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was published in the Federal Register 

(70 FR 59848) and codified as part 3 of 

title 40 of the CFR. CROMERR 

establishes electronic reporting as an 

acceptable regulatory alternative to 

paper reporting and establishes 

requirements to assure that electronic 

documents are as legally dependable as 

their paper counterparts. Subpart D of 

CROMERR requires that state, tribal or 

local government agencies that receive, 

or wish to begin receiving, electronic 

reports under their EPA-authorized 

programs must apply to EPA for a 

revision or modification of those 

programs and obtain EPA approval. 

Subpart D provides standards for such 

approvals based on consideration of the 

electronic document receiving systems 

that the state, tribe, or local government 

will use to implement the electronic 

reporting. Additionally, § 3.1000(b) 

through (e) of 40 CFR part 3, subpart D 

provides special procedures for program 

revisions and modifications to allow 

electronic reporting, to be used at the 

option of the state, tribe or local 

government in place of procedures 

available under existing programspecific authorization regulations. An 

application submitted under the subpart 

D procedures must show that the state, 

tribe or local government has sufficient 

legal authority to implement the 

electronic reporting components of the 

programs covered by the application 

and will use electronic document 

receiving systems that meet the 

applicable subpart D requirements. 

On January 14, 2010, the New Jersey 

Department of Environmental Protection 

(NJDEP) submitted an application titled 

‘‘Regulatory Services Portal (RSP)’’ for 

revisions/modifications of its EPAauthorized programs under title 40 CFR. 

EPA reviewed NJDEP’s request to 

revise/modify its EPA-authorized 

programs and, based on this review, 

EPA determined that the application 

met the standards for approval of 

authorized program revisions/

modifications set out in 40 CFR part 3, 

subpart D. In accordance with 40 CFR 

3.1000(d), this notice of EPA’s decision 

to approve New Jersey’s request to 

revise/modify its following EPAauthorized programs to allow electronic 

reporting under 40 CFR parts 51 Subpart 

A, 51 Subpart I, 51 Subpart I, 70.5 and 

70.6, 63.7480–7575 and 63.11193– 

11237, 70.5 and 70.6, 70.6(a)(3)iii(A) & 

(c)5, 122.21, 142.10(a–h), 171.1 et seq., 

261–270 and 273, 262.56(a), 262.42, 

262.55, 264.72(b) and 265.72(b), 264.75, 

270.11 and 270.42, 370, 372, and 

403.12i., is being published in the 

Federal Register: 

Part 52—Approval and Promulgation of 

Implementation Plans 

Part 63—National Emission Standards for 

Hazardous Air Pollutants for Source 

Categories 

Part 70—State Operating Permit Programs 

Part 123—EPA Administered Permit 

Programs: The National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System 

Part 142—National Primary Drinking Water 

Regulations Implementation 

Part 171—Certification of Pesticide 

Applicators 

Part 257—Criteria for Classification of 

Solid Waste Disposal Facilities and Practices 

Part 262—Standards Applicable to 

Generators of Hazardous Waste 

Part 272—Approved State Hazardous 

Waste Management Programs 

Part 370—Hazardous Chemical Reporting: 

Community Right-To-Know 

Part 372—Toxic Chemical Release 

Reporting: Community Right-To-Know 

Part 403—General Pretreatment 

Regulations for Existing and New Source of 

Pollution 

NJDEP was notified of EPA’s 

determination to approve its application 

with respect to the authorized programs 

listed above. 

Dated: March 4, 2014. 

Jeffrey Wells, 

Acting Director, Office of Information 

Collection. 

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AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2013–0566; FRL–9907–85– 

OAR] 

Release of Draft Integrated Review 

Plan for the Primary National Ambient 

Air Quality Standard for Sulfur Dioxide 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability and public 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: On or about March 17, 2014, 

the Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA) is making available for public 

review the draft titled, Integrated 

Review Plan for the Primary National 

Ambient Air Quality Standard for Sulfur 

Dioxide (draft IRP). This document 

contains the plans for the review of the 

air quality criteria for sulfur oxides and 

the national ambient air quality 

standard (NAAQS) for sulfur dioxide 

(SO2). The primary SO2 NAAQS 

provides for the protection of public 

health from exposure to sulfur oxides in 

ambient air. 

DATES: Comments should be submitted 

on or before April 17, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: This document will be 

available primarily via the Internet at 

the following Web site: http://

www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/so2/

s_so2_index.html. 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2013– 

0566, by one of the following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov. 

• Fax: 202–566–9744. 

• Mail: Air and Radiation Docket and 

Information Center, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mail Code 2822T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. Please include a 

total of two copies. 

• Hand Delivery: 1301 Constitution 

Ave. NW., Room 3334, Washington, DC, 

EPA Docket Center, 1301 Constitution 

Ave. NW., Room 3334, 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. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2013– 

0566. The 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 the 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 the 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, the 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 the EPA 

cannot read your comment due to 

technical difficulties and cannot contact 

you for clarification, the 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 

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1The EPA’s call for information for this review 

was issued on May 10, 2013 (78 FR 27387). 

2The EPA held a workshop titled, ‘‘Kickoff 

Workshop to Inform EPA’s Review of the Primary 

SO2 NAAQS’’ on June 12–13, 2013 (78 FR 27387). 

EPA Docket Center homepage at http: 

//www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

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 Air and Radiation Docket and 

Information Center, EPA/DC, William 

Jefferson Clinton Building, Room 3334, 

1301 Constitution Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC. The Public Reading 

Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding 

legal holidays. The telephone number 

for the Public Reading Room is 202– 

566–1744, and the telephone number for 

the Air and Radiation Docket and 

Information Center is 202–566–1742. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Michael J. Stewart, Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards, Mail Code 

C504–06, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 

27711; telephone number: 919–541– 

7524; fax number: 919–541–0237; email 

address: stewart.michael@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for the EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to the EPA through 

www.regulations.gov or email. Clearly 

mark the part or all of the information 

that you claim to be CBI. For CBI 

information in a disk or CD–ROM that 

you mail to the EPA, mark the outside 

of the disk or CD–ROM as CBI and then 

identify electronically within the disk or 

CD–ROM the specific information that 

is claimed as CBI. In addition to one 

complete version of the comment that 

includes information claimed as CBI, a 

copy of the comment that does not 

contain the information claimed as CBI 

must be submitted for inclusion in the 

public docket. Information so marked 

will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR part 2. 

2. Tips for Preparing Your Comments. 

When submitting comments, remember 

to: 

• Identify the rulemaking by docket 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

• Follow directions—The agency may 

ask you to respond to specific questions 

or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

• Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

• Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

• If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

• Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns, and suggest 

alternatives. 

• Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

• Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

II. Information Specific to This 

Document 

Two sections of the Clean Air Act 

(CAA) govern the establishment and 

revision of the NAAQS. Section 108 (42 

U.S.C. 7408) directs the Administrator 

to identify and list certain air pollutants 

and then to issue air quality criteria for 

those pollutants. The Administrator is 

to list those air pollutants that in her 

‘‘judgment, cause or contribute to air 

pollution which may reasonably be 

anticipated to endanger public health or 

welfare;’’ ‘‘the presence of which in the 

ambient air results from numerous or 

diverse mobile or stationary sources;’’ 

and ‘‘for which . . . [the Administrator] 

plans to issue air quality criteria . . .’’ 

Air quality criteria are intended to 

‘‘accurately reflect the latest scientific 

knowledge useful in indicating the kind 

and extent of all identifiable effects on 

public health or welfare which may be 

expected from the presence of [a] 

pollutant in the ambient air . . .’’ 42 

U.S.C. 7408(b). Under section 109 (42 

U.S.C. 7409), the EPA establishes 

primary (health-based) and secondary 

(welfare-based) NAAQS for pollutants 

for which air quality criteria are issued. 

Section 109(d) requires periodic review 

and, if appropriate, revision of existing 

air quality criteria. The EPA is also 

required to periodically review and, if 

appropriate, revise the NAAQS based on 

the revised criteria. Section 109(d)(2) 

requires that an independent scientific 

review committee ‘‘shall complete a 

review of the criteria . . . and the 

national primary and secondary ambient 

air quality standards . . . and shall 

recommend to the Administrator any 

new . . . standards and revisions of 

existing criteria and standards as may be 

appropriate. . . .’’ Since the early 

1980’s, this independent review 

function has been performed by the 

Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee (CASAC). 

Presently, the EPA is reviewing the 

primary NAAQS for SO2.1 The draft 

document, announced today, has been 

developed as part of the planning phase 

for the review. This phase began with a 

science policy workshop to identify 

issues and questions to frame the 

review.2 Drawing from the workshop 

discussions, the draft IRP has been 

prepared jointly by EPA’s National 

Center for Environmental Assessment, 

within the Office of Research and 

Development, and EPA’s Office of Air 

Quality Planning and Standards, within 

the Office of Air and Radiation. The 

draft IRP presents the current plan and 

specifies the schedule for the entire 

review, the process for conducting the 

review, and the key policy-relevant 

science issues that will guide the 

review. This document will be available 

on the EPA’s Technology Transfer 

Network (TTN) Web site at http://

www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/so2/

s_so2_index.htmlhttp://www.epa.gov/

ttn/naaqs/standards/pb/s_pb_

index.html, accessible in the 

‘‘Documents from Current Review’’ 

section under ‘‘Planning Documents.’’ 

The draft IRP is being made available 

for CASAC review and for public 

comment. Comments should be 

submitted to the docket, as described 

above, by April 17, 2014. Information 

about the CASAC review meeting on 

this planning document, including the 

dates and location, will be published as 

a separate notice in the Federal 

Register. The final IRP will be prepared 

after considering comments from 

CASAC and the public. This draft 

document does not represent and 

should not be construed to represent 

any final EPA policy, viewpoint or 

determination. 

Dated: March 6, 2014. 

Mary E. Henigin, 

Acting Director, Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards. 

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