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updates to contact and location 

information for the facility and reasons 

for non-reporting. Some of this 

information is useful to the Agency and 

could be useful to the public. Currently, 

the EPA receives this unsolicited 

information on paper. 

This proposed modification would 

allow for an online means for the EPA 

to receive miscellaneous documents, 

reducing the cost of processing their 

submission and aligning how EPA 

processes such documents with the 

recent requirement to submit TRI 

reporting forms electronically. In other 

words, with this change, facilities could 

use TRI–MEweb to provide details on 

specific categories of information that 

they have been providing on a voluntary 

basis to the EPA throughout the 

existence of the program (e.g., 

supplemental information on updates to 

the facility’s name, status, location, and/ 

or parent company; supplemental 

information on updates on whom to 

contact for technical and/or public 

matters; and reasons for not reporting 

(indicating the facility did not meet 

thresholds or did not report for any 

other appropriate reason)). Receipt and 

processing of this information would 

not affect any reporting forms certified 

and submitted to the agency, but rather 

would allow facilities to provide an 

electronic means to submit contextual 

information concerning their facilities 

that can enhance the context of TRI data 

for the EPA as well as for the public. 

What is the next step in the process for 

these ICRs? 

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 pursuant to 5 CFR 

1320.12. At that time, EPA will issue 

another Federal Register notice for the 

ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.5(a)(1)(iv) 

to announce the submission of the ICR 

to OMB and the opportunity to submit 

additional comments to OMB. If you 

have any questions about this ICR or the 

approval process, please contact the 

individual listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Dated: February 24, 2014. 

Arnold Layne, 

Director, 

Office of Information Analysis and Access 

Office of Environmental Information. 

[FR Doc. 2014–04611 Filed 2–28–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9907–34–OEI] 

Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: 

Authorized Program Revision 

Approval, State of Rhode Island 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces EPA’s 

approval of the State of Rhode Island’s 

request to revise/modify its EPA 

Administered Permit Programs: The 

National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System EPA-authorized 

program to allow electronic reporting. 

DATES: EPA’s approval is effective 

March 3, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Karen Seeh, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Office of 

Environmental Information, Mail Stop 

2823T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, (202) 566–1175, 

seeh.karen@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

October 13, 2005, the final Cross-Media 

Electronic Reporting Rule (CROMERR) 

was published in the Federal Register 

(70 FR 59848) and codified as part 3 of 

title 40 of the CFR. CROMERR 

establishes electronic reporting as an 

acceptable regulatory alternative to 

paper reporting and establishes 

requirements to assure that electronic 

documents are as legally dependable as 

their paper counterparts. Subpart D of 

CROMERR requires that state, tribal or 

local government agencies that receive, 

or wish to begin receiving, electronic 

reports under their EPA-authorized 

programs must apply to EPA for a 

revision or modification of those 

programs and obtain EPA approval. 

Subpart D provides standards for such 

approvals based on consideration of the 

electronic document receiving systems 

that the state, tribe, or local government 

will use to implement the electronic 

reporting. Additionally, § 3.1000(b) 

through (e) of 40 CFR part 3, subpart D 

provides special procedures for program 

revisions and modifications to allow 

electronic reporting, to be used at the 

option of the state, tribe or local 

government in place of procedures 

available under existing programspecific authorization regulations. An 

application submitted under the subpart 

D procedures must show that the state, 

tribe or local government has sufficient 

legal authority to implement the 

electronic reporting components of the 

programs covered by the application 

and will use electronic document 

receiving systems that meet the 

applicable subpart D requirements. 

On November 13, 2013, the Rhode 

Island Department of Environmental 

Management (RI DEM) submitted an 

application titled ‘‘National Network 

Discharge Monitoring Report System’’ 

for revision/modification of its EPAauthorized Part 123 program under title 

40 CFR. EPA reviewed RI DEM’s request 

to revise/modify its EPA-authorized Part 

123—EPA Administered Permit 

Programs: The National Pollutant 

Discharge Elimination System program 

and, based on this review, EPA 

determined that the application met the 

standards for approval of authorized 

program revision/modification set out in 

40 CFR part 3, subpart D. In accordance 

with 40 CFR 3.1000(d), this notice of 

EPA’s decision to approve Rhode 

Island’s request to revise/modify its Part 

123—EPA Administered Permit 

Programs: The National Pollutant 

Discharge Elimination System program 

to allow electronic reporting under 40 

CFR part 122.41(I)(4)(i) is being 

published in the Federal Register. 

RI DEM was notified of EPA’s 

determination to approve its application 

with respect to the authorized program 

listed above. 

Dated: February 24, 2014. 

Andrew Battin, 

Director, Office of Information Collection. 

[FR Doc. 2014–04618 Filed 2–28–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Information Collection Being Reviewed 

by the Federal Communications 

Commission Under Delegated 

Authority 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burden and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501— 

3520), the Federal Communications 

Commission invites the general public 

and other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection(s). 

Comments are requested concerning: 

whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Commission, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

the accuracy of the Commission’s 

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