Notice2025-02106
Six Actions Published by the Environmental Protection Agency With Comment Periods That Closed January 27, 2025, and January 29, 2025; Reopening of Comment Periods
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January 31, 2025
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Abstract
This document reopens the comment period for 30 days for six notices published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register between October 31, 2024, and January 14, 2025. This document reopens the comment period for those six notices with comment periods that closed January 27, 2025, and January 29, 2025.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 20 (Friday, January 31, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8713-8715]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02106]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OW-2023-0107; EPA-HQ-OGC-2024-0601; EPA-HQ-OAR-2023-0129; EPA-
HQ-OPPT-2014-0838; EPA-HQ-OPP-2024-0629; EPA-R01-OW-2024-0492; FRL-
12587-01-OA]
Six Actions Published by the Environmental Protection Agency With
Comment Periods That Closed January 27, 2025, and January 29, 2025;
Reopening of Comment Periods
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notices; reopening of comment periods.
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SUMMARY: This document reopens the comment period for 30 days for six
notices published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal
Register between October 31, 2024, and January 14, 2025. This document
reopens the comment period for those six notices with comment periods
that closed January 27, 2025, and January 29, 2025.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 3, 2025. Comments
should be submitted to the original docket for the notice specified in
the table below.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments, identified by appropriate Docket ID
number listed in the table below by any of the following methods:
<bullet> Federal eRulemaking Portal: <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a>
(our preferred method). Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the Docket ID
No. for the original rulemaking as listed in the table below. Comments
received may be posted without change to <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>,
including personal information provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William Nickerson, Director, Office of
Regulatory Policy and Management, Office of Policy, Mail Code 1804,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20460; (202) 566-0326; <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#432d2a20282631302c2d6d342a2f2f2a222e032633226d242c35"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9bf5f2f8f0fee9e8f4f5b5ecf2f7f7f2faf6dbfeebfab5fcf4ed">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document reopens the comment period
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for six actions published between October 31, 2024, and January 14,
2025. The comment period for these six actions ends March 3, 2025.
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Original
Publication comment
Federal Register citation Title date period end Docket ID
date
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90 FR 3207............... Clothianidin; Receipt 1/14/2025 1/29/2025 EPA-HQ-OPP-2024-0629.
of Application for
Emergency Exemption;
Solicitation of
Public Comment.
89 FR 105567............. Comparison of Aquatic 12/27/2024 1/27/2025 EPA-HQ-OW-2023-0107.
Life Protective
Values Developed for
Pesticides Under the
FIFRA and the CWA.
89 FR 105045............. Proposed Consent 12/26/2024 1/27/2025 EPA-HQ-OGC-2024-0601.
Decree, Clean Air
Act Citizen Suit.
89 FR 105043............. Agency Information 12/26/2024 1/27/2025 EPA-HQ-OAR-2023-0129.
Collection
Activities;
Submission to the
Office of Management
and Budget for
Review and Approval;
Comment Request;
Consolidated Air
Rule for the
Synthetic Organic
Chemical
Manufacturing
Industry (Renewal).
89 FR 93574.............. Agency Information 11/27/2024 1/27/2025 EPA-HQ-OPPT-2014-0838.
Collection
Activities; Proposed
Renewal of an
Existing ICR
Collection and
Request for Comment;
Assessment of
Environmental
Performance
Standards and
Ecolabels for
Federal Procurement.
89 FR 86802.............. Notice of Preliminary 10/31/2024 1/29/2025 EPA-R01-OW-2024-0492.
Designation of
Certain Stormwater
Discharges in the
Commonwealth of
Massachusetts and
Notice of
Availability of
Draft Permit Under
the National
Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System
of the Clean Water
Act.
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EPA may identify additional actions for reopening or extending
comment periods in subsequent notices.
This document reopens the public comment period for the notice
``Clothianidin; Receipt of Application for Emergency Exemption''
established in the Federal Register document of January 14, 2025 (90 FR
3207) (FRL-12544-01-OCSPP), for 30 days. In that document, EPA provided
notice of a specific exemption request from the Florida Department of
Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) to use the pesticide
clothianidin (CAS No. 210-880-92-5) to treat up to 75,000 acres of
immature (3-5 years old) citrus trees to control the transmission of
Huanglongbing (HLB) disease vectored by the Asian Citrus Psyllid. The
applicant proposed a use that has been requested in 5 or more previous
years and for which a complete application for registration or
tolerance petition has not been submitted to the Agency. Therefore, in
that Federal Register document of January 14, 2025, EPA solicited
public comment before making the decision whether or not to grant the
exemption.
This document reopens the public comment period established for the
notice ``Comparison of Aquatic Life Protective Values Developed for
Pesticides Under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act
(FIFRA) and the Clean Water Act (CWA)'' in the Federal Register
document of December 27, 2024 (89 FR 105567) (FRL 10680-01-OW), for 30
days. In that document, EPA announced the availability of draft
analyses comparing aquatic life benchmarks developed by the EPA's
Office of Pesticides Programs (OPP) in support of registration
decisions for pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to existing national recommended aquatic life
Ambient Water Quality Criteria and criteria-related values developed
under the Clean Water Act (CWA) for the protection of aquatic life from
pesticides.
This document reopens the public comment period for the notice
``Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit'' established in
the Federal Register document of December 26, 2024 (89 FR 105045) (FRL-
12515-01-OGC), for 30 days. In that document, EPA provided notice of a
proposed consent decree in Center for Community Action and
Environmental Justice v. U.S. EPA, et al., No. 3:24-cv-05042-EMC. On
August 12, 2024, Plaintiff Center for Community Action and
Environmental Justice filed a complaint in the United States District
Court for the Northern District of California San Francisco Division,
alleging that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to
perform certain non-discretionary duties in accordance with the Act to
take final action on a state implementation plan (SIP) revision
submitted by the State of California. In the Federal Register document
of December 26, 2024, EPA provided notice of the proposed consent
decree, which would resolve all claims in the case by establishing a
deadline for EPA to take final action as specified in the decree.
This document reopens the public comment period for the notice
``Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request;
Consolidated Air Rule for the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing
Industry (Renewal)'' established in the Federal Register document of
December 26, 2024 (89 FR 105043) (FRL-12524-OMS-01), for 30 days. In
that document, EPA provided notice of an information collection request
(ICR), Consolidated Air Rule for the Synthetic Organic Chemical
Manufacturing Industry (EPA ICR Number 1854.14, OMB Control Number
2060-0443) submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. In
that Federal Register document of December 26, 2024, EPA proposed an
extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through December 31,
2024.
This document reopens the public comment period for the notice
``Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Renewal of an
Existing ICR Collection and Request for Comment; Assessment of
Environmental Performance Standards and Ecolabels for Federal
Procurement'' established in the Federal Register document of November
27, 2024 (89 FR 93574) (FRL-12379-01-OCSPP), for 30 days. In that
document, EPA announced the availability of and solicited public
comment on the following Information Collection Request (ICR) that EPA
is planning to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB):
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``Assessment of Environmental Performance Standards and Ecolabels for
Federal Procurement,'' identified by EPA ICR No. 2516.05 and OMB
Control No. 2070-0199. The ICR represents a renewal of an existing ICR
that is currently approved through September 30, 2025. Before
submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval under the PRA, EPA is
soliciting comments on specific aspects of the information collection
that is summarized in the Federal Register document of November 27,
2024.
This document reopens the public comment period for ``Notice of
Preliminary Designation of Certain Stormwater Discharges in the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Notice of Availability of Draft
Permit Under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System of the
Clean Water Act'' established in the Federal Register document of
October 31, 2024 (89 FR 86802) (FRL-12374-01-R1), for 30 days. In that
document, EPA provided notice of two actions. The first action is the
Preliminary Designation of certain stormwater discharges from
commercial, industrial, and institutional properties with one acre or
more of impervious surface in the Charles, Neponset, and Mystic River
watersheds in Massachusetts for regulation under the Clean Water Act's
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting
program. Second, the EPA provided notice of availability of a draft
NPDES General Permit for Private Commercial Industrial, and
Institutional Stormwater Discharges in Charles, Mystic, and Neponset
River Watersheds in Massachusetts.
EPA is extending these comment periods to allow interested parties
additional time to thoroughly review and analyze how these notices may
impact parties potentially subject to them. Comments previously
submitted need not be resubmitted as they are already incorporated into
the public record and will be considered in the final action as
appropriate.
Where appropriate, the Agency may consider extending the comment
period beyond 30 days for the above referenced actions.
To submit comments, or access the docket, please follow the
detailed instructions provided under ADDRESSES. If you have questions,
consult the technical person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
James Payne,
Acting Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2025-02106 Filed 1-30-25; 8:45 am]
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