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Western-UGP supports the 

installation of renewable sources of 

energy but recognizes that certain 

operational constraints exist in 

managing the significant fluctuations 

that are a normal part of their operation. 

Western-UGP has marketed the 

maximum practical amount of power 

from each of its projects, leaving little or 

no flexibility for provision of additional 

power services. Consequently, WesternUGP will not regulate for the difference 

between the output of an intermittent 

resource located within the WAUW and 

a delivery schedule from that generator 

serving load located outside of the 

WAUW. Intermittent resources serving 

load outside Western-UGP’s WAUW 

will be required to be pseudo-tied or 

dynamically scheduled to another 

Balancing Authority Area. 

An intermittent resource, for the 

limited purpose of this Rate Schedule, 

is an electric generator that is not 

dispatchable and cannot store its fuel 

source and, therefore, cannot respond to 

changes in demand or respond to 

transmission security constraints. 

Formula Rate 

For deviations within ± 1.5 percent 

(with a minimum of 2 MW) of the 

scheduled transaction to be applied 

hourly to any generator imbalance that 

occurs as a result of the SPP 

Transmission Customer’s scheduled 

transaction(s) will be netted on a 

monthly basis and settled financially, at 

the end of the month, at 100 percent of 

the average incremental cost. 

Deviations greater than ± 1.5 percent 

up to 7.5 percent (or greater than 2 MW 

up to 10 MW) of the scheduled 

transaction to be applied hourly to any 

generator imbalance that occurs as a 

result of the SPP Transmission 

Customer’s scheduled transaction(s) 

will be settled financially, at the end of 

each month. When energy delivered in 

a schedule hour from the generation 

resource is less than the energy 

scheduled, the charge is 110 percent of 

incremental cost. When energy 

delivered from the generation resource 

is greater than the scheduled amount, 

the credit is 90 percent of the 

incremental cost. 

Deviations greater than ± 7.5 percent 

(or 10 MW) of the scheduled transaction 

to be applied hourly to any generator 

imbalance that occurs as a result of the 

SPP Transmission Customer’s 

scheduled transaction(s) will be settled 

at 125 percent of Western-UGP’s highest 

incremental cost for the day when 

energy delivered in a schedule hour is 

less than the energy scheduled or 75 

percent of Western-UGP’s lowest daily 

incremental cost when energy delivered 

from the generation resource is greater 

than the scheduled amount. As an 

exception, an intermittent resource will 

be exempt from this deviation band and 

will pay the deviation band charges for 

all deviations greater than the larger of 

1.5 percent or 2 MW. 

Deviations from scheduled 

transactions responding to directives by 

the Transmission Provider, a Balancing 

Authority, or a reliability coordinator 

shall not be subject to the deviation 

bands identified above and, instead, 

shall be settled financially, at the end of 

the month, at 100 percent of 

incremental cost. Such directives may 

include instructions to correct 

frequency decay, respond to a reserve 

sharing event, or change output to 

relieve congestion. 

Western-UGP’s incremental cost will 

be based upon a representative hourly 

energy index or combination of indexes. 

The index to be used will be posted on 

the applicable SPP Web site and/or 

SPP’s Open Access Same-Time 

Information System (OASIS) at least 30 

days before use for determining the 

Western-UGP incremental cost and will 

not be changed more often than once 

per year unless Western-UGP 

determines that the existing index is no 

longer a reliable price index. 

The pricing and charge for deviations 

in the deviation bandwidths is as 

specified above. Data used and the 

charges resulting from using this 

formula will be posted on the applicable 

SPP Web site and/or SPP OASIS. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2004–0019; FRL–9931–21– 

OW] 

Request for Scientific Views: Draft 

Recommended Aquatic Life Ambient 

Water Quality Chronic Criterion for 

Selenium—Freshwater 2015 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is opening the comment 

period for the Agency’s draft 

recommended aquatic life water quality 

chronic criterion for selenium in 

freshwater. EPA released a previous 

draft entitled ‘‘External Peer Review 

Draft Aquatic Life Ambient Water 

Quality Criterion for Selenium— 

Freshwater, 2014’’ for public comment 

on May 14, 2014. EPA received 

scientific views from the public and 

stakeholders, and convened a 

contractor-led expert external peer 

review. EPA considered the results from 

the expert peer review and scientific 

views and comments from the public 

and stakeholders to develop the current 

draft document, which is now available 

for comment. Following closure of this 

public comment period, EPA will 

consider scientific views from the 

public on this draft document as well as 

any new data or information received. 

EPA will then publish Federal Register 

notice(s) announcing the availability of 

the final selenium criterion. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before September 25, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OW–2004–0019, by one of the following 

methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: ow-docket@epa.gov. 

Attention Docket No. EPA–HQ–OW– 

2004–0019. 

• Fax: 202–566–1140. 

• Mail: EPA Water Docket, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Mailcode 2822–IT 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20640, 

Attention Docket No. EPA–HQ–OW– 

2004–0019. Please include a total of two 

copies (including references). 

• Hand Delivery: EPA Water Docket, 

EPA Docket Center, William Jefferson 

Clinton West Building, Room 3334, 

1301 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20004, Docket No. 

EPA–HQ–OW–2004–0019. 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–2004–0019]. 

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 ow-docket@epa.gov. 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 


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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 FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kathryn Gallagher, Ph.D., Office of 

Water, Health and Ecological Criteria 

Division (4304T), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone: (202) 564–1398; fax: 202– 

566–1140, or email: gallagher.kathryn@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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 EPA–HQ–OW–2004–0019 Docket, 

EPA/DC, EPA West, 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 EPA– 

HQ–OW–2004–0019 is (202) 566–2426. 

For additional information about EPA’s 

public docket, visit the EPA Docket 

Center homepage at http://

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

GENERAL INFORMATION: 

I. What are recommended water quality 

criteria? 

EPA’s recommended water quality 

criteria are scientifically derived 

numeric values that protect aquatic life 

or human health from the deleterious 

effects of pollutants in ambient water. 

Section 304(a)(1) of the Clean Water Act 

(CWA) requires EPA to develop and 

publish and, from time to time, revise, 

criteria for protection of aquatic life and 

human health that accurately reflect the 

latest scientific knowledge. Water 

quality criteria developed under section 

304(a) are based solely on data and 

scientific judgments on the relationship 

between pollutant concentrations and 

environmental and human health 

effects. Section 304(a) criteria do not 

reflect consideration of economic 

impacts or the technological feasibility 

of meeting pollutant concentrations in 

ambient water. 

EPA’s recommended section 304(a) 

criteria provide technical information to 

states and authorized tribes in adopting 

water quality standards (WQS) that 

ultimately provide a basis for assessing 

water body health and controlling 

discharges or releases of pollutants. 

Under the CWA and its implementing 

regulations, states and authorized tribes 

are to adopt water quality criteria to 

protect designated uses (e.g., public 

water supply, aquatic life, recreational 

use, or industrial use). EPA’s 

recommended water quality criteria do 

not substitute for the CWA or 

regulations, nor are they regulations 

themselves. EPA’s recommended 

criteria do not impose legally binding 

requirements. States and authorized 

tribes have the discretion to adopt, 

where appropriate, other scientifically 

defensible water quality criteria that 

differ from these recommendations. 

II. What is Selenium and why is EPA 

concerned about it? 

Selenium is a naturally occurring 

chemical element that is nutritionally 

essential in small amounts, but toxic at 

higher concentrations. Selenium can be 

released to the environment by a 

number of anthropogenic sources, such 

as coal mining, coal-fired power plants 

(fly ash), irrigated agriculture, and 

phosphate mining. Selenium is a 

bioaccumulative pollutant. Fish and 

other aquatic organisms are exposed to 

and accumulate selenium primarily 

through their diet, and not directly 

through water. Selenium toxicity in fish 

occurs primarily through maternal 

transfer to the eggs and subsequent 

reproductive effects. Consequently, EPA 

is updating its national recommended 

chronic aquatic life criterion for 

selenium in freshwater to reflect the 

latest scientific information, which 

indicates that selenium toxicity to 

aquatic life is primarily driven by 

organisms consuming seleniumcontaminated food rather than by being 

directly exposed to selenium dissolved 

in water. 

III. Information on the Draft Aquatic 

Life Ambient Water Quality Criterion 

for Selenium—Freshwater 2015 

EPA prepared a draft aquatic life 

criterion document for selenium based 

on the latest scientific information and 

current EPA policies and methods, 

including EPA’s Guidelines for Deriving 

Numerical National Water Quality 

Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic 

Organisms and Their Uses (1985) (EPA/ 

R–85–100) and Guidelines for Ecological 

Risk Assessment (1998) (EPA/630/R–95/ 

002F). Toxicity data and other 

information on the effects of selenium 

were obtained from reliable sources and 

subjected to both internal and, in some 

cases, external peer review. EPA 

considered public comments previously 

collected in response to EPA’s 2004 

notice of availability (published on 

December 17, 2004 at 69 FR 75541) and 

new toxicity data for selenium 

developed in response to those 

comments (EPA–822–F–08–005) in the 

development of the external peer review 

draft criterion document. EPA also 

considered information submitted in 

2014 during the external peer review 

and public comment on the ‘‘External 

Peer Review Draft,’’ including 

additional toxicity data, in developing 

the current draft criterion. 

The draft criterion has four elements 

(Table 1), consisting of two fish tissuebased and two water column-based 

elements. The draft criterion document 

contains a recommendation that states 

and authorized tribes adopt into their 

WQS a selenium criterion that includes 

all four elements. Because fish tissuebased concentration is a more direct 

measure of selenium toxicity to aquatic 

life than water column concentrations, 

EPA recommends that fish tissue 

elements be given precedence over the 

water column elements when both types 

of data are available, except in certain 

situations. 

The available data indicate that 

freshwater aquatic life would be 

protected from the toxic effects of 

selenium by applying the following 

four-element criterion: 

1. The concentration of selenium in 

the eggs or ovaries of fish does not 

exceed 15.8 mg/kg, dry weight; 

2. The concentration of selenium (a) 

in whole-body of fish does not exceed 

8.0 mg/kg dry weight, or (b) in muscle 

tissue of fish (skinless, boneless fillet) 

does not exceed 11.3 mg/kg dry weight; 

3. The 30-day average concentration 

of selenium in water does not exceed 

3.1 mg/L in lotic (flowing) waters and 1.2 

mg/L in lentic (standing) waters more 

than once in three years on average; 


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4. The intermittent concentration of 

selenium in water does not exceed 

The draft criterion document does not 

include a draft acute criterion (based on 

water-only exposure) because selenium 

is bioaccumulative and toxicity 

primarily occurs through dietary 

exposure. EPA will consider the public 

comments, revise the document as 

necessary, and issue a final updated 

selenium criterion document. This draft 

criterion document does not represent 

and should not be construed to 

represent any final EPA policy, 

viewpoint, or determination. 

IV. What is the relationship between 

the Draft Chronic Water Quality 

Criterion and Your State or Tribal 

Water Quality Standards? 

As part of the WQS triennial review 

process defined in section 303(c)(1) of 

the CWA, the states and authorized 

tribes are responsible for maintaining 

and revising WQS. Standards consist of 


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WQCint = WQCw-day- Cbckgrnd (1- lnf more than once in three years on average. 

fint 

Table 1. 2015 Draft Selenium Chronic Criterion (Freshwater) 

Media Fish Tissue Water Column_, 

Type 

Criterion Egg/Ovary1 Fish Whole Chronic Intermittent Exposure4 

Element Body or 

Muscle2 

Magnitude 15.8 mg/kg 8.0 mg/kg 1.2 11g/L in 

whole body lentic aquatic = 

or systems 

11.3 mg/kg rQcBO·-u«) ·bl!~(l 

muscle 3.1 11g/L in lotic f 

(skinless, aquatic systems 

boneless filet) 

f r»t) 

Duration Instantaneous Instantaneous 30 days Number of days/month with 

measurements measurements an elevated concentration 

Frequency Never to be Never to be Not more than Not more than once in three 

exceeded exceeded once in three years on average 

years on 

average 1 Overrides any whole-body, muscle, or water column element when egg/ovary concentrations are measured, except 

in certain situations. See footnote 3. 2 Overrides any water column element when both fish tissue and water concentrations are measured, except in 

certain situations. See footnote 3. 3 Water column values are based on dissolved total selenium (includes all oxidation states, i.e., selenite, selenate, 

organic selenium and any other forms) in water. Water column values have primacy over fish tissue values under 

two circumstances: (1) "Fishless waters" (waters where fish have been extirpated, or where physical habitat and/or 

flow regime cannot sustain fish); and (2) New or increased inputs of selenium until equilibrium is reached. 4 Where WQC3o-day is the water-column chronic element, Cbkgmd is the average background selenium concentration, 

and fint is the fraction of any 30-day period during which elevated selenium concentrations occur, with fint assigned a 

value 2:0.033 (corresponding to 1 day). 5 Instantaneous measurement. Fish tissue data provide point measurements that reflect integrative accumulation of 

selenium over time and space in the fish at a given site. Selenium concentrations in fish tissue are expected to 

change only gradually over time in response to enviromnental fluctuations. 
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designated uses, water quality criteria to 

protect those uses, a policy for 

antidegradation, and may include 

general policies for application and 

implementation. Section 303(c)(1) 

requires states and authorized tribes to 

review and modify, if appropriate, their 

WQS at least once every three years. 

States and authorized tribes must 

adopt water quality criteria that protect 

designated uses. Protective criteria are 

based on a sound scientific rationale 

and contain sufficient parameters or 

constituents to protect the designated 

uses. Criteria may be expressed in either 

narrative or numeric form. States and 

authorized tribes have four options 

when adopting water quality criteria for 

which EPA has published section 304(a) 

criteria. They can: 

(1) Establish numerical values based 

on recommended section 304(a) criteria; 

(2) Adopt section 304(a) criteria 

modified to reflect site-specific 

conditions; 

(3) Adopt criteria derived using other 

scientifically defensible methods; or 

(4) Establish narrative criteria where 

numeric criteria cannot be established 

or to supplement numerical criteria (40 

CFR 131.11(b)). 

It is important for states and 

authorized tribes to consider any new or 

updated section 304(a) criteria as part of 

their triennial review to ensure that 

state or tribal WQS reflect current 

science and protect applicable 

designated uses. The recommendations 

in the draft selenium criterion 

document may change based on 

scientific views shared in response to 

this notice. Upon finalization, the 

updated selenium criterion would 

supersede EPA’s previous 304(a) 

freshwater criteria for selenium. 

Consistent with 40 CFR 131.21, new 

or revised water quality criteria adopted 

into law or regulation by states and 

authorized tribes on or after May 30, 

2000 are in effect for CWA purposes 

only after EPA approval. 

To support EPA’s upcoming CWA 

section 304(a) ambient water quality 

criteria recommendations for selenium, 

EPA is developing informational 

materials to aid state and tribal 

adoption. These informational materials 

will be released when the final selenium 

criterion is published. 

V. Solicitation of Scientific Views 

EPA is soliciting additional scientific 

views, data, and information regarding 

the science and technical approach used 

by the Agency in the derivation of this 

draft freshwater chronic criterion for 

selenium. The Agency has identified 

two particular issues (detailed below), 

for which additional data and 

information are solicited. 

1. Request for Additional Data and 

Information Related to the Sensitivity of 

Cyprinids (Minnow Species) to 

Selenium 

During the 2014 public comment 

process, EPA received comments that 

included data on zebrafish (Danio rerio) 

toxicity testing with selenium. (Public 

comment EPA–HQ–OW–2004–0019– 

0354; http://www.regulations.gov/). The 

commenters suggested that the data be 

used by the EPA in its revision of the 

egg-ovary criterion element, since the 

zebrafish study was a maternal transfer 

study similar to those used in the 

external peer review draft. In response 

to the comments, EPA solicited the 

study and all underlying data from the 

authors of the study referenced by the 

commenters (Thomas and Janz, 2014). 

EPA undertook a comprehensive data 

review of the study and data. 

During its review, EPA identified 

concerns regarding the concentration 

response curve of the zebrafish toxicity 

test compared to the other fish species 

toxicity tests that EPA used in 

derivation of the 2014 draft criterion. 

The zebrafish data showed an 

anomalously shallow concentration 

response curve compared to data from 

all other tested fish species. Further, 

high control mortality (47%) at the end 

of the study raised concerns about the 

study design as well as the health of the 

fish at the time of testing. In addition, 

since the zebrafish is a non-native 

cyprinid species, EPA assessed the 

information available on zebrafish 

sensitivity to selenium compared to the 

sensitivity of native cyprinid (minnow) 

species across the United States 

(Appendix D in the criteria document), 

including several studies where native 

cyprinids were investigated in 

selenium-impacted waters. Data from 

these studies suggest that native 

cyprinids are likely less sensitive to 

selenium than the currently available 

non-native zebrafish data suggest. The 

results of the study, particularly a 

comparison of the concentration 

response relationships of zebrafish vs. 

all of the other fish species for which we 

have similar data, raises a concern. 

Given these concerns, EPA has not 

used the zebrafish data quantitatively in 

the derivation of the revised criterion. 

EPA seeks additional information on 

cyprinid taxa sensitivity to selenium, 

and particularly additional data on 

zebrafish. These studies should be 

submitted to the docket in similar 

fashion as scientific views on the 

criterion document. EPA will then 

consider this information in finalizing 

the selenium criterion document. 

2. Request for Additional Data and 

Information on the Dynamics of 

Selenium Equilibrium in Lentic and 

Lotic Waters Related to New or 

Increased Selenium Inputs 

EPA’s draft selenium water quality 

criterion recommends that elements 

based on fish tissue (egg-ovary, whole 

body, and/or muscle) data should 

override the criterion elements based on 

selenium water column data. The 

criterion is structured this way because 

fish tissue concentrations generally 

provide the most robust and direct 

information on potential selenium 

effects in fish. However, because 

selenium concentrations in fish tissue 

are a result of selenium 

bioaccumulation via dietary exposure, 

there are specific circumstances where 

the fish tissue concentrations are not 

expected to fully represent potential 

effects on fish and the aquatic 

ecosystem: Waters with new or 

increased selenium inputs, prior to 

equilibrium within the food web; and 

‘‘fishless waters’’ (waters where fish 

have been extirpated or where physical 

habitat and/or flow regime cannot 

sustain fish). 

For the purposes of EPA’s draft 

recommendations, EPA considers new 

inputs to be new activities resulting in 

selenium being released into a lentic or 

lotic waterbody. Increased inputs are 

increases from a current activity in 

which selenium is being released into a 

lentic or lotic waterbody. New or 

increased inputs of selenium into the 

water and hence into the food web, 

likely will result in increased 

bioaccumulation of selenium in fish 

over a period of time until the selenium 

from the new or increased selenium 

release achieves a quasi-‘‘steady state’’ 

balance within the food web. EPA 

estimates that concentrations of 

selenium in fish tissue will not 

represent a ‘‘steady state’’ for up to 

several months in lotic systems, and 

longer time periods (e.g., 2 to 3 years) 

in lentic systems, dependent upon the 

size and bathymetry of a given system; 

the location of the selenium input 

related to the shape and internal 

circulation of the waterbody, 

particularly in reservoirs with multiple 

riverine inputs; and the particular food 

web. EPA recommends that in 

implementing a selenium water quality 

criterion to protect aquatic life, fish 

tissue concentrations of selenium not 

override water column concentrations 

until sufficient time has passed to allow 

equilibrium to be attained in the food 

web of lotic and lentic systems. 


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Estimates of steady state under new or 

increased selenium input situations are 

expected to be site dependent. Local 

information should be used to better 

refine an estimate of time to steady state 

for a particular waterbody. EPA seeks 

data and information that EPA can 

include in its final recommendations on 

time intervals during which fish tissue 

concentrations should not override 

water column concentrations. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA will 

make the external peer review and 

public comments, as well as Agency 

responses to these comments on the 

previously published External Peer 

Review Draft Aquatic Life Ambient 

Water Quality Criterion for Selenium— 

Freshwater 2014 (EPA 822–P–14–001) 

(External Peer Review Draft), available 

in the docket with the revised draft 

selenium criteria document at 

www.regulations.gov. 

Dated: July 17, 2015. 

Kenneth J. Kopocis, 

Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of 

Water. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OECA–2014–0101; FRL–9930– 

21–OEI] 

Information Collection Request 

Submitted to OMB for Review and 

Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP 

for Polyvinyl Chloride and Copolymers 

Production (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency has submitted an information 

collection request (ICR), ‘‘NESHAP for 

Polyvinyl Chloride and Copolymers 

Production (40 CFR part 63, subpart 

HHHHHHH) (Renewal)’’ (EPA ICR No. 

2432.03, OMB Control No. 2060–0666), 

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 

July 31, 2015. Public comments were 

previously requested via the Federal 

Register (79 FR 30117) on May 27, 2014, 

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 August 26, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–OECA–2014–0101, to: (1) EPA 

online using www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), or 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: 

Patrick Yellin, 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) 

564–2970; fax number: (202) 564–0050; 

email address: yellin.patrick@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, 

WJC 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: The affected entities are 

subject to the General Provisions of the 

NESHAP (40 CFR part 63, subpart A), 

and any changes, or additions to the 

General Provisions, which are specified 

at 40 CFR part 63, subpart HHHHHHH. 

Owners or operators of the affected 

facilities must submit an initial 

notification report, performance tests, 

and periodic reports and results. 

Owners or operators are also required to 

maintain records of the occurrence and 

duration of any startup, shutdown, or 

malfunction in the operation of an 

affected facility, or any period during 

which the monitoring system is 

inoperative. Reports, at a minimum, are 

required semiannually. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Polyvinyl chloride and copolymer 

production facilities that are major 

sources of HAP. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, Subpart 

HHHHHHH). 

Estimated number of respondents: 17 

(total). 

Frequency of response: Initially, 

occasionally, and semiannually. 

Total estimated burden: 378,000 

hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 

CFR 1320.3(b). 

Total estimated cost: $43,150,000 (per 

year), includes $5,150,000 in annualized 

capital/startup and/or operation & 

maintenance costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

adjustment increase in the estimated 

burden as currently identified in the 

OMB Inventory of Approved Burdens. 

In consulting with the Vinyl Institute 

during the renewal of this ICR, EPA 

received comprehensive comments on 

the burden associated with specific 

reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements, including, but not limited 

to, performance test, monitor 

installation, resin and wastewater 

sampling, equipment leak and process 

vent monitoring. We have updated the 

burden items to more accurately reflect 

the costs incurred by the industry. The 

update results in a substantial increase 

in the respondent labor hours, labor 

costs, and capital/O&M costs. There is 

also an increase in the number of 

responses as we have updated the 

number of subject major sources from 15 

to 17 based on data provided by the 

Vinyl Institute. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division. 

[FR Doc. 2015–18243 Filed 7–24–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Change in Bank Control Notices; 

Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or 

Bank Holding Company 

The notificants listed below have 

applied under the Change in Bank 

Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and 

§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12 

CFR 225.41) to acquire shares of a bank 

or bank holding company. The factors 

that are considered in acting on the 

notices are set forth in paragraph 7 of 

the Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)). 

The notices are available for 

immediate inspection at the Federal 


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