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Federal Register/Vol. 77, No. 102/Friday, May 25, 2012/Notices

7 Telephone record.

Dated: May 21, 2012.

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,

Deputy Secretary.

[FR Doe. 2012-12733 Filed 5-24-12; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717-01-P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[R08-CO-2012-0001; FRL-9676-4]

Adequacy Determination for Aspen

PM10 and Fort Collins Carbon

Monoxide Maintenance Plans' Motor

Vehicle Emissions Budgets for

Transportation Conformity Purposes;

State of Colorado

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of adequacy.

SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is

notifying the public that the Agency has

found the following adequate for

transportation conformity purposes: The

"Revised PM10 Maintenance Plan for the

Aspen Attainment/Maintenance Area" I

and its motor vehicle emissions budget,

and the "Revised Carbon Monoxide

Maintenance Plan Fort Collins

Attainment/Maintenance Area." As

more fully explained in the

Supplementary Information section of

this notice, this finding will affect future

transportation conformity

determinations.

DATES: This finding is effective June 11,

2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tim

Russ, Air Program, Mailcode 8P-AR,

Environmental Protection Agency,

Region 8, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver,

Colorado 80202-1129, telephone

number (303) 312-6479, fax number

(303) 312-6064, or email

russ. tim@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Throughout this document, whenever

"we," lus," or "our," are used, we mean

EPA.

Transportation conformity is required

by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act

(CAA). The conformity rule provisions

at 40 CFR 93 require that transportation

plans, programs, and projects conform

to a State Implementation Plan (SIP) and

establish the criteria and procedures for

determining whether or not they do.

Conformity to a SIP means that

transportation activities will not

produce new air quality violations,

1 PM 0 refers to particulate matter less than or

equal to 10 microns in size.

worsen existing violations, or delay

timely attainment of the National

Ambient Air Quality Standard

(NAAQS).

The criteria by which we determine

whether a SIP revision's motor vehicle

emissions budget (MVEB) is adequate

for conformity purposes are outlined in

40 CFR 93.118(e)(4), which was

promulgated August 15, 1997 (62 FR

43780). We described our process for

determining the adequacy of submitted

SIP MVEBs in our July 1, 2004

Transportation Conformity Rule

Amendments (69 FR 40004). In

addition, in certain areas with

monitored ambient carbon monoxide

(CO) values significantly below the

NAAQS, EPA has allowed states to use

limited maintenance plans (LMPs),

which contain no future year

maintenance projections and, therefore,

no MVEBs. (See "Limited Maintenance

Plan Option for Nonclassifiable CO

Nonattainment Areas," signed by Joseph

Paisie, Group Leader, Integrated Policy

and Strategies Group (MD-15), October

6, 1995, also known as EPA's "LMP

Policy.") In an area covered by an

approved carbon monoxide LMP, the

Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) and

Transportation Improvement Program

(TIP) are presumed to automatically

satisfy the emissions budget test

requirement, and no regional emissions

analysis with respect to a MVEB under

sections 40 CFR 93.118 or 93.119 (i.e.,

MVEB(s), build less than no-build, or

build less than base year) of the

conformity rule is required for RTP and

TIP conformity. We used these

resources in making our adequacy

determinations announced in this

notice.

This notice is simply an

announcement of findings that we have

already made and are as described

below:

Aspen (PMo): The State submitted the

"Revised PM10 Maintenance Plan for the

Aspen Attainment/Maintenance Area"

on May 25, 2011. The State prepared the

submittal to meet the requirements of

section 175A(b) of the CAA for a second

10-year maintenance plan. EPA sent a

letter to the Colorado Department of

Public Health and Environment

(CDPHE) on August 11, 2011, stating

that the submitted Aspen PM10 second

10-year maintenance plan and the 2023

p.m.io MVEB were adequate for

transportation conformity purposes. We

posted the "Revised PM10 Maintenance

Plan for the Aspen Attainment/

Maintenance Area" for adequacy review

on EPA's transportation conformity Web

site on June 20, 2011. The public

comment period closed on July 20,

2011, and we did not receive any

comments in response to the adequacy

review posting (see http://www.epa.govl

otaq/stateresources/transconf/

currsips.htm#aspen).

Fort Collins (Carbon Monoxide): The

State submitted the "Revised Carbon

Monoxide Maintenance Plan Fort

Collins Attainment/Maintenance Area"

on May 25, 2011. The State prepared the

submittal to meet the requirements of

section 175A(b) of the CAA for a second

10-year maintenance plan and used, as

appropriate, the provisions of EPA's CO

LMP policy. Thus, the LMP contains no

MVEB. EPA sent a letter to the CDPHE

on August 9, 2011, stating that the

submitted Fort Collins second 10-year

maintenance plan was adequate for

transportation conformity purposes. We

posted the "Revised Carbon Monoxide

Maintenance Plan Fort Collins

Attainment/Maintenance Area" for

adequacy review on EPA's

transportation conformity Web site on

June 20, 2011. The public comment

period closed on July 20, 2011, and we

did not receive any comments in

response to the adequacy review posting

(see http://www.epa.gov/otaql

stateresources/transconf/

currsips.htm#ftcollins).

For the Aspen PM10 maintenance

area, the MVEB we found adequate is

1146 pounds of PM1o per day in 2023.

Following the effective date listed in the

DATES section of this notice, the

Colorado Department of Transportation

and the U.S. Department of

Transportation are required to use this

motor vehicle emissions budget for

future transportation conformity

determinations for projects in the Aspen

PM10 maintenance area. As noted above,

the "Revised Carbon Monoxide

Maintenance Plan Fort Collins

Attainment/Maintenance Area"

contains no MVEB, and, under EPA's

LMP interpretation, the North Front

Range Metropolitan Planning

Organization, the Colorado Department

of Transportation, and the U.S.

Department of Transportation may

presume that RTPs and TIPs satisfy the

emissions budget test requirement with

respect to such revised plan. However,

prior MVEBs may apply as we described

in our adequacy letter to the State.

Please note that our adequacy review

described above is separate from our

rulemaking action on the two

maintenance plans discussed above and

should not be used to prejudge our

ultimate approval or disapproval of each

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of the SIP revisions. Even if we find a

maintenance plan or a maintenance

plan and its MVEB adequate for

transportation conformity purposes, we

may later disapprove the SIP revision.

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.

Dated: April 30, 2012.

James B. Martin,

Regional Administrator, Region 8.

[FR Doe. 2012-12797 Filed 5-24-12; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560-50-P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-SFUND-2005-0007, FRL-9678-2]

Agency Information Collection

Activities; Proposed Collection;

Comment Request; EPA Worker

Protection Standards for Hazardous

Waste Operations and Emergency

Response (Renewal)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document

announces that EPA is planning to

submit a request to renew an existing

approved Information Collection

Request (ICR) to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB). This

ICR is scheduled to expire on June 1,

2012. Before submitting the ICR to OMB

for review and approval, EPA is

soliciting comments on specific aspects

of the proposed information collection

as described below.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before July 24, 2012.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,

identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQSFUND-2005-0007 by one of the

following methods:

* www.regulations.gov: Follow the

on-line instructions for submitting

comments.

* Email: supeifund.docket@epa.gov.

* Fax: (202) 566-9744.

* Mail: EPA Docket Center,

Environmental Protection Agency,

Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460.

Instructions: Direct your comments to

Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-SFUND-2005-

0007. 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 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 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, 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. For additional information

about EPA's public docket visit the EPA

Docket Center homepage at http://

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sella M. Burchette, U.S. Environmental

Response Team, MS 101, Building 205,

Edison, NJ 08837, telephone number:

721-321-6726; fax number: 732-321-

6724; email address:

burchette.sella@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has

established a public docket for this ICR

under Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-SFUND2005-0007 established a public docket

for each of the ICRs identified in this

document (see the Docket ID. numbers

for each ICR that are provided in the

text, which is available for online

viewing at www.regulations.gov, or in

person viewing at the Superfund Docket

in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC),

EPA West, Room 3334, 1301

Constitution Ave. NW., Washington,

DC. The EPA/DC 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

Reading Room is 202-566-1744, and the

telephone number for the Superfund

Docket is 202-566-0276.

Use www.regulations.gov to obtain a

copy of the draft collection of

information, submit or view public

comments, access the index listing of

the contents of the docket, and to access

those documents in the public docket

that are available electronically. Once in

the system, select "search," then key in

the docket ID number identified in this

document.

Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of

the PRA, EPA specifically solicits

comments and information to enable it

to:

(i) Evaluate whether the proposed

collection of information is necessary

for the proper performance of the

functions of the Agency, including

whether the information will have

practical utility;

(ii) evaluate the accuracy of the

Agency's estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information,

including the validity of the

methodology and assumptions used;

(iii) enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and

(iv) minimize the burden of the

collection of information on those who

are to respond, including through the

use of appropriate automated electronic,

mechanical, or other technological

collection techniques or other forms of

information technology, e.g., permitting

electronic submission of responses. In

particular, EPA is requesting comments

from very small businesses (those that

employ less than 25) on examples of

specific additional efforts that EPA

could make to reduce the paperwork

burden for very small businesses

affected by this collection.

You may find the following

suggestions helpful for preparing your

comments:

1. Explain your views as clearly as

possible and provide specific examples.

2. Describe any assumptions that you

used.

3. Provide copies of any technical

information and/or data you used that

support your views.

4. If you estimate potential burden or

costs, explain how you arrived at the

estimate that you provide.

5. Offer alternative ways to improve

the collection activity.

6. Make sure to submit your

comments by the deadline identified

under DATES.

7. To ensure proper receipt by EPA,

be sure to identify the docket ID number

assigned to this action in the subject

line on the first page of your response.

You may also provide the name, date,

and Federal Register citation.

Affected entities: Entities potentially

affected by this action are those State

and local employees engaged in

hazardous waste operations and

emergency response in the 27 States that

do not have Occupational Safety and

Health Administration (OSHA)

approved State plans.

Title: EPA Worker Protection

Standards for Hazardous Waste

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