Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision Approval, Maine Department of Health and Human Services-Drinking Water Program (ME DHHS-DWP), 8012-8013 [2022-02986]
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 29 (Friday, February 11, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8012-8013]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-02986]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9393-01-OMS]
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision
Approval, Maine Department of Health and Human Services--Drinking Water
Program (ME DHHS-DWP)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the Environmental Protection Agency's
(EPA) approval of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services--
Drinking Water Program (ME DHHS-DWP) request to revise/modify certain
of its EPA-authorized programs to allow electronic reporting.
DATES: EPA approves the authorized program revisions/modifications as
of February 11, 2022.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shirley M. Miller, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of Information Management, Mail Stop 2824T,
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460, (202) 566-2908,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 13, 2005, the final Cross-Media
Electronic Reporting Rule (CROMERR) was published in the Federal
Register (70 FR 59848) and codified as part 3 of title 40 of the CFR.
CROMERR establishes electronic reporting as an acceptable regulatory
alternative to paper reporting and establishes requirements to assure
that electronic documents are as legally dependable as their paper
counterparts. Subpart D of CROMERR requires that state, tribal or local
government agencies that receive, or wish to begin receiving,
electronic reports under their EPA-authorized programs must apply to
EPA for a revision or modification of those programs and obtain EPA
approval. Subpart D provides standards for such approvals based on
consideration of the electronic document receiving systems that the
state, tribe, or local government will use to implement the electronic
reporting. Additionally, Sec. 3.1000(b) through (e) of 40 CFR part 3,
subpart D provides special procedures for program revisions and
modifications to allow electronic reporting, to be used at the option
of the state, tribe or local government in place of procedures
available under existing program-specific authorization regulations. An
application submitted under the subpart D procedures must show that the
state, tribe or local government has sufficient legal authority to
implement the electronic reporting components of the programs covered
by the application and will use electronic document receiving systems
that meet the applicable subpart D requirements.
On December 7, 2021, the Maine Department of Health and Human
Services--Drinking Water Program (ME DHHS-DWP) submitted an application
titled Compliance Monitoring Data Portal (CMDP) for revisions/
modifications to its EPA-approved programs under title 40 CFR to allow
new electronic reporting. EPA reviewed ME DHHS-DWP's request to revise/
modify its EPA-authorized programs and, based on this review, EPA
determined that the application met the standards for approval of
authorized program revisions/modifications set out in 40 CFR part 3,
subpart D. In accordance with 40 CFR 3.1000(d), this notice of EPA's
decision to approve ME DHHS-DWP's request to revise/modify its
following EPA-authorized programs to allow electronic reporting under
40 CFR is being published in the Federal Register:
Part 142: National Primary Drinking Water Regulations Implementation
(NPDWR) reporting under CFR 141
ME DHHS-DWP was notified of EPA's determination to approve its
application with respect to the authorized programs listed above. Also,
in this notice, EPA is informing interested persons that they may
request a public hearing on EPA's action to approve the State of
Maine's request to revise its authorized public water system program
under 40 CFR part 142, in accordance with 40 CFR 3.1000(f). Requests
for a hearing must be submitted to EPA within 30 days of publication of
this Federal Register notice. Such requests should include the
following information:
(1) The name, address, and telephone number of the individual,
organization or other entity requesting a hearing;
(2) A brief statement of the requesting person's interest in EPA's
determination, a brief explanation as to why EPA should hold a hearing,
and any other information that the requesting person wants EPA to
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consider when determining whether to grant the request;
(3) 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.
In the event a hearing is requested and granted, EPA will provide
notice of the hearing in the Federal Register not less than 15 days
prior to the scheduled hearing date. Frivolous or insubstantial
requests for hearing may be denied by EPA. Following such a public
hearing, EPA will review the record of the hearing and issue an order
either affirming this determination or rescinding such determination.
If no timely request for a hearing is received and granted, EPA's
approval of the State of Maine's request to revise its part 142--
National Primary Drinking Water Regulations Implementation program to
allow electronic reporting will become effective 30 days after this
notice is published, pursuant to CROMERR section 3.1000(f)(4).
Dated: February 4, 2022.
Jennifer Campbell,
Director, Office of Information Management.
[FR Doc. 2022-02986 Filed 2-10-22; 8:45 am]
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