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Ridge Reservation of the Oglala Sioux 

Tribe located in Nebraska and any other 

Indian country lands in Nebraska held 

in trust by the United States for the 

Oglala Sioux Tribe or its members. 

The South Dakota draft permit covers 

the above identified Indian country 

except as provided below: Not including 

the portion of the Standing Rock Sioux 

Reservation located in South Dakota and 

any other Indian country lands in South 

Dakota held in trust by the United States 

for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe or its 

members, which are covered under the 

North Dakota general permit 

(NDG589###). 

• Utah (UTG589###): Indian country, 

as defined in 18 U.S.C. 1151, located in 

Utah generally includes (1) lands within 

the exterior boundaries of the following 

Indian reservations located within Utah, 

in part or in full: The Goshute 

Reservation, the Navajo Indian 

Reservation, the reservation lands of the 

Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah (Cedar Band 

of Paiutes, Kanosh Band of Paiutes, 

Koosharem Band of Paiutes, Indian 

Peaks Band of Paiutes, and Shivwits 

Band of Paiutes), the Skull Valley 

Indian Reservation, the Uintah and 

Ouray Reservation (subject to federal 

court decisions removing certain lands 

from Indian country status within the 

Uintah and Ouray Reservation), and the 

Washakie Reservation; (2) any land held 

in trust by the United States for an 

Indian tribe; and (3) any other areas that 

are ‘‘Indian country’’ within the 

meaning of 18 U.S.C. 1151. 

The Utah draft permit covers the 

above identified Indian country except 

as provided below: Not including any 

Indian country lands in Utah held in 

trust by the United States for the Ute 

Mountain Ute Tribe or its members, 

which are covered under the Colorado 

general permit (COG587###). Not 

including the portions of the Goshute 

Reservation and the Navajo Indian 

Reservation in Utah, or any other Indian 

country lands in Utah held in trust by 

the United States for the Navajo Nation 

or its members or for the Confederated 

Tribes of the Goshute Reservation or its 

members, which are regulated by EPA 

Region 9. 

• Wyoming (WYG589###): Indian 

country, as defined at 18 U.S.C. 1151, 

located in Wyoming generally includes 

any lands within the exterior 

boundaries of the Wind River Indian 

Reservation (subject to Wyoming v. EPA, 

875 F.3d 505 (10th Cir. 2017), cert. 

denied, 138 S. Ct. 2677 (2018)); any land 

held in trust by the United States for an 

Indian tribe; and any other areas that are 

‘‘Indian country’’ within the meaning of 

18 U.S.C. 1151. 

IV. Other Legal Requirements 

A. Executive Order 12866: Regulatory 

Planning and Review and Executive 

Order 13563: Improving Regulation and 

Regulatory Review 

This action is not a significant 

regulatory action and was therefore not 

subject to submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

formal review. 

B. Executive Order 12898: Federal 

Actions To Address Environmental 

Justice (EJ) in Minority Populations and 

Low-Income Populations 

Executive Order 12898 (59 FR 7629 

(February 16, 1994)) establishes federal 

executive policy on EJ. Its main 

provision directs federal agencies, to the 

greatest extent practicable and 

permitted by law, to make EJ part of 

their mission by identifying and 

addressing, as appropriate, 

disproportionately high and adverse 

human health or environmental effects 

of their programs, policies, and 

activities on minority populations and 

low-income populations in the United 

States. 

EPA conducted an EJ Analysis, which 

is described in Section VII of the fact 

sheet. EPA has preliminarily 

determined that the draft permits will 

not have disproportionately high and 

adverse human health or environmental 

effects on minority or low-income 

populations based on the effluent limits 

and reporting requirements contained 

therein. EPA requests comment on this 

preliminary determination and/or any 

modifications EPA could make to the 

proposed permits to address EJ 

concerns. 

Authority: CWA, 33 U.S.C. 1251, et 

seq. 

Dated: August 19, 2021. 

Judy Bloom, 

Manager, Clean Water Branch. 

[FR Doc. 2021–18229 Filed 8–24–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2014–0359; FRL 8868–01– 

OW] 

Proposed Information Collection 

Request Extension; Comment 

Request; Information Request for the 

Underground Injection Control 

Program 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is planning to submit an 

information collection request (ICR), 

‘‘Information Collection Request for the 

Underground Injection Control (UIC) 

program’’ (EPA ICR No. 0370.27, OMB 

Control No. 2040–0042) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval in accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)). 

Before doing so, EPA is soliciting public 

comments on specific aspects of the 

proposed information collection as 

described in the SUPPLEMENTAL

INFORMATION section of this document. 

This is a proposed 3-year extension of 

the ICR, which is currently approved 

through April 30, 2022. 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. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before October 25, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OW–2014–0359 online using 

www.regulations.gov (our preferred 

method), by email to OW-Docket@

epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket 

Center, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460. 

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: Kyle 

Carey, Drinking Water Protection 

Division, Office of Groundwater and 

Drinking Water, 4606M, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: (202) 564–2322; fax 

number: (202) 564–3756; email address: 

carey.kyle@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 https://

www.regulations.gov. The EPA is 

temporarily suspending its Docket 

Center and Reading Room for public 

visitors, with limited exceptions, to 

reduce the risk of transmitting COVID– 

19. Our Docket Center staff will 

continue to provide remote customer 

service via email, phone, and webform. 

We encourage the public to submit 

comments, go to https:// 


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www.regulations.gov. For additional 

information about EPA’s public docket, 

visit http://www.epa.gov/dockets. 

Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the PRA, EPA is soliciting comments 

and information to enable it to: (i) 

Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (ii) evaluate the 

accuracy of the Agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(iii) enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (iv) minimize the burden 

of the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including through 

the use of appropriate automated 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. EPA will consider the 

comments received and amend the ICR 

as appropriate. The final ICR extension 

request package will then be submitted 

to OMB for review and approval. At that 

time, EPA will issue another Federal 

Register notice to announce the 

submission of the ICR extension request 

package to OMB and the opportunity to 

submit additional comments to OMB. 

Abstract: EPA developed the 

Underground Injection Control (UIC) 

Program under the authority of the Safe 

Drinking Water Act to establish a 

federal-state regulatory system to protect 

underground sources of drinking water 

(USDWs) from injection fluids and 

injection-related activities. Injected 

fluids include hazardous waste, oil field 

brines or produced water, mineral 

processing fluids, various types of 

industrial fluids, automotive, sanitary, 

and other wastes, and carbon dioxide 

injected for geologic sequestration. 

Owners or operators of injection wells 

must obtain permits, conduct 

environmental monitoring, maintain 

records, and report results to the EPA or 

the state agency (if the state has UIC 

primary enforcement responsibility 

(primacy)). States must report to the 

EPA on permittee compliance and 

related information. This mandatory 

information is reported using 

standardized forms and annual reports. 

The governing regulations are codified 

in the Code of Federal Regulations 

(CFR) at 40 CFR parts 144 through 148. 

Reporting data are used by UIC 

authorities to ensure the protection of 

USDWs. 

Form Numbers: 7520–1, 7520–2A, 

7520–28. 7520–3, 7520–4, 7520–6, 

7520–7, 7520–8, 7520–9, 7520–10, 

7520–11, 7520–12, 7520–14, 7520–16, 

and 7520–17. 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Owners or operators of underground 

injection wells and state UIC primacy 

agencies. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory (40 CFR parts 140 through 

148). 

Estimated number of respondents: 

35,385 (total). 

Frequency of response: Annual, semiannual, and quarterly. 

Total estimated burden: 1,617,274 

hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 

CFR 1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $319,605,059 

(per year), includes $243,531,752 

annualized capital or operation and 

maintenance costs. 

Changes in estimates: Changes and 

developments in many aspects of the 

UIC program during the previous ICR 

period directly impact the estimates 

used in this ICR extension. For example, 

variations in permitting and closures 

across well classes and well inventory, 

revisions to UIC primacy programs, 

efforts to streamline the permit 

application process, alterations to state 

and operator reporting systems and 

other factors all cause variations in the 

ICR estimates. For the UIC ICR 

extension there is an increase of 325,014 

hours in the total estimated respondent 

burden compared with the ICR currently 

approved by OMB. This increase is due 

to changes in the injection well 

inventory and adjustments to the 

number of permit applications 

(particularly for Class VI wells) that are 

expected to be prepared and reviewed. 

Jennifer L. McLain, 

Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking 

Water. 

[FR Doc. 2021–18240 Filed 8–24–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8776–01–R9] 

Public Water System Supervision 

Program Revision for the State of 

Arizona 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of tentative approval. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the State of Arizona (State) revised its 

Public Water System Supervision 

(PWSS) Program under the federal Safe 

Drinking Water Act (SDWA) by 

adopting regulations to implement the 

federal Stage 1 and Stage 2 Disinfectants 

and Disinfection Byproducts Rules 

(DBPRs). The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) has determined that the 

State’s revisions are no less stringent 

than the corresponding Federal 

regulations and otherwise meet 

applicable SDWA primacy 

requirements. Therefore, EPA intends to 

approve the stated revisions as part of 

the State’s PWSS Program. 

DATES: A request for a public hearing 

must be received on or before 

September 24, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: All documents relating to 

this determination are available for 

inspection online at http://azdeq.gov/ 

notices. In addition, documents relating 

to this determination are available for 

inspection by appointment between the 

hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except official 

State or Federal holidays at the 

following address: Arizona Department 

of Environmental Quality, Records 

Center, 1110 West Washington Street, 

Phoenix, AZ 85007. Please contact the 

ADEQ Records Center at (602) 771–4380 

or http://azdeq.gov/node/219 to 

schedule an appointment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Daria Evans-Walker, United States 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region 9, Drinking Water Section via 

telephone number: (415) 972–3451 or 

email address: evans-walker.daria@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background. EPA approved the 

State’s initial application for PWSS 

Program primary enforcement authority 

(‘‘primacy’’) on August 25, 1978 (43 FR 

38083). Since initial approval, EPA has 

approved various revisions to Arizona’s 

PWSS Program. For the revisions 

covered by this action, the EPA 

promulgated the Stage 1 DBP Rule on 

December 16, 1998 (63 FR 69390– 

69476) with revisions to the Stage 1 DBP 

Rule on January 16, 2001 (66 FR 3770– 

3780). EPA promulgated the Stage 2 

DBP Rule on January 2, 2006 (71 FR 

388–493) and published Stage 2 DBP 

Rule corrections on January 27, 2006 (71 

FR 4644), June 29, 2006 (71 FR 37168) 

and November 14, 2008 (73 FR 67456– 

67463). The EPA promulgated the Stage 

1 and Stage 2 DBPRs to reduce drinking 

water exposure to disinfection 

byproducts by setting standards for 

additional disinfection byproducts, 

establishing maximum residual 

disinfectant levels for chemical 

disinfectants, and tightening 

compliance monitoring requirements. 

EPA has determined that the Stage 1 

and Stage 2 DBPRs were incorporated 

by reference into the Arizona 


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