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for-profit organizations, as well as
Federal/State/Local and Tribal
governments.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Voluntary (RCRA sections 1003 and
4001).
Estimated number of respondents:
During year 1 of this ICR it is estimated
that 2,119 respondents will enter data
into the data management system. This
estimate is expected to grow to 2,329
respondents in year 3 of this ICR due to
an increased enrollment by participants.
Frequency of response: Annual.
Total estimated burden: During year 1
of this ICR it is estimated that 147,348
hours respondents, 3,452 hours from
EPA. By year 3, the estimated
respondent hours of 164,073 and 4,152
agency hours for a total of 168,225
hours. Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: For year 1,
$5,766,636.45 from extra-agency
participants and $436,427.30 from EPA,
which includes $6,213,063.75
annualized labor costs and $0
annualized capital or O&M costs. For
year 3, $5,552,371.20 for respondents
and $471,827.30 in agency costs, with
annualized cost of $6,024,198.50.
Changes in estimates: Annual burden
hours and associated costs shown in the
ICR reflect changing participation rates
throughout the ICR time period,
therefore any changes are documented
in Supplemental Statement.
Dated: March 27, 2019.
Barnes Johnson,
Director, Office of Resource Conservation and
Recovery.
[FR Doc. 2019–06482 Filed 4–2–19; 8:45 am]
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AGENCY
[FRL–9991–58–OW]
Environmental Financial Advisory
Board (EFAB); Request for
Nominations of Expert Consultants on
Stormwater Funding and Financing
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice. Request for nominations
of expert consultants to the
Environmental Financial Advisory
Board (EFAB) on stormwater funding
and financing.
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AGENCY:
The United States
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
invites nominations of qualified
candidates to be considered for expert
consultants to the Environmental
Financial Advisory Board (EFAB). The
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expert consultants will advise the EFAB
workgroup focused on stormwater
funding and financing responsive to the
America’s Water Infrastructure Act of
2018, Section 4101 (STORMWATER
INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING TASK
FORCE). Expert consultants will
provide knowledge, information, and
contribute to the EFAB Stormwater
Finance Workgroup’s recommendations
to the EPA in the following areas:
Identify how funding for stormwater
infrastructure from such sources has
been made available, and utilized, in
each state to address stormwater
infrastructure needs; Identify how the
source of funding affects the
affordability of the infrastructure,
including consideration of the costs
associated with financing the
infrastructure; and Evaluate whether
such sources of funding are sufficient to
support capital expenditures and longterm operation and maintenance costs.
Additional, related, areas may be
identified in the first meeting. Experts
will serve through the end of April
2020.
The deadline for receiving
nominations is Friday, April 19, 2019.
Appointments will be made by EFAB’s
Designated Federal Officer and will be
announced in early May 2019. A
meeting is expected to be held in
Washington, DC, on June 6, 2019.
DATES: Nominations should be
electronically submitted to
waterfinancecenter@epa.gov with the
subject line ‘‘EFAB Stormwater Finance
Workgroup—Expert Consultant
Nomination’’ no later than 11:59 p.m.
local time on Friday, April 19, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Contact Ellen Tarquinio
(tarquinio.ellen@epa.gov) with
questions about the workgroup.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Evaluation Criteria: The
Administrator of the EPA will appoint
up to 20 external expert consultants to
advise the members of the EFAB that
comprise the stormwater finance
workgroup.
EPA values and welcomes diversity.
In an effort to obtain a diverse pool of
candidates, EPA encourages
nominations of women and men of all
racial and ethnic groups. The following
criteria will be used to evaluate
nominees: Representation from Federal
agencies, state government, local
government, private sector, and nonprofit organizations; demonstrated
expertise in stormwater funding and/or
financing, stormwater technical
experience, stormwater stakeholder
engagement, or water infrastructure
funding and management; geographic
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diversity; and varying community
characteristics experience.
Nominations for membership must
include a resume describing the
professional and/or educational
qualifications of the nominee as well as
expertise/experience. Contact details
should include full name, affiliation
title, business mailing address,
telephone, and email address. A
supporting letter of endorsement is
encouraged but not required.
Environmental Financial Advisory
Board (EFAB): The Environmental
Financial Advisory Board (EFAB) was
chartered in 1989 under the Federal
Advisory Committee Act to provide
advice and recommendations to EPA on
the following issues: Creating incentives
to increase private investment in the
provision of environmental services and
removing or reducing constraints on
private involvement imposed by current
regulations; developing new and
innovative environmental financing
approaches and supporting and
encouraging the use of cost-effective
existing approaches; identifying
approaches specifically targeted to
small/disadvantaged community
financing; increasing the capacity of
state and local governments to carry out
their respective environmental programs
under current Federal tax laws;
analyzing how new technologies can be
brought to market expeditiously;
increasing the total investment in
environmental protection of public and
private environmental resources to help
ease the environmental financing
challenge facing our nation.
The EFAB typically meets two times
each calendar year (up to two days per
meeting) at different locations within
the continental United States. EFAB
Workgroups focusing on specific
environmental finance topics typically
meet over conference calls in between
the in-person meetings to discuss
recommendations and other work
products. These recommendations and/
or work products are voted on by the
full EFAB before they are provided to
the EPA.
Expert consultants for the Stormwater
Finance Workgroup are expected to
attend the in-person meetings and
participate on workgroup conference
calls that will occur up to twice a month
through November 2019. Expert
consultants will receive no salary or
other compensation for participation in
workgroup activities. Reimbursement
for travel and per diem is subject to
funding availability.
Expert consultants are expected to
assist in the development of workgroup
discussions, reports, and
recommendations on stormwater
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funding and financing resulting in a
final recommendation report submitted
to the EPA by Friday, December 6, 2019.
Expert consultants are expected to fully
participate, coordinate, and contribute
to EFAB workgroup products, but are
not able to vote, on EFAB’s final
recommendations. The EFAB
workgroup will focus specifically on a
report to EPA that is responsive to the
America’s Water Infrastructure Act of
2018, Section 4101.
Dated: March 21, 2019.
Andrew Sawyers,
Director, Office of Wastewater Management,
Office of Water.
[FR Doc. 2019–06483 Filed 4–2–19; 8:45 am]
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FY 2019 Supplemental Funding for
Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund
(RLF) Grantees
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of the availability of
funds.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) plans to make available
approximately $8 million to provide
supplemental funds to Revolving Loan
Fund (RLF) cooperative agreements
previously awarded competitively
under section 104(k)(3) of the
Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation and Liability
Act (CERCLA). EPA will consider
awarding supplemental funding only to
RLF grantees who have demonstrated an
ability to deliver programmatic results
by making at least one loan or subgrant.
The award of these funds is based on
the criteria described at CERCLA
104(k)(5)(A)(ii).
The Agency is now accepting requests
for supplemental funding from RLF
grantees. Requests for funding must be
submitted to the appropriate EPA
Regional Brownfields Coordinator
(listed below) by May 6, 2019. Funding
requests for hazardous substances and/
SUMMARY:
or petroleum funding will be accepted.
Specific information on submitting a
request for RLF supplemental funding is
described below and additional
information may be obtained by
contacting the EPA Regional
Brownfields Coordinator.
DATES: This action is applicable April 3,
2019.
ADDRESSES: A request for supplemental
funding must be in the form of a letter
addressed to the appropriate Regional
Brownfields Coordinator (see listing
below) with a copy to Rachel Congdon,
congdon.rachel@epa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rachel Congdon, U.S. EPA, (202) 566–
1564 or the appropriate Brownfields
Regional Coordinator.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Small Business Liability Relief
and Brownfields Revitalization Act
added section 104(k) to CERCLA to
authorize federal financial assistance for
brownfields revitalization, including
grants for assessment, cleanup and job
training. Section 104(k) includes a
provision for EPA to, among other
things, award grants to eligible entities
to capitalize Revolving Loan Funds and
to provide loans and subgrants for
brownfields cleanup. Section
104(k)(5)(A)(ii) authorizes EPA to make
additional grant funds available to RLF
grantees for any year after the year for
which the initial grant is made
(noncompetitive RLF supplemental
funding) taking into consideration:
(I) The number of sites and number of
communities that are addressed by the
revolving loan fund;
(II) the demand for funding by eligible
entities that have not previously
received a grant under this subsection;
(III) the demonstrated ability of the
eligible entity to use the revolving loan
fund to enhance remediation and
provide funds on a continuing basis;
and
(IV) such other similar factors as the
[Agency] considers appropriate to carry
out this subsection.
Eligibility
In order to be considered for
supplemental funding, grantees must
demonstrate that they have significantly
depleted funds (both EPA grant funding
and any available program income) and
that they have a clear plan for utilizing
requested additional funds in a timely
manner. Grantees must demonstrate that
they have made at least one loan or
subgrant prior to applying for this
supplemental funding and have
significantly depleted existing available
funds. For FY2019, EPA defines
‘‘significantly depleted funds’’ as
uncommitted, available funding is 25%
or less of total RLF funds awarded
under all open and closed grants and
cannot exceed $600,000. For new RLF
recipients with an award of $1 million
or less, funds will be consider
significantly depleted if the
uncommitted or available funding does
not exceed $300,000. Additionally, the
RLF recipient must have demonstrated
a need for supplemental funding based
on, among other factors, the list of
potential projects in the RLF program
pipeline; demonstrated the ability to
make loans and subgrants for cleanups
that can be started, completed, and will
lead to redevelopment; demonstrated
the ability to administer and revolve the
RLF by generating program income;
demonstrated an ability to use the RLF
grant to address funding gaps for
cleanup; and demonstrated that they
have provided a community benefit
from past and potential loan(s) and/or
subgrant(s). EPA encourages innovative
approaches to maximize revolving and
leveraging with other funds, including
use of grants funds as a loan loss
guarantee, combining with other
government or private sector lending
resources. Applicants for supplemental
funding must contact the appropriate
Regional Brownfields Coordinator
below to obtain information on the
format for supplemental funding
applications for their region. When
requesting supplemental funding,
applicants must specify whether they
are seeking funding for sites
contaminated by hazardous substances
and/or petroleum. Applicants may
request both types of funding.
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REGIONAL CONTACTS
Region
EPA Region 1, Joe Ferrari, Ferrari.Joe@
epa.gov.
EPA Region 2, Lya Theodoratos,
Theodoratos.Lya@epa.gov.
EPA Region 3, Brett Gilmartin, Gilmartin.Brett@epa.gov.
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[FR Doc No: 2019-06483]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9991-58-OW]
Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB); Request for
Nominations of Expert Consultants on Stormwater Funding and Financing
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice. Request for nominations of expert consultants to the
Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB) on stormwater funding and
financing.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
invites nominations of qualified candidates to be considered for expert
consultants to the Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB). The
expert consultants will advise the EFAB workgroup focused on stormwater
funding and financing responsive to the America's Water Infrastructure
Act of 2018, Section 4101 (STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING TASK
FORCE). Expert consultants will provide knowledge, information, and
contribute to the EFAB Stormwater Finance Workgroup's recommendations
to the EPA in the following areas: Identify how funding for stormwater
infrastructure from such sources has been made available, and utilized,
in each state to address stormwater infrastructure needs; Identify how
the source of funding affects the affordability of the infrastructure,
including consideration of the costs associated with financing the
infrastructure; and Evaluate whether such sources of funding are
sufficient to support capital expenditures and long-term operation and
maintenance costs. Additional, related, areas may be identified in the
first meeting. Experts will serve through the end of April 2020.
The deadline for receiving nominations is Friday, April 19, 2019.
Appointments will be made by EFAB's Designated Federal Officer and will
be announced in early May 2019. A meeting is expected to be held in
Washington, DC, on June 6, 2019.
DATES: Nominations should be electronically submitted to
[email protected] with the subject line ``EFAB Stormwater
Finance Workgroup--Expert Consultant Nomination'' no later than 11:59
p.m. local time on Friday, April 19, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Contact Ellen Tarquinio
([email protected]) with questions about the workgroup.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Evaluation Criteria: The Administrator of the EPA will appoint up
to 20 external expert consultants to advise the members of the EFAB
that comprise the stormwater finance workgroup.
EPA values and welcomes diversity. In an effort to obtain a diverse
pool of candidates, EPA encourages nominations of women and men of all
racial and ethnic groups. The following criteria will be used to
evaluate nominees: Representation from Federal agencies, state
government, local government, private sector, and non-profit
organizations; demonstrated expertise in stormwater funding and/or
financing, stormwater technical experience, stormwater stakeholder
engagement, or water infrastructure funding and management; geographic
diversity; and varying community characteristics experience.
Nominations for membership must include a resume describing the
professional and/or educational qualifications of the nominee as well
as expertise/experience. Contact details should include full name,
affiliation title, business mailing address, telephone, and email
address. A supporting letter of endorsement is encouraged but not
required.
Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB): The Environmental
Financial Advisory Board (EFAB) was chartered in 1989 under the Federal
Advisory Committee Act to provide advice and recommendations to EPA on
the following issues: Creating incentives to increase private
investment in the provision of environmental services and removing or
reducing constraints on private involvement imposed by current
regulations; developing new and innovative environmental financing
approaches and supporting and encouraging the use of cost-effective
existing approaches; identifying approaches specifically targeted to
small/disadvantaged community financing; increasing the capacity of
state and local governments to carry out their respective environmental
programs under current Federal tax laws; analyzing how new technologies
can be brought to market expeditiously; increasing the total investment
in environmental protection of public and private environmental
resources to help ease the environmental financing challenge facing our
nation.
The EFAB typically meets two times each calendar year (up to two
days per meeting) at different locations within the continental United
States. EFAB Workgroups focusing on specific environmental finance
topics typically meet over conference calls in between the in-person
meetings to discuss recommendations and other work products. These
recommendations and/or work products are voted on by the full EFAB
before they are provided to the EPA.
Expert consultants for the Stormwater Finance Workgroup are
expected to attend the in-person meetings and participate on workgroup
conference calls that will occur up to twice a month through November
2019. Expert consultants will receive no salary or other compensation
for participation in workgroup activities. Reimbursement for travel and
per diem is subject to funding availability.
Expert consultants are expected to assist in the development of
workgroup discussions, reports, and recommendations on stormwater
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funding and financing resulting in a final recommendation report
submitted to the EPA by Friday, December 6, 2019. Expert consultants
are expected to fully participate, coordinate, and contribute to EFAB
workgroup products, but are not able to vote, on EFAB's final
recommendations. The EFAB workgroup will focus specifically on a report
to EPA that is responsive to the America's Water Infrastructure Act of
2018, Section 4101.
Dated: March 21, 2019.
Andrew Sawyers,
Director, Office of Wastewater Management, Office of Water.
[FR Doc. 2019-06483 Filed 4-2-19; 8:45 am]
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