Notice of Open Meeting of the Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB), 27789-27790 [E9-13731]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 111 / Thursday, June 11, 2009 / Notices What Should I Consider When I Prepare My Comments for EPA? You may find the following suggestions helpful for preparing you comments: 1. Explain your views as clearly as possible and provide specific examples. 2. Describe any assumptions that you used. 3. Provide copies of any technical information and/or data you used that support your views. 4. If you estimate potential burden or costs, explain how you arrived at the estimate that you provide. 5. Offer alternative ways to improve the collection activity. 6. Make sure to submit your comments by the deadline identified under DATES. 7. To ensure proper receipt by EPA, be sure to identify the docket ID number assigned to this action in the subject line on the first page of your response. You may also provide the name, date, and Federal Register citation. What Information Collection Activity or ICR Does This Apply to? jlentini on PROD1PC65 with NOTICES Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OPEI–2006– 0037 Affected entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are States, Tribal, and Territorial Environmental Offices receiving National Environmental Information Exchange Network (NEIEN) grants. Title: Exchange Network Grants Progress Report (Renewal) ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 2207.03, OMB Control No. 2025–0006. ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to expire on November 30, 2009. An Agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The OMB control numbers for EPA’s regulations in title 40 of the CFR, after appearing in the Federal Register when approved, are listed in 40 CFR part 9 and are displayed either by publication in the Federal Register or by other appropriate means, such as on the related collection instrument or form, if applicable. The display of OMB control numbers in certain EPA regulations is consolidated in 40 CFR part 9. Abstract: This notice announces the collection of information related to the U.S. EPA NEIEN Grant Program. The EPA Office of Environmental Information provides funding to EPA’s Exchange Network partners (states, territories, and federally recognized Indian tribes) to support the development of the NEIEN. The NEIEN VerDate Nov<24>2008 16:37 Jun 10, 2009 Jkt 217001 is an Internet and-standards-based, secure information system that supports the electronic collection, exchange, and integration of data among its partners. Funding for the Grant Program has been provided through annual congressional appropriations for the EPA. To enhance the quality and overall public benefit of the Network, EPA proposes to collect information from the NEIEN grantees about how they intend to ensure quality in their projects and the environmental outcomes and outputs from their projects. The proposed Quality Assurance Reporting Form is intended to provide a simple means for grant recipients to describe how quality will be addressed throughout their projects. The Quality Assurance Reporting Form is derived from guidelines provided in the NEIEN 2006 grant solicitation notice. As a stipulation of their award, grant recipients are to submit the form within ninety days of grant award. Grantees are currently required to submit semi-annual progress reports as a stipulation of their award. In these reports, grantees outline project goals, activities required to meet these goals, and outputs and outcomes of activities to date. At the request of numerous grantees, we are proposing to offer the Progress Reporting Form as a vehicle for collecting information. This form is easier to complete than an unstructured narrative; it can be used as the semiannual and final report form and the information returned will be of higher quality and comparable. Burden Statement: The annual public reporting and recordkeeping burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1.5 hours for the Semi-Annual Report Form per response and 1 hour per Quality Assurance Form per response. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review instructions; develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and systems for the purposes of collecting, validating, and verifying information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information; adjust the existing ways to comply with any previously applicable instructions and requirements that have subsequently changed; train personnel to be able to respond to a collection of information; search data sources; complete and review the collection of information; and transmit or otherwise disclose the information. PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 27789 Respondents/Affected Entities: State, Tribal, and Territorial Environmental Offices receiving NEIEN grants. Estimated Number of Respondents: 225. Frequency of Response: Twice for the Semi-Annual Report Form; once for the Quality Assurance Form. Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: 733. Estimated Total Annual Cost: $37,000 includes $0 annualized capital or O&M costs and $37,000 annual labor costs. Are There Changes in the Estimates From the Last Approval? Changes in the Estimates: There is an increase of 283 hours in the total estimated burden currently identified in the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR Burdens. This change is due to an increase in the estimate to complete the Semi-annual Progress Report Form and due to the additional of the Quality Assurance Form. What Is the Next Step in the Process for This ICR? EPA will consider the comments received and amend the ICR as appropriate. The final ICR package will then be submitted to OMB for review and approval pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.12. At that time, EPA will issue another Federal Register notice pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.5(a)(1)(iv) to announce the submission of the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to submit additional comments to OMB. If you have any questions about this ICR or the approval process, please contact the technical person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Dated: June 5, 2009. Connie Dwyer, Director, Information Exchange & Services Division. [FR Doc. E9–13732 Filed 6–10–09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [FRL–8917–4] Notice of Open Meeting of the Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB) AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB) will hold an open meeting on August 10–11, 2009. EFAB is an EPA advisory committee E:\FR\FM\11JNN1.SGM 11JNN1 27790 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 111 / Thursday, June 11, 2009 / Notices chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) to provide advice and recommendations to EPA on creative approaches to funding environmental programs, projects, and activities. A meeting of the full board will be held to discuss progress with work products under EFAB’s current Strategic Action Agenda and develop an action agenda to direct the Board’s ongoing and new activities through FY 2010. Environmental Finance topics expected to be discussed include: Financial Assurance Mechanisms (Commercial Insurance & Cost Estimation); Financial Assurance and CO2 Underground Injection Control/ Carbon Capture and Sequestration; Water Loss Reduction (‘‘Leaky Pipes’’); Innovative Financing Tools, and State Revolving Fund Investment Options. This meeting is open to the public, however, seating is limited. All members of the public who wish to attend the meeting must register in advance, no later than Monday, July 27, 2009. DATES: Full Board Meeting is scheduled for August 10, 2009 from 1 p.m.–5 p.m. and August 11, 2009 from 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. ADDRESSES: Omni San Francisco Hotel, 500 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94104. Registration and Information Contact: To register for this meeting or get further information, please contact Sandra Keys, U.S. EPA, at (202) 564–4999 or keys.sandra@epa.gov. For information on access or services for individuals with disabilities, please contact Sandra Keys. To request accommodations for a disability, contact Sandra Keys at least 10 days prior to the meeting to give EPA as much time as possible to process your request. Dated: June 4, 2009. Joshua Baylson, Acting Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Office of the Chief Financial Officer. [FR Doc. E9–13731 Filed 6–10–09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY jlentini on PROD1PC65 with NOTICES [FRL–8917–1] Proposed CERCLA Section 122(h) Ability-to-Pay Settlement Relating to the Crumb Trailer Park Superfund Site, Village of West Winfield, Herkimer County, NY AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). VerDate Nov<24>2008 16:37 Jun 10, 2009 Jkt 217001 ACTION: Notice; request for public comment. SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 122(i) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (‘‘CERCLA’’), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (‘‘EPA’’), Region 2, of a proposed settlement agreement pursuant to Section 122(h) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(h), in accordance with EPA ‘‘ability-to-pay’’ policies, with Crumb’s Trailer Park, LLC (the ‘‘Settling Party’’), a New York limited liability corporation which is a potentially responsible party, pursuant to CERCLA, for a removal response action conducted by EPA at the Crumb Trailer Park Superfund Site (‘‘Site’’) in the Village of West Winfield, Herkimer County, New York. The Site includes a 2.6-acre parcel of real property that had been occupied as a mobile home facility. The removal response action included the placement of a soil cover over contaminated soils at the Site, the imposition of institutional controls to prohibit residential use of the Site and the relocation, pursuant to the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (42 U.S.C. 4601 et seq.), of the residents of the mobile home facility at the Site to an adjacent mobile home facility on property owned by the Settling Party. EPA has estimated the value of the settlement at $132,600. Pursuant to the settlement, the Settling Party will lease to the relocated residents at their existing rents for at least forty-two (42) months, will impose institutional controls at the Site property to prohibit residential use of that property and will perform specified post-removal Site controls. The settlement includes a covenant by EPA not to sue nor to take administrative action against the Settling Party pursuant to Sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, with regard to the Site. For thirty (30) days following the date of publication of this notice, EPA will receive written comments relating to the settlement. EPA will consider all comments received and may modify or withdraw its consent to the settlement if comments received disclose facts or considerations that indicate that the proposed settlement is inappropriate, improper or inadequate. EPA’s response to any comments received will be available for public inspection at EPA Region 2 offices, 290 Broadway, New York, New York 10007–1866. DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before July 13, 2009. PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is available for public inspection at EPA Region 2 offices at 290 Broadway, New York, New York 10007–1866. Comments should reference the Crumb Trailer Park Superfund Site, Village of West Winfield, Herkimer County, Index No. CERCLA–02–2009–2004. To request a copy of the proposed settlement agreement, please contact the EPA employee identified below. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael A. Mintzer, Assistant Regional Counsel, New York/Caribbean Superfund Branch, Office of Regional Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 290 Broadway, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10007–1866. Telephone: 212–637–3168. Dated: May 27, 2009. John E. LaPadula, Acting Director, Emergency and Remedial Response, Division, Region 2. [FR Doc. E9–13729 Filed 6–10–09; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [FRL–8917–2] Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of proposed consent decree; request for public comment. SUMMARY: In accordance with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended (CAA or ‘‘Act’’), 42 U.S.C. 7413(g), notice is hereby given of a proposed consent decree, to address a lawsuit filed by Association of Irritated Residents in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California: Association of Irritated Residents v. EPA, No. 08–cv–05650 CW (N.D. Cal.). Plaintiff filed a deadline suit to compel the Administrator to take action under section 110(k) of the Act on two specific revisions to the state implementation plan (SIP) submitted by the California Air Resources Board on behalf of the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District (‘‘District’’). The two SIP revisions include Rule 3170, which provides for the payment of fees by certain sources when the District fails to attain certain air quality standards by a specified date and Rule 4570, which is intended to reduce emissions from volatile organic compounds on certain confined animal facilities located in the District. Under the terms of the proposed consent decree, the parties agree that the Rule E:\FR\FM\11JNN1.SGM 11JNN1

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[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 111 (Thursday, June 11, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27789-27790]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-13731]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-8917-4]


Notice of Open Meeting of the Environmental Financial Advisory 
Board (EFAB)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 
Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB) will hold an open meeting 
on August 10-11, 2009. EFAB is an EPA advisory committee

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chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) to provide 
advice and recommendations to EPA on creative approaches to funding 
environmental programs, projects, and activities.
    A meeting of the full board will be held to discuss progress with 
work products under EFAB's current Strategic Action Agenda and develop 
an action agenda to direct the Board's ongoing and new activities 
through FY 2010.
    Environmental Finance topics expected to be discussed include: 
Financial Assurance Mechanisms (Commercial Insurance & Cost 
Estimation); Financial Assurance and CO2 Underground Injection Control/
Carbon Capture and Sequestration; Water Loss Reduction (``Leaky 
Pipes''); Innovative Financing Tools, and State Revolving Fund 
Investment Options.
    This meeting is open to the public, however, seating is limited. 
All members of the public who wish to attend the meeting must register 
in advance, no later than Monday, July 27, 2009.

DATES: Full Board Meeting is scheduled for August 10, 2009 from 1 p.m.-
5 p.m. and August 11, 2009 from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

ADDRESSES: Omni San Francisco Hotel, 500 California Street, San 
Francisco, CA 94104.
    Registration and Information Contact: To register for this meeting 
or get further information, please contact Sandra Keys, U.S. EPA, at 
(202) 564-4999 or keys.sandra@epa.gov. For information on access or 
services for individuals with disabilities, please contact Sandra Keys. 
To request accommodations for a disability, contact Sandra Keys at 
least 10 days prior to the meeting to give EPA as much time as possible 
to process your request.

    Dated: June 4, 2009.
Joshua Baylson,
Acting Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Office of the Chief Financial 
Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-13731 Filed 6-10-09; 8:45 am]
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