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the EPA Administrator providing 

comment on the Administrator’s 

proposed Ozone NAAQS. 

As previously announced (76 FR 

4661–4662), the CASAC Panel has been 

asked to discuss its responses to 

additional charge questions regarding 

the Ozone reconsideration at the 

teleconferences on February 18, 2011 

and March 3, 2011. The purpose of the 

March 23, 2011 teleconference is for the 

Panel to continue its discussion of their 

advice on EPA’s reconsideration of the 

2008 Ozone NAAQS. 

Technical Contacts: Any technical 

questions concerning EPA’s charge 

questions may be directed to Susan 

Stone at stone.susan@epa.gov or (919) 

541–1146. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: The 

agenda, charge questions, public 

comments and any other meeting 

materials may be found posted at 

http://www.epa.gov/casac through the 

calendar link on the blue navigation bar. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Public comment for consideration by 

EPA’s Federal advisory committees and 

panels has a different purpose from 

public comment provided to EPA 

program offices. Therefore, the process 

for submitting comments to a Federal 

advisory committee is different from the 

process used to submit comments to an 

EPA program office. Federal advisory 

committees and panels, including 

scientific advisory committees, provide 

independent advice to EPA. Members of 

the public can submit comments for a 

Federal advisory committee to consider 

as it develops advice for EPA. They 

should send their comments directly to 

the Designated Federal Officer for the 

relevant advisory committee. Written 

statements for the meeting should be 

received in the SAB Staff Office by 

March 14, 2011 so that the information 

may be made available to the Panel for 

its consideration prior to this meeting. 

Written statements should be supplied 

to the DFO via e-mail, preferably as an 

Adobe Acrobat PDF file. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Dr. 

Stallworth at the phone number or email address noted above, preferably at 

least ten days prior to the meeting, to 

give EPA as much time as possible to 

process your request. 

Dated: February 22, 2011. 

Anthony Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Request for Nominations; CASAC 

Mercury Review Panel 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office is requesting 

public nominations of experts to serve 

on the Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee (CASAC) panel to conduct 

an independent review of EPA’s 

Mercury Technical Support Document. 

DATES: Nominations should be 

submitted by March 21, 2011 per 

instructions below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing further 

information regarding this Notice and 

Request for Nominations may contact 

Dr. Angela Nugent, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), SAB Staff Office, by 

telephone/voice mail at (202) 564–2188; 

by fax at (202) 565–2098 or via e-mail 

at nugent.angela@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the EPA Clean 

Air Scientific Advisory Committee can 

be found at the EPA CASAC Web site 

at http://www.epa.gov/casac. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The CASAC was 

established pursuant to the Clean Air 

Act (CAA) Amendments of 1977, 

codified at 42 U.S.C. 7409D(d)(2), to 

provide advice, information, and 

recommendations to the Administrator 

on the scientific and technical aspects of 

issues related to the criteria for air 

quality standards, research related to air 

quality, sources of air pollution, and the 

strategies to attain and maintain air 

quality standards and to prevent 

significant deterioration of air quality. 

The CASAC is a Federal Advisory 

Committee chartered under the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 

U.S.C., App. 2. 

EPA is considering regulating the 

emissions of hazardous air pollutants 

(HAPs) released from coal-burning 

electric generating units in the United 

States (U.S. EGUs) under Section 

112(n)(1)(A) of the Clean Air Act (CAA). 

This regulation may potentially use a 

Maximally Achievable Control Device 

(MACT) approach to set a technologybased standard for reducing HAP 

emissions. EPA is developing a draft 

risk assessment for mercury, entitled 

Technical Support Document: NationalScale Mercury Risk Assessment. This 

draft assessment considers the nature 

and magnitude of the potential risk to 

public health posed by current U.S. 

EGU mercury emissions and the nature 

and magnitude of the potential risk 

posed by U.S. EGU mercury emissions 

in the future, once all anticipated CAArelated regulations potentially reducing 

mercury from U.S. EGUs are in place. 

EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation has 

requested CASAC review of this draft 

document. 

Request for Nominations: The SAB 

Staff Office is seeking nominations of 

nationally and internationally 

recognized experts with research 

experience and expertise in the 

following disciplines, particularly 

related to mercury: atmospheric fate, 

transport and modeling; aquatic fate, 

transport and modeling; 

bioaccumulation; human exposure; 

epidemiology; toxicology, including 

reproductive and neurotoxicology, 

biostatistics, and risk assessment. 

EPA Contact for Background 

Information Pertaining to This Review: 

For questions concerning the 

development of EPA’s mercury 

assessment, please contact Dr. Zachary 

Pekar at (919) 541–3704 or 

pekar.zachary @epa.gov. 

Process and Deadline for Submitting 

Nominations: Any interested person or 

organization may nominate qualified 

individuals in the areas of expertise 

described above for possible service on 

this expert ad hoc Panel. Nominations 

should be submitted in electronic 

format (which is preferred over hard 

copy) following the instructions for 

‘‘Nominating Experts to Advisory Panels 

and Ad Hoc Committees Being Formed’’ 

provided on the CASAC Web site. The 

instructions can be accessed through the 

‘‘Nomination of Experts’’ link on the 

blue navigational bar on the CASAC 

Web site at http://www.epa.gov/casac. 

To receive full consideration, 

nominations should include all of the 

information requested. 

EPA’s SAB Staff Office requests: 

contact information about the person 

making the nomination; contact 

information about the nominee; the 

disciplinary and specific areas of 

expertise of the nominee; the nominee’s 

curriculum vita; sources of recent grant 

and/or contract support; and a 

biographical sketch of the nominee 

indicating current position, educational 

background, research activities, and 

recent service on other national 

advisory committees or national 

professional organizations. 

Persons having questions about the 

nomination procedures, or who are 

unable to submit nominations through 

the CASAC Web site, should contact Dr. 

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in this notice. Nominations should be 

submitted in time to arrive no later than 

March 21, 2011. EPA values and 

welcomes diversity. In an effort to 

obtain nominations of diverse 

candidates, EPA encourages 

nominations of women and men of all 

racial and ethnic groups. 

The EPA SAB Staff Office will 

acknowledge receipt of nominations. 

The names and biosketches of qualified 

nominees identified by respondents to 

this Federal Register notice, and 

additional experts identified by the SAB 

Staff, will be posted in a List of 

Candidates on the CASAC Web site at 

http://www.epa.gov/casac. Public 

comments on this List of Candidates 

will be accepted for 21 calendar days. 

The public will be requested to provide 

relevant information or other 

documentation on nominees that the 

SAB Staff Office should consider in 

evaluating candidates. 

For the EPA SAB Staff Office, a 

balanced subcommittee or review panel 

includes candidates who possess the 

necessary domains of knowledge, the 

relevant scientific perspectives (which, 

among other factors, can be influenced 

by work history and affiliation), and the 

collective breadth of experience to 

adequately address the charge. In the 

CASAC Mercury Technical Support 

Document Review Panel, the SAB Staff 

Office will consider public comments 

on the List of candidates, information 

provided by the candidates themselves, 

and background information 

independently gathered by the SAB 

Staff Office. Selection criteria to be used 

for Panel membership include: (a) 

Scientific and/or technical expertise, 

knowledge, and experience (primary 

factors); (b) availability and willingness 

to serve; (c) absence of financial 

conflicts of interest; (d) absence of an 

appearance of a lack of impartiality; and 

(e) skills working in committees, 

subcommittees and advisory panels; 

and, for the Panel as a whole, (f) 

diversity of expertise and viewpoints. 

The SAB Staff Office’s evaluation of 

an absence of financial conflicts of 

interest will include a review of 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 

Government officials to determine 

whether there is a statutory conflict 

between that person’s public 

responsibilities (which includes 

membership on an EPA Federal 

advisory committee) and private 

interests and activities, or the 

appearance of a lack of impartiality, as 

defined by Federal regulation. The form 

may be viewed and downloaded from 

the following URL address at http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/epaform3110- 

48.pdf. 

The approved policy under which the 

EPA SAB Office selects subcommittees 

and review panels is described in the 

following document: Overview of the 

Panel Formation Process at the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

Science Advisory Board (EPA–SAB–EC– 

02–010), which is posted on the SAB 

Web site at http://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/ 

ec02010.pdf. 

Dated: February 22, 2011. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

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Status of Motor Vehicle Budgets in 

Submitted State Implementation Plan 

for Transportation Conformity 

Purposes; Maricopa County (Phoenix) 

PM–10 Nonattainment Area, Arizona 

Notice of Withdrawal of Adequacy of 

Motor Vehicle Emissions Budget 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of withdrawal of 

adequacy; correction. 

SUMMARY: This document corrects a 

notice published in the Federal Register 

on February 9, 2011 (76 FR 7204) 

announcing that EPA has withdrawn its 

May 30, 2008 adequacy finding of the 

2010 particulate matter of ten microns 

or less (PM–10) motor vehicle emission 

budget (MVEB) for the Maricopa County 

(Phoenix) Nonattainment Area. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gregory Nudd, U.S. EPA Region 9, 415– 

947–4107, nudd.gregory@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

January 31, 2011, EPA withdrew its May 

30, 2008 adequacy finding of the 2010 

particulate matter of ten microns or less 

(PM–10) motor vehicle emission budget 

(MVEB) for the Maricopa County 

(Phoenix) Nonattainment Area, and on 

February 9, 2011, EPA announced the 

withdrawal of the MVEB in the Federal 

Register at 76 FR–7204. EPA’s February 

9, 2011 notice contained a number of 

incorrect dates. EPA is making the 

corrections to the February 9, 2011 

notice in today’s document to avoid 

confusion regarding the date of the 

letters from EPA to the Arizona 

Department of Environmental Quality 

(ADEQ) and the Maricopa Association 

of Governments (MAG) withdrawing the 

adequacy finding and the effective date 

of the withdrawal of the adequacy 

finding, which is one and the same, 

January 31, 2011. 

Today, EPA is making the following 

corrections to the February 9, 2011 

notice: 

1. The section DATES is corrected to 

read as follows: ‘‘EPA’s withdrawal of 

the May 30, 2008 adequacy finding was 

made in letters dated January 31, 2011 

from EPA Region 9 to ADEQ and MAG. 

This withdrawal of the May 30, 2008 

adequacy finding was effective on 

January 31, 2011.’’ 

2. Under the section SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION, the final paragraph under 

subsection ‘‘I. Background’’ is corrected 

to read as follows: ‘‘EPA has withdrawn 

its May 30, 2008 adequacy finding 

without prior notice and comment 

because adequacy findings are not 

considered rulemakings subject to the 

procedural requirements of the 

Administrative Procedures Act. In 

addition, EPA does not believe notice 

through EPA’s conformity Web site is 

necessary in advance because the 

withdrawn SIP is no longer pending 

before EPA for consideration. 

Consequently, further public comment 

would be unnecessary and not in the 

public interest. By sending the January 

31, 2011 letters, EPA has also 

withdrawn all statements and comments 

previously made regarding its May 30, 

2008 adequacy finding of the MVEBs 

budgets for transportation conformity 

purposes.’’ 

3. Under the section SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION, the paragraph under 

subsection ‘‘II. Notice of Withdrawal of 

MVEB Adequacy Determination’’ is 

corrected to read as follows: ‘‘This is an 

announcement of EPA’s withdrawal of 

its May 30, 2008 adequacy finding. EPA 

withdrew this adequacy finding in 

letters dated January 31, 2011 from 

Deborah Jordan, Director, Air Division, 

EPA Region 9 to Eric C. Massey, 

Director, Air Quality Division, ADEQ 

and Dennis Smith, Executive Director, 

MAG. The effective date of this 

withdrawal is January 31, 2011 based on 

EPA’s transportation conformity 

regulation at 40 CFR 93.118(f)(1)(vi). 

This announcement will also be made 

on EPA’s Web site: http://www.epa.gov/ 

otaq/stateresources/transconf/ 

index.htm (once there, click on the 

‘Adequacy Review of SIP Submissions’ 

button and proceed to the Region 9 page 

for SIP submissions that have already 

been found adequate or inadequate).’’ 


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