47792 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 179 / Thursday, September 17, 2009 / Notices 

Dated: September 4, 2009. 

Sara Hisel-McCoy, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Wastewater 

Management. 

[FR Doc. E9–22430 Filed 9–16–09; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

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Children’s Health Protection Advisory 

Committee (CHPAC); Notice of Charter 

Renewal 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Charter Renewal. 

Notice is hereby given that the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

has determined that, in accordance with 

the provisions of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App. 2. 

The Children’s Health Protection 

Advisory Committee (CHPAC) is a 

necessary committee which is in the 

public interest. Accordingly, CHPAC 

will be renewed for an additional twoyear period. The purpose of CHPAC is 

to provide advice and recommendations 

to the Administrator of EPA on issues 

associated with development of 

regulations, guidance and policies to 

address children’s health risks. 

Inquiries may be directed to Carolyn 

Hubbard, Designated Federal Officer, 

CHPAC, U.S. EPA, OCHP MC 1107A, 

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. 

Hubbard.carolyn@epa.gov, 202–564– 

2189. 

Dated: September 11, 2009. 

Martha Shimkin, 

Division Director, Office of Children’s Health 

Protection, and Environmental Education, 

Child and Aging, Health Protection Division. 

[FR Doc. E9–22320 Filed 9–16–09; 8:45 am] 

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Clean Water Act Section 303(d): 

Preliminary Notice of Total Maximum 

Daily Load (TMDL) Development for 

the Chesapeake Bay 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice and initial request for 

public input. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

intent of EPA to establish a Chesapeake 

Bay-wide Total Maximum Daily Load 

(TMDL) for nutrients and sediment for 

all impaired segments in the tidal 

portion of the Chesapeake Bay 

watershed. This action is being taken 

pursuant to section 303(d) of the Clean 

Water Act (CWA). To provide 

information to the public regarding the 

process, approach and implications of 

this action, EPA will hold a series of 

public meetings in late 2009 on dates 

and in locations to be determined. A 

second public comment period will be 

held in the summer of 2010 once a draft 

Chesapeake Bay TMDL is developed. 

This TMDL is being developed 

consistent with the requirements of two 

Consent Decrees settling the following 

lawsuits: American Canoe Association, 

Inc. and the American Littoral Society v. 

EPA, Civil No. 98–979–A (E.D. Va) and 

Kingman Park Civic Association, et al. 

v. U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, et al., No. 1:98CV00758 

(D.D.C.). By this notice, EPA is soliciting 

preliminary input from the public on its 

plans for developing this Chesapeake 

Bay TMDL. EPA requests that the public 

provide to EPA any water quality 

related data and information that may 

be relevant to the development and 

calculation of the Chesapeake Bay 

TMDL by December 18, 2009. EPA will 

review all data and information 

submitted during the public comment 

period and will consider them in the 

development of the TMDL as 

appropriate. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted in 

writing to EPA on or before December 

18, 2009. 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: You may submit comments 

on the development of the Chesapeake 

Bay TMDL by e-mail or U.S. post mail. 

To submit your comments by e-mail, 

send them to sincock.jennifer@epa.gov. 

To submit your comments by U.S. mail, 

mark them to the attention of Jennifer 

Sincock, Environmental Scientist, Water 

Protection Division, (3WP30), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency 

Region III, 1650 Arch Street, 

Philadelphia, PA 19103–2029. Further 

information on the development of the 

Chesapeake Bay TMDL may be viewed 

at http://www.epa.gov/ 

chesapeakebaytmdl 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information, contact Jennifer 

Sincock at (215) 814–5766 or fax 215– 

814–2318 or send an e-mail to 

sincock.jennifer@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

303(d) of the CWA requires that each 

State identify those waters within its 

boundaries for which existing 

technology-based pollution controls 

required by the CWA are not stringent 

enough to attain or maintain State water 

quality standards. States are required to 

establish TMDLs for those ‘‘impaired’’ 

waters. TMDLs are pollution budgets 

designed to identify necessary 

reductions of pollutant loads to the 

impaired waters so that the appropriate 

water quality standards are met, 

including designated uses like fishing or 

swimming and water quality criteria for 

parameters such as dissolved oxygen 

and water clarity. 

Why is a TMDL being developed for 

the Chesapeake Bay? The Chesapeake 

Bay is a national treasure constituting 

the largest estuary in the United States 

and one of the largest and most 

biologically productive estuaries in the 

world. Despite significant efforts by 

Federal, State, and local governments 

and other interested parties, water 

pollution in the Chesapeake Bay 

prevents the attainment of existing State 

water quality standards. The pollutants 

that are largely responsible for 

impairment of the Chesapeake Bay are 

nutrients, in the form of nitrogen and 

phosphorus, and sediment. EPA, in 

coordination with the Bay watershed 

jurisdictions of Maryland, Virginia, 

Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, 

New York and the District of Columbia, 

will establish a nutrient and sediment 

pollution budget for the Bay consistent 

with CWA requirements to guide and 

assist Chesapeake Bay restoration 

efforts. A primary driver for the 

schedule to develop the Chesapeake Bay 

TMDL is the Virginia TMDL Consent 

Decree settling the lawsuit American 

Canoe Association, Inc. and the 

American Littoral Society v. EPA, Civil 

No. 98–979–A (E.D. Va). Portions of the 

Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries 

were identified as impaired for aquatic 

life uses and exceedance of the numeric 

criteria for dissolved oxygen caused by 

nutrient and sediment pollutants on 

Virginia’s 1998 section 303(d) list of 

impaired waters. Other Bay and tidal 

tributary segments impaired by 

nutrients and sediment have been 

identified on Maryland and the District 

of Columbia section 303(d) lists. Under 

the Virginia TMDL Consent Decree, EPA 

is obligated to establish a TMDL for the 

Bay’s waters identified on the 1998 

Virginia list including those aquatic life 

use impairments caused by the nutrient 

and sediment pollutants by no later than 

May 1, 2011, if those waters are not 

previously removed from the list or if 


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