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• States and federally recognized 

tribes

• State, federal, and local 

environmental and public health 

organizations

This listing is not intended to be 

exhaustive, but rather provides a guide 

for readers regarding entities likely to be 

affected by this action. Other types of 

entities not listed in this unit could also 

be affected. If you have any questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

to a particular entity, consult the 

technical person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

B. How Can I Get Copies of this 

Document and Other Related 

Information?

1. Docket. EPA has established an 

official public docket for this action 

under docket ID number OPPT–2004–

0115. The official public docket consists 

of the documents specifically referenced 

in this action, any public comments 

received, and other information related 

to this action. Although a part of the 

official docket, the public docket does 

not include Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

The official public docket is the 

collection of materials that is available 

for public viewing at the EPA Docket 

Center, Rm. B102-Reading Room, EPA 

West, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding 

legal holidays. The EPA Docket Center 

Reading Room telephone number is 

(202) 566–1744 and the telephone 

number for the OPPT Docket, which is 

located in the EPA Docket Center, is 

(202) 566–0280.

2. Electronic access. You may access 

this Federal Register document 

electronically through the EPA Internet 

under the ‘‘Federal Register’’ listings at 

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/.

An electronic version of the public 

docket is available through EPA’s 

electronic public docket and comment 

system, EPA Dockets. You may use EPA 

Dockets at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/

to submit or view public comments, 

access the index listing of the contents 

of the official public docket, and to 

access those documents in the public 

docket that are available electronically. 

Although not all docket materials may 

be available electronically, you may still 

access any of the publicly available 

docket materials through the docket 

facility identified in Unit I.B.1. Once in 

the system, select ‘‘search,’’ then key in 

the appropriate docket ID number.

II. Background

The Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 

U.S.C. 2609, section 10(g), authorizes 

EPA and other federal agencies to 

establish and coordinate a system for 

exchange among federal, state, and local 

authorities of research and development 

results respecting toxic chemical 

substances and mixtures, including a 

system to facilitate and promote the 

development of standard data format 

and analysis and consistent testing 

procedures. Through FOSTTA, the 

Chemical Information and Management 

Project (CIMP) focuses on EPA’s 

chemical program and works to develop 

a more coordinated effort involving 

federal, state, and tribal agencies. The 

Pollution Prevention (P2) Project 

promotes the prevention ethic across 

society, helping companies incorporate 

P2 approaches and techniques and 

integrating P2 into mainstream 

environmental activities at both the 

federal level and among the states and 

tribes. The TAP concentrates on 

chemical and pollution prevention 

issues that are most relevant to the 

tribes, including lead control and 

abatement, tribal traditional/subsistence 

lifeways, and hazard communications 

and outreach. FOSTTA’s vision is to 

focus on major policy-level issues of 

importance to states and tribes, recruit 

more senior state and tribal leaders, 

increase outreach to all 50 states and 

some 560 federally recognized tribes, 

and vigorously seek ways to engage the 

states and tribes in ongoing substantive 

discussions on complex and oftentimes 

controversial environmental issues.

In January 2002, the Environmental 

Council of the States (ECOS), in 

cooperation with the National Tribal 

Environmental Council (NTEC), was 

awarded the new FOSTTA cooperative 

agreement. ECOS, NTEC, and EPA’s 

Office of Pollution Prevention and 

Toxics (OPPT) are co-sponsoring the 

meetings. As part of a cooperative 

agreement, ECOS facilitates ongoing 

efforts of the state and tribal leaders and 

OPPT to increase understanding and 

improve collaboration on toxic 

chemicals and pollution prevention 

issues, and to continue a dialogue on 

how federal environmental programs 

can best be implemented among the 

states, tribes, and EPA.

III. How Can I Request to Participate in 

this Meeting?

You may submit a request to 

participate in this meeting to the 

technical person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Do not 

submit any information in your request 

that is considered CBI. Requests to 

participate in the meeting, identified by 

docket ID number OPPT–2004–0115, 

must be received on or before October 

14. 

IV. The Meeting

In the interest of time and efficiency, 

the meetings are structured to provide 

maximum opportunity for state, tribal, 

and EPA participants to discuss items 

on the predetermined agenda. At the 

discretion of the chair, an effort will be 

made to accommodate participation by 

observers attending the proceedings. 

The FOSTTA representatives and EPA 

will collaborate on environmental 

protection and pollution prevention 

issues. The tentative agenda items 

identified by the states and the tribes 

follow:

1. High Production Volume (HPV) 

Challenge Program database 

demonstration

2. Moving the HPV outreach plan 

from strategy to implementation

3. Multimedia Pollution Prevention 

Forum (M2P2) presentation

4. Performance Partnership Grants 

(PPG) guidance for FY 2005

5. TAP working plan

6. Tribal college Interagency 

Personnel Agreement (IPA) proposal

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pollution 

prevention, Chemical information and 

management.

Dated: September 24, 2004. 

Barbara A. Cunningham, 

Director, Environmental Assistance Division, 

Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–7823–5] 

Papers Addressing Scientific Issues in 

the Risk Assessment of Metals

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) today announces the 

availability of five scientific papers on 

metals risk assessment. The papers 

include: (1) Issue Paper on the 

Environmental Chemistry of Metals; (2) 

Issue Paper on Metal Exposure 

Assessment; (3) Issue Paper on the 

Ecological Effects of Metals; (4) Issue 

Paper on the Human Health Effects of 

Metals; and (5) Issue Paper on the 

Bioavailability and Bioaccumulation of 

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Metals. Development of these papers 

was led by Eastern Research Group Inc., 

a contractor to EPA. These papers will 

inform EPA’s continuing discussion of 

practices and methods for the risk 

assessment of metals.

DATES: The scientific papers will be 

available on or about October 4, 2004.

ADDRESSES: The issue papers are 

available primarily via the Internet on 

the Risk Assessment Forum’s Web page 

http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/raf/

recordisplay.cfm?deid=86119. A limited 

number of paper copies will be available 

from the EPA’s National Service Center 

for Environmental Publications 

(NSCEP), P.O. Box 42419, Cincinnati, 

OH 45242; telephone: 1–800–490–9198 

or 513–489–8190; facsimile: 513–489–

8695. Please provide your name and 

mailing address and the title and EPA 

number of the requested publication, 

‘‘Papers Addressing Scientific Issues in 

the Risk Assessment of Metals’’ (EPA/

630/R–04/118).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical information, contact Dr. 

William P. Wood, Executive Director, 

Risk Assessment Forum, National 

Center for Environmental Assessment, 

Office of Research and Development; 

telephone: (202) 564–3361; facsimile: 

(202) 565–0062; or e-mail: 

risk.forum@epa.gov@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has 

recognized the need for consistent 

application of methods and data to 

metals risk assessment in consideration 

of the unique properties of metals. Early 

in 2002, the Agency’s Science Policy 

Council initiated the development a 

framework to assess the risks of metals 

to humans and the environment. An 

Agency Action Plan was developed and 

reviewed by EPA’s Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) in September 2002. The 

SAB emphasized the importance of 

focusing on the unique properties of 

metals as they relate to environmental 

chemistry, bioavailability, 

bioaccumulation, exposure, and 

toxicity. The SAB also emphasized the 

importance of engaging the outside 

community so as to contribute to the 

knowledge base the Agency would draw 

from in developing guidance on the risk 

assessment of metals. 

To inform the consideration of metals 

properties, and to engage the external 

scientific community, the Agency 

commissioned external experts to lead 

the development of a series of issue 

papers. (Some individual EPA experts 

contributed specific discussions on 

topic(s) for which he or she has 

scientific expertise or knowledge of 

current Agency practice.) A public 

comment period was held on the draft 

papers from September 22 through 

November 7, 2003, wherein comments 

were collected utilizing the Agency’s 

on-line commenting system (E–Docket). 

Additionally, comment was received via 

a public meeting held October 28, 2003, 

in Washington, DC (comments remain 

available for viewing at www.epa.gov/

edocket, Docket Number OAR–2003–

0192.) Comments were requested on 

technical issues including the level of 

detail in the papers, the chemical, 

biological and physical processes 

addressed or omitted, models and 

approaches that might reduce 

uncertainty, and other considerations 

that would improve the utility of the 

papers to the development of the 

framework. To finalize the papers, 

authors were directed to EPA’s E–

Docket to review and consider public 

comments received. The final papers 

reflect the authors responses to 

scientific comments received during the 

public comment period. Therefore, the 

views expressed are those of the authors 

and do not necessarily reflect the views 

or policies of the EPA and should not 

be construed as implying EPA consent 

or endorsement. 

Having engaged the external 

community to broaden our knowledge 

base, the Agency is working to develop 

a framework for metals risk assessment. 

The framework will be provided for 

public comment, and SAB review.

Dated: September 27, 2004. 

Peter W. Preuss, 

Director, National Center for Environmental 

Assessment.

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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE 

PRESIDENT 

Office of Administration; Notice of 

Meeting of the Commission on the 

Intelligence Capabilities of the United 

States Regarding Weapons of Mass 

Destruction

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Commission on the 

Intelligence Capabilities of the United 

States Regarding Weapons of Mass 

Destruction (‘‘Commission’’) will meet 

in closed session on Wednesday, 

October 20, 2004, and Thursday, 

October 21, 2004, in its offices in 

Arlington, Virginia. 

Executive Order 13328 established the 

Commission for the purpose of assessing 

whether the Intelligence Community is 

sufficiently authorized, organized, 

equipped, trained, and resourced to 

identify and warn in a timely manner of, 

and to support the United States 

Government’s efforts to respond to, the 

development of Weapons of Mass 

Destruction, related means of delivery, 

and other related threats of the 21st 

Century. This meeting will consist of 

briefings and discussions involving 

classified matters of national security, 

including classified briefings from 

representatives of agencies within the 

Intelligence Community; Commission 

discussions based upon the content of 

classified intelligence documents the 

Commission has received from agencies 

within the Intelligence Community; and 

presentations concerning the United 

States’ intelligence capabilities that are 

based upon classified information. 

While the Commission does not 

concede that it is subject to the 

requirements of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA), 5 United States 

Code Appendix 2, it has been 

determined that the October 20–21 

meeting would fall within the scope of 

exceptions (c)(1) and (c)(9)(B) of the 

Sunshine Act, 5 United States Code, 

Sections 552b(c)(1) & (c)(9)(B), and thus 

could be closed to the public if FACA 

did apply to the Commission.

DATES: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 (9 

a.m. to 5 p.m.) and Thursday, October 

21, 2004 (9 a.m. to 1 p.m.).

ADDRESSES: Members of the public who 

wish to submit a written statement to 

the Commission are invited to do so by 

facsimile at (703) 414–1203, or by mail 

at the following address: Commission 

on the Intelligence Capabilities of the 

United States Regarding Weapons of 

Mass Destruction, Washington, DC 

20503. Comments also may be sent to 

the Commission by e-mail at 

comments@wmd.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Brett C. Gerry, Associate General 

Counsel, Commission on the 

Intelligence Capabilities of the United 

States Regarding Weapons of Mass 

Destruction, by facsimile, or by 

telephone at (703) 414–1200.

Victor E. Bernson, Jr. 

Executive Office of the President, Office of 

Administration, General Counsel.

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BILLING CODE 3130–W4–P

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Public Information Collection(s) 

Requirement Submitted to OMB for 

Emergency Review and Approval 

September 28, 2004

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications 

Commission, as part of its continuing