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types of materials into ocean waters and 

establishes a permit program for ocean 

dumping. In addition the MPRSA 

establishes the Marine Sanctuaries 

Program, implemented by the National 

Oceanographic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA), which requires 

NOAA to designate ocean waters as 

marine sanctuaries for the purpose of 

preserving or restoring their 

conservation, recreational, ecological or 

aesthetic values. Pursuant to the Marine 

Protection and Sanctuaries Act, NOAA 

has not designated any marine 

sanctuaries within the area covered by 

the permit. The permit also prohibits 

discharges to marine sanctuary areas. 

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Management and Conservation Act. 

EPA has determined that reissuance of 

this general permit is not likely to 

adversely affect Essential Fish Habitat 

established under the 1996 amendments 

to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Management and Conservation Act. In a 

letter dated June 17, 2011, National 

Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) 

concurred with the determination that 

issuance of the permit has no adverse 

effect to Essential Fish Habitat. 

Coastal Zone Management Act. EPA 

has determined that the activities which 

are authorized by this permit are 

consistent with the local and state 

Coastal Zone Management Plans. The 

State of Texas issued a letter of 

consistency on January 26, 2012. It 

should be noted that decisions to allow 

oil and gas exploration and production 

in the territorial seas are made by the 

State of Texas and not the EPA. 

State Certification. Under section 

401(a)(1) of the CWA. EPA may not 

issue an NPDES permit until the State 

in which the discharge will originate 

grants or waives certification to ensure 

compliance with appropriate 

requirements of the Act and State law. 

Section 301(b)(1)(C) of the CWA 

requires that NPDES permits contain 

conditions that ensure compliance with 

applicable state water quality standards 

or limitations. The permit contains 

limitations intended to ensure 

compliance with Texas Water Quality 

Standards and the corresponding 

implementation guidance. The Texas 

Railroad Commission issued the 401 

certification on January 26, 2012. 

Paperwork Reduction Act. The 

information collection required by this 

permit has been approved by the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

under the provisions of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., 

and assigned OMB control numbers 

2040–0086 (NPDES permit application) 

and 2040–0004 (discharge monitoring 

reports). 

This reissued permit requires 

reporting and application requirements 

for new facilities to comply with cooling 

water intake structure requirements and 

therefore it requires more reporting 

burdens for new facilities from those 

under the previous general permit. 

Since this permit is very similar in 

reporting and application requirements 

in discharges which are required to be 

monitored as the Western Gulf of 

Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) 

general permit (GMG290000) which also 

has cooling water intake structure 

requirements, the paperwork burdens 

are expected to be nearly identical. EPA 

estimated it would take an affected 

facility three hours to prepare the 

request for coverage and 3 hours per 

month to prepare discharge monitoring 

reports. It is estimated that the time 

required to prepare the request for 

coverage and discharge monitoring 

reports for this permit will be the same. 

A new facility may need more time to 

prepare information for cooling water 

intake structure requirements. This 

permit requires electronic reporting for 

discharge monitoring reports, and it will 

save some reporting time. 

However, the alternative to obtaining 

authorization to discharge under this 

general permit is to obtain an individual 

permit. The burden of obtaining 

authorization to discharge under the 

general permit is expected to be 

significantly less than the burden of 

obtaining an individual permit. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act. The 

Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601 

et seq, requires that EPA prepare a 

regulatory flexibility analysis for 

regulations that have a significant 

impact on a substantial number of small 

entities. The permit renewal issued 

today is not a ‘‘rule’’ subject to the 

Regulatory Flexibility Act. EPA 

prepared a regulatory flexibility 

analysis, however, on the promulgation 

of the Offshore Subcategory guidelines 

on which many of the permit’s effluent 

limitations are based. That analysis has 

shown that issuance of this permit 

would not have a significant impact on 

a substantial number of small entities. 

Authority: Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 

1251 et seq. 

Dated: February 8, 2012. 

William K. Honker, 

Acting Director, Water Quality Protection 

Division, EPA Region 6. 

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AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2012–0040; FRL–9335–5] 

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 scientific issues concerning 

chlorpyrifos health effects. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

April 10–13, 2012, from approximately 

9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 

Comments. The Agency encourages 

that written comments be submitted by 

March 27, 2012, and requests for oral 

comments be submitted by April 3, 

2012. However, written comments and 

requests to make oral comments may be 

submitted until the date of the meeting, 

but anyone submitting written 

comments after March 27, 2012, 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 February 29, 

2012. 

Webcast. This meeting may be 

webcast. Please refer to the FIFRA SAP’s 

Web site, 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: 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–2012–0040, by 

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• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Office of Pesticide Programs 

(OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001. 

• Delivery: OPP Regulatory Public 

Docket (7502P), Environmental 

Protection Agency, Rm. S–4400, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. Deliveries 

are only accepted during the Docket 

Facility ’s normal hours of operation 

(8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays). 

Special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. The 

Docket Facility telephone number is 

(703) 305–5805. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2012– 

0040. 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. EPA’s policy is that all 

comments received will be included in 

the docket without change and may be 

made available on-line at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the 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 regulations.gov or 

email. The 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 comment. 

If you send an email comment directly 

to EPA without going through 

regulations.gov, your email address will 

be automatically captured and included 

as part of the comment that is placed in 

the 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. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the docket index available 

at http://www.regulations.gov. 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 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

is not placed on the Internet and will be 

publicly available only in hard copy 

form. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either in the 

electronic docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or, if only 

available in hard copy, at the OPP 

Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. 

S–4400, One Potomac Yard (South 

Bldg.), 2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, 

VA. The hours of operation of this 

Docket Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 

p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding 

legal holidays. The Docket Facility 

telephone number is (703) 305–5805. 

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 seating 

accommodations, or requests to present 

oral comments to the DFO listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred 

Jenkins, Jr., DFO, Office of Science 

Coordination and Policy (7201M), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

(202) 564–3327; fax number: (202) 564– 

8382; 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), 

FIFRA, and the Food Quality Protection 

Act of 1996 (FQPA). 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. If you have any questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

to a particular entity, consult the DFO 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

B. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for EPA? 

When submitting comments, 

remember to: 

1. Identify the document by docket ID 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

2. Follow directions. The Agency may 

ask you to respond to specific questions 

or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

3. Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

4. Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

5. If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

6. Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns and suggest 

alternatives. 

7. Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

8. Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

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–2012–0040 in 

the subject line on the first page of your 

request. 

1. Written comments. The Agency 

encourages that written comments be 

submitted, using the instructions in 

ADDRESSES, no later than March 27, 

2012, to provide FIFRA SAP the time 

necessary to consider and review the 

written comments. Written comments 

are accepted until the date of the 

meeting, but anyone submitting written 

comments after March 27, 2012, should 

contact the DFO listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Anyone 

submitting written comments at the 

meeting should bring 30 copies for 

distribution to FIFRA SAP. 

2. Oral comments. The Agency 

encourages that 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 no later 

than April 3, 2012, in order 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 (e.g., overhead 

projector, 35 mm projector, chalkboard). 

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limited to approximately 5 minutes 

unless prior arrangements have been 

made. In addition, each speaker should 

bring 30 copies of his or her comments 

and presentation slides for distribution 

to the 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: Cholinergic 

and non-cholinergic mechanisms, 

cholinesterase inhibition, 

developmental neurotoxicity, 

epidemiology (particularly 

reproductive/developmental, 

environmental), exposure assessment of 

pesticides (both residential and 

agricultural worker), human 

biomonitoring data and interpretation of 

such data, human health risk 

assessment, mode of action analysis— 

people with experience with the mode 

of action framework, and 

organophosphate pesticides 

pharmacokinetics. 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, and 

telephone number. Nominations should 

be provided to the DFO listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT on or 

before February 29, 2012. The Agency 

will consider all nominations of 

prospective candidates for this meeting 

that are received on or before this 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 

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 the 

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 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. In 

order to have the collective breadth of 

experience needed to address the 

Agency’s charge for this meeting, the 

Agency anticipates selecting 

approximately 10 ad hoc scientists. 

FIFRA SAP members are subject to 

the provisions of 5 CFR part 2634, 

Executive Branch Financial Disclosure, 

as supplemented by the EPA in 5 CFR 

part 6401. In anticipation of this 

requirement, prospective candidates for 

service on the 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. The 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://epa.gov/scipoly/sap or may 

be obtained from the OPP Regulatory 

Public Docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

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. 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, as 

amended by FQPA, established a 

Science Review Board consisting of at 

least 60 scientists who are available to 

the SAP on an ad hoc basis to assist in 

reviews conducted by the SAP. As a 

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 

Chlorpyrifos (0,0-diethyl-0-3,5,6- 

trichloro-2-pyridyl phosphorothioate) is 

a broad-spectrum, chlorinated 

organophosphate (OP) insecticide. Like 

other OPs, chlorpyrifos binds to and 

phosphorylates the enzyme 

acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in both the 

central (brain) and peripheral nervous 

systems. This can lead to accumulation 

of acetylcholine and, ultimately, at 

sufficiently high doses, to clinical signs 

of toxicity. In 2011, the Agency released 

a preliminary human health risk 

assessment for chlorpyrifos. The focus 

of this assessment was on the 

cholinesterase (ChE) inhibiting potential 

of chlorpyrifos. Consistent with this 

focus, EPA evaluated the extensive 

database of ChE data for multiple 

lifestages and selected points of 

departure (PoDs) based on consideration 

of all quality and reliable data. There is, 

however, a growing body of literature 

with laboratory animals (rats and mice) 

indicating that gestational and/or early 

postnatal exposure to chlorpyrifos may 

cause persistent effects into adulthood. 

The results of both in vivo and in vitro 

studies on chlorpyrifos have led some 

research groups to propose that changes 

in brain connectivity and/or 

neurochemistry may underlie these 

changes into adulthood. In addition, 

there are epidemiology studies 

evaluating pre- and post-natal 

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mother-infant pairs that have reported 

associations with birth outcomes, 

childhood neurobehavioral and 

neurodevelopment outcomes in the 

offspring when evaluated in neonates, 

infants, and young children. 

In 2008, the FIFRA Scientific 

Advisory Panel (SAP) reviewed a draft 

science issue paper on the human 

health effects of chlorpyrifos which 

provided a preliminary review of the 

scientific literature on experimental 

toxicology and epidemiology studies 

available at that time. In 2010, the 

Agency developed a draft ‘‘Framework 

for Incorporating Human Epidemiologic 

& Incident Data in Health Risk 

Assessment’’ which provides the 

conceptual foundation for evaluating 

multiple lines of scientific evidence in 

the context of the understanding of the 

adverse outcome pathway (or mode of 

action). This draft framework uses 

modified Bradford Hill Criteria to 

evaluate the sufficiency of evidence to 

establish key events within a mode of 

action(s) and explicitly considers such 

concepts as strength, consistency, dose 

response, temporal concordance and 

biological plausibility. Since the 2008 

SAP on chlorpyrifos, the Agency has 

performed further analyses on the 

existing and new epidemiology results 

in mothers and children, available 

biomonitoring data, and experimental 

toxicology studies evaluating proposed 

adverse outcome pathways in the 

context of human health risk 

assessment. Specifically, the Agency is 

evaluating available literature on the 

potential for chlorpyrifos to cause long 

term adverse effects from early life 

exposure, in vivo and in vitro studies 

evaluating mechanistic aspects of 

chlorpyrifos, and the potential for 

adverse effects below doses established 

from ChE inhibition that are used for 

regulatory purposes. At this time, the 

Agency is working towards a weight of 

evidence evaluation integrating the 

epidemiology studies with the 

experimental toxicology studies for the 

neurodevelopmental outcomes. This 

analysis is complex and multifaceted as 

it involves different lines of scientific 

evidence (i.e., in vivo and in vitro 

experimental toxicology studies, 

explicit consideration of adverse 

outcome pathways, exposure, 

epidemiology, and biomonitoring data). 

As such, the Agency believes that peer 

review on the status of the current 

analysis is important. 

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 midMarch. 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 electronically, at http:// 

www.regulations.gov and the FIFRA 

SAP homepage 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 

Regulatory Public Docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: February 2, 2012. 

Frank Sanders, 

Director, Office of Science Coordination and 

Policy. 

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AGENCY 

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National Advisory Council for 

Environmental Policy and Technology 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Cancellation and Rescheduling 

of National Advisory Council for 

Environmental Policy and Technology 

(NACEPT) Committee Meeting. 

SUMMARY: EPA announced in the 

Federal Register on January 12, 2012 

[FRL–9617–7] a National Advisory 

Council for Environmental Policy and 

Technology (NACEPT) Meeting to be 

held at the EPA Potomac Yard 

Conference Center, One Potomac Yard, 

2777 S. Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 

22202. Under the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, Public Law 92463, EPA 

gives notice of cancellation and 

rescheduling of that public meeting for 

the National Advisory Council for 

Environmental Policy and Technology 

(NACEPT). NACEPT provides advice to 

the EPA Administrator on a broad range 

of environmental policy, technology, 

and management issues. NACEPT 

members represent academia, industry, 

non-governmental organizations, and 

local, state, and tribal governments. The 

purpose of this meeting is to begin 

developing recommendations to the 

Administrator regarding actions that 

EPA can take in response to the 

National Academy of Sciences Report 

on ‘‘Incorporating Sustainability in the 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.’’ 

A copy of the agenda for the meeting 

will be posted at http:// 

www.epa.govofacmo/nacept/calnacept.htm. 

DATES: NACEPT has cancelled the twoday public meeting scheduled for 

February 13, 2012, from February 14, 

2012. NACEPT will now hold the twoday public meeting on Monday, March 

26, 2012, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (EST) 

and Tuesday, March 27, 2012 from 8:30 

a.m. to 2 p.m. (EST). 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the EPA East Building Room 1153, 1201 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20004. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mark Joyce, Acting Designated Federal 

Officer, joyce.mark@epa.gov, (202) 564– 

2130, U.S. EPA, Office of Federal 

Advisory Committee Management and 

Outreach (1601M), 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Requests 

to make oral comments or to provide 

written comments for the March 26–27, 

2012, NACEPT meeting should be sent 

to Eugene Green at 

green.eugene@epa.gov by Monday, 

March 19, 2012. The meeting is open to 

the public, with limited seating 

available on a first-come, first-served 

basis. Members of the public wishing to 

attend should contact Eugene Green at 

green.eugene@epa.gov or (202) 564– 

2432 by March 19, 2012. 

Meeting Access: Information regarding 

accessibility and/or accommodations for 

individuals with disabilities should be 

directed to Eugene Green at the email 

address or phone number listed above. 

To ensure adequate time for processing, 

please make requests for 

accommodations at least 10 days prior 

to the meeting. 

Dated: February 7, 2012. 

Mark Joyce, 

Acting Designated Federal Officer. 

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