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in accordance with widespread and 

commonly recognized practice, the 

pesticide product must perform its 

intended function without unreasonable 

adverse effects on the environment; that 

is, without any unreasonable risk to 

man or the environment, or a human 

dietary risk from residues that result 

from the use of a pesticide in or on food. 

IV. What action is the agency taking? 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 155.58, this notice 

announces the availability of EPA’s 

human health risk assessments for the 

pesticides shown in the following table, 

and opens a 60-day public comment 

period on the risk assessments. 

TABLE 1—DRAFT RISK ASSESSMENTS BEING MADE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT

Registration review case name and No. Docket ID No. Contact information 

Atrazine ........................................................

0062 .............................................................

EPA–HQ–OPP–2013–0266 ........................ OPP_triazine_reg_review@epa.gov; (703) 347–0293. 

Simazine ......................................................

0070 .............................................................

EPA–HQ–OPP–2013–0251 ........................ OPP_triazine_reg_review@epa.gov; (703) 347–0293. 

Propazine .....................................................

0230 .............................................................

EPA–HQ–OPP–2013–0250 ........................ OPP_triazine_reg_review@epa.gov; (703) 347–0293. 

Triazine Cumulative (atrazine—0062, 

propazine— 0070, simazine—0230).

EPA–HQ–OPP–2013–0266; EPA–HQ– 

OPP–2013–0251; EPA–HQ–OPP– 

2013–0250.

OPP_triazine_reg_review@epa.gov; (703) 347–0293. 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 155.53(c), EPA is 

providing an opportunity, through this 

notice of availability, for interested 

parties to provide comments and input 

concerning the Agency’s draft human 

health risk assessments for the 

pesticides listed in the Table in Unit IV. 

EPA may then issue a revised risk 

assessment, explain any changes to the 

draft risk assessment, and respond to 

comments. 

Information submission requirements. 

Anyone may submit data or information 

in response to this document. To be 

considered during a pesticide’s 

registration review, the submitted data 

or information must meet the following 

requirements: 

• To ensure that EPA will consider 

data or information submitted, 

interested persons must submit the data 

or information during the comment 

period. The Agency may, at its 

discretion, consider data or information 

submitted at a later date. 

• The data or information submitted 

must be presented in a legible and 

useable form. For example, an English 

translation must accompany any 

material that is not in English and a 

written transcript must accompany any 

information submitted as an 

audiographic or videographic record. 

Written material may be submitted in 

paper or electronic form. 

• Submitters must clearly identify the 

source of any submitted data or 

information. 

• Submitters may request the Agency 

to reconsider data or information that 

the Agency rejected in a previous 

review. However, submitters must 

explain why they believe the Agency 

should reconsider the data or 

information in the pesticide’s 

registration review. 

As provided in 40 CFR 155.58, the 

registration review docket for each 

pesticide case will remain publicly 

accessible through the duration of the 

registration review process; that is, until 

all actions required in the final decision 

on the registration review case have 

been completed. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq. 

Dated: July 17, 2018. 

Yu-Ting Guilaran, 

Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9981–31–OAR] 

Allocations of Cross-State Air 

Pollution Rule Allowances From New 

Unit Set-Asides for 2018 Control 

Periods 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of data availability. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is providing notice of the 

availability of data on emission 

allowance allocations to certain units 

under the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule 

(CSAPR) trading programs. EPA has 

completed final calculations for the first 

round of allocations of allowances from 

the CSAPR new unit set-asides (NUSAs) 

for the 2018 control periods and has 

posted spreadsheets containing the 

calculations on EPA’s website. Several 

changes were made to the preliminary 

allocation spreadsheets to eliminate 

allocations to existing units that had 

been incorrectly identified as new units 

eligible to receive NUSA allocations. No 

changes were made to the calculations 

of the amounts of allocations to any 

units correctly identified as new units, 

and no additional units were identified 

as new units. 

DATES: July 26, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions concerning this action should 

be addressed to Kenon Smith at (202) 

343–9164 or smith.kenon@epa.gov or 

Jason Kuhns at (202) 564–3236 or 

kuhns.jason@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 

each CSAPR trading program where 

EPA is responsible for determining 

emission allowance allocations, a 

portion of each state’s emissions budget 

for the program for each control period 

is reserved in a NUSA (and in an 

additional Indian country NUSA in the 

case of states with Indian country 

within their borders) for allocation to 

certain units that would not otherwise 

receive allowance allocations. The 

procedures for identifying the eligible 

units for each control period and for 

allocating allowances from the NUSAs 

and Indian country NUSAs to these 

units are set forth in the CSAPR trading 

program regulations at 40 CFR 97.411(b) 

and 97.412 (NOX Annual), 97.511(b) and 

97.512 (NOX Ozone Season Group 1), 

97.611(b) and 97.612 (SO2 Group 1), 

97.711(b) and 97.712 (SO2 Group 2), and 

97.811(b) and 97.812 (NOX Ozone 

Season Group 2). Each NUSA allowance 

allocation process involves up to two 

rounds of allocations to eligible units, 

termed ‘‘new’’ units, followed by the 

allocation to ‘‘existing’’ units of any 

allowances not allocated to new units. 

In a NODA published in the Federal 

Register on May 10, 2018 (83 FR 21772), 

we provided notice of preliminary 

calculations for the first-round 2018 


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1Under the CSAPR programs for ozone season 

NOX, if emissions data for a unit are reported only 

for the May–September ozone season rather than for 

the entire year, and if the 180th day after the date 

on which a unit commences commercial operation 

for CSAPR purposes falls outside the ozone season, 

then the unit’s monitor certification deadline is the 

following May 1. See, e.g., 40 CFR 97.830(b)(3). 

2 Kansas, not EPA, is responsible for determining 

all 2018 allowance allocations to Kansas units 

under the annual NOX program. 

NUSA allowance allocations. We also 

described the process for submitting any 

objections to the preliminary 

calculations. This NODA concerns the 

final calculations for the first round of 

2018 NUSA allocations. 

EPA received three sets of written 

objections in response to the May 10, 

2018 NODA. For the reasons discussed 

below, we have concluded that none of 

the written objections provides a valid 

basis for altering the preliminary 

calculations of NUSA allowance 

allocations. 

The first two sets of objections, from 

Madison Gas & Electric Company 

(MG&E) and the Wisconsin Department 

of Natural Resources, are substantively 

identical and raise two issues 

concerning units U1 and U2 at the West 

Campus Cogeneration Facility (WCCF) 

in Madison, Wisconsin. The first 

objection asserts that January 1, 2017 is 

the date as of which units U1 and U2 

‘‘commenced commercial operation’’ for 

CSAPR purposes. EPA has already 

addressed this specific issue with 

respect to the WCCF units in response 

to an objection submitted regarding the 

2017 NUSA allocations. Our earlier 

response, which we are not revising, 

was published in the Federal Register 

on February 16, 2018 (83 FR 7034). 

Briefly, we agree that, according to the 

information provided by MG&E, January 

1, 2017 is the date as of which units U1 

and U2 should be considered to have 

‘‘commenced commercial operation’’ for 

CSAPR purposes. Further, we have in 

fact been using this date for purposes of 

determining the units’ eligibility to 

receive 2018 NUSA allocations, and that 

is why units U1 and U2 appear in the 

preliminary first-round 2018 NUSA 

allocation spreadsheets. However, we 

acknowledge that our use of the January 

1, 2017 date for this purpose is not clear 

from the preliminary NUSA allocation 

spreadsheets which, instead of 

displaying the January 1, 2017 date, 

display the 2005 date on which the 

units commenced commercial operation 

for other purposes before becoming 

subject to CSAPR. The final first-round 

2018 NUSA allocation spreadsheets 

display the January 1, 2017 date. 

The second objection raised with 

respect to WCCF units U1 and U2 

asserts that EPA’s exclusion of reported 

emissions occurring before July 2017 in 

calculating the units’ NUSA allocations 

is incorrect. We disagree. For purposes 

of the NUSA allocation calculations, we 

have properly used the units’ reported 

emissions occurring on and after their 

monitor certification deadline of June 

30, 2017. We explained the regulatory 

basis for this approach in a NODA 

published on July 28, 2015 (80 FR 

44882) regarding 2015 NUSA 

allocations. Briefly, under the CSAPR 

regulations, only emissions that occur 

during a ‘‘control period’’ for a unit are 

used in calculating the amounts of any 

NUSA allocations to that unit. Because 

a unit’s first control period excludes any 

period before the unit’s monitor 

certification deadline, any reported 

emissions occurring before the monitor 

certification deadline are excluded from 

the NUSA allocation calculations. A 

unit’s monitor certification deadline is 

generally 180 days after the date on 

which the unit commences commercial 

operation for CSAPR purposes,1 making 

the monitor certification deadline for 

WCCF units U1 and U2 June 30, 2017. 

For further explanation, see the July 28, 

2015 Federal Register notice referenced 

above. 

The remaining set of written 

objections, from Grand River Dam 

Authority (GRDA), also raises two 

issues. GRDA’s first objection concerns 

the amount of reported 2017 ozone 

season NOX emissions used to calculate 

the amount of the first-round 2018 

NUSA allocation to unit 3 at Grand 

River Energy Center (GREC) in 

Chouteau, Oklahoma. Specifically, 

GRDA asserts that EPA should not have 

used 0 tons for this purpose. We 

disagree. The reported date on which 

GREC unit 3 commenced commercial 

operation was March 17, 2017, making 

the unit’s monitor certification deadline 

September 13, 2017. As discussed above 

with respect to the WCCF facility, only 

reported emissions occurring after a 

unit’s monitor certification deadline are 

used in computing NUSA allocations 

because any earlier emissions did not 

occur during a control period for the 

unit. Although GREC unit 3 reported 66 

tons of emissions during the entire 2017 

ozone season, the unit reported 0 tons 

during the portion of the 2017 ozone 

season on and after September 13, so 

our use of 0 tons for purposes of 

calculating unit 3’s first-round 2018 

NUSA allocation is consistent with the 

regulations. For further explanation, see 

the July 28, 2015 Federal Register 

notice reference above. 

GRDA’s second objection consists of a 

request to revise the total amount of the 

NUSA for Oklahoma under the CSAPR 

NOX Ozone Season Group 2 Trading 

Program. This objection is outside the 

scope of the May 10, 2018 NODA. EPA’s 

determination regarding the NUSA total 

amount was made in the CSAPR Update 

rulemaking, and the NUSA amount is 

codified in the CSAPR regulations at 40 

CFR 97.810(a)(17)(ii). The process of 

allocating NUSA allowances is strictly 

an administrative process that 

implements regulations already in 

effect. The total amount of the NUSA for 

Oklahoma can be revised only through 

another rulemaking, not through this 

administrative process. 

Although no changes were made to 

the preliminary first-round 2018 NUSA 

allocations in response to the objections 

received, based on internal data reviews 

EPA has determined that several units 

listed in the preliminary allocation 

spreadsheets in fact are existing units 

not eligible to receive 2018 NUSA 

allocations. Specifically, 14 units in 

Illinois, Kansas, and Nebraska were 

incorrectly included in the preliminary 

first-round NUSA allocation 

spreadsheet for the SO2 programs, and 

the Illinois and Nebraska units were 

also incorrectly included in the 

preliminary first-round NUSA 

allocation spreadsheet for the annual 

NOX program.2 Generally, these units 

were misidentified as eligible units 

because of discrepancies between the 

identification numbers used for the 

units in different data sets. In addition, 

21 units in Arkansas, Louisiana, 

Oklahoma, and Texas were incorrectly 

included in the preliminary first-round 

NUSA allocation spreadsheet for the 

ozone season NOX programs. Generally, 

these units were misidentified as 

eligible units because a screening 

procedure designed to identify units 

eligible for NUSA allocations due to 

relocation between states was executed 

without setting appropriate limits on the 

dates of relocation. We have removed all 

the ineligible units from the final firstround 2018 NUSA allocation 

spreadsheets. 

The detailed unit-by-unit data and 

final allowance allocation calculations 

are set forth in Excel spreadsheets titled 

‘‘CSAPR_NUSA_2018_NOX_Annual_

1st_Round_Final_Data’’, ‘‘CSAPR_

NUSA_2018_NOX_OS_1st_Round_

Final_Data’’, and ‘‘CSAPR_NUSA_2018_

SO2_1st_Round_Final_Data,’’ available 

on EPA’s website at https://

www.epa.gov/csapr/csapr-complianceyear-2018-nusa-nodas. 

EPA notes that an allocation or lack 

of allocation of allowances to a given 

unit does not constitute a determination 

that CSAPR does or does not apply to 

the unit. EPA also notes that under 40 


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CFR 97.411(c), 97.511(c), 97.611(c), 

97.711(c), and 97.811(c), allocations are 

subject to potential correction if a unit 

to which allowances have been 

allocated for a given control period is 

not actually an affected unit as of the 

start of that control period. 

Authority: 40 CFR 97.411(b), 97.511(b), 

97.611(b), 97.711(b), and 97.811(b). 

Dated: June 28, 2018. 

Reid P. Harvey, 

Director, Clean Air Markets Division, Office 

of Atmospheric Programs, Office of Air and 

Radiation. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OLEM–2018–0367; FRL–9981– 

03–OLEM] 

Proposed Information Collection 

Request; Comment Request; 

Underground Storage Tanks: 

Technical and Financial Requirements, 

and State Program Approval 

Procedures (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency is planning to submit an 

information collection request (ICR), 

‘‘Underground Storage Tanks: Technical 

and Financial Requirements, and State 

Program Approval Procedures 

(Renewal)’’ (EPA ICR No. 1360.16, OMB 

Control No. 2050–0068) 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. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before September 24, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OLEM–2018–0367 online using 

www.regulations.gov (our preferred 

method) 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: 

Elizabeth McDermott, Office of 

Underground Storage Tanks, Mail Code 

5401R, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 564–0646; email address: 

mcdermott.elizabeth@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. 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: Subtitle I of the Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), 

as amended, requires that EPA develop 

standards for Underground Storage 

Tank (UST) systems, as may be 

necessary, to protect human health and 

the environment, and procedures for 

approving state programs in lieu of the 

federal program. EPA promulgated 

technical and financial requirements for 

owners and operators of USTs at 40 CFR 

part 280, and state program approval 

procedures at 40 CFR part 281. This ICR 

is a comprehensive presentation of all 

information collection requirements 

contained at 40 CFR parts 280 and 281. 

The data collected for new and 

existing UST system operations and 

financial requirements are used by 

owners and operators and/or EPA or the 

implementing agency to monitor results 

of testing, inspections, and operation of 

UST systems, as well as to demonstrate 

compliance with regulations. EPA 

believes strongly that if the minimum 

requirements specified under the 

regulations are not met, neither the 

facilities nor EPA can ensure that UST 

systems are being managed in a manner 

protective of human health and the 

environment. 

EPA uses state program applications 

to determine whether to approve a state 

program. Before granting approval, EPA 

must determine that programs will be 

no less stringent than the federal 

program and contain adequate 

enforcement mechanisms. 

Form numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Facilities that own and operate 

underground storage tanks (USTs), 

states that implement the UST 

programs, and tribes. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory (40 CFR part 280). 

Estimated number of respondents: 

202,830. 

Frequency of response: Once, on 

occasion, annual. 

Total estimated burden: 8,722,192 

hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 

CFR 1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $679,800,866 

(per year), includes $424,720,745 

annualized capital or operation & 

maintenance costs. 

Changes in estimates: There is an 

increase of 3,309,061 hours in the total 

estimated respondent burden compared 

with the ICR currently approved by 

OMB. This ICR renewal includes several 

new requirements that became effective 

as of October 2018, which has resulted 

in a burden increase (e.g., annual release 

detection operability testing and 

recordkeeping, periodic testing and 

inspection of spill, overfill equipment 

and containment sumps, operator 

training, walkthrough inspections, 

notification of ownership changes, and 

maintaining records for compatibility). 

In addition, EPA expects most states to 

submit state program re-approval 


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