GPO.gov: Petition to Add the Oil and Gas Extraction Industry to the List of Facilities Required To Report under the Toxics Release Inventory

This is long overdue. DV

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-01-03/pdf/2013-31484.pdf

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-01-03/html/2013-31484.htm

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 2 (Friday, January 3, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 393]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-31484]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-TRI-2013-0281; FRL-9904-82-OEI]

Petition To Add the Oil and Gas Extraction Industry, Standard
Industrial Classification Code 13, to the List of Facilities Required
To Report Under the Toxics Release Inventory; Notice of Receipt of
Petition

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of receipt of petition.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) and sixteen other
organizations submitted a petition to the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), dated October 24, 2012, requesting that EPA add the Oil
and Gas Extraction sector, Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)
code 13, to the scope of sectors covered by the Toxics Release
Inventory (TRI) under section 313 of the Emergency Planning and
Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA). The petition also requests that
EPA publish the petition in the Federal Register. This Federal Register
Notice provides notice of receipt of this petition, along with the
Docket Identification Number that can be used to view the petition and
related documents. EPA is not soliciting public comment regarding this
notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gilbert Mears, Toxics Release
Inventory Program Division, Office of Environmental Information (mail
code 2844T), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 566-0954; fax
number: (202) 566-0715; email address: mears.gilbert@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. How can I get copies of this document and other related information?

1. Docket. EPA has established a docket for this action under
Docket ID No EPA-HQ-TRI-2013-0281. Publicly available docket materials
are available either electronically through www.regulations.gov or in
hard copy at the “Petition to Add the Oil and Gas Extraction Industry,
Standard Industrial Classification Code 13, to the List of Facilities
Required To Report under the Toxics Release Inventory” Docket in the
EPA Docket Center, (EPA/DC) EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave.
NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center 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, and the telephone number for the “Petition to Add the Oil
and Gas Extraction Industry, Standard Industrial Classification Code
13, to the List of Facilities Required To Report under the Toxics
Release Inventory” Docket is (202) 566-1752.
2. Electronic Access. You may access this Federal Register document
electronically from the Government Printing Office under the “Federal
Register” listings at FDSys (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=FR).

Dated: December 16, 2013.
Arnold E. Layne,
Director, Office of Information Analysis and Access, Office of
Environmental Information.
[FR Doc. 2013-31484 Filed 1-2-14; 8:45 am]
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Special thanks to Richard Charter

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