Notice of Availability of “Award of Special Appropriations Act Project Grants Authorized by the Agency's FY 2009 Appropriations Act”, 47791-47792 [E9-22430]

Download as PDF cprice-sewell on DSK2BSOYB1PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 179 / Thursday, September 17, 2009 / Notices EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under docket ID number EPA–HQ–OECA–2009–0379, which is available for public viewing online at https://www.regulations.gov, in person viewing at the Enforcement and Compliance Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and the telephone number for the Enforcement and Compliance Docket is (202) 566–1752. Use EPA’s electronic docket and comment system at https:// www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access the index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the system, select ‘‘docket search,’’ then key in the docket ID number identified above. Please note that EPA’s policy is that public comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made available for public viewing at https://www.regulations.gov, as EPA receives them and without change, unless the comment contains copyrighted material, Confidential Business Information (CBI), or other information whose public disclosure is restricted by statute. For further information about the electronic docket, go to https://www.regulations.gov. Title: NSPS for Beverage Can Surface Coating (Renewal). ICR Numbers: EPA ICR Number 0663.10, OMB Control Number 2060– 0001. ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on October 30, 2009. Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor the collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB. 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. The OMB control numbers for EPA’s regulations in title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal Register when approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, and displayed either by publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is consolidated in 40 CFR part 9. Abstract: Respondents are owners or operators of beverage can surface coating facilities. These standards apply VerDate Nov<24>2008 14:35 Sep 16, 2009 Jkt 217001 to each beverage can surface coating operation in which organic coatings are applied (exterior base coat operations, over varnish coating operations, and inside spray coating operations) that commenced construction, modification or reconstruction after November 26, 1980. Owners or operators of the affected facilities described must make initial reports when a source becomes subject to the standards, conduct and report on a performance test, demonstrate and report on continuous monitor performance, and maintain records of the occurrence and duration of any startup, shutdown, or malfunction in the operation of an affected facility. Semiannual reports of excess emissions are required. These notifications, reports, and records are essential in determining compliance; and are required, in general, of all sources subject to New Source Performance Standards (NSPS). Any owner or operator subject to the provisions of this part shall maintain a file of these measurements, and retain the file for at least five years following the date of such measurements, maintenance reports, and records. All reports are sent to the delegated State or local authority. In the event that there is no such delegated authority, the reports are sent directly to the EPA regional office. Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 43 hours per response. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review instructions; develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and systems for the purposes of collecting, validating, and verifying information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information; adjust the existing ways to comply with any previously applicable instructions and requirements which have subsequently changed; train personnel to be able to respond to a collection of information; search data sources; complete and review the collection of information; and transmit or otherwise disclose the information. Respondents/Affected Entities: Owners or operators of beverage can surface coating facilities. Estimated Number of Respondents: 48. Frequency of Response: Semiannually, On Occasion, Initially. Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 5,134. PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 47791 Estimated Total Annual Cost: $515,230—which includes $414,430 in labor costs, $100,800 in annual Operation and Maintenance (O&M) costs, and no capital/startup costs. Changes in the Estimates: There is no change in the burden hours or cost to the respondents in this ICR compared to the previous ICR. This is due to two considerations: (1) The regulations have not changed over the past three years and are not anticipated to change over the next three years; and (2) the growth rate for the respondents is very low, negative or nonexistent. Therefore, the labor hours and cost figures in the previous ICR reflect the current burden to the respondents and are reiterated in this ICR. It should be noted that there is a minor correction of $200 to the O&M costs due to rounding errors in the previous ICR. Dated: September 11, 2009. John Moses, Director, Collection Strategies Division. [FR Doc. E9–22427 Filed 9–16–09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [FRL–8956–3] Notice of Availability of ‘‘Award of Special Appropriations Act Project Grants Authorized by the Agency’s FY 2009 Appropriations Act’’ AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of document availability. SUMMARY: EPA is announcing the availability of a memorandum entitled ‘‘Award of Special Appropriations Act Project Grants Authorized by the Agency’s FY 2009 Appropriations Act.’’ This memorandum provides information and guidelines on how EPA will award and administer grants for the special projects identified in the State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG) account of the Agency’s FY 2009 Appropriations Act (Pub. L. 111–8). The STAG account provides budget authority for funding identified water, wastewater and groundwater infrastructure projects. Each grant recipient will receive a copy of this document from EPA. ADDRESSES: The subject memorandum may be viewed and downloaded from EPA’s homepage, https://www.epa.gov/ owm/cwfinance/cwsrf/law.htm. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: George Ames, (202) 564–0661 or ames.george@epa.gov. E:\FR\FM\17SEN1.SGM 17SEN1 47792 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 179 / Thursday, September 17, 2009 / Notices Dated: September 4, 2009. Sara Hisel-McCoy, Acting Deputy Director, Office of Wastewater Management. [FR Doc. E9–22430 Filed 9–16–09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [FRL–8957–7] Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC); Notice of Charter Renewal AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of Charter Renewal. Notice is hereby given that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined that, in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App. 2. The Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC) is a necessary committee which is in the public interest. Accordingly, CHPAC will be renewed for an additional twoyear period. The purpose of CHPAC is to provide advice and recommendations to the Administrator of EPA on issues associated with development of regulations, guidance and policies to address children’s health risks. Inquiries may be directed to Carolyn Hubbard, Designated Federal Officer, CHPAC, U.S. EPA, OCHP MC 1107A, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460. Hubbard.carolyn@epa.gov, 202–564– 2189. Dated: September 11, 2009. Martha Shimkin, Division Director, Office of Children’s Health Protection, and Environmental Education, Child and Aging, Health Protection Division. [FR Doc. E9–22320 Filed 9–16–09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–M ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY cprice-sewell on DSK2BSOYB1PROD with NOTICES [FRL–8955–4] Clean Water Act Section 303(d): Preliminary Notice of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Development for the Chesapeake Bay AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice and initial request for public input. SUMMARY: This notice announces the intent of EPA to establish a Chesapeake VerDate Nov<24>2008 14:35 Sep 16, 2009 Jkt 217001 Bay-wide Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for nutrients and sediment for all impaired segments in the tidal portion of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This action is being taken pursuant to section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act (CWA). To provide information to the public regarding the process, approach and implications of this action, EPA will hold a series of public meetings in late 2009 on dates and in locations to be determined. A second public comment period will be held in the summer of 2010 once a draft Chesapeake Bay TMDL is developed. This TMDL is being developed consistent with the requirements of two Consent Decrees settling the following lawsuits: American Canoe Association, Inc. and the American Littoral Society v. EPA, Civil No. 98–979–A (E.D. Va) and Kingman Park Civic Association, et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, et al., No. 1:98CV00758 (D.D.C.). By this notice, EPA is soliciting preliminary input from the public on its plans for developing this Chesapeake Bay TMDL. EPA requests that the public provide to EPA any water quality related data and information that may be relevant to the development and calculation of the Chesapeake Bay TMDL by December 18, 2009. EPA will review all data and information submitted during the public comment period and will consider them in the development of the TMDL as appropriate. DATES: Comments must be submitted in writing to EPA on or before December 18, 2009. If you anticipate that you will be submitting comments, but find it difficult to do so within the period of time allowed by this notice, you should advise the contact listed below as soon as possible. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on the development of the Chesapeake Bay TMDL by e-mail or U.S. post mail. To submit your comments by e-mail, send them to sincock.jennifer@epa.gov. To submit your comments by U.S. mail, mark them to the attention of Jennifer Sincock, Environmental Scientist, Water Protection Division, (3WP30), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region III, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103–2029. Further information on the development of the Chesapeake Bay TMDL may be viewed at https://www.epa.gov/ chesapeakebaytmdl FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information, contact Jennifer Sincock at (215) 814–5766 or fax 215– 814–2318 or send an e-mail to sincock.jennifer@epa.gov. PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Section 303(d) of the CWA requires that each State identify those waters within its boundaries for which existing technology-based pollution controls required by the CWA are not stringent enough to attain or maintain State water quality standards. States are required to establish TMDLs for those ‘‘impaired’’ waters. TMDLs are pollution budgets designed to identify necessary reductions of pollutant loads to the impaired waters so that the appropriate water quality standards are met, including designated uses like fishing or swimming and water quality criteria for parameters such as dissolved oxygen and water clarity. Why is a TMDL being developed for the Chesapeake Bay? The Chesapeake Bay is a national treasure constituting the largest estuary in the United States and one of the largest and most biologically productive estuaries in the world. Despite significant efforts by Federal, State, and local governments and other interested parties, water pollution in the Chesapeake Bay prevents the attainment of existing State water quality standards. The pollutants that are largely responsible for impairment of the Chesapeake Bay are nutrients, in the form of nitrogen and phosphorus, and sediment. EPA, in coordination with the Bay watershed jurisdictions of Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, New York and the District of Columbia, will establish a nutrient and sediment pollution budget for the Bay consistent with CWA requirements to guide and assist Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts. A primary driver for the schedule to develop the Chesapeake Bay TMDL is the Virginia TMDL Consent Decree settling the lawsuit American Canoe Association, Inc. and the American Littoral Society v. EPA, Civil No. 98–979–A (E.D. Va). Portions of the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries were identified as impaired for aquatic life uses and exceedance of the numeric criteria for dissolved oxygen caused by nutrient and sediment pollutants on Virginia’s 1998 section 303(d) list of impaired waters. Other Bay and tidal tributary segments impaired by nutrients and sediment have been identified on Maryland and the District of Columbia section 303(d) lists. Under the Virginia TMDL Consent Decree, EPA is obligated to establish a TMDL for the Bay’s waters identified on the 1998 Virginia list including those aquatic life use impairments caused by the nutrient and sediment pollutants by no later than May 1, 2011, if those waters are not previously removed from the list or if SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: E:\FR\FM\17SEN1.SGM 17SEN1

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[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 179 (Thursday, September 17, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47791-47792]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-22430]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-8956-3]


Notice of Availability of ``Award of Special Appropriations Act 
Project Grants Authorized by the Agency's FY 2009 Appropriations Act''

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of document availability.

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SUMMARY: EPA is announcing the availability of a memorandum entitled 
``Award of Special Appropriations Act Project Grants Authorized by the 
Agency's FY 2009 Appropriations Act.'' This memorandum provides 
information and guidelines on how EPA will award and administer grants 
for the special projects identified in the State and Tribal Assistance 
Grants (STAG) account of the Agency's FY 2009 Appropriations Act (Pub. 
L. 111-8). The STAG account provides budget authority for funding 
identified water, wastewater and groundwater infrastructure projects. 
Each grant recipient will receive a copy of this document from EPA.

ADDRESSES: The subject memorandum may be viewed and downloaded from 
EPA's homepage, https://www.epa.gov/owm/cwfinance/cwsrf/law.htm.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: George Ames, (202) 564-0661 or 
ames.george@epa.gov.


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    Dated: September 4, 2009.
Sara Hisel-McCoy,
 Acting Deputy Director, Office of Wastewater Management.
[FR Doc. E9-22430 Filed 9-16-09; 8:45 am]
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