83_FR_43056 83 FR 42891 - Anacostia River Watershed: Data Solicitation in Support of Revising Total Maximum Daily Loads for Debris, Floatables, Trash

83 FR 42891 - Anacostia River Watershed: Data Solicitation in Support of Revising Total Maximum Daily Loads for Debris, Floatables, Trash

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 165 (August 24, 2018)

Page Range42891-42892
FR Document2018-18410

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking readily available data and information on debris, floatables, and/or trash (hereafter referred to as ``trash'') in the Anacostia River watershed for use in the development of a total maximum daily load (TMDL). The Anacostia River watershed covers portions of the District of Columbia and Prince George's and Montgomery Counties in Maryland. A map of the Anacostia River watershed is available from EPA Region 3's website at: https://www.epa.gov/tmdl/impaired-waters-and-tmdls-region-3.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 165 (Friday, August 24, 2018) 
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-9982-68-Region 3]


Anacostia River Watershed: Data Solicitation in Support of 
Revising Total Maximum Daily Loads for Debris, Floatables, Trash

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Solicitation for data.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking readily 
available data and information on debris, floatables, and/or trash 
(hereafter referred to as ``trash'') in the Anacostia River watershed 
for use in the development of a total maximum daily load (TMDL). The 
Anacostia River watershed covers portions of the District of Columbia 
and Prince George's and Montgomery Counties in Maryland. A map of the 
Anacostia River watershed is available from EPA Region 3's website at: 
https://www.epa.gov/tmdl/impaired-waters-and-tmdls-region-3.

DATES: Data submissions to EPA must be received by, or postmarked on or 
before, October 23, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Data submissions should be sent to Ms. Jillian Adair, Water 
Protection Division (3WP30), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
Region 3, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103-2029, or by 
electronic mail to [email protected]. Electronic mail submissions 
including body text and attachments are limited to 25 megabytes. In 
addition, EPA cannot receive electronic mail attachments in ZIP format 
(.zip). For additional information on submission formats, visit EPA 
Region 3's website at: https://www.epa.gov/tmdl/impaired-waters-and-tmdls-region-3.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information, contact 
Jillian Adair at (215) 814-5713 or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act 
requires that each State identify those waters (called ``water quality-
limited segments'') for which existing technology-based pollution 
controls are not stringent enough to attain or maintain State water 
quality standards and for which total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) must 
be prepared. A TMDL is an estimate of the maximum amount of a pollutant 
that a waterbody can assimilate without violating water quality 
standards. This total load includes pollutants that come from end-of-
pipe dischargers, stormwater runoff, surface runoff from non-permitted 
areas (i.e. agriculture, open areas, forest, etc.), as well as a 
``margin of safety'', which accounts for uncertainties in the estimated 
load. TMDLs are important because they provide a framework to achieve 
water quality standards in a watershed. TMDLs inform other federal and 
state programs of the necessary pollutant reductions needed by source 
to achieve water quality standards.
    On September 21, 2010, EPA approved a trash TMDL for the Anacostia 
River submitted jointly by the Maryland Department of the Environment 
(MDE) and the District of Columbia Department of Energy and the 
Environment (DOEE). The TMDL report can be accessed at: http://www.mde.state.md.us/programs/Water/TMDL/ApprovedFinalTMDLs/Pages/tmdl_final_anacostia_trash.aspx.
    On September 19, 2016, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) 
filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia 
seeking vacatur of EPA's approval [Civil Action No. 16-1861 (JDB)]. The 
Court ruled in favor of NRDC on March 30, 2018 and directed EPA to 
develop or approve replacement TMDLs. In light of the Court's Order, 
EPA is working with MDE and DOEE to determine the appropriate direction 
to take with developing new or revised TMDLs. An evaluation of data 
that has become available since approval of the original TMDLs will 
provide valuable insights into this determination.
    EPA would appreciate your assistance in obtaining all readily 
available data and other information that would benefit the development 
of TMDLs for trash impairments in the Anacostia River watershed. Please 
consider these points in responding to this solicitation:
     Any studies, surveys or other statistically significant 
information on the quantities of trash that would interfere with the 
general population's use and enjoyment of the river for purposes such 
as swimming, boating and fishing. This data call is not intended as a 
user survey, and accordingly, EPA is not seeking the subjective views 
of individuals at this time.
     Documents or datasets that provide information regarding 
water quality conditions and sources associated with quantities of 
trash in the water. Potentially relevant data sources include: trash 
monitoring data, trash clean-up data, trash remediation project data, 
municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) annual reports, etc. EPA is 
also interested in any other information data providers believe might 
be relevant.
     Trash data can be accounted for through measurements of 
weight, volume, count, or other appropriate measure. While EPA 
acknowledges that photographs may document the presence of trash, 
photographs are less useful for quantifying trash. Accordingly, EPA 
discourages submission of photographs as a method of quantifying trash 
extent and impairment.
     Please limit data submissions to only the waterbodies 
within the Anacostia River watershed for the period of August 2009 
through present. If data collection efforts are currently underway, EPA 
would also appreciate an accounting of what is being collected and when 
it may become publicly available.
     Data and reports delivered in electronic format are 
preferred, as available. Specifically, datasets in Excel

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or a compatible spreadsheet format will facilitate ease of use.
     Information regarding sampling methodologies, design, 
conditions (i.e., time of day, weather conditions during and preceding 
the sampling), sampling locations (i.e., geographical coordinates, 
maps), peer review, and quality assurance procedures applied would also 
be very beneficial. Please include such information and citations where 
available.
     Please include names, contacts, and affiliations with your 
data submission.

    Dated: August 9, 2018.
Dominique Lueckenhoff,
Acting Director, Water Protection Division, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, Region III.
[FR Doc. 2018-18410 Filed 8-23-18; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 165 / Friday, August 24, 2018 / Notices 42891 permitted by, and in accordance with, watershed covers portions of the District On September 19, 2016, the Natural the procedures in TSCA section 14 and of Columbia and Prince George’s and Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed 40 CFR part 2. Montgomery Counties in Maryland. A suit in the U.S. District Court for the Form Numbers: None. map of the Anacostia River watershed is District of Columbia seeking vacatur of Respondents/affected entities: Local available from EPA Region 3’s website EPA’s approval [Civil Action No. 16– education agencies (LEAs, e.g., at: https://www.epa.gov/tmdl/impaired- 1861 (JDB)]. The Court ruled in favor of elementary or secondary public school waters-and-tmdls-region-3. NRDC on March 30, 2018 and directed districts or a private school or school DATES: Data submissions to EPA must be EPA to develop or approve replacement system); asbestos training providers to received by, or postmarked on or before, TMDLs. In light of the Court’s Order, schools and educational systems; state October 23, 2018. EPA is working with MDE and DOEE to education departments or commissions; ADDRESSES: Data submissions should be determine the appropriate direction to or state public health departments or sent to Ms. Jillian Adair, Water take with developing new or revised commissions. Protection Division (3WP30), U.S. TMDLs. An evaluation of data that has Respondent’s obligation to respond: Environmental Protection Agency become available since approval of the Mandatory (40 CFR part 763, Sub part Region 3, 1650 Arch Street, original TMDLs will provide valuable E). Philadelphia, PA 19103–2029, or by insights into this determination. Estimated number of respondents: electronic mail to adair.jillian@epa.gov. EPA would appreciate your assistance 133,214 (total). Electronic mail submissions including in obtaining all readily available data Frequency of response: On occasion. body text and attachments are limited to and other information that would Total estimated burden: 2,554,913 25 megabytes. In addition, EPA cannot benefit the development of TMDLs for hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 receive electronic mail attachments in trash impairments in the Anacostia CFR 1320.03(b) ZIP format (.zip). For additional River watershed. Please consider these Total estimated cost: $97,276,877 (per information on submission formats, visit points in responding to this solicitation: year), which includes $0 annualized EPA Region 3’s website at: https:// • Any studies, surveys or other capital or operation & maintenance www.epa.gov/tmdl/impaired-waters- statistically significant information on costs. and-tmdls-region-3. the quantities of trash that would Changes in the Estimates: There is an interfere with the general population’s FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For increase of 67,509 hours in the total use and enjoyment of the river for additional information, contact Jillian purposes such as swimming, boating estimated respondent burden compared Adair at (215) 814–5713 or with the ICR currently approved by and fishing. This data call is not adair.jillian@epa.gov. intended as a user survey, and OMB. This increase reflects a change in SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section the methodology to calculate the accordingly, EPA is not seeking the 303(d) of the Clean Water Act requires subjective views of individuals at this number of schools with friable asbestos- that each State identify those waters containing materials (ACM); a revision time. to the life span of schools using average (called ‘‘water quality-limited • Documents or datasets that provide segments’’) for which existing information regarding water quality functional age to determine the technology-based pollution controls are remaining life of school buildings; and conditions and sources associated with not stringent enough to attain or quantities of trash in the water. a change in the rate of removal of friable maintain State water quality standards ACM. This change is an adjustment, and Potentially relevant data sources and for which total maximum daily include: trash monitoring data, trash is discussed in more detail in the ICR loads (TMDLs) must be prepared. A Supporting Statement. clean-up data, trash remediation project TMDL is an estimate of the maximum data, municipal separate storm sewer Courtney Kerwin, amount of a pollutant that a waterbody system (MS4) annual reports, etc. EPA Director, Collection Strategies Division. can assimilate without violating water is also interested in any other [FR Doc. 2018–18341 Filed 8–23–18; 8:45 am] quality standards. This total load information data providers believe BILLING CODE 6560–50–P includes pollutants that come from end- might be relevant. of-pipe dischargers, stormwater runoff, • Trash data can be accounted for surface runoff from non-permitted areas through measurements of weight, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (i.e. agriculture, open areas, forest, etc.), volume, count, or other appropriate AGENCY as well as a ‘‘margin of safety’’, which measure. While EPA acknowledges that accounts for uncertainties in the photographs may document the [FRL–9982–68–Region 3] estimated load. TMDLs are important presence of trash, photographs are less Anacostia River Watershed: Data because they provide a framework to useful for quantifying trash. Solicitation in Support of Revising achieve water quality standards in a Accordingly, EPA discourages Total Maximum Daily Loads for Debris, watershed. TMDLs inform other federal submission of photographs as a method Floatables, Trash and state programs of the necessary of quantifying trash extent and pollutant reductions needed by source impairment. AGENCY: Environmental Protection to achieve water quality standards. • Please limit data submissions to Agency (EPA). On September 21, 2010, EPA only the waterbodies within the ACTION: Solicitation for data. approved a trash TMDL for the Anacostia River watershed for the Anacostia River submitted jointly by the period of August 2009 through present. SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Maryland Department of the If data collection efforts are currently daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES Agency (EPA) is seeking readily Environment (MDE) and the District of underway, EPA would also appreciate available data and information on Columbia Department of Energy and the an accounting of what is being collected debris, floatables, and/or trash (hereafter Environment (DOEE). The TMDL report and when it may become publicly referred to as ‘‘trash’’) in the Anacostia can be accessed at: http:// available. River watershed for use in the www.mde.state.md.us/programs/Water/ • Data and reports delivered in development of a total maximum daily TMDL/ApprovedFinalTMDLs/Pages/ electronic format are preferred, as load (TMDL). The Anacostia River tmdl_final_anacostia_trash.aspx. available. Specifically, datasets in Excel VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:17 Aug 23, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00033 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\24AUN1.SGM 24AUN1

42892 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 165 / Friday, August 24, 2018 / Notices or a compatible spreadsheet format will Dated: August 21, 2018. 20460–0001. The Public Reading Room facilitate ease of use. Robert Tomiak, is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., • Information regarding sampling Director, Office of Federal Activities. Monday through Friday, excluding legal methodologies, design, conditions (i.e., [FR Doc. 2018–18331 Filed 8–23–18; 8:45 am] holidays. The telephone number for the time of day, weather conditions during BILLING CODE 6560–50–P Public Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and preceding the sampling), sampling and the telephone number for the OPP locations (i.e., geographical coordinates, Docket is (703) 305–5805. Please review maps), peer review, and quality ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION the visitor instructions and additional assurance procedures applied would AGENCY information about the docket available also be very beneficial. Please include at http://www.epa.gov/dockets. such information and citations where [EPA–HQ–OPP–2018–0563; FRL–9982–34] available. II. Contractor Requirements • Please include names, contacts, and MERP Systems, Inc.; Transfer of Data The Contractor shall perform affiliations with your data submission. AGENCY: Environmental Protection activities in the PWS that are organized Dated: August 9, 2018. Agency (EPA). into four (4) main categories: Task Dominique Lueckenhoff, ACTION: Notice. Activity 1 is related to overall project Acting Director, Water Protection Division, management; Task Activity 2 is related SUMMARY: This notice announces that to information about pesticide products, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III. pesticide related information submitted including the receipt of applications for [FR Doc. 2018–18410 Filed 8–23–18; 8:45 am] to EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs regulatory action, the results of EPA (OPP) pursuant to the Federal registration decisions affecting BILLING CODE 6560–50–P Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide individual products and pesticide uses Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Food, Drug, and reports of incidents involving the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), including use of pesticide products; Task Activity AGENCY information that may have been claimed 3 is related to information about as Confidential Business Information pesticide studies, position papers, [ER–FRL–9040–9] (CBI) by the submitter, will be analyses and the administrative records transferred to MERP Systems, Inc. in resulting from the decision processes Environmental Impact Statements; accordance with the CBI regulations. themselves; and Task Activity 4 is Notice of Availability MERP Systems, Inc. has been awarded related to updating OPP’s PRISM Label Responsible Agency: Office of Federal multiple contracts to perform work for Use Information System (LUIS) which is Activities, General Information (202) OPP, and access to this information will an automated pesticide information 564–7156 or https://www2.epa.gov/ enable MERP Systems, Inc. to fulfill the system that contains a summary of the nepa/. obligations of the contract. legal uses of registered pesticide Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact DATES: MERP Systems, Inc. will be products. Statements given access to this information on or The contractor shall: Filed 08/13/2018 through 08/17/2018 before August 29, 2018. • Capture data that supports Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: regulatory applications, decisions, Notice William Northern, Information incident reports, and Personally Technology and Resources Management Identifiable Information (PII), etc.; Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act requires that EPA make public its Division (7502P), Office of Pesticide • Provide processing, indexing Programs, Environmental Protection support and shredding/destruction of comments on EISs issued by other Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, studies and other technical documents Federal agencies. EPA’s comment letters Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone of archival significance; and on EISs are available at: https:// cdxnodengn.epa.gov/cdx-enepa-public/ number: (703) 305–6478 email address: • Make every effort to adopt to northern.william@epa.gov. changing environments in technology, action/eis/search. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Office of Management and Budget EIS No. 20180187, Draft, GSA, CA, Otay Mesa Modernization and Expansion, I. General Information (OMB), Homeland Security, Presidential Comment Period Ends: 10/09/2018, Directives, and EPA Management A. Does this action apply to me? Directives, of which, changes could be Contact: Osmahn Kadri 415–522–3617 EIS No. 20180188, Draft, USFS, ID, This action applies to the public in in the areas of technology, regulations, Crow Creek Pipeline Project Draft general. As such, the Agency has not information systems. process Environmental Impact Statement, attempted to describe all the specific adaptations. coordination with other Comment Period Ends: 11/23/2018, entities that may be affected by this agencies, coordination with other Contact: Mike Duncan 208–847–0375 action. Agency contractors. Government EIS No. 20180189, Draft Supplement, furnished equipment and/or software, B. How can I get copies of this document facilities and security requirements, NRC, LA, Nureg 137 Supplement 59, and other related information? shall remain within the tasks activities Comment Period Ends: 10/09/2018, Contact: Elaine Keegan 301–415–8517 The docket for this action, identified herein. EIS No. 20180190, Draft, USFS, CA, by docket identification (ID) number These contracts involve no Stanislaus National Forest Over-Snow EPA–HQ–OPP–2018–0563, is available subcontractors. daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES Vehicle (OSV) Use Designation, at http://www.regulations.gov or at the OPP has determined that the contracts Comment Period Ends: 10/09/2018, Office of Pesticide Programs Regulatory described in this document involve Contact: Beth Martinez 209–288–6307 Public Docket (OPP Docket) in the work that is being conducted in EIS No. 20180191, Final, USFS, PR, El Environmental Protection Agency connection with FIFRA, in that Yunque National Forest Plan Revision Docket Center (EPA/DC), West William pesticide chemicals will be the subject EIS, Review Period Ends: 10/23/2018, Jefferson Clinton Bldg., Rm. 3334, 1301 of certain evaluations to be made under Contact: Pedro Rios 305–306–3805 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC this contract. 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CollectionFederal Register
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionSolicitation for data.
DatesData submissions to EPA must be received by, or postmarked on or before, October 23, 2018.
ContactFor additional information, contact Jillian Adair at (215) 814-5713 or [email protected]
FR Citation83 FR 42891 
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