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docket@epa.gov, 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 oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.
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:
Robert Burchard, Stratospheric Program
Division, 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:
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, 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 developed regulations
under the Clean Air Act Amendments of
1990 (CAA) regarding the use and
disposal of class I and class II ozonedepleting substances used as
refrigerants during the service,
maintenance, repair, or disposal of
refrigeration and air-conditioning
equipment. Section 608(c) of the CAA
states that it is unlawful for any person
in the course of maintaining, servicing,
repairing, or disposing of refrigeration
or air-conditioning equipment to
knowingly vent or otherwise knowingly
release or dispose of a class I or class II
substance used as a refrigerant in the
equipment in a manner which permits
the substance to enter the environment.
In 1993, EPA promulgated regulations
under section 608 of the CAA for the
recycling of ozone-depleting refrigerants
recovered during servicing and disposal
of air-conditioning and refrigeration
equipment (40 CFR part 82). The
regulations require persons servicing
refrigeration and air-conditioning
equipment to observe service practices
that reduce emissions of ozone
depleting refrigerants. The regulations
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also establish certification programs for
technicians, recycling and recovery
equipment, and off-site refrigerant
reclaimers. In addition, EPA requires
that ozone depleting refrigerants
contained ‘‘in bulk’’ in appliances be
removed prior to disposal of the
appliances, and that all refrigeration and
air-conditioning equipment (except for
small appliances and room air
conditioners) be provided with a
servicing aperture that facilitates
recovery of the refrigerant. Moreover,
the Agency requires that substantial
refrigerant leaks in equipment be
repaired when discovered. These
regulations significantly reduce
emissions of ozone depleting
refrigerants and therefore aid efforts to
minimize damage to the ozone layer.
To facilitate compliance with section
608, EPA requires reporting and record
keeping for technicians; technician
certification programs; equipment
testing organizations; refrigerant
wholesalers and purchasers; refrigerant
reclaimers; refrigeration and airconditioning equipment owners; and
other establishments that perform
refrigerant removal, service, or disposal.
These reporting and recordkeeping
requirements help EPA evaluate the
effectiveness of refrigerant regulations
and reduce emissions of ozonedepleting substances.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Entities
that recover, recycle, reclaim, sell or
distribute in interstate commerce ozonedepleting refrigerants that contain
chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) or
hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs);
those that service, maintain, repair, or
dispose of appliances containing CFC or
HCFC refrigerants; and those that own
or operate appliances containing more
than 50 pounds of CFC or HCFC
refrigerants.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory.
Estimated number of respondents:
883,680.
Frequency of response: Primarily
annually, with the exception of
technician testing organizations that are
required to report biannually.
Total estimated burden: 320,537
hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5
CFR 1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $14,202,991,
which includes no capital or O&M costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a
slight increase in the average annual
burden hours currently identified in the
current OMB Inventory of Approved
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ICR Burdens due to a change in the
estimates.
Courtney Kerwin,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies
Division.
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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–ORD–2013–0448; FRL–9917–71–
OEI]
Information Collection Request
Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request;
Willingness To Pay Survey for Salmon
Recovery in the Willamette Watershed
(New)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency has submitted an information
collection request (ICR), ‘‘Willingness to
Pay Survey for Salmon Recovery in the
Willamette Watershed (New)’’ (EPA ICR
No. 2489.01, OMB Control No. 2080–
NEW) 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 request for approval of a new
collection. Public comments were
previously requested via the Federal
Register (78 FR 39282) on July 1, 2013
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 1,
2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID Number EPA–
HQ–ORD–2013–0448, to (1) EPA online
using www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by email to
ord.docket@epa.gov 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 oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.
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
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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: Dr.
Michael Papenfus, Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of Research &
Development, Western Ecology
Division, 200 SW 35th St., Corvallis,
Oregon 97333; email address:
papenfus.michael@epa.gov.
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,
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: The USEPA Office of
Research and Development is
investigating public values for options
of salmon recovery in the Willamette
Watershed in western Oregon. These
values will be estimated via a
willingness to pay mail survey
instrument. Two anadromous fish
species in the Willamette watershed are
federally listed as threatened species;
Spring Chinook, and Winter steelhead.
The survey focuses on two attributes of
recovery for these fish: The recovery
status; and the time to recovery. A
choice experiment framework is used
with statistically designed tradeoff
questions, where recovery options are
posed as increases in a yearly household
tax. The choice experiment is designed
to allow independent isolation of the
value of recovery and of time to
recovery. A few additional questions to
further understand the motivations for
respondent choices, their river-related
recreation behavior, and their attitudes
towards wild origin versus hatchery
origin fish are also included. Limited
sociodemographic questions are
included to gauge how well the sample
respondents represent the target
population. The survey will be fielded
to Oregon residents.
Form Numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities:
Individuals.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Voluntary.
Estimated number of respondents:
1,000 (total).
Frequency of response: Once.
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Total estimated burden: 500 hours
(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $8,620 (per
year), includes $0 annualized capital or
operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the Estimates: This is a
new collection.
Courtney Kerwin,
Acting Director, Collection Strategies
Division.
[FR Doc. 2014–25752 Filed 10–29–14; 8:45 am]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL–9918–66–OEI]
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting:
Authorized Program Revision
Approval, State of Indiana
Environmental Protection
Agency.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This notice announces the
Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA’s) approval of the State of
Indiana’s request to revise its National
Primary Drinking Water Regulations
Implementation EPA-authorized
program to allow electronic reporting.
DATES: EPA’s approval is effective
October 30, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Karen Seeh, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of
Environmental Information, Mail Stop
2823T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20460, (202) 566–1175,
seeh.karen@epa.gov.
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, § 3.1000(b)
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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 programspecific 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 June 13, 2014, the Indiana
Department of Environmental
Management (IDEM) submitted an
application titled ‘‘Indiana Electronic
Sample Entry Verify (eSE) System’’ for
revision of its EPA-authorized Part 142
program under title 40 CFR. EPA
reviewed IDEM’s request to revise its
EPA-authorized program and, based on
this review, EPA determined that the
application met the standards for
approval of authorized program revision
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
Indiana’s request to revise its Part 142—
National Primary Drinking Water
Regulations Implementation program to
allow electronic reporting under 40 CFR
part 141 is being published in the
Federal Register. IDEM was notified of
EPA’s determination to approve its
application with respect to the
authorized program listed above.
Dated: October 9, 2014.
Matthew Leopard,
Acting Director, Office of Information
Collection.
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COMMISSION
[CG Docket No. 13–318; DA 14–1487]
Notice of Electronic Filing Procedures
for Closed Captioning Exemption
Requests for Video Programming
Delivered Using Internet Protocol (IP)
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In this document, the
Commission announces electronic filing
procedures for petitions for exemption
from the Commission’s closed
captioning requirements for video
programming delivered using Internet
SUMMARY:
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