82_FR_39061 82 FR 38904 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Identification, Listing and Rulemaking Petitions (Revision)

82 FR 38904 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Identification, Listing and Rulemaking Petitions (Revision)

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 157 (August 16, 2017)

Page Range38904-38905
FR Document2017-17268

The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to submit a revised information collection request (ICR), ``Identification, Listing and Rulemaking Petitions (Revision)'' (EPA ICR No. 1189.26, OMB Control No. 2050-0053) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. Before doing so, EPA is soliciting public comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described below. This is a request for approval of a new collection and revision to a single activity contained in an existing approved collection. An agency may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 157 (Wednesday, August 16, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 157 (Wednesday, August 16, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38904-38905]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-17268]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OLEM-2017-0449; FRL-9966-51-OLEM]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; Identification, Listing and Rulemaking Petitions 
(Revision)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to submit a 
revised information collection request (ICR), ``Identification, Listing 
and Rulemaking Petitions (Revision)'' (EPA ICR No. 1189.26, OMB Control 
No. 2050-0053) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review 
and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. Before 
doing so, EPA is soliciting public comments on specific aspects of the 
proposed information collection as described below. This is a request 
for approval of a new collection and revision to a single activity 
contained in an existing approved collection. An agency may not conduct 
or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a collection of 
information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before October 16, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OLEM-
2017-0449, online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred method) or 
by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail 
Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460.
    EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in the 
public docket without change including any personal information 
provided, unless the comment includes profanity, threats, information 
claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other 
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information concerning this 
notice, contact Kirsten Hillyer, Office of Resource Conservation and 
Recovery, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 
Mail Code 5304-P, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (703) 347-
0369; email address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents which explain in detail 
the information that the EPA will be collecting are available in the 
public docket for this ICR. The docket can be viewed online at 
www.regulations.gov or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC West, 
Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC. The telephone 
number for the Docket Center is 202-566-1744. For additional 
information about EPA's public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, EPA is soliciting 
comments and information to enable it to: (i) Evaluate whether the 
proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper 
performance of the functions of the Agency, including whether the 
information will have practical utility; (ii) evaluate the accuracy of 
the Agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of 
information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions 
used; (iii) enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and (iv) minimize the burden of the 
collection of information on those who are to respond, including 
through the use of appropriate automated electronic, mechanical, or 
other technological collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses. EPA 
will consider the comments received and amend the ICR as appropriate. 
The final ICR package will then be submitted to OMB for review and 
approval. At that time, EPA will issue another Federal Register notice 
to announce the submission of the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to 
submit additional comments to OMB.
    Abstract: The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) is the 
public law that creates the framework for the proper management of 
hazardous and non-hazardous solid waste. The RCRA regulations 
established by EPA can be found in 40 CFR parts 239 through 282. This 
ICR (ICR No. 1189.26) is a consolidation of a number of previously 
approved RCRA ICRs, including the ICR

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for the rulemaking titled ``Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals from 
Electric Utilities'' (CCR rule), a rulemaking which was published in 
the Federal Register on April 17, 2015. The CCR rule establishes a 
comprehensive set of requirements for the disposal of CCR in landfills 
and surface impoundments, including minimum federal criteria for 
groundwater monitoring and corrective action, structural stability, 
design and operation standards, closure and post-closure care 
standards, and recordkeeping, reporting and internet posting 
requirements.
    In December 2016, the President signed the Water Infrastructure 
Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act. Section 2301 of the WIIN Act 
amended RCRA Subtitle D and established new statutory provisions for 
the control of CCR when placed in CCR landfills and surface 
impoundments. In particular, the WIIN Act provides that states may, but 
are not required to, develop and submit a permit program (or other 
system of prior approval) for control of CCR to EPA for approval. Such 
a program does not have to be identical to the requirements in the CCR 
rule (40 CFR part 257, subpart D), but must be at least as protective 
as the federal CCR requirements. In order for a state to receive 
approval of its CCR permit program, the state must submit to EPA 
specific materials that would constitute a ``complete'' CCR permit 
program application. The information collection includes those 
activities to develop the necessary CCR permit (or other system of 
prior approval) program materials for submittal to EPA for approval. 
EPA is developing a guidance document to provide states with the 
information needed to apply for CCR program approval.
    To enable EPA to implement the new authorities provided by the WIIN 
Act (that is, to review and make determinations on State programs), EPA 
is revising ICR No. 1189.26 to account for the new burden and cost 
estimates associated with the voluntary actions that states may take to 
obtain CCR permit program approval. In this revision to the ICR, EPA is 
also making changes to the current burden and cost estimates associated 
with a separate voluntary state activity. Specifically, EPA is 
proposing to revise the respondent universe associated with the 
activity of submitting a solid waste management plan to EPA for 
approval. The solid waste management plan is the mechanism where a 
state is able to set out, as part of their overall solid waste program, 
how the state intends to regulate CCR landfills and surface 
impoundments. While the burden and cost associated with this activity 
is included in the currently approved ICR, EPA is revising the burden 
and cost estimates to better reflect the actual state response observed 
since the CCR rule was published in 2015.
    The EPA is not making any other substantive revisions to the 
currently approved ICR. The EPA is only soliciting comments on burden 
and cost estimates associated with activities relating to state CCR 
permit programs and state solid waste management plans and will not 
consider comments on other aspects of the currently approved ICR.
    Form Numbers: None.
    Respondents/affected entities: This ICR affects owners and 
operators of CCR landfills and surface impoundments that dispose or 
otherwise engage in solid waste management of CCR generated from the 
combustion of coal at electric utilities and independent power 
producers. This ICR also affects states that voluntarily elect to seek 
approval from EPA of their state CCR permit program or solid waste 
management plan.
    Respondent's obligation to respond: For the CCR rule portion of the 
ICR, the recordkeeping, notification, and internet posting requirements 
are mandatory under 40 CFR part 257, subpart D. The actions that states 
may take to obtain approval from EPA of either their CCR permit program 
or solid waste management plan is voluntary.
    Estimated number of respondents: 494 (total subject to the CCR rule 
portion of the ICR).
    Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally, annually, and every 
five years.
    Total estimated burden: 354,602 hours (per year) for the CCR rule 
portion of the ICR. Burden is defined at 5 CFR 1320.03(b).
    Total estimated cost: $63,858,128 (per year) for the CCR rule 
portion of the ICR, which includes $41,112,513 annualized capital cost 
or operation & maintenance costs.
    Changes in Estimates: There is decrease of 4,355 hours in the total 
estimated respondent burden compared with the ICR currently approved by 
OMB. The decrease in burden from the most recently approved ICR is due 
to adjustments in the respondent universe associated with state solid 
waste management plan activities. The most recently approved ICR 
overestimated the number of states that would voluntarily update their 
overall solid waste program by submitting to EPA a solid waste 
management plan for CCR for approval. The revision to the burden 
estimates for the solid waste management plan activity exceeded the 
burden estimates associated with the new state CCR permit program 
approval activity, which resulted in an overall decrease in burden 
hours.

    Dated: August 8, 2017.
Barnes Johnson,
Director, Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery.
[FR Doc. 2017-17268 Filed 8-15-17; 8:45 am]
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38904 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 157 / Wednesday, August 16, 2017 / Notices Online service, please email eFiling is encouraged. More detailed Business Information (CBI) or other FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. or call information relating to filing information whose disclosure is (866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call requirements, interventions, protests, restricted by statute. (202) 502–8659. service, and qualifying facilities filings FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For Dated: August 9, 2017. can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/ information concerning this notice, Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For contact Kirsten Hillyer, Office of other information, call (866) 208–3676 Resource Conservation and Recovery, Deputy Secretary. (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, [FR Doc. 2017–17265 Filed 8–15–17; 8:45 am] Dated: August 9, 2017. 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., Mail Code BILLING CODE 6717–01–P Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr. 5304–P, Washington, DC 20460; Deputy Secretary telephone number: (703) 347–0369; DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY [FR Doc. 2017–17262 Filed 8–15–17; 8:45 am] email address: hillyer.kirsten@epa.gov. BILLING CODE 6717–01–P SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Federal Energy Regulatory Supporting documents which explain in Commission detail the information that the EPA will ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION be collecting are available in the public Combined Notice of Filings docket for this ICR. The docket can be AGENCY Take notice that the Commission has viewed online at www.regulations.gov [EPA–HQ–OLEM–2017–0449; FRL–9966– or in person at the EPA Docket Center, received the following Natural Gas 51–OLEM] Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings: WJC West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, Filings Instituting Proceedings Agency Information Collection DC. The telephone number for the Activities; Proposed Collection; Docket Number: PR17–56–000. Docket Center is 202–566–1744. For Comment Request; Identification, Applicants: Enbridge Pipelines (East additional information about EPA’s Listing and Rulemaking Petitions Texas) L.P. public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/ (Revision) Description: Tariff filing per dockets. 284.123(b),(e)/: EPET PR17–33–000 AGENCY: Environmental Protection Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of Supplemental Information to be Agency (EPA). the PRA, EPA is soliciting comments effective 8/4/2017 under PR17–56 Filing ACTION: Notice. and information to enable it to: (i) Type: 980. Evaluate whether the proposed Filed Date: 8/4/17. SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection collection of information is necessary Accession Number: 201708045128. Agency is planning to submit a revised for the proper performance of the Comments/Protests Due: 5 p.m. ET 8/ information collection request (ICR), functions of the Agency, including 25/17. ‘‘Identification, Listing and Rulemaking whether the information will have Docket Numbers: RP17–965–000. Petitions (Revision)’’ (EPA ICR No. practical utility; (ii) evaluate the Applicants: Northern Natural Gas 1189.26, OMB Control No. 2050–0053) accuracy of the Agency’s estimate of the Company. to the Office of Management and Budget burden of the proposed collection of Description: Petition for a Limited (OMB) for review and approval in information, including the validity of Waiver of Northern Natural Gas accordance with the Paperwork the methodology and assumptions used; Company. Reduction Act. Before doing so, EPA is (iii) enhance the quality, utility, and Filed Date: 08/07/2017. soliciting public comments on specific clarity of the information to be Accession Number: 20170807–5183. aspects of the proposed information collected; and (iv) minimize the burden Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern collection as described below. This is a of the collection of information on those Time on Monday, August 21, 2017. request for approval of a new collection who are to respond, including through Docket Numbers: RP17–966–000. and revision to a single activity the use of appropriate automated Applicants: Equitrans, L.P. contained in an existing approved electronic, mechanical, or other Description: Equitrans, L.P. submits collection. An agency may not conduct technological collection techniques or tariff filing per 154.204: Negotiated Rate or sponsor and a person is not required other forms of information technology, Service Agreement—DFS Name Change to respond to a collection of information e.g., permitting electronic submission of to be effective 5/12/2017. unless it displays a currently valid OMB responses. EPA will consider the Filed Date: 08/08/2017. control number. comments received and amend the ICR Accession Number: 20170808–5151. DATES: Comments must be submitted on as appropriate. The final ICR package Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern or before October 16, 2017. will then be submitted to OMB for Time on Monday, August 21, 2017. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, review and approval. At that time, EPA The filings are accessible in the referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– will issue another Federal Register Commission’s eLibrary system by OLEM–2017–0449, online using notice to announce the submission of clicking on the links or querying the www.regulations.gov (our preferred the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to docket number. method) or by mail to: EPA Docket submit additional comments to OMB. Any person desiring to intervene or Center, Environmental Protection Abstract: The Resource Conservation asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES protest in any of the above proceedings Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 and Recovery Act (RCRA) is the public must file in accordance with Rules 211 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, law that creates the framework for the and 214 of the Commission’s DC 20460. proper management of hazardous and Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and EPA’s policy is that all comments non-hazardous solid waste. The RCRA 385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern received will be included in the public regulations established by EPA can be time on the specified comment date. docket without change including any found in 40 CFR parts 239 through 282. Protests may be considered, but personal information provided, unless This ICR (ICR No. 1189.26) is a intervention is necessary to become a the comment includes profanity, threats, consolidation of a number of previously party to the proceeding. information claimed to be Confidential approved RCRA ICRs, including the ICR VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:33 Aug 15, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00030 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\16AUN1.SGM 16AUN1

Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 157 / Wednesday, August 16, 2017 / Notices 38905 for the rulemaking titled ‘‘Disposal of cost associated with this activity is management plan activity exceeded the Coal Combustion Residuals from included in the currently approved ICR, burden estimates associated with the Electric Utilities’’ (CCR rule), a EPA is revising the burden and cost new state CCR permit program approval rulemaking which was published in the estimates to better reflect the actual state activity, which resulted in an overall Federal Register on April 17, 2015. The response observed since the CCR rule decrease in burden hours. CCR rule establishes a comprehensive was published in 2015. The EPA is not making any other Dated: August 8, 2017. set of requirements for the disposal of CCR in landfills and surface substantive revisions to the currently Barnes Johnson, impoundments, including minimum approved ICR. The EPA is only Director, Office of Resource Conservation and federal criteria for groundwater soliciting comments on burden and cost Recovery. monitoring and corrective action, estimates associated with activities [FR Doc. 2017–17268 Filed 8–15–17; 8:45 am] structural stability, design and operation relating to state CCR permit programs BILLING CODE 6560–50–P standards, closure and post-closure care and state solid waste management plans standards, and recordkeeping, reporting and will not consider comments on and internet posting requirements. other aspects of the currently approved In December 2016, the President ICR. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE signed the Water Infrastructure Form Numbers: None. CORPORATION Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Respondents/affected entities: This Act. Section 2301 of the WIIN Act ICR affects owners and operators of CCR Notice to All Interested Parties of the amended RCRA Subtitle D and landfills and surface impoundments Termination of the Receivership of established new statutory provisions for that dispose or otherwise engage in 10496—Vantage Point Bank, Horsham, the control of CCR when placed in CCR solid waste management of CCR Pennsylvania landfills and surface impoundments. In generated from the combustion of coal particular, the WIIN Act provides that at electric utilities and independent Notice is Hereby Given that the states may, but are not required to, power producers. This ICR also affects Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation develop and submit a permit program states that voluntarily elect to seek (FDIC) as Receiver for Vantage Point (or other system of prior approval) for approval from EPA of their state CCR Bank, Horsham, Pennsylvania (‘‘the control of CCR to EPA for approval. permit program or solid waste Such a program does not have to be Receiver’’) intends to terminate its management plan. identical to the requirements in the CCR Respondent’s obligation to respond: receivership for said institution. The rule (40 CFR part 257, subpart D), but For the CCR rule portion of the ICR, the FDIC was appointed Receiver of Vantage must be at least as protective as the recordkeeping, notification, and internet Point Bank on February 28, 2014. The federal CCR requirements. In order for a posting requirements are mandatory liquidation of the receivership assets state to receive approval of its CCR under 40 CFR part 257, subpart D. The has been completed. To the extent permit program, the state must submit actions that states may take to obtain permitted by available funds and in to EPA specific materials that would approval from EPA of either their CCR accordance with law, the Receiver will constitute a ‘‘complete’’ CCR permit permit program or solid waste be making a final dividend payment to program application. The information management plan is voluntary. proven creditors. collection includes those activities to Estimated number of respondents: Based upon the foregoing, the develop the necessary CCR permit (or 494 (total subject to the CCR rule Receiver has determined that the other system of prior approval) program portion of the ICR). continued existence of the receivership materials for submittal to EPA for Frequency of response: Initially, occasionally, annually, and every five will serve no useful purpose. approval. EPA is developing a guidance document to provide states with the years. Consequently, notice is given that the information needed to apply for CCR Total estimated burden: 354,602 receivership shall be terminated, to be program approval. hours (per year) for the CCR rule portion effective no sooner than thirty days after To enable EPA to implement the new of the ICR. Burden is defined at 5 CFR the date of this notice. If any person authorities provided by the WIIN Act 1320.03(b). wishes to comment concerning the (that is, to review and make Total estimated cost: $63,858,128 (per termination of the receivership, such determinations on State programs), EPA year) for the CCR rule portion of the comment must be made in writing and is revising ICR No. 1189.26 to account ICR, which includes $41,112,513 sent within thirty days of the date of for the new burden and cost estimates annualized capital cost or operation & this notice to: Federal Deposit Insurance associated with the voluntary actions maintenance costs. Corporation, Division of Resolutions that states may take to obtain CCR Changes in Estimates: There is and Receiverships, Attention: permit program approval. In this decrease of 4,355 hours in the total Receivership Oversight Department revision to the ICR, EPA is also making estimated respondent burden compared 34.6, 1601 Bryan Street, Dallas, TX changes to the current burden and cost with the ICR currently approved by 75201. estimates associated with a separate OMB. The decrease in burden from the voluntary state activity. Specifically, most recently approved ICR is due to No comments concerning the EPA is proposing to revise the adjustments in the respondent universe termination of this receivership will be considered which are not sent within asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES respondent universe associated with the associated with state solid waste activity of submitting a solid waste management plan activities. The most this time frame. management plan to EPA for approval. recently approved ICR overestimated Dated: August 10, 2017. The solid waste management plan is the the number of states that would Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. mechanism where a state is able to set voluntarily update their overall solid Robert E. Feldman, out, as part of their overall solid waste waste program by submitting to EPA a program, how the state intends to solid waste management plan for CCR Executive Secretary. regulate CCR landfills and surface for approval. The revision to the burden [FR Doc. 2017–17258 Filed 8–15–17; 8:45 am] impoundments. While the burden and estimates for the solid waste BILLING CODE 6714–01–P VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:33 Aug 15, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00031 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 9990 E:\FR\FM\16AUN1.SGM 16AUN1


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DatesComments must be submitted on or before October 16, 2017.
ContactFor information concerning this notice, contact Kirsten Hillyer, Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., Mail Code 5304-P, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (703) 347-
FR Citation82 FR 38904 
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