Environmental Protection Agency 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Association of American Pesticide Control Officials (AAPCO)/State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group (SFIREG) Working Committee on Pesticide Operations and Management (WC/POM) will hold a 2-day meeting, beginning on October 2, 2006 and ending October 3, 2006. This notice announces the location and times for the meeting and sets forth the tentative agenda topics.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposes to promulgate a source-specific Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) to regulate emissions from the Four Corners Power Plant (FCPP), a coal- fired power plant located on the Navajo Indian Reservation near Farmington, New Mexico.

In accordance with Section 122(i) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (``CERCLA''), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given of a proposed Agreement for Recovery of Response Costs (``Agreement,'' Region 9 Docket No. 9-2006- 0016) pursuant to Section 122(h) of CERCLA concerning the Del Amo Superfund Site, Waste Pits Operable Unit (the ``Site''), located in Los Angeles, California. The settling parties to the Agreement are Shell Oil Company and the United States General Services Administration. The Agreement fully compensates EPA for past response costs related to the remedial design of the Waste Pits Operable Unit of the Del Amo Site. The settling parties performed work on the remedial design pursuant to a 1998 Unilateral Administrative Order (``UAO''). The UAO did not provide for the recovery of EPA oversight costs. The Agreement provides for a total recovery of $1,208,551.25. The Agreement also provides the settling parties with contribution protection under CERCLA 113(f)(2) for response cost paid under the Agreement. For thirty (30) days following the date of publication of this Notice, the Agency will receive written comments relating to the proposed Agreement. The Agency's response to any comments will be available for public inspection at the Agency's Region IX offices, located at 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California 94105.

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Innovation (NCEI) is giving preliminary notice of its intention to solicit proposals for a 2007 grant program to support innovation by state environmental agenciesthe ``State Innovation Grant Program.'' In addition, EPA is asking each State Environmental Regulatory Agency to designate a point of contact at the management level (in addition to the Commissioner or Cabinet Secretary level) who will be the point of contact for further communication about the upcoming solicitation. If your point of contact from previous State Innovation Grant solicitations is to be your contact for this year's competition, there is no need to send that information again, as all previously designated points of contact will remain on our notification list for this year's competition. EPA anticipates publication of a Solicitation Announcement of Federal Funding Opportunity on the Federal government's grants opportunities Web site (https://www.grants.gov) to announce the availability of the next solicitation approximately four weeks after publication of this announcement.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking direct final action to adjust the reportable quantity (RQ) for Isophorone Diisocyanate (IPDI). Reportable quantities for many Extremely Hazardous Substances (EHS) under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to- Know Act (EPCRA) were adjusted to their threshold planning quantities (TPQ) in a final rule on May 7, 1996. On September 8, 2003, EPA modified the TPQ for IPDI to 500 pounds. However, EPA inadvertently omitted an RQ adjustment for this substance. Therefore, EPA is now adjusting the RQ for IPDI to be 500 pounds.

EPA expressed environmental concerns about impacts to watershed resources, including water quality and habitat, groundwater quality and quantity, and air quality and that these impacts should be avoided or mitigated. Rating EC2.

Under Section 122(h)(1) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLS), the United States Environmental Protection Agency has entered into a proposed settlement for reimbursement of past response costs concerning the Florida Petroleum Reprocessors Superfund Site located in Davie, Broward County, Florida.

This notice announces and requests comments on an application to register the pesticide product ShakeAway Deer Repellent Granules containing an active ingredient not included in any previously registered product pursuant to the provisions of section 3(c)(5) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended.

EPA is taking direct final action to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) section 8(a) Inventory Update Reporting (IUR) regulations to allow the electronic submission of information and to make several minor corrections. For the first time, in 2006, reporters of IUR data will be able to use the Internet, through EPA's Central Data Exchange (CDX), to submit information on their chemicals to EPA. In addition, EPA will continue to allow IUR submissions either on CD ROM or on paper. EPA is also correcting two paragraph cross- references and a section heading. Additionally, EPA is clarifying requirements for the reporting of company identification information.

Under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Pub. L. 92-463, EPA gives notice of a meeting of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT). NACEPT provides advice to the EPA Administrator on a broad range of environmental policy, technology, and management issues. The Council is a panel of individuals who represent diverse interests from academia, industry, non-governmental organizations, and local, state, and Tribal governments. The Administrator asked NACEPT to address sustainable water infrastructure, environmental stewardship/cooperative conservation, and energy and the environment. The purpose of this meeting is to learn more about these topics from a regional perspective. A copy of the agenda for the meeting will be posted at https://www.epa.gov/ocem/nacept/cal-nacept.htm.

This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of paraquat dichloride in or on various food and feed commodities. The tolerances were requestd by Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. through submission of several pesticide petitions. Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).

This notice announces receipt of applications to register pesticide products containing new active ingredients not included in any previously registered products pursuant to the provisions of section 3(c)(4) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a January 4, 2006, request from Illinois for a site specific revision to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the Ford Motor Company (Ford). The revision will allow Ford to discontinue use of its Stage II vapor recovery system (Stage II) at its Chicago Assembly Plant. In place of Stage II, Ford will comply with the standards of the federal onboard refueling vapor recovery (ORVR) regulations, as well as meet other minor conditions. The exclusive use of ORVR will provide at least an equivalent amount of gasoline vapor capture as Stage II.

EPA is finalizing our conditional approval of revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP) concerning the Discrete Emission Credit Banking and Trading Program.

EPA is approving revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP) as it applies to the Houston/Galveston/Brazoria (HGB) ozone nonattainment area. These SIP revisions result from more recent information on ozone formation in the HGB area indicating that a combination of controls on nitrogen oxides (NOX) and highly reactive volatile organic compounds (HRVOCs) should be more effective in reducing ozone than the measures in the previously approved 2001 HGB attainment demonstration plan which relied almost exclusively on the control of NOX. Approval of these revisions incorporates these changes into the federally approved SIP. The approved revisions include a 1-hour ozone standard attainment demonstration, motor vehicle emissions budgets, a demonstration that all reasonably available control measures have been adopted for the HGB area and revisions to satisfy the enforceable commitments contained in the previously approved SIP. These revisions present a new mix of controlled strategies in order to achieve attainment. These revisions include changes to the industrial NOX rules, reducing the stringency from a nominal 90 percent to 80 percent control and revisions to the Texas Inspection and Maintenance (I/M) rules that drop three counties from the I/M program. As part of the approved revisions to the HGB attainment demonstration, Texas has adopted new control measures which EPA has approved or is approving concurrent with this action. The new control measures are increased control of HRVOC emissions and control of emissions from portable gasoline containers. Also, in separate actions in today's Federal Register, EPA is concurrently approving the following emissions trading programs that relate to the HGB attainment demonstration: revisions to the Mass Emissions Cap and Trade Program for the HGB area, the Highly Reactive Volatile Organic Compound Emissions Cap and Trade Program for the HGB area, the Emissions Credit Banking and Trading Program, and the Discrete Emissions Credit Banking and Trading Program. The SIP revisions to the HGB attainment demonstration addressed in this rulemaking along with the HRVOC rules and emissions trading programs being concurrently approved, will provide for timely attainment of the 1-hour ozone standard in HGB as demonstrated through the modeling analysis. Additionally, Texas has shown that these revisions will not interfere with any applicable requirement concerning attainment and reasonable further progress, or any other applicable requirement of the Clean Air Act. (Section 110(l) demonstration).

EPA is approving revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan concerning the Highly Reactive Volatile Organic Compound Emissions Cap and Trade Program for the Houston/Galveston/Brazoria ozone nonattainment area.

On October 12, 2005, EPA promulgated national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) for new and existing hazardous waste combustors. Subsequently, the Administrator received four petitions for reconsideration of the final rule. In this proposed rule, EPA is granting reconsideration of and requesting comment on several issues raised in the petitions of the Cement Kiln Recycling Coalition, the Coalition for Responsible Waste Incineration, and the Sierra Club. In addition, EPA is proposing several amendments and corrections to the final rule to clarify some compliance and monitoring issues raised by several entities affected by the final rule.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to transfer confidential business information (CBI) collected from airport deicing operations to SciMetrika. Transfer of the information will allow the contractor to support EPA in the planning, development, and review of effluent limitations guidelines and standards for the airport deicing point source category. The information being transferred was or will be collected from airports and airlines under the authority of section 308 of the Clean Water Act (CWA). Interested persons may submit comments on this intended transfer of information to the address noted below.

On November 17, 2005, EPA received an application from the State of Hawaii requesting authorization to administer a program in accordance with section 402 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Included in the application was a letter signed by Hawaii's Attorney General stating that the State's Lead-Based Paint Abatement Program is at least as protective of human health and the environment as the Federal program under TSCA section 402. Also included in the letter from the Attorney General of Hawaii is the certification that the laws and regulations of the State of Hawaii provide adequate legal authority to administer and enforce TSCA section 402. The application was followed by a transmittal letter of February 8, 2006, from the Governor of the State of Hawaii requesting program approval. Hawaii certifies that its program meets the requirements for approval of a State program under TSCA section 404 and that Hawaii has the legal authority and ability to implement the appropriate elements necessary to enforce the program. Therefore, pursuant to TSCA section 404, the program is deemed authorized as of the date of submission. If EPA finds that the program does not meet the requirements for approval of a State program, EPA will disapprove the program, at which time a notice will be issued in the Federal Register and the Federal program will be established. This notice announces the receipt of Hawaii's application, provides a 45-day public comment period, and an opportunity to request a public hearing on the application.

This regulation establishes time-limited tolerances for residues of 2, 6-Diisopropylnaphthalene, resulting from post-harvest applications to potato, in or on fat (cattle, goat, hog, horse, and sheep) at 0.8 part per million (ppm); liver (cattle, goat, hog, horse, and sheep) at 0.3 ppm; meat (cattle, goat, hog, horse, and sheep) at 0.1 ppm; meat byproducts (cattle, goat, hog, horse, and sheep) at 0.1 ppm; milk at 0.1 ppm; potato at 2.0 ppm; and potato, wet peel at 6.0 ppm. Loveland Products, Inc. had requested permanent tolerances (in or on whole potato and potato peels at 2 and 6 ppm, respectively) under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA). The time-limited tolerances will expire on August 1, 2009.

This regulation establishes tolerances for the combined residues of benthiavalicarb-isopropyl, isopropyl[(S)-1-[[[(1R)-1-(6- fluoro-2-benzothiazolyl)ethyl]amino] carbonyl]-2-methylpropyl]carbamate and isopropyl[(S)-1-[[[(1S)-1-(6-fluoro-2-benzothiazolyl)ethyl]am ino] carbonyl]-2-methylpropyl]carbamate, in or on imported grape at 0.25 parts per million (ppm), tomato at 0.45 ppm, and grape, raisin at 1.0 ppm. K-I Chemical U.S.A., Inc., requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).

EPA is reopening the comment period for a proposed approval and request for comments published June 1, 2006, (71 FR 31183) where EPA proposed to waive the requirements of the Federal asbestos-in- schools program for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. In the June 1, 2006, document the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) docket number was incorrectly referenced. This document corrects the docket number and provides the opportunity to comment and/or request a public hearing.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), the Office of Administration and Resources Management gives notice that it proposes to create a new system of records for its administrative systems by transferring the Inspector General's Operation and Reporting (IGOR) system of records (EPA-41) from the Office of the Inspector General to the Office of Administration and Resources Management and renaming it Office of Administration Services Information System (OASIS). In addition to the exempted personnel security files currently covered under EPA-41, records in the following Privacy Act systems are being transferred to OASIS: Wellness Program Medical Records (EPA-3); EPA Parking Control Office File (EPA-10); and the EPA Transit Program Files.