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by the Hawaii School Readiness 

Assessment (HSRA); 

(3) The percentage of students in 

schools served by the program who 

graduate from high school with a regular 

high school diploma, as defined in 34 

CFR 200.19(b)(1)(iv), in four years; and 

(4) The percentage of students 

participating in a Hawaiian language 

program conducted under the Native 

Hawaiian Education program who meet 

or exceed proficiency standards in 

reading on a test of the Hawaiian 

language. 

All grantees will be expected to 

submit an annual performance report 

that includes data addressing these 

performance measures, to the extent that 

they apply to the grantee’s project. 

VII. Agency Contact 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Irene Harwarth, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

room 3E244, Washington, DC 20202– 

6200. Telephone: (202) 401–3751 or by 

e-mail: Irene.Harwarth@ed.gov. 

If you use a TDD, call the FRS, toll 

free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

VIII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

an accessible format (e.g., braille, large 

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

on request to the program contact 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT in section VII of 

this notice. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You can view this document, as well as 

all other documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Adobe Portable Document 

Format (PDF) on the Internet at the 

following site: http://www.ed.gov/news/ 

fedregister. To use PDF you must have 

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at this site. 

Note: The official version of this document 

is the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the Code 

of Federal Regulations is available on the 

GPO Access at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ 

nara/index.html. 

Dated: February 23, 2010. 

Thelma Mele ́ndez de Santa Ana, 

Assistant Secretary for Elementary and 

Secondary Education. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9115–6; Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR– 

2010–0108] 

Integrated Science Assessment for 

Lead (Pb) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice; call for information. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is announcing that the 

Office of Research and Development’s 

National Center for Environmental 

Assessment (NCEA) is preparing an 

Integrated Science Assessment (ISA) as 

part of the review of the National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards 

(NAAQS) for Lead (Pb). This ISA is 

intended to update and revise, where 

appropriate, the scientific assessment 

presented in the Air Quality Criteria for 

Lead (EPA/600/R–5/144aF), published 

on October 1, 2006. Interested parties 

are invited to assist the EPA in 

developing and refining the scientific 

information base for the review of the 

Pb NAAQS by submitting research 

studies that have been published, 

accepted for publication, or presented at 

a public scientific meeting. 

DATES: All communications and 

information should be received by EPA 

by April 30, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Information may be 

submitted electronically, by mail, by 

facsimile, or by hand delivery/courier. 

Please follow the detailed instructions 

as provided in the section of this notice 

entitled SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

details on the period for submission of 

research information from the public, 

contact the Office of Environmental 

Information (OEI) Docket; telephone: 

202–566–1752; facsimile: 202–566– 

1753; or e-mail: OAR.Docket@epa.gov. 

For technical information, contact Ellen 

Kirrane, Ph.D., NCEA, telephone, 919– 

541–1340; facsimile: 919–541–2985; or 

e-mail: kirrane.ellen@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information About the Project 

Section 108 (a) of the Clean Air Act 

directs the Administrator to identify 

pollutants that meet certain criteria, 

including emissions which ‘‘may 

reasonably be anticipated to endanger 

public health and welfare’’ and whose 

presence ‘‘in the ambient air results from 

numerous or diverse mobile or 

stationary sources,’’ 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 such pollutant in the 

ambient air * * *.’’ Welfare effects as 

defined in section 302(h) (42 U.S.C. 

7602(h)) include, but are not limited to, 

‘‘effects on soils, water, crops, 

vegetation, man-made materials, 

animals, wildlife, weather, visibility and 

climate, damage to and deterioration of 

property, and hazards to transportation, 

as well as effects on economic values 

and on personal comfort and wellbeing.’’ Under section 109 of the Act, 

EPA is then to establish National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards 

(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 and welfare. EPA is also to revise 

the NAAQS, if appropriate, based on the 

revised air quality criteria. 

Lead (Pb) is one of six ‘‘criteria’’ 

pollutants for which EPA has 

established NAAQS. Periodically, EPA 

reviews the scientific basis for these 

standards by preparing an Integrated 

Science Assessment (ISA), formerly 

called an Air Quality Criteria Document 

(AQCD). The ISA and its supplementary 

annexes are the scientific basis for the 

additional technical and policy 

assessments that form the basis for EPA 

decisions on the adequacy of current 

NAAQS and the appropriateness of new 

or revised standards. Early steps in this 

process include announcing the 

beginning of this periodic NAAQS 

review and the development of the ISA, 

and EPA requesting that the public 

submit scientific literature that they 

want to bring to the attention of the 

Agency as it begins this process. The 

Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee (CASAC), an independent 

science advisory committee mandated 

by the Clean Air Act and part of the 

EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB), is 

charged with independent expert 

scientific review of EPA’s draft ISAs. As 

the process proceeds, the public will 

have opportunities to review and 

comment on drafts of the Pb ISA. These 

opportunities will also be announced in 

the Federal Register. 

The Agency is interested in obtaining 

information concerning toxicological 

studies of effects of controlled exposure 

to Pb on laboratory animals and in vitro 

systems, epidemiologic (observational) 

studies of health effects associated with 

exposures of human populations to Pb, 

and ecological effects of Pb exposure. 

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pathways, including those involving 

deposition, are also of interest to the 

Agency. EPA also seeks recent 

information in other areas of Pb research 

such as toxicokinetic modeling, 

exposure assessment and exposure 

assessment methodologies, sources and 

emissions, chemistry and physics, 

analytical methodology, fate and 

transport in the environment, ambient 

concentrations, including concentration 

changes in response to changes in Pb 

deposition, and effects on public 

welfare or the environment. This and 

other selected literature relevant to a 

review of the NAAQS for Pb will be 

assessed in the forthcoming Pb ISA. 

As part of this review of the Pb 

NAAQS, EPA intends to sponsor a 

workshop in May 2010, which will be 

announced in the Federal Register, to 

highlight significant new and emerging 

Pb research, and to make 

recommendations to the Agency 

regarding the design and scope of the 

review of the air quality criteria and the 

primary (health-based) and secondary 

(welfare-based) Pb standards to ensure 

that it addresses key policy-relevant 

issues and considers the new science 

that is relevant to informing our 

understanding of these issues. In 

addition, other opportunities for 

submission of new peer-reviewed, 

published (or in-press) papers will be 

possible as part of public comment on 

the draft ISAs that will be reviewed by 

CASAC. 

II. How To Submit Comments to the 

Docket at http://www.regulations.gov 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2010– 

0108 by one of the following methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: OAR.Docket@epa.gov. 

• Fax: 202–566–1753. 

• Mail: Office of Environmental 

Information (OEI) Docket (Mail Code: 

2822T), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. The phone 

number is 202–566–1752. 

• Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is 

located in the EPA Headquarters Docket 

Center, Room 3334 EPA West Building, 

1301 Constitution Ave., 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 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

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–OAR–2010– 

0108. 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 

http://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 http:// 

www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The 

http://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 e-mail comment directly 

to EPA without going through http:// 

www.regulations.gov, your e-mail 

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 http:// 

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

Docket: Documents in the docket are 

listed in the http://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 http:// 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the OEI Docket in the EPA Headquarters 

Docket Center. 

Dated: February 12, 2010. 

Rebecca Clark, 

Acting Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

[FR Doc. 2010–3970 Filed 2–25–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[ER–FRL–8988–4] 

Environmental Impact Statements and 

Regulations; Availability of EPA 

Comments 

Availability of EPA comments 

prepared pursuant to the Environmental 

Review Process (ERP), under section 

309 of the Clean Air Act and Section 

102(2)(c) of the National Environmental 

Policy Act as amended. Requests for 

copies of EPA comments can be directed 

to the Office of Federal Activities at 

202–564–7146 or http://www.epa.gov/ 

compliance/nepa/. 

An explanation of the ratings assigned 

to draft environmental impact 

statements (EISs) was published in FR 

dated July 17, 2009 (74 FR 34754). 

Notice: In accordance with Section 

309(a) of the Clean Air Act, EPA is 

required to make its comments on EISs 

issued by other Federal agencies public. 

Historically, EPA has met this mandate 

by publishing weekly notices of 

availability of EPA comments, which 

includes a brief summary of EPA’s 

comment letters, in the Federal 

Register. Since February 2008, EPA has 

been including its comment letters on 

EISs on its Web site at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/ 

eisdata.html. Including the entire EIS 

comment letters on the Web site 

satisfies the Section 309(a) requirement 

to make EPA’s comments on EISs 

available to the public. Accordingly, 

after March 31, 2010, EPA will 

discontinue the publication of this 

notice of availability of EPA comments 

in the Federal Register. 

Draft EISs 

EIS No. 20090272, ERP No. D–UAF– 

B11025–00, Modification of the 

Condor 1 and Condor 2 Military 

Operation Areas, 104th Fighter Wing 

of the Massachusetts Air National 

Guard Base (ANG) Proposes to 

Combine the Condor 1 and Condor 2 

MOA, ME and NH. 

Summary: EPA expressed 

environmental concerns about noise 

impacts, and recommended that ANG 


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