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occurring in high-intensity events,
resulting in increased stormwater
runoff. At the same time, a shift towards
more intense storms is expected to
decrease infiltration and groundwater
recharge, resulting in reduced low-flow
periods between events. Increased air
temperatures and evapotranspiration
could also result in reduced streamflow
between rainfall events. Reduced lowflow events in receiving waters could
result in increased water quality
impairment below POTWs due to
reduced dilution of effluent.
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Dated: March 26, 2007.
David Bussard,
Acting Director, National Center for
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2007–0241;
FRL–8293–6]
Draft Toxicological Review of
Nitrobenzene (CASRN 98–95–3): In
Support of the Summary Information in
the Integrated Risk Information System
(IRIS)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of External Peer-Review
Panel Meeting and Public Comment
Period.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: EPA is announcing that the
Oak Ridge Institute of Science and
Education (ORISE), under an agreement
between the Department of Energy and
EPA, will convene an independent
panel of experts and organize and
conduct an external peer-review
workshop to review the external review
draft document titled, ‘‘Toxicological
Review of Nitrobenzene: In Support of
Summary Information in the Integrated
Risk Information System (IRIS).’’ The
EPA also is announcing a public
comment period for the external review
draft document.
The public comment period and the
external peer-review workshop are
separate processes that provide
opportunities for all interested parties to
comment on the document. In addition
to consideration by EPA, all public
comments submitted in accordance with
this notice will also be forwarded to
ORISE for consideration by the external
peer-review panel prior to the
workshop.
EPA is releasing this draft document
solely for the purpose of predissemination peer review under
applicable information quality
guidelines. This document has not been
formally disseminated by EPA. It does
not represent and should not be
construed to represent any Agency
policy or determination. ORISE invites
the public to register to attend this
workshop as observers. In addition,
ORISE invites the public to give brief
oral comments at the workshop
regarding the draft document under
review. The draft document and EPA’s
peer-review charge are available via the
Internet on the National Center for
Environmental Assessment’s (NCEA’s)
home page under the Recent Additions
and the Publications menus at https://
www.epa.gov/ncea. When finalizing the
draft document, EPA will consider
ORISE’s report of the comments and
recommendations from the external
peer-review workshop and any public
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comments that EPA receives in
accordance with this notice.
DATES: The external peer-review panel
workshop will begin on May 15, 2007,
at 9:00 a.m. and end at 4:00 p.m. The
public comment period begins March
29, 2007 and ends April 30, 2007.
Technical comments should be in
writing and must be received by EPA by
April 30, 2007. Comments received from
the public by this date will be submitted
to the external peer-review panel prior
to the workshop.
ADDRESSES: The external peer-review
workshop will be held at the American
Geophysical Union, 2000 Florida
Avenue, Washington, DC. ORISE is
organizing, convening, and conducting
the peer-review workshop. To attend the
workshop and/or provide brief oral
comments, you must register by May 1,
2007, via the Internet at https://
www.orau.gov/nitrobenzene. You may
also register by calling ORISE at 865–
576–2922, sending a facsimile to 865–
241–3168, or sending an e-mail to
Margaret Lyday at
Margaret.Lyday@orise.orau.gov.
The draft document, ‘‘Toxicological
Review of Nitrobenzene: In Support of
Summary Information in the Integrated
Risk Information System (IRIS)’’ is
available via the Internet on NCEA’s
home page under the Recent Additions
and the Publications menus at https://
www.epa.gov/ncea. A limited number of
paper copies are available from NCEA’s
Technical Information Staff (telephone;
202–564–3261, facsimile 202–565–
0050). If you are requesting a paper
copy, please provide your name,
mailing address, and the document title.
Copies are not available from ORISE.
Comments may be submitted
electronically at https://
www.regulations.gov, by mail, by
facsimile, or by hand delivery/courier.
Please follow the detailed instructions
as provided in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information on the peer-review
workshop, contact Margaret Lyday by
mail: Oak Ridge Institute for Science
and Education, P.O. Box 117, Oak
Ridge, TN 37831–0117; phone: 865–
576–2922; facsimile: 865–241–3168; or
e-mail: Margaret.Lyday@orise.orau.gov.
For information on the public
comment period, contact the Office of
Environmental Information Docket by
phone: 202–566–1752; facsimile: 202–
566–1753; or e-mail:
ORD.Docket@epa.gov.
If you have questions about the
document, contact Dr. Stedeford, IRIS
Staff, National Center for Environmental
Assessment, by mail: U.S. EPA (8601D),
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1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; phone: 202–
564–2066; facsimile: 202–565–0075; or
e-mail: Stedeford.Todd@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Summary of Information About the
Integrated Risk Information System
(IRIS)
IRIS is a database that contains
information regarding potential adverse
human health effects that may result
from chronic (or lifetime) exposure to
specific chemical substances found in
the environment. The database
(available on the Internet at https://
www.epa.gov/iris) contains qualitative
and quantitative health effects
information for more than 540 chemical
substances that may be used to support
the first two steps (hazard identification
and dose-response evaluation) of a risk
assessment process. When supported by
available data, the database provides
oral reference doses (RfDs) and
inhalation reference concentrations
(RfCs) for chronic health effects, and
oral slope factors and inhalation unit
risks for carcinogenic effects. Combined
with specific exposure information,
government and private entities can use
IRIS to help characterize public health
risks of chemical substances in a sitespecific situation and thereby support
risk management decisions designed to
protect public health.
II. Workshop Information
Members of the public may attend the
workshop as observers, and there will
be a limited time for comments from the
public. If you wish to make oral
comments during the review, you must
pre-register at https://www.orau.gov/
nitrobenze by May 1, 2007. Space is
limited and reservations will be
accepted on a first-come, first-served
basis.
III. How To Submit Technical
Comments to the Docket at https://
www.regulations.gov
Submit your comments, identified by
Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2007–
0241 by one of the following methods:
• https://www.regulations.gov: Follow
the on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• E-mail: ORD.Docket@epa.gov.
• Fax: 202–566–1753.
• Mail: Office of Environmental
Information (OEI) Docket (Mail Code:
2822T), U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW., Washington, DC 20460. The phone
number is 202–566–1752.
• Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is
located in the EPA Headquarters Docket
Center, EPA West Building, Room 3334,
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1301 Constitution Avenue, 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.
Such deliveries are only accepted
during the Docket’s normal hours of
operation, and special arrangements
should be made for deliveries of boxed
information. Consult EPA’s Web site at
https://www.epa.gov/epahome/
dockets.htm for current information on
docket operations, locations, and
telephone numbers.
If you provide comments by mail or
hand delivery, please submit one
unbound original with pages numbered
consecutively, and three copies of the
comments. For attachments, provide an
index, number pages consecutively with
the comments, and submit an unbound
original and three copies.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2007–
0241. Please ensure that your comments
are submitted within the specified
comment period. Comments received
after the closing date will be marked
‘‘late,’’ and may only be considered if
time permits. It is EPA’s policy to
include all comments it receives in the
public docket without change and to
make the comments available online at
https://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal information provided,
unless a comment includes information
claimed to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise
protected through https://
www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The
https://www.regulations.gov Web site is
an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which
means EPA will not know your identity
or contact information unless you
provide it in the body of your comment.
If you send an e-mail comment directly
to EPA without going through https://
www.regulations.gov, your e-mail
address will be automatically captured
and included as part of the comment
that is placed in the public docket and
made available on the Internet. If you
submit an electronic comment, EPA
recommends that you include your
name and other contact information in
the body of your comment and with any
disk or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA
cannot read your comment due to
technical difficulties and cannot contact
you for clarification, EPA may not be
able to consider your comment.
Electronic files should avoid the use of
special characters, any form of
encryption, and be free of any defects or
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viruses. For additional information
about EPA’s public docket visit the EPA
Docket Center homepage at https://
www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
Docket: Documents in the docket are
listed in the https://www.regulations.gov
index. Although listed in the index,
some information is not publicly
available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Certain other materials, such as
copyrighted material, are publicly
available only in hard copy. Publicly
available docket materials are available
either electronically in https://
www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at
the OEI Docket in the EPA Headquarters
Docket Center.
Dated: March 26, 2007.
David Bussard,
Acting Director, National Center for
Environmental Assessment.
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Formations of, Acquisitions by, and
Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
The companies listed in this notice
have applied to the Board for approval,
pursuant to the Bank Holding Company
Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.)
(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part
225), and all other applicable statutes
and regulations to become a bank
holding company and/or to acquire the
assets or the ownership of, control of, or
the power to vote shares of a bank or
bank holding company and all of the
banks and nonbanking companies
owned by the bank holding company,
including the companies listed below.
The applications listed below, as well
as other related filings required by the
Board, are available for immediate
inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank
indicated. The application also will be
available for inspection at the offices of
the Board of Governors. Interested
persons may express their views in
writing on the standards enumerated in
the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the
proposal also involves the acquisition of
a nonbanking company, the review also
includes whether the acquisition of the
nonbanking company complies with the
standards in section 4 of the BHC Act
(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise
noted, nonbanking activities will be
conducted throughout the United States.
Additional information on all bank
holding companies may be obtained
from the National Information Center
website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
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regarding each of these applications
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must be received at the Reserve Bank
indicated or the offices of the Board of
Governors not later than April 23, 2007.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of New
York (Anne McEwen, Financial
Specialist) 33 Liberty Street, New York,
New York 10045-0001:
1. Australia and New Zealand
Banking Group Limited, Melbourne,
Australia; to acquire 100 percent of the
voting shares of Citizens Bancorp, and
thereby indirectly acquire voting shares
of Citizens Security Bank (Guam), Inc.,
both located in Hagatna, Guam.
B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
(Patrick M. Wilder, Assistant Vice
President) 230 South LaSalle Street,
Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
1. Layton Park Financial Group, Inc.,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin; to become a
bank holding company by acquiring 100
percent of the voting shares of Layton
State Bank, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
In connection with this application,
Applicant also has applied to engage de
novo in lending activities, pursuant to
section 225.28(b)(1) of Regulation Y.
C. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
(Glenda Wilson, Community Affairs
Officer) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis,
Missouri 63166-2034:
1. Lea M. McMullan Trust,
Shelbyville, Kentucky; to acquire 100
percent of the voting shares of, and
thereby merge with Fort Knox National
Bancorp, Inc., Radcliff, Kentucky, and
thereby indirectly acquire Fort Knox
National Bank, Radcliff, Kentucky.
In connection with this application,
Citizens Union Bancorp of Shelbyville,
Inc., Shelbyville, Kentucky, also has
applied to acquire 100 percent of the
voting shares of Fort Knox National
Bancorp, Inc., Radcliff, Kentucky, and
thereby indirectly acquire voting shares
of Fort Knox National Bank, Radcliff,
Kentucky.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, March 26, 2007.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
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have given notice under section 4 of the
Bank Holding Company Act (12 U.S.C.
1843) (BHC Act) and Regulation Y (12
CFR Part 225) to engage de novo, or to
acquire or control voting securities or
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companies listed below, that engages
either directly or through a subsidiary or
other company, in a nonbanking activity
that is listed in § 225.28 of Regulation Y
(12 CFR 225.28) or that the Board has
determined by Order to be closely
related to banking and permissible for
bank holding companies. Unless
otherwise noted, these activities will be
conducted throughout the United States.
Each notice is available for inspection
at the Federal Reserve Bank indicated.
The notice also will be available for
inspection at the offices of the Board of
Governors. Interested persons may
express their views in writing on the
question whether the proposal complies
with the standards of section 4 of the
BHC Act. Additional information on all
bank holding companies may be
obtained from the National Information
Center website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
Unless otherwise noted, comments
regarding the applications must be
received at the Reserve Bank indicated
or the offices of the Board of Governors
not later than April 23, 2007.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
(David Tatum, Vice President) 1000
Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia
30309:
1. First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc.,
Hammond, Louisiana; to acquire 100
percent of the voting shares of
Homestead Bancorp, Inc., and thereby
indirectly acquire Homestead Bank,
both of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, and
thereby engage in operating a savings
association, pursuant to section
225.28(b)(4)(ii) of Regulation Y.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, March 26, 2007.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0241; FRL-8293-6]
Draft Toxicological Review of Nitrobenzene (CASRN 98-95-3): In
Support of the Summary Information in the Integrated Risk Information
System (IRIS)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of External Peer-Review Panel Meeting and Public Comment
Period.
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SUMMARY: EPA is announcing that the Oak Ridge Institute of Science and
Education (ORISE), under an agreement between the Department of Energy
and EPA, will convene an independent panel of experts and organize and
conduct an external peer-review workshop to review the external review
draft document titled, ``Toxicological Review of Nitrobenzene: In
Support of Summary Information in the Integrated Risk Information
System (IRIS).'' The EPA also is announcing a public comment period for
the external review draft document.
The public comment period and the external peer-review workshop are
separate processes that provide opportunities for all interested
parties to comment on the document. In addition to consideration by
EPA, all public comments submitted in accordance with this notice will
also be forwarded to ORISE for consideration by the external peer-
review panel prior to the workshop.
EPA is releasing this draft document solely for the purpose of pre-
dissemination peer review under applicable information quality
guidelines. This document has not been formally disseminated by EPA. It
does not represent and should not be construed to represent any Agency
policy or determination. ORISE invites the public to register to attend
this workshop as observers. In addition, ORISE invites the public to
give brief oral comments at the workshop regarding the draft document
under review. The draft document and EPA's peer-review charge are
available via the Internet on the National Center for Environmental
Assessment's (NCEA's) home page under the Recent Additions and the
Publications menus at https://www.epa.gov/ncea. When finalizing the
draft document, EPA will consider ORISE's report of the comments and
recommendations from the external peer-review workshop and any public
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comments that EPA receives in accordance with this notice.
DATES: The external peer-review panel workshop will begin on May 15,
2007, at 9:00 a.m. and end at 4:00 p.m. The public comment period
begins March 29, 2007 and ends April 30, 2007. Technical comments
should be in writing and must be received by EPA by April 30, 2007.
Comments received from the public by this date will be submitted to the
external peer-review panel prior to the workshop.
ADDRESSES: The external peer-review workshop will be held at the
American Geophysical Union, 2000 Florida Avenue, Washington, DC. ORISE
is organizing, convening, and conducting the peer-review workshop. To
attend the workshop and/or provide brief oral comments, you must
register by May 1, 2007, via the Internet at https://www.orau.gov/
nitrobenzene. You may also register by calling ORISE at 865-576-2922,
sending a facsimile to 865-241-3168, or sending an e-mail to Margaret
Lyday at Margaret.Lyday@orise.orau.gov.
The draft document, ``Toxicological Review of Nitrobenzene: In
Support of Summary Information in the Integrated Risk Information
System (IRIS)'' is available via the Internet on NCEA's home page under
the Recent Additions and the Publications menus at https://www.epa.gov/
ncea. A limited number of paper copies are available from NCEA's
Technical Information Staff (telephone; 202-564-3261, facsimile 202-
565-0050). If you are requesting a paper copy, please provide your
name, mailing address, and the document title. Copies are not available
from ORISE.
Comments may be submitted electronically at https://
www.regulations.gov, by mail, by facsimile, or by hand delivery/
courier. Please follow the detailed instructions as provided in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information on the peer-review
workshop, contact Margaret Lyday by mail: Oak Ridge Institute for
Science and Education, P.O. Box 117, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-0117; phone:
865-576-2922; facsimile: 865-241-3168; or e-mail:
Margaret.Lyday@orise.orau.gov.
For information on the public comment period, contact the Office of
Environmental Information Docket by phone: 202-566-1752; facsimile:
202-566-1753; or e-mail: ORD.Docket@epa.gov.
If you have questions about the document, contact Dr. Stedeford,
IRIS Staff, National Center for Environmental Assessment, by mail: U.S.
EPA (8601D), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460;
phone: 202-564-2066; facsimile: 202-565-0075; or e-mail:
Stedeford.Todd@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Summary of Information About the Integrated Risk Information System
(IRIS)
IRIS is a database that contains information regarding potential
adverse human health effects that may result from chronic (or lifetime)
exposure to specific chemical substances found in the environment. The
database (available on the Internet at https://www.epa.gov/iris)
contains qualitative and quantitative health effects information for
more than 540 chemical substances that may be used to support the first
two steps (hazard identification and dose-response evaluation) of a
risk assessment process. When supported by available data, the database
provides oral reference doses (RfDs) and inhalation reference
concentrations (RfCs) for chronic health effects, and oral slope
factors and inhalation unit risks for carcinogenic effects. Combined
with specific exposure information, government and private entities can
use IRIS to help characterize public health risks of chemical
substances in a site-specific situation and thereby support risk
management decisions designed to protect public health.
II. Workshop Information
Members of the public may attend the workshop as observers, and
there will be a limited time for comments from the public. If you wish
to make oral comments during the review, you must pre-register at
https://www.orau.gov/nitrobenze by May 1, 2007. Space is limited and
reservations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.
III. How To Submit Technical Comments to the Docket at https://
www.regulations.gov
Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-
0241 by one of the following methods:
https://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
E-mail: ORD.Docket@epa.gov.
Fax: 202-566-1753.
Mail: Office of Environmental Information (OEI) Docket
(Mail Code: 2822T), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460. The phone number is
202-566-1752.
Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is located in the EPA
Headquarters Docket Center, EPA West Building, Room 3334, 1301
Constitution Avenue, 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. Such deliveries are only accepted during
the Docket's normal hours of operation, and special arrangements should
be made for deliveries of boxed information. Consult EPA's Web site at
https://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm for current information on
docket operations, locations, and telephone numbers.
If you provide comments by mail or hand delivery, please submit one
unbound original with pages numbered consecutively, and three copies of
the comments. For attachments, provide an index, number pages
consecutively with the comments, and submit an unbound original and
three copies.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2007-0241. Please ensure that your comments are submitted within the
specified comment period. Comments received after the closing date will
be marked ``late,'' and may only be considered if time permits. It is
EPA's policy to include all comments it receives in the public docket
without change and to make the comments available online at https://
www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided,
unless a comment includes information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you consider to
be CBI or otherwise protected through https://www.regulations.gov or e-
mail. The https://www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous
access'' system, which means EPA will not know your identity or contact
information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you
send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without going through https://
www.regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be automatically captured
and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket
and made available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic
comment, EPA recommends that you include your name and other contact
information in the body of your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you
submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties
and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA may not be able to
consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid the use of special
characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any defects or
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viruses. For additional information about EPA's public docket visit the
EPA Docket Center homepage at https://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
Docket: Documents in the docket are listed in the https://
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other materials,
such as copyrighted material, are publicly available only in hard copy.
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically
in https://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the OEI Docket in the
EPA Headquarters Docket Center.
Dated: March 26, 2007.
David Bussard,
Acting Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.
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