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Docket Center is 202–566–1744. For
additional information about EPA’s
public docket, visit: http://
www.epa.gov/dockets.
Abstract: The affected entities are
subject to the General Provisions of the
NESHAP at 40 CFR part 63, subpart A,
and any changes, or additions to the
General Provisions specified at 40 CFR
part 63, subpart R.
Owners or operators of the affected
facilities must submit initial notification
reports, performance tests, and periodic
reports and results. Owners or operators
are also required to maintain records of
the occurrence and duration of any
startup, shutdown, or malfunction in
the operation of an affected facility, or
any period during which the monitoring
system is inoperative. Reports are
required semiannually at a minimum.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities:
Owners or operators of gasoline
distribution facilities that transfer and
store gasoline, including pipeline
breakout stations and bulk terminals.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, subpart R).
Estimated number of respondents:
492 (total).
Frequency of response: Initially and
semiannually.
Total estimated burden: 15,823 hours
(per year). ‘‘Burden’’ is defined at 5 CFR
1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: $1,904,020 (per
year), includes $357,000 annualized
capital or operation & maintenance
costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is an
adjustment increase in the respondent
burden in this ICR compared to the
previous ICR. The increase occurred due
to an increase in the total estimated
number of area sources, 25 percent of
which are within the 50 percent major
source threshold criteria and are
affected by this standard. This ICR uses
updated estimates to more accurately
reflect the respondent universe, and to
be consistent with EPA ICR Number
2237.03. This ICR also uses updated
labor rates from the Bureau of Labor
Statistics to calculate burden costs.
John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2013–20457 Filed 8–21–13; 8:45 am]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OAR–2006–0745; FRL 9535–3]

Information Collection Request
Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request;
Reformulated Gasoline Commingling
Provisions (Renewal)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Environmental Protection
Agency has submitted an information
collection request (ICR), Reformulated
Gasoline Commingling Provisions
(Renewal) (EPA ICR No. 2228.04, OMB
Control No. 2060–0587), to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.). This is a proposed
extension of the ICR, which is currently
approved through August 31, 2013.
Public comments were previously
requested via the Federal Register (78
FR 20102) on April 3, 2013 during a 60day comment period. This notice allows
for an additional 30 days for public
comments. A fuller description of the
ICR is given below, including its
estimated burden and cost to the public.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor
and a person is not required to respond
to a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before September 23,
2013.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID Number EPA–
HQ–OAR–2006–0745, to (1) EPA online
using www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by email to [email protected], or by mail to: EPA
Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via
email to [email protected].
Address comments to OMB Desk Officer
for EPA.
EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public
docket without change including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes profanity, threats,
information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Geanetta Heard, Fuel Compliance
Center, 6406J, Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.,
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Washington, DC 20460; telephone
number: 202–343–9017 fax number:
202–566–1744 email address:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Supporting documents, which explain
in detail the information that the EPA
will be collecting, are available in the
public docket for this ICR. The docket
can be viewed online at
www.regulations.gov or in person at the
EPA Docket Center, William Jefferson
Clinton Federal Building West, Room
3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC. The telephone number
for the Docket Center is 202–566–1744.
For additional information about EPA’s
public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/
dockets.
Abstract: EPA would like to continue
collecting notifications from gasoline
retailers and wholesale purchaserconsumer related to commingling of
ethanol blended and non-ethanol
blended reformulated gasoline. The test
results will allow EPA to monitor
compliance with the Reformulated
Gasoline Commingling Provisions. We
inform respondents that they may assert
claims of business confidentiality (CBI)
for information they submit in
accordance with 40 CFR part 2.203.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities:
Gasoline stations, Gasoline stations with
convenience stores, Gasoline stations
without convenience stores.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory under the Clean Air Act
(CAA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 7414 and 7542.
Estimated number of respondents:
43,050.
Frequency of response: Annually.
Total estimated burden: 21,013 hours
(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $357,221 (per
year), includes $0 annualized capital or
operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in Estimates: The change in
burden from the prior ICR is due in part
to better numbers extracted from
business and industry economic
statistics that assisted in calculating the
numbers of respondents. These better
numbers reduced the party size by
13,650 members. The number of
responses also declined from 110,700 to
84,050 a difference of 26,650 reports,
which reduced the industry burden
hours from 27,675 to 21,013. We also
found that the original cost per response
was overstated by a factor of 2. With the
decline of respondents, burden hours
and responses, and revision of the cost
per response, the cost associated with
this ICR is $357,221, a difference of

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Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 163 / Thursday, August 22, 2013 / Notices

$528,379, calculated from the prior
collection approved by OMB.
John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
[FR Doc. 2013–20458 Filed 8–21–13; 8:45 am]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OW–2009–0921; FRL–9810–4]

Final Aquatic Life Ambient Water
Quality Criteria For Ammonia—
Freshwater 2013
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of availability of final
criteria.
AGENCY:

Pursuant to section 304(a) of
the Clean Water Act (CWA), the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
is announcing the availability of final
national recommended ambient water
quality criteria for the protection of
aquatic life from effects of ammonia in
freshwater (EPA 822–R–13–001). The
final criteria incorporate the latest
scientific knowledge on the toxicity of
ammonia to freshwater aquatic life. On
December 30, 2009, EPA published draft
national recommended water quality
criteria for ammonia and provided the
public an opportunity to provide
scientific views. Aquatic life criteria are
developed based on EPA’s Guidelines
for Deriving Numerical National Water
Quality Criteria for the Protection of
Aquatic Organisms and Their Uses
(1985), (EPA/R–85–100). EPA’s
recommended section 304(a) water
quality criteria provide guidance to
States and authorized Tribes in adopting
water quality standards for protecting
aquatic life and human health. EPA’s
recommended water quality criteria by
themselves have no binding legal effect.
These national recommended criteria
for ammonia in freshwater are intended
to protect aquatic life and do not
address human health toxicity data. The
water quality criteria for ammonia for
the protection of saltwater organisms are
not being updated at this time. EPA’s
national recommended final acute
ambient water quality criteria (AWQC)
for protecting freshwater organisms
from potential effects of ammonia is 17
mg/L total ammonia nitrogen (TAN) and
the final chronic AWQC for ammonia is
1.9 mg/L TAN at pH 7.0 and
temperature 20 °C.
ADDRESSES: Scientific views received
from the public on the draft ammonia
criteria documents are available from
the EPA Docket Center and are

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identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OW–2009–0921. They may be accessed
online at:
• www.regulations.gov: Follow the
on-line instructions.
• Email: [email protected].
• Mail: US Environmental Protection
Agency; EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC)
Water Docket, MC 2822T; 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20460.
• On Site: EPA Docket Center, 1301
Constitution Ave. NW., EPA West,
Room 3334, Washington, DC. This
Docket Facility is open from 8:30 a.m.
until 4:30 p.m., EST, Monday through
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The
telephone number for the Public
Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and
the telephone number for the Office of
Water is (202) 566–2426.
For additional information about
EPA’s public docket visit the EPA
Docket Center homepage at http://
www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa
Huff, Health and Ecological Criteria
Division (4304T), U.S. EPA, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington,
DC 20460; (202) 566–0787; huff.lisa@
epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. What are water quality criteria?
Water quality criteria are either
narrative descriptions of water quality
or scientifically derived numeric values
that protect aquatic life or human health
from the deleterious effects of pollutants
in ambient water.
Section 304(a)(1) of the Clean Water
Act (CWA) requires EPA to develop and
publish and, from time to time, revise,
criteria for protection of water quality
and human health that accurately reflect
the latest scientific knowledge. Water
quality criteria developed under section
304(a) are based solely on data and
scientific judgments on the relationship
between pollutant concentrations and
environmental and human health
effects. Section 304(a) criteria do not
reflect consideration of economic
impacts or the technological feasibility
of meeting pollutant concentrations in
ambient water.
Section 304(a) criteria provide
guidance to States and authorized
Tribes in adopting water quality
standards that ultimately provide a basis
for assessing water body health and
controlling discharges or releases of
pollutants. Under the CWA and its
implementing regulations, States and
authorized Tribes are to adopt water
quality criteria to protect designated
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EPA’s recommended water quality
criteria do not substitute for the CWA or
regulations, nor are they regulations
themselves. Thus, EPA’s recommended
criteria do not impose legally binding
requirements. States and authorized
Tribes have the discretion to adopt,
where appropriate, other scientifically
defensible water quality criteria that
differ from these recommendations.
II. What is ammonia and why is EPA
concerned about it?
Ammonia is a constituent of nitrogen
pollution. Unlike other forms of
nitrogen, which can cause
eutrophication of a water body at
elevated concentrations, the primary
concern with ammonia is its direct toxic
effects on aquatic life, which are
exacerbated by elevated pH and
temperature. Ammonia is considered
one of the most important pollutants in
the aquatic environment not only
because of its highly toxic nature and
occurrence in surface water systems, but
also because many effluents have to be
treated in order to keep the
concentrations of ammonia in surface
waters from being unacceptably high.
Ammonia can enter the aquatic
environment via direct means such as
municipal effluent discharges and the
excretion of nitrogenous wastes from
animals, and indirect means such as
nitrogen fixation, air deposition, and
runoff from agricultural lands.
III. What are the 2013 ammonia criteria
recommendations?
EPA is today publishing final national
recommended ambient water quality
criteria for protecting freshwater aquatic
life for ammonia. These final criteria
updates are based on EPA’s Guidelines
for Deriving Numerical National Water
Quality Criteria for the Protection of
Aquatic Organisms and Their Uses
(1985), (EPA/R–85–100). These
Guidelines describe the Agency’s
current approach for deriving national
recommended water quality criteria to
protect aquatic life. The latest toxicity
data and other information on the
effects of ammonia on freshwater
aquatic life were obtained from reliable
sources and subjected to both internal
and external scientific peer review. The
national recommended water quality
criteria for ammonia in saltwater are not
being updated at this time.
The available data for ammonia,
evaluated in accordance with EPA’s
Guidelines for Deriving Numerical
National Water Quality Criteria for the
Protection of Aquatic Organisms and
Their Uses (1985), indicate that
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