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Abstract for [WDS–145] 

Q: Does EPA approve the alternative 

testing request to allow sources subject 

to the New Source Performance 

Standard for New Residential Wood 

Heaters at 40 CFR part 60, subpart AAA, 

to use the Canadian test protocol CSA 

B415, to determine thermal energy 

efficiency ratings for wood stoves and 

pellet stoves per the guidelines at 40 

CFR part 60.636(i)(3) in lieu of the 

default efficiency ratings (63 percent for 

noncatalytic wood heaters, 72 percent 

for catalytic wood heaters, and 78 

percent for pellet stoves)? 

A: Yes. EPA approves the alternative 

testing for manufacturers of wood 

heaters and pellets to use CSA B415 to 

determine thermal efficiency ratings for 

compliance with 40 CFR part 60, 

subpart AAA. The CSA B415 testing 

must be conducted by an EPA 

accredited laboratory and use the higher 

heating value of the fuel. 

Dated: April 17, 2013. 

Lisa Lund, 

Director, Office of Compliance. 

[FR Doc. 2013–11204 Filed 5–9–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9812–5; Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD– 

2013–0357] 

Notice of Workshop and Call for 

Information on Integrated Science 

Assessment for Oxides of Sulfur 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Workshop; Call for 

Information. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. EPA Office of 

Research and Development’s National 

Center for Environmental Assessment 

(NCEA) is preparing an Integrated 

Science Assessment (ISA) as part of the 

review of the primary National Ambient 

Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for 

oxides of sulfur (SOX) (for which the 

indicator is sulfur dioxide [SO2]). This 

ISA will update the scientific 

assessment presented in the Integrated 

Science Assessment for Sulfur Oxides— 

Health Criteria (EPA 600/R–08/047F), 

published in September 2008. Interested 

parties are invited to assist the EPA in 

developing and refining the scientific 

information base for the review of the 

NAAQS for SOX by submitting recent 

research studies that have been 

published, accepted for publication, or 

presented at a public scientific meeting. 

The EPA is also announcing that a 

workshop entitled ‘‘Kickoff Workshop 

to Inform EPA’s Review of the Primary 

SO2 NAAQS’’ is being organized by 

NCEA and the EPA Office of Air and 

Radiation’s Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards (OAQPS). The 

workshop will be held June 12–13, 

2013, in Research Triangle Park, North 

Carolina. The workshop will be open to 

attendance by interested public 

observers on a first-come, first-served 

basis up to the limits of available space. 

Additionally, in the near future, the 

EPA Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) 

will be forming a Clean Air Scientific 

Advisory Committee (CASAC) panel for 

the SO2 NAAQS health review. 

DATES: The workshop will be held on 

June 12–13, 2013. All communications 

and information submitted in response 

to the call for information should be 

received by EPA by June 10, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: The workshop will be held 

at U.S. EPA, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, 

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. 

An EPA contractor, ICF International, is 

providing logistical support for the 

workshop. Please register by going to 

https://sites.google.com/site/ 

soxkickoffworkshop/. The preregistration deadline is May 31, 2013. 

Please direct questions regarding 

workshop registration or logistics to 

Whitney Kihlstrom at 

EPA_NAAQS_Workshop@icfi.com or by 

phone at 919–293–1646. For specific 

questions regarding technical aspects of 

the workshop see the section of this 

notice entitled FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Information in response to the call for 

information may be submitted 

electronically, by mail, by facsimile, or 

by hand delivery/courier. Please follow 

the detailed instructions as provided in 

the section of this notice entitled 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

details on the period for submission of 

research information from the public, 

contact the Office of Environmental 

Information (OEI) Docket; telephone: 

202–566–1752; facsimile: 202–566– 

9744; or email: Docket_ORD@epa.gov. 

For technical information, contact Tom 

Long, Ph.D., NCEA; telephone: 919– 

541–1880; facsimile: 919–541–2985; or 

email: long.tom@epa.gov or Amy 

Lamson, Ph.D., OAQPS; telephone: 919– 

541–4383 or email: 

lamson.amy@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information About the Project 

Section 108(a) of the Clean Air Act 

directs the Administrator to issue ‘‘air 

quality criteria’’ for certain air 

pollutants. These 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 such 

pollutant in the ambient air. . . .’’ 

Under section 109 of the Act, EPA is 

then to establish National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards (NAAQS) for each 

pollutant for which EPA has issued 

criteria. Section 109(d) of the Act 

requires EPA to review periodically, 

and, if appropriate, to revise existing air 

quality criteria to reflect advances in 

scientific knowledge on the effects of 

the pollutant on public health and 

welfare. EPA is also to determine 

whether it is appropriate to revise the 

NAAQS based on the revised air quality 

criteria. 

Oxides of Sulfur (SOX) are one of six 

‘‘criteria’’ pollutants for which EPA has 

established NAAQS. Periodically, EPA 

reviews the scientific basis for these 

standards by preparing an Integrated 

Science Assessment (ISA). The ISA, 

along with additional technical and 

policy assessments conducted by 

OAQPS, form the scientific and 

technical bases for EPA decisions on the 

adequacy of the SO2 NAAQS and the 

appropriateness of revising that 

standard. 

At the start of a NAAQS review, EPA 

issues an announcement of the review 

and notes the initiation of the 

development of the ISA. At that time, 

EPA also issues a request that the public 

submit scientific literature that they 

want to bring to the attention of the 

Agency for consideration in the review 

process. CASAC, an independent 

scientific advisory committee whose 

role is mandated by the Clean Air Act, 

is charged with independent expert 

scientific review of EPA’s draft ISAs. As 

the process proceeds, the public will 

have opportunities to review and 

comment on draft SOX ISAs. These 

opportunities will also be announced in 

the Federal Register. 

For the review of the primary SO2

NAAQS being initiated by this notice, 

the Agency is interested in obtaining 

additional new information, particularly 

concerning toxicological studies of 

effects of controlled exposure to SOX on 

laboratory animals, humans, and in 

vitro systems as well as epidemiologic 

(observational) studies of health effects 

associated with ambient exposures of 

human populations to SOX. EPA also 

seeks recent information in other areas 

of SOX research such as chemistry and 

physics, sources and emissions, 

analytical methodology, transport and 

transformation in the environment, and 

ambient concentrations. This and other 

selected literature relevant to a review 

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of the SO2 NAAQS will be assessed in 

the forthcoming SOX ISA. 

As part of this review of the SO2

NAAQS, EPA intends to sponsor a 

workshop on June 12–13, 2013, in 

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 

to highlight significant new and 

emerging SOX research, and to make 

recommendations to the Agency 

regarding the design and scope of the 

review for the primary (health-based) 

SO2 standards to ensure that it 

addresses key policy-relevant issues and 

considers the new science that is 

relevant to informing our understanding 

of these issues. In addition, other 

opportunities for submission of new 

peer-reviewed, published (or in-press) 

papers will be possible as part of public 

comment on the draft ISAs that will be 

reviewed by CASAC. Workshop 

discussions are intended to build upon 

three prior publications or events (see 

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

standards/so2/s_so2_index.html to 

obtain a copy of these and other related 

documents): 

• Primary National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard for Sulfur Dioxide; 

Final Rule (40 CFR Parts 50, 53, and 58, 

June 22, 2010). The preamble to the 

final rule included detailed discussions 

of policy-relevant issues central to the 

last review. 

• Integrated Science Assessment for 

Sulfur Oxides—Health Criteria (EPA 

600/R–08/047F, September 2008). 

• Risk and Exposure Assessment to 

Support the Review of the SO2 Primary 

National Ambient Air Quality Standard 

(EPA 452/R–09/007, July 2009). 

Based in large part on the input 

received during this workshop, EPA 

will develop a draft integrated review 

plan for the SOX review that will outline 

the schedule, process, and approaches 

for evaluating the relevant scientific 

information and addressing the key 

policy-relevant issues to be considered 

in this review. CASAC will be asked to 

conduct a consultation with the Agency 

on the draft integrated review plan, and 

the public will have the opportunity to 

comment on it as well. The final 

integrated review plan will be used to 

frame each of the major elements of the 

SOX review under the NAAQS review 

process: An integrated science 

assessment, a risk/exposure assessment, 

and a policy assessment. 

II. How To Submit Technical Comments 

to the Docket 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2013– 

0357 by one of the following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: Docket_ORD@epa.gov. 

• Fax: 202–566–9744. 

• Mail: Office of Environmental 

Information (OEI) Docket (Mail Code: 

28221T), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20460. The phone 

number is 202–566–1752. 

• Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is 

located in the EPA Headquarters Docket 

Center, EPA West Building, Room 3334, 

1301 Constitution Avenue 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 Federal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

Public Reading Room is 202–566–1744. 

Such deliveries are only accepted 

during the docket’s normal hours of 

operation, and special arrangements 

should be made for deliveries of boxed 

information. If you provide comments 

by mail or hand delivery, please submit 

three copies of the comments. For 

attachments, provide an index, number 

pages consecutively with the comments, 

and submit an unbound original and 

three copies. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2013– 

0357. Please ensure that your comments 

are submitted within the specified 

comment period. Comments received 

after the closing date will be marked 

‘‘late,’’ and may only be considered if 

time permits. It is EPA’s policy to 

include all comments it receives in the 

public docket without change and to 

make the comments available online at 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless a 

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 www.regulations.gov 

or email. The 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 email 

comment directly to EPA without going 

through www.regulations.gov, your 

email 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 

www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

Docket: Documents in the docket are 

listed in the www.regulations.gov index. 

Although listed in the index, some 

information is not publicly available, 

e.g., CBI or other information whose 

disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Certain other materials, such as 

copyrighted material, are publicly 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the OEI Docket in the EPA Headquarters 

Docket Center. 

Dated: May 2, 2013. 

Debra B. Walsh, 

Acting Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

[FR Doc. 2013–11197 Filed 5–9–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE 

CORPORATION 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities: Proposed 

Collection Renewal; Comment Request 

Re Occasional Qualitative Surveys 

AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance 

Corporation (FDIC). 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The FDIC, as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (4 U.S.S. chapter 35), to 

comment on renewal of its generic 

information collection entitled, 

‘‘Occasional Qualitative Surveys’’ (OMB 

No. 3064–0127). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before July 9, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

invited to submit written comments. All 

comments should refer to the name of 

the collection. Comments may be 

submitted by any of the following 

methods: 

• http://www.FDIC.gov/regulations/ 

laws/federal/propose.html. 

• Email: comments@fdic.gov. 

• Mail: Leneta G. Gregorie 

(202.898.3719), Counsel, Federal 

Deposit Insurance Corporation, 550 17th 

Street NW., Room NY–5050, 

Washington, DC 20429. 

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