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their biosketch. Public comments will 

be accepted for 21 calendar days on the 

Short List. During this comment period, 

the public will be requested to provide 

information, analysis or other 

documentation on nominees that the 

SAB Staff Office should consider in 

evaluating candidates for the Panel. 

For the EPA SAB Staff Office, a 

balanced subcommittee or review panel 

is characterized by inclusion of 

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. Public 

responses to the Short List candidates 

will be considered in the selection of 

the Panel, along with information 

provided by candidates and information 

independently-gathered by the SAB 

Staff Office on the background of each 

candidate (e.g., financial disclosure 

information and computer searches to 

evaluate a nominee’s prior involvement 

with the topic under review). Specific 

criteria to be used in evaluating an 

individual member of the Panel 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) scientific 

credibility and impartiality; and (e) 

skills working in advisory committees, 

subcommittees and review panels. 

CASAC Ozone Review Panel members 

will likely be asked to attend two to 

three public, face-to-face meetings and 

several public teleconference meetings 

per year over the anticipated two- tofive-year course of the Panel’s activity. 

Short List candidates will also be 

required to fill-out 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: 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 on the SAB Web site 

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

ec02010.pdf.

Dated: November 18, 2004. 

Vanessa T. Vu, 

Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff 

Office.

[FR Doc. 04–26081 Filed 11–23–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OPP–2004–0078; FRL–7688–5] 

Certain Ethylenebisdithiocarbamates 

(EBDCs) and Ethylene Thiourea (ETU); 

Risk Assessments and Preliminary 

Risk Reduction Options (Phase 3 of 4-

Phase Process); Notice of Availability

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability of EPA’s risk assessments, 

preliminary risk reduction options, and 

related documents for the 

ethylenbisdithiocarbamates (EBDCs) 

pesticides mancozeb, maneb, metiram, 

plus a common degradate, ethylene 

thiourea (ETU), and opens a public 

comment period on these documents. 

The public also is encouraged to suggest 

risk management ideas or proposals to 

address the risks identified. EPA is 

developing a Reregistration Eligibility 

Decision (RED) for mancozeb, maneb, 

metiram, which will include a common 

degradate, ETU through a modified, 4-

Phase public participation process that 

the Agency uses to involve the public in 

developing pesticide reregistration and 

tolerance reassessment decisions. 

Through these programs, EPA is 

ensuring that all pesticides meet current 

health and safety standards.

DATES: Comments, identified by docket 

identification (ID) number OPP–2004–

0078, must be received on or before 

February 22, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted electronically, by mail, or 

through hand delivery/courier. Follow 

the detailed instructions as provided in 

Unit I. of the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Anthony Britten (Mancozeb), telephone 

number: (703) 308–8179; fax number: 

(703) 308–8005; e-mail address: 

britten.anthony@epa.gov and Tawanda 

Spears (Maneb & Metiram), telephone 

number: (703) 308–8050; fax number: 

(703) 308–8005; e-mail address:

spears.tawanda@epa.gov. Special 

Review and Reregistration Division 

(7508C), Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this Action Apply to Me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general, and may be of interest to a 

wide range of stakeholders including 

environmental, human health, and 

agricultural advocates; the chemical 

industry; pesticide users; and members 

of the public interested in the sale, 

distribution, or use of pesticides. Since 

others also may be interested, the 

Agency has not attempted to describe all 

the specific entities that may be affected 

by this action. If you have any questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

to a particular entity, consult the 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 OPP–2004–

0078. 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 Public 

Information and Records Integrity 

Branch (PIRIB), Rm. 119, Crystal Mall 

#2, 1801 S. Bell St., Arlington, VA. This 

docket facility is open from 8:30 a.m. to 

4 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

excluding legal holidays. The docket 

telephone number is (703) 305–5805. 

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. 

Once in the system, select ‘‘search,’’

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then key in the appropriate docket ID 

number. 

Certain types of information will not 

be placed in the EPA Dockets. 

Information claimed as CBI and other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute, which is not 

included in the official public docket, 

will not be available for public viewing 

in EPA’s electronic public docket. EPA’s 

policy is that copyrighted material will 

not be placed in EPA’s electronic public 

docket but will be available only in 

printed, paper form in the official public 

docket. To the extent feasible, publicly 

available docket materials will be made 

available in EPA’s electronic public 

docket. When a document is selected 

from the index list in EPA Dockets, the 

system will identify whether the 

document is available for viewing in 

EPA’s electronic public docket. 

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. EPA 

intends to work towards providing 

electronic access to all of the publicly 

available docket materials through 

EPA’s electronic public docket. 

For public commenters, it is 

important to note that EPA’s policy is 

that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing in EPA’s electronic public 

docket as EPA receives them and 

without change, unless the comment 

contains copyrighted material, CBI, or 

other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. When EPA 

identifies a comment containing 

copyrighted material, EPA will provide 

a reference to that material in the 

version of the comment that is placed in 

EPA’s electronic public docket. The 

entire printed comment, including the 

copyrighted material, will be available 

in the public docket. 

Public comments submitted on 

computer disks that are mailed or 

delivered to the docket will be 

transferred to EPA’s electronic public 

docket. Public comments that are 

mailed or delivered to the docket will be 

scanned and placed in EPA’s electronic 

public docket. Where practical, physical 

objects will be photographed, and the 

photograph will be placed in EPA’s 

electronic public docket along with a 

brief description written by the docket 

staff. 

C. How and to Whom Do I Submit 

Comments? 

You may submit comments 

electronically, by mail, or through hand 

delivery/courier. To ensure proper 

receipt by EPA, identify the appropriate 

docket ID number in the subject line on 

the first page of your comment. Please 

ensure that your comments are 

submitted within the specified comment 

period. Comments received after the 

close of the comment period will be 

marked ‘‘late.’’ EPA is not required to 

consider these late comments. If you 

wish to submit CBI or information that 

is otherwise protected by statute, please 

follow the instructions in Unit I.D. Do 

not use EPA Dockets or e-mail to submit 

CBI or information protected by statute. 

1. Electronically. If you submit an 

electronic comment as prescribed in this 

unit, EPA recommends that you include 

your name, mailing address, and an email address or other contact 

information in the body of your 

comment. Also include this contact 

information on the outside of any disk 

or CD ROM you submit, and in any 

cover letter accompanying the disk or 

CD ROM. This ensures that you can be 

identified as the submitter of the 

comment and allows EPA to contact you 

in case EPA cannot read your comment 

due to technical difficulties or needs 

further information on the substance of 

your comment. EPA’s policy is that EPA 

will not edit your comment, and any 

identifying or contact information 

provided in the body of a comment will 

be included as part of the comment that 

is placed in the official public docket, 

and made available in EPA’s electronic 

public docket. If EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

EPA may not be able to consider your 

comment. 

i. EPA Dockets. Your use of EPA’s 

electronic public docket to submit 

comments to EPA electronically is 

EPA’s preferred method for receiving 

comments. Go directly to EPA Dockets 

at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/, and 

follow the online instructions for 

submitting comments. Once in the 

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

docket ID number OPP–2004–0078. The 

system is an ‘‘anonymous access’’

system, which means EPA will not 

know your identity, e-mail address, or 

other contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

ii. E-mail. Comments may be sent by 

e-mail to opp–docket@epa.gov, 

Attention: Docket ID Number OPP–

2004–0078. In contrast to EPA’s 

electronic public docket, EPA’s e-mail 

system is not an ‘‘anonymous access’’

system. If you send an e-mail comment 

directly to the docket without going 

through EPA’s electronic public docket, 

EPA’s e-mail system automatically 

captures your e-mail address. E-mail 

addresses that are automatically 

captured by EPA’s e-mail system are 

included as part of the comment that is 

placed in the official public docket, and 

made available in EPA’s electronic 

public docket. 

iii. Disk or CD ROM. You may submit 

comments on a disk or CD ROM that 

you mail to the mailing address 

identified in Unit I.C.2. These electronic 

submissions will be accepted in 

WordPerfect or ASCII file format. Avoid 

the use of special characters and any 

form of encryption. 

2. By mail. Send your comments to: 

Public Information and Records 

Integrity Branch (PIRIB) (7502C), Office 

of Pesticide Programs (OPP), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001, Attention: Docket ID 

Number OPP–2004–0078. 

3. By hand delivery or courier. Deliver 

your comments to: Public Information 

and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB), 

Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), 

Environmental Protection Agency, Rm. 

119, Crystal Mall #2, 1801 S. Bell St., 

Arlington, VA, Attention: Docket ID 

Number OPP–2004–0078. Such 

deliveries are only accepted during the 

docket’s normal hours of operation as 

identified in Unit I.B.1. 

D. How Should I Submit CBI to the 

Agency? 

Do not submit information that you 

consider to be CBI electronically 

through EPA’s electronic public docket 

or by e-mail. You may claim 

information that you submit to EPA as 

CBI by marking any part or all of that 

information as CBI (if you submit CBI 

on disk or CD ROM, mark the outside 

of the disk or CD ROM as CBI and then 

identify electronically within the disk or 

CD ROM the specific information that is 

CBI). Information so marked will not be 

disclosed except in accordance with 

procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2. 

In addition to one complete version of 

the comment that includes any 

information claimed as CBI, a copy of 

the comment that does not contain the 

information claimed as CBI must be 

submitted for inclusion in the public 

docket and EPA’s electronic public 

docket. If you submit the copy that does 

not contain CBI on disk or CD ROM, 

mark the outside of the disk or CD ROM 

clearly that it does not contain CBI. 

Information not marked as CBI will be 

included in the public docket and EPA’s 

electronic public docket without prior 

notice. If you have any questions about 

CBI or the procedures for claiming CBI, 

please consult the person listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

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E. What Should I Consider as I Prepare 

My Comments for EPA? 

You may find the following 

suggestions helpful for preparing your 

comments: 

1. Explain your views as clearly as 

possible. 

2. Describe any assumptions that you 

used. 

3. Provide any technical information 

and/or data you used that support your 

views. 

4. If you estimate potential burden or 

costs, explain how you arrived at your 

estimate. 

5. Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns. 

6. Offer alternatives. 

7. Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

8. To ensure proper receipt by EPA, 

identify the appropriate docket ID 

number in the subject line on the first 

page of your response. It would also be 

helpful if you provided the name, date, 

and Federal Register citation related to 

your comments. 

II. Background 

A. What Action is the Agency Taking? 

EPA is releasing for public comment 

its human health and environmental 

fate and effects risk assessments, 

preliminary risk reduction options, and 

related documents for the EBDCs: 

Mancozeb, maneb, metiram, plus a 

common degradate, ETU and 

encouraging the public to suggest risk 

management ideas or proposals. EPA 

developed the risk assessments and 

preliminary risk reduction options for 

the EBDCs: Mancozeb, maneb, metiram, 

plus a common degradate, ETU through 

a modified version of its public process 

for making pesticide reregistration 

eligibility and tolerance reassessment 

decisions. Through these programs, EPA 

is ensuring that pesticides meet current 

standards under the Federal Insecticide, 

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) 

and the Federal Food, Drug, and 

Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by 

the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 

(FQPA). 

The EBDCs are used on a variety of 

sites such as: Agricultural crops 

(vegetables, fruits and nuts); turf 

(including golf courses and sod farms); 

and ornamentals (such as cut flowers). 

The EBDCs are broad spectrum contact 

fungicides used to prevent a variety of 

fungal diseases. Each of these chemicals 

also share a common degradate, ETU. 

The majority of the risk concerns are 

associated with the degradate ETU, 

which EPA has classified as a probable 

human carcinogen. EPA aggregated 

(added) to ETU several routes of 

exposure (food, drinking water, and 

residential/recreational) to determine if 

there are combined risks of concern for 

individual uses that currently fit in the 

‘‘risk cup.’’

All elements of the Agency’s risk 

assessments for the EBDCs are open for 

public comment. We are, however, 

particularly seeking public comment on 

data refinement or mitigation proposals 

for risk estimates of concern identified 

in the Agency’s risk assessments and in 

a stand-alone document titled 

‘‘Preliminary Risk Reduction Options 

for the EBDCs (Phase 3 of 4-Phase 

Process),’’ available in the docket. The 

document addresses, for example, data 

that may help refine risk estimates for 

residential exposure to turf transplanted 

from sod farms, depending on how close 

to harvest sod farms apply EBDCs to 

turf, and how the harvested turf is 

installed by landscape professionals. 

Similarly, information on how EBDCs 

are used on athletic fields may refine 

estimated risks of concern. Mitigation 

proposals for both these use patterns 

will be helpful if new information does 

not refine risk estimates. 

EPA also welcomes data to refine risk 

estimates for certain use patterns that 

impact aggregate risks, even though the 

individual use pattern is not of concern. 

Examples of useful information include: 

how homeowners use EBDCs in gardens 

(particularly relative to harvesting sweet 

corn); use practices for EBDCs on golf 

courses; and percent crop treated 

refinements for certain key crops. For 

some scenarios, such as occupational 

uses of wettable powders, new data are 

unlikely to significantly refine risks and 

mitigation proposals are needed. For 

occupational uses where cancer risks 

fall between 1 x 10 4 and 1 x 10 6, 

EPA will need to consider any 

comments submitted on risks and 

benefits of the use. Information on the 

prevalence of late blight for potatoes, 

and EBDC use to control it, would help 

EPA evaluate issues relevant to a 

petition for nationwide reduction of the 

pre-harvest interval (PHI). For ecological 

risks, EPA would welcome specific 

information such as: Timing and 

location of EBDC applications relative to 

avian and mammalian reproduction 

cycles and habitats; potential impacts to 

endangered species in light of EPA’s 

screening level assessment; and data 

refinement or mitigation proposals for 

effects on aquatic species. 

EPA is providing an opportunity, 

through this notice, for interested 

parties to provide comments and input 

on the Agency’s risk assessments for 

mancozeb, maneb, metiram, plus a 

common degradate, ETU. Such 

comments and input could address, for 

example, the availability of additional 

data to further refine the risk 

assessments, or could address the 

Agency’s risk assessment methodologies 

and assumptions as applied to this 

specific pesticide.

EPA seeks to achieve environmental 

justice, the fair treatment and 

meaningful involvement of all people, 

regardless of race, color, national origin, 

or income, in the development, 

implementation, and enforcement of 

environmental laws, regulations, and 

policies. To help address potential 

environmental justice issues, the 

Agency seeks information on any groups 

or segments of the population who, as 

a result of their location, cultural 

practices, or other factors, may have a 

typical, unusually high exposure to 

mancozeb, maneb, metiram, plus a 

common degradate, ETU, compared to 

the general population. 

EPA also is releasing for public 

comment its preliminary risk reduction 

options for mancozeb, maneb, metiram, 

plus a common degradate, ETU, and is 

providing an opportunity for interested 

parties to provide risk management 

proposals or otherwise comment on risk 

management. 

EPA is applying the principles of 

public participation to all pesticides 

undergoing reregistration and tolerance 

reassessment. The Agency’s Pesticide 

Tolerance Reassessment and 

Reregistration; Public Participation 

Process, published in the Federal 

Register on May 14, 2004 (69 FR 26819) 

(FRL–7357–9), explains that in 

conducting these programs, the Agency 

is tailoring its public participation 

process to be commensurate with the 

level of risk, extent of use, complexity 

of the issues, and degree of public 

concern associated with each pesticide. 

For mancozeb, maneb, metiram, plus a 

common degradate, ETU, a modified, 4-

Phase process with 1 comment period 

and ample opportunity for public 

consultation seems appropriate in view 

of its limited risk concerns. However, if 

as a result of comments received during 

this comment period EPA finds that 

additional issues warranting further 

discussion are raised, the Agency may 

lengthen the process and include a 

second comment period, as needed. 

All comments should be submitted 

using the methods in Unit I. of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION, and must 

be received by EPA on or before the 

closing date. Comments will become 

part of the Agency Docket for mancozeb, 

maneb, metiram, plus a common 

degradate, ETU. Comments received 

after the close of the comment period 

will be marked ‘‘late.’’ EPA is not

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required to consider these late 

comments. 

B. What is the Agency’s Authority for 

Taking this Action? 

Section 4(g)(2) of FIFRA as amended 

directs that, after submission of all data 

concerning a pesticide active ingredient, 

‘‘the Administrator shall determine 

whether pesticides containing such 

active ingredient are eligible for 

reregistration,’’ before calling in product 

specific data on individual end-use 

products and either reregistering 

products or taking other ‘‘appropriate 

regulatory action.’’

Section 408(q) of the FFDCA, 21 

U.S.C. 346a(q), requires EPA to review 

tolerances and exemptions for pesticide 

residues in effect as of August 2, 1996, 

to determine whether the tolerance or 

exemption meets the requirements of 

section 408(b)(2) or (c)(2) of FFDCA. 

This review is to be completed by 

August 3, 2006.

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests.

Dated: November 16, 2004. 

Debra Edwards, 

Director, Special Review and Reregistration 

Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.

[FR Doc. 04–26132 Filed 11–23–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY

[OPP–2004–0239; FRL–7675–5]

MCPA; Availability of Reregistration 

Eligibility Decision Document for 

Comment

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice announces 

availability and starts a 60–day public 

comment period on the Reregistration 

Eligibility Decision (RED) document for 

the pesticide active ingredient 4-chloro2-methylphenoxyacetic acid (MCPA). 

The RED represents EPA’s formal 

regulatory assessment of the health and 

environmental data base of the subject 

chemical and presents the Agency’s 

determination regarding which 

pesticidal uses are eligible for 

reregistration.

DATES: Comments, identified by docket 

identification (ID) number OPP–2004–

0239, must be received on or before 

January 24, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted electronically, by mail, or 

through hand delivery/courier. Follow 

the detailed instructions as provided in 

Unit I. of the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kelly White, Special Review and 

Reregistration Division (7508C), Office 

of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460–

0001; telephone number: (703) 305–

8401; e-mail address: 

white.kelly@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. Does this Action Apply to Me?

This action is directed to the public 

in general. This action may, however, be 

of interest to persons who are or may be 

required to conduct testing of chemical 

substances under the Federal 

Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 

Act (FIFRA) or the Federal Food, Drug, 

and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA); 

environmental, human health, and 

agricultural advocates; pesticides users; 

and members of the public interested in 

the use of pesticides. Since other 

entities may also be interested, the 

Agency has not attempted to describe all 

the specific entities that may be affected 

by this action. If you have any questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

to a particular entity, consult the 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 OPP–2004–

0239. 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 Public 

Information and Records Integrity 

Branch (PIRIB), Rm. 119, Crystal Mall 

#2, 1801 S. Bell St., Arlington, VA. This 

docket facility is open from 8:30 a.m. to 

4 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

excluding legal holidays. The docket 

telephone number is (703) 305–5805.

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/. To access 

RED documents and RED fact sheets 

electronically, go directly to the RED 

table on the EPA Office of Pesticide 

Programs Home Page, at http://

www.epa.gov/pesticides/reregistration/

status.htm.

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. 

Once in the system, select ‘‘search,’’

then key in the appropriate docket ID 

number.

Certain types of information will not 

be placed in the EPA Dockets. 

Information claimed as CBI and other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute, which is not 

included in the official public docket, 

will not be available for public viewing 

in EPA’s electronic public docket. EPA’s 

policy is that copyrighted material will 

not be placed in EPA’s electronic public 

docket but will be available only in 

printed, paper form in the official public 

docket. To the extent feasible, publicly 

available docket materials will be made 

available in EPA’s electronic public 

docket. When a document is selected 

from the index list in EPA Dockets, the 

system will identify whether the 

document is available for viewing in 

EPA’s electronic public docket. 

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. EPA 

intends to work towards providing 

electronic access to all of the publicly 

available docket materials through 

EPA’s electronic public docket.

For public commenters, it is 

important to note that EPA’s policy is 

that public comments, whether 

submitted electronically or in paper, 

will be made available for public 

viewing in EPA’s electronic public 

docket as EPA receives them and 

without change, unless the comment 

contains copyrighted material, CBI, or 

other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. When EPA 

identifies a comment containing 

copyrighted material, EPA will provide 

a reference to that material in the 

version of the comment that is placed in 

EPA’s electronic public docket. The 

entire printed comment, including the 

copyrighted material, will be available 

in the public docket.

Public comments submitted on 

computer disks that are mailed or