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resources expended by persons to 

generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or 

provide information to or for a Federal 

agency. This includes the time needed 

to review instructions; develop, acquire, 

install, and utilize technology and 

systems for the purposes of collecting, 

validating, and verifying information, 

processing and maintaining 

information, and disclosing and 

providing information; adjust the 

existing ways to comply with any 

previously applicable instructions and 

requirements which have subsequently 

changed; train personnel to be able to 

respond to a collection of information; 

search data sources; complete and 

review the collection of information; 

and transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. 

The ICR provides a detailed 

explanation of the Agency’s estimate, 

which is only briefly summarized here: 

Estimated total number of potential 

respondents: 51. 

Frequency of response: annual. 

Estimated total average number of 

responses for each respondent: 1. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

1,408. 

Estimated total annual costs: $58,325. 

All of this cost is associated with labor; 

there are no capital investment or 

maintenance and operational costs 

associated with this ICR. 

Are there changes in the estimates from 

the last approval? 

There is a decrease of 308 hours in the 

total estimated annual respondent 

burden compared with that identified in 

the ICR currently approved by OMB. 

This decrease results from reduced labor 

burden associated with automated 

reporting of progress toward developing 

and implementing prevention strategies 

for all community water systems via the 

Safe Drinking Water Information System 

(SDWIS). EPA estimates that 11 states 

will incur reduced burden by using the 

capabilities of SDWIS to report to EPA 

on the status of contamination 

prevention efforts in their states. 

What is the next step in the process for 

this ICR? 

EPA will consider the comments 

received and amend the ICR as 

appropriate. The final ICR package will 

then be submitted to OMB for review 

and approval pursuant to 5 CFR 

1320.12. At that time, EPA will issue 

another Federal Register notice 

pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.5(a)(1)(iv) to 

announce the submission of the ICR to 

OMB and the opportunity to submit 

additional comments to OMB. If you 

have any questions about this ICR or the 

approval process, please contact the 

technical person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Dated: August 11, 2011. 

Ronald W. Bergman, 

Acting Director, Office of Ground Water & 

Drinking Water. 

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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Notification of Public Teleconferences 

of the Science Advisory Board 

Radiation Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office announces two 

teleconferences of the SAB Augmented 

Radiation Advisory Committee (RAC) to 

discuss the draft advisory report related 

to uranium and thorium in-situ leach 

recovery and post-closure stability 

monitoring. 

DATES: The public teleconferences will 

be conducted on Tuesday, September 6, 

2011 and Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 

from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern Daylight 

Time). 

ADDRESSES: The public teleconferences 

will be conducted by telephone only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing further 

information regarding this Notice may 

contact Dr. K. Jack Kooyoomjian, 

Designated Federal Officer (DFO), SAB 

Staff Office (1400R), 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

or by telephone/voice mail at (202) 564– 

2064, or via e-mail at 

kooyoomjian.jack@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. 

Technical Contact: Technical 

background information pertaining to 

the Uranium In-Situ leach recovery— 

Post-Closure Stability Monitoring can be 

found at http://www.epa.gov/radiation/ 

tenorm/pubs.html. Information 

pertaining to EPA’s regulatory standards 

in 40 CFR part 192—Health and 

Environmental Protection Standards for 

Uranium and Thorium Mill Tailings can 

be found at http://yosemite.epa.gov/ 

opei/rulegate.nsf/byRIN/2060– 

AP43?opendocument. For questions 

concerning the technical aspects of this 

topic, please contact Dr. Mary E. Clark 

of the U.S. EPA, ORIA by telephone at 

(202) 343–9348, or via e-mail at 

clark.marye@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The SAB was 

established pursuant to the 

Environmental Research, Development, 

and Demonstration Authorization Act 

(ERDAA), codified at 42 U.S.C. 4365, to 

provide independent scientific and 

technical peer review advice, 

consultation and recommendations to 

the EPA Administrator on the technical 

basis for Agency actions, positions and 

regulations. As a Federal Advisory 

Committee, the SAB conducts business 

in accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 

U.S.C. App. 2) and related regulations. 

Pursuant to FACA and EPA policy, 

notice is hereby given that the 

augmented RAC will hold two public 

teleconferences. The SAB will comply 

with the provisions of FACA and all 

appropriate EPA and SAB Staff Office 

procedural policies. 

The EPA has requested the SAB 

review the Agency draft technical 

document on ISL/ISR post closure 

stability monitoring to evaluate what 

criteria should be considered to 

establish a specific period of monitoring 

for ISL/ISR facilities, once uranium 

extraction operations are completed. 

Among the issues to be considered are 

whether specific site characteristics, 

features or benchmarks can be used to 

aid in establishing a post-closure 

monitoring time period; and if other 

technical approaches should be 

considered by EPA to provide 

reasonable assurances of aquifer 

stability and groundwater protection. 

The Agency’s draft technical document 

will be used as a basis to evaluate the 

technical and scientific issues 

pertaining to standards in 40 CFR part 

192—Health and Environmental 

Protection Standards for Uranium and 

Thorium Mill Tailings. The SAB RAC 

augmented with additional experts held 

an initial public teleconference of July 

12, 2011 and a two-day meeting on July 

18 and 19, 2011 to discuss advisory 

comments on the EPA’s June 2011 draft 

technical document entitled 

‘‘Considerations Related to Post-Closure 

Monitoring of Uranium In-Situ Leach/ 

In-Situ Recovery (ISL/ISR) Sites’’. These 

previous meetings were announced in 

the Federal Register on Thursday, June 

23, 2011 (Vol. 76, No. 121, pp. 36918– 

36919). The purpose of the September 6, 

2011 and October 5, 2011 public 

teleconferences is for the augmented 

RAC to discuss its draft advisory report 

on this topic. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: The 

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the charge to the SAB for the 

consultation, and other supplemental 

materials in support of the two public 

teleconferences will be placed on the 

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

in advance of the teleconference and 

meeting. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Public comment for consideration by 

EPA’s federal advisory committees and 

panels has a different purpose from 

public comment provided to EPA 

program offices. Therefore, the process 

for submitting comments to a federal 

advisory committee is different from the 

process used to submit comments to an 

EPA program office. 

Federal advisory committees and 

panels, including scientific advisory 

committees, provide independent 

advice to EPA. Members of the public 

can submit comments for a federal 

advisory committee to consider as it 

develops advice for EPA. Input from the 

public to the SAB will have the most 

impact if it provides specific scientific 

or technical information or analysis for 

SAB panels to consider or if it relates to 

the clarity or accuracy of the technical 

information. Members of the public 

wishing to provide comment should 

contact the Designated Federal Officer 

directly at the contact information 

provided. 

Oral Statements: In general, 

individuals or groups requesting an oral 

presentation at a teleconference will be 

limited to three minutes. Those 

interested in being placed on the public 

speakers list for either the September 6 

and October 5, 2011 teleconferences 

should contact Dr. Kooyoomjian at the 

contact information provided above no 

later than noon on September 2, 2011 

for the September 6, 2011 

teleconference, and no later than 

October 3, 2011 for the October 5, 2011 

teleconference. 

Written Statements: Written 

statements should be supplied to the 

DFO via e-mail at the contact 

information noted by noon September 2, 

2011 for the September 6, 2011 

teleconference, and no later than 

Monday, October 3, 2011 for the 

October 5, 2011 teleconference, so that 

the information may be made available 

to the members of the augmented RAC 

and the public for their consideration. 

Written statements should be supplied 

in one of the following electronic 

formats: Adobe Acrobat PDF, MS Word, 

MS PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in 

IBM–PC/Windows98/2000/XP format. It 

is the SAB Staff office general policy to 

post written comments on the Web page 

for the advisory meeting or 

teleconference. Submitters are requested 

to provide an unsigned version of each 

document, because the SAB Staff Office 

does not publish documents with 

signatures on its Web sites. Members of 

the public should be aware that their 

personal contact information, if 

included in any written comments, may 

be posted to the SAB Web site. 

Copyrighted material will not be posted 

without explicit permission of the 

copyright holder. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Dr. 

Kooyoomjian at (202) 564–2064, or email kooyoomjian.jack@epa.gov. To 

request accommodation of a disability, 

please contact Dr. Kooyoomjian 

preferably at least ten days prior to the 

teleconference or meeting to give as 

much time as possible to process your 

request. 

Dated: August 9, 2011. 

Vanessa T. Vu, 

Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff 

Office. 

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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Notification of a Public Teleconference 

of the Chartered Science Advisory 

Board 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a 

public teleconference of the Chartered 

SAB on September 7, 2011 to conduct 

a quality review of a draft SAB report, 

Peer Review of EPA’s Draft NationalScale Mercury Risk Assessment (08/04/ 

11) Draft. 

DATES: The public teleconference will 

be held on September 7, 2011 from 12 

p.m. to 3 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time). 

ADDRESSES: The public teleconference 

will be conducted by telephone only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing to obtain 

general information concerning the 

public teleconference may contact Dr. 

Angela Nugent, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO). Dr. Nugent may be 

contacted at the EPA Science Advisory 

Board (1400R), U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

or by telephone/voice mail at (202) 564– 

2218; fax at (202) 565–2098; or e-mail at 

nugent.angela@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the EPA Science 

Advisory Board can be found on the 

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

sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SAB 

was established pursuant to the 

Environmental Research, Development, 

and Demonstration Authorization Act 

(ERDAA), codified at 42 U.S.C. 4365, to 

provide independent scientific and 

technical advice to the EPA 

Administrator on the technical basis for 

Agency positions and regulations. The 

SAB is a Federal Advisory Committee 

chartered under the Federal Advisory 

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

2. Pursuant to FACA and EPA policy, 

notice is hereby given that the SAB will 

hold a public teleconference to conduct 

a quality review of an SAB draft report 

entitled Peer Review of EPA’s Draft 

National-Scale Mercury Risk 

Assessment (08/04/1 Draft). The SAB 

will comply with the provisions of 

FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff 

Office procedural policies. 

Background: EPA is considering 

regulating the emissions of hazardous 

air pollutants (HAPs) released from 

coal-burning electric generating units in 

the United States (U.S. EGUs) under 

Section 112(n)(1)(A) of the Clean Air 

Act (CAA). EPA developed a draft risk 

assessment for mercury, entitled 

Technical Support Document: Nationalscale Mercury Risk Assessment. The 

draft assessment considers the nature 

and magnitude of the potential risk to 

public health posed by current U.S. 

EGU mercury emissions and the nature 

and magnitude of the potential risk 

posed by U.S. EGU mercury in the 

future, once all anticipated CAA-related 

regulations potentially reducing 

mercury from U.S. EGUs are in place. 

EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation 

requested peer review of this draft 

document. The SAB Mercury Review 

Panel has prepared a review report on 

EPA’s draft technical document. The 

Charted SAB will conduct a quality 

view of the SAB Panel’s draft review 

report. 

Background information about the 

SAB advisory activity can be found on 

the SAB Web site at http:// 

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

fedrgstr_activites/ 

Oil%20Spill%20Research%

20Strategy?OpenDocument. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: The 

agenda and other materials in support of 

the teleconference will be placed on the 

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

in advance of the teleconference. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Public comment for consideration by 

EPA’s federal advisory committees and 


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