Environmental Protection Agency February 3, 2010 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Acting Regional Administrator of EPA Region 10, is hereby granting a waiver of the Buy America requirements of ARRA Section 1605 under the authority of Section 1605(b)(2) [manufactured goods are not produced in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities and of a satisfactory quality] to the City for the purchase of Aerostrip[reg] Fine Pore Diffusers supplied by Treatment Equipment Company in Bellevue, Washington and manufactured in Austria. This is a project specific waiver and only applies to the use of the specified product for the ARRA project being proposed. Any other ARRA recipient that wishes to use the same product must apply for a separate waiver based on project specific circumstances. The applicant indicates that Aerostrip[reg] Fine Pore Diffusers are the only feasible equipment to retrofit Richland's existing Waste Water Treatment Facility aeration basins. The Aerostrip[reg] Fine Pore Diffusers are only manufactured in Austria. No other fine pore diffusers are available or capable of meeting the aeration process design requirements. The Acting Regional Administrator is making this determination based on the review and recommendations of the Grants & Strategic Planning Unit. The City has provided sufficient documentation to support their request.

The Regional Administrator of EPA Region 2 is hereby granting a project waiver of the Buy American requirements of ARRA Section 1605 under the authority of Section 1605(b)(2) [manufactured goods are not produced in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities and of a satisfactory quality] to the Albany County Sewer District (ACSD), New York for the purchase of a foreign manufactured Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) turbine generator to recover waste heat from the sludge incineration operation at the ACSD's North Plant wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), and to produce electrical power for on-site consumption. The ACSD, through its consultant engineers, has indicated that no United States manufacturer produces an alternative that meets the ACSD's technical specifications; specifically, no ORC turbine generator manufactured in the United States is of adequate capacity to meet the electrical power output specifications for the proposed WWTP waste heat recovery and on-site electricity generation project. The foreign ORC turbine generators under consideration are manufactured by (1) Turboden, in Italy, (2) Ormat Technologies, Inc, in Israel, and (3) Adoratec, in Germany. This is a project specific waiver and only applies to the use of the identified product for the ARRA funded project being proposed. Any other ARRA project that may wish to use the same product must apply for a separate waiver based on the project specific circumstances. The Regional Administrator is making this determination based on the review and recommendations of the Region 2 State Revolving Fund Program Team. The ACSD has provided sufficient documentation to support its request. The Assistant Administrator of the Office of Administration and Resources Management has concurred on this decision to make an exception to Section 1605 of ARRA. This action permits the ACSD to purchase an ORC turbine generator manufactured by (1) Turboden (Italy), (2) Ormat Technologies, Inc. (Israel) or (3) Adoratec (Germany) for the proposed WWTP waste heat recovery and on-site electricity generation project being implemented by the ACSD.

The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office is seeking public nomination of experts to conduct a peer review of EPA's draft document ``An Advisory Value for Conductivity using Field Data: An Adaptation of the U.S. EPA's Standard Methodology for Deriving Water Quality Criteria''

This document corrects an error in the amendatory instruction in a November 20, 2009 final rule pertaining to the Indiana State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision updating the definition of ``References to the Code of Federal Regulations,'' to refer to the 2008 edition. The amendatory instruction in that rulemaking conflicts with the actual amendment language. EPA, therefore, is correcting the erroneous amendatory instructions.

This notice announces EPA's cancellation order and amendment to terminate uses of products containing the pesticide fipronil, pursuant to section 3 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended. This cancellation order follows the November 15, 2009 expirations of conditional registrations and in one case expiration of a use. These are not the last fipronil products registered for use in the United States. Any distribution, sale, or use of the fipronil products subject to this cancellation order is permitted only in accordance with the terms of this order, including any existing stocks provisions.

This regulation establishes tolerances for the inadvertent or indirect combined residues of spiromesifen (2-oxo-3-(2,4,6- trimethylphenyl)-1-oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-4-yl 3,3-dimethylbutanoate) its enol metabolite (4-hydroxy-3-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-1- oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-2-one), and its metabolites containing the 4- hydroxymethyl moiety (4-hydroxy-3-[4-(hydroxymethyl)-2,6- dimethylphenyl]-1-oxaspiro[4.4]non-3-en-2-one), calculated as the parent compound equivalents, in or on the following commodities from crops grown as rotational crops: bulb vegetables. Bayer CropScience requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA).

In accordance with section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of request by registrants to voluntarily cancel certain pesticide registrations.