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Black Grama Grassland Area of Critical 

Environmental Concern. 

Construction of additional firing 

ranges and the expansion or 

construction of administrative and 

training support facilities were also 

analyzed. 

The effects of implementing the ROD 

alternatives included substantial erosion 

to interior range roads, requiring 

increased maintenance. Frequent 

overseas deployments will require an 

increase in training, which may reduce 

public and Native American access to 

some areas of the installation. Use of 

restricted airspace for military training 

will increase, making military 

scheduling of the airspace more 

complex. Training-related noise remains 

significant in areas adjacent to Dona 

Ana Range and portions of McGregor 

Range. The Army has identified 

measures in the FEIS to mitigate most of 

the significant environmental effects. 

The preferred alternatives may result in 

a small increase in the economic benefit 

provided by growth of the installation, 

and a small decrease in certain quality 

of life indicators (e.g., traffic, air 

quality). 

The ROD, FEIS and other 

environmental documents are available 

on the Fort Bliss Web site (http:// 

www.bliss.army.mil) or at the following 

locations: El Paso, TX: Richard Burges 

Regional Library, 9600 Dyer; Irving 

Schwartz Branch Library, 1865 Dean 

Martin; the Clardy Fox Branch Library, 

5515 Robert Alva; Doris van Doren 

Regional Branch Library, 551 Redd 

Road; Las Cruces, NM: New Mexico 

State University Zuhl Library, 2999 

McFie Circle; Alamogordo, NM: 

Alamogordo Public Library, 920 Oregon 

Avenue. 

Dated: August 12, 2010. 

Addison D. Davis, IV, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army 

(Environment, Safety, and Occupational 

Health). 

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BILLING CODE 3710–08–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2008–0719, FRL–9194–1] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to OMB for 

Review and Approval; Cooling Water 

Intake Structure Phase II Existing 

Facilities (Renewal), EPA ICR No. 

2060.04, OMB Control No. 2040–0257 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document 

announces 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. This ICR describes the nature 

of the information collection and its 

estimated burden and cost. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before September 27, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OW–2008–0719 to (1) EPA online using 

http://www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), by e-mail to owdocket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA 

Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Water Docket, Mail 

Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 

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: 

Amelia Letnes, State and Regional 

Branch, Water Permits Division, OWM 

Mail Code: 4203M, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: (202) 564–5627; email address: letnes.amelia@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

How Can I Access the Docket and/or 

Submit Comments? 

EPA has submitted the following ICR 

to OMB for review and approval 

according to the procedures prescribed 

in 5 CFR 1320.12. On June 21, 2010 (75 

FR 35022), EPA sought comments on 

this ICR pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). 

EPA received 1 comment during the 

comment period, which is addressed in 

the ICR. Any additional comments on 

this ICR should be submitted to EPA 

and OMB within 30 days of this notice. 

EPA has established a public docket 

for this ICR under Docket ID No. EPA– 

HQ–OW–2008–0719, which is available 

for online viewing at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or in person 

viewing at the Water Docket in the EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC 

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 Water Docket is 202– 

566–2426. 

Use EPA’s electronic docket and 

comment system at http:// 

www.regulations.gov to 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 ‘‘search,’’ then key in 

the docket ID number identified in this 

document. Please note that EPA’s policy 

is that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing at www.regulations.gov as EPA 

receives them and without change, 

unless the comment contains 

copyrighted material, confidential 

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: Cooling Water Intake Structure 

Phase II Existing Facilities (Renewal). 

ICR Numbers: EPA ICR No. 2060.04, 

OMB Control No. 2040–0257. 

ICR Status: This ICR is currently 

scheduled to expire on August 31, 2010. 

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. The OMB control numbers for 

EPA’s regulations in title 40 of the CFR, 

after appearing in the Federal Register 

when approved, are listed in 40 CFR 

Part 9, and displayed either by 

publication in the Federal Register or 

by other appropriate means, such as on 

the related collection instrument or 

form, if applicable. The display of OMB 

control numbers in certain EPA 

regulations is consolidated in 40 CFR 

Part 9. 

Abstract: The section 316(b) Phase II 

Existing Facility rule requires the 

collection of information from existing 

point source facilities that generate and 

transmit electric power (as a primary 

activity) or generate electric power but 

sell it to another entity for transmission, 

use a cooling water intake structure 

(CWIS) that uses at least 25 percent of 

the water it withdraws from waters of 

the U.S. for cooling purposes, and have 

a design intake flow of 50 million 

gallons per day (MGD) or more. Section 

316(b) of the Clean Water Act (CWA) 

requires that any standard established 

under section 301 or 306 of the CWA 

and applicable to a point source must 

require that the location, design, 

construction and capacity of CWISs at 

that facility reflect the best technology 

available (BTA) for minimizing adverse 

environmental impact. Such impact 

occurs as a result of impingement 

(where fish and other aquatic life are 

trapped on technologies at the entrance 

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to CWIS) and entrainment (where 

aquatic organisms, eggs, and larvae are 

taken into the cooling system, passed 

through the heat exchanger, and then 

pumped back out with the discharge 

from the facility). The 316(b) Phase II 

rule establishes requirements applicable 

to the location, design, construction, 

and capacity of CWISs at Phase II 

existing facilities. These requirements 

establish the BTA for minimizing 

adverse environmental impact 

associated with the use of CWISs. 

The 316(b) Phase II rule was signed 

on February 16, 2004. Industry and 

environmental groups, and a number of 

states filed legal challenges to the rule. 

Several issues were heard by the Second 

Circuit’s Court of Appeals, which issued 

a decision on January 25, 2007 

remanding portions of the rule (see 

Riverkeeper, Inc. v. U.S. EPA, No. 04– 

6692–ag(L) [2d Cir. Jan. 25, 2007]). 

Industry groups also petitioned the 

Supreme Court on several issues, which 

issued a decision on April 1, 2009. 

(Entergy Corp. v. Riverkeeper, Inc., No. 

07–588). EPA subsequently suspended 

the 316(b) Phase II rule on July 9, 2007 

and is currently in the process of 

developing a revised rule for existing 

facilities. However, permitting 

authorities are still required under 

section 301 of the CWA to establish 

BTA permit limits using best 

professional judgment. The existing 

Phase II rule provides a framework for 

the type of information a permit 

authority needs to establish appropriate 

BTA limits for CWISs. This ICR does not 

address the results of court decisions or 

any proposed regulation. 

Burden Statement: The annual 

average reporting and recordkeeping 

burden for the collection of information 

by facilities responding to the Section 

316(b) Phase II Existing Facility rule is 

estimated to be 2,071 hours per 

respondent. The state Director reporting 

and recordkeeping burden for the 

review, oversight, and administration of 

the rule is estimated to average 1,101 

hours per respondent. Burden means 

the total time, effort, or financial 

resources expended by persons to 

generate, maintain, or disclose or 

provide information to or for a Federal 

agency. This includes the time needed 

to review instructions; develop, acquire, 

install, and use 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; 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 information. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: 

Electric power generating facilities, 

State governments. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

514 (472 facilities and 42 states). 

Frequency of Response: Bi-annually, 

every five years. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

1,023,521 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$74,199,667. This includes an estimated 

burden cost of $64,224,198 and an 

estimated cost of $9,975,469 for capital 

investment or operation & maintenance. 

Changes in the Estimates: The change 

in burden results mainly from the shift 

from the approval period to the renewal 

period of the 316(b) Phase II Existing 

Facilities rule. The currently approved 

ICR (EPA ICR No. 2060.03) covers the 

last 2 years of the permit approval 

period (i.e., years 4 and 5 after 

implementation) and the first year of the 

renewal period (i.e., year 6 after 

implementation). This proposed ICR 

covers renewal of permits only (years 7 

to 9 after implementation). Activities for 

renewing an NPDES permit already 

issued under the 316(b) Phase II 

Existing Facilities rule are less 

burdensome than those for issuing a 

permit for the first time. 

Dated: August 23, 2010. 

Richard T. Westlund, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9189–7] 

Clean Water Act Section 303(d): 

Availability of List Decisions 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability of EPA’s decision 

identifying 12 water quality limited 

waterbodies and associated pollutants 

in South Dakota to be listed pursuant to 

the Clean Water Act Section 303(d)(2), 

and requests public comment. Section 

303(d)(2) requires that States submit and 

EPA approve or disapprove lists of 

waters for which existing technologybased pollution controls are not 

stringent enough to attain or maintain 

State water quality standards and for 

which total maximum daily loads 

(TMDLs) must be prepared. 

On July 9, 2010, EPA partially 

approved and partially disapproved 

South Dakota’s Section 303(d) list 

submittal for the 2010 listing cycle. 

Specifically, EPA approved South 

Dakota’s listing of 151 waters, 

associated pollutants, and associated 

priority rankings. EPA disapproved 

South Dakota’s decision to not include 

12 lakes that had been on the 2008 list. 

EPA evaluated all the existing and 

readily available data and information 

on the lakes and concluded that the 

beneficial uses for these lakes are not 

being fully met. Based on this 

evaluation EPA has determined that the 

following 12 lakes are not fully attaining 

the water quality standards established 

by the State of South Dakota and should 

be included on the State’s list of 

impaired waters: Waggoner Lake 

(Haakon County), Bierman Dam (Spink 

County), Lake Carthage (Miner County), 

Lake Isabel (Dewey County), Twin Lakes 

(Sanborn County), Wilmarth Lake 

(Aurora County), Rahn Lake (Tripp 

County), Cottonwood Lake (Sully 

County), East Vermillion Lake (McCook 

County), Bullhead Lake (Deuel County), 

Lake Campbell (Campbell County), and 

Lake Pocasse (Campbell County). 

EPA is providing the public the 

opportunity to review its decision to 

add these lakes to South Dakota’s 2010 

Section 303(d) list, as required by EPA’s 

Public Participation regulations. EPA 

will consider public comments in 

reaching its final decision to add these 

lakes to the State’s list. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted to 

EPA on or before September 27, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Comments on the proposed 

decision should be sent to Tom Johnson, 

Water Quality Unit (8EPR–EP), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency 

Region 8, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, 

CO 80202–1129, telephone (303) 312– 

6226, facsimile (303) 312–7206, e-mail 

johnson.tom@epa.gov. Oral comments 

will not be considered. Copies of EPA’s 

letter concerning South Dakota’s list 

that explains the rationale for EPA’s 

decision can be obtained at EPA Region 

8’s Web site at http://www.epa.gov/ 

region08/water/tmdl, or by writing or 

calling Mr. Johnson at the above 

address. Underlying documents from 

the administrative record for these 

decisions are available for public 

inspection at the above address. Please 

contact Mr. Johnson to schedule an 

inspection. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom 

Johnson at (303) 312–6226 or johnson.

tom@epa.gov. 

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