58376 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 185 / Friday, September 24, 2010 / Notices 

Title: Underground Storage Tanks: 

Information Request Letters, Pacific 

Southwest Region (Region IX). 

ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 2405.01, 

OMB Control No. 2009–NEW. 

ICR Status: This ICR is for a new 

collection activity. 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. 

The OMB control numbers for EPA’s 

regulations in title 49 of the CFR, after 

appearing in the Federal Register when 

approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, 

are displayed either by publication in 

the Federal Register or by other 

appropriate means, such as on the 

related collection instrument or form, if 

applicable. The display of OMB control 

numbers in certain EPA regulations is 

consolidated in 40 CFR part 9. 

Abstract: EPA has already received 

approval from OMB for its information 

collection request, entitled ‘‘EPA 

Information Collection Request Number 

1360.08, Underground Storage Tanks: 

Technical and Financial Requirements, 

and State Program Approval 

Procedures.’’ This approval grants EPA 

authority to collect information from 

owners and operators, as specified in 40 

CFR Part 280, that may otherwise be 

subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act, 

including owner and operator 

requirements to bring a tank into 

service, pursuant to 40 CFR 280.22, and 

owner and operator requirements to 

notify the implementing agency of any 

decision to permanently close or make 

a change-in-service at an UST system, 

pursuant to 40 CFR 280.71. ICR No. 

1360.08, however, does not include the 

authority for EPA to request that facility 

owners and operators submit documents 

or other information to the Agency upon 

request. EPA Region IX is seeking 

approval from OMB to request 

documents or other information from 

UST owners and operators within the 

Region. EPA Region IX’s Underground 

Storage Tanks Program Office (R9 

USTPO) is planning to undertake an 

effort to increase the rate of compliance 

in Region IX. R9 USTPO has direct 

implementation responsibilities in 

Indian country and our data have shown 

a low rate of compliance. While Indian 

country is our highest priority because 

of our direct implementation 

responsibility, EPA has also reviewed 

data that suggest facilities outside 

Indian country are also of concern. In 

FY 08, the average rate of compliance in 

Region IX Indian country was 36% and, 

outside of Indian country, the average 

was 68%. An information request 

pursuant to RCRA section 9005 directed 

to UST facility owners and operators in 

order to determine compliance will help 

to increase the rate of compliance. 

As a result, R9 USTPO would like to 

send an information request letter in 

accordance with RCRA Section 9005 

and 40 CFR 280.34 annually to 

approximately 500 UST facilities. This 

letter will request that the facility owner 

or operator send to the R9 USTPO the 

compliance records that they are already 

required to keep, but have not 

previously been asked to submit to the 

Agency. The information request letter 

authority was codified in 40 CFR 280.34 

of the UST regulations and this 

regulation and other provisions of the 

UST regulations also contain specific 

ongoing facility reporting and record 

keeping obligations. In accordance with 

40 CFR 280.34(c), these records should 

be kept either on-site or must be readily 

available at an alternative site and, thus, 

should be easy to locate. The 

information is routinely reviewed 

during inspections, but we believe there 

is non-compliance that warrants 

additional collection and believe that 

these requests will encourage owners 

and operators to maintain regulatory 

compliance and will allow the R9 

USTPO to better ensure compliance 

with regulatory requirements for those 

facilities. The R9 USTPO seeks to 

continue this request for records from 

facilities indefinitely and would 

monitor whether our efforts to increase 

compliance are successful. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to average 5 hours per 

response. Burden means the total time, 

effort, or financial resources expended 

by persons to generate, maintain, retain, 

or disclose or provide information to or 

for a Federal agency. This includes the 

time needed to review instructions; 

develop, acquire, install, and utilize 

technology and systems for the purposes 

of collecting, validating, and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information; adjust the 

existing ways to comply with any 

previously applicable instructions and 

requirements which have subsequently 

changed; train personnel to be able to 

respond to a collection of information; 

search data sources; complete and 

review the collection of information; 

and transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. 

The ICR provides a detailed 

explanation of the Agency’s estimate, 

which is only briefly summarized here: 

Estimated total number of potential 

respondents: 500. 

Frequency of response: Annual. 

Estimated total average number of 

responses for each respondent: One. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

2,500 hours. 

Estimated total annual costs: $29,025. 

This includes an estimated burden cost 

of $25,000 and an estimated cost of 

$4,025 for capital investment or 

maintenance and operational costs. 

What is the next step in the process 

for this ICR? EPA will consider the 

comments received and revise the ICR, 

if appropriate. The final ICR package 

will then be submitted to OMB for 

review and approval pursuant to 5 CFR 

1320.12. At that time, EPA will issue 

another Federal Register notice 

pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.5(a)(1)(iv) to 

announce the submission of the ICR to 

OMB and the opportunity to submit 

additional comments to OMB. If you 

have any questions about this ICR or the 

approval process, please contact the 

technical person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Authority: RCRA Section 9005 and 40 CFR 

280.34. 

Dated: August 26, 2010. 

Jeff Scott, 

Director, Waste Management Division, Region 

IX. 

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AGENCY 

[ER–FRL–8992–8] 

Environmental Impacts Statements; 

Notice of Availability 

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal 

Activities, General Information (202) 

564–1399 or http://www.epa.gov/ 

compliance/nepa/. 

Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact 

Statements filed 09/13/2010 through 

09/17/2010 pursuant to 40 CFR 

1506.9. 

Notice 

In accordance with Section 309(a) of 

the Clean Air Act, EPA is required to 

make its comments on EISs issued by 

other Federal agencies public. 

Historically, EPA has met this mandate 

by publishing weekly notices of 

availability of EPA comments, which 

includes a brief summary of EPA’s 

comment letters, in the Federal 

Register. Since February 2008, EPA has 

been including its comment letters on 

EISs on its Web site at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/ 

eisdata.html. Including the entire EIS 

comment letters on the website satisfies 

the Section 309(a) requirement to make 


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EPA’s comments on EISs available to 

the public. Accordingly, on March 31, 

2010, EPA discontinued the publication 

of the notice of availability of EPA 

comments in the Federal Register. 

EIS No. 20100374, Draft EIS, USFWS, 

MT, Charles M. Russell National 

Wildlife Refuge and UL Bend 

National Wildlife Refuge 

Comprehensive Conservation Plan, To 

Provide Alternatives and Identify 

Consequences, Fergus, Petroleum, 

Garfield, McCore, Valley, and Phillips 

Counties, MT, Comment Period Ends: 

11/16/2010, Contact: Laurie Shannon 

303–236–4317. 

EIS No. 20100375, Final EIS, USFWS, 

00, Western Snowy Plover Habitat 

Conservation Plan, Proposed Issuance 

of an Incidental Take Permit, Oregon 

Parks and Recreation Department, 

Oregon Coast, OR, CA, WA, Wait 

Period Ends: 10/25/2010, Contact: 

Laura Todd 541–867–4558. 

EIS No. 20100376, Draft EIS, USFS, CA, 

Concow Hazardous Fuels Reduction 

Project, Propose to Reduce Hazardous 

Forest Fuels, Plus Establish and 

Maintain Spaces—Defensible Fuel 

Profile Zones (DFPZs), Feather River 

Ranger District, Plumas National 

Forest, Towns of Paradise, Magalia, 

Concow, Butte County, CA, Comment 

Period Ends: 11/08/2010, Contact: 

Carol Spinos 530–532–8932. 

EIS No. 20100377, Final EIS, USFS, CA, 

Tehachapi Renewable Transmission 

Project, New Information on Changed 

Conditions Caused by the Station 

Fire, Construct, Operate and Maintain 

New and Upgraded 500 kV and 220kV 

Transmission Lines and Substations, 

Special Use Authorization, Angeles 

National Forest, Los Angeles County, 

CA, Wait Period Ends: 10/25/2010, 

Contact: Justin Seastrand 626–574– 

5278. 

EIS No. 20100378, Draft Supplement, 

USFS, OR, North Fork Burnt River 

Mining Project, To Provide Additional 

Information and to Address the 

Deficiencies Identified by the District 

Court of Oregon on August 4, 2006, 

Proposal for Mineral Plans of 

Operation, Implementation, WallowaWhitman National Forest, Unity 

Ranger District of the Whitman Unit, 

Blue Mountains, Town of Unity, 

Baker County, OR, Comment Period 

Ends: 11/08/2010, Contact: Sophia 

Miller 541–263–1735. 

EIS No. 20100379, Draft EIS, TVA, KY, 

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) 

Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), To 

Address the Demand for Power in the 

TVA Service Area, KY, Comment 

Period Ends: 11/08/2010, Contact: 

Charles P. Nicholson 865–632–3582 

EIS No. 20100380, Final EIS, USACE, 

00, Sabine-Neches Waterway Channel 

Improvement Project, Proposed Ocean 

Dredged Material Disposal Site 

Designation, Southeast Texas and 

Southwest Louisiana, Wait Period 

Ends: 10/25/2010, Contact: Janelle 

Stokes 409–766–3039. 

EIS No. 20100381, Draft Supplement, 

USAF, FL, Eglin Base Realignment 

and Closure, Proposed Beddown of 

the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) and 

Establishment of an Initial Joint 

Training Site (IJTS), Implementation, 

Okaloosa, Walton, and Santa Rosa 

Counties, FL, Comment Period Ends: 

11/08/2010, Contact: Mike Spaits 85– 

882–2836. 

EIS No. 20100382, Final EIS, NPS, CA, 

Warner Valley Comprehensive Site 

Plan, Addressing Natural and Cultural 

Resource Conflicts, Parking and 

Circulation Improvements in Warner 

Valley, Implementation, Lassen 

Volcanic National Park, Plumas 

County, CA, Wait Period Ends: 10/25/ 

2010, Contact: Louise Johnson 530– 

595–4444 Ext. 5170. 

EIS No. 20100383, Draft Supplement, 

USFS, NM, Santa Fe National Forest 

Oil & Gas Leasing, Updated and New 

Information, Implementation, San 

Juan Basin, Cuba Ranger District, NM, 

Comment Period Ends: 11/08/2010, 

Contact: Jennifer Cramer 505–438– 

5449. 

EIS No. 20100384, Final Supplement, 

USFS, AK, Programmatic EIS—Exxon 

Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Plan 

DOI/DOC, New Circumstances 

Bearing on the Council’s Restoration 

Effort, Implementation, Prince 

William Sound, Gulf of Alaska, AK, 

Wait Period Ends: 10/25/2010, 

Contact: Laurel Jennings 206–526– 

4535. 

EIS No. 20100385, Final EIS, NSA, MD, 

Fort George G. Meade, Maryland to 

Address Campus Development, Site 

M as an Operational Complex and to 

Construct and Operate Consolidated 

Facilities for Intelligence Community 

Use, Fort George G. Meade, MD, Wait 

Period Ends: 10/25/2010, Contact: 

Jeffrey D. Williams 301–688–2970. 

Dated: September 21, 2010. 

Robert W. Hargrove, 

Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office 

of Federal Activities. 

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AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2010–0681; FRL–8847–5] 

Lead in Ammunition and Fishing 

Sinkers; Disposition of TSCA Section 

21 Petition 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: On August 3, 2010, several 

groups filed a petition under the Toxic 

Substances Control Act (TSCA) section 

21 requesting that EPA prohibit under 

TSCA section 6(a) the manufacture, 

processing, and distribution in 

commerce of (1) lead bullets and shot; 

and (2) lead fishing sinkers. On August 

27, 2010, EPA denied the first request 

due to a lack of authority to regulate 

lead in bullets and shot under TSCA. 

EPA’s decision is based on the 

exclusion of shells and cartridges from 

the definition of ‘‘chemical substance’’ 

in TSCA section 3(2)(B)(v). EPA is still 

considering the second request and will 

respond to that portion of the petition 

within the 90-day period provided in 

section 21 of TSCA. This notice 

explains EPA’s reasons for the denial of 

the request specific to lead bullets and 

shot. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical information contact: Christina 

Wadlington, National Program 

Chemicals Division (7404T), Office of 

Pollution Prevention and Toxics, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

(202) 566–1859; e-mail address: 

wadlington.christina@epa.gov. 

For general information contact: The 

TSCA–Hotline, ABVI–Goodwill, 422 

South Clinton Ave., Rochester, NY 

14620; telephone number: (202) 554– 

1404; e-mail address: TSCAHotline@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general. This action may, however, be 

of interest to you if you manufacture, 

process, import, or distribute in 

commerce lead shot or bullets. If you 

have any questions regarding this 

action, consult the technical person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

B. How can I get copies of this document 

and other related information? 

EPA has established a docket for this 

action under docket identification (ID) 


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