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and Title VI. This is an open meeting 

and all interested persons are invited to 

participate. The Committee will hear 

comments from the public between 4 

p.m.–4:15 p.m. (MT) on Thursday, April 

19, 2012. Individuals or organizations 

wishing to address the Committee will 

be allowed a maximum of five minutes 

to present their point of view. Also, 

written comments should be submitted 

electronically to eargle.frances@epa.gov. 

Please contact the Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO) at the number listed 

below to schedule a time on the agenda. 

Time will be allotted on a first-come 

first-serve basis, and the total period for 

comments may be extended if the 

number of requests for appearances 

requires it. 

ADDRESSES: The Small Communities 

Advisory Subcommittee and Local 

Government Advisory Committee 

meetings will be held at U.S. EPA 

Region 8 Office, 1595 Wynkoop St., 

Denver, CO 80202–1129. [Meeting 

summaries will be available after the 

meeting online at www.epa.gov/ocir/ 

scas_lgac/lgac_index.htm and can be 

obtained by written request to the DFO]. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Local Government Advisory Committee 

(LGAC) contact Frances Eargle at (202) 

564–3115 or email at 

eargle.frances@epa.gov. For the Small 

Communities Advisory Subcommittee 

(SCAS), contact Cathy Davis, Designated 

Federal Officer at (202) 564–2703 or 

email at davis.catherinem@epa.gov. 

Information On Services for Those 

With Disabilities: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Frances 

Eargle at (202) 564–3115 or 

eargle.frances@epa.gov. To request 

accommodation of a disability, please 

request it 10 days prior to the meeting, 

to give EPA as much time as possible to 

process your request. 

Dated: March 7, 2012. 

Frances Eargle, 

Designated Federal Officer, Local Government 

Advisory Committee. 

[FR Doc. 2012–6423 Filed 3–15–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9648–4] 

Notice of Proposed Prospective 

Purchaser Agreement Amendment 

Pursuant to the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, 

Compensation and Liability Act of 

1980, as Amended by the Superfund 

Amendments and Reauthorization Act 

of 1986 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. Request for public 

comment. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a 

proposed prospective purchaser 

agreement amendment (‘‘PPA 

Amendment’’) associated with the GEPittsfield/Housatonic River Site, in 

Pittsfield, Massachusetts, was executed 

by the Environmental Protection Agency 

(‘‘EPA’’) and the Department of Justice 

and is now subject to public comment, 

after which the United States may 

modify or withdraw its consent to the 

PPA Amendment if comments received 

disclose facts or considerations 

indicating that the PPA Amendment is 

inappropriate, improper, or inadequate. 

The PPA Amendment would resolve 

certain potential EPA claims under 

Sections 106 and 107 of CERCLA, 42 

U.S.C. 9606 and 9607, and other 

statutes, against the Pittsfield Economic 

Development Authority (‘‘PEDA’’). In 

lieu of financial consideration, in 

exchange for EPA’s covenant not to sue, 

the PPA Amendment would require 

PEDA to acquire certain parcels along 

the banks of Silver Lake in Pittsfield, 

impose institutional controls on such 

parcels, and refrain from damaging 

certain natural resources plantings on 

the Silver Lake bank parcels. 

For thirty (30) days following the date 

of publication of this notice, the Agency 

will receive written comments relating 

to the PPA Amendment. The Agency’s 

response to any comments received will 

be available for public inspection at the 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region I Office, 5 Post Office Square, 

Boston, MA 02109. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before April 16, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R01– 

CERCLA 01–2002–0007, by one of the 

following methods: 

• Email: John W. Kilborn, Senior 

Enforcement Counsel at Kilborn.john@

epa.gov. 

• Mail: John W. Kilborn, Senior 

Enforcement Counsel, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region I, 5 Post Office Square (Mail 

Code OES4–3), Boston, MA 02109. 

• Hand Delivery: John W. Kilborn, 

Senior Enforcement Counsel, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region I, 5 Post Office Square (Mail 

Code OES4–3), Boston, MA 02109. 

Business Hours: Monday through Friday 

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Such deliveries are 

accepted only during business hours of 

operation, and special arrangements 

should be made for deliveries of boxed 

information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–R01–CERCLA 01– 

2002–0007. 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 

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 email. If 

you send an email comment directly to 

EPA, 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 

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: The PPA Amendment and 

additional background information are 

available for public inspection at the 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region I Office, 5 Post Office Square, 

Boston, MA 02109. A copy of the PPA 

Amendment may be obtained from Ann 

Gardner, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region I Office, 5 Post Office 

Square, Boston, MA 02109 (617–918– 

1895) or by email at Gardner.ann@epa.

gov. The PPA Amendment is also posted 

on EPA’s GE-Pittsfield Web site at: 

http://www.epa.gov/region1/ge/

publiccomment.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

W. Kilborn, Senior Enforcement 

Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region I, 5 Post Office Square— 

Suite 100, Mail Code (OES4–3), Boston, 

MA 02109–3912. Phone: (617) 918– 

1893. 

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is given in accordance with the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation and Liability 

Act of 1980 as amended by the 

Superfund Amendments and 

Reauthorization Act of 1986, 

(‘‘CERCLA’’), 42 U.S.C. 9601–9675. 

Dated: March 1, 2012. 

James T. Owens III, 

Director, Office of Site Remediation and 

Restoration, Region I. 

[FR Doc. 2012–6425 Filed 3–15–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9648–8] 

Request for Nominations of Experts for 

a Science Advisory Board Panel To 

Review EPA’s Web-Based Report on 

the Environment 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office requests public 

nominations of technical experts to form 

an SAB panel to review the Agency’s 

Web-based Report on the Environment. 

DATES: Nominations should be 

submitted by April 6, 2012 per the 

instructions below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Any member 

of the public wishing further 

information regarding this Notice and 

Request for Nominations may contact 

Dr. Thomas Armitage, Designated 

Federal Officer (DFO), SAB Staff Office, 

by telephone/voice mail at (202) 564– 

2155, by fax at (202) 565–2098, or via 

email at armitage.thomas@epa.gov. 

General information concerning the EPA 

SAB can be found at the EPA SAB Web 

site at www.epa.gov/sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The SAB (42 U.S.C. 4365) is a 

chartered Federal Advisory Committee 

that provides independent scientific and 

technical peer review, advice, 

consultation, and recommendations to 

the EPA Administrator on the technical 

basis for EPA actions. As a Federal 

Advisory Committee, the SAB conducts 

business in accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 

U.S.C. App. 2) and related regulations. 

The SAB will comply with the 

provisions of FACA and all appropriate 

SAB Staff Office procedural policies. 

EPA’s Web-based Report on the 

Environment (ROE) has been developed 

to provide a comprehensive online 

source of scientific indicators describing 

the condition of and trends in the 

nation’s environment and human 

health. The ROE indicators are 

numerical values derived from actual 

measurements of human health and 

ecological condition over specified 

geographic areas of the United States. 

The ROE indicators are intended to 

inform strategic planning, priority 

setting, and decision making across EPA 

and provide information for the public 

on the state of the environment. 

In 2004 and 2007, the SAB reviewed 

two draft versions of EPA’s 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). The ROE was 

subsequently published by EPA in 2008, 

and in 2009 SAB members provided 

additional advice on continued 

development of future versions of the 

ROE (see report EPA–SAB–09–017). 

Since the 2008 publication of the ROE, 

EPA has maintained and updated the 

ROE indicators online at www.epa.gov/ 

roe. EPA is developing a new userfriendly and interactive Web site to 

provide improved access to the data and 

information in the ROE for a variety of 

audiences. EPA has also addressed 

recommendations from previous SAB 

reviews in order to develop a more 

robust environmental reporting 

program. Specifically, EPA has 

developed: (1) Conceptual frameworks, 

based on a sustainability paradigm, to 

illustrate connections among ROE 

indicators and Agency programs, (2) 

new and revised ROE indicators, 

including sustainability indicators that 

incorporate economic data, and (3) 

statistical information to address 

indicator variability and uncertainty. 

EPA has asked the SAB to review the 

scientific and technical merit of this 

work to improve the ROE. In response 

to EPA’s request, the SAB Staff Office 

will form an expert panel to conduct the 

review. 

Availability of the Review Materials 

SAB review materials will be made 

available via EPA’s Web site and will 

consist of a newly designed ROE Web 

site and accompanying issue papers. All 

new ROE developments described above 

(e.g., conceptual frameworks, new and 

revised indicators, and statistical data) 

will be presented online rather than in 

a traditional hard copy report. For 

information concerning the ROE, please 

contact Ms. Madalene Stevens, National 

Center for Environmental Assessment, 

Office of Research and Development, 

U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW., Mail Code 8601–P, Washington, 

DC 20460, phone (703) 347–8655 or at 

stevens.madalene@epa.gov. 

Request for Nominations 

The SAB Staff Office requests 

nominations of recognized experts from 

a wide range of scientific and 

engineering disciplines with experience 

and expertise in: designing 

environmental and human health 

indicators, and evaluating and/or 

communicating indicator information 

and data at regional or national scales. 

Nominations of experts in various 

disciplines are requested including: (a) 

Environmental scientists and engineers 

with knowledge of the sources, fate, and 

transport of air pollutants and outdoor 

and indoor air quality indicators; (b) 

aquatic biologists, ecologists, 

hydrologists, chemists, oceanographers 

and microbiologists with expertise in 

assessing the condition of surface water, 

ground water, drinking water, wetlands, 

coastal waters, and/or recreational 

waters; (c) environmental scientists, 

ecologists, soil scientists, and 

environmental engineers with expertise 

in the use of indicators (e.g., land cover, 

land use, wastes on land, chemicals 

used on land, and contaminated land) to 

assess the condition of land; (d) health 

scientists (e.g., in the fields of public 

health, epidemiology, and risk 

assessment) with expertise in assessing 

human exposure to environmental 

pollutants, health risks associated with 

environmental pollutants, and/or 

indicators for assessing human health 

condition; (e) ecologists with expertise 

in the use of indicators to assess the 

ecological effects of exposure to 

pollutants and the condition of whole 

ecosystems; (f) statisticians with 

expertise in analysis of environmental 

information to determine the status of 

and trends in environmental condition; 

(g) environmental economists with 

knowledge of sustainability analysis; (h) 

experts from any of the above 

disciplines with knowledge of 

sustainability science and sustainability 

indicators; and (i) communication and 

information scientists with expertise in 

using and/or communicating 

environmental indicator information to 

inform planning and decision making. 

Process and Deadline for Submitting 

Nominations 

Any interested person or organization 

may nominate qualified individuals in 

the areas of expertise described above 

for possible service on this expert panel. 

Nominations should be submitted in 

electronic format (preferred over hard 

copy) following the instructions for 

‘‘Nominating Experts to Advisory Panels 

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