[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 225 (Tuesday, November 24, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61349-61351]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-28146]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-8982-8]


Tentative Approval and Solicitation of Request for a Public 
Hearing for Public Water Supply Supervision Program Revision for the 
U.S. Virgin Islands

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Virgin Islands is 
revising its approved Public Water System Supervision Program to adopt 
EPA's National Primary Drinking Water Regulations. The EPA has 
determined that these revisions are no less stringent than the 
corresponding Federal regulations. Therefore, the EPA intends to 
approve these program revisions. All interested parties may request a 
public hearing.

DATES: This determination to approve the U.S. Virgin Island's primacy 
program revision application is made pursuant to 40 CFR 142.12(d)(3). 
It shall become final and effective unless (1) a timely and appropriate 
request for a public hearing is received or (2) the Regional 
Administrator elects to hold a public hearing on his own motion. Any 
interested person, other than Federal Agencies, may request a public 
hearing. A request for a public hearing must be submitted to the 
Regional Administrator at the address shown below by

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December 24, 2009. If a substantial request for a public hearing is 
made within the requested thirty day time frame, a public hearing will 
be held and a notice will be given in the Federal Register and a 
newspaper of general circulation. Frivolous or insubstantial requests 
for a hearing may be denied by the Regional Administrator. If no timely 
and appropriate request for a hearing is received and the Regional 
Administrator does not elect to hold a hearing on his own motion, this 
determination shall become final and effective December 24, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Any request for a public hearing shall include the following 
information: (1) 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 the Regional 
Administrator's determination and a brief statement on information that 
the requesting person intends to submit at such hearing; (3) the 
signature of the individual making the requests 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. Requests for 
Public Hearing shall be addressed to: Regional Administrator, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency--Region 2, 290 Broadway, New York, New 
York 10007-1866.
    All documents relating to this determination are available for 
inspection between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, at the following offices:
Office of the Commissioner, Department of Planning and Natural 
Resources, 45 Mars Hill, Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands 
00840-4474.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency--Region 2, 24th Floor Drinking 
Water Ground Water Protection Section, 290 Broadway, New York, New York 
10007-1866.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael J. Lowy, Drinking Water Ground 
Water Protection Section, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency--Region 
2, (212) 637-3830.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that the United 
States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined to approve 
an application by the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Planning and 
Natural Resources (DPNR) to revise its Public Water System Supervision 
Primacy Program to incorporate regulations no less stringent than the 
EPA's National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWR) for the 
following rules: Drinking Water; Maximum Contaminant Level Goals and 
National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and Copper; Final 
Rule, promulgated by EPA June 30, 1994 (59 FR 33860), Drinking Water; 
National Primary Drinking Water, Synthetic Organic Chemicals and 
Inorganic Chemicals; National Primary Drinking Water Implementation; 
Monitoring for Unregulated Contaminants; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA 
July 1, 1994 (59 FR 34320), National Primary Drinking Water 
Regulations; Analytical Methods for Regulated Drinking Water 
Contaminants; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA December 5, 1994, National 
Primary and Secondary Drinking Water Regulations; Analytical Methods 
for Regulated Drinking Water Contaminants, promulgated by EPA June 29, 
1995 (60 FR 34083), National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: 
Analytical Methods for Radionuclides; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA 
March 5, 1997 (63 FR 10175), Revisions to State Primacy Requirements to 
Implement Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments; Final Rule, promulgated 
by EPA April 28, 1998 (63 FR 23361), Revision of Existing Variance and 
Exemption Regulations To Comply With Requirements of the Safe Drinking 
Water Act; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA August 14, 1998 (63 FR 
43833), National Primary Drinking Water Regulation: Consumer Confidence 
Reports; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA August 19, 1998 (63 FR 44511) 
with the following Technical Corrections promulgated by EPA: June 29, 
1999 (64 FR 34732), September 14, 1998 (64 FR 49671), November 27, 2002 
(67 FR 70850), and December 9, 2002 (67 FR 73011), National Primary 
Drinking Water Regulations: Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts; 
Final Rule, promulgated by EPA December 16, 1998 (63 FR 69389), 
National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Interim Enhanced Surface 
Water Treatment; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA December 16, 1998 (63 
FR 69477), Suspension of Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring 
Requirements for Small Public Water Systems; Final Rule, promulgated by 
EPA January 8, 1999 (64 FR 1499), National Primary and Secondary 
Drinking Water Regulations; Analytical Methods for Chemical and 
Microbiological Contaminants and Revisions to Laboratory Certification 
Requirements; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA December 1, 1999 (64 FR 
67449), National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and 
Copper; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA January 12, 2000 (65 FR 1950), 
Revisions to the Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule and the 
Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts, and Revisions to 
State Primacy Requirements to Implement the Safe Drinking Water Act 
Amendments; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA April 14, 2000 (65 FR 
20304), National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Public 
Notification Rule; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA May 4, 2000 (65 FR 
25982), with the following Technical Corrections promulgated by EPA: 
June 21, 2000 (65 FR 38629), June 30, 2000 (65 FR 40520), Removal of 
the Maximum Contaminant Level Goal for Chloroform from the National 
Primary Drinking Water Regulations; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA May 
30, 2000 (65 FR 34404), National Primary Drinking Water Regulations; 
Radionuclides; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA December 7, 2000, (65 FR 
76708), Revisions to the Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule, 
the Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule and 
Revisions to State Primacy Requirements to Implement the Safe Drinking 
Water Act Amendments; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA January 16, 2001 
(66 FR 3770), National Primary Drinking Water Regulations; Arsenic and 
Clarifications to Compliance and New Source Contaminants Monitoring; 
Final Rule, promulgated by EPA January 22, 2001 (66 FR 6976), with the 
following Minor Clarification promulgated by EPA March 25, 2003 (68 FR 
14502), Revisions to the Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule, 
the Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule and 
Revisions to State Primacy Requirements to Implement the Safe Drinking 
Water Act Amendments; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA February 12, 2001 
(66 FR 9903), National Primary Drinking Water Regulations; Filter 
Backwash Recycling Rule; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA June 8, 2001 
(66 FR 31086), National Primary Drinking Water Regulations; Long Term 1 
Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA 
January 14, 2002 (67 FR 1812), National Primary Drinking Water 
Regulations; Methods Update; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA October 23, 
2002 (67 FR 65220), National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Minor 
Revisions to Public Notification Rule, Consumer Confidence Report Rule 
and Primacy Rule; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA November 27, 2002 (67 
FR 70850), with the following Technical Correction promulgated by EPA 
December 9, 2002 (67 FR 73011), National Primary and Secondary

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Drinking Water Regulations: Approval of Additional Method for the 
Detection of Coliforms and E. Coli in Drinking Water: Final Rule, 
promulgated by EPA February 13, 2004 (69 FR 7156), National Primary 
Drinking Water Regulations: Minor Corrections and Clarification to 
Drinking Water Regulations; National Primary Drinking Water Regulations 
for Lead and Copper: Final Rule, promulgated by EPA June 29, 2004 (69 
FR 38850), National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Analytical 
Method for Uranium, promulgated by EPA August 25, 2004 (69 FR 5217), 
National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Stage 2 Disinfectants and 
Disinfection Byproducts Rule; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA January 4, 
2006 (71 FR 388), with the following Technical Corrections promulgated 
by EPA January 27, 2006 (71 FR 4644), June 29, 2006 (71 FR 37168), and 
June 29, 2009 (74 FR 30953), National Primary Drinking Water 
Regulations: Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Final 
Rule, promulgated by EPA January 5, 2006 (71 FR 654), with the 
following Technical Corrections promulgated by EPA January 30, 2006 (71 
FR 4968) and February 6, 2006 (71 FR 6136), National Primary Drinking 
Water Regulations: Ground Water Rule, Final Rule, promulgated by EPA 
November 8, 2006 (71 FR 67427), and the following Technical Correction 
promulgated by EPA November 21, 2006 (71 FR 67427), and National 
Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and Copper: Short-Term 
Revisions and Clarifications; Final Rule, promulgated by EPA October 
10, 2007 (72 FR 5782).
    The application demonstrates that the U.S. Virgin Islands has 
adopted drinking water regulations which satisfy the NPDWRs for the 
above. The USEPA has determined that the U.S. Virgin Island's 
regulations are no less stringent than the corresponding Federal 
Regulations and that the U.S. Virgin Island's DPNR continues to meet 
all requirements for primary enforcement responsibility as specified in 
40 CFR 142.10.

    Authority: (Section 1413 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as 
amended, 40 U.S.C. 300g-2, and 40 CFR 142.10, 142.12(d) and 142.13)

    Dated: October 14, 2009.
George Pavlou,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 2.
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