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Total estimated burden: 14 hours (per
year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $1,038 (per
year), includes $0 annualized capital or
operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the estimates: There is no
increase in hours in the total estimated
respondent burden compared with the
ICR currently approved by OMB.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL–9955–63-Region 9]

Notice of Approval of Clean Air Act
Prevention of Significant Deterioration
Permit for Ocotillo Power Plant
United States Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of final agency action.
AGENCY:

This notice announces that
the Maricopa County Air Quality
Department (MCAQD) issued a final
permit decision to Arizona Public
Service (APS) for a major modification
of a Clean Air Act Prevention of
Significant Deterioration (PSD) permit
(Permit No. PSD16–01). The PSD permit
decision authorizes a major
modification at the Ocotillo Power
Plant, located in Tempe, Arizona,
primarily for the purposes of
constructing five simple cycle natural
gas-fired combustion turbines, including
ancillary equipment. The MCAQD is
authorized to issue PSD permit
decisions pursuant to a delegation
agreement with the EPA, in which the
MCAQD ‘‘stands in the shoes’’ of the
EPA when administering certain
elements of the PSD permitting
program. This MCAQD-issued PSD
permit decision is considered to be a
federally-issued PSD permit decision,
and serves as a final agency action by
the EPA.
DATES: The MCAQD issued a final PSD
permit decision for the Ocotillo Power
Plant on September 9, 2016. The permit
became effective on that date. Pursuant
to section 307(b)(1) of the Clean Air Act,
42 U.S.C. 7607(b)(1), judicial review of
this final permit decision, to the extent
it is available, may be sought by filing
a petition for review in the United
States Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit within 60 days of November 28,
2016.
ADDRESSES: Documents relevant to the
above-referenced permit are available

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for public inspection during normal
business hours at the following
addresses:
(1) Maricopa County Air Quality
Department, 1001 North Central
Avenue, Suite 124, Phoenix, Arizona
85004. To arrange for viewing of these
documents, please call (602) 506–6010
or visit online at http://
www.maricopa.gov/aq/contact_us/
public_records/Default.aspx.
(2) U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, Region 9, 75 Hawthorne Street,
San Francisco, California 94105–3901.
To arrange for viewing of these
documents, call Eugene Chen at (415)
947–4304, [email protected]. Due to
building security procedures, at least 48
hours advance notice is required.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Eugene Chen, EPA Region 9, (415) 947–
4304, [email protected]. Anyone
who wishes to review the EPA
Environmental Appeals Board’s (EAB)
decision described below or documents
in the EAB’s electronic docket for its
decision can obtain them at http://
www.epa.gov/eab/.
NOTICE OF FINAL ACTION AND
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The
MCAQD issued a final PSD permit to
APS on March 22, 2016, authorizing a
major modification to the Ocotillo
Power Plant. EPA regulations at 40 CFR
124.19 provided an opportunity for
administrative review by the EPA’s EAB
of this initial permit decision.
The EPA’s EAB received one petition
for review of the permit, and on
September 1, 2016, the EAB issued an
Order denying the petition for review.
See In re Arizona Public Service
Company Ocotillo Power Plant, PSD
Appeal No. 16–01 (EAB, September 1,
2016) (Order Denying Review).
Following the EAB’s action, pursuant to
40 CFR 52.21(u) and the MCAQD’s PSD
delegation agreement with the EPA, the
MCAQD issued a final permit decision
on September 9, 2016. All conditions of
PSD Permit No. PSD16–01, as initially
issued by the MCAQD on March 22,
2016, were final and effective as of
September 9, 2016.

Dated: November 3, 2016.
Elizabeth Adams,
Acting Director, Air Division, Region IX.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OPP–2016–0078; FRL–9955–34–
OEI]

Information Collection Request
Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request;
Pesticide Environmental Stewardship
Program Annual Measures Reporting
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Environmental Protection
Agency has submitted an information
collection request (ICR), ‘‘Pesticide
Environmental Stewardship Program
Annual Measures Reporting’’ (EPA ICR
No. 2415.03, OMB Control No. 2070–
0188) 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
November 30, 2016. Public comments
were previously requested via the
Federal Register (81 FR 15105) on
March 21, 2016 during a 60-day
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 December 28,
2016.
SUMMARY:

Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID Number EPA–
HQ–OPP–2016–0078, to (1) EPA online
using www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by email to OPP_
[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: Lily
G. Negash, Office of Pesticide Programs,
ADDRESSES:

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Field & External Affairs Division, 7605P,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington,
DC 20460; telephone number: 703–347–
8515; email address: negash.lily@
epa.gov.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Supporting documents which explain in
detail the information that 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 EPA Docket Center, WJC
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 is requesting renewed
approval to offer voluntary participation
in the Pesticide Environmental
Stewardship Program (PESP). The
program uses the information collected
to establish partner membership,
develop stewardship strategies, measure
progress towards stewardship goals, and
award incentives. PESP is an EPA
partnership program that encourages the
use of integrated pest management
(IPM) strategies to reduce pests and
pesticide risks. IPM is an approach that
involves making the best choices from
among a series of pest management
practices that are both economical and
pose the least possible hazard to people,
property, and the environment.
While most PESP members are
entities that are pesticide end-users,
several others are organizations which
focus on training, educating, or
influencing pesticide users. To become
a PESP member, a pesticide user entity
or an organization submits an
application and a five-year strategy. The
strategy outlines how environmental
and human health risk reduction goals
will be achieved through IPM
implementation or education. The
program encourages PESP members to
track progress towards IPM goals such
as: Reductions in unnecessary use of
pesticides, cost reductions, and
knowledge shared about IPM
methodologies. Entities participating in
PESP also benefit from technical
assistance, and through incentives for
achievements at different levels.
PESP is EPA’s non-regulatory
approach to meeting the goals of the
Pollution Prevention Act (PPA), the
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), and the Food
Quality Protection Act (FQPA) to reduce
pesticide risks in agricultural and nonagricultural settings. Section 2(b) of the
PPA of 1990, 42 U.S.C. 13101(b), sets
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States that pollution should be
prevented or reduced at the source
whenever feasible.’’ Section 3 defines
source reduction as any practice that
‘‘reduces the amount of any hazardous
substance . . . released into the
environment’’ and ‘‘reduces the hazards
to public health and the environment
associated with the release of such
substances.’’
Section 3 of FIFRA requires EPA to
regulate pesticides to prevent
‘‘unreasonable adverse effects’’ on
human health and the environment.
Further, FQPA of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 136r–
1) requires the U.S. Department of
Agriculture and EPA to implement
programs in research, demonstration,
and education to support the adoption
of IPM, make information on IPM
widely available to pesticide users, use
IPM techniques in carrying out pest
management activities, as well as
promote IPM through procurement,
regulatory policies and other activities.
Form Numbers: Strategy/Progress
Reporting Form for PESP Members that
are Not Commercial/Residential Pest
Control Services (EPA Form No. 9600–
01); PESP Membership Application
Form (EPA Form 9600–02); and PESP
Strategy/Progress Reporting Form for
Residential/Commercial Pest Control
Service Providers (EPA Form No. 9600–
03).
Respondents/affected entities: Entities
potentially affected by this ICR are
pesticide user companies and
organizations, or entities that practice
IPM or promote the use of IPM through
education and training.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Voluntary, required to obtain or retain a
benefit.
Estimated number of respondents:
419 (total).
Frequency of response: Annually and
on occasion.
Total estimated burden: 47,665 hours
(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $3,126,949 (per
year), includes $0 annualized capital or
operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the estimates: There is an
increase of 4,642 hours in the total
estimated respondent burden compared
with the ICR currently approved by
OMB. This increase is an adjustment of
EPA’s projection based on historical
information about PESP membership.
Courtney Kerwin,
Director, Regulatory Support Division.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL–9955–68–ORD]

Office of Research and Development;
Ambient Air Monitoring Reference and
Equivalent Methods: Designation of
One New Equivalent Method
Environmental Protection
Agency(EPA).
ACTION: Notice of the designation of a
new equivalent method for monitoring
ambient air quality.
AGENCY:

Notice is hereby given that
the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) has designated, in accordance
with 40 CFR part 53, one new
equivalent method for measuring
concentrations of nitrogen dioxide
(NO2) in ambient air.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robert Vanderpool, Exposure Methods
and Measurement Division (MD–D205–
03), National Exposure Research
Laboratory, U.S. EPA, Research Triangle
Park, North Carolina 27711. Email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with regulations at 40 CFR
part 53, the EPA evaluates various
methods for monitoring the
concentrations of those ambient air
pollutants for which EPA has
established National Ambient Air
Quality Standards (NAAQSs) as set
forth in 40 CFR part 50. Monitoring
methods that are determined to meet
specific requirements for adequacy are
designated by the EPA as either
reference or equivalent methods (as
applicable), thereby permitting their use
under 40 CFR part 58 by States and
other agencies for determining
compliance with the NAAQSs. A list of
all reference or equivalent methods that
have been previously designated by EPA
may be found at http://www.epa.gov/
ttn/amtic/criteria.html.
The EPA hereby announces the
designation of one new equivalent
method for measuring concentrations of
NO2 in ambient air. This designation is
made under the provisions of 40 CFR
part 53, as amended on October 26,
2015 (80 FR 65291–65468).
The new equivalent method for NO2
is an automated method (analyzer)
utilizing the measurement principle
based on gas phase chemiluminescence
reaction of nitric oxide (NO) with ozone,
using a photolytic NO2 to NO converter
and the calibration procedure specified
in the operation manual. This newly
designated equivalent method is
identified as follows:
SUMMARY:

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