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requirements, interventions, protests, 

and service can be found at: http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling/filingreq.pdf. For other information, call (866) 

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Dated: April 26, 2013. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–10470 Filed 5–2–13; 8:45 am] 

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AGENCY 

[FRL–9808–5; Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD– 

2013–0232] 

Draft Plan for Development of the 

Integrated Science Assessment for 

Nitrogen Oxides—Health Criteria 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of public comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. EPA is announcing 

the availability of the ‘‘Draft Plan for 

Development of the Integrated Science 

Assessment for Nitrogen Oxides— 

Health Criteria.’’ The draft document 

was prepared by the National Center for 

Environmental Assessment (NCEA) 

within EPA’s Office of Research and 

Development as part of the review of the 

primary (health-based) national ambient 

air quality standards (NAAQS) for 

nitrogen dioxide (NO2). The purpose of 

this draft document is to communicate 

the plan for the development of the 

Integrated Science Assessment (ISA) for 

the health effects of nitrogen oxides 

(NOX), which will provide a 

comprehensive assessment of the 

current scientific literature pertaining to 

known and anticipated effects on public 

health associated with the NOX in the 

ambient air. 

EPA is releasing this draft document 

to seek consultation by the Clean Air 

Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) 

and the public (meeting date and time 

to be specified in a separate Federal 

Register notice). The draft document 

does not represent and should not be 

construed to represent any final EPA 

policy, viewpoint, or determination. 

EPA will consider any public comments 

submitted in response to this notice 

when revising the draft plan for 

development of the NOX ISA. 

DATES: The public comment period 

begins, May 3, 2013, and ends May 31, 

2013. Comments must be received on or 

before May 31, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: The ‘‘Draft Plan for 

Development of the Integrated Science 

Assessment for Nitrogen Oxides— 

Health Criteria’’ will be available 

primarily via the Internet on the NCEA 

home page under the Recent Additions 

and Publications menus at http:// 

www.epa.gov/ncea or in the public 

docket at http://www.regulations.gov 

(Docket ID: EPA–HQ–ORD–2013–0232). 

A limited number of CD–ROM or paper 

copies will be available. Contact Ms. 

Marieka Boyd by phone (919–541– 

0031), fax (919–541–5078), or email 

(boyd.marieka@epa.gov) to request 

either of these, and please provide your 

name, your mailing address, and the 

document title, ‘‘Draft Plan for 

Development of the Integrated Science 

Assessment for Nitrogen Oxides— 

Health Criteria’’ to facilitate processing 

of your request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical information, contact Dr. 

Molini Patel, NCEA; telephone: 919– 

541–1492; facsimile: 919–541–1818; or 

email: patel.molini@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information About the Document 

Section 108(a) of the Clean Air Act 

directs the Administrator to identify 

certain pollutants, which among other 

things, ‘‘cause or contribute to air 

pollution, which may reasonably be 

anticipated to endanger public health or 

welfare’’ and to issue air quality criteria 

for them. These air quality criteria are 

to ‘‘accurately reflect the latest scientific 

knowledge useful in indicating the kind 

and extent of all identifiable effects on 

public health or welfare, which may be 

expected from the presence of [the] 

pollutant in the ambient air . . . .’’ 

Under section 109 of the Act, EPA is 

then to establish NAAQS for each 

pollutant for which EPA has issued 

criteria. Section 109(d) of the Act 

subsequently requires periodic review 

and, if appropriate, revision of existing 

air quality criteria to reflect advances in 

scientific knowledge on the effects of 

the pollutant on public health or 

welfare. EPA is also to revise the 

NAAQS, if appropriate, based on the 

revised air quality criteria. 

NO2 is one of six criteria pollutants 

for which EPA has established NAAQS. 

Periodically, EPA reviews the scientific 

basis for these standards by preparing 

an ISA (formerly called an Air Quality 

Criteria Document). The ISA, in 

conjunction with additional technical 

and policy assessments, provide the 

scientific basis for EPA decisions on the 

adequacy of the current NAAQS and the 

appropriateness of possible alternative 

standards. The CASAC, an independent 

science advisory committee whose 

review and advisory functions are 

mandated by Section 109(d)(2) of the 

Clean Air Act, is charged (among other 

things) with independent scientific 

review of EPA’s air quality criteria. 

On February 10, 2012 (77 FR 7149), 

EPA formally initiated its current 

review of the air quality criteria for the 

health effects of NOX and the primary 

(health-based) NO2 NAAQS, requesting 

the submission of recent scientific 

information on specified topics. EPA 

held a workshop February 29 to March 

1, 2013, to discuss with invited 

scientific experts, key science and 

policy issues relevant to the review of 

the health effects of NOX (77 FR 7149). 

NCEA has prepared a draft plan for 

development of the ISA for the health 

effects of NOX, which communicates the 

scope, organization, methodology, and 

key policy-relevant issues for the ISA. 

EPA is planning to release the first 

external review draft of the health 

effects ISA for NOX for review by 

CASAC and the public later on in 2013. 

Development of the ISA is one phase 

of the NAAQS review, and a draft 

Integrated Review Plan (IRP) is being 

developed that will characterize all of 

the phases of the review of the primary 

NAAQS for NO2, including the schedule 

for the entire review, the process for 

conducting the various phases of the 

review, and the key policy-relevant 

science issues that will guide the 

review. The draft IRP will be released 

for review by CASAC and the public 

later on in 2013 and after consideration 

of CASAC and public comments, a final 

IRP will be issued in early 2014. The 

IRP will incorporate a revised plan for 

ISA development after consideration of 

CASAC and public comments. 

II. How To Submit Technical Comments 

to the Docket at www.regulations.gov 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2013– 

0232 by one of the following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: Docket_ORD@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 phone 

number is 202–566–1752. 

• 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 Public Reading Room is open 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

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Public Reading Room is 202–566–1744. 

Such 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 mail or hand delivery, please submit 

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–2013– 

0232. 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 

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 through 

www.regulations.gov or email that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected. 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 in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the OEI Docket in the EPA Headquarters 

Docket Center. 

Dated: April 18, 2013. 

Debra B. Walsh, 

Acting Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

[FR Doc. 2013–10430 Filed 5–2–13; 8:45 am] 

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AGENCY 

[ER–FRL–9008–9] 

Environmental Impacts Statements; 

Notice of Availability 

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal 

Activities, General Information (202) 

564–7146 or http://www.epa.gov/ 

compliance/nepa/. 

Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact 

Statements 

Filed 04/22/2013 Through 04/26/2013, 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9. 

Notice 

Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act 

requires that EPA make public its 

comments on EISs issued by other 

Federal agencies. EPA’s comment letters 

on EISs are available at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/ 

eisdata.html. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Due to 

EPA’s agency-wide furlough day on 

Friday, May 24th and the Federal 

holiday on Monday, May 27th, all EISs 

must be filed with EPA by Thursday, 

May 23rd by 5:00 pm eastern time for 

publication under a Notice of 

Availability in the Federal Register for 

Friday, May 31st. 

EIS No. 20130109, Draft EIS, USFS, MT, 

Stonewall Vegetation Project, 

Comment Period Ends: 06/17/2013, 

Contact: Amber Kamps 406–362– 

7000. 

EIS No. 20130110, Final EIS, USA, CA, 

Presidio of Monterey Real Property 

Master Plan, Review Period Ends: 06/ 

02/2013, Contact: Lawrence Hirai 

210–466–1594. 

EIS No. 20130111, Final EIS, NPS, OH, 

Cuyahoga Valley National Park Trail 

Management Plan, Review Period 

Ends: 06/02/2013, Contact: Stan 

Austin 330–657–2752. 

EIS No. 20130112, Draft EIS, FHWA, 

MO, South County Connector, 

Comment Period Ends: 07/19/2013, 

Contact: Raegan Ball 573–638–2752. 

EIS No. 20130113, Final EIS, FHWA, 

OR, OR 62: I–5 to Dutton Road, 

Contact: Michelle Eraut 503–316– 

2559. 

Under MAP–21 section 1319, FHWA 

has issued a single FEIS and ROD. 

Therefore, the 30-day wait/review 

period under NEPA does not apply to 

this action. 

EIS No. 20130114, Draft EIS, FEMA, CA, 

East Bay Hills Hazardous Fire Risk 

Reduction, Comment Period Ends: 06/ 

17/2013, Contact: Alessandro Amaglio 

510–627–7027. 

EIS No. 20130115, Draft EIS, DOE, IL, 

FutureGen 2.0 Project, Comment 

Period Ends: 06/17/2013, Contact: 

Cliff Whyte 304–285–2098. 

EIS No. 20130116, Draft EIS, NPS, TX, 

Big Thicket National Preserve General 

Management Plan, Comment Period 

Ends: 07/01/2013, Contact: Erin 

Flanagan 303–969–2327. 

EIS No. 20130117, Final EIS, USACE, 

FL, Central Florida Phosphate District 

Phosphate Mining, Review Period 

Ends: 06/03/2013, Contact: John 

Fellows 813–769–7070. 

EIS No. 20130118, Draft EIS, BLM, ID, 

Jump Creek, Succor Creek, and Cow 

CreekWatersheds Grazing Permit 

Renewal, Comment Period Ends: 06/ 

17/2013, Contact: Jake Vialpando 

208–373–3814. 

EIS No. 20130119, Draft EIS, USFS, OR, 

Mt. Hood Meadows Parking 

Improvements (Twilight Parking Lot 

and Sunrise Maintenance Shop), 

Comment Period Ends: 06/17/2013, 

Contact: Jennie O’Connor Card 541– 

352–1255. 

EIS No. 20130120, Final EIS, USFS, AZ, 

Rim Lakes Forest Restoration Project, 

Amendment to the Apache-Sitgreaves 

National Forests Land and Resource 

Management Plan, Review Period 

Ends: 06/03/2013, Contact: 

Christopher James 928–535–7301. 

EIS No. 20130121, Second Draft 

Supplement, NRC, NH, NUREG–1437, 

License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, 

Supplement 46, Regarding Seabrook 

Station, Comment Period Ends: 06/30/ 

2013, Contact: Lois M. James 301– 

415–3306. 

EIS No. 20130122, Final EIS, MARAD, 

AL, ADOPTION—Garrows Bend 

Intermodal Rail, portion of the 

Choctaw Point Terminal Project, 

Review Period Ends: 06/03/2013, 

Contact: Kris Gilson 202–492–0479. 

The U.S. Department of 

Transportation’s Maritime 

Administration (MARAD) has adopted 

the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers FEIS 

#20040381, filed 08/10/2004.The 

MARAD was not a cooperating agency. 

Therefore, recirculation is necessary 

under Section 1506.3(b) of the CEQ 

Regulations. 


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