Reissuance of National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit for Low Threat Discharges in Navajo Nation, 20200-20201 [2024-05961]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL–11832–01–R9]
Reissuance of National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System
(NPDES) General Permit for Low
Threat Discharges in Navajo Nation
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of availability of final
NPDES general permit.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), Region 9 is publishing
this notice of availability of its final
general NPDES permit (Permit No.
NNG990001) for water discharges from
facilities classified as low threat located
in the Navajo Nation. Use of a general
NPDES permit in the location described
above allows EPA and dischargers to
allocate resources in a more efficient
manner, obtain timely permit coverage,
and avoid issuing resource intensive
individual permits to each facility,
while simultaneously providing greater
certainty and efficiency to the regulated
community while ensuring consistent
permit conditions for comparable
facilities.
SUMMARY:
For purposes of judicial review
the permit is considered issued on April
3, 2024. The final permit is effective on
May 1, 2024.
ADDRESSES: The final general permit
and other related documents in the
administrative record are on file and
may be inspected any time between 8:30
a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through
Friday, excluding legal holidays, at: U.S.
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Gary
Sheth, EPA Region 9, Water Division,
NPDES Permits Office; telephone (415)
972–3516; email address: sheth.gary@
epa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
A. Administrative Process
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EPA, Region 9, NPDES Permits Office
(WTR–2–3), 75 Hawthorne Street, San
Francisco, CA 94105–3901.
Copies of the final General Permit,
Fact Sheet and Response to Public
Comments are available at EPA, Region
9’s website at https://www.epa.gov/
npdes-permits/npdes-permits-epaspacific-southwest-region-9. If there are
issues accessing the website, please
contact EPA via contact information
below.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Dated: March 15, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
DATES:
On January 23, 2023, Brainerd Public
Utilities filed an application for a
license for the Brainerd Hydroelectric
Project in the above captioned docket.
On February 1, 2023, the Minnesota
Pollution Control Agency (Minnesota
PCA) received a complete request for a
Clean Water Act section 401(a)(1) water
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quality certification from Brainerd
Public Utilities in conjunction with the
above captioned project.
On February 2, 2023, staff provided
Minnesota PCA with written notice that
the applicable reasonable period of time
for it to act on the certification request
was one (1) year from the date of receipt
of the request, and that the certification
requirement for the license would be
waived if the certifying authority failed
to act by February 1, 2024. Because
Minnesota PCA did not act by February
1, 2024, we are notifying you pursuant
to section 401(a)(1) of the Clean Water
Act, 33 U.S.C. 1341(a)(1), that waiver of
the certification requirement has
occurred.
Public notice of EPA Region 9’s
tentative decision to issue the permit
was published in the Federal Register
on May 25, 2023 (88 FR 33876) and on
EPA Region 9’s website. The public
comment period closed on June 26,
2023. Region 9 received written
comments from one party concerning
the proposed permit. Region 9 prepared
a separate document (Response to
Comments) which discusses these
comments in more detail and Region 9’s
responses to the comments.
B. Changes From the Proposed Permit
The final permit contains two minor
changes from the proposed permit; these
are discussed here and in the final fact
sheet. EPA added a specific email
address for the New Mexico
Environment Department for permittees
to report discharges likely to leave
Navajo Nation land and reach New
Mexico waters. EPA also added a
requirement for submitting all required
Discharge Monitoring Reports (DMRs)
before the finalization of a Notice of
Termination.
C. Endangered Species Act
Considerations
The ESA and its implementing
regulations (50 CFR part 402) require
EPA to ensure that any action authorize,
funded or carried out by EPA is not
likely to jeopardize the continued
existence of any threatened or
endangered species or adversely affect
its critical habitat. EPA Region 9
concluded that the authorized
discharges may affect, but are not likely
to adversely affect listed species, and
will not adversely affect critical habitat.
EPA received a letter of concurrence on
this finding from the United States Fish
and Wildlife Service on January 10,
2024.
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D. Permit Appeals Procedure
Within 120 days following the date
the permit is considered issued for
purposes of judicial review, any
interested person may appeal the permit
decision in the Federal Court of Appeals
in accordance with section 509(b)(1) of
the CWA. Persons affected by a general
permit may not challenge the conditions
of a general permit as a right in further
Agency proceedings. Such person may
instead challenge the general permit in
court, or apply for an individual permit
as specified at 40 CFR 122.21 (and
authorized at 40 CFR 122.28), and then
petition the Environmental Appeals
Board to review any condition of the
individual permit (40 CFR 124.19).
Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.
Toma´s Torres,
Director, Water Division, EPA Region 9.
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1,1-Dichloroethane (1,1-DCA); Draft
Risk Evaluation Under the Toxic
Substances Control Act (TSCA); Letter
Peer Review; Request for Nominations
of Expert Reviewers
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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instructions before submitting that
information.
entities that may be affected by this
action.
The
Peer Review Leader is Alie Muneer,
Mission Support Division (7602M),
Office of Program Support, Office of
Chemical Safety and Pollution
Prevention, Environmental Protection
Agency; telephone number: (202) 564–
6369 or call the main office at (202)
564–8450; email address: muneer.alie@
epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
II. Nominations of Peer Reviewers
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
I. General Information
A. What action is the Agency taking?
The Agency is seeking public
nominations of scientific and technical
experts that the EPA can consider for
service as experts for the letter peer
review of the draft risk evaluation for
1,1-DCA. EPA will be soliciting
comments from the experts on the
approach and methodologies utilized in
the draft risk evaluation. This document
provides instructions for submitting
such nominations for EPA to consider
for the planned letter peer review. EPA
will publish a separate document in the
Federal Register in spring 2024 to
announce the availability of the draft
risk evaluation and solicit public
comments. Comments received and the
draft risk evaluation materials will be
provided to the letter peer reviewers in
the summer of 2024.
B. What is the Agency’s authority for
taking this action?
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA or the Agency) is seeking
nominations of scientific and technical
experts to review the draft risk
evaluation for 1,1-dichloroethane (1,1DCA) conducted under the Toxic
Substances Control Act (TSCA). The
Agency will release the draft risk
evaluation for public review and
comment in spring of 2024 through a
separate Federal Register document and
subsequently will provide the selected
peer reviewers with the draft risk
evaluation for letter peer review in the
summer of 2024.
DATES: Submit your nominations on or
before April 11, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit your nomination via
email to OCSPP-PeerReview@epa.gov.
Do not electronically submit any
information you consider to be
Confidential Business Information (CBI)
or other information whose public
disclosure is restricted by statute. If
your nomination may contain any such
information, please contact the Peer
Review Leader to obtain special
SUMMARY:
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TSCA section 6(b) requires that EPA
conduct risk evaluations on existing
chemical substances and identifies the
minimum components EPA must
include in all chemical substance risk
evaluations (15 U.S.C. 2605(b)). The risk
evaluation must not consider costs or
other non-risk factors (15 U.S.C.
2605(b)(4)(F)(iii)). The specific risk
evaluation process is addressed in 40
CFR part 702 and summarized on EPA’s
website at https://www.epa.gov/
assessing-and-managing-chemicalsunder-tsca/risk-evaluations-existingchemicals-under-tsca.
C. Does this action apply to me?
This action is directed to the public
in general. This action may, however, be
of interest to those involved in the
manufacture, processing, distribution,
and disposal of chemical substances and
mixtures, and/or those interested in the
assessment of risks involving chemical
substances and mixtures regulated
under TSCA. Since other entities may
also be interested, the Agency has not
attempted to describe all the specific
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A. Why is EPA seeking nominations for
peer reviewers?
EPA is requesting nominations from
the public and stakeholder communities
for scientific and technical experts who
can serve as prospective candidates for
letter peer reviews. This is part of a
broader process for developing a pool of
candidates. Interested persons or
organizations can nominate qualified
individuals by following the
instructions provided in this document.
Individuals are also welcome to selfnominate.
Those who are selected from the pool
of prospective candidates will be asked
to review the draft risk evaluation for
1,1-DCA and provide their individual
comments to EPA.
B. What expertise is sought for this letter
peer review?
Individuals nominated for this letter
peer review should have expertise in
one or more of the following areas:
1. Environmental hazard assessment
expertise, specifically with experience
in analog selection, predictive
modeling, and uncertainty analysis.
2. Human health toxicology with
expertise in cancer modes of action,
reproductive toxicity and derivation of
points of departure (PODs) and doseresponse values using limited toxicity
datasets.
3. Human health toxicology with
expertise in the use of read across
methodology, the identification of
analog, and the application of read
across software, such as OECD QSAR
Toolbox, GenRA and CompTox.
4. Human exposure assessment
experience, especially for industrial
hygiene and occupational inhalation
exposures, susceptible life stages and
subpopulations to environmental
contaminants.
5. Expertise in using EPA databases
for contaminant concentration estimates
in ambient air and/or surface water and
sediments.
Nominees should be scientists who
have sufficient professional
qualifications, including training and
experience, to be capable of providing
expert comments on the scientific issues
for this review.
C. How do I make a nomination?
By the deadline indicated under
submit your nomination via
email to the email identified in
ADDRESSES. Each nomination should
include the following: Contact
DATES,
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-11832-01-R9]
Reissuance of National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
(NPDES) General Permit for Low Threat Discharges in Navajo Nation
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of availability of final NPDES general permit.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 9 is
publishing this notice of availability of its final general NPDES
permit (Permit No. NNG990001) for water discharges from facilities
classified as low threat located in the Navajo Nation. Use of a general
NPDES permit in the location described above allows EPA and dischargers
to allocate resources in a more efficient manner, obtain timely permit
coverage, and avoid issuing resource intensive individual permits to
each facility, while simultaneously providing greater certainty and
efficiency to the regulated community while ensuring consistent permit
conditions for comparable facilities.
DATES: For purposes of judicial review the permit is considered issued
on April 3, 2024. The final permit is effective on May 1, 2024.
ADDRESSES: The final general permit and other related documents in the
administrative record are on file and may be inspected any time between
8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal
holidays, at: U.S. EPA, Region 9, NPDES Permits Office (WTR-2-3), 75
Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901.
Copies of the final General Permit, Fact Sheet and Response to
Public Comments are available at EPA, Region 9's website at https://www.epa.gov/npdes-permits/npdes-permits-epas-pacific-southwest-region-9. If there are issues accessing the website, please contact EPA via
contact information below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary Sheth, EPA Region 9, Water
Division, NPDES Permits Office; telephone (415) 972-3516; email
address: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Administrative Process
Public notice of EPA Region 9's tentative decision to issue the
permit was published in the Federal Register on May 25, 2023 (88 FR
33876) and on EPA Region 9's website. The public comment period closed
on June 26, 2023. Region 9 received written comments from one party
concerning the proposed permit. Region 9 prepared a separate document
(Response to Comments) which discusses these comments in more detail
and Region 9's responses to the comments.
B. Changes From the Proposed Permit
The final permit contains two minor changes from the proposed
permit; these are discussed here and in the final fact sheet. EPA added
a specific email address for the New Mexico Environment Department for
permittees to report discharges likely to leave Navajo Nation land and
reach New Mexico waters. EPA also added a requirement for submitting
all required Discharge Monitoring Reports (DMRs) before the
finalization of a Notice of Termination.
C. Endangered Species Act Considerations
The ESA and its implementing regulations (50 CFR part 402) require
EPA to ensure that any action authorize, funded or carried out by EPA
is not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any threatened
or endangered species or adversely affect its critical habitat. EPA
Region 9 concluded that the authorized discharges may affect, but are
not likely to adversely affect listed species, and will not adversely
affect critical habitat. EPA received a letter of concurrence on this
finding from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service on January 10,
2024.
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D. Permit Appeals Procedure
Within 120 days following the date the permit is considered issued
for purposes of judicial review, any interested person may appeal the
permit decision in the Federal Court of Appeals in accordance with
section 509(b)(1) of the CWA. Persons affected by a general permit may
not challenge the conditions of a general permit as a right in further
Agency proceedings. Such person may instead challenge the general
permit in court, or apply for an individual permit as specified at 40
CFR 122.21 (and authorized at 40 CFR 122.28), and then petition the
Environmental Appeals Board to review any condition of the individual
permit (40 CFR 124.19).
Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.
Tom[aacute]s Torres,
Director, Water Division, EPA Region 9.
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