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All filings must: (1) bear in all capital 

letters the title ‘‘PROTEST’’ or 

‘‘MOTION TO INTERVENE,’’ ‘‘NOTICE 

OF INTENT TO FILE COMPETING 

APPLICATION,’’ or ‘‘COMPETING 

APPLICATION’’; (2) set forth in the 

heading the name of the applicant and 

the project number of the application to 

which the filing responds; (3) furnish 

the name, address, and telephone 

number of the person protesting or 

intervening; and (4) otherwise comply 

with the requirements of 18 CFR 

385.2001 through 385.2005. Agencies 

may obtain copies of the application 

directly from the applicant. A copy of 

any protest or motion to intervene must 

be served upon each representative of 

the applicant specified in the particular 

application. 

Dated: August 28, 2013. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–21524 Filed 9–4–13; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 14526–000] 

KC Scoby Hydro, LLC; Notice of 

Preliminary Permit Application 

Accepted for Filing and Soliciting 

Comments, Motions to Intervene, and 

Competing Applications 

On May 28, 2013, KC Scoby Hydro, 

LLC, filed an application for a 

preliminary permit, pursuant to section 

4(f) of the Federal Power Act (FPA), 

proposing to study the feasibility of 

hydropower at the existing Union Street 

Dam located on the Dan River in the 

City of Danville, Virginia. The sole 

purpose of a preliminary permit, if 

issued, is to grant the permit holder 

priority to file a license application 

during the permit term. A preliminary 

permit does not authorize the permit 

holder to perform any land-disturbing 

activities or otherwise enter upon lands 

or waters owned by others without the 

owners’ express permission. 

The proposed Danville Union Dam 

Hydroelectric Project would consist of 

the following: (1) An existing 820-footlong and 10-foot-high dam made of 

granite slabs; (2) an existing 

impoundment having a surface area of 

119.4 acres at an elevation of 410 feet 

mean sea level, and a storage capacity 

of 59.7 acre-feet at a 6-inch drawdown 

from the dam crest; (3) an existing 

1,460-foot-long canal that would be 

extended an additional 1,000 feet 

downstream from the current terminus 

to the proposed powerhouse; (4) a new 

30-foot by 100-foot powerhouse with 

three identical turbine-generator units 

with an installed capacity of 620 

kilowatts each; (5) a 550-foot-long 

tailrace; (6) a new 12.48-kilovolt 

transmission line extending 500 feet 

from the powerhouse to an existing 

substation; and (7) appurtenant 

facilities. The proposed project would 

have an annual generation of 9.5 

gigawatt-hours. 

Applicant Contact: Kelly Sackheim, 

KC Scoby Hydro, LLC, 5096 Cocoa Palm 

Way, Fair Oaks, CA 95628; phone: (301) 

401–5978. 

FERC Contact: Monir Chowdhury; 

phone: (202) 502–6736. 

Deadline for filing comments, motions 

to intervene, competing applications 

(without notices of intent), or notices of 

intent to file competing applications: 60 

days from the issuance of this notice. 

Competing applications and notices of 

intent must meet the requirements of 18 

CFR 4.36. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file comments, 

motions to intervene, notices of intent, 

and competing applications using the 

Commission’s eFiling system at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. 

Commenters can submit brief comments 

up to 6,000 characters, without prior 

registration, using the eComment system 

at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

ecomment.asp. You must include your 

name and contact information at the end 

of your comments. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) 

208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 

(TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please 

send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

The first page of any filing should 

include docket number P–14526–000. 

More information about this project, 

including a copy of the application, can 

be viewed or printed on the ‘‘eLibrary’’ 

link of the Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number 

(P–14526) in the docket number field to 

access the document. For assistance, 

contact FERC Online Support. 

Dated: August 28, 2013. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–21527 Filed 9–4–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2002–0011; FRL–9900–75– 

OW] 

Proposed Information Collection 

Request; Comment Request; 

Laboratory Quality Assurance 

Evaluation Program for Analysis of 

Cryptosporidium Under the Safe 

Drinking Water Act (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency is planning to submit an 

information collection request (ICR), 

‘‘Laboratory Quality Assurance 

Evaluation Program for Analysis of 

Cryptosporidium Under the Safe 

Drinking Water Act’’ (EPA ICR No. 

2067.05, OMB Control No. 2040–0246) 

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.). 

Before doing so, EPA is soliciting public 

comments on specific aspects of the 

proposed information collection as 

described below. This is a proposed 

extension of the ICR, which is currently 

approved through January 31, 2014. 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: Comments must be submitted on 

or before November 4, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OW–2002–0011, online using 

www.regulations.gov (our preferred 

method), by email to ow-docket@

epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket 

Center, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. 

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: 

Carrie Miller, Technical Support Center 

(TSC), Office of Ground Water and 

Drinking Water, (MS–140), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 26 

West Martin Luther King Drive, 

Cincinnati, Ohio 45268; telephone 

number: 513–569–7919; fax number: 


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513–569–7191; email address: 

miller.carrie@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. 

Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act, EPA is 

soliciting comments and information to 

enable it to: (i) Evaluate whether the 

proposed collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the Agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (ii) evaluate the 

accuracy of the Agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(iii) enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (iv) minimize the burden 

of the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including through 

the use of appropriate automated 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. EPA will consider the 

comments received and amend the ICR 

as appropriate. The final ICR package 

will then be submitted to OMB for 

review and approval. At that time, EPA 

will issue another Federal Register 

notice to announce the submission of 

the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to 

submit additional comments to OMB. 

Abstract: Under the Long Term 2 

Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule 

(LT2ESWTR), EPA requires public water 

systems to use approved laboratories 

when conducting Cryptosporidium 

monitoring. 40 CFR 141.705(a) provides 

for approval of Cryptosporidium 

laboratories by ‘‘an equivalent’’ State 

laboratory certification program (i.e., 

equivalent to EPA’s Laboratory Quality 

Assurance Evaluation Program). In the 

preamble to the LT2ESWTR, as well as 

several other notices, EPA has described 

the criteria for approval of laboratories 

to analyze Cryptosporidium samples 

under the LT2ESWTR. See 74 FR 8529 

(February 25, 2009), 71 FR 727 (January 

5, 2006) and 67 FR 9731 (March 4, 

2002). 

Through today’s notice, EPA is 

inviting comment on refinements to the 

information collected to support EPA’s 

Lab QA Program. The procedures for 

Methods 1622, 1623, and 1623.1 (a 

revision of Method 1623) have been 

updated to reflect that the minimum 

recovery for Cryptosporidium in 

ongoing precision and recovery (OPR) 

samples is now 33 percent. This 

minimum recovery is based on an 

updated data set and should provide a 

better assessment of laboratory 

performance than the previous value for 

the following reasons: (1) The data set 

is more recent; and (2) the sample size 

is more than twice as large as the 2009 

sample size used to establish the 

previous value. 

State responsibilities for 

Cryptosporidium laboratory approval 

and oversight will be comparable to 

their certification responsibilities for the 

chemistry and microbiology laboratories 

that they oversee in their current 

programs (e.g., initial evaluation of 

laboratory capability; ongoing 

assessment of the laboratory—including 

an assessment of Proficiency Test 

results; and on-site audits at least 

triennially). Whereas 40 CFR 142.10(b) 

generally requires the establishment and 

maintenance of a laboratory 

‘‘certification’’ program for all regulated 

analytes, State approval programs for 

Cryptosporidium laboratories are 

optional based on the structure of the 

LT2ESWTR (40 CFR 141.705(a)). 

If a laboratory is located in a State that 

does not operate a Cryptosporidium 

laboratory certification/accreditation 

program, that laboratory can still 

support LT2ESWTR monitoring if the 

laboratory has been approved by 

another State’s laboratory certification/

accreditation program that: (1) Has 

demonstrated substantial conformity to 

procedures described in Chapter 7 of 

‘‘Supplement 2 to the Fifth Edition of 

the Manual for the Certification of 

Laboratories Analyzing Drinking Water’’ 

http://water.epa.gov/scitech/

drinkingwater/labcert/index.cfm#two 

and (2) uses auditors that have passed 

the Technical Support Center’s (TSC) 

Cryptosporidium Laboratory 

Certification Officers Training Course. 

PWSs should be aware that their States 

may establish requirements that are 

more stringent than EPA’s regulations; 

State requirements would take 

precedence. 

Consistent with the longstanding 

laboratory certification program 

approach, TSC will: (1) Train State/

Regional Certification Officers (CO) 

responsible for auditing 

Cryptosporidium laboratories; (2) 

provide written guidance to State/

Regional COs; (3) provide day-to-day 

technical support to States, Regions, and 

laboratories; (4) review/assist the 

Regional programs that oversee State 

certification/accreditation programs; 

and (5) maintain a list of links to State 

Web sites naming certified laboratories 

and/or a list of certified laboratories on 

EPA’s Web site. 

Further information is provided at 

http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/rulesregs/

sdwa/lt2/lab_home.cfm. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Interested States and Laboratories. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Voluntary. 

Estimated number of respondents: 45 

labs and 20 States/Territories. 

Frequency of response: Annual. 

Total estimated burden: 5,472 hours 

(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.3(b). 

Total estimated cost: $803,774.79 (per 

year), includes $295,056.67 annualized 

capital or operation & maintenance 

(O&M) costs. 

Changes in Estimates: There is an 

increase of 629 hours in the total 

estimated respondent burden compared 

with the ICR currently approved by 

OMB. Changes in burden have occurred 

due to inflation, re-evaluation of hours 

for tasks, re-evaluation of O&M costs, 

improved demonstration of capability, 

and integration of laboratory oversight 

into existing State certification programs 

(State oversight of laboratories was not 

addressed in the currently approved 

burden estimate). The increase in the 

respondent universe has increased the 

overall burden costs for the 

respondents. As the States implement 

their certification programs, future 

estimates will be adjusted. 

Dated: August 29, 2013. 

Ann Codrington, 

Acting Director, Office of Ground Water and 

Drinking Water. 

[FR Doc. 2013–21637 Filed 9–4–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9900–72–Region3] 

2013 Fall Joint Meeting of the Ozone 

Transport Commission and the MidAtlantic Northeast Visibility Union 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The United States 

Environmental Protection Agency is 

announcing the joint 2013 Fall Meeting 


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