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Information claimed as CBI and otherinformation whose disclosure isrestricted by statute, which is notincluded in the official public docket,will not be available for public viewingin EPA
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s electronic public docket. EPA
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spolicy is that copyrighted material willnot be placed in EPA
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s electronic publicdocket but will be available only inprinted, paper form in the official publicdocket. To the extend feasible, publiclyavailable docket materials will be madeavailable in EPA
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s electronic publicdocket. When a document is selectedfrom the index list in EPA Dockets, thesystem will identify whether thedocument is available for viewing inEPA
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s electronic public docket.Although not all docket materials may be available electronically, you may stillaccess any of the publicly availabledocket materials through the docketfacility identified in Unit I.B. EPAintends to work towards providingelectronic access to all of the publiclyavailable docket materials throughEPA
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s electronic public docket.For public commenters, it isimportant to note that EPA
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s policy isthat public comments, whethersubmitted electronically or in paper,will be made available for publicviewing in EPA
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s electronic publicdocket as EPA receives them andwithout change, unless the commentcontains copyrighted material, CBI, orother information whose disclosure isrestricted by statute. When EPAidentifies a comment containingcopyrighted material, EPA will provideda reference to that material in theversion of the comment that is placed inEPA
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s electronic public docket. Theentire printed comment, including thecopyrighted material, will be availablein the public docket.Public comments submitted oncomputer disks that are mailed ordelivered to the docket will betransferred to EPA
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s electronic publicdocket. Public comments that aremailed or delivered to the Docket will be scanned and placed in EPA
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selectronic public docket. Wherepractical, physical objects will bephotographed, and the photograph will be placed in EPA
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s electronic publicdocket along with a brief descriptionwritten by the docket staff.For additional information aboutEPA
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s electronic public docket visit EPADockets online or see 67 FR 38102, May31, 2002.
C. How and to Whom Do I Submit Comments?
You may submit commentselectronically, by mail, or through handdelivery/courier. To ensure properreceipt by EPA, identify the appropriatedocket identification number (
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TRI
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) in the subject line on thefirst page of your comment. Pleaseensure that your comments aresubmitted within the specified commentperiod. Comments received after theclose of the comment period will bemarked
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late.
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EPA is not required toconsider these late comments. If youwish to submit CBI or information thatis otherwise protected by statute, pleasefollow the instructions in Unit I.D. Donot use EPA Dockets or e-mail to submitCBI or information protected by statute.1.
Electronically.
If you submit anelectronic comment as prescribed below, EPA recommends that youinclude your name, mailing address,and an e-mail address or other contactinformation in the body of yourcomment. Also include this contactinformation on the outside of any diskor CD ROM you submit, and in anycover letter accompanying the disk orCD ROM. This ensures that you can beidentified as the submitter of thecomment and allows EPA to contact youin case EPA cannot read your commentdue to technical difficulties or needsfurther information on the substance of your comment. EPA
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s policy is that EPAwill not edit your comment, and anyidentifying or contact informationprovided in the body of a comment will be included as part of the comment thatis placed in the official public docket,and made available in EPA
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s electronicpublic docket. If EPA cannot read yourcomment due to technical difficultiesand cannot contact you for clarification,EPA may not be able to consider yourcomment.i.
EPA Dockets.
Your use of EPA
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selectronic public docket to submitcomments to EPA electronically isEPA
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s preferred method for receivingcomments. Go directly to EPA Docketsat
http://www.epa.gov/edocket,
andfollow the online instructions forsubmitting comments. To access EPA
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selectronic public docket from the EPAInternet Home Page, select
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Dockets,
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and
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EPADockets.
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Once in the system, select
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search,
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and then key in Docket ID No.TRI
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0003. The system is an
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anonymous access
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system, whichmeans EPA will not know your identity,e-mail address, or other contactinformation unless you provide it in the body of your comment.ii.
E-mail.
Comment may be sent byelectronic mail (e-mail) to
oei.docket@epa.gov.
Attention DocketID No. TRI
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0003. In contrast toEPA
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s electronic public docket, EPA
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s e-mail system is not an
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anonymousaccess
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system. If you send an e-mailcomment directly to the Docket withoutgoing through EPA
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s electronic publicdocket, EPA
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s e-mail systemautomatically captures your e-mailaddress. E-mail addresses that areautomatically captured by EPA
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s e-mailsystem are included as part of thecomment that is placed in the officialpublic docket, and made available inEPA
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s electronic public docket.iii.
Disk or CD ROM.
You may submitcomments on a disk or CD ROM thatyou mail to the mailing addressidentified in Unit I.C.2. These electronicsubmissions will be accepted inWordPerfect or ASCII file format. Avoidthe use of special characters and anyform of encryption. All comments anddata in electronic form must beidentified by the docket control number
TRI
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0003.
Electronic commentson this document may also be filedonline at many Federal DepositoryLibraries.2.
By Mail.
Send three copies of yourcomments to: Document Control Office,Office of Environmental Information(OEI), U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,Washington, DC 20460.3.
By Hand Delivery or Courier.
Comments may be delivered in personor by courier to: EPA Docket Center(EPA/DC) EPA West, Room B102, 1301Constitution Ave., NW., Washington,DC, attention Docket ID No. TRI
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D. How Should I Handle CBI Information That I Want To Submit tothe Agency?
All comments which containinformation claimed as CBI must beclearly marked as such. Three sanitizedcopies of any comments containinginformation claimed as CBI must also besubmitted and will be placed in thepublic record for this document.Persons submitting information anyportion of which they believe is entitledto treatment as CBI by EPA must asserta business confidentiality claim inaccordance with 40 CFR 2.203(b) foreach such portion. This claim must bemade at the time that the information issubmitted to EPA. Information covered by such a claim will be disclosed byEPA only to the extent, and by meansof the procedures set forth in 40 CFRpart 2, subpart B. If a confidentialityclaim does not accompany theinformation when it is received by EPA,the information may be made availableto the public by EPA without furthernotice to the submitter.
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