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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2013–0146; FRL–9906–22– 

OAR] 

Release of Draft Integrated Review 

Plan for the Primary National Ambient 

Air Quality Standards for Oxides of 

Nitrogen 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability and public 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: On or about February 10, 

2014, the Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is making available for 

public review the draft titled, Integrated 

Review Plan for the Primary National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards for 

Nitrogen Dioxide (draft IRP). This 

document contains the plans for the 

review of the air quality criteria for 

oxides of nitrogen and national ambient 

air quality standards (NAAQS) for 

nitrogen dioxide (NO2). The primary 

NO2 NAAQS provide for the protection 

of public health from exposure to oxides 

of nitrogen in ambient air. 

DATES: Comments should be submitted 

on or before March 13, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: This document will be 

available primarily via the Internet at 

the following Web site: http://

www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/nox/

s_nox_index.html. 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2013– 

0146, by one of the following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov. 

• Fax: 202–566–9744. 

• Mail: Air and Radiation Docket and 

Information Center, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mail Code 2822T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. Please include a 

total of two copies. 

• Hand Delivery: 1301 Constitution 

Ave. NW., Room 3334, Washington, DC. 

EPA Docket Center, 1301 Constitution 

Ave. NW., Room 3334, Washington, DC. 

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– 

0146. 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, William 

Jefferson Clinton 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 and Radiation Docket and 

Information Center is 202–566–1742. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Beth Hassett-Sipple, Office of Air 

Quality Planning and Standards (Mail 

Code C504–06), U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Research Triangle 

Park, NC 27711; telephone number: 

919–541–4605; fax number: 919–541– 

0237; email address: hassettsipple.beth@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for the EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to the EPA through 

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, 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. 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. Information so marked 

will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR part 2. 

2. Tips for Preparing Your Comments. 

When submitting comments, remember 

to: 

• Identify the rulemaking by docket 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

• Follow directions—The agency may 

ask you to respond to specific questions 

or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

• Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

• Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

• If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

• Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns, and suggest 

alternatives. 

• Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

• Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

II. Information Specific to This 

Document 

Two sections of the Clean Air Act 

(CAA) govern the establishment and 

revision of the NAAQS. Section 108 (42 

U.S.C. section 7408) directs the 

Administrator to identify and list 

certain air pollutants and then to issue 

air quality criteria for those pollutants. 

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1The EPA’s call for information for this review 

was issued on February 10, 2012 (77 FR 7149). 

2The EPA held a workshop titled ‘‘Kickoff 

Workshop to Inform EPA’s Review of the Primary 

NO2 NAAQS’’ on February 29 to March 1, 2012 (77 

FR 7149). 

3Prior to development of this draft IRP, EPA’s 

National Center for Environmental Assessment 

prepared a ‘‘Draft Plan for Development of the 

Integrated Science Assessment for Nitrogen 

Oxides—Health Criteria’’ for consultation with 

CASAC (78 FR 26026; 78 FR 27234). Comments 

received during that consultation have been 

considered in preparation of the chapter on the 

development of the integrated science assessment 

in the draft IRP. 

1 Indian country is defined at 18 U.S.C. 1151. 

Consistent with the statutory definition of Indian 

country, as well as Federal case law interpreting 

this statutory language, EPA treats lands held by the 

Federal Government in trust for Indian Tribes that 

exist outside of formal reservations as informal 

reservations, and thus as Indian country. 

The Administrator is to list those air 

pollutants that in her ‘‘judgment, cause 

or contribute to air pollution which may 

reasonably be anticipated to endanger 

public health or welfare;’’ ‘‘the presence 

of which in the ambient air results from 

numerous or diverse mobile or 

stationary sources;’’ and ‘‘for which . . . 

[the Administrator] plans to issue air 

quality criteria . . .’’ Air quality criteria 

are intended to ‘‘accurately reflect the 

latest scientific knowledge useful in 

indicating the kind and extent of all 

identifiable effects on public health or 

welfare which may be expected from the 

presence of [a] pollutant in the ambient 

air . . .’’ 42 U.S.C. 7408(b). Under 

section 109 (42 U.S.C. 7409), the EPA 

establishes primary (health-based) and 

secondary (welfare-based) NAAQS for 

pollutants for which air quality criteria 

are issued. Section 109(d) requires 

periodic review and, if appropriate, 

revision of existing air quality criteria. 

The EPA is also required to periodically 

review and, if appropriate, revise the 

NAAQS based on the revised criteria. 

Section 109(d)(2) requires that an 

independent scientific review 

committee ‘‘shall complete a review of 

the criteria . . . and the national 

primary and secondary ambient air 

quality standards . . . and shall 

recommend to the Administrator any 

new . . . standards and revisions of 

existing criteria and standards as may be 

appropriate. . . .’’ Since the early 

1980’s, this independent review 

function has been performed by the 

Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee (CASAC). 

Presently, the EPA is reviewing the 

primary NAAQS for NO2.1 The draft 

document, announced today, has been 

developed as part of the planning phase 

for the review. This phase began with a 

science policy workshop to identify 

issues and questions to frame the 

review.2 Drawing from the workshop 

discussions, the draft IRP has been 

prepared jointly by EPA’s National 

Center for Environmental Assessment, 

within the Office of Research and 

Development, and EPA’s Office of Air 

Quality Planning and Standards, within 

the Office of Air and Radiation.3 The 

draft IRP presents the current plan and 

specifies the schedule for the entire 

review, the process for conducting the 

review, and the key policy-relevant 

science issues that will guide the 

review. This document will be available 

on the EPA’s Technology Transfer 

Network (TTN) Web site at http://

www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/nox/

s_nox_index.html http://www.epa.gov/

ttn/naaqs/standards/pb/s_pb_

index.html, accessible in the 

‘‘Documents from Current Review’’ 

section under ‘‘Planning Documents.’’ 

The draft IRP is being made available 

for CASAC review and for public 

comment. Comments should be 

submitted to the docket, as described 

above, by March 13, 2014. Information 

about the CASAC review meeting on 

this planning document, including the 

dates and location, will be published as 

a separate notice in the Federal 

Register. The final IRP will be prepared 

after considering comments from 

CASAC and the public. This draft 

document does not represent and 

should not be construed to represent 

any final EPA policy, viewpoint or 

determination. 

Dated: January 28, 2014. 

Mary E. Henigin, 

Acting Director, Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2011–0037; FRL–9904–18] 

Final EPA Plan for the Federal 

Certification of Applicators of 

Restricted Use Pesticides Within 

Indian Country; Notice of 

Implementation 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In the Federal Register of 

May 18, 2011, EPA issued a notice of 

intent to implement a Federal program 

to certify applicators of restricted use 

pesticides (RUPs) in Indian country 

where no other certification plan 

applies. The program will be 

administered by EPA. In that notice, 

EPA solicited comments from the public 

on EPA’s Proposed Federal Plan for 

Certifying Applicators of Restricted Use 

Pesticides within Indian Country (EPA 

plan). EPA received comments from 

four commenters. EPA also issued a 

notice of intent to implement a similar 

plan in EPA Region 8, the Proposed 

Federal Plan for Certification of 

Applicators of Restricted Use Pesticides 

Within EPA Region 8 Indian Country 

(EPA Region 8 plan) in the Federal 

Register of April 20, 2011. EPA received 

comments from seven commenters on 

the EPA Region 8 plan. A complete 

summary of the comments and the 

Agency responses is available in the 

docket. EPA has decided to merge these 

plans into one EPA plan and hereby 

implements the final EPA plan. 

Applicators must hold the appropriate 

Federal certification under the final EPA 

plan to apply RUPs in Indian country 

where no other EPA-approved or EPAimplemented certification plan applies. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nicole Zinn, Field and External Affairs 

Division (7506P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (703) 308–7076; email address: 

zinn.nicole@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

This notice applies to individuals and 

businesses who are seeking certification 

to apply RUPs as defined by the Federal 

Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 

Act (FIFRA) in Indian country 1 where 

no EPA-approved or EPA-implemented 

plan applies. This action may, however, 

be of interest to those involved in 

agriculture and anyone involved with 

the distribution and application of 

pesticides for agricultural purposes. 

Others involved with pesticides and/or 

pest control applications in a nonagricultural setting may also be affected. 

Since other entities may also be 

interested, the Agency has not 

attempted to describe all the specific 

entities that may be affected by this 

action. If you have any questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

to a particular entity, consult the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

B. How can I get copies of this document 

and other related information? 

The docket for this action, identified 

by docket identification (ID) number 

EPA–HQ–OPP–2011–0037, is available 

at http://www.regulations.gov or at the 

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