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of a sustainability framework and new 

sustainability indicators, as well as the 

online format as a tool to communicate 

to scientists, policy makers and public 

audiences. The SAB undertook this 

review at the request of the EPA’s Office 

of Research and Development. 

Information about this advisory activity 

can be found on the Web at http://

yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/

fedrgstr_activites/ROE%202014?Open

Document. 

The second Chartered SAB review 

will focus on an SAB draft report 

reviewing the EPA’s draft 

Environmental Justice Technical 

Guidance. The EPA developed the 

guidance to assist agency staff on how 

to assess disproportionate 

environmental and public health 

impacts of proposed rules and actions 

on minority, low income and 

indigenous populations in a variety of 

regulatory contexts. The EPA’s Office of 

Policy requested the SAB’s assessment 

of the appropriateness and scientific 

soundness of the technical guidance. 

Information about this advisory activity 

can be found on the Web at http://

yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/

fedrgstr_activites/EJ%20Technical%20

Guidance?OpenDocument. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: The 

agendas and materials in support of 

these teleconferences will be available 

on the EPA Web site at http://

www.epa.gov/sab in advance of the 

teleconferences. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Public comment for consideration by 

EPA’s federal advisory committees and 

panels has a different purpose from 

public comment provided to EPA 

program offices. Therefore, the process 

for submitting comments to a federal 

advisory committee is different from the 

process used to submit comments to an 

EPA program office. 

Federal advisory committees and 

panels, including scientific advisory 

committees, provide independent 

advice to EPA. Members of the public 

can submit comments for a federal 

advisory committee to consider as it 

develops advice for EPA. Input from the 

public to the SAB will have the most 

impact if it provides specific scientific 

or technical information or analysis for 

SAB panels to consider or if it relates to 

the clarity or accuracy of the technical 

information. Members of the public 

wishing to provide comment should 

contact the Designated Federal Officer 

as noted above. 

Oral Statements: In general, 

individuals or groups requesting an oral 

presentation at a teleconference will be 

limited to three minutes. Each person 

making an oral statement should 

consider providing written comments as 

well as their oral statement so that the 

points presented orally can be expanded 

upon in writing. Interested parties 

should contact Dr. Angela Nugent, DFO, 

in writing (preferably via email) at the 

contact information noted above one 

week before each of the teleconferences 

to be placed on the list of public 

speakers. 

Written Statements: Written 

statements should be supplied to the 

DFO, preferably via email, at the contact 

information noted above one week 

before each of the teleconferences so 

that the information may be made 

available to the Board members for their 

consideration. It is the SAB Staff Office 

general policy to post written comments 

on the Web page for the advisory 

meeting or teleconference. Submitters 

are requested to provide an unsigned 

version of each document because the 

SAB Staff Office does not publish 

documents with signatures on its Web 

sites. Members of the public should be 

aware that their personal contact 

information, if included in any written 

comments, may be posted to the SAB 

Web site. Copyrighted material will not 

be posted without explicit permission of 

the copyright holder. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Dr. Angela 

Nugent at (202) 564–2218 or 

nugent.angela@epa.gov. To request 

accommodation of a disability, please 

contact Dr. Nugent preferably at least 

ten days prior to the teleconference to 

give EPA as much time as possible to 

process your request. 

Dated: December 15, 2014. 

Thomas H. Brennan, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Staff 

Office. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30403 Filed 12–29–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9921–07–Region 6] 

Draft National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System (NPDES) General 

Permit for Discharges From Horse, 

Cattle and Dairy Concentrated Animal 

Feeding Operations (CAFOs) in New 

Mexico (Except Indian Country) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed permit 

reissuance. 

SUMMARY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Region 6 Water Quality 

Protection Division is today proposing 

for public comment the reissuance of a 

National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System general permit 

(NMG010000) for discharges from 

eligible owners/operators of existing 

concentrated animal feeding operations 

(CAFOs), in New Mexico, except those 

discharges on Indian Country. CAFOs 

discharging on Indian Country would be 

required to apply for an individual 

permit. 

This permit was originally issued 

with an effective date of September 3, 

2009, and an expiration date of 

September 2, 2014. Conditions from the 

2009 permit are continued with the 

following changes proposed as part of 

this reissuance: (1) Removing eligibility 

for coverage for ‘‘New sources’’ under 

the proposed permit, (2) adding on-site 

rainfall measurement and record 

keeping, and (3) adding requirement for 

paperless submittal of application 

documents (NOIs and NMPs). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted in 

writing to EPA on or before March 2, 

2015. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

submitted to Ms. Evelyn Rosborough via 

email: rosborough.evelyn@epa.gov, or 

may be mailed to Ms. Evelyn 

Rosborough, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Water Quality Protection 

Division (6WQ–NP), 1445 Ross Ave., 

Suite 1200, Dallas, TX 75202. 

DATES: Public Meeting: An informal 

public meeting is scheduled. The 

meeting will include a presentation on 

the proposed permit followed by the 

opportunity for questions and answers. 

Written, but not oral, comments for the 

administrative record will be accepted 

at the public meeting. 

Date: February 10, 2015. 

Time: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

Place: Eastern New Mexico State 

University—Roswell, Occupational 

Technology Center, Seminar Room 124, 

20 West Mathis, Roswell, New Mexico 

88202–6000. 

Public Hearings: No public hearing is 

scheduled at this time; however, 

interested persons may request a public 

hearing pursuant to 40 CFR 124.12 

concerning the proposed permit. 

Requests for a public hearing must be 

sent or delivered in writing to the same 

address as provided above for public 

comments prior to the close of the 

comment period. Requests for a public 

hearing must state the nature of the 

issues proposed to be raised in the 

hearing. Pursuant to 40 CFR 124.12, 

EPA shall hold a public hearing if it 

finds, on the basis of requests, a 

significant degree of public interest in a 

public hearing on the proposed permit. 

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If EPA decides to hold a public hearing, 

a public notice of the date, time and 

place of the hearing will be made at 

least 30 days prior to the hearing. Any 

person may provide written or oral 

statements and data pertaining to the 

proposed permit at the public hearing. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A copy of 

the proposed permit, fact sheet, and this 

Federal Register Notice may be found 

on the EPA Region 6 Web site: http:// 

www.epa.gov/region6/water/npdes/

cafo/index.htm, or obtained by 

contacting Ms. Rosborough via email at 

rosborough.evelyn@epa.gov or 214–665– 

2145. The Agency’s current 

administrative record on the proposal is 

available for examination at the Region’s 

Dallas offices during normal working 

hours by providing Ms. Rosborough 24 

hours advance notice. When the final 

general permit is issued, notice will be 

published in the Federal Register. The 

final general permit will be effective on 

the date specified in the Federal 

Register and expires five years from that 

date. 

Other Legal Requirements 

A. State Certification. Under section 

401(a)(1) of the CWA, EPA may not 

issue an NPDES permit until the State 

in which the discharge will occur grants 

or waives certification to ensure 

compliance with appropriate 

requirements of the CWA and State law. 

EPA will seek certification from the 

New Mexico Environment Department 

prior to issuing a final permit. 

B. Endangered Species. Endangered 

Species Act Section 7(a)(2) consultation 

between EPA and the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service concluded in May 29, 

2009, with USFWS concurring with 

EPA’s biological evaluation that 

reissuance of the 2009 New Mexico 

CAFO general permit ‘‘might affect but 

would be unlikely to adversely affect’’ 

several aquatic and aquatic dependent 

species federally listed in the state. This 

draft permit continues those conditions 

of eligibility for applicants in Bernalillo, 

Chavez, Eddy, Sandoval, San Juan and 

Valencia Counties that were developed 

in consultation and made part of the 

2009 general permit. EPA has reviewed 

listings since 2009 of new species and 

critical habitat and has determined that 

reissuance of the permit with the prior 

agreed conditions is not likely to 

adversely affect any listed threatened or 

endangered species or designated 

critical habitat. EPA will meet its 

responsibility to fulfill the section 7 of 

the ESA requirements prior to 

reissuance of this general permit. 

C. Historic Preservation. EPA 

determined, under Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act of 

1966 (NHPA), that issuance of the 2009 

general permit was a federal 

undertaking without adverse effects. 

EPA finds no changes to this 

determination and will ensure that its 

NHPA Section 16 obligation is fulfilled 

regarding reissuance of the general 

permit. 

E. Regulatory Flexibility Act. The 

Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601 

et seq., requires that EPA prepare a 

regulatory flexibility analysis for 

regulations that have a significant 

impact on a substantial number of small 

entities. The permit reissuance 

proposed today is not a ‘‘rule’’ subject 

to the Regulatory Flexibility Act. EPA 

prepared a regulatory flexibility analysis 

on the promulgation of the 2003 NPDES 

Permit Regulation and Effluent 

Limitation Guidelines and Standards for 

concentrated animal feeding operations 

(CAFOs) on which many of the permit’s 

effluent limitations are based. In 2013, 

EPA completed review of the Guidelines 

and Standards pursuant to section 610 

of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) 

and concluded that (1) there is a 

continued need for the CAFO 

regulations, and (2) revisions to 

minimize the regulations’ impacts on 

small entities are not warranted at this 

time. 

Authority: Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1251 

et seq. 

Dated: December 18, 2014. 

William K. Honker, 

Director, Water Quality Protection Division, 

EPA Region 6. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30519 Filed 12–29–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R04–OAR–2014–0510 and EPA–R04– 

OAR–2014–0487; FRL–9920–93–OAR] 

Notice of Issuance of Final Air Permits 

for Statoil Gulf Services, LLC and 

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of final actions. 

SUMMARY: This notice is to announce 

that the Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) issued a final Outer 

Continental Shelf (OCS) air quality 

permit numbered OCS–EPA–R4012–M1 

for Statoil Gulf Services, LLC (Statoil) 

on August 14, 2014, and an OCS air 

quality permit numbered OCS–EPA– 

R4015 for Anadarko Petroleum 

Corporation (Anadarko) on September 

16, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: The final permits, the EPA’s 

response to public comments for these 

permits, if applicable, and supporting 

information are available at http://

www.epa.gov/region4/air/permits/

index.htm. These materials are also 

available for review at the EPA Regional 

Office and upon request in writing. The 

EPA requests that you contact the 

person listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section to 

schedule an inspection or to submit a 

written request for copies of these 

materials. The Regional Office’s official 

hours of business are Monday through 

Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. excluding 

Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Please contact Ms. Heather Ceron, Air 

Permits Section Chief, Air Planning 

Branch, Air, Pesticides and Toxics 

Management Division, Region 4, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 61 

Forsyth Street SW., Atlanta, Georgia 

30303–8960. The telephone number is 

(404) 562–9185. Ms. Ceron can also be 

reached via electronic mail at 

ceron.heather@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 9, 

2014, EPA Region 4 requested public 

comments on a preliminary 

determination to issue an OCS air 

permit modification for Statoil’s existing 

OCS air quality permit numbered OCS– 

EPA–R4012. During the public comment 

period, which ended on August 8, 2014, 

the EPA received no comments. 

On June 20, 2014, EPA Region 4 

requested public comments on a 

preliminary determination to issue an 

OCS air quality permit for the Anadarko 

EGOM (Eastern Gulf of Mexico) project. 

The EPA received a total of 14 

comments from 1 commenter 

(Anadarko) during the public comment 

period, which closed on July 21, 2014. 

The EPA reviewed each comment 

received for the Anadarko EGOM 

project and prepared a Response to 

Comments document. Since no 

comments were received for the Statoil 

project, a Response to Comment 

document was not prepared. After 

consideration of the expressed view of 

all interested persons, the pertinent 

federal statutes and regulations, the 

applications and supplemental 

information submitted by the 

applicants, and additional material 

relevant to the applications and 

contained in the Administrative 

Records, the EPA made final 

determinations in accordance with 40 

CFR parts 55 and 71 to issue final air 

permits. 

The EPA must follow the 

administrative procedures in 40 CFR 

part 124 used to issue PSD permits 

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