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Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

increase of 304,269 hours primarily due 

the consolidation of three ICRs into one 

(OMB numbers 2050–0179, 2050–0095 

and 2050–0096). 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 2013–03741 Filed 2–15–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OECA–2012–0680; FRL–9528–2] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Emission Guidelines and 

Compliance Times for Existing 

Municipal Solid Waste Landfills 

(Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.), this document announces 

that an Information Collection Request 

(ICR) has been forwarded to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval. This is a request 

to renew an existing approved 

collection. The ICR which is abstracted 

below describes the nature of the 

collection and the estimated burden and 

cost. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before March 21, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number EPA–HQ– 

OECA–2012–0680, 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 (EPA/DC), Environmental 

Protection Agency, Enforcement and 

Compliance Docket and Information 

Center, mail code 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; and (2) OMB at: Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 

725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 

20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Learia Williams, Monitoring, 

Assistance, and Media Programs 

Division, Office of Compliance, Mail 

Code 2227A, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 564–4113; fax number: 

(202) 564–0050; email address: 

williams.learia@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has 

submitted the following ICR to OMB for 

review and approval according to the 

procedures prescribed in 5 CFR 1320.12. 

On October 17, 2012 (77 FR 63813), EPA 

sought comments on this ICR pursuant 

to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no 

comments. Any additional comments on 

this ICR should be submitted to both 

EPA and OMB within 30 days of this 

notice. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under docket ID number 

EPA–HQ–OECA–2012–0680, which is 

available for either public viewing 

online at http://www.regulations.gov, or 

in person viewing at the Enforcement 

and Compliance Docket in the EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center 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 

Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and 

the telephone number for the 

Enforcement and Compliance Docket is 

(202) 566–1752. 

Use EPA’s electronic docket and 

comment system at http:// 

www.regulations.gov to either submit or 

view public comments, access the index 

listing of the contents of the docket, and 

to access those documents in the docket 

that are available electronically. Once in 

the system, select ‘‘docket search,’’ then 

key in the docket ID number identified 

above. Please note that EPA’s policy is 

that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing at http://www.regulations.gov 

as EPA receives them and without 

change, unless the comment contains 

copyrighted material, Confidentiality of 

Business Information (CBI), or other 

information whose public disclosure is 

restricted by statute. For further 

information about the electronic docket, 

go to www.regulations.gov. 

Title: Emission Guidelines and 

Compliance Times for Existing 

Municipal Solid Waste Landfills 

(Renewal). 

ICR Numbers: EPA ICR Number 

1893.06, OMB Control Number 2060– 

0430. 

ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to 

expire on March 31, 2013. Under OMB 

regulations, the Agency may continue to 

either conduct or sponsor the collection 

of information while this submission is 

pending at OMB. 

Abstract: The affected entities are 

subject to the General Provisions of the 

Emission Guidelines at 40 CFR part 60, 

subpart A, and any changes, or 

additions to the Provisions specified at 

40 CFR part 60, subpart Cc and part 62, 

Subpart GGG. 

Owners or operators of the affected 

facilities must submit periodic reports 

and results. Owners or operators are 

also required to maintain records of 

control system monitoring, accumulated 

refuse, surface methane monitoring, and 

collection and control system 

exceedances. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 15 hours per 

response. ‘‘Burden’’ means the total 

time, effort, or financial resources 

expended by persons to generate, 

maintain, retain, or disclose or provide 

information to or for a Federal agency. 

This includes the time needed to review 

instructions; develop, acquire, install, 

and utilize technology and systems for 

the purposes of collecting, validating, 

and verifying information, processing 

and maintaining information, and 

disclosing and providing information; 

adjust the existing ways to comply with 

any previously applicable instructions 

and requirements which have 

subsequently changed; train personnel 

to be able to respond to a collection of 

information; search data sources; 

complete and review the collection of 

information; and transmit or otherwise 

disclose the information. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: 

Entities potentially affected by this 

action are the owners or operators of 

municipal solid waste landfills. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

511. 

Frequency of Response: Monthly, 

Quarterly, and Annually. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

42,277. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$4,717,854, which includes $4,054,254 

in labor costs, no capital/startup costs, 

and $663,600 in operation and 

maintenance (O&M) costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

net decrease in the total burden 

associated with both privately- and 

publicly-owned landfills. This decrease 

is due to an adjustment to the estimated 

average number of respondents. To 

account for landfill closures that have 

occurred since the previous ICR was 

approved, this ICR applies a threepercent per year landfill closure rate to 

the previous ICR’s estimated number of 

respondents. This adjustment decreased 

the total burden hours associated with 

privately- and publicly-owned landfills. 

There is an increase in burden cost from 

the most recently approved ICR. This is 


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due to the fact that this ICR uses 

updated labor rates from the Bureau of 

Labor Statistics to calculate respondent 

burden costs. 

There is an increase in the respondent 

burden and cost associated with State 

and local agencies. This increase is due 

to an adjustment in the labor burden 

calculations. The previous ICR assumed 

that, for each burden item, person-hours 

per occurrence included technical, 

managerial, and clerical labor hours. To 

be consistent with the estimation 

methodology used in other ICRs, this 

ICR assumes that person-hours per 

occurrence includes technical labor 

only, and that managerial and clerical 

hours account for an additional 5 and 10 

percent, respectively, of technical labor 

hours. This adjustment increased the 

State and local agency burden hours and 

costs. 

There is a decrease in the Federal 

Agency burden due to adjustments in 

the labor burden calculations. The 

previous ICR included a burden item for 

Agency review of surface methane 

monitoring reports. Respondents, 

however, are not required to submit 

reports; therefore, no Agency burden 

will be incurred. For this reason we 

have adjusted the calculations to 

exclude any Agency burden associated 

with surface methane monitoring. We 

have also adjusted the total labor burden 

attributed to EPA technical, managerial, 

and clerical labor. As described in the 

previous paragraph, we adjusted the 

calculations for consistency with other 

ICRs, and so that managerial and 

clerical hours account for an additional 

5 and 10 percent, respectively, of 

technical labor hours. The net result of 

these adjustments was a decrease in 

burden. 

There is also a decrease in O&M costs 

from the most recently approved ICR. 

This decrease is not due to any program 

changes, and is attributed to the 

decrease in the number of respondents 

due to landfill closures that have 

occurred since the previous ICR was 

approved. As a result, there is a 

proportional decrease in the O&M cost. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 2013–03742 Filed 2–15–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9780–1] 

Notice of a Project Waiver of Section 

1605 (Buy American Requirement) of 

the American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) to 

the Applicant of Adair, OK 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Regional Administrator 

of EPA Region 6 is hereby granting a 

project waiver of the Buy American 

requirements of ARRA Section 1605 

under the authority of Section 

1605(b)(2) [manufactured goods are not 

produced in the United States in 

sufficient and reasonably available 

quantities and of a satisfactory quality] 

to the Oklahoma Conservation 

Commission (‘‘the applicant’’) for the for 

2,400 square yards of fiber (coir) woven 

mats to be installed as part of a stream 

channel restoration on eleven sites 

located in Adair and Cherokee Counties, 

Oklahoma for the CWSRF wastewater 

treatment plant project. The required 

fiber (coir) woven mat is manufactured 

by foreign manufacturers and no United 

States manufacturer produces an 

alternative that meets the Applicant’s 

technical specifications. This is a 

project specific waiver and only applies 

to the use of the specified product for 

the ARRA funded project being 

proposed. Any other ARRA project that 

may wish to use the same product must 

apply for a separate waiver based on the 

specific project circumstances. The 

Regional Administrator is making this 

determination based on the review and 

recommendations of the EPA Region 6, 

Water Quality Protection Division. The 

Applicant has provided sufficient 

documentation to support its request. 

The Assistant Administrator of the 

EPA’s Office of Administration and 

Resources Management has concurred 

on this decision to make an exception 

to Section 1605 of ARRA. This action 

permits the purchase of the selected 

fiber (coir) woven mat is not 

manufactured in America, for the 

proposed project being implemented by 

the Applicant. 

DATES: Effective Date: January 17, 2013. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nasim Jahan, Buy American 

Coordinator, (214) 665–7522, SRF & 

Projects Section, Water Quality 

Protection Division, U.S. EPA, Region 6, 

1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202– 

2733. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with ARRA Section 1605(c) 

and 1605(b)(2), EPA hereby provides 

notice that it is granting a project waiver 

of the requirements of Section 1605(a) of 

Public Law 111–5, Buy American 

requirements, to the Applicant for the 

acquisition of selected made fiber (coir) 

woven mat. The Applicant has been 

unable to find American made fiber 

(coir) woven mat to meet its specific 

wastewater requirements. 

Section 1605 of ARRA requires that 

none of the appropriated funds may be 

used for the construction, alteration, 

maintenance, or repair of a public 

building or public work unless all of the 

iron, steel, and manufactured goods 

used in the project are produced in the 

United States unless a waiver is 

provided to the recipient by EPA. A 

waiver may be provided if EPA 

determines that: (1) Applying these 

requirements would be inconsistent 

with public interest; (2) iron, steel, and 

the relevant manufactured goods are not 

produced in the United States in 

sufficient and reasonably available 

quantities and of a satisfactory quality; 

or (3) inclusion of iron, steel, and the 

relevant manufactured goods produced 

in the United States will increase the 

cost of the overall project by more than 

25 percent. 

The Applicant has requested a waiver 

for fiber (coir) woven mats to be 

installed as part of a stream channel 

restoration on eleven sites located in 

Adair and Cherokee Counties, 

Oklahoma. The applicant claims that 

the product required to meet project 

design and performance specification 

requirements is not manufactured in the 

United States. 

Restoration of stream banks in the 

Illinois River Watershed within Adair 

and Cherokee counties of northeastern 

Oklahoma requires installation requires 

a fiber (coir) woven mat to stabilize soil 

and overcome the high shear stress 

found in a stream environment. 

Additional key requirements of the 

project dictate a product that is 100 

percent biodegradable and has a 

functional lifespan of two to three years. 

The project specification criteria are 

listed below: 

Property Specification 

Weight (ASTM D 5263) ....... 23 oz/SY 

Tensile Strength Dry (ASTM 

D 4595): 

Machine Direction ............ 1740 lbs/ft 

Cross direction ................. 1176 lbs/ft 

Tensile Strength Wet 

(ASTM D 4595): 

Machine Direction ............ 1488 lbs/ft 

Cross direction ................. 1032 lbs/ft 

Open area ........................... 48% 


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