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The ICR provides a detailed 

explanation of the Agency’s estimate, 

which is only briefly summarized here: 

Estimated total number of potential 

respondents: 30,014. 

Frequency of response: Annual. 

Estimated total average number of 

responses for each respondent: 1. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

212,101 hours. 

Estimated total annual costs: 

$676,000. This includes an estimated 

burden cost of $390,000 and an 

estimated cost of $286,000 for capital 

investment or maintenance and 

operational costs. 

Are there changes in the estimates from 

the last approval? 

There is anticipated to be no change 

in the hours in the total estimated 

respondent burden compared with that 

identified in the ICR currently approved 

by OMB. EPA anticipates adjusting for 

inflation the estimated costs of labor 

and capital used in the supporting 

statement prepared in 2008. The 2008 

supporting statement may be reviewed 

in the docket. 

What is the next step in the process for 

this ICR? 

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 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 the 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: April 13, 2012. 

Pamela J. Mazakas, 

Acting Director, Office of Civil Enforcement. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9443 Filed 4–18–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–New England Region I—EPA–R01– 

OW–2012–0200; FRL–9661–8] 

Massachusetts Marine Sanitation 

Device Standard—Receipt of Petition 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice—Receipt of petition. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a 

petition has been received from the 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 

requesting a determination by the 

Regional Administrator, U. S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, that 

adequate facilities for the safe and 

sanitary removal and treatment of 

sewage from all vessels are reasonably 

available for the waters of Mount Hope 

Bay. 

DATES: ‘‘Comments must be submitted 

by May 21, 2012.’’ 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R01– 

OW–2012–0200, by one of the following 

methods: 

www.regulations.gov, Follow the online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: rodney.ann@epa.gov. 

• Fax: (617) 918–0538. 

Mail and hand delivery: U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency—New 

England Region, Five Post Office 

Square, Suite 100, OEP06–1, Boston, 

MA 02109–3912. Deliveries are only 

accepted during the Regional Office’s 

normal hours of operation (8 a.m.–5 

p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding 

legal holidays), and special 

arrangements should be made for 

deliveries of boxed information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–R01–OW–2012– 

0200. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change and may be 

made available online at 

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 www.regulations.gov, 

or email. The 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 email 

comment directly to EPA without going 

through www.regulations.gov your email 

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. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the www.regulations.gov 

index. Although listed in the index, 

some information is not publicly 

available, e.g., CBI or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, will be publicly 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency—New England Region, Five 

Post Office Square, Suite 100, OEP06– 

01, Boston, MA 02109–3912. Such 

deliveries are only accepted during the 

Regional Office’s normal hours of 

operation, and special arrangements 

should be made for deliveries of boxed 

information. The Regional Office is 

open from 8 a.m.–5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number is (617) 

918–1538. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ann 

Rodney, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency—New England Region, Five 

Post Office Square, Suite 100, OEP06– 

01, Boston, MA 02109–3912. Telephone: 

(617) 918–1538, Fax number: (617) 918– 

0538; email address: 

rodney.ann@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that a petition has been 

received from the Commonwealth of 

Massachusetts requesting a 

determination by the Regional 

Administrator, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, pursuant to Section 

312(f)(3) of Public Law 92–500 as 

amended by Public Law 95–217 and 

Public Law 100–4, that adequate 

facilities for the safe and sanitary 

removal and treatment of sewage from 

all vessels are reasonably available for 

Mount Hope Bay. 

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Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 76 / Thursday, April 19, 2012 / Notices 23481 

THE PROPOSED NO DISCHARGE AREA FOR MOUNT HOPE BAY

Waterbody/general area Latitude Longitude 

The northern edge of the NDA boundary on the Taunton River is the Center Street/Elm Street bridge at: 41°50′5.90′′ N 71°6′29.34′′ W 

The northern edge of the NDA boundary on the Lees River is the Route 6 bridge at: 41°44′24.87′′ N 71°11′12.72′′ W 

The northern edge of the NDA boundary on the Cole River is the Route 6 Bridge at: 41°44′47.03′′ N 71°12′7.81′′ W 

The southwestern edge of the NDA boundary is the Rhode Island/Massachusetts border at Swansea at: 41°42′43.94′′ N 71°13′34.27′′ W 

The southeastern edge of the NDA boundary is the Rhode Island/Massachusetts border at Fall River at: 41°40′30.28′′ N 71°11′43.86′′ W 

The Mount Hope Bay NDA will encompass the tidal waters of Dighton, Berkley, Freetown, Somerset, Swansea, and Fall River to the mean 

high tide line. 

There are marinas, yacht clubs and 

public landings/piers in the proposed 

area with a combination of mooring 

fields and dock space for the 

recreational and commercial vessels. 

Mount Hope Bay is a shared waterbody 

between Massachusetts and Rhode 

Island and in 1998 Rhode Island 

designated all its state waters as no 

discharge, including its portion of 

Mount Hope Bay. Massachusetts has 

certified that there are three pumpout 

facilities, within the proposed state 

waters, available to the boating public. 

A list of the facilities, locations, contact 

information, hours of operation, and 

water depth is provided at the end of 

this petition. 

Massachusetts has provided 

documentation indicating that the total 

vessel population is estimated to be 585 

in the proposed area. It is estimated that 

523 of the total vessel population may 

have a Marine Sanitation Device (MSD) 

of some type. The total number of MSDs 

certified by the Commonwealth of 

Massachusetts is an overestimate, 

conservatively, giving the boating public 

a 1:175 ratio of pumpouts to boats, 

which is much less than the ratio 

suggested by EPA Region 1 guidelines 

(300–600 vessels for every one facility.) 

PUMPOUT FACILITIES WITHIN PROPOSED NO DISCHARGE AREA

Name Town Contact information Hours of operation Depth 

(Ft) 

Fall River Harbormaster Boat .................................. Fall River ..................... 774–644–3609, VHF 16 .... On Call ........................... N/A 

Somerset Harbormaster Boat .................................. Somerset ..................... 774–319–3126, VHF 9, 16 8:30 a.m.–8:30 p.m. ....... N/A 

Somerset Land-based Pumpout Station at Town 

Boat Ramp.

Somerset ..................... N/A Self Serve .................. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Weekdays; 8 a.m.–6 p.m. 

Weekends.

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Dated: April 6, 2012. 

H. Curtis Spalding, 

Regional Administrator, New England Region. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9448 Filed 4–18–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R01–OEP–12–006; FRL–9662–6] 

State Program Requirements; 

Approval of Maine’s Base National 

Pollutant Discharge Elimination 

System (NPDES) Permitting Program 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Since January 2001, the State 

of Maine has been authorized to 

administer the National Pollutant 

Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) 

program in the Indian territories of the 

Penobscot Nation and the 

Passamaquoddy Tribe, with the 

exception of authorization to issue 

permits to two tribally owned and 

operated wastewater treatment works. 

On August 8, 2007, the U.S. Court of 

Appeals for the First Circuit vacated 

EPA’s October 31, 2003 decision to 

withhold authority to administer the 

program under the Clean Water Act 

with respect to the two tribally owned 

and operated treatment works. EPA is 

responding to the court’s order by 

approving Maine’s NPDES program to 

include the permitting of all discharges 

within the Indian territories of the 

Penobscot Nation and the 

Passamaquoddy Tribe. 

DATES: March 26, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions or requests for additional 

information may be submitted to: 

• Mail: Glenda Ve ́lez, USEPA–Region 

1, 5 Post Office Square—OEP06–01, 

Boston, MA 02109–3912. 

• Telephone: (617) 918–1677. 

• Email: velez.glenda@epa.gov. 

• No facsimiles (faxes) will be 

accepted. 

Copies of documents Maine has 

submitted in support of its program 

approval may be reviewed during 

regular business hours, Monday through 

Friday, excluding holidays at the 

address above. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

2001 Approval of the Program Outside 

Indian Territories 

On December 17, 1999, EPA 

determined that the State of Maine had 

submitted a complete application to 

administer the NPDES permitting 

program in the state under the Clean 

Water Act (CWA). 33 U.S.C. 1251, et 

seq., see 64 FR 73552 (Dec. 30, 1999). 

Maine’s application included an 

assertion of authority to implement the 

program in the territories of the 

federally-recognized Indian tribes 

within the state, based on the 

jurisdictional provisions of the Maine 

Indian Claims Settlement Act (MICSA), 

which ratified the Maine Implementing 

Act (MIA). 25 U.S.C. 1721, et seq. and 

30 M.R.S.A. section 6201, et seq., 

respectively. 

On January 12, 2001, EPA approved 

the State of Maine’s application to 

administer the NPDES program for all 

areas of the state other than Indian 

country. At that point EPA did not take 

any action on Maine’s application to 

administer the program within the 

territories of the federally-recognized 

Indian tribes in Maine. EPA published 

notice of its action on February 28, 

2001. 66 FR 12791. As described in the 

Federal Register, EPA approved the 

state’s application to administer both 

the NPDES permit program covering 

point source dischargers and the 

pretreatment program covering 

industrial dischargers into publicly 

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