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1001ST—MEETING—Continued 

[Regular Meeting, January 16, 2014, 10:00 a.m.] 

Item No. Docket No. Company 

E–2 .................... RM13–11–000 Frequency Response and Frequency Bias Setting Reliability Standard. 

E–3 .................... RM14–1–000 Reliability Standard for Geomagnetic Disturbance Operations. 

E–4 .................... RD13–12–000 North American Electric Reliability Corporation. 

E–5 .................... EC13–26–001 Ohio Power Company. AEP Generation Resources, Inc. 

E–6 .................... OMITTED 

E–7 .................... OMITTED 

E–8 .................... OMITTED 

E–9 .................... EL12–11–001 Rail Splitter Wind Farm, LLC v. Ameren Services Company and Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc. 

E–10 .................. EL13–84–001 Kansas Municipal Energy Agency v. Sunflower Electric Power Corporation, Mid-Kansas Electric Company, 

LLC, Southwest Power Pool, Inc. 

GAS 

G–1 .................... RP13–874–001 Portland Natural Gas Transmission System 

CERTIFICATES 

C–1 .................... CP13–545–000 Dominion Transmission, Inc. and Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, L.L.C. 

Issued January 9, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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[FR Doc. 2014–00573 Filed 1–10–14; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. OR14–14–000] 

Koch Pipeline Company, L.P.; Notice 

of Petition for Waiver 

Take notice that on December 16, 

2013, pursuant to Rule 202(a)(2) of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 18 CFR 385.207(a)(2)(2013), 

Koch Pipeline Company, L.P. (KPL) 

requests that the Commission grant a 

waiver of the Interstate Commerce Act 

(ICA) section 6 and section 20 tariff 

filing and reporting requirements 

applicable to interstate common carrier 

pipelines. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest in this proceeding must file in 

accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. 

Protests will be considered by the 

Commission in determining the 

appropriate action to be taken, but will 

not serve to make protestants parties to 

the proceeding. Anyone filing a motion 

to intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Petitioner. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http://

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with Internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the intervention or protest to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First St. NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

The filings in the above proceeding 

are accessible in the Commission’s 

eLibrary system by clicking on the 

appropriate link in the above list. They 

are also available for review in the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room in 

Washington, DC. There is an 

eSubscription link on the Web site that 

enables subscribers to receive email 

notification when a document is added 

to subscribed docket(s). For assistance 

with any FERC Online service, please 

email FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. or 

call (866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, 

call (202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time 

on January 15, 2014. 

Dated: January 8, 2013. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–00546 Filed 1–13–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2013–0809; FRL–9905– 

43–OAR] 

Notice of Availability of the 

Environmental Protection Agency’s 

2018 Emissions Modeling Platform 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 


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ACTION: Notice of data availability 

(NODA). 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is providing notice that 

the 2018 Emissions Modeling Platform 

data are available for public review and 

comment. The 2018 Emissions 

Modeling Platform consists of emission 

inventory data, supporting data used to 

develop the 2018 emission inventories, 

and methods and data that are used to 

process emission inventories 

representing the year 2018 into a form 

that can be used for air quality 

modeling. The platform, or portions of 

the data that make up the platform, may 

be used by the Office of Air and 

Radiation in several contexts, including 

the development of rules related to the 

transport of air pollution and the 

National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards. The EPA is requesting 

comment on the 2018 Emissions 

Modeling Platform, including the 

emission inventories, the supporting 

data, and the methods used to develop 

and process the 2018 emission 

inventories. A docket has been 

established to facilitate public review of 

the data and to track comments. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before June 30, 2014. Please refer to 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for 

additional information on submitting 

comments and on the provided data. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2013–0809, by one of the 

following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Fax: (202) 566–9744. Attention 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2013– 

0809. 

• Mail: EPA Docket Center, WJC West 

(Air Docket), Attention Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–OAR–2013–0809, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Mailcode: 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

Please include a total of 2 copies. 

• Hand Delivery: U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, WJC West (Air 

Docket), 1301 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Room 3334, Washington, DC 

20004, Attention Docket ID No. EPA– 

HQ–OAR–2013–0809. 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–OAR–2013– 

0809. The EPA’s policy is that all 

comments received will be included in 

the public docket without change and 

may be made available online at 

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 www.regulations.gov 

or email. The 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 comment. If you send an email 

comment directly to the EPA without 

going through 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, the EPA recommends that 

you include your name and other 

contact information in the body of your 

comment and with any disk or CD–ROM 

you submit. If the EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

the EPA may not be able to consider 

your comment. Electronic files should 

avoid the use of special characters, any 

form of encryption, and be free of any 

defects or viruses. For additional 

information about the EPA’s public 

docket, visit the EPA Docket Center 

homepage at http://www.epa.gov/

epahome/dockets.htm. 

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 electronically in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the Air and Radiation Docket and 

Information Center, EPA/DC, WJC 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 Air Docket is (202) 566– 

1742. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions on the 2018 Emissions 

Modeling Platform and on how to 

submit comments, contact Alison Eyth, 

Air Quality Assessment Division, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

C339–02, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, 

Research Triangle Park, NC 27709; 

telephone number: (919) 541–2478; fax 

number: (919) 541–0684; email address: 

eyth.alison@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EPA 

is requesting comment on the 2018 

platform emission inventories; 

supporting ancillary files used to 

allocate emissions temporally, spatially, 

and by species; and on the emissions 

modeling methods used to develop the 

2018 emission inventories, including 

but not restricted to, the projection, 

control and closure data, activity data, 

and model input databases used to 

develop projected emission levels in 

2018. Summaries of the emission 

inventories and data are provided to aid 

in the review of the data, but comments 

are sought on the actual inventories, 

model inputs, and data used to develop 

the projected 2018 emissions. 

I. Additional Information on 

Submitting Comments 

A. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to the EPA through 

EDOCKET, www.regulations.gov, or 

email. 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 docket 

office specified in the Instructions, 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. 

Information so marked will not be 

disclosed except in accordance with 

procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2. 

In addition to one complete version of 

the comment that includes information 

claimed as CBI, a copy of the comment 

that does not contain the information 

claimed as CBI must be submitted for 

inclusion in the public docket. 

2. Tips for preparing your comments. 

When submitting comments, remember 

to: 

i. Identify the notification by docket 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

ii. Explain your comments, why you 

agree or disagree; suggest alternatives 

and substitute data that reflect your 

requested changes. 

iii. Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

iv. Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns, and suggest 

alternatives. 

v. Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 


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vi. Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

B. Instructions for Submitting 

Comments and Alternative Data 

The EPA can most effectively use 

comments on data that provide specific 

alternative values to those in the EPA 

data sets, and for which accompanying 

documentation supports the alternative 

values. Commenters should provide the 

alternative data at a level of detail 

appropriate to the data set into which it 

will be incorporated, thereby including 

all key fields needed to substitute the 

old data with the new. For example, any 

data provided as an alternative to EPA’s 

point source emissions data should 

include all key fields used to identify 

point source data such as facility, unit, 

release point, process, and pollutant, 

along with alternative emissions values. 

If a commenter were to provide a new 

set of county total emissions as an 

alternative to detailed point source 

emissions data, the EPA would be 

unable to use the new data. Commenters 

should also include documentation that 

describes methods for development of 

any alternative values and relevant 

references supporting the alternative 

approach. 

Any alternative emission inventory or 

ancillary data provided should be 

compatible with the formats used by the 

Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel 

Emissions (SMOKE) modeling system 

version 3.5.1, which is used by the EPA 

to process emission inventories into a 

format that can be used for air quality 

modeling. Formats are defined in the 

SMOKE Version 3.5.1 User’s Manual 

available from http://www.smokemodel.org. Only the rows of data that 

have changed from those provided by 

the EPA should be included in the 

alternative data sets. Alternative data 

that are not an input to SMOKE, such 

as model input databases for mobile 

source models, should be provided in a 

format in which it could be directly 

input to the model. 

To comment on inventory projection 

methods, submit comments to the 

docket that describe an alternative 

approach to the existing methods, along 

with documentation describing why 

that method is an improvement over the 

existing method. 

II. Information Available for Public 

Comment 

The 2018 Emissions Modeling 

Platform consists of emission 

inventories that represent projected 

emissions into the atmosphere of 

criteria and some hazardous air 

pollutants in the year 2018, additional 

ancillary data files that are used to 

convert the National Emissions 

Inventory (NEI) emissions into a form 

that can be used for air quality 

modeling, and methods used to prepare 

the air quality model inputs and to 

develop projections of emissions in the 

year 2018. The platform includes 

emission inventories for sources at 

specific locations called point sources; 

emissions from fire events; and countylevel emissions of onroad mobile 

sources, nonroad mobile sources, and 

other nonpoint sources. 

In the modeling platform, emission 

sources are split into categories called 

modeling sectors. For example, locationspecific point emission sources are split 

into peaking electric generating units 

(EGUs), other EGUs, oil and gas point 

sources, and other point sources. 

Nonpoint emission sources are split into 

agricultural ammonia sources, 

residential wood sources, oil and gas 

nonpoint sources, and other nonpoint 

sources. 

The 2018 emissions modeling 

platform is named for the year of the 

data that it represents. The emission 

inventories in the 2018 modeling 

platform have been developed using 

projection methods that are specific to 

the type of emission source. Emission 

projections for EGUs for 2018 are 

developed using the Integrated Planning 

Model (IPM), which is further described 

below. Most non-EGU source emissions 

are projected based on the EPA’s 2011 

emissions modeling platform, which the 

EPA has also made available for public 

comment under a November 27, 2013, 

Federal Register notice titled 2011 

Emissions Modeling Platform; 

Availability. The relevant 2011 data files 

are available in docket number EPA– 

HQ–OAR–2013–0743. Future emissions 

are projected from this base case either 

by running models to estimate 

emissions in the future year (i.e., EGUs, 

and onroad and nonroad mobile 

sources), or by adjusting the base year 

emissions according to the best estimate 

of changes expected to occur in the 

intervening years (i.e., non-EGU point 

and nonpoint sources). 

For some sectors, the same emissions 

are used in the base and future years, 

such as biogenic emissions, point source 

fire emissions, and Canadian emissions. 

For all other sectors, rules and specific 

legal obligations that go into effect in 

the intervening years, along with 

changes in activity for the sector, are 

considered when possible. 

Documentation of the methods used for 

each sector is provided in the Technical 

Support Document Preparation of 

Emissions Inventories for the Version 

6.0, 2011 Emissions Modeling Platform, 

which can be found in the docket for 

this notice. 

In order to project future EGU 

emissions, the EPA uses the IPM. The 

National Electric Energy Data System 

(NEEDS) database contains the 

generation unit records used for the 

model plants that represent existing and 

planned/committed units in the EPA 

modeling applications of IPM. NEEDS 

includes basic geographic, operating, air 

emissions, and other data on these 

generating units and was completely 

updated for the EPA’s new power sector 

modeling platform. The EGU emission 

projections included in this 2018 

emissions modeling platform are 

reported in an air quality modelingready flat file taken from EPA Base Case 

v.5.13, developed using IPM. 2018 EGU 

emission projections in the flat file 

format, the corresponding NEEDS 

database, and user guides and 

documentation are available in the 

docket for this notice, and they are also 

available on the Internet at http://

www.epa.gov/powersectormodeling. 

To project future emissions from 

onroad and nonroad mobile sources, the 

EPA uses MOVES and the National 

Mobile Inventory Model (NMIM), 

respectively. The 2018 projections were 

obtained by running these models to 

represent the year 2018 using yearspecific information about fuel 

mixtures, activity data, and the impacts 

of national and state-level rules and 

control programs. The mobile model 

input databases and future year activity 

data are provided at http://

www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/emch/

index.html#2011. 

For non-EGU point and nonpoint 

sources, projections of 2018 emissions 

are developed by starting with the 

emissions inventories in the 2011 

emissions modeling platform and 

applying adjustments that represent the 

impact of rules coming into effect in the 

years 2012 through 2018, along with the 

impacts of planned shutdowns, the 

construction of new plants, specific 

information provided by states, and 

specific legal obligations, such as 

consent decrees resolving alleged 

environmental violations. Changes in 

activity are considered for sectors such 

as oil and gas, residential wood 

combustion, cement kilns, livestock, 

aircraft, commercial marine vessels and 

trains. Data files used to represent the 

changes due to national, state and local 

rules as well as other specific legal 

obligations, are provided along with 

summaries that quantify the emission 

changes resulting from each program at 

a state and national-level. 

The 2018 Emissions Modeling 

Platform also includes 2006 emissions 


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inventories for Canada and projected 

2018 emissions inventories for Mexico, 

along with ancillary data files used to 

allocate annual emissions to the hourly, 

gridded emissions of chemical species 

used by an air quality model (AQM). 

The types of ancillary data files include 

temporal profiles that allocate annual 

and monthly emissions down to days 

and hours, spatial surrogates that 

allocate county-level emissions onto the 

grid cells used by an AQM, and 

speciation profiles that allocate the 

pollutants in the NEI to the chemical 

species used by an AQM. In addition, 

there are temporal, spatial, and 

speciation cross-reference files that map 

the emission sources in the emission 

inventories to the appropriate profiles 

based on their location, emissions 

source classification code (SCC), and in 

some cases the specific facility or unit. 

With the exception of some speciation 

profiles, the ancillary data files are 

unchanged from the data files associated 

with the 2011 emissions modeling 

platform. The EPA provided an 

opportunity for comment on the data 

files for the 2011 platform in a notice 

published on November 27, 2013, and 

those files are available in docket 

number EPA–HQ–OAR–2013–0743. 

The 2018 emissions modeling 

platform, or portions of the data that 

make up the platform, may be used by 

the Office of Air and Radiation in 

several contexts including the 

development of rules related to the 

transport of air pollution and the 

National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards. Air quality modeling results 

that are based on the outputs of the 

emissions modeling platform are 

typically used in support of Regulatory 

Impact Analyses (RIAs) and sometimes 

support other aspects of rulemaking 

efforts. 

The EPA has placed key information 

related to the 2018 Emissions Modeling 

Platform into the electronic docket 

available at www.regulations.gov. 

However, many of the detailed data files 

are too large to be directly uploaded into 

the electronic docket and/or are not in 

formats accepted by that docket. 

Therefore, the information placed in the 

electronic docket, associated detailed 

data, and summaries to help with 

interpretation of the data are available 

for public review on the EPA’s 

Clearinghouse for Inventories and 

Emissions Factors (CHIEF) Web site at 

http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/emch/

index.html#2011. 

The emissions inventories, along with 

many of the ancillary files, are provided 

in the form of flat files that can be input 

to SMOKE. Flat files are commaseparated value style text files with 

columns and rows that can be loaded 

into spreadsheet or database software. 

The columns of interest in the emission 

inventory files are specified in each 

subsection below. The EPA requests 

comment on the following components 

of the 2018 emissions modeling 

platform data: 

• Emissions values and supporting 

data for EGUs. The EPA requests 

comment on the IPM version 5.13 input 

assumptions, NEEDS database, 2018 

unit-level parsed files, 2018 flat file 

inputs and outputs, and cross references 

and matching between IPM and NEI. 

The EPA also requests comment on the 

specific units that are expected to be 

used as peaking units in the future year 

and on the nature of the expected 2018 

emissions from those units. 

• Emission values for non-EGU 

sources. The EPA requests comment on 

the criteria air pollutant (CAP) 2018 

emission projections in the modeling 

inventories, with the focus on ozone 

and particulate matter precursors such 

as nitrogen oxides (NOX), sulfur dioxide 

(SO2), particulate matter less than 2.5 

micrometers (PM2.5), particulate matter 

less than 10 micrometers (PM10), 

volatile organic compounds (VOC), and 

ammonia (NH3). The EPA will also 

accept comments on 2018 projections of 

hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), as they 

are included in the outputs of models 

used to develop 2018 emission 

projections, but HAPs are not the focus 

of this effort. The annual emissions 

values are located in the ANN_VALUE 

column of emission inventory files in 

the Flat File 2010 (FF10) format. Some 

emission inventories (e.g., nonroad) may 

also have values filled in to the monthly 

value columns (e.g., JAN_VALUE, FEB_

VALUE, . . ., DEC_VALUE). The EPA 

requests comment on both the annual 

and monthly emissions values, where 

applicable. Summaries of emissions by 

state and county are provided to aid in 

the review of emissions values. 

• Model inputs and activity data used 

to develop mobile source emission 

inventories. The EPA requests comment 

on the mobile source model input data 

used to develop the projected future 

mobile source emission inventories. 

These include both the databases used 

to create emission factors and the 

vehicle miles traveled and vehicle 

population activity data used to 

compute the emissions. Of particular 

interest are county total vehicle miles 

traveled, the mixture of vehicle types in 

2018, and changes to the inspection and 

maintenance programs. Alternative 

activity data may be provided in the 

form of MOVES county databases or in 

SMOKE FF10 activity data format. 

• Projection data and methods. The 

EPA seeks comment on the data used to 

project point and nonpoint source 

emissions from 2011 to 2018, and on the 

methods and assumptions used to 

implement the projections. In this 

context, nonpoint source emissions are 

inclusive of commercial marine vessel, 

railroad, and other nonpoint emissions. 

In particular, the EPA seeks comment 

on its assumptions regarding the 

manner in which specific consent 

decrees and state- or locality-specific 

control programs will be implemented. 

Summaries are provided to illustrate the 

EPA’s current assumptions regarding 

the implementation of consent decrees 

and other programs. 

• Existing control techniques. The 

emission inventories include 

information on emissions control 

techniques listed in terms of control 

codes submitted to the EIS. These are 

listed in the CONTROL_IDS and 

CONTROL_MEASURES columns in the 

emission inventory flat files, with levels 

of reduction in the ANN_PCT_RED 

column. Projection of non-EGU point 

source emissions to future years is 

dependent on this information. The EPA 

seeks comment on whether information 

on existing controls given in the 

inventory flat files is incomplete or 

erroneous. The flat files must be 

consulted for details of control 

techniques by pollutant. 

• Emissions modeling methods. The 

EPA is using the SMOKE version 3.5.1 

to prepare data for air quality modeling. 

The EPA requests comment on the 

methods by which SMOKE is used to 

develop air quality model-ready 

emissions, as illustrated in the scripts 

provided with the modeling platform 

and as described in the Technical 

Support Document Preparation of 

Emissions Inventories for the Version 

6.0, 2011 Emissions Modeling Platform. 

• Temporal allocation. Annual 

emission inventories must be allocated 

to hourly values prior to air quality 

modeling. This may be done with 

temporal profiles in several steps, such 

as annual-to-month, month-to-day, and 

day-to-hour. The exact method used 

depends on the type of emissions being 

processed. The EPA seeks comment on 

the allocation of the emission 

inventories to month, day, and hour for 

all types of emission processes. In 

particular, the EPA seeks information 

that could help improve the temporal 

allocation in 2018 of emissions from 

EGUs, nonroad mobile sources, 

residential wood combustion sources, 

and the temporal allocation of vehicle 

miles traveled needed to model onroad 

sources. The EPA seeks local- and 

region-specific data that can be used to 


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improve the temporal allocation of 

emissions data. 

• Spatial surrogates. Spatial 

surrogates are used to allocate countylevel emissions to the grid cells used for 

air quality modeling. The EPA requests 

comment on the spatial surrogates used 

in the 2018 Emissions Modeling 

Platform. The same spatial surrogates 

are used in the base and future years. 

• Chemical speciation. Prior to air 

quality modeling, the pollutants in the 

emission inventories must be converted 

into the chemical species used by the air 

quality model using speciation profiles. 

The speciation profiles in the 2018 

emissions modeling platform are 

consistent with version 4.3 of the 

SPECIATE database. The EPA requests 

comment on the speciation profiles used 

in the 2018 modeling platform, as well 

as any information that could help 

improve the speciation of oil and gas 

emissions in both the eastern and 

western United States in 2018. Oil and 

gas speciation information, along with 

VOC to TOG adjustment factors that are 

used to compute methane emissions, 

would be of the most use at the county 

or oil/gas basin level of detail and also 

for each distinct process at oil and gas 

drilling/production facilities (e.g., glycol 

dehydrators). 

To aid in the interpretation of the 

provided data files and how they relate 

to the aspects of the data on which the 

EPA is requesting comment, the EPA 

has provided in the docket a document 

describing the information included in 

the data files. 

Dated: January 8, 2014. 

Mary E. Henigin, 

Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and 

Standards. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–SFUND–2013–0549; FRL–9904– 

10–OEI] 

Information Collection Request 

Submitted to OMB for Review and 

Approval; Comment Request; 

Notification of Episodic Releases of Oil 

and Hazardous Substances (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency has submitted an information 

collection request (ICR), ‘‘Notification of 

Episodic Releases of Oil and Hazardous 

Substances (Renewal)’’ to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval in accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a 

proposed extension of the ICR, which is 

currently approved through March 31, 

2014. Public comments were previously 

requested via the Federal Register (78 

FR 49265) on August 13, 2013, during 

a 60-day comment period. This notice 

allows for an additional 30 days for 

public comments. A fuller description 

of the ICR is given below, including its 

estimated burden and cost to the public. 

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. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before February 13, 

2014 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–SFUND–2013–0549, to (1) EPA 

online using www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), by email to 

superfund.docket@epa.gov, 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: 

Lynn M. Beasley, Office of Emergency 

Management, (5104A), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: 202–564–1965; fax 

number: 202–564–8222; email address: 

beasley.lynn@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Supporting documents which explain in 

detail the information that the EPA will 

be collecting are available in the public 

docket for this ICR. The docket can be 

viewed online at www.regulations.gov 

or in person at the EPA Docket Center, 

WJC 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. 

EPA ICR #: 1049.13. 

OMB Control #: 2050–0046. 

Abstract: Section 103(a) of CERCLA, 

as amended, requires the person in 

charge of a facility or vessel to 

immediately notify the National 

Response Center (NRC) of a hazardous 

substance release into the environment 

if the amount of the release equals or 

exceeds the substance’s reportable 

quantity (RQ) limit. The RQ of every 

hazardous substance can be found in 

Table 302.4 of 40 CFR 302.4. 

Section 311 of the CWA, as amended, 

requires the person in charge of a vessel 

to immediately notify the NRC of an oil 

spill into U.S. navigable waters if the 

spill causes a sheen, violates applicable 

water quality standards, or causes a 

sludge or emulsion to be deposited 

beneath the surface of the water or upon 

adjoining shorelines. 

The reporting of a hazardous 

substance release that is at or above the 

substance’s RQ allows the Federal 

government to determine whether a 

Federal response action is required to 

control or mitigate any potential adverse 

effects to public health or welfare or the 

environment. Likewise, the reporting of 

oil spills allows the Federal government 

to determine whether cleaning up the 

oil spill is necessary to mitigate or 

prevent damage to public health or 

welfare or the environment. 

Form numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: Private 

entities. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory CERCLA section 103(a); 

CWA section 311. 

Estimated number of respondents: 

23,864. 

Frequency of response: On occasion. 

Total estimated burden: 97,842 hours 

(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $3,320,485 (per 

year), includes $0 annualized capital or 

operation & maintenance costs. 

Changes in the estimates: There is a 

decrease of 726 hours in the total 

estimated respondent burden compared 

with the ICR currently approved by 

OMB. This decrease is because the 

projected number of release 

notifications per annum in this ICR is 

less than the number of release 

notifications per annum in the previous 

ICR. Projections are based on the 

number of actual releases reported in 

the prior three year period. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 2014–00454 Filed 1–13–14; 8:45 am] 

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