81_FR_67539 81 FR 67349 - Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Air, Climate, and Energy Subcommittee Meeting-October 2016

81 FR 67349 - Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Air, Climate, and Energy Subcommittee Meeting-October 2016

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 190 (September 30, 2016)

Page Range67349-67350
FR Document2016-23687

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92- 463, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research and Development (ORD), gives notice of a meeting of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Air, Climate, and Energy Subcommittee.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 190 (Friday, September 30, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 190 (Friday, September 30, 2016)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-23687]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0365; FRL-9953-47-ORD]


Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Air, Climate, and Energy 
Subcommittee Meeting--October 2016

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-
463, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research 
and Development (ORD), gives notice of a meeting of the Board of 
Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Air, Climate, and Energy Subcommittee.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 25, 2016, from 8:00 
a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and will continue on Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 
from 8:30 a.m. until 12:15 p.m. All times noted are Eastern Time. The 
meeting may adjourn early if all business is finished. Attendees should 
register by October 18, 2016. Requests for the draft agenda or for 
making oral presentations at the meeting will be accepted up to one 
business day before the meeting.

ADDRESS:  The meeting will be held at the EPA's RTP Main Campus 
Facility, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, North 
Carolina 27711. Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-ORD-2015-0365, by one of the following methods:
     www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for 
submitting comments.
     Email: Send comments by electronic mail (email) to: 
ORD.Docket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0365.
     Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0365.
     Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific 
Counselors (BOSC) Air, Climate, and Energy Subcommittee Docket, Mail 
Code: 2822T, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20004, 
Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0365.
     Hand Delivery or Courier: Deliver comments to: EPA Docket 
Center (EPA/DC), Room 3334, William Jefferson Clinton West Building, 
1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC, Attention Docket ID No. 
EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0365. Note: This is not a mailing address. Deliveries 
are only accepted during the docket's normal hours of operation, and 
special arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed 
information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2015-0365. The EPA's policy is that all comments received will be 
included in the public docket without change and may be made available 
online at www.regulations.gov, including any personal information 
provided, unless the 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 the EPA will not know your identity or contact 
information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you 
send an email comment directly to the EPA without going through 
www.regulations.gov, your email address will be automatically captured 
and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket 
and made available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic 
comment, the 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 the EPA cannot read your comment due to technical 
difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, the EPA may not 
be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid the use 
of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any 
defects or viruses. For additional information about the EPA's public 
docket visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/dockets/.
    Docket: All 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 
in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Board of Scientific 
Counselors (BOSC) Air, Climate, and Energy Subcommittee Docket, EPA/DC, 
William Jefferson Clinton West Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution 
Ave. NW., Washington, DC. The 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, and the 
telephone number for the ORD Docket is (202) 566-1752.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Designated Federal Officer via 
mail at: Tim Benner, Mail Code 8104R, Office of Science Policy, Office 
of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; via phone/voice mail at: 
(202) 564-6769; via fax at: (202) 565-2911; or via email at: 
benner.tim@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    General Information: The meeting is open to the public. Any member 
of the public interested in receiving a draft agenda, attending the 
meeting, or making a presentation at the meeting may contact Tim 
Benner, the Designated Federal Officer, via any of the contact methods 
listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section above. In 
general, each individual making an oral presentation will be limited to 
a total of three minutes. For security purposes, all attendees must 
provide their names to the Designated Federal Officer or register 
online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/us-epa-bosc-air-climate-and-energy-subcommittee-meeting-tickets-28117149150 by October 18, 2016, 
and must go through a metal detector, sign in with the security desk, 
and show REAL ID Act-compliant government-issued photo

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identification to enter the building. Attendees are encouraged to 
arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the meeting to allow 
sufficient time for security screening. Proposed agenda items for the 
meeting include, but are not limited to, the following: Overview of 
materials provided to the subcommittee; Update on ORD's Air, Climate, 
and Energy Research Program; Review of charge questions; Presentations 
on research efforts related to social science; and Subcommittee 
discussion.
    Information on Services for Individuals with Disabilities: For 
information on access or services for individuals with disabilities, 
please contact Tim Benner at (202) 564-6769 or benner.tim@epa.gov. To 
request accommodation of a disability, please contact Tim Benner, 
preferably at least ten days prior to the meeting, to give the EPA as 
much time as possible to process your request.

    Dated: September 26, 2016.
Fred S. Hauchman,
Director, Office of Science Policy.
[FR Doc. 2016-23687 Filed 9-29-16; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 190 / Friday, September 30, 2016 / Notices 67349 John Anderson 202–586–0521. The ADDRESS: The meeting will be held at comment due to technical difficulties U.S Department of Energy (DOE) has the EPA’s RTP Main Campus Facility, and cannot contact you for clarification, adopted the Federal Energy 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research the EPA may not be able to consider Regulatory Commission’s FEIS Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711. your comment. Electronic files should #20150325, filed with the U.S. EPA Submit your comments, identified by avoid the use of special characters, any on 11/13/2015. DOE was a Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2015– form of encryption, and be free of any cooperating agency on the project. 0365, by one of the following methods: defects or viruses. For additional Therefore, recirculation of the • www.regulations.gov: Follow the information about the EPA’s public document is not necessary under on-line instructions for submitting docket visit the EPA Docket Center Section 1506.3(c) of the CEQ comments. homepage at http://www.epa.gov/ Regulations • Email: Send comments by dockets/. EIS No. 20160224, Draft, AFS, CO, La electronic mail (email) to: ORD.Docket@ Docket: All documents in the docket Garita Hills Restoration Project, epa.gov, Attention Docket ID No. EPA– are listed in the www.regulations.gov Comment Period Ends: 11/14/2016, HQ–ORD–2015–0365. index. Although listed in the index, Contact: Diana McGinn 719–852–6241 • Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566– some information is not publicly 0224, Attention Docket ID No. EPA– available, e.g., CBI or other information Amended Notices HQ–ORD–2015–0365. whose disclosure is restricted by statute. EIS No. 20160211, Final, USAF, GU, • Mail: Send comments by mail to: Certain other material, such as Divert Activities and Exercises, Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) copyrighted material, will be publicly Commonwealth of the Northern Air, Climate, and Energy Subcommittee available only in hard copy. Publicly Mariana Islands, Review Period Ends: Docket, Mail Code: 2822T, 1301 available docket materials are available 10/25/2016, Contact: Mark Petersen Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC either electronically in 808–449–1078 20004, Attention Docket ID No. EPA– www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at HQ–ORD–2015–0365. Revision to FR Notice Published 09/ the Board of Scientific Counselors • Hand Delivery or Courier: Deliver 26/2016; Correction to the Review (BOSC) Air, Climate, and Energy comments to: EPA Docket Center (EPA/ Period to End 10/25/2016. DC), Room 3334, William Jefferson Subcommittee Docket, EPA/DC, William Clinton West Building, 1301 Jefferson Clinton West Building, Room Dated: September 27, 2016 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Dawn Roberts, DC, Attention Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– Washington, DC. The Public Reading Management Analyst, NEPA Compliance Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 Division, Office of Federal Activities. ORD–2015–0365. Note: This is not a mailing address. Deliveries are only p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding [FR Doc. 2016–23703 Filed 9–29–16; 8:45 am] legal holidays. The telephone number BILLING CODE 6560–50–P accepted during the docket’s normal hours of operation, and special for the Public Reading Room is (202) arrangements should be made for 566–1744, and the telephone number for deliveries of boxed information. the ORD Docket is (202) 566–1752. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Instructions: Direct your comments to FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The AGENCY Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2015– Designated Federal Officer via mail at: 0365. The EPA’s policy is that all Tim Benner, Mail Code 8104R, Office of [EPA–HQ–ORD–2015–0365; FRL–9953–47– Science Policy, Office of Research and comments received will be included in ORD] the public docket without change and Development, U.S. Environmental Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) may be made available online at Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Air, Climate, and Energy www.regulations.gov, including any Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; via Subcommittee Meeting—October 2016 personal information provided, unless phone/voice mail at: (202) 564–6769; the comment includes information via fax at: (202) 565–2911; or via email AGENCY: Environmental Protection claimed to be Confidential Business at: benner.tim@epa.gov. Agency (EPA). Information (CBI) or other information SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: ACTION: Notice of meeting. whose disclosure is restricted by statute. General Information: The meeting is Do not submit information that you open to the public. Any member of the SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal consider to be CBI or otherwise public interested in receiving a draft Advisory Committee Act, Public Law protected through www.regulations.gov agenda, attending the meeting, or 92–463, the U.S. Environmental or email. The www.regulations.gov Web making a presentation at the meeting Protection Agency (EPA), Office of site is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, may contact Tim Benner, the Designated Research and Development (ORD), gives which means the EPA will not know Federal Officer, via any of the contact notice of a meeting of the Board of your identity or contact information methods listed in the FOR FURTHER Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Air, unless you provide it in the body of INFORMATION CONTACT section above. In Climate, and Energy Subcommittee. your comment. If you send an email general, each individual making an oral DATES: The meeting will be held on comment directly to the EPA without presentation will be limited to a total of Tuesday, October 25, 2016, from 8:00 going through www.regulations.gov, three minutes. For security purposes, all a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and will continue on your email address will be attendees must provide their names to Wednesday, October 26, 2016, from 8:30 automatically captured and included as the Designated Federal Officer or a.m. until 12:15 p.m. All times noted are part of the comment that is placed in the register online at https:// mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES Eastern Time. The meeting may adjourn public docket and made available on the www.eventbrite.com/e/us-epa-bosc-air- early if all business is finished. Internet. If you submit an electronic climate-and-energy-subcommittee- Attendees should register by October 18, comment, the EPA recommends that meeting-tickets-28117149150 by 2016. Requests for the draft agenda or you include your name and other October 18, 2016, and must go through for making oral presentations at the contact information in the body of your a metal detector, sign in with the meeting will be accepted up to one comment and with any disk or CD–ROM security desk, and show REAL ID Act- business day before the meeting. you submit. If the EPA cannot read your compliant government-issued photo VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:49 Sep 29, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00061 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\30SEN1.SGM 30SEN1

67350 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 190 / Friday, September 30, 2016 / Notices identification to enter the building. will be reviewed by an expert peer proposal of a maximum contaminant Attendees are encouraged to arrive at review panel and the panelists will level goal (MCLG) and a NPDWR. least 15 minutes prior to the start of the consider the public comments received. In 2012, EPA sought guidance from meeting to allow sufficient time for A companion notice published on this the SAB on how best to consider and security screening. Proposed agenda date requests comments on the interim interpret life stage information, items for the meeting include, but are list of peer reviewers and draft peer epidemiologic and biomonitoring data, not limited to, the following: Overview review charge questions to be sent to physiologically-based pharmacokinetic of materials provided to the EPA’s contractor, Versar, Inc. (PBPK) analyses and the totality of subcommittee; Update on ORD’s Air, DATES: Comments on the draft perchlorate health information to derive Climate, and Energy Research Program; Biologically Based Dose-Response an MCLG for perchlorate. Review of charge questions; (BBDR) model and draft report must be Presentations on research efforts related received by EPA on or before November In 2013, the SAB recommended that, to social science; and Subcommittee 14, 2016. ‘‘. . . EPA derive a perchlorate MCLG discussion. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, that addresses sensitive life stages Information on Services for identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– through physiologically-based Individuals with Disabilities: For OW–2016–0438, to the Federal pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic information on access or services for eRulemaking Portal: http:// (PBPK/PD) modeling based upon its individuals with disabilities, please www.regulations.gov. Follow the online mode of action rather than the default contact Tim Benner at (202) 564–6769 instructions for submitting comments. MCLG approach using the reference or benner.tim@epa.gov. To request Once submitted, comments cannot be dose and specific chemical exposure accommodation of a disability, please edited or withdrawn. The EPA may parameters’’ (Advice on Approaches to contact Tim Benner, preferably at least publish any comment received to its Derive a Maximum Contaminant Level ten days prior to the meeting, to give the public docket. Do not submit Goal for Perchlorate, EPA–SAB–13– EPA as much time as possible to process electronically any information you 004). your request. consider to be Confidential Business Based on the SAB’s Dated: September 26, 2016. Information (CBI) or other information recommendations, EPA, with Fred S. Hauchman, whose disclosure is restricted by statute. contributions from Food and Drug Director, Office of Science Policy. Multimedia submissions (audio, video, Administration scientists, developed a [FR Doc. 2016–23687 Filed 9–29–16; 8:45 am] etc.) must be accompanied by a written BBDR (also known as a PBPK/PD) comment. The written comment is model. The BBDR model was developed BILLING CODE 6560–50–P considered the official comment and by integrating PBPK models for should include discussion of all points perchlorate and iodide with BBDR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION you wish to make. The EPA will models for thyroid hormones to predict AGENCY generally not consider comments or the effect of perchlorate on the thyroid comment contents located outside of the gland in formula-fed and breast-fed [EPA–HQ–OW–2016–0438; FRL–9953–44– primary submission (i.e., on the web, OW] infants for the postnatal period from cloud, or other file sharing system). For days 7 to 90, as well as lactating women. additional submission methods, the full Request for Public Comments To Be The draft model is focused on the EPA public comment policy, Sent to EPA on Peer Review Materials condition of hypothyroxinemia as an information about CBI or multimedia To Inform the Safe Drinking Water Act indicator of the potential adverse health submissions, and general guidance on Decision Making on Perchlorate effects. This integrated draft model making effective comments, please visit predicts the effects of perchlorate on AGENCY: Environmental Protection http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/ serum thyroid hormone concentrations Agency (EPA). commenting-epa-dockets. in the pregnant and lactating mother ACTION: Notice of request for public FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For exposed to perchlorate in the diet and comment. additional information concerning the in infants exposed via ingestion of draft BBDR model and the draft report, perchlorate in formula or breast milk. SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental please contact Russ Perkinson at U.S. Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing EPA, Office of Ground Water and II. How To Obtain the Draft BBDR the release of materials for public Drinking Water, Standards and Risk Model and Draft Reports comment that will undergo expert peer Management Division (Mail Code review in support of the EPA’s Safe 4607M), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue EPA’s draft model report entitled Drinking Water Act decision making on NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone: ‘‘Biologically Based Dose Response perchlorate. This request is one of two 202–564–4901; or Models for the Effect of Perchlorate on Federal Register notices being email:perkinson.russ@epa.gov. Thyroid Hormones in the Infant, Breast published concurrently, seeking public SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Feeding Mother, Pregnant Mother, and comment on two separate sets of peer Fetus: Model Development, Revision, review materials. The Agency requests I. Information on EPA’s Biologically and Preliminary Dose-Response comment on both the draft Biologically Based Dose-Response (BBDR) Model for Analyses’’ is available electronically Based Dose-Response Model and an Perchlorate in Drinking Water and can be accessed using the Public accompanying draft model report EPA has begun development of a Docket at http://www.regulations.gov mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES entitled ‘‘Biologically Based Dose- national primary drinking water (Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OW–2016– Response Models for the Effect of regulation (NPDWR) for perchlorate, in 0438). The draft BBDR model code files Perchlorate on Thyroid Hormones in the accordance with the requirements of the can be accessed at https://hero.epa.gov/ Infant, Breast Feeding Mother, Pregnant Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). One hero/index.cfm/reference/details/ Mother, and Fetus: Model Development, statutory requirement is that the Agency reference_id/3352518. 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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of meeting.
DatesThe meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 25, 2016, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and will continue on Wednesday, October 26, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. until 12:15 p.m. All times noted are Eastern Time. The meeting may adjourn early if all business is finished. Attendees should register by October 18, 2016. Requests for the draft agenda or for making oral presentations at the meeting will be accepted up to one business day before the meeting.
ContactThe Designated Federal Officer via mail at: Tim Benner, Mail Code 8104R, Office of Science Policy, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; via phone/voice mail at: (202) 564-6769; via fax at: (202) 565-2911; or via email at: [email protected]
FR Citation81 FR 67349 
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