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External Review Draft—January 2015) 

should be directed to Dr. Molini Patel 

(patel.molini@epa.gov), EPA Office of 

Research and Development, and 

technical questions concerning the 

Review of the National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards for Nitrogen Dioxide: 

Risk and Exposure Assessment Planning 

Document should be directed to Dr. 

Scott Jenkins (jenkins.scott@epa.gov), 

EPA Office of Air and Radiation. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: 

Prior to the meeting, the review 

documents, agenda and other materials 

will be accessible through the calendar 

link on the blue navigation bar at 

http://www.epa.gov/casac/. 

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 EPA. Members of the public 

can submit comments for a federal 

advisory committee to consider as it 

develops advice for EPA. Interested 

members of the public may submit 

relevant written or oral information on 

the topic of this advisory activity, and/ 

or the group conducting the activity, for 

the CASAC to consider during the 

advisory process. Input from the public 

to the CASAC will have the most impact 

if it provides specific scientific or 

technical information or analysis for 

CASAC panels 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 

on a public teleconference will be 

limited to three minutes. Each person 

making an oral statement should 

consider providing written comments as 

well as their oral statement so that the 

points presented orally can be expanded 

upon in writing. Interested parties 

should contact Mr. Aaron Yeow, DFO, 

in writing (preferably via email) at the 

contact information noted above by 

August 6, 2015 to be placed on the list 

of public speakers. Written Statements: 

Written statements should be supplied 

to the DFO via email at the contact 

information noted above by August 6, 

2015 so that the information may be 

made available to the Panel members for 

their consideration. It is the SAB Staff 

Office general policy to post written 

comments on the Web page for the 

advisory meeting or teleconference. 

Submitters are requested to provide an 

unsigned version of each document 

because the SAB Staff Office does not 

publish documents with signatures on 

its Web sites. Members of the public 

should be aware that their personal 

contact information, if included in any 

written comments, may be posted to the 

CASAC Web site. Copyrighted material 

will not be posted without explicit 

permission of the copyright holder. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Mr. Aaron 

Yeow at (202) 564–2050 or yeow.aaron@

epa.gov. To request accommodation of a 

disability, please contact Mr. Yeow 

preferably at least ten days prior to each 

meeting to give EPA as much time as 

possible to process your request. 

Dated: July 14, 2015. 

Thomas H. Brennan, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Staff 

Office. 

[FR Doc. 2015–17849 Filed 7–20–15; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2015–0424; FRL–9929–50] 

FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; 

Notice of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: There will be a 4–day meeting 

of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, 

and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory 

Panel (FIFRA SAP) to consider and 

review Development of a Spatial 

Aquatic Model (SAM) for Pesticide Risk 

Assessment. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

September 15–18, 2015, from 

approximately 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Comments. The Agency encourages 

written comments be submitted on or 

before September 1, 2015, and requests 

for oral comments be submitted on or 

before September 8, 2015. However, 

written comments and requests to make 

oral comments may be submitted until 

the date of the meeting, but anyone 

submitting written comments after 

September 1, 2015, should contact the 

Designated Federal Official (DFO) listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. For additional instructions, 

see Unit I.C. of the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. 

Nominations. Nominations of 

candidates to serve as ad hoc members 

of FIFRA SAP for this meeting should 

be provided on or before August 5, 

2015. 

Webcast. This meeting may be 

webcast. Please refer to the FIFRA SAP 

Web site at http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/ 

sap for information on how to access the 

webcast. Please note that the webcast is 

a supplementary public process 

provided only for convenience. If 

difficulties arise resulting in webcasting 

outages, the meeting will continue as 

planned. 

Special accommodations. For 

information on access or services for 

individuals with disabilities, and to 

request accommodation of a disability, 

please contact the DFO listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT at least 

10 days prior to the meeting to give EPA 

as much time as possible to process 

your request. 

ADDRESSES: Meeting: The meeting will 

be held at the Environmental Protection 

Agency, Conference Center, Lobby 

Level, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 

2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA 

22202. 

Comments. Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2015–0424, 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. 

Additional instructions on 

commenting or visiting the docket, 

along with more information about 

dockets generally, is available at http:// 

www.epa.gov/dockets. 

Nominations, requests to present oral 

comments, and requests for special 

accommodations: Submit nominations 

to serve as ad hoc members of FIFRA 

SAP, requests for special 

accommodations, or requests to present 

oral comments to the DFO listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred 

Jenkins, DFO, Office of Science 

Coordination and Policy (7201M), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 


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(202) 564–3327; email address: 

jenkins.fred@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general. This action may, however, be 

of interest to persons who are or may be 

required to conduct testing of chemical 

substances under the Federal Food, 

Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) and 

FIFRA. Since other entities may also be 

interested, the Agency has not 

attempted to describe all the specific 

entities that may be affected by this 

action. 

B. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit CBI 

information to EPA through 

regulations.gov or email. If your 

comments contain any information that 

you consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected, please contact the DFO listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT to obtain special instructions 

before submitting your comments. 

2. Tips for preparing your comments. 

When preparing and submitting your 

comments, see the commenting tips at 

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

comments.html. 

C. How may I participate in this 

meeting? 

You may participate in this meeting 

by following the instructions in this 

unit. To ensure proper receipt by EPA, 

it is imperative that you identify docket 

ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2015–0424 in 

the subject line on the first page of your 

request. 

1. Written comments. The Agency 

encourages written comments be 

submitted, using the instructions in 

ADDRESSES and Unit I.B., on or before 

September 1, 2015, to provide FIFRA 

SAP the time necessary to consider and 

review the written comments. Written 

comments are accepted until the date of 

the meeting; however, anyone 

submitting written comments after 

September 1, 2015, should contact the 

DFO listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. Anyone 

submitting written comments at the 

meeting should bring 20 copies for 

distribution to FIFRA SAP. 

2. Oral comments. The Agency 

encourages each individual or group 

wishing to make brief oral comments to 

FIFRA SAP submit their request to the 

DFO listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT on or before 

September 8, 2015, to be included on 

the meeting agenda. Requests to present 

oral comments will be accepted until 

the date of the meeting and, to the 

extent that time permits, the Chair of 

FIFRA SAP may permit the presentation 

of oral comments at the meeting by 

interested persons who have not 

previously requested time. The request 

should identify the name of the 

individual making the presentation, the 

organization (if any) the individual will 

represent, and any requirements for 

audiovisual equipment. Oral comments 

before FIFRA SAP are limited to 

approximately 5 minutes unless prior 

arrangements have been made. In 

addition, each speaker should bring 20 

copies of his or her comments and 

presentation for distribution to FIFRA 

SAP at the meeting. 

3. Seating at the meeting. Seating at 

the meeting will be open and on a firstcome basis. 

4. Request for nominations to serve as 

ad hoc members of FIFRA SAP for this 

meeting. As part of a broader process for 

developing a pool of candidates for each 

meeting, FIFRA SAP staff routinely 

solicits the stakeholder community for 

nominations of prospective candidates 

for service as ad hoc members of FIFRA 

SAP. Any interested person or 

organization may nominate qualified 

individuals to be considered as 

prospective candidates for a specific 

meeting. Individuals nominated for this 

meeting should have expertise in one or 

more of the following areas: Aquatic 

Exposure Modeling, Pesticide Fate and 

Transport Modeling, Surface Water 

Hydrology, Watershed Modeling, Water 

Quality Modeling, Stream Transport 

Modeling, Geographic Information 

Systems (GIS), Agronomic Practices, 

Crop Growth Modeling, Climate 

Modeling. Nominees should be 

scientists who have sufficient 

professional qualifications, including 

training and experience, to be capable of 

providing expert comments on the 

scientific issues for this meeting. 

Nominees should be identified by name, 

occupation, position, address, email 

address, and telephone number. 

Nominations should be provided to the 

DFO listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT on or before 

August 5, 2015. The Agency will 

consider all nominations of prospective 

candidates for this meeting that are 

received on or before that date. 

However, final selection of ad hoc 

members for this meeting is a 

discretionary function of the Agency. 

The selection of scientists to serve on 

the FIFRA SAP is based on the function 

of the Panel and the expertise needed to 

address the Agency’s charge to the 

Panel. No interested scientists shall be 

ineligible to serve by reason of their 

membership on any other advisory 

committee to a Federal department or 

agency or their employment by a 

Federal department or agency, except 

EPA. Other factors considered during 

the selection process include 

availability of the potential Panel 

member to fully participate in the 

Panel’s reviews, absence of any conflicts 

of interest or appearance of lack of 

impartiality, independence with respect 

to the matters under review, and lack of 

bias. Although financial conflicts of 

interest, the appearance of lack of 

impartiality, lack of independence, and 

bias may result in disqualification, the 

absence of such concerns does not 

assure that a candidate will be selected 

to serve on the FIFRA SAP. Numerous 

qualified candidates are identified for 

each Panel. Therefore, selection 

decisions involve carefully weighing a 

number of factors including the 

candidates’ areas of expertise and 

professional qualifications and 

achieving an overall balance of different 

scientific perspectives on the Panel. The 

Agency anticipates selecting 

approximately eight ad hoc scientists to 

have the collective breadth of 

experience needed to address the 

Agency’s charge for this meeting, 

FIFRA SAP members are subject to 

the provisions of 5 CFR part 2634— 

Executive Branch Financial Disclosure, 

Qualified Trusts, and Certificates of 

Divestiture, as supplemented by EPA in 

5 CFR part 6401. In anticipation of this 

requirement, prospective candidates for 

service on FIFRA SAP will be asked to 

submit confidential financial 

information which shall fully disclose, 

among other financial interests, the 

candidate’s employment, stocks, and 

bonds, and where applicable, sources of 

research support. EPA will evaluate the 

candidates financial disclosure form to 

assess whether there are financial 

conflicts of interest, appearance of a 

lack of impartiality, or any prior 

involvement with the development of 

the documents under consideration 

(including previous scientific peer 

review) before the candidate is 

considered further for service on FIFRA 

SAP. Those who are selected from the 

pool of prospective candidates will be 

asked to attend the public meetings and 

to participate in the discussion of key 

issues and assumptions at these 

meetings. In addition, they will be asked 

to review and to help finalize the 

meeting minutes. The list of FIFRA SAP 

members participating at this meeting 

will be posted on the FIFRA SAP Web 

site at http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/sap 

or may be obtained from the OPP Docket 

at http://www.regulations.gov. 


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II. Background 

A. Purpose of FIFRA SAP 

FIFRA SAP serves as the primary 

scientific peer review mechanism of 

EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and 

Pollution Prevention (OCSPP) and is 

structured to provide scientific advice, 

information and recommendations to 

the EPA Administrator on pesticides 

and pesticide-related issues as to the 

impact of regulatory actions on health 

and the environment. FIFRA SAP is a 

Federal advisory committee established 

in 1975 under FIFRA that operates in 

accordance with requirements of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 

U.S.C. Appendix). FIFRA SAP is 

composed of a permanent panel 

consisting of seven members who are 

appointed by the EPA Administrator 

from nominees provided by the National 

Institutes of Health and the National 

Science Foundation. FIFRA established 

a Science Review Board (SRB) 

consisting of at least 60 scientists who 

are available to FIFRA SAP on an ad hoc 

basis to assist in reviews conducted by 

FIFRA SAP. As a scientific peer review 

mechanism, FIFRA SAP provides 

comments, evaluations, and 

recommendations to improve the 

effectiveness and quality of analyses 

made by Agency scientists. Members of 

FIFRA SAP are scientists who have 

sufficient professional qualifications, 

including training and experience, to 

provide expert advice and 

recommendation to the Agency. 

B. Public Meeting 

The USEPA Office of Pesticide 

Programs (OPP) conducts aquatic 

exposure assessments to determine 

whether pesticides that are applied 

according to label directions can result 

in water concentrations that may 

adversely impact human health or 

aquatic organisms. If estimated aquatic 

exposures indicate a potential for 

adverse effects, the assessment needs to 

characterize the likelihood of 

occurrence, including the range in 

magnitude of exposure, the frequency of 

exceeding toxicity thresholds, the 

location of likely exposures, and the 

potential for exposure to populations at 

risk. 

The goal of SAM is to improve on 

OPP’s existing aquatic exposure 

assessments by providing more 

systematic spatial- and temporal 

contexts for aquatic exposure 

assessments for both human health 

(drinking water) and aquatic organisms. 

Such context is needed to address 

common risk management questions 

regarding the likelihood of the exposure 

that may exceed toxicity thresholds of 

concern and, should such exposures 

occur, how often, how long, and where 

adverse impacts from pesticides in 

water overlap with populations at risk. 

Though much of SAM is based upon 

OPP’s traditional water models (i.e., 

Surface Water Concentration Calculator 

[SWCC] comprised of the Pesticide Root 

Zone Model version 5 [PRZM5] and 

Variable Volume Water Model 

[VVWM]), the model is new in its 

spatial approach to modeling the fate 

and transport of pesticides and has been 

optimized for speed and efficiency. 

C. FIFRA SAP Documents and Meeting 

Minutes 

EPA’s background paper, related 

supporting materials, charge/questions 

to FIFRA SAP, FIFRA SAP composition 

(i.e., members and ad hoc members for 

this meeting), and the meeting agenda 

will be available by approximately midAugust. In addition, the Agency may 

provide additional background 

documents as the materials become 

available. You may obtain electronic 

copies of these documents, and certain 

other related documents that might be 

available at http://www.regulations.gov 

and the FIFRA SAP Web site at http:// 

www.epa.gov/scipoly/sap. 

FIFRA SAP will prepare meeting 

minutes summarizing its 

recommendations to the Agency 

approximately 90 days after the 

meeting. The meeting minutes will be 

posted on the FIFRA SAP Web site or 

may be obtained from the OPP Docket 

at http://www.regulations.gov. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et. seq.; 21 U.S.C. 

301 et seq. 

Dated: July 7, 2015. 

David J. Dix, 

Director, Office of Science Coordination and 

Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2015–17854 Filed 7–20–15; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9930–97–Region 3] 

Delegation of Authority To Implement 

and Enforce Outer Continental Shelf 

Air Regulations to the Maryland 

Department of the Environment 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of delegation of 

authority. 

SUMMARY: On April 4, 2014, the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

sent the Maryland Department of the 

Environment (MDE) a letter 

acknowledging MDE has been delegated 

the authority to implement and enforce 

sections of the Outer Continental Shelf 

(OCS) Air Regulations. To inform 

regulated facilities and the public of 

MDE’s delegation of authority to 

implement and enforce OCS regulations, 

EPA is making available a copy of EPA’s 

letter to MDE through this notice. 

DATES: On April 4, 2014, EPA sent MDE 

a letter acknowledging MDE has been 

delegated the authority to implement 

and enforce OCS Regulations. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of documents 

pertaining to this action are available for 

public inspection during normal 

business hours at the Air Protection 

Division, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch Street, 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103– 

2029. Copies of the State submittal are 

available at the Maryland Department of 

the Environment, 1800 Washington 

Boulevard, Suite 705, Baltimore, 

Maryland 21230. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cathleen Kennedy Van Osten, (215) 

814–2746, or by email at 

vanosten.cathleen@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

January 8, 2014, MDE requested 

delegation of authority to implement, 

administer, and enforce Title 40 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations, Part 55 

(Outer Continental Shelf Air 

Regulations). On April 4, 2014, EPA 

sent MDE a letter acknowledging that 

MDE has been delegated the authority to 

implement and enforce OCS regulations. 

A copy of EPA’s letter to MDE follows: 

‘‘The Honorable Robert M. Summers, 

Secretary 

Maryland Department of the Environment 

1800 Washington Boulevard 

Baltimore, Maryland 21230 

Dear Secretary Summers: 

Thank you for your January 8, 2014 letter 

to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA) requesting formal delegation of 

authority for the implementation, 

administration, and enforcement of the 

requirements of the Outer Continental Shelf 

(OCS) regulations within 25 miles of 

Maryland’s seaward boundary. In response, 

EPA intends to grant the Maryland 

Department of the Environment (MDE) 

formal delegation of authority to implement 

and enforce OCS Regulations, pursuant to 

section 328(a)(3) of the Clean Air Act. As 

established in the Code of Federal 

Regulations, Title 40, Part 55 (40 CFR part 

55), EPA will delegate implementation and 

enforcement authority to a state if the state 

has an adjacent OCS source, and EPA 

determines that the state’s regulations are 

adequate. EPA has determined that 

delegation to a state shall be immediately 

effective upon EPA’s receipt of a notice of 

intent (NOI) to construct an OCS source to be 

adjacent to that state. 


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