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1This workshop is being held in accordance with 

the Commission’s order Obtaining Guidance on 

Regulatory Requirements, 123 FERC ¶ 61,157 

(2008). 

2Notice of Technical Conference, 75 FR 20991, as 

supplemented by Notice of Agenda for Technical 

Conference, issued May 5, 2010. 

The filings in the above-referenced 

proceeding are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system by 

clicking on the appropriate link in the 

above list. They are also available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an eSubscription link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive e-mail notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

dockets(s). For assistance with any 

FERC Online service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RM10–13–000] 

Credit Reforms in Organized 

Wholesale Electric Markets; Further 

Notice Concerning Technical 

Conference 

May 10, 2010. 

Take notice that on May 11, 2010, the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 

staff will convene a technical 

conference related to the Commission’s 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on 

Credit Reforms in Organized Wholesale 

Electric Markets,1 as previously 

announced.2

The discussions at the conference, 

which is open to the public, may 

address matters at issue in the following 

Commission proceedings: 

Docket No. ER10–942–000, ISO New 

England Inc., and New England Power 

Pool. 

Docket No. ER10–1190–000, ISO New 

England Inc., and New England Power 

Pool. 

Docket No. ER10–1196–000, PJM 

Interconnection, L.L.C., and PJM 

Settlement, Inc. 

For more information, please contact 

Sarah McKinley, 202–502–8368, 

sarah.mckinley@ferc.gov; for logistical 

issues, and Scott Miller, 202–502–8456, 

scott.miller@ferc.gov; or Christina Hayes 

202–502–6194, 

christina.hayes@ferc.gov; for other 

concerns. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9152–1] 

Announcement of the Board of 

Trustees for the National 

Environmental Education Foundation 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency published a document in the 

Federal Register of April 19, 2010, 

concerning announcement of the Board 

of Trustees for the National 

Environmental Education Foundation. 

The document contained misspelled 

names. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Andrew Burnett, 202–564–0446. 

Correction 

In the Federal Register of April 19, 

2010, in the FR Doc. 2010–8927, on 

page 20350, in the third column, correct 

the name and law firm of the appointee 

to read: 

The appointee is Manuel Alberto 

Diaz, a partner in the law firm Lydecker 

Diaz, L.L.P. 

Dated: May 11, 2010. 

Lisa P. Jackson, 

Administrator. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2010–0164; FRL–9152–2] 

Guidance for Federal Land 

Management in the Chesapeake Bay 

Watershed 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability of a final Guidance for 

Federal Land Management in the 

Chesapeake Bay Watershed which EPA 

is publishing pursuant to Section 502 of 

Executive Order (EO) 13508 

(‘‘Chesapeake Bay Protection and 

Restoration’’, published on May 12, 

2009). This guidance will allow the 

federal government to lead the way in 

protecting the Bay and its watershed 

with the most effective tools and 

practices available to reduce water 

pollution from a variety of nonpoint 

sources, including agricultural lands, 

urban and suburban areas, forestry, 

riparian areas, septic systems, and 

hydromodification. This guidance is the 

first product under the Chesapeake Bay 

Executive Order to provide technical 

tools that will be needed to restore the 

Bay. Section 501 of the Executive Order 

directs federal agencies with ten or more 

acres within the Chesapeake Bay 

watershed to implement the Section 502 

guidance as expeditiously as practicable 

and to the extent permitted by law. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Katie Flahive, USEPA, Office of Water, 

Office of Wetlands, Oceans and 

Watersheds, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 

NW., MC 4503T, Washington, DC; 

telephone number: (202) 566–1206; fax 

number: (202) 566–1437; e-mail: 

Flahive.Katie@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

Executive Order 13508, Chesapeake 

Bay Protection and Restoration, dated 

May 12, 2009 (74 FR 23099, May 15, 

2009), directed EPA to prepare and 

publish a guidance for federal land 

management in the Chesapeake Bay 

watershed within one year. A draft of 

this guidance was released for public 

comment on March 24, 2010 (75 FR 

91294, March 24). This final guidance 

incorporates revisions resulting from 

public comments, consideration by the 

federal agencies, and peer review 

comments. 

Why was this guidance prepared? 

The purpose of this guidance is to 

describe ‘‘proven cost-effective tools and 

practices that reduce water pollution’’ 

that are appropriate to restore and 

protect the Chesapeake Bay. Assuming 

that all necessary point source 

reductions are achieved and other 

needed restoration actions are taken, 

these tools and practices, when 

implemented broadly, aim to enable the 

Chesapeake Bay to be restored. While 

the primary audience for this document 

is Federal land managers, nonfederal 

land managers, including states, local 

governments, conservation districts, 

watershed organizations, developers, 

farmers and citizens may also find this 

guidance to be helpful. 

In significant part, this guidance is 

being developed to offer solutions for 

implementation to meet specific 

Chesapeake Bay goals. EPA, in 


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conjunction with other agencies, is 

currently developing Bay-wide 

pollutant reduction goals that will 

ultimately be used to establish total 

maximum daily loads (TMDL) under 

Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act 

for the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The 

TMDL will be followed by the 

development of watershed 

implementation plans in 92 Bay subwatersheds that will have had load and 

wasteload allocations assigned based on 

the TMDL and the Chesapeake Bay 

model. While the Section 502 guidance 

is required to be published before the 

TMDL is finalized, we expect that the 

TMDL and sub-watershed allocations 

will clarify that the nonpoint sources in 

the Chesapeake Bay watershed will 

need to be controlled, and be controlled 

well, in order to restore the Bay. This 

guidance should help land managers 

identify and select practices that should 

provide the needed level of control. 

This guidance has chapters 

addressing the following categories of 

activity (excluding sources regulated as 

point sources): Agriculture; Urban and 

Suburban areas, including Turf; 

Decentralized Wastewater Treatment 

Systems; Forestry; Riparian Areas; and 

Hydromodification. Each chapter 

contains implementation measures that 

provide the framework for the chapter. 

These are intended to convey the 

essential actions that will need to be 

implemented in order to assure that the 

broad goals of the Chesapeake Bay 

Executive Order can be achieved. Each 

chapter also includes information on 

practices that can be used to achieve the 

goals; information on the effectiveness 

and costs of the practices; where 

relevant, cost savings or other 

economic/societal benefits (in addition 

to the pollutant reduction benefits) that 

derive from the implementation goals 

and/or practices; and copious references 

to other documents that provide 

additional information. 

EPA emphasizes that this is not a 

regulatory document. At the same time 

it is important to realize that Section 

501 of the Executive Order directs 

federal agencies with ten or more acres 

within the Chesapeake Bay watershed to 

implement the Section 502 guidance as 

expeditiously as practicable and to the 

extent permitted by law. While this 

guidance may at times refer to existing 

statutory and regulatory provisions that 

contain legally binding requirements, 

this document does not substitute for 

those provisions or regulations, nor is it 

a regulation itself. Thus, it does not 

impose legally binding requirements on 

EPA, states, or the public and might not 

apply to a particular situation according 

to the circumstances. EPA and state 

decision makers retain the discretion to 

adopt approaches to control nonpoint 

source pollution that differ from this 

guidance where appropriate, and EPA 

may change this guidance in the future. 

How can I get copies of this document 

and other related information? 

EPA Web site: EPA published the 

guidance on May 12, 2010, on our Web 

site at http://www.epa.gov/nps/ 

chesbay502. On this Web site, the 

guidance can be downloaded in full or 

by chapter. Also available on this Web 

site are a summary of the suite of 

implementation measures described and 

a response to public and peer review 

comments. 

Docket: EPA has established a docket 

for this action under Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–OW–2009–0761. The final EO 

13508 Section 502 guidance document 

is available in the docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Assistance and 

tips for accessing the docket can be 

found at http:// 

executiveorder.chesapeakebay.net. For 

additional information about the public 

docket, visit the EPA Docket Center 

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

epahome/dockets.htm. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

electronically either through http:// 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA 

West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The 

telephone number for this docket is 

202–566–2426. 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. 

Certain material, such as copyrighted 

materials, will be publicly available 

only in hard copy at the Docket Center. 

Dated: May 11, 2010. 

Peter S. Silva, 

Assistant Administrator. 

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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Notification of a Public Teleconference 

of the Chartered Science Advisory 

Board 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a 

public teleconference of the chartered 

SAB on June 16, 2010 to conduct quality 

reviews of two draft SAB reports. In 

addition, the SAB will discuss its draft 

report on EPA’s strategic research 

directions. 

DATES: The public teleconference will 

be held on June 16, 2010 from 11 a.m. 

to 2 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time). 

ADDRESSES: The public teleconference 

will be conducted by telephone only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing to obtain 

general information concerning this 

public teleconference should contact Dr. 

Angela Nugent, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), EPA Science Advisory 

Board (1400F), 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

via telephone/voice mail (202) 343– 

9981; fax (202) 233–0643; or e-mail at 

nugent.angela@ epa.gov. General 

information concerning the EPA Science 

Advisory Board can be found on the 

SAB Web site at http://www.epa.gov/

sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), 5 U.S.C., App. 2, notice is 

hereby given that the EPA Science 

Advisory Board will hold a public 

teleconference to review three draft SAB 

reports: (1) The SAB Environmental 

Engineering Committee Hydraulic 

Fracturing Research Plan Review; (2) the 

report from the SAB Work Group to 

Lead the Review of the Arsenic Cancer 

Assessment; and (3) the chartered SAB’s 

draft report on Strategic Research 

Directions and Integrated 

Transdisciplinary Research. The SAB 

was established pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 

4365 to provide independent scientific 

and technical advice to the 

Administrator on the technical basis for 

Agency positions and regulations. The 

SAB is a Federal Advisory Committee 

under FACA. The SAB will comply 

with the provisions of FACA and all 

appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural 

policies. 

Background: (1) Advisory on EPA’s 

Proposed Hydraulic Fracturing Research 

Plan Review. In its Fiscal Year 2010 

Appropriation Conference Committee 

Directive to EPA, the U.S. House of 

Representatives approved a provision 

that urges EPA to assess the potential 

risks to drinking water posed by 

hydraulic fracturing of formations 

including coalbeds and shale for 

extraction of natural gas. Hydraulic 

fracturing generates vertical and 

horizontal fractures in underground 

geologic formations to facilitate 

extraction of gas (or oil) from the 

subsurface. 


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