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notice of intent must be served on the 

applicant(s) named in this public notice. 

Anyone may submit comments, a 

protest, or a motion to intervene in 

accordance with the requirements of 

Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 

385.210, .211, and .214. In determining 

the appropriate action to take, the 

Commission will consider all protests or 

other comments filed, but only those 

who file a motion to intervene in 

accordance with the Commission’s 

Rules may become a party to the 

proceeding. Any comments, protests, or 

motions to intervene must be received 

on or before the specified comment date 

for the particular application. 

All filings must: (1) Bear in all capital 

letters the title ‘‘PROTEST’’, ‘‘MOTION 

TO INTERVENE’’, ‘‘NOTICE OF 

INTENT TO FILE COMPETING 

APPLICATION,’’ ‘‘COMPETING 

APPLICATION,’’ ‘‘COMMENTS,’’ 

‘‘REPLY COMMENTS,’’ 

‘‘RECOMMENDATIONS,’’ ‘‘TERMS 

AND CONDITIONS,’’ or 

‘‘PRESCRIPTIONS;’’ (2) set forth in the 

heading the name of the applicant and 

the project number of the application to 

which the filing responds; (3) furnish 

the name, address, and telephone 

number of the person protesting or 

intervening; and (4) otherwise comply 

with the requirements of 18 CFR 

385.2001 through 385.2005. All 

comments, recommendations, terms and 

conditions or prescriptions must set 

forth their evidentiary basis and 

otherwise comply with the requirements 

of 18 CFR 4.34(b). Agencies may obtain 

copies of the application directly from 

the applicant. A copy of any protest or 

motion to intervene must be served 

upon each representative of the 

applicant specified in the particular 

application. A copy of all other filings 

in reference to this application must be 

accompanied by proof of service on all 

persons listed in the service list 

prepared by the Commission in this 

proceeding, in accordance with 18 CFR 

4.34(b) and 385.2010. 

p. Procedural schedule: The 

application will be processed according 

to the following procedural schedule. 

Revisions to the schedule may be made 

as appropriate. 

Milestone Target date 

Comments, recommendations, and terms and 

conditions due.

September 

2013. 

Reply comments due ......... November 2013. 

Notice of the availability of 

the EA.

February 2014. 

Dated: July 31, 2013. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–18994 Filed 8–6–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Notice of Commissioner and Staff 

Attendance at North American Electric 

Reliability Corporation Meetings 

The Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission (Commission) hereby gives 

notice that members of the Commission 

and/or Commission staff may attend the 

following meetings: 

North American Electric Reliability 

Corporation Member Representatives 

Committee and Board of Trustees Meetings 

Board of Trustees Corporate Governance and 

Human Resources Committee, Compliance 

Committee, Finance and Audit Committee, 

and Standards Oversight and Technology 

Committee Meetings 

Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, 900 

Rene ́-Le ́vesque Blvd. West, Montreal, 

QC H3B 4A5, Canada. 

August 14 (7:30 a.m.—5:30 p.m.) and 

August 15 (8:00 a.m.—1:00 p.m.), 2013 

Further information regarding these 

meetings may be found at: http:// 

www.nerc.com/Pages/Calendar.aspx. 

The discussions at the meetings, 

which are open to the public, may 

address matters at issue in the following 

Commission proceedings: 

Docket No. RC11–5, North American 

Electric Reliability Corporation 

Docket No. RC13–4, North American 

Electric Reliability Corporation 

Docket No. RR13–3, North American 

Electric Reliability Corporation 

Docket No. RR13–6, North American 

Electric Reliability Corporation 

Docket No. RR13–7, North American 

Electric Reliability Corporation 

Docket No. RD13–9, North American 

Electric Reliability Corporation 

Docket No. RD13–10, North American 

Electric Reliability Corporation 

For further information, please 

contact Jonathan First, 202–502–8529, 

or jonathan.first@ferc.gov. 

Dated: July 31, 2013. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–18995 Filed 8–6–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL– 9843–5; Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

ORD–2011–0805] 

Update to An Inventory of Sources and 

Environmental Releases of Dioxin-Like 

Compounds in the United States for 

the Years 1987, 1995, and 2000 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of public comment 

period and letter peer-review. 

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a 30-day 

public comment period for the draft 

document entitled, Update to An 

Inventory of Sources and Environmental 

Releases of Dioxin-Like Compounds in 

the United States for the Years 1987, 

1995, and 2000, (EPA/600/R–11/005A). 

EPA also is announcing that Versar, 

Inc., an EPA contractor for external 

scientific peer review, will select a 

group of experts to conduct a letter peerreview of the draft document. The 

document was prepared by the National 

Center for Environmental Assessment 

(NCEA) within EPA’s Office of Research 

and Development. 

In November 2006, EPA released the 

report: An Inventory of Sources and 

Environmental Releases of Dioxin-Like 

Compounds in the United States for the 

Years 1987, 1995, and 2000, (EPA/600/ 

P–03/002F). That report presented an 

evaluation of sources and emissions of 

dioxins, dibenzofurans, and coplanar 

polychlorinated biphenyls to the air, 

land, and water of the United States. 

The inventory suggested that there was 

a significant reduction in environmental 

releases of dioxin-like compounds from 

regulated industrial sources between the 

years 1987 and 2000, and that the open 

burning of residential refuse in backyard 

burn barrels was the largest source in 

2000 that could be reliably quantified. 

This revised draft is an update to the 

2006 report and reflects the additional 

consideration of pre-2006 peer review. 

This update does not expand the scope 

of the document beyond the three 

reference years covered in the 2006 

document or earlier drafts: 1987, 1995, 

and 2000. Changes in the updated report 

reflect the addition of previously 

unquantified sources and adjustments to 

emission factors, for example those used 

for municipal and medical waste 

incinerators. The largest source added to 

the inventory was emissions to air from 

forest fires, a source previously 

classified as preliminary and not 

included in the quantitative inventory. 

The updated inventory lists the top 

three air sources in the year 2000 as 

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forest fires, backyard barrel burning of 

refuse, and medical waste incinerators. 

EPA intends to forward the public 

comments that are submitted in 

accordance with this notice to Versar to 

distribute to the external peer-reviewers 

for their consideration during the letter 

peer-review. When finalizing the draft 

document, EPA intends to consider any 

public comments received in 

accordance with this notice. EPA is 

releasing this draft assessment for the 

purposes of public comment and peer 

review. This draft assessment is not 

final as described in EPA’s information 

quality guidelines, and it does not 

represent and should not be construed 

to represent Agency policy or views. 

The draft document is available via 

the Internet on the NCEA home page 

under the Recent Additions and the 

Data and Publications menus at 

www.epa.gov/ncea. 

DATES: The 30-day public comment 

period begins August 7, 2013, and ends 

September 6, 2013. Technical comments 

should be in writing and must be 

received by EPA by September 6, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: The draft document, Update 

to An Inventory of Sources and 

Environmental Releases of Dioxin-Like 

Compounds in the United States for the 

Years 1987, 1995, and 2000, is available 

primarily via the Internet on the 

National Center for Environmental 

Assessment’s home page under the 

Recent Additions and the Data and 

Publications menus at www.epa.gov/ 

ncea. A limited number of paper copies 

are available from the Information 

Management Team, NCEA; telephone: 

703–347–8561; facsimile: 703–347– 

8691. If you are requesting a paper copy, 

please provide your name, mailing 

address, and the document title. 

Comments may be submitted 

electronically via www.regulations.gov, 

by mail, by facsimile, or by hand 

delivery/courier. Please follow the 

detailed instructions provided in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the public comment 

period, contact the Office of 

Environmental Information Docket; 

telephone: 202–566–1752; facsimile: 

202–566–9744; or email: 

ORD.Docket@epa.gov. 

For technical information, contact 

Matthew Lorber, NCEA; telephone: 703– 

347–8535; facsimile: 703–347–8694; or 

email: lorber.matthew@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information About the Document 

The purpose of this document is to 

present a comprehensive inventory and 

an overview of sources and 

environmental releases of dioxin-like 

compounds in the United States. The 

major identified sources of 

environmental releases of dioxin-like 

compounds are grouped into six broad 

categories: combustion sources, metals 

smelting, refining and processing 

sources, chemical manufacturing 

sources, natural sources, and 

environmental reservoirs. Estimates of 

annual releases to land, air, and water 

are presented for each source category 

and summarized for reference years 

1987, 1995, and 2000. The quantitative 

results are expressed in terms of the 

toxicity equivalent (TEQ) of the mixture 

of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin 

(CDD) and polychlorinated 

dibenzofuran (CDF) compounds present 

in environmental releases using a 

procedure sanctioned by the World 

Health Organization (WHO) in 1998. 

This TEQ procedure translates the 

complex mixture of CDDs and CDFs 

characteristic of environmental releases 

into an equivalent toxicity 

concentration of 2,3,7,8- 

tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8- 

TCDD), the most toxic member of this 

class of compounds. The total releases 

under the national inventory for 1987 in 

g WHO98 TEQDF (grams of dioxin toxic 

equivalents (TEQs), to include only 

dioxin and furan congeners (not dioxinlike PCB congeners), and determined 

using the 1998 World Health 

Organization’s Toxic Equivalency 

Factors (TEFs)) were 15,000 to air, 2,400 

to land, 360 to water, and 36 to 

products. For 1995, the releases in g 

WHO98 TEQDF were 3,400 to air, 2,500 

to land, 30 to water, and 47 to products. 

For 2000, the releases in g WHO98 

TEQDF were 2,300 to air, 2,300 to land, 

28 to water, and 7 to products. This 

document also provides limited 

estimates for releases of dioxin-like 

polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). 

In comparison to the version of this 

document released in 2006, estimates of 

CDD/CDF releases to air increased for 

all years. The changes reflect the 

addition of new sources and 

adjustments to emission factors used for 

municipal and medical waste 

incinerators. The largest new source 

added was forest fires, which was 

previously classified as preliminary and 

not included in the quantitative 

inventory. Based on a number of new 

studies, it was decided that sufficient 

data were now available to move this 

source into the quantitative inventory. 

The forest fire releases in 2000 were 

about four times higher than in 1987 

and in 1995 (due to more fires) causing 

a particularly large percent increase in 

that year. The top three air sources in 

2000 were forest fires (730 g WHO98 

TEQDF), backyard barrel burning of 

refuse (600 g WHO98 TEQDF), and 

medical waste incinerators (400 g 

WHO98 TEQDF). Other new sources 

added to the present document were 

secondary zinc smelters, glass 

manufacturers, lime kilns, agricultural 

burning, outdoor wood combustors, 

aluminum foundries, copper foundries, 

and septic systems. 

II. How to Submit Technical Comments 

to the Docket at www.regulations.gov 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD 2011– 

0805, by one of the following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments; 

• Email: ORD.Docket@epa.gov; 

• Fax: 202–566–9744; 

• Mail: Office of Environmental 

Information (OEI) Docket (Mail Code: 

28221T), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20460. The 

telephone number is 202–566–1752. If 

you provide comments by mail, please 

submit one unbound original with pages 

numbered consecutively and three 

copies of the comments. For 

attachments, provide an index, number 

pages consecutively with the comments, 

and submit an unbound original and 

three copies; or 

• Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is 

located in the EPA Headquarters Docket 

Center, EPA West Building, Room 3334, 

1301 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center’s 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. 

Deliveries are only accepted during the 

docket’s normal hours of operation, and 

special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. If 

you provide comments by hand 

delivery, please submit one unbound 

original with pages numbered 

consecutively and three copies of the 

comments. For attachments, provide an 

index, number pages consecutively with 

the comments, and submit an unbound 

original and three copies. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2011– 

0805. Please ensure that your comments 

are submitted within the specified 

comment period. Comments received 

after the closing date will be marked 

‘‘late,’’ and may only be considered if 

time permits. It is EPA’s policy to 

include all comments it receives in the 

public docket without change and to 

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make the comments available online at 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless a 

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 www.regulations.gov 

or email. The www.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 www.regulations.gov, your 

email address will be automatically 

captured and included as part of the 

comment that is placed in the public 

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. For additional information 

about EPA’s public docket visit the EPA 

Docket Center homepage at 

www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

Docket: Documents in the docket are 

listed in the www.regulations.gov index. 

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 materials, such as 

copyrighted material, are publicly 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically at 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the OEI Docket in the EPA Headquarters 

Docket Center. 

Dated: May 2, 2013. 

Debra B. Walsh, 

Acting Deputy Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

[FR Doc. 2013–18954 Filed 8–6–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9843–9] 

Intent To Grant an Exclusive Patent 

License 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of intent to grant an 

exclusive license. 

SUMMARY: EPA hereby gives notice of its 

intent to grant an exclusive, royaltybearing, revocable license to practice the 

invention described and claimed in the 

U.S. patent entitled PROCESS FOR THE 

BIODEGRADATION OF 

HYDROCARBONS AND ETHERS IN 

SUBSURFACE SOIL BY 

INTRODUCTION OF A SOLID OXYGEN 

SOURCE BY HYDRAULIC 

FRACTURING, filed as U.S. serial 

number 10/395,893 on March 25, 2003 

and issued as U.S. Patent 7,252,986 on 

August 7, 2007 to Foremost 

Environmental Solutions, L.L.C. of 

Denver, Colorado. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by EPA at the address listed 

below by August 22, 2013. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Laura Scalise, Patent Attorney, Office of 

General Counsel (Mail Code 2377A), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Washington, DC 20460, telephone (202) 

564–8303. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to 35 U.S.C. 207 (Patents) and 37 CFR 

part 404 (U.S. Government patent 

licensing regulations), EPA hereby gives 

notice of its intent to grant an exclusive, 

royalty-bearing, revocable license to 

practice the invention described and 

claimed in the U.S. patent entitled 

PROCESS FOR THE 

BIODEGRADATION OF 

HYDROCARBONS AND ETHERS IN 

SUBSURFACE SOIL BY 

INTRODUCTION OF A SOLID OXYGEN 

SOURCE BY HYDRAULIC 

FRACTURING, filed as U.S. serial 

number 10/395,893 on March 25, 2003 

and issued as U.S. Patent 7,252,986 on 

August 7, 2007 to Foremost 

Environmental Solutions, L.L.C. of 

Denver, Colorado. 

The proposed exclusive license will 

contain appropriate terms, limitations, 

and conditions to be negotiated in 

accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 

CFR 404.5 and 404.7 of the U.S. 

Government patent licensing 

regulations. 

EPA will negotiate the final terms and 

conditions and grant the exclusive 

license, unless within 15 days from the 

date of this notice EPA receives, at the 

address below, written objections to the 

grant, together with supporting 

documentation. The documentation 

from objecting parties having an interest 

in practicing the above patent should 

include an application for an exclusive 

or nonexclusive license with the 

information set forth in 37 CFR 404.8. 

The EPA Patent Attorney and other EPA 

officials will review all written 

responses and then make 

recommendations on a final decision to 

the Director or Deputy Director of the 

National Risk Management Research 

Laboratory who have been delegated the 

authority to issue patent licenses under 

EPA Delegation 1–55. 

Dated: July 31, 2013. 

Kevin Miller, 

Acting Associate General Counsel, General 

Law Office. 

[FR Doc. 2013–19075 Filed 8–6–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9843–4] 

Meeting of the National Drinking Water 

Advisory Council 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency is announcing a 

meeting of the National Drinking Water 

Advisory Council (Council), established 

under the Safe Drinking Water Act 

(SDWA). This meeting is scheduled for 

October 9 and 10, 2013, in Arlington, 

VA. The Council typically considers 

various issues associated with drinking 

water protection and public water 

systems. During this meeting, the 

Council will focus discussions on the 

proposed regulatory revisions to the 

Lead and Copper Rule under the SDWA 

as well as other program issues. 

DATES: The meeting on October 9, 2013 

will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., 

Eastern Time, and on October 10, 2013 

from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Eastern 

Time. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the EPA Potomac Yard Conference 

Center at 2777 Crystal Drive, Arlington, 

Virginia, 22202, in room North 4830 

(4th floor) and will be open to the 

public. All attendees must go through a 

metal detector, sign in with the security 

desk, and show government issued 

photo identification to enter government 

buildings. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Members of the public who would like 

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