75950 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 243 / Monday, December 20, 2004 / Notices 

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.

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. Registration Applications

EPA received applications as follows 

to register pesticide products containing 

active ingredients not included in any 

previously registered products pursuant 

to the provisions of section 3(c)(4) of 

FIFRA. Notice of receipt of these 

applications does not imply a decision 

by the Agency on the applications.

Products Containing Active Ingredients 

Not Included in Any Previously 

Registered Pesticide Products

1. File symbol: 62719–LRI. Applicant:

Dow AgroSciences LLC, 9330 Zionsville 

Road, Indianapolis, IN 46268. Product 

name: Aminopyralid Technical. Active 

ingredient: 4-Amino-3,6-dichloro-2-

pyridinecarboxylic acid (Aminopyralid) 

at 95.3%. Proposed classification/Use: 

None. For manufacturing use only.

2. File symbol: 62719-LRO. Applicant: 

Dow AgroSciences LLC, 9330 Zionsville 

Road, Indianapolis, IN 46268.Product 

name: GF-871. Active ingredient: 

Triisopropanolammonium salt of 

aminopyralid, 40.6%. Proposed 

classification/Use: None. For control of 

annual and perennial broadleaf weeds, 

including invasive and noxious weeds, 

on rangeland, permanent grass pastures, 

Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) 

acres, non-cropland areas (such as 

rights-of-way, roadsides and nonirrigation ditch banks), natural areas 

(such as wildlife management areas, 

natural recreation areas, campgrounds, 

trailheads and trails), and grazed areas 

in an around these sites; and for control 

of annual and perennial broadleaf 

weeds in wheat (including spring 

wheat, winter wheat, and durum).

List of Subjects

Environmental Protection, Pesticides 

and Pests.

Dated: December 9, 2004.

Lois Rossi,

Director, Registration Division, Office of 

Pesticide Programs.

[FR Doc. 04–27768 Filed 12–17–04; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–7846–9] 

Notice of Availability and Opportunity 

To Provide Comment on the 

Framework for Inorganic Metals Risk 

Assessment (External Review 

Draft)(ORD–2004–0017)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of Availability and 

Public Comment Period. 

SUMMARY: EPA is today announcing the 

availability of the draft Framework for 

Inorganic Metals Risk Assessment and 

the beginning of the public comment 

period on the draft document. This draft 

document will be peer reviewed by the 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 

(EPA) Science Advisory Board at a 

public meeting that will be announced 

in a separate Federal Register notice.

DATES: Comments should be received by 

Tuesday, January 18, 2005.

ADDRESSES: 

Document Availability 

The Framework for Inorganic Metals 

Risk Assessment (External Review Draft, 

November 2004, EPA/630/P–04068c) 

will be available on or about December 

20, 2004, on the Internet at http://

cfpub2.epa.gov/ncea/raf/

recordisplay.cfm?deid=88903. A limited 

number of paper copies will be available 

from the EPA’s Technical Information 

Staff, National Center for Environmental 

Assessment (NCEA), Mail Code 8623D, 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone: 202–

564–3261; facsimile: 202–565–0050. 

Please provide your name and mailing 

address and the title and EPA number 

of the requested publication. 

Submitting Comments 

One of three methods may be chosen 

to submit comments. First, comments 

may be submitted through EPA’s 

electronic public docket and comment 

system, EPA Dockets. EPA Dockets is 

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

edocket/. Once in the system, select 

‘‘Submit Comments,’’ then key in the 

appropriate Docket Identification 

Number (ORD–2004–0017). Second, 

comments may be submitted via e-mail 

to ‘‘ORD.Docket@epa.gov.’’ Third, paper 

copies of comments may be submitted 

(in duplicate if possible) to the Docket 

at the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), 

Office of Research and Development 

Docket (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

Please refer to Docket Identification 

Number ORD–2004–0017 in e-mail and 

in paper correspondence. 

Acknowledgments will not be sent for 

electronic or paper comment 

submissions. Persons providing 

information or comments should not 

submit personal information (such as 

medical data or home address), 

Confidential Business Information, or 

information protected by copyright 

because all comments will be made 

available for public viewing. 

Viewing Comments 

EPA intends to make all comments 

received in response to this Federal 

Register notice available via Internet 

(http://www.epa.gov/edocket/), 

including documents originally 

submitted in paper format. To view 

comments select ‘‘Quick Search,’’ then 

key in the appropriate Docket Number 

(ORD–2004–0017). Alternatively you 

may visit the EPA Office of 

Environmental Information(OEI) Docket 

in the Headquarters EPA Docket Center, 

(EPA/DC) EPA West Building, Room 

B102, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. 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 

Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 243 / Monday, December 20, 2004 / Notices 75951

Public Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, 

and the telephone number for the OEI 

Docket is (202) 566–1752; facsimile: 

(202) 566–1753; or e-mail: 

ORD.Docket@epa.gov. Visitors to the 

Public Reading Room are required to 

show photographic identification and 

sign the Agency’s visitor log. There may 

be a reasonable fee for copying docket 

materials, as provided in 40 CFR part 2.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

William P. Wood, Risk Assessment 

Forum (Mail Code 8601D), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, telephone 202–

564–3361, or send electronic mail 

inquiries to risk.forum@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Agency recognizes that inorganic 

metals and metal compounds present 

unique issues and the added challenge 

of addressing the complexity of these 

issues in a consistent manner across the 

Agency’s programs. The draft metals 

framework reflects an EPA effort to 

develop cross-agency internal guidance 

for assessing metals. The overarching 

goals of the framework are to outline 

key metal-specific scientific principles 

and consistent approaches for 

conducting metals risk assessment, 

based on the best currently available 

science. Given the complexity of issues 

surrounding metals risk assessment, 

EPA commissioned recognized 

scientific experts to develop papers on 

key scientific issues related to risk 

assessment of metals. These issues 

included environmental chemistry, 

exposure, human health effects, 

ecological effects, and bioavailability 

and bioaccumulation. The draft 

framework relies heavily on these issue 

papers. Development of the framework 

has also involved extensive consultation 

with the scientific community, 

stakeholders, and intended users, 

including risk assessors in other federal 

agencies, in different regions, and in the 

states. Throughout the development 

process, the Agency has held 

stakeholder meetings and made the 

issue papers open for public comment. 

After peer review deliberation by EPA’s 

Science Advisory Board (SAB) is 

complete and the framework is 

finalized, EPA program offices will be in 

a position to review their current 

practices against the recommendations 

of the metals framework and incorporate 

adjustments as necessary, consistent 

with the principles of the framework. 

Disposition of Comments 

EPA requests comments on today’s 

framework and will consider comments 

in finalizing the document. EPA’s SAB 

will peer-review the framework and will 

be asked to consider the public 

comments. A separate notice of the 

planned SAB meeting also will appear 

in the Federal Register.

Dated: December 3, 2004. 

Peter Preuss, 

Director, National Center for Environmental 

Assessment.

[FR Doc. 04–27667 Filed 12–15–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–7850–7] 

Federal Agency Hazardous Waste 

Compliance Docket

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of twentieth update of 

the Federal Agency Hazardous Waste 

Compliance Docket, pursuant to 

CERCLA section 120(c). 

SUMMARY: Section 120(c) of the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended by 

the Superfund Amendments and 

Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), 

requires the Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) to establish a Federal 

Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance 

Docket. The docket is to contain certain 

information about Federal facilities that 

manage hazardous waste or from which 

hazardous substances have been or may 

be released. (As defined by CERCLA 

section 101(22), a release is any spilling, 

leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, 

emptying, discharging, injecting, 

escaping, leaching, dumping, or 

disposing into the environment.) 

CERCLA requires that the docket be 

updated every six months, as new 

facilities are reported to EPA by Federal 

agencies. The following list identifies 

the Federal facilities to be included in 

this twentieth update of the docket and 

includes facilities not previously listed 

on the docket and reported to EPA since 

the last update of the docket, 69 FR 

42989, July 19, 2004, which was current 

as of January 19, 2004. SARA, as 

amended by the Defense Authorization 

Act of 1997, specifies that, for each 

Federal facility that is included on the 

docket during an update, evaluation 

shall be completed in accordance with 

a reasonable schedule. Such site 

evaluation activities will help determine 

whether the facility should be included 

on the National Priorities List (NPL) and 

will provide EPA and the public with 

valuable information about the facility. 

In addition to the list of additions to the 

docket, this notice includes a section 

that comprises revisions (that is, 

corrections and deletions) of the 

previous docket list. This update 

contains 8 additions and 10 deletions 

since the previous update, as well as 

numerous other corrections to the 

docket list. At the time of publication of 

this notice, the new total number of 

Federal facilities listed on the docket is 

2,291.

DATES: This list is current as of 

September 13, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Electronic versions of the docket may be 

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

compliance/cleanup/federal/

index.html.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Table of Contents 

1.0 Introduction 

2.0 Revisions of the Previous Docket 

3.0 Process for Compiling the Updated 

Docket 

4.0 Facilities Not Included 

5.0 Facility Status Reporting 

6.0 Information Contained on Docket 

Listing

1.0 Introduction 

Section 120(c) of the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, 

Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 

(CERCLA), 42 United States Code 

(U.S.C.) 9620(c), as amended by the 

Superfund Amendments and 

Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), 

required the establishment of the 

Federal Agency Hazardous Waste 

Compliance Docket. The docket 

contains information on Federal 

facilities that is submitted by Federal 

agencies to the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) under sections 

3005, 3010, and 3016 of the Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), 

42 U.S.C. 6925, 6930, and 6937, and 

under section 103 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 

9603. Specifically, RCRA section 3005 

establishes a permitting system for 

certain hazardous waste treatment, 

storage, and disposal (TSD) facilities; 

RCRA section 3010 requires waste 

generators and transporters and TSD 

facilities to notify EPA of their 

hazardous waste activities; and RCRA 

section 3016 requires Federal agencies 

to submit biennially to EPA an 

inventory of hazardous waste sites that 

the Federal agencies own or operate. 

CERCLA section 103(a) requires that the 

National Response Center (NRC) be