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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OECA–2018–0248; FRL–9979– 

04–OECA] 

Proposed Information Collection 

Request; Comment Request; Air 

Stationary Source Compliance and 

Enforcement Information Reporting 

(Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is planning to submit an 

information collection request (ICR), 

‘‘Air Stationary Source Compliance and 

Enforcement Information Reporting’’ 

(EPA ICR No. 0107.12, OMB Control No. 

2060–0096) to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for review and 

approval in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act. Before doing 

so, EPA is soliciting public comments 

on specific aspects of the proposed 

information collection as described 

below. This is a proposed extension of 

the ICR, which is currently approved 

through January 31, 2019. 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. 

We are also soliciting comment on 

several options for improving the 

reporting of Clean Air Act stationary 

source facility compliance information 

in order to improve the display, 

usability and accuracy of these data for 

presentation to the public through 

EPA’s Enforcement Compliance History 

Online (ECHO) capability. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before August 7, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OECA–2018–0248 online using 

www.regulations.gov (our preferred 

method), 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. 

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: 

David A. Meredith, Enforcement 

Targeting and Data Division, Office of 

Compliance, (2222A), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: 202–564–4152; 

email address: meredith.david@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. 

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

the PRA, EPA is soliciting 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. Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.03(b). EPA will consider the 

comments received and amend the ICR 

as appropriate. The final ICR package 

will then be submitted to OMB for 

review and approval. At that time, EPA 

will issue another Federal Register 

notice to announce the submission of 

the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to 

submit additional comments to OMB. 

Abstract: Air Stationary Source 

Compliance and Enforcement 

Information Reporting is an activity 

whereby State, Local, Native American, 

Territorial, and Commonwealth 

governments (hereafter referred to as 

either ‘‘states/locals’’ or ‘‘state and local 

agencies’’) make air stationary source 

compliance and enforcement 

information available to the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA 

or the Agency) on a cyclic basis via 

input to the Air component of the 

Integrated Compliance Information 

System (ICIS-Air). ICIS-Air replaced the 

Air Facility System (AFS) in October 

2014 when the Agency, with support 

from state and local agencies, completed 

the modernization of AFS into ICIS-Air. 

ICIS-Air supports EPA and state and 

local agency efforts to ensure 

compliance with the nation’s 

environmental laws pertaining to air, 

via the collection and management of 

important Clean Air Act (CAA or the 

‘‘Act’’) compliance and enforcement 

information. ICIS-Air is a subcomponent of ICIS, which provides 

compliance and enforcement 

information on thousands of facilities 

regulated under numerous federal 

statutes. The information provided to 

EPA via ICIS-Air includes source 

characterization, compliance 

monitoring, and enforcement activities. 

EPA will use this information to assess 

progress toward meeting emission 

requirements developed under the 

authority of the CAA, and to protect and 

maintain air quality, public health, and 

the environment. Agencies receive 

delegation of the CAA through regulated 

grant authorities, and report 

compliance/enforcement activities 

undertaken at stationary sources 

pursuant to the Minimum Data 

Requirements (MDRs) as outlined in this 

ICR. The provisions of Section 114(a)(1) 

of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 

7414(a)(1) provide the broad authority 

for the reporting of compliance 

monitoring and enforcement 

information, along with Subpart Q— 

Reports in 40 CFR 51: Sections 51.324(a) 

and (b), and 51.327. This renewal 

requires the continuation of reporting of 

previously established MDRs via either 

direct, on-line entry or electronic data 

transfer (EDT) to ICIS-Air. 

U.S. EPA and states are cooperating to 

improve the display, usability, and 

accuracy of EPA’s Enforcement and 

Compliance History Online (ECHO). 

ECHO is a critical tool for accessing and 

analyzing information about facilities 

regulated under the Clean Air Act and 

other environmental statutes. As a first 

step, a team of state and EPA 

representatives has identified some 

changes to ECHO that will enhance the 

user experience and improve ECHO’s 

display of facility compliance-related 

data. As such, EPA is soliciting state 

and local input on three options 

presented for the reporting of Federally 

Reportable Violation (FRV) dates. These 

options are presented in the 2/27/18 

joint EPA-State paper written to identify 

improvements to the display, usability, 

and accuracy of EPA’s ECHO. That 


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paper is attached to the docket for this 

FR notice. 

As suggested by the 2/27/18 joint 

EPA-State paper written to identify 

improvements to the display, usability, 

and accuracy of ECHO, we are asking 

commenters, if they would like, to 

indicate a preference for one of the three 

FRV date reporting options agencies 

may choose to display on ECHO: 1a. 

FRV Determination Date and Case File 

Resolved Date; 1b. Violation Occurrence 

Start Date and Occurrence End Date; 2. 

FRV Determination Date. Option 1a 

would require the linking of formal 

enforcement actions to the case file, and 

in the absence of formal enforcement 

action, the entry of Resolving Action 

Type and Date. Option 1b would add 

two data elements to the minimum data 

requirements. Option 2 continues the 

status quo in which the FRV 

Determination Date is either reported 

voluntarily by the agency or autogenerated by ICIS-Air to match the date 

on which the agency submitted the FRV 

data to ICIS-Air. 

The EPA-State paper expressed the 

authors’ belief that EPA’s ECHO could 

better display CAA violations if FRV 

dates are consistently reported. Several 

members of the workgroup that created 

the paper expressed the view that EPA 

should select an approach for FRV date 

reporting and request the entry of the 

necessary data, via this ICR renewal 

process. EPA encourages you to share 

the views of your organization on this 

topic. 

EPA currently intends to continue the 

status quo with respect to the minimum 

data requirements associated with 

reporting FRVs. However, EPA is open 

to changing its viewpoint based upon 

the feedback received from stakeholders 

in response to this Federal Register 

notice. 

Respondents: State, Local, Territorial, 

Indian Nations, and Commonwealth 

governments. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory, see Section 114(a)(1) of the 

Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 

7414(a)(1). 

Estimated number of respondents: 99. 

Frequency of response: Every 60 days. 

Annual estimated burden: 51,413 

hours. 

Annual estimated cost: $2,688,901. 

There are no annualized capital/startup 

or operations & maintenance costs. 

Changes in Estimates: When 

developing the previous ICR, ICIS-Air 

was not yet implemented in a 

production environment and EPA 

estimated burden to the best of its 

ability based on the Agency’s 

knowledge of ICIS-Air. At that time, 

EPA believed that states and locals, as 

a whole, would experience a reduction 

in reporting burden due to the ease of 

reporting to ICIS-Air, a modern and 

more robust information system. For 

this ICR renewal, EPA will use 

experience from the last three years to 

provide burden estimates that 

adequately reflect the actual burden. 

EPA will consider any comment 

received and will conduct consultation 

with delegated agencies that are direct 

users of ICIS-Air, as well as those using 

EDT to report MDRs. Since ICIS-Air is 

a relatively new platform, the estimates 

provided are likely to change. 

Dated: May 23, 2018. 

Randolph L. Hill, 

Director, Enforcement Targeting & Data 

Division, Office of Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9978–85—Region 10] 

Extension of Comment Period for 

Proposed Issuance of NPDES General 

Permit for Hydroelectric Facilities 

Within the State of Idaho (IDG360000) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed issuance of 

NPDES General Permit; extension of 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Region 10 is extending 

the comment period for the proposed 

issuance of a National Pollutant 

Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) 

General Permit for Hydroelectric 

Facilities discharging to waters within 

the State of Idaho (Permit No. 

IDG360000). The agency is extending 

the comment period for 30 days in 

response to requests from Idaho Power 

Co. and Utility Water Act Group. 

DATES: The comment period for the 

proposed General Permit published in 

the Federal Register on April 27, 2018 

(83 FR 18555) is being extended. 

Comments must be received on or 

before July 11, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments on 

the draft General Permit to Director, 

Office of Water and Watersheds, USEPA 

Region 10, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 

155, OWW–191, Seattle, WA 98101. 

Your comments may also be submitted 

by fax to (206) 553–1280 or 

electronically to keenan.dru@epa.gov. 

Comments on the draft 

401Certification should be sent to Loren 

Moore, Idaho Department of 

Environmental Quality, 1410 N Hilton, 

Boise, Idaho 83706 or electronically to 

Loren.Moore@deq.idaho.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dru 

Keenan, 206–553–1219, Keenan.Dru@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 

27, 2018 (83 FR 18555), the EPA Region 

10 published the proposed general 

NPDES permit for hydroelectric 

facilities located in Idaho in the Federal 

Register. The original deadline to 

submit comments was June 11, 2018. 

This action extends the comment period 

for 30 days. Written comments must 

now be received on or before July 11, 

2018. 

Permit documents may be found on 

the EPA Region 10 website at: https:// 

www.epa.gov/npdes-permits/draftnpdes-general-permit-hydroelectricgenerating-facilities-idaho. Copies of the 

draft General Permit and Fact Sheet are 

also available upon request. Requests 

may be made to Audrey Washington at 

(206) 553–0523 or to Dru Keenan at 

(206) 553–1219. Requests may also be 

electronically mailed to: 

Washington.audrey@epa.gov, or 

keenan.dru@epa.gov. 

Dated: May 22, 2018. 

Daniel D. Opalski, 

Director, Office of Water and Watersheds, 

Region 10. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[ER–FRL–9039–7] 

Environmental Impact Statements; 

Notice of Availability 

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal 

Activities, General Information (202) 

564–7156 or https://www2.epa.gov/ 

nepa/. 

Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact 

Statements 

Filed 05/28/2018 Through 06/01/2018 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9. 

Notice 

Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act 

requires that EPA, make public its 

comments on EISs issued by other, 

Federal agencies. EPA’s comment letters 

on EISs are available at: https://

cdxnodengn.epa.gov/cdx-enepa-public/ 

action/eis/search. 

EIS No. 20180119, Final, BPA, NAT, 

Walla Walla Basin Spring Chinook 

Hatchery Program, Review Period 

Ends: 07/09/2018, Contact: Chad 

Hamel 503–230–5564. 

EIS No. 20180120, Final Supplement, 

NRC, NY, Generic Environmental 


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