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Water Act. The two Panel 

teleconferences will be conducted as 

one complete meeting, beginning on 

August 20, 2014 and continuing on 

August 21, 2014. Information about this 

advisory activity may be found at http:// 

yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/

fedrgstr_activites/WOUSadv%26com?OpenDocument. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: 

Teleconference agendas and any other 

meeting materials will be placed on the 

SAB Web site at http://www.epa.gov/sab 

in advance of the teleconferences. The 

proposed rule titled Definition of Waters 

of the United States under the Clean 

Water Act is available on the EPA Web 

site at http://www2.epa.gov/sites/

production/files/2014–04/documents/fr2014–07142.pdf. For questions and 

information concerning the proposed 

rule please contact Ms. Donna Downing, 

Office of Water (4502–T), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone (202) 566–2428 or 

via email at CWAwaters@epa.gov. 

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. Input from the 

public to the SAB will have the most 

impact if it provides specific scientific 

or technical information or analysis for 

SAB panels to consider or if it relates to 

the clarity or accuracy of the technical 

information. Members of the public 

wishing to provide oral statements to 

the SAB Panel should contact the DFO 

directly. Oral Statements: In general, 

individuals or groups requesting an oral 

presentation at a public teleconference 

will be limited to three minutes. 

Interested parties should contact Dr. 

Thomas Armitage, DFO, in writing 

(preferably via email) at the contact 

information noted above by August 13, 

2014 to be placed on the list of public 

speakers for August 20, 2014. Written 

Statements: Members of the public 

wishing to provide written comments 

may submit them to the EPA Docket 

electronically via www.regulations.gov 

by email, by mail, or by hand delivery/ 

courier. Please follow the detailed 

instructions provided in the written 

statements section of this notice. 

Written statements should be received 

in the EPA Docket by August 13, 2014 

so that the information may be made 

available to the SAB Panel for its 

consideration. Written statements 

should be identified by Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–OA–2014–0010 and submitted 

to the Docket at www.regulations.gov by 

one of the following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: Docket_OEI@epa.gov: 

Include the docket number in the 

subject line of the message. 

• Mail: Office of Environmental 

Information (OEI) Docket (Mail Code: 

28221T), Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OA– 

2014–0010, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460. The 

phone number is (202) 566–1752. 

• Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is 

located in the EPA headquarters Docket 

Center, Room 3334, EPA West Building, 

1301 Constitution Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center Public Reading Room is open 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

Public Reading Room is (202) 566–1744. 

Deliveries are only accepted during the 

docket’s normal hours of operation, and 

special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. 

Direct your comments to Docket ID 

No. EPA–HQ–OA–2014–0010. Please 

ensure that your comments are 

submitted by August 13, 2014. 

Comments received after that date will 

be marked late and may not be provided 

to the SAB Panel for consideration 

before the August 20, 2014 

teleconference. It is EPA’s policy to 

include all comments received in the 

public docket without change and to 

make the comments available on-line at 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless a 

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 www.regulations.gov 

or email. The www.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 directly 

to EPA without going through 

www.regulations.gov, your email 

address will be automatically captured 

and included as part of the comment 

that is placed in the public 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 comments due to 

technical difficulties and cannot contact 

you for clarification, the SAB Panel may 

not be able to consider your comments. 

Electronic files should avoid the use of 

special characters and any form of 

encryption and be free of any defects or 

viruses. For additional information 

about EPA’s public docket, visit the EPA 

Docket Center homepage at 

www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

Documents in the docket are listed in 

the www.regulations.gov index. 

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 will be publicly 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically at 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the OEI Docket in the EPA Headquarters 

Docket Center. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Dr. Thomas 

Armitage at (202) 564–2155 or 

armitage.thomas@epa.gov. To request 

accommodation of a disability, please 

contact Dr. Armitage preferably at least 

ten days prior to the teleconference to 

give EPA as much time as possible to 

process your request. 

Dated: June 30, 2014. 

Thomas H. Brennan, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Staff 

Office. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9913–43–OA] 

Notification of a Public Meeting of the 

Science Advisory Board Advisory 

Panel on EPA’s Report on the 

Environment 2014 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) Staff Office announces a public 

meeting of the SAB Advisory Panel on 

EPA’s Report on the Environment (ROE) 

2014. 


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40102 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 133 / Friday, July 11, 2014 / Notices 

DATES: The SAB Advisory Panel on 

EPA’s Report on the Environment 2014 

public meeting will be held on 

Wednesday, July 30, 2014, from 9:00 

a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time and 

Thursday, July 31, 2014, from 8:30 a.m. 

to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. 

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be 

held at the J.W. Marriott, 1331 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20004. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public who wishes 

further information concerning the 

public meeting may contact Ms. 

Stephanie Sanzone, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), via telephone at (202) 

564–2067 or email at 

sanzone.stephanie@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the SAB can be 

found on the EPA Web site at http://

www.epa.gov/sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

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 

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 and 

its panels 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 

Advisory Panel on EPA’s Report on the 

Environment 2014 will hold a public 

meeting to discuss the Agency’s draft 

Report on the Environment (ROE) 2014. 

This SAB panel will provide advice to 

the Administrator through the chartered 

SAB. 

EPA’s ROE compiles and maintains 

indicators on the status and trends for 

environmental and human health 

conditions related to the mission of the 

agency. The indicators are focused on 

informing questions of interest to the 

EPA and its mission of protecting the 

environment and human health. The 

EPA’s first ROE was released in draft in 

2003 with the corresponding final report 

released in 2008 in hard copy and 

online format. The SAB provided advice 

on two draft versions leading up to the 

2008 ROE; the findings and 

recommendations of those SAB reviews 

are available on the SAB Web site at 

www.epa.gov/sab (see reports EPA– 

SAB–05–004 and EPA–SAB–08–007). In 

2009, SAB members provided 

additional input to inform the 

continued development of future 

versions of the ROE (see report EPA– 

SAB–09–017). In response to 

suggestions from the SAB and 

additional comments from users of the 

ROE, the EPA developed the draft ROE 

2014 as an entirely web-based product. 

The EPA’s Office of Research and 

Development has requested that the 

SAB review and comment on the 

recently released draft of the ROE Web 

site (http://www.epa.gov/draftroe) with 

particular attention to the new features 

added since the release of the 2008 

report. Specifically, the Agency has 

requested the SAB to comment on the 

clarity of the ROE objectives for various 

audiences, the overarching conceptual 

framework based on a sustainability 

theme, the addition of statistical 

information for individual indicators, 

and the presentation of the ROE 2014 

features in an online format. 

The EPA made the draft ROE 2014 

Web site available for public comment 

through April 27, 2014 (see https://

www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/

03/27/2014–06824/draft-revised-epasreport-on-the-environment-2014). Public 

comments received by the agency will 

be provided to the SAB panel. 

The purpose of the July 30–31, 2014, 

meeting is for the SAB Panel to be 

briefed on the ROE 2014 and to develop 

draft responses to a set of EPA charge 

questions. Additional information about 

this advisory activity, including the 

process for forming the SAB panel, can 

be found at the following URL: http:// 

yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/

fedrgstr_activites/

ROE%202014?OpenDocument. 

Technical Contacts 

Any technical questions concerning 

EPA’s draft ROE 2014 should be 

directed to Dr. Jeffrey Frithsen at (703) 

347–8623 or by email at frithsen.jeffrey@

epa.gov. 

Availability of Meeting Materials 

The external review draft of the ROE 

2014 is available at http://www.epa.gov/ 

draftroe. Additional information, 

including the meeting agenda, the EPA 

charge and other materials provided to 

the panel, will be accessible prior to the 

meeting through the calendar link on 

the blue navigation bar at http://

www.epa.gov/sab/. 

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 the EPA. 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant written or oral 

information on the topic of this advisory 

activity (including the review materials 

and the charge), 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 

committees 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 

at a public meeting will be limited to 

five minutes. Interested parties should 

contact Ms. Stephanie Sanzone, DFO, in 

writing (preferably via email) at the 

contact information noted above by July 

23, 2014, to be placed on the list of 

public speakers for the meeting. 

Written Statements: Written 

statements should be supplied to the 

DFO via email at the contact 

information noted above by July 23, 

2014, so that the information may be 

made available to the panel members for 

their consideration prior to the meeting. 

Written statements should be supplied 

in one of the following electronic 

formats: Adobe Acrobat PDF, MS Word, 

MS PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in 

IBM–PC/Windows 98/2000/XP format. 

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 SAB 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 Ms. Stephanie Sanzone at (202) 

564–2067 or sanzone.stephanie@

epa.gov. To request accommodation of a 

disability, please contact Ms. Sanzone 

preferably at least ten days prior to the 

meeting to give EPA as much time as 

possible to process your request. 


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Dated: June 25, 2014. 

Christopher Zarba, 

Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff 

Office. 

[FR Doc. 2014–16269 Filed 7–10–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R04–OW–2014–0453; FRL 9913–57– 

OW] 

Public Water System Supervision 

Program Revision for the State of 

Mississippi 

AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of tentative approval. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the State of Mississippi is revising its 

approved Public Water System 

Supervision Program. Mississippi has 

adopted the following rules: Long Term 

1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment 

Rule, Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface 

Water Treatment Rule, Stage 2 

Disinfectants and Disinfection 

Byproducts Rule, Lead and Copper Rule 

Short-Term Regulatory Revisions and 

Clarifications, and Ground Water Rule. 

The EPA has determined that 

Mississippi’s rules are no less stringent 

than the corresponding Federal 

regulations. Therefore, the EPA is 

tentatively approving this revision to 

the State of Mississippi’s Public Water 

System Supervision Program. 

DATES: Any interested person may 

request a public hearing. A request for 

a public hearing must be submitted by 

August 11, 2014, to the Regional 

Administrator at the EPA Region 4 

address shown below. The Regional 

Administrator may deny frivolous or 

insubstantial requests for a hearing. 

However, if a substantial request for a 

public hearing is made by August 11, 

2014, a public hearing will be held. If 

no timely and appropriate request for a 

hearing is received and the Regional 

Administrator does not elect to hold a 

hearing on her own motion, this 

tentative approval shall become final 

and effective on August 11, 2014. Any 

request for a public hearing shall 

include the following information: The 

name, address and telephone number of 

the individual, organization or other 

entity requesting a hearing; a brief 

statement of the requesting person’s 

interest in the Regional Administrator’s 

determination and a brief statement of 

the information that the requesting 

person intends to submit at such 

hearing; and the signature of the 

individual making the request or, if the 

request is made on behalf of an 

organization or other entity, the 

signature of a responsible official of the 

organization or other entity. 

ADDRESSES: All documents relating to 

this determination are available for 

inspection between the hours of 8:30 

a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, at the following offices: 

Mississippi State Department of Health, 

Bureau of Public Water Supply, 570 East 

Woodrow Wilson Drive, Jackson, 

Mississippi 39216; and the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency 

Region 4, Safe Drinking Water Branch, 

61 Forsyth Street SW., Atlanta, Georgia 

30303. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dale 

Froneberger, EPA Region 4, Safe 

Drinking Water Branch, by mail at the 

Atlanta address given above, by 

telephone at (404) 562–9446, or by 

email at froneberger.dale@epa.gov. 

EPA Analysis: On August 29, 2012, 

the State of Mississippi submitted a 

request that the Region approve a 

revision to the State’s Safe Drinking 

Water Act Public Water System 

Supervision Program to include the 

authority to implement and enforce the 

Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water 

Treatment Rule, the Long Term 2 

Enhanced Surface Water Treatment 

Rule, the Stage 2 Disinfectants and 

Disinfection Byproducts Rule, and the 

Lead and Copper Rule Short-Term 

Regulatory Revisions and Clarifications. 

On November 6, 2012, the State of 

Mississippi submitted a request that the 

Region approve a revision to the State’s 

Safe Drinking Water Act Public Water 

System Supervision Program to include 

the authority to implement and enforce 

the Ground Water Rule. For the requests 

to be approved, the EPA must find the 

State Rules codified at 15 Miss. Admin. 

Code Pt. 20, Subpt. 72, Ch. 1., to be no 

less stringent than the Federal Rules 

codified at 40 CFR Part 141, Subpart T— 

Enhanced Filtration and Disinfection— 

Systems Serving Fewer Than 10,000 

People; 40 CFR part 141, Subpart W— 

Enhanced Treatment for 

Cryptosporidium; 40 CFR part 141, 

Subpart L—Disinfectant Residuals, 

Disinfection Byproducts, and 

Disinfection Byproduct Precursors; 40 

CFR Part 141, Subpart U—Initial 

Distribution System Evaluations; 40 

CFR part 141, Subpart V—Stage 2 

Disinfection Byproducts Requirements; 

40 CFR part 141, Subpart I—Control of 

Lead and Copper; and 40 CFR Part 141, 

Subpart S—Ground Water Rule. The 

EPA reviewed the applications using the 

Federal statutory provisions (Section 

1413 of the Safe Drinking Water Act), 

Federal regulations (at 40 CFR part 142), 

State regulations, rule crosswalks, and 

EPA regulatory guidance to determine 

whether the requests for revision are 

approvable. The EPA determined that 

the Mississippi regulations are no less 

stringent than the corresponding 

Federal regulations. 

EPA Action: The EPA is tentatively 

approving this revision. If the EPA does 

not receive a timely and appropriate 

request for a hearing and the Regional 

Administrator does not elect to hold a 

hearing on her own motion, this 

tentative approval will become final and 

effective on August 11, 2014. 

Authority: Section 1413 of the Safe 

Drinking Water Act, as amended (1996), and 

40 CFR Part 142. 

Dated: June 16, 2014. 

Heather McTeer Toney, 

Regional Administrator, Region 4. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK 

[Public Notice 2014–0035] 

Application for Final Commitment for a 

Long-Term Loan or Financial 

Guarantee in Excess of $100 Million: 

AP088819XX 

AGENCY: Export-Import Bank of the 

United States. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This Notice is to inform the 

public, in accordance with Section 

3(c)(10) of the Charter of the ExportImport Bank of the United States (‘‘ExIm Bank’’), that Ex-Im Bank has received 

an application for final commitment for 

a long-term loan or financial guarantee 

in excess of $100 million (as calculated 

in accordance with Section 3(c)(10) of 

the Charter). Comments received within 

the comment period specified below 

will be presented to the Ex-Im Bank 

Board of Directors prior to final action 

on this Transaction. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before August 5, 2014 to be assured 

of consideration before final 

consideration of the transaction by the 

Board of Directors of Ex-Im Bank. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted through Regulations.gov at 

WWW.REGULATIONS.GOV. To submit 

a comment, enter EIB–2014–0035 under 

the heading ‘‘Enter Keyword or ID’’ and 

select Search. Follow the instructions 

provided at the Submit a Comment 

screen. Please include your name, 

company name (if any) and EIB–2014– 

0035 on any attached document. 

Reference: AP088819XX. 


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