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1Although the notice was signed on June 2, 2010, 

it was not publicly distributed until the next day, 

June 3, 2010. The EPA generally regards 

‘‘promulgation’’ for public notice purposes to mean 

signature of a final rule combined with its public 

dissemination. For purposes of CAA section 

107(d)(1), therefore, which imposes deadlines tied 

to the promulgation of the NAAQS for states to 

submit designations recommendations and for the 

EPA to promulgate designations, the EPA interprets 

the promulgation date of the 2010 primary SO2

NAAQS to be June 3, 2010. 

addresses in § 700.17(b)(1) and (2) of 

this chapter.’’ 

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AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 81 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2012–0233; FRL–9700–7] 

Extension of Deadline for 

Promulgating Designations for the 

2010 Primary Sulfur Dioxide National 

Ambient Air Quality Standard 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Extension of deadline for 

promulgating designations. 

SUMMARY: The EPA is announcing that 

it is using its authority under the Clean 

Air Act (CAA) to extend by up to 1 year 

the deadline for promulgating initial 

area designations for the primary sulfur 

dioxide (SO2) national ambient air 

quality standard (NAAQS) that was 

promulgated in June 2010. With this 

extension, the EPA is now required to 

complete initial designations for this 

NAAQS by June 3, 2013. 

DATES: The new deadline for the EPA to 

promulgate designations for the 2010 

primary SO2 NAAQS is June 3, 2013. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions regarding this action, contact 

Rhonda Wright, Air Quality Policy 

Division, Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards, Mail Code C539–04, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 

27711; telephone number: 919–541– 

1087; fax number: 919–541–0824; email 

address: wright.rhonda@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

preamble is organized as follows: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

B. Where can I get a copy of this document 

and other related information? 

II. Background 

A. Area Designation Requirements 

B. Summary of Designations Guidance 

Provided in the Proposed and Final SO2

NAAQS Preambles and in the March 2011 

and September 2011 Memoranda 

III. Extension of Deadline for Promulgating 

Designations for the 2010 NAAQS 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

Entities potentially affected by this 

action include state, local, and tribal 

governments that would participate in 

the initial area designation process for 

the 2010 SO2 standard. 

B. Where can I get a copy of this 

document and other related 

information? 

The EPA has established a docket for 

designations for the 2010 SO2 NAAQS 

under Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR– 

2012–0233. 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., confidential business 

information 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 Docket Center EPA/DC, EPA 

West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution 

Avenue 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 

Docket Center is (202) 566–1742. 

An electronic copy of this document 

is also available at www.epa.gov/ 

so2designations. 

II. Background 

A. Area Designation Requirements 

On June 2, 2010, the EPA 

Administrator signed a notice of final 

rulemaking that revised the primary SO2

NAAQS (75 FR 35520, published on 

June 22, 2010) after review of the 

existing two primary SO2 standard 

promulgated on April 30, 1971 (36 FR 

8187).1 The EPA established the revised 

primary SO2 NAAQS at 75 parts per 

billion (ppb) which is attained when the 

3-year average of the annual 99th 

percentile of 1-hour daily maximum 

concentrations does not exceed 75 ppb. 

The EPA determined in that rulemaking 

that this is the level necessary to 

provide protection of public health with 

an adequate margin of safety, especially 

for children, the elderly and those with 

asthma. These groups are particularly 

susceptible to the health effects 

associated with breathing SO2. 

After the EPA establishes or revises a 

NAAQS pursuant to CAA section 109, 

the CAA directs the EPA and the states 

to begin taking steps to ensure that those 

NAAQS are met. The first step is to 

identify areas of the country that do or 

do not meet the new or revised NAAQS. 

This step is known as the initial area 

designations. Section 107(d)(1) of the 

CAA provides that, ‘‘By such date as the 

Administrator may reasonably require, 

but not later than 1 year after 

promulgation of a new or revised 

NAAQS for any pollutant under section 

109, the Governor of each state shall 

* * * submit to the Administrator a list 

of all areas (or portions thereof) in the 

state’’ that designated those areas as 

nonattainment, attainment, or 

unclassifiable. The CAA defines an area 

as nonattainment if it is violating the 

NAAQS or if it is contributing to a 

violation in a nearby area. See CAA 

section 107(d)(1)(A)(i). 

The CAA further provides, ‘‘Upon 

promulgation or revision of a NAAQS, 

the Administrator shall promulgate the 

designations of all areas (or portions 

thereof) * * * as expeditiously as 

practicable, but in no case later than 2 

years from the date of promulgation of 

the new or revised NAAQS. Such period 

may be extended for up to 1 year in the 

event the Administrator has insufficient 

information to promulgate the 

designations.’’ See CAA section 

107(d)(1)(B)(i). 

After the states submit their 

recommendations, but no later than 120 

days prior to promulgating designations, 

the EPA is required to notify a state of 

any intended modifications to the state’s 

recommended designation. The state 

then has an opportunity to demonstrate 

why any proposed modification is 

inappropriate. Whether or not a state 

provides a recommendation, the EPA 

must promulgate the designation that 

the agency deems appropriate within 

two years of promulgation of the 

NAAQS (or within 3 years if the EPA 

extends the deadline). 

For the June 2010 SO2 NAAQS, the 

deadline for states to submit designation 

recommendations to the EPA for their 

areas was June 3, 2011. The EPA has 

been evaluating these recommendations 

and conducting additional analyses to 

determine whether it is necessary to 

modify any of the state 

recommendations. The EPA was 

originally intending to complete the 

initial designations for the 2010 SO2

NAAQS on a 2-year schedule, by June 

3, 2012. We explained this intent in the 

preambles to the notices of proposed 

and final rulemakings for the revised 

SO2 NAAQS, and in subsequently 

issued guidance documents suggesting 

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how states could develop their 

designations recommendations and how 

they could develop and submit state 

implementation plans (SIPs) for 

attainment, maintenance and 

enforcement of the NAAQS. We 

received numerous comments in 

response to our guidance, including 

suggestions that we take the extra year 

allowed under the CAA to issue 

designations where insufficient 

information exists, and, for the reasons 

discussed below, we are persuaded that 

it is more reasonable to take extra time 

allowed in these circumstances, a year 

or less as appropriate, rather than to 

proceed with our prior intention to 

issue designations by June 3, 2012. 

B. Summary of Designations Guidance 

Provided in the Proposed and Final SO2

NAAQS Preambles and in the March 

2011 and September 2011 Memoranda 

We first explained our intentions for 

designations under the new SO2

NAAQS in the preamble to the proposed 

NAAQS rule, published in the Federal 

Register on December 8, 2009 (74 FR 

64810). In the proposal, we explained 

that since the new SO2 ambient 

monitoring network and any newly 

sited monitors would not be generating 

sufficient monitoring data in time to 

inform the EPA decisions on 

designations, even if the EPA took an 

extra year, we intended to issue initial 

area designations on a 2-year schedule, 

by June 2012, based on 3 years of 

complete, quality assured, certified air 

quality monitoring data from the preexisting monitoring network (74 FR 

64858). We then expected to base 

designations on air quality data from the 

years 2008–2010 or 2009–2011, using 

hourly reported data from existing 

monitors, and to designate as 

nonattainment any area with a monitor 

indicating a violation of the 1-hour SO2

NAAQS, regardless of whether that 

monitor is located such that it could be 

counted towards meeting the proposed 

new network requirements (74 FR at 

64859). The EPA further explained, 

however, that if the monitor indicates 

that the monitoring site meets the 1- 

hour SO2 NAAQS, the EPA’s 

designation decision would be made on 

a case-by-case basis, including possibly 

an unclassifiable designation due to the 

EPA being unable to determine, due to 

lack of data, whether the area is 

violating the NAAQS or is contributing 

to a violation in a nearby area (74 FR 

64859). 

In the published June 22, 2010, final 

NAAQS rulemaking preamble, partly in 

response to comments on the proposal, 

the EPA described a different intended 

approach to issuing initial area 

designations in order to make it more 

consistent with what we then described 

as our historical approach to 

implementing the prior SO2 NAAQS (75 

FR 35550). For designations, we 

indicated that approach would rely 

upon both monitoring data from the 

existing SO2 network for the years 

2008–2010, as well as any refined SO2

dispersion modeling for sources that 

may have the potential to cause or 

contribute to a NAAQS violation, 

provided that it is recent and available 

(75 FR 35569). Under this approach, the 

EPA would designate as nonattainment 

an area that has monitoring or refined 

modeling results showing a NAAQS 

violation, and as attainment an area that 

has both monitoring data and 

appropriate modeling results showing 

no violations (75 FR 35569). In general, 

other areas, including those with SO2

monitors showing no violations but 

without modeling showing no 

violations, the EPA would designate as 

unclassifiable (75 FR 35569). However, 

the EPA further explained that it 

anticipated making determinations of 

when monitoring alone could be 

appropriate to support a designation for 

a specific area on a case-by-case basis, 

informed by the area’s factual record 

and after examining the historic 

treatment of the area with respect to 

prior SO2 designations as well as 

whether the area is one in which 

monitoring would be the more 

appropriate technical tool for 

determining attainment of the 1-hour 

NAAQS (75 FR 35552). 

The final NAAQS preamble also 

explained that the EPA received 

comments expressing concerns with the 

perceived burdens of implementing the 

proposed monitoring network as well as 

the sufficiency of its scope for purposes 

of identifying NAAQS violations (75 FR 

35570). Some of these commenters 

suggested using modeling to determine 

the scope of monitoring requirements, 

or favored modeling over monitoring to 

determine attainment of the NAAQS (75 

FR 35570). In response to these 

commenters, we explained our modified 

expectations at that time for issuing 

designations, as well as our intention to 

issue further modeling guidance (75 FR 

35570). However, as we expected that it 

would take some time to issue guidance, 

and that modeling several hundred 

sources would represent a substantial 

burden, we clarified that we did not 

expect states to complete such modeling 

and incorporate their results in 

designations recommendations due in 

June 2011 (75 FR 35570). Rather, we 

expected states would generally submit 

designations recommendations of 

unclassifiable, and that most areas’ 

informational records would be 

insufficient to support initial 

designations of either attainment or 

nonattainment (75 FR 35571). 

In March 2011, the EPA then issued 

a memorandum, included in the docket 

for today’s extension, providing nonbinding guidance on designations for 

the 2010 primary SO2 NAAQS, 

including modeling guidance (March 

2011 Guidance). In this guidance, the 

EPA stated its intention at that time to 

promulgate initial designations for this 

standard within 2 years from the 

promulgation of the NAAQS (i.e., by 

June 3, 2012). (March 2011 Guidance at 

pp. 1–2.) Under the CAA, states were to 

submit their primary SO2 NAAQS 

designation recommendations to the 

EPA by June 3, 2011. The EPA stated in 

its guidance that if the EPA intends to 

modify any state’s recommendation, the 

EPA will notify the state no later than 

120 days prior to the EPA’s action to 

promulgate designations (i.e., by 

February 3, 2012, for designations then 

expected to be promulgated by June 3, 

2012). The EPA again explained that in 

general, due to an expected absence of 

monitoring or modeling information 

showing whether areas were meeting or 

not meeting the revised NAAQS, most 

areas would likely be initially 

designated as unclassifiable (March 

2011 Guidance at p. 2). 

In this March 2011 Guidance, the EPA 

also discussed a suggested analytic 

approach that would use both air 

quality monitoring and modeling 

information (a ‘‘hybrid’’ modeling and 

monitoring approach) to determine if an 

area meets or does not meet the 2010 

primary SO2 NAAQS initially described 

in the preamble for the June 2010 

primary SO2 NAAQS. Under such an 

approach, areas would generally be 

designated as: (1) Nonattainment, where 

monitoring data or an appropriate 

modeling analysis or other appropriate 

information indicate a violation; (2) 

attainment, where there are no 

monitored violations and an appropriate 

modeling analysis or other appropriate 

information demonstrate no violations; 

or (3) unclassifiable, where there are no 

monitored violations and no appropriate 

modeling analysis or other appropriate 

information sufficient to support an 

alternate designation (March 2011 

Guidance at pp. 3–5). The March 2011 

Guidance also explained that given the 

currently limited network of SO2

monitors and our expectation that states 

will not yet have completed appropriate 

modeling of all significant SO2 sources, 

we anticipated that most areas of the 

country will be designated 

‘‘unclassifiable.’’ 

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In September 2011, the EPA issued a 

draft guidance document on SIP 

submissions for the 2010 primary SO2

NAAQS (September 2011 Draft 

Guidance). The EPA published a notice 

of availability of this draft guidance in 

the Federal Register on October 3, 2011 

(76 FR 61098). The EPA invited public 

comment on this draft document from 

October 3, 2011, to December 2, 2011 

(76 FR 66925; October 28, 2011). This 

draft document includes guidance on 

how states could support future NAAQS 

attainment demonstrations in SIPs using 

a hybrid modeling and monitoring 

approach. 

The EPA received several comments 

questioning the appropriateness of using 

the hybrid modeling and monitoring 

approach to demonstrate attainment of 

the SO2 NAAQS. (See comments at 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2010– 

1059.) Although the September 2011 

Draft Guidance did not specifically 

address designations, commenters 

expressed their concerns regarding the 

hybrid approach both for initial 

designations purposes as well as for 

future SIP planning and attainment 

demonstration purposes. These 

concerns included, for example, 

industry sources and state regulators not 

having adequate time to conduct 

modeling to inform either designations 

recommendations that were due in June 

2011 or SIP submissions due under the 

CAA in June 2013. Even in areas that 

may have monitored violations of the 

primary NAAQS, some commenters 

asserted uncertainty from where 

contributions to those violating ambient 

concentrations were coming. 

Commenters claimed that the EPA’s 

guidance to date did not sufficiently 

enable sources and states to fully 

identify nearby contributing areas or 

determine the boundaries of possible 

nonattainment areas. Consequently, 

these commenters urged the EPA to take 

the additional time allowed under the 

CAA in situations where available data 

is insufficient before issuing initial 

designations and use that additional 

time to further refine and improve the 

EPA’s expected overall approach to 

implementing the 1-hour SO2 NAAQS 

for both current conditions influencing 

initial designations and future 

conditions supporting SIP attainment 

demonstrations. 

Subsequently, in April 2012, the 

EPA’s Assistant Administrator for Air 

and Radiation sent letters to 

representatives of state and local 

government and tribal agencies that 

described the EPA’s modified 

expectations regarding some SO2

implementation aspects, and that 

reiterated the agency’s intent to proceed 

with initial area designations as 

expeditiously as possible given 

available data. (See sample letters at 

www.epa.gov/airquality/sulfurdioxide/ 

implement.html.) Then, in late May and 

early June 2012, the EPA held numerous 

meetings with environmental advocacy, 

state and local government, and 

industry stakeholders regarding the 

EPA’s overall implementation approach 

to the 2010 primary SO2 NAAQS, and 

in these discussions stakeholders 

repeated their concerns and suggestions 

regarding designations, including the 

recommendations to take the extra time 

allowed under CAA section 107 where 

insufficient data is available. In 

addition, the EPA has publicly 

distributed a ‘‘white paper’’ raising for 

discussion possible alternative 

implementation approaches to those 

that were presented in the September 

2011 Draft Guidance. (See ‘‘White 

Paper’’ at www.epa.gov/airquality/ 

sulfurdioxide/implement.html.) The 

EPA has recently received numerous 

comments on the ‘‘white paper’’ and on 

the stakeholder discussions, several of 

which also address designations and 

which recommend taking additional 

time to promulgate them. Some of these 

comments also suggest that the EPA 

should significantly revise the modeling 

guidance contained in the March 2011 

Designations Guidance, to account for 

the 1-hour form of the 2010 SO2

NAAQS, as some commenters believe 

that the current approved modeling 

protocol is not well suited for use in 

designations for the 1-hour NAAQS. 

The EPA is still reviewing comments 

and has not yet determined whether to 

revise its overall approach for issuing 

initial designations. At the same time, 

the EPA has also received a notice of 

intent to sue from environmental 

advocacy stakeholders under CAA 

section 304(a)(2) for having missed the 

June 3, 2012, statutory deadline for 

issuing designations that applies in the 

absence of a determination by the EPA 

to take the extra year allowed under 

CAA section 107 based on insufficient 

data. 

III. Extension of Deadline for 

Promulgating Designations for the 2010 

NAAQS 

In light of the comments received on 

the September 2011 Guidance, 

including those regarding the timing 

and approach for issuing initial area 

designations, and the subsequent 

comments received as part of the 

stakeholder outreach process in May 

and June 2012, the EPA acknowledges 

that it remains significantly uncertain 

what analytic approach sources, states, 

and the EPA will consistently and 

cooperatively use to make the 

determinations required under the CAA 

with respect to both current and future 

air quality. Because the issues involved, 

and the comments received on the draft 

guidance, relate to determinations of 

both the boundaries of areas currently 

meeting or not meeting the NAAQS and 

whether such areas will or will not meet 

the NAAQS in the future, the EPA 

agrees that it should make effective use 

of the additional time allowed under the 

CAA to promulgate designations. The 

EPA has insufficient data at this time to 

promulgate designations, including 

where it is necessary to identify nearby 

contributing areas and to determine 

boundaries of possible nonattainment 

areas, which the EPA cannot expect to 

definitively determine with full 

cooperation of stakeholders in advance 

of resolving outstanding issues and 

uncertainty regarding the most 

appropriate implementation approach, 

including determining whether an area 

meets or does not meet the new 

NAAQS. Therefore, the EPA concludes 

that it currently has insufficient 

information to promulgate designations 

by June 2012, and intends under these 

circumstances to take additional time, 

up to 1 additional year, allowed under 

the CAA for promulgating initial 

designations for the 2010 primary SO2

NAAQS. 

By taking the additional time, the EPA 

is now required under CAA section 107 

to promulgate designations by June 3, 

2013. The EPA expects to take 

additional time, as necessary, to 

appropriately assess designations. For 

some areas, EPA anticipates it will not 

be necessary to take the full additional 

year, and in those cases EPA will 

proceed sooner than June 2013. For 

example, the EPA intends to make its 

best effort to promulgate final 

designations for areas with monitored 

violations of the SO2 NAAQS by the end 

of calendar year 2012, subject to being 

able to resolve issues related to 

nonattainment boundary determinations 

and contributions from nearby areas, 

rather than take until June 2013 for 

those areas. The EPA believes this 

deadline extension is appropriate 

because the continued uncertainty 

regarding the overall analytic approach 

to determining an area’s compliance 

status affects not only the initial 

identification of nonattainment areas, 

but also the appropriate nonattainment 

area boundaries, which involves clearly 

identifying nearby areas that are (and 

are not) contributing to violations. The 

EPA expects to resolve these 

outstanding issues this year, and, once 

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resolved, will proceed expeditiously to 

complete the designations process. 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 81 

Environmental protection, Air 

pollution control, National parks, 

Wilderness areas. 

Dated: July 27, 2012. 

Lisa P. Jackson, 

Administrator. 

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AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 131 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2011–0515, FRL 9666–8] 

RIN 2040–AF38 

Phosphorus Water Quality Standards 

for Florida Everglades 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: EPA is promulgating a rule 

that identifies provisions of Florida’s 

Water Quality Standards for Phosphorus 

in the Everglades Protection Area 

(Phosphorus Rule) and Florida’s 

Amended Everglades Forever Act (EFA) 

that EPA has disapproved and that 

therefore are not applicable water 

quality standards for purposes of the 

Clean Water Act. EPA is promulgating 

this final rule following EPA’s 

disapproval of these provisions and 

EPA’s specific directions to the State of 

Florida to correct these deficiencies in 

the Phosphorus Rule and EFA. EPA’s 

disapproval, specific directions to the 

State, and this rule implement two 

orders by the U.S. District Court for the 

Southern District of Florida. 

DATES: This final rule is effective 

September 4, 2012. The incorporation 

by reference of certain publications 

listed in the rule is approved by the 

Director of the Federal Register as of 

September 4, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: An electronic version of the 

public docket is available through the 

EPA’s electronic public docket and 

comment system, EPA Dockets. You 

may use EPA Dockets at http:// 

www.regulations.gov to view public 

comments at Docket number EPA–HQ– 

OW–2011–0515, access the index listing 

of the contents of the official public 

docket, and to access those documents 

in the public docket that are available 

electronically. For additional 

information about EPA’s public docket, 

visit the EPA Docket Center homepage 

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

dockets.htm. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either 

electronically in www.regulations.gov or 

in hard copy at the Docket Facility. The 

Office of Water (OW) Docket Center is 

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

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The OW Docket Center 

telephone number is 202–566–1744 and 

the Docket address is OW Docket, EPA 

West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20004. 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: 

Mario Sengco, Standards and Health 

Protection Division, Office of Science 

and Technology, Mail Code: 4305T, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 

566–2676; email: 

sengco.mario@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. What entities may be affected by this 

rule? 

Citizens concerned with water quality 

in Florida may be interested in this 

rulemaking. Entities discharging 

phosphorus to waters upstream of the 

Everglades Protection Area could be 

indirectly affected by the Phosphorus 

Rule and EFA, although not specifically 

by this rule because the rule merely 

publishes the text changes that reflect 

the prior disapproval by the EPA of 

certain provisions of the Phosphorus 

Rule and EFA. Any indirect affect to 

entities would be because the water 

quality standards contained in the 

State’s regulation and statute are used in 

determining National Pollutant 

Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) 

permit limits. With this in mind, 

categories and entities that ultimately 

may be indirectly affected include: 

Category Examples of potentially indirectly affected entities 

Water Management Districts ................... Entities responsible for managing point source discharges near the Everglades Protection Area. 

Nonpoint Source Contributors ................. Entities responsible for contributing nonpoint source runoff near the Everglades Protection Area. 

This table is not intended to be 

exhaustive, but rather provides a guide 

for entities that may be affected 

indirectly by this action. This table lists 

the types of entities of which EPA is 

now aware that potentially could be 

indirectly affected by this action. Other 

types of entities not listed in the table 

could also be affected directly or 

indirectly. Any parties or entities 

conducting activities within watersheds 

of the Florida waters covered by this 

rule, or who rely on, depend upon, 

influence, or contribute to the water 

quality of the Everglades Protection 

Area, might be indirectly affected by 

this rule. To determine whether your 

facility or activities may be affected by 

this action, you should examine the 

rule. If you have questions regarding the 

applicability of this action to a 

particular entity, consult the person 

listed in the preceding section, entitled 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

B. How do I get copies of this notice? 

Docket. EPA has established an 

official public docket for this action 

under Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OW– 

2011–0515. The official public docket is 

the collection of materials that is 

available for public viewing at the Water 

Docket in the EPA Docket Center, (EPA/ 

DC) EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC 

20460. Publicly available docket 

materials are available electronically 

through www.regulations.gov and in 

hard copy at the EPA Docket Center 

Public Reading Room, 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 Water 

docket is (202) 566–2426. 

Incorporation by reference. 

Documents that are being incorporated 

by reference through this rule may be 

found in the docket as described above, 

on EPA Web site established for this 

rulemaking at http://water.epa.gov/ 

lawsregs/rulesregs/ 

floridaeverglades_index.cfm, and 

through the National Archives and 

Records Administration (NARA) by 

sending a request by email to 

fedreg.info@nara.gov, or by mail to the 

following address: Office of the Federal 

Register (NF), The National Archives 

and Records Administration, 8601 

Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740– 

6001. For information on the availability 

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