Document ID: EPA_FRDOC_0001-27888
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Maine Department of Health and Human Services, Drinking Water Program; Approval
Posted Date: 2022-02-11T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 29 (Friday, February 11, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8012-8013]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-02986]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-9393-01-OMS]

Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision 
Approval, Maine Department of Health and Human Services--Drinking Water 
Program (ME DHHS-DWP)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the Environmental Protection Agency's 
(EPA) approval of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services--
Drinking Water Program (ME DHHS-DWP) request to revise/modify certain 
of its EPA-authorized programs to allow electronic reporting.

DATES: EPA approves the authorized program revisions/modifications as 
of February 11, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shirley M. Miller, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, Office of Information Management, Mail Stop 2824T, 
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460, (202) 566-2908, 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 13, 2005, the final Cross-Media 
Electronic Reporting Rule (CROMERR) was published in the Federal 
Register (70 FR 59848) and codified as part 3 of title 40 of the CFR. 
CROMERR establishes electronic reporting as an acceptable regulatory 
alternative to paper reporting and establishes requirements to assure 
that electronic documents are as legally dependable as their paper 
counterparts. Subpart D of CROMERR requires that state, tribal or local 
government agencies that receive, or wish to begin receiving, 
electronic reports under their EPA-authorized programs must apply to 
EPA for a revision or modification of those programs and obtain EPA 
approval. Subpart D provides standards for such approvals based on 
consideration of the electronic document receiving systems that the 
state, tribe, or local government will use to implement the electronic 
reporting. Additionally, Sec.  3.1000(b) through (e) of 40 CFR part 3, 
subpart D provides special procedures for program revisions and 
modifications to allow electronic reporting, to be used at the option 
of the state, tribe or local government in place of procedures 
available under existing program-specific authorization regulations. An 
application submitted under the subpart D procedures must show that the 
state, tribe or local government has sufficient legal authority to 
implement the electronic reporting components of the programs covered 
by the application and will use electronic document receiving systems 
that meet the applicable subpart D requirements.
    On December 7, 2021, the Maine Department of Health and Human 
Services--Drinking Water Program (ME DHHS-DWP) submitted an application 
titled Compliance Monitoring Data Portal (CMDP) for revisions/
modifications to its EPA-approved programs under title 40 CFR to allow 
new electronic reporting. EPA reviewed ME DHHS-DWP's request to revise/
modify its EPA-authorized programs and, based on this review, EPA 
determined that the application met the standards for approval of 
authorized program revisions/modifications set out in 40 CFR part 3, 
subpart D. In accordance with 40 CFR 3.1000(d), this notice of EPA's 
decision to approve ME DHHS-DWP's request to revise/modify its 
following EPA-authorized programs to allow electronic reporting under 
40 CFR is being published in the Federal Register:

Part 142: National Primary Drinking Water Regulations Implementation 
(NPDWR) reporting under CFR 141

    ME DHHS-DWP was notified of EPA's determination to approve its 
application with respect to the authorized programs listed above. Also, 
in this notice, EPA is informing interested persons that they may 
request a public hearing on EPA's action to approve the State of 
Maine's request to revise its authorized public water system program 
under 40 CFR part 142, in accordance with 40 CFR 3.1000(f). Requests 
for a hearing must be submitted to EPA within 30 days of publication of 
this Federal Register notice. Such requests should include the 
following information:
    (1) The name, address, and telephone number of the individual, 
organization or other entity requesting a hearing;
    (2) A brief statement of the requesting person's interest in EPA's 
determination, a brief explanation as to why EPA should hold a hearing, 
and any other information that the requesting person wants EPA to

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consider when determining whether to grant the request;
    (3) The signature of the individual making the request, or, if the 
request is made on behalf of an organization or other entity, the 
signature of a responsible official of the organization or other 
entity.
    In the event a hearing is requested and granted, EPA will provide 
notice of the hearing in the Federal Register not less than 15 days 
prior to the scheduled hearing date. Frivolous or insubstantial 
requests for hearing may be denied by EPA. Following such a public 
hearing, EPA will review the record of the hearing and issue an order 
either affirming this determination or rescinding such determination. 
If no timely request for a hearing is received and granted, EPA's 
approval of the State of Maine's request to revise its part 142--
National Primary Drinking Water Regulations Implementation program to 
allow electronic reporting will become effective 30 days after this 
notice is published, pursuant to CROMERR section 3.1000(f)(4).

    Dated: February 4, 2022.
Jennifer Campbell,
Director, Office of Information Management.
[FR Doc. 2022-02986 Filed 2-10-22; 8:45 am]
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