[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 249 (Friday, December 27, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78954-78955]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-31113]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OW-2013-0652; FRL-9904-85-OW]
Extension of Comment Period for the Alaska Seafood Processing
Effluent Limitation Guidelines Notice of Data Availability
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of data availability; Extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending the
comment period for the Alaska Seafood Processing Effluent Limitation
Guidelines Notice of Data Availability. EPA is extending the comment
period in response to stakeholder requests for an extension.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 7, 2014. The
comment period was originally scheduled to end on January 6, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket identification
(ID) No. EPA-HQ-OW-2013-0652, by one of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
Email: [email protected].
Mail: Water Docket, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Mail code: 4203M, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460.
Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2013- 0652. Please include three
copies.
Hand Delivery: Water Docket, EPA Docket Center, William
Jefferson Clinton Building West Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2013-0652. Such
deliveries are only accepted during the Docket's normal hours of
operation, and special arrangements should be made for deliveries of
boxed information by calling 202-566-2426.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-OW-2013-0652. The EPA's policy is that all comments received will be
included in the public docket without change and may be made available
online at http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal
information provided, unless the comment includes information claimed
to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information
that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through http://www.regulations.gov or email. The http://www.regulations.gov Web site
is an ``anonymous access'' system, which means the EPA will not know
your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body
of your comment. If you send an email comment directly to the EPA
without going through www.regulations.gov your email address will be
automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is
placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you
submit an electronic comment, the EPA recommends that you include your
name and other
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contact information in the body of your comment and with any disc you
submit. If the EPA cannot read your comment due to technical
difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, the EPA may not
be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid the use
of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any
defects or viruses. For additional information about the EPA's public
docket visit the Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the http://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 materials,
such as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard
copy. Publicly available docket materials are available either
electronically in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the
Office of Water Docket Center, EPA/DC, William Jefferson Clinton
Building 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 (202) 566-1744; the telephone number for the
Office of Water Docket Center is (202) 566-2426.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lindsay Guzzo, Office of Water and
Watersheds, NPDES Permit Unit (OWW-130), 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 900,
Seattle, WA 98101; (206) 553-0268, [email protected], or Meghan
Hessenauer, Engineering and Analysis Division (4303T), U.S. EPA, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; (202) 566-1040;
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 7, 2013 the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) published the Alaska Seafood Processing
Effluent Limitations Guidelines Notice of Data Availability in the
Federal Register (78 FR 66916). In the notice EPA made available for
public review and comment additional data and information gathered
recently by the EPA from seafood processing facilities in Alaska and
other publicly available sources. These data relate to the
applicability of and discharge requirements for the Alaskan seafood
subcategories of the Canned and Preserved Seafood Processing effluent
limitations guidelines. In the notice EPA provided preliminary results
of analyses of the updated data and preliminary indications of how
these results may be reflected in EPA's final response to petitions
submitted in 1980 by certain members of the Alaskan seafood processing
industry, and in amended effluent limitations guidelines applicable to
certain Alaskan seafood processing discharges which EPA is considering
whether to promulgate in final form (CFR part 408).
Dated: December 19, 2013.
Nancy K. Stoner,
Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Water.
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