Environmental Protection Agency March 2, 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents
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New-SORN-Kids Club; Privacy Act of 1974: Publication of New System of Record Notice
Pursuant to provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), the Region 5 Office of Public Affairs is giving notice that it proposes to publish a new system of records notice for the Kids Club Membership List. This system of records pertains to the collection of name, mailing address, age, and summaries of environmental projects from students in grades K-4. The kids club promotes environmental stewardship by encouraging kids in grades K-4 to receive recognition by completing environmental projects. Kids will receive a certificate and membership card for joining the club. Once kids complete a project, upon parent/guardian consent, it will be posted on https://www.epa.gov/ kids.
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Consolidated Emissions Reporting (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 0916.12, OMB Control No. 2060-0088
This notice announces that EPA is planning to submit a request to renew an existing approved Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This ICR is scheduled to expire on May 31, 2006. Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described below.
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Pennsylvania; VOC and NOX
EPA proposes to approve revisions to the Pennsylvania State Implementation Plan (SIP). The revisions were submitted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) to establish and require reasonably available control technology (RACT) for six major sources of volatile organic compounds (VOC) and nitrogen oxides (NOX) pursuant to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's (Pennsylvania or the Commonwealth) SIP-approved generic RACT regulations. EPA is proposing to approve these revisions in accordance with the Clean Air Act (CAA).
Lead; Renovation, Repair, and Painting Program; Availability of Supplemental Information
On January 10, 2006, EPA proposed new requirements to reduce exposure to lead hazards created by renovation, repair, and painting activities that disturb lead-based paint. The proposal supports the attainment of the Federal government's goal of eliminating childhood lead poisoning by 2010. The proposal discussed requirements for training renovators and dust sampling technicians; certifying renovators, dust sampling technicians, and renovation firms; accrediting providers of renovation and dust sampling technician training; and for renovation work practices. EPA developed a draft analysis of the potential costs and benefits associated with this proposed rulemaking and included it in the docket for the proposed rule. With this document, EPA is announcing the availability of a revised economic analysis in the rulemaking docket. Comments on the revised economic analysis should be submitted to the docket for the proposed rule and must be received on or before April 10, 2006.
Small Drinking Water Systems Variances-Revision of Existing National-Level Affordability Methodology and Methodology To Identify Variance Technologies That Are Protective of Public Health
The 1996 amendments of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) provide States the authority to grant variances to small public water systems that cannot afford to comply with a primary drinking water standard. These variances allow a system to install and maintain technology that can remove a contaminant to the maximum extent that is affordable and protective of public health in lieu of technology that can achieve compliance with the regulation. One of the conditions for States to grant variances on a case-by-case basis is that the EPA must have found for systems of a similar size and with similar source water that there are no affordable technologies available that achieve compliance with the standard, but that there are affordable variance technologies that are protective of public health. The EPA currently determines if there are affordable compliance technologies available to small systems by comparing (for a representative system) the current household cost of water plus the estimated additional cost to comply with a new rule to an affordability ``threshold'' of 2.5 percent of the median household income (MHI). Today=s Federal Register notice requests comment on revisions to this existing national-level affordability methodology for small drinking water systems and an approach for determining if an affordable variance technology is protective of public health. The Agency is committed to working with State and local officials and stakeholders to update and improve affordability analyses under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
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