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c. FERC Contact: Quinn Emmering at 

(202) 502–6382 or quinn.emmering@

ferc.gov. 

d. Purpose of Meeting: To discuss the 

need for additional studies related to 

aquatic and fisheries resources on Pole 

Creek (one of three water sources 

diverted for the project) for our 

environmental analysis as part of the 

relicensing process for the Uintah 

Project. 

e. The technical conference will be 

recorded by a stenographer and will be 

placed in the public records of the 

project. 

f. All local, state, and federal agencies, 

Indian tribes, and other interested 

parties are invited to participate either 

in person or by telephone. Please 

contact Quinn Emmering at (202) 502– 

6382 or by email at quinn.emmering@

ferc.gov by 4:00 p.m. (Eastern), 

September 20, 2018, to receive specific 

instructions on how to participate by 

telephone or have any questions. 

g. In addition, Moon Lake Electric 

Association, Inc. (Moon Lake) and FERC 

staff will conduct an environmental site 

review of the project on Tuesday, 

September 25, 2018, starting at 9:00 a.m. 

(MDT). All interested individuals, 

organizations, and agencies are invited 

to attend. The Uintah Project is located 

approximately 15 miles north of Neola, 

Utah. 

h. For the environmental site review, 

Moon Lake has made arrangements to 

provide transportation for participants 

from The Church of Jesus Christ of 

Latter-Day Saints parking lot located at 

2062 W 9000N, Neola, Utah 84053 (at 

intersection with 2000W). Please note 

that the project tour is expected to take 

4 hours, at minimum. No lunch is 

provided and food services in the Neola 

area are limited. Participants should 

make their own arrangements to bring 

food and beverages. Participants should 

dress appropriately for fall weather 

outdoors and wear hiking boots or 

similar footwear. Please RSVP Pat Corun 

at (435) 722–5406 or by email at 

pcorun@mleainc.com on or before 

September 14, 2018, if you plan to 

attend the environmental site review or 

have any questions. 

Dated: August 30, 2018. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9983–39–OA] 

Notification of a Public Teleconference 

of the Chartered Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA), Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) Staff Office announces a public 

teleconference of the Chartered SAB to: 

Conduct two quality reviews of the draft 

SAB Review of EPA’s Draft 

Toxicological Review of Ethyl Tertiary 

Butyl Ether and Draft Toxicological 

Review of tert-Butyl Alcohol; and the 

draft SAB review of the EPA’s 

Framework for Assessing Biogenic CO2

Emissions from Stationary Sources 

(2014); and receive updates on current 

SAB projects and future topics from the 

EPA. 

DATES: The teleconference will be held 

on Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 

from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Eastern 

Time). 

ADDRESSES: The public teleconference 

will be held by telephone only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing to obtain 

information concerning the public 

teleconference may contact Mr. Thomas 

Carpenter, 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/voice mail at (202) 564–4885 

or at carpenter.thomas@epa.gov. 

General information about the SAB, as 

well as any updates concerning the 

meeting announced in this notice, may 

be found on the EPA website at http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SAB 

was established pursuant to the 

Environmental Research, Development, 

and Demonstration Authorization Act 

(ERDDAA), codified at 42 U.S.C. 4365, 

to provide independent scientific and 

technical advice to the Administrator on 

the scientific and 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 will 

hold a public teleconference to discuss 

and deliberate on the topics below. 

Quality Review of the draft SAB 

Review of EPA’s Draft Assessments 

titled Toxicological Review of Ethyl 

Tertiary Butyl Ether and Toxicological 

Review of tert-Butyl Alcohol (tertButanol): National Center for 

Environmental Assessment (NCEA) in 

the EPA’s Office of Research and 

Development (ORD) develops 

toxicological reviews/assessments for 

various chemicals for the Integrated 

Risk Information System and requested 

that the SAB conduct a peer review of 

the two EPA draft assessments. NCEA is 

developing a draft Toxicological Review 

of tert-Butyl Alcohol (tert-butanol) and 

Toxicological Review of Ethyl Tertiary 

Butyl Ether (ETBE). These two draft 

EPA documents represent new IRIS 

assessments of tert-butanol and ETBE. 

Experimental animal data and other 

relevant data from studies of the 

noncancer and cancer effects of tertbutanol and ETBE are evaluated in these 

assessments. These assessments include 

an oral reference dose (RfD) and 

inhalation reference concentration (RfC) 

for noncancer effects as well as a cancer 

assessment. The cancer assessments 

characterize tert-butanol and ETBE as 

having suggestive evidence of 

carcinogenic potential to humans and 

include oral cancer slope factors for 

both compounds and an inhalation unit 

risk for ETBE. The EPA SAB Staff Office 

augmented the SAB CAAC with subject 

matter experts, to provide advice to the 

Administrator through the chartered 

SAB regarding these assessments. 

Background on the current advisory 

activity can be found on the SAB 

website at: https://yosemite.epa.gov/ 

sab/sabpeople.nsf/WebCommittees/ 

BOARD. 

Quality review of a draft SAB review 

report on the Framework for Assessing 

Biogenic CO2 Emissions from Stationary 

Sources: In 2012, the SAB completed a 

review of the first draft accounting 

framework addressing scientific and 

technical issues associated with 

biogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) 

emissions, Accounting Framework for 

Biogenic CO2 Emissions from Stationary 

Sources (September 2011). The EPA 

subsequently revised the 2011 

framework and requested the SAB to 

conduct a review of the Framework for 

Assessing Biogenic CO2 Emissions from 

Stationary Sources (November 2014). 

The purpose of the 2014 framework is 

to develop a method for calculating the 

adjustment, or Biogenic Assessment 

Factor (BAF), for carbon emissions 

associated with the combustion of 

biogenic feedstocks considering the 

biological carbon cycle effects 

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and processing. The SAB conducted two 

previous quality reviews and identified 

revisions to the draft reports in order to 

clarify the recommendations and in 

some cases to reframe them to ensure 

they are not policy prescriptive. This 

report is a product of SAB’s direct 

efforts and utilizes portions of the draft 

reports. Previous drafts of the panel’s 

report are retained on the SAB website. 

Background on the current advisory 

activity, Biogenic Carbon Dioxide 

Emissions from Stationary Sources— 

Assessment Framework can be found on 

the SAB website at http://yosemite.epa.

gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_

activites/Biogenic%20CO2%20

Framework?OpenDocument. 

Briefings and updates. The SAB will 

receive updates from SAB members on 

the current activities of committees and 

panels developing advisory reports and 

briefings on future topics from the EPA 

staff. 

Pursuant to FACA and EPA policy, 

notice is hereby given that the Chartered 

SAB will hold a public teleconference to 

discuss information provided by the 

EPA on these topics. The Chartered SAB 

will comply with the provisions of 

FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff 

Office procedural policies. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: 

Prior to the meeting, the review 

documents, agenda and other materials 

will be accessible on the SAB website at 

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

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Public comment for consideration by 

the EPA’s federal advisory committees 

and panels has a different purpose from 

public comment provided to the 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. Members of the 

public can submit comments for a 

federal advisory committee to consider 

as it develops advice for the 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 SAB to consider 

during the advisory process. Input from 

the public to the SAB will have the most 

impact if it provides specific scientific 

or technical information or analysis for 

SAB to consider or if it relates to the 

clarity or accuracy of the technical 

information. Members of the public 

wishing to provide comment should 

follow the instructions below to submit 

comments. 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. Thomas Carpenter, 

DFO, in writing (preferably via email) at 

the contact information noted above by 

September 19, 2018, 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 

September 19, 2018, so that the 

information may be made available to 

the SAB 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. Members of 

the public should be aware that their 

personal contact information, if 

included in any written comments, may 

be posted to the SAB website. 

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. Thomas 

Carpenter at the contact information 

provided above. To request 

accommodation of a disability, please 

contact Mr. Carpenter preferably at least 

ten days prior to each meeting to give 

the EPA as much time as possible to 

process your request. 

Dated: August 30, 2018. 

Khanna Johnston, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Staff 

Office. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2003–0085; FRL–9983–45– 

OAR] 

Proposed Information Collection 

Request; Comment Request; NESHAP 

for Radionuclides (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is planning to submit an 

information collection request (ICR), 

‘‘NESHAP for Radionuclides (Renewal)’’ 

(EPA ICR No. 1100.16, OMB Control No. 

2060–0191) to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for review and 

approval in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act. Before doing 

so, the EPA is soliciting public 

comments on specific aspects of the 

proposed information collection as 

described below. This is a proposed 

extension of the ICR, which is currently 

approved through March 31, 2019. 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: Comments must be submitted on 

or before November 5, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2003–0085, online using 

www.regulations.gov (our preferred 

method), by email to [a-and-r-Docket@

epa.gov], or by mail to: EPA Docket 

Center, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460. 

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: 

Jonathan P. Walsh, Radiation Protection 

Division, Office of Radiation and Indoor 

Air, Mail Code 6608T, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone number: 202–343–9238; fax 

number: 202–343–2304; email address: 

walsh.jonathan@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. 

Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act, EPA is 

soliciting comments and information to 

enable it to: (i) Evaluate whether the 

proposed collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the Agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (ii) evaluate the 

accuracy of the Agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 


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