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Federal Register/Vol. 85, No. 47/Tuesday, March 10, 2020 14098 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 47 / Tuesday, March 10, 2020 / Proposed Rules ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION • Federal eRulemaking Portal: making effective comments, please visit AGENCY https://www.regulations.gov/ (our https://www.epa.gov/dockets/ preferred method). Follow the online commenting-epa-dockets. 40 CFR Part 141 instructions for submitting comments. When submitting comments, • Mail: Water Docket, Environmental remember to: [EPA–HQ–OW–2019–0583; FRL–10005–88– Protection Agency, Mail Code: [28221T], • Identify the rulemaking by docket OW] 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, number and other identifying Announcement of Preliminary Washington, DC 20460. information (subject heading, Federal • Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center, Regulatory Determinations for Register date, and page number). [EPA/DC] EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 • Contaminants on the Fourth Drinking Explain why you agree or disagree Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC. Water Contaminant Candidate List and suggest alternatives. Such deliveries are only accepted • Describe any assumptions and AGENCY: Environmental Protection during the Docket’s normal hours of provide any technical information and/ Agency (EPA). operation, and special arrangements or data that you used. • ACTION: Request for public comment. should be made for deliveries of boxed Provide specific examples to information. illustrate your concerns and suggest SUMMARY: The Safe Drinking Water Act Instructions: All submissions received alternatives. (SDWA), as amended in 1996, requires must include the Docket ID No. for this • Explain your views as clearly as the Environmental Protection Agency rulemaking. Comments received may be possible. (EPA) to make regulatory posted without change to https:// • Make sure to submit your determinations every five years on at www.regulations.gov/, including any comments by the comment period least five unregulated contaminants. A personal information provided. For deadline identified. regulatory determination is a decision detailed instructions on sending B. Does this action apply to me? about whether or not to begin the comments and additional information process to propose and promulgate a on the rulemaking process, see the Neither these preliminary regulatory national primary drinking water ‘‘Written Comments’’ heading of the determinations nor the final regulatory regulation (NPDWR) for an unregulated SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of determinations, when published, contaminant. A preliminary regulatory this document. impose any requirements on anyone. determination lays out and takes FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Instead, this action notifies interested comment on EPA’s view about whether Richard Weisman, Standards and Risk parties of the EPA’s preliminary certain unregulated contaminants meet Management Division, Office of Ground regulatory determinations for eight three statutory criteria. After EPA Water and Drinking Water, MC: 4607M, unregulated contaminants for comment. considers public comment, EPA makes Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Abbreviations Used in This Document a final determination. The unregulated Pennsylvania Ave. NW; telephone contaminants included in a regulatory number: (202) 564–2822; email address: Abbreviation Meaning determination are chosen from the [email protected]. ADAF .............. Age Dependent Adjustment Fac- Contaminant Candidate List (CCL), SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: tor which the SDWA requires the EPA to ADONA ........... 4,8-dioxa-3H-perfluorononanoic publish every five years. The EPA I. General Information acid ALT ................. Alanine Aminotransferase published the fourth CCL (CCL 4) in the A. Written Comments AM .................. Assessment Monitoring Federal Register on November 17, 2016. Submit your comments, identified by AOP ................. Advanced Oxidative Process This document presents the preliminary ASDWA .......... Association of State Drinking Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OW–2019– Water Administrators regulatory determinations and 0583, at https://www.regulations.gov supporting rationale for the following ATSDR ............ Agency for Toxic Substances and (our preferred method), or the other Disease Registry eight of the 109 contaminants listed on methods identified in the ADDRESSES AWIA .............. America’s Water Infrastructure CCL 4: Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid Act section. Once submitted, comments BAT ................. Best Available Technology (PFOS), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), cannot be edited or removed from the 1,1-dichloroethane, acetochlor, methyl BMD ................ Benchmark Dose docket. The EPA may publish any BMDL .............. Benchmark Dose Level bromide (bromomethane), metolachlor, comment received to its public docket. BMDS .............. Benchmark Dose Software nitrobenzene, and Royal Demolition BMR ................ Benchmark Response Do not submit electronically any BW .................. Body Weight eXplosive (RDX). The Agency is making information you consider to be preliminary determinations to regulate CAR ................. Constitutive Androstane Recep- Confidential Business Information (CBI) tor two contaminants (i.e., PFOS and or other information whose disclosure is CBI .................. Confidential Business Informa- PFOA) and to not regulate six tion restricted by statute. Multimedia CCL ................. Contaminant Candidate List contaminants (i.e., 1,1-dichloroethane, submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be acetochlor, methyl bromide, CCL 1 .............. First Contaminant Candidate List accompanied by a written comment. CCL 2 .............. Second Contaminant Candidate metolachlor, nitrobenzene, and RDX). The written comment is considered the List The EPA seeks comment on these CCL 3 .............. Third Contaminant Candidate official comment and should include List preliminary determinations. The EPA is discussion of all points you wish to also presenting an update on three other CCL 4 .............. Fourth Contaminant Candidate make. The EPA will generally not List CCL 4 contaminants (strontium, 1,4- consider comments or comment CDPHE ............ Colorado Department of Public dioxane, and 1,2,3-trichloropropane). Health and Environment contents located outside of the primary CDR ................. Chemical Data Reporting DATES: Comments must be received on submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or CIIT ................. Chemical Industry Institute of or before May 11, 2020. other file sharing system). For Toxicology ADDRESSES: You may send comments, additional submission methods, the full CNS ................. Central Nervous System cPAD ............... Chronic Population Adjusted identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– EPA public comment policy, Dose OW–2019–0583, by any of the following information about CBI or multimedia CRL ................. Cancer Risk Level methods: submissions, and general guidance on CSF .................. Cancer Slope Factor VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:18 Mar 09, 2020 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4701 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\10MRP4.SGM 10MRP4 khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with PROPOSALS4 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 47 / Tuesday, March 10, 2020 / Proposed Rules 14099 Abbreviation Meaning Abbreviation Meaning Abbreviation Meaning CWS ................ Community Water System NPYR .............. N-Nitrosopyrrolidine WQX ............... Water Quality Exchange CWSS .............. Community Water System Sur- NRC ................. National Research Council 5:3 acid ........... 2H,2H,3H,3H-Perfluorooctanoic vey NTP ................. National Toxicology Program acid D/DBP ............. Disinfectants/Disinfection By- NWIS ............... National Water Information Sys- 6:2 diPAP ........ Bis[2-(perfluorohexyl)ethyl] products tem phosphate DBP ................. Disinfection Byproduct OA ................... Oxanilic Acid 6:2 monoPAP .. Mono[2-(perfluorohexyl)ethyl] DDE ................. 1,1-Dichloro-2,2-bis(p- OPP ................. Office of Pesticides Program phosphate chlorophenyl)ethylene ORD ................. Office of Research and Develop- 6:2/8:2 diPAP 6:2/8:2 Fluorotelomer phosphate DWI ................. Drinking Water Intake ment diester EPA ................. Environmental Protection Agen- OTC ................. Ornithine Carbamoyl Transferase 8:2 diPAP ........ Bis[2-(perfluorooctyl)ethyl] phos- cy OW .................. Office of Water phate EPCRA ............ Emergency Planning and Com- PCCL ............... Preliminary Contaminant Can- 8:2 monoPAP .. Mono[2-(perfluorooctyl)ethyl] munity Right-To-Know Act didate List phosphate EPTC ............... S-Ethyl dipropylthiocarbamate PDP ................. Pesticide Data Program ESA ................. Ethanesulfonic Acid PFAA .............. Perfluorinated Alkyl Acids FtOH 6:2 ......... 6:2 Fluorotelomer Alcohol PFAS ............... Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Sub- Table of Contents FtOH 8:2 ......... 8:2 Fluorotelomer Alcohol stances FtS 6:2 ............. 6:2 Fluorotelomer Sulfonic Acid PFBA ............... Perfluorobutanoic Acid I. General Information FtS 8:2 ............. 8:2 Fluorotelomer Sulfonic Acid PFBS ............... Perfluorobutanesulfonic Acid A. Written Comments FQPA .............. Food Quality Protection Act PFDA ............... Perfluorodecanoic Acid B. Does this action apply to me? FR .................... Federal Register PFDS ............... Perfluorodecanesulfonic Acid II. Purpose and Background HA ................... Health Advisory PFHpA ............ Perfluoroheptanoic Acid A. What is the purpose of this action? HDL ................. 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