24092 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 79 / Monday, April 25, 2016 / Notices 

Prevention and Toxics, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001; 

telephone number: (202) 564–8859; 

email address: kinn.alison@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Docket: Supporting documents, 

including the ICR that explains in detail 

the information collection activities and 

the related burden and cost estimates 

that are summarized in this document, 

are available in the docket for this ICR. 

The docket can be viewed online at 

http://www.regulations.gov or in person 

at the EPA Docket Center, West William 

Jefferson Clinton Bldg., Rm. 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. 

ICR status: This ICR is for a new 

information collection activity. Under 

PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., 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. The OMB control numbers are 

displayed either by publication in the 

Federal Register or by other appropriate 

means, such as on the related collection 

instrument or form, if applicable. The 

display of OMB control numbers for 

certain EPA regulations is consolidated 

in 40 CFR part 9. 

Abstract: EPA is engaging in this 

collection pursuant to the authority in 

the Pollution Prevention Act (42 U.S.C. 

13103(b)(11)), which requires EPA to 

‘‘[i]dentify opportunities to use Federal 

procurement to encourage source 

reduction,’’ and section 12(d) of the 

National Technology Transfer and 

Advancement Act (NTTAA) (15 U.S.C. 

272 note), which requires Federal 

agencies to ‘‘use technical standards 

that are developed or adopted by 

voluntary consensus standards bodies, 

using such technical standards as a 

means to carry out policy objectives or 

activities.’’ Federal agencies need this 

assessment per the draft guidelines to 

determine which, among sometimes 

dozens of private sector standards 

within a single purchase category, are 

appropriate and effective in meeting 

Federal procurement goals and 

mandates. 

Federal agencies must comply with 

multiple sustainability-related 

purchasing mandates. While Federal 

purchasing policy is clear for the several 

standards and eco-labels that are listed 

in statute, regulation, or Executive 

Order, the lack of independently 

assessed information about and Federal 

guidance on using other product 

environmental performance standards 

and eco-labels often results in an 

inconsistent approach by Federal 

purchasers and confusion and 

uncertainty for vendors and 

manufacturers. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: 

Entities potentially affected by this ICR 

are standards development 

organizations, eco-labeling programs, 

and environmental certification entities. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Responses to the collection of 

information are voluntary. Respondents 

may claim all or part of a response 

confidential. EPA will disclose 

information that is covered by a claim 

of confidentiality only to the extent 

permitted by, and in accordance with, 

the procedures in TSCA section 14 and 

40 CFR part 2. 

Estimated total number of potential 

respondents: 20. 

Frequency of response: Once during 

the 2016 pilot and a to-be-determined 

frequency depending upon learnings 

from the pilot. 

Estimated total burden: 340 hours 

(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.3(b). 

Estimated total costs: $ 24,711 (per 

year), includes no annualized capital 

investment or maintenance and 

operational costs. 

Changes in the estimates: This is a 

request for a new approval from OMB. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division. 

[FR Doc. 2016–09519 Filed 4–22–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OECA–2012–0680; FRL–9945– 

27–OEI] 

Information Collection Request 

Submitted to OMB for Review and 

Approval; Comment Request; 

Emission Guidelines and Compliance 

Times for Existing Municipal Solid 

Waste Landfills (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency has submitted an information 

collection request (ICR), ‘‘Emission 

Guidelines and Compliance Times for 

Existing Municipal Solid Waste 

Landfills (40 CFR part 60, subpart Cc 

and 40 CFR part 62, subpart GGG) 

(Renewal)’’ (EPA ICR No. 1893.07, OMB 

Control No. 2060–0430), 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 April 30, 2016. Public 

comments were previously requested 

via the Federal Register (80 FR 32116) 

on June 5, 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 neither conduct nor 

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 May 25, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number EPA– 

HQ–OECA–2012–0680, to: (1) EPA 

online using www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), or by email to 

docket.oeca@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: 

Patrick Yellin, Monitoring, Assistance, 

and Media Programs Division, Office of 

Compliance, Mail Code 2227A, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 

564–2970; email address: 

yellin.patrick@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, 

EPA 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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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 79 / Monday, April 25, 2016 / Notices 24093 

Abstract: Owners and operators of 

affected facilities are required to comply 

with reporting and record keeping 

requirements for the general provisions 

of 40 CFR part 60, subpart A and 40 CFR 

part 62, subpart A, as well as for the 

specific requirements at 40 CFR part 60, 

subpart Cc and 40 CFR part 62, subpart 

GGG. This includes submitting an initial 

notification reports, performance tests 

and periodic reports and results, and 

maintaining records of the occurrence 

and duration of any startup, shutdown, 

or malfunction in the operation of an 

affected facility, or any period during 

which the monitoring system is 

inoperative. These reports are used by 

EPA to determine compliance with 

these standards. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Existing municipal solid waste landfills. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, subpart Cc 

and 40 CFR part 62, subpart GGG). 

Estimated number of respondents: 

465 (total). 

Frequency of response: Initially, 

occasionally and annually. 

Total estimated burden: 38,900 hours 

(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.3(b). 

Total estimated cost: $3,080,000 (per 

year), which includes $603,000 in 

annualized capital/startup and/or 

operation & maintenance costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

net decrease in the total burden 

associated with privately and publicly 

owned landfills and State and local 

agencies. This decrease in burden from 

the most recently approved ICR is due 

to an adjustment to the estimated 

average number of respondents. To 

account for landfill closures that have 

occurred since the previous ICR was 

approved, this ICR applies a three 

percent per year landfill closure rate to 

the previous ICR’s estimated number of 

respondents. This results in a decrease 

in the respondent labor hours, labor 

costs, O&M costs, and number of 

responses. There is also a corresponding 

decrease in the Agency burden and cost. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Acting-Director, Collection Strategies 

Division. 

[FR Doc. 2016–09521 Filed 4–22–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9944–04–OEI] 

Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: 

Authorized Program Revision 

Approval, Commonwealth of 

Pennsylvania 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces EPA’s 

approval of the Commonwealth of 

Pennsylvania’s request to revise its 

National Primary Drinking Water 

Regulations Implementation EPAauthorized program to allow electronic 

reporting. 

DATES: EPA’s approval is effective May 

25, 2016 for the Commonwealth of 

Pennsylvania’s National Primary 

Drinking Water Regulations 

Implementation program, if no timely 

request for a public hearing is received 

and accepted by the Agency. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Karen Seeh, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Office of 

Environmental Information, Mail Stop 

2823T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, (202) 566–1175, 

seeh.karen@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

October 13, 2005, the final Cross-Media 

Electronic Reporting Rule (CROMERR) 

was published in the Federal Register 

(70 FR 59848) and codified as part 3 of 

title 40 of the CFR. CROMERR 

establishes electronic reporting as an 

acceptable regulatory alternative to 

paper reporting and establishes 

requirements to assure that electronic 

documents are as legally dependable as 

their paper counterparts. Subpart D of 

CROMERR requires that state, tribal or 

local government agencies that receive, 

or wish to begin receiving, electronic 

reports under their EPA-authorized 

programs must apply to EPA for a 

revision or modification of those 

programs and obtain EPA approval. 

Subpart D provides standards for such 

approvals based on consideration of the 

electronic document receiving systems 

that the state, tribe, or local government 

will use to implement the electronic 

reporting. Additionally, § 3.1000(b) 

through (e) of 40 CFR part 3, subpart D 

provides special procedures for program 

revisions and modifications to allow 

electronic reporting, to be used at the 

option of the state, tribe or local 

government in place of procedures 

available under existing programspecific authorization regulations. An 

application submitted under the subpart 

D procedures must show that the state, 

tribe or local government has sufficient 

legal authority to implement the 

electronic reporting components of the 

programs covered by the application 

and will use electronic document 

receiving systems that meet the 

applicable subpart D requirements. 

On March 7, 2016, the Pennsylvania 

Department of Environmental Protection 

(PA DEP) submitted an application 

titled Compliance Monitoring Data 

Portal for revision to its EPA-approved 

drinking water program under title 40 

CFR to allow new electronic reporting. 

EPA reviewed PA DEP’s request to 

revise its EPA-authorized program and, 

based on this review, EPA determined 

that the application met the standards 

for approval of authorized program 

revision 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 Pennsylvania’s request to 

revise its Part 142—National Primary 

Drinking Water Regulations 

Implementation program to allow 

electronic reporting under 40 CFR part 

141 is being published in the Federal 

Register. 

PA DEP was notified of EPA’s 

determination to approve its application 

with respect to the authorized program 

listed above. 

In today’s notice, EPA is also 

informing interested persons that they 

may request a public hearing on EPA’s 

action to approve the Commonwealth of 

Pennsylvania’s request to revise its 

authorized public water system program 

under 40 CFR part 142, in accordance 

with 40 CFR 3.1000(f). Requests for a 

hearing must be submitted to EPA 

within 30 days of publication of today’s 

Federal Register notice. Such requests 

should include the following 

information: 

(1) The name, address and telephone 

number of the individual, organization 

or other entity requesting a hearing; 

(2) A brief statement of the requesting 

person’s interest in EPA’s 

determination, a brief explanation as to 

why EPA should hold a hearing, and 

any other information that the 

requesting person wants EPA to 

consider when determining whether to 

grant the request; 

(3) The signature of the individual 

making the request, or, if the request is 

made on behalf of an organization or 

other entity, the signature of a 

responsible official of the organization 

or other entity. 

In the event a hearing is requested 

and granted, EPA will provide notice of 

the hearing in the Federal Register not 

less than 15 days prior to the scheduled 

hearing date. Frivolous or insubstantial 


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