Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2015-0272-0003
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Pending Suspension and Revocation of 15 Programs from EPA's List of Section 608 Technician Certifying Programs and Voluntary Withdrawals for 3 Programs
Posted Date: 2015-12-02T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 231 (Wednesday, December 2, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75456-75457]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-30374]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2015-0272; FRL-9939-42-OAR]

Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Notice of Pending Suspension 
and Revocation of 15 Programs From EPA's List of Section 608 Technician 
Certifying Programs and Voluntary Withdrawals for 3 Programs

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of pending suspension and revocations and voluntary 
withdrawals.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is updating its list 
of Section 608 Technician Certification Programs approved to provide 
the technician certification exam. EPA's list is found here: http://www.epa.gov/ozone/title6/608/technicians/608certs.html.

DATES: On January 4, 2016 each program in the below Table: Delinquent 
Technician Certification Programs will be automatically suspended from 
their authorization to provide the technician certification exam and 
newly issue certification cards, except for any organization that 
provides its delinquent biannual reports such that they are received 
before that date. Each such suspended program will be automatically 
revoked on February 1, 2016, unless a hearing is requested consistent 
with 40 CFR 82.169 before that date. Please send a copy of any hearing 
request to the person listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT 
section below. Technicians certified by these programs will remain 
certified, in accordance with 40 CFR 82.161(a).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Burchard, Stratospheric 
Protection Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs (6205T), 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number (202) 343-9126; fax number: 
(202) 343-2338; email address: burchard.robert@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information

How can I get copies of this document and other related information?

    Docket. EPA has established a docket for this action under Docket 
ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2015-0272. Publicly available docket materials are 
available either electronically through www.regulations.gov or in hard 
copy at the Air Docket, EPA/DC, WJC West Building, Room 3334, 1301 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington DC. This Docket Facility is open 
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal 
holidays. The Docket telephone number is (202) 566-1742.
    Electronic Access. You may access this Federal Register document 
electronically from the Government Printing Office under the ``Federal 
Register'' listings at the FDSys Web site (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=FR).

II. Pending Suspensions and Revocations and Voluntary Withdrawals

    In accordance with the standards for certifying programs, codified 
at appendix D of 40 CFR part 82, subpart F, technician certifying 
programs must submit an activity report to EPA on a biannual basis (by 
every January 30 and June 30) that provides certain information about 
the certification tests submitted. 15 programs have repeatedly failed 
to submit their activity reports.
    40 CFR 82.161(e) says that ``If at any time an approved program 
violates any of the above requirements,'' which reference the standards 
in appendix D in 82.161(c), ``the Administrator reserves the right to 
revoke approval in accordance with Section 82.169.'' Today's notice 
concerns the revocation of the approval of 15 programs.
    These 15 programs were sent certified letters explaining that EPA 
was missing required activity reports and listing which reports were 
missing. In the letters, the programs were offered the opportunity to 
come into compliance by submitting missing reports.\1\ The Agency 
received no replies. The programs in the table below have thirty days 
from the date of publication of this notice to submit their missing 
reports. Failure to submit these reports so that they are received by 
January 4, 2016 will result in an automatic suspension of the program's 
approval to offer the technician certification exam and of its approval 
to newly issue Section 608 technician certification cards. Automatic 
program revocation will occur on February 1, 2016 for any certifying 
organization that fails to provide missing reports, unless the 
organization receiving this notice of impending suspension and 
revocation requests a hearing in accordance with the regulations 
published at 40 CFR 82.169 before that date. The EPA expects to 
announce the final revocations in a separate Federal Register notice 
and to accordingly update the list of approved technician certification 
programs mentioned above.
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    \1\ Some of these organizations also received notice in these 
letters of impending suspensions and revocations, but because some 
of these letters were returned to us unopened, we are providing a 
second notice in this Federal Register notice.

           Table--Delinquent Technician Certification Programs
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                                      Technician         Year of most
             Number                  certification      recent activity
                                        program             report
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1...............................  ACI Environmental   2009.
                                   Safety Training
                                   Institute.
2...............................  California Career   No record of a
                                   Center.             submitted report.
3...............................  Delaware County     2011.
                                   Community College.

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4...............................  Delaware Skills     2013.
                                   Center Building
                                   Maintenance.
5...............................  Delaware Technical  2009.
                                   & Community
                                   College.
6...............................  Educational         2012.
                                   Services.
7...............................  HVAC/R Training,    2010.
                                   Inc.
8...............................  InSolution........  No record of a
                                                       submitted report.
9...............................  Kellogg Community   2011.
                                   College.
10..............................  Niagara County      2010.
                                   Community College.
11..............................  Nugent Associates.  2011.
12..............................  San Diego City      2010.
                                   College.
13..............................  Southern Technical  2012.
                                   College.
14..............................  Unified             No record of a
                                   Industries, Inc.    submitted report.
15..............................  Vatterott College.  2011.
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    Additionally, the following 608 Technician Certification Programs 
voluntarily withdrew their certification and will be removed from the 
Agency's list of Section 608 Certified Programs: Air-Conditioning & 
Refrigeration Institute (ARI); CDTA, Inc.; and Motorcoach Training 
Specialist. Technicians certified by these programs remain certified, 
in accordance with 40 CFR 82.161(a). Requests for replacement cards 
should be sent to: spdcomments@epa.gov.

Drusilla Hufford,
Director, Stratospheric Protection Division.
[FR Doc. 2015-30374 Filed 12-1-15; 8:45 am]
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