Friday, February 27, 2009

Environmental Federal Register, Vol. 74, No. 38, February 27, 2009

 
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Federal Register
Vol. 74, No. 38
Friday, February 27, 2009
 
 
There are 2 announcements in this issue
 
    1. TOIXCS - ICR. EPA. Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Trade Secret Claims for Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Information; EPA ICR No. 1428.08, OMB Control
No. 2050-0078
 
    2. LAND, ENERGY - ND. DOI/BLM. Potential for Oil Shale Development; Withdrawal of the Call for Nominations--Oil Shale Research, Development, and Demonstration (R, D, and D) Program and Request for Public Comment
    
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: TOIXCS - ICR. EPA. Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Trade Secret Claims for Emergency Planning and
Community Right-to-Know Information; EPA ICR No. 1428.08, OMB Control
No. 2050-0078
 
[Federal Register: February 27, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 38)]
[Notices]              
[Page 8937-8939]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-SFUND-2006-0361, FRL-8777-7]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Trade Secret Claims for Emergency Planning and
Community Right-to-Know Information; EPA ICR No. 1428.08, OMB Control
No. 2050-0078

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 to renew an existing approved Information Collection
Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This ICR is
scheduled to expire on August 31, 2009. 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 April 28, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
SFUND-2006-0361 by one of the following methods:
    http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
    E-mail: superfund.docket@epa.gov.
    Fax: (202) 566-0224.
    Mail: Superfund Docket, Environmental Protection Agency,
Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
    Hand Delivery: Docket Center, EPA West Bldg, Room 3334,
1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington DC 20460. 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: Sicy Jacob, Office of Emergency
Management, Mail Code 5104A, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202)
564-8019; fax number: (202) 564-2620; e-mail address:
jacob.sicy@epa.gov.
 
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ANNOUNCEMENT 2


Subject: LAND, ENERGY - ND. DOI/BLM. Potential for Oil Shale Development; Withdrawal of the Call for Nominations--Oil Shale Research, Development, and Demonstration (R, D, and D) Program and Request for Public Comment
 
[Federal Register: February 27, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 38)]
[Notices]              
[Page 8983-8984]

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[LLWO-3200000 L13100000.PP0000 L.X.EM OSHL000.241A]

Potential for Oil Shale Development; Withdrawal of the Call for
Nominations--Oil Shale Research, Development, and Demonstration (R, D,
and D) Program and Request for Public Comment

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: On January 15, 2009, the BLM published in the Federal Register
a notice entitled ``Potential for Oil Shale Development; Call for
Nominations--Oil Shale Research, Development, and Demonstration (R, D,
and D) Program'' (see 74 FR 2611). The new Administration intends to
review and reconsider certain aspects of the current solicitation,
including lease acreage and the rules that would govern conversion of
an R, D, and D lease to a commercial lease, particularly those related
to royalty rates. To ensure a fair return to the public for potential
commercial development of these Federal resources, the Administration
has determined that further information is needed. Accordingly, the BLM
is seeking public comment on the terms and conditions of any future oil
shale R, D, and D leases that it may issue. The BLM therefore withdraws
the January 15, 2009, solicitation of the nomination of parcels to be
leased for R, D, and D of oil shale recovery technologies in Colorado,
Utah, and Wyoming.

DATES: The withdrawal is effective February 27, 2009. Please submit
comments on the terms and conditions of any future oil shale R, D, and
D leases no later than May 28, 2009 to assure that they are considered.

ADDRESSES: Please hand-deliver written comments to Nick Douglas, Suite
807, 1620 L Street, NW., Washington, DC. You may send comments via
overnight delivery to this same address. Mail U.S.P.S. written comments
to BLM (Attn: Nick Douglas), Minerals and Realty Management, Mail Stop:
LS 807, 1849 C Street, NW., Washington, DC 20240. You may also send
comments electronically to Nick Douglas at Nick_Douglas@blm.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nick Douglas, BLM, Washington Office,
202-557-3377.
 
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