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total annual cost compared with that 

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appropriate Bureau of Labor Statistics 

table reflecting costs for the gasoline 

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Dated: March 16, 2010. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2010–0175; FRL–9128–8] 

Clean Water Act Section 303(d): Notice 

of Call for Public Comment on 303(d) 

Program and Ocean Acidification 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Request for Public Comment. 

SUMMARY: This notice solicits public 

comment on the effects of Ocean 

Acidification (OA) as it relates to the 

listing of impaired waters under Section 

303(d) of the Clean Water Act (CWA). 

Under Section 303(d) of the CWA, 

States, Territories, and authorized 

Tribes are required to develop lists of 

impaired waters and develop Total 

Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for the 

pollutant(s) causing the impairment. By 

this notice, EPA is soliciting input from 

the public on what considerations EPA 

should take into account when deciding 

how to address listing of waters as 

threatened or impaired for ocean 

acidification under the 303(d) program. 

Should EPA decide to issue guidance 

regarding the listing of waters as 

threatened or impaired for ocean 

acidification under the 303(d) program, 

EPA is using this opportunity to seek 

public comment on the specific 

assessment, monitoring and other 

elements under CWA that EPA should 

consider, as well as input on how EPA 

can take into account other Federal 

ocean acidification programs and 

initiatives when deciding how to 

approach ocean acidification under the 

303(d) program. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before May 21, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OW–2010–0175 by one of the following 

methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Clean Water Act Section 

303(d): Notice of Call for Public 

Comment on 303(d) Program and Ocean 

Acidification, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mailcode: 4503–T, 1200 

Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. 

• Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center 

Public Reading Room, EPA West, Room 

3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC. Such deliveries are 

only accepted during the Docket’s 

normal hours of operation (8:30 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

excluding legal holidays), and special 

arrangements should be made for 

deliveries of boxed information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OW–2010– 

0175. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change and may be 

made available online at http:// 

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 http:// 

www.regulations.gov. The http:// 

www.regulations.gov Web site is an 

‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means EPA will not know your identity 

or contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

If you send an e-mail comment directly 

to EPA without going through http:// 

www.regulations.gov your e-mail 

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, 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 EPA 

cannot read your comment due to 

technical difficulties and cannot contact 

you for clarification, 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 

viruses. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the http:// 

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 http:// 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the Clean Water Act Section 303(d): 

Notice of Call for Public Comment on 

303(d) Program and Ocean 

Acidification/EPA Docket Center Public 

Reading Room, EPA West, Room 3334, 

1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC. This Docket Facility is 

open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The Docket telephone number 

is (202) 566–1744. 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christine Ruf, Ecologist, Assessment 

and Watershed Protection Division, 

Watershed Branch (4503–T) 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1301 

Constitution Ave, NW. (MC 4503–T) 

Washington, DC; telephone number: 

(202) 566–1220; fax number: (202) 566– 

1437; e-mail address: 

WatershedProgram-OWOW@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does This Action Apply to Me? 

1. This information may be useful to 

Federal, State, Tribal, and Territorial 

managers of water quality programs, 

including the Total Maximum Daily 

Load [Clean Water Act 303(d)] program, 

and assessment and monitoring 

programs. 

2. This information may be useful to 

scientists and researchers involved in 

measuring and studying ocean 

acidification impacts. 

3. This information may be useful to 

ocean and coastal managers who are 

identifying effective strategies for 

Federal, State, and local officials to use 

to address the potential impacts of 

ocean acidification. 

B. What Should I Consider as I Prepare 

My Comments for EPA? 

Information submitted in response to 

this FR Notice should address the issue 

of ocean acidification and the CWA 

Section 303(d) program, including 

whether EPA should issue guidance 

regarding the listing of waters as 

threatened or impaired for ocean 

acidification, and what that potential 

guidance might entail. Commenters 

should also address any other 

implications that ocean acidification 

may have for the 303(d) program. 

Detailed information about the 303(d) 


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program can be found at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/OWOW/tmdl/. EPA is also 

soliciting scientific information, data 

and ideas for effective strategies for 

Federal, State, and local officials to use 

to address the potential impacts of 

ocean acidification thorough the 303(d) 

program. Specifically, EPA is requesting 

comment on the following: 

1. What considerations should EPA 

take into account when deciding how to 

address the listing of waters as 

threatened or impaired for ocean 

acidification under the 303(d) program? 

2. If EPA issues guidance regarding 

the listing of waters as threatened or 

impaired for ocean acidification under 

the 303(d) Program, what are the 

specific elements that EPA should 

consider? Should the Agency 

specifically consider the following: 

a. What surface water monitoring 

methods and programs are available to 

States to measure ocean acidification 

impacts? 

i. Are there emerging remote sensing 

technologies that might be particularly 

suited to gathering information about 

acidification of ocean waters? 

ii. Are there new programs for 

collecting information about 

acidification of marine waters off the 

U.S. coasts that could provide 

information useful to EPA or States in 

the next few years? 

b. What assessment methodologies are 

available for States to make attainment 

determinations consistent with water 

quality standards related to ocean 

acidification? 

c. How can States incorporate 

additional information on ocean 

acidification beyond site-specific 

measurements? (e.g. offshore and global 

surveys, experiments and field studies 

on representative species or ecosystems, 

models for ocean acidification and 

carbon dioxide emission trends, etc.) 

d. What other data and information is 

available for States to use in making 

decisions regarding whether waters are 

threatened or impaired for ocean 

acidification? 

3. How can States or EPA otherwise 

aid in monitoring ocean acidification 

and its impacts on marine life and 

ecosystems? 

4. If waters were determined to be 

threatened or impaired for ocean 

acidification under 303(d), what issues 

should EPA and States take into account 

when considering how to address TMDL 

development for such waters? 

5. What other Federal ocean 

acidification programs and initiatives 

(e.g. National Ocean Policy, 

Subcommittee on Integrated Ocean 

Resources (SIMOR), Joint Subcommittee 

on Ocean Science and Technology 

(JSOST), National Research Council 

report on Marine pH) should EPA take 

into account when deciding how to 

approach ocean acidification under the 

303(d) program? 

II. Background Information on the 

303(d) Program 

CWA Section 303(d) and supporting 

regulations (40 CFR 130.2 and 130.7) 

establish the Impaired Waters Listing 

and TMDL Program. The Impaired 

Waters Listing and TMDL Program is 

primarily a State-driven process with 

EPA oversight. Key stakeholders include 

the States, the NPDES regulated 

community, agricultural community, 

environmental organizations, watershed 

groups, municipalities, local 

government, Tribal agencies, and 

Federal land management agencies. 

Under this program, States, Territories, 

and authorized Tribes (collectively 

referred to in the CWA as ‘‘States’’) are 

required to develop lists every two years 

of water quality-limited waters needing 

a TMDL (e.g., 2008, 2010) and submit 

the lists to EPA. These are waters for 

which technology-based regulations and 

other required controls are not stringent 

enough to meet applicable water quality 

standards. 

In developing these lists, regulations 

at 40 CFR 130.7(b)(5) specify that each 

State shall assemble and evaluate all 

existing and readily available water 

quality related data and information to 

develop the list. At a minimum, ‘‘all 

existing and readily available water 

quality-related data and information’’ 

includes but is not limited to all of the 

following categories: 

(i) Waters identified in the most 

recent CWA Section 305(b) report as 

‘‘partially meeting’’ or ‘‘not meeting’’ 

designated uses, or as threatened; 

(ii) Waters for which dilution 

calculations or predictive models 

indicate nonattainment of applicable 

water quality standards; 

(iii) Waters for which water quality 

problems have been reported by local, 

State, or Federal agencies; members of 

the public; or academic institutions; and 

(iv) Waters identified by the State as 

impaired or threatened in a nonpoint 

assessment submitted to EPA under 

Section 319 of the CWA. 

EPA is required to approve or 

disapprove a State’s impaired waters 

list. If EPA disapproves a list, EPA must 

identify the impaired waters that should 

be listed. States are also required to 

establish priority rankings for waters on 

the lists and develop TMDLs for these 

waters. To date, about 44,000 waters are 

listed nationwide as impaired (http://

iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_

nation_cy.control?p_report_type=T). 

A TMDL is a calculation of the 

maximum amount of a pollutant that a 

water body can receive and still meet 

applicable water quality standards, and 

an allocation of that amount to the 

pollutant’s point (wasteload allocation) 

and nonpoint (load allocation) sources. 

States develop TMDLs for each 

waterbody/pollutant combination 

identified on the impaired waters list 

and submit the TMDLs to EPA. CWA 

Section 303(d) and supporting 

regulations do not specify a timeframe 

for States to develop TMDLs. However, 

EPA recommends that States develop 

TMDLs within 8 to 13 years from the 

time the waterbody/pollutant 

combination was initially listed on the 

State’s impaired waters list. EPA is 

required to approve or disapprove the 

State’s TMDLs. If EPA disapproves a 

TMDL, EPA must establish its own 

TMDL. To date, about 41,000 TMDLs 

have been developed nationwide 

(http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters10/

attains_nation_cy.control?p_

report_type=T). 

Under the TMDL Program, approved 

wasteload allocations for point sources 

must be implemented in applicable 

National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System (NPDES) permits. 

Load allocations for nonpoint sources 

are implemented through a wide variety 

of State, local, and Federal programs, 

which are primarily voluntary or 

incentive-based. 

III. Background on Ocean Acidification 

Ocean acidification refers to the 

decrease in the pH of the Earth’s oceans 

caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide 

(CO2) from the atmosphere. Ocean 

acidification is not a climate process, 

but instead directly affects ocean 

chemistry as seawater absorbs carbon 

dioxide from the atmosphere. Oceans 

have been absorbing about one-third of 

the anthropogenic CO2 emitted into the 

atmosphere since pre-industrial times 

(Sabine et al., 2009). Ocean acidification 

presents a suite of environmental 

changes that would likely negatively 

affect ocean ecosystems, fisheries, and 

other marine resources (Feely, 2001; 

Hendriks 2010; Wootton, 2008; and 

Federal Register, USEPA, 12/15/2009). 

Calcifying marine organisms may be 

adversely affected by future ocean 

acidification if declining carbonate 

saturation influences their ability to 

produce shells and skeletons out of 

calcium carbonate (Ridgwell, 2010). For 

instance, ocean acidification would 

likely reduce calcification rates in 

corals, and may affect shellfish species 

such as oysters, clams, and crabs 

(Cooper, 2008; Hoegh-Guldberg, 2007; 

and Gao, 2009). 


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Ocean acidification has emerged as a 

top priority within various Federal and 

international programs. Examples of a 

few key actions are described below. 

President Obama created an Interagency 

Ocean Policy Task Force on June 12, 

2009, to better meet our Nation’s 

stewardship responsibilities for the 

oceans, coasts and Great Lakes (White 

House Memo, June 12, 2009, online at 

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/ 

default/files/page/files/ 

2009ocean_mem_rel.pdf). The Task 

Force, on which EPA is playing a key 

role, is charged with developing 

recommendations within the next 

several years that include a national 

policy for our oceans and coasts, a 

framework for improved Federal policy 

coordination, and an implementation 

strategy to meet the objectives of a 

national ocean policy (http:// 

www.whitehouse.gov/administration/ 

eop/ceq/initiatives/oceans). 

The group is planning to release a 

final report that will recommend a new 

national ocean policy and will address 

nine ‘‘action’’ categories, including 

ocean acidification. On December 14, 

2009, the Task Force released its Interim 

Framework for Effective Coastal and 

Marine Spatial Planning (Interim 

Framework) for a 60-day public review 

and comment period. The Interim 

Framework offers a comprehensive, 

integrated approach to planning and 

managing uses and activities, and 

includes a number of important 

provisions that would significantly 

overhaul the Federal Government’s 

approach to coastal and marine 

planning (http://www.whitehouse.gov/ 

administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/ 

oceans/interim-framework). 

Second, on April 15, 2009, the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

published a Notice of Data Availability 

(NODA) in the Federal Register 

requesting data and information 

regarding ocean acidification and the 

adequacy of EPA’s existing 

recommended marine pH criterion 

(http://www.us-ocb.org/ 

EPA_OA_FR_Notice.pdf). EPA is 

reviewing the comments that were 

submitted, and expects to determine 

whether to revise marine pH criterion in 

the spring of 2010. Third, in June 2008 

the Interagency Working Group on 

Ocean Observations (IWGOO) was 

established by the Joint Subcommittee 

on Ocean Science and Technology 

(JSOST) of the National Science and 

Technology Council (NSTC) Committee 

on Environment and Natural Resources 

(CENR). The purpose of the IWGOO is 

to advise and assist the JSOST on 

matters related to ocean observations 

(http://www.ocean.us/IWGOO). 

Fourth, the National Research Council 

is scheduled to release a report in 2010, 

that will address research, monitoring 

and assessment of ocean acidification 

(http://www8.nationalacademies.org/ 

cp/projectview.aspx?key=49047). 

Finally, the Federal Ocean Acidification 

Research and Monitoring Act 

(‘‘FOARAM Act’’) (Spring 2009), 

mandates interagency collaboration to 

achieve national priorities related to 

ocean acidification. 

EPA is also directly involved in a 

number of other studies and 

partnerships to address ocean 

acidification, including: 

• EPA released ‘‘Stony Coral Rapid 

Bioassessment Protocol’’ (RBP) on July 

2007 (http://www.epa.gov/bioiweb1/ 

pdf/EPA–600–R–06– 

167StonyCoralRBP.pdf). 

• EPA is developing a technical 

guidance framework to aid States and 

Territories in their development, 

adoption, and implementation of coral 

reef biocriteria in their respective water 

quality standards. 

• EPA supported the development of 

the Coral Mortality and Bleaching 

Output (COMBO) model to project the 

effects of climate change on coral reefs 

by calculating impacts from changing 

sea surface temperature and CO2 

concentration, and from episodic high 

temperature bleaching events (R.W. 

Buddemeier, 2008). 

• EPA’s National Coastal Research 

and Monitoring Strategy (http:// 

www.epa.gov/ged/crc/epa620r-00– 

005u.pdf). 

• EPA’s National Coastal Condition 

Report (NCCR III) (http://www.epa.gov/ 

owow/oceans/nccr/). 

IV. Why Is EPA Requesting Comment 

on Ocean Acidification and the 303(d) 

Program at This Time? 

The Center for Biological Diversity 

(CBD) filed a complaint against EPA on 

May 14th, 2009 challenging EPA’s 

approval of Washington State’s 2008 

303(d) list citing failure to include 

coastal waters as impaired for marine 

pH [CBD v. EPA, No. 2:09cv670 (W. D. 

Wash)]. In addition, CBD has sent letters 

to 14 States and 2 Territories requesting 

that they list under CWA Section 303(d) 

all ocean waters impaired by ocean 

acidification, and revise their marine pH 

criteria. In response to this complaint, 

EPA is issuing this Federal Register 

notice seeking comments addressing 

ocean acidification under the CWA 

Section 303(d) program, including 

comments on whether EPA should issue 

guidance regarding the listing of waters 

as threatened or impaired for ocean 

acidification, and what that potential 

guidance might entail. EPA expects to 

make a decision by November 15, 2010, 

about how to proceed with regard to the 

interplay between ocean acidification 

and the 303(d) program based on 

information received from this FR 

notice as well as information from other 

ongoing Federal efforts that are taking 

place on issues related to ocean 

acidification, described above. 

V. References Related to 303(d) 

Program and Ocean Acidification 

Benjamin S. Halpern, et al., A global 

map of human impact on marine 

ecosystems. Science 319, 948 

(2008). 

Buddemeier, R.W., et al., A modeling 

tool to evaluate regional coral reef 

responses to changes in climate and 

ocean chemistry. Limnology and 

Oceanography Methods, 6:395–411 

(2008). 

Caldeira, K. Wickett M.E., 

Anthropogenic carbon and ocean 

pH. Nature 425:365 (2003). 

Cooper, T.F., et al., Declining coral 

calcification in massive Porites in 

two nearshore regions of the 

northern Great Barrier Reef. Global 

Change Biology 14, 529–538 (2008). 

Federal Register, Endangerment and 

Cause or Contribute Findings for 

Greenhouse Gases Under Section 

202(a) of the Clean Air Act. Vol. 74, 

No. 239, December 15, 2009. 

Available online at: http://

www.epa.gov/climatechange/

endangerment.html. 

Federal Register, Notice of data 

availability (NODA) on Ocean 

acidification and marine pH water 

quality criteria. Vol. 74, No. 71, 

April 15, 2009. Available online at: 

http://www.us-ocb.org/EPA_

OA_FR_Notice.pdf. 

Feely R.A., et al., Evidence for upwelling 

of corrosive ‘‘acidified’’ water onto 

the continental shelf. Science 

320:1490 (2008). 

Feely, R.A, et al., Impact of 

anthropogenic CO2 on the CaCO3

system in the oceans. Science, 305: 

pp 362–366 (2004). 

Gao, K. et al., Ocean acidification 

exacerbates the effect of UV 

radiation on the calcifying 

phytoplankter Emiliania huxleyi. 

Journal of the American Society of 

Limnology and Oceanography, 

54(6), 1855–1862 (2009). 

Hendriks, I.E., et al., Vulnerability of 

marine biodiversity to ocean 

acidification: A meta-analysis. 

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf 

Science 86 157–164 (2010). 

Hoegh-Guldberg, O. Coral reefs under 

rapid climate change and ocean 

acidification. Science, 318, 14 

(2007). 


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National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA) State of the 

science: Ocean acidification, May 

2008. Online: Accessed November 

3, 2009. Available at: http://

www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/OA/

Ocean_

Acidification%20FINAL.pdf. 

Obama, B., Memorandum for the Heads 

of Executive Departments and 

Agencies: National Policy for the 

Oceans, Our Coasts and the Great 

Lakes, Washington, DC, June 12, 

2009 Available online: http://

www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/

files/page/files/2009ocean_

mem_rel.pdf. 

Ridgwell, A. et al., Past constraints on 

the vulnerability of marine 

calcifiers to massive carbon dioxide 

release, Nature Geoscience, 

Advance online publication, 

February 14, 2010. Available online 

at: http://www.nature.com/

naturegeoscience. 

Sabine, C. et al., The oceanic sink for 

anthropogenic CO2, Science, 

305(5682), 367–371 (2004). 

United States Environmental Protection 

Agency (USEPA), Office of Water 

(OW). National Water Program 

Strategy: Response to Climate 

Change. September 2008. Available 

online at: http://www.epa.gov/

water/climatechange/strategy.html. 

United States Environmental Protection 

Agency (USEPA). Watershed 

Branch, AWPD, OWOW. Guidance 

for 2006 Assessment, Listing and 

Reporting Requirements Pursuant to 

Sections 303(d), 305(b) and 314 of 

the Clean Water Act. July 29, 2005. 

Available online at: http://

www.epa.gov/owow/tmdl/2006IRG/

report/2006irg-report.pdf. 

United States Environmental Protection 

Agency (USEPA). Watershed 

Branch, AWPD, OWOW. Guidance 

for 2004 Assessment, Listing and 

Reporting Requirements Pursuant to 

Sections 303(d) and 305(b) and 314 

of the Clean Water Act. July 21, 

2003. Available online at: http://

www.epa.gov/owow/tmdl/

tmdl0103/2004rpt_guidance.pdf. 

Washington State Department of 

Ecology. Assessment of Water 

Quality for the Clean Water Act 

Sections 303(d) and 305(b) 

Integrated Report. September 2006. 

Available online at: http://

www.ecy.wa.gov/Programs/wq/ 

303d/index.html. 

White House Council on Environmental 

Quality, Interim Report of The 

Interagency Ocean Policy Task 

Force. September 10, 2009. 

Available online at: http://

www.whitehouse.gov/assets/

documents/09_17_09_

Interim_Report_of_Task_Force_

FINAL2.pdf. 

White House Council on Environmental 

Quality, Interim Framework for 

Effective Coastal and Marine Spatial 

Planning, Interagency Ocean Policy 

Task Force. December 9, 2009. 

Available online at: http://

www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/ 

files/microsites/091209-InterimCMSP-Framework-Task-Force.pdf. 

Wootton, J.T., et al., Dynamic patterns 

and ecological impacts of declining 

ocean pH in a high-resolution 

multi-year dataset. Proceedings of 

the National Academy of Sciences, 

October 2008, Volume 105, No. 48, 

pp 18848–18853. 

Dated: March 15, 2010. 

Peter S. Silva, 

Assistant Administrator for Water. 

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