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This action is also responsive to the 

recommendations made by EPA’s Office 

of Inspector General during its review of 

EPA’s implementation of FQPA. In its 

report ‘‘Opportunities to Improve Data 

Quality and Children’s Health through 

the FQPA’’ issued January 10, 2006, 

http://www.epa.gov/oig/reports/2006/ 

20060110–2006–P–00009.pdf, the Office 

of Inspector General recommended that 

EPA update the status of its Science 

Policy issue papers. This Federal 

Register notice updates the public on 

the status of one of the Science Policy 

papers which has been superseded by 

other guidance. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, 

Administrative practice and procedure, 

Agricultural commodities, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: September 16, 2009. 

Stephen A. Owens, 

Assistant Administrator, Office of Prevention, 

Pesticides and Toxic Substances. 

[FR Doc. E9–22809 Filed 9–22–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2007–1145; FRL–8959–6] 

Final Risk and Exposure Assessment 

Report for Secondary National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards for 

Oxides of Nitrogen and Oxides of 

Sulfur 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability of final 

report. 

SUMMARY: On or about September 15, 

2009, the Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards (OAQPS) of EPA is 

making available a final report, Risk and 

Exposure Assessment for Review of the 

Secondary National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards for Oxides of 

Nitrogen and Oxides of Sulfur: Final 

Report. The purpose of this document is 

to convey the approach taken to assess 

environmental exposures to ambient 

oxides of nitrogen and sulfur and to 

characterize associated public welfare 

risks, as well as to present the results of 

those assessments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Anne Rea, Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards (Mail code 

C539–02), U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Research Triangle 

Park, NC 27711; e-mail: 

rea.anne@epa.gov; telephone: 919–541– 

0053; fax: 919–541–0840. 

General Information 

A. How Can I Get Copies of This 

Document and Other Related 

Information? 

1. Docket. EPA has established a 

docket for this action under Docket ID 

No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2007–1145. 

Publicly available docket materials are 

available either electronically through 

http://www.regulations.gov or in hard 

copy at the EPA Docket Center (EPA/ 

DC), EPA West, Room 3334, 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, and the telephone 

number for the Office of Air and 

Radiation Docket is (202) 566–1742. 

2. Electronic Access. You may access 

this Federal Register document 

electronically through the EPA Internet 

under the ‘‘Federal Register’’ listings at 

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/. 

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 

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 National Ambient 

Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for 

each listed pollutant, with the NAAQS 

based on the air quality criteria. 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. 

The EPA is currently conducting a 

joint review of the existing secondary 

(welfare-based) NAAQS for oxides of 

nitrogen (NOX) and oxides of sulfur 

(SOX). Because NOX, SOX, and their 

associated transformation products are 

linked from an atmospheric chemistry 

perspective as well as from an 

environmental effects perspective, and 

because of the National Research 

Council’s (NRC’s) 2004 

recommendations to consider multiple 

pollutants in forming the scientific basis 

for the NAAQS, EPA has decided to 

jointly assess the science, risks, and 

policies relevant to protecting the public 

welfare associated with oxides of 

nitrogen and oxides of sulfur. This is the 

first time since NAAQS were 

established in 1971 that a joint review 

of these two pollutants has been 

conducted. Since both the Clean Air 

Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) 

and EPA have recognized these 

interactions historically, and the science 

related to these interactions has 

continued to evolve and grow to the 

present day, there is a strong basis for 

considering them together. 

As part of its review of the secondary 

NAAQS for NOX and SOX, EPA is 

preparing an assessment of exposures 

and characterization of risks for adverse 

ecological effects associated with 

atmospheric NOX and SOX deposition. 

A draft plan describing the proposed 

approaches to assessing ecological 

exposures and effects is described in the 

draft document, Draft Scope and 

Methods Plan for Risk/Exposure 

Assessment: Secondary NAAQS Review 

for Oxides of Nitrogen and Oxides of 

Sulfur. This document was released for 

public review and comment in March 

2008 and was the subject of a 

consultation with the CASAC on April 

2 and 3, 2008. Comments received from 

that consultation were considered in 

developing the document titled, Risk 

and Exposure Assessment to Support 

the Review of the Secondary National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards for 

Oxides of Nitrogen and Oxides of 

Sulfur: First Draft, which was released 

for public review and comment in 

August 2008. This document was the 

subject of a CASAC review on October 

1–2, 2008. Comments received from that 

review were considered in developing 

the document titled, Risk and Exposure 

Assessment to Support the Review of the 

Secondary National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards for Oxides of 

Nitrogen and Oxides of Sulfur: Second 

Draft, which was released for public 

review and comment in June 2009 and 

was the subject of a CASAC review on 

July 22–23, 2009. In preparing the final 

risk and exposure assessment report, 

EPA considered comments received 

from CASAC and the public at and 

subsequent to that meeting. 

The Risk and Exposure Assessment 

for Review of the Secondary National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards for 

Oxides of Nitrogen and Oxides of 

Sulfur: Final Report being released at 

this time conveys the approach taken to 

assess ecological effects due to the 

deposition of ambient NOX and SOX,

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and presents the results of these 

analyses. This document will be 

available online at: http://www.epa.gov/ 

ttn/naaqs/standards/no2so2sec/ 

cr_rea.html. 

Dated: September 14, 2009. 

Jennifer Noonan Edmonds, 

Acting Director, Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards. 

[FR Doc. E9–22951 Filed 9–22–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8949–6] 

Availability of FY 08 Grantee 

Performance Evaluation Reports for 

the Eight States of EPA Region 4 and 

16 Local Agencies 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability; Clean Air 

Act Section 105 grantee performance 

evaluation reports. 

SUMMARY: EPA’s grant regulations (40 

CFR 35.115) require the Agency to 

evaluate the performance of agencies 

which receive grants. EPA’s regulations 

for regional consistency (40 CFR 56.7) 

require that the Agency notify the 

public of the availability of the reports 

of such evaluations. EPA performed 

end-of-year evaluations of eight state air 

pollution control programs (Alabama 

Department of Environmental 

Management; Florida Department of 

Environmental Protection; Georgia 

Department of Natural Resources; 

Commonwealth of Kentucky 

Department for Environmental 

Protection; Mississippi Department of 

Environmental Quality; North Carolina 

Department of Environment and Natural 

Resources; South Carolina Department 

of Health and Environmental Control; 

and Tennessee Department of 

Environment and Conservation) and 16 

local programs (City of Huntsville 

Division of Natural Resources, AL; 

Jefferson County Department of Health, 

AL; Broward County Environmental 

Protection Department, FL; City of 

Jacksonville Environmental Quality 

Division, FL; Hillsborough County 

Environmental Protection Commission, 

FL; Miami-Dade County Air Quality 

Management Division, FL; Palm Beach 

County Health Department, FL; Pinellas 

County Department of Environmental 

Management, FL; Louisville/Jefferson 

County Metro Government, KY; Forsyth 

County Environmental Affairs 

Department, NC; Mecklenburg County 

Land Use and Environmental Services 

Agency, NC; Western North Carolina 

Regional Air Quality Agency, NC; 

Chattanooga-Hamilton County Air 

Pollution Control Bureau, TN; 

Memphis-Shelby County Health 

Department, TN; Knox County 

Department of Air Quality Management, 

TN; and Metropolitan Government of 

Nashville and Davidson County Public 

Health Department, TN). The 24 

evaluations were conducted to assess 

the agencies’ Fiscal Year 2008 

performance under the grants awarded 

by EPA under authority of section 105 

of the Clean Air Act. EPA Region 4 has 

prepared reports for each agency 

identified above and these reports are 

now available for public inspection. 

ADDRESSES: The reports may be 

examined at the EPA’s Region 4 office, 

61 Forsyth Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia 

30303, in the Air, Pesticides and Toxics 

Management Division. The Regional 

Office’s official hours of business are 

Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 4:30, 

excluding Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Marie Persinger (404) 562–9048 for 

information concerning the state and 

local agencies of Alabama, Kentucky 

and state agency of Mississippi; Miya 

Smith (404) 562–9091 for the state and 

local agencies of Florida; Mary Echols 

(404) 562–9053 for the state agency of 

Georgia; Seema Rao (404) 562–8429 for 

the state and local agencies of North 

Carolina; and Marilyn Sabadaszka (404) 

562–9001 for the state agency of South 

Carolina and for the state and local 

agencies of Tennessee. They may be 

contacted at the above Region 4 address. 

Dated: August 5, 2009. 

Beverly H. Banister, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4. 

[FR Doc. E9–22906 Filed 9–22–09; 8:45 am] 

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AGENCY 

[EPA–R05–OAR–2008–0235; FRL–8960–4] 

Notice of Issuance of Part 71 Federal 

Operating Permit to Veolia 

Environmental Services 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces that, 

on September 12, 2008, pursuant to 

Title V of the Clean Air Act (CAA), EPA 

issued a Title V Permit to Operate (Title 

V permit) to Veolia Environmental 

Services (Veolia). This permit 

authorizes Veolia to operate its facility 

in Sauget, Illinois. Veolia’s Sauget 

facility is a treatment, storage and 

disposal facility, which accepts offsite 

waste for further disposal through 

incineration. Containers and bulk 

shipments of hazardous and solid 

wastes are received, analyzed and 

transferred to temporary storage 

facilities, processed and incinerated in 

one of three combustion units. 

DATES: During the public comment 

period, which ended July 18, 2008, EPA 

received comments on the draft Title V 

permit. EPA responded to the comments 

and issued the final permit on 

September 12, 2008. No one appealed 

the permit to the Environmental 

Appeals Board (EAB). Therefore, in 

accordance with 40 CFR 71.11 the 

permit became effective 30 days after 

permit issuance, October 12, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: The final signed permit is 

available for public inspection online at 

http://www.regulations.gov, docket ID 

EPA–R05–OAR–2008–0235, or during 

normal business hours at the following 

address: EPA, Region 5, 77 West Jackson 

Boulevard (AR–18J), Chicago, Illinois 

60604. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Genevieve Damico, Environmental 

Engineer, EPA, Region 5, 77 W. Jackson 

Boulevard (AR–18J), Chicago, Illinois 

60604, (312) 353–4761, or 

damico.genevieve@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

supplemental information is organized 

as follows: 

A. What Is the Background Information? 

B. What Is the Purpose of This Notice? 

A. What Is the Background 

Information? 

Veolia (formerly Onyx Environmental 

Services) submitted to Illinois 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(IEPA) on September 7, 1995, an 

application for a Title V permit for its 

facility in Sauget, Illinois. IEPA issued 

a draft Title V permit on June 6, 2003, 

and the public comment period for the 

permit ended September 12, 2003. 

During the public comment period, 

IEPA received comments on the draft 

permit. IEPA revised the permit and 

submitted the proposed permit to EPA 

on November 6, 2003. EPA did not 

object to the proposed permit within its 

45-day review period, which ended 

December 21, 2003. 

On February 18, 2004, EPA received 

a petition from the Sierra Club and 

American Bottom Conservancy 

requesting that EPA object to issuance of 

the Veolia Title V permit, pursuant to 

Section 505(b)(2) of the CAA and 40 

CFR 70.8(d). On February 1, 2005, EPA 

issued an order granting the petition in 

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