Document ID: EPA-HQ-OW-2019-0675-0041
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Draft Ambient Water Quality Criteria Recommendations for Lakes and Reservoirs of the Conterminous United States: Information Supporting the Development of Numeric Nutrient Criteria
Posted Date: 2020-07-21T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 140 (Tuesday, July 21, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44071-44072]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-15702]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OW-2019-0675; FRL 10012-35-OW]

Extension of Public Comment Period: Draft Ambient Water Quality 
Criteria Recommendations for Lakes and Reservoirs of the Conterminous 
United States: Information Supporting the Development of Numeric 
Nutrient Criteria

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of availability; extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is 
extending the comment period for the Draft Ambient Water Quality 
Criteria Recommendations for Lakes and Reservoirs of the Conterminous 
United States: Information Supporting the Development of Numeric 
Nutrient Criteria, published in the Federal Register on May 22, 2020. 
In response to stakeholder requests, the comment period will be 
extended for an additional 30 days, from July 21, 2020 to August 20, 
2020.

DATES: The comment period for the notice of availability published May 
22, 2020 (85 FR 31184), is extended. The EPA must receive comments on 
or before August 20, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-
2019-0675, to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or withdrawn. 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://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
    Out of an abundance of caution for members of the public and our 
staff, the EPA Docket Center and Reading Room was closed to public 
visitors on March 31, 2020, 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 via https://regulations.gov, as there is a temporary 
suspension of mail delivery to the EPA, and no hand deliveries are 
currently accepted. For further information on the EPA Docket Center 
services and the current status, please visit us online at https://www.epa.gov/dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lester Yuan, Health and Ecological 
Criteria Division, Office of Water (Mail Code 4304T), Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460; 
telephone number: (202) 566-0908; email address: yuan.lester@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 22, 2020 (85 FR 31184), EPA announced 
the availability of the Draft Ambient Water Quality Criteria 
Recommendations for Lakes and Reservoirs of the Conterminous United 
States: Information Supporting the Development of Numeric Nutrient 
Criteria, and opened a 60-day public review and comment period to 
solicit scientific views, data, and information regarding the science 
and technical approach used in the derivation of these draft ambient 
water quality criteria recommendations for lakes and reservoirs.
    The original deadline to submit comments was July 21, 2020. This

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action extends the comment period for 30 days. Written comments must 
now be received by August 20, 2020. The draft methods and other 
supporting materials may also be viewed and downloaded from EPA's 
website at https://www.epa.gov/nutrient-policy-data/draft-ambient-water-quality-criteria-recommendations-lakes-and-reservoirs.

Deborah Nagle,
Director, Office of Science and Technology.
[FR Doc. 2020-15702 Filed 7-20-20; 8:45 am]
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