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subsequently changed; train personnel 

to be able to respond to a collection of 

information; search data sources; 

complete and review the collection of 

information; and transmit or otherwise 

disclose the information. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: 

Owners and operators of kraft pulp 

mills. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

100. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion, 

initially and semiannually. 

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 

15,235. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$5,194,799, which is comprised of 

$1,229,899 in labor costs, $344,900 in 

capital/startup costs, and operation and 

maintenance (O&M) costs of $3,620,000. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is no 

change in the labor cost in this ICR 

compared to the previous ICR. This is 

due to two considerations. First, the 

regulations have not changed over the 

past three years and are not anticipated 

to change over the next three years. 

Secondly, the growth rate for the 

industry is very low, negative or 

nonexistent, so there is no significant 

change in the overall burden. It should 

be noted that there is a small adjustment 

to the burden cost figure because 

rounded figures were used in the 

previous ICR. In this ICR, exact figures 

are used. 

Since there are no changes in the 

regulatory requirements and there is no 

significant industry growth, the labor 

hours and cost figures in the previous 

ICR are used in this ICR, and there is no 

change in burden to industry. 

Dated: February 25, 2009. 

John Moses, 

Acting-Director, Collection Strategies 

Division. 

[FR Doc. E9–4450 Filed 3–2–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8774–2] 

Approval of a Petition for Exemption 

From Hazardous Waste Disposal 

Injection Restrictions to ArcelorMittal 

Hennepin, Inc., Hennepin, IL 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of final decision on 

petition. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given by the 

United States Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) that an exemption to the 

land disposal restrictions under the 

1984 Hazardous and Solid Waste 

Amendments (HSWA) to the Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) 

has been granted to ArcelorMittal 

Hennepin, Inc. (Hennepin Works) of 

Hennepin, Illinois, for one Class I 

injection well located in Hennepin, 

Illinois. As required by 40 CFR part 148, 

Hennepin Works has demonstrated, to a 

reasonable degree of certainty, that there 

will be no migration of hazardous 

constituents out of the injection zone or 

into an underground source of drinking 

water (USDW) for at least 10,000 years. 

This final decision allows the continued 

underground injection by Hennepin 

Works of a specific restricted waste, 

Waste Pickle Liquor (code K062 under 

40 CFR part 261), into one Class I 

hazardous waste injection well 

specifically identified as Waste Pickle 

Liquor No. 1 (WPL–1), at the Hennepin 

facility. This decision constitutes a final 

EPA action for which there is no 

Administrative Appeal. 

DATES: This action is effective as of 

March 3, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Leslie Patterson, Lead Petition 

Reviewer, EPA, Region V, telephone 

(312) 886–4904. Copies of the petition 

and all pertinent information relating 

thereto are on file and are part of the 

Administrative Record. It is 

recommended that you contact the lead 

reviewer prior to reviewing the 

Administrative Record. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Hennepin Works submitted a petition 

for renewal of an existing exemption 

from the land disposal restrictions of 

hazardous waste on March 6, 2007. EPA 

personnel reviewed all data pertaining 

to the petition, including, but not 

limited to, well construction, well 

operations, regional and local geology, 

seismic activity, penetrations of the 

confining zone, and computational 

models of the injection zone. EPA has 

determined that the geologic setting at 

the site as well as the construction and 

operation of the well are adequate to 

prevent fluid migration out of the 

injection zone within 10,000 years, as 

required under 40 CFR part 148. The 

injection zone at this site is the Mt. 

Simon Sandstone and the lower Eau 

Claire Formation, at depths between 

2,902 feet and 4,800 feet below ground 

level. The confining zone is the upper 

Eau Claire formation (Proviso Member) 

at depths between 2,705 feet and 2,902 

feet below ground level. The confining 

zone is separated from the lowermost 

underground source of drinking water 

(at a depth of 2510 feet below ground 

level) by a sequence of permeable and 

less permeable sedimentary rocks, 

which provide additional protection 

from fluid migration into drinking water 

sources. 

EPA issued a draft decision, which 

described the reasons for granting this 

exemption in more detail, a fact sheet, 

which summarized these reasons, and a 

public notice on November 24, 2008, 

pursuant to 40 CFR 124.10. The public 

comment period expired on December 

26, 2008. EPA received no comments on 

the proposed exemption granted to 

Hennepin Works. A final exemption is 

therefore granted as proposed. 

Conditions 

This exemption is subject to the 

following conditions. Non-compliance 

with any of these conditions is grounds 

for termination of the exemption: 

(1) All regulatory requirements in 40 

CFR 148.23 and 148.24 are incorporated 

by reference; 

(2) The exemption applies to the 

existing injection well, WPL–1, located 

at the Hennepin Works facility at 10726 

Steel Drive, Hennepin, Illinois; 

(3) Injection is limited to that part of 

the Mt. Simon Sandstone at depths 

between 3,109 and 4,800 feet; 

(4) Only wastes denoted by the RCRA 

waste code K062 may be injected; 

(5) The chemical properties of the 

injectate that defined the edge of the 

plume in the demonstration are limited 

according to the table below: 

Chemical constituent 

or property 

Limitation at the well 

head 

Chromium ............... Maximum concentration is 1200 mg/L. 

pH ........................... Minimum pH is zero. 

(6) The monthly average of the 

specific gravity of the injected waste 

stream must fall within the range of 1.00 

to 1.27; 

(7) The volume of wastes injected in 

any month through the well must not 

exceed 6,705,990 gallons; 

(8) This exemption is approved for the 

22-year modeled injection period, 

which ends on December 31, 2028. 

Hennepin Works may petition EPA for 

a reissuance of the exemption beyond 

that date, provided that a new and 

complete petition and no-migration 

demonstration is received at EPA, 

Region 5, by July 1, 2028; 

(9) Hennepin Works shall quarterly 

submit to EPA a report containing a 

fluid analysis of the injected waste 

which shall indicate the chemical and 

physical properties upon which the nomigration petition was based, including 

the physical and chemical properties 

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listed in Conditions 5 and 6 of this 

exemption approval; 

(10) Hennepin Works shall annually 

submit to EPA a report containing the 

results of a bottom hole pressure survey 

(fall-off test) performed on WPL–1. The 

survey shall be performed after shutting 

in the well for a period of time sufficient 

to allow the pressure in the injection 

interval to reach equilibrium, in 

accordance with 40 CFR 146.68(e)(1). 

The annual report shall include a 

comparison of reservoir parameters 

determined from the fall-off test with 

parameters used in the approved nomigration petition; 

(11) The petitioner shall fully comply 

with all requirements set forth in 

Underground Injection Control Permit 

UIC–004–W1–JL issued by the Illinois 

Environmental Protection Agency; and 

(12) Whenever EPA determines that 

the basis for approval of a petition may 

no longer be valid, EPA may terminate 

this exemption and will require a new 

demonstration in accordance with 40 

CFR 148.20. 

Dated: January 21, 2009. 

Anthony C. Carrollo, 

Acting Director, Water Division, Region 5. 

[FR Doc. E9–4452 Filed 3–2–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8774–7] 

Notice of Disclosure Pursuant To 

Court Order of Possible Confidential 

Business Information Obtained Under 

the Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation and Liability 

Act 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of disclosure. 

SUMMARY: EPA regulations provide that 

EPA may, in special circumstances, 

disclose business information, including 

confidential business information, ‘‘in 

any manner and to the extent ordered by 

a Federal Court.’’ See 40 CFR 2.209(d). 

EPA is currently engaged in litigation 

with the Potentially Responsible Parties 

(‘‘PRPs’’) in connection with the 

Modesto Groundwater Superfund Site 

(‘‘Site’’) in California (U.S. v. Lyon, et 

al., Case No. 07–CV–00491 LJO GSA). A 

Stipulation and Order Protecting 

Confidential Information, dated January 

22, 2009, providing procedures for the 

release of confidential business 

information in that case, has been 

entered at the United States Federal 

District Court for the Eastern District of 

California (hereinafter ‘‘Court Order’’). 

EPA intends to release to the PRPs and 

to third-party defendants 

documentation, including but not 

limited to documentation of EPA’s past 

costs at the Site, which may contain 

confidential business information, 

pursuant to that Court Order. 

DATES: Disclosures will be made no 

earlier than two weeks following the 

date that this Federal Register Notice is 

published. 

Availability: A copy of the abovereferenced Court Order will be provided 

to the public upon request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for copies of the Court Order 

and additional information should be 

directed to Laurie Williams, Assistant 

Regional Counsel, U.S. EPA, Region IX, 

75 Hawthorne St., ORC–3, San 

Francisco, CA 94105; 

williams.laurie@epa.gov; phone: (415) 

972–3867. 

Notice of Disclosures Pursuant to Court 

Order 

Pursuant to the Court Order, 

defendants and third-party defendants 

who receive documents that may 

contain CBI are required to follow 

specified procedures to maintain the 

confidentiality of such information. EPA 

hereby gives notice to the following 

parties that EPA intends to disclose 

information in EPA’s possession that 

may be or may contain confidential 

business information, under the 

protection of the above-mentioned Court 

Order: 

(1) Any and all contractors that were 

under contract to perform and/or did 

perform work at the Site, including but 

not limited to the contractors listed 

below and any subcontractor or 

temporary firm that performed work at 

or for the Site: 

ACC Environmental Consultants, Inc. 

Agriculture & Priority Pollutants 

Laboratories, Inc. 

Air Toxics Ltd. 

APPL, Inc. 

Armstrong Data Services, Inc. (68–W5– 

0024) 

ASRC Aerospace Corp. (68–W–01–002, 

68–R9–0101) 

Beylik Drilling, Inc. 

Block Environmental Services, Inc. 

Calgon Carbon Corp. 

California Water Laboratories, Inc. 

CH2M Hill, Inc. 

Condor Earth Technologies, Inc. 

Curtis & Tompkins Analytical 

Laboratories 

Ecology and Environment, Inc. 

Energy Laboratories, Inc. 

FGL Environmental 

Forward, Inc. 

GeoAnalytical Laboratories, Inc. 

Geological Technics, Inc. 

GRB Environmental Services, Inc. (EP– 

R9–06–03) 

ICF Kaiser Engineers, Inc. 

ICF Technology, Inc. 

JL Analytical, Inc. 

Labat-Anderson, Inc. (68–W9–0052, 68– 

W4–0028) 

Lockheed Idaho Technologies Co. 

Lockheed Martin Environmental 

Services 

McCain Environmental Services 

Mid-Valley Engineering 

Montgomery Watson Americas, Inc. 

Montgomery Watson Harza 

Montgomery Watson, Inc. 

MPDS Services, Inc. 

Osterburg Brothers Drillers 

Pace Analytical Services, Inc. 

PC Exploration, Inc. 

Pratt-Navarro Architecture 

PRC Environmental Management, Inc. 

PRC Patterson Corp, Inc. 

Radian Corp 

R B Welty & Associates, Inc. 

Recra Environmental Inc. 

Southwest Laboratory of Oklahoma, Inc. 

Standard Management Company 

Thermo Nutech 

Thompson-Hysell Engineers, Inc. 

Trace Analysis Laboratory, Inc. 

Truesdail Laboratories, Inc. 

U.S. Ecology, Inc. 

(2) Other business entities that have 

done business with the above-listed 

contractors and/or who may have been 

listed in conflict of interest disclosures. 

(3) Unsuccessful offerors to any 

contracts for work at the Site. 

Dated: February 10, 2009. 

Keith Takata, 

Director, Superfund Division, U.S. EPA 

Region IX. 

[FR Doc. E9–4463 Filed 3–2–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8778–3] 

Meeting of the Local Government 

Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Local Government 

Advisory Committee (LGAC) and the 

Small Community Advisory 

Subcommittee (SCAS), and workgroups 

will meet on March 23–25, 2009, in 

Washington, DC. The Committee and 

Subcommittee meetings will be located 

at The Fairfax Hotel Embassy Row, 2100 

Massachusetts Avenue, NW., 

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