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to delay or require the substantial 

redesign of projects that are ‘‘shovel 

ready’’, such as this project at the 

Hyannis Water System. The 

implementation of the ARRA Buy 

American requirements in this case 

could result in additional cost for this 

project and unreasonable delay in its 

completion. Such delay would also 

directly conflict with a fundamental 

economic purpose of ARRA, which is to 

create or retain jobs. 

The Municipal Assistance Unit (CMU) 

has reviewed this waiver request and 

has determined that the supporting 

documentation provided by the System 

establishes both a proper basis to 

specify a particular manufactured good, 

and that the domestically manufactured 

good that is currently available does not 

meet the specifications for the proposed 

project. The information provided is 

sufficient to meet the following criteria 

listed under Section 1605(b) of the 

ARRA and in the April 28, 2009 

Memorandum: Iron, steel, and the 

manufactured goods are not produced in 

the United States in sufficient and 

reasonably available quantities and of a 

satisfactory quality. 

The March 31, 2009 Delegation of 

Authority Memorandum provided 

Regional Administrators with the 

temporary authority to issue exceptions 

to Section 1605 of the ARRA within the 

geographic boundaries of their 

respective regions and with respect to 

requests by individual grant recipients. 

Having established both a proper 

basis to specify the particular good 

required for this project and that this 

manufactured good was not available 

from a producer in the United States, 

the Hyannis Water System is hereby 

granted a waiver from the Buy American 

requirements of Section 1605(a) of 

Public Law 111–5. This waiver permits 

use of ARRA funds for the purchase of 

fourteen security cameras documented 

in System’s waiver request submittal 

dated October 19, 2010. This 

supplementary information constitutes 

the detailed written justification 

required by Section 1605(c) for waivers 

based on a finding under subsection (b). 

Authority: Pub. L. 111–5, section 1605. 

Dated: January 5, 2011. 

Ira W. Leighton, 

Acting Regional Administrator, EPA Region 

1—New England. 

[FR Doc. 2011–636 Filed 1–12–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9252–2] 

Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Request for Nominations of Experts to 

Augment the SAB Scientific and 

Technological Achievement Awards 

Committee 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office is requesting 

public nominations for scientists and 

engineers to augment the SAB Scientific 

and Technological Achievement 

Awards (STAA) Committee. 

DATES: Nominations should be 

submitted by February 3, 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 

Mr. Edward Hanlon, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), SAB Staff Office, by 

telephone/voice mail at (202) 564–2134; 

by fax at (202) 565–2098 or via email at 

hanlon.edward@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the EPA Science 

Advisory Board can be found at the EPA 

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

sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The SAB (42 U.S.C. 

4365) is a chartered Federal Advisory 

Committee that provides independent 

scientific and technical peer review, 

advice, consultation, and 

recommendations to the EPA 

Administrator on the technical basis for 

EPA actions. As a Federal Advisory 

Committee, the SAB conducts business 

in accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 

U.S.C. App. 2) and related regulations. 

The SAB will comply with the 

provisions of FACA and all appropriate 

SAB Staff Office procedural policies. 

EPA’s STAA Program was established 

in 1980 to recognize Agency scientists 

and engineers who published their work 

in the peer-reviewed literature. The 

STAA Program is an annual Agencywide competition to promote and 

recognize scientific and technological 

achievements by EPA employees. The 

STAA program is administered and 

managed by EPA’s Office of Research 

and Development (ORD). ORD requested 

SAB to review scientific publications 

nominated by EPA managers and make 

recommendations to the Administrator 

for STAA awards. 

A STAA Committee was formed in 

June 2009 to provide recommendations 

to the Administrator regarding the 

nominated 2009, 2010 and 2011 STAA 

awards. The STAA Committee was 

augmented with additional experts to 

make recommendations for the 2010 

STAA awards (Federal Register Notice 

Volume 75, Number 44, Pages 10481– 

10482, published on March 8, 2010). 

There is a need to supplement the 

STAA Committee with additional 

expertise to review the 2011 STAA 

nominations. 

Request for Nominations: The SAB 

Staff Office is seeking nominations of 

nationally and internationally 

recognized scientists and engineers 

having experience and expertise in 

environmental and human health 

sciences, ecology, risk assessment, 

environmental engineering, 

environmental lifecycle or systems 

analysis, and in environmental 

sustainability fields such as in green 

chemistry, green technologies, and 

green building design. 

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 SAB Web site. The 

instructions can be accessed through the 

‘‘Nomination of Experts’’ link on the 

blue navigational bar on the SAB Web 

site at http://www.epa.gov/sab. 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 SAB Web site, should contact Mr. 

Edward Hanlon, DFO, as indicated 

above in this notice. Nominations 

should be submitted in time to arrive no 

later than February 3, 2011. EPA values 

and welcomes diversity. In an effort to 


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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 SAB Web site at 

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

comments on this List of Candidates 

will be accepted for 21 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 

augmenting the SAB STAA Committee, 

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: January 6, 2011. 

Vanessa T. Vu, 

Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff 

Office. 

[FR Doc. 2011–641 Filed 1–12–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9252–5] 

Tentative Approval and Solicitation of 

Request for a Public Hearing for Public 

Water System Supervision Program 

Revision for New Jersey 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the State of New Jersey is revising its 

approved Public Water System 

Supervision Program to adopt EPA’s 

National Primary Drinking Water 

Regulations for four major rules and six 

technical corrections. The EPA has 

determined that these revisions are no 

less stringent than the corresponding 

Federal regulations. Therefore, the EPA 

intends to approve these program 

revisions. All interested parties may 

request a public hearing. 

DATES: This determination to approve 

New Jersey’s primacy program revision 

application is made pursuant to 40 CFR 

142.12(d)(3). It shall become final and 

effective unless (1) a timely and 

appropriate request for a public hearing 

is received or (2) the Regional 

Administrator elects to hold a public 

hearing on his own motion. Any 

interested person, other than Federal 

Agencies, may request a public hearing. 

A request for a public hearing must be 

submitted to the Regional Administrator 

at the address shown below February 

14, 2011. If a substantial request for a 

public hearing is made within the 

requested thirty day time frame, a 

public hearing will be held and a notice 

will be given in the Federal Register 

and a newspaper of general circulation. 

Frivolous or insubstantial requests for a 

hearing may be denied by the Regional 

Administrator. If no timely and 

appropriate request for a hearing is 

received and the Regional Administrator 

does not elect to hold a hearing on his 

own motion, this determination shall 

become final and effective February 14, 

2011. 

ADDRESSES: Any request for a public 

hearing shall include the following 

information: (1) Name, address and 

telephone number of the individual, 

organization or other entity requesting a 

hearing; (2) a brief statement of the 

requesting person’s interest in the 

Regional Administrator’s determination 

and a brief statement on information 

that the requesting person intends to 

submit at such hearing; (3) the signature 

of the individual making the requests or, 

if the request is made on behalf of an 

organization or other entity, the 

signature of a responsible official of the 

organization or other entity. Requests 

for Public Hearing shall be addressed to: 

Regional Administrator, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency— 

Region 2, 290 Broadway, New York, 

New York 10007–1866. 

All documents relating to this 

determination are available for 

inspection between the hours of 9 a.m. 

and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

at the following offices: 

New Jersey Department of 

Environmental Protection, P.O. Box 

CN–426, 401 East State Street, Floor 3, 

Trenton, New Jersey 08625–0426; 

U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency—Region 2, 24th Floor 

Drinking Water Ground Water 

Protection Section, 290 Broadway, 

New York, New York 10007–1866. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael J. Lowy, Drinking Water 

Ground Water Protection Section, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency— 

Region 2, (212) 637–3830. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that the United States 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

has determined to approve an 

application by the State of New Jersey 

Department of Environmental Protection 

to revise its Public Water Supply 

Supervision Primacy Program to 

incorporate regulations no less stringent 

than the EPA’s National Primary 

Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWR) 

for National Primary Drinking Water 

Regulations: Stage 2 Disinfectants and 

Disinfection Byproducts Rule; Final 

Rule, promulgated by EPA January 4, 

2006 (71 FR 388), with the following 

Technical Corrections promulgated by 

EPA January 27, 2006 (71 FR 4644), June 

29, 2006 (71 FR 37168), and June 29, 

2009 (74 FR 30953), National Primary 


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