Announcement of the Board of Directors for the National Environmental Education Foundation, 23050-23051 [2019-10569]

Download as PDF jbell on DSK3GLQ082PROD with NOTICES 23050 Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 98 / Tuesday, May 21, 2019 / Notices and field grown ornamentals; nurseries; ornamentals in greenhouses; interiorscapes; and other enclosed structures. Contact: RD. 3. File Symbol: 279–GAGT. Docket ID number: EPA–HQ–OPP–2018–0551. Applicant: FMC Corporation, 2929 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Product name: F9944–74. Active ingredient: Fungicide—fluindapyr at 42.4%. Proposed use: Cereal grains except rice (Crop Group 15), corn (field corn, field corn grown for seed, popcorn, and sweet corn), grain sorghum, wheat, triticale, and barley; small vine climbing fruit except fuzzy kiwifruit (Subgroup 13–07F), grape; soybean; and tree nuts (Crop Group 14– 12). Contact: RD. 4. File Symbol: 279–GAUE. Docket ID number: EPA–HQ–OPP–2018–0551. Applicant: FMC Corporation, 2929 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Product name: F4412–1. 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File Symbol: 279–GAUR. Docket ID number: EPA–HQ–OPP–2018–0551. Applicant: FMC Corporation, 2929 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Product name: F4406–1 T&O SC Fungicide. Active ingredient: Fungicide—fluindapyr at 20.9% and flutriafol at 20.9%. Proposed use: Turf in home lawns, golf courses, in lawns and landscape areas around public, industrial, and commercial properties; athletic fields; commercial sod farms; ornamental plants in lawns and landscape areas around public, industrial, commercial and residential properties; container and field grown ornamentals; nurseries; ornamentals in VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:50 May 20, 2019 Jkt 247001 greenhouses; interiorscapes; and other enclosed structures. Contact: RD. 8. File Symbol: 7969–UGU. Docket ID number: EPA–HQ–OPP–2019–0142. Applicant: BASF Corporation, 26 Davis Dr., Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. Product name: GMB151 Soybean. Active ingredient: Plant-incorporated protectant—Bacillus thuringiensis Cry14Ab-1 protein and the genetic material necessary for its production (vector pSZ8832) in GMB151 soybean at <0.016622%. Proposed use: Nematicide. Contact: BPPD. Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq. Dated: April 23, 2019. Delores Barber, Director, Information Technology and Resources Management Division, Office of Pesticide Programs. [FR Doc. 2019–10502 Filed 5–20–19; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [FRL–9993–80–OA] Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of appointment. AGENCY: The National Environmental Education and Training Foundation (doing business as The National Environmental Education Foundation) or (NEEF) was created by Section 10 of Public Law 101–619, the National Environmental Education Act of 1990 (NEEA) as a private non-profit organization. It was established by Congress as a common ground upon which leaders from business and industry, all levels of government, public interest groups, and others can work cooperatively to raise a greater national awareness of environmental issues beyond traditional classrooms. Per NEEA, the EPA Administrator is the sole entity statutorily responsible for appointing NEEF’s Board of Directors. The Administrator announces the following four-year appointments to NEEF’s Board of Directors, effective August 19, 2019: • Todd Greenwood—National FFA Organization • Katherine Emerson—National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), Congressional Hunger Center • Don Mattingly—Major League Baseball & the Miami Marlins • Katie Hogge—Ocean Conservancy & American Conservation Coalition SUMMARY: Frm 00034 Fmt 4703 For information regarding this Notice of Appointment, please contact Lee Tanner, 202–564–4988, Acting Supervisor for the Office of Environmental Education, U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460. General information concerning NEEF may be found here: https://www.neefusa.org/. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Announcement of the Board of Directors for the National Environmental Education Foundation PO 00000 Additional considerations: As an independent foundation, NEEF is different from the Agency’s several federal advisory committees and scientific boards, which have their own appointment processes. Because NEEA gives complete discretion to the Administrator in appointing members to NEEF’s Board of Directors, EPA is taking additional steps to ensure all prospective members are qualified to serve on the Board and represent diverse points of view. In early 2019, EPA’s Office of the Administrator formed an internal review panel comprised of senior EPA career officials tasked with verifying the qualifications of all future members of the NEEF Board of Directors selected by the Administrator. All new Board appointees underwent review by the panel prior to publication of this notice. These appointees will join the current Board members. Information on Board members is available on NEEF’s public website: https://www.neefusa.org/aboutneef/board. Sfmt 4703 Section 10(a) of the National Environmental Education Act of 1990 (NEEA) establishes the National Environmental Education Foundation and its underlying terms. The statute in its entirety is available on EPA’s website and may be accessed here: https:// www.epa.gov/education/nationalenvironmental-education-act#s10. Section 10 of the NEEA provides the following, in pertinent part: (a) Establishment and Purposes— (1) ESTABLISHMENT—(A) There is hereby established the National Environmental Education Foundation. The Foundation is established in order to extend the contribution of environmental education and training to meeting critical environmental protection needs, both in this country and internationally; to facilitate the cooperation, coordination, and contribution of public and private resources to create an environmentally advanced educational system; and to foster an open and effective partnership among Federal, State, and local government, business, industry, academic institutions, community based SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: E:\FR\FM\21MYN1.SGM 21MYN1 jbell on DSK3GLQ082PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 98 / Tuesday, May 21, 2019 / Notices environmental groups, and international organizations. (B) The Foundation is a charitable and nonprofit corporation whose income is exempt from tax, and donations to which are tax deductible to the same extent as those organizations listed pursuant to section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. The Foundation is not an agency or establishment of the United States. (2) PURPOSES—The purposes of the Foundation are— (A) subject to the limitation contained in the final sentence of subsection (d) herein, to encourage, accept, leverage, and administer private gifts for the benefit of, or in connection with, the environmental education and training activities and services of the United States Environmental Protection Agency; (B) to conduct such other environmental education activities as will further the development of an environmentally conscious and responsible public, a well-trained and environmentally literate workforce, and an environmentally advanced educational system; and (C) to participate with foreign entities and individuals in the conduct and coordination of activities that will further opportunities for environmental education and training to address environmental issues and problems involving the United States and Canada or Mexico. (3) PROGRAMS—The Foundation will develop, support, and/or operate programs and projects to educate and train educational and environmental professionals, and to assist them in the development of environmental education and training programs and studies. (b) Board of Directors (1) ESTABLISHMENT AND MEMBERSHIP—(A) The Foundation shall have a governing Board of Directors (hereafter referred to in this section as ‘the Board’), which shall consist of 13 directors, each of whom shall be knowledgeable or experienced in the environment, education and/or training. The Board shall oversee the activities of the Foundation and shall assure that the activities of the Foundation are consistent with the environmental and education goals and policies of the EPA and with the intents and purposes of this Act. The membership of the Board, to the extent practicable, shall represent diverse points of view relating to environmental education and training. (2) APPOINTMENT AND TERMS— (A) Members of the Board shall be appointed by the EPA Administrator. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:50 May 20, 2019 Jkt 247001 (B) Within 90 days of the date of the enactment of this Act, and as appropriate thereafter, the Administrator shall publish in the Federal Register an announcement of appointments of Directors of the Board. Such appointments become final and effective 90 days after publication of the Notice of Appointment in the Federal Register. (C) The directors shall be appointed for terms of 4 years. The Administrator shall appoint an individual to serve as a director in the event of a vacancy on the Board within 60 days of said vacancy in the manner in which the original appointment was made. No individual may serve more than 2 consecutive terms as a director. In December 2018, NEEF signed a first-time Memorandum of Understanding with the (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew R. Wheeler to establish increased coordination between EPA and the NEEF on key EPA initiatives including, but not limited to, EPA’s Trash Free Waters Program, Winning on Reducing Food Waste initiative, and Healthy Schools initiative. Dated: May 9, 2019. Elizabeth (Tate) Bennett, Associate Administrator, Office of Public Engagement and Environmental Education. [FR Doc. 2019–10569 Filed 5–20–19; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA–HQ–OLEM–2018–0758, FRL–9993–86– OMS] Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Part B Permit Application, Permit Modifications, and Special Permits (Renewal) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted an information collection request (ICR), Part B Permit Application, Permit Modifications, and Special Permits (EPA ICR Number 1573.15, OMB Control Number 2050–0009) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a proposed extension of the ICR, which is currently approved through May 31, 2019. Public comments were previously requested SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00035 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 23051 via the Federal Register on December 10, 2018 during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. A fuller description of the ICR is given below, including its estimated burden and cost to the public. An agency may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before July 22, 2019. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– OLEM–2018–0758, to (1) EPA, either online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred method), or by email to rcradocket@epa.gov, or by mail to: RCRA Docket (2822T), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460; and (2) OMB via email to oira_ submission@omb.eop.gov. Address comments to OMB Desk Officer for EPA. EPA’s policy is that all comments received will be included in the public docket without change including any personal information provided, unless the comment includes profanity, threats, information claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peggy Vyas, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: 703–308–5477; fax number: 703–308–8433; email address: vyas.peggy@epa.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supporting documents, which explain in detail the information that the EPA will be collecting, are available in the public docket for this ICR. The docket can be viewed online at www.regulations.gov or in person at the EPA Docket Center, WJC West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC. The telephone number for the Docket Center is 202–566–1744. For additional information about EPA’s public docket, visit https://www.epa.gov/ dockets. Abstract: Section 3005 of Subtitle C of RCRA requires treatment, storage or disposal facilities (TSDFs) to obtain a permit. To obtain the permit, the TSDFs must submit an application describing the facility’s operation. There are two parts to the RCRA permit application— Part A and Part B. Part A defines the processes to be used for treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous wastes; the design capacity of such processes; and the specific hazardous wastes to be handled at the facility. Part E:\FR\FM\21MYN1.SGM 21MYN1

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[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 98 (Tuesday, May 21, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23050-23051]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-10569]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-9993-80-OA]


Announcement of the Board of Directors for the National 
Environmental Education Foundation

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of appointment.

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SUMMARY: The National Environmental Education and Training Foundation 
(doing business as The National Environmental Education Foundation) or 
(NEEF) was created by Section 10 of Public Law 101-619, the National 
Environmental Education Act of 1990 (NEEA) as a private non-profit 
organization. It was established by Congress as a common ground upon 
which leaders from business and industry, all levels of government, 
public interest groups, and others can work cooperatively to raise a 
greater national awareness of environmental issues beyond traditional 
classrooms. Per NEEA, the EPA Administrator is the sole entity 
statutorily responsible for appointing NEEF's Board of Directors. The 
Administrator announces the following four-year appointments to NEEF's 
Board of Directors, effective August 19, 2019:

     Todd Greenwood--National FFA Organization
     Katherine Emerson--National Corn Growers Association 
(NCGA), Congressional Hunger Center
     Don Mattingly--Major League Baseball & the Miami Marlins
     Katie Hogge--Ocean Conservancy & American Conservation 
Coalition
    Additional considerations: As an independent foundation, NEEF is 
different from the Agency's several federal advisory committees and 
scientific boards, which have their own appointment processes. Because 
NEEA gives complete discretion to the Administrator in appointing 
members to NEEF's Board of Directors, EPA is taking additional steps to 
ensure all prospective members are qualified to serve on the Board and 
represent diverse points of view. In early 2019, EPA's Office of the 
Administrator formed an internal review panel comprised of senior EPA 
career officials tasked with verifying the qualifications of all future 
members of the NEEF Board of Directors selected by the Administrator. 
All new Board appointees underwent review by the panel prior to 
publication of this notice. These appointees will join the current 
Board members. Information on Board members is available on NEEF's 
public website: https://www.neefusa.org/about-neef/board.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information regarding this Notice 
of Appointment, please contact Lee Tanner, 202-564-4988, Acting 
Supervisor for the Office of Environmental Education, U.S. EPA, 1200 
Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460. General information 
concerning NEEF may be found here: https://www.neefusa.org/.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 10(a) of the National Environmental 
Education Act of 1990 (NEEA) establishes the National Environmental 
Education Foundation and its underlying terms. The statute in its 
entirety is available on EPA's website and may be accessed here: 
https://www.epa.gov/education/national-environmental-education-act#s10.
    Section 10 of the NEEA provides the following, in pertinent part:
    (a) Establishment and Purposes--
    (1) ESTABLISHMENT--(A) There is hereby established the National 
Environmental Education Foundation. The Foundation is established in 
order to extend the contribution of environmental education and 
training to meeting critical environmental protection needs, both in 
this country and internationally; to facilitate the cooperation, 
coordination, and contribution of public and private resources to 
create an environmentally advanced educational system; and to foster an 
open and effective partnership among Federal, State, and local 
government, business, industry, academic institutions, community based

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environmental groups, and international organizations.
    (B) The Foundation is a charitable and nonprofit corporation whose 
income is exempt from tax, and donations to which are tax deductible to 
the same extent as those organizations listed pursuant to section 
501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. The Foundation is not an 
agency or establishment of the United States.
    (2) PURPOSES--The purposes of the Foundation are--
    (A) subject to the limitation contained in the final sentence of 
subsection (d) herein, to encourage, accept, leverage, and administer 
private gifts for the benefit of, or in connection with, the 
environmental education and training activities and services of the 
United States Environmental Protection Agency;
    (B) to conduct such other environmental education activities as 
will further the development of an environmentally conscious and 
responsible public, a well-trained and environmentally literate 
workforce, and an environmentally advanced educational system; and
    (C) to participate with foreign entities and individuals in the 
conduct and coordination of activities that will further opportunities 
for environmental education and training to address environmental 
issues and problems involving the United States and Canada or Mexico.
    (3) PROGRAMS--The Foundation will develop, support, and/or operate 
programs and projects to educate and train educational and 
environmental professionals, and to assist them in the development of 
environmental education and training programs and studies.
    (b) Board of Directors
    (1) ESTABLISHMENT AND MEMBERSHIP--(A) The Foundation shall have a 
governing Board of Directors (hereafter referred to in this section as 
`the Board'), which shall consist of 13 directors, each of whom shall 
be knowledgeable or experienced in the environment, education and/or 
training. The Board shall oversee the activities of the Foundation and 
shall assure that the activities of the Foundation are consistent with 
the environmental and education goals and policies of the EPA and with 
the intents and purposes of this Act. The membership of the Board, to 
the extent practicable, shall represent diverse points of view relating 
to environmental education and training.
    (2) APPOINTMENT AND TERMS--(A) Members of the Board shall be 
appointed by the EPA Administrator.
    (B) Within 90 days of the date of the enactment of this Act, and as 
appropriate thereafter, the Administrator shall publish in the Federal 
Register an announcement of appointments of Directors of the Board. 
Such appointments become final and effective 90 days after publication 
of the Notice of Appointment in the Federal Register.
    (C) The directors shall be appointed for terms of 4 years. The 
Administrator shall appoint an individual to serve as a director in the 
event of a vacancy on the Board within 60 days of said vacancy in the 
manner in which the original appointment was made. No individual may 
serve more than 2 consecutive terms as a director.
    In December 2018, NEEF signed a first-time Memorandum of 
Understanding with the (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew R. Wheeler to 
establish increased coordination between EPA and the NEEF on key EPA 
initiatives including, but not limited to, EPA's Trash Free Waters 
Program, Winning on Reducing Food Waste initiative, and Healthy Schools 
initiative.

    Dated: May 9, 2019.
Elizabeth (Tate) Bennett,
Associate Administrator, Office of Public Engagement and Environmental 
Education.
[FR Doc. 2019-10569 Filed 5-20-19; 8:45 am]
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