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questions, preliminary comments and 

other materials) for the March 10–11, 

2010 meeting and the April 8, 2010 and 

April 9, 2010 teleconferences will be 

placed on the CASAC Web site on the 

Web pages for those public meetings, 

accessible through the calendar link on 

the blue navigational bar at http:// 

www.epa.gov/casac. The Particulate 

Matter Urban-Focused Visibility 

Assessment: (January 2010) is available 

at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/ 

standards/pm/s_pm_2007_risk.html. 

The Quantitative Health Risk 

Assessment for Particulate Matter— 

Second External Review Draft (February 

2010) will be available on or about 

February 5, 2010 at http://www.epa.gov/ 

ttn/naaqs/standards/pm/ 

s_pm_2007_risk.html. The Policy 

Assessment for the Review of Particulate 

Matter National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards: First External Review Draft 

(February 2010) will be available on or 

about February 26, 2010 at http:// 

www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/pm/ 

s_pm_2007_pa.html. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant written or oral 

information for consideration on the 

topics included in this advisory activity. 

Oral Statements: To be placed on the 

public speaker list for the March 10–11, 

2010 meeting, interested parties should 

notify Dr. Holly Stallworth, DFO, by email no later than March 4, 2010. 

Individuals making oral statements will 

be limited to five minutes per speaker. 

To be placed on the public speaker list 

for the April 8, 2010 teleconference, 

interested parties should notify Dr. 

Stallworth, DFO, by e-mail no later than 

April 1, 2010. Individuals making oral 

statements on the teleconference will be 

limited to three minutes per speaker. 

Written Statements: Written statements 

for the March 10–11, 2010 meeting 

should be received in the SAB Staff 

Office by March 4, 2010, so that the 

information may be made available to 

the CASAC Panel for its consideration 

prior to this meeting. Written statements 

for the April 8, 2010 teleconference 

should be received in the SAB Staff 

Office by April 1, 2010. Written 

statements should be supplied to the 

DFO in the following formats: one hard 

copy with original signature and one 

electronic copy via e-mail (acceptable 

file format: Adobe Acrobat PDF, MS 

Word, WordPerfect, MS PowerPoint, or 

Rich Text files in IBM–PC/Windows 98/ 

2000/XP format). Submitters are asked 

to provide versions of each document 

submitted with and without signatures, 

because the SAB Staff Office does not 

publish documents with signatures on 

its Web sites. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Dr. 

Stallworth at the phone number or email address noted above, preferably at 

least ten days prior to the 

teleconference, to give EPA as much 

time as possible to process your request. 

Dated: February 16, 2010. 

Vanessa T. Vu, 

Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff 

Office. 

[FR Doc. 2010–3518 Filed 2–22–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9116–5] 

RIN 2040–AF10 

Stakeholder Meeting Regarding 

Revisions to the Unregulated 

Contaminant Monitoring Regulation 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Safe Drinking Water Act 

(SDWA) requires the Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate 

regulations establishing criteria for a 

monitoring program for unregulated 

contaminants. Monitoring varies based 

on system size, source water, and 

contaminants likely to be found. SDWA 

also specifies that for systems serving 

10,000 persons or fewer, only a 

representative sample of systems must 

monitor. Per SDWA, EPA is required to 

issue, every five years, a list of not more 

than 30 unregulated contaminants to be 

monitored by public water systems. The 

first list of unregulated contaminants 

was published on September 17, 1999, 

and the second list on January 4, 2007. 

The third list is scheduled to be 

proposed by November 2010. 

The purpose of this notice is to 

announce a public stakeholder meeting 

to present information to stakeholders 

concerning the status of the Agency’s 

efforts in the areas of analyte selection, 

analytical methods, sampling design, 

determination of minimum reporting 

levels, and other possible revisions to 

the current Unregulated Contaminant 

Monitoring Regulation. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

April 7, 2010, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 

Eastern Daylight Saving Time. 

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be 

held at the Crystal City Marriott at 

Reagan National Airport, in the Salon D 

Room, at 1999 Jefferson Davis Highway, 

Arlington, VA 22202. The hotel is 

located near the Ronald Reagan 

Washington National Airport, and has 

access to the Crystal City Station on the 

Blue and Yellow Lines of the 

Washington Metrorail System (Metro). 

The Marriott’s telephone number is 

(703) 413–5500. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

General background information, please 

contact the Safe Drinking Water Hotline, 

phone: (800) 426–4791 or (703) 412– 

3330. Technical information contact 

David J. Munch or Brenda D. Parris, 

USEPA, Office of Ground Water and 

Drinking Water, Mail Code 140, 26 West 

Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, 

OH 45268, or by e-mail: 

munch.dave@epa.gov or 

parris.brenda@epa.gov. An 

informational package will be prepared 

and available at the meeting. If you wish 

to receive this package prior to the 

meeting, contact Maureen Devitt Stone 

of The Cadmus Group at 

maureen.stone@cadmusgroup.com. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting is open to the public. 

Statements from the public will be taken 

if time permits. This meeting will be 

held in a building that is accessible to 

persons using wheelchairs and scooters. 

Any person needing special 

accommodations at this meeting, 

including wheelchair access, should 

contact Susan Bjork of The Cadmus 

Group at (617) 673–7166 or 

susan.bjork@cadmusgroup.com, as soon 

as possible, but preferably no less than 

five business days before the scheduled 

meeting. 

Dated: February 18, 2010. 

Cynthia C. Dougherty, 

Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking 

Water. 

[FR Doc. 2010–3534 Filed 2–22–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9114–8] 

Notice of a Regional Waiver of Section 

1605 (Buy American Requirement) of 

the American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) to 

the City of North Pole (the City) Alaska 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Acting Regional 

Administrator of EPA Region 10 is 

hereby granting a waiver of the Buy 

America requirements of ARRA Section 

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1605(a) under the authority of Section 

1605(b)(2) [manufactured goods are not 

produced in the United States in 

sufficient and reasonably available 

quantities and of a satisfactory quality] 

to the City for the purchase of ORION ®

Water Meter Monitor with Leak 

Detection Indicator in-home water meter 

monitors manufactured in Malaysia by 

Escatech, Inc., under license from 

Badger Meter, Inc., located in 

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This is a project 

specific waiver and only applies to the 

use of the specified product for the 

ARRA project being proposed. Any 

other ARRA recipient that wishes to use 

the same product must apply for a 

separate waiver based on project 

specific circumstances. The waiver 

applicant states that the Badger in-home 

water meter monitors are the only 

devices that are compatible with the 

water meter heads installed by the City 

since 2007. No other water meter 

monitors meet satisfactory quality to 

meet the specifications. 

The Acting Regional Administrator is 

making this determination based on the 

review and recommendations of the 

Drinking Water Unit. The City has 

provided sufficient documentation to 

support their request. 

DATES: Effective Date: February 11, 

2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Johnny Clark, DWSRF ARRA Program 

Management Analyst, Drinking Water 

Unit, Office of Water & Watersheds 

(OWW), (206) 553–0082, U.S. EPA 

Region 10 (OWW–136), 1200 Sixth 

Avenue, Suite 900, Seattle, WA 98101. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

In accordance with ARRA Section 

1605(c), the EPA hereby provides notice 

that it is granting a project waiver of the 

requirements of Section 1605(a) of 

Public Law 111–5, Buy American 

requirements, to the City for the 

acquisition of ORION ® Water Meter 

Monitor with Leak Detection Indicator 

in-home water meter monitors 

manufactured in Malaysia by Escatech, 

Inc., under license from Badger Meter, 

Inc., located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

The applicant indicates that Badger inhome water meter monitors are the only 

devices that are compatible with the 

water meter heads installed by the City 

since 2007 and that no other water 

meter monitors are capable or meeting 

satisfactory quality to meet the technical 

specifications. Section 1605 of the 

ARRA requires that none of the 

appropriated funds may be used for the 

construction, alteration, maintenance, or 

repair of a public building or public 

work unless all of the iron, steel, and 

manufactured goods used in the project 

is produced in the United States unless 

a waiver is provided to the recipient by 

EPA. A waiver may be provided under 

Section 1605(b) if EPA determines that 

(1) Applying these requirements would 

be inconsistent with public interest; (2) 

iron, steel, and the relevant 

manufactured goods are not produced in 

the United States in sufficient and 

reasonably available quantities and of a 

satisfactory quality; or (3) inclusion of 

iron, steel, and the relevant 

manufactured goods produced in the 

United States will increase the cost of 

the overall project by more than 25 

percent. 

This ARRA-funded project involves 

implementing a Water Meter 

Replacement Project by (1) improving 

efficiency by providing customers with 

a single meter reading platform and (2) 

promoting water conservation by 

providing customers with in-home 

monitoring devices. Because of extreme 

winter temperatures that can reach 

¥60° F., the City requires that water 

meters be installed inside heated 

structures. Moreover, the in-home 

monitoring feature strongly promotes 

water conservation through the early 

detection and remediation of leaks. The 

City has used residential water meters 

supplied by Badger Meter, Inc. since the 

1990s. In 2007, the City began replacing 

the heads on previously installed water 

meters with water meter heads 

containing a new transmitting 

technology, also from Badger Meter, Inc. 

The replacement Badger water meter 

head transmits a radio signal that can 

only be read by Badger Meter licensed 

meter reading technology including the 

in-home water meter monitoring units 

which are the subject of this waiver 

request. The City has completed the 

installation of approximately 425 of 

these meters, with the cost of procuring 

and installing the remaining 

approximately 100 replacement meters 

to be supported by this ARRA assistance 

agreement. 

An inquiry by EPA’s national 

contractor confirmed that no other 

electronic monitoring device is 

compatible with the Badger meter 

transmitter system. Based on available 

information, it is unlikely that another 

in-home meter monitoring device that is 

not licensed by Badger Meter, Inc. 

would function with the City’s existing 

meter configuration. Use of another 

meter monitoring system would thus 

likely require replacement of the 

existing 425 meters and transmitters. 

EPA finds these considerations as 

stated by the City provide ample 

functional justification for their 

specification of these meters, 

particularly because the use of meters 

with the specified features is required 

for their effective performance in the 

respects required by the City. Further, as 

the City initiated its procurement and 

installation of these meters in 2007, well 

before the enactment of ARRA, the 

decision to do so was clearly not an 

attempt to avoid application of the Buy 

American provisions of ARRA. 

Therefore, the City’s specifications for 

the particular Badger Meter model and 

features were justified. 

The April 28, 2009 EPA HQ 

Memorandum, Implementation of Buy 

American provisions of Public Law 

111–5, the ‘‘American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act of 2009’’, defines 

‘‘satisfactory quality ’’ as the quality of 

iron, steel or the relevant manufactured 

good as specified in the project plans 

and design. The City has provided 

information to the EPA representing that 

there are currently no domestic 

manufacturers of the in-home water 

meter monitors that meet the project 

specification requirements. Based on 

additional research by EPA’s consulting 

contractor (Cadmus), and to the best of 

the Region’s knowledge at this time, 

there does not appear to be any other 

manufacturers capable of meeting the 

City’s specifications. 

Furthermore, the purpose of the 

ARRA provisions was to stimulate 

economic recovery by funding current 

infrastructure construction, not to delay 

projects that are already shovel ready by 

requiring entities, like the City, to revise 

their design and potentially choose a 

more costly and less effective project. 

The imposition of ARRA Buy American 

requirements on such projects eligible 

for DWSRF assistance would result in 

unreasonable delay and thus displace 

the ‘‘shovel ready’’ status for this project. 

To further delay construction is in 

direct conflict with the most 

fundamental economic purposes of 

ARRA; to create or retain jobs. 

The Drinking Water Unit has 

reviewed this waiver request and has 

determined that the supporting 

documentation provided by the City is 

sufficient to meet the following criteria 

listed under Section 1605(b) and in the 

April 28, 2009, Implementation of Buy 

American provisions of Public Law 

111–5, the ‘‘American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act of 2009’’ 

Memorandum: Iron, steel, and the 

manufactured goods are not produced in 

the United States in sufficient and 

reasonably available quantities and of a 

satisfactory quality. 

The basis for this project waiver is the 

authorization provided in Section 

1605(b)(2), due to the lack of production 

of this product in the United States in 

sufficient and reasonably available 

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quantities and of a satisfactory quality 

in order to meet the City’s design 

specifications. The March 31, 2009 

Delegation of Authority Memorandum 

provided Regional Administrators with 

the authority to issue exceptions to 

Section 1605 of ARRA within the 

geographic boundaries of their 

respective regions and with respect to 

requests by individual grant recipients. 

Having established both a proper basis 

to specify the particular good required 

for this project, and that this 

manufactured good was not available 

from a producer in the United States, 

the City is hereby granted a waiver from 

the Buy American requirements of 

Section 1605(a) of Public Law 111–5 for 

the purchase ORION ® Water Meter 

Monitor with Leak Detection Indicator 

in-home water meter monitors 

manufactured in Malaysia by Escatech, 

Inc., under license from Badger Meter, 

Inc., located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

as specified in the City’s request of 

November 23, 2009. This supplementary 

information constitutes the detailed 

written justification required by Section 

1605(c) for waivers based on a finding 

under subsection (b). 

Authority: P.L. 111–5, section 1605. 

Issued on: February 11, 2010. 

Michelle L. Pirzadeh, 

Acting Regional Administrator, EPA, Region 

10. 

[FR Doc. 2010–3525 Filed 2–22–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE 

UNITED STATES 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

ACTION: Notice of a partially open 

meeting of the Board of Directors of the 

Export-Import Bank of the United 

States. 

TIME AND PLACE: Thursday, February 18, 

2010 at 9:30 a.m. The meeting will be 

held at Ex-Im Bank in Room 1143, 811 

Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 

20571. 

OPEN AGENDA ITEMS: Item No. 1: Ex-Im 

Bank Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory 

Committee for 2010. 

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: The meeting will 

be open to public observation for Item 

No. 1 only. 

FURTHER INFORMATION: For further 

information, contact: Office of the 

Secretary, 811 Vermont Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20571, (202) 565–3957. 

Jonathan J. Cordone, 

Senior Vice President and General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2010–3322 Filed 2–22–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6690–01–M 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Notice of Public Information Collection 

Being Reviewed by the Federal 

Communications Commission, 

Comments Requested 

February 17, 2010. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications 

Commission, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork burden 

invites the general public and other 

Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520. An 

agency may not conduct or sponsor a 

collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid control 

number. No person shall be subject to 

any penalty for failing to comply with 

a collection of information subject to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) that 

does not display a valid control number. 

Comments are requested concerning (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Commission, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the Commission’s 

burden estimate; (c) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected; (d) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on the respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology and (e) ways to 

further reduce the information burden 

for small business concerns with fewer 

than 25 employees. 

The FCC may not conduct or sponsor 

a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid control 

number. No person shall be subject to 

any penalty for failing to comply with 

a collection of information subject to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) that 

does not display a valid control number. 

DATES: Persons wishing to comment on 

this information collection should 

submit comments by April 26, 2010. If 

you anticipate that you will be 

submitting comments, but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the contact listed below as soon 

as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to 

Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), via fax 

at (202) 395–5167, or via e-mail at 

Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and 

to Cathy Williams, Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC), via 

e-mail at Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov and to 

PRA@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information about the 

information collection send an e-mail to 

PRA@fcc.gov or contact Cathy Williams 

at (202) 418–2918. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0647. 

Title: Annual Survey of Cable 

Industry Prices. 

Form Number: Form 333. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities; State, local or Tribal 

Government. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 758 respondents and 758 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 6 

hours. 

Frequency of Response: Annual 

Reporting Requirement. 

Total Annual Burden: 4,548 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: None. 

Obligation to Respond: Mandatory. 

The statutory authority for this 

information collection is in Sections 4(i) 

and 623(k) of the Communications Act 

of 1934, as amended. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

If individual respondents to this survey 

wish to request confidential treatment of 

any data provided in connection with 

this survey, they can do so upon written 

request, in accordance with Sections 

0.457 and 0.459 of the Commission’s 

rules. To receive confidential treatment 

of their data, respondents need only 

describe the specific information they 

wish to protect and provide an 

explanation of why such confidential 

treatment is appropriate. 

Privacy Impact Assessment: No 

impact(s). 

Needs and Uses: The Cable Television 

Consumer Protection and Competition 

Act of 1992 (‘‘Cable Act’’) requires the 

Commission to publish annually a 

report on average rates for basic cable 

service, cable programming service, and 

equipment. The report must compare 

the prices charged by cable operators 

subject to effective competition and 

those that are not subject to effective 

competition. The Annual Cable Industry 

Price Survey is intended to collect the 

data needed to prepare that report. The 

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