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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 to the 

General Provisions specified at 40 CFR 

part 63, subpart R. 

Owners or operators of the affected 

facilities must submit initial notification 

reports, 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 are 

required semiannually at a minimum. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Owners or operators of gasoline 

distribution facilities that transfer and 

store gasoline, including pipeline 

breakout stations and bulk terminals. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, subpart R). 

Estimated number of respondents: 

492 (total). 

Frequency of response: Initially and 

semiannually. 

Total estimated burden: 15,823 hours 

(per year). ‘‘Burden’’ is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.3(b). 

Total estimated cost: $1,904,020 (per 

year), includes $357,000 annualized 

capital or operation & maintenance 

costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

adjustment increase in the respondent 

burden in this ICR compared to the 

previous ICR. The increase occurred due 

to an increase in the total estimated 

number of area sources, 25 percent of 

which are within the 50 percent major 

source threshold criteria and are 

affected by this standard. This ICR uses 

updated estimates to more accurately 

reflect the respondent universe, and to 

be consistent with EPA ICR Number 

2237.03. This ICR also uses updated 

labor rates from the Bureau of Labor 

Statistics to calculate burden costs. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 2013–20457 Filed 8–21–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2006–0745; FRL 9535–3] 

Information Collection Request 

Submitted to OMB for Review and 

Approval; Comment Request; 

Reformulated Gasoline Commingling 

Provisions (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency has submitted an information 

collection request (ICR), Reformulated 

Gasoline Commingling Provisions 

(Renewal) (EPA ICR No. 2228.04, OMB 

Control No. 2060–0587), 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, 2013. 

Public comments were previously 

requested via the Federal Register (78 

FR 20102) on April 3, 2013 during a 60- 

day 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 23, 

2013. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–OAR–2006–0745, to (1) EPA online 

using www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), by email to a-and-rDocket@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: 

Geanetta Heard, Fuel Compliance 

Center, 6406J, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: 202–343–9017 fax number: 

202–566–1744 email address: 

heard.geanetta@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, William Jefferson 

Clinton Federal Building 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: EPA would like to continue 

collecting notifications from gasoline 

retailers and wholesale purchaserconsumer related to commingling of 

ethanol blended and non-ethanol 

blended reformulated gasoline. The test 

results will allow EPA to monitor 

compliance with the Reformulated 

Gasoline Commingling Provisions. We 

inform respondents that they may assert 

claims of business confidentiality (CBI) 

for information they submit in 

accordance with 40 CFR part 2.203. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Gasoline stations, Gasoline stations with 

convenience stores, Gasoline stations 

without convenience stores. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory under the Clean Air Act 

(CAA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 7414 and 7542. 

Estimated number of respondents: 

43,050. 

Frequency of response: Annually. 

Total estimated burden: 21,013 hours 

(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $357,221 (per 

year), includes $0 annualized capital or 

operation & maintenance costs. 

Changes in Estimates: The change in 

burden from the prior ICR is due in part 

to better numbers extracted from 

business and industry economic 

statistics that assisted in calculating the 

numbers of respondents. These better 

numbers reduced the party size by 

13,650 members. The number of 

responses also declined from 110,700 to 

84,050 a difference of 26,650 reports, 

which reduced the industry burden 

hours from 27,675 to 21,013. We also 

found that the original cost per response 

was overstated by a factor of 2. With the 

decline of respondents, burden hours 

and responses, and revision of the cost 

per response, the cost associated with 

this ICR is $357,221, a difference of 


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$528,379, calculated from the prior 

collection approved by OMB. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 2013–20458 Filed 8–21–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2009–0921; FRL–9810–4] 

Final Aquatic Life Ambient Water 

Quality Criteria For Ammonia— 

Freshwater 2013 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability of final 

criteria. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 304(a) of 

the Clean Water Act (CWA), the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

is announcing the availability of final 

national recommended ambient water 

quality criteria for the protection of 

aquatic life from effects of ammonia in 

freshwater (EPA 822–R–13–001). The 

final criteria incorporate the latest 

scientific knowledge on the toxicity of 

ammonia to freshwater aquatic life. On 

December 30, 2009, EPA published draft 

national recommended water quality 

criteria for ammonia and provided the 

public an opportunity to provide 

scientific views. Aquatic life criteria are 

developed based on EPA’s Guidelines 

for Deriving Numerical National Water 

Quality Criteria for the Protection of 

Aquatic Organisms and Their Uses 

(1985), (EPA/R–85–100). EPA’s 

recommended section 304(a) water 

quality criteria provide guidance to 

States and authorized Tribes in adopting 

water quality standards for protecting 

aquatic life and human health. EPA’s 

recommended water quality criteria by 

themselves have no binding legal effect. 

These national recommended criteria 

for ammonia in freshwater are intended 

to protect aquatic life and do not 

address human health toxicity data. The 

water quality criteria for ammonia for 

the protection of saltwater organisms are 

not being updated at this time. EPA’s 

national recommended final acute 

ambient water quality criteria (AWQC) 

for protecting freshwater organisms 

from potential effects of ammonia is 17 

mg/L total ammonia nitrogen (TAN) and 

the final chronic AWQC for ammonia is 

1.9 mg/L TAN at pH 7.0 and 

temperature 20 °C. 

ADDRESSES: Scientific views received 

from the public on the draft ammonia 

criteria documents are available from 

the EPA Docket Center and are 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OW–2009–0921. They may be accessed 

online at: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions. 

• Email: OW-Docket@epa.gov. 

• Mail: US Environmental Protection 

Agency; EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC) 

Water Docket, MC 2822T; 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. 

• On Site: EPA Docket Center, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW., EPA West, 

Room 3334, Washington, DC. This 

Docket Facility is open from 8:30 a.m. 

until 4:30 p.m., EST, Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays. The 

telephone number for the Public 

Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and 

the telephone number for the Office of 

Water is (202) 566–2426. 

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: Lisa 

Huff, Health and Ecological Criteria 

Division (4304T), U.S. EPA, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; (202) 566–0787; huff.lisa@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. What are water quality criteria? 

Water quality criteria are either 

narrative descriptions of water quality 

or scientifically derived numeric values 

that protect aquatic life or human health 

from the deleterious effects of pollutants 

in ambient water. 

Section 304(a)(1) of the Clean Water 

Act (CWA) requires EPA to develop and 

publish and, from time to time, revise, 

criteria for protection of water quality 

and human health that accurately reflect 

the latest scientific knowledge. Water 

quality criteria developed under section 

304(a) are based solely on data and 

scientific judgments on the relationship 

between pollutant concentrations and 

environmental and human health 

effects. Section 304(a) criteria do not 

reflect consideration of economic 

impacts or the technological feasibility 

of meeting pollutant concentrations in 

ambient water. 

Section 304(a) criteria provide 

guidance to States and authorized 

Tribes in adopting water quality 

standards that ultimately provide a basis 

for assessing water body health and 

controlling discharges or releases of 

pollutants. Under the CWA and its 

implementing regulations, States and 

authorized Tribes are to adopt water 

quality criteria to protect designated 

uses (e.g., public water supply, aquatic 

life, recreational use, or industrial use). 

EPA’s recommended water quality 

criteria do not substitute for the CWA or 

regulations, nor are they regulations 

themselves. Thus, EPA’s recommended 

criteria do not impose legally binding 

requirements. States and authorized 

Tribes have the discretion to adopt, 

where appropriate, other scientifically 

defensible water quality criteria that 

differ from these recommendations. 

II. What is ammonia and why is EPA 

concerned about it? 

Ammonia is a constituent of nitrogen 

pollution. Unlike other forms of 

nitrogen, which can cause 

eutrophication of a water body at 

elevated concentrations, the primary 

concern with ammonia is its direct toxic 

effects on aquatic life, which are 

exacerbated by elevated pH and 

temperature. Ammonia is considered 

one of the most important pollutants in 

the aquatic environment not only 

because of its highly toxic nature and 

occurrence in surface water systems, but 

also because many effluents have to be 

treated in order to keep the 

concentrations of ammonia in surface 

waters from being unacceptably high. 

Ammonia can enter the aquatic 

environment via direct means such as 

municipal effluent discharges and the 

excretion of nitrogenous wastes from 

animals, and indirect means such as 

nitrogen fixation, air deposition, and 

runoff from agricultural lands. 

III. What are the 2013 ammonia criteria 

recommendations? 

EPA is today publishing final national 

recommended ambient water quality 

criteria for protecting freshwater aquatic 

life for ammonia. These final criteria 

updates are based on EPA’s Guidelines 

for Deriving Numerical National Water 

Quality Criteria for the Protection of 

Aquatic Organisms and Their Uses 

(1985), (EPA/R–85–100). These 

Guidelines describe the Agency’s 

current approach for deriving national 

recommended water quality criteria to 

protect aquatic life. The latest toxicity 

data and other information on the 

effects of ammonia on freshwater 

aquatic life were obtained from reliable 

sources and subjected to both internal 

and external scientific peer review. The 

national recommended water quality 

criteria for ammonia in saltwater are not 

being updated at this time. 

The available data for ammonia, 

evaluated in accordance with EPA’s 

Guidelines for Deriving Numerical 

National Water Quality Criteria for the 

Protection of Aquatic Organisms and 

Their Uses (1985), indicate that 

freshwater aquatic animals would have 


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