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(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 industry is very low, so there is no
significant change in the overall burden.
However, there is a slight increase in the
respondent labor costs due to the use of
updated labor rates.
Richard T. Westlund,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies
Division.
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Information Collection Request
Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; NSPS
for Rubber Tire Manufacturing
(Renewal)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency has submitted an information
collection request (ICR), ‘‘NSPS for
Rubber Tire Manufacturing’’ (EPA ICR
No. 1158.11, OMB Control No. 2060–
0156), to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and approval
in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq).
This is a proposed extension of the ICR,
which is currently approved through
March 31, 2014. Public comments were
requested previously, via the Federal
Register (78 FR 33409) on June 4, 2013,
during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days
for public comments. A fuller
description of the ICR is given below,
including its estimated burden and cost
to the public. 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: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before January 6, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID Number EPA–
HQ–OECA–2013–0329, to: (1) EPA
online, using www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by email to:
docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA
Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; and (2) OMB via
email to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.
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Address comments to OMB Desk Officer
for EPA.
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:
Learia Williams, Monitoring,
Assistance, and Media Programs
Division, Office of Compliance, Mail
Code 2227A, Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone
number: (202) 564–4113; fax number:
(202) 564–0050; email address:
williams.learia@epa.gov.
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,
EPA 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: https://
www.epa.gov/dockets.
Abstract: Respondents are owners or
operators of rubber tire manufacturing
plants which include each: under-tread
cementing operation, sidewall
cementing operation, tread end
cementing operation, bead cementing
operating, green tire spraying operation,
Michelin-A operation, Michelin-B
operation, and Michelin-C automatic
operation. The standards require the
submission of notification when
conducting performance tests and
periodic reporting including semiannual
reports of excess emissions and annual
reports of Method 24 formulation data.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Rubber
tire manufacturing facilities.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, subpart
BBB).
Estimated number of respondents: 41
(total).
Frequency of response: Initially,
annually, and semiannually.
Total estimated burden: 17,684 hours
(per year). ‘‘Burden’’ is defined at 5 CFR
1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $1,746,207 (per
year), includes $16,400 annualized
capital or operation & maintenance
costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an
adjustment increase in the respondent
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burden from the most-recently approved
ICR. Based on consultation comments
received in development of this ICR, the
frequency of occurrence for burden
items ‘‘monitoring of VOC emissions
and operations’’ and ‘‘recording startup,
shutdown, and malfunction’’ were
revised to account for 350 days per year
operation, which is typical for current
plant operation in the industry sector.
This results in an increase in
respondent burden hours and costs.
There is also a decrease of one burden
hour for the Agency as a result of
rounding. This ICR calculates all burden
hours and costs to two decimal places
and presents a more precise estimate.
Richard T. Westlund,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies
Division.
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Environmental Impact Statements;
Notice of Availability
RESPONSIBLE AGENCY: Office of
Federal Activities, General Information
(202) 564–7146 or https://www.epa.gov/
compliance/nepa/
Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact
Statements
Filed 11/25/2013 Through 11/29/2013
Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9.
Notice
Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act
requires that EPA make public its
comments on EISs issued by other
Federal agencies. EPA’s comment letters
on EISs are available at: https://
www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/eisdata.
html
EIS No. 20130355, Draft EIS, USFS, UT,
ADOPTION—TransWest Express
Transmission Project, Comment
Period Ends: 01/21/2014, Contact:
Kenton Call 435–865–3730.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
Forest Service has adopted the U.S.
Department of the Interior’s Bureau of
Land Management and the U.S.
Department of Energy’s Western Area
Power Administration’s Draft EIS
#20130180, filed 06/19/2013. The U.S.
Forest Service was a cooperating agency
for the project. Therefore, recirculation
of the document is not necessary under
Section 1506.3 of the CEQ Regulations.
Amended Notices
EIS No. 20130308, Draft EIS, USACE,
NC, Morehead City Harbor Integrated
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Dredged Material Management Plan,
Port of Morehead City, Comment
Period Ends: 02/03/2014, Contact:
Hugh Heine 910–251–4070.
Revision to the FR Notice Published
11/01/2013; Extending Comment Period
from 12/16/2013 to 02/03/2014.
EIS No. 20130325, Draft EIS, NPS, MO,
Ozark National Scenic Riverways
Draft General Management Plan,
Wilderness Study, Comment Period
Ends: 01/08/2014, Contact: William
Black 573–323–4236.
Revision to the FR Notice Published
11/08/2013; Extending Comment Period
from 12/30/2013 to 01/08/2014.
Dated: December 3, 2013.
Cliff Rader,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office
of Federal Activities.
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Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation and Liability
Act (CERCLA) or Superfund, Section
128(a); Notice of Grant Funding
Guidance for State and Tribal
Response Programs for FY2014
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) will begin to accept
requests, from December 9, 2013
through January 31, 2014, for grants to
supplement State and Tribal Response
Programs. This notice provides
guidance on eligibility for funding, use
of funding, grant mechanisms and
process for awarding funding, the
allocation system for distribution of
funding, and terms and reporting under
these grants. EPA has consulted with
state and tribal officials in developing
this guidance.
The primary goal of this funding is to
ensure that state and tribal response
programs include, or are taking
reasonable steps to include, certain
elements and a public record. Another
goal is to provide funding for other
activities that increase the number of
response actions conducted or overseen
by a state or tribal response program.
This funding is not intended to supplant
current state or tribal funding for their
response programs. Instead, it is to
supplement their funding to increase
their response capacity.
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For fiscal year 2014, EPA will
consider funding requests up to a
maximum of $1.0 million per state or
tribe. Subject to the availability of
funds, EPA regional personnel will be
available to provide technical assistance
to states and tribes as they apply for and
carry out these grants.
DATES: This action is effective as of
December 9, 2013. EPA expects to make
non-competitive grant awards to states
and tribes which apply during fiscal
year 2014.
ADDRESSES: Mailing addresses for EPA
Regional Offices and EPA Headquarters
can be located at www.epa.gov/
brownfields and at the end of this
Notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and
Emergency Response, Office of
Brownfields and Land Revitalization,
(202) 566–2745 or the applicable EPA
Regional Office listed at the end this
Notice.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. General Information
Section 128(a) of the Comprehensive
Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act
(CERCLA), as amended, authorizes a
noncompetitive $50 million grant
program to establish and enhance state 1
and tribal 2 response programs. CERCLA
128(a) response program grants are
funded with categorical 3 State and
Tribal Assistance Grant (STAG)
appropriations. Section 128(a)
cooperative agreements are awarded and
administered by the EPA regional
offices. Generally, these response
programs address the assessment,
cleanup, and redevelopment of
brownfields sites and other sites with
actual or perceived contamination. This
document provides guidance that will
enable states and tribes to apply for and
use fiscal year 2014 section 128(a)
funds.4
The Catalogue of Federal Domestic
Assistance entry for the section 128(a)
State and Tribal Response Program
cooperative agreements is 66.817. This
grant program is eligible to be included
1 The term ‘‘state’’ is defined in this document as
defined in CERCLA section 101(27).
2 The term ‘‘Indian tribe’’ is defined in this
document as it is defined in CERCLA section
101(36). Intertribal consortia, as defined in the
Federal Register Notice at 67 FR 67181, Nov. 4,
2002, are also eligible for funding under CERCLA
section 128(a).
3 Categorical grants are issued by the U.S.
Congress to fund state and local governments for
narrowly defined purposes.
4 The Agency may waive any provision of this
guidance that is not required by statute, regulation,
Executive Order or overriding Agency policies.
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in state and tribal Performance
Partnership Grants under 40 CFR part
35 Subparts A and B, with the exception
of funds used to capitalize a revolving
loan fund for brownfield remediation
under section 104(k)(3); or purchase
insurance or develop a risk sharing
pool, an indemnity pool, or insurance
mechanism to provide financing for
response actions under a State or Tribal
response program.
Requests for funding will be accepted
from December 9, 2013 through January
31, 2014. Requests EPA receives after
January 31, 2014 will not be considered
for FY2014 funding. Information that
must be submitted with the funding
request is listed in Section VIII of this
guidance. States or tribes that do not
submit the request in the appropriate
manner may forfeit their ability to
receive funds. First time requestors are
strongly encouraged to contact their
Regional EPA Brownfields contacts,
listed at the end of this guidance, prior
to submitting their funding request.
EPA will consider funding requests
up to a maximum of $1.0 million per
state or tribe for FY2014.
Requests submitted by the January 31,
2014 request deadline are preliminary;
final cooperative agreement work plans
and budgets will be negotiated with the
regional offices once final funding
allocation determinations are made. As
in previous years, EPA will place
special emphasis on reviewing a
cooperative agreement recipient’s use of
prior section 128(a) funding in making
allocation decisions and unexpended
balances are subject to 40 CFR 35.118
and 40 CFR 35.518 to the extent
consistent with this guidance.
States and tribes requesting funds are
required to provide a Dun and
Bradstreet Data Universal Numbering
System (DUNS) number with their
cooperative agreement’s final package.
For more information, please go to
www.grants.gov.
II. Background
State and tribal response programs
oversee assessment and cleanup
activities at brownfields sites across the
country. The depth and breadth of state
and tribal response programs vary.
Some focus on CERCLA related
activities, while others are multifaceted, addressing sites regulated by
both CERCLA and the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).
Many state programs also offer
accompanying financial incentive
programs to spur cleanup and
redevelopment. In enacting CERCLA
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Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability
RESPONSIBLE AGENCY: Office of Federal Activities, General
Information (202) 564-7146 or https://www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/
Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact Statements
Filed 11/25/2013 Through 11/29/2013
Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9.
Notice
Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act requires that EPA make public
its comments on EISs issued by other Federal agencies. EPA's comment
letters on EISs are available at: https://www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/eisdata.html
EIS No. 20130355, Draft EIS, USFS, UT, ADOPTION--TransWest Express
Transmission Project, Comment Period Ends: 01/21/2014, Contact: Kenton
Call 435-865-3730.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service has adopted the
U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management and the
U.S. Department of Energy's Western Area Power Administration's Draft
EIS 20130180, filed 06/19/2013. The U.S. Forest Service was a
cooperating agency for the project. Therefore, recirculation of the
document is not necessary under Section 1506.3 of the CEQ Regulations.
Amended Notices
EIS No. 20130308, Draft EIS, USACE, NC, Morehead City Harbor Integrated
[[Page 73525]]
Dredged Material Management Plan, Port of Morehead City, Comment Period
Ends: 02/03/2014, Contact: Hugh Heine 910-251-4070.
Revision to the FR Notice Published 11/01/2013; Extending Comment
Period from 12/16/2013 to 02/03/2014.
EIS No. 20130325, Draft EIS, NPS, MO, Ozark National Scenic Riverways
Draft General Management Plan, Wilderness Study, Comment Period Ends:
01/08/2014, Contact: William Black 573-323-4236.
Revision to the FR Notice Published 11/08/2013; Extending Comment
Period from 12/30/2013 to 01/08/2014.
Dated: December 3, 2013.
Cliff Rader,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
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