14716 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 49 / Tuesday, March 13, 2012 / Proposed Rules 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 60 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2010–0960; FRL–9644–1] 

Notice of Availability: Draft Documents 

Related to the Development of 

Emissions Estimating Methodologies 

for Broiler Animal Feeding Operations 

and Lagoons and Basins for Swine and 

Dairy Animal Feeding Operations 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The EPA is requesting public 

comment on draft documents titled, 

‘‘Development of Emissions Estimating 

Methodologies for Broiler Animal 

Feeding Operations’’ and ‘‘Development 

of Emissions Estimating Methodologies 

for Lagoons and Basins at Swine and 

Dairy Animal Feeding Operations.’’ 

These documents contain EPA’s draft 

emissions estimating methodologies for 

determining daily and annual emissions 

from a broiler chicken animal feeding 

operation and from a lagoon or basin 

located at a swine or dairy animal 

feeding operation. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before June 11, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your information, 

identified by Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–OAR–2010–0960, by one of the 

following methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov: Follow the online 

instructions for submitting data. 

Email: Send your information via 

electronic mail to a-and-rdocket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID 

Number EPA–HQ–OAR–2010–0960. 

Facsimile: Fax your comments to 

(202) 566–1741, Attention Docket ID 

Number EPA–HQ–OAR–2010–0960. 

Mail: Send your information to: EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mail Code 6102T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, Attention 

Docket ID Number EPA–HQ–OAR– 

2010–0960. Please include two copies. 

We request that a separate copy also be 

sent to the contact person identified 

below (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT). 

Hand Delivery: Deliver your 

information to: EPA Docket Center 

(EPA/DC), EPA West Building, Room 

3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, Attention 

Docket ID Number EPA–HQ–OAR– 

2010–0960. Such deliveries are only 

accepted during the normal hours of 

operation (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays) and special arrangements 

should be made for deliveries of boxed 

information. 

Instructions: Direct your data and 

information to Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–OAR–2010–0960. The EPA’s policy 

is that all information received will be 

included in the public docket and may 

be made available online at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the submission includes information 

claimed to be confidential business 

information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Do not submit information that you 

consider to be CBI, or otherwise 

protected, through http:// 

www.regulations.gov or email. The 

http://www.regulations.gov Web site is 

an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means the EPA will not know your 

identity or contact information unless 

you provide it in the body of your 

information. If you send an email 

directly to the EPA without going 

through http://www.regulations.gov, 

your email address will be 

automatically captured and included as 

part of the information that is placed in 

the public docket and made available on 

the Internet. If you submit the electronic 

data and information, the EPA 

recommends that you include your 

name and other contact information in 

the body of your information and with 

any disk or CD–ROM you submit. If the 

EPA cannot read your information due 

to technical difficulties and cannot 

contact you for clarification, the EPA 

may not be able to consider your 

information. Electronic files should 

avoid the use of special characters or 

any form of encryption and should be 

free of any defects or viruses. 

Docket: The EPA has established a 

docket for this action under Docket ID 

Number EPA–HQ–OAR–2010–0960. All 

documents in the docket are listed in 

the http://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 form. 

Publicly available docket materials are 

available either electronically in http:// 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the EPA’s Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA 

West Building, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. 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’s 

Docket Center is (202) 566–1742. 

Submitting CBI: Do not submit 

information you consider to be CBI 

electronically through http:// 

www.regulations.gov or email. Send or 

deliver information identified as CBI to 

only the following address: Mr. Larry 

Elmore, c/o Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards Document 

Control Officer (Room C404–02), U.S. 

EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, 

Attention Docket ID Number EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2010–0960. Clearly mark the part 

or all of the information that you claim 

to be CBI. For CBI information in a disk 

or CD–ROM that you mail to the EPA, 

mark the outside of the disk or CD–ROM 

as CBI and then identify electronically 

within the disk or CD–ROM the specific 

information that is claimed as CBI. In 

addition to one complete version of the 

information claimed as CBI, a copy of 

the information that does not contain 

the information claimed as CBI must be 

submitted for inclusion in the public 

docket. Information marked as CBI will 

not be disclosed except in accordance 

with procedures set forth in 40 CFR 

part 2. 

If you have any questions about CBI 

or the procedures for claiming CBI, 

please consult the person identified in 

the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Larry Elmore, Natural Resources Group, 

Sector Policies and Programs Division, 

(E143–03), Environmental Protection 

Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 

27711; telephone number: (919) 541– 

5433; Facsimile number: (919) 541– 

3470; email address: 

elmore.larry@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In January 

2005, the EPA announced the voluntary 

Air Compliance Agreement (Agreement) 

with the animal feeding operations 

(AFO) industry. Under the Agreement, 

participating AFOs were responsible for 

funding the National Air Emissions 

Monitoring Study (NAEMS)—a 2-year 

study of animal confinement structures 

and manure storage and treatment units 

in the broiler chicken, egg-layer, swine 

and dairy industries. The study’s 

purpose was to gather emissions data 

that the EPA could use to develop 

emissions estimating methodologies 

(EEMs). To provide a framework for the 

NAEMS, AFO industry experts, 

university and government scientists, 

and other stakeholders collaborated to 

develop a comprehensive monitoring 

plan. The study was designed to 

generate scientifically credible data to 

characterize emissions from the 

participating animal sectors. The 


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NAEMS began in the summer of 2007 

and consisted of 24 monitoring sites 

located in nine states. In addition, 

Tyson Foods, Inc. collected data from 

two broiler sites, which are also 

included in the NAEMS dataset. 

Academic researchers from various 

universities conducted the NAEMS 

study with EPA oversight. At the animal 

confinement sites, the study was 

designed to collect process and 

emissions data for ammonia (NH3), 

hydrogen sulfide (H2S), total suspended 

particulate matter (TSP), particulate 

matter with aerodynamic diameters less 

than 10 micrometers (PM10), PM with 

aerodynamic diameters less than 2.5 

micrometers (PM2.5), and volatile 

organic compounds (VOCs). For lagoons 

and basins, the study was designed to 

collect NH3, H2S and VOCs. 

In accordance with the Agreement’s 

monitoring protocol, the EPA developed 

draft EEMs for animal housing 

structures and manure storage and 

treatment units using the emissions and 

process data collected under the 

NAEMS and other relevant information. 

Once the draft EEMs are final, the EPA 

expects that the AFO industry will use 

the EEMs to estimate daily and annual 

emissions for use in determining AFOs’ 

regulatory responsibilities under the 

Clean Air Act, the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, Compensation 

and Liability Act, and the Emergency 

Planning and Community Right-toKnow Act. 

The draft documents describe the 

sites monitored, the statistical 

methodology used to analyze the data, 

and the EEMs. 

The agency is requesting comment on 

the draft documents with particular 

emphasis on the statistical methodology 

used to develop the emissions 

estimating methodologies. Please submit 

comments within 90 days of the date of 

this notice. Electronic copies of the 

documents are available at 

www.epa.gov/airquality/agmonitoring. 

On February 17, 2012, EPA’s Office of 

Air Quality Planning and Standards sent 

a memorandum to the EPA Science 

Advisory Board Staff Office titled, 

‘‘Animal Feeding Operations Air 

Emissions Estimating Methodologies 

from the National Air Emissions 

Monitoring Study’’ asking the Science 

Advisory Board to review and provide 

comments on these documents. 

In response to EPA’s memorandum, 

the EPA’s Science Advisory Board has 

formed an expert panel to review and 

provide comments on these documents. 

The Science Advisory Board review 

process is an independent process. 

Information on submitting comments to 

the Science Advisory Board can be 

found at www.epa.gov/sab. Additional 

information about the Science Advisory 

Board process can be found at: http:// 

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!OpenDocument. The Science Advisory 

Board anticipates multiple meetings of 

the expert panel to cover the documents 

in this notice. 

The EPA will consider public 

comments received in response to this 

notice, public comments submitted to 

the Science Advisory Board, and the 

Science Advisory Board panel 

recommendations as the final emissions 

estimating methodologies are 

developed. 

Dated: February 29, 2012. 

Janet McCabe, 

Acting Assistant Administrator. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 300 

[EPA–HQ–SFUND–1990–0011; FRL–9646–1] 

National Oil and Hazardous 

Substances Pollution Contingency 

Plan; National Priorities List: Partial 

Deletion of the Ellsworth Air Force 

Base Superfund Site 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Region 8 is issuing a 

Notice of Intent to Delete Operable Unit 

(OU) 1 the former Fire Protection 

Training Area (FPTA), along with two 

other Areas of Concern (AOC): The 

Gateway Lake Ash Study Area and the 

Pride Hangar Study Area of the 

Ellsworth Air Force Base (AFB) 

Superfund Site located in Meade and 

Pennington Counties, South Dakota, 

from the National Priorities List (NPL) 

and requests public comments on this 

proposed action. The NPL, promulgated 

pursuant to section 105 of the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act (CERCLA) of 1980, as amended, is 

an appendix of the National Oil and 

Hazardous Substances Pollution 

Contingency Plan (NCP). The EPA and 

the State of South Dakota, through the 

Department of Environment and Natural 

Resources, have determined that all 

appropriate response actions at these 

identified parcels under CERCLA other 

than five year reviews have been 

completed. However, this deletion does 

not preclude future actions under 

Superfund. 

This partial deletion pertains to the 

surface soil, unsaturated subsurface soil, 

surface water and sediments of Operable 

Unit (OU) 1, the Gateway Lake Ash 

Study Area, and the Pride Hangar Study 

Area. The groundwater medium 

associated with OU–11, Basewide 

Groundwater, will remain on the NPL 

and is not being considered for deletion 

as part of this action. The other OUs 

associated with Ellsworth AFB were 

deleted in 2006. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

April 12, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

SFUND–1990–0011, by one of the 

following methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov. Follow 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

•

Email: dalton.john@epamail.epa.gov. 

• Fax: 303–312–6961. 

• Mail: Mr. John Dalton, Community 

Involvement Coordinator (8OC), U.S. 

EPA, Region 8, 1595 Wynkoop St., 

Denver, CO 80202. 

• Hand delivery: 1595 Wynkoop St., 

Denver, CO 80202. Such deliveries are 

only accepted during the Docket’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–HQ–SFUND–1990– 

0011. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change and may be 

made available online at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes information 

claimed to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Do not submit information that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected through http:// 

www.regulations.gov or email. The 

http://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 http:// 

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 


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