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26, 2010. Registration may be submitted 

either online at https://www.ferc.gov/ 

whats-new/registration/mbr-03–03–10- 

form.asp or by faxing a copy of the form 

(found at the referenced online link) to 

(202) 208–0353. 

A free webcast of the technical 

conference will be available. 

Registration to view the webcast is not 

required. webcast viewers will not be 

permitted to participate during the 

technical conference. Anyone with 

Internet access interested in viewing 

this conference can do so by navigating 

to http://www.ferc.gov’s Calendar of 

Events and locating the appropriate 

event in the Calendar. The events will 

contain a link to the applicable webcast 

option. The Capitol Connection 

provides technical support for the 

webcasts and offers the option of 

listening to the conferences via phonebridge for a fee. If you have any 

questions, visit http:// 

www.CapitolConnection.org or call (703) 

993–3100. 

FERC conferences are accessible 

under section 508 of the Rehabilitation 

Act of 1973. For accessibility 

accommodations please send an e-mail 

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. 

For further information, please 

contact Ryan Anderson at (202) 502– 

8122 or e-mail ryan.anderson@ferc.gov. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RM01–5–000] 

Electronic Tariff Filings; Notice of 

Rescheduled Technical Conference 

February 19, 2010. 

As a result of inclement weather 

closing the Federal Government in 

Washington, DC, a technical conference 

scheduled for February 9, 2010 could 

not occur. Take notice that that this 

event has been rescheduled for February 

26, 2010. The conference will last from 

10 a.m.–1:30 p.m. EST that day. 

Please refer to the notice of technical 

conferences issued on December 16, 

2009 in this proceeding for details 

related to the originating Commission 

action for this conference, as well as the 

topics that will be covered. 

The conference will be held at the 

Commission’s offices, 888 First Street, 

NE., Washington, DC. All interested 

persons are invited to attend. The 

documents that will be discussed are 

located at http://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/etariff.asp. 

Teleconferencing will be available. 

The number and instructions for 

teleconferencing in these meetings is 

posted on http://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/etariff.asp and an RSS alert 

related to this rescheduled event will be 

issued. 

The meeting is open to the public. No 

preregistration is required. FERC 

meetings are accessible under section 

508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. 

For accessibility accommodations 

please send an e-mail 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. 

For more information about these 

conferences, please contact Keith Pierce, 

Office of Energy Market Regulation at 

(202) 502–8525 or send an e-mail to 

ETariff@ferc.gov. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R04–OAR–2009–0561–201006; FRL– 

9119–9] 

Adequacy Status of the HickoryMorganton-Lenoir, North Carolina 1997 

PM2.5 Attainment Demonstration Motor 

Vehicle Emissions Budget for 

Transportation Conformity Purposes 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of adequacy. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is 

notifying the public of its finding that 

the nitrogen oxides (NOx) motor vehicle 

emissions budget (MVEB) in the 

Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, North 

Carolina (hereafter referred to as the 

Hickory Area) attainment demonstration 

for the 1997 PM2.5 standard, submitted 

on August 21, 2009, by the North 

Carolina Department of Environment 

and Natural Resources (NCDENR), is 

adequate for transportation conformity 

purposes. EPA is also making an 

insignificance finding for direct 

particulate matter (PM) through the 

transportation conformity adequacy 

process for the Hickory Area. The 

Hickory Area is comprised of the entire 

county of Catawba in North Carolina. 

On March 2, 1999, the District of 

Columbia Circuit Court ruled that 

submitted state implementation plans 

(SIPs) cannot be used for transportation 

conformity determinations until EPA 

has affirmatively found them adequate. 

As a result of EPA’s finding, the Hickory 

Area must use the NOX MVEB from the 

submitted Hickory, North Carolina 1997 

PM2.5 attainment demonstration for 

future conformity determinations, and 

the Hickory Area is not required to 

perform a regional emissions analysis 

for direct PM2.5 in future PM2.5

transportation conformity 

determinations for the 1997 annual 

PM2.5 standard. 

DATES: The adequacy finding for the 

NOX MVEB and the insignificance 

finding for direct PM2.5 are effective 

March 16, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amanetta Somerville, Environmental 

Scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region 4, Air Planning Branch, 

Air Quality Modeling and 

Transportation Section, 61 Forsyth 

Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303. Ms. 

Somerville can also be reached by 

telephone at (404) 562–9025, or via 

electronic mail at 

somerville.amanetta@epa.gov. The 

finding is available at EPA’s conformity 

Web site: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/ 

transp.htm (once there, click on the 

‘‘Transportation Conformity’’ text icon, 

then look for ‘‘Adequacy Review of SIP 

Submissions’’). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Today’s notice is simply an 

announcement of findings that EPA has 

already made. EPA Region 4 sent a letter 

to NCDENR on January 20, 2010, stating 

that the 2009 NOX MVEB in the 1997 

PM2.5 attainment demonstration for 

Hickory, dated August 21, 2009, is 

adequate. The letter also states that 

direct PM2.5 is insignificant for the 

Hickory Area, therefore no regional 

emissions analysis is required. EPA 

posted the availability of the Hickory 

Area MVEB and insignificance 

demonstration on EPA’s Web site on 

September 8, 2009, as part of the 

adequacy process, for the purpose of 

soliciting comments. The comment 

period ran from September 8, 2009, 

through October 8, 2009. EPA’s findings 

have also been announced on EPA’s 

conformity Web site: http:// 

www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/ 

index.htm (once there, click 

‘‘Transportation Conformity’’ text icon, 

then look for ‘‘Adequacy Review of SIP 

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Submissions’’). The adequate NOX

MVEB is provided in the following 

table: 

HICKORY AREA NOX MVEB 

[kilograms per day] 

2009 

Catawba County ....................... 2,887,955 

Transportation conformity is required 

by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act, 

as amended in 1990. EPA’s conformity 

rule requires that transportation plans, 

programs and projects conform to state 

air quality implementation plans and 

establishes the criteria and procedures 

for determining whether or not they do. 

Conformity to a SIP means that 

transportation activities will not 

produce new air quality violations, 

worsen existing violations, or delay 

timely attainment of the national 

ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). 

The criteria by which EPA determines 

whether a SIP’s MVEB is adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes are 

outlined in 40 Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR) 93.118(e)(4). 

Additionally, the criteria by which EPA 

determines whether a particular 

pollutant/precursor is an insignificant 

contributor to the air quality problem in 

an area can be found at 40 CFR 

93.109(k). Insignificance findings are 

based on a number of factors, including 

the percentage of motor vehicle 

emissions in context of the total SIP 

inventory, the current state of air quality 

as determined by monitoring data for 

that NAAQS, the absence of SIP motor 

vehicle control measures, and historical 

trends and future projections of the 

growth of motor vehicle emissions. 

EPA’s rationale for the allowance of 

insignificance findings can be found in 

the July 1, 2004, revision to the 

transportation conformity rule at 69 

Federal Register (FR) 40004. 

Specifically, the rationale is explained 

on page 40061 under the subsection 

entitled ‘‘B. Areas With Insignificant 

Motor Vehicle Emissions.’’ Please note 

that an adequacy review is separate 

from EPA’s completeness review, and it 

also should not be used to prejudge 

EPA’s ultimate approval of the SIP. 

Even if EPA finds the MVEB adequate 

or makes an insignificance finding 

through the adequacy process, the 

Agency may later disapprove the SIP. 

EPA has described the process for 

determining the adequacy of submitted 

SIP budgets in a May 14, 1999, 

memorandum entitled ‘‘Conformity 

Guidance on Implementation of March 

2, 1999 Conformity Court Decision.’’ 

EPA has followed this guidance in 

making this adequacy determination. 

This guidance is incorporated into 

EPA’s July 1, 2004, final rulemaking 

entitled ‘‘Transportation Conformity 

Rule Amendments for the New 8-hour 

Ozone and PM2.5 National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards and Miscellaneous 

Revisions for Existing Areas; 

Transportation Conformity Rule 

Amendments: Response to Court 

Decision and Additional Rule Changes’’ 

(69 FR 40004). 

Within 24 months from the effective 

date of this notice, the transportation 

partners will need to demonstrate 

conformity to the new MVEB if the 

demonstration has not already been 

made, pursuant to 40 CFR 93.104(e). 

(See 73 FR 4419 (January 24, 2008).) 

Additionally, the Transportation 

Conformity Rule at 40 CFR 93.109(k) 

states that a regional emissions analysis 

is no longer necessary for direct PM2.5

if EPA finds, through the adequacy or 

approval process, that regional motor 

vehicle emissions are an insignificant 

contributor to the air quality problem 

for that pollutant/precursor as 

demonstrated in the SIP. The 

insignificance finding should be noted 

in all future conformity determinations, 

and does not relieve the area of meeting 

all other transportation conformity 

requirements. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq. 

Dated: February 17, 2010. 

Beverly H. Banister, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9120–3] 

Science Advisory Board Staff Office 

Notification of a Public Meeting of a 

Workgroup 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 meeting of a workgroup of the 

chartered Science Advisory Board to 

conduct an expedited and focused 

review of EPA’s draft ‘‘Toxicological 

Review of Inorganic Arsenic: In Support 

of the Summary Information on the 

Integrated Risk Information System 

(IRIS)’’ (EPA/635/R–10/001). The SAB 

workgroup will assess the adequacy of 

EPA’s implementation of the SAB 

previous recommendations regarding 

the cancer risk assessment of inorganic 

arsenic. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

April 6, 2010 from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. 

(Eastern Time) and April 7, 2010 from 

8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Eastern Time). 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the St. Regis Hotel, 923 16th and K 

Streets, NW., Washington, DC 20006. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing to obtain 

general information concerning this 

public meeting should contact Dr. Sue 

Shallal, Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO), EPA Science Advisory Board 

(1400F), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; via 

telephone/voice mail: (202) 343–9977; 

fax: (202) 233–0643; or e-mail at 

Shallal.suhair@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: The SAB 

was established by 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 chartered under the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C., App 2. 

The SAB will comply with the 

provisions of FACA and all appropriate 

SAB Staff Office procedural policies. 

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, Public Law 92–463, 

notice is hereby given that a workgroup 

of the chartered SAB will hold a public 

meeting to lead the review of the 

implementation of SAB’s previous 

recommendations for the revision of 

EPA’s cancer risk assessment of 

inorganic arsenic. 

Background: The EPA is currently in 

the process of updating the 1988 IRIS 

cancer assessment for inorganic arsenic 

(iAs). The EPA evaluated and 

implemented the National Research 

Council (2001) recommendations and in 

2005 requested that the SAB review the 

Agency’s draft cancer assessment for 

iAs. The SAB review report was 

finalized in 2007 and is available at the 

following URL: http://yosemite.epa.gov/ 

sab/sabproduct.nsf/

02ad90b136fc21ef85256eba00436459/

EADABBF40DED2A08852

57308006741EF/$File/sab-07–008.pdf. 

EPA’s Office of Research 

Development has completed a 2010 

draft ‘‘Toxicological Review of Inorganic 

Arsenic: In Support of the Summary 

Information on the Integrated Risk 

Information System (IRIS)’’ (EPA/635/R– 

10/001). This draft assessment includes 

an evaluation and characterization of 

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