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Representative test monitors have 

been tested in accordance with the 

applicable test procedures specified in 

40 CFR part 53, as amended on August 

31, 2011. After reviewing the results of 

those tests and other information 

submitted by the applicant, EPA has 

determined, in accordance with Part 53, 

that these methods should be designated 

as a reference or equivalent method. 

As a designated equivalent method, 

this method is acceptable for use by 

states and other air monitoring agencies 

under the requirements of 40 CFR part 

58, Ambient Air Quality Surveillance. 

For such purposes, the method must be 

used in strict accordance with the 

operation or instruction manual 

associated with the method and subject 

to any specifications and limitations 

(e.g., configuration or operational 

settings) specified in the designated 

method description (see the 

identification of the method above). 

Use of the method also should be in 

general accordance with the guidance 

and recommendations of applicable 

sections of the ‘‘Quality Assurance 

Handbook for Air Pollution 

Measurement Systems, Volume I,’’ EPA/ 

600/R–94/038a and ‘‘Quality Assurance 

Handbook for Air Pollution 

Measurement Systems, Volume II, 

Ambient Air Quality Monitoring 

Program,’’ EPA–454/B–13–003, (both 

available at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/

amtic/qalist.html). Provisions 

concerning modification of such 

methods by users are specified under 

Section 2.8 (Modifications of Methods 

by Users) of Appendix C to 40 CFR part 

58. 

Consistent or repeated noncompliance 

with any of these conditions should be 

reported to: Director, Exposure Methods 

and Measurements Division (MD–E205– 

01), National Exposure Research 

Laboratory, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Research Triangle 

Park, North Carolina 27711. 

Designation of this equivalent method 

is intended to assist the States in 

establishing and operating their air 

quality surveillance systems under 40 

CFR part 58. Questions concerning the 

commercial availability or technical 

aspects of the method should be 

directed to the applicant. 

Dated: January 19, 2016. 

Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, 

Director, National Exposure Research 

Laboratory. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–SFUND–2010–0763; FRL–9941– 

70–OEI] 

Information Collection Request 

Submitted to OMB for Review and 

Approval; Comment Request; 

Hazardous Chemical Reporting: 

Emergency and Hazardous Chemical 

Inventory Forms (Tier I and Tier II) 

(Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency has submitted an information 

collection request (ICR), ‘‘Hazardous 

Chemical Reporting: Emergency and 

Hazardous Chemical Inventory Forms 

(Tier I and Tier II) (Renewal)’’ (EPA ICR 

No. 2436.03, OMB Control No. 2050– 

0206) to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for review and approval 

in accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

This is a proposed extension of the ICR, 

which is currently approved through 

March 31, 2016. Public comments were 

previously requested via the Federal 

Register (80 FR 62526) on October 16, 

2015 during a 60-day comment period. 

This notice allows for an additional 30 

days for public comments. A fuller 

description of the ICR is given below, 

including its estimated burden and cost 

to the public. An Agency may not 

conduct or sponsor and a person is not 

required to respond to a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

DATES: Additional comments may be 

submitted on or before February 25, 

2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID Number, EPA– 

HQ–SFUND–2010–0763, to (1) EPA 

online using www.regulations.gov (our 

preferred method), by email to 

superfund.docket@epa.gov or by mail 

to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via 

email to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. 

Address comments to OMB Desk Officer 

for EPA. 

EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes profanity, threats, 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sicy 

Jacob, Office of Emergency 

Management, Mail Code 5104A, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 

564–8019; fax number: (202) 564–2620; 

email address: jacob.sicy@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Supporting documents which explain in 

detail the information that the EPA will 

be collecting are available in the public 

docket for this ICR. The docket can be 

viewed online at www.regulations.gov 

or in person at the EPA Docket Center, 

WJC West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC. The telephone number for the 

Docket Center is 202–566–1744. For 

additional information about EPA’s 

public docket, visit http://www.epa.gov/ 

dockets. 

Abstract: Sections 311 and 312 of the 

Emergency Planning and Community 

Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) apply to the 

owner or operator of any facility that is 

required to prepare or have available a 

Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for a 

hazardous chemical under the 

Occupational Safety and Health Act of 

1970 and its implementing regulations. 

Under section 311 of EPCRA, these 

facilities are required to submit MSDS 

to the State Emergency Response 

Commission (SERC), the Local 

Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC), 

and the local fire department for each 

hazardous chemical stored on-site in a 

quantity greater than the reporting 

threshold. Section 312 of EPCRA 

requires owners and operators of 

facilities to annually report the 

inventories of those chemicals reported 

under section 311. EPA is required to 

publish two emergency and hazardous 

chemical inventory forms, ‘‘Tier I’’ and 

‘‘Tier II,’’ for use by these facilities. On 

July 13, 2012, EPA further revised these 

forms to add some new data elements 

that would be useful for local 

emergency planners and responders. In 

ICR 2436.02, EPA estimated that after 

the initial reporting of the new data 

elements, it would only take 0.25 hours 

per facility to review the new data 

elements and revise if necessary. New 

data elements added to page one of the 

Tier II form included contact 

information for facility emergency 

coordinator; Tier II information; 

whether facility is manned or 

unmanned; if the facility is subject to 

EPCRA Section 302 or CAA Section 

112(r) (Risk Management Program) etc. 

Form Numbers: 8700–29 and 8700– 

30. 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Facilities with hazardous chemicals 

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above the reporting thresholds specified 

in the regulations at 40 CFR part 370. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory (Section 312 of EPCRA). 

Estimated number of respondents: 

400,000 (total). 

Frequency of response: Annual. 

Total estimated burden: 100,000 

hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 

CFR 1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $3,760,400 (per 

year), includes $0 annualized capital or 

operation & maintenance costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 62,500 hours in the total 

estimated respondent burden compared 

with the ICR currently approved by 

OMB. This decrease is because the 

burden of reading the rule and 

modifying their software was only 

necessary at the onset of the rule. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Acting Director, Collection Strategies 

Division. 

[FR Doc. 2016–01482 Filed 1–25–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9941–63–OA] 

Notification of a Public Meeting of the 

Science Advisory Board 

Environmental Economics Advisory 

Committee 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA or Agency) Science 

Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office 

announces a public meeting of the SAB 

Environmental Economics Advisory 

Committee to review the EPA’s 

proposed methodology for updating its 

mortality risk valuation estimates for 

policy analysis. 

DATES: The public meeting will be held 

on March 7, 2016 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 

p.m. (Eastern Time) and on March 8, 

2016, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

(Eastern Time). 

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be 

held at the Crowne Plaza Washington 

National Airport Hotel, 1480 Crystal 

Drive, Arlington, VA 22202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public who wants further 

information concerning this public 

meeting may contact Dr. Thomas 

Armitage, Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO), EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office (1400R) U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460; by 

telephone at (202) 564–2155 or via 

email at armitage.thomas@epa.gov. 

General information concerning the EPA 

SAB can be found at http://www.epa.

gov/sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The SAB was 

established pursuant to the 

Environmental Research, Development, 

and Demonstration Authorization Act 

(ERDAA) codified at 42 U.S.C. 4365, to 

provide independent scientific and 

technical advice to the Administrator on 

the technical basis for Agency positions 

and regulations. The SAB is a Federal 

Advisory Committee chartered under 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), 5 U.S.C. App. 2. The SAB will 

comply with the provisions of FACA 

and all appropriate SAB Staff Office 

procedural policies. Pursuant to FACA 

and EPA policy, notice is hereby given 

that the SAB Environmental Economics 

Advisory Committee will hold a public 

meeting to review the EPA’s proposed 

methodology for updating its mortality 

risk valuation estimates for policy 

analysis. Estimates of the value of 

mortality risk reductions play an 

important role in the EPA’s analysis of 

the benefits of regulatory actions. The 

committee will provide advice to the 

Administrator through the chartered 

SAB. 

The EPA’s Office of Policy has 

requested advice on proposed 

improvements to the Agency’s 

methodology for estimating benefits 

associated with reduced risk of 

mortality. This methodology takes into 

account the amounts that individuals 

are willing to pay for reductions in 

mortality risk. The resulting values are 

combined into an estimate known as the 

value of statistical life (VSL) which is 

used in regulatory benefit-cost analysis. 

The EPA has also requested that the 

SAB review options for accounting for 

changes in the VSL over time as real 

income grows, known as income 

elasticity of willingness to pay. The EPA 

has submitted the following documents 

to the SAB for review: (1) Valuing 

Mortality Risk for Policy: a Metaanalytic Approach, a white paper 

prepared by the EPA Office of Policy to 

describe the Agency’s interpretation and 

application of SAB recommendations 

received in July 2011 regarding updates 

to the EPA’s estimates of mortality risk 

valuation; (2) The Effect of Income on 

the Value of Mortality and Morbidity 

Risk Reductions, a report prepared for 

the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation on 

options for updating the Agency’s 

recommended estimate for the income 

elasticity of the value of statistical life; 

and (3) Recommended Income Elasticity 

and Income Growth Estimates: 

Technical Memorandum, an EPA 

memorandum providing supplementary 

information to the report. Additional 

information about this SAB advisory 

activity can be found at the following 

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

product.nsf/fedrgstr_activites/

Measuring%20Mortality%20Risk

?OpenDocument. 

Technical Contacts: Any technical 

questions concerning the documents to 

be reviewed by the SAB should be 

directed to Dr. Nathalie Simon in the 

EPA’s National Center for 

Environmental Economics, by telephone 

at 202–566–2347 or by email at 

Simon.nathalie@epa.gov. 

Availability of the meeting materials: 

Prior to the meeting, the review 

documents, agenda and other materials 

will be accessible on the meeting page 

on the SAB Web site at http://www.epa.

gov/sab. 

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 the EPA. 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant information on the topic 

of this advisory activity, including the 

charge to the panel and the EPA review 

documents, and/or the group 

conducting the activity, for the SAB to 

consider during the advisory process. 

Input from the public to the SAB will 

have the most impact if it consists of 

comments that provide specific 

scientific or technical information or 

analysis for the SAB panel 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 at the meeting will be 

limited to five minutes per speaker. 

Interested parties should contact Dr. 

Thomas Armitage, DFO, in writing 

(preferably via email), at the contact 

information noted above, by February 

29, 2016 to be placed on the list of 

public speakers for the meeting. 

Written Statements: Written 

statements will be accepted throughout 

the advisory process; however, for 

timely consideration by Committee 

members, statements should be 

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