[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 240 (Wednesday, December 14, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77829-77830]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-32064]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-9506-7; Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2011-0895]


Draft Research Report: Investigation of Ground Water 
Contamination Near Pavillion, Wyoming

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of Public Comment Period.

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SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a 45-day public comment period for the 
external review of the draft research report titled, ``Investigation of 
Ground Water Contamination near Pavillion, Wyoming.'' The draft 
research report was prepared by the National Risk Management Research 
Laboratory (NRMRL), within the EPA Office of Research and Development 
(ORD), and EPA Region 8. EPA is releasing this draft research report 
solely for the purpose of pre-dissemination peer review. This draft 
research report has not been formally disseminated by EPA. It does not 
represent and should not be construed to represent any Agency policy or 
determination. Eastern Research Group, Inc. (ERG), an EPA contractor 
for external peer review, will convene an independent panel of experts 
for peer review of this draft research report. Public comments 
submitted during the public comment period will be made available to 
the peer review panel for consideration in their review. In preparing a 
final report, EPA will consider the recommendations of the peer review 
panel.

DATES: The public comment period begins December 14, 2011, and ends 
January 27, 2011. Comments should be submitted to the docket or 
received in writing by EPA by January 27, 2011.

ADDRESSES: The draft ``Investigation of Ground Water Contamination near 
Pavillion, Wyoming'' is available via the Internet on the EPA Region 8 
home page under the Key Issues menu, Pavillion Groundwater 
Investigation at http://www.epa.gov/region8/superfund/wy/pavillion/.
    Comments may be submitted electronically via http://www.regulations.gov, by email, by mail, by facsimile, or by hand 
delivery/courier. Please follow the detailed instructions provided in 
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice.
    Additional Information: For information on the docket, http://www.regulations.gov, or the public comment period, please contact the

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Office of Environmental Information (OEI) Docket (Mail Code: 2822T), 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 
Washington, DC 20460; telephone: (202) 566-1752; facsimile: (202) 566-
1753; or email: [email protected].
    For information on the draft research report, please contact 
Rebecca Foster, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, P.O. Box 1198, 
Ada, OK 74821; telephone: (580) 436-8750; facsimile: (580) 436-8529; or 
email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Information About Pavillion Ground Water Investigation

    Pavillion, Wyoming is located in Fremont County, about 20 miles 
northwest of Riverton. The concern at the site is potential ground 
water contamination, based on resident complaints about smells, tastes, 
and adverse changes in the quality of the water in their domestic 
wells. In collaboration with ORD, Region 8 has been conducting a ground 
water investigation. The purpose of this ground water investigation is 
to better understand the basic ground water hydrology and how the 
constituents of concern may be occurring in the aquifer. More 
information is available at http://www.epa.gov/region8/superfund/wy/pavillion/.

II. How To Submit Comments to the Docket at http://www.regulations.gov

    Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2011-
0895, by one of the following methods:
     http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line 
instructions for submitting comments.
     Email: [email protected].
     Facsimile: (202) 566-1753.
     Mail: Office of Environmental Information (OEI) Docket 
(Mail Code: 2822T), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460. The telephone number is 
(202) 566-1752. If you provide comments by mail, please submit one 
unbound original with pages numbered consecutively, and three copies of 
the comments. For attachments, provide an index, number pages 
consecutively with the comments, and submit an unbound original and 
three copies.
     Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is located in the EPA 
Headquarters Docket Center, EPA West Building, Room 3334, 1301 
Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center 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. Deliveries are only accepted during the 
docket's normal hours of operation, and special arrangements should be 
made for deliveries of boxed information. If you provide comments by 
hand delivery, please submit one unbound original with pages numbered 
consecutively, and three copies of the comments. For attachments, 
provide an index, number pages consecutively with the comments, and 
submit an unbound original and three copies.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2011-0895. Please ensure that your comments are submitted within the 
specified comment period. It is EPA's policy to include all comments it 
receives in the public docket without change and to make the comments 
available online at http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal 
information provided, unless comments include 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 that EPA will not know 
your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body 
of your comments. If you send email comments directly to EPA without 
going through http://www.regulations.gov, your email address will be 
automatically captured and included as part of the comments that are 
placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you 
submit electronic comments, EPA recommends that you include your name 
and other contact information in the body of your comments and with any 
disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comments due to 
technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA 
may not be able to consider your comments. Electronic files should 
avoid the use of special characters and any form of encryption and be 
free of any defects or viruses. For additional information about EPA's 
public docket, visit the EPA 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. Other material, such as 
copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. 
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically 
at http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the OEI Docket in the 
EPA Headquarters Docket Center.

    Dated: December 5, 2011.
Cynthia Sonich-Mullin,
Director, National Risk Management Research Laboratory.
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