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Ends: 08/29/2016, Contact: Jeanie 

Cole 907–474–2340 

EIS No. 20160174, Draft Supplement, 

FHWA, WV, US 340 Improvement 

Study, Comment Period Ends: 09/30/ 

2016, Contact: Jason Workman 304– 

347–5928 

EIS No. 20160175, Draft, FERC, PA, 

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2016, Contact: Robert Smith 917–790– 

8729 

Amended Notices 

EIS No. 20160118, Draft, BLM, CO, 

Uncompahgre Draft Resource 

Management Plan, Comment Period 

Ends: 11/01/2016, Contact: Gina Jones 

970–240–5381; Revision to FR Notice 

Published 06/03/2016; Extending 

Comment Period from 09/01/2016 to 

11/01/2016 

EIS No. 20160152, Draft, USFS, NM, 

Santa Fe National Forest Geothermal 

Leasing, Comment Period Ends: 10/

28/2016, Contact: Larry Gore 575– 

289–3264; Revision to FR Notice 

Published 07/08/2016; Change 

Comment Period from 08/22/2016 to 

10/28/2016 

Dated: July 26, 2016. 

Dawn Roberts, 

Management Analyst, NEPA Compliance 

Division, Office of Federal Activities. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2016–0332; FRL9949–87– 

OW] 

Request for Scientific Views: Draft 

Aquatic Life Ambient Estuarine/Marine 

Water Quality Criteria for Copper— 

2016 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is announcing the 

availability of EPA’s Draft Aquatic Life 

Ambient Estuarine/Marine Water 

Quality Criteria for Copper—2016 for 

public comment. EPA’s Clean Water Act 

section 304(a)(1) draft recommended 

water quality criteria incorporate a 

recently-developed saltwater biotic 

ligand model (BLM) and the latest 

scientific information for estuarine/

marine aquatic organisms. The updated 

recommended criteria will be 

particularly beneficial in the adoption of 

water quality standards for the 

protection of aquatic life in and around 

coastal harbors and marinas, where 

antifouling paints and coatings on 

vessels and marine structures represent 

one of the most commonly identified 

sources of copper to the estuarine/

marine environment. 

Following closure of this 60-day 

public comment period, EPA will 

consider the comments, revise the 

document, as appropriate, and then 

publish a final document that will 

provide recommendations for states and 

authorized tribes to establish water 

quality standards under the Clean Water 

Act (CWA). 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before September 27, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OW–2016–0332, to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Once submitted, comments cannot be 

edited or withdrawn. EPA may publish 

any comment received to its public 

docket. Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. EPA will generally not consider 

comments or comment contents located 

outside of the primary submission (i.e., 

on the web, cloud, or other file sharing 

system). For additional submission 

methods, the full EPA public comment 

policy, information about CBI or 

multimedia submissions, and general 

guidance on making effective 

comments, please visit http://

www2.epa.gov/dockets/commentingepa-dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mike Elias, Health and Ecological 

Criteria Division, Office of Water, (Mail 

Code 4304T), Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone: 

(202) 566–0120; email: elias.mike@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. How can I get copies of this 

document and other related 

information? 

1. Docket: All documents in the 

docket are listed in the 

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. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either 

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in hard copy at the Water Docket, EPA/ 

DC, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

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visit EPA Docket Center homepage at 

http://www.epa.gov/epahome/

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II. What are EPA’s recommended water 

quality criteria? 

EPA’s recommended water quality 

criteria are scientifically derived 

numeric values that protect aquatic life 

or human health from the deleterious 

effects of pollutants in ambient water. 

Section 304(a)(1) of the Clean Water Act 

(CWA) directs EPA to develop and 

publish and, from time to time, revise 

criteria for protection of aquatic life and 

human health that accurately reflect the 

latest scientific knowledge. Water 

quality criteria developed under section 

304(a)(1) are based solely on data and 

the latest scientific knowledge on the 

relationship between pollutant 

concentrations and environmental and 

human health effects. Section 304(a)(1) 

criteria do not reflect consideration of 

economic impacts or the technological 

feasibility of meeting pollutant 

concentrations in ambient water. 

EPA’s recommended section 304(a)(1) 

criteria provide technical information to 

states and authorized tribes in adopting 

water quality standards (WQS) that 

ultimately provide a basis for assessing 

water body health and controlling 

discharges of pollutants. Under the 

CWA and its implementing regulations, 

states and authorized tribes are to adopt 

water quality criteria to protect 

designated uses (e.g., public water 

supply, aquatic life, recreational use, or 

industrial use). EPA’s recommended 

water quality criteria do not substitute 


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for the CWA or regulations, nor are they 

regulations themselves. EPA’s 

recommended criteria do not impose 

legally binding requirements. States and 

authorized tribes have the discretion to 

adopt, where appropriate, other 

scientifically defensible water quality 

criteria that differ from these 

recommendations. 

III. What is estuarine/marine copper 

and why is EPA concerned about it? 

Copper is an abundant trace element 

that occurs naturally in the earth’s crust 

and surface waters. It is a nutrient that 

is essential to aquatic organisms at low 

concentrations, but is toxic to aquatic 

organisms at higher concentrations. In 

addition to acute effects such as 

mortality, chronic exposure to copper 

can lead to adverse effects on survival, 

growth, reproduction as well as 

alterations of brain function, enzyme 

activity, blood chemistry, and 

metabolism in aquatic organisms. 

Copper is commonly found in aquatic 

systems as a result of both natural and 

anthropogenic sources. Natural sources 

of copper in aquatic systems include 

geological deposits, volcanic activity, 

and weathering and erosion of rocks and 

soils. Anthropogenic sources of copper 

include mining activities, agriculture, 

metal and electrical manufacturing, 

sludge from publicly-owned treatment 

works (POTWs), pesticide use and more. 

A major source of copper in the marine 

environment is antifouling paints, used 

as coatings for ship hulls, buoys, and 

underwater surfaces, and as a legacy 

contaminant from decking, pilings and 

some marine structures that used 

chromated copper arsenate (CCA) 

treated timbers. 

IV. Information on the Draft Document 

The 2016 draft recommended update 

uses the saltwater biotic ligand model 

(BLM), a bioavailability model that 

relies on water quality input parameters, 

to estimate copper criteria protective of 

aquatic life in estuarine/marine 

environments. The BLM allows users to 

determine criteria values based on sitespecific water quality variables 

(temperature, pH, dissolved organic 

carbon, and salinity) that influence the 

bioavailability and toxicity of copper in 

estuarine/marine environments. EPA 

has included new acute toxicity data for 

estuarine/marine species in the 2016 

draft recommended update. EPA used a 

total of 74 genera to derive the 

estuarine/marine criterion maximum 

concentration (CMC) in the 2016 update 

compared to the 44 genera EPA used in 

EPA’s 2003 draft estuarine/marine 

criteria for copper. Incorporation of the 

BLM accounts for copper bioavailability 

in natural aquatic systems, in contrast to 

the 2003 draft criteria which did not 

account for the interactions of these 

parameters on copper bioavailability 

and their effect on copper toxicity. 

V. Solicitation of Scientific Views 

EPA is soliciting additional scientific 

views, data, and information regarding 

the science and technical approach used 

in the derivation of the draft document. 

Dated: July 15, 2016. 

Joel Beauvais, 

Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of 

Water. 

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