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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. 

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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 

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and Ad Hoc Committees Being 

Formed,’’ http://www.epa.gov/sab 

provided on the SAB Web site. The 

instructions can be accessed through the 

‘‘Nomination of Experts’’ link on the 

blue navigational bar at the SAB Web 

site http://www.epa.gov/sab. To receive 

full consideration, nominations should 

include all of the information requested 

below. 

EPA’s SAB Staff Office requests 

contact information about the person 

making the nomination; contact 

information about the nominee; the 

disciplinary and specific areas of 

expertise of the nominee; the nominee’s 

resume or curriculum vita; sources of 

recent grant and/or contract support; 

and a biographical sketch of the 

nominee indicating current position, 

educational background, research 

activities, and recent service on other 

national advisory committees or 

national professional organizations. 

Persons having questions about the 

nomination procedures, or who are 

unable to submit nominations through 

the SAB Web site, should contact Dr. 

Thomas Armitage, DFO, as indicated 

above in this notice. Nominations 

should be submitted in time to arrive no 

later than April 6, 2012. EPA values and 

welcomes diversity. In an effort to 

obtain nominations of diverse 

candidates, EPA encourages 

nominations of women and men of all 

racial and ethnic groups. 

The EPA SAB Staff Office will 

acknowledge receipt of nominations. 

The names and biosketches of qualified 

nominees identified by respondents to 

this Federal Register notice, and 

additional experts identified by the SAB 

Staff, will be posted in a List of 

Candidates on the SAB Web site at 

http://www.epa.gov/sab. Public 

comments on this List of Candidates 

will be accepted for 21 days. The public 

will be requested to provide relevant 

information or other documentation on 

nominees that the SAB Staff Office 

should consider in evaluating 

candidates. 

For the EPA SAB Staff Office a 

balanced review panel includes 

candidates who possess the necessary 

domains of knowledge, the relevant 

scientific perspectives (which, among 

other factors, can be influenced by work 

history and affiliation), and the 

collective breadth of experience to 

adequately address the charge. In 

forming this expert panel, the SAB Staff 

Office will consider public comments 

on the List of Candidates, information 

provided by the candidates themselves, 

and background information 

independently gathered by the SAB 

Staff Office. Selection criteria to be used 

for panel membership include: (a) 

Scientific and/or technical expertise, 

knowledge, and experience (primary 

factors); (b) availability and willingness 

to serve; (c) absence of financial 

conflicts of interest; (d) absence of an 

appearance of a lack of impartiality; (e) 

skills working in committees, 

subcommittees and advisory panels; and 

(f) for the Panel as a whole, diversity of 

expertise and viewpoints. 

The SAB Staff Office’s evaluation of 

an absence of financial conflicts of 

interest will include a review of the 

‘‘Confidential Financial Disclosure 

Form for Special Government 

Employees Serving on Federal Advisory 

Committees at the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency’’ (EPA Form 3110– 

48). This confidential form allows 

government officials to determine 

whether there is a statutory conflict 

between a person’s public 

responsibilities (which include 

membership on an EPA federal advisory 

committee) and private interests and 

activities, or the appearance of a lack of 

impartiality, as defined by federal 

regulation. The form may be viewed and 

downloaded from the following URL 

address: http://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/ 

epaform3110-48.pdf. 

The approved policy under which the 

EPA SAB Office selects subcommittees 

and review panels is described in the 

following document: Overview of the 

Panel Formation Process at the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

Science Advisory Board (EPA–SAB–EC– 

02–010), which is posted on the SAB 

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

ec02010.pdf. 

Dated: March 9, 2012. 

Thomas H. Brennan, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

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CORPORATION 

Sunshine Act Meeting Notice 

Pursuant to the provisions of the 

‘‘Government in the Sunshine Act’’ (5 

U.S.C. 552b), notice is hereby given that 

the Federal Deposit Insurance 

Corporation’s Board of Directors will 

meet in open session at 10 a.m. on 

Tuesday, March 20, 2012, to consider 

the following matters: 

Summary Agenda: No substantive 

discussion of the following items is 

anticipated. These matters will be 

resolved with a single vote unless a 

member of the Board of Directors 

requests that an item be moved to the 

discussion agenda. 

Disposition of minutes of previous 

Board of Directors’ Meetings. 

Summary reports, status reports, 

reports of the Office of Inspector 

General, and reports of actions taken 

pursuant to authority delegated by the 

Board of Directors. 

Memorandum and resolution re: 

Amendments to the Guidelines for 

Appeals of Material Supervisory 

Determinations and to the Guidelines 

for Appeals of Deposit Insurance 

Assessment Determinations. 

Discussion Agenda 

Memorandum and resolution re: 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on 

Assessments, Large Bank Pricing. 

Memorandum and resolution re: 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

Regarding the Enforcement of 

Subsidiary and Affiliate Contracts by 

the FDIC as Receiver for a Covered 

Financial Company. 

The meeting will be held in the Board 

Room on the sixth floor of the FDIC 

Building located at 550 17th Street NW., 

Washington, DC. 

This Board meeting will be Webcast 

live via the Internet and subsequently 

made available on-demand 

approximately one week after the event. 

Visit http://www.vodium.com/goto/fdic/ 

boardmeetings.asp to view the event. If 

you need any technical assistance, 

please visit our Video Help page at: 

http://www.fdic.gov/video.html. 

The FDIC will provide attendees with 

auxiliary aids (e.g., sign language 

interpretation) required for this meeting. 

Those attendees needing such assistance 

should call 703–562–2404 (Voice) or 

703–649–4354 (Video Phone) to make 

necessary arrangements. 

Requests for further information 

concerning the meeting may be directed 

to Mr. Robert E. Feldman, Executive 

Secretary of the Corporation, at 202– 

898–7043. 

Dated: March 13, 2012. 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

Robert E. Feldman, 

Executive Secretary. 

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