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GHG regulation includes the regulation
of certain trailers associated with heavyduty vehicles and engines. CARB
amended the Tractor-Trailer GHG
regulation in conjunction with its
adoption of the Phase 1 GHG regulation
(which only addresses vehicles and
engines) to ensure that California’s GHG
requirements for new medium and
heavy-duty engines and vehicles are
consistent with the corresponding
requirements of EPA’s Phase 1 GHG
regulation (that addresses engines and
vehicles).
(B) Scope of Preemption and Criteria
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Section 209(b) of the Act requires the
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and accompanying enforcement
procedures are not consistent with
section 202(a) of the Act. Previous
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preemption for motor vehicles have
maintained that state standards are
inconsistent with section 202(a) if there
is inadequate lead time to permit the
development of the necessary
technology giving appropriate
consideration to the cost of compliance
within that time period or if the federal
to review EPA’s issuance of the waiver. The court
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and state test procedures impose
inconsistent certification procedures.3
(C) Request for Comment
EPA invites comment on CARB’s
request for a waiver for the California
Phase 1 GHG regulation under the
following three criteria: whether (a)
California’s determination that its motor
vehicle emission standards are, in the
aggregate, at least as protective of public
health and welfare as applicable federal
standards is arbitrary and capricious, (b)
California needs such standards to meet
compelling and extraordinary
conditions, and (c) California’s
standards and accompanying
enforcement procedures are consistent
with section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act.
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the hearing to obtain a copy of the
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November 1, 2016. Upon expiration of
the comment period, the Administrator
will render a decision on CARB’s
request based on the record of the
public hearing, relevant written
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3 To be consistent, the California certification
procedures need not be identical to the federal
certification procedures. California procedures
would be inconsistent, however, if manufacturers
would be unable to meet the state and the federal
requirements with the same test vehicle in the
course of the same test. See, e.g., 43 FR 32182 (July
25, 1978).
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Dated: August 3, 2016.
Christopher Grundler,
Director, Office of Transportation and Air
Quality, Office of Air and Radiation.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL–9950–42–OA]
Request for Nominations for a Science
Advisory Board Panel To Review Risk
and Technology Review Screening
Methods
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The EPA Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office requests public
nominations of scientific experts to form
a Panel to review the draft EPA report
entitled ‘‘Screening Methodologies to
Support Risk and Technology Reviews
(RTR).’’ This draft report describes
newly developed screening methods
designed to assess the risk to public
health and the environment that would
remain after stationary sources of
hazardous air pollutants come into
compliance with the EPA’s Maximum
Available Control Technologies (MACT)
standards.
DATES: Nominations should be
submitted by August 30, 2016 per the
instructions below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any
member of the public wishing further
information regarding this Notice and
Request for Nominations may contact
the Designated Federal Officer.
Nominators unable to submit
nominations electronically as described
below may contact the Designated
Federal Officer for assistance. General
information concerning the EPA SAB
can be found at the EPA SAB Web site
at https://www.epa.gov/sab.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The SAB (42 U.S.C.
4365) is a chartered Federal Advisory
Committee that provides independent
scientific and technical peer review,
advice, 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.
The SAB RTR Methods Review Panel
will provide advice through the
chartered SAB on scientific and
technical issues related to assessing
risks to public health and the
SUMMARY:
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environment from hazardous air
pollutants. The SAB and this Panel will
comply with the provisions of FACA
and all appropriate SAB Staff Office
procedural policies.
EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation
(OAR) has prepared a draft report
entitled ‘‘Screening Methodologies to
Support Risk and Technology Reviews
(RTR): A Case Study Analysis.’’ The
Clean Air Act (CAA) establishes a twostage regulatory process for addressing
emissions of hazardous air pollutants
(HAPs) from stationary sources. In the
first stage, the CAA requires the EPA to
develop technology-based standards,
known as Maximum Achievable Control
Technology (MACT) standards, for
categories of industrial sources. In the
second stage, the EPA must review each
MACT standard at least every eight
years and revise them as necessary,
taking into account developments in
practices, processes and control
technologies. EPA must also conduct an
assessment of the health and
environmental risks that remain after
stationary sources come into
compliance with the MACT standards.
Periodically, the SAB is asked to review
the methods that OAR uses to estimate
risks as these methods evolve or as new
methods are developed. Thus, OAR has
requested the SAB to review EPA’s draft
report that describes newly enhanced
screening methods designed to estimate
the potential risks to public health and
the environment that would remain
after stationary sources of HAPs come
into compliance with EPA’s MACT
standards. These include screening
methods to estimate the potential for
multi-pathway risks (e.g., ingestion,
inhalation) from persistent and
bioaccumulative HAPs, screening
methods to estimate potential
environmental risks, and recent
enhancements to the EPA’s inhalation
risk assessment methodology. The SAB
Staff Office is forming an expert panel,
the SAB RTR Methods Review Panel,
under the auspices of the Chartered SAB
to conduct this review.
Technical Contact for EPA’s draft
report: For information concerning the
draft report ‘‘Screening Methodologies
to Support Risk and Technology
Reviews (RTR): A Case Study Analysis’’
please contact Dr. Michael Stewart by
email at stewart.michael@epa.gov or
phone (919) 541–7524.
Request for Nominations: The SAB
Staff Office is seeking nominations of
nationally and internationally
recognized scientists with demonstrated
expertise in the following disciplines:
Human health risk assessment,
ecological risk assessment, exposure
assessment, toxicology, ecology, aquatic
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toxicology, air toxics, and dispersion
modeling. Additional information about
this advisory activity is available on the
SAB Web site at https://yosemite.
epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_
activites/RTR%20Screening%20
Methods%20Review?OpenDocument.
Questions regarding this advisory
activity should be directed to Dr. Suhair
Shallal, Designated Federal Officer
(DFO), SAB Staff Office, by telephone/
voice mail at (202) 564–2057, by fax at
(202) 565–2098, or via email at
shallal.suhair@epa.gov.
Process and Deadline for Submitting
Nominations: Any interested person or
organization may nominate qualified
individuals in the areas of expertise
described above for possible service on
the SAB RTR Methods Review Panel
identified in this notice. Individuals
may self-nominate. Nominations should
be submitted in electronic format
(preferred over hard copy) following the
instructions for ‘‘Nominating Experts to
Advisory Panels and Ad Hoc
Committees Being Formed,’’ provided
on the SAB Web site (see the
‘‘Nomination of Experts’’ link under
‘‘Current Activities’’ at https://www.epa.
gov/sab). To receive full consideration,
nominations should include all of the
information requested below.
EPA’s SAB Staff Office requests
contact information about the person
making the nomination; contact
information about the nominee; the
disciplinary and specific areas of
expertise of the nominee; the nominee’s
resume or curriculum vitae; sources of
recent grant and/or contract support;
and a biographical sketch of the
nominee indicating current position,
educational background, research
activities, and recent service on other
national advisory committees or
national professional organizations.
Persons having questions about the
nomination procedures, or who are
unable to submit nominations through
the SAB Web site, should contact Dr.
Shallal as indicated above in this notice.
Nominations should be submitted in
time to arrive no later than August 30,
2016. EPA values and welcomes
diversity. In an effort to obtain
nominations of diverse candidates, EPA
encourages nominations of women and
men of all racial and ethnic groups.
The EPA SAB Staff Office will
acknowledge receipt of nominations.
The names and biosketches of qualified
nominees identified by respondents to
this Federal Register notice, and
additional experts identified by the SAB
Staff Office, will be posted in a List of
Candidates for the panel on the SAB
Web site at https://www.epa.gov/sab.
Public comments on the List of
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Candidates will be accepted for 21 days.
The public will be requested to provide
relevant information or other
documentation on nominees that the
SAB Staff Office should consider in
evaluating candidates.
For the EPA SAB Staff Office a
balanced review panel includes
candidates who possess the necessary
domains of knowledge, the relevant
scientific perspectives (which, among
other factors, can be influenced by work
history and affiliation), and the
collective breadth of experience to
adequately address the charge. In
forming the expert panel, the SAB Staff
Office will consider public comments
on the Lists of Candidates, information
provided by the candidates themselves,
and background information
independently gathered by the SAB
Staff Office. Selection criteria to be used
for panel membership include: (a)
Scientific and/or technical expertise,
knowledge, and experience (primary
factors); (b) availability and willingness
to serve; (c) absence of financial
conflicts of interest; (d) absence of an
appearance of a loss of impartiality; (e)
skills working in committees,
subcommittees and advisory panels;
and, (f) for the panel as a whole,
diversity of expertise and scientific
points of view.
The SAB Staff Office’s evaluation of
an absence of financial conflicts of
interest will include a review of the
‘‘Confidential Financial Disclosure
Form for Environmental Protection
Agency Special Government
Employees’’ (EPA Form 3110–48). This
confidential form allows government
officials to determine whether there is a
statutory conflict between a person’s
public responsibilities (which include
membership on an EPA federal advisory
committee) and private interests and
activities, or the appearance of a loss of
impartiality, as defined by federal
regulation. The form may be viewed and
downloaded from the following URL
address https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sab
product.nsf/Web/ethics?Open
Document.
The approved policy under which the
EPA SAB Office selects members for
subcommittees and review panels is
described in the following document:
Overview of the Panel Formation
Process at the Environmental Protection
Agency Science Advisory Board (EPA–
SAB–EC–02–010), which is posted on
the SAB Web site at https://yosemite.
epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/WebFiles/
OverviewPanelForm/$File/ec02010.pdf.
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Dated: August 3, 2016.
Thomas H. Brennan,
Deputy Director, Science Advisory Board Staff
Office.
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hearing and comment.
AGENCY:
The California Air Resources
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has adopted amendments to its offhighway recreational vehicles (ORVR)
regulation that establish new
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associated test procedures for 2018 and
subsequent model year OHRVs (OHRV
Evaporative Emission Amendments). By
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asked that EPA authorize these
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of the Clean Air Act. This notice
announces that EPA has tentatively
scheduled a public hearing to consider
California’s authorization request and
that EPA is now accepting written
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2016 to express interest in presenting
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request for a public hearing, that hearing
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1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC 20460. If EPA does not
receive a request for a public hearing,
then EPA will not hold a hearing, and
instead will consider CARB’s request
based on written submissions to the
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Its OHRV Evaporative Emission
Amendments
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including off-road motorcycles, allterrain vehicles (ATVs), off-road sport
and utility vehicles, sand cars, and golf
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9950-42-OA]
Request for Nominations for a Science Advisory Board Panel To
Review Risk and Technology Review Screening Methods
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office requests
public nominations of scientific experts to form a Panel to review the
draft EPA report entitled ``Screening Methodologies to Support Risk and
Technology Reviews (RTR).'' This draft report describes newly developed
screening methods designed to assess the risk to public health and the
environment that would remain after stationary sources of hazardous air
pollutants come into compliance with the EPA's Maximum Available
Control Technologies (MACT) standards.
DATES: Nominations should be submitted by August 30, 2016 per the
instructions below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public wishing
further information regarding this Notice and Request for Nominations
may contact the Designated Federal Officer. Nominators unable to submit
nominations electronically as described below may contact the
Designated Federal Officer for assistance. General information
concerning the EPA SAB can be found at the EPA SAB Web site at https://www.epa.gov/sab.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The SAB (42 U.S.C. 4365) is a chartered Federal
Advisory Committee that provides independent scientific and technical
peer review, advice, 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. The SAB
RTR Methods Review Panel will provide advice through the chartered SAB
on scientific and technical issues related to assessing risks to public
health and the
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environment from hazardous air pollutants. The SAB and this Panel will
comply with the provisions of FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff Office
procedural policies.
EPA's Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) has prepared a draft report
entitled ``Screening Methodologies to Support Risk and Technology
Reviews (RTR): A Case Study Analysis.'' The Clean Air Act (CAA)
establishes a two-stage regulatory process for addressing emissions of
hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) from stationary sources. In the first
stage, the CAA requires the EPA to develop technology-based standards,
known as Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) standards, for
categories of industrial sources. In the second stage, the EPA must
review each MACT standard at least every eight years and revise them as
necessary, taking into account developments in practices, processes and
control technologies. EPA must also conduct an assessment of the health
and environmental risks that remain after stationary sources come into
compliance with the MACT standards. Periodically, the SAB is asked to
review the methods that OAR uses to estimate risks as these methods
evolve or as new methods are developed. Thus, OAR has requested the SAB
to review EPA's draft report that describes newly enhanced screening
methods designed to estimate the potential risks to public health and
the environment that would remain after stationary sources of HAPs come
into compliance with EPA's MACT standards. These include screening
methods to estimate the potential for multi-pathway risks (e.g.,
ingestion, inhalation) from persistent and bioaccumulative HAPs,
screening methods to estimate potential environmental risks, and recent
enhancements to the EPA's inhalation risk assessment methodology. The
SAB Staff Office is forming an expert panel, the SAB RTR Methods Review
Panel, under the auspices of the Chartered SAB to conduct this review.
Technical Contact for EPA's draft report: For information
concerning the draft report ``Screening Methodologies to Support Risk
and Technology Reviews (RTR): A Case Study Analysis'' please contact
Dr. Michael Stewart by email at stewart.michael@epa.gov or phone (919)
541-7524.
Request for Nominations: The SAB Staff Office is seeking
nominations of nationally and internationally recognized scientists
with demonstrated expertise in the following disciplines: Human health
risk assessment, ecological risk assessment, exposure assessment,
toxicology, ecology, aquatic toxicology, air toxics, and dispersion
modeling. Additional information about this advisory activity is
available on the SAB Web site at https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_activites/RTR%20Screening%20Methods%20Review?OpenDocument. Questions regarding
this advisory activity should be directed to Dr. Suhair Shallal,
Designated Federal Officer (DFO), SAB Staff Office, by telephone/voice
mail at (202) 564-2057, by fax at (202) 565-2098, or via email at
shallal.suhair@epa.gov.
Process and Deadline for Submitting Nominations: Any interested
person or organization may nominate qualified individuals in the areas
of expertise described above for possible service on the SAB RTR
Methods Review Panel identified in this notice. Individuals may self-
nominate. Nominations should be submitted in electronic format
(preferred over hard copy) following the instructions for ``Nominating
Experts to Advisory Panels and Ad Hoc Committees Being Formed,''
provided on the SAB Web site (see the ``Nomination of Experts'' link
under ``Current Activities'' at https://www.epa.gov/sab). To receive
full consideration, nominations should include all of the information
requested below.
EPA's SAB Staff Office requests contact information about the
person making the nomination; contact information about the nominee;
the disciplinary and specific areas of expertise of the nominee; the
nominee's resume or curriculum vitae; sources of recent grant and/or
contract support; and a biographical sketch of the nominee indicating
current position, educational background, research activities, and
recent service on other national advisory committees or national
professional organizations.
Persons having questions about the nomination procedures, or who
are unable to submit nominations through the SAB Web site, should
contact Dr. Shallal as indicated above in this notice. Nominations
should be submitted in time to arrive no later than August 30, 2016.
EPA values and welcomes diversity. In an effort to obtain nominations
of diverse candidates, EPA encourages nominations of women and men of
all racial and ethnic groups.
The EPA SAB Staff Office will acknowledge receipt of nominations.
The names and biosketches of qualified nominees identified by
respondents to this Federal Register notice, and additional experts
identified by the SAB Staff Office, will be posted in a List of
Candidates for the panel on the SAB Web site at https://www.epa.gov/sab.
Public comments on the List of Candidates will be accepted for 21 days.
The public will be requested to provide relevant information or other
documentation on nominees that the SAB Staff Office should consider in
evaluating candidates.
For the EPA SAB Staff Office a balanced review panel includes
candidates who possess the necessary domains of knowledge, the relevant
scientific perspectives (which, among other factors, can be influenced
by work history and affiliation), and the collective breadth of
experience to adequately address the charge. In forming the expert
panel, the SAB Staff Office will consider public comments on the Lists
of Candidates, information provided by the candidates themselves, and
background information independently gathered by the SAB Staff Office.
Selection criteria to be used for panel membership include: (a)
Scientific and/or technical expertise, knowledge, and experience
(primary factors); (b) availability and willingness to serve; (c)
absence of financial conflicts of interest; (d) absence of an
appearance of a loss of impartiality; (e) skills working in committees,
subcommittees and advisory panels; and, (f) for the panel as a whole,
diversity of expertise and scientific points of view.
The SAB Staff Office's evaluation of an absence of financial
conflicts of interest will include a review of the ``Confidential
Financial Disclosure Form for Environmental Protection Agency Special
Government Employees'' (EPA Form 3110-48). This confidential form
allows government officials to determine whether there is a statutory
conflict between a person's public responsibilities (which include
membership on an EPA federal advisory committee) and private interests
and activities, or the appearance of a loss of impartiality, as defined
by federal regulation. The form may be viewed and downloaded from the
following URL address https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/Web/ethics?OpenDocument.
The approved policy under which the EPA SAB Office selects members
for subcommittees and review panels is described in the following
document: Overview of the Panel Formation Process at the Environmental
Protection Agency Science Advisory Board (EPA-SAB-EC-02-010), which is
posted on the SAB Web site at https://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/
sabproduct.nsf/WebFiles/OverviewPanelForm/$File/ec02010.pdf.
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Dated: August 3, 2016.
Thomas H. Brennan,
Deputy Director, Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
[FR Doc. 2016-18881 Filed 8-8-16; 8:45 am]
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