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cyanobacterial toxins in drinking water. 

Additionally, EPA announces a support 

document for states and utilities to 

assist them as they consider whether 

and how to manage cyanobacterial 

toxins in drinking water. The 

recommendations in this document are 

intended to assist public drinking water 

systems (PWSs) manage the risks from 

cyanobacterial toxins in drinking water, 

including information and a framework 

that PWSs can consider in their 

cyanotoxin risk management efforts. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information regarding the HAs or 

HESDs: Lesley D’Anglada, Office of 

Water, Health and Ecological Criteria 

Division (4304T), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: (202) 566–1125; 

email address: danglada.lesley@epa.gov. 

For information regarding 

recommendations for cyanotoxin 

management in drinking water: Hannah 

Holsinger, Office of Water, Office of 

Ground Water and Drinking Water 

(4607M), Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 564–0403; email address: 

holsinger.hannah@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. How can I get copies of this 

document and other related 

information? 

1. Electronic Access. You may access 

this Federal Register document 

electronically from the Government 

Printing Office under the ‘‘Federal 

Register’’ listings at FDSys (http://

www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/

collection.action?collectionCode=FR). 

The Health Effects Support Documents 

and the Health Advisories for the 

cyanobacterial toxins are available on 

EPA’s Web site at http://water.epa.gov/ 

drink/standards/hascience.cfm. The 

Recommendations for Public Water 

Systems to Manage Cyanotoxins in 

Drinking Water document is available 

on EPA’s Web site at http://

www2.epa.gov/nutrient-policy-data/

guidelines-and-recommendations. 

II. What are cyanobacterial toxins and 

how are they produced? 

Algae and cyanobacteria are natural 

components of fresh water; however, 

under favorable conditions, they can 

rapidly multiply causing ‘‘blooms.’’ 

Some cyanobacterial species can 

produce toxins (cyanotoxins) at levels 

that may be of concern for human 

health. These cyanobacterial toxins are 

of particular concern because of their 

potential impacts on drinking water and 

the potential to affect human health. 

III. What are EPA’s Health Advisories? 

Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, 

EPA may publish Health Advisories 

(HAs) for contaminants that are not 

subject to any national primary drinking 

water regulation. 42 U.S.C. 300 g– 

1(b)(1)(F). EPA develops HAs to provide 

information on the chemical and 

physical properties, occurrence and 

exposure, health effects, quantification 

of toxicological effects, other regulatory 

standards, analytical methods, and 

treatment technology for drinking water 

contaminants. HAs describe 

concentrations of drinking water 

contaminants at which adverse health 

effects are not anticipated to occur over 

specific exposure durations (e.g., oneday, ten-days, several years, and a 

lifetime). HAs also contain a margin of 

safety to address database uncertainties. 

HAs serve as informal technical 

guidance to assist federal, state and 

local officials, as well as managers of 

public or community water systems in 

protecting public health when 

emergency spills or contamination 

situations occur. They are not 

regulations and should not be construed 

as legally enforceable federal standards. 

HAs may change as new information 

becomes available. 

IV. Information on EPA’s Ten-Day 

Health Advisories for the 

Cyanobacterial Toxins, 

Cylindrospermopsin and Microcystins 

Today, EPA is making available the 

HA values for the cyanobacterial toxins 

microcystins and cylindrospermopsin. 

EPA recommends 0.3 micrograms per 

liter for microcystins and 0.7 

micrograms per liter for 

cylindrospermopsin as levels not to be 

exceeded in drinking water for bottlefed infants and young children of preschool age. For school-age children 

through adults, the health advisory 

values for drinking water are 1.6 

micrograms per liter for microcystins 

and 3 micrograms per liter for 

cylindrospermopsin. The HA values are 

based on exposure for ten days. 

V. Information on EPA’s Support 

Document To Assist States and Utilities 

in Managing Cyanobacterial Toxins 

EPA also announces the release of a 

cyanotoxin management document that 

is a companion to the HAs for 

microcystins and cylindrospermopsin. 

The document is intended to assist 

PWSs that choose to develop systemspecific plans for evaluating their source 

waters for vulnerability to 

contamination by microcystins and 

cylindrospermopsin. It provides 

information and a framework that PWSs 

and others (as appropriate) can consider 

to inform their decisions on managing 

the risks from cyanotoxins to drinking 

water. 

Dated: June 10, 2015. 

Kenneth J. Kopocis, 

Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of 

Water. 

[FR Doc. 2015–14936 Filed 6–16–15; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2015–0276; FRL–9927–37] 

Draft Test Guidelines; Series 810— 

Product Performance Test Guidelines; 

Notice of Availability and Request for 

Comments 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability for comment of several 810 

series, non-binding, draft test guidelines 

developed by the Office of Chemical 

Safety and Pollution Prevention 

(OCSPP). The test guidelines provide 

guidance on conducting testing by the 

public and companies that are subject to 

EPA data submission requirements 

under OCSPP’s major statutory 

mandates. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before August 17, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2015–0276, by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

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. 

• Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/ 

DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 

NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: To make special 

arrangements for hand delivery or 

delivery of boxed information, please 

follow the instructions at http://

www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html. 

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or visiting the docket, along with more 

information about dockets generally, is 

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

dockets. 

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general information contact: Melissa 


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Chun, Regulatory Coordination Staff 

(7101M), Office of Chemical Safety and 

Pollution Prevention, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001; 

telephone number: (202) 564–1605; 

email address: chun.melissa@epa.gov. 

For technical information contact: 

Stephen Tomasino, Biological and 

Economic Analysis Division (7503P), 

Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Environmental Science Center, 701 

Mapes Road, Ft. Meade, MD 20755– 

5350; telephone number: (410) 305– 

2976; email address: tomasino.stephen@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general. Although this action may be 

of particular interest to those persons 

who are or may be required to conduct 

testing of pesticides and other chemical 

substances for submission of data to 

EPA under the Toxic Substances 

Control Act (TSCA), 15 U.S.C. 2601 et 

seq., the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, 

and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), 7 U.S.C. 

136 et seq., and/or the Federal Food, 

Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), 21 

U.S.C. 346a, 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 

technical person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

B. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to 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 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 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 

http://www.epa.gov/dockets/

comments.html. 

3. Electronic access to the OCSPP Test 

Guidelines. You may access the 

guidelines in regulations.gov at http://

www.regulations.gov, grouped by series 

under docket ID numbers: EPA–HQ– 

OPPT–2009–0150 through EPA–HQ– 

OPPT–2009–0159, and EPA–HQ–OPPT– 

2009–0576. 

II. Background 

The test guidelines serve as a 

compendium of accepted scientific 

methodologies and protocols that are 

intended to provide data to inform 

regulatory decisions under TSCA, 

FIFRA, and/or FFDCA. The test 

guidelines provide guidance for 

conducting the test, and are also used by 

EPA, the public, and companies that are 

subject to data submission requirements 

under TSCA, FIFRA, and/or FFDCA. 

As guidance documents, the test 

guidelines are not binding on either 

EPA or any outside parties, and EPA 

may depart from the test guidelines 

where circumstances warrant and 

without prior notice. At places in these 

guidance documents, the Agency uses 

the word ‘‘should.’’ In these guidance 

documents, use of ‘‘should’’ with regard 

to an action means that the action is 

recommended rather than mandatory. 

The procedures contained in the test 

guidelines are recommended for 

generating the data that are the subject 

of the test guidelines, but EPA 

recognizes that departures may be 

appropriate in specific situations. You 

may propose alternatives to the 

recommendations described in the test 

guidelines, and the Agency will assess 

them for appropriateness on a case-bycase basis. 

III. What action is EPA taking? 

EPA is making available for comment 

the following 810 Series draft test 

guidelines: OCSPP Test Guideline 

810.2000—General Considerations for 

Testing Antimicrobial Agents, OCSPP 

Test Guideline 810.2100—Sterilants & 

Sporicides Recommendations for 

Efficacy Testing, and OCSPP Test 

Guideline 810.2200—Disinfectants for 

Use on Hard Surfaces—Efficacy Data 

Recommendations. 

The Agency published the notice 

announcing the final test guidelines for 

these product performance testing 

guidelines for antimicrobial agents in 

the Federal Register of March 16, 2012 

(77 FR 15750) (FRL–9332–4). Since 

then, the Agency has received 

information from the users that these 

test guidelines are confusing and in 

some cases, inaccurate. The test 

guidelines have been re-formatted to be 

more user friendly, correct technical 

information, and include updates from 

policy documents published after 2012. 

As noted in section I.B.3 of this notice, 

the public can access the guidelines in 

regulations.gov at http://

www.regulations.gov, grouped by series 

under docket ID numbers: EPA–HQ– 

OPPT–2009–0150 through EPA–HQ– 

OPPT–2009–0159, and EPA–HQ–OPPT– 

2009–0576. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.; 15 U.S.C. 

2601 et seq.; 21 U.S.C. 301 et seq. 

Dated: June 4, 2015. 

James Jones, 

Assistant Administrator, Office of Chemical 

Safety and Pollution Prevention. 

[FR Doc. 2015–14955 Filed 6–16–15; 8:45 am] 

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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE 

CORPORATION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection 

Renewals; Comment Request 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 

(FDIC). 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The FDIC, as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on the renewal of existing 

collections of information, as required 

by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995. On April 10, 2015, (80 FR 19318), 

the FDIC requested comment for 60 days 

on a proposal to renew the following 

collections of information: (1) 

Recordkeeping and Confirmation 

Requirements for Securities 

Transactions (3064–0028); (2) 

Interagency Notice of Change in Director 

or Executive Officer (3064–0097); (3) 

Certification of Compliance with 

Mandatory Bars to Employment (3064– 

0121); (4) Customer Assistance (3064– 

0134); and, (5) Notice Regarding 

Assessment Credits (3064–0151). No 

comments were received. The FDIC 

hereby gives notice of its plan to submit 

to OMB a request to approve the 

renewal of these collections, and again 

invites comment on this renewal. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before July 17, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

invited to submit written comments to 

the FDIC by any of the following 

methods: 

• http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/

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