Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 204 / Thursday, October 22, 2015 / Notices 63995 

Washington, DC, 20004, Attention 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2015– 

0635. 

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available docket materials are available 

either electronically in 

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the Board of Scientific Counselors 

(BOSC) Chemical Safety for 

Sustainability Subcommittee Docket, 

EPA/DC, William Jefferson Clinton West 

Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC. The Public 

Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

excluding legal holidays. The telephone 

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number for the ORD Docket is (202) 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Designated Federal Officer via mail at: 

Megan Fleming, Mail Code 8104R, 

Office of Science Policy, Office of 

Research and Development, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; via phone/voice mail at: 

(202) 564–6604; or via email at: 

fleming.megan@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

General Information: The 

teleconference is open to the public. 

Any member of the public interested in 

receiving a draft agenda, attending the 

teleconference, or making a presentation 

during the teleconference may contact 

Megan Fleming, the Designated Federal 

Officer, via any of the contact methods 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section above. In general, each 

individual making an oral presentation 

will be limited to a total of three 

minutes. Teleconference deliberations 

will focus on draft report findings and 

recommendations from an October 2015 

meeting. Documents from the October 

meeting are available for viewing and 

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bosc/chemical-safety-sustainabilitybosc-subcommittee-meeting-documents. 

Proposed agenda items for the 

teleconference include, but are not 

limited to, the following: Presentation 

and discussion of the subcommittee’s 

draft responses to the charge questions 

and approval of the final draft letter 

report prior to its submission to the 

BOSC Executive Committee. 

Information on Services for 

Individuals with Disabilities: For 

information on access or services for 

individuals with disabilities, please 

contact Megan Fleming at (202) 564– 

6604 or fleming.megan@epa.gov. To 

request accommodation of a disability, 

please contact Megan Fleming, 

preferably at least ten days prior to the 

teleconference, to give the EPA as much 

time as possible to process your request. 

Dated October 15, 2015. 

Fred S. Hauchman, 

Director, Office of Science Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2015–26937 Filed 10–21–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9935–71–Region 8] 

Administrative Agreement and Order 

on Consent for Post Removal Site 

Control Activities by Bona Fide 

Prospective Purchaser: Rocky Flats 

Industrial Park Superfund Site, 

Jefferson County, Colorado 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed agreement; 

request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

requirements of sections 104, 106(a), 

107, and 122 of the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response Compensation, 

and Liability Act of 1980, as amended 

(‘‘CERCLA’’), 42 U.S.C. 9604, 9606(a), 

9607 and 9622, notice is hereby given of 

the proposed administrative settlement 

under section 107 and 122 of CERCLA, 

between the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (‘‘EPA’’) and bona 

fide prospective purchaser Columbine 

Strategies LLC (‘‘Settling Party’’). The 

proposed Settlement Agreement 

requires the Settling Party to conduct 

work under EPA oversight in exchange 

for a covenant not to sue pursuant to 

sections 106 and 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 

U.S.C. 9606 and 9607(a) for existing 

contamination at the Site. The Settling 

Party consents to and will not contest 

the authority of the United States to 

enter into this Agreement or to 

implement or enforce its terms. 

The Settling Parties recognize that 

this Agreement has been negotiated in 

good faith and that this Agreement is 

entered into without the admission or 

adjudication of any issue of fact or law. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before November 23, 2015. For thirty 

(30) days following the date of 

publication of this notice, the Agency 

will receive written comments relating 

to the agreement. The Agency will 

consider all comments received and 

may modify or withdraw its consent to 

the agreement if comments received 

disclose facts or considerations that 

indicate that the agreement is 

inappropriate, improper, or inadequate. 

ADDRESSES: The Agency’s response to 

any comments, the proposed agreement 

and additional background information 

relating to the agreement are available 


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63996 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 204 / Thursday, October 22, 2015 / Notices 

1See 80 FR 30237 (May 27, 2015). 

2Section 1124(d) of the Housing and Economic 

Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA), 122 Stat. 2693, 

amended the Safety and Soundness Act to include 

this section. 

for public inspection at the EPA 

Superfund Record Center, 1595 

Wynkoop Denver, Colorado, by 

appointment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Steven Moores, Enforcement Attorney, 

Legal Enforcement Program, 

Environmental Protection AgencyRegion 8, Mail Code 8ENF–L, 1595 

Wynkoop Street, Denver, Colorado 

80202, (303) 312–6857. Comments and 

requests for a copy of the proposed 

agreement should be addressed to 

Sharon Abendschan, Enforcement 

Specialist, Environmental Protection 

Agency—Region 8, Mail Code 8ENF– 

RC, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, 

Colorado 80202 and should reference 

the Rocky Flats Industrial Park 

Superfund Site, Jefferson County, 

Colorado. 

Suzanne Bohan, 

Assistant Regional Administrator, Office of 

Enforcement, Compliance and Environmental 

Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region VIII. 

[FR Doc. 2015–26938 Filed 10–21–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

AGENCY: Federal Election Commission. 

TIME AND DATE: Tuesday, October 27, 

2015, at 10:00 a.m. and Thursday, 

October 29, 2015, at the conclusion of 

the open meeting. 

PLACE: 999 E Street NW., Washington, 

DC. 

STATUS: This meeting will be closed to 

the public. 

MATTERS TO BE DISCUSSED: Compliance 

matters pursuant to 52 U.S.C. 30109. 

Matters concerning participation in civil 

actions or proceeding, or arbitration. 

* * * * * 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Judith Ingram, Press Officer, Telephone: 

(202) 694–1220. 

Shelley E. Garr, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–27087 Filed 10–20–15; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6715–01–P 

FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE 

AGENCY 

[No. 2015–N–10] 

Notice of Establishment of Housing 

Price Index 

AGENCY: Federal Housing Finance 

Agency. 

ACTION: Final notice. 

SUMMARY: On May 27, 2015, the Federal 

Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) 

published a Notice and Request for 

Input (Notice) describing a method for 

assessing the national average singlefamily house price for use in adjusting 

the maximum conforming loan limits of 

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the 

‘‘Enterprises’’). The Notice responded to 

section 1322 of the Federal Housing 

Enterprises Financial Safety and 

Soundness Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 4501 

et seq.) (‘‘Safety and Soundness Act’’) 

which required FHFA to ‘‘establish and 

maintain a method of assessing the 

national average 1-family house price 

for use in adjusting the conforming loan 

limitations.’’ The Notice indicated that 

FHFA intends to use its existing 

‘‘expanded-data’’ house price index 

(HPI) for such purpose and invited 

public feedback. 

In line with the proposal in the 

original Notice, after reviewing the 

public feedback, FHFA has decided to 

use the expanded-data HPI for annual 

loan-limit adjustment. Specifically, 

FHFA will use the seasonally adjusted, 

expanded-data HPI for the United 

States. 

DATES: Effective Date: October 22, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions about the expanded-data HPI 

and the implementation of the 

conforming loan limit rules can be 

addressed to Andrew Leventis, 

Principal Economist, 202–649–3199, 

Andrew.Leventis@fhfa.gov, or Jamie 

Schwing, Associate General Counsel, 

202–649–3085, Jamie.Schwing@

fhfa.gov, (not toll-free numbers), Federal 

Housing Finance Agency, 400 Seventh 

Street SW., Washington, DC 20024. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Background 

The ‘‘Notice of the Establishment of 

Housing Price Index’’ that FHFA issued 

in May 1 announced that the agency 

intended to use its expanded-data HPI 

for the purpose of satisfying section 

1322 (12 U.S.C. 4542) of the Safety and 

Soundness Act.2 Section 1322 requires 

FHFA to ‘‘establish and maintain’’ a 

house price index that tracks the 

average U.S. home price. May’s Notice 

detailed FHFA’s rationale for the choice 

of the expanded-data index over other 

measures. The Notice discussed the 

advantages and disadvantages of several 

metrics and outlined the various 

considerations FHFA found most 

compelling in choosing the index. 

Identifying the seasonally adjusted, 

expanded-data HPI for the U.S. as the 

selected index, the Notice invited public 

input and provided for an input period 

that extended through July 27, 2015. 

This Final Notice summarizes the input 

submissions received and responds to 

questions and concerns that were raised 

in the submissions. 

B. Overview of Input Submissions 

Received 

FHFA received a total of 20 

submissions in response to the Notice. 

Submissions were received from private 

citizens, trade associations, a think tank, 

and one private company. Twelve of the 

submissions did not address the issue 

on which input had been requested: the 

appropriateness of the chosen home 

price measure. In most cases, these 

submissions opined on the desirability 

of having higher conforming loan limits, 

rather than FHFA’s choice of index. 

In general, the eight responsive 

submissions were favorable to FHFA’s 

proposed use of its expanded-data index 

for loan limit adjustment. Most 

submissions supported the basic 

underlying methodology used in the 

index construction and appreciated the 

breadth of the data sample used in 

forming the index. More generally, 

submitters agreed that reliance on an 

agency-produced measure (as opposed 

to a privately produced index) would be 

beneficial in that it would ensure 

continued publication of the reference 

index. They also concurred with 

FHFA’s belief that its control over the 

reference index would ensure that 

undesirable modifications to 

methodology would not be made (as 

might happen if the agency relied on an 

external measure of home prices). 

Five of the eight responsive 

submissions were generally supportive 

of the use of the expanded-data index 

as-is. The remaining three did not object 

to the use of the expanded-data index, 

but suggested modifications to the 

process or augmentations. In particular, 

the proposed adjustments recommended 

the use of multiple price indexes and, 

in one case, the consideration of other 

mortgage market factors. 

For the purpose of summarizing and 

addressing the responsive submissions 

received, this Final Notice divides them 

into two groups: ‘‘Supportive’’ and 

‘‘Other.’’ This classification is for 

convenience; as will be clear in the 

discussion, responses in both categories 

were not uniform. For instance, in some 

cases, the ‘‘Supportive’’ submissions 

included questions or expressed modest 

concerns. Meanwhile, the ‘‘Other’’ 


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