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(1) The regulations have not changed 

over the past three years, and are not 

anticipated to change over the next 

three years; and (2) the growth rate for 

the industry is very low, so there is no 

significant change in the overall burden. 

However, there is a slight increase in the 

respondent labor costs due to the use of 

updated labor rates. 

Richard T. Westlund, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division. 

[FR Doc. 2013–29132 Filed 12–5–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OECA–2013–0329; FRL–9903– 

66–OEI] 

Information Collection Request 

Submitted to OMB for Review and 

Approval; Comment Request; NSPS 

for Rubber Tire Manufacturing 

(Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency has submitted an information 

collection request (ICR), ‘‘NSPS for 

Rubber Tire Manufacturing’’ (EPA ICR 

No. 1158.11, OMB Control No. 2060– 

0156), 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 

March 31, 2014. Public comments were 

requested previously, via the Federal 

Register (78 FR 33409) on June 4, 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 January 6, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–OECA–2013–0329, to: (1) EPA 

online, using www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), by email to: 

docket.oeca@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: 

Learia Williams, Monitoring, 

Assistance, and Media Programs 

Division, Office of Compliance, Mail 

Code 2227A, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 564–4113; fax number: 

(202) 564–0050; email address: 

williams.learia@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. 

Abstract: Respondents are owners or 

operators of rubber tire manufacturing 

plants which include each: under-tread 

cementing operation, sidewall 

cementing operation, tread end 

cementing operation, bead cementing 

operating, green tire spraying operation, 

Michelin-A operation, Michelin-B 

operation, and Michelin-C automatic 

operation. The standards require the 

submission of notification when 

conducting performance tests and 

periodic reporting including semiannual 

reports of excess emissions and annual 

reports of Method 24 formulation data. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: Rubber 

tire manufacturing facilities. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, subpart 

BBB). 

Estimated number of respondents: 41 

(total). 

Frequency of response: Initially, 

annually, and semiannually. 

Total estimated burden: 17,684 hours 

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

1320.3(b). 

Total estimated cost: $1,746,207 (per 

year), includes $16,400 annualized 

capital or operation & maintenance 

costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

adjustment increase in the respondent 

burden from the most-recently approved 

ICR. Based on consultation comments 

received in development of this ICR, the 

frequency of occurrence for burden 

items ‘‘monitoring of VOC emissions 

and operations’’ and ‘‘recording startup, 

shutdown, and malfunction’’ were 

revised to account for 350 days per year 

operation, which is typical for current 

plant operation in the industry sector. 

This results in an increase in 

respondent burden hours and costs. 

There is also a decrease of one burden 

hour for the Agency as a result of 

rounding. This ICR calculates all burden 

hours and costs to two decimal places 

and presents a more precise estimate. 

Richard T. Westlund, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division. 

[FR Doc. 2013–29133 Filed 12–5–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[ER–FRL–9012–4] 

Environmental Impact Statements; 

Notice of Availability 

RESPONSIBLE AGENCY: Office of 

Federal Activities, General Information 

(202) 564–7146 or http://www.epa.gov/

compliance/nepa/ 

Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact 

Statements 

Filed 11/25/2013 Through 11/29/2013 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9. 

Notice 

Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act 

requires that EPA make public its 

comments on EISs issued by other 

Federal agencies. EPA’s comment letters 

on EISs are available at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/eisdata.

html 

EIS No. 20130355, Draft EIS, USFS, UT, 

ADOPTION—TransWest Express 

Transmission Project, Comment 

Period Ends: 01/21/2014, Contact: 

Kenton Call 435–865–3730. 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 

Forest Service has adopted the U.S. 

Department of the Interior’s Bureau of 

Land Management and the U.S. 

Department of Energy’s Western Area 

Power Administration’s Draft EIS 

#20130180, filed 06/19/2013. The U.S. 

Forest Service was a cooperating agency 

for the project. Therefore, recirculation 

of the document is not necessary under 

Section 1506.3 of the CEQ Regulations. 

Amended Notices 

EIS No. 20130308, Draft EIS, USACE, 

NC, Morehead City Harbor Integrated 


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1The term ‘‘state’’ is defined in this document as 

defined in CERCLA section 101(27). 

2The term ‘‘Indian tribe’’ is defined in this 

document as it is defined in CERCLA section 

101(36). Intertribal consortia, as defined in the 

Federal Register Notice at 67 FR 67181, Nov. 4, 

2002, are also eligible for funding under CERCLA 

section 128(a). 

3Categorical grants are issued by the U.S. 

Congress to fund state and local governments for 

narrowly defined purposes. 

4The Agency may waive any provision of this 

guidance that is not required by statute, regulation, 

Executive Order or overriding Agency policies. 

Dredged Material Management Plan, 

Port of Morehead City, Comment 

Period Ends: 02/03/2014, Contact: 

Hugh Heine 910–251–4070. 

Revision to the FR Notice Published 

11/01/2013; Extending Comment Period 

from 12/16/2013 to 02/03/2014. 

EIS No. 20130325, Draft EIS, NPS, MO, 

Ozark National Scenic Riverways 

Draft General Management Plan, 

Wilderness Study, Comment Period 

Ends: 01/08/2014, Contact: William 

Black 573–323–4236. 

Revision to the FR Notice Published 

11/08/2013; Extending Comment Period 

from 12/30/2013 to 01/08/2014. 

Dated: December 3, 2013. 

Cliff Rader, 

Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office 

of Federal Activities. 

[FR Doc. 2013–29193 Filed 12–5–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9903–71–OSWER] 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation and Liability 

Act (CERCLA) or Superfund, Section 

128(a); Notice of Grant Funding 

Guidance for State and Tribal 

Response Programs for FY2014 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) will begin to accept 

requests, from December 9, 2013 

through January 31, 2014, for grants to 

supplement State and Tribal Response 

Programs. This notice provides 

guidance on eligibility for funding, use 

of funding, grant mechanisms and 

process for awarding funding, the 

allocation system for distribution of 

funding, and terms and reporting under 

these grants. EPA has consulted with 

state and tribal officials in developing 

this guidance. 

The primary goal of this funding is to 

ensure that state and tribal response 

programs include, or are taking 

reasonable steps to include, certain 

elements and a public record. Another 

goal is to provide funding for other 

activities that increase the number of 

response actions conducted or overseen 

by a state or tribal response program. 

This funding is not intended to supplant 

current state or tribal funding for their 

response programs. Instead, it is to 

supplement their funding to increase 

their response capacity. 

For fiscal year 2014, EPA will 

consider funding requests up to a 

maximum of $1.0 million per state or 

tribe. Subject to the availability of 

funds, EPA regional personnel will be 

available to provide technical assistance 

to states and tribes as they apply for and 

carry out these grants. 

DATES: This action is effective as of 

December 9, 2013. EPA expects to make 

non-competitive grant awards to states 

and tribes which apply during fiscal 

year 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Mailing addresses for EPA 

Regional Offices and EPA Headquarters 

can be located at www.epa.gov/ 

brownfields and at the end of this 

Notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and 

Emergency Response, Office of 

Brownfields and Land Revitalization, 

(202) 566–2745 or the applicable EPA 

Regional Office listed at the end this 

Notice. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

Section 128(a) of the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, 

Compensation, and Liability Act 

(CERCLA), as amended, authorizes a 

noncompetitive $50 million grant 

program to establish and enhance state 1

and tribal 2 response programs. CERCLA 

128(a) response program grants are 

funded with categorical 3 State and 

Tribal Assistance Grant (STAG) 

appropriations. Section 128(a) 

cooperative agreements are awarded and 

administered by the EPA regional 

offices. Generally, these response 

programs address the assessment, 

cleanup, and redevelopment of 

brownfields sites and other sites with 

actual or perceived contamination. This 

document provides guidance that will 

enable states and tribes to apply for and 

use fiscal year 2014 section 128(a) 

funds.4

The Catalogue of Federal Domestic 

Assistance entry for the section 128(a) 

State and Tribal Response Program 

cooperative agreements is 66.817. This 

grant program is eligible to be included 

in state and tribal Performance 

Partnership Grants under 40 CFR part 

35 Subparts A and B, with the exception 

of funds used to capitalize a revolving 

loan fund for brownfield remediation 

under section 104(k)(3); or purchase 

insurance or develop a risk sharing 

pool, an indemnity pool, or insurance 

mechanism to provide financing for 

response actions under a State or Tribal 

response program. 

Requests for funding will be accepted 

from December 9, 2013 through January 

31, 2014. Requests EPA receives after 

January 31, 2014 will not be considered 

for FY2014 funding. Information that 

must be submitted with the funding 

request is listed in Section VIII of this 

guidance. States or tribes that do not 

submit the request in the appropriate 

manner may forfeit their ability to 

receive funds. First time requestors are 

strongly encouraged to contact their 

Regional EPA Brownfields contacts, 

listed at the end of this guidance, prior 

to submitting their funding request. 

EPA will consider funding requests 

up to a maximum of $1.0 million per 

state or tribe for FY2014. 

Requests submitted by the January 31, 

2014 request deadline are preliminary; 

final cooperative agreement work plans 

and budgets will be negotiated with the 

regional offices once final funding 

allocation determinations are made. As 

in previous years, EPA will place 

special emphasis on reviewing a 

cooperative agreement recipient’s use of 

prior section 128(a) funding in making 

allocation decisions and unexpended 

balances are subject to 40 CFR 35.118 

and 40 CFR 35.518 to the extent 

consistent with this guidance. 

States and tribes requesting funds are 

required to provide a Dun and 

Bradstreet Data Universal Numbering 

System (DUNS) number with their 

cooperative agreement’s final package. 

For more information, please go to 

www.grants.gov. 

II. Background 

State and tribal response programs 

oversee assessment and cleanup 

activities at brownfields sites across the 

country. The depth and breadth of state 

and tribal response programs vary. 

Some focus on CERCLA related 

activities, while others are multifaceted, addressing sites regulated by 

both CERCLA and the Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). 

Many state programs also offer 

accompanying financial incentive 

programs to spur cleanup and 

redevelopment. In enacting CERCLA 


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