Document ID: EPA_FRDOC_0001-17812
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Requests for Information: Great Salt Lake Mercury Data
Posted Date: 2015-08-11T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 154 (Tuesday, August 11, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48100-48101]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-19736]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-R08-OW-2015-0415; FRL-9932-13-Region 8]

Request for Information: Great Salt Lake Mercury Data

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice; request for information.

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SUMMARY: As part of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's 
(EPA) review of Utah's 2012-2014 Clean Water Act section 303(d) list, 
we deferred action on Utah's decision not to list the Great Salt Lake 
as impaired. We are seeking data from the Great Salt Lake for 
consideration. While we are seeking all available mercury concentration 
data (any medium) from the Great Salt Lake we are particularly 
interested in obtaining mercury concentration data in avian: tissue 
(particularly liver tissue), blood, diet, and eggs. Ideally, we would 
like raw data and any available quality assurance metadata and quality 
criteria. Reports and publications are also desirable.

DATES: Data must be received on or before September 10, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Submit your data, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R08-OW-
2015-0415, by one of the following methods:
     http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 
instructions for submitting data.
     Email: bunch.william@epa.gov.
     Fax: (303) 312-7206 (please alert the individual listed in 
the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT if you are faxing data).

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     Mail: William Bunch, Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA), Region 8, Mail Code 8EPR-EP, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, 
Colorado 80202-1129.
     Hand Delivery: William Bunch, Environmental Protection 
Agency (EPA), Region 8, Mail Code 8EPR-EP, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, 
Colorado 80202-1129. Such deliveries are only accepted Monday through 
Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding federal holidays. Special 
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
    Instructions: Direct your data to Docket ID No. EPA-R08-OW-2015-
0415. EPA's policy is that all data received will be included in the 
public docket without change and may be made available online at 
www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided, 
unless the data includes information claimed to be Confidential 
Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is 
restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you consider to 
be CBI or otherwise protected through www.regulations.gov or email. The 
www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' system, which 
means EPA will not know your identity or contact information unless you 
provide it along with your data. If you email data directly to EPA, 
without going through www.regulations.gov your email address will be 
automatically captured and included as part of the data that is placed 
in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you submit 
electronic data, EPA recommends that you include your name and other 
contact information along with your data and with any disk or CD-ROM 
you submit. If EPA cannot read your data due to technical difficulties 
and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA may not be able to 
consider your data. Electronic files should avoid the use of special 
characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any defects or 
viruses. For additional information about EPA's public docket visit the 
EPA Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 
For additional instructions on submitting data, go to section I, 
General Information, of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this 
document.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the 
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some 
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information 
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such 
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. 
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically 
in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Ecosystems Protection 
Program, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 8, 1595 Wynkoop 
Street, Denver, Colorado 80202-1129. EPA requests that if at all 
possible, you contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section to view the hard copy of the docket. You 
may view the hard copy of the docket Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. 
to 4:00 p.m., excluding federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William Bunch, Environmental 
Protection Agency (EPA), Region 8, Mail Code 8EPR-EP, 1595 Wynkoop 
Street, Denver, Colorado 80202-1129, (303) 312-6412, 
bunch.william@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information

What should I consider as I prepare my data for EPA?

    1. Submitting Confidential Business Information (CBI). Do not 
submit CBI to EPA through http://www.regulations.gov or email. Clearly 
mark the part or all of the information that you claim to be CBI. For 
CBI information on a disk or CD ROM that you mail to EPA, mark the 
outside of the disk or CD ROM as CBI and then identify electronically 
within the disk or CD ROM the specific information that is claimed as 
CBI. In addition to one complete version of the data that includes 
information claimed as CBI, a copy of the data that does not contain 
the information claimed as CBI must be submitted for inclusion in the 
public docket. Information so marked will not be disclosed except in 
accordance with procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2.
    2. Tips for preparing your data. When submitting data, remember to:
     Identify the notice by docket number and other identifying 
information (subject heading, Federal Register, date, and page number);
     Follow directions and organize your data;
     Describe any assumptions and provide any technical 
information and/or QA/QC that you used;
     Make sure to submit your data by the deadline identified

    Dated: July 13, 2015.
Martin Hestmark,
Assistant Regional Administrator, Region 8.
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