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when approved, are listed in 40 CFR 

part 9, are displayed either by 

publication in the Federal Register or 

by other appropriate means, such as on 

the related collection instrument or 

form, if applicable. The display of OMB 

control numbers in certain EPA 

regulations is consolidated in 40 CFR 

part 9. 

Abstract: EPA’s Design for the 

Environment (DfE) Formulator Product 

Recognition Program formally 

recognizes safer products where all 

ingredients have an environmental and 

human health profile showing that they 

are the safest in their functional use 

class. Under the encouragement of this 

program, leading companies have made 

great progress in developing safer, 

highly effective chemical products. 

Since the program’s inception in 1997, 

formulators have used the program as a 

portal to OPPT’s unique chemical 

expertise, information resources, and 

guidance on greener chemistry. DfE 

Formulator partners enjoy Agency 

recognition, including the use of the DfE 

logo on products with the safest 

possible formulations. In the future, 

EPA expects much greater program 

participation due to rising demand for 

safer products. This information 

collection enables EPA to accommodate 

participation by more than nine 

formulators each year and to enhance 

program transparency. 

Information collection activities 

associated with this program will assist 

the Agency in meeting the goals of the 

Pollution Prevention Act (PPA) by 

providing resources and recognition for 

businesses committed to promoting and 

using safer chemical products. In turn, 

the program will help businesses meet 

corporate sustainability goals by 

providing the means to, and an objective 

measure of, environmental stewardship. 

Investment analysts and advisers seek 

these types of measures in evaluating a 

corporation’s sustainability profile and 

investment worthiness. Formulator 

Program partnership is an important 

impetus for prioritizing and completing 

the transition to safer chemical 

products. The Formulator Program is 

also needed to promote greater use of 

safer chemical products by companies 

unaware of the benefits of such a 

change. 

EPA has tailored its request for 

information, and especially the 

Formulator Product Recognition 

Program application forms, to ensure 

that the Agency requests only that 

information essential to verify 

applicants’ eligibility for recognition. 

Responses to the collection of 

information are voluntary. Respondents 

may claim all or part of a notice 

confidential. EPA will disclose 

information that is covered by a claim 

of confidentiality only to the extent 

permitted by, and in accordance with, 

the procedures in TSCA section 14 and 

40 CFR part 2. 

Burden Statement: The annual public 

reporting and recordkeeping burden for 

this collection of information is 

estimated to 22 hours per response. 

Burden means the total time, effort or 

financial resources expended by persons 

to generate, maintain, retain or disclose 

or provide information to or for a 

Federal agency. This includes the time 

needed to review instructions; develop, 

acquire, install and utilize technology 

and systems for the purposes of 

collecting, validating and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information; adjust the 

existing ways to comply with any 

previously applicable instructions and 

requirements; train personnel to be able 

to respond to a collection of 

information; search data sources; 

complete and review the collection of 

information; and transmit or otherwise 

disclose the information. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: 

Entities potentially affected by this 

action are companies that formulate 

end-use, for-sale chemical products. 

Frequency of Collection: On 

occassion. 

Estimated Average Number of 

Responses for Each Respondent: 1. 

Estimated No. of Respondents: 32. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 691 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Costs: 

$815,473 (including $382,800 in M&O 

costs). 

Changes in Burden Estimates: This is 

a new ICR. This estimated burden for 

this new ICR is estimated to be 691 

hours and is a program change. 

Dated: July 30, 2009. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. E9–18696 Filed 8–4–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8940–4] 

EPA Science Advisory Board Staff 

Office; Notification of Two Public 

Teleconferences of the Chartered 

Science Advisory Board: Additional 

Information 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In a Federal Register notice 

dated July 15, 2009, the EPA Science 

Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office 

announced a public teleconference on 

August 28, 2009 for a chartered SAB 

quality review of its draft report on the 

Agency’s Expert Elicitation White 

Paper. That teleconference will occur as 

announced, but will include the 

addition of a briefing on the SAB 

Integrated Nitrogen Committee draft 

report. The briefing will provide 

information in preparation for a future 

quality review of the Integrated Nitrogen 

Committee report to be announced in a 

future Federal Register notice. This 

corrected notice announces the addition 

of the Integrated Nitrogen Committee. 

DATES: The public teleconference date 

will be Friday, August 28, 2009 from 2 

p.m. to 3:30 p.m. (all times are Eastern 

Time). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Thomas Miller, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), EPA Science Advisory 

Board (1400F), (202) 343–9982. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EPA 

published a document in the Federal 

Register notice dated July 15, 2009, FR 

Doc. E9–16842, on pages 34348–34349, 

the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) 

Staff Office announced a public 

teleconference on August 28, 2009 for a 

chartered SAB quality review of its draft 

report on the Agency’s Expert 

Elicitation White Paper. Background (c) 

as follows is being added for discussion 

at the meeting. 

(c) Briefing To Prepare for the Quality 

Review of the SAB’s Draft Integrated 

Nitrogen Research Report: During this 

teleconference, the SAB will also 

receive a briefing to help Board 

members prepare for a future quality 

review of a draft SAB Integrated 

Nitrogen Committee draft report. The 

SAB quality review will occur at a 

future public meeting or teleconference 

yet to be announced. The briefing will 

summarize the Committee’s original 

study on reactive nitrogen. Reactive 

nitrogen, a form of nitrogen consisting 

mainly of ammonium and nitrate, is 

‘‘fixed’’ by natural or human-driven 

processes or recycled from decaying 

organic matter. Increasing quantities of 

reactive nitrogen released by human 

activities, such as the production and 

use of synthetic fertilizers, burning of 

fossil fuel, and planting of nitrogenfixing crops currently surpasses the 

amount of nitrogen fixed by natural 

processes (e.g., microbial activities, 

wildfire). Adverse environmental effects 

may occur when reactive nitrogen 

occurs in amounts that exceed what the 

ecosystem can normally use or recycle. 

Adverse effects may include 


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degradation of air and water quality, 

harmful algae blooms, hypoxia, fish 

kills, loss of drinking water supplies, 

loss of biodiversity, forest declines, and 

human health effects. 

The SAB Integrated Nitrogen 

Committee undertook this study to 

assess linkages among the 

environmental effects of reactive 

nitrogen and to explore their 

implications for nitrogen research and 

risk management. The study 

recommends a more integrated 

approach to reactive nitrogen research 

and identifies opportunities for 

integrated approaches for nitrogen 

management. 

Information about the work of the 

SAB Integrated Nitrogen Committee is 

available on the SAB Web site at http:// 

yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/ 

fedrgstr_activites/ 

Nitrogen%20Project?OpenDocument. 

Dated: July 30, 2009. 

Anthony Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

[FR Doc. E9–18697 Filed 8–4–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies 

The companies listed in this notice 

have applied to the Board for approval, 

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company 

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) 

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 

225), and all other applicable statutes 

and regulations to become a bank 

holding company and/or to acquire the 

assets or the ownership of, control of, or 

the power to vote shares of a bank or 

bank holding company and all of the 

banks and nonbanking companies 

owned by the bank holding company, 

including the companies listed below. 

The applications listed below, as well 

as other related filings required by the 

Board, are available for immediate 

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 

indicated. The applications also will be 

available for inspection at the offices of 

the Board of Governors. Interested 

persons may express their views in 

writing on the standards enumerated in 

the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the 

proposal also involves the acquisition of 

a nonbanking company, the review also 

includes whether the acquisition of the 

nonbanking company complies with the 

standards in section 4 of the BHC Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise 

noted, nonbanking activities will be 

conducted throughout the United States. 

Additional information on all bank 

holding companies may be obtained 

from the National Information Center 

website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/. 

Unless otherwise noted, comments 

regarding each of these applications 

must be received at the Reserve Bank 

indicated or the offices of the Board of 

Governors not later than August 28, 

2009. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of New 

York (Ivan Hurwitz, Bank Applications 

Officer) 33 Liberty Street, New York, 

New York 10045–0001: 

1. The Adirondack Trust Company 

Employee Stock Ownership Trust, 

Saratoga Springs, New York; to acquire 

an additional 25 voting shares of 473 

Broadway Holding Corporation, and 

thereby indirectly acquire an additional 

1,000 voting shares of The Adirondack 

Trust Company, both of Saratoga 

Springs, New York. 

B. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 

(Glenda Wilson, Community Affairs 

Officer) P.O. Box 442, St. Louis, 

Missouri 63166–2034: 

1. Southern Bancorp, Inc., 

Arkadelphia, Arkansas; to merge with 

First Delta Bankshares, Inc., Blytheville, 

Arkansas, and thereby indirectly acquire 

Bank of Trumann, Trumann, Arkansas, 

and First National Bank in Blytheville, 

Blytheville, Arkansas. 

C. Federal Reserve Bank of San 

Francisco (Kenneth Binning, Vice 

President, Applications and 

Enforcement) 101 Market Street, San 

Francisco, California 94105–1579: 

1. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, 

Inc., The Bank of Tokyo–Mitsubishi UFJ, 

Ltd., both of Tokyo, Japan, and 

UnionBanCal Corporation, San 

Francisco, California; to acquire First 

State Bank–Winnie, Winnie, Texas, and 

simultaneously merge it with and into 

Union Bank, National Association, San 

Francisco, California. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, July 30, 2009. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E9–18639 Filed 8–4–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies 

The companies listed in this notice 

have applied to the Board for approval, 

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company 

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) 

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 

225), and all other applicable statutes 

and regulations to become a bank 

holding company and/or to acquire the 

assets or the ownership of, control of, or 

the power to vote shares of a bank or 

bank holding company and all of the 

banks and nonbanking companies 

owned by the bank holding company, 

including the companies listed below. 

The applications listed below, as well 

as other related filings required by the 

Board, are available for immediate 

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 

indicated. The applications also will be 

available for inspection at the offices of 

the Board of Governors. Interested 

persons may express their views in 

writing on the standards enumerated in 

the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the 

proposal also involves the acquisition of 

a nonbanking company, the review also 

includes whether the acquisition of the 

nonbanking company complies with the 

standards in section 4 of the BHC Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise 

noted, nonbanking activities will be 

conducted throughout the United States. 

Additional information on all bank 

holding companies may be obtained 

from the National Information Center 

website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/. 

Unless otherwise noted, comments 

regarding each of these applications 

must be received at the Reserve Bank 

indicated or the offices of the Board of 

Governors not later than August 27, 

2009. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 

(Glenda Wilson, Community Affairs 

Officer) P.O. Box 442, St. Louis, 

Missouri 63166–2034: 

1. St. Jacob Bancshares, Inc.; to 

become a bank holding company by 

acquiring 100 percent of the voting 

shares of State Bank of St. Jacob, both 

of St. Jacob, Illinois. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, July 31, 2009. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E9–18692 Filed 8–4–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 

Notice of Agreements Filed 

The Commission hereby gives notice 

of the filing of the following agreements 

under the Shipping Act of 1984. 

Interested parties may submit comments 

on the agreements to the Secretary, 

Federal Maritime Commission, 

Washington, DC 20573, within ten days 

of the date this notice appears in the 

Federal Register. Copies of the 

agreements are available through the 

Commission’s website (www.fmc.gov) or 

by contacting the Office of Agreements 

at (202)–523–5793 or 

tradeanalysis@fmc.gov. 


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