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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 20 (Friday, January 31, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8713-8715]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02106]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OW-2023-0107; EPA-HQ-OGC-2024-0601; EPA-HQ-OAR-2023-0129; EPA-
HQ-OPPT-2014-0838; EPA-HQ-OPP-2024-0629; EPA-R01-OW-2024-0492; FRL-
12587-01-OA]

Six Actions Published by the Environmental Protection Agency With 
Comment Periods That Closed January 27, 2025, and January 29, 2025; 
Reopening of Comment Periods

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notices; reopening of comment periods.

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SUMMARY: This document reopens the comment period for 30 days for six 
notices published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal 
Register between October 31, 2024, and January 14, 2025. This document 
reopens the comment period for those six notices with comment periods 
that closed January 27, 2025, and January 29, 2025.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 3, 2025. Comments 
should be submitted to the original docket for the notice specified in 
the table below.

ADDRESSES: You may send comments, identified by appropriate Docket ID 
number listed in the table below by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov/ 
(our preferred method). Follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the Docket ID 
No. for the original rulemaking as listed in the table below. Comments 
received may be posted without change to https://www.regulations.gov, 
including personal information provided.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William Nickerson, Director, Office of 
Regulatory Policy and Management, Office of Policy, Mail Code 1804, 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 
Washington, DC 20460; (202) 566-0326; [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document reopens the comment period

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for six actions published between October 31, 2024, and January 14, 
2025. The comment period for these six actions ends March 3, 2025.

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                                                                  Original
                                                   Publication    comment
Federal Register citation          Title              date       period end               Docket ID
                                                                    date
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90 FR 3207...............  Clothianidin; Receipt     1/14/2025    1/29/2025  EPA-HQ-OPP-2024-0629.
                            of Application for
                            Emergency Exemption;
                            Solicitation of
                            Public Comment.
89 FR 105567.............  Comparison of Aquatic    12/27/2024    1/27/2025  EPA-HQ-OW-2023-0107.
                            Life Protective
                            Values Developed for
                            Pesticides Under the
                            FIFRA and the CWA.
89 FR 105045.............  Proposed Consent         12/26/2024    1/27/2025  EPA-HQ-OGC-2024-0601.
                            Decree, Clean Air
                            Act Citizen Suit.
89 FR 105043.............  Agency Information       12/26/2024    1/27/2025  EPA-HQ-OAR-2023-0129.
                            Collection
                            Activities;
                            Submission to the
                            Office of Management
                            and Budget for
                            Review and Approval;
                            Comment Request;
                            Consolidated Air
                            Rule for the
                            Synthetic Organic
                            Chemical
                            Manufacturing
                            Industry (Renewal).
89 FR 93574..............  Agency Information       11/27/2024    1/27/2025  EPA-HQ-OPPT-2014-0838.
                            Collection
                            Activities; Proposed
                            Renewal of an
                            Existing ICR
                            Collection and
                            Request for Comment;
                            Assessment of
                            Environmental
                            Performance
                            Standards and
                            Ecolabels for
                            Federal Procurement.
89 FR 86802..............  Notice of Preliminary    10/31/2024    1/29/2025  EPA-R01-OW-2024-0492.
                            Designation of
                            Certain Stormwater
                            Discharges in the
                            Commonwealth of
                            Massachusetts and
                            Notice of
                            Availability of
                            Draft Permit Under
                            the National
                            Pollutant Discharge
                            Elimination System
                            of the Clean Water
                            Act.
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    EPA may identify additional actions for reopening or extending 
comment periods in subsequent notices.
    This document reopens the public comment period for the notice 
``Clothianidin; Receipt of Application for Emergency Exemption'' 
established in the Federal Register document of January 14, 2025 (90 FR 
3207) (FRL-12544-01-OCSPP), for 30 days. In that document, EPA provided 
notice of a specific exemption request from the Florida Department of 
Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) to use the pesticide 
clothianidin (CAS No. 210-880-92-5) to treat up to 75,000 acres of 
immature (3-5 years old) citrus trees to control the transmission of 
Huanglongbing (HLB) disease vectored by the Asian Citrus Psyllid. The 
applicant proposed a use that has been requested in 5 or more previous 
years and for which a complete application for registration or 
tolerance petition has not been submitted to the Agency. Therefore, in 
that Federal Register document of January 14, 2025, EPA solicited 
public comment before making the decision whether or not to grant the 
exemption.
    This document reopens the public comment period established for the 
notice ``Comparison of Aquatic Life Protective Values Developed for 
Pesticides Under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act 
(FIFRA) and the Clean Water Act (CWA)'' in the Federal Register 
document of December 27, 2024 (89 FR 105567) (FRL 10680-01-OW), for 30 
days. In that document, EPA announced the availability of draft 
analyses comparing aquatic life benchmarks developed by the EPA's 
Office of Pesticides Programs (OPP) in support of registration 
decisions for pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and 
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to existing national recommended aquatic life 
Ambient Water Quality Criteria and criteria-related values developed 
under the Clean Water Act (CWA) for the protection of aquatic life from 
pesticides.
    This document reopens the public comment period for the notice 
``Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit'' established in 
the Federal Register document of December 26, 2024 (89 FR 105045) (FRL-
12515-01-OGC), for 30 days. In that document, EPA provided notice of a 
proposed consent decree in Center for Community Action and 
Environmental Justice v. U.S. EPA, et al., No. 3:24-cv-05042-EMC. On 
August 12, 2024, Plaintiff Center for Community Action and 
Environmental Justice filed a complaint in the United States District 
Court for the Northern District of California San Francisco Division, 
alleging that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to 
perform certain non-discretionary duties in accordance with the Act to 
take final action on a state implementation plan (SIP) revision 
submitted by the State of California. In the Federal Register document 
of December 26, 2024, EPA provided notice of the proposed consent 
decree, which would resolve all claims in the case by establishing a 
deadline for EPA to take final action as specified in the decree.
    This document reopens the public comment period for the notice 
``Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of 
Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; 
Consolidated Air Rule for the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing 
Industry (Renewal)'' established in the Federal Register document of 
December 26, 2024 (89 FR 105043) (FRL-12524-OMS-01), for 30 days. In 
that document, EPA provided notice of an information collection request 
(ICR), Consolidated Air Rule for the Synthetic Organic Chemical 
Manufacturing Industry (EPA ICR Number 1854.14, OMB Control Number 
2060-0443) submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. In 
that Federal Register document of December 26, 2024, EPA proposed an 
extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through December 31, 
2024.
    This document reopens the public comment period for the notice 
``Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Renewal of an 
Existing ICR Collection and Request for Comment; Assessment of 
Environmental Performance Standards and Ecolabels for Federal 
Procurement'' established in the Federal Register document of November 
27, 2024 (89 FR 93574) (FRL-12379-01-OCSPP), for 30 days. In that 
document, EPA announced the availability of and solicited public 
comment on the following Information Collection Request (ICR) that EPA 
is planning to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB):

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``Assessment of Environmental Performance Standards and Ecolabels for 
Federal Procurement,'' identified by EPA ICR No. 2516.05 and OMB 
Control No. 2070-0199. The ICR represents a renewal of an existing ICR 
that is currently approved through September 30, 2025. Before 
submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval under the PRA, EPA is 
soliciting comments on specific aspects of the information collection 
that is summarized in the Federal Register document of November 27, 
2024.
    This document reopens the public comment period for ``Notice of 
Preliminary Designation of Certain Stormwater Discharges in the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Notice of Availability of Draft 
Permit Under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System of the 
Clean Water Act'' established in the Federal Register document of 
October 31, 2024 (89 FR 86802) (FRL-12374-01-R1), for 30 days. In that 
document, EPA provided notice of two actions. The first action is the 
Preliminary Designation of certain stormwater discharges from 
commercial, industrial, and institutional properties with one acre or 
more of impervious surface in the Charles, Neponset, and Mystic River 
watersheds in Massachusetts for regulation under the Clean Water Act's 
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting 
program. Second, the EPA provided notice of availability of a draft 
NPDES General Permit for Private Commercial Industrial, and 
Institutional Stormwater Discharges in Charles, Mystic, and Neponset 
River Watersheds in Massachusetts.
    EPA is extending these comment periods to allow interested parties 
additional time to thoroughly review and analyze how these notices may 
impact parties potentially subject to them. Comments previously 
submitted need not be resubmitted as they are already incorporated into 
the public record and will be considered in the final action as 
appropriate.
    Where appropriate, the Agency may consider extending the comment 
period beyond 30 days for the above referenced actions.
    To submit comments, or access the docket, please follow the 
detailed instructions provided under ADDRESSES. If you have questions, 
consult the technical person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT.

James Payne,
Acting Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2025-02106 Filed 1-30-25; 8:45 am]
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