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or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

iii. Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

iv. Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

v. If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

vi. Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns and suggest 

alternatives. 

vii. Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

viii. Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

II. Background 

A. What Action is the Agency Taking? 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 155.58, this notice 

announces the availability of EPA’s 

proposed registration review decision 

for the pesticide bromine (Bromine Case 

4015), and opens a 60–day public 

comment period on the proposed 

decision. Bromine is a bromide 

releasing antimicrobial pesticide that is 

registered as a mildewstat, bactericide, 

fungistat and insecticide. Bromine is 

used to control bacteria and fungi on 

surfaces of agricultural, commercial, 

institutional, industrial, residential, and 

public access premises and equipment. 

It is also used to treat/disinfect potable 

water in non-residential settings, aboard 

ships and on oil and gas drilling/ 

production platforms. In addition, 

bromine is characterized by low toxicity 

and is found in nature. 

The registration review docket for a 

pesticide includes earlier documents 

related to the registration review of the 

case. For example, the review opened 

with the posting of a Summary 

Document, containing a Preliminary 

Work Plan, for public comment. 

Because no comments were received, 

and because the Agency required no 

further risk assessments to complete 

registration review of this case, the final 

work plan and proposed decision were 

combined into a single document. 

The documents in the initial docket 

described the Agency’s rationales for 

not conducting additional risk 

assessments for the registration review 

of bromine. This proposed registration 

review decision continues to be 

supported by those rationales included 

in documents in the initial docket. 

Following public comment, the Agency 

will issue a final registration review 

decision for products containing 

bromine. 

The registration review program is 

being conducted under congressionally 

mandated time frames, and EPA 

recognizes the need both to make timely 

decisions and to involve the public. 

Section 3(g) of the Federal Insecticide, 

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 

(FIFRA), as amended, required EPA to 

establish by regulation procedures for 

reviewing pesticide registrations, 

originally with a goal of reviewing each 

pesticide’s registration every 15 years to 

ensure that a pesticide continues to 

meet the FIFRA standard for 

registration. The Agency’s final rule to 

implement this program was issued in 

August 2006 and became effective in 

October 2006, and appears at 40 CFR 

part 155, subpart C. The Pesticide 

Registration Improvement Act of 2003 

(PRIA) was amended and extended in 

September 2007. FIFRA, as amended by 

PRIA in 2007, requires EPA to complete 

registration review decisions by October 

1, 2022, for all pesticides registered as 

of October 1, 2007. 

The registration review final rule at 40 

CFR 155.58(a) provides for a minimum 

60–day public comment period on all 

proposed registration review decisions. 

This comment period is intended to 

provide an opportunity for public input 

and a mechanism for initiating any 

necessary amendments to the proposed 

decision. All comments should be 

submitted using the methods in 

ADDRESSES, and must be received by 

EPA on or before the closing date. These 

comments will become part of the 

docket for bromine. Comments received 

after the close of the comment period 

will be marked ‘‘late.’’ EPA is not 

required to consider these late 

comments. 

The Agency will carefully consider all 

comments received by the closing date 

and will provide a ‘‘Response to 

Comments Memorandum’’ in the 

docket. The final registration review 

decision will explain the effect that any 

comments had on the decision and 

provide the Agency’s response to 

significant comments. 

Background on the registration review 

program is provided at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/ 

registration_review. Links to earlier 

documents related to the registration 

review of bromine are provided at: 

http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/ 

registration_review/bromine/index.htm 

B. What is the Agency’s Authority for 

Taking this Action? 

Section 3(g) of FIFRA and 40 CFR part 

155, subpart C, provide authority for 

this action. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, 

Administrative practice and procedure, 

Antimicrobials, Bromine, Pesticides and 

pests. 

Dated: September 11, 2009. 

Joan Harrigan Farrelly, 

Director, Antimicrobials Division, Office of 

Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. E9–22621 Filed 9–22–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8958–9; Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD– 

2007–0925] 

Draft Integrated Science Assessment 

for Carbon Monoxide 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of public comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is announcing the 

availability of a document titled, 

‘‘Integrated Science Assessment for 

Carbon Monoxide—Second External 

Review Draft’’ (EPA/600/R–09/019B). 

This draft document was prepared by 

the National Center for Environmental 

Assessment (NCEA) within EPA’s Office 

of Research and Development as part of 

the review of the national ambient air 

quality standards (NAAQS) for carbon 

monoxide. 

EPA is releasing this draft document 

to seek review by the Clean Air 

Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) 

and the public. The draft document 

does not represent and should not be 

construed to represent any final EPA 

policy, viewpoint, or determination. 

EPA will consider any timely public 

comments submitted in response to this 

notice when revising the document. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before November 13, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: The ‘‘Integrated Science 

Assessment for Carbon Monoxide— 

Second External Review Draft’’ will be 

available primarily via the Internet on 

the National Center for Environmental 

Assessment’s home page under the 

Recent Additions and Publications 

menus at http://www.epa.gov/ncea. A 

limited number of CD–ROM or paper 

copies will be available. Contact Ms. 

Debbie Wales by phone (919–541–4731), 

fax (919–541–5078), or e-mail 

(wales.deborah@epa.gov) to request 

either of these, and please provide your 

name, your mailing address, and the 

document title, ‘‘Integrated Science 

Assessment for Carbon Monoxide— 

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Second External Review Draft’’ (EPA/ 

600/R–09/019B) to facilitate processing 

of your request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical information, contact Dr. 

Thomas C. Long, NCEA; telephone: 

919–541–1880; facsimile: 919–541– 

2985; or e-mail: long.tom@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information About the Document 

Section 108(a) of the Clean Air Act 

directs the EPA Administrator to 

identify certain pollutants that ‘‘cause or 

contribute to air pollution which may 

reasonably be anticipated to endanger 

public health or welfare’’ and to issue 

air quality criteria for them. 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 to establish national 

ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) 

for each pollutant for which EPA has 

issued criteria. Section 109(d) of the Act 

requires periodic review and, if 

appropriate, revision of existing air 

quality criteria to reflect advances in 

scientific knowledge on the effects of 

the pollutant on public health or 

welfare. EPA is also to revise the 

NAAQS, if appropriate, based on the 

revised air quality criteria. 

Carbon monoxide (CO) is 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) (formerly 

called an Air Quality Criteria 

Document). The ISA and supplementary 

annexes, in conjunction with additional 

technical and policy assessments, 

provide the scientific basis for EPA 

decisions on the adequacy of the current 

NAAQS and the appropriateness of 

possible alternative standards. The 

Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee (CASAC), an independent 

science advisory committee whose 

review and advisory functions are 

mandated by Section 109(d)(2) of the 

Clean Air Act, is charged (among other 

things) with independent scientific 

review of EPA’s air quality criteria. 

On September 13, 2007 (72 FR 52369), 

EPA formally initiated its current 

review of the air quality criteria for CO, 

requesting the submission of recent 

scientific information on specified 

topics. A workshop was held on January 

28–29, 2008 (73 FR 2490) to discuss 

policy-relevant science to inform EPA’s 

planning for the CO NAAQS review. 

Following the workshop, a draft of 

EPA’s ‘‘Plan for Review of the National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards for 

Carbon Monoxide’’ (EPA–452/D–08– 

001) was made available in March 2008 

for public comment and was discussed 

by the CASAC via a publicly accessible 

teleconference consultation on April 8, 

2008 (73 FR 12998). EPA finalized the 

plan and made it available in August 

2008 (EPA/452/R–08/005; http:// 

www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/co/ 

s_co_cr_pd.html). In November 2008, 

EPA held an authors’ teleconference to 

discuss, with invited scientific experts, 

preliminary draft materials prepared 

during the ongoing development of the 

CO ISA and its supplementary annexes. 

The First External Review Draft ISA 

for CO (EPA/600/R–09/019; http:// 

cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/ 

recordisplay.cfm?deid=203935) was 

released on March 12, 2009 (74 FR 

10734). This document was reviewed by 

the CASAC review panel and discussed 

at a public meeting held May 12–13, 

2009 (74 FR 15265). The CASAC held a 

follow-up public teleconference on June 

17, 2009 (74 FR 25530) to review and 

approve the CASAC CO Review Panel’s 

draft letter providing comments to EPA 

on the First External Review Draft ISA 

for CO. Following the teleconference, 

CASAC sent a final letter report to EPA 

on June 24, 2009 (http:// 

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

4620a620d0120f93852572410080d786/

6E648129288BF

930852575DF0070A528/$File/EPACASAC-09-011-unsigned.pdf). 

After the end of the comment period 

on the Second External Review Draft 

ISA for CO, the CASAC review panel 

will review the draft at a public 

meeting. Timely public comments 

received will be provided to the CASAC 

review panel. A future Federal Register 

notice will inform the public of the 

exact date and time of that meeting. 

II. How To Submit Technical Comments 

to the Docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2007– 

0925, by one of the following methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: ORD.Docket@epa.gov 

• Fax: 202–566–1753 

• Mail: Office of Environmental 

Information (OEI) Docket (Mail Code: 

2822T), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. The phone 

number is 202–566–1752. 

• Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is 

located in the EPA Headquarters Docket 

Center, Room 3334 EPA West Building, 

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. 

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–2007– 

0925. 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 

http://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 through 

http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail 

that you consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected. 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. 

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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. 

Publicly available docket materials are 

generally available either electronically 

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

copy at the OEI Docket in the EPA 

Headquarters Docket Center; however, 

certain materials, such as copyrighted 

material, are publicly available only in 

hard copy. 

Dated: September 10, 2009. 

Rebecca Clark, 

Acting Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

[FR Doc. E9–22953 Filed 9–22–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8957–5; Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD– 

2009–0229] 

Draft Toxicological Review of Ethyl 

Tertiary Butyl Ether: In Support of the 

Summary Information in the Integrated 

Risk Information System (IRIS) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of listening session. 

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a listening 

session to be held on October 7, 2009, 

during the public comment period for 

the external review draft document 

entitled, ‘‘Toxicological Review of Ethyl 

Tertiary Butyl Ether: In Support of 

Summary Information on the Integrated 

Risk Information System (IRIS)’’ (EPA/ 

635/R–08/019A). This listening session 

is a step in EPA’s revised IRIS process, 

announced on May 21, 2009, to develop 

human health assessments for inclusion 

in the IRIS database. The purpose of the 

listening session is to allow all 

interested parties to present scientific 

and technical comments on draft IRIS 

health assessments to EPA and other 

interested parties during the public 

comment period and before the external 

peer review meeting. EPA welcomes the 

scientific and technical comments that 

will be provided to the Agency by the 

listening session participants. The 

comments will be considered by the 

Agency as it revises the draft assessment 

in response to the independent external 

peer review and public comments. All 

presentations will become part of the 

official public record. 

The EPA’s draft assessment and peer 

review charge are available via the 

Internet on the National Center for 

Environmental Assessment’s (NCEA) 

home page under the Recent Additions 

and Publications menus at http:// 

www.epa.gov/ncea. 

DATES: The listening session on the draft 

IRIS health assessment for Ethyl 

Tertiary Butyl Ether will be held on 

October 7, 2009, beginning at 9 a.m. and 

ending at 4 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time. 

If you want to make a presentation at 

the listening session, you should 

register by September 30, 2009, indicate 

that you wish to make oral comments at 

the session, and indicate the length of 

your presentation. When you register, 

please indicate if you will need audiovisual aid (e.g., lap top and slide 

projector). In general, each presentation 

should be no more than 30 minutes. If, 

however, there are more requests for 

presentations than the allotted time 

allows, then the time limit for each 

presentation will be adjusted. A copy of 

the agenda for the listening session will 

be available at the meeting. If no 

speakers have registered by September 

30, 2009, the listening session will be 

cancelled and EPA will notify those 

registered of the cancellation. 

The public comment period for 

review of this draft assessment was 

announced previously in the Federal 

Register (FR) (74 FR 42069) on August 

20, 2009. As stated in that FR notice, the 

public comment period began on 

August 20, 2009, and ends October 19, 

2009. Any technical comments 

submitted during the public comment 

period should be in writing and must be 

received by EPA by October 19, 2009, 

according to the procedures outlined 

below. Only those public comments 

submitted using the procedures 

identified in the August 20, 2009 FR 

notice by the October 19, 2009 deadline 

will be provided to the independent 

peer-review panel prior to the peerreview meeting. The date and logistics 

for the peer-review meeting will be 

announced later in a separate FR notice. 

Listening session participants who 

want EPA to share their comments with 

the external peer reviewers should also 

submit written comments during the 

public comment period using the 

detailed and established procedures 

included in the aforementioned FR 

notice (August 20, 2009). Comments 

submitted to the docket prior to the end 

of the public comment period will be 

submitted to the external peer reviewers 

and considered by EPA in the 

disposition of public comments. All 

comments must be submitted to the 

docket, but comments received after the 

public comment period closes will not 

be submitted to the external peer 

reviewers. 

ADDRESSES: The listening session on the 

draft Ethyl Tertiary Butyl Ether 

assessment will be held at the EPA 

offices at Two Potomac Yard (North 

Building), 7th Floor, Room 7100, 2733 

South Crystal Drive, Arlington, Virginia 

22202. To attend the listening session, 

register by September 30, 2009, via email at Meetings@erg.com (subject line: 

Ethyl Tertiary Butyl Ether listening 

session), by phone: 781–674–7374, or by 

faxing a registration request to 781–674– 

2906 (please reference the ‘‘Ethyl 

Tertiary Butyl Ether Listening Session’’ 

and include your name, title, affiliation, 

full address and contact information). 

Please note that to gain entrance to this 

EPA building to attend the meeting, 

attendees must have photo 

identification with them and must 

register at the guard’s desk in the lobby. 

The guard will retain your photo 

identification and will provide you with 

a visitor’s badge. At the guard’s desk, 

attendees should give the name 

Christine Ross and the telephone 

number, 703–347–8592, to the guard on 

duty. The guard will contact Ms. Ross 

who will meet you in the reception area 

to escort you to the meeting room. When 

you leave the building, please return 

your visitor’s badge to the guard and 

you will receive your photo 

identification. 

A teleconference line will also be 

available for registered attendees/ 

speakers. The teleconference number is 

866–299–3188 and the access code is 

926–378–7897, followed by the pound 

sign (#). The teleconference line will be 

activated at 8:45 a.m., and you will be 

asked to identify yourself and your 

affiliation at the beginning of the call. 

Information on Services for 

Individuals with Disabilities: EPA 

welcomes public attendance at the 

‘‘Ethyl Tertiary Butyl Ether Listening 

Session’’ and will make every effort to 

accommodate persons with disabilities. 

For information on access or services for 

individuals with disabilities, please 

contact Christine Ross at 703–347–8592 

or ross.christine@epa.gov. To request 

accommodation of a disability, please 

contact Ms. Ross, preferably at least 10 

days prior to the meeting, to give EPA 

as much time as possible to process 

your request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the public listening 

sessions, please contact Christine Ross, 

IRIS Staff, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment, (8601P), 

U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone: 

703–347–8592; facsimile: 703–347– 

8689; or e-mail: ross.christine@epa.gov. 

If you have questions about the draft 

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