Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 22 / Thursday, February 2, 2012 / Notices 5247 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Basic Energy Sciences 

Advisory Committee (BESAC). The 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. 

L. 92–463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that 

public notice of these meetings be 

announced in the Federal Register. 

DATES: Thursday, February 23, 2012, 

8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. and Friday, February 

24, 2012, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Bethesda North Hotel and 

Conference Center, 5701 Marinelli Road, 

Bethesda, Maryland 20852. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Katie Perine; Office of Basic Energy 

Sciences; U.S. Department of Energy; 

Germantown Building, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585; Telephone: 

(301) 903–6529. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Meeting: The purpose 

of this meeting is to provide advice and 

guidance with respect to the basic 

energy sciences research program. 

Tentative Agenda: Agenda will 

include discussions of the following: 

• News from Office of Science/DOE. 

• News from the Office of Basic 

Energy Sciences. 

• Basic Research Directions for User 

Science at the National Ignition Facility. 

• Materials Sciences and Engineering 

Division Committee of Visitors. 

• Mesoscale Discussion. 

Public Participation: The meeting is 

open to the public. If you would like to 

file a written statement with the 

Committee, you may do so either before 

or after the meeting. If you would like 

to make oral statements regarding any of 

the items on the agenda, you should 

contact Katie Perine by telephone at 

(301) 903–6594 (fax) or by email at: 

katie.perine@science.doe.gov. 

Reasonable provision will be made to 

include the scheduled oral statements 

on the agenda. The Chairperson of the 

Committee will conduct the meeting to 

facilitate the orderly conduct of 

business. Public comment will follow 

the 10-minute rule. 

Minutes: The minutes of this meeting 

will be available by contacting Ms. Katie 

Perine at the address or by email listed 

above. 

Issued in Washington, DC on January 27, 

2012. 

LaTanya R. Butler, 

Acting Deputy Committee Management 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–2315 Filed 2–1–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. EF12–1–000] 

Southwestern Power Administration; 

Notice of Filing 

Take notice that on January 9, 2012, 

the Deputy Secretary of the Department 

of Energy, pursuant to the authority 

vested by sections 301(b), 302(a), 402(e), 

641, 642, 643, and 644, and by 

Delegation Order Nos. 00–037.00 

(December 6, 2001) and 00–001.00C 

(January 31, 2007), confirmed, 

approved, and placed in effect on an 

interim basis in Rate Order SWPA–63, 

Southwestern Power Administration 

Integrated System Rates, Rate Schedule 

P–11, Wholesale Rates for Hydro 

Peaking Power, Rate Schedule NFTS– 

11, Wholesale Rates for Non-Federal 

Transmission/Interconnection Facilities 

Service, and Rate Schedule EE–11, 

Wholesale Rate for Excess Energy, for 

period January 1, 2012 through 

September 30, 2015. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest this filing must file in 

accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). 

Protests will be considered by the 

Commission in determining the 

appropriate action to be taken, but will 

not serve to make protestants parties to 

the proceeding. Any person wishing to 

become a party must file a notice of 

intervention or motion to intervene, as 

appropriate. Such notices, motions, or 

protests must be filed on or before the 

comment date. On or before the 

comment date, it is not necessary to 

serve motions to intervene or protests 

on persons other than the Applicant. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper using the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible on-line at 

http://www.ferc.gov, using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive email notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please email 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on February 8, 2012. 

Dated: January 27, 2012. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2012–2355 Filed 2–1–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9626–1; EPA–HQ–ORD–2011–0051] 

Draft Integrated Science Assessment 

for Lead 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of public comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing the 

availability of a document titled, 

‘‘Second External Review Draft 

Integrated Science Assessment for 

Lead’’ (EPA/600/R–10/075B). The 

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 lead (Pb). 

EPA is releasing this draft document 

to seek review by the Clean Air 

Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) 

and the public (meeting date and 

location to be specified in a separate 

Federal Register Notice). The draft 

document does not represent and 

should not be construed to represent 

any final EPA policy, viewpoint, or 

determination. EPA will consider any 

public comments submitted in response 

to this notice when revising the 

document. 

DATES: The public comment period 

begins February 2, 2012, and ends April 

2, 2012. Comments must be received on 

or before April 2, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: The ‘‘Second External 

Review Draft Integrated Science 

Assessment for Lead’’ 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. 

Marieka Boyd by phone (919–541– 

0031), fax (919–541–5078), or email 

(boyd.marieka@epa.gov) to request 

either of these, and please provide your 

name, your mailing address, and the 

document title, ‘‘Second External 


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Review Draft Integrated Science 

Assessment for Lead’’ (EPA/600/R–10/ 

075B) to facilitate processing of your 

request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical information, contact Dr. Ellen 

Kirrane, NCEA; telephone: 919–541– 

1340; facsimile: 919–541–2985; or 

email: Kirrane.Ellen@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Information About the Document 

Section 108(a) of the Clean Air Act 

directs the Administrator to identify 

certain pollutants, which among other 

things, ‘‘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 [a] 

pollutant in the ambient air. * * *’’ 

Under section 109 of the Act, EPA is to 

establish 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 required to 

periodically review and revises the 

NAAQS, if appropriate, based on the 

revised air quality criteria. 

Pb is one of six principal (or 

‘‘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 its 

supplementary materials provide a 

comprehensive assessment of the 

current scientific literature pertaining to 

known and anticipated effects on public 

health and welfare associated with the 

presence of the pollutant in the ambient 

air, emphasizing information that has 

become available since the last air 

quality criteria review in order to reflect 

the current state of knowledge. As such, 

the ISA forms the scientific foundation 

for each NAAQS review and is intended 

to provide information useful in forming 

EPA judgments about the different 

elements of the NAAQS. The CASAC, 

an independent scientific 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 February 26, 2010 (75 FR 8934), 

EPA formally initiated its current 

review of the air quality criteria for Pb, 

requesting the submission of recent 

scientific information on specified 

topics. Soon after, a science policy 

workshop was held to identify key 

policy issues and questions to frame the 

review of the Pb NAAQS (75 FR 20843). 

Drawing from the workshop 

discussions, a draft ‘‘Integrated Review 

Plan for the National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards for Lead’’ (EPA–452/ 

D–11–001) (IRP) was developed and 

made available in late March 2011 for 

public comment and consultation with 

CASAC and was discussed by the 

CASAC via a publicly accessible 

teleconference consultation on May 5, 

2011 (76 FR 20347, 76 FR 21346). The 

final IRP was released in December 2011 

(76 FR 76972) and is available at http:// 

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

s_pb_2010_pd.html. 

As part of the science assessment 

phase of the review, EPA held a 

workshop in December 2010 (75 FR 

69078) to discuss, with invited scientific 

experts, preliminary draft materials 

prepared during the ongoing 

development of the Pb ISA. The first 

external review draft ISA for Pb was 

released on May 6, 2011, and is 

available at http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/ 

isa/recordisplay.cfm?deid=226323. The 

CASAC Pb Review Panel met at a public 

meeting on July 20, 2011, to review the 

draft ISA (76 FR 36120). Subsequently, 

on December 9, 2011, the CASAC panel 

provided a consensus letter for their 

review to the Administrator of the EPA 

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

sabproduct.nsf/WebCASAC/

D3E2E8488025344D85257

9610068A8A1/$File/EPA-CASAC-12- 

002-unsigned.pdf). The second external 

review draft ISA for Pb will be 

discussed at a public meeting of the 

CASAC Pb Review Panel, and public 

comments received will be provided to 

the CASAC panel. A future Federal 

Register notice will inform the public of 

the exact date and time of that CASAC 

meeting. 

II. How To Submit Technical Comments 

to the Docket at www.regulations.gov 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2011– 

0051, by one of the following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: 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 Avenue 

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 Avenue 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–2011– 

0051. 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 

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 

www.regulations.gov or email that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected. The 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 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 


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about EPA’s public docket visit the EPA 

Docket Center homepage at 

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

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. 

Certain other materials, such as 

copyrighted material, are publicly 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the OEI Docket in the EPA Headquarters 

Docket Center. 

Dated: January 26, 2012. 

Darrell A. Winner, 

Acting Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

[FR Doc. 2012–2327 Filed 2–1–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE 

CORPORATION 

FDIC Advisory Committee on 

Community Banking; Notice of Meeting 

AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance 

Corporation (FDIC). 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, notice 

is hereby given of a meeting of the FDIC 

Advisory Committee on Community 

Banking, which will be held in 

Washington, DC. The Advisory 

Committee will provide advice and 

recommendations on a broad range of 

policy issues that have particular impact 

on small community banks throughout 

the United States and the local 

communities they serve, with a focus on 

rural areas. 

DATES: Friday, February 17, 2012, from 

8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

the FDIC Board Room on the sixth floor 

of the FDIC Building located at 550 17th 

Street NW., Washington, DC 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for further information 

concerning the meeting may be directed 

to Mr. Robert E. Feldman, Committee 

Management Officer of the FDIC, at 

(202) 898–7043. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Agenda: The agenda will include a 

discussion of current issues affecting 

community banking. The agenda is 

subject to change. Any changes to the 

agenda will be announced at the 

beginning of the meeting. 

Type of Meeting: The meeting will be 

open to the public, limited only by the 

space available on a first-come, firstserved basis. For security reasons, 

members of the public will be subject to 

security screening procedures and must 

present a valid photo identification to 

enter the building. The FDIC will 

provide attendees with auxiliary aids 

(e.g., sign language interpretation) 

required for this meeting. Those 

attendees needing such assistance 

should call (703) 562–6067 (Voice or 

TTY) at least two days before the 

meeting to make necessary 

arrangements. Written statements may 

be filed with the committee before or 

after the meeting. This Community 

Banking Advisory Committee meeting 

will be Webcast live via the Internet at 

http://www.vodium.com/goto/fdic/ 

communitybanking.asp. This service is 

free and available to anyone with the 

following systems requirements: http:// 

www.vodium.com/home/sysreq.html. 

Adobe Flash Player is required to view 

these presentations. The latest version 

of Adobe Flash Player can be 

downloaded at http://www.adobe.com/ 

shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_ 

Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash. 

Installation questions or troubleshooting 

help can be found at the same link. For 

optimal viewing, a high speed internet 

connection is recommended. The 

Community Banking meeting videos are 

made available on-demand 

approximately two weeks after the 

event. 

Dated: January 30, 2012. 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

Robert E. Feldman, 

Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–2292 Filed 2–1–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6714–01–P 

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Notice 

AGENCY: Federal Election Commission. 

DATE AND TIME: Tuesday, February 7, 

2012 at 10 a.m. 

PLACE: 999 E Street NW., Washington, 

DC. 

STATUS: This Meeting Will Be Closed 

To The Public. 

ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED: Compliance 

matters pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 437g. 

Audits conducted pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 

437g, § 438(b), and Title 26, U.S.C. 

Matters concerning participation in civil 

actions or proceedings or arbitration. 

Internal personnel rules and procedures 

or matters affecting a particular 

employee. 

* * * * * 

PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION: 

Judith Ingram, Press Officer, Telephone: 

(202) 694–1220. 

Submitted: January 31, 2012. 

Shelley E. Garr, 

Deputy Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2012–2461 Filed 1–31–12; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6715–01–P 

FEDERAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 

EXAMINATION COUNCIL 

[Docket No. AS12–02] 

Appraisal Subcommittee Notice of 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Appraisal Subcommittee of the 

Federal Financial Institutions 

Examination Council. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

Description: In accordance with 

Section 1104 (b) of Title XI of the 

Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, 

and Enforcement Act of 1989, as 

amended, notice is hereby given that the 

Appraisal Subcommittee (ASC) will 

meet in closed session: 

Location: OCC—250 E Street SW., 

Room 2C, Washington, DC 20219. 

Date: February 8, 2012. 

Time: Immediately following the ASC 

open session. 

Status: Closed. 

Matters To Be Considered 

December 14, 2011 minutes—Closed 

Session; 

Preliminary discussion of State 

Compliance Reviews. 

Dated: January 27, 2012. 

James R. Park, 

Executive Director. 

[FR Doc. 2012–2272 Filed 2–1–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

FEDERAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 

EXAMINATION COUNCIL 

[Docket No. AS12–01] 

Appraisal Subcommittee Notice of 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Appraisal Subcommittee of the 

Federal Financial Institutions 

Examination Council. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

Description: In accordance with 

Section 1104(b) of Title XI of the 

Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, 

and Enforcement Act of 1989, as 


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