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1The current license expired on July 31, 2005, 

and the project is operating under an annual 

license. 

2On January 7, 2020, the Commission issued 

notice of the offer of settlement’s filing. 

Hells Canyon Project No. 1971.1 On 

August 31, 2007, the Commission issued 

a final Environmental Impact Statement 

(EIS) for the Hells Canyon Project. On 

December 30, 2019, Idaho Power filed 

an Offer of Settlement (settlement) with 

the Commission for the Hells Canyon 

Project.2 The settlement, which was 

executed on April 22, 2019, includes, 

among other items, spring Chinook 

salmon and summer steelhead fish 

passage measures. In addition, the 

Oregon and Idaho Departments of 

Environmental Quality each issued a 

water quality certification under section 

401 of the Clean Water Act for the Hells 

Canyon Project on May 24, 2019. 

On July 1, 2020, Idaho Power 

supplemented the final license 

application for the project with 

additional information on its proposal, 

including an analysis of the new and 

revised fish-related protection, 

mitigation, and enhancement measures 

proposed under the settlement, and 

updated information on project 

resources. Additionally, Idaho Power 

filed on October 14, 2020, draft 

biological assessments for species 

managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service and the National Marine 

Fisheries Service, which included an 

analysis of the effects of the new and 

revised measures on fish and wildlife 

listed under the Endangered Species 

Act. 

On June 13, 2022, Commission staff 

issued a notice of intent to prepare a 

draft and final EIS to assess the new and 

revised fish-related protection, 

mitigation, and enhancement measures 

proposed under the settlement, the 

Oregon and Idaho water quality 

certifications, and the draft biological 

assessments. The notice of intent 

included a schedule for preparing a 

draft and final supplemental EIS. 

By this notice, Commission staff is 

updating the procedural schedule for 

completing the draft and final 

supplemental EIS. Further revisions to 

the schedule may be made as 

appropriate. 

Milestone Target date 

Issue Draft EIS .......... February 2024. 

Comments on Draft 

EIS due.

April 2024. 

Commission issues 

Final EIS.

November 2024. 

Any questions regarding this notice 

may be directed to Aaron Liberty at 

(202) 502–6862 or aaron.liberty@

ferc.gov. 

Dated: October 12, 2023. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2017–0720; FRL–11374–01– 

OCSPP] 

Pesticide Registration Review; 

Pesticide Dockets Opened for Review 

and Comment; Notice of Availability 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability of the EPA’s preliminary 

work plans for the following chemicals: 

Aureobasidium pullulans and 

cyflumetofen. With this document, the 

EPA is opening the public comment 

period for registration review for these 

chemicals. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before December 18, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2017–0720, 

through the Federal eRulemaking Portal 

at https://www.regulations.gov. Follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments. Do not submit electronically 

any information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Additional 

instructions on commenting and visiting 

the docket, along with more information 

about dockets generally, is available at 

https://www.epa.gov/dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

pesticide specific information, contact: 

The Chemical Review Manager for the 

pesticide of interest identified in Table 

1 in Unit IV. 

For general questions on the 

registration review program, contact: 

Melanie Biscoe, Pesticide Re-Evaluation 

Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (202) 566–0701; email address: 

biscoe.melanie@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general and may be of interest to a 

wide range of stakeholders including 

environmental, human health, farm 

worker, and agricultural advocates; the 

chemical industry; pesticide users; and 

members of the public interested in the 

sale, distribution, or use of pesticides. 

Since others also may be interested, the 

agency has not attempted to describe all 

the specific entities that may be affected 

by this action. If you have any questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

to a particular entity, consult the 

Chemical Review Manager identified in 

Table 1 in Unit IV. 

B. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for the EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to the EPA through 

regulations.gov or email. Clearly mark 

the part or all of the information that 

you claim to be CBI. For CBI 

information in a disk or CD–ROM that 

you mail to the EPA, mark the outside 

of the disk or CD–ROM as CBI and then 

identify electronically within the disk or 

CD–ROM the specific information that 

is claimed as CBI. In addition to one 

complete version of the comment that 

includes information claimed as CBI, a 

copy of the comment that does not 

contain the information claimed as CBI 

must be submitted for inclusion in the 

public docket. Information so marked 

will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR part 2. 

2. Tips for preparing your comments. 

When preparing and submitting your 

comments, see the commenting tips at 

https://www.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets. 

3. Environmental justice. EPA seeks to 

achieve environmental justice, the fair 

treatment and meaningful involvement 

of any group, including minority and/or 

low-income populations, in the 

development, implementation, and 

enforcement of environmental laws, 

regulations, and policies. To help 

address potential environmental justice 

issues, the Agency seeks information on 

any groups or segments of the 

population who, as a result of their 

location, cultural practices, or other 

factors, may have atypical or 

disproportionately high and adverse 

human health impacts or environmental 

effects from exposure to the pesticides 

discussed in this document, compared 

to the general population. 

II. Background 

Registration review is the EPA’s 

periodic review of pesticide 

registrations to ensure that each 

pesticide continues to satisfy the 

statutory standard for registration, that 

is, the pesticide can perform its 


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intended function without unreasonable 

adverse effects on human health or the 

environment. Registration review 

dockets contain information that will 

assist the public in understanding the 

types of information and issues that the 

agency may consider during registration 

reviews. As part of the registration 

review process, the Agency has 

completed preliminary workplans for all 

pesticides listed in Table 1 in Unit IV. 

EPA initiates a registration review by 

establishing a public docket for a 

pesticide registration review case. The 

docket contains a Preliminary Work 

Plan (PWP) summarizing information 

EPA has on the pesticide and the 

anticipated path forward. Through this 

program, the EPA is ensuring that each 

pesticide’s registration is based on 

current scientific and other knowledge, 

including its effects on human health 

and the environment. 

III. Authority 

The EPA is conducting its registration 

review of the chemicals listed in Table 

1 in Unit IV pursuant to section 3(g) of 

the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 

Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the 

Procedural Regulations for Registration 

Review at 40 CFR part 155, subpart C. 

Section 3(g) of FIFRA provides, among 

other things, that the registrations of 

pesticides are to be reviewed every 15 

years. Under FIFRA, a pesticide product 

may be registered or remain registered 

only if it meets the statutory standard 

for registration given in FIFRA section 

3(c)(5) (7 U.S.C. 136a(c)(5)). When used 

in accordance with widespread and 

commonly recognized practice, the 

pesticide product must perform its 

intended function without unreasonable 

adverse effects on the environment; that 

is, without any unreasonable risk to 

man or the environment, or a human 

dietary risk from residues that result 

from the use of a pesticide in or on food. 

IV. Registration Reviews 

A. What action is the agency taking? 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 155.50, this notice 

announces the availability of the EPA’s 

preliminary work plans for the 

pesticides shown in Table 1 and opens 

a 60-day public comment period on the 

work plans. 

TABLE 1—PRELIMINARY WORK PLANS BEING MADE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT

Registration review case name and No. Docket ID No. Chemical review manager and contact information 

Aureobasidium pullulans ..................................................

Case No. 6521 .................................................................

EPA–HQ–OPP–2023–0064 Susanne Cerrelli, cerrelli.susanne@epa.gov 

(202) 566–1516. 

Cyflumetofen ....................................................................

Case No. 7463 .................................................................

EPA–HQ–OPP–2022–0194 Susan Bartow, bartow.susan@epa.gov 

(202) 566–2280. 

B. Docket Content 

The registration review docket 

contains information that the agency 

may consider in the course of the 

registration review. The agency may 

include information from its files 

including, but not limited to, the 

following information: 

• An overview of the registration review 

case status. 

• A list of current product registrations 

and registrants. 

• Federal Register notices regarding 

any pending registration actions. 

• Federal Register notices regarding 

current or pending tolerances. 

• Risk assessments. 

• Bibliographies concerning current 

registrations. 

• Summaries of incident data. 

• Any other pertinent data or 

information. 

Each docket contains a document 

summarizing what the agency currently 

knows about the pesticide case and a 

preliminary work plan for anticipated 

data and assessment needs. Additional 

documents provide more detailed 

information. During this public 

comment period, the agency is asking 

that interested persons identify any 

additional information they believe the 

agency should consider during the 

registration reviews of these pesticides. 

The agency identifies in each docket the 

areas where public comment is 

specifically requested, though comment 

in any area is welcome. 

The registration review final rule at 40 

CFR 155.50(b) provides for a minimum 

60-day public comment period on all 

preliminary registration review work 

plans. This comment period is intended 

to provide an opportunity for public 

input and a mechanism for initiating 

any necessary changes to a pesticide’s 

workplan. All comments should be 

submitted using the methods in 

ADDRESSES and must be received by the 

EPA on or before the closing date. These 

comments will become part of the 

docket for the pesticides included in 

Table 1 in Unit IV. Comments received 

after the close of the comment period 

will be marked ‘‘late.’’ The EPA is not 

required to consider these late 

comments. 

The agency will carefully consider all 

comments received by the closing date 

and may provide a ‘‘Response to 

Comments Memorandum’’ in the 

docket. The final registration review 

work plan will explain the effect that 

any comments had on the final work 

plan and provide the agency’s response 

to significant comments. 

Background on the registration review 

program is provided at: https://

www.epa.gov/pesticide-reevaluation. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq. 

Dated: October 13, 2023. 

Mary Elissa Reaves, 

Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–ORD–2015–0765; FRL–11440–01– 

ORD] 

Executive Committee under the Board 

of Scientific Counselors (BOSC)— 

October 2023 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA), Office of Research and 

Development (ORD), gives notice of a 

virtual meeting of the Board of 

Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Executive 

Committee (EC) to review and finalize 

the reports of the following panels: EPA 

Transcriptomic Assessment Product 

(ETAP) Panel and Value of Information 

(VOI) Panel. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Thursday, October 26, 2023, from 1 p.m. 

to 5 p.m. All times noted are Eastern 

Time and approximate. The meeting 

may adjourn early if all business is 

finished. Attendees should register by 

Monday, October 23, 2023, at https://usepa-bosc-ec-meeting.eventbrite.com. 

Requests for making oral presentations 

at the meeting will be accepted through 

October 23, 2023. Comments may be 

submitted through October 23, 2023. 

Due to unforeseen administrative 

circumstances, EPA is announcing this 


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