Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 65 / Monday, April 6, 2015 / Proposed Rules 18327 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 147 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2012–0186; FRL–9924–93– 

OW] 

State of Washington Underground 

Injection Control (UIC) Program 

Revision Approval 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) proposes to 

approve the State of Washington 

Underground Injection Control (UIC) 

Program revisions as required by rule 

under the Safe Drinking Water Act 

(SDWA). The Agency determined that 

the state’s revisions are consistent with 

the provisions of the SDWA and are as 

stringent as all applicable federal 

regulations to prevent underground 

injection activities that endanger 

underground sources of drinking water. 

The state revised its UIC Class V 

Program regulations and transferred 

oversight authority from the Department 

of Ecology to the Energy Facility Site 

Evaluation Council to issue UIC permits 

at energy facilities. EPA requests public 

comment on this proposed rule and 

supporting documentation. In the 

‘‘Rules and Regulations’’ section of this 

Federal Register, the Agency published 

EPA’s approval of the state’s program 

revision as a direct final rule without a 

prior proposed rule. If the Agency 

receives no adverse comment, EPA will 

not take further action on this proposed 

rule. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received by May 6, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OW–2012–0186, by one of the following 

methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: OW-Docket@epa.gov. 

• Mail: State of Washington; 

Underground Injection Control (UIC) 

Primacy, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mailcode: 2822T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. 

• Hand Delivery: Water Docket, EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC) EPA West, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. 

NW., Washington, DC. 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: Lisa 

McWhirter, Drinking Water Protection 

Division, Office of Ground Water and 

Drinking Water (4606M), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 

564–2317; fax number: (202) 564–3754; 

email address: mcwhirter.lisa@epa.gov 

or Peter Contreras, Ground Water Unit, 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region 10, Suite 900 M/S OCE–082, 

1200 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, Washington 

98101; telephone number (206) 553– 

6708; fax number: (206) 553–6984; 

email address: contreras.peter@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Why is EPA issuing this proposed rule? 

EPA proposes to approve by rule the 

state’s UIC Class V Program revisions 

and the transfer of oversight authority 

from the Department of Ecology to the 

Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council 

to issue UIC permits at energy facilities, 

as required under the SDWA to prevent 

underground injection activities that 

endanger underground sources of 

drinking water. Accordingly, the 

Agency proposes to codify the state’s 

program revisions in the Code of 

Federal Regulations (CFR) at 40 CFR 

part 147. The Agency has published a 

direct final rule in the ‘‘Rules and 

Regulations’’ section of this Federal 

Register, approving the state’s program 

revisions, because EPA views the 

revisions as noncontroversial and 

anticipates no adverse comment. The 

Agency provided reasons for the 

approval and additional supplementary 

information in the preamble to the 

direct final rule. If EPA receives no 

adverse comment, the Agency will not 

take further action on this proposed 

rule. If EPA receives adverse comment, 

the Agency will withdraw the direct 

final rule and it will not take effect. The 

EPA would then address all public 

comments in any subsequent final rule 

based on this proposed rule. The EPA 

does not intend to institute a second 

comment period on this action. Any 

parties interested in commenting must 

do so at this time. For further 

information, please contact the persons 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

Dated: March 30, 2015. 

Gina McCarthy, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2015–07758 Filed 4–3–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 180 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2015–0032; FRL–9924–00] 

Receipt of Several Pesticide Petitions 

Filed for Residues of Pesticide 

Chemicals in or on Various 

Commodities 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of filing of petitions and 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: This document announces the 

Agency’s receipt of several initial filings 

of pesticide petitions requesting the 

establishment or modification of 

regulations for residues of pesticide 

chemicals in or on various commodities. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before May 6, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number and the pesticide petition 

number (PP) of interest as shown in the 

body of this document, by one of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

• Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/ 

DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 

NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: To make special 

arrangements for hand delivery or 

delivery of boxed information, please 

follow the instructions at http://

www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html. 

Additional instructions on 

commenting or visiting the docket, 

along with more information about 

dockets generally, is available at 

http://www.epa.gov/dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert McNally, Biopesticides and 

Pollution Prevention Division (BPPD) 

(7511P), main telephone number: (703) 

305–7090; email address: 

BPPDFRNotices@epa.gov., Susan Lewis, 

Registration Division (RD) (7505P), main 

telephone number: (703) 305–7090; 

email address: RDFRNotices@epa.gov. 

The mailing address for each contact 

person is: Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001. As part of the mailing 

address, include the contact person’s 

name, division, and mail code. The 


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