[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 6, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19919-19920]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-07198]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-9394-01-OMS]


Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision 
Approval, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the Environmental Protection Agency's 
(EPA) approval of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental 
Management (RIDEM) request to revise/modify certain of its EPA-
authorized programs to allow electronic reporting.

DATES: EPA approves the authorized program revisions/modifications as 
of April 6, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shirley M. Miller, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, Office of Information Management, Mail Stop 2824T, 
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460, (202) 566-2908, 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 13, 2005, the final Cross-Media 
Electronic Reporting Rule (CROMERR) was published in the Federal 
Register (70 FR 59848) and codified as part 3 of title 40 of the CFR. 
CROMERR establishes electronic reporting as an acceptable regulatory 
alternative to paper reporting and establishes requirements to assure 
that electronic documents are as legally dependable as their paper 
counterparts. Subpart D of CROMERR requires that state, tribal or local 
government agencies that receive, or wish to begin receiving, 
electronic reports under their EPA-authorized programs must apply to 
EPA for a revision or modification of those programs and obtain EPA 
approval. Subpart D provides standards for such approvals based on 
consideration of the electronic document receiving systems that the 
state, tribe, or local government will use to implement the electronic 
reporting. Additionally, Sec.  3.1000(b) through (e) of 40 CFR part 3, 
subpart D provides special procedures for program revisions and 
modifications to allow electronic reporting, to be used at the option 
of the state, tribe or local government in place of procedures 
available under existing program-specific authorization regulations. An 
application submitted under the subpart D procedures must show that the 
state, tribe or local government has sufficient legal authority to 
implement the electronic reporting components of the

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programs covered by the application and will use electronic document 
receiving systems that meet the applicable subpart D requirements.
    On March 21, 2022, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental 
Management (RIDEM) submitted an application titled Combined Air 
Emissions Reporting System (CAERS) for revisions/modifications to its 
EPA-approved programs under title 40 CFR to allow new electronic 
reporting. EPA reviewed RIDEM's request to revise/modify its EPA-
authorized programs and, based on this review, EPA determined that the 
application met the standards for approval of authorized program 
revisions/modifications set out in 40 CFR part 3, subpart D. In 
accordance with 40 CFR 3.1000(d), this notice of EPA's decision to 
approve RIDEM's request to revise/modify its following EPA-authorized 
programs to allow electronic reporting under 40 CFR is being published 
in the Federal Register:

Part 52: Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans (SIP/Clean 
Air Act Title II) Reporting under CFR 50-52

    RIDEM was notified of EPA's determination to approve its 
application with respect to the authorized programs listed above.

    Dated: March 31, 2022.
Jennifer Campbell,
Director, Office of Information Management.
[FR Doc. 2022-07198 Filed 4-5-22; 8:45 am]
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