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Corridor, from I–65 North [I–24 West] to 

I–40 West in Downtown Nashville, To 

Address Transportation needs in the 

Study Area. Davidson County, TN. 

Summary: EPA continues to have 

environmental concerns about MSAT 

impacts. 

Dated: January 26, 2010. 

Ken Mittelholtz, 

Deputy Director, NEPA Compliance Division, 

Office of Federal Activities. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1860 Filed 1–28–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[ER–FRL–8987–7] 

Environmental Impacts Statements; 

Notice of Availability 

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal 

Activities, General Information (202) 

564–1399 or http://www.epa.gov/ 

compliance/nepa/. 

Weekly Receipt of Environmental 

Impact Statements Filed 01/18/2010 

Through 01/22/2010 Pursuant to 40 CFR 

1506.9. 

Notice 

In accordance with Section 309(a) of 

the Clean Air Act, EPA is required to 

make its comments on EISs issued by 

other Federal agencies public. 

Historically, EPA has met this mandate 

by publishing weekly notices of 

availability of EPA comments, which 

includes a brief summary of EPA’s 

comment letters, in the Federal 

Register. Since February 2008, EPA has 

been including its comment letters on 

EISs on its Web site at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/ 

eisdata.html. Including the entire EIS 

comment letters on the website satisfies 

the Section 309(a) requirement to make 

EPA’s comments on EISs available to 

the public. Accordingly, after March 31, 

2010, EPA will discontinue the 

publication of this notice of availability 

of EPA comments in the Federal 

Register. 

EIS No. 20100017, Draft EIS, NOAA, 00, 

Amendment 21 to the Pacific Coast 

Groundfish Fishery Management 

Plan, (FMP), Allocation of Harvest 

Opportunity between Sectors, 

Implementation, WA, OR and CA, 

Comment Period Ends: 03/15/2010, 

Contact: Barry A. Thom 206–516– 

6150. 

EIS No. 20100018, Draft EIS, NPS, WV, 

New River Gorge National River 

Project, General Management Plan, 

Implementation, Fayette, Raleigh and 

Summers Counties, WV, Comment 

Period Ends: 03/29/2010, Contact: 

Deborah Darden 304–465–6509. 

EIS No. 20100019, Final EIS, DOE, NY, 

West Valley Demonstration Project 

and Western New York Nuclear 

Service Center Decommissioning and/ 

or Long-Term Stewardship, (DOE/ 

EIS–0226–D Revised) City of Buffalo, 

Eric and Cattaraugus Counties, NY, 

Wait Period Ends: 03/01/2010, 

Contact: Catherine Bohan 716–942– 

4159. 

EIS No. 20100020, Final EIS, FTA, TX, 

University Corridor Fixed Guideway 

Project, To Implement Transit 

Improvements from Hillcroft Transit 

Center to the Vicinity of the 

University of Houston (UH)—Central 

Campus or the Eastwood Transit 

Center, City of Houston, Harris 

County, TX, Wait Period Ends: 03/01/ 

2010, Contact: Laura Wallace 817– 

978–0561. 

EIS No. 20100021, Final EIS, BR, CA, 

Folsom Lake State Recreation Area & 

Folsom Powerhouse State Historic 

Park, General Plan/Resource 

Management Plan, Implementation, 

Placer County, CA, Wait Period Ends: 

03/01/2010, Contact: Walter 

Clevenger 916–989–7173. 

EIS No. 20100022, Draft EIS, DOE, 00, 

Long-Term Management and Storage 

of Elemental Mercury Storage Project, 

Designate a Facility or Facilities for 

Mercy Storage, Seven Alternative 

Sites, CO, ID, MO, NV, SC and WA, 

Comment Period Ends: 03/29/2010, 

Contact: David Levenstein 301–903– 

6500. 

EIS No. 20100023, Final EIS, USFS, 00, 

Klamath National Forest Motorized 

Route Designation, Motorized Travel 

Management, (Formerly Motorized 

Route Designation), Implementation, 

Siskiyou County, CA and Jackson 

County, OR, Wait Period Ends: 03/01/ 

2010, Contact: Jan Ford 530–841– 

4483. 

Dated: January 26, 2010. 

Ken Mittelholtz, 

Deputy Director, NEPA Compliance Division, 

Office of Federal Activities. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1859 Filed 1–28–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OECA–2010–0024; FRL–9107–8] 

Inquiry To Learn Whether Businesses 

Assert Business Confidentiality Claims 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) receives from time to time 

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 

requests for documentation received or 

issued by EPA or data contained in EPA 

database systems pertaining to the 

export and import of Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) 

hazardous waste from/to the United 

States, the export of cathode ray tubes 

(CRTs) from the United States, and the 

export and import of RCRA universal 

waste from/to the United States. These 

documents and data may identify or 

reference multiple parties, and describe 

transactions involving the movement of 

specified materials in which the parties 

propose to participate or have 

participated. The purpose of this notice 

is to inform ‘‘affected businesses’’ about 

the documents or data sought by these 

types of FOIA requests in order to 

provide the businesses with the 

opportunity to assert claims that any of 

the information sought that pertains to 

them is entitled to treatment as 

confidential business information (CBI), 

and to send comments to EPA 

supporting their claims for such 

treatment. Certain businesses, however, 

do not meet the definition of ‘‘affected 

business,’’ and are not covered by 

today’s notice. They consist of any 

business that actually submitted to EPA 

any document at issue pursuant to 

applicable RCRA regulatory 

requirements and did not assert a CBI 

claim as to information that pertains to 

that business in connection with the 

document at the time of its submission; 

they have waived their right to do so at 

a later time. Nevertheless, other 

businesses identified or referenced in 

the documents that were submitted to 

EPA by the submitting business may 

have a right to assert a CBI claim 

concerning information that pertains to 

them and may do so in response to this 

notice. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before March 1, 2010. The period for 

submission of comments may be 

extended if, before the comments are 

due, you make a request for an 

extension of the comment period and it 

is approved by the EPA legal office. 

Except in extraordinary circumstances, 

the EPA legal office will not approve 

such an extension without the consent 

of any person whose request for release 

of the information under the FOIA is 

pending. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OECA–2010–0024, by one of the 

following methods: 


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• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: kreisler.eva@epa.gov. 

• Address: Eva Kreisler, International 

Compliance Assurance Division, Office 

of Federal Activities, Office of 

Enforcement and Compliance 

Assurance, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mailcode: 2254A, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OECA–2010– 

0024. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change and may be 

made available online at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, 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 http:// 

www.regulations.gov or e-mail. 

Instructions about how to submit 

comments claimed as CBI are given later 

in this notice. 

The http://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 e-mail 

comment directly to EPA without going 

through http://www.regulations.gov, 

your e-mail 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. Please include your name and 

other contact information with any disk 

or CD–ROM you submit by mail. 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. For additional information 

about EPA’s public docket, visit the EPA 

Docket Center homepage at http:// 

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

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the http:// 

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 http:// 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the HQ EPA Docket Center, EPA/DC, 

EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC. The 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, 

and the telephone number for the 

docket for this notice is (202) 566–1752. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eva 

Kreisler, International Compliance 

Assurance Division, Office of Federal 

Activities, Office of Enforcement and 

Compliance Assurance, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mailcode: 2254A, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 564–8186; e-mail address: 

kreisler.eva@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Today’s 

notice relates to any documents or data 

in the following areas: (1) Export of 

Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act (RCRA) hazardous waste under 40 

CFR part 262, subparts E and H; (2) 

import of RCRA hazardous waste under 

40 CFR part 262, subparts F and H; (3) 

transit of RCRA hazardous waste under 

40 CFR part 262, subpart H, through the 

United States and foreign countries; (4) 

export of cathode ray tubes under 40 

CFR part 261, subpart E; (5) export and 

import of RCRA universal waste under 

40 CFR part 273, subparts B, C, D, and 

F; and (6) submissions from transporters 

under 40 CFR part 263, or from 

treatment, storage or disposal facilities 

under 40 CFR parts 264 and 265, related 

to exports or imports of hazardous 

waste, including receiving facility 

notices under 40 CFR 264.12(a)(1) and 

265.12(a)(1). 

I. General Information 

EPA has previously published notices 

similar to this one in the Federal 

Register, at 74 FR 20293, May 1, 2009, 

and 72 FR 21006, April 27, 2007 that 

address issues similar to those raised by 

today’s notice. The Agency did not 

receive any comments on the previous 

notices. Since the publication of the 

2009 notice, the Agency has continued 

to receive FOIA requests for documents 

and data contained in the EPA Waste 

International Tracking System 

(‘‘WITSnet’’) database and other EPA 

databases related to hazardous waste 

exports and imports. 

II. Issues Covered by This Notice 

Specifically, EPA receives FOIA 

requests from time to time for 

documentation or data related to 

hazardous waste exports and imports 

that may identify or reference multiple 

parties, and that describe transactions 

involving the movement of specified 

materials in which the parties propose 

to participate or have participated. This 

notice informs ‘‘affected businesses,’’ 1 which could include, among others, 

‘‘transporters’’ 2 and ‘‘consignees,’’ 3 of 

the requests for information in EPA 

database systems and/or contained in 

one or more of the following documents: 

(1) Documents related to the export of 

Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act (RCRA) hazardous waste under 40 

CFR part 262, subparts E and H, 

including but not limited to the 

‘‘notification of intent to export,’’ 4 ‘‘manifests,’’ 5 ‘‘annual reports,’’ 6 ‘‘EPA 

acknowledgements of consent,’’ 7 ’’ any 

subsequent communication 

withdrawing a prior consent or 

objection,’’ 8 ‘‘responses that neither 

consent nor object,’’ ‘‘exception reports,’’ 9 ‘‘transit notifications,’’ 10 and 

‘‘renotifications;’’ 11 (2) documents 

related to the import of hazardous waste 

under 40 CFR part 262, subparts F and 

H, including but not limited to 

notifications of intent to import 

hazardous waste into the U.S. from 

foreign countries; (3) documents related 

to the transit of hazardous waste under 

40 CFR part 262, subpart H, including 

notifications from U.S. exporters of 

intent to transit through foreign 

countries, or notifications from foreign 

countries of intent to transit through the 

U.S.; (4) documents related to the export 

of cathode ray tubes (CRTs) under 40 

CFR part 261, subpart E, including but 

not limited to notifications of intent to 

export CRTs; and (5) documents related 

to the export and import of RCRA 

‘‘universal waste’’ 12 under 40 CFR part 

273, subparts B, C, D, and F. 

1The term ‘‘affected business’’ is defined at 

40 CFR 2.201(d), and is set forth in this 

notice, below. 2The term ‘‘transporter’’ is defined at 40 

CFR 260.10. 3The term ‘‘consignee’’ is defined, for 

different purposes, at 40 CFR 262.51 and 

262.81(c). 4The term ‘‘notification of intent to export’’ 

is described at 40 CFR 262.53. 5The term ‘‘manifest’’ is defined at 40 CFR 

260.10. 6The term ‘‘annual reports’’ is described at 

40 CFR 262.56. 7The term ‘‘EPA acknowledgement of 

consent’’ is defined at 40 CFR 262.51. 8The requirement to forward to the 

exporter ‘‘any subsequent communication 

withdrawing a prior consent or objection’’ is 

found at 42 U.S.C. 6938(e). 


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9The term ‘‘exception reports’’ is described 

at 40 CFR 262.55. 10The term ‘‘transit notifications’’ is 

described at 40 CFR 262.53(e). 11The term ‘‘renotifications’’ is described at 

40 CFR 262.53(c). 12The term ‘‘universal waste’’ is defined at 

40 CFR 273.9. 

Certain businesses, however, do not 

meet the definition of ‘‘affected 

business,’’ and are not covered by 

today’s notice. They consist of any 

business that actually submitted 

information responsive to a FOIA 

request, under the authority of 40 CFR 

parts 260 through 266 and 268, and did 

not assert a claim of business 

confidentiality covering any of that 

information at the time of submission. 

As set forth in the RCRA regulations at 

40 CFR 260.2(b), ‘‘if no such [business 

confidentiality] claim accompanies the 

information when it is received by EPA, 

it may be made available to the public 

without further notice to the person 

submitting it.’’ Thus, for purposes of this 

notice and as a general matter under 40 

CFR 260.2(b), a business that submitted 

to EPA the documents at issue, pursuant 

to applicable regulatory requirements, 

and that failed to assert a claim as to 

information that pertains to it at the 

time of submission, cannot later make a 

confidentiality claim.13 Nevertheless, 

other businesses identified or referenced 

in the same documents that were 

submitted to EPA by the submitting 

business may have a right to assert a CBI 

claim concerning information that 

pertains to them and may do so in 

response to this notice. 

13However, businesses having submitted 

information to EPA relating to the export and 

import of RCRA universal waste are not 

subject to 40 CFR 260.2(b) since they 

submitted information in accordance with 40 

CFR part 273, and not parts 260 through 266 

and 268, as set forth in 40 CFR 260.2(b). They 

are therefore affected businesses that could 

make a claim of CBI at the time of submission 

or in response to this notice. 

In addition, EPA may develop its own 

documents and organize into its 

database systems information that was 

originally contained in documents from 

submitting businesses relating to 

exports and imports of hazardous waste. 

If a submitting business fails to assert a 

CBI claim for the documents it submits 

to EPA at the time of submission, not 

only does it waive its right to claim CBI 

for those documents, but it also waives 

its right to claim CBI for information in 

EPA’s documents or databases that is 

based on or derived from the documents 

that were originally submitted by that 

business.14

14With the exception, noted above, of the 

submission of information relating to the 

export and import of RCRA universal waste. 

In accordance with 40 CFR 2.204(c) 

and (e), this notice inquires whether any 

affected business asserts a claim that 

any of the requested information 

constitutes CBI, and affords such 

business an opportunity to comment to 

EPA on the issue. This notice also 

informs affected businesses that, if a 

claim is made, EPA would determine 

under 40 CFR part 2, subpart B, whether 

any of the requested information is 

entitled to confidential treatment. 

1. Affected Businesses 

EPA’s FOIA regulations at 40 CFR 

2.204(c)(1) require an EPA office that is 

responsible for responding to a FOIA 

request for the release of business 

information (‘‘EPA office’’) ‘‘to determine 

which businesses, if any, are affected 

businesses * * *.’’ ‘‘Affected business’’ 

is defined at 40 CFR 2.201(d) as, ‘‘* * * 

with reference to an item of business 

information, a business which has 

asserted (and not waived or withdrawn) 

a business confidentiality claim 

covering the information, or a business 

which could be expected to make such 

a claim if it were aware that disclosure 

of the information to the public was 

proposed.’’ 

2. The Purposes of This Notice 

This notice encompasses two distinct 

steps in the process of communication 

with affected businesses prior to EPA’s 

making a final determination 

concerning the confidentiality of the 

information at issue: The preliminary 

inquiry and the notice of opportunity to 

comment. 

a. Inquiry To Learn Whether Affected 

Businesses (Other Than Those 

Businesses That Previously Asserted a 

CBI Claim) Assert Claims Covering Any 

of the Requested Information 

Section 2.204(c)(2)(i) provides, in 

relevant part: 

If the examination conducted under 

paragraph (c)(1) of this section discloses 

the existence of any business which, 

although it has not asserted a claim, 

might be expected to assert a claim if it 

knew EPA proposed to disclose the 

information, the EPA office shall contact 

a responsible official of each such 

business to learn whether the business 

asserts a claim covering the information. 

b. Notice of Opportunity To Submit 

Comments 

Sections 2.204(d)(1)(i) and 2.204(e)(1) 

of Title 40 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations require that written notice 

be provided to businesses that have 

made claims of business confidentiality 

for any of the information at issue, 

stating that EPA is determining under 

40 CFR part 2, subpart B, whether the 

information is entitled to confidential 

treatment, and affording each business 

an opportunity to comment as to the 

reasons why it believes that the 

information deserves confidential 

treatment. 

3. The Use of Publication in the Federal 

Register 

Section 2.204(e)(1) of Title 40 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations requires 

that this type of notice be furnished by 

certified mail (return receipt requested), 

by personal delivery, or by other means 

which allows verification of the fact and 

date of receipt. EPA, however, has 

determined that in the present 

circumstances the use of a Federal 

Register notice is the only practical and 

efficient way to contact affected 

businesses and to furnish the notice of 

opportunity to submit comments. The 

Agency’s decision to follow this course 

was made in recognition of the 

administrative difficulty and 

impracticality of directly contacting 

potentially thousands of individual 

businesses. 

4. Submission of Your Response in the 

English Language 

All responses to this notice must be 

in the English language. 

5. The Effect of Failure To Respond to 

This Notice 

In accordance with 40 CFR 2.204(e)(1) 

and 2.205(d)(1), EPA will construe your 

failure to furnish timely comments in 

response to this notice as a waiver of 

your business’ claim(s) of 

confidentiality for any information in 

the types of documents identified in this 

notice. 

6. What To Include in Your Comments 

If you believe that any of the 

information contained in the types of 

documents which are described in this 

notice and which are currently, or may 

become, subject to FOIA requests, is 

entitled to confidential treatment, please 

specify which portions of the 

information you consider confidential. 

Information not specifically identified 

as subject to a confidentiality claim may 

be disclosed to the requestor without 

further notice to you. 

For each item or class of information 

that you identify as being subject to 

your claim, please answer the following 

questions, giving as much detail as 

possible: 

1. For what period of time do you 

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maintained as confidential, e.g., until a 

certain date, until the occurrence of a 

specified event, or permanently? If the 

occurrence of a specific event will 

eliminate the need for confidentiality, 

please specify that event. 

2. Information submitted to EPA 

becomes stale over time. Why should 

the information you claim as 

confidential be protected for the time 

period specified in your answer to 

question no. 1? 

3. What measures have you taken to 

protect the information claimed as 

confidential? Have you disclosed the 

information to anyone other than a 

governmental body or someone who is 

bound by an agreement not to disclose 

the information further? If so, why 

should the information still be 

considered confidential? 

4. Is the information contained in any 

publicly available material such as the 

Internet, publicly available databases, 

promotional publications, annual 

reports, or articles? Is there any means 

by which a member of the public could 

obtain access to the information? Is the 

information of a kind that you would 

customarily not release to the public? 

5. Has any governmental body made 

a determination as to the confidentiality 

of the information? If so, please attach 

a copy of the determination. 

6. For each category of information 

claimed as confidential, explain with 

specificity why release of the 

information is likely to cause substantial 

harm to your competitive position. 

Explain the specific nature of those 

harmful effects, why they should be 

viewed as substantial, and the causal 

relationship between disclosure and 

such harmful effects. How could your 

competitors make use of this 

information to your detriment? 

7. Do you assert that the information 

is submitted on a voluntary or a 

mandatory basis? Please explain the 

reason for your assertion. If the business 

asserts that the information is 

voluntarily submitted information, 

please explain whether and why 

disclosure of the information would 

tend to lessen the availability to EPA of 

similar information in the future. 

8. Any other issue you deem relevant. 

Please note that you bear the burden 

of substantiating your confidentiality 

claim. Conclusory allegations will be 

given little or no weight in the 

determination. If you wish to claim any 

of the information in your response as 

confidential, you must mark the 

response ‘‘CONFIDENTIAL’’ or with a 

similar designation, and must bracket 

all text so claimed. Information so 

designated will be disclosed by EPA 

only to the extent allowed by, and by 

means of, the procedures set forth in, 40 

CFR part 2, subpart B. If you fail to 

claim the information as confidential, it 

may be made available to the requestor 

without further notice to you. 

III. What Should I Consider as I 

Prepare My Comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to EPA through http:// 

www.regulations.gov or e-mail. Please 

submit this information by mail to the 

address identified in the ADDRESSES

section of today’s notice for inclusion in 

the non-public CBI docket. Clearly mark 

the part or all of the information that 

you claim to be CBI. For CBI 

information in a disk or CD–ROM that 

you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the 

disk or CD–ROM as CBI and then 

identify electronically within the disk or 

CD–ROM the specific information that 

is claimed as CBI. Information so 

marked will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with the procedures set 

forth in 40 CFR part 2, subpart B. In 

addition to the submission of one 

complete version of the comment that 

includes information claimed as CBI, a 

copy of the comment that does not 

contain the information claimed as CBI 

must be submitted for inclusion in the 

public docket. 

2. Tips for Preparing Your Comments. 

When submitting comments, remember 

to: 

• Identify the notice by docket 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

• Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

• Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

• Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns, and suggest 

alternatives. 

• Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

Dated: January 13, 2010. 

Susan E. Bromm, 

Director, Office of Federal Activities. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9106–1; Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD– 

2007–0925] 

Integrated Science Assessment for 

Carbon Monoxide 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) . 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing 

the availability of a final document 

titled, ‘‘Integrated Science Assessment 

for Carbon Monoxide’’ (EPA/600/R–09/ 

019F). This document was prepared by 

the National Center for Environmental 

Assessment (NCEA) within EPA’s Office 

of Research and Development as part of 

the review of the national ambient air 

quality standards (NAAQS) for carbon 

monoxide. 

DATES: The document will be available 

on January 29, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: The ‘‘Integrated Science 

Assessment for Carbon Monoxide’’ will 

be available primarily via the Internet 

on the National Center for 

Environmental Assessment’s home page 

under the Recent Additions and 

Publications menus at http:// 

www.epa.gov/ncea. A limited number of 

CD–ROM or paper copies will be 

available. Contact Ms. Debbie Wales by 

phone (919–541–4731), fax (919–541– 

5078), or e-mail 

(wales.deborah@epa.gov) to request 

either of these, and please provide your 

name, your mailing address, and the 

document title, ‘‘Integrated Science 

Assessment for Carbon Monoxide’’ 

(EPA/600/R–09/019F) to facilitate 

processing of your request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical information, contact Dr. 

Thomas C. Long, NCEA; telephone: 

919–541–1880; facsimile: 919–541– 

2985; or e-mail: long.tom@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information About the Document 

Section 108(a) of the Clean Air Act 

directs the EPA Administrator to 

identify certain pollutants that ‘‘cause or 

contribute to air pollution which may 

reasonably be anticipated to endanger 

public health or welfare’’ and to issue air 

quality criteria for them. These air 

quality criteria are to ‘‘accurately reflect 

the latest scientific knowledge useful in 

indicating the kind and extent of all 

identifiable effects on public health or 

welfare which may be expected from the 

presence of such pollutant in the 

ambient air * * *.’’ Under section 109 

of the Act, EPA is to establish national 

ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) 

for each pollutant for which EPA has 

issued criteria. Section 109(d) of the Act 

requires periodic review and, if 

appropriate, revision of existing air 

quality criteria to reflect advances in 

scientific knowledge on the effects of 

the pollutant on public health or 

welfare. EPA is also to revise the 


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