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spanning from Manchester-By-The-Sea 

to Marshfield, a corridor in Vineyard 

Sound, and a corridor in Nantucket 

Sound. The state wide NDA will 

seamlessly integrate the 20 smaller 

NDAs that have been designated in 

Massachusetts since 1991. The 

boundaries for this statewide NDA 

encompass all Commonwealth of 

Massachusetts coastal waters: from 

mean low water along the coast of 

Massachusetts, seaward to the statefederal boundary, north to the border 

with New Hampshire, and south to the 

border with Rhode Island: http://

www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/czm/

program-areas/coastal-water-quality/

ndas/. 

Massachusetts has certified that there 

are a total of 132 pumpout facilities in 

coastal Massachusetts: http://

www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/czm/

program-areas/coastal-water-quality/

clean-boating/pumpout-list.html. 

Based on the examination of the 

petition and its supporting 

documentation, and information from 

site visits conducted by EPA New 

England staff, EPA has determined that 

adequate facilities for the safe and 

sanitary removal and treatment of 

sewage from all vessels are reasonably 

available for the area covered under this 

determination. This determination is 

made pursuant to Section 312 (f) (3) of 

Public Law 92–500, as amended by 

Public Laws 95–217 and 100–4. 

Dated: May 14, 2014. 

H. Curtis Spalding, 

Regional Administrator, New England Region. 

[FR Doc. 2014–12170 Filed 5–23–14; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–ORD–2014–0411; FRL 9911–45– 

OA] 

Human Studies Review Board; 

Notification of a Public Meeting 

AGENCY: U. S. Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Office of the Science 

Advisor announces a public meeting of 

the Human Studies Review Board to 

advise the Agency on the ethical and 

scientific reviews of EPA research with 

human subjects. 

DATES: This public meeting will be held 

on June 11, 2014, from approximately 

10:30 a.m. to approximately 4:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time. Comments may be 

submitted on or before noon (Eastern 

Time) on Friday, June 4, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Environmental Protection Agency, 

Conference Center, Lobby Level, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA 22202. 

Comments: Submit your written 

comments, identified by Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–ORD–2014–0411, by one of 

the following methods: 

Internet: http://www.regulations.gov: 

Follow the online instructions for 

submitting comments. 

Email: ORD.Docket@epa.gov. 

Mail: The EPA Docket Center EPA/

DC, ORD Docket, Mail code: 28221T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. 

Hand Delivery: The EPA/DC Public 

Reading Room is located in the EPA 

Headquarters Library, Room Number 

3334 in the EPA WJC West, at 1301 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. The hours of operation are 

8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time, 

Monday through Friday, excluding 

federal holidays. Please call (202) 566– 

1744 or email the ORD Docket at 

ord.docket@epa.gov for instructions. 

Updates to Public Reading Room access 

are available on the Web site http://

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

Instructions: The Agency’s policy is 

that all comments received will be 

included in the public docket without 

change and may be made available 

online at http://www.regulations.gov, 

including any personal information 

provided, unless the comment includes 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information or other 

information the disclosure of which 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 the 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, the EPA 

recommends that you include your 

name and other contact information in 

the body of your comment and with any 

electronic storage media you submit. If 

the EPA cannot read your comment due 

to technical difficulties and cannot 

contact you for clarification, the 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 FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public who wishes to 

receive further information should 

contact Jim Downing at telephone 

number (202) 564–2468; fax: (202) 564– 

2070; email address: downing.jim@

epa.gov; mailing address Environmental 

Protection Agency, Office of the Science 

Advisor, Mail code 8105R, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. General information 

concerning the EPA HSRB can be found 

on the EPA Web site at http://

www.epa.gov/hsrb. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Meeting access: Seating at the meeting 

will be on a first-come basis. To request 

accommodation of a disability, please 

contact the persons listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT at least 

ten business days prior to the meeting 

using the information under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, so that 

appropriate arrangements can be made. 

Procedures for providing public input: 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant written or oral 

comments for the HSRB to consider 

during the advisory process. Additional 

information concerning submission of 

relevant written or oral comments is 

provided in Section I, ‘‘Public Meeting’’ 

under subsection D. ‘‘How May I 

Participate in this Meeting?’’ of this 

notice. 

Web cast: This meeting may be 

webcast. Please refer to the HSRB Web 

site, http://www.epa.gov/hsrb/ 

for information on how to access the 

webcast. Please note that the webcast is 

a supplementary public process 

provided only for convenience. If 

difficulties arise resulting in webcasting 

outages, the meeting will continue as 

planned. 

I. Public Meeting 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general. This Notice may, however, 

be of particular interest to persons who 

conduct or assess human studies, 

especially studies on substances 

regulated by the EPA, or to persons who 

are, or may be required to conduct 

testing of chemical substances under the 

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 

or the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, 

and Rodenticide Act. This notice might 

also be of special interest to participants 

of studies involving human subjects, or 

representatives of study participants or 

experts on community engagement. The 

Agency has not attempted to describe all 


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the specific entities that may have 

interest in human subjects research. If 

you have any questions regarding this 

notice, consult Jim Downing listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

B. How can I access electronic copies of 

this document and other related 

information? 

In addition to using regulations.gov, 

you may access this Federal Register 

document electronically through the 

EPA Internet under the ‘‘Federal 

Register’’ listings at http://

www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/. 

Docket: 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 ORD Docket, EPA/DC, in the Public 

Reading Room. 

The EPA/DC Public Reading Room is 

located in the EPA Headquarters 

Library, Room Number 3334 in the EPA 

WJC West, at 1301 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20460. The hours 

of operation are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, 

excluding federal holidays. Please call 

(202) 566–1744 or email the ORD 

Docket at ord.docket@epa.gov for 

instructions. Updates to Public Reading 

Room access are available on the Web 

site (http://www.epa.gov/epahome/

dockets.htm). 

The Agency’s position paper(s), 

charge/questions to the HSRB, and the 

meeting agenda will be available by the 

last week of May 2014. In addition, the 

Agency may provide additional 

background documents as the materials 

become available. You may obtain 

electronic copies of these documents, 

and other related documents that are 

available electronically, from the 

regulations.gov Web site and the EPA 

HSRB Web site at http://www.epa.gov/

hsrb/. For questions on document 

availability, or if you do not have access 

to the Internet, consult Jim Downing 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

C. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for the EPA? 

You may find the following 

suggestions helpful for preparing your 

comments: 

1. Explain your views as clearly as 

possible. 

2. Describe any assumptions that you 

used. 

3. Provide copies of any technical 

information and/or data that you used to 

support your views. 

4. Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns and suggest 

alternatives. 

5. To ensure proper receipt by the 

EPA, be sure to identify the Docket ID 

number assigned to this action in the 

subject line on the first page of your 

response. You may also provide the 

name, date, and Federal Register 

citation. 

D. How may I participate in this 

meeting? 

You may participate in this meeting 

by following the instructions in this 

section. To ensure proper receipt by the 

EPA, it is imperative that you identify 

Docket ID number EPA–HQ–ORD– 

2014–0411 in the subject line on the 

first page of your request. 

1. Oral comments. Requests to present 

oral comments will be accepted up to 

Friday, June 6, 2014. To the extent that 

time permits, interested persons who 

have not pre-registered may be 

permitted by the Chair of the HSRB to 

present oral comments at the meeting. 

Each individual or group wishing to 

make brief oral comments to the HSRB 

is strongly advised to submit their 

request (preferably via email) to Jim 

Downing, under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT no later than 

noon, Eastern Time, Friday, June 6, 

2014, in order to be included on the 

meeting agenda and to provide 

sufficient time for the HSRB Chair and 

HSRB Designated Federal Official to 

review the meeting agenda to provide an 

appropriate public comment period. 

The request should identify the name of 

the individual making the presentation 

and the organization (if any) the 

individual will represent. Oral 

comments before the HSRB are 

generally limited to five minutes per 

individual or organization. Please note 

that this includes all individuals 

appearing either as part of, or on behalf 

of, an organization. While it is our 

intent to hear a full range of oral 

comments on the science and ethics 

issues under discussion, it is not our 

intent to permit organizations to expand 

the time limitations by having 

numerous individuals sign up 

separately to speak on their behalf. If 

additional time is available, further 

public comments may be possible. 

2. Written comments. Submit your 

written comments prior to the meeting. 

For the Board to have the best 

opportunity to review and consider your 

comments as it deliberates on its report, 

you should submit your comments by 

June 4, 2014. If you submit comments 

after this date, those comments will be 

provided to the Board members, but you 

should recognize that the HSRB 

members may not have adequate time to 

consider those comments prior to their 

discussion during the meeting. You 

should submit your comments using the 

instructions in Section I., under 

subsection C., ‘‘What Should I Consider 

as I Prepare My Comments for the 

EPA?’’ In addition, the agency also 

requests that persons submitting 

comments directly to the docket also 

provide a copy of their comments to Jim 

Downing listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. There is no limit 

on the length of written comments for 

consideration by the HSRB. 

E. Background 

The HSRB is a Federal advisory 

committee operating in accordance with 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 5 

U.S.C. App.2 § 9. The HSRB provides 

advice, information, and 

recommendations to the EPA on issues 

related to scientific and ethical aspects 

of human subjects research. The major 

objectives of the HSRB are to provide 

advice and recommendations on: (1) 

Research proposals and protocols; (2) 

reports of completed research with 

human subjects; and (3) how to 

strengthen EPA’s programs for 

protection of human subjects of 

research. The HSRB reports to the EPA 

Administrator through the Agency’s 

Science Advisor. 

1. Topics for discussion. At its 

meeting on June 11, 2014, EPA’s Human 

Studies Review Board will consider 

scientific and ethical issues surrounding 

these topics: 

a. Published report by Gardner et al 

(1988) of an intentional exposure 

human study measuring the effects of 

low dose oral iodide supplementation 

on thyroid function 

b. Published report by Paul et al 

(1988) of an intentional exposure 

human study measuring the effects of 

small increases of dietary iodine on 

thyroid function 

c. Published report by Lemar et al 

(1995) of an intentional exposure 

human study measuring the effects of 

chronic tetraglycine hydroperiodide 

water purification tablet use on thyroid 

function 

d. Discussion of a report from the 

HSRB Work Group of the Return of 

Individual Research Results. 

2. Meeting minutes and reports. 

Minutes of the meeting, summarizing 

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recommendations, if any, made by the 

advisory committee regarding such 

matters, will be released within 90 

calendar days of the meeting. Such 

minutes will be available at http://

www.epa.gov/osa/hsrb/and http://

www.regulations.gov. In addition, 

information regarding the Board’s final 

meeting report, will be found at http:// 

www.epa.gov/osa/hsrb/ or from the 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Dated: May 15, 2014. 

Robert Kavlock, 

Interim Agency Science Advisor. 

[FR Doc. 2014–12172 Filed 5–23–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9911–39–OA] 

Notification of a Public Teleconference 

of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee Augmented Sulfur Oxides 

Primary NAAQS Review Panel 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) Staff Office announces a public 

teleconference of the Clean Air 

Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) 

Augmented Sulfur Oxides Primary 

National Ambient Air Quality Standards 

(NAAQS) Review Panel to discuss its 

draft review of EPA’s Integrated Review 

Plan for the Primary National Ambient 

Air Quality Standard for Sulfur Dioxide 

(External Review Draft). 

DATES: The CASAC will hold a 

teleconference on Wednesday, June 11, 

2014, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

(Eastern Time). 

ADDRESSES: The CASAC public 

teleconference will take place via 

telephone only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public who wants further 

information concerning the CASAC’s 

public teleconference may contact Dr. 

Diana Wong, Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO) via telephone at (202) 564–2049 

or email at wong.diana-M@epa.gov. 

General information concerning the 

CASAC can be found on the EPA Web 

site at http://www.epa.gov/casac. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

CASAC was established pursuant to the 

Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 

1977, codified at 42 U.S.C. 7409D(d)(2), 

to review air quality criteria and 

NAAQS and recommend any new 

NAAQS and revisions of existing 

criteria and NAAQS as may be 

appropriate. The CASAC shall also 

provide advice, information, and 

recommendations to the Administrator 

on the scientific and technical aspects of 

issues related to the criteria for air 

quality standards, research related to air 

quality, sources of air pollution, and of 

adverse effects which may result from 

various strategies to attain and maintain 

air quality standards. The CASAC is a 

Federal Advisory Committee chartered 

under the Federal Advisory Committee 

Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C., App. 2. Section 

109(d)(1) of the CAA requires that the 

Agency periodically review and revise, 

as appropriate, the air quality criteria 

and the NAAQS for the six ‘‘criteria’’ air 

pollutants, including oxides of sulfur. 

EPA is currently reviewing the primary 

(health-based) NAAQS for sulfur 

dioxide (SO2), as an indicator for health 

effects caused by the presence of oxides 

of sulfur in the ambient air and has 

requested CASAC advice. 

For purposes of the review of the 

sulfur oxides air quality criteria for 

health and the primary NAAQS for 

sulfur dioxide, the CASAC Augmented 

Sulfur Oxides Review Panel was formed 

following a request for public 

nominations of experts (78 FR 43880— 

43881, July 22, 2013), and held a public 

teleconference on April 22, 2014 (as 

noticed in 79 FR 16325–16326) to peer 

review EPA’s Integrated Review Plan for 

the Primary National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard for Sulfur Dioxide 

(External Review Draft- March 2014). 

Information about this review activity 

may be found on the CASAC Web site 

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

product.nsf/fedrgstr_activites/SO_2%20

Primary%20NAAQS%20Review?Open

Document. 

Pursuant to FACA and EPA policy, 

notice is hereby given that the CASAC 

Augmented Sulfur Oxides Primary 

NAAQS Review Panel will hold a 

public teleconference to discuss 

CASAC’s draft review of this EPA 

document. The CASAC Augmented 

Sulfur Oxides Review Panel will 

comply with the provisions of FACA 

and all appropriate SAB Staff Office 

procedural policies. 

Technical Contacts: Any technical 

questions concerning the Integrated 

Review Plan for the Primary National 

Ambient Air Quality Standard for Sulfur 

Dioxide (External Review Draft—March 

2014) should be directed to Dr. Michael 

Stewart (stewart.michael@epa.gov). 

Availability of Meeting Materials: 

Prior to the teleconference, the CASAC 

draft report, agenda and other materials 

will be accessible through the calendar 

link on the blue navigation bar at http:// 

www.epa.gov/casac/. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Public comment for consideration by 

EPA’s federal advisory committees and 

panels has a different purpose from 

public comment provided to EPA 

program offices. Therefore, the process 

for submitting comments to a federal 

advisory committee is different from the 

process used to submit comments to an 

EPA program office. 

Federal advisory committees and 

panels, including scientific advisory 

committees, provide independent 

advice to EPA. Members of the public 

can submit relevant comments for a 

federal advisory committee to consider 

as it develops advice for EPA. Interested 

members of the public may submit 

relevant written or oral information on 

the topic of this advisory activity, and/ 

or the group conducting the activity, for 

the CASAC to consider during the 

advisory process. Input from the public 

to the CASAC will have the most impact 

if it provides specific scientific or 

technical information or analysis for 

CASAC panels to consider or if it relates 

to the clarity or accuracy of the 

technical information. Members of the 

public wishing to provide comment 

should contact the DFO directly. Oral 

Statements: In general, individuals or 

groups requesting an oral presentation 

on a public teleconference will be 

limited to three minutes. Each person 

making an oral statement should 

consider providing written comments as 

well as their oral statement so that the 

points presented orally can be expanded 

upon in writing. Interested parties 

should contact Dr. Diana Wong, DFO, in 

writing (preferably via email) at the 

contact information noted above by June 

4, 2014 to be placed on the list of public 

speakers. Written Statements: Written 

statements should be supplied to Dr. 

Diana Wong, DFO, via email at the 

contact information noted above by June 

4, 2014 so that the information may be 

made available to the Panel members for 

their consideration. Written statements 

should be supplied in one of the 

following electronic formats: Adobe 

Acrobat PDF, MS Word, MS 

PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in IBM– 

PC/Windows 98/2000/XP format. It is 

the SAB Staff Office general policy to 

post written comments on the Web page 

for advisory meetings or 

teleconferences. Submitters are 

requested to provide an unsigned 

version of each document because the 

SAB Staff Office does not publish 

documents with signatures on its Web 

sites. Members of the public should be 

aware that their personal contact 

information, if included in any written 


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