Warm Springs Irrigation District; Notice of Technical Meeting, 36801 [2014-15222]
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Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Time on July 21, 2014.
Dated: June 24, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 13570–002]
Warm Springs Irrigation District;
Notice of Technical Meeting
a. Project Name and Number: Warm
Springs Dam Hydroelectric Project No.
13570.
b. Date: July 10, 2014; 1:30 p.m.
Eastern Time (11:30 a.m. Mountain
Time).
c. Place: Telephone conference with
the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
(Reclamation) and the Warm Springs
Irrigation District.
d. FERC Contact: Ken Wilcox, ken.
wilcox@ferc.gov or (202) 502–6835.
e. Purpose of Meeting: To discuss
Reclamation’s authority over the
operation, maintenance, and
management of the Warm Springs Dam
and reservoir, relative to the proposed
hydroelectric project.
f. A summary of the meeting will be
prepared and filed for the project’s
record.
g. All local, state, and federal
agencies, Indian tribes, and other
interested parties are invited to
participate by phone. Please contact Ken
Wilcox at ken.wilcox@ferc.gov or (202)
502–6835 by close of business Tuesday,
July 8, 2014, to RSVP and to receive
specific instructions on how to
participate.
Dated: June 24, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is announcing the
availability of a final document titled
Integrated Review Plan for the Primary
National Ambient Air Quality
Standards for Nitrogen Dioxide (IRP).
This document contains the plans for
the review of the air quality criteria for
health for oxides of nitrogen and the
primary national ambient air quality
standards (NAAQS) for nitrogen dioxide
(NO2). The primary NO2 NAAQS
provide for the protection of public
health from exposure to oxides of
nitrogen in ambient air.
DATES: The IRP will be available on or
about June 30, 2014.
ADDRESSES: This document will be
available primarily via the Internet at
the following Web site: https://
www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/nox/
s_nox_2012_pd.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Beth Hassett-Sipple, Office of Air
Quality Planning and Standards (mail
code C504–06), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Research Triangle
Park, NC 27711; telephone number:
919–541–4605; fax number: 919–541–
0237; email address: hassett-sipple.beth
@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Two
sections of the Clean Air Act (CAA)
govern the establishment and revision of
the NAAQS. Section 108 (42 U.S.C.
7408) directs the Administrator to
identify and list certain air pollutants
and then to issue air quality criteria for
those pollutants. The Administrator is
to list those air pollutants that in her
‘‘judgment, cause or contribute to air
pollution which may reasonably be
anticipated to endanger public health or
welfare;’’ ‘‘the presence of which in the
ambient air results from numerous or
diverse mobile or stationary sources;’’
and ‘‘for which . . . [the Administrator]
plans to issue air quality
criteria. . . . .’’ Air quality criteria are
intended to ‘‘accurately reflect the latest
scientific knowledge useful in
indicating the kind and extent of all
identifiable effects on public health or
welfare which may be expected from the
presence of [a] pollutant in the ambient
air . . .’’ 42 U.S.C. 7408(b). Under
section 109 (42 U.S.C. 7409), the EPA
establishes primary (health-based) and
secondary (welfare-based) NAAQS for
pollutants for which air quality criteria
are issued. Section 109(d) requires
periodic review and, if appropriate,
revision of existing air quality criteria.
The revised air quality criteria reflect
advances in scientific knowledge on the
effects of the pollutant on public health
or welfare. The EPA is also required to
periodically review and, if appropriate,
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revise the NAAQS based on the revised
criteria. Section 109(d)(2) requires that
an independent scientific review
committee ‘‘shall complete a review of
the criteria . . . and the national
primary and secondary ambient air
quality standards . . . and shall
recommend to the Administrator any
new . . . standards and revisions of
existing criteria and standards as may be
appropriate . . . .’’ Since the early
1980’s, this independent review
function has been performed by the
Clean Air Scientific Advisory
Committee (CASAC).
Presently, the EPA is reviewing the
primary NAAQS for NO2.1 The final
document, announced today, has been
developed as part of the planning phase
for the review. This phase began with a
science policy workshop to identify
issues and questions to frame the
review.2 Drawing from the workshop
discussions, a draft IRP was prepared
jointly by the EPA’s National Center for
Environmental Assessment, within the
Office of Research and Development,
and the EPA’s Office of Air Quality
Planning and Standards, within the
Office of Air and Radiation (79 FR 7184,
February 6, 2014).3 The draft IRP was
reviewed by CASAC at a meeting on
March 12, 2014 (79 FR 8701, February
13, 2014). Comments from CASAC on
the draft IRP were provided to the EPA
in a June 10, 2014, letter (Frey, 2014).4
1 The EPA’s call for information for this review
was issued on February 10, 2012 (77 FR 7149).
2 The EPA held a workshop titled ‘‘Kickoff
Workshop to Inform EPA’s Review of the Primary
NO2 NAAQS on February 29 to March 1, 2012 (77
FR 7149, February 10, 2012).
3 The EPA released a draft plan for developing the
Integrated Science Assessment (ISA) for CASAC
consultation and public review (78 FR 26026, May
3, 2013). The EPA held a consultation with CASAC
on this draft plan during a public teleconference on
June 5, 2013 (78 FR 27234, May 10, 2013).
Individual CASAC member comments were
provided to the EPA in a letter from Dr. H.
Christopher Frey, Chair, Clean Air Scientific
Advisory Committee to the Honorable Bob
Perciasepe, Acting Administrator, U.S. EPA,
Consultation on the EPA’s Draft Plan for the
Development of the Integrated Science Assessment
for Nitrogen Oxides—Health Criteria (May 2013
Draft). June 18, 2013. Available at: https://
yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/
264cb1227d55e02c85257402007446a4/
08EF0A3789CDB13A85257B8E006A496E/$File/
EPA–CASAC–13–006+unsigned.pdf. CASAC and
public comments on that draft plan were
considered in developing Chapter 4 of the draft IRP.
4 Letter from Dr. H. Christopher Frey, Chair, Clean
Air Scientific Advisory Committee to the Honorable
Gina McCarthy, Administrator, U.S. EPA. CASAC
Review of the EPA’s Integrated Review Plan for the
Primary National Ambient Air Quality Standards
for Nitrogen Dioxide (External Review Draft)
(February 2014). June 10, 2014. Available at:
https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/
264cb1227d55e02c85257402007446a4/
89989229944F36B085257CF300692E2A/$File/EPA–
CASAC–14–001+unsigned.pdf.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 13570-002]
Warm Springs Irrigation District; Notice of Technical Meeting
a. Project Name and Number: Warm Springs Dam Hydroelectric Project
No. 13570.
b. Date: July 10, 2014; 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time (11:30 a.m. Mountain
Time).
c. Place: Telephone conference with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
(Reclamation) and the Warm Springs Irrigation District.
d. FERC Contact: Ken Wilcox, ken.wilcox@ferc.gov or (202) 502-6835.
e. Purpose of Meeting: To discuss Reclamation's authority over the
operation, maintenance, and management of the Warm Springs Dam and
reservoir, relative to the proposed hydroelectric project.
f. A summary of the meeting will be prepared and filed for the
project's record.
g. All local, state, and federal agencies, Indian tribes, and other
interested parties are invited to participate by phone. Please contact
Ken Wilcox at ken.wilcox@ferc.gov or (202) 502-6835 by close of
business Tuesday, July 8, 2014, to RSVP and to receive specific
instructions on how to participate.
Dated: June 24, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-15222 Filed 6-27-14; 8:45 am]
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