[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 218 (Tuesday, November 12, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67361-67362]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-27022]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-R04-OW-2013-0470] [FRL-9902-76-Region 4]


Public Water System Supervision Program Revision for the 
Commonwealth of Kentucky

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

ACTION: Notice of tentative approval.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Commonwealth of Kentucky is 
revising its approved Public Water System Supervision Program. Kentucky 
has adopted the following rules: Consumer Confidence Report, Ground 
Water and Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment. The EPA has 
determined that Kentucky's rules are no less stringent than the 
corresponding federal regulations. Therefore, the EPA is tentatively 
approving this revision to the Commonwealth of Kentucky's Public Water 
System Supervision Program.

DATES: Any interested person may request a public hearing. A request 
for a public hearing must be submitted by December 12, 2013, to the 
Regional Administrator at the EPA Region 4 address shown below. The 
Regional Administrator may deny frivolous or insubstantial requests for 
a hearing. However, if a substantial request for a public hearing is 
made by December 12, 2013, a public hearing will be held. If the EPA 
Region 4 does not receive a timely and appropriate request for a 
hearing and the Regional Administrator does not elect to hold a hearing 
on his own motion, this tentative approval shall become final and 
effective on December 12, 2013. Any request for a public hearing shall 
include the following information: The name, address and telephone 
number of the individual, organization or other entity requesting a 
hearing; a brief statement of the requesting person's interest in the 
Regional Administrator's determination and a brief statement of the 
information that the requesting person intends to submit at such 
hearing; and 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.

ADDRESSES: All documents relating to this determination are available 
for inspection between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday 
through Friday, at the following offices: Kentucky Department for 
Environmental Protection, Division of Water, 200 Fair Oaks Lane, Fourth 
Floor, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601; and the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency Region 4, Safe Drinking Water Branch, 61 Forsyth Street SW., 
Atlanta, Georgia 30303.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Brian Thames, the EPA Region 4, 
Safe Drinking Water Branch, at the address given above, by telephone at 
(404) 562-9454, or at [email protected].
    EPA Analysis: On November 19, 2009, the Commonwealth of Kentucky 
submitted requests that the Region approve revisions to the 
Commonwealth's Safe Drinking Water Act Public Water System Supervision 
Program to include the authority to implement and enforce the Consumer 
Confidence Report Rule and the Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water 
Treatment Rule. On October 14, 2010, the Commonwealth of Kentucky also 
submitted a request that the Region approve revisions to the 
Commonwealth's Safe Drinking Water Act Public Water System Supervision 
Program to include the authority to implement and enforce the Ground 
Water rule. For the revisions to be approved, the EPA must find the 
State Rules, 401 KAR 8:075, Section 1(1); 401 KAR 8:150, Section 8; and 
401 KAR 8:150, Section 10 to be no less stringent than the Federal 
Rules codified at 40 CFR part 141, Subpart O--Consumer Confidence 
Reports; 40 CFR part 141, Subpart T--Enhanced Filtration and 
Disinfection--Systems Serving Fewer Than 10,000 People; and 40 CFR part 
141, Subpart S--Ground Water Rule. The EPA reviewed the applications 
using the Federal statutory provisions (Section 1413 of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act), Federal regulations (at 40 CFR part 142), State 
regulations, rule crosswalks, and EPA regulatory guidance to determine 
whether the request for revisions is approvable. The EPA determined 
that the Kentucky

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revisions are no less stringent than the corresponding Federal 
regulations.
    EPA Action: The EPA is tentatively approving this revision. If the 
EPA does not receive a timely and appropriate request for a hearing and 
the Regional Administrator does not elect to hold a hearing on his own 
motion, this tentative approval will become final and effective on 
December 12, 2013.

    Authority:  Section 1413 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as 
amended (1996), and 40 CFR part 142.

    Dated: October 29, 2013.
A. Stanley Meiburg,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4.
[FR Doc. 2013-27022 Filed 11-8-13; 8:45 am]
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