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Water Act. The two Panel
teleconferences will be conducted as
one complete meeting, beginning on
August 20, 2014 and continuing on
August 21, 2014. Information about this
advisory activity may be found at https://
yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/
fedrgstr_activites/WOUSadv%26com?OpenDocument.
Availability of Meeting Materials:
Teleconference agendas and any other
meeting materials will be placed on the
SAB Web site at https://www.epa.gov/sab
in advance of the teleconferences. The
proposed rule titled Definition of Waters
of the United States under the Clean
Water Act is available on the EPA Web
site at https://www2.epa.gov/sites/
production/files/2014–04/documents/fr2014–07142.pdf. For questions and
information concerning the proposed
rule please contact Ms. Donna Downing,
Office of Water (4502–T),
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20460; telephone (202) 566–2428 or
via email at CWAwaters@epa.gov.
Procedures for Providing Public Input:
Public comment for consideration by
EPA’s federal advisory committees and
panels has a different purpose from
public comment 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 comments for a federal
advisory committee to consider as it
develops advice for EPA. Input from the
public to the SAB will have the most
impact if it provides specific scientific
or technical information or analysis for
SAB panels to consider or if it relates to
the clarity or accuracy of the technical
information. Members of the public
wishing to provide oral statements to
the SAB Panel should contact the DFO
directly. Oral Statements: In general,
individuals or groups requesting an oral
presentation at a public teleconference
will be limited to three minutes.
Interested parties should contact Dr.
Thomas Armitage, DFO, in writing
(preferably via email) at the contact
information noted above by August 13,
2014 to be placed on the list of public
speakers for August 20, 2014. Written
Statements: Members of the public
wishing to provide written comments
may submit them to the EPA Docket
electronically via www.regulations.gov
by email, by mail, or by hand delivery/
courier. Please follow the detailed
instructions provided in the written
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statements section of this notice.
Written statements should be received
in the EPA Docket by August 13, 2014
so that the information may be made
available to the SAB Panel for its
consideration. Written statements
should be identified by Docket ID No.
EPA–HQ–OA–2014–0010 and submitted
to the Docket at www.regulations.gov by
one of the following methods:
• www.regulations.gov: Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• Email: Docket_OEI@epa.gov:
Include the docket number in the
subject line of the message.
• Mail: Office of Environmental
Information (OEI) Docket (Mail Code:
28221T), Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OA–
2014–0010, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460. The
phone number is (202) 566–1752.
• Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is
located in the EPA headquarters Docket
Center, Room 3334, EPA West Building,
1301 Constitution Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC. The EPA Docket
Center Public Reading Room is open
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The telephone number for the
Public Reading Room is (202) 566–1744.
Deliveries are only accepted during the
docket’s normal hours of operation, and
special arrangements should be made
for deliveries of boxed information.
Direct your comments to Docket ID
No. EPA–HQ–OA–2014–0010. Please
ensure that your comments are
submitted by August 13, 2014.
Comments received after that date will
be marked late and may not be provided
to the SAB Panel for consideration
before the August 20, 2014
teleconference. It is EPA’s policy to
include all comments received in the
public docket without change and to
make the comments available on-line at
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided, unless a
comment includes information claimed
to be Confidential Business Information
(CBI) or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute. Do
not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise
protected through www.regulations.gov
or email. The www.regulations.gov Web
site is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system,
which means EPA will not know your
identity or contact information unless
you provide it in the body of your
comment. If you send an email directly
to EPA without going through
www.regulations.gov, your email
address will be automatically captured
and included as part of the comment
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submit an electronic comment, EPA
recommends that you include your
name and other contact information in
the body of your comment and with any
disk or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA
cannot read your comments due to
technical difficulties and cannot contact
you for clarification, the SAB Panel may
not be able to consider your comments.
Electronic files should avoid the use of
special characters and any form of
encryption and be free of any defects or
viruses. For additional information
about EPA’s public docket, visit the EPA
Docket Center homepage at
www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
Documents in the docket are listed in
the www.regulations.gov index.
Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available,
e.g., CBI or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute.
Certain other material, such as
copyrighted material will be publicly
available only in hard copy. Publicly
available docket materials are available
either electronically at
www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at
the OEI Docket in the EPA Headquarters
Docket Center.
Accessibility: For information on
access or services for individuals with
disabilities, please contact Dr. Thomas
Armitage at (202) 564–2155 or
armitage.thomas@epa.gov. To request
accommodation of a disability, please
contact Dr. Armitage preferably at least
ten days prior to the teleconference to
give EPA as much time as possible to
process your request.
Dated: June 30, 2014.
Thomas H. Brennan,
Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Staff
Office.
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Notification of a Public Meeting of the
Science Advisory Board Advisory
Panel on EPA’s Report on the
Environment 2014
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board
(SAB) Staff Office announces a public
meeting of the SAB Advisory Panel on
EPA’s Report on the Environment (ROE)
2014.
SUMMARY:
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The SAB Advisory Panel on
EPA’s Report on the Environment 2014
public meeting will be held on
Wednesday, July 30, 2014, from 9:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time and
Thursday, July 31, 2014, from 8:30 a.m.
to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be
held at the J.W. Marriott, 1331
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any
member of the public who wishes
further information concerning the
public meeting may contact Ms.
Stephanie Sanzone, Designated Federal
Officer (DFO), via telephone at (202)
564–2067 or email at
sanzone.stephanie@epa.gov. General
information concerning the SAB can be
found on the EPA Web site at https://
www.epa.gov/sab.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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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
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), 5 U.S.C., App. 2. The SAB and
its panels will comply with the
provisions of FACA and all appropriate
SAB Staff Office procedural policies.
Pursuant to FACA and EPA policy,
notice is hereby given that the SAB
Advisory Panel on EPA’s Report on the
Environment 2014 will hold a public
meeting to discuss the Agency’s draft
Report on the Environment (ROE) 2014.
This SAB panel will provide advice to
the Administrator through the chartered
SAB.
EPA’s ROE compiles and maintains
indicators on the status and trends for
environmental and human health
conditions related to the mission of the
agency. The indicators are focused on
informing questions of interest to the
EPA and its mission of protecting the
environment and human health. The
EPA’s first ROE was released in draft in
2003 with the corresponding final report
released in 2008 in hard copy and
online format. The SAB provided advice
on two draft versions leading up to the
2008 ROE; the findings and
recommendations of those SAB reviews
are available on the SAB Web site at
www.epa.gov/sab (see reports EPA–
SAB–05–004 and EPA–SAB–08–007). In
2009, SAB members provided
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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 the EPA.
Interested members of the public may
submit relevant written or oral
information on the topic of this advisory
activity (including the review materials
and the charge), and/or the group
conducting the activity, for the SAB to
consider during the advisory process.
Input from the public to the SAB will
have the most impact if it provides
specific scientific or technical
information or analysis for SAB
committees 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 DFO directly. Oral
Statements: In general, individuals or
groups requesting an oral presentation
at a public meeting will be limited to
five minutes. Interested parties should
contact Ms. Stephanie Sanzone, DFO, in
writing (preferably via email) at the
contact information noted above by July
23, 2014, to be placed on the list of
public speakers for the meeting.
Written Statements: Written
statements should be supplied to the
DFO via email at the contact
information noted above by July 23,
2014, so that the information may be
made available to the panel members for
their consideration prior to the meeting.
Written statements should be supplied
in one of the following electronic
formats: Adobe Acrobat PDF, MS Word,
MS PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in
IBM–PC/Windows 98/2000/XP format.
It is the SAB Staff Office general policy
Technical Contacts
to post written comments on the Web
page for the advisory meeting or
Any technical questions concerning
teleconference. Submitters are requested
EPA’s draft ROE 2014 should be
to provide an unsigned version of each
directed to Dr. Jeffrey Frithsen at (703)
347–8623 or by email at frithsen.jeffrey@ document because the SAB Staff Office
does not publish documents with
epa.gov.
signatures on its Web sites. Members of
Availability of Meeting Materials
the public should be aware that their
The external review draft of the ROE
personal contact information, if
2014 is available at https://www.epa.gov/ included in any written comments, may
draftroe. Additional information,
be posted to the SAB Web site.
including the meeting agenda, the EPA
Copyrighted material will not be posted
charge and other materials provided to
without explicit permission of the
the panel, will be accessible prior to the copyright holder.
meeting through the calendar link on
Accessibility
the blue navigation bar at https://
For information on access or services
www.epa.gov/sab/.
for individuals with disabilities, please
Procedures for Providing Public Input
contact Ms. Stephanie Sanzone at (202)
564–2067 or sanzone.stephanie@
Public comment for consideration by
epa.gov. To request accommodation of a
EPA’s federal advisory committees and
disability, please contact Ms. Sanzone
panels has a different purpose from
preferably at least ten days prior to the
public comment provided to EPA
meeting to give EPA as much time as
program offices. Therefore, the process
possible to process your request.
for submitting comments to a federal
additional input to inform the
continued development of future
versions of the ROE (see report EPA–
SAB–09–017). In response to
suggestions from the SAB and
additional comments from users of the
ROE, the EPA developed the draft ROE
2014 as an entirely web-based product.
The EPA’s Office of Research and
Development has requested that the
SAB review and comment on the
recently released draft of the ROE Web
site (https://www.epa.gov/draftroe) with
particular attention to the new features
added since the release of the 2008
report. Specifically, the Agency has
requested the SAB to comment on the
clarity of the ROE objectives for various
audiences, the overarching conceptual
framework based on a sustainability
theme, the addition of statistical
information for individual indicators,
and the presentation of the ROE 2014
features in an online format.
The EPA made the draft ROE 2014
Web site available for public comment
through April 27, 2014 (see https://
www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/
03/27/2014–06824/draft-revised-epasreport-on-the-environment-2014). Public
comments received by the agency will
be provided to the SAB panel.
The purpose of the July 30–31, 2014,
meeting is for the SAB Panel to be
briefed on the ROE 2014 and to develop
draft responses to a set of EPA charge
questions. Additional information about
this advisory activity, including the
process for forming the SAB panel, can
be found at the following URL: https://
yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/
fedrgstr_activites/
ROE%202014?OpenDocument.
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Dated: June 25, 2014.
Christopher Zarba,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff
Office.
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Public Water System Supervision
Program Revision for the State of
Mississippi
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of tentative approval.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
the State of Mississippi is revising its
approved Public Water System
Supervision Program. Mississippi has
adopted the following rules: Long Term
1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment
Rule, Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface
Water Treatment Rule, Stage 2
Disinfectants and Disinfection
Byproducts Rule, Lead and Copper Rule
Short-Term Regulatory Revisions and
Clarifications, and Ground Water Rule.
The EPA has determined that
Mississippi’s rules are no less stringent
than the corresponding Federal
regulations. Therefore, the EPA is
tentatively approving this revision to
the State of Mississippi’s Public Water
System Supervision Program.
DATES: Any interested person may
request a public hearing. A request for
a public hearing must be submitted by
August 11, 2014, to the Regional
Administrator at the EPA Region 4
address shown below. The Regional
Administrator may deny frivolous or
insubstantial requests for a hearing.
However, if a substantial request for a
public hearing is made by August 11,
2014, a public hearing will be held. If
no timely and appropriate request for a
hearing is received and the Regional
Administrator does not elect to hold a
hearing on her own motion, this
tentative approval shall become final
and effective on August 11, 2014. Any
request for a public hearing shall
include the following information: The
name, address and telephone number of
the individual, organization or other
entity requesting a hearing; a brief
statement of the requesting person’s
interest in the Regional Administrator’s
determination and a brief statement of
the information that the requesting
person intends to submit at such
hearing; and the signature of the
individual making the request or, if the
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organization or other entity, the
signature of a responsible official of the
organization or other entity.
ADDRESSES: All documents relating to
this determination are available for
inspection between the hours of 8:30
a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, at the following offices:
Mississippi State Department of Health,
Bureau of Public Water Supply, 570 East
Woodrow Wilson Drive, Jackson,
Mississippi 39216; and the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
Region 4, Safe Drinking Water Branch,
61 Forsyth Street SW., Atlanta, Georgia
30303.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dale
Froneberger, EPA Region 4, Safe
Drinking Water Branch, by mail at the
Atlanta address given above, by
telephone at (404) 562–9446, or by
email at froneberger.dale@epa.gov.
EPA Analysis: On August 29, 2012,
the State of Mississippi submitted a
request that the Region approve a
revision to the State’s Safe Drinking
Water Act Public Water System
Supervision Program to include the
authority to implement and enforce the
Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water
Treatment Rule, the Long Term 2
Enhanced Surface Water Treatment
Rule, the Stage 2 Disinfectants and
Disinfection Byproducts Rule, and the
Lead and Copper Rule Short-Term
Regulatory Revisions and Clarifications.
On November 6, 2012, the State of
Mississippi submitted a request that the
Region approve a revision to the State’s
Safe Drinking Water Act Public Water
System Supervision Program to include
the authority to implement and enforce
the Ground Water Rule. For the requests
to be approved, the EPA must find the
State Rules codified at 15 Miss. Admin.
Code Pt. 20, Subpt. 72, Ch. 1., to be no
less stringent than the Federal Rules
codified at 40 CFR Part 141, Subpart T—
Enhanced Filtration and Disinfection—
Systems Serving Fewer Than 10,000
People; 40 CFR part 141, Subpart W—
Enhanced Treatment for
Cryptosporidium; 40 CFR part 141,
Subpart L—Disinfectant Residuals,
Disinfection Byproducts, and
Disinfection Byproduct Precursors; 40
CFR Part 141, Subpart U—Initial
Distribution System Evaluations; 40
CFR part 141, Subpart V—Stage 2
Disinfection Byproducts Requirements;
40 CFR part 141, Subpart I—Control of
Lead and Copper; and 40 CFR Part 141,
Subpart S—Ground Water Rule. The
EPA reviewed the applications using the
Federal statutory provisions (Section
1413 of the Safe Drinking Water Act),
Federal regulations (at 40 CFR part 142),
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State regulations, rule crosswalks, and
EPA regulatory guidance to determine
whether the requests for revision are
approvable. The EPA determined that
the Mississippi regulations are no less
stringent than the corresponding
Federal regulations.
EPA Action: The EPA is tentatively
approving this revision. If the EPA does
not receive a timely and appropriate
request for a hearing and the Regional
Administrator does not elect to hold a
hearing on her own motion, this
tentative approval will become final and
effective on August 11, 2014.
Authority: Section 1413 of the Safe
Drinking Water Act, as amended (1996), and
40 CFR Part 142.
Dated: June 16, 2014.
Heather McTeer Toney,
Regional Administrator, Region 4.
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Notification of a Public Meeting of the Science Advisory Board
Advisory Panel on EPA's Report on the Environment 2014
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public meeting of the SAB Advisory
Panel on EPA's Report on the Environment (ROE) 2014.
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DATES: The SAB Advisory Panel on EPA's Report on the Environment 2014
public meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 30, 2014, from 9:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time and Thursday, July 31, 2014, from 8:30 a.m.
to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be held at the J.W. Marriott, 1331
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public who wishes
further information concerning the public meeting may contact Ms.
Stephanie Sanzone, Designated Federal Officer (DFO), via telephone at
(202) 564-2067 or email at sanzone.stephanie@epa.gov. General
information concerning the SAB can be found on the EPA Web site at
https://www.epa.gov/sab.
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 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), 5 U.S.C., App. 2. The SAB
and its panels will comply with the provisions of FACA and all
appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural policies. Pursuant to FACA and
EPA policy, notice is hereby given that the SAB Advisory Panel on EPA's
Report on the Environment 2014 will hold a public meeting to discuss
the Agency's draft Report on the Environment (ROE) 2014. This SAB panel
will provide advice to the Administrator through the chartered SAB.
EPA's ROE compiles and maintains indicators on the status and
trends for environmental and human health conditions related to the
mission of the agency. The indicators are focused on informing
questions of interest to the EPA and its mission of protecting the
environment and human health. The EPA's first ROE was released in draft
in 2003 with the corresponding final report released in 2008 in hard
copy and online format. The SAB provided advice on two draft versions
leading up to the 2008 ROE; the findings and recommendations of those
SAB reviews are available on the SAB Web site at www.epa.gov/sab (see
reports EPA-SAB-05-004 and EPA-SAB-08-007). In 2009, SAB members
provided additional input to inform the continued development of future
versions of the ROE (see report EPA-SAB-09-017). In response to
suggestions from the SAB and additional comments from users of the ROE,
the EPA developed the draft ROE 2014 as an entirely web-based product.
The EPA's Office of Research and Development has requested that the
SAB review and comment on the recently released draft of the ROE Web
site (https://www.epa.gov/draftroe) with particular attention to the new
features added since the release of the 2008 report. Specifically, the
Agency has requested the SAB to comment on the clarity of the ROE
objectives for various audiences, the overarching conceptual framework
based on a sustainability theme, the addition of statistical
information for individual indicators, and the presentation of the ROE
2014 features in an online format.
The EPA made the draft ROE 2014 Web site available for public
comment through April 27, 2014 (see https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/03/27/2014-06824/draft-revised-epas-report-on-the-environment-2014). Public comments received by the agency will be
provided to the SAB panel.
The purpose of the July 30-31, 2014, meeting is for the SAB Panel
to be briefed on the ROE 2014 and to develop draft responses to a set
of EPA charge questions. Additional information about this advisory
activity, including the process for forming the SAB panel, can be found
at the following URL: https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_activites/ROE%202014?OpenDocument.
Technical Contacts
Any technical questions concerning EPA's draft ROE 2014 should be
directed to Dr. Jeffrey Frithsen at (703) 347-8623 or by email at
frithsen.jeffrey@epa.gov.
Availability of Meeting Materials
The external review draft of the ROE 2014 is available at https://www.epa.gov/draftroe. Additional information, including the meeting
agenda, the EPA charge and other materials provided to the panel, will
be accessible prior to the meeting through the calendar link on the
blue navigation bar at https://www.epa.gov/sab/.
Procedures for Providing Public Input
Public comment for consideration by EPA's federal advisory
committees and panels has a different purpose from public comment
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 the EPA. Interested members of the public
may submit relevant written or oral information on the topic of this
advisory activity (including the review materials and the charge), and/
or the group conducting the activity, for the SAB to consider during
the advisory process. Input from the public to the SAB will have the
most impact if it provides specific scientific or technical information
or analysis for SAB committees 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 DFO directly. Oral
Statements: In general, individuals or groups requesting an oral
presentation at a public meeting will be limited to five minutes.
Interested parties should contact Ms. Stephanie Sanzone, DFO, in
writing (preferably via email) at the contact information noted above
by July 23, 2014, to be placed on the list of public speakers for the
meeting.
Written Statements: Written statements should be supplied to the
DFO via email at the contact information noted above by July 23, 2014,
so that the information may be made available to the panel members for
their consideration prior to the meeting. Written statements should be
supplied in one of the following electronic formats: Adobe Acrobat PDF,
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 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 Ms. Stephanie Sanzone at (202) 564-2067 or
sanzone.stephanie@epa.gov. To request accommodation of a disability,
please contact Ms. Sanzone preferably at least ten days prior to the
meeting to give EPA as much time as possible to process your request.
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Dated: June 25, 2014.
Christopher Zarba,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
[FR Doc. 2014-16269 Filed 7-10-14; 8:45 am]
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