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the remaining 20% is in fair condition 

based on assessments of the plant 

community. Physical disturbances to 

wetlands and their surrounding habitat 

such as compacted soil, ditching, or 

removal of plants, are the most 

widespread problems across the 

country. Approximately a quarter of 

wetland area nationally has high stress 

levels for surface hardening, vegetation 

removal, and ditching. The report has 

undergone public, peer, state/tribal, and 

EPA review. 

A. How can I get copies of the NWCA 

2011 report and other related 

information? 

You may view and download the final 

report from EPA’s Web site at: http://

www.epa.gov/national-aquatic-resourcesurveys/nwca. 

Dated: May 8, 2016. 

Joel Beauvais, 

Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of 

Water. 

[FR Doc. 2016–11508 Filed 5–13–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9945–56–ORD; Docket ID No. EPA– 

HQ–ORD–2013–0111] 

Public Comment Draft for the 

Integrated Risk Information System 

(IRIS) Assessment of tert-Butyl Alcohol 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice; of public comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is announcing a 60-day 

public comment period for the draft 

IRIS Toxicological Review of tert-Butyl 

Alcohol. The draft document was 

prepared by the National Center for 

Environmental Assessment (NCEA) 

within EPA’s Office of Research and 

Development (ORD). 

EPA is releasing this draft IRIS 

assessment for public comment and 

discussion during the June 29–30, 2016 

IRIS Public Science Meeting. 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. EPA will consider all 

public comments submitted in response 

to this notice when revising this 

document. 

DATES: The 60-day public comment 

period begins May 16, 2016, and ends 

July 15, 2016. Comments must be 

received on or before July 15, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: The draft IRIS Toxicological 

Review of tert-Butyl Alcohol will be 

available via the Internet on IRIS’ 

Recent Additions at http://

www.epa.gov/iris/iris-recent-additions 

or the public docket at http://

www.regulations.gov, Docket ID: EPA– 

HQ–ORD–2013–0111. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the public comment 

period, contact the ORD Docket at the 

EPA Headquarters Docket Center; 

telephone: 202–566–1752; facsimile: 

202–566–9744; or email: Docket_ORD@

epa.gov. 

For technical information on the draft 

IRIS assessment of tert-Butyl Alcohol, 

contact Dr. Janice Lee, NCEA; 

telephone: 919–541–9458; or email: 

lee.janiceS@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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 chemicals 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 on chemicals that 

can be used to support the first two 

steps (hazard identification and doseresponse 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 chemicals; this 

information is then used to support risk 

management decisions designed to 

protect public health. 

II. How To Submit Technical Comments 

to the Docket at www.regulations.gov 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2013– 

0111, by one of the following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: Docket_ORD@epa.gov. 

• Fax: 202–566–9744. 

• Mail: U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center 

(ORD Docket), Mail Code: 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. The phone number is 202– 

566–1752. 

• Hand Delivery: The ORD Docket is 

located in the EPA Headquarters Docket 

Center, EPA West Building, Room 3334, 

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. 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–2013– 

0111. 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 

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. 


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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 ORD Docket in the EPA 

Headquarters Docket Center. 

Dated: May 3, 2016. 

Mary A. Ross, 

Deputy Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

[FR Doc. 2016–11264 Filed 5–13–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[GN Docket No. 12–268; AU Docket No. 14– 

252; WT Docket No. 12–269; DA 16–453] 

Initial Clearing Target of 126 Megahertz 

Set for the Broadcast Television 

Spectrum Incentive Auction; Bidding 

in the Clock Phase of the Reverse 

Auction (Auction 1001) Will Start on 

May 31, 2016 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Incentive Auction Task 

Force and Wireless 

Telecommunications Bureau announce 

the initial clearing target of 126 

megahertz for the Broadcast Television 

Spectrum Incentive Auction and that 

the bidding in the clock phase of the 

reverse auction is scheduled to begin on 

May 31, 2016. This document also 

announces the mailing of Final 

Confidential Status Letters, the number 

of forward auction blocks, and details 

and dates regarding the availability of 

educational and informational materials 

and bidding for reverse auction 

applicants that are qualified to bid in 

the reverse auction clock phase. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, 

Auctions and Spectrum Access Division: 

For general auction questions, contact 

Linda Sanderson at (717) 338–2868. For 

reverse auction legal questions, contact 

Erin Griffith or Kathryn Hinton at (202) 

418–0660. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

summary of the Incentive Auction 

Clearing Target Public Notice, GN 

Docket No. 12–268, AU Docket No. 14– 

252, WT Docket No. 12–269, DA 16– 

453, released on April 29, 2016. The 

complete text of the Incentive Auction 

Clearing Target Public Notice is 

available for public inspection and 

copying from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET 

Monday through Thursday or from 8:00 

a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET on Fridays in the 

FCC Reference Information Center, 445 

12th Street SW., Room CY–A257, 

Washington, DC 20554. The complete 

text is also available on the 

Commission’s Web site at http://

wireless.fcc.gov, the Auction 1001 Web 

site at http://www.fcc.gov/auctions/

1001, or by using the search function on 

the ECFS Web page at http://

www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/. Alternative 

formats are available to persons with 

disabilities by sending an email to 

FCC504@fcc.gov or by calling the 

Consumer & Governmental Affairs 

Bureau at (202) 418–0530 (voice), (202) 

418–0432 (TTY). 

1. The Incentive Auction Task Force 

(Task Force) and the Wireless 

Telecommunications Bureau (Bureau) 

announce the 126 megahertz initial 

spectrum clearing target that has been 

set by the Auction System’s initial 

clearing target determination procedure 

and the associated band plan for the 

initial stage of the incentive auction, as 

well as the number of Category 1 and 

Category 2 generic license blocks in 

each Partial Economic Area (PEA) that 

will be offered in the initial stage during 

the forward auction (Auction 1002). The 

Task Force and Bureau also announce 

that they will send a confidential letter 

(the Final Confidential Status Letter) to 

inform each applicant that was 

permitted to make an initial 

commitment in the reverse auction 

(Auction 1001) of its status with respect 

to the clock phase of the reverse 

auction. Finally, the Task Force and 

Bureau provide details and specific 

dates regarding the availability of 

educational materials and the bidding in 

the clock phase of the reverse auction. 

I. Initial Clearing Target and Band Plan 

2. The Auction System’s initial 

clearing target determination procedure 

has set an initial spectrum clearing 

target of 126 megahertz. Under the band 

plan associated with this spectrum 

clearing target, 100 megahertz, or 10 

paired blocks, of licensed spectrum will 

be offered in the forward auction on a 

near-nationwide basis. 

3. The generic license blocks offered 

in the initial stage during the forward 

auction under this band plan will 

consist of a total of 4030 ‘‘Category 1’’ 

blocks (zero to 15 percent impairment) 

and a total of 18 ‘‘Category 2’’ blocks 

(greater than 15 percent and up to 50 

percent impairment). Approximately 97 

percent of the blocks offered for the 

forward auction will be ‘‘Category 1’’ 

blocks, and 99 percent of the ‘‘Category 

1’’ blocks will be zero percent impaired. 

Attached to the Incentive Auction 

Clearing Target Public Notice as 

Appendix A is a list indicating the 

number of ‘‘Category 1’’ and ‘‘Category 

2’’ blocks available in each PEA. 

4. The initial clearing target was 

determined by the procedure the 

Commission adopted in the Auction 

1000 Bidding Procedures Public Notice, 

80 FR 61917, October 14, 2015. Based 

on the initial commitments made by 

broadcast applicants seeking to bid in 

the clock phase of Auction 1001, the 

procedure identified a provisional 

assignment of eligible television stations 

to channels for each possible clearing 

target with the primary objective of 

minimizing impairments to forward 

auction licenses, consistent with the 

Commission’s statutory obligation to 

make all reasonable efforts to preserve 

stations’ populations served and 

coverage areas and its international 

arrangements with Canada and Mexico. 

The initial clearing target announced is 

the highest possible clearing target and 

associated band plan for which the 

provisional assignment satisfies the 

optimization objectives and the nearnationwide standard for impairments. If 

a subsequent stage is necessary, the 

clearing target determination procedure 

will be applied to select a new clearing 

target and corresponding band plan. 

II. Final Confidential Status Letters for 

Reverse Auction Applicants 

5. The Bureau will send to the contact 

person for each applicant that was 

permitted to make an initial 

commitment in Auction 1001 a Final 

Confidential Status Letter to inform the 

applicant of its status. The letter will 

notify the applicant, for each station 

included in the application, either that 

(1) the station is qualified to participate 

in the clock phase of the reverse 

auction; (2) the station is not qualified 

because no initial commitment was 

made for that station; (3) the station is 

not qualified because the 

commitment(s) made by the applicant 

for that station could not be 

accommodated; or (4) the station is not 

qualified because the Auction System 

determined that the station is not 

needed to meet the initial or any 

subsequent clearing target. 

6. Applicants with one or more 

qualified stations will be deemed 

qualified bidders for the clock phase of 

Auction 1001 and will be automatically 

registered for the auction. The initial 

commitment is the station’s 

unconditional, irrevocable offer to fulfill 

the terms of the commitment, which if 

accepted by the Commission, becomes a 


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