Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 22 / Wednesday, February 4, 2009 / Notices 6033 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8770–8] 

EPA Science Advisory Board Staff 

Office; Request for Nominations of 

Experts for EPA Science Advisory 

Board, Scientific and Technological 

Achievement Awards Committee 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office is requesting 

nominations for experts to serve on a 

SAB Scientific and Technological 

Achievement Awards (STAA) 

Committee. This Committee will review 

peer-reviewed publications from EPA 

scientists and makes recommendations 

for awards. 

DATES: Nominations should be 

submitted by February 25, 2009 per 

instructions below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing further 

information regarding this Notice and 

Request for Nominations may contact 

Mr. Edward Hanlon, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), SAB Staff Office, by 

telephone/voice mail at (202) 343–9946; 

by fax at (202) 233–0643 or via email at 

hanlon.edward@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the EPA Science 

Advisory Board can be found at the EPA 

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

sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA’s 

Scientific and Technological 

Achievement Awards (STAA) was 

established in 1980 to recognize Agency 

scientists and engineers who published 

their work in the peer-reviewed 

literature. The STAA Program is an 

Agency-wide competition to promote 

and recognize scientific and 

technological achievements by EPA 

employees. The STAA program is 

administered and managed by EPA’s 

Office of Research and Development 

(ORD). Each year the EPA Science 

Advisory Board has been asked to 

review scientific publications 

nominated by EPA managers and make 

recommendations to the Administrator 

for awards. The SAB Staff Office is 

announcing the formation of a new ad 

hoc STAA Committee. This Committee 

will serve for a three year period, and 

review nominated publications and 

recommend awards for 2009 through 

2011. The SAB is chartered under the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), as amended (5 U.S.C. App.). 

The Committee will comply with the 

provisions of FACA and SAB 

procedural policies, including the SAB 

process for Committee formation that is 

described further on the SAB Web site 

at http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/ 

sabproduct.nsf/WebSABSO/ 

OverviewPanelForm?OpenDocument. 

The Committee will hold closed 

meetings to review nominated scientific 

publications and make monetary award 

recommendations. 

Request for Nominations 

The SAB Staff Office is soliciting 

nominations of nationally and 

internationally recognized scientists and 

engineers with documented research 

experience to serve on the STAA 

Committee. Nominations are requested 

in the areas of: Environmental Exposure, 

Transport and Fate; Environmental 

Monitoring and Methods; 

Environmental Control Systems and 

Risk Management; Ecosystems and 

Ecological Risk Assessment; Human 

Health and Risk Assessment; and Social 

and Decision Sciences. 

Process and Deadline for Submitting 

Nominations: Any interested person or 

organization may nominate qualified 

individuals to be considered for 

appointment on this SAB Committee. 

Candidates may also nominate 

themselves. Nominations should be 

submitted in electronic format (which is 

preferred over hard copy) following the 

instructions for ‘‘Nominating Experts to 

Advisory Panels and Ad Hoc 

Committees Being Formed’’ provided on 

the SAB Web site. The form can be 

accessed through the ‘‘Nomination of 

Experts’’ link on the blue navigational 

bar on the SAB Web site at http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab. To receive full 

consideration, nominations should 

include all of the information requested. 

EPA’s SAB Staff Office requests 

contact information about the person 

making the nomination; contact 

information about the nominee; the 

disciplinary and specific areas of 

expertise of the nominee; the nominee’s 

curriculum vitae; sources of recent grant 

and/or contract support; and a 

biographical sketch of the nominee 

indicating current position, educational 

background, research activities, and 

recent service on other national 

advisory committees or national 

professional organizations. 

Persons having questions about the 

nomination procedures, or who are 

unable to submit nominations through 

the SAB Web site, should contact Mr. 

Edward Hanlon, DFO, at the contact 

information provided above in this 

notice. Non-electronic submissions 

must follow the same format and 

contain the same information as the 

electronic. 

The SAB Staff Office will 

acknowledge receipt of the nomination 

and inform nominees of the panel for 

which they have been nominated. From 

the nominees identified by respondents 

to this Federal Register notice (termed 

the ‘‘Widecast’’) and other sources, the 

SAB Staff Office will develop a smaller 

subset (known as the ‘‘Short List’’) for 

more detailed consideration. The Short 

List will be posted on the SAB Web site 

at http://www.epa.gov/sab and will 

include, for each candidate, the 

nominee’s name and biosketch. Public 

comments on the Short List will be 

accepted for 21 calendar days. During 

this comment period, the public will be 

requested to provide information, 

analysis, or other documentation on 

nominees that the SAB Staff Office 

should consider in evaluating 

candidates for the Panel. 

For the SAB a balanced panel is 

characterized by inclusion of candidates 

who possess the necessary domains of 

knowledge, the relevant scientific 

perspectives (which, among other 

factors, can be influenced by work 

history and affiliation), and the 

collective breadth of experience to 

adequately address the charge. Public 

responses to the Short List candidates 

will be considered in the selection of 

the panel, along with information 

provided by candidates and information 

gathered by SAB Staff independently 

concerning the background of each 

candidate (e.g., financial disclosure 

information and computer searches to 

evaluate a nominee’s prior involvement 

with the topic under review). Specific 

criteria to be used in evaluation of an 

individual Panel member include: (a) 

Scientific and/or technical expertise, 

knowledge, and experience (primary 

factors); (b) absence of financial 

conflicts of interest; (c) scientific 

credibility and impartiality; (d) 

availability and willingness to serve; 

and (e) ability to work constructively 

and effectively in committees. 

Prospective candidates will be 

required to fill-out the ‘‘Confidential 

Financial Disclosure Form for Special 

Government Employees Serving on 

Federal Advisory Committees at the 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’’ 

(EPA Form 3110–48). This confidential 

form allows Government officials to 

determine whether there is a statutory 

conflict between that person’s public 

responsibilities (which includes 

membership on an EPA Federal 

advisory committee) and private 

interests and activities, or the 

appearance of a lack of impartiality, as 

defined by Federal regulation. Ethics 

information, including EPA Form 3110– 

48, is available on the SAB Web site at 

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ethics?OpenDocument. 

Dated: January 29, 2009. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

[FR Doc. E9–2343 Filed 2–3–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8768–5] 

Underground Injection Control 

Program; Hazardous Waste Injection 

Restrictions; Petition for Exemption— 

Class I Hazardous Waste Injection; 

ExxonMobil Environmental Services 

Company, Pasadena, TX 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of a Final Decision on a 

No Migration Petition. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that an 

exemption to the land disposal 

restrictions under the 1984 Hazardous 

and Solid Waste Amendments to the 

Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act have been granted to ExxonMobil 

Environmental Services Company for a 

Class I injection well located at 

Pasadena, Texas. As required by 40 CFR 

part 148, the company has adequately 

demonstrated to the satisfaction of the 

Environmental Protection Agency by the 

petition and supporting documentation 

that, to a reasonable degree of certainty, 

there will be no migration of hazardous 

constituents from the injection zone for 

as long as the waste remains hazardous. 

This final decision allows the 

underground injection by ExxonMobil, 

of the specific restricted hazardous 

wastes identified in this exemption, into 

Class I hazardous waste injection well 

No. WDW–397 at the Agrifos Pasadena 

Texas Fertilizer facility, Pasadena, 

Texas, until December 31, 2020, unless 

EPA moves to terminate this exemption 

under provisions of 40 CFR 148.24. 

Additional conditions included in this 

final decision may be reviewed by 

contacting the Region 6 Ground Water/ 

UIC Section. As required by 40 CFR 

148.22(b) and 124.10, a public notice 

was issued November 25, 2008. The 

public comment period closed on 

January 9, 2009. No comments were 

received. This decision constitutes final 

Agency action and there is no 

Administrative appeal. This decision 

may be reviewed/appealed in 

compliance with the Administrative 

Procedure Act. 

DATES: This action is effective as of 

January 15, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the petition and 

all pertinent information relating thereto 

are on file at the following location: 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region 6, Water Quality Protection 

Division, Source Water Protection 

Branch (6WQ–S), 1445 Ross Avenue, 

Dallas, Texas 75202–2733. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Philip Dellinger, Chief Ground Water/ 

UIC Section, EPA—Region 6, telephone 

(214) 665–7150. 

Dated: January 15, 2009. 

Miguel I. Flores, 

Division Director, Water Quality Protection 

Division. 

[FR Doc. E9–2413 Filed 2–3–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE 

UNITED STATES 

Economic Impact Policy 

This notice is to inform the public 

that the Export-Import Bank of the 

United States has received an 

application to guarantee approximately 

$15 million in commercial bank 

financing for the U.S. export of 

approximately $31 million worth of 

photovoltaic module manufacturing 

equipment and services for the 

construction of a new thin film 

photovoltaic production facility in 

Germany. The U.S. exports will enable 

the German company to produce 

approximately 21.5 megawatts (MW) 

worth of amorphous silicon thin film 

photovoltaic modules per year on 

average during the 8.5-year repayment 

term of the loan. Available information 

indicates that all of this new German 

production will be consumed in 

Germany. 

Please note that this transaction was 

first posted in the Federal Register on 

September 25, 2007. Interested parties 

may submit comments on this 

transaction by e-mail to 

economic.impact@exim.gov or by mail 

to 811 Vermont Avenue, NW., Room 

1238, Washington, DC 20571, within 14 

days of the date this notice appears in 

the Federal Register. 

Helene S. Walsh, 

Vice President, Policy Analysis. 

[FR Doc. E9–2364 Filed 2–3–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6690–01–P 

FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION 

Farm Credit Administration Board; 

Regular Meeting 

AGENCY: Farm Credit Administration. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given, 

pursuant to the Government in the 

Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b(e)(3)), of 

the regular meeting of the Farm Credit 

Administration Board (Board). 

DATE AND TIME: The regular meeting of 

the Board will be held at the offices of 

the Farm Credit Administration in 

McLean, Virginia, on February 12, 2009, 

from 9 a.m. until such time as the Board 

concludes its business. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Roland E. Smith, Secretary to the Farm 

Credit Administration Board, (703) 883– 

4009, TTY (703) 883–4056. 

ADDRESSES: Farm Credit 

Administration, 1501 Farm Credit Drive, 

McLean, Virginia 22102–5090. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

meeting of the Board will be open to the 

public (limited space available). In order 

to increase the accessibility to Board 

meetings, persons requiring assistance 

should make arrangements in advance. 

The matters to be considered at the 

meeting are: 

Open Session 

A. Approval of Minutes 

• January 8, 2009. 

B. New Business 

• Spring 2009 Abstract of the Unified 

Agenda of Federal Regulatory and 

Deregulatory Actions and Spring 

2009 Regulatory Performance Plan. 

C. Reports 

• Office of Management Services 

Quarterly Report. 

Roland E. Smith, 

Secretary, Farm Credit Administration Board. 

[FR Doc. E9–2463 Filed 2–2–09; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6705–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Public Information Collection 

Requirement Submitted to OMB for 

Review and Approval, Comments 

Requested 

January 30, 2009. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications 

Commission, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork burden, 

invites the general public and other 

Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13. An