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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 50 / Wednesday, March 17, 2021 / Proposed Rules
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
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Clean Water Act Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Organic Chemicals, Plastics and Synthetic Fibers Point Source Category Environmental Protection Agency EPA.
ACTION: Advance notice of proposed rulemaking.
AGENCY:

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA or Agency is initiating further data collection and analysis to support potential future rulemaking, under the Clean Water Act CWA, relating to the effluent limitations guidelines, pretreatment standards and new source performance standards applicable to the Organic Chemicals, Plastics and Synthetic Fibers OCPSF point source category to address discharges from manufacturers of perand polyfluoroalkyl substances PFAS and is considering revising the same for formulators of PFAS. PFAS are a group of man-made organic chemicals.
Some PFAS compounds are persistent in the environment and in the human body. Analysis of animal studies and human epidemiological research suggest that exposure above certain levels to some PFAS may be associated with adverse human health effects. The Agency has identified several industries with facilities that are likely to be discharging PFAS in their wastewater, including OCPSF manufacturers and formulators. This advance notice of proposed rulemaking ANPRM
provides for public review and comment on the information and data regarding PFAS manufacturers and formulators that EPA has collected to date. EPA is requesting public comment on the information and data presented in this ANPRM. EPA is also soliciting additional information and data regarding discharges of PFAS from these facilities to inform future revisions to the wastewater discharge requirements that apply to the OCPSF point source category.

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SUMMARY:

Comments must be received on or before May 17, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPAHQ
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Federal eRulemaking Portal:
https www.regulations.gov/ our preferred method. Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center, Office of Water, Office of Science and Technology Docket, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460.
Hand Delivery or Courier by scheduled appointment only: EPA
Docket Center, WJC West Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004. The Docket Centers hours of operations are 8:30
a.m.4:30 p.m., MondayFriday except Federal Holidays.
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. For detailed instructions on sending comments and additional information on the rulemaking process, see the Public Participation heading of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document. Out of an abundance of caution for members of the public and our staff, the EPA Docket Center and Reading Room are closed to the public, with limited exceptions, to reduce the risk of transmitting COVID19. 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/ or email, as there may be a delay in processing mail and faxes. Hand deliveries and couriers may be received by scheduled appointment only. 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: Ms.
Samantha Lewis, Engineering and Analysis Division, Office of Science and Technology, Office of Water; telephone number: 2025661058; email address:
lewis.samantha@epa.gov.
I. Public Participation A. Written Comments Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPAHQOW2020
0582, at https www.regulations.gov our preferred method, or the other methods identified in the ADDRESSES
section. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or removed from the docket. EPA may publish any comment received to its public docket. Do not submit to EPAs docket at https
www.regulations.gov any information
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you consider to be Confidential Business Information CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. If you wish to submit such information, consult the person listed for additional information in the preceding FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section.
Multimedia submissions audio, video, etc. must be accompanied by a written comment. The written comment is considered the official comment and should include discussion of all points you wish to make. EPA will generally not consider comments or comment contents located outside of the primary submission i.e., on the web, cloud, or other file sharing system. For additional submission methods, the full EPA public comment policy, information about CBI or multimedia submissions, and general guidance on making effective comments, please visit https www.epa.gov/dockets/
commenting-epa-dockets.
EPA is temporarily suspending its Docket Center and Reading Room for public visitors, with limited exceptions, to reduce the risk of transmitting COVID19. 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 may be a delay in processing mail and faxes.
Hand deliveries or couriers will be received by scheduled appointment only. For further information and updates on EPA Docket Center services, please visit us online at https
www.epa.gov/dockets.
EPA continues to carefully and continuously monitor information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, local area health departments, and our Federal partners so that we can respond rapidly as conditions change regarding COVID19.
B. Supporting Information This notice is supported by documents that are contained in the public docket. EPA has prepared an index of these materials to aid in the publics review and comment. The index can be identified by searching the docket for DCN OCPSF00116.
II. General Information A. Does this action apply to me?
Entities potentially affected by any rulemaking following this notice include:

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