Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 194 / Friday, October 5, 2012 / Proposed Rules 60963 

to CBI submitted to us under Section 

308 of the Clean Water Act and in 

connection with various programs and 

are providing notice and an opportunity 

to comment. The nature of the work and 

its necessity, and the type of access 

granted, is described below for each 

contractor. Information has been 

provided to this contractor under a 

previous agreement since September 26, 

2002. 

Transfer of the information to ERG 

will allow the contractor and 

subcontractors to support EPA in the 

planning, development, and review of 

effluent limitations guidelines and 

standards under the Clean Water Act 

(CWA). The information being 

transferred was or will be collected 

under the authority of section 308 of the 

CWA. Some information being 

transferred from the pulp, paper, and 

paperboard industry was collected 

under the additional authorities of 

section 114 of the Clean Air Act (CAA) 

and section 3007 of the Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). 

Interested persons may submit 

comments on this intended transfer of 

information to the address noted below. 

DATES: Comments on the transfer of data 

are due October 15, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to 

Mr. M. Ahmar Siddiqui, Document 

Control Officer, Engineering and 

Analysis Division (4303T), Room 6231S 

EPA West, U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

M. Ahmar Siddiqui, Document Control 

Officer, at (202) 566–1044, or via email 

at siddiqui.ahmar@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with 40 CFR 2.302(h), EPA 

has transferred CBI to various 

contractors and subcontractors over the 

history of the effluent guidelines 

program. EPA determined that this 

transfer was necessary to enable the 

contractors and subcontractors to 

perform their work in supporting EPA 

in planning, developing, and reviewing 

effluent guidelines and standards for 

certain industries. 

Today, EPA is giving notice that it has 

entered into a contract with ERG, 

contract number EP–C–12–021, located 

in Chantilly, Virginia. The purpose of 

this contract is to secure technical and 

engineering analysis support for EPA in 

its development, review, 

implementation, and defense of waterrelated initiatives for a variety of 

industries. To obtain assistance in 

responding to this contract, ERG has 

entered into contracts with the 

following subcontractors: Advanced 

Environmental Management Group, LLC 

(AEM, located in Plymouth, Michigan), 

Aqua Terra Consultants (located in 

Mountain View, California), Avanti 

Corporation (located in Alexandria, 

Virginia), Great Lakes Environmental 

Center (GLEC, located in Traverse City, 

Michigan), and Mabbett & Associates 

(located in Bedford, Massachusetts), PG 

Environmental, LLC (located in 

Herndon, Virginia), Bill Kennedy, Orion 

Engineering (located in Charlotte, NC), 

John H. Martin, Hall Associates (located 

in Georgetown, DE), and John P. Martin, 

JPMartin Energy Strategy, LLC (located 

in Saratoga Springs, New York). 

All EPA contractor, subcontractor, 

and consultant personnel are bound by 

the requirements and sanctions 

contained in their contracts with EPA 

and in EPA’s confidentiality regulations 

found at 40 CFR part 2, Subpart B. ERG 

will adhere to EPA-approved security 

plans which describe procedures to 

protect CBI. ERG will apply the 

procedures in these plans to CBI 

previously gathered by EPA and to CBI 

that may be gathered in the future. The 

security plans specify that contractor 

personnel are required to sign nondisclosure agreements and are briefed 

on appropriate security procedures 

before they are permitted access to CBI. 

No person is automatically granted 

access to CBI: A need to know must 

exist. 

The information that will be 

transferred to ERG consists of 

information previously collected by 

EPA to support the development and 

review of effluent limitations guidelines 

and standards under the CWA. In 

particular, information, including CBI, 

collected for the planning, development, 

and review of effluent limitations 

guidelines and standards for the 

following industries may be transferred: 

Airport deicing; aquaculture; 

centralized waste treatment; coal bed 

methane; concentrated animal feeding 

operations; coal mining; construction 

and development; drinking water 

treatment; industrial container and 

drum cleaning; industrial laundries; 

industrial waste combustors; iron and 

steel manufacturing; landfills; meat and 

poultry products; metal finishing; metal 

products and machinery; nonferrous 

metals manufacturing; oil and gas 

extraction (including coalbed methane); 

ore mining and dressing; organic 

chemicals, plastics, and synthetic fibers; 

pesticide chemicals; petroleum refining; 

pharmaceutical manufacturing; pulp, 

paper, and paperboard manufacturing; 

shale gas extraction; steam electric 

power generation; textile mills; timber 

products processing; tobacco; and 

transportation equipment cleaning. 

EPA also intends to transfer to ERG all 

information listed in this notice, of the 

type described above (including CBI) 

that may be collected in the future 

under the authority of section 308 of the 

CWA or voluntarily submitted (e.g., in 

comments in response to a Federal 

Register notice), as is necessary to 

enable ERG to carry out the work 

required by its contract to support EPA’s 

effluent guidelines planning process 

and the development of effluent 

limitations guidelines and standards. 

Dated: September 18, 2012. 

Jeffrey L. Lape, 

Acting Director, Office of Science and 

Technology. 

[FR Doc. 2012–23519 Filed 10–4–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 271 

[EPA–R04–RCRA–2012–0124; FRL–9735–1] 

Tennessee: Final Authorization of 

State Hazardous Waste Management 

Program Revisions 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: Tennessee has applied to EPA 

for final authorization of the changes to 

its hazardous waste program under the 

Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act (RCRA). EPA proposes to grant final 

authorization to Tennessee. In the 

‘‘Rules and Regulations’’ section of this 

Federal Register, EPA is authorizing the 

changes by an immediate final rule. EPA 

did not issue a proposed rule prior to 

the immediate final rule because we 

believe this action is not controversial 

and do not expect comments that 

oppose it. EPA has explained the 

reasons for this authorization in the 

preamble to the immediate final rule. 

Unless EPA receives written comments 

which oppose this authorization during 

the comment period, the immediate 

final rule will become effective on the 

date it establishes, and we will not take 

further action on this proposal. If EPA 

receives comments that oppose this 

action, we will withdraw the immediate 

final rule and it will not take effect. EPA 

will then respond to public comments 

in a later final rule based on this 

proposal. You may not have another 

opportunity for comment. If you want to 

comment on this action, you must do so 

at this time. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before November 5, 2012. 


pmangrum on DSK3VPTVN1PROD with PROPOSALS-1
60964 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 194 / Friday, October 5, 2012 / Proposed Rules 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R04– 

RCRA–2012–0124, by one of the 

following methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: johnson.otis@epa.gov. 

• Fax: (404) 562–9964 (prior to 

faxing, please notify the EPA contact 

listed below). 

• Mail: Send written comments to 

Otis Johnson, Permits and State 

Programs Section, RCRA Programs and 

Materials Management Branch, RCRA 

Division, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Atlanta Federal Center, 61 

Forsyth Street SW., Atlanta, Georgia 

30303–8960. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: Otis 

Johnson, Permits and State Programs 

Section, RCRA Programs and Materials 

Management Branch, RCRA Division, 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

Atlanta Federal Center, 61 Forsyth 

Street SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303– 

8960. Such deliveries are only accepted 

during the Regional Office’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–R04–RCRA–2012– 

0124. 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 

which 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.) 

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. 

You may view and copy Tennessee’s 

application at the EPA, Region 4, RCRA 

Division, Atlanta Federal Center, 61 

Forsyth Street SW., Atlanta, Georgia 

30303–8960. 

You may also view and copy 

Tennessee’s application from 8:00 a.m. 

to 4:00 p.m. at the Tennessee 

Department of Environment and 

Conservation, 5th Floor, L & C Tower, 

401 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee 

37243–1535; telephone number: (615) 

562–0780. Interested persons wanting to 

examine these documents should make 

an appointment with the office at least 

a week in advance. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Otis 

Johnson, Permits and State Programs 

Section, RCRA Programs and Materials 

Management Branch, RCRA Division, 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

Atlanta Federal Center, 61 Forsyth 

Street SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303– 

8960; telephone number: (404) 562– 

8481; fax number: (404) 562–9964; 

email address: johnson.otis@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For 

additional information, please see the 

immediate final rule published in the 

‘‘Rules and Regulations’’ section of this 

Federal Register. 

A. Stanley Meiburg, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4. 

[FR Doc. 2012–24097 Filed 10–4–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 


pmangrum on DSK3VPTVN1PROD with PROPOSALS-1