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2Policy Statement on Provisions Governing 

Natural Gas Quality and Interchangeability in 

Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline Company Tariffs, 

115 FERC ¶ 61,325, at PP 34, 37 (2006). 

operational support for its proposal, 

including support for its assertion that 

its proposal is not barred by the 2010 

Settlement. Consistent with the 

Commission’s Natural Gas 

Interchangeability Policy Statement, 

Texas Eastern should be prepared to 

explain how its proposal differs from 

the Natural Gas Council Plus interim 

guidelines.2 In addition, any party 

proposing alternatives to Texas 

Eastern’s proposal should be prepared 

to support its position with adequate 

technical, engineering and operational 

information. 

FERC conferences are accessible 

under section 508 of the Rehabilitation 

Act of 1973. For accessibility 

accommodations please send an email 

to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free 

(866) 208–3372 (voice) or (202) 502– 

8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208– 

2106 with the required 

accommodations. 

All interested persons are permitted 

to attend. For further information please 

contact Oscar Santillana at (202) 502– 

6392 or email Oscar.Santillana@

ferc.gov, and David Maranville at (202) 

502–6351 or email David.Maranville@

ferc.gov. 

Dated: August 20, 2013. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–20925 Filed 8–27–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 199–205] 

South Carolina Public Service 

Authority; Notice of Meeting to 

Discuss Santee-Cooper Biological 

Opinion 

On July 15, 2010, the National Marine 

Fisheries Service (NMFS) filed its 

Biological Opinion (BO) on the 

relicensing of the Santee-Cooper 

Hydroelectric Project No. 199. The 

document included NMFS’ terms and 

conditions for protection of the 

endangered shortnose and Atlantic 

sturgeon. Commission staff, the South 

Carolina Public Service Authority 

(SCPSA), the South Carolina 

Department of National Resources, and 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers filed 

comments on the draft BO in September 

2010. Several meetings and workshops 

were held in 2011 and 2012 to discuss 

what is needed to complete formal 

consultation for the two sturgeon 

species. 

At the request of NMFS, Commission 

staff will meet with representatives of 

NMFS and SCPSA, the Commission’s 

non-federal representative for the 

Santee-Cooper Project, to continue the 

on-going discussions of what is needed 

to complete formal consultation for the 

shortnose and Atlantic sturgeon. The 

meeting will be held on Thursday, 

September 19, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 

5:00 p.m. at NMFS’ office at 263 13th 

Avenue South, St. Petersburg, Florida. 

All local, state, and federal agencies, 

and interested parties, are hereby 

invited to attend and observe this 

meeting. Questions concerning the 

meeting should be directed to Robert 

Hoffman of NMFS at (727) 824–5312. 

Dated: August 20, 2013. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–20923 Filed 8–27–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9900–46–ORD; Docket ID No. EPA– 

HQ–ORD–2006–0756] 

Notice of Extension of Public 

Comment Period on the Draft IRIS 

Carcinogenicity Assessment for 

Ethylene Oxide and Addition of 

Ethylene Oxide to October IRIS 

Bimonthly Meeting Agenda 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Extension of Public 

Comment Period to October 11, 2013, 

and Addition of Ethylene Oxide to 

October IRIS Bimonthly Meeting 

Agenda. 

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing an 

extension of the public comment period 

for the IRIS external review draft 

carcinogenicity assessment titled, 

‘‘Evaluation of the Inhalation 

Carcinogenicity of Ethylene Oxide’’ 

(EPA/635/R–13/128a and EPA/635/R– 

13/128b) and the draft peer review 

charge questions. The original Federal 

Register notice announcing the public 

comment period was published on July 

23, 2013. We are extending the deadline 

for this public comment period from 

September 5, 2013, to October 11, 2013, 

at the request of the American 

Chemistry Council and the Ethylene 

Oxide Sterilization Association, Inc. 

The draft assessment was prepared by 

the National Center for Environmental 

Assessment (NCEA) within the EPA 

Office of Research and Development 

(ORD). This draft assessment is not final 

as described in EPA’s information 

quality guidelines, and it does not 

represent and should not be construed 

to represent Agency policy or views. 

Discussion of the draft IRIS 

carcinogenicity assessment for ethylene 

oxide will be included on the agenda of 

the IRIS bimonthly public meeting to be 

held on October 23–24, 2013, at EPA 

offices in Arlington, Virginia. 

Information on this meeting, including 

meeting location, time, registration, and 

participation procedures will be 

available at the IRIS Web site (http:// 

www.epa.gov/iris/publicmeeting/). 

DATES: The public comment period 

began on July 23, 2013, and is being 

extended to end on October 11, 2013. 

Comments should be in writing and 

must be received by EPA by October 11, 

2013. 

ADDRESSES: The draft ‘‘Evaluation of the 

Inhalation Carcinogenicity of Ethylene 

Oxide’’ is available primarily via the 

Internet on the NCEA home page under 

the Recent Additions and Publications 

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

limited number of paper copies are 

available from the Information 

Management Team, NCEA; telephone: 

703–347–8561; facsimile: 703–347– 

8691. If you request a paper copy, please 

provide your name, mailing address, 

and the document title. Comments may 

be submitted electronically via http:// 

www.regulations.gov, by email, by mail, 

by facsimile, or by hand delivery/ 

courier. Please follow the detailed 

instructions provided in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the federal docket, 

contact the Office of Environmental 

Information Docket; telephone: 202– 

566–1752; facsimile: 202–566–9744; or 

email: Docket_ORD@epa.gov. For 

information on the IRIS bimonthly 

public meeting, contact Christine Ross, 

IRIS Staff, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment, (8601P), 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone: 703– 

347–8592; facsimile: 703–347–8689; or 

email: ross.christine@epa.gov. If you 

have questions about the document, 

contact Jennifer Jinot, National Center 

for Environmental Assessment; 

telephone: 703–347–8597; facsimile: 

703–347–8690; or email: 

jinot.jennifer@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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I. Information About IRIS 

EPA’s IRIS Program is a human health 

assessment program that evaluates 

quantitative and qualitative risk 

information on effects that may result 

from exposure to chemical substances 

found in the environment. Through the 

IRIS Program, EPA provides the highest 

quality science-based human health 

assessments to support the Agency’s 

regulatory activities and decisions to 

protect public health. The IRIS database 

contains information for more than 500 

chemical substances that can be used to 

support the first two steps (hazard 

identification and dose-response 

evaluation) of the human health risk 

assessment process. When supported by 

available data, IRIS provides health 

effects information and toxicity values 

for health effects (including cancer and 

effects other than cancer). Government 

and others combine IRIS toxicity values 

with exposure information to 

characterize public health risks of 

chemical substances; this information is 

then used to support risk management 

decisions designed to protect public 

health. 

II. Extension of Comment Period 

The EPA is extending the deadline for 

submitting comments on the draft 

‘‘Evaluation of the Inhalation 

Carcinogenicity of Ethylene Oxide’’ and 

on the draft peer review charge 

questions to October 11, 2013. The 

original deadline for comments was 

September 5, 2013. The EPA’s decision 

responds to requests to extend the 

comment deadline. The EPA believes 

that this extension will assist in 

providing an adequate amount of 

additional time for the public to review 

the drafts and to provide written 

comments. 

III. Bimonthly Public Meeting 

In addition to the extension to the 

public comment period announced in 

this notice, the draft assessment will be 

discussed at the first IRIS bimonthly 

public meeting scheduled for October 

23–24, 2013. Information on this 

meeting, including meeting location, 

time, registration, and participation 

procedures will be available at the IRIS 

Web site (http://www.epa.gov/iris/

publicmeeting/). The purpose of the 

IRIS public meeting is to allow all 

interested parties to present scientific 

and technical comments on the draft 

IRIS health assessment and charge 

questions to EPA and other interested 

parties attending the meeting. 

IV. Peer Review 

In addition to this public comment 

period, the draft assessment will be 

reviewed by the EPA’s Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Chemical Assessment 

Advisory Committee (CAAC) for peer 

review. The EPA SAB is a body 

established under the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act with a broad mandate to 

advise the Agency on scientific matters. 

The public comment period and 

bimonthly public meeting announced in 

this notice are separate processes from 

the SAB/CAAC peer review. The SAB 

will schedule one or more public peerreview meetings which will be 

announced in a separate Federal 

Register Notice at a later date. 

V. How To Submit Technical Comments 

to the Docket at http://

www.regulations.gov 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2006– 

0756 by one of the following methods: 

• http://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 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, EPA West Building, Room 3334, 

1301 Constitution Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center’s 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. 

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 one unbound 

original with pages numbered 

consecutively, and 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 for submitting comments 

to the EPA Docket: Direct your 

comments to Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

ORD–2006–0756. 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 that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected through http://

www.regulations.gov or email. 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 email comment directly 

to EPA without going through http://

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 http://

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

All documents in the docket are listed 

in the http://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 material, such as 

copyrighted material, will be publicly 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically in http://

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the OEI Docket in the EPA Headquarters 

Docket Center. 

Dated: August 19, 2013. 

Lynn Flowers, 

Acting Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

[FR Doc. 2013–20913 Filed 8–27–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2013–0038; FRL–9398–2] 

Pesticide Product Registration; 

Receipt of Application for New Uses 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 


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