Science Advisory Board Staff Office Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Air Quality Modeling Subcommittee of the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis (Council), 9410-9411 [2010-4311]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
Dated: February 25, 2010.
Martha Berger,
Designated Federal Official.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Notice of Meeting of the EPA’s
Children’s Health Protection Advisory
Committee (CHPAC)
Children’s Health Protection Advisory
Committee, Melrose Hotel, Potomac
Rooms I, II, and III, 2430 Pennsylvania
Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC
20037, (202) 955–6400. Potomac Rooms
I, II, and III, March 24 and 25, 2010.
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION:
Draft Agenda
Notice of meeting.
Pursuant to the provisions of
the Federal Advisory Committee Act,
Public Law 92–463, notice is hereby
given that the next meeting of the
Children’s Health Protection Advisory
Committee (CHPAC) will be held March
24–25, 2010 at the Melrose Hotel, 2430
Pennsylvania Ave, NW., Washington,
DC, 20037. The CHPAC was created to
advise the Environmental Protection
Agency on science, regulations, and
other issues relating to children’s
environmental health.
SUMMARY:
DATES: The CHPAC will meet March 24–
25, 2010.
2430 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW., Washington, DC 20037
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Martha Berger, Office of Children’s
Health Protection, USEPA, MC 1107A,
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20460, (202) 564–2191,
berger.martha@epa.gov.
The
meetings of the CHPAC are open to the
public. The CHPAC will meet on
Wednesday, March 24 from 8:30 a.m. to
5 p.m. and Thursday from 9 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. Agenda items include EPA’s
Schools Siting Guidelines, the
America’s Children and the
Environment Report, a presentation
from the National Commission on
Disasters, and outdoor air monitoring
near schools.
Access and Accommodations: For
information on access or services for
individuals with disabilities, please
contact Martha Berger at 202–564–2191
or berger.martha@epa.gov, at least 10
days prior to the meeting.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Wednesday, March 24
8:30–8:35 Review Meeting Agenda,
8:35–9 Welcome and Introductions,
9–9:20 Orientation to Federal Advisory
Groups and CHPAC
9:20–9:50 Charge to CHPAC
9:50–10:15 Highlights of Office of
Children’s Health Protection
Activities
10:15–10:30 Break
10:30–11:30 National Commission on
Disasters and Children Report
11:30–12 Indoor Air Quality
12 1:30 Lunch
1:30–2:15 America’s Children and the
Environment Update
2:15–3:15 Presentation of the School
Siting Task Group Report
3:15–3:30 Break
3:30–4:30 Draft School Siting Task
Group Letter to Administrator
4:30 Public Comment
5 Adjourn
Thursday, March 25
9–9:15 Check in and Agenda Review
9:15–9:45 Rulemaking Gateway
Demonstration
9:45–10:45 Finalize School Siting Task
Group Letter to Administrator
10:45–11 Break
11–12 Air Toxics Monitoring Initiative
Update
12–12:30 Review Discussions, Decisions,
and Possible Next Steps
12:30 Adjourn
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Science Advisory Board Staff Office
Notification of a Public Teleconference
of the Air Quality Modeling
Subcommittee of the Advisory Council
on Clean Air Compliance Analysis
(Council)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a
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public teleconference of the Air Quality
Modeling Subcommittee (AQMS) of the
Advisory Council on Clean Air
Compliance Analysis (Council) to
finalize its draft advisory report on
EPA’s air quality modeling work for the
Second Section 812 Prospective BenefitCost Study of the Clean Air Act.
DATES: The AQMS will conduct a public
teleconference on March 15, 2010. The
teleconference will begin at 2 p.m. and
end by 4 p.m. (Eastern Time).
ADDRESSES: The teleconference will be
conducted by telephone only.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any
member of the public wishing to obtain
general information concerning the
public teleconference may contact Ms.
Stephanie Sanzone, Designated Federal
Officer (DFO), via telephone at (202)
343–9697 or e-mail at
sanzone.stephanie@epa.gov. General
information about the Council can be
found on the EPA Web site at https://
www.epa.gov/advisorycouncilcaa.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant
to the Federal Advisory Committee Act
(FACA), 5 U.S.C., App. 2, notice is
hereby given that the Air Quality
Modeling Subcommittee (AQMS) of the
Advisory Council on Clean Air
Compliance Analysis (Council) will
hold a public teleconference to discuss
and finalize its draft peer review report
on the EPA’s air quality modeling and
model performance analyses prepared to
support the Second Section 812 BenefitCost Analysis of the Clean Air Act. The
Council was established in 1991
pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA)
Amendments of 1990 (see 42 U.S.C.
7612) to provide advice, information
and recommendations on technical and
economic aspects of analyses and
reports EPA prepares on the impacts of
the CAA on the public health, economy,
and environment of the United States.
The Council is a Federal Advisory
Committee chartered under FACA. The
AQMS will provide advice through the
Council and will comply with the
provisions of FACA and all appropriate
SAB Staff Office procedural policies.
Background: Pursuant to Section 812
of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments
(CAAA), EPA conducts periodic studies
to assess benefits and costs of the EPA’s
regulatory actions under the Clean Air
Act. The Council has provided advice
on an EPA retrospective study
published in 1997 and an EPA
prospective study completed in 1999.
EPA initiated a second prospective
study to evaluate the benefits and costs
of EPA Clean Air programs for years
1990–2020. The Council has previously
provided advice on the analytical
blueprint for this study. EPA’s Office of
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Air and Radiation (OAR) is now nearing
completion of the analytical work for
the second prospective study. The
AQMS met on February 19, 2010
[Federal Register Notice dated January
26, 2010 (75 FR 4070–4071)] to review
technical documents pertaining to
modeling of air quality for seven
emissions scenarios: a 1990 baseline
simulation; and simulations for 2000,
2010 and 2020 with and without the
CAAA. Materials for the February 19
meeting are available on the Council
Web site at https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/
SABPRODUCT.NSF/MeetingCal/
962D3C3D233888B0852576
95005098B5?OpenDocument. The
purpose of the March 15 teleconference
meeting is to discuss and finalize the
AQMS draft advisory report.
Technical Contacts: The Office of Air
and Radiation technical contact for the
Second Section 812 Benefit-Cost
Analysis of the Clean Air Act is Mr. Jim
DeMocker at (202) 564–1673 or
democker.jim@epa.gov.
Availability of Meeting Materials: The
AQMS draft advisory report and
meeting agenda for the March 2010
teleconference will be posted to the
Council Web site (https://www.epa.gov/
advisorycouncilcaa) prior to the
meeting. EPA draft documents provided
to the AQMS are available at https://
www.epa.gov/oar/sect812/
prospective2.html.
Procedures for Providing Public Input:
Interested members of the public may
submit relevant written or oral
information for the AQMS to consider
on the topics of this advisory activity.
Oral Statements: In general, individuals
or groups requesting an oral
presentation at a teleconference meeting
will be limited to three minutes per
speaker, with no more than a total of
one hour for all speakers. Interested
parties should contact Ms. Sanzone at
the contact information provided above
by March 10, 2010, to be placed on the
public speaker list for the March 15,
2010 meeting. Written Statements:
Written statements should be received
in the SAB Staff Office by March 10,
2010, so that the information can be
made available to the AQMS for their
consideration prior to the meeting.
Written statements should be supplied
to Ms. Sanzone in the following formats:
one hard copy with original signature
and one electronic copy via e-mail
(acceptable file format: Adobe Acrobat
PDF, MS Word, WordPerfect, MS
PowerPoint, or Rich Text files).
Submitters are asked to provide
electronic versions of each document
submitted with and without signatures,
because the SAB Staff Office does not
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publish documents with signatures on
its Web sites.
Accessibility: For information on
access or services for individuals with
disabilities, please contact Ms. Sanzone
at (202) 343–9697, or via e-mail at
sanzone.stephanie@epa.gov, preferably
at least ten (10) days prior to the
meeting, to give EPA as much time as
possible to process your request.
Dated: February 24, 2010.
Anthony Maciorowski,
Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board
Staff Office.
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Official Release of the MOVES2010
Motor Vehicle Emissions Model for
Emissions Inventories in SIPs and
Transportation Conformity
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of availability.
SUMMARY: EPA is approving and
announcing the availability of the Motor
Vehicle Emissions Simulator model
(MOVES2010) for official use outside of
California. MOVES2010 is the state-ofthe-art upgrade to EPA’s modeling tools
for estimating emissions from cars,
trucks, motorcycles, and buses, based on
analysis of millions of emission test
results and considerable advances in the
Agency’s understanding of vehicle
emissions.
Today’s notice approves the use of
MOVES2010 in official State
implementation air quality plan (SIP)
submissions to EPA and for certain
transportation conformity analyses
outside of California. This notice starts
a two-year grace period before the
MOVES2010 emission model is required
to be used in new regional emissions
analyses for transportation conformity
determinations outside of California.
EPA is not approving MOVES2010 for
project-level transportation conformity
hot-spot analyses at this time; the
Agency will approve the model for such
analyses in the near future in a separate
Federal Register notice when guidance
is finalized.
EPA strongly encourages areas to use
the interagency consultation process to
examine how MOVES2010 will affect
future transportation plan and
transportation improvement program
(TIP) conformity determinations so, if
necessary, SIPs and motor vehicle
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emissions budgets can be revised with
MOVES2010 or transportation plans and
TIPs can be revised as appropriate prior
to the end of the MOVES2010
conformity grace period. EPA also
encourages State and local air agencies
to consider how the release of
MOVES2010 will affect analyses
supporting SIP submissions under
development.
DATES: EPA’s approval of the
MOVES2010 emissions model for SIPs
and regional emissions analyses for
transportation conformity is effective
March 2, 2010. As discussed further
below, today’s approval also starts a
two-year transportation conformity
grace period which ends on March 2,
2012, after which MOVES2010 is
required to be used for new regional
emissions analyses for transportation
conformity.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
technical model questions regarding the
official release or use of MOVES2010,
please e-mail EPA at mobile@epa.gov or
call (734) 214–4636. For questions about
SIPs, contact Rudy Kapichak at
Kapichak.Rudolph@epa.gov or (734)
214–4574. For transportation conformity
questions, contact Meg Patulski at
Patulski.Meg@epa.gov or (734) 214–
4842.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
contents of this notice are as follows:
I. What Is MOVES2010?
II. SIP Policy for MOVES2010
III. Transportation Conformity Policy for
MOVES2010
IV. Future Notice Approving MOVES2010 for
Project-Level Conformity Hot-Spot
Analyses
Availability of MOVES2010 and
Support Materials
Copies of the official version of the
MOVES2010 model, along with user
guides and supporting documentation,
are available on EPA’s MOVES Web site:
https://www.epa.gov/otaq/models/
moves/index.htm.
Guidance on how to apply
MOVES2010 for SIPs and transportation
conformity purposes, including ‘‘Policy
Guidance on the Use of MOVES2010 for
State Implementation Plan
Development, Transportation
Conformity, and Other Purposes’’ (EPA–
420–B–09–046, December 2009) and
‘‘Technical Guidance on the Use of
MOVES2010 for Emission Inventory
Preparation in State Implementation
Plans and Transportation Conformity’’
(EPA–420–B–09–042, December 2009)
can be found on the EPA’s
transportation conformity Web site at:
https://www.epa.gov/otaq/
stateresources/transconf/policy.htm.
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Science Advisory Board Staff Office Notification of a Public
Teleconference of the Air Quality Modeling Subcommittee of the Advisory
Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis (Council)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a
public teleconference of the Air Quality Modeling Subcommittee (AQMS)
of the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis (Council) to
finalize its draft advisory report on EPA's air quality modeling work
for the Second Section 812 Prospective Benefit-Cost Study of the Clean
Air Act.
DATES: The AQMS will conduct a public teleconference on March 15, 2010.
The teleconference will begin at 2 p.m. and end by 4 p.m. (Eastern
Time).
ADDRESSES: The teleconference will be conducted by telephone only.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public wishing to
obtain general information concerning the public teleconference may
contact Ms. Stephanie Sanzone, Designated Federal Officer (DFO), via
telephone at (202) 343-9697 or e-mail at sanzone.stephanie@epa.gov.
General information about the Council can be found on the EPA Web site
at https://www.epa.gov/advisorycouncilcaa.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee
Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C., App. 2, notice is hereby given that the Air
Quality Modeling Subcommittee (AQMS) of the Advisory Council on Clean
Air Compliance Analysis (Council) will hold a public teleconference to
discuss and finalize its draft peer review report on the EPA's air
quality modeling and model performance analyses prepared to support the
Second Section 812 Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Clean Air Act. The
Council was established in 1991 pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA)
Amendments of 1990 (see 42 U.S.C. 7612) to provide advice, information
and recommendations on technical and economic aspects of analyses and
reports EPA prepares on the impacts of the CAA on the public health,
economy, and environment of the United States. The Council is a Federal
Advisory Committee chartered under FACA. The AQMS will provide advice
through the Council and will comply with the provisions of FACA and all
appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural policies.
Background: Pursuant to Section 812 of the 1990 Clean Air Act
Amendments (CAAA), EPA conducts periodic studies to assess benefits and
costs of the EPA's regulatory actions under the Clean Air Act. The
Council has provided advice on an EPA retrospective study published in
1997 and an EPA prospective study completed in 1999. EPA initiated a
second prospective study to evaluate the benefits and costs of EPA
Clean Air programs for years 1990-2020. The Council has previously
provided advice on the analytical blueprint for this study. EPA's
Office of
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Air and Radiation (OAR) is now nearing completion of the analytical
work for the second prospective study. The AQMS met on February 19,
2010 [Federal Register Notice dated January 26, 2010 (75 FR 4070-4071)]
to review technical documents pertaining to modeling of air quality for
seven emissions scenarios: a 1990 baseline simulation; and simulations
for 2000, 2010 and 2020 with and without the CAAA. Materials for the
February 19 meeting are available on the Council Web site at https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/SABPRODUCT.NSF/MeetingCal/962D3C3D233888B085257695005098B5?OpenDocument. The purpose of the March
15 teleconference meeting is to discuss and finalize the AQMS draft
advisory report.
Technical Contacts: The Office of Air and Radiation technical
contact for the Second Section 812 Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Clean
Air Act is Mr. Jim DeMocker at (202) 564-1673 or democker.jim@epa.gov.
Availability of Meeting Materials: The AQMS draft advisory report
and meeting agenda for the March 2010 teleconference will be posted to
the Council Web site (https://www.epa.gov/advisorycouncilcaa) prior to
the meeting. EPA draft documents provided to the AQMS are available at
https://www.epa.gov/oar/sect812/prospective2.html.
Procedures for Providing Public Input: Interested members of the
public may submit relevant written or oral information for the AQMS to
consider on the topics of this advisory activity. Oral Statements: In
general, individuals or groups requesting an oral presentation at a
teleconference meeting will be limited to three minutes per speaker,
with no more than a total of one hour for all speakers. Interested
parties should contact Ms. Sanzone at the contact information provided
above by March 10, 2010, to be placed on the public speaker list for
the March 15, 2010 meeting. Written Statements: Written statements
should be received in the SAB Staff Office by March 10, 2010, so that
the information can be made available to the AQMS for their
consideration prior to the meeting. Written statements should be
supplied to Ms. Sanzone in the following formats: one hard copy with
original signature and one electronic copy via e-mail (acceptable file
format: Adobe Acrobat PDF, MS Word, WordPerfect, MS PowerPoint, or Rich
Text files). Submitters are asked to provide electronic versions of
each document submitted with and without signatures, because the SAB
Staff Office does not publish documents with signatures on its Web
sites.
Accessibility: For information on access or services for
individuals with disabilities, please contact Ms. Sanzone at (202) 343-
9697, or via e-mail at sanzone.stephanie@epa.gov, preferably at least
ten (10) days prior to the meeting, to give EPA as much time as
possible to process your request.
Dated: February 24, 2010.
Anthony Maciorowski,
Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
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