Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 203 / Wednesday, October 21, 2015 / Notices 63779 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OGC–2015–0691; FRL 9935–87– 

OGC] 

Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air 

Act Citizen Suit 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed consent 

decree; request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended 

(‘‘CAA’’ or the ‘‘Act’’), notice is hereby 

given of a proposed consent decree to 

address a lawsuit filed by the 

Environmental Integrity Project and 

Sierra Club (collectively, ‘‘Plaintiffs’’): 

Environmental Integrity Project, et al. v. 

McCarthy, No. 1:15–CV–745 (ABJ) (D. 

D.C.). Plaintiffs filed a complaint 

alleging that Gina McCarthy, in her 

official capacity as Administrator of the 

United States Environmental Protection 

Agency (‘‘EPA’’), failed to perform a 

non-discretionary duty to grant or deny 

within 60 days a petition submitted by 

Plaintiffs in October 2014, requesting 

that EPA object to a revised CAA Title 

V permit issued by the Texas 

Commission on Environmental Quality 

(‘‘TCEQ’’) to the Southwestern Electric 

Power Company for operation of the 

H.W. Pirkey Power Plant in Harrison 

County, Texas. The proposed consent 

decree would establish a deadline for 

EPA to take such action. 

DATES: Written comments on the 

proposed consent decree must be 

received by November 20, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID number EPA– 

HQ–OGC–2015–0691, online at 

www.regulations.gov (EPA’s preferred 

method); by email to oei.docket@

epa.gov; by mail to EPA Docket Center, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Mailcode: 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001; 

or by hand delivery or courier to EPA 

Docket Center, EPA West, Room 3334, 

1301 Constitution Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC, between 8:30 a.m. and 

4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, 

excluding legal holidays. Comments on 

a disk or CD–ROM should be formatted 

in Word or ASCII file, avoiding the use 

of special characters and any form of 

encryption, and may be mailed to the 

mailing address above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amy Branning, Air and Radiation Law 

Office, Office of General Counsel, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone: (202) 564–1744; 

fax number: (202) 564–5603; email 

address: branning.amy@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Additional Information About the 

Proposed Consent Decree 

The proposed consent decree would 

resolve a lawsuit filed by the 

Environmental Integrity Project and 

Sierra Club seeking to compel the 

Administrator to take action under CAA 

section 505(b)(2). Under the terms of the 

proposed consent decree, EPA would 

agree to sign its response granting or 

denying the petition filed by the 

Plaintiffs regarding Southwestern 

Electric Power Company for operation 

of the H.W. Pirkey Power Plant in 

Harrison County, Texas, pursuant to 

section 505(b)(2) of the CAA, on or 

before February 12, 2016. 

Under the terms of the proposed 

consent decree, EPA would 

expeditiously deliver notice of EPA’s 

response to the Office of the Federal 

Register for review and publication 

following signature of such response. In 

addition, the proposed consent decree 

outlines the procedure for the Plaintiffs 

to request costs of litigation, including 

attorney fees. 

For a period of thirty (30) days 

following the date of publication of this 

notice, EPA will accept written 

comments relating to the proposed 

consent decree from persons who are 

not named as parties or intervenors to 

the litigation in question. EPA or the 

Department of Justice may withdraw or 

withhold consent to the proposed 

consent decree if the comments disclose 

facts or considerations that indicate that 

such consent is inappropriate, 

improper, inadequate, or inconsistent 

with the requirements of the Act. Unless 

EPA or the Department of Justice 

determines that consent to this 

proposed decree should be withdrawn, 

the terms of the consent decree will be 

affirmed. 

II. Additional Information About 

Commenting on the Proposed Consent 

Decree 

A. How can I get a copy of the consent 

decree? 

The official public docket for this 

action (identified by Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–OGC–2015–0691 contains a 

copy of the proposed consent decree. 

The official public docket is available 

for public viewing at the Office of 

Environmental Information (OEI) Docket 

in the EPA Docket Center, EPA West, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. 

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, 

and the telephone number for the OEI 

Docket is (202) 566–1752. 

An electronic version of the public 

docket is available through 

www.regulations.gov. You may use 

www.regulations.gov to submit or view 

public comments, access the index 

listing of the contents of the official 

public docket, and to access those 

documents in the public docket that are 

available electronically. Once in the 

system, key in the appropriate docket 

identification number then select 

‘‘search.’’ 

It is important to note that EPA’s 

policy is that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing online at www.regulations.gov 

without change, unless the comment 

contains copyrighted material, CBI, or 

other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Information 

claimed as CBI and other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute 

is not included in the official public 

docket or in the electronic public 

docket. EPA’s policy is that copyrighted 

material, including copyrighted material 

contained in a public comment, will not 

be placed in EPA’s electronic public 

docket but will be available only in 

printed, paper form in the official public 

docket. Although not all docket 

materials may be available 

electronically, you may still access any 

of the publicly available docket 

materials through the EPA Docket 

Center. 

B. How and to whom do I submit 

comments? 

You may submit comments as 

provided in the ADDRESSES section. 

Please ensure that your comments are 

submitted within the specified comment 

period. Comments received after the 

close of the comment period will be 

marked ‘‘late.’’ EPA is not required to 

consider these late comments. 

If you submit an electronic comment, 

EPA recommends that you include your 

name, mailing address, and an email 

address or other contact information in 

the body of your comment and with any 

disk or CD–ROM you submit. This 

ensures that you can be identified as the 

submitter of the comment and allows 

EPA to contact you in case EPA cannot 

read your comment due to technical 

difficulties or needs further information 

on the substance of your comment. Any 

identifying or contact information 

provided in the body of a comment will 

be included as part of the comment that 

is placed in the official public docket, 


tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
63780 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 203 / Wednesday, October 21, 2015 / Notices 

and made available in EPA’s electronic 

public docket. 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. 

Use of the www.regulations.gov Web 

site to submit comments to EPA 

electronically is EPA’s preferred method 

for receiving comments. The electronic 

public docket system is an ‘‘anonymous 

access’’ system, which means EPA will 

not know your identity, email address, 

or other contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

In contrast to EPA’s electronic public 

docket, EPA’s electronic mail (email) 

system is not an ‘‘anonymous access’’ 

system. If you send an email comment 

directly to the Docket without going 

through www.regulations.gov, your 

email address is automatically captured 

and included as part of the comment 

that is placed in the official public 

docket, and made available in EPA’s 

electronic public docket. 

Dated: October 7, 2015. 

Lorie J. Schmidt, 

Associate General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2015–26782 Filed 10–20–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2015–0595; FRL–9935–88– 

OW] 

Notice of Public Meeting and Webinar 

and Request for Comment on the Draft 

Document ‘‘Technologies for 

Legionella Control: Scientific 

Literature Review’’ 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting and 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) announces the 

release of a draft document, 

‘‘Technologies for Legionella Control: 

Scientific Literature Review,’’ for public 

review and comment, and a public 

meeting, during which EPA will be 

seeking input on the draft document. 

The purpose of the draft document is to 

characterize the current state of 

knowledge regarding the use and 

effectiveness of available control 

technologies and approaches that can be 

used to address Legionella public health 

concerns in building water systems. The 

term ‘‘building water system’’ refers to 

the pipe infrastructure inside a building 

used to deliver finished drinking water 

intended for human consumption. For 

the purpose of this draft document, the 

term excludes cooling towers. The draft 

document presents scientific 

information from peer reviewed 

literature related to control 

technologies. It does not rank or 

recommend any one technology over 

another. EPA developed the document 

to provide a non-regulatory tool to assist 

states and primacy agencies, building 

water system operators and building 

owners when making decisions about 

Legionella risk management options. 

Following the public review and 

comment opportunity, EPA will 

conduct an independent, expert peer 

review of the draft document before it 

is finalized and published. 

DATES: The public meeting will be held 

on November 9, 2015, from 1:00 p.m. to 

5:30 p.m., eastern time. Persons wishing 

to attend the meeting in-person or 

online via webinar must register by 

November 3, 2015, as described in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section. 

EPA will consider written comments 

received prior to November 23, 2015, 

when preparing the document for the 

external peer review. 

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be 

held at the EPA Potomac Yard South 

Building, 1st Floor Conference Center 

(One Potomac Yard, 2777 S. Crystal 

Drive, Arlington, VA 22202). All 

attendees must show government-issued 

photo identification (e.g., a driver’s 

license) when signing in. This meeting 

will be simultaneously broadcasted as a 

webinar, available on the Internet. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical questions, contact Ce ́sar 

Cordero, Standards and Risk 

Management Division, Office of Ground 

Water and Drinking Water at (202) 564– 

3716 or cordero.cesar@epa.gov. For 

questions regarding registration for the 

public meeting, contact Sarah Rains at 

(703) 247–6195 or LegionellaMeeting@

cadmusgroup.com. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. What is the scope and the intended 

audience of the draft document? 

The draft document provides an 

overview of Legionella ecology, 

physiology, occurrence and other topics 

relevant to the microorganism; an 

overview of systemic considerations for 

Legionella control; information on the 

current state of knowledge regarding the 

use and effectiveness of available 

control technologies for prevention and 

control of Legionella; a discussion about 

potential water quality issues that may 

result from the use of such technologies; 

and information on optimal operational 

conditions for the use of control 

technologies. Legionella control issues 

in cooling towers are beyond the scope 

of the document. The target audience for 

the document includes, but is not 

limited to, primacy agencies, building 

water system operators, building owners 

and technology developers and vendors. 

B. How can I get copies of the draft 

document and other related 

information, and submit written 

comments? 

The draft document and other related 

information will be available in the 

Water Docket, identified by docket 

identification (ID) number EPA–HQ– 

OW–2015–0595, which is available at 

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

Water Docket, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 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 Water Docket is (202) 

566–2426. Please review the visitor 

instructions and additional information 

about the docket, available at http://

www2.epa.gov/dockets. 

Comments: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OW–2015–0595, to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. If you need to 

include CBI as part of your comment, 

please visit http://www2.epa.gov/

dockets/comments.html for instructions. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points that you wish to 

make about the scientific aspects of the 

Legionella control technologies. 

For additional submission methods, 

the full EPA public comment policy and 

general guidance on making effective 

comments, please visit http://

www2.epa.gov/dockets/comments.html. 

When preparing the document for 

external peer review, EPA will consider 

written comments received prior to 

November 23, 2015. 

C. How may I participate in this 

meeting/webinar? 

Persons wishing to attend the public 

meeting in-person or online via webinar 

must register in advance no later than 

5:00 p.m., eastern time on November 3, 

2015. To register, go online to Eventbrite 

at https://us-epa-legionella-drinkingVerDate Sep<11>2014 22:39 Oct 20, 2015 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00044 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\21OCN1.SGM 21OCN1

tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES