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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9940–04–OA] 

Notification of Two Teleconferences 

and a Face-to-Face Meeting of the 

Science Advisory Board EconomyWide Modeling Panel 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA or Agency) Science 

Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office 

announces two public teleconferences 

of the SAB Economy-Wide Modeling 

Panel. The SAB Staff Office also 

announces a public face-to-face meeting 

of the SAB Economy-Wide Modeling 

Panel. 

DATES: The public teleconferences will 

be held on March 10, 2016 from 3 p.m. 

to 6 p.m. (Eastern Time) and May 19, 

2016 from 1 p.m.–4 p.m. (Eastern Time). 

The public face-to-face meeting will be 

held on July 19–20, 2016 from 9 a.m. to 

5 p.m. each day (Eastern Time). 

ADDRESSES: The teleconferences will be 

held by telephone only. The face-to-face 

meeting will take place at George 

Washington University, Milken Institute 

School of Public Health, Convening 

Center A and B, 950 New Hampshire 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20052. 

The public can view the July 19–20, 

2016 face-to-face meeting via a noninteractive, live webcast that will be 

broadcast on the internet. The 

connection information to view the 

webcast will be provided on the meeting 

Web page at the time of the meeting. 

The meeting Web page may be found by 

going to http://epa.gov/sab and clicking 

on the calendar then the meeting date. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing further 

information regarding the public 

teleconferences or public meeting may 

contact Dr. Holly Stallworth, Designated 

Federal Officer (DFO), SAB Staff Office, 

by telephone/voice mail at (202) 564– 

2073 or via email at stallworth.holly@

epa.gov. General information 

concerning the EPA Science Advisory 

Board can be found at the EPA SAB 

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The SAB was established 

pursuant to the Environmental 

Research, Development, and 

Demonstration Authorization Act 

(ERDAA) codified at 42 U.S.C. 4365, to 

provide 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. 

Pursuant to FACA and EPA policy, 

notice is hereby given that the SAB 

Economy-Wide Modeling Panel will 

hold two public teleconferences to 

discuss its draft responses to charge 

questions from EPA’s National Center 

for Environmental Economics and the 

Office of Air and Radiation on the role 

of economy-wide modeling in 

generating estimates of social costs and 

benefits for air regulations at EPA. After 

holding teleconferences on March 10, 

2016 (3 p.m.–6 p.m.) and May 19, 2016 

(1 p.m.–4 p.m.) to discuss its draft 

responses to charge questions on social 

costs and benefits, the SAB EconomyWide Modeling Panel will hold a faceto-face meeting on July 19–20, 2016 to 

deliberate on charge questions on 

analyzing economic impacts and 

comparing estimates of social costs, 

benefits, and economic impacts using 

economy-wide modeling. Some meeting 

time at the July 19–20, 2016 meeting 

may also be devoted to discussion of 

draft responses to EPA’s charge 

questions on social costs and benefits. 

The EPA-authored white papers on 

economic impacts analysis and the 

comparison of estimates of social costs, 

benefits and impacts using economywide modeling will be provided to the 

Panel and the public prior to the July 

19–20, 2016 face-to-face meeting. The 

SAB will comply with the provisions of 

FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff 

Office procedural policies. Background 

information on the SAB Economy-Wide 

Modeling Panel can be found at 

http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/ 

sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_activites/

Economywide%20modeling?

OpenDocument. 

Availability of the meeting materials: 

Agendas, EPA’s forthcoming white 

papers and other meeting materials will 

be posted on the SAB Web site prior to 

the teleconferences and face-to-face 

meeting. To find these materials, go to 

http://epa.gov/sab and click on the 

calendar and then the respective 

meeting dates. For questions concerning 

EPA’s review materials on economywide modeling, please contact Dr. Ann 

Wolverton, EPA National Center for 

Environmental Economics at 

wolverton.ann@epa.gov or 202–566– 

2278. 

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. 

Members of the public can submit 

relevant comments on the topic of this 

advisory activity, including the charge 

to the Panel and the EPA review 

documents, 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 consists of 

comments that provide specific 

scientific or technical information or 

analysis for the SAB panel to consider 

or if it relates to the clarity or accuracy 

of the technical information. 

Oral Statements: In general, 

individuals or groups requesting an oral 

presentation at the will be limited to 

five minutes per speaker for the face-toface meeting and three minutes per 

speaker for the teleconference. 

Interested parties should contact Dr. 

Holly Stallworth, DFO, in writing 

(preferably via email), at the contact 

information noted above, one week (7 

days) prior to the teleconference or faceto-face meeting to be placed on the list 

of public speakers for that 

teleconference or meeting. 

Written Statements: Written 

statements should be received in the 

SAB Staff Office one week (7 days) prior 

to each meeting or teleconference. 

Written statements should be supplied 

to the DFO, preferably in electronic 

format via email. 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 Dr. 

Stallworth at the phone number or 

email address noted above, 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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77626 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 240 / Tuesday, December 15, 2015 / Notices 

Dated: December 3, 2015. 

Thomas H. Brennan, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

[FR Doc. 2015–31465 Filed 12–14–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2015–0505; FRL 9939–67] 

Certain New Chemicals; Receipt and 

Status Information for October 2015 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA is required under the 

Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to 

publish in the Federal Register a notice 

of receipt of a premanufacture notice 

(PMN); an application for a test 

marketing exemption (TME), both 

pending and/or expired; and a periodic 

status report on any new chemicals 

under EPA review and the receipt of 

notices of commencement (NOC) to 

manufacture those chemicals. This 

document covers the period from 

October 1, 2015 to October 30, 2015. 

DATES: Comments identified by the 

specific case number provided in this 

document, must be received on or 

before January 14, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPPT–2015–0505, 

and the specific PMN number or TME 

number for the chemical related to your 

comment, by one of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

• Mail: Document Control Office 

(7407M), Office of Pollution Prevention 

and Toxics (OPPT), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: To make special 

arrangements for hand delivery or 

delivery of boxed information, please 

follow the instructions at http://

www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html. 

Additional instructions on 

commenting or visiting the docket, 

along with more information about 

dockets generally, is available at 

http://www.epa.gov/dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical information contact: Jim 

Rahai, IMD (7407M), Office of Pollution 

Prevention and Toxics, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001; 

telephone number: (202) 564–8593; 

email address: rahai.jim@epa.gov. 

For general information contact: The 

TSCA-Hotline, ABVI-Goodwill, 422 

South Clinton Ave., Rochester, NY 

14620; telephone number: (202) 554– 

1404; email address: TSCA-Hotline@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general. As such, the Agency has not 

attempted to describe the specific 

entities that this action may apply to. 

Although others may be affected, this 

action applies directly to the submitters 

of the actions addressed in this 

document. 

B. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to EPA through 

regulations.gov or email. 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. In addition to 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. Information so marked 

will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR part 2. 

2. Tips for preparing your comments. 

When preparing and submitting your 

comments, see the commenting tips at 

http://www.epa.gov/dockets/

comments.html. 

II. What action is the agency taking? 

This document provides receipt and 

status reports, which cover the period 

from October 1, 2015 to October 30, 

2015, and consists of the PMNs and 

TMEs both pending and/or expired, and 

the NOCs to manufacture a new 

chemical that the Agency has received 

under TSCA section 5 during this time 

period. 

III. What is the agency’s authority for 

taking this action? 

Under TSCA, 15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq., 

EPA classifies a chemical substance as 

either an ‘‘existing’’ chemical or a 

‘‘new’’ chemical. Any chemical 

substance that is not on EPA’s TSCA 

Inventory is classified as a ‘‘new 

chemical,’’ while those that are on the 

TSCA Inventory are classified as an 

‘‘existing chemical.’’ For more 

information about the TSCA Inventory 

go to: http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/

newchems/pubs/inventory.htm. 

Anyone who plans to manufacture or 

import a new chemical substance for a 

non-exempt commercial purpose is 

required by TSCA section 5 to provide 

EPA with a PMN, before initiating the 

activity. Section 5(h)(1) of TSCA 

authorizes EPA to allow persons, upon 

application, to manufacture (includes 

import) or process a new chemical 

substance, or a chemical substance 

subject to a significant new use rule 

(SNUR) issued under TSCA section 5(a), 

for ‘‘test marketing’’ purposes, which is 

referred to as a test marketing 

exemption, or TME. For more 

information about the requirements 

applicable to a new chemical go to: 

http://www.epa.gov/oppt/newchems. 

Under TSCA sections 5(d)(2) and 

5(d)(3), EPA is required to publish in 

the Federal Register a notice of receipt 

of a PMN or an application for a TME 

and to publish in the Federal Register 

periodic reports on the status of new 

chemicals under review and the receipt 

of NOCs to manufacture those 

chemicals. 

IV. Receipt and Status Reports 

As used in each of the tables in this 

unit, (S) indicates that the information 

in the table is the specific information 

provided by the submitter, and (G) 

indicates that the information in the 

table is generic information because the 

specific information provided by the 

submitter was claimed as CBI. 

For the 47 PMNs received by EPA 

during this period, Table 1 provides the 

following information (to the extent that 

such information is not claimed as CBI): 

The EPA case number assigned to the 

PMN; the date the PMN was received by 

EPA; the projected end date for EPA’s 

review of the PMN; the submitting 

manufacturer/importer; the potential 

uses identified by the manufacturer/

importer in the PMN; and the chemical 

identity. 


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