Notice of Request for Nominations of Candidates to the Environmental Financial Advisory Board, 71058-71059 [2021-26987]

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[FR Doc. 2021–26984 Filed 12–13–21; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6450–01–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [FRL–9336–01–OW] Notice of Request for Nominations of Candidates to the Environmental Financial Advisory Board Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of request for nominations. AGENCY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) invites nominations of qualified candidates to be considered for appointment to the Environmental Financial Advisory Board (the Board or EFAB). The Board provides advice to EPA on ways to lower the costs of, and increase investments in, environmental and public health protection. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (signed November 2021) provides funding to EPA that includes more than $50 billion for clean water projects, more than $5 billion for Superfund and brownfields cleanup work, $5 billion for decarbonizing our nation’s school buses, and $100 million for pollution prevention. Board members will provide recommendations on ways EPA can implement these funds to advance environmental justice, tackle the climate crisis, and protect public health. Appointments will be made by the Administrator and will be announced in June 2022. DATES: Nominations should be submitted in time to arrive no later than January 18, 2022. ADDRESSES: Nominations should be sent via email to efab@epa.gov. SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00057 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Any member of the public who wants further information concerning the nomination process may contact Sandra Williams at 202–564–4999 or efab@epa.gov. General information concerning the EFAB can be found on EPA’s website at https:// www.epa.gov/waterfinancecenter/efab. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background: The EFAB is an EPA advisory committee chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C., app. 2, to provide advice and recommendations to EPA on innovative approaches to financing environmental programs, projects, and activities. Administrative support for the EFAB is provided by the Water Infrastructure and Resiliency Finance Center within EPA’s Office of Water. The Board was established in 1989 to provide advice and recommendations to EPA on the following issues: Reducing the cost of financing environmental facilities and discouraging polluting behavior; creating incentives to increase private investment in the provision of environmental services and removing or reducing constraints on private involvement imposed by current regulations; developing new and innovative environmental financing approaches and supporting and encouraging the use of cost-effective existing approaches; identifying approaches specifically targeted to small/disadvantaged community financing; increasing the capacity of state and local governments to carry out their respective environmental programs under current Federal tax laws; analyzing how new technologies can be brought to market expeditiously; and, increasing the total investment in environmental protection of public and private environmental resources to help ease the environmental financing challenge facing our nation. The Board meets either in-person or virtually two times each calendar year (two days per meeting) at different locations within the continental United States. In addition to the bi-annual meetings, additional virtual meetings may be held during the year to ensure timely completion of the Board’s work. Board members typically contribute approximately 3 to 8 hours per month to the activities of the Board. This includes participation on one or more of the Board’s active workgroups. Members serve on the Board without compensation; however, Board members may receive travel and per diem allowances where appropriate and in accordance with Federal travel regulations. E:\FR\FM\14DEN1.SGM 14DEN1 jspears on DSK121TN23PROD with NOTICES1 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 237 / Tuesday, December 14, 2021 / Notices Members are appointed to represent the perspective of specific organizations, associations, or groups of persons (Representative members), or to provide their individual expertise (Special Government Employee, or SGE, members). Candidates invited to serve as SGE members will be asked to submit the ‘‘Confidential Financial Disclosure Form for Special Government Employees Serving on Federal Advisory Committees at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’’ (EPA Form 3110– 48). This confidential form allows EPA to determine whether there is a statutory conflict between that person’s public responsibilities as an SGE member and private interests and activities, or the appearance of a loss of impartiality as defined by Federal regulation. The form may be viewed at https://www.epa.gov/ waterfinancecenter/efab, but this form should not be submitted as part of a nomination. Experience and Expertise Sought for the EFAB: The Board seeks to maintain diverse representation across all workforce sectors (state/local/tribal government, business (industry and finance), and nonprofit organizations) and geographic regions of the United States. Nominees should demonstrate experience in environmental finance and/or reducing the cost of financing environmental protection in various environmental media (e.g., air, energy, land, and water). Experience and expertise sought include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Air quality; brownfields; climate change; commercial banking; energy efficiency; environmental and financial resiliency; environmental justice; environmental, social, and corporate governance; green banking; infrastructure financing; insurance markets; local utility management and finance; public-public and public-private partnerships; regulators; resource conservation; sustainable community partnerships; and drinking water and wastewater utility financial management. EPA values and welcomes opportunities to increase diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility on its federal advisory committees. In an effort to obtain nominations from diverse candidates, EPA encourages nominations of women and men of all racial and ethnic groups. Nominee qualifications will be assessed under the mandates of the FACA, which requires that committees be balanced in terms of the points of view represented and the functions to be performed; for the Board, this balance includes diversity across a broad range of constituencies, sectors, and groups. In addition to this VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:24 Dec 13, 2021 Jkt 256001 notice, other sources may be utilized in the solicitation of nominees. How to Submit Nominations: Any interested person or organization may nominate qualified person(s) to be considered for appointment to the EFAB. Individuals may self-nominate. Nominations should be submitted via email to efab@epa.gov. Nominations should include the following information: Contact information for the person making the nomination; contact information for the nominee (if different), including full name and title, business mailing address, telephone, and email address; the specific areas of experience or expertise of the nominee; the nominee’s curriculum vitae or resume; and a biographical sketch of the nominee indicating current position and recent service on other federal advisory committees or national professional organizations. A supporting letter of endorsement is encouraged, but not required. Evaluation Criteria: The following criteria will be used to evaluate nominees: Residence in the continental United States; professional knowledge of, and experience with, environmental financing activities; senior-level experience that fills a gap in Board representation or brings a new and relevant dimension to its deliberations; demonstrated ability to work in a consensus-building process with a wide range of representatives from diverse constituencies; and willingness to serve a two or three-year term as an active and contributing member, with possible reappointment to a second term. Under EPA policy, members of EPA advisory committees may not be in receipt of (or reap substantial direct benefit from) an EPA grant; this policy does not apply to state, local, or tribal government agency recipients of EPA grants. Dated: December 8, 2021. Andrew D. Sawyers, Director, Office of Wastewater Management, Office of Water. [FR Doc. 2021–26987 Filed 12–13–21; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P PO 00000 Frm 00058 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 71059 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA–HQ–OEM–2015–0725; FRL–9342–01– OLEM] Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request; Risk Management Program Requirements and Petitions To Modify the List of Regulated Substances Under Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act, EPA ICR Number 1656.18, OMB Control Number 2050–0144 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to submit a request to renew and consolidate existing approved Information Collection Requests (ICRs) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act. Before doing so, EPA is soliciting public comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described in SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. This is a proposed renewal of the Risk Management Program Requirements and Petitions to Modify the List of Regulated Substances under section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act ICR (EPA ICR Number 1656.17, OMB Control Number 2050–0144), which is approved through November 30, 2022. This ICR renewal also consolidates, within OMB Control Number 2050– 0144, the information collection burden and costs associated with the Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs under the Clean Air Act (Final Reconsideration Rule) ICR (EPA ICR Number 2537.06, OMB Control Number 2050–0216). Once this renewal ICR is approved, OMB Control Number 2050–0216 will be discontinued. 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: Comments must be submitted on or before February 14, 2022. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– OEM–2015–0725, to EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred method) or by mail to EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460, or to 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 SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\14DEN1.SGM 14DEN1

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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 237 (Tuesday, December 14, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71058-71059]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-26987]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-9336-01-OW]


Notice of Request for Nominations of Candidates to the 
Environmental Financial Advisory Board

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of request for nominations.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) invites 
nominations of qualified candidates to be considered for appointment to 
the Environmental Financial Advisory Board (the Board or EFAB). The 
Board provides advice to EPA on ways to lower the costs of, and 
increase investments in, environmental and public health protection. 
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (signed November 2021) provides 
funding to EPA that includes more than $50 billion for clean water 
projects, more than $5 billion for Superfund and brownfields cleanup 
work, $5 billion for decarbonizing our nation's school buses, and $100 
million for pollution prevention. Board members will provide 
recommendations on ways EPA can implement these funds to advance 
environmental justice, tackle the climate crisis, and protect public 
health. Appointments will be made by the Administrator and will be 
announced in June 2022.

DATES: Nominations should be submitted in time to arrive no later than 
January 18, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Nominations should be sent via email to [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public who wants 
further information concerning the nomination process may contact 
Sandra Williams at 202-564-4999 or [email protected]. General information 
concerning the EFAB can be found on EPA's website at https://www.epa.gov/waterfinancecenter/efab.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Background: The EFAB is an EPA advisory committee chartered under 
the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C., app. 2, to provide 
advice and recommendations to EPA on innovative approaches to financing 
environmental programs, projects, and activities. Administrative 
support for the EFAB is provided by the Water Infrastructure and 
Resiliency Finance Center within EPA's Office of Water. The Board was 
established in 1989 to provide advice and recommendations to EPA on the 
following issues: Reducing the cost of financing environmental 
facilities and discouraging polluting behavior; creating incentives to 
increase private investment in the provision of environmental services 
and removing or reducing constraints on private involvement imposed by 
current regulations; developing new and innovative environmental 
financing approaches and supporting and encouraging the use of cost-
effective existing approaches; identifying approaches specifically 
targeted to small/disadvantaged community financing; increasing the 
capacity of state and local governments to carry out their respective 
environmental programs under current Federal tax laws; analyzing how 
new technologies can be brought to market expeditiously; and, 
increasing the total investment in environmental protection of public 
and private environmental resources to help ease the environmental 
financing challenge facing our nation.
    The Board meets either in-person or virtually two times each 
calendar year (two days per meeting) at different locations within the 
continental United States. In addition to the bi-annual meetings, 
additional virtual meetings may be held during the year to ensure 
timely completion of the Board's work. Board members typically 
contribute approximately 3 to 8 hours per month to the activities of 
the Board. This includes participation on one or more of the Board's 
active workgroups. Members serve on the Board without compensation; 
however, Board members may receive travel and per diem allowances where 
appropriate and in accordance with Federal travel regulations.

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    Members are appointed to represent the perspective of specific 
organizations, associations, or groups of persons (Representative 
members), or to provide their individual expertise (Special Government 
Employee, or SGE, members). Candidates invited to serve as SGE members 
will be asked to submit the ``Confidential Financial Disclosure Form 
for Special Government Employees Serving on Federal Advisory Committees 
at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency'' (EPA Form 3110-48). This 
confidential form allows EPA to determine whether there is a statutory 
conflict between that person's public responsibilities as an SGE member 
and private interests and activities, or the appearance of a loss of 
impartiality as defined by Federal regulation. The form may be viewed 
at https://www.epa.gov/waterfinancecenter/efab, but this form should 
not be submitted as part of a nomination.
    Experience and Expertise Sought for the EFAB: The Board seeks to 
maintain diverse representation across all workforce sectors (state/
local/tribal government, business (industry and finance), and nonprofit 
organizations) and geographic regions of the United States. Nominees 
should demonstrate experience in environmental finance and/or reducing 
the cost of financing environmental protection in various environmental 
media (e.g., air, energy, land, and water). Experience and expertise 
sought include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Air 
quality; brownfields; climate change; commercial banking; energy 
efficiency; environmental and financial resiliency; environmental 
justice; environmental, social, and corporate governance; green 
banking; infrastructure financing; insurance markets; local utility 
management and finance; public-public and public-private partnerships; 
regulators; resource conservation; sustainable community partnerships; 
and drinking water and wastewater utility financial management.
    EPA values and welcomes opportunities to increase diversity, 
equity, inclusion, and accessibility on its federal advisory 
committees. In an effort to obtain nominations from diverse candidates, 
EPA encourages nominations of women and men of all racial and ethnic 
groups. Nominee qualifications will be assessed under the mandates of 
the FACA, which requires that committees be balanced in terms of the 
points of view represented and the functions to be performed; for the 
Board, this balance includes diversity across a broad range of 
constituencies, sectors, and groups. In addition to this notice, other 
sources may be utilized in the solicitation of nominees.
    How to Submit Nominations: Any interested person or organization 
may nominate qualified person(s) to be considered for appointment to 
the EFAB. Individuals may self-nominate. Nominations should be 
submitted via email to [email protected]. Nominations should include the 
following information: Contact information for the person making the 
nomination; contact information for the nominee (if different), 
including full name and title, business mailing address, telephone, and 
email address; the specific areas of experience or expertise of the 
nominee; the nominee's curriculum vitae or resume; and a biographical 
sketch of the nominee indicating current position and recent service on 
other federal advisory committees or national professional 
organizations. A supporting letter of endorsement is encouraged, but 
not required.
    Evaluation Criteria: The following criteria will be used to 
evaluate nominees: Residence in the continental United States; 
professional knowledge of, and experience with, environmental financing 
activities; senior-level experience that fills a gap in Board 
representation or brings a new and relevant dimension to its 
deliberations; demonstrated ability to work in a consensus-building 
process with a wide range of representatives from diverse 
constituencies; and willingness to serve a two or three-year term as an 
active and contributing member, with possible re-appointment to a 
second term. Under EPA policy, members of EPA advisory committees may 
not be in receipt of (or reap substantial direct benefit from) an EPA 
grant; this policy does not apply to state, local, or tribal government 
agency recipients of EPA grants.

    Dated: December 8, 2021.
Andrew D. Sawyers,
Director, Office of Wastewater Management, Office of Water.
[FR Doc. 2021-26987 Filed 12-13-21; 8:45 am]
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