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lines, providing support to Agency 

enforcement activities, providing library 

services, compiling data, and providing 

support in scientific, engineering, 

financial and other areas. 

In performing these tasks, grantees 

and cooperators under the SEE Program 

and their enrollees may have access to 

potentially all documents submitted 

under the Clean Air Act (CAA), the 

Clean Water Act (CWA), the Safe 

Drinking Water Act (SDWA), the 

Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act (RCRA), the Federal Insecticide, 

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 

(FIFRA), the Emergency Planning 

Community Right-to-Know Act 

(EPCRA), the Federal Food, Drug, and 

Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) and the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act (CERCLA), to the extent that these 

statues allow disclosure of confidential 

information to ‘‘authorized 

representatives of the United States’’ or 

to ‘‘contractors.’’ Some of these 

documents may contain information 

claimed as confidential. 

EPA provides confidential 

information to enrollees working under 

the following cooperative agreements: 

Cooperative agreement number Organization 

National Association for Hispanic Elderly 

(NAHE) 

Q–835398 ....................................... NAHE 

Q–835418 ....................................... NAHE 

QS–835429 .................................... NAHE 

Q–835445 ....................................... NAHE 

National Asian Pacific Center on Aging 

(NAPCA) 

Q–835376 ....................................... NAPCA 

QS–835428 .................................... NAPCA 

National Caucus and Center on Black 

Aged, Inc. (NCBA) 

Q–834571 ....................................... NCBA 

Q–835019 ....................................... NCBA 

Q–835021 ....................................... NCBA 

Q–835427 ....................................... NCBA 

Q–835446 ....................................... NCBA 

Q–835561 ....................................... NCBA 

Q–835562 ....................................... NCBA 

Q–835563 ....................................... NCBA 

Q–835580 ....................................... NCBA 

Q–835587 ....................................... NCBA 

National Council on the Aging, Inc. (NCOA) 

Q–835387 ....................................... NCOA 

Q–835566 ....................................... NCOA 

Senior Service America, Inc. (SSAI) 

Q–835372 ....................................... SSAI 

Q–835373 ....................................... SSAI 

Cooperative agreement number Organization 

Q–835430 ....................................... SSAI 

Q–835452 ....................................... SSAI 

Q–835572 ....................................... SSAI 

Among the procedures established by 

EPA confidentiality regulations for 

granting access to confidential business 

information is notification to the 

submitters of CBI that SEE-grantee 

organizations and their enrollees will 

have access to this information. See 40 

CFR 2.301(h)(2)(iii) for information 

submitted under the CAA, 40 CFR 

350.23 for EPCRA, and corresponding 

provisions of 40 CFR 2.302–2.311, for 

other statutes listed above. This 

document is intended to fulfill that 

requirement. 

The grantee organizations are required 

by the cooperative agreements to protect 

confidential information. SEE enrollees 

are required to sign confidentiality 

agreements and to adhere to the same 

security procedures as Federal 

employees. 

Dated: April 9, 2014. 

Susan Street, 

SEE Program Manager. 

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0288] 

Notice of Availability of the Framework 

for Human Health Risk Assessment To 

Inform Decision Making 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is announcing the release 

of the Framework for Human Health 

Risk Assessment to Inform Decision 

Making. This document was developed 

by the EPA’s Risk Assessment Forum 

and describes a Framework for 

conducting human health risk 

assessments that are responsive to the 

needs of Agency decision making. The 

document was developed to provide 

information to Agency staff and 

managers, external stakeholders, and the 

public. 

DATES: The document will be available 

for use by EPA risk assessors and other 

interested parties on April 15, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: The Risk Assessment Forum 

Framework for Human Health Risk 

Assessment to Inform Decision Making 

is available electronically through the 

EPA Web site at http://www.epa.gov/raf/ 

frameworkhhra.htm. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie 

Fitzpatrick, Office of the Science 

Advisor, Mail Code 8105–R, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 

564–4212; fax number: (202) 564–2070, 

Email: fitzpatrick.julie@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has 

an established history of conducting 

human health risk assessments to 

support its decision making. The 

Framework describes a process for 

conducting human health risk 

assessments that is responsive to EPA’s 

decision-making needs. The Framework 

facilitates implementation of existing 

and future EPA guidance for conducting 

human health risk assessments and 

improves the utility of risk assessment 

in the decision-making process. The risk 

assessment design and utility 

recommendations presented in the 

National Research Council’s report, 

Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk 

Assessment, are addressed throughout 

the Framework. Specifically, the 

Framework incorporates the 

recommendations that the EPA 

formalize and implement planning and 

scoping, and problem formulation in the 

risk assessment process as well as adopt 

a framework for informing decisions. 

The Framework highlights the 

important roles of planning and scoping 

as well as problem formulation in 

designing a risk assessment that will 

serve a specific purpose. In accordance 

with longstanding EPA policy, it also 

emphasizes the importance of scientific 

review and public involvement. The 

Framework presents the concept of ‘‘fit 

for purpose’’ to address to the 

development of risk assessments and 

associated products that are suitable and 

useful for informing decisions. EPA 

expects that this Framework will 

enhance the agency’s emphasis on the 

importance of transparency of the 

human health risk assessment and 

decision making. 

This document is not intended to 

supersede existing agency guidance; 

rather by citing and discussing existing 

guidance in the context of the 

Framework it is intended to foster 

increased implementation of agency 

guidance. 

Dated: April 8, 2014. 

Glenn Paulson, 

Science Advisor. 

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