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CFR part 60, subpart Dc) were proposed 

on June 9, 1989; promulgated on 

September 12, 1990; and amended last 

on February 16, 2012. These regulations 

apply to existing facilities and new 

industrial-commercial-institutional 

steam generating units with a maximum 

design heat input capacity of 29 

megawatts (MW) (100 MMBtu/hr) or 

less, but greater than or equal to 2.9 MW 

(10 MMBtu/hr), commencing 

construction, modification, or 

reconstruction after June 9, 1989. New 

facilities include those that commenced 

construction, modification or 

reconstruction after the date of the 

proposal. This information is being 

collected to assure compliance with 40 

CFR part 60, subpart Dc. 

Form Numbers: None. 

Respondents/affected entities: Small 

industrial-commercial-institutional 

steam generators. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, subpart Dc). 

Estimated number of respondents: 

356 (total). 

Frequency of response: Semiannually. 

Total estimated burden: 241,000 

hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 

CFR 1320.3(b). 

Total estimated cost: $51,700,000 (per 

year), includes $21,300,000 annualized 

capital or operation & maintenance 

costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is an 

adjustment increase in the respondent 

burden, and capital and O&M costs from 

the most-recently approved ICR. This 

increase is not due to any program 

changes. The change in burden and 

costs is due to an increase in the 

number of respondents. This ICR 

assumes an industry growth rate of 11 

respondents per year, or an increase of 

33 respondents, since the last ICR 

renewal period, which results in an 

increase in burden and the number of 

responses submitted. The industry 

growth also results in an increase in 

capital O&M costs. There is also an 

increase in costs, due to the use of 

updated labor rates. This ICR uses labor 

rates from the most recent Bureau of 

Labor Statistics report (September 2022) 

to calculate respondent burden costs. 

There is an additional increase in 

capital and O&M costs due to an 

adjustment to increase from 2007 to 

2022 $ using the CEPCI Equipment Cost 

Index. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Director, Information Engagement Division. 

[FR Doc. 2024–29965 Filed 12–17–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–ORD–2017–0497; FRL–12395–01– 

ORD] 

Availability of the Draft IRIS 

Toxicological Review of Chloroform 

(Inhalation) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of public comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is announcing a 60-day 

public comment period associated with 

release of the draft Integrated Risk 

Information System (IRIS) Toxicological 

Review of Chloroform (Inhalation). The 

draft document was prepared by the 

Center for Public Health and 

Environmental Assessment (CPHEA) 

within EPA’s Office of Research and 

Development (ORD). 

EPA is releasing this draft IRIS 

assessment for public comment in 

advance of a Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) managed peer review. SAB will 

convene a public meeting to discuss the 

draft assessment with the public during 

Step 4 of the IRIS Process. The external 

peer reviewers will consider public 

comments submitted to the EPA docket 

in response to this notice and any others 

provided during external peer review. 

EPA will consider all comments 

submitted to the docket when revising 

the document post-peer review. This 

draft assessment is not final as 

described in EPA’s information quality 

guidelines, and it does not represent, 

and should not be construed to 

represent Agency policy or views. 

DATES: The 60-day public comment 

period begins December 18, 2024 and 

ends February 18, 2025. Comments 

must be received on or before February 

18, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: The IRIS Toxicological 

Review of Chloroform (Inhalation) will 

be available via the internet on the IRIS 

website at https://www.epa.gov/iris and 

in the public docket at http://

www.regulations.gov, Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–ORD–2017–0497. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

For information on the public 

comment period, contact the ORD 

Docket at the EPA Headquarters Docket 

Center; telephone: 202–566–1752; 

facsimile: 202–566–9744; or email: 

Docket_ORD@epa.gov. 

For technical information on the IRIS 

Toxicological Review of Chloroform 

(Inhalation) contact Mr. Dahnish Shams; 

email: shams.dahnish@epa.gov. The 

IRIS Program will provide updates 

through the IRIS website (https://

www.epa.gov/iris) and via EPA’s IRIS 

listserv. To register for the IRIS listserv, 

visit the IRIS website (https://

www.epa.gov/iris) or https://

www.epa.gov/iris/forms/stayingconnected-integrated-risk-informationsystem#connect. 

For information about the peer 

review, please visit the EPA SAB 

website: https://sab.epa.gov/ords/sab/r/ 

sab_apex/sab/advisoryactivitydetail?

p18_id=2651&clear=18&session=

309037997993. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. How to Submit Technical 

Comments to the Docket at https://

www.regulations.gov. Submit your 

comments, identified by Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–ORD–2017–0497 for the 

Chloroform IRIS Assessment, by one of 

the following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: Docket_ORD@epa.gov. 

• Fax: 202–566–9744. 

• Mail: U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center 

(ORD Docket), Mail Code: 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20460. The phone number is 202– 

566–1752. 

For information on visiting the EPA 

Docket Center Public Reading Room, 

visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets. The 

telephone number for the Public 

Reading Room is 202–566–1744. The 

public can submit comments via 

www.regulations.gov or email. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

docket number EPA–HQ–ORD–2017– 

0497 for IRIS Toxicological Review of 

Chloroform (Inhalation). Please ensure 

that your comments are submitted 

within the specified comment period. It 

is EPA’s policy to include all comments 

it receives in the public docket within 

the specified comment period without 

change and to make the comments 

available online www.regulations.gov, 

including any personal information 

provided, unless a comment includes 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information for which disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Do not submit 

information through 

www.regulations.gov or email that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected. The www.regulations.gov 

website is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ 

system, which means 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 EPA without 

going through www.regulations.gov, 


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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, 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 EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

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 EPA’s public docket visit the EPA 

Docket Center homepage at 

www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

Docket: 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 materials, such as 

copyrighted material, are publicly 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the ORD Docket in the EPA 

Headquarters Docket Center. 

Wayne Cascio, 

Director, Center for Public Health & 

Environmental Assessment. 

[FR Doc. 2024–29865 Filed 12–17–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2024–0158; FRL–11254–01– 

OW] 

RIN 2040–ZA43 

Preliminary Effluent Guidelines 

Program Plan 16 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability of the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency’s (EPA) Preliminary 

Effluent Guidelines Program Plan 16 

(Preliminary Plan 16) and solicits public 

comment. The Clean Water Act (CWA) 

requires the EPA to biennially publish 

a plan for new and revised effluent 

limitations guidelines and pretreatment 

standards, after public review and 

comment. Preliminary Plan 16 discusses 

the EPA’s 2022 and 2023 annual 

reviews of effluent guidelines and 

pretreatment standards, presents its 

preliminary review of specific industrial 

categories, and provides an update on 

the analyses and tools that the EPA is 

continuing to enhance to further 

improve its annual review and biennial 

planning process. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before January 17, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OW–2024–0158, by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

https://www.regulations.gov/(our 

preferred method). Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center, 

Office of Water Docket, Mail Code 

28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20460. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: EPA 

Docket Center, WJC West Building, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20004. The Docket 

Center’s hours of operations are 8:30 

a.m.—4:30 p.m., Monday—Friday 

(except Federal Holidays). 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the Docket ID No. for this 

action. Comments received may be 

posted without change to https://

www.regulations.gov/, including any 

personal information provided. For 

detailed instructions on sending 

comments and additional information 

on the process for this action, see the 

‘‘Public Participation’’ heading of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Doruntine ̈ Rexhepi, Engineering and 

Analysis Division, Office of Water, 

4303T, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 566–2532; email address: 

rexhepi.doruntine@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Public Participation 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OW–2024– 

0158, at https://www.regulations.gov 

(our preferred method), or the other 

methods identified in the ADDRESSES

section. Once submitted, comments 

cannot be edited or removed from the 

docket. The EPA may publish any 

comment received to its public docket. 

Do not submit to EPA’s docket at 

https://www.regulations.gov any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI), 

Proprietary Business Information (PBI), 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. The EPA will generally not 

consider comments or comment 

contents located outside of the primary 

submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or 

other file sharing system). Please visit 

https://www.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets for additional 

submission methods; the full EPA 

public comment policy; information 

about CBI, PBI, or multimedia 

submissions; and general guidance on 

making effective comments. 

II. General Information 

A. Supporting Documents 

A key document providing additional 

information is the Preliminary Effluent 

Guidelines Program Plan 16 document. 

Supporting documents providing 

further details are also available for 

review. 

B. How can I get copies of these 

documents and other related 

information? 

1. Docket. The EPA has established an 

official public docket for this action 

under Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OW– 

2024–0158. The official public docket is 

the collection of materials that are 

available for public viewing at the Water 

Docket in the EPA Docket Center, (EPA/ 

DC) EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20004. 

2. Electronic Access. You can access 

this Federal Register document 

electronically through the United States 

Government online source for Federal 

regulations at https://

www.regulations.gov. 

3. Internet access. Copies of the 

supporting documents are available at 

https://www.epa.gov/eg/effluentguidelines-plan. 

III. How Is This Document Organized 

The outline of this document follows. 

A. Legal Authority. 

B. Request for Public Comments and 

Information. 

A. Legal Authority 

This notice is published under the 

authority of the CWA, 33 U.S.C. 1251, 

et seq., and in particular sections 301(d), 

304(b), 304(g), 304(m), 306, 307(b), and 

308 of the Act, 33 U.S.C. 1311(d), 

1314(b), 1314(g), 1314(m), 1316, 

1317(b), and 1318. 

B. Request for Public Comments and 

Information 

The EPA invites comment on the 

entirety of Preliminary Plan 16. In 


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