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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA
or the Agency) on a cyclic basis via
input to the Air Facility System (AFS),
until mid October 2014, and via input
to the modernized AFS—the Air
component of the Integrated
Compliance Information System (ICISAir), from late October 2014 forward.
The Agency, with support from state
and local agencies, is nearing
completion of the modernization of AFS
into ICIS-Air. The planned date of the
implementation of ICIS-Air is October
27, 2014.
ICIS-Air supports EPA and state and
local agency efforts to ensure
compliance with the nation’s
environmental laws pertaining to air,
via the collection and management of
important Clean Air Act (CAA or the
‘‘Act’’) compliance and enforcement
information. The information to be
provided to EPA via ICIS-Air includes
source characterization, compliance
monitoring, and enforcement activities.
EPA will use this information to assess
progress toward meeting emission
requirements developed under the
authority of the CAA, and to protect and
maintain air quality, public health, and
the environment. Agencies receive
delegation of the CAA through regulated
grant authorities, and report
compliance/enforcement activities
undertaken at stationary sources
pursuant to the Minimum Data
Requirements (MDRs) as outlined in this
ICR. The provisions of Section 114(a)(1)
of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. Section
7414(a)(1) provide the broad authority
for the reporting of compliance
monitoring and enforcement
information, along with Subpart QReports in 40 CFR 51: Sections 51.324(a)
and (b), and 51.327. This renewal
requires the continuation of reporting of
previously established MDRs via a new
information system solution—ICIS-Air
instead of AFS. Since AFS will be
replaced by ICIS-Air prior to the official
renewal of this ICR, we are including in
the Supporting Statement a crosswalk
between the MDRs expressed as the
current AFS data elements and as the
new ICIS-Air data elements.
Are there changes in the estimates from
the last approval?
The current EPA database for which
these data are reported (i.e., AFS) will
not exist at the time of this ICR renewal;
therefore, EPA will not perform a new
burden estimate based on reporting to
AFS. Since the new, replacement
system, ICIS-Air, is not yet implemented
in a production environment, we cannot
use the new system to develop a new
burden estimate for future reporting to
ICIS-Air at the current time. EPA will
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estimate burden in the Federal Register
notice with the ICR to the best of its
ability and will take comment on those
estimates.
While transition to the new ICIS-Air
system will require some investment at
the federal, state and local levels, EPA
believes that by providing a modern and
more capable information system, states
and locals as a group will experience a
significant overall reduction in
reporting burden. This will occur for
states/locals that are direct users, as
well as for those using electronic data
transfer (EDT) to report MDRs to ICISAir. In addition to the anticipated
burden reduction associated with
completion of AFS modernization to
ICIS-Air, EPA is nearing completion of
two major policy revisions—the High
Priority Violations (HPV) and Federally
Reportable Violations (FRV) policies—
that will result in a narrowing of the
scope of CAA enforcement and
compliance reporting as compared to
the previous ICR renewal cycle. These
policy revisions will result in additional
burden reduction for state and local
agencies.
EPA does anticipate that operational
and maintenance costs associated with
state and local agency reporting will
increase modestly due to inflationary
pressures (e.g., increased hourly
resource costs for management,
professional, and related occupational
groups). The labor rates used in the ICR
estimates will be taken from the
Department of Labor Employment
Compensation and Costs (ECEC) Web
site. These changes will be reflected in
the final supporting statement for this
ICR.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
What is the next step in the process for
this ICR?
ADDRESSES:
EPA will consider the comments
received and amend the ICR as
appropriate. The final ICR package will
be submitted by EPA to OMB for review
and approval pursuant to 5 CFR
1320.12. At that time, EPA will issue
another Federal Register notice
pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.5(a)(1)(iv) to
announce the submission of the ICR to
OMB, and a second opportunity to
submit additional comments to OMB. If
you have any questions about this ICR,
or the approval process, please contact
the technical person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Dated: August 15, 2014.
Betsy Smidinger,
Acting Director, Office of Compliance, Office
of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.
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Information Collection Request
Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP
for Area Sources: Electric Arc Furnace
Steelmaking Facilities (Renewal)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency has submitted an information
collection request (ICR), ‘‘NESHAP for
Area Sources: Electric Arc Furnace
Steelmaking Facilities (Renewal)’’ (EPA
ICR No. 2277.04, OMB Control No.
2060–0608) to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and
approval in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.). This is a proposed
extension of the ICR, which is currently
approved through August 31, 2014.
Public comments were previously
requested via the Federal Register (78
FR 35023) on June 11, 2013 during a 60day comment period. This notice allows
for an additional 30 days for public
comments. A fuller description of the
ICR is given below, including its
estimated burden and cost to the public.
An Agency may not conduct or sponsor
and a person is not required to respond
to a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before September 22,
2014.
SUMMARY:
Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID Number EPA–
HQ–OECA–2013–0323, to (1) EPA
online using www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by email to
docket.oeca@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA
Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via
email to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.
Address comments to OMB Desk Officer
for EPA.
EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public
docket without change including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes profanity, threats,
information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Patrick Yellin, Monitoring, Assistance,
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and Media Programs Division, Office of
Compliance, Mail Code 2227A,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington,
DC 20460; telephone number: (202)
564–2970; fax number: (202) 564–0050;
email address: yellin.patrick@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Supporting documents which explain in
detail the information that the EPA will
be collecting are available in the public
docket for this ICR. The docket can be
viewed online at www.regulations.gov
or in person at the EPA Docket Center,
EPA West, Room 3334, 1301
Constitution Ave. NW., Washington,
DC. The telephone number for the
Docket Center is 202–566–1744. For
additional information about EPA’s
public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/
dockets.
Abstract: The affected entities are
subject to the General Provisions of the
NESHAP at 40 CFR Part 63, Subpart A,
and any changes, or additions specified
at 40 CFR Part 63, Subpart YYYYY.
Owners or operators of the affected
facilities must submit a one-time-only
report of any physical or operational
changes, initial performance tests, and
periodic reports and results. Owners or
operators are also required to maintain
records of the occurrence and duration
of any startup, shutdown, or
malfunction in the operation of an
affected facility, or any period during
which the monitoring system is
inoperative. Reports addressing (1) the
number of mercury switches removed or
the weight of mercury recovered from
the switches and properly managed, the
estimated number of vehicles processed,
an estimate of the percent of mercury
switches recovered, and a certification
that the recovered mercury switches
were recycled at RCRA-permitted
facilities, and (2) the control of
contaminants from scrap according to
the requirements in § 63.10(e) are
required semiannually.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities:
Owners or operators of electric arc
furnace steelmaking facilities.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory (40 CFR Part 63, Subpart
YYYYY).
Estimated number of respondents: 87
(total).
Frequency of response: Initially,
semiannually and occasionally.
Total estimated burden: 1,417 hours
(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $136,341 (per
year), includes no annualized capital or
operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a
decrease in the respondent burden and
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an increase in Agency burden. These
changes occurred due to the following
adjustment: (1) This ICR revises the
number of respondents from 91 to 87
based on input provided from industry
trade association; and (2) This ICR
corrects the frequency of semiannual
report review from one to two in Table
2. This correction results in an increase
in the estimated Agency burden.
Spencer Clark,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies
Division.
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AGENCY
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Proposed Windfall Lien Settlement
Agreement, Eaton Sugar Beet Factory
Superfund Site, Eaton, Colorado
Environmental Protection
Agency.
ACTION: Notice of proposed agreement;
request for public comment.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
requirements of section 122(h)(1) of the
Comprehensive Environmental
Response Compensation, and Liability
Act of 1980, as amended (‘‘CERCLA’’),
42 U.S.C. 9622(h)(1), notice is hereby
given of the proposed administrative
settlement under section 107(r) of
CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607(r) between the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(‘‘EPA’’) and the Town of Eaton,
Colorado, (‘‘Settling Party’’). The
Settling Party consents to and will not
contest the authority of the United
States to enter into this Agreement or to
implement or enforce its terms.
The Settling Party, qualifying as a
bona fide prospective purchaser as
provided for under CERCLA section
107(r)(1), 42 U.S.C. 9607(4)(1), took title
to the site of the abandoned Eaton Sugar
Beet Factory in 2009 through the
purchase of tax liens. The EPA
conducted a time critical removal action
to address asbestos contamination at the
factory site from November of 2011
through April of 2013. EPA now seeks
to enter into a settlement agreement for
the release of the windfall lien that
arose as a result of the asbestos removal
action. The value of a windfall lien is
limited to the increase in the fair market
value of the land that was cleaned up by
EPA and is limited also by the amount
of the EPA’s unrecovered response
costs. The increased value of the land
owned by the Settling Parties is
$226,283.14.
SUMMARY:
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The Settling Parties recognize that
this Agreement has been negotiated in
good faith and that this Agreement is
entered into without the admission or
adjudication of any issue of fact or law.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before September 22, 2014. For thirty
(30) days following the date of
publication of this document, the
Agency will receive written comments
relating to the agreement. The Agency
will consider all comments received and
may modify or withdraw its consent to
the agreement if comments received
disclose facts or considerations that
indicate that the agreement is
inappropriate, improper, or inadequate.
ADDRESSES: The Agency’s response to
any comments, the proposed agreement
and additional background information
relating to the agreement is available for
public inspection at the EPA Superfund
Record Center, 1595 Wynkoop Denver,
Colorado.
Comments and requests for a copy of
the proposed agreement should be
addressed to Maureen O’Reilly,
Enforcement Specialist, Environmental
Protection Agency—Region 8, Mail
Code 8ENF–RC, 1595 Wynkoop Street,
Denver, Colorado 80202, and should
reference the Eaton Sugar Beet Factory
Superfund Site, Eaton, Colorado.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Andy Lensink, Enforcement Attorney,
Legal Enforcement Program,
Environmental Protection Agency—
Region 8, Mail Code 8ENF–L, 1595
Wynkoop Street, Denver, Colorado
80202, (303) 312–6908.
Dated: July 17, 2014.
Eddie A. Sierra,
Acting Assistant Regional Administrator,
Office of Enforcement, Compliance and
Environmental Justice, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Region VIII.
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FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
Sunshine Act Meeting
Federal Election Commission.
Tuesday August 26, 2014
at 10:00 a.m.
PLACE: 999 E Street NW., Washington,
DC.
STATUS: This meeting will be closed to
the public.
ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED: Compliance
matters pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 437g.
Matters concerning participation in
civil actions or proceedings or
arbitration.
Information the premature disclosure
of which would be likely to have a
AGENCY:
DATE AND TIME:
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