83 FR 53869 - Notice of Approval of the Primacy Application for National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for the State of Nebraska

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 207 (October 25, 2018)

Page Range		53869-53870
FR Document		2018-23362

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hereby giving notice that the State of Nebraska is revising its approved Public Water System Supervision Program under the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. EPA has determined that these revisions are no less stringent than the corresponding Federal regulations. Therefore, the EPA intends to approve these program revisions. Any interested person, other than Federal Agencies, may request a public hearing. If a substantial request for a public hearing is made within the requested thirty-day time frame, a public hearing will be held and a notice will be given in the Federal Register and a newspaper of general circulation. Frivolous or insubstantial requests for a hearing may be denied by the Regional Administrator.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 207 (Thursday, October 25, 2018)

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 207 (Thursday, October 25, 2018)]
[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 2018-23362]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-RO7-OW-2018-0678; FRL-9985-46-Region 7]


Notice of Approval of the Primacy Application for National 
Primary Drinking Water Regulations for the State of Nebraska

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of approval and solicitation of requests for a public 
hearing.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hereby giving 
notice that the State of Nebraska is revising its approved Public Water 
System Supervision Program under the Nebraska Department of Health and 
Human Services. EPA has determined that these revisions are no less 
stringent than the corresponding Federal regulations. Therefore, the 
EPA intends to approve these program revisions. Any interested person, 
other than Federal Agencies, may request a public hearing. If a 
substantial request for a public hearing is made within the requested 
thirty-day time frame, a public hearing will be held and a notice will 
be given in the Federal Register and a newspaper of general 
circulation. Frivolous or insubstantial requests for a hearing may be 
denied by the Regional Administrator.

DATES: This determination shall become final and effective on November 
26, 2018, unless a timely and appropriate request for a public hearing 
is received or the Regional Administrator elects to hold a public 
hearing on his own motion. A request for a public hearing must be 
submitted to the Regional Administrator at the address shown below by 
November 26, 2018. If no timely and appropriate request for a hearing 
is received, and the Regional Administrator does not elect to hold a 
hearing on his own motion, this determination will become effective on 
November 26, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Requests for Public Hearing shall be addressed to: Regional 
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7, 11201 Renner 
Blvd., Lenexa, Kansas 66219. Requests for a public hearing shall 
include the following information: Name, address and telephone number 
of the individual, organization or other entity requesting a hearing; a 
brief statement of the requesting person's interest in the Regional 
Administrator's determination and a brief statement on information that 
the requesting person

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intends to submit at such hearing; the signature of the individual 
making the request or, if the request is made on behalf of an 
organization or other entity, the signature of a responsible official 
of the organization or other entity.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kenneth L. Deason, Environmental 
Protection Agency Region 7, Drinking Water Management Branch, (913) 
551-7585, or by email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that the EPA has 
determined to approve an application by the Nebraska Department of 
Health and Human Services to incorporate the following EPA National 
Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Revised Total Coliform Rule 
(February 13, 2013, 78 FR 10270) and minor corrections (February 26, 
2014, 79 FR 10665). This determination to approve the Nebraska program 
revision is made pursuant to 40 CFR 142.12(d) (3).
    The application demonstrates that Nebraska has adopted drinking 
water regulations which satisfy the National Primary Drinking Water 
Regulations. EPA has determined that Nebraska's regulations are no less 
stringent than the corresponding Federal regulations and that Nebraska 
continues to meet all requirements for primary enforcement 
responsibility as specified in 40 CFR 142.10.
    All documents relating to this determination are available for 
inspection between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., Monday through 
Friday at the following offices: Nebraska Department of Health and 
Human Services, Drinking Water Division, 1200 N Street, Suite 400, 
Lincoln Nebraska 68509-8922. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7, 
Water Wetlands and Pesticides Division, Drinking Water Management 
Branch, 11201 Renner Blvd. Lenexa, Kansas 66219.

(Authority: Section 1413 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, 
and 40 CFR 142.10, 142.12(d) and 142.13)


    Dated: October 19, 2018.
Jim Gulliford,
Regional Administrator, Region 7.
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Dated: October 19, 2018. The Commission strongly encourages ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Kimberly D. Bose, electronic filing. Please file comments AGENCY
Secretary. using the Commission’s eFiling system
[EPA–RO7–OW–2018–0678; FRL–9985–46-
[FR Doc. 2018–23324 Filed 10–24–18; 8:45 am] at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ Region 7]
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P efiling.asp. Commenters can submit
brief comments up to 6,000 characters, Notice of Approval of the Primacy
without prior registration, using the Application for National Primary
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY eComment system at http://www.ferc. Drinking Water Regulations for the
gov/docs-filing/ecomment.asp. You State of Nebraska
Federal Energy Regulatory must include your name and contact
Commission AGENCY: Environmental Protection
information at the end of your
Agency (EPA).
[Project No. 13212–005—Alaska] comments. For assistance, please
ACTION: Notice of approval and
contact FERC Online Support. In lieu of
Notice of Availability of the Draft electronic filing, please send a paper solicitation of requests for a public
Environmental Impact Statement for copy to: Secretary, Federal Energy hearing.
the Kenai Hydro, LLC Proposed Grant Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street
Lake Hydroelectric Project SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection
NE, Washington, DC 20426. The first Agency (EPA) is hereby giving notice
In accordance with the National page of any filing should include docket that the State of Nebraska is revising its
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and number P–13212–005. approved Public Water System
the Federal Energy Regulatory Anyone may intervene in this Supervision Program under the
Commission’s (Commission) proceeding based on this draft EIS (18 Nebraska Department of Health and
regulations, 18 CFR part 380, the Office CFR 380.10). You must file your request Human Services. EPA has determined
of Energy Projects has reviewed the to intervene as specified above.1 You do that these revisions are no less stringent
application for license for the proposed than the corresponding Federal
not need intervenor status to have your
Grant Lake Hydroelectric Project (FERC regulations. Therefore, the EPA intends
comments considered.
No. 13212) and has prepared a draft to approve these program revisions. Any
environmental impact statement (EIS) Commission staff will hold two public interested person, other than Federal
for the project. The proposed project meetings for the purpose of receiving Agencies, may request a public hearing.
would be located on Grant Lake and comments on the draft EIS. The daytime If a substantial request for a public
Grant Creek, near the community of meeting will focus on resource agency, hearing is made within the requested
Moose Pass, in Kenai Peninsula Indian tribes, and non-governmental thirty-day time frame, a public hearing
Borough, Alaska, and occupy 1,688.7 organization comments, while the will be held and a notice will be given
acres of federal lands within the evening meeting is primarily for in the Federal Register and a newspaper
Chugach National Forest, administered receiving input from the public. All of general circulation. Frivolous or
by U.S. Department of Agriculture, interested individuals and entities will insubstantial requests for a hearing may
Forest Service (Forest Service). be invited to attend one or both of the be denied by the Regional
The draft EIS contains staff’s public meetings. The times and Administrator.
evaluations of the applicant’s proposal locations of the meetings are as follows:
and the alternatives for licensing the DATES: This determination shall become
proposed Grant Lake Hydroelectric. The Daytime Meeting final and effective on November 26,
draft EIS documents the views of Date and Time: Wednesday, 2018, unless a timely and appropriate
governmental agencies, non- request for a public hearing is received
November 28, at 1:00 p.m. (Local
governmental organizations, affected or the Regional Administrator elects to
Time)
Indian tribes, the public, the license hold a public hearing on his own
Location: Moose Pass Community motion. A request for a public hearing
applicant, and Commission staff. Hall, Mile 29.5 Seward Highway,
A copy of the draft EIS is available for must be submitted to the Regional
Moose Pass, AK 99631 Administrator at the address shown
review in the Commission’s Public
Reference Branch, Room 2A, located at Evening Meeting below by November 26, 2018. If no
888 First Street NE, Washington, DC timely and appropriate request for a
Date and Time: Wednesday,
20426. The draft EIS also may be viewed hearing is received, and the Regional
November 28, at 7:00 p.m. (Local
on the Commission’s website at http:// Administrator does not elect to hold a
Time)
www.ferc.gov under the eLibrary link. hearing on his own motion, this
Location: Moose Pass Community determination will become effective on
Enter the docket number excluding the
Hall, Mile 29.5 Seward Highway, November 26, 2018.
last three digits in the docket number
field to access the document. For Moose Pass, AK 99631 ADDRESSES: Requests for Public Hearing
assistance, contact FERC Online For further information, please shall be addressed to: Regional
Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ contact Kenneth Hogan at (202) 502– Administrator, Environmental
ferc.gov, (866) 208–3676 (toll free), or 8434 or at kenneth.hogan@ferc.gov. Protection Agency, Region 7, 11201
(202) 502–8659 (TTY). Renner Blvd., Lenexa, Kansas 66219.
Dated: October 19, 2018. Requests for a public hearing shall
You may also register online at http://
www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ Kimberly D. Bose, include the following information:
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esubscription.asp to be notified via Secretary. Name, address and telephone number of
email of new filings and issuances [FR Doc. 2018–23323 Filed 10–24–18; 8:45 am] the individual, organization or other
related to this or other pending projects. BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
entity requesting a hearing; a brief
For assistance, contact FERC Online statement of the requesting person’s
Support. 1 Interventions may also be filed electronically via interest in the Regional Administrator’s
All comments must be filed by the internet in lieu of paper. See the previous determination and a brief statement on
December 10, 2018. discussion on filing comments electronically. information that the requesting person

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intends to submit at such hearing; the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION items that needed to be resolved before
signature of the individual making the AGENCY EPA could award final primacy. IDEM
request or, if the request is made on completed its response to EPA’s
[FRL–9985–51-Region 5] comments and questions on August 21,
behalf of an organization or other entity,
the signature of a responsible official of 2017.
Public Water System Supervision
the organization or other entity. Any interested party may request a
Program Approval for the State of
public hearing. A request for a public
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Indiana
hearing must be submitted by November
Kenneth L. Deason, Environmental AGENCY: Environmental Protection 26, 2018, to the Regional Administrator
Protection Agency Region 7, Drinking Agency (EPA). at the EPA Region 5 address shown
Water Management Branch, (913) 551– ACTION: Notice of tentative approval. below. The Regional Administrator may
7585, or by email at deason.ken@ deny frivolous or insubstantial requests
epa.gov. SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that for a hearing. However, if a substantial
the EPA has tentatively approved the request for a public hearing is made by
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is revision to the State of Indiana’s Public November 26, 2018, EPA Region 5 will
hereby given that the EPA has Water System Supervision (PWSS) hold a public hearing, and a notice of
determined to approve an application Program. Indiana Department of such hearing will be given in the
by the Nebraska Department of Health Environmental Management (IDEM) has Federal Register and a newspaper of
and Human Services to incorporate the revised the Total Coliform Rule to general circulation. If EPA Region 5
following EPA National Primary comply with the National Primary does not receive a timely and
Drinking Water Regulations: Revised Drinking Water Regulations. EPA has appropriate request for a hearing and
Total Coliform Rule (February 13, 2013, determined that these revisions are no the Regional Administrator does not
78 FR 10270) and minor corrections less stringent than the corresponding elect to hold a hearing on her own
(February 26, 2014, 79 FR 10665). This federal regulations. Therefore, EPA motion, this determination shall become
determination to approve the Nebraska intends to approve these revisions to the final and effective on November 26,
program revision is made pursuant to 40 State of Indiana’s PWSS Program, 2018. Any request for a public hearing
CFR 142.12(d) (3). thereby giving IDEM primary shall include the following information:
The application demonstrates that enforcement responsibility for these The name, address, and telephone
regulations. number of the individual, organization,
Nebraska has adopted drinking water
DATES: A request for a public hearing or other entity requesting a hearing; a
regulations which satisfy the National
must be submitted by November 26, brief statement of the requesting
Primary Drinking Water Regulations. person’s interest in the Regional
EPA has determined that Nebraska’s 2018, to the Regional Administrator at
the EPA Region 5 address shown, Administrator’s determination and a
regulations are no less stringent than the brief statement of the information that
corresponding Federal regulations and below.
the requesting person intends to submit
that Nebraska continues to meet all ADDRESSES: All documents relating to at such hearing; and the signature of the
requirements for primary enforcement this determination are available for individual making the request, or, if the
responsibility as specified in 40 CFR inspection at the following offices: request is made on behalf of an
142.10. Indiana Department of Environmental organization or other entity, the
All documents relating to this Management, Office of Water Quality, signature of a responsible official of the
determination are available for Drinking Water Branch, 100 North organization or other entity.
Senate Avenue, Mailcode 66–34 ICGN
inspection between the hours of 9:00 Authority: Section 1413 of the Safe
1201, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204– Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. 300g–2, and
a.m. and 3:00 p.m., Monday through
2251, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. the federal regulations implementing Section
Friday at the following offices: Nebraska
and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, 1413 of the Act set forth at 40 CFR part 142.
Department of Health and Human and the United States Environmental
Services, Drinking Water Division, 1200 Dated: October 3, 2018.
Protection Agency, Region 5, Ground
N Street, Suite 400, Lincoln Nebraska Water and Drinking Water Branch (WG– Catherine Stepp,
68509–8922. Environmental Protection 15J), 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Regional Administrator, Region 5.
Agency, Region 7, Water Wetlands and Chicago, Illinois 60604, between the [FR Doc. 2018–22652 Filed 10–24–18; 8:45 am]
Pesticides Division, Drinking Water hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., BILLING CODE 6560–50–P
Management Branch, 11201 Renner Monday through Friday.
Blvd. Lenexa, Kansas 66219. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rita
(Authority: Section 1413 of the Safe Drinking Bair, EPA Region 5, Ground Water and FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
Water Act, as amended, and 40 CFR 142.10, Drinking Water Branch, at the address COMMISSION
142.12(d) and 142.13) given above, by telephone at (312) 886–
2406, or at bair.rita@epa.gov. Federal Advisory Committee, Diversity
Dated: October 19, 2018. and Digital Empowerment
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: IDEM
Jim Gulliford, submitted its final application for the AGENCY: Federal Communications
Regional Administrator, Region 7. Revised Total Coliform Rule (RTCR) on Commission.
[FR Doc. 2018–23362 Filed 10–24–18; 8:45 am] February 28, 2016. In a letter dated ACTION: Notice.
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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P March 23, 2017, EPA issued a
determination to them that the State’s SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal
application for the RTCR was complete Communications Commission (FCC or
and final and the State was awarded Commission) announces the November
interim primacy until final primacy 19, 2018, meeting and agenda of the
could be awarded. In this same letter Advisory Committee on Diversity and
EPA indicated that there were certain Digital Empowerment (ACDDE).

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Category		Regulatory Information
Collection		Federal Register
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Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		Notice of approval and solicitation of requests for a public hearing.
Dates		This determination shall become final and effective on November 26, 2018, unless a timely and appropriate request for a public hearing is received or the Regional Administrator elects to hold a public hearing on his own motion. A request for a public hearing must be
Contact		Kenneth L. Deason, Environmental Protection Agency Region 7, Drinking Water Management Branch, (913) 551-7585, or by email at [email protected]
FR Citation		83 FR 53869