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by the Hawaii School Readiness Assessment (HSRA);

(3) The percentage of students in schools served by the program who graduate from high school with a regular high school diploma, as defined in 34 CFR 200.19(b)(1)(iv), in four years; and

(4) The percentage of students participating in a Hawaiian language program conducted under the Native Hawaiian Education program who meet or exceed proficiency standards in reading on a test of the Hawaiian language.

All grantees will be expected to submit an annual performance report that includes data addressing these performance measures, to the extent that they apply to the grantee’s project.
VII. Agency Contact

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Irene Harwarth, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 3E244, Washington, DC 20202– 6200. Telephone: (202) 401–3751 or by e-mail: Irene.Harwarth@ed.gov

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If you use a TDD, call the FRS, toll free, at 1–800–877–8339.

VIII. Other Information

Accessible Format: Individuals with disabilities can obtain this document and a copy of the application package in an accessible format ( e.g., braille, large print, audiotape, or computer diskette) on request to the program contact person listed under **FOR FURTHER**
**INFORMATION CONTACT** in section VII of this notice.

Electronic Access to This Document: You can view this document, as well as all other documents of this Department published in the Federal Register, in text or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) on the Internet at the following site: http://www.ed.gov/news/ fedregister. To use PDF you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free at this site.

Note: The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register . Free Internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations is available on the
GPO Access at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ nara/index.html

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Dated: February 23, 2010.

Thelma Mele  ́ ndez de Santa Ana, Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education.
[FR Doc. 2010–4058 Filed 2–25–10; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 4000–01–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION**  **AGENCY**

**[FRL–9115–6; Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR– 2010–0108]** 

**Integrated Science Assessment for Lead (Pb)** 

**AGENCY :**  Environmental Protection Agency.

**ACTION :**  Notice; call for information.

**SUMMARY :**  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that the 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 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Lead (Pb). This ISA is intended to update and revise, where appropriate, the scientific assessment presented in the Air Quality Criteria for Lead (EPA/600/R–5/144aF), published on October 1, 2006. Interested parties are invited to assist the EPA in developing and refining the scientific information base for the review of the Pb NAAQS by submitting research studies that have been published, accepted for publication, or presented at a public scientific meeting.

**DATES :**  All communications and information should be received by EPA by April 30, 2010.

**ADDRESSES :**  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– 1753; or e-mail: OAR.Docket@epa.gov. For technical information, contact Ellen Kirrane, Ph.D., NCEA, telephone, 919– 541–1340; facsimile: 919–541–2985; or e-mail: kirrane.ellen@epa.gov.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :**  I. Information About the Project

Section 108 (a) of the Clean Air Act directs the Administrator to identify pollutants that meet certain criteria, including emissions which ‘‘may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health and welfare’’ and whose
presence ‘‘in the ambient air results from numerous or diverse mobile or stationary sources, ’’ 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 * * *. ’’ Welfare effects as defined in section 302(h) (42 U.S.C. 7602(h)) include, but are not limited to,

‘‘ effects on soils, water, crops, vegetation, man-made materials, animals, wildlife, weather, visibility and climate, damage to and deterioration of property, and hazards to transportation, as well as effects on economic valuesand on personal comfort and wellbeing. ’’ 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 subsequently 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 and welfare. EPA is also to revise the NAAQS, if appropriate, based on the revised air quality criteria.

Lead (Pb) 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 (AQCD). The ISA and its supplementary annexes are the scientific basis for the additional technical and policy assessments that form the basis for EPA decisions on the adequacy of current NAAQS and the appropriateness of new or revised standards. Early steps in this process include announcing the beginning of this periodic NAAQS review and the development of the ISA, and EPA requesting that the public submit scientific literature that they want to bring to the attention of the Agency as it begins this process. The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC), an independent science advisory committee mandated by the Clean Air Act and part of the EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB), 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 drafts of the Pb ISA. These opportunities will also be announced in the Federal Register

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The Agency is interested in obtaining information concerning toxicological studies of effects of controlled exposure to Pb on laboratory animals and in vitro systems, epidemiologic (observational) studies of health effects associated with exposures of human populations to Pb, and ecological effects of Pb exposure. Information particular to air-related


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pathways, including those involving deposition, are also of interest to the Agency. EPA also seeks recent information in other areas of Pb research such as toxicokinetic modeling, exposure assessment and exposure assessment methodologies, sources and emissions, chemistry and physics, analytical methodology, fate and transport in the environment, ambient concentrations, including concentration changes in response to changes in Pb deposition, and effects on public welfare or the environment. This and other selected literature relevant to a review of the NAAQS for Pb will be assessed in the forthcoming Pb ISA.

As part of this review of the Pb NAAQS, EPA intends to sponsor a workshop in May 2010, which will be announced in the Federal Register , to highlight significant new and emerging Pb research, and to make recommendations to the Agency regarding the design and scope of the review of the air quality criteria and the primary (health-based) and secondary (welfare-based) Pb 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.

II. How To Submit Comments to the Docket at http://www.regulations.gov

Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2010– 0108 by one of the following methods:

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for submitting
comments.

• E-mail: OAR.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–OAR–2010– 0108. 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 e-mail. 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.

Docket: 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 materials, such as copyrighted material, are 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: February 12, 2010. Rebecca Clark, Acting Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.
[FR Doc. 2010–3970 Filed 2–25–10; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 6560–50–P**

**ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY** 

**[ER–FRL–8988–4]**

**Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of EPA**  **Comments**

Availability of EPA comments prepared pursuant to the Environmental Review Process (ERP), under section 309 of the Clean Air Act and Section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act as amended. Requests for copies of EPA comments can be directed to the Office of Federal Activities at
202–564–7146 or http://www.epa.gov/ compliance/nepa/.

An explanation of the ratings assigned to draft environmental impact statements (EISs) was published in FR dated July 17, 2009 (74 FR 34754).

Notice: In accordance with Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act, EPA is required to make its comments on EISs issued by other Federal agencies public. Historically, EPA has met this mandate by publishing weekly notices of availability of EPA comments, which includes a brief summary of EPA’s comment letters, in the Federal Register. Since February 2008, EPA has been including its comment letters on EISs on its Web site at: http:// www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/ eisdata.html. Including the entire EIS comment letters on the Web site satisfies the Section 309(a) requirement to make EPA’s comments on EISs available to the public. Accordingly, after March 31, 2010, EPA will discontinue the publication of this notice of availability of EPA comments in the Federal Register.

Draft EISs
EIS No. 20090272, ERP No. D–UAF–

B11025–00, Modification of the Condor 1 and Condor 2 Military Operation Areas, 104th Fighter Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard Base (ANG) Proposes to Combine the Condor 1 and Condor 2 MOA, ME and NH. Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about noise impacts, and recommended that ANG