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for receiving comments. The electronic 

public docket system is an ‘‘anonymous 

access’’ system, which means EPA will 

not know your identity, e-mail address, 

or other contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

In contrast to EPA’s electronic public 

docket, EPA’s electronic mail (e-mail) 

system is not an ‘‘anonymous access’’

system. If you send an e-mail comment 

directly to the Docket without going 

through www.regulations.gov, your email address is automatically captured 

and included as part of the comment 

that is placed in the official public 

docket, and made available in EPA’s 

electronic public docket. 

Dated: March 22, 2007. 

Richard B. Ossias, 

Associate General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. E7–5799 Filed 3–28–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2007–0239; 

FRL–8293–7] 

A Screening Assessment of the 

Potential Impacts of Climate Change 

on Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) 

Mitigation in the Great Lakes and New 

England Regions 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of public comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a 30-day 

public comment period for the draft 

document titled, ‘‘A Screening 

Assessment of the Potential Impacts of 

Climate Change on Combined Sewer 

Overflow (CSO) Mitigation in the Great 

Lakes and New England Regions’’ (EPA/ 

600/R–07/033A). The document was 

prepared by the National Center for 

Environmental Assessment (NCEA) 

within EPA’s Office of Research and 

Development. 

EPA is releasing this draft document 

solely for the purpose of predissemination peer review under 

applicable information quality 

guidelines. This document has not been 

formally disseminated by EPA. It does 

not represent and should not be 

construed to represent any Agency 

policy or determination. EPA will 

consider any public comments 

submitted in accordance with this 

notice when revising the document. 

DATES: The 30-day public comment 

period begins March 29, 2007, and ends 

April 28, 2007. Technical comments 

should be in writing and must be 

received by EPA by April 28, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: The draft ‘‘A Screening 

Assessment of the Potential Impacts of 

Climate Change on Combined Sewer 

Overflow (CSO) Mitigation in the Great 

Lakes and New England Regions’’ is 

available primarily via the Internet on 

NCEA’s home page under the Recent 

Additions and the Data and Publications 

menus at http://www.epa.gov/ncea. A 

limited number of paper copies are 

available from NCEA’s Technical 

Information Staff (telephone: 202–564–

3261, facsimile: 202–565–0050). If you 

are requesting a paper copy, please 

provide your name, your mailing 

address, and the document title. 

Comments may be submitted 

electronically at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, by mail, by 

facsimile, or by hand delivery/courier. 

Please follow the detailed instructions 

provided in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the public comment 

period, contact the Office of 

Environmental Information Docket; 

telephone: 202–566–1752; facsimile: 

202–566–1753; or e-mail: 

ORD.Docket@epa.gov. 

For technical information, contact 

Thomas Johnson, NCEA; telephone: 

202–564–3406; facsimile: 202–564–

2018; or e-mail: 

Johnson.thomas@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information About the Project/ 

Document 

This report describes the potential 

scope and magnitude of climate change 

impacts on combined sewer overflow 

(CSO) events mitigation efforts in the 

Great Lakes Region and New England 

Region. The report describes the extent 

to which CSO long-term control plans 

may be under-designed if planners 

assume that past precipitation 

conditions are representative of future 

conditions. Combined sewer systems 

(CSSs) collect and co-treat stormwater 

and municipal wastewater. During highintensity rainfall events, the capacity of 

CSSs can be exceeded resulting in the 

discharge of untreated storm water and 

wastewater directly into receiving 

streams. These CSO events can result in 

high concentrations of microbial 

pathogens, biochemical oxygen demand, 

suspended solids, and other pollutants 

in receiving waters. Climate change in 

many parts of the country is expected to 

increase the proportion of rainfall 

occurring in high-intensity events, 

resulting in increased stormwater 

runoff. Climate change could thus 

present a risk of increased CSO 

frequency and resulting water quality 

impairment. 

II. How To Submit Technical Comments 

to the Docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2007–

0239 by one of the following methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: ORD.Docket@epa.gov. 

• Fax: 202–566–1753. 

• Mail: Office of Environmental 

Information (OEI) Docket (Mail Code: 

2822T), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460. The phone 

number is 202–566–1752. 

• Hand Delivery: The OEI 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. 

Such 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 one 

unbound original with pages numbered 

consecutively, and 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–2007–

0239. 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 that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected through www.regulations.gov 

or e-mail. 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 


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comment. If you send an e-mail 

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 http:// 

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

Docket: Documents in the docket are 

listed in the 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 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 OEI Docket in the EPA Headquarters 

Docket Center. 

Dated: March 26, 2007. 

David Bussard, 

Acting Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

[FR Doc. E7–5803 Filed 3–28–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8293–3] 

EPA Science Advisory Board Staff 

Office; Request for Nominations of 

Experts for the Acrylamide Review 

Panel 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Requesting the nomination of 

experts for the Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) Acrylamide Review Panel. 

DATES: Nominations should be 

submitted by April 19, 2007, per 

instructions below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing further 

information regarding this Request for 

Nominations may contact Dr. Suhair 

Shallal, Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO), SAB Staff Office, by telephone/ 

voice mail at (202) 343–9977; by fax at 

(202) 233–0643; or via e-mail at 

shallal.suhair@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the EPA Science 

Advisory Board can be found on the 

EPA SAB Web Site at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: Acrylamide polymer is 

primarily used in waste water treatment, 

paper and pulp processing, and mineral 

processing. Other uses include as a 

water soluble polymer in crude oil 

production, as a cosmetic additive, for 

soil and sand stabilization, grouting 

agents for sewer line sealing and 

manhole sealing, and in electrophoresis 

gels used in research. Acrylamide has 

been detected in a wide range of baked 

and fried foods. The detection of 

acrylamide in food prompted intense 

international interest and on-going 

research to better characterize its hazard 

effects, and to modify cooking practices 

to minimize levels in processed foods. 

EPA’s National Center for 

Environmental Assessment, within the 

Office of Research and Development, 

has been updating the human health 

hazard and dose-response assessment 

for Acrylamide. EPA previously 

developed an oral reference dose (RfD) 

for non-cancer effects and a cancer oral 

slope factor for Acrylamide which are 

described in EPA’s Integrated Risk 

Information System (IRIS) assessment 

(1988). An inhalation reference 

concentration (RfC) was added to IRIS 

in 1990. The current EPA draft 

assessment incorporates more recent 

studies and methods to derive an oral 

RfD and inhalation RfC for non-cancer 

effects, and an oral slope factor and 

inhalation unit risk for carcinogenic 

effects. ORD has requested that the 

Science Advisory Board (SAB) review 

its draft assessment entitled 

‘‘Toxicological Review of Acrylamide’’. 

The EPA Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) was established by 42 U.S.C. 4365 

to provide independent scientific and 

technical advice, consultation and 

recommendations to the EPA 

Administrator on the technical basis for 

Agency positions and regulations. The 

SAB Acrylamide Review Panel, 

conducting the review of the Agency’s 

draft assessment of acrylamide, will 

consist of members of the chartered 

SAB, SAB Committee members and 

additional external experts. This panel 

will comply with the provisions of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA) and all appropriate SAB 

procedural policies. Upon completion, 

the panel’s report will be submitted to 

the chartered SAB for final approval for 

transmittal to the EPA Administrator. 

The SAB Acrylamide Review Panel is 

being asked to comment on the 

scientific soundness of this draft 

assessment. 

Availability of the Review Materials: 

The EPA draft document to be reviewed 

by the SAB Panel will be made available 

by the Office of Research and 

Development. For questions and 

information concerning the review 

materials, please contact Dr. Rob 

Dewoskin, at (919) 541–1089, or 

dewoskin.rob@epa.gov. 

Request for Nominations: The SAB 

Staff Office is requesting nominations of 

nationally recognized experts with 

expertise in one or more of the 

following areas, especially with respect 

to the health effects of Acrylamide: 

neurotoxicology; epidemiology; 

toxicology, including reproductive/ 

developmental toxicology, genetic 

toxicology and mechanisms of action for 

carcinogenicity; metabolism; 

pharmacokinetics and modeling; doseresponse assessment; and exposure and 

risk assessment. 

Process and Deadline for Submitting 

Nominations: Any interested person or 

organization may nominate qualified 

individuals for possible service on the 

Acrylamide Review Panel in the areas of 

expertise described above. Nominations 

should be submitted in electronic 

format through the SAB Web site at the 

following URL: http://www.epa.gov/sab; 

or directly via the Form for Nominating 

Individuals to Panels of the EPA 

Science Advisory Board link found at 

URL: http://www.epa.gov/sab/panels/ 

paneltopics.html. Please follow the 

instructions for submitting nominations 

carefully. To be considered, 

nominations should include all of the 

information required on the associated 

forms. Anyone unable to submit 

nominations using the electronic form 

and who has any questions concerning 

the nomination process may contact Dr. 

Suhair Shallal, DFO, as indicated above 

in this notice. Nominations should be 

submitted in time to arrive no later than 

April 19, 2007. 

For nominees to be considered, please 

include: contact information; a 

curriculum vitae; a biosketch of no more 

than two paragraphs (containing 

information on the nominee’s current 

position, educational background, areas 

of expertise and research activities, 

service on other advisory committees 

and professional societies; the 

candidate’s special expertise related to 

the panel being formed; and sources of 

recent grant and/or contract support). 

The EPA SAB Staff Office will 

acknowledge receipt of nominations. 


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