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• supervisory control and data 

acquisition (SCADA) systems; 

• backup power products and 

systems; 

• blowers and aeration equipment; 

• gear reducers; 

• drives (including variable frequency 

drives (VFDs)); 

• ultraviolet (UV) water treatment 

systems; 

• membrane and other filtration 

systems (e.g., ion exchange, membrane, 

and reverse osmosis); 

• clarifier mechanisms; 

• disinfection systems; 

• conveyors; 

• dewatering equipment (such as 

compressors and presses, including belt 

presses); 

• floating surface aerators; 

• ozone generators; 

• measurement sensors; 

• water meters and associated 

communications devices; 

• automated level control gates; and 

• other critical water infrastructure 

products, including whether they 

comply with applicable BABA 

requirements. 

For each of these products or 

categories of products and based on 

your current understanding of BABA 

requirements, the EPA is requesting the 

following information about the 

following four general topics: domestic 

materials sourcing and manufacturing, 

market readiness, delivery lead times 

and other. At the beginning of your 

response, please specify the products for 

which you are providing an answer: 

Products: Please clearly identify the 

products or categories of products for 

which you are providing a response. If 

you are referring to ‘‘other critical water 

infrastructure products and systems,’’ 

please provide a detailed description of 

the product or system. 

1. Domestic Materials Sourcing and 

Manufacturing: 

a. For each of the products or 

categories of products you identified, 

please specify whether the product 

meets BABA requirements (described 

above) or is currently manufactured in 

the United States to meet a domestic 

final assembly condition. (Yes or no). 

b. Please identify whether the 

products in your response fall within 

the iron and steel, manufactured 

products, or construction materials 

categories of BABA. 

c. If you answered ‘‘Yes’’ to Topic 

1(a), to the best of your knowledge. 

i. Please identify all manufacturers 

that can either meet BABA requirements 

or can currently manufacture products 

or categories of products you specified 

in the United States. For products that 

meet the condition of manufactured in 

the United States, please identify the 

manufacturing location and percentage 

of components manufactured in the 

United States as calculated by cost of 

components (if known). 

ii. What is the current production 

capacity of the products that can meet 

BABA requirements? 

iii. What is the anticipated growth in 

BABA-compliant capacity over the next 

five years? Does this anticipated growth 

consider the more than $50 billion in 

increased funding described above? 

Please explain. 

iv. For products able to meet BABA 

requirements, what is the estimated lead 

time from purchase order to delivery to 

the project site? Has this lead time 

increased or decreased in recent years? 

d. If you answered ‘‘No’’ to Topic 1a: 

i. What actions are manufacturers 

taking/could take to increase the 

manufacturing of products that will 

meet BABA requirements? 

ii. What additional support or 

incentives (e.g., financial, rulemaking 

certainty, etc.) are needed to ensure a 

sufficient supply of products that meet 

BABA requirements? 

iii. How long might it take to 

implement the steps needed to increase 

or begin production of BABA compliant 

products? 

iv. If a plan is in place to manufacture 

BABA compliant products, what is the 

volume of specific products that will 

follow BABA requirements and in what 

time frame? 

v. Will the volume of BABA 

compliant products be ramped up over 

time, and, if so, at what annual growth 

rate? 

vi. What are the limiting factors for 

the product’s ability to meet criteria for 

BABA compliance? For example, are 

there components of these products for 

which it is hard to meet BABA 

requirements? Please describe each 

component separately and indicate 

approximately what percent of 

component value it represents. 

2. Market Readiness: 

a. For all products specified in Topic 

1(a), provide your observations on the 

current and near-term demand expected 

for these products or categories of 

products. Does this estimate of future 

demand consider the more than $50 

billion in increased funding described 

above? Please explain. 

b. Provide information regarding 

whether the current and/or near-term 

manufacturing capacity would be 

adequate to meet the expected market 

demand. 

Please specify any factors helping or 

preventing the industry from meeting 

the expected demand today and in the 

near-term and provide information on 

the current and expected availability or 

unavailability of key components or 

sub-components of the product or 

category of products you specified. 

c. Are there supply chain issues that 

make it difficult to credibly 

communicate the existence of increased 

demand, or to credibly commit that 

such demand will be forthcoming? If so, 

please describe as specifically as 

possible. 

3. Timing: 

a. Where known, for each product/ 

category of products specified in Topic 

1, specify the current range of expected 

product delivery timeframes. Are any 

existing supply chain delays applicable 

or anticipated for the product(s) or 

critical components of the product(s)? 

b. Provide information, if available, 

on expected delivery timeframe 

outlooks through the near-term future. 

Provide information, if known, on 

whether current timing delivery 

concerns are related to a temporary 

disruption. 

c. Provide information on the current 

and expected near-term average 

customer delivery time. 

d. Provide information regarding 

global supply chain constraints, local 

permitting, safety requirements and 

needs that may affect delivery 

timeframes or extend installation time. 

4. Other Practical Considerations: 

Please specify any other considerations 

for the EPA regarding production, 

products, systems, equipment, or 

components of products used in water 

infrastructure. 

Radhika Fox, 

Assistant Administrator. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–11549–01–R6] 

Underground Injection Control 

Program; Hazardous Waste Injection 

Restrictions; Petition for Exemption 

Issuance—Class I Hazardous Waste 

Injection; Rubicon LLC, Geismar 

Louisiana Facility, Louisiana 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of a final decision on a 

no migration petition issuance. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that an 

issuance of an exemption to the land 

disposal restrictions, under the 1984 

Hazardous and Solid Waste 

Amendments to the Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act, is 


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granted to Rubicon LLC for one Class I 

hazardous waste injection well at the 

Geismar Louisiana Facility located in 

Geismar, Louisiana. 

DATES: This action was effective as of 

November 6, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the petition 

issuance and pertinent information 

relating thereto are on file at the 

following location: Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA), Region 6, 

Water Division, Safe Drinking Water 

Branch (6WD–D), 1201 Elm Street, Suite 

500, Dallas, Texas 75270–2102. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ian 

Ussery, Physical Scientist, Ground 

Water/UIC Section, EPA—Region 6, 

telephone (214) 665–6639. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As 

required by 40 CFR part 148, Rubicon 

LLC adequately demonstrated to the 

EPA by the petition issuance 

application and supporting 

documentation that, to a reasonable 

degree of certainty, there will be no 

migration of hazardous constituents 

from the injection zone for as long as the 

waste remains hazardous. This final 

decision allows the underground 

injection by the Geismar Louisiana 

Facility, of the specific restricted 

hazardous wastes identified in this 

exemption issuance, into Class I 

hazardous waste injection Well WDW– 

6 until December 31, 2040, unless EPA 

terminates this exemption under 

provisions of 40 CFR 148.24. Additional 

conditions included in this final 

decision may be reviewed by contacting 

the Region 6 Ground Water/UIC Section. 

As required by 40 CFR 148.22(b) and 

124.10, a public notice comment period 

started on April 6, 2023, and closed on 

May 22, 2023. No comments were 

received. EPA made significant edits to 

the fact sheet after the public comment 

period including naming the petition an 

issuance instead of a reissuance and 

clarifying portions of the geology 

section. A second comment period was 

started on September 7th, 2023, and 

closed on October 23rd, 2023. No 

comments were received. This decision 

constitutes final Agency action, and 

there is no Administrative appeal. 

Dated: November 14, 2023. 

Dzung Kim Ngo Kidd, 

Acting Director, Water Division, Region 6. 

[FR Doc. 2023–25605 Filed 11–17–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R05–SFUND–2023–0446; FRL–11373– 

01–Region 5] 

Proposed CERCLA Administrative 

Cost Recovery Settlement; Seerley 

Road Site, Indianapolis, Indiana [EPA 

Agreement V–W–24–C–001] 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice: request for public 

comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

122(i) of the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, 

Compensation, and Liability Act of 

1980, as amended (‘‘CERCLA’’), notice 

is hereby given by the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(‘‘EPA’’), Region 5, of a proposed 

administrative settlement for recovery of 

past response costs concerning the 

Seerley Rd Fire Site (Site) in 

Indianapolis, Indiana with the following 

parties: Steven Williamson and Joel I. 

Williamson Junior, as the Settling 

Parties and Respondents. The settlement 

requires the Respondents to pay 

$800,000 in past response costs. The 

settlement includes a covenant not to 

sue pursuant to sections 106 and 107 of 

CERCLA, relating to the Site, subject to 

limited reservations, and protection 

from contribution actions or claims as 

provided by section 113(f)(2) of 

CERCLA. For thirty (30) days following 

the date of publication of this notice, the 

EPA will receive written comments 

relating to the cost recovery component 

of this settlement. The EPA will 

consider all comments received and 

may modify or withdraw its consent to 

the settlement if comments received 

disclose facts or considerations that 

indicate that the proposed settlement is 

inappropriate, improper, or inadequate. 

The EPA’s response to any comments 

received will be available for public 

inspection at www.epa.gov/superfund/ 

seerley-road-fire. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before December 20, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is 

available for public inspection at 

www.epa.gov/superfund/seerley-roadfire. Submit your comments, identified 

by Docket ID No. EPA–R05–SFUND– 

2023–0446, to the Federal eRulemaking 

Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 

Follow the online instructions for 

submitting comments. Once submitted, 

comments cannot be edited or 

withdrawn. The EPA may publish any 

comment received to its public docket. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. The EPA will generally not 

consider comments or comment 

contents located outside of the primary 

submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or 

other file sharing system). For 

additional submission methods, the full 

EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit 

https://www.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric 

Brooks, Investigator, EPA, Region 5, 

Superfund & Emergency Management 

Division, 77 West Jackson Blvd., 

Chicago, IL 60604; email: brooks.eric@

epa.gov; phone: (312) 353–8655. 

Douglas Ballotti, 

Director, Superfund & Emergency 

Management Division, Region 5. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS 

ADVISORY BOARD 

Notice of Request for Comment on the 

Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2023 and 

Three-Year Plan 

AGENCY: Federal Accounting Standards 

Advisory Board. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the Federal Accounting Standards 

Advisory Board (FASAB) has issued its 

Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2023 and 

Three-Year Plan. Respondents are 

encouraged to comment on the content 

of the annual report and FASAB’s 

project priorities for the next three 

years. 

DATES: Written comments are requested 

by January 18, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: The Annual Report for 

Fiscal Year 2023 and Three-Year Plan is 

available on the FASAB website at 

https://www.fasab.gov/documents-forcomment/. Copies can be obtained by 

contacting FASAB at (202) 512–7350. 

Comments should be sent to fasab@

fasab.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Monica R. Valentine, Executive 

Director, 441 G Street NW, Suite 1155, 


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