Thursday, October 29, 2009

Environmental Federal Register, Vol. 74, No. 208, October 29, 2009

Federal Register
Vol. 74, No. 208
Thursday, October 29, 2009
 
 
There are 8 announcements in this issue
 
    1. AIR, TOXICS - FR. EPA. National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Chemical Manufacturing Area Sources
 
    2. WATER - ICR. EPA. Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Proposed Information Collection Request for the Steam Electric Power Generating Effluent Guidelines; EPA ICR No. 2368.01, OMB Control No. 2040-NEW
 
    3. ALL - ICR. EPA. Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Exchange Network Grants Progress Report (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 2207.03, OMB Control No. 2025-0006
 
    4. AIR, SOLIC - ICR. EPA. Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Emission Guidelines for Large Municipal Waste Combustors Constructed on or Before September 20, 1994 (Renewal)
 
    5. TOXICS - ICR. EPA. Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Tolerance Petitions for
Pesticides on Food/Feed Crops and New Inert Ingredients; EPA ICR No. 0597.10, OMB Control No. 2070-0024
 
    6. AIR - ND. EPA. Release of Draft Document Related to the Review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Carbon Monoxide
 
    7. WILDLIFE, CLIMATE - PR. DOI/FWS. Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) in the United States
 
    8. ENERGY/Wind - ND. DOI/FWS. Office of the Secretary; Renewal of the Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee
   
CODES USED:  THE FOLLOWING CODES ARE USED TO IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF ANNOUNCEMENT & ISSUE AREA.  

REPORTING FORMAT: ISSUE CODE - TYPE CODE. AGENCY. ANNOUNCEMENT.
ISSUE CODES:  AIR - Air; ALL - Cross-Media, ecosystems, Env. Justice; CLIMATE - Climate Change, Global Warming; DRINK - Drinking Water, SDWA, Underground Injection; ENERGY - Energy; GLAKES  - Great Lakes; HAZ - Hazardous Waste, RCRA, HSWA, DOT/RSPA, Some Nuclear (NRC); LAND - Land Use, Forests; P2 - Pollution Prevention, Sustainability, Recycling, Pjt. XL; REMED - Remediation, Brownfields, Superfund; TANKS - AST, UST; TOXICS = Toxics, TRI, TSCA, Pesticides, Risks, RTK; TRANSPORT -  Transportation; SOLID - Solid Waste, RCRA Subtitle D; WATER - Surface Water, NPS, NPDES, Wetlands; WILDLIFE = Wildlife, Biodiversity, Endangered Species.
TYPE CODES: ANPR - Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking; FR - Final Rule; FRD - Direct final rule; FRI - Interim final rule; ICR - Information Collection Request; ND - Notice of data, information, reports, etc. availability; NF - Notice of Fuding Opportunity; NM - Notice of Meeting; NS - Notice of administrative/court settlement; PR - Proposed Rule; ROD - Record of decision.
 

ANNOUNCEMENT 1


Subject: AIR, TOXICS - FR. EPA. National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Chemical Manufacturing Area Sources
 
[Federal Register: October 29, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 208)]
[Rules and Regulations]              
[Page 56007-56056]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 63

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0334; FRL-8972-6]
RIN 2060-AM19

National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for
Chemical Manufacturing Area Sources

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: EPA is issuing national emission standards for the control of
hazardous air pollutants for nine area source categories in the
chemical manufacturing sector: Agricultural Chemicals and Pesticides
Manufacturing, Cyclic Crude and Intermediate Production, Industrial
Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing, Industrial Organic Chemical
Manufacturing, Inorganic Pigments Manufacturing, Miscellaneous Organic
Chemical Manufacturing, Plastic Materials and Resins Manufacturing,
Pharmaceutical Production, and Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing. The
standards and associated requirements for the nine area source
categories are combined in one subpart. This final rule establishes
emission standards in the form of management practices for each
chemical manufacturing process unit as well as emission limits for
certain subcategories of process vents and storage tanks. The rule also
establishes management practices and other emission reduction
requirements for subcategories of wastewater systems and heat exchange
systems.

DATES: This final rule is effective on October 29, 2009.

ADDRESSES: EPA has established a docket for this action under Docket ID
No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0334. All documents in the docket are listed in the
http://www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., confidential business
information or other information whose disclosure is restricted by
statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, is not
placed on the Internet and will be publicly available only in hard copy
form. Publicly available docket materials are available either
electronically through http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at
the EPA Docket Center, Public Reading Room, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The Public Reading Room is open
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading Room is (202)
566-1744, and the telephone number for the Air Docket is (202) 566-
1742.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Randy McDonald, Coatings and
Chemicals Group (E143-01), Sector Policies and Programs Division,
Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Environmental Protection
Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711, telephone number:
(919) 541-5402; fax number: (919) 541-0246; e-mail address:
mcdonald.randy@epa.gov.
 
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ANNOUNCEMENT 2


Subject: WATER - ICR. EPA. Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Proposed Information Collection Request for the Steam Electric Power Generating Effluent Guidelines; EPA ICR No. 2368.01, OMB
Control No. 2040-NEW
 
[Federal Register: October 29, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 208)]
[Notices]              
[Page 55837-55839]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OW-2009-0819; FRL-8974-8]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Proposed Information Collection Request for the Steam
Electric Power Generating Effluent Guidelines; EPA ICR No. 2368.01, OMB
Control No. 2040-NEW

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to
submit a request for a new Information Collection Request (ICR) to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB). 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.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before December 28, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-
2009-0819, by one of the following methods:
    http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
    E-mail: OW-Docket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OW-2009-0819
    Mail: Water Docket, Environmental Protection Agency,
Mailcode: 4203M, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460,
Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2009-0819. Please include a total of
3 copies.
    Hand Delivery: Water Docket, EPA Docket Center, EPA West,
Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC, Attention
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2009-0819. Such deliveries are only accepted
during the Docket's normal hours of operation and special arrangements
should be made.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2009-
0819. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in
the public docket without change and may be made available online at
http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be
Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through http://
www.regulations.gov
or e-mail. The http://www.regulations.gov Web site
is an ``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not know your
identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of
your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without
going through http://www.regulations.gov your e-mail address will be
automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is
placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you
submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name
and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any
disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to
technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA
may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid
the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of
any defects or viruses. For additional information about EPA's public
docket visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/
epahome/dockets.htm
.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Jezebele Alicea-Virella,
Engineering and Analysis Division (4303T), Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone
number: 202-566-1755; e-mail address: Alicea.Jezebele@epa.gov.
 
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ANNOUNCEMENT 3


Subject: ALL - ICR. EPA. Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Exchange Network Grants Progress Report (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 2207.03, OMB Control No. 2025-0006
 
[Federal Register: October 29, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 208)]
[Notices]              
[Page 55840-55841]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OEI-2006-0037, FRL-8975-4]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Exchange Network Grants Progress
Report (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 2207.03, OMB Control No. 2025-0006

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an
existing approved collection. The ICR, which is abstracted below,
describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated
burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before November 30,
2009.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OEI-
2006-0037, to (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by e-mail to oei.docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA
Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental
Information Docket, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB by mail to: Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Attention:
Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wm. Terry Forrest, OEI/OIC/IESD, Mail
Code 2823T, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 202-566-0196; fax number:
202-566-1624; e-mail address: forrest.terry@epa.gov.
 
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ANNOUNCEMENT 4


Subject: AIR, SOLIC - ICR. EPA. Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Emission Guidelines for Large Municipal Waste Combustors Constructed on or Before September 20, 1994 (Renewal)
 
[Federal Register: October 29, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 208)]
[Notices]              
[Page 55841-55842]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0253; FRL-8975-3; EPA ICR No. 1847.05; OMB Control No.
2060-0390]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Emission Guidelines for Large
Municipal Waste Combustors Constructed on or Before September 20, 1994
(Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB). This is a request to renew an existing approved
collection. The ICR, which is abstracted below, describes the nature of
the information collection and its estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before November 30,
2009.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2009-0253 to EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our preferred
method) or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection
Agency, Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC
20460, and (2) OMB by mail to: Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Attention: Desk Officer
for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Walt Stevenson, Sector Policies and
Programs Division, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Mail
Code D243-01, Environmental Protection Agency, 109 T.W. Alexander
Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711; telephone number: 919-541-
5264; fax number: 919-541-5450; e-mail address: Stevenson.Walt@epa.gov.

 
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ANNOUNCEMENT 5


Subject: TOXICS - ICR. EPA. Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Tolerance Petitions for
Pesticides on Food/Feed Crops and New Inert Ingredients; EPA ICR No. 0597.10, OMB Control No. 2070-0024
 
[Federal Register: October 29, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 208)]
[Notices]              
[Page 55842-55843]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0927; FRL-8975-5]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; Tolerance Petitions for
Pesticides on Food/Feed Crops and New Inert Ingredients; EPA ICR No.
0597.10, OMB Control No. 2070-0024

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an
existing approved collection. The ICR, which is abstracted below,
describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated
burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before November 30,
2009.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OPP-
2008-0927, to (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), Regulatory
Public Docket (7502P), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC
20460-0001, and (2) OMB by mail to: Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Attention:
Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lily Negash, Field and External
Affairs Division, (7506P), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 703-
347-8515; fax number: 703-305-5884; e-mail address:
negash.lily@epa.gov.
 
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ANNOUNCEMENT 6


Subject: AIR - ND. EPA. Release of Draft Document Related to the Review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Carbon Monoxide
 
[Federal Register: October 29, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 208)]
[Notices]              
[Page 55843-55845]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0015; FRL-8973-1]

Release of Draft Document Related to the Review of the National
Ambient Air Quality Standards for Carbon Monoxide

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Availability of draft document for public comment.

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SUMMARY: On or about October 20, 2009, the Office of Air Quality
Planning and Standards (OAQPS) of EPA is making available for public
comment a draft assessment document: Risk and Exposure Assessment to
Support the Review of the Carbon Monoxide (CO) Primary National Ambient
Air Quality Standards--First External Review Draft. This draft document
describes the quantitative analyses that are being conducted as part of
the review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for
carbon monoxide (CO).

DATES: Comments should be submitted on or before November 19, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OAR-2008-0015, by one of the following methods:
    http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the online instructions
for submitting comments.
    E-mail: Comments may be sent by electronic mail (e-mail)
to a-and-r-docket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-
0015.
    Fax: Fax your comments to 202-566-9744, Attention Docket
ID. No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0015.
     Mail: Send your comments to: Air and Radiation Docket and
Information Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode: 2822T,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, Attention Docket ID
No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0015.
    Hand Delivery or Courier: Deliver your comments to: EPA
Docket Center, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Room 3334, Washington, DC.
Such deliveries are only accepted during the Docket's normal hours of
operation, and special arrangements should be made for deliveries of
boxed information.   

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions related to the draft
document titled, Risk and Exposure Assessment to Support the Review of
the Carbon Monoxide (CO) Primary National Ambient Air Quality
Standards--First External Review Draft (October 2009), please contact
Dr. Ines Pagan, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (Mail Code
C504-06), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park,
NC 27711; e-mail: pagan.ines@epa.gov; telephone: 919-541-5469; fax:
919-541-0237.

 
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ANNOUNCEMENT 7


Subject: WILDLIFE, CLIMATE - PR. DOI/FWS. Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) in the United States
 
[Federal Register: October 29, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 208)]
[Proposed Rules]              
[Page 56057-56086]

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

50 CFR Part 17

[FWS-R7-ES-2009-0042]
[92210-1117-0000-FY09-B4]
RIN 1018-AW56

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of
Critical Habitat for the Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) in the United
States

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), propose to
designate critical habitat for polar bear (Ursus maritimus) populations
in the United States under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as
amended (Act). In total, approximately 519,403 square kilometers
(km\2\) (200,541 square miles (mi\2\)) fall within the boundaries of
the proposed critical habitat designation. The proposed critical
habitat is located in Alaska and adjacent territorial and U.S. waters.

DATES: We will consider comments we receive on or before December 28,
2009. We must receive requests for public hearings, in writing, at the
address shown in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section by
December 14, 2009. Due to the court-ordered deadline of June 30, 2010,
to complete the final determination on this proposed designation of
critical habitat for the polar bear, we request that you submit
comments and information to us as soon as possible in order to allow us
adequate time to take them into consideration for the final
determination.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by one of the following methods:
    Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov
. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
    U.S. mail or hand-delivery: Public Comments Processing,
Attn: FWS-R7-ES-2009-0042; Division of Policy and Directives
Management; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 4401 N. Fairfax Drive,
Suite 222; Arlington, VA 22203.
    We will post all comments on http://www.regulations.gov. This
generally means that we will post any personal information you provide
us (see the Public Comments section below for more information).
    You can view detailed, colored maps of areas proposed as critical
habitat in this proposed rule at http://alaska.fws.gov/fisheries/mmm/
polarbear/criticalhabitat.htm
. You can obtain hard copies of maps by
contacting the Marine Mammals Management Office (see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas J. Evans, Marine Mammals
Management Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1011 East Tudor
Road, Anchorage, AK 99503; telephone 907/786-3800; facsimile 907/786-
3816. If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), call
the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 800-877-8339.

 
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ANNOUNCEMENT 8


Subject: ENERGY/Wind - ND. DOI/FWS. Office of the Secretary; Renewal of the Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee
 
[Federal Register: October 29, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 208)]
[Notices]              
[Page 55854]

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Office of the Secretary; Renewal of the Wind Turbine Guidelines
Advisory Committee

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of renewal.

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SUMMARY: The Secretary of the Interior (Secretary), after consultation
with the General Services Administration, has renewed the Wind Turbine
Guidelines Advisory Committee. The Committee will provide advice and
recommendations to the Secretary on developing effective measures to
avoid or minimize impacts to wildlife and their habitats related to
land-based wind energy facilities.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rachel London, Division of Habitat and
Resource Conservation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of
the Interior, (703) 358-2161.
 
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