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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OECA-2008-0369; FRL-8925-4]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Clay Ceramics
Manufacturing (Renewal), EPA ICR Number 2023.04, OMB Control Number
2060-0513

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection
Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing
approved collection. The ICR, which is abstracted below, describes the
nature of the collection and the estimated burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before August 3,
2009.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number EPA-OECA-
2008-0369, to (1) EPA online using http://www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), or by e-mail to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>or by mail to:
EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), Environmental Protection Agency,
Enforcement and Compliance Docket and Information Center, mail code
28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2)
OMB at: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sounjay Gairola, Office of Enforcement
and Compliance Assurance, Mail Code 2242A, Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone
number:<PHONE_NUMBER>; e-mail address<EMAIL_ADDRESS>
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has submitted the following ICR to OMB
for review and approval according to the procedures prescribed in 5 CFR
1320.12. On May 30, 2008 (73 FR 31088), EPA sought comments on this ICR
pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.8(d). EPA received no comments. Any additional
comments on this ICR should be submitted to EPA and OMB within 30 days
of this notice.
    EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under docket ID
number EPA-HQ-OECA-2008-0369, which is available for public viewing
online at http://www.regulations.gov, in person viewing at the
Enforcement and Compliance Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC),
EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. The
EPA Docket Center Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone
number for the Reading Room is<PHONE_NUMBER>, and the telephone number
for the Enforcement and Compliance Docket is<PHONE_NUMBER>.
    Use EPA's electronic docket and comment system at http://
www.regulations.gov, to submit or view public comments, access the
index listing of the contents of the docket, and to access those
documents in the docket that are available electronically. Once in the
system, select ``docket search,'' then key in the docket ID number
identified above. Please note that EPA's policy is that public
comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made
available for public viewing at http://www.regulations.gov, as EPA
receives them and without change, unless the comment contains
copyrighted material, Confidential Business Information (CBI), or other
information whose public disclosure is restricted by statute. For
further information about the electronic docket, go to http://
www.regulations.gov.
    Title: NESHAP for Clay Ceramics Manufacturing (Renewal).
    ICR Numbers: EPA ICR Number 2023.04, OMB Control Number 2060-0513.
    ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on August 31, 2009.
Under OMB regulations, the Agency may continue to conduct or sponsor
the collection of information while this submission is pending at OMB.
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. The OMB control numbers for EPA's regulations
in title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal Register when
approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9, and displayed either by
publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such
as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The
display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is
consolidated in 40 CFR part 9.
    Abstract: The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants (NESHAP) for Clay Ceramics Manufacturing (40 CFR part 63,
subpart KKKKK) were proposed on July 22, 2002 (67 FR 47893) and
promulgated on May 16, 2003 (67 FR 26738).
    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 KKKKK.
    Owners or operators of the affected facilities must submit a one-
time-only report of any physical or operational changes, initial
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, at a minimum, are required semiannually.
    Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 17
hours per response. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial
resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or
disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This
includes the time needed to review instructions; develop, acquire,
install, and utilize technology and systems for the purposes of
collecting, validating, and verifying information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information;
adjust the existing ways to comply with any previously applicable
instructions and requirements which have subsequently changed; train
personnel to be able to respond to a collection of information; search
data sources; complete and review the collection of information; and
transmit or otherwise disclose the information.
    Respondents/Affected Entities: Clay ceramics manufacturing
facilities.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 10.
    Frequency of Response: Initially, occasionally, and semiannually.
    Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 527.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $45,702, which includes labor costs of
$42,532, O&M costs of $2,468, and annualized capital/startup costs of
$702.
    Changes in the Estimates: There is no change in the total estimated
burden

currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR Burdens.
Apparent differences of less than 500 hours are attributable to
rounding; in previous years, hours were rounded to the nearest
thousand; this ICR presents more exact figures.

    Dated: June 26, 2009.
John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2607-016]

Spencer Mountain Hydropower, LLC; Notice of Application Tendered
for Filing With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests
and Establishing Procedural Schedule for Relicensing and a Deadline for
Submission of Final Amendments

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: Subsequent License.
    b. Project No.: 2607-016.
    c. Date filed: June 26, 2023.
    d. Applicant: Spencer Mountain Hydropower, LLC.
    e. Name of Project: Spencer Mountain Hydroelectric Project (Spencer
Mountain Project).
    f. Location: On the South Fork Catawba River, near the town of
Gastonia, in Gaston County, North Carolina.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Kevin Edwards and Mrs. Amy Edwards,
Spencer Mountain Hydropower, LLC, 916 Comer Rd., Stoneville, NC 27048;
Phone at<PHONE_NUMBER>, or [email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Michael Spencer at<PHONE_NUMBER>, or
[email protected].
    j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state, local, and tribal agencies
with jurisdiction and/or special expertise with respect to
environmental issues that wish to cooperate in the preparation of the
environmental document should follow the instructions for filing such
requests described in item l below. Cooperating agencies should note
the Commission's policy that agencies that cooperate in the preparation
of the environmental document cannot also intervene. See, 94 FERC ]
61,076 (2001).
    k. Pursuant to section 4.32(b)(7) of 18 CFR of the Commission's
regulations, if any resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person believes
that an additional scientific study should be conducted in order to
form an adequate factual basis for a complete analysis of the
application on its merit, the resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person
must file a request for a study with the Commission not later than 60
days from the date of filing of the application, and serve a copy of
the request on the applicant.
    l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for
cooperating agency status: September 8, 2023.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file
additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency status
using the Commission's eFiling system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support
at [email protected],<PHONE_NUMBER> (toll free), or (202)
502-8659 (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, you may submit a paper
copy. Submissions sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be addressed
to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Submissions sent
via any other carrier must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue,
Rockville, Maryland 20852. All filings must clearly identify the
project name and docket number on the first page: Spencer Mountain
Project (P-2607-016).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this
time.
    n. The Spencer Mountain Project consists of the following existing
facilities: (1) a 12-foot-high, 636-foot-long masonry and rubble dam
with a crest elevation of 634.7 feet mean sea level (msl); (2) a 68-
acre reservoir with a storage capacity of 166 acre-feet; (3) a 58.9-
foot-long canal headwork, consisting of four 6-foot-wide gates; (4) a
53.8-foot-long canal spillway

connected to the downstream side of the canal headwork; (5) a 30-foot-
wide, 10-foot-deep, 3,644-foot-long open earthen canal; (6) a 32-foot-
wide trashrack at the powerhouse forebay; (7) a 36-inch-diameter bypass
pipe; (8) a 22.5-foot-high, 49.5-foot-long, 48.75-foot-wide powerhouse
containing two Francis-type generating units with a total capacity of
0.64 megawatts; (9) a concrete lined tailrace discharging flows back
into the South Fork Catawba River; (10) a substation containing a 2.3/
44-kilovolt (kV) transformer and interconnection to Duke Energy's 44kV
transmission line; and (11) appurtenant facilities.
    The project operates in a run-of-river mode with a minimum bypass
flow of 76 cubic feet per second. Spencer Mountain Hydropower, LLC
proposes no changes to the project facilities or operations. The
project has an average annual generation of 4,064 megawatt-hours.
    o. Copies of the application may be viewed on the Commission's
website at http://www.ferc.gov using the ``eLibrary'' link. Enter the
docket number excluding the last three digits in the docket number
field to access the document (P-2607). For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support at [email protected] or call toll-free, (866)
208-3676 or<PHONE_NUMBER> (TTY).
    You may also register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filings and issuances
related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC
Online Support.
    The Commission's Office of Public Participation (OPP) supports
meaningful public engagement and participation in Commission
proceedings. OPP can help members of the public, including landowners,
environmental justice communities, Tribal members and others, access
publicly available information and navigate Commission processes. For
public inquiries and assistance with making filings such as
interventions, comments, or requests for rehearing, the public is
encouraged to contact OPP at<PHONE_NUMBER> or [email protected].
    p. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will
be processed according to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions
to the schedule will be made as appropriate.

Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary)--August 2023
Request Additional Information (if necessary)--September 2023
Issue Acceptance Letter--November 2023
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments--November 2023
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary)--January 2024
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis--February 2024

    Final amendments to the application must be filed with the
Commission no later than 30 days from the issuance date of the notice
of ready for environmental analysis.

    Dated: July 10, 2023.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OW-2016-0332; FRL9949-87-OW]

Request for Scientific Views: Draft Aquatic Life Ambient
Estuarine/Marine Water Quality Criteria for Copper--2016

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the
availability of EPA's Draft Aquatic Life Ambient Estuarine/Marine Water
Quality Criteria for Copper--2016 for public comment. EPA's Clean Water
Act section 304(a)(1) draft recommended water quality criteria
incorporate a recently-developed saltwater biotic ligand model (BLM)
and the latest scientific information for estuarine/marine aquatic
organisms. The updated recommended criteria will be particularly
beneficial in the adoption of water quality standards for the
protection of aquatic life in and around coastal harbors and marinas,
where antifouling paints and coatings on vessels and marine structures
represent one of the most commonly identified sources of copper to the
estuarine/marine environment.
    Following closure of this 60-day public comment period, EPA will
consider the comments, revise the document, as appropriate, and then
publish a final document that will provide recommendations for states
and authorized tribes to establish water quality standards under the
Clean Water Act (CWA).

DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 27, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-
2016-0332, to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or withdrawn. EPA
may publish any comment received to its public docket. Do not submit
electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted
by statute. Multimedia submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be
accompanied by a written comment. The written comment is considered the
official comment and should include discussion of all points you wish
to make. EPA will generally not consider comments or comment contents
located outside of the primary submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or
other file sharing system). For additional submission methods, the full
EPA public comment policy, information about CBI or multimedia
submissions, and general guidance on making effective comments, please
visit http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mike Elias, Health and Ecological
Criteria Division, Office of Water, (Mail Code 4304T), Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460;
telephone:<PHONE_NUMBER>; email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

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

    1. Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy.
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically
in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Water Docket, EPA/DC, EPA
West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC. The Public
Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public
Reading Room is<PHONE_NUMBER>, and the telephone number for the Water
Docket is<PHONE_NUMBER>. For additional information about EPA's public
docket, visit EPA Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.

II. What are EPA's recommended water quality criteria?

    EPA's recommended water quality criteria are 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) directs EPA to develop and publish and,
from time to time, revise criteria for protection of aquatic life and
human health that accurately reflect the latest scientific knowledge.
Water quality criteria developed under section 304(a)(1) are based
solely on data and the latest scientific knowledge on the relationship
between pollutant concentrations and environmental and human health
effects. Section 304(a)(1) criteria do not reflect consideration of
economic impacts or the technological feasibility of meeting pollutant
concentrations in ambient water.
    EPA's recommended section 304(a)(1) criteria provide technical
information to states and authorized tribes in adopting water quality
standards (WQS) that ultimately provide a basis for assessing water
body health and controlling discharges of pollutants. Under the CWA and
its implementing regulations, states and authorized tribes are to adopt
water quality criteria to protect designated uses (e.g., public water
supply, aquatic life, recreational use, or industrial use). EPA's
recommended water quality criteria do not substitute

for the CWA or regulations, nor are they regulations themselves. 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.

III. What is estuarine/marine copper and why is EPA concerned about it?

    Copper is an abundant trace element that occurs naturally in the
earth's crust and surface waters. It is a nutrient that is essential to
aquatic organisms at low concentrations, but is toxic to aquatic
organisms at higher concentrations. In addition to acute effects such
as mortality, chronic exposure to copper can lead to adverse effects on
survival, growth, reproduction as well as alterations of brain
function, enzyme activity, blood chemistry, and metabolism in aquatic
organisms. Copper is commonly found in aquatic systems as a result of
both natural and anthropogenic sources. Natural sources of copper in
aquatic systems include geological deposits, volcanic activity, and
weathering and erosion of rocks and soils. Anthropogenic sources of
copper include mining activities, agriculture, metal and electrical
manufacturing, sludge from publicly-owned treatment works (POTWs),
pesticide use and more. A major source of copper in the marine
environment is antifouling paints, used as coatings for ship hulls,
buoys, and underwater surfaces, and as a legacy contaminant from
decking, pilings and some marine structures that used chromated copper
arsenate (CCA) treated timbers.

IV. Information on the Draft Document

    The 2016 draft recommended update uses the saltwater biotic ligand
model (BLM), a bioavailability model that relies on water quality input
parameters, to estimate copper criteria protective of aquatic life in
estuarine/marine environments. The BLM allows users to determine
criteria values based on site-specific water quality variables
(temperature, pH, dissolved organic carbon, and salinity) that
influence the bioavailability and toxicity of copper in estuarine/
marine environments. EPA has included new acute toxicity data for
estuarine/marine species in the 2016 draft recommended update. EPA used
a total of 74 genera to derive the estuarine/marine criterion maximum
concentration (CMC) in the 2016 update compared to the 44 genera EPA
used in EPA's 2003 draft estuarine/marine criteria for copper.
Incorporation of the BLM accounts for copper bioavailability in natural
aquatic systems, in contrast to the 2003 draft criteria which did not
account for the interactions of these parameters on copper
bioavailability and their effect on copper toxicity.

V. Solicitation of Scientific Views

    EPA is soliciting additional scientific views, data, and
information regarding the science and technical approach used in the
derivation of the draft document.

    Dated: July 15, 2016.
Joel Beauvais,
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Water.
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