81 FR 28864 - Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Notice of Revocation and Voluntary Withdrawals of Programs From EPA's Section 608 Technician Certifying Program

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 90 (May 10, 2016)

EPA is removing programs that were revoked and those that submitted voluntary withdrawals from its list of Section 608 Technician Certification Programs approved to provide the technician certification exam. EPA's list is available at: http://www.epa.gov/section608/ section-608-technician-certification-programs.

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 90 (Tuesday, May 10, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28864-28865]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-10987]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2015-0272; FRL-9946-23-OAR]


Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Notice of Revocation and 
Voluntary Withdrawals of Programs From EPA's Section 608 Technician 
Certifying Program

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of revocations and voluntary withdrawals.

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SUMMARY: EPA is removing programs that were revoked and those that 
submitted voluntary withdrawals from its list of Section 608 Technician 
Certification Programs approved to provide the technician certification 
exam. EPA's list is available at: http://www.epa.gov/section608/section-608-technician-certification-programs.

DATES: On February 1, 2016, authorization to provide the technician 
certification exam and to issue certification cards was revoked for 
each program in the Table below: Revoked Technician Certification 
Programs. Technicians that were already certified by these programs 
will remain certified, in accordance with 40 CFR 82.161(a).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Burchard, Stratospheric 
Protection Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs (6205T), 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number (202) 343-9126; fax number: 
(202) 343-2338; email address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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I. General Information

How can I get copies of this document and other related information?

    Docket. EPA has established a docket for this action under Docket 
ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2015-0272. Publicly available docket materials are 
available either electronically through www.regulations.gov or in hard 
copy at the Air Docket, EPA/DC, WJC West Building, Room 3334, 1301 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington DC. This Docket Facility is open 
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal 
holidays. The Docket telephone number is (202) 566-1742.
    Electronic Access. You may access this Federal Register document 
electronically from the Government Printing Office under the ``Federal 
Register'' listings at the FDSys Web site (http://www.thefederalregister.org/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=FR).

II. Revocations and Voluntary Withdrawals

    In accordance with the standards for certifying programs 
established in appendix D of 40 CFR part 82, subpart F, technician 
certifying programs must submit an activity report to EPA on a biannual 
basis (such that EPA receives the report by every January 30 and June 
30) that provides certain information about the certification tests 
administered. The programs in the Table below have repeatedly failed to 
submit activity reports.
    The regulations at 40 CFR 82.161 establish criteria and procedures 
for such programs to become approved technician certification programs 
that can provide the certifications that are required for technicians 
under Section 608. As provided in 40 CFR 82.161(e), ``[i]f at any time 
an approved program violates any of the above requirements,'' which 
reference the standards in appendix D that are cited in 82.161(c), 
``the Administrator reserves the right to revoke approval in accordance 
with Section 82.169.'' Today's notice announces the final revocation of 
the approval of the programs in the Table below.
    These programs were sent certified letters explaining that EPA had 
not received required activity reports and listing which reports were 
missing. In the letters, the programs were offered the opportunity to 
come into compliance by submitting missing reports.\1\ The Agency 
received no replies. In a Federal Register notice published December 2, 
2015 (80 FR 75456), the programs in the table below were given thirty 
days from the date of publication of that notice to submit their 
missing reports. The notice announced that failure to submit these 
reports so that they were received by January 4, 2016 would result in 
an automatic suspension of the program's approval to offer the 
technician certification exam and of its approval to issue Section 608 
technician certification cards. The notice also announced that 
automatic program revocation would occur on February 1, 2016 for each 
of those certifying organizations that were so notified of impending 
suspension and revocation and that failed to provide missing reports, 
unless the organization requested a hearing in accordance with the 
regulations published at 40 CFR 82.169 before that date. Since the 
Agency did not receive any reports from those certifying organizations 
by January 4, 2016, or requests for a hearing by February 1, 2016, the 
approval to certify technicians is revoked for all the programs listed 
in the following table:
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    \1\ Some of these programs also received notice in these letters 
of impending suspensions and revocations, but as some of these 
letters were returned to us unopened, we chose to provide a second 
notice in the Federal Register. 80 FR 75456.

                                Table--Revoked Technician Certification Programs
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                   No.                    Technician certification program   Year of most recent activity report
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1.......................................  ACI Environmental Safety          2009.
                                           Training Institute.
2.......................................  California Career Center........  No record of a submitted report.
3.......................................  Delaware County Community         2011.
                                           College.
4.......................................  Delaware Skills Center Building   2013.
                                           Maintenance.
5.......................................  Delaware Technical & Community    2009.
                                           College.
6.......................................  Educational Services............  2012.
7.......................................  HVAC/R Training, Inc............  2010.
8.......................................  InSolution......................  No record of a submitted report.
9.......................................  Niagara County Community College  2010.
10......................................  Nugent Associates...............  2011.
11......................................  San Diego City College..........  2010.
12......................................  Southern Technical College......  2012.
13......................................  Unified Industries, Inc.........  No record of a submitted report.
14......................................  Vatterott College...............  2011.
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    Accordingly, we have updated the list of approved Section 608 
Technician Certification Programs mentioned above by removing these 
programs from the list.
    Additionally, as discussed in the December 2, 2015 Notice, the 
following 608 Technician Certification Programs voluntarily withdrew 
their certification and have been removed from the Agency's list of 
approved Section 608 Technician Certification Programs: Air-
Conditioning & Refrigeration Institute (ARI); CDTA, Inc; and Motorcoach 
Training Specialist. Three programs--NASA; Kellogg Community College; 
and WyoTech--had prior to the December 2, 2015 Notice also submitted 
requests for voluntary withdrawal but were inadvertently omitted from 
that Notice. Consistent with those requests, these programs have also 
been removed from the Agency's list of approved Section 608 Technician 
Certification Programs.
    Technicians that were already certified by all of these programs 
remain certified, in accordance with 40 CFR 82.161(a). Requests for 
replacement cards should be sent to: [email protected].

Drusilla Hufford, Director,
Stratospheric Protection Division.
[FR Doc. 2016-10987 Filed 5-9-16; 8:45 am]
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