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introduced predators, such as rats and 

mongooses. 

EPA granted the Hawaii Department 

of Agriculture a quarantine exemption 

in 2005 for use of calcium hydroxide to 

control Eleutherodactylus frogs. This 

quarantine exemption program expired 

on April 26, 2008. The applicant 

withdrew a subsequent request in 2008 

for use of calcium hydroxide on 4,000 

acres of outdoor plant nurseries, 

residential areas, resorts and hotels, 

parks, forest habitats, and natural areas 

throughout the entire state of Hawaii. 

In this request, the Hawaii 

Department of Agriculture’s projected 

acreage for 2010–2012 is 1,000 acres on 

outdoor potted and field-grown 

ornamental plants, groundcover/floors, 

and perimeters of commercial nurseries 

throughout the state of Hawaii in the 

following counties: Honolulu, Maui, 

Kauai, and Hawaii. According to the 

current submission, use of calcium 

hydroxide is proposed for application as 

follows: 

1. For dust application at 500 pounds 

per acre (485 lbs. active ingredient (a.i.) 

per acre). 

2. For foliar applications on potted or 

field-grown outdoor ornamental plants 

at 250 pounds of product per acre (242.5 

lbs. a.i. per acre) at a 3% dilution. 

3. For foliar applications on 

vegetation of nursery perimeters or as a 

soil drench at 500 pounds per acre (485 

lbs. a.i. per acre) at a 6% dilution. A 

maximum of twelve applications may be 

made per site per year. Therefore, a total 

maximum of 18,000,000 lbs. (9,000 tons) 

of product or 17,280,000 lbs. (8,640 

tons) of a.i. of calcium hydroxide can be 

applied to treated areas under this 

request. 

This notice does not constitute a 

decision by EPA on the application 

itself. The regulations governing section 

18 of FIFRA require publication of a 

notice of receipt of an application for a 

quarantine exemption proposing use of 

calcium hydroxide which has not been 

registered by EPA. 

The notice provides an opportunity 

for public comment on this proposed 

application. 

The Agency will review and consider 

all comments received during the 

comment period in determining 

whether to issue the quarantine 

exemption requested by the Hawaii 

Department of Agriculture. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: May 12, 2010. 

Lois Rossi, 

Director, Registration Division, Office of 

Pesticide Programs. 

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AGENCY 

[FRL–9154–2; Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD– 

2010–0395] 

Draft EPA’s Reanalysis of Key Issues 

Related to Dioxin Toxicity and 

Response to NAS Comments 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Public Comment 

Period. 

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a 90-day 

public comment period for the external 

review draft entitled, ‘‘EPA’s Reanalysis 

of Key Issues Related to Dioxin Toxicity 

and Response to NAS Comments’’ (EPA/ 

600/R–10/038A). This draft report 

responds to the key recommendations 

and comments included in the National 

Academy of Sciences (NAS) 2006 

report. In addition, it includes new 

analyses on potential human effects that 

may result from exposure to 2,3,7,8- 

tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). 

These analyses have not been in 

previous versions of draft reports related 

to EPA’s dioxin reassessment activity. 

This draft report is now considered to 

be under EPA’s Integrated Risk 

Information System (IRIS) program, and 

thus, the new IRIS process announced 

in May 2009 (http://www.epa.gov/iris/ 

process/) is being followed. Per the May 

2009 process, this draft report is 

beginning Step 4—independent external 

peer review and public review and 

comment. This draft dioxin report was 

prepared by the National Center for 

Environmental Assessment (NCEA) 

within the EPA Office of Research and 

Development (ORD). 

The draft document, ‘‘EPA’s 

Reanalysis of Key Issues Related to 

Dioxin Toxicity and Response to NAS 

Comments,’’ is also being provided to 

EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB), a 

body established under the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, for 

independent external peer review. The 

SAB will convene an expert panel 

composed of scientists knowledgeable 

about technical issues related to dioxins 

and risk assessment. The SAB is 

expected to hold a public teleconference 

on or about June 24, 2010, and a public 

panel meeting on July 13–15, 2010. The 

SAB peer review meetings will be 

announced by the SAB staff office in a 

separate Federal Register Notice. EPA 

intends to forward all public comments 

submitted before July 7, 2010, in 

response to this notice to the SAB peer 

review panel for their consideration. 

Members of the public who wish to 

ensure that their technical comments 

are provided to the SAB expert panel 

before each meeting should also e-mail 

their comments separately to Thomas 

Armitage, the SAB Designated Federal 

Officer at armitage.thomas@epa.gov, 

following the procedures in the Federal 

Register Notice announcing the SAB 

public meetings. When completing this 

draft dioxin report, EPA will consider 

any written public comments that EPA 

receives in accordance with the detailed 

instructions provided below under 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. The public 

comment period and SAB external peer 

review are independent processes that 

provide separate opportunities for all 

interested parties to comment on the 

draft report. 

EPA is releasing this draft report 

solely for the purpose of predissemination peer review under 

applicable information quality 

guidelines. This draft report has not 

been formally disseminated by EPA. It 

does not represent and should not be 

construed to represent any Agency 

policy or determination. 

DATES: The public comment period 

begins May 21, 2010, and ends August 

19, 2010. Comments should be in 

writing and must be received by EPA by 

August 19, 2010. 

Due to the timing of the SAB’s peer 

review meeting, EPA can only guarantee 

that those comments received by July 7, 

2010, in response to this Federal 

Register notice will be provided to the 

SAB panel prior to the SAB meeting. 

Comments received after July 7, will 

still be provided to the SAB panel and 

will also inform the Agency’s revision of 

the draft report. 

ADDRESSES: The external review draft 

titled, ‘‘EPA’s Reanalysis of Key Issues 

Related to Dioxin Toxicity and 

Response to NAS Comments’’ (EPA/600/ 

R–10/038A) is available primarily via 

the Internet on the NCEA home page 

under the Recent Additions and 

Publications menus at http:// 

www.epa.gov/ncea. A limited number of 

paper copies are available from the 

Information Management Team 

(Address: Information Management 

Team, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment (Mail Code: 

8601P), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone: 

703–347–8561; facsimile: 703–347– 

8691). If you request a paper copy, 


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please provide your name, mailing 

address, and the assessment title. 

Comments may be submitted 

electronically via http:// 

www.regulations.gov, by e-mail, by mail, 

by facsimile, or by hand delivery/ 

courier. Please follow the detailed 

instructions provided in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the docket, 

regulations.gov or public comment 

period, please contact the Office of 

Environmental Information (OEI) Docket 

(Mail Code: 2822T), U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone: 202–566–1752; facsimile: 

202–566–1753; or e-mail: 

ORD.Docket@epa.gov. 

For information on the draft report, 

please contact Linda C. Tuxen, National 

Center for Environmental Assessment 

(8601P), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone: 

703–347–8609; facsimile: 703–347– 

8699; or e-mail: tuxen.linda@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information About the Draft Report, 

‘‘EPA’s Reanalysis of Key Issues Related 

to Dioxin Toxicity and Response to 

NAS Comments’’ 

In 2003, EPA, along with other federal 

agencies, asked the NAS to review 

aspects of the science in EPA’s draft 

dioxin reassessment entitled, ‘‘Exposure 

and Human Health Reassessment of 

2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin 

(TCDD) and Related Compounds,’’ and, 

in 2004, EPA sent a 2003 external 

review draft dioxin reassessment to the 

NAS for their peer review. The NAS 

held several public meetings during 

their review of the draft reassessment 

and on July 11, 2006, released the final 

report of their review entitled, ‘‘Health 

Risks from Dioxin and Related 

Compounds: Evaluation of the EPA 

Reassessment.’’ 

The NAS identified three key areas in 

the 2003 draft reassessment that 

required substantial improvement to 

support a more scientifically robust risk 

characterization. These three areas were: 

(1) Justification of approaches to doseresponse modeling for cancer and noncancer endpoints; (2) transparency and 

clarity in selection of key data sets for 

analysis; and (3) transparency, 

thoroughness, and clarity in quantitative 

uncertainty analysis. The NAS provided 

EPA with recommendations to address 

their key concerns. 

EPA’s draft dioxin report, which is 

being provided for public review and 

comment, includes significant new 

analyses on both the potential cancer 

and noncancer human health effects 

that may result from exposures to 

TCDD. For instance, this draft report 

addresses the explicit recommendation 

of the NAS to develop a quantitative 

risk estimate for noncancer effects that 

may result from long-term (chronic) oral 

exposure to dioxins. Thus, this draft 

dioxin report includes an oral reference 

dose (RfD) for TCDD—the most wellstudied and considered to be among the 

most toxic of the dioxin-like 

compounds. An RfD was not in the 2003 

draft dioxin reassessment. 

In addition, in 2003, EPA and other 

federal agencies developed a set of 

questions and answers related to 

dioxins, which have been updated about 

every year and a half. These materials 

have again been updated to include 

more recent information. These 

questions and answers provide general 

information on dioxins such as what 

they are, where they can be found, and 

major sources of dioxins. They also 

discuss possible effects of dioxin 

exposure in humans, include advice 

about consumption of food that might 

contain dioxins, and explain the review 

process for the dioxin reassessment. For 

additional information on dioxins and 

on EPA’s overall dioxin assessment 

activity, these questions and answers 

may be accessed at: http://www.fda.gov/ 

Food/FoodSafety/ 

FoodContaminantsAdulteration/ 

ChemicalContaminants/DioxinsPCBs/ 

ucm077524.htm. 

II. How To Submit Comments to the 

Docket at http://www.regulations.gov 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2010– 

0395, by one of the following methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: ORD.Docket@epa.gov. 

• Facsimile: 202–566–1753. 

• Mail: Office of Environmental 

Information (OEI) Docket (Mail Code: 

2822T), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. The telephone 

number is 202–566–1752. If you provide 

comments by mail, please submit one 

unbound original with pages numbered 

consecutively, and three copies of the 

comments. For attachments, provide an 

index, number pages consecutively with 

the comments, and submit an unbound 

original and three copies. 

• Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is 

located in the EPA Headquarters Docket 

Center, EPA West Building, Room 3334, 

1301 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center 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. 

Deliveries are only accepted during the 

docket’s normal hours of operation, and 

special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. If 

you provide comments by hand 

delivery, please submit one unbound 

original with pages numbered 

consecutively, and three copies of the 

comments. For attachments, provide an 

index, number pages consecutively with 

the comments, and submit an unbound 

original and three copies. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2010– 

0395. Please ensure that your comments 

are submitted within the specified 

comment period. Comments received 

after the closing date will be marked 

‘‘late,’’ and may only be considered if 

time permits. It is EPA’s policy to 

include all comments it receives in the 

public docket without change and to 

make the comments available online at 

http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information provided, 

unless comments include 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 http:// 

www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The 

http://www.regulations.gov Web site is 

an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means EPA will not know your identity 

or contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your 

comments. If you send e-mail comments 

directly to EPA without going through 

http://www.regulations.gov, your e-mail 

address will be automatically captured 

and included as part of the comments 

that are placed in the public docket and 

made available on the Internet. If you 

submit electronic comments, EPA 

recommends that you include your 

name and other contact information in 

the body of your comments and with 

any disk or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA 

cannot read your comments due to 

technical difficulties and cannot contact 

you for clarification, EPA may not be 

able to consider your comments. 

Electronic files should avoid the use of 

special characters and any form of 

encryption and be free of any defects or 

viruses. For additional information 

about EPA’s public docket, visit the EPA 

Docket Center homepage at http:// 

www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the http:// 

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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 at http:// 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the OEI Docket in the EPA Headquarters 

Docket Center. 

Dated: May 17, 2010. 

Rebecca Clark, 

Acting Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

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AGENCY 

[ER–FRL–8990–5] 

Environmental Impact Statements; 

Notice of Availability 

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal 

Activities, General Information (202) 

564–1399 or http://www.epa.gov/ 

compliance/nepa/. 

Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact 

Statements Filed 05/10/2010 Through 

05/14/2010 Pursuant to 40 CFR 

1506.9. 

Notice 

In accordance with Section 309(a) of 

the Clean Air Act, EPA is required to 

make its comments on EISs issued by 

other Federal agencies public. 

Historically, EPA has met this mandate 

by publishing weekly notices of 

availability of EPA comments, which 

includes a brief summary of EPA’s 

comment letters, in the Federal 

Register. Since February 2008, EPA has 

been including its comment letters on 

EISs on its Web site at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/ 

eisdata.html. Including the entire EIS 

comment letters on the Web site 

satisfies the Section 309(a) requirement 

to make EPA’s comments on EISs 

available to the public. Accordingly, on 

March 31, 2010, EPA discontinued the 

publication of the notice of availability 

of EPA comments in the Federal 

Register. 

EIS No. 20100174, Final EIS, USFS, 00, 

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest 

Invasive Plants Treatment Project, To 

Protect Native Vegetation by 

Controlling, Containing, or 

Eradicating Invasive Plant, Wallowa, 

Baker, Malheur and Grant Counties, 

OR and Adams and Nez Perce 

Counties, ID, Wait Period Ends: 06/ 

21/2010, Contact: Robert W. Rock 

541–523–1242. 

EIS No. 20100175, Draft EIS, USN, 00, 

United States Marine Corps Joint 

Strike Fighter F–35B West Coast 

Basing, To Efficiently and Effectively 

Maintain Combat Capability and 

Mission Readiness, CA and AZ, 

Comment Period Ends: 07/05/2010, 

Contact: Adrianne Saboya 619–532– 

4742. 

EIS No. 20100176, Final EIS, USN, WA, 

Naval Sea Systems Command 

(NAVSEA). Naval Undersea Warfare 

Center (NUWC), Keyport Complex 

Extension, Propose to Extend the 

Operational Areas, Three Distinct 

Range Sites: Keyport Range Site; 

Dabob Bay Range Complex (DBRC) 

Site, Quinault Underwater Tracking 

Range Site, Gray Harbor, Jefferson, 

Kitsap and Mason Counties, WA, Wait 

Period Ends: 06/21/2010, Contact: 

Kimberly Kler 360–396–0927. 

EIS No. 20100177, Draft EIS, USFS, MN, 

Tracks Project, Proposing Forest 

Vegetation Management and Related 

Transportation System Activities, 

Superior National Forest, St. Louis 

and Lake Counties, MN, Comment 

Period Ends: 07/05/2010, Contact: 

Susan Duffy 218–365–2097. 

EIS No. 20100178, Draft EIS, USACE, 

LA, Medium Diversion at White 

Ditch, Integrated Feasibility Study, 

Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA) 

Ecosystem Restoration, 

Implementation, Plaquemines Parish, 

LA, Comment Period Ends: 07/05/ 

2010, Contact: Dr. Nathan Dayan 504– 

862–2530. 

EIS No. 20100179, Final EIS, TVA, AL, 

Bellefonte Site Single Nuclear Unit 

Project, Proposes to Complete or 

Construct and Operate a Single 1,100– 

1, 200 MW Nuclear Generation Unit, 

Jackson County, AL, Wait Period 

Ends: 06/21/2010, Contact: Ruth 

Horton 865–632–3719. 

EIS No. 20100180, Draft EIS, USACE, 

LA, Convey Atchafalaya River Water 

to Northern Terrebonne Marshes and 

Multipurpose Operation of Houma 

Navigation Lock, Integrated 

Feasibility Study, Louisiana Coastal 

Area (LCA) Implementation, 

Lafourche, Terrebonne, St. Mary 

Parish, LA, Comment Period Ends: 

07/05/2010, Contact: Dr. Nathan 

Dayan 504–862–2530. 

EIS No. 20100181, Final EIS, DOE, MS, 

Kemper County Integrated 

Gasification Combined-Cycle (IGCC) 

Project, Construction and Operation 

of Advanced Power Generation Plant, 

U.S. Army COE Section 404 Permit, 

Kemper County, MS, Wait Period 

Ends: 06/21/2010, Contact: Richard A. 

Hargis, Jr. 888–322–7426 Ext. 6065. 

EIS No. 20100182, Draft EIS, USACE, 

LA, Small Diversion at Convent/Blind 

River, Proposes to construct a 

Freshwater Diversion Project, 

Integrated Feasibility Study, 

Louisiana Coastal Area, St. James 

Parish, LA, Comment Period Ends: 

07/05/2010, Contact: Dr. William P. 

Klein, Jr. 504–862–2540. 

EIS No. 20100183, Draft EIS, USACE, 

LA, Amite River Diversion Canal 

Modification Element of the Section 

7006(E)(3) Ecosystem Restoration 

Project, Feasibility Study, Louisiana 

Coastal Area (LCA) Ascension and 

Livingston Parishes, LA, Comment 

Period Ends: 07/05/2010, Contact: Dr. 

William P. Klein, Jr. 504–862–2540. 

Dated: May 18, 2010. 

Ken Mittelholtz, 

Deputy Director, NEPA Compliance Division, 

Office of Federal Activities. 

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Currency 

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CORPORATION 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Thrift Supervision 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities; Comment 

Request 

AGENCIES: Office of the Comptroller of 

the Currency (OCC), Treasury; Board of 

Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System (Board); Federal Deposit 

Insurance Corporation (FDIC); and 

Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Joint notice and request for 

comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35), the OCC, the Board, the 

FDIC, and the OTS (the ‘‘agencies’’) may 

not conduct or sponsor, and the 

respondent is not required to respond 

to, an information collection unless it 

displays a currently valid Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) control 

number. The Federal Financial 

Institutions Examination Council 

(FFIEC), of which the agencies are 

members, has approved the agencies’ 

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