Notice2021-26825
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision Approval, Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE)
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Published
December 10, 2021
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
This notice announces the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) approval of the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) request to revise/modify certain of its EPA-authorized programs to allow electronic reporting.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 235 (Friday, December 10, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 70494]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-26825]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-8925-01-OMS]
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision
Approval, Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the Environmental Protection Agency's
(EPA) approval of the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE)
request to revise/modify certain of its EPA-authorized programs to
allow electronic reporting.
DATES: EPA approves the authorized program revisions/modifications as
of December 10, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shirley M. Miller, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of Information Management, Mail Stop 2824T,
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460, (202) 566-2908,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#78151114141d0a560b10110a141d01381d0819561f170e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5f323633333a2d712c37362d333a261f3a2f3e71383029">[email protected]</span></a>.
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, Sec. 3.1000(b) 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 program-specific 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 24, 2021, the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE)
submitted an application titled Industrial Pretreatment Program for
revisions/modifications to its EPA-approved programs under title 40 CFR
to allow new electronic reporting. EPA reviewed MDE's request to
revise/modify its EPA-authorized programs and, based on this review,
EPA determined that the application met the standards for approval of
authorized program revisions/modifications 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 MDE's request to revise/modify its following EPA-
authorized programs to allow electronic reporting under 40 CFR is being
published in the Federal Register: Part 142: National Primary Drinking
Water Regulations Implementation (NPDWR) reporting under CFR 141 MDE
was notified of EPA's determination to approve its application with
respect to the authorized programs listed above.
Dated: December 7, 2021.
Jennifer Campbell,
Director, Office of Information Management.
[FR Doc. 2021-26825 Filed 12-9-21; 8:45 am]
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