[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 84 (Thursday, April 30, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 23957]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-09132]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Cross-Media Electronic Reporting: Authorized Program Revision 
Approval, Commonwealth of Virginia

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the Environmental Protection Agency's 
(EPA) approval of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Department of 
Environmental Quality (DEQ) request to revise/modify certain its EPA-
authorized programs to allow electronic reporting.

DATES: EPA approves the authorized program revisions/modifications as 
of April 30, 2020.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shirley M. Miller, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Information, Mail Stop 
2824T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460, (202) 566-
2908, miller.shirley@epa.gov.

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.  [thinsp]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 programs covered 
by the application and will use electronic document receiving systems 
that meet the applicable subpart D requirements.
    On January 13, 2010, the Virginia Department of Environmental 
Quality (VA DEQ) submitted an application titled ``Electronic 
Environmental Data Exchange Reporting System'' for revision/
modification to its EPA-approved stormwater program under title 40 CFR 
to allow new electronic reporting. EPA reviewed VA DEQ's request to 
revise/modify its EPA-authorized Part 123--EPA Administered Permit 
Programs: The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System program 
and, based on this review, EPA determined that the application met the 
standards for approval of authorized program revision/modification 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 Virginia's request to revise/
modify its Part 123--EPA Administered Permit Programs: The National 
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System program to allow electronic 
reporting under 40 CFR part 122 is being published in the Federal 
Register.
    VA DEQ was notified of EPA's determination to approve its 
application with respect to the authorized program listed above.

    Dated: April 24, 2020.
Yvonne Lee,
Acting Director, Office of Information Management.
[FR Doc. 2020-09132 Filed 4-29-20; 8:45 am]
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