Environmental Protection Agency February 11, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Interagency Testing Committee (ITC) transmitted its Fifty-Fifth Report to the Administrator of EPA on December 8, 2004. In the 55\th\ ITC Report, which is included with this notice, the ITC is revising the Priority Testing List by adding a category of high production volume (HPV) orphan chemicals and requesting that EPA add these chemicals to the TSCA section 8(a) Preliminary Assessment Information Reporting (PAIR) rule and the TSCA section 8(d) Health and Safety Data Reporting (HaSDR) rule. The ITC is also removing the following chemicals from the Priority Testing List: 3-amino-5-mercapto-1,2,4-triazole; glycoluril; benzenamine, 3-chloro- 2,6-dinitro-N,N-dipropyl-4-(trifluoromethyl)-; stannane, dimethylbis[(1-oxoneodecyl)oxy]-; benzene, 1,3,5-tribromo-2-(2- propenyloxy)-; and1-triazene, 1,3-diphenyl-.]. Since the 55\th\ Report was ITC transmitted to the Administrator and made publicly available on https://www.epa.gov/opptintr/itc/, five HPV orphan chemicals have been removed from the Priority Testing List because chemical manufacturers committed to prepare robust summaries for these chemicals in response to the HPV Challenge Program. The ITC encourages other manufacturers to make similar commitments so their chemicals can be removed from the Priority Testing List and potentially avoid being added to PAIR and HaSDR rules.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that the Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Education (ORISE), Department of Energy, under an Interagency Agreement with EPA, will convene a panel of experts and organize and conduct an external peer- review panel meeting to review the external review draft document entitled, ``Toxicological Review of n-Hexane: In Support of Summary Information on the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)'' (NCEA-S- 1605). The EPA is also announcing a thirty-day public comment period for the draft document. The document was prepared by EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) of the Office of Research and Development. EPA will use comments and recommendations from the public and the expert panel meeting to finalize the draft document.

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92- 463, the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development (ORD), announces four meetings of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Particulate Matter and Ozone (PM-O3) Research Subcommittee.

EPA does not object to the preferred alternative. ERP No. D-AFS-J65425-00 Rating EC2, Black Hills National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan Phase II Amendment, Proposal to Amend the 1997 Land and Resource Management Plan, Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Meade, and Pennington Counties, SD and Crook and Weston Counties, WY. Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns because the Preferred Alternative may cause adverse impacts to water quality, aquatic, and terrestrial resources, and recommends that the Final EIS include quantitative analysis of water and air quality, and provisions for greater natural resource and water quality protection. ERP No. D-AFS-L65473-OR Rating LO, Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, Special Use Permits for Outfitter and Guide Operations on the Lower Rogue and Lower Illinois Rivers, Gold Beach Ranger District, Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, Curry County, OR. Summary: EPA conducted a limited review of the Draft EIS and does not object to the proposed project. ERP No. D-BOP-D80031-WV Rating EC2, Southern West Virginia Proposed Federal Correctional Institution, Four Alternatives Sites in Southern West Virginia: Boone County, Mingo County, Nicholas County, and McDowell County, WV. Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns because of secondary and cumulative impacts with all alternatives, and requested that these issues be evaluated in the Final EIS. Also, EPA asked that the Final EIS provide documentation to verify completion of the mitigation specified in the 404 permit. ERP No. D-CGD-K03027-CA Rating EC2, Cabrillo Port Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Deepwater Port, Construction and Operation an Offshore Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU), Application for License, Ventura and Los Angeles Counties, CA. Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about impacts to air quality, the analysis for General Conformity, and the availability of emission reduction credits. EPA requested that additional information be provided on the potential impacts and risks from emergency/ accidental releases of LNG or natural gas. EPA also requested additional information on several NPDES permitting issues, impacts to waters of the U.S., and compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act. ERP No. DS-GSA-D81027-MD Rating EC1, U.S. Food and Administration (FDA) Consolidation, Updated and New Information, Constructing a New Eastern Access Road and over Paint Branch, Construct Additional Facilities to Support Expanded Program, Relocating The Day Care Center, Federal Research Center at White Oak, Silver Spring, Montgomery, MD. Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the proposed project's impacts on stream banks and water quality within the Federal Research Center, and requested that additional information, including adoption of stringent mitigation measures and stream valley re- vegetation, be provided in the Final EIS to address these issues. ERP No. D1-BLM-K65158-CA Rating **3, Clear Creek Resource Management Area Plan Amendment, Hollister Resource Management Plan, Implementing the Decision Made in the 1999 CCMA ROD, San Benito and Fresno Counties, CA. Summary: The Draft EIS does not adequately assess the project's potentially significant impacts to human health. Recent sampling conducted by EPA indicates that off-highway vehicle users in the project area are exposed to substantially higher amounts of asbestos than was assumed in the DEIS. EPA recommends that BLM wait until EPA completes its forthcoming exposure evaluation, use it to recalculate the health risk, and incorporate this information into a Revised or Supplemental EIS. The Revised or Supplemental DEIS should also analyze a full array of reasonable alternatives and mitigation measures in order to to avoid or reduce these impacts, including complete closure of the area and full dry season closure.

This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of a certain pesticide chemical in or on various food commodities.