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advance-registration forms should be 

sent to Ms. Joi Ross, APEX Direct Inc., 

by phone at (630) 372–8080, by fax at 

(630) 372–4394, or by e-mail at 

jross@alwayspursuingexcellence.com. 

Please provide name, organization, and 

telephone number for follow-up as 

necessary. Non-English speaking 

attendees wishing to arrange for a 

foreign language interpreter also may 

make appropriate arrangements using 

these numbers. 

Correspondence concerning the 

meeting should be sent to Ms. Victoria 

Robinson, NEJAC NEJAC Designated 

Federal Officer, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, at 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

(MC2201A), Washington, DC 20460; via 

e-mail at Robinson.Victoria@epa.gov; by 

telephone at (202) 564–6349; or by FAX 

at (202) 564–1624. Additional 

information about the meeting is 

available at the Internet Web site: 

http://www.epa.gov/compliance/ 

environmentaljustice/nejac/ 

meetings.html. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Charter of the NEJAC states that the 

advisory committee shall provide 

independent advice to the 

Administrator on areas that may 

include, among other things, ‘‘advice 

about broad, cross-cutting issues related 

to environmental justice, including 

environment-related strategic, scientific, 

technological, regulatory and economic 

issues related to environmental justice. 

The teleconference call shall be used to 

receive comments, discuss and provide 

recommendations primarily regarding 

EPA’s national enforcement priorities. 

A. Public Comment: Individuals or 

groups making remarks during the 

public comment period will be limited 

to a total time of five minutes. Only one 

representative of a community, 

organization or group will be allowed to 

speak. Written comments can also be 

submitted for the record. The suggested 

format for individuals providing public 

comments is as follows: Name of 

Speaker, Name of Organization/ 

Community, Address/Telephone/Email, Description of Concern and its 

Relationship to a Specific Policy 

Issue(s), and Recommendations or 

desired outcome. Written comments 

received by 11 a.m. Eastern Time 

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 will be 

included in the materials distributed to 

the members of the NEJAC. Written 

comments received after that time will 

be provided to the NEJAC as logistics 

allow. All information should be sent 

Ms. Joi Ross listed in the CONTACT 

section above. 

B. Information about Services for 

Individuals with Disabilities: For 

information about access or services for 

individuals with disabilities, please 

contact Ms. Joi Ross listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section 

above. To request special 

accommodations for a disability, please 

contact Ms. Hammond, at least 10 days 

prior to the call, to give EPA sufficient 

time to process your request. All 

requests should be sent to the address, 

e-mail, or fax number listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section 

above. 

Dated: September 9, 2009. 

Victoria Robinson, 

Designated Federal Officer, National 

Environmental Justice Advisory Council. 

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[EPA–HQ–OAR–2007–0492; FRL–8955–2] 

Release of Draft Documents Related to 

the Review of the National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards for Particulate 

Matter 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Availability of draft documents 

for public comment. 

SUMMARY: On or about September 4, 

2009, the Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards (OAQPS) of EPA is 

making available for public comment 

two draft assessment documents: Risk 

Assessment to Support the Review of the 

PM Primary National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards—External Review 

Draft and Particulate Matter UrbanFocused Visibility Assessment— 

External Review Draft. These draft 

documents describe the quantitative 

analyses that are being conducted as 

part of the review of the National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards 

(NAAQS) for particulate matter (PM). 

DATES: Comments should be submitted 

on or before October 15, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2007–0492, by one of the 

following methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: Comments may be sent by 

electronic mail (e-mail) to a-and-rdocket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID 

No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2007–0492. 

• Fax: Fax your comments to 202– 

566–9744, Attention Docket ID. No. 

EPA–HQ–OAR–2007–0492. 

• Mail: Send your comments to: Air 

and Radiation Docket and Information 

Center, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mailcode: 2822T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460, Attention Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–OAR–2007–0492. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: Deliver 

your comments to: EPA Docket Center, 

1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Room 

3334, Washington, DC. Such deliveries 

are only accepted during the Docket’s 

normal hours of operation, and special 

arrangements should be made for 

deliveries of boxed information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2007– 

0492. The EPA’s policy is that all 

comments received will be included in 

the public docket without change and 

may be made available online at 

http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information provided, 

unless the 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: All 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 

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1EPA 452R–08–004; March 2008; Available: 

http://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/pm/s_pm_

2007_pd.html. 

2EPA–452/P–09–001 and –002; February 2009; 

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

standards/pm/s_pm_2007_pd.html. 

3See http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/ 

4620a620d0120f93852572410080d786/350899

ec134552948525746600691de5!OpenDocument. 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

will be 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 Air Docket in the EPA Docket 

Center, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC. This Docket Facility is open from 

8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays. The 

Docket telephone number is 202–566– 

1742; fax 202–566–9744. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions related to the draft document 

titled, Risk Assessment to Support the 

Review of the PM Primary National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards: 

External Review Draft (September 2009), 

please contact Dr. Zachary Pekar, Office 

of Air Quality Planning and Standards 

(Mail code C504–06), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711; email: pekar.zachary@epa.gov; 

telephone: 919–541–3704; fax: 919– 

541–0237. 

For questions related to the draft 

document titled, Particulate Matter 

Urban-Focused Visibility Assessment— 

External Review Draft (September 2009), 

please contact Ms. Vicki Sandiford, 

Office of Air Quality Planning and 

Standards (Mail code C504–06), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711; email: sandiford.vicki@epa.gov; 

telephone: 919–541–2629; fax: 919– 

541–0237. 

For questions related to the 

preliminary draft document, Policy 

Assessment for the Review of the 

Particulate Matter National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards: Preliminary Draft 

(September 2009), please contact Ms. 

Beth Hassett-Sipple, Office of Air 

Quality Planning and Standards (Mail 

code C504–06), U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Research Triangle 

Park, NC 27711; e-mail: hassett-sipple.

beth@epa.gov; telephone: 919–541– 

4605; fax: 919–541–0237. 

General Information 

A. 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. 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. In addition to 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. Information so marked 

will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR part 2. 

2. Tips for Preparing Your Comments. 

When submitting comments, remember 

to: 

• Identify the rulemaking by docket 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

• Follow directions—The agency may 

ask you to respond to specific questions 

or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

• Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

• Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

• If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

• Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns, and suggest 

alternatives. 

• Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 

section 108(a) of the Clean Air Act 

(CAA), the Administrator identifies and 

lists certain pollutants which ‘‘cause or 

contribute to air pollution which may 

reasonably be anticipated to endanger 

public health or welfare.’’ The EPA then 

issues air quality criteria for these listed 

pollutants, which are commonly 

referred to as ‘‘criteria pollutants.’’ The 

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 [a] 

pollutant in the ambient air, in varying 

quantities.’’ Under section 109 of the 

CAA, EPA establishes primary (healthbased) and secondary (welfare-based) 

NAAQS for pollutants for which air 

quality criteria are issued. Section 

109(d) of the CAA requires periodic 

review and, if appropriate, revision of 

existing air quality criteria. The revised 

air quality criteria reflect advances in 

scientific knowledge on the effects of 

the pollutant on public health or 

welfare. The EPA is also required to 

periodically review and revise the 

NAAQS, if appropriate, based on the 

revised criteria. 

Air quality criteria have been 

established for PM and NAAQS have 

been established for PM2.5 and PM10, to 

provide protection from fine and coarse 

particles, respectively. Presently, EPA is 

reviewing the air quality criteria and 

NAAQS for PM. The EPA’s overall plan 

and schedule for this review is 

presented in the Integrated Review Plan 

for the National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards for Particulate Matter.1 A 

draft of the integrated review plan was 

released for public review and comment 

in October 2007 and was the subject of 

a consultation with the CASAC on 

November 30, 2007 (72 FR 63177; 

November 8, 2007). Comments received 

from that consultation and from the 

public were considered in finalizing the 

plan and in beginning the review of the 

air quality criteria. 

As part of EPA’s review of the 

primary (health-based) and secondary 

(welfare-based) PM NAAQS, the Agency 

is conducting quantitative assessments 

characterizing (1) the health risks 

associated with exposure to ambient PM 

and (2) urban visibility impairment 

associated with PM. The EPA’s plans for 

conducting these assessments, including 

the proposed scope and methods of the 

analyses, were presented in two 

planning documents titled, Particulate 

Matter National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards: Scope and Methods Plan for 

Health Risk and Exposure Assessment 

and Particulate Matter National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards: Scope 

and Methods Plan for Urban Visibility 

Impact Assessment (henceforth, Scope 

and Methods Plans).2 These documents 

were released for public comment in 

February 2009 and were the subject of 

a consultation with the CASAC on April 

2, 2009 (74 FR 11580; March 18, 2009). 

Comments received from the CASAC 

consultation (Samet, 2009) 3 as well as 

public comments on the Scope and 

Methods Plans have been considered in 

developing the draft assessment 

documents being released at this time. 

The draft documents announced 

today convey the approaches taken to 

assess exposures to ambient PM and to 

characterize associated health risks or 

urban visibility impairment, as well as 

present the initial key results, 

observations, and related uncertainties 

associated with the quantitative 

analyses performed. These draft 


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4See http://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/review.html 

for a copy of Administrator Jackson’s May 21, 2009 

memorandum and for additional information on the 

NAAQS review process. 

5EPA/600/R–08/139B; July 2009; Available: 

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

s_pm_2007_isa.html. 

documents will be available on or about 

September 4, 2009, through the 

Agency’s Technology Transfer Network 

(TTN) Web site at http://www.epa.gov/ 

ttn/naaqs/standards/pm/ 

s_pm_index.html. These documents 

may be accessed in the ‘‘Documents 

from Current Review’’ section under 

‘‘Risk and Exposure Assessments.’’ The 

EPA is soliciting advice and 

recommendations from the CASAC by 

means of a review of the draft 

documents at an upcoming public 

meeting of the CASAC scheduled in 

Chapel Hill, NC. Information about this 

public meeting, including the date and 

location, will be published as a separate 

notice in the Federal Register. 

Following the CASAC meeting, EPA 

will consider comments received from 

the CASAC and the public in preparing 

revisions to these assessment 

documents. 

In addition, on or about September 

15, 2009, EPA will make available a 

third draft document: Policy Assessment 

for the Review of the National Ambient 

Air Quality Standards: Preliminary 

Draft. The development of this 

document is a result of recent changes 

to the NAAQS review process. On May 

21, 2009, Administrator Jackson called 

for key changes to the NAAQS review 

process including reinstating a policy 

assessment document that contains staff 

analyses of the scientific bases for 

alternative policy options for 

consideration by senior Agency 

management prior to rulemaking. This 

document, which builds upon the 

historical ‘‘Staff Paper,’’ 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. In conjunction 

with this change, EPA will no longer 

issue a policy assessment in the form of 

an Advance Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking (ANPR).4

The preliminary draft Policy 

Assessment (PA) builds upon 

information presented in the Integrated 

Science Assessment for Particulate 

Matter (Second External Review Draft) 5

and the two draft assessment documents 

described above. This preliminary draft 

PA will include several chapters but is 

not intended to be a complete draft PA 

document in that it will not include 

staff conclusions on a range of policy 

options that could be appropriate for the 

Administrator to consider concerning 

whether, and if so how, to revise the 

primary and secondary PM NAAQS. It 

is instead being released for 

informational purposes to facilitate a 

discussion with CASAC on the overall 

structure, areas of focus, and level of 

detail to be included in an external 

review draft of the document, which 

EPA plans to release for CASAC review 

and public comment later this year. 

The preliminary draft PA may be 

accessed online through EPA’s TTN 

Web site at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/ 

naaqs/standards/pm/s_pm_index.html. 

This document may be accessed in the 

‘‘Documents from Current Review’’ 

section under ‘‘Policy Assessments.’’ 

The discussion with CASAC on this 

preliminary draft PA will be held at the 

same meeting that CASAC will review 

of the second draft ISA and the two 

draft assessment documents described 

above. 

The draft documents briefly described 

above do not represent and should not 

be construed to represent any final EPA 

policy, viewpoint, or determination. 

The EPA will consider any public 

comments submitted in response to this 

notice when revising the documents. 

Dated: September 2, 2009. 

Jeffrey S. Clark, 

Acting Director, Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards. 

[FR Doc. E9–21822 Filed 9–9–09; 8:45 am] 

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AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2003–0044; FRL–8955–3] 

Risk Management Programs Under 

Section 112(r)(7) of the Clean Air Act 

as Amended; Contractor Access to 

Confidential Business Information and 

Address Change for the Submission of 

Risk Management Plans 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA has authorized the 

following contractor to access 

information that has been, or will be, 

submitted to EPA under section 112(r) 

of the Clean Air Act (CAA) as amended: 

CGI Federal, Inc. and its subcontractor, 

Management Support Technology, Inc. 

(MSTI), (GSA Contract #GS–35F4797H 

to #1518, expiring March 30, 2012). The 

EPA announces a new address to which 

Risk Management Plans (RMPs) are to 

be sent. Some of the information 

submitted under section 112(r) may be 

claimed to be confidential business 

information (CBI) by the submitter. 

DATES: RMPs may be sent to the new 

address effective September 21, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Armando Santiago, Office of Solid 

Waste and Emergency Response, MC: 

5104a, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Washington, DC 20460. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EPA 

is issuing this notice to inform all 

submitters of information under section 

112(r) of the CAA that EPA may provide 

the above-mentioned contractor and its 

subcontractor access to these materials 

on a need-to-know basis. This contractor 

will provide technical support to the 

Office of Solid Waste and Emergency 

Response in the receipt, processing and 

storage of Risk Management Plans 

submitted to EPA under the CAA. In 

accordance with 40 CFR 2.301(h), EPA 

has determined that the contractor and 

its subcontractor require access to CBI 

submitted to EPA under sections 112(r) 

and 114 of the CAA in order to perform 

work satisfactorily under the abovenoted contract. The contractor’s and 

subcontractor’s personnel will be given 

access to information submitted under 

section 112(r) of the CAA. Some of the 

information may be claimed or 

determined to be CBI. The contractor’s 

and subcontractor’s personnel will be 

required to sign nondisclosure 

agreements prior to receiving access to 

CBI. All contractor access to CAA CBI 

will take place at the contractor’s 

facility. The contractor will have 

appropriate procedures and facilities in 

place to safeguard the CAA CBI to 

which the contractor and its 

subcontractor have access. Clearance for 

access to CBI is scheduled to expire on 

March 30, 2012 or at contract 

termination. 

Risk Management Plans submitted to 

EPA should be mailed to: Risk 

Management Plan (RMP) Reporting 

Center, P.O. Box 10162, Fairfax, VA 

22038. Courier deliveries and express 

mail should be addressed to: RMP 

Reporting Center, c/o CGI Federal, 

12601 Fair Lakes Circle, Fairfax, VA 

22033. 

Dated: August 28, 2009. 

Deborah Y. Dietrich, 

Director, Office of Emergency Management. 

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