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4 In compliance with the National Environmental 

Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 

4321–4347; the Council on Environmental Quality 

Regulations for implementing NEPA (40 CFR parts 

1500–1508); and DOE NEPA Implementing 

Procedures and Guidelines (10 CFR part 1021). 

1EPA authorized Oregon to administer the 

NPDES program on September 26, 1973. See EPA 

website, ‘‘NPDES State Program Authority,’’ at 

https://www.epa.gov/npdes/npdes-state-programauthority. 

the authority to confirm, approve, and 

place such rates into effect on an 

interim basis to the Assistant Secretary 

for Electricity. By Redelegation Order 

No.00–002.10–05, effective July8, 2020, 

the Assistant Secretary for Electricity 

further redelegated the authority to 

confirm, approve, and place such rates 

into effect on an interim basis to 

WAPA’s Administrator. This 

redelegation order, despite predating the 

December 2021 and March 2022 

delegations, remains valid. 

Availability of Information 

All brochures, studies, comments, 

letters, memorandums, or other 

documents that UGP initiates or uses to 

develop the proposed formula rates will 

be available for inspection and copying 

at the Upper Great Plains Regional 

Office, located at 2900 4th Avenue 

North, 6th Floor, Billings, Montana. 

Many of these documents and 

supporting information are also 

available on UGP’s website at: 

www.wapa.gov/regions/UGP/rates/ 

Pages/2023-firm-rate-adjustment.aspx. 

Ratemaking Procedure Requirements 

Environmental Compliance 

WAPA is in the process of 

determining whether an environmental 

assessment or an environmental impact 

statement should be prepared or if this 

action can be categorically excluded 

from those requirements.4

Determination Under Executive Order 

12866 

WAPA has an exemption from 

centralized regulatory review under 

Executive Order 12866; accordingly, no 

clearance of this notice by the Office of 

Management and Budget is required. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on May 4, 2022, by 

Tracey A. LeBeau, Administrator, 

Western Area Power Administration, 

pursuant to delegated authority from the 

Secretary of Energy. That document, 

with the original signature and date, is 

maintained by DOE. For administrative 

purposes only, and in compliance with 

requirements of the Office of the Federal 

Register, the undersigned DOE Federal 

Register Liaison Officer has been 

authorized to sign and submit the 

document in electronic format for 

publication, as an official document of 

the Department of Energy. This 

administrative process in no way alters 

the legal effect of this document upon 

publication in the Federal Register. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on May 18, 

2022. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2022–11024 Filed 5–24–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9795–01–OECA] 

NPDES Electronic Reporting Rule 

Implementation: Notice of Initial 

Recipient Designation for Oregon 

Department of Environmental Quality 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of approval. 

SUMMARY: This Federal Register 

document provides notice of the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency’s 

(EPA) approval of the Oregon 

Department of Environmental Quality as 

the initial recipient for electronic data 

reporting under the NPDES Electronic 

Reporting Rule (‘‘NPDES eRule’’), 

effective December 6, 2021, for all 

National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System (NPDES) data 

groups except for ‘‘No. 4—Sewage 

Sludge/Biosolids Annual Program 

Reports.’’ Oregon Department of 

Environmental Quality cannot be the 

initial recipient for this data group as 

EPA is the authorized NPDES program 

for the Federal biosolids program. 

DATES: This approval was effective 

December 6, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information, please contact 

Mr. Carey A. Johnston, Office of 

Compliance (mail code 2222A), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, 

DC, 20460; email address: 

johnston.carey@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

promulgated the NPDES Electronic 

Reporting Rule (‘‘NPDES eRule’’) in 

2015 to modernize Clean Water Act 

reporting for municipalities, industries, 

and other facilities by converting to an 

electronic data reporting system (see 22 

October 2015; 80 FR 64064). The NPDES 

eRule requires regulated entities and 

state and Federal regulators to use 

existing, available information 

technology to electronically report data 

required by the National Pollutant 

Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) 

permit program instead of filing written 

paper reports. EPA amended this rule in 

2020 to provide itself and states with 

more time to develop and deploy 

electronic reporting tools (see 2 

November 2020; 85 FR 69189). 

This switch from paper to electronic 

reporting saves time and resources for 

permittees, states, tribes, territories, and 

the U.S. Government while increasing 

data accuracy, improving compliance, 

and supporting EPA’s goal of providing 

better protection of the Nation’s waters. 

The NPDES eRule helps provide greater 

clarity on who is and who is not in 

compliance and enhances transparency 

by providing a timelier, complete, more 

accurate, and nationally-consistent set 

of data about the NPDES program. 

The NPDES eRule requires each 

authorized NPDES program to decide 

whether to use EPA’s electronic 

reporting tools or to use their own 

electronic reporting tools.1 Authorized 

states can make this decision or defer 

this decision to EPA. The governmental 

entity, either the state or EPA, that 

makes this decision is the ‘‘initial 

recipient.’’ The NPDES eRule requires 

EPA to publish on its website and in the 

Federal Register a listing of the initial 

recipients for electronic NPDES 

information from NPDES-regulated 

facilities by state, tribe, and territory 

and by NPDES data group. EPA 

published this initial listing on 

September 9, 2016 (see 81 FR 62395). 

The NPDES eRule also requires EPA to 

publish on its website and in the 

Federal Register a revised listing of 

initial recipients upon specified changes 

to the list of initial recipients (see 40 

CFR 127.27(c)–(f)). 

The NPDES eRule allows an 

authorized NPDES program to seek EPA 

approval to change the initial recipient 

status for one or all of the NPDES data 

groups from EPA to the authorized 

NPDES program. 40 CFR 127.27(e). To 

make this switch, the authorized NPDES 

program must send a request to EPA. 

This request must identify the specific 

NPDES data groups for which the 

authorized NPDES program would like 

to be the initial recipient of electronic 

NPDES information, a description of 

how its data system will be compliant 

with the NPDES eRule and the CrossMedia Electronic Reporting Rule 

(CROMERR) (40 CFR part 3), and the 

date or dates when the authorized 

NPDES program will be ready to start 

receiving this information. The Oregon 


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2Oregon DEQ Letter to EPA, 2020. ‘‘Request to 

Designate Oregon DEQ as eRule ‘Initial Recipient’ 

for All NPDES Data Groups,’’ Signed by Justin 

Green, Water Quality Administrator, Oregon DEQ, 

September 23, 2020. 

3See EPA website, ‘‘CROMERR Overview for 

State, Tribal and Local Governments,’’ at https:// 

www.epa.gov/cromerr/cromerr-overview-statetribal-and-local-governments. 

4U.S. EPA Memorandum to Oregon DEQ, 2021. 

‘‘U.S. EPA Approval of Oregon as Initial Recipient 

for NPDES Electronic Reporting,’’ Signed by John 

Dombrowski, Director, Office of Compliance, Office 

of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, 

December 6, 2021. 

Department of Environmental Quality 

(hereinafter Oregon DEQ) sent EPA such 

a request on September 23, 2020.2

Oregon DEQ noted in its letter to EPA 

that it will be using an Environmental 

Data Management System, which is 

produced by enfoTech, Inc., for all of its 

NPDES program data. Oregon DEQ 

plans to start using this new system in 

2022 and will only put this system into 

full operation after it receives EPA’s 

CROMERR approval.3 Oregon DEQ 

stated that this new system will be 

implemented in stages and that each 

stage will include rigorous testing. 

Finally, Oregon DEQ confirmed that its 

new system will collect and share the 

minimum set of NPDES program data in 

accordance with the NPDES eRule data 

sharing standards (see subpart B, 40 

CFR part 127). 

EPA has completed its review of 

Oregon DEQ’s request and, on December 

6, 2021, approved Oregon DEQ as the 

‘‘Initial Recipient’’ for all NPDES data 

groups except for ‘‘No. 4—Sewage 

Sludge/Biosolids Annual Program 

Reports’’ (see Table 1, appendix A to 40 

CFR part 127). Oregon DEQ cannot be 

the initial recipient for this data group 

as EPA is the authorized NPDES 

program for the Federal biosolids 

program (40 CFR part 503). The effective 

date for this new status is December 6, 

2021.4 In accordance with the NPDES 

eRule, EPA is publishing the notice of 

this switch on its website and in the 

Federal Register. The following is the 

updated list of states that have elected 

for EPA to be the initial recipient for 

one or more NPDES data groups. 

State 

State elected for EPA to be initial 

recipient for general permit reports 

(NPDES data group No. 2) 

State elected for 

EPA to be initial 

recipient for 

discharge 

monitoring 

reports (DMRs) 

(NPDES data group No. 3) 

State elected for EPA to be initial 

recipient for program reports 

(NPDES data group Nos. 4 through 10) 

Georgia ................................ Yes (All) ................................................... Yes .................................... Yes (All). 

Nebraska ............................. Yes (All) ................................................... Yes .................................... Yes (All). 

New Jersey .......................... No ............................................................ No ...................................... Yes (only for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) Annual Program Report). 

North Carolina ..................... Yes (only for Low Erosivity Waivers and 

No Exposure Certifications).

No ...................................... No. 

Rhode Island ....................... Yes (All) ................................................... Yes .................................... Yes (All). 

Dated: May 19, 2022. 

John Dombrowski, 

Director, Office of Compliance, Office of 

Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2022–0132; FRL–9411–02– 

OCSPP] 

Certain New Chemicals; Receipt and 

Status Information for April 2022 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA is required under the 

Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), 

as amended by the Frank R. Lautenberg 

Chemical Safety for the 21st Century 

Act, to make information publicly 

available and to publish information in 

the Federal Register pertaining to 

submissions under TSCA Section 5, 

including notice of receipt of a 

Premanufacture notice (PMN), 

Significant New Use Notice (SNUN) or 

Microbial Commercial Activity Notice 

(MCAN), including an amended notice 

or test information; an exemption 

application (Biotech exemption); an 

application for a test marketing 

exemption (TME), both pending and/or 

concluded; a notice of commencement 

(NOC) of manufacture (including 

import) for new chemical substances; 

and a periodic status report on new 

chemical substances that are currently 

under EPA review or have recently 

concluded review. This document 

covers the period from 04/01/2022 to 

04/30/2022. 

DATES: Comments identified by the 

specific case number provided in this 

document must be received on or before 

June 24, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPPT–2022–0132, 

and the specific case number for the 

chemical substance related to your 

comment, by one of the following 

methods: 

• 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. 

• Mail: Document Control Office 

(7407M), Office of Pollution Prevention 

and Toxics (OPPT), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: To make special 

arrangements for hand delivery or 

delivery of boxed information, please 

follow the instructions at http://

www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html. 

Additional instructions on 

commenting or visiting the docket, 

along with more information about 

dockets generally, is available at https:// 

www.epa.gov/dockets. 

Due to the public health concerns 

related to COVID–19, the EPA Docket 

Center (EPA/DC) and Reading Room is 

closed to visitors with limited 

exceptions. The staff continues to 

provide remote customer service via 

email, phone, and webform. For the 

latest status information on EPA/DC 

services and docket access, visit https:// 

www.epa.gov/dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical information contact: Jim 

Rahai, Project Management and 

Operations Division (7407M), Office of 


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