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receiving systems that meet the 

applicable subpart D requirements. 

On January 20, 2010, the Alaska 

Department of Environmental 

Conservation (ADEC) submitted an 

application titled ‘‘Water Online 

Application System (OASys)’’ for 

revision/modification of its EPAauthorized authorized Part 123 program 

under title 40 CFR. EPA reviewed 

ADEC’s request to revise/modify its 

EPA-authorized Part 123—EPA 

Administered Permit Programs: The 

National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System program and, based 

on this review, EPA determined that the 

application met the standards for 

approval of authorized program 

revision/modification set out in 40 CFR 

part 3, subpart D. In accordance with 40 

CFR 3.1000(d), this notice of EPA’s 

decision to approve Alaska’s request to 

revise/modify its Part 123—EPA 

Administered Permit Programs: The 

National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System program to allow 

electronic reporting under 40 CFR part 

122 is being published in the Federal 

Register. 

ADEC was notified of EPA’s 

determination to approve its application 

with respect to the authorized program 

listed above. 

Matthew Leopard, 

Director, Office of Information Collection. 

[FR Doc. 2015–16252 Filed 7–8–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9930–36–Region 8] 

Proposed Settlement Agreement for 

Iron Springs Mining District Site, 

Uncompahgre National Forest, San 

Miguel County, Colorado 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice; Request for public 

comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response Compensation, and Liability 

Act of 1980, as amended (CERCLA), 

notice is hereby given of the proposed 

Administrative Settlement between the 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA) and Department of Agriculture 

Forest Service (USFS) (collectively the 

‘‘Agencies’’), and Union Oil Company of 

California, Inc. (hereinafter referred to 

as ‘‘the Settling Party’’). The Settling 

Party will pay within 30 days after the 

effective date of this Proposed 

Agreement ($403,300) to the EPA, 

($14,573) to the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, and ($357,677) to the USFS 

for past response costs. The covenants 

provided by the Agencies to the Settling 

Party are conditioned upon the 

satisfactory performance by Settling 

Party of its obligations under this 

Settlement Agreement. The payments 

made by Settling Party in accordance 

with this Settlement Agreement do not 

constitute an admission of any liability 

by Settling Party. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before August 10, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: The proposed agreement is 

available by appointment for public 

inspection at the EPA Superfund Record 

Center, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, 

Colorado 80202–1129, during normal 

business hours. Appointments for 

review may be made by calling the EPA 

Superfund Records Center at (303) 312– 

7273. Comments and requests for a copy 

of the proposed agreement should be 

addressed to Michael Rudy, 

Enforcement Specialist, Environmental 

Protection Agency—Region 8, Mail 

Code 8ENF–RC, 1595 Wynkoop Street, 

Denver, Colorado 80202–1129, and 

should reference the Iron Springs 

Mining District Site, the EPA Docket No. 

CERCLA–08–2015–0005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Rudy, Enforcement Specialist, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region 8, Mail Code 8ENF–ENF, at the 

above address, (303) 312–6332. 

Dated: June 16, 2015. 

Kelcey Land, 

Director, Technical Enforcement Program, 

Office of Enforcement, Compliance, and 

Environmental Justice, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Region 8. 

[FR Doc. 2015–16810 Filed 7–8–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OA–2006–0278; FRL–9926–69– 

OEI] 

Information Collection Request 

Submitted to OMB for Review and 

Approval; Comment Request; 

Participation by Disadvantaged 

Business Enterprises in Procurements 

Under EPA Financial Assistance 

Agreements (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency has submitted an information 

collection request (ICR), ‘‘Participation 

by Disadvantaged Business Enterprises 

in Procurement under EPA Financial 

Assistance Agreements (Renewal)’’ (EPA 

ICR No. 2047.05, OMB Control No. 

2090–0030) to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for review and 

approval in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.). This is a proposed 

extension of the ICR, which is currently 

approved through August 31, 2015. 

Public comments were previously 

requested via the Federal Register (80 

FR 10087) on February 25, 2015 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 August 10, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OA–2006–0278 to (1) EPA online using 

www.regulations.gov (our preferred 

method), by email to oei.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: 

Teree Henderson, Office of Small 

Business Programs, mail code: 1230T, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: 202–566– 

2222; fax number: 202–566–0548; email 

address: Henderson.Teree@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. 


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1Any further reference in this letter to ‘‘your 

conviction’’ refers to your guilty plea and 

subsequent sentencing in United States v. Icon 

Telecom, Criminal Docket No. 5:14–cr–00170–D, 

Plea Agreement (W.D. Okla. filed June 12, 2014) 

(Plea Agreement). See also Lifeline and Link Up 

Reform and Modernization, WC Docket No. 11–42, 

CC Docket No. 96–45, WC Docket No. 03–109, 

Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking, 27 FCC Rcd 6656 (2012) (Lifeline 

Reform Order). 

2 47 CFR 54.8. 

3 Id.; 47 CFR 0.111 (delegating to the Bureau 

authority to resolve universal service suspension 

and debarment proceedings). In 2007, the 

Commission extended the debarment rules to apply 

to all federal universal service support mechanisms, 

including Lifeline. See Comprehensive Review of 

the Universal Service Fund Management, 

Administration, & Oversight, Report and Order, 22 

FCC Rcd 16372, 16410–12 (2007) (Program 

Management Order) (renumbering section 54.521 of 

the universal service debarment rules as section 

54.8 and amending subsections (a)(1), (a)(5), (c), (d), 

(e)(2)(i), (e)(3), (e)(4), and (g)). 

4Program Management Order, 22 FCC Rcd at 

16387, para. 32. The Commission’s debarment rules 

define a ‘‘person’’ as ‘‘[a]ny individual, group of 

individuals, corporation, partnership, association, 

unit of government or legal entity, however 

organized.’’ 47 CFR 54.8(a)(6). 

5See Lifeline Reform Order, 27 FCC Rcd at 6662– 

67, paras. 11–18; see also 47 CFR 54.400–54.422. 

Abstract: EPA currently requires an 

entity to be certified in order to be 

considered a Minority Business 

Enterprise (MBE) or Women’s Business 

Enterprise (WBE) under EPA’s 

Disadvantaged Business Enterprise 

(DBE) Program. To qualify as an MBE or 

WBE under EPA’s programs, an entity 

must establish that it is owned and/or 

controlled by socially and economically 

disadvantaged individuals who are of 

good character and are citizens of the 

United States. The EPA DBE Program 

also includes contract administration 

requirements designed to prevent unfair 

practices that adversely affect DBEs. 

Form Numbers: 6100–1a, 6100–1b, 

6100–1c, 6100–1d, 6100–1e, 6100–1f, 

6100–1g, 6100–1h, 6100–1i, 6100–2, 

6100–3, and 6100–4. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: All 

recipients of EPA financial assistance 

agreements, and entities receiving 

identified loans under a financial 

assistance agreement capitalizing a 

revolving loan fund. 

Respondent’s Obligation to Respond: 

Required to obtain or retain a benefit per 

40 CFR part 33, subpart B and 40 CFR 

part 33, subpart E. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

1,865 (total). 

Frequency of Response: Certification: 

On occasion. 

Total Estimated Burden: 11,614 hours 

(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.03(b). 

Total Estimated Cost: $362,712 (per 

year), includes $0 annualized capital or 

operation & maintenance costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is no 

change of hours in the total estimated 

respondent burden compared with the 

ICR currently approved by OMB. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division. 

[FR Doc. 2015–16751 Filed 7–8–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[DA 15–627] 

Notice of Suspension and 

Commencement of Proposed 

Debarment Proceedings; Federal 

Lifeline Universal Service Support 

Mechanism 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Enforcement Bureau 

(Bureau) gives notice of Icon Telecom, 

Inc.’s (Icon or Company) suspension 

from the federal Lifeline universal 

service support mechanism (Lifeline 

program) and the commencement of 

debarment proceedings against the 

Company. Suspension immediately 

excludes Icon from activities associated 

with or related to the Lifeline program 

pending completion of the debarment 

process. Icon, or any person who has an 

existing contract with or intends to 

contract with the Company to provide 

or receive services in matters arising out 

of activities associated with or related to 

the Lifeline program, may contest this 

suspension or its scope by filing an 

opposition and any relevant 

documentation. 

DATES: Any opposition must be received 

within 30 days from the receipt of the 

suspension letter or July 9, 2015, 

whichever comes first. The Bureau will 

decide any opposition within 90 days of 

its receipt. 

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications 

Commission, Enforcement Bureau, 

Investigations and Hearings Division, 

Room 4–A422, 445 12th Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20554. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Celia Lewis, Paralegal Specialist, 

Federal Communications Commission, 

Enforcement Bureau, Investigations and 

Hearings Division, Room 4–A422, 445 

12th Street SW., Washington, DC 20554. 

Celia Lewis may be contacted by 

telephone at (202) 418–7456 or email at 

Celia.Lewis@fcc.gov. If Ms. Lewis is 

unavailable, you may contact Mr. Kalun 

Lee, Deputy Chief, Investigations and 

Hearings Division, by telephone at (202) 

418–0796 or email at Kalun.Lee@

fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Bureau has suspension and debarment 

authority pursuant to 47 CFR 54.8 and 

0.111(a)(14). Icon’s conviction for 

making a false statement in violation of 

18 U.S.C. 1002(a)(2), in connection with 

fraudulent claims against the Lifeline 

program, requires the Bureau to suspend 

the Company from participating in 

activities associated with the Lifeline 

program. Attached is the notice of 

suspension and initiation of debarment 

proceeding (Notice of Suspension), DA 

15–627, which was mailed to Icon and 

released on May 26, 2015. The complete 

text of the Notice of Suspension is 

available for public inspection and 

copying during regular business hours 

at the FCC Reference Information 

Center, Portal II, 445 12th Street SW., 

Room CY–A257, Washington, DC 20554. 

In addition, the complete text is 

available on the FCC’s Web site at 

http://www.fcc.gov. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Jeffrey J. Gee, 

Chief, Investigations and Hearings Division, 

Enforcement Bureau. 

May 26, 2015 

DA 15–627 

SENT VIA CERTIFIED MAIL, RETURN 

RECEIPT REQUESTED 

Mr. Wes Yui Chew, President, Icon Telecom, 

Inc., c/o Daniel G. Webber, Jr., Ryan 

Whaley Coldiron Shandy PLLC, 119 N. 

Robinson Avenue, Suite 900, Oklahoma 

City, OK 73102 

Re: Notice of suspension and initiation of 

debarment proceeding File No. EB–IHD– 

15–00019108 

Dear Mr. Chew: The Federal 

Communications Commission (Commission) 

has received notice of the conviction of Icon 

Telecom, Inc. (Icon or Company) for making 

a false statement in violation of 18 U.S.C. 

1002(a)(2), in connection with fraudulent 

claims against the federal Lifeline telephone 

program (Lifeline program).1 Pursuant to its 

rules, the Enforcement Bureau (Bureau) 

hereby suspends Icon from participating in 

activities associated with the Lifeline 

program.2 The Bureau is also commencing a 

proceeding to debar Icon from future 

participation in the Lifeline program.3

I. Notice of Suspension 

Any corporation that has ‘‘defrauded the 

government or engaged in similar acts 

through activities associated with or related 

to the [Lifeline program]’’ may be prohibited 

from receiving the benefits associated with 

that program.4 The Lifeline program is a 

government program that provides support to 

eligible telecommunications carriers (ETCs) 

that in turn offer discounts on telephone 

service for eligible low-income consumers.5


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