Notification of Three Public Meetings of the Chemical Assessment Advisory Committee (CAAC), the CAAC Augmented for the Review of Ammonia and the CAAC Augmented for the Review of Trimethylbenzenes, 5400-5402 [2014-02096]
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Respondents/affected entities:
Petroleum refinery wastewater systems.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, subpart
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(2) the growth rate for the industry is
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there is no significant change in the
overall burden. The increase in
respondent and Agency costs from the
most recently approved ICR is due to an
adjustment in labor rates. This ICR uses
updated labor rates from the Bureau of
Labor Statistics to calculate burden
costs.
John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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Notification of Three Public Meetings
of the Chemical Assessment Advisory
Committee (CAAC), the CAAC
Augmented for the Review of Ammonia
and the CAAC Augmented for the
Review of Trimethylbenzenes
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA or agency) Science
Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office
announces three public meetings. The
SAB Chemical Assessment Advisory
Committee (CAAC) and additional
experts will meet in a plenary session to
learn about new enhancements to the
EPA’s process for developing Integrated
Risk Information System (IRIS) health
assessments for chemicals. After the
SUMMARY:
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plenary session, there will be two
concurrent panel meetings to conduct
chemical-specific peer reviews. A panel
composed of a subset of CAAC members
augmented with subject matter experts
will conduct a peer review of the EPA’s
IRIS Toxicological Review of Ammonia
(August 2013 Draft). A panel composed
of the remaining subset of CAAC
members augmented with other subject
matter experts will conduct a peer
review of the EPA’s Toxicological
Review of Trimethylbenzenes (August
2013 Draft).
DATES: The plenary session will be held
on Tuesday February 18, 2014 from 8:30
a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (Eastern Time). The
meetings to review the two draft IRIS
assessments, Toxicological Review of
Ammonia (August 2013 Draft) and
Toxicological Review of
Trimethylbenzenes (August 2013 Draft)
will be held concurrently on Tuesday
February 18, 2014 from 11:30 a.m. to
5:30 p.m. (Eastern Time), Wednesday
February 19, 2014 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30
p.m. (Eastern Time) and Thursday
February 20, 2014 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30
p.m. (Eastern Time).
ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at
the Crowne Plaza Washington National
Airport, 1480 Crystal Drive, Arlington,
VA, 22202.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Members of the public who wish to
obtain further information regarding this
announcement may contact Dr. Sue
Shallal, Designated Federal Officer
(DFO) for the CAAC augmented for the
Ammonia Review, by telephone/voice
mail at (202) 564–2057 or via email at
shallal.suhair@epa.gov and Mr. Thomas
Carpenter, DFO for the CAAC
augmented for the Trimethylbenzenes
Review, by telephone/voice mail at
(202) 564–4885 or via email at
carpenter.thomas@epa.gov. General
information concerning the EPA SAB
can be found at https://www.epa.gov/sab.
Technical Contact for EPA’s draft
assessments: For information
concerning the EPA draft assessments,
please contact Dr. Samantha Jones,
National Center for Environmental
Assessment, Office of Research and
Development, U.S. EPA, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Mail Code
8601P, Washington, DC 20460, phone
(703) 347–8580 or via email at
jones.samantha@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The SAB was established
pursuant to the Environmental
Research, Development, and
Demonstration Authorization Act
(ERDDAA) codified at 42 U.S.C. 4365, to
provide independent scientific and
technical peer review, advice,
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consultation and recommendations to
the EPA Administrator on the technical
basis for EPA actions. As a Federal
Advisory Committee, the SAB conducts
business in accordance with the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5
U.S.C. App. 2) and related regulations.
Pursuant to FACA and EPA policy,
notice is hereby given that the SAB
Chemical Assessment Advisory
Committee (CAAC) along with
additional experts will hold public
meetings to: (1) Learn about the EPA’s
enhancements to the process for
developing Integrated Risk Information
System (IRIS) health assessments for
chemicals and (2) to conduct peer
reviews of two draft IRIS assessments,
Toxicological Review of Ammonia
(August 2013 Draft) and Toxicological
Review of Trimethylbenzenes (August
2013 Draft). The SAB committee and
panels will comply with the provisions
of FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff
Office procedural policies.
EPA’s Office of Research and
Development has requested that the
SAB conduct peer reviews of two draft
documents, Toxicological Review of
Ammonia (August 2013 Draft) and
Toxicological Review of
Trimethylbenzenes (August 2013 Draft).
The EPA SAB Staff Office augmented
the SAB CAAC with subject matter
experts to provide advice through the
chartered SAB regarding these IRIS
assessments. The SAB Staff Office
previously requested public
nominations of experts to serve as
chemical-specific experts for these peer
reviews in a Federal Register notice
published on August 28, 2013 (78:167
pp. 53144–46). Information about the
formation of the SAB CAAC augmented
for the Ammonia peer review can be
found on the SAB Web site at https://
yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/
02ad90b136fc21ef85256eba00436459/
2fe334e0bec7a3cf85257b6500
5c500b!OpenDocument&TableRow=
2.1#2. Information about the formation
of the SAB CAAC augmented for the
Trimethylbenzenes peer review can be
found on the SAB Web site at https://
yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/
02ad90b136fc21ef85256eba00436459/
ee1e280e77586de985257b65005
d37e7!OpenDocument&TableRow
=2.1#2.
Prior to the beginning of their peer
review activities, the augmented CAAC
panels will meet in a plenary session to
receive EPA briefings on the
enhancements to the process for
developing IRIS health assessments for
chemicals.
Availability of the review materials:
Information about these public meetings
will be available on the SAB Web site
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(https://www.epa.gov/sab) prior to the
meetings. Meeting materials can be
accessed by using the ‘‘calendar’’ link in
the blue navigation sidebar and then
clicking on the date corresponding to
the meeting date.
Procedures for Providing Public Input:
Public comments for consideration by
EPA’s federal advisory committees and
panels have a different purpose from
public comments provided to EPA
program offices. Therefore, the process
for submitting comments to a federal
advisory committee is different from the
process used to submit comments to an
EPA program office. Federal advisory
committees and panels, including
scientific advisory committees, provide
independent advice to EPA. Members of
the public can submit relevant
comments pertaining to the committee’s
charge, meeting materials and/or the
group conducting the activity. Input
from the public to the SAB will have the
most impact if it consists of comments
that provide specific scientific or
technical information or analysis for the
SAB committee to consider or if it
relates to the clarity or accuracy of the
technical information. Members of the
public wishing to provide comment
should contact the Designated Federal
Officer for the relevant advisory
committee directly.
Oral Statements: In general,
individuals or groups requesting an oral
presentation will be limited to five
minutes per speaker. Interested parties
wishing to provide comments regarding
the IRIS process enhancements or the
SAB’s review of the agency’s
Toxicological Review of Ammonia
(August 2013 Draft) should contact Dr.
Suhair Shallal, DFO, and interested
parties wishing to provide comments
regarding the Toxicological Review of
Trimethylbenzenes (August 2013 Draft)
should contact Mr. Thomas Carpenter,
DFO in writing (preferably via email), at
the contact information noted above, by
February 10, 2014 to be placed on the
list of public speakers for the meeting.
Written Statements: Written statements
should be received in the SAB Staff
Office by February 10, 2014 so that the
information can be made available to
the SAB Committee for consideration.
Written statements should be supplied
to the appropriate DFO in electronic
format via email (acceptable file
formats: Adobe Acrobat PDF,
WordPerfect, MS Word, MS PowerPoint,
or Rich Text files in IBM–PC/Windows
98/2000/XP format). It is the SAB Staff
Office general policy to post written
comments on the Web page for the
advisory meeting or teleconference.
Submitters are requested to provide an
unsigned version of each document
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because the SAB Staff Office does not
publish documents with signatures on
its Web sites. Members of the public
should be aware that their personal
contact information, if included in any
written comments, may be posted to the
SAB Web site. Copyrighted material will
not be posted without explicit
permission of the copyright holder.
Accessibility: For information on
access or services for individuals with
disabilities, please contact Dr. Sue
Shallal or Mr. Thomas Carpenter at the
phone number or email address noted
above, preferably at least ten days prior
to the meeting, to give EPA as much
time as possible to process your request.
Dated: January 23, 2014.
Christopher S. Zarba,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff
Office.
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AGENCY:
As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork burdens, and as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–
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invites the general public and other
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opportunity to comment on the
following information collection.
Comments are requested concerning:
whether the proposed collection of
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performance of the functions of the
Commission, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
the accuracy of the Commission’s
burden estimate; ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected; 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; and ways to
further reduce the information
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number. No person shall be subject to
any penalty for failing to comply with
a collection of information subject to the
PRA that does not display a valid Office
of Management and Budget (OMB)
control number.
DATES: Written PRA comments should
be submitted on or before April 1, 2014.
If you anticipate that you will be
submitting comments, but find it
difficult to do so within the period of
time allowed by this notice, you should
advise the contact listed below as soon
as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to
Cathy Williams, FCC, via email PRA@
fcc.gov and to Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information about the
information collection, contact Cathy
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control No.: 3060–0751.
Title: Contracts and Concessions, 47
CFR 43.51.
Form No.: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents/Responses:
10 respondents; 40 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 6–8
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Annual Cost Burden: None.
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impact(s).
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In general, there is no need for
confidentiality with this collection of
information.
Needs and Uses: This collection will
be submitted as an extension (no change
in reporting or recordkeeping
requirements) after this 60-day comment
period to the Office of Management and
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three year clearance.
The Commission has determined that
the authorized resale of international
private lines inter-connected to the U.S.
public switched network would tend to
divert international message telephone
service (IMTS) traffic from the
settlements process and increase the
U.S. net settlements deficit. The
information will be used by the
Commission in reviewing the impact, if
any, that end-user private line
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interconnections have on the
Commission’s international settlements
policy. The data will also enhance the
ability of both the Commission and
interested parties to monitor the
unauthorized resale of international
private lines that are interconnected to
the U.S. public switched network.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of
Managing Director.
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ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:
As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork burden and as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3502—
3520), the FCC invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on the
following information collection.
Comments are requested concerning:
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Commission, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
the accuracy of the Commission’s
burden estimates; ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected; 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; and ways to
further reduce the information
collection burden on small business
concerns with fewer than 25 employees.
The FCC may not conduct or sponsor
a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB Control
Number. No person shall be subject to
any penalty for failing to comply with
a collection of information subject to the
PRA that does not display a valid OMB
Control Number.
DATES: Written PRA comments should
be submitted on or before March 3,
2014. 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
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Notification of Three Public Meetings of the Chemical Assessment
Advisory Committee (CAAC), the CAAC Augmented for the Review of Ammonia
and the CAAC Augmented for the Review of Trimethylbenzenes
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or agency) Science
Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces three public meetings. The
SAB Chemical Assessment Advisory Committee (CAAC) and additional
experts will meet in a plenary session to learn about new enhancements
to the EPA's process for developing Integrated Risk Information System
(IRIS) health assessments for chemicals. After the
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plenary session, there will be two concurrent panel meetings to conduct
chemical-specific peer reviews. A panel composed of a subset of CAAC
members augmented with subject matter experts will conduct a peer
review of the EPA's IRIS Toxicological Review of Ammonia (August 2013
Draft). A panel composed of the remaining subset of CAAC members
augmented with other subject matter experts will conduct a peer review
of the EPA's Toxicological Review of Trimethylbenzenes (August 2013
Draft).
DATES: The plenary session will be held on Tuesday February 18, 2014
from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (Eastern Time). The meetings to review the
two draft IRIS assessments, Toxicological Review of Ammonia (August
2013 Draft) and Toxicological Review of Trimethylbenzenes (August 2013
Draft) will be held concurrently on Tuesday February 18, 2014 from
11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (Eastern Time), Wednesday February 19, 2014
from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) and Thursday February 20,
2014 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (Eastern Time).
ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at the Crowne Plaza Washington
National Airport, 1480 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA, 22202.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Members of the public who wish to
obtain further information regarding this announcement may contact Dr.
Sue Shallal, Designated Federal Officer (DFO) for the CAAC augmented
for the Ammonia Review, by telephone/voice mail at (202) 564-2057 or
via email at shallal.suhair@epa.gov and Mr. Thomas Carpenter, DFO for
the CAAC augmented for the Trimethylbenzenes Review, by telephone/voice
mail at (202) 564-4885 or via email at carpenter.thomas@epa.gov.
General information concerning the EPA SAB can be found at https://www.epa.gov/sab.
Technical Contact for EPA's draft assessments: For information
concerning the EPA draft assessments, please contact Dr. Samantha
Jones, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research
and Development, U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Mail Code
8601P, Washington, DC 20460, phone (703) 347-8580 or via email at
jones.samantha@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background: The SAB was established pursuant
to the Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration
Authorization Act (ERDDAA) codified at 42 U.S.C. 4365, to provide
independent scientific and technical peer review, advice, consultation
and recommendations to the EPA Administrator on the technical basis for
EPA actions. As a Federal Advisory Committee, the SAB conducts business
in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C.
App. 2) and related regulations. Pursuant to FACA and EPA policy,
notice is hereby given that the SAB Chemical Assessment Advisory
Committee (CAAC) along with additional experts will hold public
meetings to: (1) Learn about the EPA's enhancements to the process for
developing Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) health assessments
for chemicals and (2) to conduct peer reviews of two draft IRIS
assessments, Toxicological Review of Ammonia (August 2013 Draft) and
Toxicological Review of Trimethylbenzenes (August 2013 Draft). The SAB
committee and panels will comply with the provisions of FACA and all
appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural policies.
EPA's Office of Research and Development has requested that the SAB
conduct peer reviews of two draft documents, Toxicological Review of
Ammonia (August 2013 Draft) and Toxicological Review of
Trimethylbenzenes (August 2013 Draft). The EPA SAB Staff Office
augmented the SAB CAAC with subject matter experts to provide advice
through the chartered SAB regarding these IRIS assessments. The SAB
Staff Office previously requested public nominations of experts to
serve as chemical-specific experts for these peer reviews in a Federal
Register notice published on August 28, 2013 (78:167 pp. 53144-46).
Information about the formation of the SAB CAAC augmented for the
Ammonia peer review can be found on the SAB Web site at https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/02ad90b136fc21ef85256eba00436459/2fe334e0bec7a3cf85257b65005c500b!OpenDocument&TableRow=2.1#2.
Information about the formation of the SAB CAAC augmented for the
Trimethylbenzenes peer review can be found on the SAB Web site at
https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/02ad90b136fc21ef85256eba00436459/ee1e280e77586de985257b65005d37e7!OpenDocument&TableRow=2.1#2.
Prior to the beginning of their peer review activities, the
augmented CAAC panels will meet in a plenary session to receive EPA
briefings on the enhancements to the process for developing IRIS health
assessments for chemicals.
Availability of the review materials: Information about these
public meetings will be available on the SAB Web site (https://www.epa.gov/sab) prior to the meetings. Meeting materials can be
accessed by using the ``calendar'' link in the blue navigation sidebar
and then clicking on the date corresponding to the meeting date.
Procedures for Providing Public Input: Public comments for
consideration by EPA's federal advisory committees and panels have a
different purpose from public comments provided to EPA program offices.
Therefore, the process for submitting comments to a federal advisory
committee is different from the process used to submit comments to an
EPA program office. Federal advisory committees and panels, including
scientific advisory committees, provide independent advice to EPA.
Members of the public can submit relevant comments pertaining to the
committee's charge, meeting materials and/or the group conducting the
activity. Input from the public to the SAB will have the most impact if
it consists of comments that provide specific scientific or technical
information or analysis for the SAB committee to consider or if it
relates to the clarity or accuracy of the technical information.
Members of the public wishing to provide comment should contact the
Designated Federal Officer for the relevant advisory committee
directly.
Oral Statements: In general, individuals or groups requesting an
oral presentation will be limited to five minutes per speaker.
Interested parties wishing to provide comments regarding the IRIS
process enhancements or the SAB's review of the agency's Toxicological
Review of Ammonia (August 2013 Draft) should contact Dr. Suhair
Shallal, DFO, and interested parties wishing to provide comments
regarding the Toxicological Review of Trimethylbenzenes (August 2013
Draft) should contact Mr. Thomas Carpenter, DFO in writing (preferably
via email), at the contact information noted above, by February 10,
2014 to be placed on the list of public speakers for the meeting.
Written Statements: Written statements should be received in the SAB
Staff Office by February 10, 2014 so that the information can be made
available to the SAB Committee for consideration. Written statements
should be supplied to the appropriate DFO in electronic format via
email (acceptable file formats: Adobe Acrobat PDF, WordPerfect, MS
Word, MS PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in IBM-PC/Windows 98/2000/XP
format). It is the SAB Staff Office general policy to post written
comments on the Web page for the advisory meeting or teleconference.
Submitters are requested to provide an unsigned version of each
document
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because the SAB Staff Office does not publish documents with signatures
on its Web sites. Members of the public should be aware that their
personal contact information, if included in any written comments, may
be posted to the SAB Web site. Copyrighted material will not be posted
without explicit permission of the copyright holder.
Accessibility: For information on access or services for
individuals with disabilities, please contact Dr. Sue Shallal or Mr.
Thomas Carpenter at the phone number or email address noted above,
preferably at least ten days prior to the meeting, to give EPA as much
time as possible to process your request.
Dated: January 23, 2014.
Christopher S. Zarba,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
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