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Dated: March 3, 2015. 

Sue Swenson, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Special 

Education and Rehabilitative Services. 

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OA] 

Improving EPA Regulations 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is requesting public input 

on the agency’s periodic retrospective 

review of its regulations. Executive 

Order 13563, ‘‘Improving Regulation 

and Regulatory Review,’’ and Executive 

Order 13610, ‘‘Identifying and Reducing 

Regulatory Burdens,’’ call on all federal 

agencies to conduct a retrospective 

analysis of rules that may be outmoded, 

ineffective, insufficient, or excessively 

burdensome and to modify, streamline, 

expand, or repeal them in accordance 

with what has been learned. The EPA is 

particularly seeking public input on 

how the agency can promote regulatory 

modernization through business-process 

streamlining, facilitated by improved 

technology. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before April 8, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OA–2011–0156, 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edited or withdrawn.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. If you need to 

include CBI as part of your comment, 

please visit http://www.epa.gov/

dockets/comments.html for instructions. 

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. For additional 

submission methods, the full EPA 

public comment policy, and general 

guidance on making effective 

comments, please visit http://

www.epa.gov/dockets/comments.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information on this document, 

please contact Nathaniel Jutras, Office of 

Policy, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., 

Mail Code 1803A, Washington, DC 

20460, Phone: (202) 564–0301; Fax: 

(202) 564–8601; Jutras.Nathaniel@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

is committed to a regulatory strategy 

that effectively achieves the Agency’s 

mission of protecting the environment 

and the health, welfare, and safety of 

Americans while also supporting 

economic growth, job creation, 

competitiveness, and innovation. 

Recognizing the importance of 

reducing unnecessary red tape— 

especially for America’s small 

businesses—with Executive Orders 

13563 and 13610 President Obama 

launched a historic review of existing 

rules to eliminate, streamline or update 

those that no longer make sense in their 

current form. This effort is on track to 

produce completed actions that will 

reduce nearly $20 billion in regulatory 

costs in the near term. 

As part of this review, in August 2011 

the agency issued its Final Plan for 

Periodic Retrospective Reviews of 

Existing Regulations (http://

www.epa.gov/regdarrt/). This Plan was 

developed after extensive public 

outreach that sought input on an agency 

plan for retrospective review, as well as 

on possible reforms to modify, 

streamline, expand or repeal existing 

regulations. That outreach included 20 

public meetings, town halls, and 

Webinars with over 600 participants. 

Since 2011, the EPA has maintained an 

open comment docket for public 

feedback on the existing Plan for 

Periodic Retrospective Review of 

Existing Regulations and the subsequent 

progress reports. To date, we have 

completed 21 of our original 35 

retrospective reviews. We added five 

new reviews in July 2014. 

The EPA views this review process as 

an ongoing exercise and is seeking 

further public input to ensure our 

regulations continue to maximize net 

social benefit. The focus of this new 

request for input is on how the agency 

can promote regulatory modernization 

through business-process streamlining 

facilitated by improved technology. We 

specifically solicit comments on the 

following questions: 

D Which regulations, including 

economically significant rules, could be 

transitioned from paper to electronic 

reporting? 

D How can the EPA reduce duplicative 

reporting requirements in existing 

regulations that may overlap other 

federal requirements? 

D How can the EPA streamline or 

consolidate reporting requirements to 

reduce burden? 

D Which regulations could benefit 

from the use of existing shared services 

(such as the Substance Registry System) 

or new shared services? 

D Should the EPA create a joint 

registry of regulated facilities with states 

and tribes to streamline electronic 

reporting to multiple programs and 

maximize burden reduction? 

D Which regulations could be 

improved through the use of advance 

monitoring techniques or the 

development of mobile applications to 

facilitate environmental protection? 

D Which regulations could be 

amended to reduce the frequency of 

reporting while maintaining effective 

programs? 

D Is the same information being 

collected in multiple places, either 

across different regulations, or across 

different levels of government (Federal, 

State, Tribal, and local)? 

We request that commenters be as 

specific as possible, include any 

supporting data or other information, 

and provide a citation when referencing 

a specific regulation. In addition, in 

drafting comments, bear in mind that 


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the EPA must uphold both its legal 

obligations under governing statutes and 

its mission to protect human health and 

the environment; and that the EPA’s 

retrospective review will be tailored to 

reflect its resources, rulemaking 

schedule, and workload. 

Additionally, the EPA published a 

notice on January 26, 2015 seeking 

comment on the development of an 

online portal to serve as a consolidated 

entry point for providing information, 

tools and streamlined interactions with 

the EPA by the public and regulated 

entities (80 FR 3962). Commenters may 

wish to review this notice and consider 

how such a portal could be used while 

considering regulations that the EPA 

should include in its review. 

The EPA is accepting comments until 

April 8, 2015. Although the agency will 

not respond to individual comments, 

the EPA values and will give careful 

consideration to all input that it 

receives. Please see http://www.epa.gov/ 

regdarrt/retrospective/history.html for 

additional information and updates. 

Dated: February 26, 2015. 

Joel Beauvais, 

Associate Administrator, Office of Policy. 

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AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R03–OAR–2014–0903; FRL–9924–03– 

Region 3] 

Approval and Promulgation of Air 

Quality Implementation Plans; West 

Virginia; State Boards Requirements; 

Infrastructure Requirements for the 

2008 Ozone, 2010 Nitrogen Dioxide, 

and 2010 Sulfur Dioxide National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) proposes to approve the 

State Implementation Plan (SIP) 

revision submitted by the State of West 

Virginia for the purpose of addressing 

the State Boards requirements for all 

criteria pollutants of the National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards 

(NAAQS). EPA is also proposing to 

approve a related infrastructure element 

from the West Virginia February 21, 

2012 SIP submittal for the 2008 ozone 

(O3) NAAQS, the December 13, 2012 SIP 

submittal for the 2010 nitrogen dioxide 

(NO2) NAAQS, and the July 1, 2013 SIP 

submittal for the 2010 sulfur dioxide 

(SO2) NAAQS. In the Final Rules 

section of this Federal Register, EPA is 

approving the State’s SIP submittal as a 

direct final rule without prior proposal 

because the Agency views this as a 

noncontroversial submittal and 

anticipates no adverse comments. A 

detailed rationale for the approval is set 

forth in the direct final rule. If no 

adverse comments are received in 

response to this action, no further 

activity is contemplated. If EPA receives 

adverse comments, the direct final rule 

will be withdrawn and all public 

comments received will be addressed in 

a subsequent final rule based on this 

proposed rule. EPA will not institute a 

second comment period. Any parties 

interested in commenting on this action 

should do so at this time. 

DATES: Comments must be received in 

writing by April 8, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID Number EPA– 

R03–OAR–2014–0903 by one of the 

following methods: 

A. www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

B. Email: powers.marilyn@epa.gov. 

C. Mail: EPA–R03–OAR–2014–0903, 

Marilyn Powers, Acting Associate 

Director, Office of Air Program 

Planning, Air Protection Division, 

Mailcode 3AP30, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Region III, 1650 

Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

19103. 

D. Hand Delivery: At the previously 

listed EPA Region III address. 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–R03–OAR–2014– 

0903. 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 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 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, 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 EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

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. 

Docket: All documents in the 

electronic docket are listed in the 

www.regulations.gov index. Although 

listed in the index, some information is 

not publicly available, i.e., CBI or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Certain other 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

is not placed on the Internet and will be 

publicly available only in hard copy 

form. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either 

electronically in www.regulations.gov or 

in hard copy during normal business 

hours at the Air Protection Division, 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region III, 1650 Arch Street, 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. 

Copies of the State submittal are 

available at the West Virginia 

Department of Environmental 

Protection, Division of Air Quality, 601 

57th Street SE., Charleston, WV 25304. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ellen Schmitt, (215) 814–5787, or by 

email at schmitt.ellen@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For 

further information, please see the 

information provided in the direct final 

action, with the same title, that is 

located in the ‘‘Rules and Regulations’’ 

section of this Federal Register 

publication. Please note that if EPA 

receives adverse comment on an 

amendment, paragraph, or section of 

this rule and if that provision may be 

severed from the remainder of the rule, 

EPA may adopt as final those provisions 

of the rule that are not the subject of an 

adverse comment. 

Dated: February 12, 2015. 

William C. Early, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region III. 

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