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resource issues to be addressed in the 

EA; and (5) identify those issues that 

require a detailed analysis, as well as 

those issues that do not require a 

detailed analysis. 

Procedures 

The meetings are recorded by a 

stenographer and become part of the 

formal record of the Commission 

proceeding on the project. 

Individuals, organizations, and 

agencies with environmental expertise 

and concerns are encouraged to attend 

the meeting and to assist the staff in 

defining and clarifying the issues to be 

addressed in the EA. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2144–038; Project No. 2225– 

013] 

City of Seattle, Public Utility District 

No. 1 of Pend Orielle County; Notice of 

Technical Conference and Site Visit for 

the Boundary Hydroelectric Project 

and Sullivan Creek Hydroelectric 

Project Settlement Agreement and 

Soliciting Scoping Comments on the 

Proposed Sullivan Creek Hydroelectric 

Project Surrender 

May 11, 2010. 

On March 29, 2010, the City of Seattle 

(City) and the Public Utility District No. 

1 of Pend Oreille, County, Washington 

(District) filed a joint comprehensive 

settlement agreement (Settlement), 

explanatory statement and a request to 

consolidate the processing of the City’s 

relicensing of the Boundary 

Hydroelectric Project No. 2144–038, and 

the District’s surrender of its license for 

the Sullivan Creek Hydroelectric Project 

No. 2225–013. On April 2, 2010, the 

District filed an application to surrender 

the Sullivan Creek Project. Parts of both 

projects occupy lands within the 

Colville National Forest. 

Technical Conference 

Commission staff will hold a 

technical conference to discuss the 

proposed license articles for a new 

license for the Boundary Project and the 

proposed Sullivan Creek license 

surrender conditions submitted as part 

of the joint Settlement. 

The technical conference will be held 

on Thursday, June 10, 2010, beginning 

at 9 a.m. (PST) at Quality Inn Oakwood, 

7919 North Division, Spokane, WA. 

Participation at the technical conference 

will be limited to Commission staff and 

the Settlement Parties. However, the 

public is free to attend and provide 

comments on the scope of issues that 

should be addressed in the 

Commission’s environmental 

assessment. The technical conference 

will be recorded by a court reporter, and 

all statements (verbal and written) will 

become part of the Commission’s public 

record for the project. The conference 

and site visit described below are posted 

on the Commission’s calendar located at 

http://www.ferc.gov/EventCalendar/

EventsList.aspx along with other related 

information. 

Site Visit 

On Wednesday, June 9, 2010, 

Commission staff, along with 

representatives of the City and the 

District, will conduct a site visit of the 

Boundary and Sullivan Creek Projects. 

All interested individuals, 

organizations, and agencies are invited 

to attend. All participants should meet 

at the Boundary powerhouse gate at 

10:15 a.m. (PST). For those persons only 

interested in the Sullivan Creek 

surrender, we will be at the Sullivan 

Lake Dam at 12:15 p.m. In addition, all 

participants are responsible for their 

own transportation to the site and 

throughout the day. Anyone planning to 

attend the site visit must notify Mary 

Pat Dileva at marypat.dileva@seattle.gov 

by Wednesday, June 2, 2010. RSVPs are 

required for security and planning 

purposes. 

Scoping for the Surrender of the 

District’s Sullivan Creek Project 

Commission staff intends to prepare 

an environmental assessment (EA) 

covering both the relicensing of the 

Boundary Project and the surrender of 

the Sullivan Creek Project, pursuant to 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

of 1969, as amended. Scoping of the 

relicensing of the Boundary Project was 

completed in 2006. To support and 

assist our environmental review, we are 

conducting paper scoping of the 

Sullivan Creek surrender to ensure that 

all pertinent issues are identified and 

analyzed, and the EA is thorough. This 

notice solicits written comments from 

Federal, State, and local resource 

agencies, Indian tribes, and other 

interested persons through the scoping 

process. 

All scoping comments should be 

submitted in writing to the Commission 

no later than June 25, 2010. All 

correspondence must clearly show at 

the top of the page: ‘‘Sullivan Creek 

Hydroelectric Project, FERC No. 2225– 

013.’’ Send your comments about the 

project to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. Scoping comments may be filed 

electronically via the Internet in lieu of 

paper. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) 

and the instructions on the 

Commission’s Web site at http:// 

www.ferc.gov under the ‘‘e-Filing’’ link. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings. 

For further information, contact David 

Turner at (202) 502–6091, or by e-mail 

at david.turner@ferc.gov. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2010–0208; FRL–9152–5] 

Adequacy Determination for the Motor 

Vehicle Emissions Budgets in the 

Truckee Meadows PM10 Maintenance 

Plan for Transportation Conformity 

Purposes; State of Nevada 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of adequacy. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is 

notifying the public that the Agency has 

found that motor vehicle emissions 

budgets (MVEBs) for particles with an 

aerodynamic diameter of a nominal 10 

microns or less (PM10), contained in the 

Redesignation Request and 

Maintenance Plan for the Truckee 

Meadows 24-Hour PM10 NonAttainment Area (‘‘Truckee Meadows 

PM10 Maintenance Plan’’), are adequate 

for transportation conformity purposes. 

The Truckee Meadows PM10

Maintenance Plan was submitted to EPA 

on July 13, 2009 by the Nevada Division 

of Environmental Protection as a 

revision to the Nevada State 

Implementation Plan. As a result of our 

adequacy finding, the Washoe County 

Regional Transportation Commission 

and the U.S. Department of 

Transportation must use these budgets 

in future conformity analyses. 

DATES: This finding is effective June 2, 

2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Eleanor Kaplan, U.S. EPA, Region IX, 

Air Division AIR–2, 75 Hawthorne 

Street, San Francisco, CA 94105–3901; 

(415) 947–4147 or 

kaplan.eleanor@epa.gov. 

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document, whenever 

‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean 

EPA. 

Today’s notice is simply an 

announcement of a finding that we have 

already made. EPA Region IX sent a 

letter to the Nevada Division of 

Environmental Protection on May 5, 

2010 stating that the motor vehicle 

emissions budgets for PM10 in the 

submitted Truckee Meadows PM10

Maintenance Plan are adequate. Receipt 

of these motor vehicle emissions 

budgets was announced on EPA’s 

transportation conformity Web site on 

January 19, 2010, and no comments 

were submitted. The finding is available 

at EPA’s conformity Web site: http://

www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/

transconf/adequacy.htm. 

The Truckee Meadows PM10

Maintenance Plan identifies PM10

MVEBs for the Truckee Meadows 

nonattainment area for years 2009, 2013, 

2018 and 2020. The adequate budgets 

are presented in the following table: 

TRUCKEE MEADOWS PM10 MAINTENANCE PLAN MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS BUDGETS, TRUCKEE MEADOWS NONATTAINMENT AREA

[Winter season, pounds per day] 

2009 Emissions Budget .................... 21,195 

2013 Emissions Budget .................... 20,871 

2018 Emissions Budget .................... 20,836 

2020 Emissions Budget .................... 20,816 

Transportation conformity is required 

by Clean Air Act section 176(c). EPA’s 

conformity rule requires that 

transportation plans, transportation 

improvement programs, and projects 

conform to state air quality 

implementation plans (SIPs) and 

establishes the criteria and procedures 

for determining whether or not they do 

conform. 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. 

The criteria by which we determine 

whether a SIP’s motor vehicle emissions 

budgets are adequate for conformity 

purposes are outlined in 40 CFR 

93.118(e)(4). We have described our 

process for determining the adequacy of 

submitted SIP budgets in our July 1, 

2004, preamble starting at 69 FR 40038, 

and we used the information in these 

resources while making our adequacy 

determination. Please note that an 

adequacy review is separate from EPA’s 

completeness review, and should not be 

used to prejudge EPA’s ultimate 

approval action for the SIP. Even if we 

find a budget adequate, the SIP could 

later be disapproved. 

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

Dated: April 30, 2010. 

Jared Blumenfeld, 

Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9152–7] 

Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Notification of a Public Teleconference 

and Public Meeting of the SAB 

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon 

(PAH) Mixtures Review Panel 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office announces two 

public meetings of the SAB Polycyclic 

Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Mixtures 

Review Panel: A teleconference and a 

face-to-face meeting to review EPA’s 

draft technical document, Development 

of a Relative Potency Factor (RPF) 

Approach for Polycyclic Aromatic 

Hydrocarbon (PAH) Mixtures, External 

Review Draft. 

DATES: There will be a public 

teleconference on June 8, 2010 from 2 

p.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern Time). The 

public meeting will be held on June 21, 

2010 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Eastern 

Time), June 22, 2010 from 9 a.m. to 5 

p.m. and June 23, 2010 from 9 a.m. to 

3 p.m. (Eastern time). 

ADDRESSES: The teleconference will be 

conducted by phone only. The face-toface meeting on June 21–23, 2010 will 

be held at the Washington Marriott at 

Metro Center, 775 12th Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20005; telephone (202) 

737–2200. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing to obtain 

information concerning the public 

teleconference and/or public meeting 

may contact Mr. Aaron Yeow, 

Designated Federal Officer (DFO), EPA 

Science Advisory Board Staff Office 

(1400F), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; by 

telephone/voice mail at (202) 343–9878 

or at yeow.aaron@epa.gov. General 

information about the SAB, as well as 

any updates concerning the meeting 

announced in this notice, may be found 

on the EPA 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 SAB PAH 

Mixtures Review Panel will hold a 

public teleconference to discuss the 

plans for the subsequent public face-toface meeting to conduct a peer review 

of the EPA’s draft technical document, 

Development of a Relative Potency 

Factor (RPF) Approach for Polycyclic 

Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Mixtures, 

External Review Draft (February 2010). 

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 chartered under FACA. The 

SAB will comply with the provisions of 

FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff 

Office procedural policies. 

Background: EPA’s Integrated Risk 

Information System (IRIS) is an 

electronic database containing 

descriptive and quantitative 

toxicological information on human 

health effects that may result from 

chronic exposure to various substances 

in the environment. This information 

supports human health risk assessments 

and includes hazard identification and 

dose-response data and derivations of 

oral reference doses (RfDs) and 

inhalation reference concentrations 

(RfCs) for noncancer effects and oral 

slope factors and oral and inhalation 

unit risks for cancer effects. IRIS is 

prepared and maintained by EPA’s 

National Center for Environmental 

Assessment (NCEA) within the Office of 

Research and Development (ORD). 

NCEA’s IRIS Program has developed a 

draft technical document entitled, 

Development of a Relative Potency 

Factor (RPF) Approach for Polycyclic 

Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Mixtures, 

for estimating cancer risk from exposure 

to PAH mixtures. ORD has requested 

that the Science Advisory Board (SAB) 

conduct a review of this draft document. 

In response to ORD’s request, the SAB 

Staff Office solicited nominations of 

experts and formed a review panel for 

PAH Mixtures [Federal Register Notice 

dated October 21, 2009 (74 FR 54047– 

54048)]. The panel will conduct a 

review of EPA’s February 2010 External 

Review Draft of its technical document, 

Development of a Relative Potency 

Factor (RPF) Approach for Polycyclic 

Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Mixtures. 

Specifically, the panel is being asked to 

provide recommendations on the 

rationale for recommending an RPF 

approach, the evaluation of the 

carcinogenicity of individual PAHs, the 

methods for dose response assessment 

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