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(Commission) issued a notice
announcing a conference in this
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2008. As mentioned in that notice, the
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EPA Science Advisory Board Staff
Office; Notification of a Public
Teleconference Meeting of the
Chartered Science Advisory Board
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office announces two
public teleconference meetings of the
chartered SAB to: (1) Conduct its quality
review of several draft SAB reports, and
(2) to receive a briefing from EPA on
biofuels.
The meeting dates are Tuesday,
December 9, 2008, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
(Eastern Time) and Tuesday, December
16, 2008, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
(Eastern Time).
Location: The meeting will be
conducted by telephone only.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any
member of the public wishing to obtain
general information concerning this
public teleconference meeting should
contact Mr. Thomas Miller, Designated
Federal Officer (DFO), EPA Science
Advisory Board (1400F), 1200
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Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; via telephone/
voice mail (202) 343–9982; fax (202)
233–0643; or e-mail at
miller.tom@epa.gov. General
information concerning the EPA Science
Advisory Board can be found on the
SAB Web site at https://www.epa.gov/
sab.
The SAB
was established by 42 U.S.C. 4365 to
provide independent scientific and
technical advice to the Administrator on
the technical basis for Agency positions
and regulations. The SAB is a Federal
advisory committee chartered under the
Federal Advisory Committee Act
(FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C., App. The
SAB will comply with the provisions of
FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff
Office procedural policies. Pursuant to
the Federal Advisory Committee Act,
Public Law 92–463, notice is hereby
given that the EPA SAB will hold a
public teleconference meeting to
conduct several quality reviews and to
receive a briefing on biofuels by EPA
representatives.
Background: SAB Telephone
Conference, Tuesday, December 9, 2008:
(a) SAB Quality Review of the Draft
Report from the SAB Committee for the
Valuation of Ecological Systems and
Services (C–VPESS). The Chartered
Science Advisory Board will conduct a
quality review of the draft final SAB
report from its Committee for Valuing
the Protection of Ecological Systems and
Services. The report is an original SAB
study, initiated in 2003. The
committee’s charge was to assess EPA
valuation needs; assess the state of the
art and science of valuing protection of
ecological systems and services; and
identify key areas for improving
knowledge, methodologies, practice,
and research. The report takes a multidisciplinary approach to ecological
valuation issues. Additional information
on this topic is available on the SAB
Web site at https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/
sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_activities/
Ecological%20Valuation?Open
Document.
(b) EPA Biofuels Briefing: On October
27, 2008, the Science Advisory Board
conducted a seminar entitled ‘‘Looking
to the Future’’ as part of an ongoing
effort to consider EPA’s long-range
strategic research vision. A part of that
meeting focused on the environmental
implications of biofuels. During the
SAB’s December 9, 2008 telephone
conference, the Board will receive a
briefing from representatives of the EPA
OAR Office of Transportation and Air
Quality on the status of the agency’s
renewable fuels program rule
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development process. This information
will provide additional background
information to the SAB as it considers
how it might further advise the EPA
Administrator on the Agency’s research
program.
Background: SAB Telephone
Conference, Tuesday, December 16,
2008:
(a) SAB Quality Review of the Draft
SAB Panel Report on the EPA
Particulate Matter (PM) Research
Centers Program. The chartered Science
Advisory Board will conduct a quality
review of the draft SAB report from its
Particulate Matter Research Centers
Program Review Advisory Panel. In
1998, the Congress directed EPA to
establish as many as five universitybased PM research centers as part of the
Agency’s PM research program. The first
PM Research Centers were funded from
1999 to 2005 with a total program
budget of $8 million annually. EPA’s
PM Research Centers program was
initially shaped by recommendations
from the National Research Council. In
2002, EPA requested that the Science
Advisory Board conduct an interim
review of EPA’s PM Research Centers
program. This review was instrumental
in providing additional guidance for the
second phase of the program (2005–
2010). Five current centers are funded
for 2005–2010 with the total program
budget at $40 million. EPA’s National
Center for Environmental Research
(NCER), within the Office of Research
and Development (ORD), requested that
the SAB comment on the Agency’s
current PM Research Centers program
and to advise EPA concerning the
possible structures and strategic
direction for the program from 2010 to
2015. The SAB formed the PM Research
Centers Program Advisory Panel to
conduct this review. The Panel met to
review and discuss the program on
October 1–2, 2008 and has now
completed a draft report providing the
results of its deliberations. Additional
information on this review is available
on the SAB Web site at https://
yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/
fedrgstr_activities/2008%
20PM%2Centers%20
Program%;20Review?OpenDocument.
(b) SAB Quality Review of the Draft
SAB Contaminant Candidate List 3
Advisory. The Chartered Science
Advisory Board will conduct a second
quality review of the draft SAB Drinking
Water Committee (DWC) report on
EPA’s Drinking Water Contaminant
Candidate List 3. This report was the
subject of a quality review at the SAB’s
October 28, 2008 meeting. At that
meeting, the Chartered SAB asked for
some revisions relative to the comments
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made by SAB members during that
meeting (see these comments on the
SAB Web site at the following URL
https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.
nsf/A3B59D3624B2B1DA852574EB006
DD0C9/$File/;SAB+Comments+on+
CCL+3+Oct+28+08+Meeting.pdf) and
that the report be returned to the SAB
for completion of the quality review.
The DWC review was conducted at the
request of the EPA Office of Water. The
1996 Safe Drinking Water Act
Amendments (SDWA) require EPA to
(1) publish every five years a list of
currently unregulated contaminants in
drinking water that may pose risks and
(2) make determinations on whether or
not to regulate at least five contaminants
from that list on a staggered five year
cycle. The list must be published after
consultation with the scientific
community, including the SAB, after
notice and opportunity for public
comment, and after consideration of the
occurrence database established under
section 1445(g) of the SDWA. The
unregulated contaminants considered
for the list must include, but are not
limited to, substances referred to in
section 101(14) of the Comprehensive
Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980
(CERCLA), and substances registered
under the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
(FIFRA). Additional information on this
review can be obtained on the EPA SAB
Web site at https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/
sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_activities/CCL3.
Availability of Meeting Materials: The
agenda and other materials in support of
this meeting will be placed on the SAB
Web site at https://www.epa.gov/sab in
advance of this meeting.
Procedures for Providing Public Input:
Interested members of the public may
submit relevant written or oral
information for the SAB to consider
during this teleconference.
Oral Statements: In general,
individuals or groups requesting time to
make an oral presentation at a public
SAB teleconference will be limited to
three minutes, with no more than onehalf hour for all speakers. At face-to-face
meetings, presentations will be limited
to five minutes, with no more than a
total of one hour for all speakers. To be
placed on the public speaker list, parties
interested in the December 9, 2008
meeting should contact Mr. Thomas
Miller, DFO, in writing (preferably by email), by December 2, 2008 at the
contact information provided above.
Parties interested in the December 16,
2008 meeting should contact Mr.
Thomas Miller, DFO, in writing
(preferably by e-mail), by December 9,
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2008 at the contact information
provided above.
Written Statements: Written
statements relevant to the December 9,
2008 meeting should be received in the
SAB Staff Office by December 2, 2008,
and written statements relevant to the
December 16 meeting should be
received in the SAB Staff Office by
December 9, 2008 so that the
information may be made available to
the SAB for their consideration prior to
these teleconference meetings. Written
statements should be supplied to the
DFO via e-mail to miller.tom@epa.gov
(acceptable file format: Adobe Acrobat
PDF, WordPerfect, MS Word, MS
PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in IBM–
PC/Windows 98/2000/XP format).
Accessibility: For information on
access or services for individuals with
disabilities, please contact Mr. Thomas
Miller at (202) 343–9982, or
miller.tom@epa.gov. To request
accommodation of a disability, please
contact Mr. Miller, preferably at least 10
days prior to the meeting, to give EPA
as much time as possible to process
your request.
Dated: November 14, 2008.
Vanessa T. Vu,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff
Office.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Communications
Commission, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork burden
invites the general public and other
Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on the
following information collection(s), as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor
a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid control
number. No person shall be subject to
any penalty for failing to comply with
a collection of information subject to the
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information shall have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the Commission’s
burden estimate; (c) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected; and (d) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of
information on the respondents,
including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction
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submitted on or before January 20, 2009.
If you anticipate that you will be
submitting PRA comments, but find it
difficult to do so within the period of
time allowed by this notice, you should
advise the FCC contact listed below as
soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to
Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of
Management and Budget, (202) 395–
5887, or via fax at 202–395–5167 or via
Internet at
Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and
to Judith-B.Herman@fcc.gov, Federal
Communications Commission, or an email to PRA@fcc.gov. To view a copy of
this information collection request (ICR)
submitted to OMB: (1) Go to the Web
page https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain, (2) look for the section of the
Web page called ‘‘Currently Under
Review’’, (3) click on the downwardpointing arrow in the ‘‘Select Agency’’
box below the ‘‘Currently Under
Review’’ heading, (4) select ‘‘Federal
Communications Commission’’ from the
list of agencies presented in the ‘‘Select
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FCC ICRs currently under review
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its OMB Control Number, if there is one)
and then click on the ICR Reference
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about this ICR.
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additional information, contact Judith B.
Herman at 202–418–0214 or via the
Internet at Judith-B.Herman@fcc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–0645.
Title: Section 17.4, Antenna Structure
Registration.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit; not-for-profit institutions, and
state, local or tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 25,600
respondents; 25,600 responses.
Estimated Time Per Response: .2–1.2
hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion
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obtain or retain benefits. Statutory
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collections are contained in Sections 4
and 303; 47 U.S.C. 301 and 309.
Total Annual Burden: 40,329 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $3,200,000.
Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
This collection of information does not
address information of a confidential
nature. Respondents may request
confidential treatment for information
they believe should be withheld from
public inspection under 47 CFR 0.459 of
the Commission’s rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission
will submit this information collection
(IC) to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) after this 60 day
comment period in order to obtain the
full three year clearance from them. The
Commission is requesting an extension
(no change in the reporting,
recordkeeping and/or third party
disclosure requirements). The estimated
hourly and/or annual cost burdens have
not changed since this IC was last
submitted to the OMB in 2006).
Section 17.4, Antenna Structure
Registration, which became effective
July 1, 1996, requires the owner of any
proposed or existing that requires notice
of proposed construction to the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) must
register the structure with the
Commission. This includes those
structures used as part of stations
licensed by the Commission for the
transmission of radio energy, or to be
used as part of a cable television head
end system. If a Federal Government
antenna structure is to be used by a
Commission licensee, the structure must
be registered with the Commission.
Section 17.4 also contains other
reporting, recordkeeping and third party
notification requirements subject to the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) and
OMB approval. The information is used
by the Commission during
investigations related to air safety or
radio frequency interference. A
registration number is issued to identify
antenna structure owners in order to
enforce the Congressionally-mandated
provisions related to the owners.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public
Teleconference Meeting of the Chartered Science Advisory Board
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces
two public teleconference meetings of the chartered SAB to: (1) Conduct
its quality review of several draft SAB reports, and (2) to receive a
briefing from EPA on biofuels.
DATES: The meeting dates are Tuesday, December 9, 2008, from 1 p.m. to
3 p.m. (Eastern Time) and Tuesday, December 16, 2008, from 11 a.m. to
12 p.m. (Eastern Time).
Location: The meeting will be conducted by telephone only.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public wishing to
obtain general information concerning this public teleconference
meeting should contact Mr. Thomas Miller, Designated Federal Officer
(DFO), EPA Science Advisory Board (1400F), 1200
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Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; via telephone/voice
mail (202) 343-9982; fax (202) 233-0643; or e-mail at
miller.tom@epa.gov. General information concerning the EPA Science
Advisory Board can be found on the SAB Web site at https://www.epa.gov/
sab.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SAB was established by 42 U.S.C. 4365 to
provide independent scientific and technical advice to the
Administrator on the technical basis for Agency positions and
regulations. The SAB is a Federal advisory committee chartered under
the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C., App.
The SAB will comply with the provisions of FACA and all appropriate SAB
Staff Office procedural policies. Pursuant to the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, notice is hereby given that the EPA
SAB will hold a public teleconference meeting to conduct several
quality reviews and to receive a briefing on biofuels by EPA
representatives.
Background: SAB Telephone Conference, Tuesday, December 9, 2008:
(a) SAB Quality Review of the Draft Report from the SAB Committee
for the Valuation of Ecological Systems and Services (C-VPESS). The
Chartered Science Advisory Board will conduct a quality review of the
draft final SAB report from its Committee for Valuing the Protection of
Ecological Systems and Services. The report is an original SAB study,
initiated in 2003. The committee's charge was to assess EPA valuation
needs; assess the state of the art and science of valuing protection of
ecological systems and services; and identify key areas for improving
knowledge, methodologies, practice, and research. The report takes a
multi-disciplinary approach to ecological valuation issues. Additional
information on this topic is available on the SAB Web site at https://
yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_activities/
Ecological%20Valuation?OpenDocument.
(b) EPA Biofuels Briefing: On October 27, 2008, the Science
Advisory Board conducted a seminar entitled ``Looking to the Future''
as part of an ongoing effort to consider EPA's long-range strategic
research vision. A part of that meeting focused on the environmental
implications of biofuels. During the SAB's December 9, 2008 telephone
conference, the Board will receive a briefing from representatives of
the EPA OAR Office of Transportation and Air Quality on the status of
the agency's renewable fuels program rule development process. This
information will provide additional background information to the SAB
as it considers how it might further advise the EPA Administrator on
the Agency's research program.
Background: SAB Telephone Conference, Tuesday, December 16, 2008:
(a) SAB Quality Review of the Draft SAB Panel Report on the EPA
Particulate Matter (PM) Research Centers Program. The chartered Science
Advisory Board will conduct a quality review of the draft SAB report
from its Particulate Matter Research Centers Program Review Advisory
Panel. In 1998, the Congress directed EPA to establish as many as five
university-based PM research centers as part of the Agency's PM
research program. The first PM Research Centers were funded from 1999
to 2005 with a total program budget of $8 million annually. EPA's PM
Research Centers program was initially shaped by recommendations from
the National Research Council. In 2002, EPA requested that the Science
Advisory Board conduct an interim review of EPA's PM Research Centers
program. This review was instrumental in providing additional guidance
for the second phase of the program (2005-2010). Five current centers
are funded for 2005-2010 with the total program budget at $40 million.
EPA's National Center for Environmental Research (NCER), within the
Office of Research and Development (ORD), requested that the SAB
comment on the Agency's current PM Research Centers program and to
advise EPA concerning the possible structures and strategic direction
for the program from 2010 to 2015. The SAB formed the PM Research
Centers Program Advisory Panel to conduct this review. The Panel met to
review and discuss the program on October 1-2, 2008 and has now
completed a draft report providing the results of its deliberations.
Additional information on this review is available on the SAB Web site
at https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_activities/
2008%20PM%2Centers%20Program%;20Review?OpenDocument.
(b) SAB Quality Review of the Draft SAB Contaminant Candidate List
3 Advisory. The Chartered Science Advisory Board will conduct a second
quality review of the draft SAB Drinking Water Committee (DWC) report
on EPA's Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List 3. This report was
the subject of a quality review at the SAB's October 28, 2008 meeting.
At that meeting, the Chartered SAB asked for some revisions relative to
the comments made by SAB members during that meeting (see these
comments on the SAB Web site at the following URL https://
yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/A3B59D3624B2B1DA852574EB006DD0C9/
$File/;SAB+Comments+on+CCL+3+Oct+28+08+Meeting.pdf) and that the report
be returned to the SAB for completion of the quality review. The DWC
review was conducted at the request of the EPA Office of Water. The
1996 Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments (SDWA) require EPA to (1)
publish every five years a list of currently unregulated contaminants
in drinking water that may pose risks and (2) make determinations on
whether or not to regulate at least five contaminants from that list on
a staggered five year cycle. The list must be published after
consultation with the scientific community, including the SAB, after
notice and opportunity for public comment, and after consideration of
the occurrence database established under section 1445(g) of the SDWA.
The unregulated contaminants considered for the list must include, but
are not limited to, substances referred to in section 101(14) of the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
of 1980 (CERCLA), and substances registered under the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Additional
information on this review can be obtained on the EPA SAB Web site at
https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_activities/CCL3.
Availability of Meeting Materials: The agenda and other materials
in support of this meeting will be placed on the SAB Web site at http:/
/www.epa.gov/sab in advance of this meeting.
Procedures for Providing Public Input: Interested members of the
public may submit relevant written or oral information for the SAB to
consider during this teleconference.
Oral Statements: In general, individuals or groups requesting time
to make an oral presentation at a public SAB teleconference will be
limited to three minutes, with no more than one-half hour for all
speakers. At face-to-face meetings, presentations will be limited to
five minutes, with no more than a total of one hour for all speakers.
To be placed on the public speaker list, parties interested in the
December 9, 2008 meeting should contact Mr. Thomas Miller, DFO, in
writing (preferably by e-mail), by December 2, 2008 at the contact
information provided above. Parties interested in the December 16, 2008
meeting should contact Mr. Thomas Miller, DFO, in writing (preferably
by e-mail), by December 9,
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2008 at the contact information provided above.
Written Statements: Written statements relevant to the December 9,
2008 meeting should be received in the SAB Staff Office by December 2,
2008, and written statements relevant to the December 16 meeting should
be received in the SAB Staff Office by December 9, 2008 so that the
information may be made available to the SAB for their consideration
prior to these teleconference meetings. Written statements should be
supplied to the DFO via e-mail to miller.tom@epa.gov (acceptable file
format: Adobe Acrobat PDF, WordPerfect, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, or Rich
Text files in IBM-PC/Windows 98/2000/XP format).
Accessibility: For information on access or services for
individuals with disabilities, please contact Mr. Thomas Miller at
(202) 343-9982, or miller.tom@epa.gov. To request accommodation of a
disability, please contact Mr. Miller, preferably at least 10 days
prior to the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process
your request.
Dated: November 14, 2008.
Vanessa T. Vu,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
[FR Doc. E8-27612 Filed 11-19-08; 8:45 am]
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