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(8) Does the assessment appropriately 

characterize risks to salmonid fish due 

to pipeline failures? If not, what 

suggestions do you have for improving 

this part of the assessment? 

(9) Does the assessment appropriately 

characterize risks to salmonid fish due 

to a potential tailings dam failure? If 

not, what suggestions do you have for 

improving this part of the assessment? 

(10) Does the assessment 

appropriately characterize risks to 

wildlife and human cultures due to 

risks to fish? If not, what suggestions do 

you have for improving this part of the 

assessment? 

(11) Does the assessment 

appropriately describe the potential for 

cumulative risk from multiple mines? 

(12) Does the assessment identify the 

uncertainties and limitations associated 

with the mine scenario and the 

identified risks? 

The preferred method to submit 

comments on the draft peer review 

charge is through the docket, which is 

described below. This docket is separate 

from the docket collecting public 

comments on the draft assessment itself. 

The EPA will evaluate comments 

received on these draft charge questions. 

Charge questions will be finalized and 

provided to EPA’s independent 

contractor, Versar, Inc., who will 

convene the expert panel for 

independent external peer review. 

The external peer review panel 

meeting is scheduled to be held in 

Anchorage, AK on August 7, 8, and 9, 

2012. The public will be invited to 

attend on August 7 and 8, 2012. Further 

information regarding the external peer 

review panel meeting will be 

announced at a later date in the Federal 

Register. 

II. How to Submit Technical Comments 

to the Docket at www.regulations.gov 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2012– 

0358, by one of the following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: ORD.Docket@epa.gov. 

Include the docket number EPA–HQ– 

ORD–2012–0358 in the subject line of 

the message. 

• Fax: 202–566–9744. 

• Mail: Office of Environmental 

Information (OEI) Docket (Mail Code: 

28221T), Docket # EPA–HQ–ORD– 

2012–0358, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

The phone number is 202–566–1752. If 

you provide comments by mail, please 

submit one unbound original with pages 

numbered consecutively, and three 

copies of the comments. For 

attachments, provide an index, number 

pages consecutively with the comments, 

and submit an unbound original and 

three copies. 

• Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is 

located in the EPA Headquarters Docket 

Center, Room 3334, EPA West Building, 

1301 Constitution Avenue 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. If 

you provide comments by hand 

delivery, please submit one unbound 

original with pages numbered 

consecutively, and three copies of the 

comments. For attachments, provide an 

index, number pages consecutively with 

the comments, and submit an unbound 

original and three copies. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2012– 

0358. Please ensure that your comments 

are submitted within the specified 

comment period. Comments received 

after the closing date will be marked 

‘‘late,’’ and may only be considered if 

time permits. It is EPA’s policy to 

include all comments it receives in the 

public docket without change and to 

make the comments available online 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 

comment 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, 

EPA 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. 

Docket: 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 in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the OEI Docket in the EPA Headquarters 

Docket Center. 

Dated: May 30, 2012. 

Darrel A. Winner, 

Acting Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

[FR Doc. 2012–13431 Filed 6–4–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9680–7] 

Changes to the Central Data Exchange 

System 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the CrossMedia Electronic Reporting Regulation 

(CROMERR), this notice announces 

EPA’s plan to change its Central Data 

Exchange (CDX) system, as described in 

this notice. 

DATES: EPA’s changes to CDX are 

effective August 6, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tina 

Chen, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Office of Environmental 

Information, Mail Stop MC–2823T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460, (202) 566–0248, 

Chen.Tina@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

October 13, 2005, the final Cross-Media 

Electronic Reporting Rule was 

published in the Federal Register (70 

FR 59848) and codified as part 3 of title 

40 of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(CFR). CROMERR establishes electronic 

reporting as an acceptable regulatory 

alternative to paper reporting and 

provides requirements to assure that 

electronic documents are as legally 

dependable as their paper counterparts. 

Subpart B of CROMERR sets 

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EPA that may be used to satisfy a federal 

environmental reporting requirement. 

Specifically, section 3.10 of subpart B 

requires that electronic documents be 

submitted to an appropriate EPA 

electronic document receiving system 

that has been designated by the 

Administrator. Additionally, where a 

paper document must bear a signature 

under an existing regulation, CROMERR 

requires that an electronic document 

that substitutes for the paper document 

must be signed with a valid electronic 

signature. 

Generally, EPA’s designated 

electronic document receiving system is 

CDX, which is consistent with the 

standards for electronic document 

receiving systems set forth in CROMERR 

§ 3.2000(b) of subpart D. CDX, 

developed and maintained by the Office 

of Environmental Information, serves as 

EPA’s gateway for receiving documents 

electronically from the reporting 

community. CDX streamlines and 

consolidates EPA’s reporting by offering 

the reporting community faster, easier, 

and more secure submission options 

through a single venue. As a cornerstone 

of EPA’s efforts to advance electronic 

government, CDX supports electronic 

submission of environmental data for 

air, water, waste, and toxic programs 

from thousands of regulated entities. In 

developing CROMERR, EPA recognized 

that CDX would be subject to change 

over time and that such changes could 

affect regulated entities that participate 

in electronic reporting. Therefore, 

CROMERR subpart B requires EPA to 

provide notice when the Agency plans 

to change CDX hardware, software, or 

services. Section 3.20 of the regulation 

distinguishes four categories of CDX 

changes: Significant, Other, De minimis 

or Transparent and Emergency changes. 

Today’s notice announces EPA’s 

plans to take advantage of opportunities 

offered by evolving technologies to 

improve CDX services by modernizing 

the user registration process and 

providing additional user functionality. 

This change is considered an Other 

Change under § 3.20(a)(2) of the 

regulation and requires EPA to provide 

notice to CDX users at least sixty (60) 

days in advance of implementation. 

Specific changes include: 

• New user-friendly features that will 

make CDX registration easier, such as 

the ability to search for reporting 

programs and organizations, and 

activate accounts via email; 

• Additional ‘‘My CDX’’ user profile 

functions, such as the ability to change 

an account password from the user 

profile page, a standardized list of 

security questions, and automated 

reminders for account password 

expiration; and 

• New user profile page ‘‘Alerts’’ and 

‘‘News and Updates’’ sections that will 

provide CDX users with timely general 

system information, as well as program 

specific information. 

In accordance with 40 CFR 3.20(a)(2), 

EPA is providing this notice to CDX 

users at least sixty (60) days in advance 

of implementation of the changes 

described above. 

Dated: May 29, 2012. 

Connie Dwyer, 

Director, Information Exchange and Services 

Division. 

[FR Doc. 2012–13541 Filed 6–4–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities 

AGENCY: Equal Employment 

Opportunity Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Information 

Collection—Extension Without Change: 

Demographic Information on Applicants 

for Federal Employment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission 

(EEOC or Commission) announces that 

it is submitting to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) a 

request for a one-year extension of the 

Demographic Information on 

Applicants, OMB No. 3046–0046. 

DATES: Written comments on this notice 

must be submitted on or before July 5, 

2012. 

ADDRESSES: A copy of this ICR and 

applicable supporting documentation 

submitted to OMB for review may be 

obtained from: Veta P. Hurst, Senior 

Attorney, (202) 663–4498, Office of 

Federal Operations, 131 M Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20507. Comments on 

this final notice must be submitted to 

Chad Lallemand in the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, 725 

17th Street NW., Room 10235, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503 or electronically mailed to 

Chad_A._Lallemand@omb.eop.gov. 

Comments should also be sent to 

Bernadette Wilson, Acting Executive 

Officer, Executive Secretariat, Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission, 

131 M Street NE., Suite 6NE03F, 

Washington, DC 20507. Written 

comments of six or fewer pages may be 

faxed to the Executive Secretariat at 

(202) 663–4114. (There is no toll free fax 

number.) Receipt of facsimile 

transmittals will not be acknowledged, 

except that the sender may request 

confirmation of receipt by calling the 

Executive Secretariat staff at (202) 663– 

4070 (voice) or (202) 663–4074 (TTY). 

(These are not toll free numbers.) 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Veta 

Hurst, Federal Sector Programs, Office 

of Federal Operations, 131 M Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20507, (202) 663–4498 

(voice); (202) 663–4593 (TTY). Copies of 

this notice are available in the following 

alternate formats: Large print, braille, 

electronic computer disk, and 

audiotape. Requests for this notice in an 

alternative format should be made to the 

Publications Center at 1–800–699–3362 

(voice), 1–800–800–3302 (TTY), or 703– 

821–2098 (FAX—this is not a toll free 

number). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 60- 

day notice was published in the Federal 

Register on February 21, 2012, allowing 

for a 60-day public comment period. No 

comments were received. 

Overview of Information Collection 

Collection Title: Demographic 

Information on Applicants. 

OMB Control No.: 3046–0046. 

Description of Affected Public: 

Individuals submitting applications for 

federal employment. 

Number of Responses: 26,854,281. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 3 

minutes. 

Total Burden Hours: 1,342,714 

[(26,854,281x3)/60]. 

Federal Cost: None. 

Abstract: Under section 717 of Title 

VII and 501 of the Rehabilitation Act, 

the Commission is charged with 

reviewing and approving federal 

agencies plans to affirmatively address 

potential discrimination before it 

occurs. Pursuant to such oversight 

responsibilities, the Commission has 

established systems to monitor 

compliance with Title VII and the 

Rehabilitation Act by requiring federal 

agencies to evaluate their employment 

practices through the collection and 

analysis of data on the race, national 

origin, sex and disability status of 

applicants for both permanent and 

temporary employment. 

While several federal agencies (or 

components of such agencies) have 

obtained OMB approval for the use of 

forms collecting data on the race, 

national origin, sex and disability status 

of applicants, it is not an efficient use 

of government resources for each federal 

agency to separately seek OMB 

approval. Accordingly, in order to avoid 

unnecessary duplication of effort and a 


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