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RFS industry will submitt petitions for 

renewable fuel pathways to seek 

approval. The number in the respondent 

universe will decreased in all categories 

for the parties thus lessoning the 

reporting burden for its members. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[ER–FRL–9008–4] 

Environmental Impacts 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 03/18/2013 Through 03/22/2013 

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. 20130072, Final EIS, FHWA, 

AR, River Valley Intermodal 

Facilities, Review Period Ends: 05/13/ 

2013, Contact: Randal Looney 501– 

324–6430. 

EIS No. 20130073, Draft Supplement, 

NRC, WY Ross In-Situ Leach Recovery 

(ISR) Project, Supplement to the 

Generic Environmental Impact 

Statement for In-Situ Leach Uranium 

Milling Facilities, Comment Period 

Ends: 05/13/2013, Contact: Johari 

Moore 301–415–7694. 

EIS No. 20130074, Draft Supplement, 

FHWA, USACE, WV, King Coal 

Highway Delbarton to Belo Project 

and Buffalo Mountain Surface Mine 

Clean Water Act Section 404 Permit 

Application, Comment Period Ends: 

05/22/2013, Contact: Jason Workman 

(FHWA) 304–347–5928, Mark Taylor 

(USACE) 304–399–5610, Ben Hark 

(WVDOT) 304–558–2885. 

The U.S. Department of 

Transportation’s Federal Highway 

Administration and the U.S. Department 

of the Army’s Corps of Engineers and 

the West Virginia Department of 

Transportation’s Division of Highways 

are Joint-Lead Agencies for this project. 

EIS No. 20130075, Draft Supplement, 

NMFS, AK, Effects of Oil and Gas 

Activities in the Arctic Ocean, 

Comment Period Ends: 05/28/2013, 

Contact: Candace Nachman 301–427– 

8401. 

EIS No. 20130076, Draft EIS, USFS, AZ, 

Four-Forest Restoration Initiative 

Coconino and Kaibab National 

Forests, Comment Period Ends: 05/29/ 

2013, Contact: Henry Provencio (928) 

226–4684. 

EIS No. 20130077, Draft EIS, NPS, TX, 

Lake Meredith National Recreation 

Area and Alibates Flint Quarries 

National Monument Draft General 

Management Plan, Comment Period 

Ends: 05/28/2013, Contact: Erin 

Flanagan 303–969–2327. 

EIS No. 20130078, Final EIS, USFS, MT, 

Jack Rabbit to Big Sky Meadow 

Village 161 kV Transmission Line 

Upgrade, Review Period Ends: 04/29/ 

2013, Contact: Amy Waring 406–255– 

1451. 

EIS No. 20130079, Draft EIS, BLM, MT, 

Billings and Pompeys Pillar National 

Monument Resource Management 

Plan, Comment Period Ends: 06/27/ 

2013, Contact: Carolyn Sherve-Bybee 

406–896–5234. 

Dated: March 26, 2013. 

Aimee S. Hessert, 

Deputy Director, NEPA Compliance Division, 

Office of Federal Activities. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

Safe Drinking Water Act Sole Source 

Aquifer Program; Designation of 

Bainbridge Island, Washington as a 

Sole Source Aquifer 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Final determination. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

pursuant to Section 1424(e) of the Safe 

Drinking Water Act, the Administrator 

of the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) has determined that the 

Bainbridge Island Aquifer System 

located in Kitsap County, Washington is 

the sole or principle source of drinking 

water for the citizens of Bainbridge 

Island and that this aquifer system, if 

contaminated would create a significant 

hazard to public health. As a result of 

this action, all Federal financially 

assisted projects constructed on 

Bainbridge Island will be subject to EPA 

review to ensure that these projects are 

designed and constructed so they do not 

create a significant hazard to public 

health. 

DATES: This determination shall be 

effective on March 29, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: All documents relating to 

this determination are available for 

inspection by the public during normal 

business hours at the U.S. EPA Library, 

Region 10, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, 

Washington 98101 between the hours of 

9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. and 1:00–4:00 p.m. 

and at the Bainbridge Island library at 

1270 Madison Avenue North, 

Bainbridge Island. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Susan Eastman, EPA Region 10, 

Drinking Water Unit, by mail at the 

Seattle address given above, by 

telephone at (206) 553–6249, or by 

email at Eastman.susan@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 1424(e) of the Safe Drinking 

Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300h3(e), Public 

Law 93–523 of December 16, 1974) 

states: 

If the Administrator determines, on his 

own initiative or upon petition, that an area 

has an aquifer which is the sole or principal 

drinking water source for the area and which, 

if contaminated, could create a significant 

hazard to public health, he shall publish a 

notice of the determination in the Federal 

Register. After the publication of any such 

notice, no commitment for Federal financial 

assistance (through a grant, contract, loan 

guarantee, or otherwise) may be entered into 

for any project which the Administrator 

determines may contaminate such aquifer 

through a recharge zone so as to create a 

significant hazard to public health, but a 

commitment for Federal financial assistance 

may, if authorized under another provision of 

law, be entered into to plan or design the 

project to assure that it will not so 

contaminate the aquifer. 

On August 5, 2009, EPA received a 

petition from two citizens of Bainbridge 

Island requesting designation of the 

Bainbridge Island Aquifer System as a 

Sole Source Aquifer (SSA). On April 20, 

2012, EPA published a notice in the 

Bainbridge Islander newspaper and 

mailed fact sheets to island residents 

which served to announce the public 

comment period. The public was 

permitted to submit comments and 

information on the petition from April 

20 through June 4, 2012. Public 

comments received by EPA were 

generally in support of the designation. 

II. Basis for Determination 

EPA defines a sole or principle source 

aquifer as an aquifer or aquifer system 

which supplies at least 50 percent of the 

drinking water consumed in the area 

overlying the aquifer, and for which 

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there is no alternative source or 

combination of alternative drinking 

water sources which could physically, 

legally and economically supply those 

dependent upon the aquifer (U.S. EPA, 

1987, Sole Source Aquifer Designation 

Decision Process, Petition Review 

Guidance). 

Among the factors considered by the 

Regional Administrator in connection 

with the designation of an area under 

Section 1424(e) are: (1) Whether the 

Bainbridge Island Aquifer System is the 

area’s sole or principal source of 

drinking water and (2) whether 

contamination of the aquifer system 

would create a significant hazard to 

public health. On the basis of technical 

information available to the EPA, the 

Regional Administrator has made the 

following findings in favor of 

designating the Bainbridge Island 

Aquifer System a SSA: 

1. The Bainbridge Island Aquifer 

System currently serves more than 

23,000 residents of Bainbridge Island. 

One hundred percent of the current 

population obtains their drinking water 

from the petitioned aquifer system 

either from individual wells or from one 

of the more than 150 water systems on 

the island. 

2. There is no existing alternative 

drinking water source or combination of 

sources which supply drinking water to 

the designated area, nor is there any 

available cost effective future source 

capable of supplying the drinking water 

demands for the population served by 

the aquifer service area. No potential 

surface water bodies exist to provide a 

source of drinking water, piping water 

from the Kitsap Peninsula across Agate 

Pass Bridge to Bainbridge Island is costprohibitive and installation of a 

desalination plant is too costly. 

3. Since groundwater contamination 

can be difficult or sometimes impossible 

to reverse and since the Bainbridge 

community relies on the Bainbridge 

Aquifer System for drinking water 

purposes, contamination of the aquifer 

system would pose a significant public 

health hazard. 

The legal and technical basis for the 

proposal was outlined in an EPA 

publication titled: ‘‘Support Document 

for Sole Source Aquifer Designation of 

the Bainbridge Island Aquifer System’’. 

III. Description of the Bainbridge Island 

Aquifer System 

The petitioned area includes all of 

Bainbridge Island. The island is a mix 

of developed land and forests. Six 

principal aquifers make up the 

Bainbridge Island Aquifer System. On 

island precipitation recharges the 

aquifers and is the only source of 

recharge for lakes, ponds, and streams. 

The island has a total of 53 miles of 

seawater shoreline and the aquifer area 

is bounded on all sides by Puget Sound. 

Interior plateaus reach maximum 

elevations of 300 to 400 feet above mean 

sea level. The island can be divided into 

12 drainage basins. Large volumes of 

unconsolidated glacial and interglacial 

materials from at least six advances and 

retreats of Pleistocene continental 

glaciers over the last 300,000 years has 

shaped the present-day landscape and 

underlying hydrostratigraphy of the 

island and are host to the aquifers on 

Bainbridge Island. The aquifer system is 

vulnerable to contamination from 

potential seawater intrusion, accidental 

spills, petroleum projects, small 

hazardous waste generators, household 

hazardous waste disposal, leachate from 

the closed island landfill, leachate from 

the Wyckoff Superfund site in Eagle 

Harbor, failing septic systems, 

fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides and 

improperly abandoned wells. 

Bainbridge Island’s hydrogeologic 

characteristics are similar to the 

following Puget Sound islands whose 

aquifers have already been designated as 

SSA’s by EPA: Camano, Whidbey, 

Marrowstone, Guemes and VashonMaury. Please see the Support 

Document for a more detailed 

hydrogeologic description. 

IV. Information Utilized in 

Determination 

The information utilized in this 

determination include the petition; U.S. 

Geological Survey, 2011, Conceptual 

Model and Numerical Simulation of the 

Groundwater-Flow system of Bainbridge 

Island, Washington, Scientific 

Investigations Report 2011–5021, 96 

pages; Washington Department of 

Ecology, 2011a, Confirmed and 

Suspected Contaminated Sites List, 

Bainbridge Island City Strawberry Plant 

Site, August 16; EPA guidance 

documents and the City of Bainbridge 

Water Resource Study (2000). For a 

complete list of references used by the 

petitioner see the Support Document. 

V. Project Review 

Publication of this determination 

requires that EPA review proposed 

projects with Federal financial 

assistance in order to ensure that such 

projects do not have the potential to 

contaminate the Bainbridge Island SSA 

so as to create a significant hazard to 

public health. Proposed projects that are 

funded entirely by state, local, or private 

concerns are not subject to SSA review 

by EPA. EPA does not review all 

possible Federal financially-assisted 

projects but tries to focus on those 

projects which pose the greatest risk to 

public health. Memorandums of 

Understanding between EPA and 

various Federal funding agencies help 

identify, coordinate and evaluate 

projects. 

VI. Summary 

Today’s action affects the Bainbridge 

Island Aquifer System located on 

Bainbridge Island, Kitsap County, 

Washington. Projects with federal 

financial assistance proposed within the 

Bainbridge Island Aquifer System will 

be reviewed to ensure that their 

activities will not endanger public 

health through contamination of the 

aquifer. A public notice regarding the 

SSA designation request was published 

in the Bainbridge Islander newspaper 

on April 20, 2012. Seven comments 

were received all in general support of 

the designation of the Bainbridge Island 

Aquifer System. 

Authority: Section 1424(e) of the Safe 

Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300h3(e), Pub. 

L. 93–523 of December 16, 1974 

Dated: March 21, 2013. 

Rick Albright, 

Acting Regional Administrator. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE 

AGENCY 

[No. 2013–N–04] 

Notice of Annual Adjustment of the 

Cap on Average Total Assets That 

Defines Community Financial 

Institutions 

AGENCY: Federal Housing Finance 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Housing Finance 

Agency (FHFA) has adjusted the cap on 

average total assets that defines a 

‘‘Community Financial Institution’’ 

based on the annual percentage increase 

in the Consumer Price Index for all 

urban consumers (CPI–U) as published 

by the Department of Labor (DOL). 

These changes took effect on January 1, 

2013. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Patricia L. Sweeney, Division of Federal 

Home Loan Bank Regulation, (202) 649– 

3311, Pat.Sweeney@fhfa.gov, or Eric M. 

Raudenbush, Assistant General Counsel, 

(202) 649–6421, 

Eric.Raudenbush@fhfa.gov, (not toll-free 

numbers), Federal Housing Finance 

Agency, Constitution Center, 400 

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20024. 

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