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its recent information collection request 

(ICR) submission to OMB entitled 

‘‘Willingness to Pay Survey for 

Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily 

Load: Instrument, Pre-test, and 

Implementation’’ (EPA ICR No. 2456.01, 

OMB Control No. 2010–NEW). The 

additional documents, now available in 

the associated docket, are: The Peer 

Review Report, the Focus Group and 

Cognitive Interview Report and the 

Description of Hydrological, 

Biochemical, and Ecosystem Models 

(Attachment 17 of the revised 

Supporting Statement). These 

documents may provide useful 

information to interested parties 

regarding the development and design 

of the survey instruments proposed for 

this project. Full transcripts of the focus 

groups and cognitive interviews were 

not prepared and are therefore not 

available. Public comments were 

previously requested on the ICR via the 

Federal Register on May 24, 2012 

during a 60-day comment period, which 

was later extended for an additional 30 

days. An additional 30-day comment 

period was initiated upon submission of 

the ICR to OMB for review and 

consideration. This notice allows for an 

additional 30 days of public comments 

on the ICR in light of the availability of 

the additional documentation. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before July 29, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–OA–2012–0033, to (1) EPA online 

using www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method); by email to 

oei.docket@epa.gov; by fax at (202) 566– 

9744; or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, 

Environmental Protection Agency, Mail 

Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 

NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) 

OMB via email to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. Address 

comments to OMB Desk Officer for EPA. 

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: Dr. 

Nathalie Simon, National Center for 

Environmental Economics, Office of 

Policy, (1809T), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: 202–566–2347; fax 

number: 202–566–2363; email address: 

simon.nathalie@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

revised Supporting Statement, the Peer 

Review Report, the Focus Group and 

Cognitive Interview Report and the 

Description of Hydrological, 

Biochemical, and Ecosystem Models are 

available in the public docket for this 

ICR together with other supporting 

documents made available previously 

which explain in detail the information 

that the EPA will be collecting. The 

docket can be viewed online at 

www.regulations.gov or in person at the 

EPA Docket Center, EPA 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. 

Abstract: The Clean Water Act (CWA) 

directs EPA to coordinate Federal and 

State efforts to improve water quality in 

the Chesapeake Bay. In 2009, Executive 

Order (E.O.) 13508 reemphasized this 

mandate, directing EPA to define the 

next generation of tools and actions to 

restore water quality in the Bay and 

describe the changes to be made to 

regulations, programs, and policies to 

implement these actions. The 

Chesapeake Bay watershed encompasses 

64,000 square miles in parts of six states 

and the District of Columbia. It is the 

largest estuary in the United States and 

the third largest in the world. The 

Chesapeake Bay’s unique set of 

ecological and cultural elements has 

motivated efforts to preserve and restore 

its condition for more than 25 years. 

Significant progress has been made over 

that period however, pollution budgets, 

called Total Maximum Daily Loads 

(TMDLs), are necessary to continue 

progress toward the goal of a healthy 

Bay. The watershed states of New York, 

Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, 

Virginia, and Maryland, as well as the 

District of Columbia, have developed 

Watershed Implementation Plans (WIPs) 

detailing the steps each will take to 

meet its obligations under the TMDL. 

As part of the next phase of this effort, 

EPA is undertaking an assessment of the 

costs and benefits of meeting Total 

Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), of 

nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment for 

the Chesapeake Bay. As an input to the 

TMDL benefits study, EPA’s National 

Center for Environmental Economics 

(NCEE) is seeking approval to conduct 

a stated preference survey to collect data 

on households’ use of Chesapeake Bay 

and its watershed, willingness to pay for 

a variety of water quality improvements 

likely to follow from pollution 

reduction programs, and demographic 

information. If approved, the survey 

would be administered by mail in two 

phases to a sample of 9,140 residents 

living in the Chesapeake Bay states, 

Chesapeake Bay watershed, and other 

eastern states within 100 miles of the 

Atlantic Ocean. 

Benefits from meeting the TMDL for 

the Chesapeake Bay will accrue to those 

who live near the Bay or visit for 

recreation, those who live near or visit 

lakes and rivers in the watershed, and 

those who live further away and/or may 

never visit the Bay but have a general 

concern for the environment quality of 

the Bay. While benefits from the first 

two categories can be measured using 

hedonic property value, recreational 

demand, and other revealed preference 

approaches, only stated preference 

methods can capture nonuse benefits. 

This study will provide policy makers 

with additional information on the 

public’s preferences for improvements 

to the Chesapeake Bay and lakes in the 

watershed. NCEE will use the survey 

responses to estimate willingness to pay 

for changes related to reductions in 

nitrogen, phosphorous, and sediment 

loadings to the Bay and lakes in the 

Chesapeake Bay watershed. The 

analysis relies on state of the art 

theoretical and statistical tools for nonmarket welfare analysis. The results of 

this study will inform the public and 

policy makers about the benefits of 

improvements to the Chesapeake Bay 

and lakes in the watershed. A nonresponse survey will also be 

administered to inform the 

interpretation and validation of survey 

responses. Participation in the survey 

will be voluntary and the identity of the 

respondents will be kept confidential to 

the extent provided by law. 

Dated: June 20, 2013. 

Shelley Levitt, 

Acting Director, National Center for 

Environmental Economics. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9828–4] 

Public Water System Supervision 

Program Approval for the State of 

Illinois 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of tentative approval. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the State of Illinois is revising its 

approved public water system 

supervision program for the Ground 

Water Rule, the Arsenic Rule and the 

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new Public Water System Definition. 

EPA has determined that these revisions 

are no less stringent than the 

corresponding federal regulation. 

Therefore, EPA intends to approve these 

revisions to the State of Illinois’s public 

water system supervision program, 

thereby giving Illinois EPA primary 

enforcement responsibility for these 

regulations. Illinois EPA’s revised 

Ground Water Rule became effective on 

July 27, 2007 and the revised Arsenic 

Rule was adopted on February 21, 2002. 

The new Public Water System 

Definition was adopted by the State on 

December 1, 1999. 

Any interested person may request a 

public hearing. A request for a public 

hearing must be submitted by July 29, 

2013, to the Regional Administrator at 

the EPA Region 5 address shown below. 

The Regional Administrator may deny 

frivolous or insubstantial requests for a 

hearing. However, if a substantial 

request for a public hearing is made by 

July 29, 2013, EPA Region 5 will hold 

a public hearing, and a notice of such 

hearing will be given in the Federal 

Register and a newspaper of general 

circulation. If EPA Region 5 does not 

receive a timely and appropriate request 

for a hearing and the Regional 

Administrator does not elect to hold a 

hearing on her own motion, this 

determination shall become final and 

effective on July 29, 2013. Any request 

for a public hearing shall include the 

following information: the name, 

address, and telephone number of the 

individual, organization, or other entity 

requesting a hearing; a brief statement of 

the requesting person’s interest in the 

Regional Administrator’s determination 

and a brief statement of the information 

that the requesting person intends to 

submit at such hearing; and the 

signature of the individual making the 

request, or, if the request is made on 

behalf of an organization or other entity, 

the signature of a responsible official of 

the organization or other entity. 

ADDRESSES: All documents relating to 

this determination are available for 

inspection at the following offices: 

Illinois Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1021 North Grand Avenue, 

Springfield, Illinois 62794–9276, and/or 

the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region 5, Ground Water and 

Drinking Water Branch (WG–15J), 77 

West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 

Illinois 60604, between the hours of 9 

a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through 

Friday. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michele Palmer, EPA Region 5, Ground 

Water and Drinking Water Branch, at 

the address given above, by telephone, 

at (312) 353–3646, or at 

palmer.michele@epa.gov. 

Authority: (Section 1413 of the Safe 

Drinking Water Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 

300g–2 and 40 CFR part 142 of the National 

Primary Drinking Water Regulations). 

Dated: June 13, 2013. 

Susan Hedman, 

Regional Administrator, Region 5. 

[FR Doc. 2013–15441 Filed 6–26–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Change in Bank Control Notices; 

Acquisitions of Shares of a Savings 

and Loan Holding Company 

The notificants listed below have 

applied under the Change in Bank 

Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and the 

Board’s Regulation LL (12 CFR part 238) 

to acquire shares of a savings and loan 

holding company. The factors that are 

considered in acting on the notices are 

set forth in paragraph 7 of the Act (12 

U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)). 

The notices are available for 

immediate inspection at the Federal 

Reserve Bank indicated. The notices 

also will be available for inspection at 

the offices of the Board of Governors. 

Interested persons may express their 

views in writing to the Reserve Bank 

indicated for that notice or to the offices 

of the Board of Governors. Comments 

must be received not later than July 12, 

2013. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 

(Chapelle Davis, Assistant Vice 

President) 1000 Peachtree Street NE., 

Atlanta, Georgia 30309: 

1. Louisiana Bancorp, Inc. Employee 

Stock Ownership Plan, George Vernon 

Curry, Jr., and Lisa Rae Whittington, as 

trustees, both of Metairie, Louisiana; to 

retain and acquire additional voting 

shares of Louisiana Bancorp, Inc., and 

thereby indirectly retain and acquire 

additional voting shares of Bank of New 

Orleans, both in Metairie, Louisiana. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, June 24, 2013. 

Margaret McCloskey Shanks, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2013–15429 Filed 6–26–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies 

The companies listed in this notice 

have applied to the Board for approval, 

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company 

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) 

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part 

225), and all other applicable statutes 

and regulations to become a bank 

holding company and/or to acquire the 

assets or the ownership of, control of, or 

the power to vote shares of a bank or 

bank holding company and all of the 

banks and nonbanking companies 

owned by the bank holding company, 

including the companies listed below. 

The applications listed below, as well 

as other related filings required by the 

Board, are available for immediate 

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 

indicated. The applications will also be 

available for inspection at the offices of 

the Board of Governors. Interested 

persons may express their views in 

writing on the standards enumerated in 

the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the 

proposal also involves the acquisition of 

a nonbanking company, the review also 

includes whether the acquisition of the 

nonbanking company complies with the 

standards in section 4 of the BHC Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise 

noted, nonbanking activities will be 

conducted throughout the United States. 

Unless otherwise noted, comments 

regarding each of these applications 

must be received at the Reserve Bank 

indicated or the offices of the Board of 

Governors not later than July 22, 2013. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (E. 

Ann Worthy, Vice President) 2200 

North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201– 

2272: 

1. Athens, Tx Bancshares, Inc., 

Athens, Texas; to become a bank 

holding company by acquiring 100 

percent of the voting shares of First 

State Bank, Athens, Texas. 

In connection with this application, 

the Jane Austin Chapman Limited 

Partnership, L.P., Frankston, Texas, will 

acquire at least 5 percent of the voting 

shares of Athens, Tx Bancshares, Inc., 

Athens, Texas. 

In addition, JSA Family Limited 

Partnership, Jacksonville, Texas, will 

acquire at least 4 percent of the voting 

shares of Athens, Tx Bancshares, Inc., 

Athens, Texas. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, June 24, 2013. 

Margaret McCloskey Shanks, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

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