[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 249 (Friday, December 27, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78954-78955]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-31113]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OW-2013-0652; FRL-9904-85-OW]


Extension of Comment Period for the Alaska Seafood Processing 
Effluent Limitation Guidelines Notice of Data Availability

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of data availability; Extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending the 
comment period for the Alaska Seafood Processing Effluent Limitation 
Guidelines Notice of Data Availability. EPA is extending the comment 
period in response to stakeholder requests for an extension.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 7, 2014. The 
comment period was originally scheduled to end on January 6, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket identification 
(ID) No. EPA-HQ-OW-2013-0652, by one of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
     Email: [email protected].
     Mail: Water Docket, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 
Mail code: 4203M, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460. 
Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2013- 0652. Please include three 
copies.
     Hand Delivery: Water Docket, EPA Docket Center, William 
Jefferson Clinton Building West Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., 
Washington, DC, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2013-0652. Such 
deliveries are only accepted during the Docket's normal hours of 
operation, and special arrangements should be made for deliveries of 
boxed information by calling 202-566-2426.
     Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-OW-2013-0652. The EPA's policy is that all comments received will be 
included in the public docket without change and may be made available 
online at http://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 http://www.regulations.gov or email. The http://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

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contact information in the body of your comment and with any disc 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 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). Certain other materials, 
such as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard 
copy. Publicly available docket materials are available either 
electronically in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the 
Office of Water Docket Center, EPA/DC, William Jefferson Clinton 
Building West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC. 
The 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; the telephone number for the 
Office of Water Docket Center is (202) 566-2426.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lindsay Guzzo, Office of Water and 
Watersheds, NPDES Permit Unit (OWW-130), 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 900, 
Seattle, WA 98101; (206) 553-0268, [email protected], or Meghan 
Hessenauer, Engineering and Analysis Division (4303T), U.S. EPA, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; (202) 566-1040; 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 7, 2013 the Environmental 
Protection Agency (EPA) published the Alaska Seafood Processing 
Effluent Limitations Guidelines Notice of Data Availability in the 
Federal Register (78 FR 66916). In the notice EPA made available for 
public review and comment additional data and information gathered 
recently by the EPA from seafood processing facilities in Alaska and 
other publicly available sources. These data relate to the 
applicability of and discharge requirements for the Alaskan seafood 
subcategories of the Canned and Preserved Seafood Processing effluent 
limitations guidelines. In the notice EPA provided preliminary results 
of analyses of the updated data and preliminary indications of how 
these results may be reflected in EPA's final response to petitions 
submitted in 1980 by certain members of the Alaskan seafood processing 
industry, and in amended effluent limitations guidelines applicable to 
certain Alaskan seafood processing discharges which EPA is considering 
whether to promulgate in final form (CFR part 408).

    Dated: December 19, 2013.
Nancy K. Stoner,
Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Water.
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