));
     Impact of No Discharge Zones; and
     Revision of an industry consensus standard, ASTM F2363--
``Standard Specification for Sewage and Graywater Flow Through 
Treatment Systems''.
    Please note that the workshop has a limited number of seats and may 
close early if all business is finished.

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    We encourage you to participate and join in discussions, subject to 
the discretion of the moderator. If you wish to attend the meeting via 
teleconference, arrange for assistance in attending the meeting in 
person, or make a presentation, contact us (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT; audiovisual arrangements will be available). If you bring 
written comments to the workshop, you may submit them at the meeting 
and we will place them on our docket.
    This notice is issued under the authority of 5 U.S.C. 552(a).

    Dated: 13 October, 2015.
J. G. Lantz,
Director of Commercial Regulations and Standards, U.S. Coast Guard.
[FR Doc. 2015-26363 Filed 10-15-15; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 200 / Friday, October 16, 2015 / Notices 62551 Closed: November 16, 2015, 6:15 p.m. to 10 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Your p.m. SECURITY comment is important to us. If you Agenda: To review and evaluate submit a comment, please include the programmatic and personnel issues. Coast Guard docket number shown at the beginning Place: Doubletree Guest Suites, 2515 of this notice and provide a reason for Meridian Parkway, Research Triangle Park, [Docket No. USCG–2015–0950] each suggestion or recommendation. NC 27713. We encourage you to submit Sewage Treatment Technology—Type Open: November 17, 2015, 8:30 a.m. to comments through the Federal Approval of Marine Sanitation Devices 10:10 a.m. eRulemaking Portal at http:// Agenda: Scientific Presentations. AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. www.regulations.gov. If your material Place: Nat. Inst. of Environmental Health ACTION: Notice of meeting. cannot be submitted using http:// Sciences, Building 101, Rodbell Auditorium, SUMMARY: The Coast Guard will conduct www.regulations.gov, contact us (see Rooms 101 ABC, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) for Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. a public workshop in Washington, DC to Closed: November 17, 2015, 10:10 a.m. to discuss sewage treatment technologies, alternate instructions. Documents 10:40 a.m. issues concerning testing of marine mentioned in this notice, and all public Agenda: To review and evaluate sanitation devices for type approval, comments, are in our online docket at programmatic and personnel issues. and issues concerning gray water. This http://www.regulations.gov and can be Place: Nat. Inst. of Environmental Health workshop is intended to be an viewed by following that Web site’s Sciences, Building 101, Rodbell Auditorium, interactive exchange of information instructions. Additionally, if you go to Rooms 101 ABC, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, between policymakers, industry experts, the online docket and sign up for email Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. and interested members of the public. alerts, you will be notified when Open: November 17, 2015, 10:55 a.m. to 12 DATES: The workshop will be held on comments are posted or a final rule is p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, December 8 published. Agenda: Scientific Presentations. We accept anonymous comments. All and 9, 2015 beginning at 9:30 a.m. and Place: Nat. Inst. of Environmental Health comments received will be posted ending at 4 p.m., Eastern Time. This Sciences, Building 101, Rodbell Auditorium, without change to http:// workshop is open to the public. Please Rooms 101 ABC, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, www.regulations.gov and will include Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. note that the workshop has a limited number of seats and may close early if any personal information you have Closed: November 17, 2015, 12 p.m. to 1:30 provided. For more about privacy and p.m. all business is finished. Contact the Coast Guard (see FOR FURTHER the docket, you may review a Privacy Agenda: To review and evaluate Act notice regarding the Federal Docket programmatic and personnel issues. INFORMATION CONTACT) by December 4, 2015 to reserve seating. The comment Management System in the March 24, Place: Nat. Inst. of Environmental Health 2005, issue of the Federal Register (70 Sciences, Building 101, Rodbell Auditorium, period for the docket closes January 9, 2016. FR 15086). Rooms 101 ABC, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, This workshop is sponsored by the Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. ADDRESSES: The workshop will be held Coast Guard and the Environmental Contact Person: Darryl C. Zeldin, Scientific in conference rooms 8, 9, and 10 of the Director & Principal Investigator, Division of Protection Agency and is intended to be Department of Transportation Intramural Research, National Institute of an interactive exchange of information Headquarters Building, 1200 New Jersey Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111 between policymakers, industry experts, Ave. SE., Washington, DC 20590. The TW Alexander Drive, Maildrop A2–09, and interested members of the public. building is accessible by public Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, 919–541– The primary topics that will be transportation (Navy Yard subway 1169, zeldin@niehs.nih.gov. discussed include: station) or taxi. Parking for privately- • Sewage treatment technologies; Any interested person may file written owned vehicles is available nearby. Due comments with the committee by forwarding • Issues concerning testing of marine to security requirements, each visitor sanitation devices for type approval; the statement to the Contact Person listed on must present a valid government-issued this notice. The statement should include the • Simple on board checks for photo identification (for example, a verifying performance of marine name, address, telephone number and when driver’s license) in order to gain applicable, the business or professional sanitation devices; entrance to the building. Contact the • Impact of gray water on the affiliation of the interested person. Coast Guard (see FOR FURTHER (Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance environment; INFORMATION CONTACT) to facilitate the • Impact on the ship from processing Program Nos. 93.115, Biometry and Risk security process related to building Estimation—Health Risks from gray water; access, or to request reasonable • Technologies for processing of gray Environmental Exposures; 93.142, NIEHS accommodation. Hazardous Waste Worker Health and Safety water; You may submit comments identified • Analytes for considering Training; 93.143, NIEHS Superfund by docket number USCG–2015–0950 Hazardous Substances—Basic Research and technologies treating gray water; using the Federal eRulemaking Portal at • Issues associated with existing Education; 93.894, Resources and Manpower http://www.regulations.gov. See federal standards and MARPOL Annex Development in the Environmental Health SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for further IV equipment standards (International Sciences; 93.113, Biological Response to Environmental Health Hazards; 93.114, instructions on submitting comments. Maritime Organization (IMO) resolution Applied Toxicological Research and Testing, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If MEPC.227(64)); you have questions concerning the • Impact of No Discharge Zones; and srobinson on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES National Institutes of Health, HHS) workshop, please call or email Mr. • Revision of an industry consensus Dated: October 9, 2015. Wayne Lundy, U.S. Coast Guard; standard, ASTM F2363—‘‘Standard Carolyn Baum, telephone 202–372–1379, email Specification for Sewage and Graywater Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory Wayne.M.Lundy@uscg.mil or Ms. Flow Through Treatment Systems’’. Committee Policy. 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62552 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 200 / Friday, October 16, 2015 / Notices We encourage you to participate and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For sewage treatment plants) and join in discussions, subject to the information about this document call or procedures for certifying that MSDs discretion of the moderator. If you wish email Wayne M. Lundy, CG–ENG–3, meet the regulations and standards of to attend the meeting via teleconference, U.S. Coast Guard; telephone 202–372– the Environmental Protection Agency arrange for assistance in attending the 1379, email Wayne.M.Lundy@uscg.mil. promulgated under Section 312 of the meeting in person, or make a SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Federal Water Pollution Control Act presentation, contact us (see FOR (Pub. L. 92–500, § 312, 86 Stat. 871 FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT; Public Participation and Comments (October 18, 1972), as amended; audiovisual arrangements will be If you submit a comment, please classified to 33 U.S.C. 1322). In October available). If you bring written include the docket number for this 2012, the International Maritime comments to the workshop, you may notice, indicate the specific section of Organization (IMO) adopted resolution submit them at the meeting and we will this document to which each comment MEPC.227(64)—2012 Guidelines on place them on our docket. applies, and provide a reason for each implementation of effluent standards This notice is issued under the suggestion or recommendation. and performance tests for sewage authority of 5 U.S.C. 552(a). We encourage you to submit treatment plants. The International comments through the Federal Convention on the Prevention of Dated: 13 October, 2015. eRulemaking Portal at http:// Pollution from Ships 73/78 (MARPOL) J. G. Lantz, www.regulations.gov. If your material Annex IV requires sewage treatment Director of Commercial Regulations and cannot be submitted using http:// plants to be type-approved taking into Standards, U.S. Coast Guard. www.regulations.gov, contact the person account the standards of IMO [FR Doc. 2015–26363 Filed 10–15–15; 8:45 am] in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Resolution MEPC.227(64). While the BILLING CODE 9110–04–P CONTACT section of this document for United States is not a Contracting alternate instructions. Government to MARPOL Annex IV, we We accept anonymous comments. All recognize that the limits and standards DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND comments received will be posted in IMO resolution MEPC.227(64) are SECURITY without change to http:// more stringent or prescriptive than www.regulations.gov and will include those requirements in 33 CFR 159 Coast Guard any personal information you have concerning threshold limits and testing provided. For more about privacy and of equipment and thus equipment that [Docket No. USCG–2015–0960] the docket, you may review a Privacy is type-approved to the MEPC.227(64) Act notice regarding the Federal Docket standards would also satisfy U.S. Coast Guard Acceptance of Sewage Management System in the March 24, threshold effluent limits. Specifically, Treatment Plants for Type-Approval to 2005, issue of the Federal Register (70 we have determined that a MSD meeting International Maritime Organization FR 15086). the design specifications in Resolution MEPC.227(64) Documents mentioned in this notice MEPC.227(64) would exceed the as being available in the docket, and all performance specifications for Type II Coast Guard, DHS. AGENCY: public comments, will be in our online tanks, as listed in 33 CFR 159.53(b), Notice of Policy and request for ACTION: docket at http://www.regulations.gov which states that, ‘‘[u]nder the test comments. and can be viewed by following that conditions described in §§ 159.126 and Web site’s instructions. Additionally, if 159.126a, [the tanks must] produce an SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces you go to the online docket and sign up effluent having a fecal coliform bacteria its acceptance of sewage treatment for email alerts, you will be notified count not greater than 200 per 100 plants (also referred to as marine when comments are posted. milliliters and suspended solids not sanitation devices) for type-approval to We are also planning to hold a two- greater than 150 milligrams per liter.’’ International Maritime Organization day public workshop in Washington DC In recognition of this, the Coast Guard resolution MEPC.227(64) as meeting the in the fall of 2015. We will issue a believes MSDs type-approved in requirements for marine sanitation separate Federal Register notice to accordance with the requirements of devices. This action will allow announce the date, time, and location of IMO resolution MEPC.227(64) and manufacturers as well as shipowners such a workshop. The purpose of the installed on U.S. flagged ships comply and operators the option to take workshop will be to discuss sewage with those threshold effluent limits in advantage of building and using treatment technologies, issues 33 CFR 159.53(b). MSDs must still meet equipment that meets both domestic concerning testing of marine sanitation the other requirements contained in part and international requirements while devices for type approval and 159, and any inconsistencies between also benefitting the environment. The information on simple on board checks part 159 and MEPC.227(64) must be Coast Guard is also seeking information resolved in favor of part 159. to verify performance of a marine on simple on board checks to verify Manufacturers may submit their sanitation device. The workshop will performance of sewage treatment plants. equipment to a recognized testing also consider issues associated with DATES: Comments and related material existing federal standards and MARPOL facility recognized by the Coast Guard must be received by the Coast Guard on Annex IV equipment standards for testing of such equipment and may or before November 16, 2015. (resolution MEPC.227(64)), impact of No make a submission to the Coast Guard You may submit comments identified Discharge Zones, and issues concerning requesting type approval. by docket number USCG–2015–0880 Resolution MEPC.227(64) also srobinson on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES gray water. using the Federal eRulemaking Portal at contains a process allowing the Coast http://www.regulations.gov. See the Background and Purpose Guard to certify that a type-approved ‘‘Public Participation and Request for Title 33 of the Code of Federal MSD meets the specific effluent Comments’’ portion of the Regulations (CFR), part 159, prescribes discharge requirements for a vessel to SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for requirements for the design and enter Special Areas listed in MARPOL further instructions on submitting construction of marine sanitation Annex IV. 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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of meeting.
DatesThe workshop will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, December 8 and 9, 2015 beginning at 9:30 a.m. and ending at 4 p.m., Eastern Time. This workshop is open to the public. Please note that the workshop has a limited number of seats and may close early if all business is finished. Contact the Coast Guard (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) by December 4, 2015 to reserve seating. The comment period for the docket closes January 9, 2016.
ContactIf you have questions concerning the workshop, please call or email Mr. Wayne Lundy, U.S. Coast Guard; telephone 202-372-1379, email [email protected] or Ms. Katherine Weiler, Environmental Protection Agency; telephone 202-566-1280, email [email protected]
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