81_FR_79025 81 FR 78808 - Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Science and Information Subcommittee

81 FR 78808 - Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Science and Information Subcommittee

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 217 (November 9, 2016)

Page Range78808-78809
FR Document2016-27078

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces a public teleconference of the Science and Information Subcommittee (SIS) to the Great Lakes Advisory Board (Board). The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) covering FY15-19 and other relevant matters.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 217 (Wednesday, November 9, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 217 (Wednesday, November 9, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78808-78809]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-27078]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL 9955-07-Region 5]


Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Science and 
Information Subcommittee

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces a public 
teleconference of the Science and Information Subcommittee (SIS) to the 
Great Lakes Advisory Board (Board). The purpose of this meeting is to 
discuss the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) covering FY15-19 
and other relevant matters.

DATES: The teleconference will be held on Thursday, November 17, 2016 
from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Central Time, 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. 
Eastern Time. An opportunity will be provided to the public to comment. 
Due to administrative circumstances, EPA is announcing this meeting 
with less than 15 calendar days' public notice.

ADDRESSES: The public teleconference will be held by teleconference 
only. The teleconference number is: 1-877-226-9607; participant code: 
605 016 6037.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public wishing 
further information regarding this teleconference may contact Rita 
Cestaric, Designated Federal Officer (DFO), by email at 
[email protected]. General information on the GLRI, the Board, and 
SIS can be found at http://glri.us/public.html.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Background: The SIS was established in accordance with the 
provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), Public Law 92-
463. The SIS is composed of members from governmental, private sector, 
non-profit and academic organizations, appointed by the EPA 
Administrator in her capacity as Chair of the Interagency Task Force 
(IATF), who were selected based on their established records of 
distinguished service in their professional community and their 
knowledge of ecological protection and restoration issues. The SIS will 
assist the Board in providing ongoing advice on Great Lakes adaptive 
management and may provide other recommendations, as requested by the 
IATF.
    Availability of Meeting Materials: The agenda and other materials 
in support of the meeting will be available at http://glri.us/advisory/index.html.
    Procedures for Providing Public Input: Federal advisory committees 
provide independent advice to federal agencies. Members of the public 
can submit relevant comments for consideration by the SIS. Input from 
the public to the SIS will have the most impact if it provides specific 
information for the SIS to consider. Members of the public wishing to 
provide comments should contact the DFO directly.
    Oral Statements: In general, individuals or groups requesting an 
oral presentation at this public meeting will be limited to three 
minutes per speaker, subject to the number of people wanting to 
comment. Interested parties should contact the DFO in writing 
(preferably via email) at the contact information noted above by 
November 16, 2016 to be

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placed on the list of public speakers for the meeting.
    Written Statements: Written statements must be received by November 
14, 2016 so that the information may be made available to the SIS for 
consideration. Written statements should be supplied to the DFO in the 
following formats: One hard copy with original signature and one 
electronic copy via email. Commenters are requested to provide two 
versions of each document submitted: One each with and without 
signatures because only documents without signatures may be published 
on the GLRI Web page.
    Accessibility: For information on access or services for 
individuals with disabilities, please contact the DFO at the phone 
number or email address noted above, preferably at least seven days 
prior to the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process 
your request.

    Dated: November 2, 2016.
Cameron Davis,
Senior Advisor to the Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2016-27078 Filed 11-8-16; 8:45 am]
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78808 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 217 / Wednesday, November 9, 2016 / Notices Filed Date: 11/1/16. Revised WASP Agreements SA Nos. DATES: The teleconference will be held Accession Number: 20161101–5213. 4221, 4222, 4223 to be effective 10/25/ on Thursday, November 17, 2016 from Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/22/16. 2016. 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Central Time, Docket Numbers: ER17–288–000. Filed Date: 11/2/16. 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time. An Applicants: Northern Indiana Public Accession Number: 20161102–5099. opportunity will be provided to the Service Company. Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/23/16. public to comment. Due to Description: Notice of Cancellation of Docket Numbers: ER17–295–000. administrative circumstances, EPA is multiple market base rate service Applicants: New York State Electric & announcing this meeting with less than agreements of Northern Indiana Public Gas Corporation, New York 15 calendar days’ public notice. Service Company. Independent System Operator, Inc. ADDRESSES: The public teleconference Filed Date: 10/31/16. Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 205 will be held by teleconference only. The Accession Number: 20161031–5311. Filing of CRA No. 2319 between NYSEG teleconference number is: 1–877–226– Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/21/16. and National Grid to be effective 10/7/ 9607; participant code: 605 016 6037. Docket Numbers: ER17–289–000. 2016. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any Applicants: East Texas Electric Filed Date: 11/2/16. member of the public wishing further Cooperative, Inc. Accession Number: 20161102–5117. information regarding this Description: Application for cost- Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/23/16. teleconference may contact Rita based revenue requirements schedule The filings are accessible in the Cestaric, Designated Federal Officer for reactive power production capability Commission’s eLibrary system by (DFO), by email at cestaric.rita@epa.gov. of East Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc. clicking on the links or querying the General information on the GLRI, the Filed Date: 10/31/16. docket number. Board, and SIS can be found at http:// Accession Number: 20161031–5324. Any person desiring to intervene or glri.us/public.html. Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/21/16. protest in any of the above proceedings SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Docket Numbers: ER17–290–000. must file in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission’s Background: The SIS was established Applicants: ISO New England Inc. Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and in accordance with the provisions of the Description: Informational Filing of 385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Federal Advisory Committee Act Contract of ISO New England Inc. time on the specified comment date. (FACA), Public Law 92–463. The SIS is Filed Date: 10/31/16. Accession Number: 20161031–5333. Protests may be considered, but composed of members from Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/21/16. intervention is necessary to become a governmental, private sector, non-profit party to the proceeding. and academic organizations, appointed Docket Numbers: ER17–291–000. by the EPA Administrator in her Applicants: Public Service Company eFiling is encouraged. More detailed information relating to filing capacity as Chair of the Interagency of New Mexico. Task Force (IATF), who were selected Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: requirements, interventions, protests, service, and qualifying facilities filings based on their established records of Executed Transmission Service distinguished service in their Agreements Between PNM and can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/ docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For professional community and their Aragonne Wind, LLC to be effective 1/ knowledge of ecological protection and 1/2017. other information, call (866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. restoration issues. The SIS will assist Filed Date: 11/2/16. the Board in providing ongoing advice Accession Number: 20161102–5061. Dated: November 2, 2016. on Great Lakes adaptive management Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/23/16. Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., and may provide other Docket Numbers: ER17–292–000. Deputy Secretary. recommendations, as requested by the Applicants: Greenleaf Power [FR Doc. 2016–26987 Filed 11–8–16; 8:45 am] IATF. Management LLC. BILLING CODE 6717–01–P Availability of Meeting Materials: The Description: Tariff Cancellation: agenda and other materials in support of Cancellation of MBR Tariff to be the meeting will be available at http:// effective 11/2/2016. glri.us/advisory/index.html. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Filed Date: 11/2/16. Procedures for Providing Public Input: AGENCY Accession Number: 20161102–5066. Federal advisory committees provide Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/23/16. [FRL 9955–07–Region 5] independent advice to federal agencies. Docket Numbers: ER17–293–000. Members of the public can submit Applicants: PJM Interconnection, Notification of a Public Teleconference relevant comments for consideration by L.L.C. of the Science and Information the SIS. Input from the public to the SIS Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: Subcommittee will have the most impact if it provides Amendment to WMPA SA No. 3159— AGENCY: Environmental Protection specific information for the SIS to Queue W2–073 to be effective 2/21/ Agency (EPA). consider. Members of the public 2014. wishing to provide comments should ACTION: Notice. Filed Date: 11/2/16. contact the DFO directly. Accession Number: 20161102–5097. SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Oral Statements: In general, Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/23/16. Agency (EPA) announces a public individuals or groups requesting an oral sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES Docket Numbers: ER17–294–000. teleconference of the Science and presentation at this public meeting will Applicants: Pennsylvania Electric Information Subcommittee (SIS) to the be limited to three minutes per speaker, Company, Jersey Central Power & Light, Great Lakes Advisory Board (Board). subject to the number of people wanting Metropolitan Edison Company, PJM The purpose of this meeting is to to comment. Interested parties should Interconnection, L.L.C. discuss the Great Lakes Restoration contact the DFO in writing (preferably Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: Initiative (GLRI) covering FY15–19 and via email) at the contact information Penelec, JCPL and Met-Ed submit other relevant matters. noted above by November 16, 2016 to be VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:29 Nov 08, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00037 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\09NON1.SGM 09NON1

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 217 / Wednesday, November 9, 2016 / Notices 78809 placed on the list of public speakers for DATES: Comments must be submitted on comments received and amend the ICR the meeting. or before January 9, 2017. as appropriate. The final ICR package Written Statements: Written ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, will then be submitted to OMB for statements must be received by referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– review and approval. At that time, EPA November 14, 2016 so that the ORD–2016–0632, online using will issue another Federal Register information may be made available to www.regulations.gov (our preferred notice to announce the submission of the SIS for consideration. Written method), by email to Docket_ORD@ the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to statements should be supplied to the epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket submit additional comments to OMB. DFO in the following formats: One hard Center, Environmental Protection Abstract: Researchers at the EPA’s copy with original signature and one Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Office of Research and Development electronic copy via email. Commenters Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, (ORD), Atlantic Ecology Division (AED) are requested to provide two versions of DC 20460. are piloting an effort to better each document submitted: One each EPA’s policy is that all comments understand how reduced water quality with and without signatures because received will be included in the public due to nutrient enrichment affects the only documents without signatures may docket without change including any economic prosperity, social capacity, be published on the GLRI Web page. personal information provided, unless and ecological integrity of coastal New Accessibility: For information on the comment includes profanity, threats, England communities. This project access or services for individuals with information claimed to be Confidential proposes a survey to collect data for a disabilities, please contact the DFO at Business Information (CBI) or other case study of changes in recreation the phone number or email address information whose disclosure is demand and values due to changes in noted above, preferably at least seven restricted by statute. nutrients in northeastern coastal waters. days prior to the meeting, to give EPA FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: This includes the development of as much time as possible to process methods and tools for estimating Marisa Mazzotta, U.S. Environmental your request. recreational values that can be applied Protection Agency, Office of Research in other locations, either by EPA Dated: November 2, 2016. and Development, Atlantic Ecology researchers, EPA’s regional offices or Cameron Davis, Division, 27 Tarzwell Drive, state partners. Our initial geographic Senior Advisor to the Administrator. Narragansett, Rhode Island 02882; focus for these efforts will be Cape Cod, telephone number: 401–782–3026; fax [FR Doc. 2016–27078 Filed 11–8–16; 8:45 am] Massachusetts (‘‘the Cape’’; Barnstable number: 401–782–3139; email address: BILLING CODE 6560–50–P County), and New England residents mazzotta.marisa@epa.gov. within 100 miles of the Cape. We focus SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: on Cape Cod and its surrounding coastal ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Supporting documents which explain in areas both in order to limit the scope of AGENCY detail the information that the EPA will the work to remain feasible within our be collecting are available in the public research budget and to coordinate this [EPA–HQ–ORD–2016–0632; FRL—9955–05– docket for this ICR. The docket can be ORD] socio-economic analysis with extensive viewed online at www.regulations.gov ecological research being conducted on Proposed Information Collection or in person at the EPA Docket Center, the Cape by ORD researchers, Request; Comment Request; WJC West, Room 3334, 1301 researchers at EPA’s Region 1 office, and Willingness To Pay Survey To Evaluate Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, other external research groups. Cape Recreational Benefits of Nutrient DC. The telephone number for the Cod is also in the midst of an extensive Reductions in Coastal New England Docket Center is 202–566–1744. For regional planning effort related to its Waters additional information about EPA’s coastal waters, and this research can public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/ provide helpful socio-economic AGENCY: Environmental Protection dockets. information to decision makers about Agency (EPA). Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the use of those waters. Because the ACTION: Notice. the PRA, EPA is soliciting comments 100-mile radius from Cape Cod includes and information to enable it to: (i) a large area of southern New England SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Evaluate whether the proposed and the largest population centers in Agency (EPA) is planning to submit an collection of information is necessary New England, the results will be more information collection request (ICR), for the proper performance of the broadly applicable to residents of ‘‘Willingness to Pay Survey to Evaluate functions of the Agency, including southern New England. Recreational Benefits of Nutrient whether the information will have One of the key water quality concerns Reductions in Coastal New England practical utility; (ii) evaluate the on Cape Cod, and throughout New Waters’’ (EPA ICR No. 2558.01, OMB accuracy of the Agency’s estimate of the England, is nonpoint sources of Control No. 2080–NEW) to the Office of burden of the proposed collection of nitrogen, which lead to ecological Management and Budget (OMB) for information, including the validity of impairments in estuaries, with resultant review and approval in accordance with the methodology and assumptions used; socio-economic impacts. The decisions the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 (iii) enhance the quality, utility, and needed to meet water quality standards U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Before doing so, clarity of the information to be are highly complex and involve EPA is soliciting public comments on collected; and (iv) minimize the burden significant cross-disciplinary challenges specific aspects of the proposed of the collection of information on those sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES in identifying, implementing, and information collection as described who are to respond, including through monitoring social and ecological below. This is a request for approval of the use of appropriate automated management needs. We will focus on a new collection. An Agency may not electronic, mechanical, or other understanding recreational uses as conduct or sponsor and a person is not technological collection techniques or valued economic goods in coastal New required to respond to a collection of other forms of information technology, England (including beachgoing, information unless it displays a e.g., permitting electronic submission of swimming, fishing, shellfishing, and currently valid OMB control number. responses. EPA will consider the boating). VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:29 Nov 08, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00038 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\09NON1.SGM 09NON1


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ActionNotice.
DatesThe teleconference will be held on Thursday, November 17, 2016 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Central Time, 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time. An opportunity will be provided to the public to comment. Due to administrative circumstances, EPA is announcing this meeting with less than 15 calendar days' public notice.
ContactAny member of the public wishing further information regarding this teleconference may contact Rita Cestaric, Designated Federal Officer (DFO), by email at [email protected] General information on the GLRI, the Board, and SIS can be found at http://glri.us/public.html.
FR Citation81 FR 78808 
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