Notice2022-07195
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision Approval, Guam Environmental Protection Agency (Guam EPA)
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Published
April 6, 2022
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
This notice announces the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) approval of the Guam Environmental Protection Agency request to revise/modify certain of its EPA-authorized programs to allow electronic reporting.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 6, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 19922]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-07195]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9674-01-OMS]
Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision
Approval, Guam Environmental Protection Agency (Guam EPA)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the Environmental Protection Agency's
(EPA) approval of the Guam Environmental Protection Agency request to
revise/modify certain of its EPA-authorized programs to allow
electronic reporting.
DATES: EPA approves the authorized program revisions/modifications as
of April 6, 2022.
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#8ce1e5e0e0e9fea2ffe4e5fee0e9f5cce9fceda2ebe3fa"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="38555154545d4a164b50514a545d41785d4859165f574e">[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 February 1, 2022, the Guam Environmental Protection Agency (Guam
EPA) submitted an application titled Compliance Monitoring Data Portal
(CMDP) for revisions/modifications to its EPA-approved programs under
title 40 CFR to allow new electronic reporting. EPA reviewed Guam EPA'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 Guam EPA'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
Guam EPA was notified of EPA's determination to approve its
application with respect to the authorized programs listed above. Also,
in this notice, EPA is informing interested persons that they may
request a public hearing on EPA's action to approve Guam's request to
revise its authorized public water system program under 40 CFR part
142, in accordance with 40 CFR 3.1000(f). Requests for a hearing must
be submitted to EPA within 30 days of publication of this Federal
Register notice. Such requests should include the following
information:
(1) The name, address, and telephone number of the individual,
organization or other entity requesting a hearing;
(2) A brief statement of the requesting person's interest in EPA's
determination, a brief explanation as to why EPA should hold a hearing,
and any other information that the requesting person wants EPA to
consider when determining whether to grant the request;
(3) The signature of the individual making the request, or, if the
request is made on behalf of an organization or other entity, the
signature of a responsible official of the organization or other
entity.
In the event a hearing is requested and granted, EPA will provide
notice of the hearing in the Federal Register not less than 15 days
prior to the scheduled hearing date. Frivolous or insubstantial
requests for hearing may be denied by EPA. Following such a public
hearing, EPA will review the record of the hearing and issue an order
either affirming this determination or rescinding such determination.
If no timely request for a hearing is received and granted, EPA's
approval of Guam's request to revise its part 142--National Primary
Drinking Water Regulations Implementation program to allow electronic
reporting will become effective 30 days after this notice is published,
pursuant to CROMERR section 3.1000(f)(4).
Dated: March 30, 2022.
Jennifer Campbell,
Director, Office of Information Management.
[FR Doc. 2022-07195 Filed 4-5-22; 8:45 am]
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