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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2018–0605; FRL–9983–09] 

Request for Nominations of Experts To 

Consider for ad hoc Participation and 

Possible Membership on the Toxic 

Substances Control Act (TSCA), 

Science Advisory Committee on 

Chemicals (SACC) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA requests public 

nominations of scientific experts to be 

considered for ad hoc participation and 

possible membership on the Toxic 

Substances Control Act (TSCA) Science 

Advisory Committee on Chemicals 

(SACC). All nominees will be 

considered for ad hoc participation in 

the TSCA SACC’s peer reviews of the 

EPA’s risk evaluations for the first 10 

chemical substances addressed under 

the TSCA. In addition, all nominees 

may be considered for TSCA SACC 

membership to fulfill short term needs 

when a vacancy occurs on the chartered 

Committee. 

DATES: Nominations. Nominations 

should be provided to the Designated 

Federal Official (DFO) listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT on or 

before October 29, 2018. 

For additional instructions, see Unit 

I.B. of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Todd Peterson, DFO, Office of Science 

Coordination and Policy (7201M), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460–0001; telephone number: (202) 

564–6428; email address: 

peterson.todd@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 and risk 

evaluations of chemical substances 

under the Toxic Substances Control Act 

(TSCA). 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 nominations for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit CBI 

information to EPA through 

regulations.gov or email. If your 

nomination contains 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 nomination. 

2. Request for nominations to be 

considered for ad hoc participation and 

possible membership on the TSCA 

SACC. As part of a broader process for 

developing a pool of candidates, OSCP 

staff solicits from the public and 

stakeholder communities nominations 

of prospective candidates for service as 

ad hoc reviewers and possibly members 

of TSCA SACC. Any interested person 

or organization may nominate qualified 

individuals to be considered as 

prospective candidates. Individuals may 

self-nominate. Individuals nominated 

should have expertise in one or more of 

the following areas: Women’s health; 

children’s health; genetic variability; 

disproportionately exposed populations; 

aging; other susceptible populations; 

biochemistry; chemistry; epidemiology; 

human health risk assessment; 

pathology; PBPK modeling; 

pharmacology; ecological risk 

assessment; environmental fate; 

environmental toxicology; occupational, 

consumer, and general exposure 

assessment; toxicology; dose response 

modeling; environmental engineering; 

biostatistics; computational toxicology; 

fiber science; inhalation toxicology; 

volatile organics; and systematic review. 

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 a TSCA 

SACC 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 October 29, 2018. The Agency 

will consider all nominations of 

prospective candidates for service as ad 

hoc reviewers and possibly members of 

the TSCA SACC that are received on or 

before that date. However, final 

selection of ad hoc participants and 

members is at the discretion of the 

Agency. 

The selection of scientists to serve as 

ad hoc reviewers and members of the 

TSCA SACC is based on the function of 

the Committee and the expertise needed 

to address the Agency’s charge to the 

Committee. 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 prospective candidate 

to fully participate in the Committee’s 

reviews, absence of any conflicts of 

interest or appearance of loss of 

impartiality, independence with respect 

to the matters under review, and lack of 

bias. Although financial conflicts of 

interest, the appearance of loss 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 TSCA SACC. Often, 

numerous available and qualified 

candidates are identified for ad hoc 

participation and membership. 

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 

Committee. 

TSCA SACC 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 TSCA SACC 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 forms to 

assess whether there are financial 

conflicts of interest, appearance of a loss 

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 TSCA SACC. 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 ad hoc reviewers 

and TSCA SACC members participating 

at each meeting will be posted on the 

TSCA SACC website at http://

www.epa.gov/tsca-peer-review or may 

be obtained from the OPPT Docket at 

http://www.regulations.gov. 

II. Background 

A. Purpose of TSCA SACC 

The Science Advisory Committee on 

Chemicals (SACC) was established by 

EPA in 2016 under the authority of the 

Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for 

the 21st Century Act, Public Law 114– 


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182, 140 Stat. 448 (2016), and operates 

in accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA) of 

1972. The SACC supports activities 

under the Toxic Substances Control Act 

(TSCA), 15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq., the 

Pollution Prevention Act (PPA), 42 

U.S.C. 13101 et seq., and other 

applicable statutes. The SACC provides 

independent scientific advice and 

recommendations to the EPA on the 

scientific and technical aspects of risk 

assessments, methodologies, and 

pollution prevention measures and 

approaches for chemicals regulated 

under TSCA. 

The SACC is comprised of experts in: 

Toxicology; environmental risk 

assessment; exposure assessment; and 

related sciences (e.g., synthetic biology, 

pharmacology, biotechnology, 

nanotechnology, biochemistry, 

biostatistics, PBPK modeling, 

computational toxicology, 

epidemiology, environmental fate, and 

environmental engineering and 

sustainability). The SACC currently 

consists of 26 members. When needed, 

the committee will be assisted in their 

reviews by ad hoc reviewers with 

specific expertise in the topics under 

consideration. 

At this time, EPA is seeking 

nominations to create a pool of experts 

who can be available to the SACC to 

assist in reviews conducted by the 

Committee. EPA anticipates selecting 

experts from this pool, as needed, to 

assist the SACC in their review of EPA’s 

risk evaluations for the first 10 chemical 

substances addressed under the TSCA: 

Pigment Violet 29; 1,4-Dioxane, 

Asbestos; Cyclic Aliphatic Bromide 

Cluster (HBCD); 1-Bromopropane; 

Perchloroethylene; Trichloroethylene; 

Carbon Tetrachloride; Methylene 

Chloride; and n-Methylpyrolidone. 

In addition, EPA anticipates selecting 

from the pool of experts, as needed, to 

appoint SACC members to fulfill short 

term needs when a vacancy occurs on 

the Committee due to resignation or 

reasons other than expiration of a term. 

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 2625 et seq.; 5 U.S.C. 

Appendix 2 et seq. 

Dated: September 4, 2018. 

Stanley Barone, Jr., 

Acting Director, Office of Science 

Coordination and Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19952 Filed 9–12–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Change in Bank Control Notices; 

Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or 

Bank Holding Company 

The notificants listed below have 

applied under the Change in Bank 

Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and 

§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12 

CFR 225.41) to acquire shares of a bank 

or bank holding company. The factors 

that are considered in acting on the 

notices are set forth in paragraph 7 of 

the Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)). 

The notices are available for 

immediate inspection at the Federal 

Reserve Bank indicated. The notices 

also will be available for inspection at 

the offices of the Board of Governors. 

Interested persons may express their 

views in writing to the Reserve Bank 

indicated for that notice or to the offices 

of the Board of Governors. Comments 

must be received not later than October 

1, 2018. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas 

(Robert L. Triplett III, Senior Vice 

President) 2200 North Pearl Street, 

Dallas, Texas 75201–2272: 

1. Davron Santa Fe Properties, Ltd., 

Wolfforth, Texas, RKB Family 

Investments LR, LP, DF Family 

Investments LR, LP, Ronnie K. Bilbo, 

and David L. Foster, all of Lubbock, 

Texas; as a group acting in concert, to 

acquire voting shares of Peoples 

Bancorp, Inc., and indirectly acquire 

shares of Peoples Bank, both of 

Lubbock, Texas. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, September 10, 2018. 

Yao-Chin Chao, 

Assistant Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19943 Filed 9–12–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies 

The companies listed in this notice 

have applied to the Board for approval, 

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company 

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) 

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part 

225), and all other applicable statutes 

and regulations to become a bank 

holding company and/or to acquire the 

assets or the ownership of, control of, or 

the power to vote shares of a bank or 

bank holding company and all of the 

banks and nonbanking companies 

owned by the bank holding company, 

including the companies listed below. 

The applications listed below, as well 

as other related filings required by the 

Board, are available for immediate 

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 

indicated. The applications will also be 

available for inspection at the offices of 

the Board of Governors. Interested 

persons may express their views in 

writing on the standards enumerated in 

the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the 

proposal also involves the acquisition of 

a nonbanking company, the review also 

includes whether the acquisition of the 

nonbanking company complies with the 

standards in section 4 of the BHC Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise 

noted, nonbanking activities will be 

conducted throughout the United States. 

Unless otherwise noted, comments 

regarding each of these applications 

must be received at the Reserve Bank 

indicated or the offices of the Board of 

Governors not later than October 11, 

2018. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 

(Colette A. Fried, Assistant Vice 

President) 230 South LaSalle Street, 

Chicago, Illinois 60690–1414: 

1. First Busey Corporation, 

Champaign, Illinois; to acquire voting 

shares of The Banc Ed Corp., 

Edwardsville, Illinois, and thereby 

indirectly acquire The Bank of 

Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, September 10, 2018. 

Yao-Chin Chao, 

Assistant Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19942 Filed 9–12–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–18–0212; Docket No. CDC–2018– 

0084] 

Proposed Data Collection Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice with comment period. 

SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of 

its continuing effort to reduce public 

burden and maximize the utility of 

government information, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies the opportunity to comment on 

a proposed and/or continuing 

information collection, as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

This notice invites comment on a 


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