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rulemaking involving services 

applicable to public property. 

Environmental Compliance 

In compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) (42 

U.S.C. 4321–4370), Council on 

Environmental Quality NEPA 

implementing regulations (40 CFR parts 

1500–1508), and DOE NEPA 

implementing regulations (10 CFR part 

1021), WAPA completed a Categorical 

Exclusion (CX). Since WAPA is 

reallocating its existing resources and is 

not planning to increase its generation 

or transmission under this Marketing 

Plan, a CX is the appropriate level of 

environmental review. 

Determination Under Executive Order 

12866 

WAPA has an exemption from 

centralized regulatory review under 

Executive Order 12866; accordingly, no 

clearance of this Federal Register notice 

by the Office of Management and 

Budget is required. 

Dated: July 6, 2017. 

Mark A. Gabriel, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2017–17210 Filed 8–14–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OLEM–2017–0458; FRL–9966– 

52–OLEM] 

Release of Interim Final Guidance for 

State Coal Combustion Residuals 

Permit Programs; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is announcing the 

availability of and requests comment on 

a document titled Coal Combustion 

Residuals State Permit Program 

Guidance Document; Interim Final. As a 

result of the Water Infrastructure 

Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act 

signed by the President on December 16, 

2016, States may submit coal 

combustion residuals (CCR) programs to 

EPA for review and approval. This 

document describes EPA’s 

interpretations of the WIIN Act 

provisions and the way in which EPA 

generally intends to review State 

programs. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before September 14, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OLEM–2017–0458; Title: Coal 

Combustion Residuals (CCR) State 

Permit Program Guidance Document 

(Interim Final) at http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Once submitted, comments cannot be 

edited or removed from Regulations.gov. 

The EPA may publish any comment 

received to its public docket. Do not 

submit electronically any information 

you consider to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) 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. 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). For additional submission 

methods, the full EPA public comment 

policy, information about CBI or 

multimedia submissions, and general 

guidance on making effective 

comments, please visit http://

www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epadockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary Jackson, Materials Recovery and 

Waste Management Division, Office of 

Resource Conservation and Recovery 

(5304P), Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (703) 308–8453; email address: 

jackson.mary@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 2301 of the Water 

Infrastructure Improvements for the 

Nation Act (WIIN) Act amended the 

Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act to allow States to submit and EPA 

to approve State permit (or other system 

of prior approval and conditions) 

programs for CCR. 

Coal Combustion Residuals State 

Permit Program Guidance Document; 

Interim Final is designed to provide 

information about the provisions of the 

2016 WIIN Act, related to CCR, as well 

as the process and procedures EPA 

generally intends to use to review and 

make determinations on State CCR 

Permit Programs. The purpose of this 

document is to provide States guidance 

for developing and submitting a State 

CCR Permit Program for EPA approval. 

The document has four (4) chapters. 

The first two are in the form of 

questions and answers. The first chapter 

provides an overview of the provisions 

of the WIIN Act. The second chapter 

contains the process and procedures 

EPA is currently planning to use to 

review and make determinations on 

State CCR programs, as well as the 

documentation EPA generally expects to 

request from States seeking approval of 

a program. The third and fourth 

chapters consist of checklists to aid the 

States as they are considering and 

developing their program submittals. 

Chapter 3 contains a checklist of all the 

requirements of the current CCR rule at 

40 CFR part 257 subpart D. Chapter 4 

provides a checklist of those items EPA 

generally expects a State would submit 

when seeking approval of its CCR 

program. 

This guidance describes EPA’s 

statutory interpretations and the way in 

which EPA generally intends to review 

State programs. As such, EPA 

encourages States to consult this interim 

final guidance and to use it as a 

technical resource as they develop and 

submit State CCR Permit programs to 

EPA for review and approval. As 

provided by Section 2301 of the WIIN 

Act, EPA must provide public notice 

and an opportunity for comment prior 

to approval of a State program by EPA. 

Thus, EPA’s review and approval of a 

State program will be a separate process 

from this action that will provide for 

public notice and opportunity for 

comment on each State program. 

The information and procedures in 

the document are intended as a 

technical resource to States that may be 

useful in developing and submitting a 

State CCRs Permit Program to EPA for 

approval. This Guidance does not 

constitute rulemaking by the Agency, 

and cannot be relied on to create a 

substantive or procedural right 

enforceable by any party in litigation 

with the United States. As indicated by 

the use of non-mandatory language such 

as ‘‘may’’ and ‘‘should,’’ it only provides 

recommendations and does not impose 

any legally binding requirements. 

The guidance document can be found 

in the docket (Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OLEM–2017–0458; Title: Coal 

Combustion Residuals (CCR) State 

Permit Program Guidance Document 

(Interim Final)) at http://

www.regulations.gov. In addition, a 

copy of the guidance document and 

additional resources on CCR can also be 

found on EPA’s Web site: www.epa.gov/ 

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38686 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 156 / Tuesday, August 15, 2017 / Notices 

Dated: August 9, 2017. 

Nigel Simon, 

Acting Principal Deputy Assistant 

Administrator, Office of Land and Emergency 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2017–17270 Filed 8–14–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of a modified system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications 

Commission (FCC or Commission or 

Agency) is modifying an existing system 

of records, FCC/WCB–1, Lifeline 

Program, subject to the Privacy Act of 

1974, as amended. This action is 

necessary to meet the requirements of 

the Privacy Act to publish in the 

Federal Register notice of the existence 

and character of records maintained by 

the agency. The Lifeline Program (or 

‘‘Lifeline’’) provides discounts for voice 

telephony (i.e., telephone service) and 

broadband Internet access service 

(BIAS) to qualifying low-income 

individuals (i.e., one Lifeline Program 

telephone per household). Individuals 

may qualify for Lifeline through proof of 

income or participation in another 

qualifying program. Since the 

Telecommunications Act of 1996 (1996 

Act), the Lifeline Program has been 

administered by the Universal Service 

Administrative Company (USAC) under 

the direction of the Commission and, by 

delegation, of the Commission’s 

Wireline Competition Bureau (WCB). 

This system of records contains 

information about individual Lifeline 

Program participants. The modifications 

described in this notice will allow 

USAC to maintain and administer this 

system in a manner that promotes 

efficiency and minimizes waste, fraud, 

and abuse. 

DATES: Written comments are due on or 

before September 14, 2017. This action 

(including the routine uses) will become 

effective on September 14, 2017 unless 

comments are received that require a 

contrary determination. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Leslie F. 

Smith, Privacy Manager, Information 

Technology (IT), Room 1–C216, Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC), 

445 12th Street SW., Washington, DC 

20554, or to Leslie.Smith@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Leslie F. Smith, (202) 418–0217, or 

Leslie.Smith@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice serves to update and modify 

FCC/WCB–1, Lifeline Program, to 

include PII that will be obtained and 

processed by the National Verifier, 

which is being deployed as adopted in 

the Commission’s 2016 Lifeline and 

Link Up Reform and Modernization 

Third Report and Order to make 

eligibility determinations and perform a 

variety of other functions necessary to 

enroll individuals into the Lifeline 

program. See Lifeline and Link Up 

Reform and Modernization et al., Third 

Report and Order, Further Report and 

Order, and Order on Reconsideration, 

31 FCC Rcd 3962, 4006, para. 126 (2016) 

(2016 Lifeline Modernization Order). 

The National Verifier will be comprised 

of both the existing National Lifeline 

Accountability Database (NLAD) system 

and a new Lifeline Eligibility Database 

(LED). The WCB is also making various 

other updates and modifications to 

comply with current OMB and FCC 

policies and practices. The Lifeline 

Program serves low-income individuals 

by providing qualifying individuals (i.e., 

one Lifeline Program telephone per 

household) with discounts on voice 

telephony and BIAS service. Since the 

Telecommunications Act of 1996 (1996 

Act), the Lifeline Program has been 

administered by the Universal Service 

Administrative Company (USAC) under 

the direction of the Commission and, by 

delegation, of WCB. The substantive 

changes and modifications to the 

previously published version of the 

FCC/WCB–1 system of records include: 

(a) Changes to the security 

classification; 

(b) Expansion of the system’s 

purposes as provided in the 2016 

Lifeline Modernization Order with the 

implementation of the National Verifier 

to make eligibility determinations and 

perform a variety of other functions 

necessary to enroll eligible subscribers 

into the Lifeline Program (or ‘‘Lifeline’’); 

to add broadband Internet access service 

(BIAS) as a Lifeline-eligible service; to 

include all PII used to determine an 

individual’s eligibility to participate in 

the program and recertify eligibility 

where the National Verifier is not 

responsible for eligibility 

determinations; to include the PII that 

will be used by the National Verifier to 

verify an individual’s eligibility for the 

program and recertify program 

participants where the National Verifier 

is responsible for eligibility 

determinations and recertification; to 

cover the PII that is used to ensure that 

individuals in a single household do not 

receive more than one Lifeline Program 

benefit; to include the PII that is needed 

for call center inquiries regarding 

eligibility and dispute resolution; to 

include the information necessary for 

the System Integrator to develop, test, 

and operate the database system and 

network that will be used to implement 

and operate the National Verifier; and to 

include the information submitted to 

the National Verifier by subscribers 

seeking information on the status of 

their eligibility or for dispute resolution 

purposes. 

(c) Expansion of the categories of 

individuals to include individuals who 

enable another individual in their 

household to qualify for benefits; or are 

individuals acting on behalf of an 

eligible telecommunications carrier who 

have enrolled individuals in the Lifeline 

Program; 

(d) Expansion of the categories of 

records to include information on 

whether the individual resides on Tribal 

lands, information on whether the 

address is temporary and/or descriptive 

and whether it includes coordinates, 

mailing address (if different), Tribal 

identification number, telephone 

number, full name of the qualifying 

person (if different from the individual 

applicant), the last four digits of the 

qualifying person’s social security 

number, qualifying person’s date of 

birth, documents demonstrating 

eligibility, documents demonstrating 

identity, individual contact information, 

Lifeline subscriber identification 

number, security question, answer to 

security question, user name, password, 

agent identification information (if an 

agent is assisting in completing the 

application), individual’s eligibility 

certifications, and individual’s signature 

and date of application; 

(e) Updating language and/or 

renumbering 9 routine uses: (1) FCC/ 

USAC Program Management; (2) Third 

Party Contractors; (5) State Agencies 

and Other Authorized State Government 

Entities; (10) FCC Enforcement Actions; 

(11) Congressional Inquiries; (12) 

Government-Wide Program 

Management and Oversight; (13) Income 

and Program Eligibility Records; (14) 

Law Enforcement and Investigation; and 

(16) Breach Notification to comply with 

OMB requirements (M–17–12); 

(f) Merging of two routine uses (15) 

Adjudication and Litigation (now 

includes the previous Department of 

Justice routine use), formerly (10) and 

(11) respectively; 

(g) Addition of 11 new routine uses: 

(3) Business Process Outsource (BPO) 

Entity to allow a BPO employee access 

to Lifeline Program information related 

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