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Ridge Reservation of the Oglala Sioux
Tribe located in Nebraska and any other
Indian country lands in Nebraska held
in trust by the United States for the
Oglala Sioux Tribe or its members.
The South Dakota draft permit covers
the above identified Indian country
except as provided below: Not including
the portion of the Standing Rock Sioux
Reservation located in South Dakota and
any other Indian country lands in South
Dakota held in trust by the United States
for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe or its
members, which are covered under the
North Dakota general permit
(NDG589###).
• Utah (UTG589###): Indian country,
as defined in 18 U.S.C. 1151, located in
Utah generally includes (1) lands within
the exterior boundaries of the following
Indian reservations located within Utah,
in part or in full: The Goshute
Reservation, the Navajo Indian
Reservation, the reservation lands of the
Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah (Cedar Band
of Paiutes, Kanosh Band of Paiutes,
Koosharem Band of Paiutes, Indian
Peaks Band of Paiutes, and Shivwits
Band of Paiutes), the Skull Valley
Indian Reservation, the Uintah and
Ouray Reservation (subject to federal
court decisions removing certain lands
from Indian country status within the
Uintah and Ouray Reservation), and the
Washakie Reservation; (2) any land held
in trust by the United States for an
Indian tribe; and (3) any other areas that
are ‘‘Indian country’’ within the
meaning of 18 U.S.C. 1151.
The Utah draft permit covers the
above identified Indian country except
as provided below: Not including any
Indian country lands in Utah held in
trust by the United States for the Ute
Mountain Ute Tribe or its members,
which are covered under the Colorado
general permit (COG587###). Not
including the portions of the Goshute
Reservation and the Navajo Indian
Reservation in Utah, or any other Indian
country lands in Utah held in trust by
the United States for the Navajo Nation
or its members or for the Confederated
Tribes of the Goshute Reservation or its
members, which are regulated by EPA
Region 9.
• Wyoming (WYG589###): Indian
country, as defined at 18 U.S.C. 1151,
located in Wyoming generally includes
any lands within the exterior
boundaries of the Wind River Indian
Reservation (subject to Wyoming v. EPA,
875 F.3d 505 (10th Cir. 2017), cert.
denied, 138 S. Ct. 2677 (2018)); any land
held in trust by the United States for an
Indian tribe; and any other areas that are
‘‘Indian country’’ within the meaning of
18 U.S.C. 1151.

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IV. Other Legal Requirements
A. Executive Order 12866: Regulatory
Planning and Review and Executive
Order 13563: Improving Regulation and
Regulatory Review
This action is not a significant
regulatory action and was therefore not
subject to submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
formal review.
B. Executive Order 12898: Federal
Actions To Address Environmental
Justice (EJ) in Minority Populations and
Low-Income Populations
Executive Order 12898 (59 FR 7629
(February 16, 1994)) establishes federal
executive policy on EJ. Its main
provision directs federal agencies, to the
greatest extent practicable and
permitted by law, to make EJ part of
their mission by identifying and
addressing, as appropriate,
disproportionately high and adverse
human health or environmental effects
of their programs, policies, and
activities on minority populations and
low-income populations in the United
States.
EPA conducted an EJ Analysis, which
is described in Section VII of the fact
sheet. EPA has preliminarily
determined that the draft permits will
not have disproportionately high and
adverse human health or environmental
effects on minority or low-income
populations based on the effluent limits
and reporting requirements contained
therein. EPA requests comment on this
preliminary determination and/or any
modifications EPA could make to the
proposed permits to address EJ
concerns.
Authority: CWA, 33 U.S.C. 1251, et
seq.
Dated: August 19, 2021.
Judy Bloom,
Manager, Clean Water Branch.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OW–2014–0359; FRL 8868–01–
OW]

Proposed Information Collection
Request Extension; Comment
Request; Information Request for the
Underground Injection Control
Program
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

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The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is planning to submit an
information collection request (ICR),
‘‘Information Collection Request for the
Underground Injection Control (UIC)
program’’ (EPA ICR No. 0370.27, OMB
Control No. 2040–0042) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)).
Before doing so, EPA is soliciting public
comments on specific aspects of the
proposed information collection as
described in the SUPPLEMENTAL
INFORMATION section of this document.
This is a proposed 3-year extension of
the ICR, which is currently approved
through April 30, 2022. 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: Comments must be submitted on
or before October 25, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OW–2014–0359 online using
www.regulations.gov (our preferred
method), by email to OW-Docket@
epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket
Center, Environmental Protection
Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC
20460.
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: Kyle
Carey, Drinking Water Protection
Division, Office of Groundwater and
Drinking Water, 4606M, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460;
telephone number: (202) 564–2322; fax
number: (202) 564–3756; 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 https://
www.regulations.gov. The EPA is
temporarily suspending its Docket
Center and Reading Room for public
visitors, with limited exceptions, 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, go to https://
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www.regulations.gov. For additional
information about EPA’s public docket,
visit http://www.epa.gov/dockets.
Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of
the PRA, EPA is soliciting comments
and information to enable it to: (i)
Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the Agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (ii) evaluate the
accuracy of the Agency’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(iii) enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (iv) minimize the burden
of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses. EPA will consider the
comments received and amend the ICR
as appropriate. The final ICR extension
request package will then be submitted
to OMB for review and approval. At that
time, EPA will issue another Federal
Register notice to announce the
submission of the ICR extension request
package to OMB and the opportunity to
submit additional comments to OMB.
Abstract: EPA developed the
Underground Injection Control (UIC)
Program under the authority of the Safe
Drinking Water Act to establish a
federal-state regulatory system to protect
underground sources of drinking water
(USDWs) from injection fluids and
injection-related activities. Injected
fluids include hazardous waste, oil field
brines or produced water, mineral
processing fluids, various types of
industrial fluids, automotive, sanitary,
and other wastes, and carbon dioxide
injected for geologic sequestration.
Owners or operators of injection wells
must obtain permits, conduct
environmental monitoring, maintain
records, and report results to the EPA or
the state agency (if the state has UIC
primary enforcement responsibility
(primacy)). States must report to the
EPA on permittee compliance and
related information. This mandatory
information is reported using
standardized forms and annual reports.
The governing regulations are codified
in the Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR) at 40 CFR parts 144 through 148.
Reporting data are used by UIC
authorities to ensure the protection of
USDWs.
Form Numbers: 7520–1, 7520–2A,
7520–28. 7520–3, 7520–4, 7520–6,

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7520–7, 7520–8, 7520–9, 7520–10,
7520–11, 7520–12, 7520–14, 7520–16,
and 7520–17.
Respondents/affected entities:
Owners or operators of underground
injection wells and state UIC primacy
agencies.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory (40 CFR parts 140 through
148).
Estimated number of respondents:
35,385 (total).
Frequency of response: Annual, semiannual, and quarterly.
Total estimated burden: 1,617,274
hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5
CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $319,605,059
(per year), includes $243,531,752
annualized capital or operation and
maintenance costs.
Changes in estimates: Changes and
developments in many aspects of the
UIC program during the previous ICR
period directly impact the estimates
used in this ICR extension. For example,
variations in permitting and closures
across well classes and well inventory,
revisions to UIC primacy programs,
efforts to streamline the permit
application process, alterations to state
and operator reporting systems and
other factors all cause variations in the
ICR estimates. For the UIC ICR
extension there is an increase of 325,014
hours in the total estimated respondent
burden compared with the ICR currently
approved by OMB. This increase is due
to changes in the injection well
inventory and adjustments to the
number of permit applications
(particularly for Class VI wells) that are
expected to be prepared and reviewed.
Jennifer L. McLain,
Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking
Water.
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Public Water System Supervision
Program Revision for the State of
Arizona
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of tentative approval.
AGENCY:

Notice is hereby given that
the State of Arizona (State) revised its
Public Water System Supervision
(PWSS) Program under the federal Safe
Drinking Water Act (SDWA) by
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federal Stage 1 and Stage 2 Disinfectants
and Disinfection Byproducts Rules
(DBPRs). The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) has determined that the
State’s revisions are no less stringent
than the corresponding Federal
regulations and otherwise meet
applicable SDWA primacy
requirements. Therefore, EPA intends to
approve the stated revisions as part of
the State’s PWSS Program.
DATES: A request for a public hearing
must be received on or before
September 24, 2021.
ADDRESSES: All documents relating to
this determination are available for
inspection online at http://azdeq.gov/
notices. In addition, documents relating
to this determination are available for
inspection by appointment between the
hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except official
State or Federal holidays at the
following address: Arizona Department
of Environmental Quality, Records
Center, 1110 West Washington Street,
Phoenix, AZ 85007. Please contact the
ADEQ Records Center at (602) 771–4380
or http://azdeq.gov/node/219 to
schedule an appointment.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Daria Evans-Walker, United States
Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 9, Drinking Water Section via
telephone number: (415) 972–3451 or
email address: evans-walker.daria@
epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background. EPA approved the
State’s initial application for PWSS
Program primary enforcement authority
(‘‘primacy’’) on August 25, 1978 (43 FR
38083). Since initial approval, EPA has
approved various revisions to Arizona’s
PWSS Program. For the revisions
covered by this action, the EPA
promulgated the Stage 1 DBP Rule on
December 16, 1998 (63 FR 69390–
69476) with revisions to the Stage 1 DBP
Rule on January 16, 2001 (66 FR 3770–
3780). EPA promulgated the Stage 2
DBP Rule on January 2, 2006 (71 FR
388–493) and published Stage 2 DBP
Rule corrections on January 27, 2006 (71
FR 4644), June 29, 2006 (71 FR 37168)
and November 14, 2008 (73 FR 67456–
67463). The EPA promulgated the Stage
1 and Stage 2 DBPRs to reduce drinking
water exposure to disinfection
byproducts by setting standards for
additional disinfection byproducts,
establishing maximum residual
disinfectant levels for chemical
disinfectants, and tightening
compliance monitoring requirements.
EPA has determined that the Stage 1
and Stage 2 DBPRs were incorporated
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