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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 38 / Monday, March 1, 2021 / Notices Unit 5 during the fleets B season. All other conditions of the permit will remain unchanged. EPA is only accepting comments on the modified authorization for vessels to seasonally discharge within 1 NM of spectacled eider wintering critical habitat Part III.B.7 of the modified general permit.
Only the conditions subject to modification are reopened for public comment.
DATES: Comments on the proposed modification must be received by March 31, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Comments on the proposed modification should be sent electronically to goodman.sally@
epa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Permit documents may be found on the EPA Region 10 website at: https
www.epa.gov/npdes-permits/npdesgeneral-permit-offshore-seafoodprocessors-alaska. Copies of the draft modified general permit and fact sheet are also available upon request.
Requests may be made to Audrey Washington at 206 5530523 or to Sally Goodman at 206 5530782.
Requests may also be electronically mailed to: washington.audrey@epa.gov or goodman.sally@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

EPA has conducted new analyses to identify impacts to spectacled eiders and their critical habitat that could result from the proposed modification, revised the previously concurred-upon Biological Evaluation BE, and on July 9, 2020, requested formal consultation with USFWS under 50 CFR part 402.
New analyses conducted in the BE have led EPA to change its previous determination from not likely to adversely affect the federally threatened spectacled eider or its critical habitat to likely to adversely affect the species or critical habitat. USFWS concurred on the EPAs determination that the Permit actions are likely to adversely affect species listed under the Endangered Species Act or designated critical habitat. The draft Biological Opinion, received on November 10, 2020, includes mitigations to minimize take and impact on species and habitat, which are also included in the Permit.
They are: Permittees must create a Best Management Practices Plan; discharges are not authorized in certain protected areas and habitats; vessels must be moving while discharging; permittees must conduct daily sea surface monitoring; and, EPA will use the information gathered from visual monitoring in evaluation during the next permit cycle.

I. General Information There are currently 73 vessel operators authorized to discharge under the permit. In October 2019, FLC
reported to EPA that within the past two fishing seasons, sea ice in the Bering Sea had not reached as far south, formed later in the year, and persisted for a shorter duration, and that as a result, a large percentage of the Pacific cod population in the Bering Sea have migrated further north than previously found/harvested, including areas near and within spectacled eider wintering habitat. Under 40 CFR 122.62a2, EPA
has tentatively decided to modify the permit. While FLC raised the issue of Pacific cod migrating into more northern reaches of the Bering Sea as a primary motivation in their permit modification request, the modification allowing discharge within 1 NM of Unit 5 would apply to all vessels covered under EPAs General Permit, which include both hook and line longline and trawl catcher processors, and would not be conditioned upon targeted species. The At-Sea Processors Association, which represents trawl catcher processor vessels, has indicated that up to 12 pelagic trawlers could potentially target pollock within 1 NM
of Unit 5, assuming the permit is modified.

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This action is not a significant regulatory action and was therefore not submitted to the Office of Management and Budget OMB for review.
Daniel D. Opalski, Director, Water Division, Region 10.
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Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request; Data Reporting Requirements for State and Local Vehicle Emission Inspection and Maintenance I/M Programs Environmental Protection Agency EPA.
ACTION: Notice.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to submit an information collection request ICR, Data Reporting Requirements for State and Local Vehicle Emission Inspection and Maintenance I/M Programs EPA
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20600252 to the Office of Management and Budget OMB for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. Before doing so, EPA is soliciting public comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described below. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through October 31, 2021. An Agency may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before April 30, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPAHQ
OAR20080707, to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: https
www.regulations.gov/ our preferred method. Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the Docket ID No. for this rulemaking. Comments received may be posted without change to https
www.regulations.gov/, including any personal information provided. Do not submit any information you consider to be Confidential Business Information CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Out of an abundance of caution for members of the public and our staff, the EPA Docket Center and Reading Room was closed to public visitors on March 31, 2020, to reduce the risk of transmitting COVID
19. Our Docket Center staff will continue to provide remote customer service via email, phone, and webform.
We encourage the public to submit comments via https
www.regulations.gov, as there is a temporary suspension of mail delivery to EPA, and no hand deliveries are currently accepted. For further information on EPA Docket Center services and the current status, please visit us online at https www.epa.gov/
dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joe Winkelmann, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2000 Traverwood, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105; telephone number: 7342144255; email address:
winkelmann.joseph@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Supporting documents which explain in detail the information that the EPA will be collecting are available in the public docket for this ICR. The docket can be viewed online at www.regulations.gov.
The EPA is temporarily suspending its Docket Center and Reading Room for public visitors to reduce the risk of
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