[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 86 (Thursday, May 3, 2012)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 26231-26232]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-10619]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OW-2011-0520; FRL-9667-2]

40 CFR Part 147


State of Tennessee; Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program 
Primacy

AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of public comment period and of public hearing.

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SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is to announce that: 1 the EPA has 
received a complete application from the State of Tennessee requesting 
approval of its Underground Injection Control program; 2 the EPA has 
determined the application contains all the required elements; 3 the 
application is available for inspection and copying at the address 
appearing below; 4 public comments are requested; and (5) a public 
hearing will be held.

DATES: Requests for a public hearing and/or to present oral testimony 
must be received by May 31, 2012; if determined to be warranted, the 
Public Hearing will be held on June 7, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. Requests to 
testify may be mailed to Fred McManus, Chief, Ground Water and SDWA 
Enforcement Section, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, 61 
Forsyth Street SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303. If it is determined that a 
hearing is warranted, it will be held on the 17th Floor Conference Room 
B, L&C Tower, 401 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee 37243. Comments 
will be accepted until June 14, 2012. The EPA will determine by June 4, 
2012, whether there is sufficient interest to warrant a public hearing. 
Contact Nancy H. Marsh to determine if a hearing is warranted (see the 
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section).

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-
2011-0520, by one of the following methods:
     www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for 
submitting comments.
     Email: [email protected].
     Fax: (404) 562-9439.
     Mail: State of Tennessee; Underground Injection Control 
(UIC) Program Primacy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode: 
2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460. Hand Delivery: 
Water Docket, EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC) EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 
Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC. Such deliveries are only 
accepted during the Docket's normal hours of operation, and special 
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2011-
0520. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in 
the public docket without change and may be made available online at 
www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided, 
unless the comment includes 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 www.regulations.gov or email. The 
www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' system, which 
means the EPA will not know your identity or contact information unless 
you provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an email 
comment directly to the EPA without going through www.regulations.gov, 
your email address will be automatically captured and included as part 
of the comment that is placed in the public docket and made available 
on the Internet. If you submit an electronic comment, the EPA 
recommends that you include your name and other contact information in 
the body of your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. If the 
EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot 
contact you for clarification, the EPA may not be able to consider your 
comment. Electronic files should avoid the use of special characters, 
any form of encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses. For 
additional information about the EPA's public docket, visit the EPA 
Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm of the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the 
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. Certain other material, such 
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. 
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically 
in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the following locations:

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, Library, 9th Floor, 61 
Forsyth Street SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303. The Library is open from

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9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. 
The telephone number for the Library is (404) 562-8190.
Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, 6th Floor, 401 
Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee 32743, The Library is open from 
9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. 
The telephone number for the Library is (615) 532-0191.
State of Tennessee; Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program Primacy 
Docket, EPA/DC, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., 
Washington, DC. The Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 
p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone 
number for the Public Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone 
number for the OW Docket is (202) 566-2426.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy H. Marsh, Safe Drinking Water 
Branch, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, 61 Forsyth 
Street SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303; telephone number: 404-562-9450. Fax 
number: 404-562-9439; email address: [email protected]. Comments 
should also be sent to this address.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The State of Tennessee has submitted an 
application to regulate Class I, II, III, IV and V injection wells in 
the State. The application was determined to be complete because it 
included all of the requirements of 40 CFR Sec.  145.22(a): a letter 
from the Governor requesting program approval; a complete description 
of the State Underground Injection Control program; a statement of 
legal authority; a memorandum of agreement between the State of 
Tennessee and the EPA, Region 4; copies of all applicable rules and 
forms; and a showing of the State's public participation process prior 
to program submission.

    Dated: April 19, 2012.
A. Stanley Meiburg,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4.
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