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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Notification of a Public Meeting and 

Public Teleconference(s) of the Clean 

Air Scientific Advisory Committee 

(CASAC) Particulate Matter Review 

Panel 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) Staff Office announces a public 

meeting on March 10–11, 2010 of the 

Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee (CASAC) Particulate Matter 

Review Panel to review EPA’s 

Particulate Matter Urban-Focused 

Visibility Assessment-Second External 

Review Draft (January 2010) and 

Quantitative Health Risk Assessment for 

Particulate Matter—Second External 

Review Draft (February 2010). The SAB 

Staff Office also announces a 

teleconference of the CASAC Particulate 

Matter Review Panel on April 8, 2010 to 

review EPA’s Policy Assessment for the 

Review of Particulate Matter National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards—First 

External Review Draft (February 2010). 

An optional public teleconference 

will be held on April 9, 2010 in the 

event more time is needed to discuss 

EPA’s Policy Assessment following the 

April 8, 2010 teleconference. 

DATES: The public meeting will be held 

on March 10, 2010 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 

p.m. (Eastern Time) and March 11, 2010 

from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Eastern Time). 

A public teleconference will be held on 

April 8, 2010 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

(Eastern Time). An additional public 

teleconference will be held on April 9, 

2010 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. (Eastern 

Time) in the event more time is needed. 

ADDRESSES: The March 10–11, 2010 

meeting will be held at the Marriott in 

Research Triangle Park, NC, 4700 

Guardian Drive, Durham, North 

Carolina 27703. The public 

teleconferences will be conducted by 

telephone only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public who wants further 

information concerning the public 

meeting or public teleconferences may 

contact Dr. Holly Stallworth, Designated 

Federal Officer (DFO), EPA Science 

Advisory Board (1400F), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; via telephone/ 

voice mail (202) 343–9867; fax (202) 

233–0643; or e-mail at 

stallworth.holly@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the CASAC can 

be found on the EPA Web site at 

http://www.epa.gov/casac. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The Clean Air Scientific 

Advisory Committee (CASAC) was 

established under section 109(d)(2) of 

the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) (42 

U.S.C. 7409) as an independent 

scientific advisory committee. CASAC 

provides advice, information and 

recommendations on the scientific and 

technical aspects of air quality criteria 

and national ambient air quality 

standards (NAAQS) under sections 108 

and 109 of the Act. The CASAC is a 

Federal advisory committee chartered 

under the Federal Advisory Committee 

Act (FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C., App 

2. The Panel will comply with the 

provisions of FACA and all appropriate 

SAB Staff Office procedural policies. 

Section 109(d)(1) of the CAA requires 

that the Agency periodically review and 

revise, as appropriate, the air quality 

criteria and the National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard (NAAQS) for the six 

‘‘criteria’’ air pollutants, including 

particulate matter (PM). EPA conducts 

scientific and policy assessments related 

to both primary (health-based) and 

secondary (welfare-based) standards for 

each of these pollutants. As part of that 

process, the CASAC Particulate Matter 

Review Panel reviews a series of EPA’s 

assessments that provide the basis for 

EPA rulemaking. 

The purpose of the March 10–11, 

2010 meeting is to review second drafts 

of the Particulate Matter Urban-Focused 

Visibility Assessment (January 2010) 

and Quantitative Health Risk 

Assessment for Particulate Matter 

(February 2010). In addition the March 

10–11, 2010 meeting will also include a 

presentation on a first draft of EPA’s 

Policy Assessment for the Review of the 

Particulate Matter National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards (Policy Assessment, 

February 2010). The Policy Assessment 

will serve to ‘‘bridge the gap’’ between 

the scientific information and the 

judgments required of the Administrator 

in determining whether it is appropriate 

to retain or revise the standards. The 

first draft Policy Assessment builds 

upon the key scientific and technical 

information contained in the Agency’s 

Integrated Science Assessment for 

Particulate Matter (Final Report) (ISA, 

December 2009) as well as the two draft 

assessment documents titled Particulate 

Matter Urban-Focused Visibility 

Assessment: Second External Review 

Draft (January 2010) and Quantitative 

Health Risk Assessment for Particulate 

Matter: Second External Review Draft 

(February 2010). CASAC’s deliberations 

on the first draft Policy Assessment will 

take place during the teleconference 

scheduled for April 8, 2010 and if more 

time is needed, on April 9, 2010. 

Background information about the 

formation of the CASAC Particulate 

Matter Review Panel was published in 

the Federal Register on March 8, 2007 

(72 FR 10527–10528). The Panel 

previously held a public teleconference 

on November 30, 2007 (announced in 72 

FR 63177–63178) to provide 

consultative advice on EPA’s draft 

Integrated Review Plan for the National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards for 

Particulate Matter (October 2007) the 

first document in this review of the PM 

NAAQS. On April 1–2, 2009, CASAC 

reviewed the Integrated Science 

Assessment for Particulate Matter—First 

External Review Draft (December 2008), 

and provided consultative advice on 

Particulate Matter National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards: Scope and Methods 

Plan for Health Risk and Exposure 

Assessment (February 2009) and 

Particulate Matter National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards: Scope and Methods 

Plan for Urban Visibility Impact 

Assessment (February 2009). The April 

1–2, 2009 meeting was announced 

February 19, 2009 in 74 FR 7688–7689. 

As announced in 74 FR 46586—46587, 

on October 5–6, 2009, CASAC reviewed 

the Integrated Science Assessment for 

Particulate Matter—Second External 

Review Draft (July 2009) and Particulate 

Matter Urban Focused Visibility 

Assessment-External Review Draft 

(September 2009) and Risk Assessment 

to Support the Review of the PM 

Primary National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards-External Review Draft 

(September 2009). 

Technical Contacts: Any questions 

concerning Particulate Matter UrbanFocused Visibility Assessment—Second 

External Review Draft (January 2010) 

should be directed to Ms. Vicki 

Sandiford, OAR, at 

sandiford.vicki@epa.gov or 919–541– 

2629. Any questions concerning EPA’s 

Quantitative Health Risk Assessment for 

Particulate Matter—Second External 

Review Draft (February 2010) should be 

directed to Dr. Zachary Pekar, OAR, at 

pekar.zachary@epa.gov or 919–541– 

3704. Any questions concerning Policy 

Assessment for the Review of Particulate 

Matter National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards—First External Review Draft 

(February 2010) should be directed to 

Ms. Beth Hassett-Sipple, OAR, at 

hassett-sipple.beth@epa.gov or 919– 

541–4605. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: All 

meeting materials (agenda, charge 

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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. 

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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. 

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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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