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be announced in separate Federal 

Register notices. 

The ‘‘First External Review Draft 

Integrated Science Assessment for 

Nitrogen Oxides—Health Criteria’’ will 

be discussed at a public meeting for 

review by CASAC and the public. In 

addition to the public comment period 

announced in this notice, the public 

will have an opportunity to address 

CASAC. A separate Federal Register 

notice will inform the public of the 

exact date and time of the CASAC 

meeting and of the procedures for 

public participation in that CASAC 

meeting. 

II. How To Submit Technical Comments 

to the Docket at www.regulations.gov 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2013– 

0232, by one of the following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: Docket_ORD@epa.gov. 

• Fax: 202–566–9744. 

• Mail: U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center 

(ORD Docket), Mail Code: 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. The phone number is 202– 

566–1752. 

• Hand Delivery: The ORD Docket is 

located in the EPA Headquarters Docket 

Center, EPA West Building, Room 3334, 

1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center 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. 

Such deliveries are only accepted 

during the docket’s normal hours of 

operation, and special arrangements 

should be made for deliveries of boxed 

information. If you provide comments 

by mail or hand delivery, please submit 

three copies of the comments. For 

attachments, provide an index, number 

pages consecutively with the comments, 

and submit an unbound original and 

three copies. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2013– 

0232. Please ensure that your comments 

are submitted within the specified 

comment period. Comments received 

after the closing date will be marked 

‘‘late,’’ and may only be considered if 

time permits. It is EPA’s policy to 

include all comments it receives in the 

public docket without change and to 

make the comments available online at 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless a 

comment includes information claimed 

to be Confidential Business Information 

(CBI) or other information whose 

disclosure is restricted by statute. Do 

not submit information through 

www.regulations.gov or email that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected. 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. For additional information 

about EPA’s public docket visit the EPA 

Docket Center homepage at 

www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

Docket: 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 materials, such as 

copyrighted material, are publicly 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the ORD Docket in the EPA 

Headquarters Docket Center. 

Dated: October 30, 2013. 

Debra B. Walsh, 

Acting Deputy Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

[FR Doc. 2013–27979 Filed 11–21–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[ER–FRL–9012–2] 

Environmental Impact Statements; 

Notice of Availability 

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal 

Activities, General Information (202) 

564–7146 or http://www.epa.gov/

compliance/nepa/. 

Weekly Receipt of Environmental 

Impact Statements 

Filed 11/11/2013 through 11/15/2013. 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9. 

NOTICE: Section 309(a) of the Clean 

Air Act requires that EPA make public 

its comments on EISs issued by other 

Federal agencies. EPA’s comment letters 

on EISs are available at: http://

www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/

eisdata.html. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA’s 

weekly receipt of EISs filed during the 

week of 11/04/2013 through 11/08/2013 

can be found in Wednesday, November 

20th, Federal Register publication and 

on EPA’s Web site at: http://

www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/

eisdata.html. 

EIS No. 20130338, Final EIS, USFS, OR, 

Summit Logan Valley Grazing 

Authorization Project, Review Period 

Ends: 12/30/2013, Contact: Randall J. 

Gould 541–820–3801. 

EIS No. 20130339, Draft EIS, BLM, OR, 

Oregon Sub-Region Greater SageGrouse Draft Resource Management 

Plan Amendment, Comment Period 

Ends: 02/20/2014, Contact: Joan 

Suther 541–573–4445. 

EIS No. 20130340, Draft EIS, USFS, AZ, 

Programmatic—Revision of the 

Coronado National Forest Land and 

Resource Management Plan, Comment 

Period Ends: 02/20/2014, Contact: 

Yolynda Begay 520–388–8370. 

EIS No. 20130341, Final Supplement, 

BLM, NV, Ruby Pipeline Project, 

Review Period Ends: 12/23/2013, 

Contact: Mark Mackiewicz 435–636– 

3616. 

EIS No. 20130342, Draft EIS, USA, CA, 

Modernization and Repair of Piers 2 

and 3 at Military Ocean Terminal 

Concord, Comment Period Ends: 

01/06/2014, Contact: Malcolm E. 

Charles 925–246–4023. 

EIS No. 20130343, Draft Supplement, 

NPS, FL, Biscayne National Park 

Supplemental Draft General 

Management Plan, Comment Period 

Ends: 02/20/2014, Contact: Morgan 

Elmer 303–969–2317. 

EIS No. 20130344, Draft Supplement, 

FHWA, NC, Monroe Connector/

Bypass, Comment Period Ends: 

01/06/2014, Contact: Jennifer Harris 

(NCDOT) 919–707–6025. 

EIS No. 20130345, Final EIS, DOE, LA, 

Lake Charles Carbon Capture and 

Sequestration Project, Review Period 

Ends: 12/23/2013, Contact: Pieri 

Fayish 412–386–5428. 

EIS No. 20130346, Draft EIS, USFS, CA, 

Blacksmith Forest Health Project, 

Comment Period Ends: 01/06/2014, 

Contact: Dana Walsh 530–333–5558. 

EIS No. 20130347, Final Supplement, 

USFS, CA, Southern California 

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Plan Amendment, Review Period 

Ends: 12/23/2013, Contact: Robert 

Hawkins 916–849–8037. 

EIS No. 20130348, Draft EIS, BLM, 

WAPA, UT, TransWest Express 

Transmission Project, Comment 

Period Ends: 02/19/2014, Contact: 

Sharon Knowlton 307–775–6124. 

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s 

Bureau of Land Management and the 

U.S. Department of Energy’s Western 

Area Power Administration are joint 

lead agencies for the above project. 

Amended Notices 

EIS No. 20130334, Draft EIS, BIA, MA, 

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Fee-toTrust Acquisition and Casino Project, 

Comment Period Ends: 01/17/2014, 

Contact: Chester McGhee 615–564– 

6500. Revision to the FR Notice 

Published 11/20/2013; Extending the 

Comment Period from 12/30/2013 to 

01/17/2014. 

Dated: November 19, 2013. 

Cliff Rader, 

Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office 

of Federal Activities. 

[FR Doc. 2013–28149 Filed 11–21–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9903–36-Region 10] 

Proposed Issuance of the NPDES 

General Permit for Oil and Gas 

Geotechnical Surveying and Related 

Activities in Federal Waters of the 

Beaufort and Chukchi Seas 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed issuance of 

general permit. 

SUMMARY: EPA Region 10 proposes to 

issue a National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System (NPDES) General 

Permit for Oil and Gas Geotechnical 

Surveying and Related Activities in 

Federal Waters of the Beaufort and 

Chukchi Seas (Permit No. AKG–28– 

4300). As proposed, the Geotechnical 

General Permit authorizes twelve types 

of discharges from facilities engaged in 

oil and gas geotechnical surveys to 

evaluate the subsurface characteristics 

of the seafloor and related activities in 

federal waters of the Beaufort and 

Chukchi Seas. Geotechnical borings are 

collected to assess the structural 

properties of subsurface soil conditions 

for potential placement of oil and gas 

installations, which may include 

production and drilling platforms, ice 

islands, anchor structures for floating 

exploration drilling vessels, and 

potential buried pipeline corridors. 

Geotechnical surveys result in a 

disturbance of the seafloor and produce 

discharges consisting of soil, rock and 

cuttings materials, in addition to 

facility-specific waste streams 

authorized under this general permit. 

Geotechnical related activities also 

result in a disturbance of the seafloor 

and produce similar discharges. These 

activities may include feasibility testing 

of equipment that disturbs the seafloor, 

and testing and evaluation of trenching 

technologies. 

DATES: Comments. The public comment 

period for the draft Geotechnical 

General Permit will be from the date of 

publication of this Notice until January 

27, 2014. Comments must be received or 

post-marked by no later than midnight 

Pacific Standard Time on January 27, 

2014. 

Public Hearings. EPA will hold public 

hearings on January 8, 2014, in Barrow, 

Alaska, at the Inupiat Heritage Center 

and via teleconference on January 10, 

2014. The hearing in Barrow, AK will 

begin at 6:00 p.m. (Alaska Standard 

Time) and will continue until all 

testimony is heard or 10:00 p.m., 

whichever is earlier. The teleconference 

hearing will begin at 4:00 p.m. (Alaska 

Standard Time) and will continue until 

all testimony is heard or 7:00 p.m., 

whichever is earlier. 

See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for 

additional information. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods. EPA 

will consider all comments received 

during the public comment period prior 

to making its final decision. 

Mail: Send paper comments to Erin 

Seyfried, Office of Water and 

Watersheds, Mail Stop OWW–130, 1200 

6th Avenue, Suite 900, Seattle, WA 

98101–3140. 

Email: Send electronic comments to 

R10geotechpermit@epa.gov. 

Fax: Fax comments to the attention of 

Erin Seyfried at (206) 553–0165. 

Hand Delivery/Courier: Deliver 

comments to Erin Seyfried, Office of 

Water and Watersheds, Mail Stop 

OWW–130, 1200 6th Avenue, Suite 900, 

Seattle, WA 98101–3140. Call (206) 

553–0523 before delivery to verify 

business hours. 

Viewing and/or Obtaining Copies of 

Documents. A copy of the draft 

Geotechnical General Permit and the 

Fact Sheet, which explains the proposal 

in detail, may be obtained by contacting 

EPA at 1 (800) 424–4372. Copies of the 

documents are also available for 

viewing and downloading at: http://

yosemite.epa.gov/r10/water.nsf/

npdes+permits/DraftPermitsAK http://

yosemite.epa.gov/r10/water.nsf/

npdes+permits/arctic-gp See 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for other 

document viewing locations. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin 

Seyfried, Office of Water and 

Watersheds, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Region 10, Mail Stop 

OWW–130, 1200 6th Avenue, Suite 900, 

Seattle, WA 98101–3140, (206) 553– 

1448, seyfried.erin@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Fact 

Sheet describes the types of facilities 

and the discharges proposed to be 

authorized by the Geotechnical General 

Permit; the proposed effluent limits and 

other conditions; maps and descriptions 

of the proposed Area of Coverage; and 

a summary of the supporting technical 

materials. 

Public Hearing Locations and 

Information. The locations, 

teleconference information, and general 

agenda for the hearings are: 

(1) January 8, 2014, Inupiat Heritage 

Center, 5421 North Star Street, Barrow, 

AK 99723, Teleconference number 1 

(866) 299–3188, code 9072711272#; 4:00 

p.m.–5:00 p.m. Open House; 6:00 p.m.– 

7:00 p.m. Presentation; 7:00 p.m.–10:00 

p.m. Testimony. 

(2) January 10, 2014; Teleconference 

Only. Teleconference number 1 (866) 

299–3188, code 9072711272#; 4:00 

p.m.–4:30 p.m. Presentation; 4:30 p.m.– 

7:00 p.m. Testimony. 

Public Hearing Procedures. Public 

hearings will be conducted in 

accordance with 40 CFR 124.12 and will 

provide interested persons with the 

opportunity to give written and/or 

verbal comments for the official record. 

The following procedures will be used 

at the public hearings: 

(1) The presiding officer shall conduct 

the hearing in a manner which will 

allow all interested persons wishing to 

make verbal comments an opportunity 

to do so (however, the presiding officer 

may inform attendees of any time limits 

during the opening statement of the 

hearing); 

(2) Any person may submit written 

statements or documents for the hearing 

record; 

(3) The presiding officer may, in his 

or her discretion, exclude verbal 

comments if such testimony is overly 

repetitious of previous testimony or is 

not relevant to the draft Geotechnical 

General Permit; 

(4) The transcripts of the hearings, 

together with copies of all submitted 

statements and documents, shall 

become a part of the record submitted 

to the Director of the Office of Water 

and Watersheds; 


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