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tariff modifications. These include 

Paiute’s proposal to (1) To update its 

tariff with respect to various 

Commission policies and accepted 

principles and to reflect contemporary 

industry practices; (2) to add, enhance, 

clarify, improve, update, and/or remove 

various tariff provisions; and (3) to make 

miscellaneous minor housekeeping 

changes. Paiute should be prepared to 

address all concerns raised by the 

parties in their comments and to 

provide support for its proposed 

revisions. 

FERC conferences are accessible 

under section 508 of the Rehabilitation 

Act of 1973. For accessibility 

accommodations please send an email 

to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free 

(866) 208–3372 (voice) or (202) 502– 

8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208– 

2106 with the required 

accommodations. 

All interested persons are permitted 

to attend. For further information please 

contact Michelle A. Davis at (202) 502– 

8687 or email Michelle.Davis2@ferc.gov. 

Dated: January 4, 2012. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2011–1017; FRL–9331–6] 

FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; 

Notice of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: There will be a 2-day meeting 

of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, 

and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory 

Panel (FIFRA SAP) to consider and 

review Methods for Efficacy Testing of 

Bed Bug Pesticide Products. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

March 6–7, 2012, from approximately 

8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Comments. The Agency encourages 

that written comments be submitted by 

February 21, 2012, and requests for oral 

comments be submitted by February 28, 

2012. However, written comments and 

requests to make oral comments may be 

submitted until the date of the meeting, 

but anyone submitting written 

comments after February 21, 2012, 

should contact the Designated Federal 

Official (DFO) listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. For additional 

instructions, see Unit I.C. of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

Nominations. Nominations of 

candidates to serve as ad hoc members 

of FIFRA SAP for this meeting should 

be provided on or before January 25, 

2012. 

Webcast. This meeting may be 

Webcast. Please refer to the FIFRA 

SAP’s Web site, http://www.epa.gov/ 

scipoly/SAP for information on how to 

access the Webcast. Please note that the 

Webcast is a supplementary public 

process provided only for convenience. 

If difficulties arise resulting in 

Webcasting outages, the meeting will 

continue as planned. 

Special accommodations. For 

information on access or services for 

individuals with disabilities, and to 

request accommodation of a disability, 

please contact the DFO listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT at least 

10 days prior to the meeting to give EPA 

as much time as possible to process 

your request. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Environmental Protection Agency, 

Conference Center, Lobby Level, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA 22202. 

Comments. Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2011–1017, by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Office of Pesticide Programs 

(OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001. 

• Delivery: OPP Regulatory Public 

Docket (7502P), Environmental 

Protection Agency, Rm. S–4400, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. Deliveries 

are only accepted during the Docket 

Facility’s normal hours of operation 

(8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays). 

Special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. The 

Docket Facility telephone number is 

(703) 305–5805. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2011– 

1017. If your comments contain any 

information that you consider to be CBI 

or otherwise protected, please contact 

the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT to obtain special 

instructions before submitting your 

comments. EPA’s policy is that all 

comments received will be included in 

the docket without change and may be 

made available on-line at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes 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 regulations.gov or 

email. The 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 comment. 

If you send an email comment directly 

to EPA without going through 

regulations.gov, your email address will 

be automatically captured and included 

as part of the comment that is placed in 

the docket and made available on the 

Internet. If you submit an electronic 

comment, EPA recommends that you 

include your name and other contact 

information in the body of your 

comment and with any disk or CD–ROM 

you submit. 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. Electronic files should avoid 

the use of special characters, any form 

of encryption, and be free of any defects 

or viruses. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the docket index available 

at http://www.regulations.gov. Although 

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, 

is not placed on the Internet and will be 

publicly available only in hard copy 

form. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either in the 

electronic docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or, if only 

available in hard copy, at the OPP 

Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. 

S–4400, One Potomac Yard (South 

Bldg.), 2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, 

VA. The hours of operation of this 

Docket Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 

p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding 

legal holidays. The Docket Facility 

telephone number is (703) 305–5805. 

Nominations, requests to present oral 

comments, and requests for special 

accommodations. Submit nominations 

to serve as ad hoc members of FIFRA 

SAP, requests for special seating 

accommodations, or requests to present 

oral comments to the DFO listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joseph Bailey, DFO, Office of Science 

Coordination and Policy (7201M), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 


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(202) 564–2045; fax number: (202) 564– 

8382; email address: 

bailey.joseph@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 Food, 

Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), 

FIFRA, and the Food Quality Protection 

Act of 1996 (FQPA). 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 DFO 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

B. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for EPA? 

When submitting comments, 

remember to: 

1. Identify the document by docket ID 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

2. Follow directions. The Agency may 

ask you to respond to specific questions 

or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

3. Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

4. Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

5. If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

6. Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns and suggest 

alternatives. 

7. Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

8. Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

C. How may I participate in this 

meeting? 

You may participate in this meeting 

by following the instructions in this 

unit. To ensure proper receipt by EPA, 

it is imperative that you identify docket 

ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2011–1017 in 

the subject line on the first page of your 

request. 

1. Written comments. The Agency 

encourages that written comments be 

submitted, using the instructions in 

ADDRESSES, no later than February 21, 

2012, to provide FIFRA SAP the time 

necessary to consider and review the 

written comments. Written comments 

are accepted until the date of the 

meeting, but anyone submitting written 

comments after February 21, 2012, 

should contact the DFO listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Anyone 

submitting written comments at the 

meeting should bring 30 copies for 

distribution to FIFRA SAP. Written 

comments received after the close of the 

meeting may not be considered by the 

Panel. 

2. Oral comments. The Agency 

encourages that each individual or 

group wishing to make brief oral 

comments to FIFRA SAP submit their 

request to the DFO listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT no later 

than February 28, 2012, in order to be 

included on the meeting agenda. 

Requests to present oral comments will 

be accepted until the date of the meeting 

and, to the extent that time permits, the 

Chair of the FIFRA SAP may permit the 

presentation of oral comments at the 

meeting by interested persons who have 

not previously requested time. The 

request should identify the name of the 

individual making the presentation, the 

organization (if any) the individual will 

represent, and any requirements for 

audiovisual equipment (e.g., overhead 

projector, 35 mm projector, chalkboard). 

Oral comments before the FIFRA SAP 

are limited to approximately 5 minutes 

unless prior arrangements have been 

made. In addition, each speaker should 

bring 30 copies of his or her comments 

and presentation slides for distribution 

to the FIFRA SAP at the meeting. 

3. Seating at the meeting. Seating at 

the meeting will be open and on a firstcome basis. 

4. Request for nominations to serve as 

ad hoc members of the FIFRA SAP for 

this meeting. As part of a broader 

process for developing a pool of 

candidates for each meeting, the FIFRA 

SAP staff routinely solicits the 

stakeholder community for nominations 

of prospective candidates for service as 

ad hoc members of the FIFRA SAP. Any 

interested person or organization may 

nominate qualified individuals to be 

considered as prospective candidates for 

a specific meeting. Individuals 

nominated for this meeting should have 

expertise in one or more of the 

following areas: Insecticide testing/ 

bioassay design and evaluation, bed bug 

biology and statistical analysis and 

evaluation. Nominees should be 

scientists who have sufficient 

professional qualifications, including 

training and experience, to be capable of 

providing expert comments on the 

scientific issues for this meeting. 

Nominees should be identified by name, 

occupation, position, address, and 

telephone number. Nominations should 

be provided to the DFO listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT on or 

before January 25, 2012. The Agency 

will consider all nominations of 

prospective candidates for this meeting 

that are received on or before this date. 

However, final selection of ad hoc 

members for this meeting is a 

discretionary function of the Agency. 

The selection of scientists to serve on 

the FIFRA SAP is based on the function 

of the panel and the expertise needed to 

address the Agency’s charge to the 

panel. No interested scientists shall be 

ineligible to serve by reason of their 

membership on any other advisory 

committee to a Federal department or 

agency or their employment by a 

Federal department or agency except the 

EPA. Other factors considered during 

the selection process include 

availability of the potential panel 

member to fully participate in the 

panel’s reviews, absence of any conflicts 

of interest or appearance of lack of 

impartiality, independence with respect 

to the matters under review, and lack of 

bias. Although financial conflicts of 

interest, the appearance of lack of 

impartiality, lack of independence, and 

bias may result in disqualification, the 

absence of such concerns does not 

assure that a candidate will be selected 

to serve on the FIFRA SAP. Numerous 

qualified candidates are identified for 

each panel. Therefore, selection 

decisions involve carefully weighing a 

number of factors including the 

candidates’ areas of expertise and 

professional qualifications and 

achieving an overall balance of different 

scientific perspectives on the panel. In 

order to have the collective breadth of 

experience needed to address the 

Agency’s charge for this meeting, the 

Agency anticipates selecting 

approximately 10 ad hoc scientists. 

FIFRA SAP members are subject to 

the provisions of 5 CFR part 2634, 

Executive Branch Financial Disclosure, 

as supplemented by the EPA in 5 CFR 

part 6401. In anticipation of this 

requirement, prospective candidates for 

service on the FIFRA SAP will be asked 

to submit confidential financial 

information which shall fully disclose, 

among other financial interests, the 

candidate’s employment, stocks and 

bonds, and where applicable, sources of 

research support. The EPA will evaluate 

the candidates financial disclosure form 

to assess whether there are financial 

conflicts of interest, appearance of a 

lack of impartiality or any prior 


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involvement with the development of 

the documents under consideration 

(including previous scientific peer 

review) before the candidate is 

considered further for service on the 

FIFRA SAP. Those who are selected 

from the pool of prospective candidates 

will be asked to attend the public 

meetings and to participate in the 

discussion of key issues and 

assumptions at these meetings. In 

addition, they will be asked to review 

and to help finalize the meeting 

minutes. The list of FIFRA SAP 

members participating at this meeting 

will be posted on the FIFRA SAP Web 

site at http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/sap 

or may be obtained from the OPP 

Regulatory Public Docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

II. Background 

A. Purpose of FIFRA SAP 

The FIFRA SAP serves as the primary 

scientific peer review mechanism of 

EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and 

Pollution Prevention (OCSPP) and is 

structured to provide scientific advice, 

information and recommendations to 

the EPA Administrator on pesticides 

and pesticide-related issues as to the 

impact of regulatory actions on health 

and the environment. The FIFRA SAP is 

a Federal advisory committee 

established in 1975 under FIFRA that 

operates in accordance with 

requirements of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act. The FIFRA SAP is 

composed of a permanent panel 

consisting of seven members who are 

appointed by the EPA Administrator 

from nominees provided by the National 

Institutes of Health and the National 

Science Foundation. FIFRA, as 

amended by FQPA, established a 

Science Review Board consisting of at 

least 60 scientists who are available to 

the SAP on an ad hoc basis to assist in 

reviews conducted by the SAP. As a 

peer review mechanism, the FIFRA SAP 

provides comments, evaluations and 

recommendations to improve the 

effectiveness and quality of analyses 

made by Agency scientists. Members of 

the FIFRA SAP are scientists who have 

sufficient professional qualifications, 

including training and experience, to 

provide expert advice and 

recommendation to the Agency. 

B. Public Meeting 

The bed bug is an obligate bloodfeeding pest that has been a persistent 

pest to people throughout recorded 

history. Bed bugs have lived in close 

proximity to humans in the United 

States but their populations dropped 

dramatically during the mid-20th 

century. The United States is one of 

many countries now experiencing a 

resurgence of the population of bed 

bugs. Though the exact cause is not 

known, experts suspect the resurgence 

is associated with increased resistance 

of bed bugs to available pesticides, 

greater international and domestic 

travel, lack of knowledge regarding 

control of bed bugs due to their 

prolonged absence, and the continuing 

decline or elimination of effective 

vector/pest control programs at state 

and local public health agencies. In 

recent years, public health agencies 

across the country have been 

overwhelmed by complaints about bed 

bugs. An integrated approach to bed bug 

control involving Federal, state, tribal 

and local public health professionals, 

together with pest management 

professionals, housing authorities and 

private citizens, will promote 

development and understanding of the 

best methods for managing and 

controlling bed bugs and preventing 

future infestations. Research, training 

and public education are critical to an 

effective strategy for reducing public 

health issues associated with the 

resurgence of bed bug populations. 

EPA-registered pesticide products are 

an important part of pest management 

programs to accomplish bed bug 

control. In the past 5 years, some 

product users have reported failures due 

to the lack of bed bug susceptibility to 

pesticide products. Subsequently, 

resistance to pyrethroid insecticides was 

documented although it has not been 

directly linked to field application 

failures. Taken together, these 

conditions have raised questions about 

the validity and value of efficacy data 

submitted to EPA that are used to fulfill 

registration requirements for bed bug 

pesticide products. In response, EPA 

has evaluated the database for registered 

products and concluded that there is a 

need to standardize approaches to bed 

bug product testing methods in order to 

insure the efficacy of registered 

products. In order to accomplish this, 

the Agency is developing a product 

performance guideline for bed bug 

pesticide products. The Agency will be 

seeking advice and recommendations 

from the SAP on scientific issues 

associated with the proposed EPA 

Guideline ‘‘Methods for Efficacy Testing 

of Bed Bug Pesticide Products.’’ 

C. FIFRA SAP Documents and Meeting 

Minutes 

EPA’s background paper, related 

supporting materials, charge/questions 

to the FIFRA SAP, FIFRA SAP 

composition (i.e., members and ad hoc 

members for this meeting), and the 

meeting agenda will be available by 

early February 2012. In addition, the 

Agency may provide additional 

background documents as the materials 

become available. You may obtain 

electronic copies of these documents, 

and certain other related documents that 

might be available electronically, at 

http://www.regulations.gov and the 

FIFRA SAP homepage at http:// 

www.epa.gov/scipoly/sap. 

The FIFRA SAP will prepare meeting 

minutes summarizing its 

recommendations to the Agency 

approximately 90 days after the 

meeting. The meeting minutes will be 

posted on the FIFRA SAP Web site or 

may be obtained from the OPP 

Regulatory Public Docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: December 28, 2011. 

Stephen M. Knott, 

Acting Director, Office of Science 

Coordination and Policy. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0014; FRL–9328–3] 

Notice of Receipt of Requests To 

Voluntarily Cancel Certain Pesticide 

Registrations 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, 

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 

(FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a 

notice of receipt of requests by 

registrants to voluntarily cancel certain 

pesticide registrations. EPA intends to 

grant these requests at the close of the 

comment period for this announcement 

unless the Agency receives substantive 

comments within the comment period 

that would merit its further review of 

the requests, or unless the registrants 

withdraw their requests. If these 

requests are granted, any sale, 

distribution, or use of products listed in 

this notice will be permitted after the 

registration has been cancelled only if 

such sale, distribution, or use is 

consistent with the terms as described 

in the final order. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before July 9, 2012. 


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