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certified mail (return receipt requested), 

by personal delivery, or by other means 

which allows verification of the fact and 

date of receipt. EPA, however, has 

determined that in the present 

circumstances the use of a Federal 

Register notice is the only practical and 

efficient way to contact affected 

businesses and to furnish the notice of 

opportunity to submit comments. The 

Agency’s decision to follow this course 

was made in recognition of the 

administrative difficulty and 

impracticality of directly contacting 

potentially thousands of individual 

businesses. 

4. Submission of Your Response in the 

English Language 

All responses to this notice must be 

in the English language. 

5. The Effect of Failure To Respond to 

This Notice 

In accordance with 40 CFR 2.204(e)(1) 

and 2.205(d)(1), EPA will construe your 

failure to furnish timely comments in 

response to this notice as a waiver of 

your business’s claim(s) of 

confidentiality for any information in 

the types of documents identified in this 

notice. 

6. What To Include in Your Comments 

If you believe that any of the 

information contained in the types of 

documents which are described in this 

notice and which are currently, or may 

become, subject to FOIA requests, is 

entitled to confidential treatment, please 

specify which portions of the 

information you consider confidential. 

Information not specifically identified 

as subject to a confidentiality claim may 

be disclosed to the requestor without 

further notice to you. 

For each item or class of information 

that you identify as being subject to 

your claim, please answer the following 

questions, giving as much detail as 

possible: 

1. For what period of time do you 

request that the information be 

maintained as confidential, e.g., until a 

certain date, until the occurrence of a 

specified event, or permanently? If the 

occurrence of a specific event will 

eliminate the need for confidentiality, 

please specify that event. 

2. Information submitted to EPA 

becomes stale over time. Why should 

the information you claim as 

confidential be protected for the time 

period specified in your answer to 

question no. 1? 

3. What measures have you taken to 

protect the information claimed as 

confidential? Have you disclosed the 

information to anyone other than a 

governmental body or someone who is 

bound by an agreement not to disclose 

the information further? If so, why 

should the information still be 

considered confidential? 

4. Is the information contained in any 

publicly available material such as the 

Internet, publicly available data bases, 

promotional publications, annual 

reports, or articles? Is there any means 

by which a member of the public could 

obtain access to the information? Is the 

information of a kind that you would 

customarily not release to the public? 

5. Has any governmental body made 

a determination as to the confidentiality 

of the information? If so, please attach 

a copy of the determination. 

6. For each category of information 

claimed as confidential, explain with 

specificity why release of the 

information is likely to cause substantial 

harm to your competitive position. 

Explain the specific nature of those 

harmful effects, why they should be 

viewed as substantial, and the causal 

relationship between disclosure and 

such harmful effects. How could your 

competitors make use of this 

information to your detriment? 

7. Do you assert that the information 

is submitted on a voluntary or a 

mandatory basis? Please explain the 

reason for your assertion. If the business 

asserts that the information is 

voluntarily submitted information, 

please explain whether and why 

disclosure of the information would 

tend to lessen the availability to EPA of 

similar information in the future. 

8. Any other issue you deem relevant. 

Please note that you bear the burden 

of substantiating your confidentiality 

claim. Conclusory allegations will be 

given little or no weight in the 

determination. If you wish to claim any 

of the information in your response as 

confidential, you must mark the 

response ‘‘CONFIDENTIAL’’ or with a 

similar designation, and must bracket 

all text so claimed. Information so 

designated will be disclosed by EPA 

only to the extent allowed by, and by 

means of, the procedures set forth in, 40 

CFR part 2, subpart B. If you fail to 

claim the information as confidential, it 

may be made available to the requestor 

without further notice to you. 

III. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to EPA through http:// 

www.regulations.gov or e-mail. Please 

submit this information by mail to the 

address identified in the ADDRESSES

section of today’s notice for inclusion in 

the non-public CBI docket. Clearly mark 

the part or all of the information that 

you claim to be CBI. For CBI 

information in a disk or CD ROM that 

you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the 

disk or CD ROM as CBI and then 

identify electronically within the disk or 

CD ROM the specific information that is 

claimed as CBI. Information so marked 

will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with the procedures set 

forth in 40 CFR part 2, subpart B. In 

addition to the submission of one 

complete version of the comment that 

includes information claimed as CBI, a 

copy of the comment that does not 

contain the information claimed as CBI 

must be submitted for inclusion in the 

public docket. 

2. Tips for Preparing Your Comments. 

When submitting comments, remember 

to: 

• Identify the notice by docket 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

• Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

• Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

• Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns, and suggest 

alternatives. 

• Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

Dated: December 20, 2010. 

Susan E. Bromm, 

Director, Office of Federal Activities. 

[FR Doc. 2010–33188 Filed 1–3–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0879; FRL–8860–5] 

Exposure Modeling Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: An Exposure Modeling Public 

Meeting (EMPM) will be held for one 

day on January 11, 2011. This notice 

announces the location and time for the 

meeting and sets forth the tentative 

agenda topics. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

January 11, 2011 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 

p.m. To request accommodation of a 

disability, please contact the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT, preferably prior to the 

meeting, to give EPA as much time as 

possible to process your request. 


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ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Environmental Protection Agency, 

Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), One 

Potomac Yard (South Building), 4th 

Floor South Conference Room (S–4370/ 

80), 2777 S. Crystal Drive, Arlington, 

VA 22202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chuck Peck, Environmental Fate and 

Effects Division (7507P), Office of 

Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460– 

0001; telephone number: (703) 347– 

8064; fax number: (703) 305–6309; email address: peck.charles@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

You may be potentially affected by 

this action if you are required to 

conduct testing of chemical substances 

under the Toxic Substances Control Act 

(TSCA), the Federal Food, Drug, and 

Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), or the Federal 

Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 

Act (FIFRA). Since other entities may 

also be interested, the Agency has not 

attempted to describe all the specific 

entities that may be affected by this 

action. If you have any questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

to a particular entity, consult the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

B. How can I get copies of this document 

and other related information? 

EPA has established a docket for this 

action under docket ID number EPA– 

HQ–OPP–2009–0879. Publicly available 

docket materials are available either in 

the electronic docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or, if only 

available in hard copy, at the Office of 

Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory 

Public Docket in Rm. S–4400, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The hours of 

operation of this Docket Facility are 

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

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The Docket Facility telephone 

number is (703) 305–5805. 

II. Background 

On a biannual interval, an Exposure 

Modeling Public Meeting will be held 

for presentation and discussion of 

current issues in modeling pesticide 

fate, transport, and exposure of risk 

assessment in a regulatory context. 

Meeting dates and abstract requests are 

announced through the ‘‘empmlist’’ 

forum on the LYRIS list server at 

https://lists.epa.gov/read/all_forums/. 

III. How can I request to participate in 

this meeting? 

You may submit a request to 

participate in this meeting to the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. Do not submit any information 

in your request that is considered CBI. 

Requests to participate in the meeting, 

identified by docket ID number EPA– 

HQ–OPP–2009–0879, must be received 

3 days after January 4, 2011. 

IV. Tentative Topics for the Meeting 

Tentative topics for the meeting will 

include presentations related to the 

spatial context of terrestrial exposure 

modeling. Specifically, presentations 

will include the following: 

• Estimation of confidence intervals 

for metabolite degradation rates. 

• Developments in terrestrial 

exposure modeling. 

• Determining the fate and transport 

of pesticides in the Chesapeake Bay 

region. 

• Habitat classification for ecological 

risk assessments using aerial 

photography and GIS data. 

• Dermal contact, movement, and 

amphibian pesticide exposure. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, modeling, 

monitoring, pesticides. 

Dated: December 28, 2010. 

Arthur-Jean Williams, 

Acting Director, Environmental Fate and 

Effects Division, Office of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2010–33202 Filed 1–3–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9247–4] 

Public Water Supply Supervision 

Program; Program Revision for the 

State of Washington 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of tentative approval. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the State of Washington has revised its 

approved State Public Water Supply 

Supervision Primacy Program. 

Washington has adopted a definition for 

public water system that is analogous to 

EPA’s definition of public water system, 

and has adopted regulations analogous 

to EPA’s Consumer Confidence Report 

Rule, Interim Enhanced Surface Water 

Treatment Rule, Stage 1 Disinfectants 

and Disinfection Byproducts Rule, Lead 

and Copper Minor Revisions Rule, 

Public Notification Rule, Radionuclides 

Rule, Arsenic Rule, Filter Backwash 

Rule, Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface 

Water Treatment Rule, Variance and 

Exemptions Rule, Stage 2 Disinfectants 

and Disinfection Byproducts Rule, Long 

Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water 

Treatment Rule, and Ground Water 

Rule. EPA has determined that these 

revisions are no less stringent than the 

corresponding Federal regulations. 

Therefore, EPA intends to approve these 

State program revisions. By approving 

these rules, EPA does not intend to 

affect the rights of Federally recognized 

Indian Tribes within ‘‘Indian country’’ as 

defined by 18 U.S.C. 1151, nor does it 

intend to limit existing rights of the 

State of Washington. 

DATES: All interested parties may 

request a public hearing. A request for 

a public hearing must be submitted by 

February 3, 2011 to the Regional 

Administrator at the EPA address 

shown below. Frivolous or insubstantial 

requests for a hearing may be denied by 

the Regional Administrator. However, if 

a substantial request for a public hearing 

is made by February 3, 2011, a public 

hearing will be held. If no timely and 

appropriate request for a hearing is 

received and the Regional Administrator 

does not elect to hold a hearing on his 

own motion, this determination shall 

become final and effective on February 

3, 2011. Any request for a public 

hearing shall include the following 

information: (1) The name, address, and 

telephone number of the individual, 

organization, or other entity requesting 

a hearing; (2) a brief statement of the 

requesting person’s interest in the 

Regional Administrator’s determination 

and a brief statement of the information 

that the requesting person intends to 

submit at such hearing; (3) the signature 

of the individual making the request, or, 

if the request is made on behalf of an 

organization or other entity, the 

signature of a responsible official of the 

organization or other entity. 

ADDRESSES: All documents relating to 

this determination are available for 

inspection between the hours of 9 a.m. 

and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, at 

the Washington Department of HealthOffice of Drinking Water, 243 Israel 

Road SE., 2nd floor, Tumwater, 

Washington 98501 and between the 

hours of 9 a.m.–12 p.m. and 1–4 p.m. at 

the EPA Region 10 Library, 1200 Sixth 

Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98101. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Wendy Marshall, EPA Region 10, 

Drinking Water Unit, by mail at the 

Seattle address given above, by 

telephone at (206) 553–1890, or by 

e-mail at marshall.wendy@epa.gov. 


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