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committees, or workgroups are reviewed 

by the Chartered SAB before being 

finalized and transmitted to the EPA 

Administrator. (2) The SAB will discuss 

a draft report developed by an SAB 

workgroup on the proposed rule titled 

New Source Performance Standards: 

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New, 

Modified, and Reconstructed Fossil 

Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units; 

Emission Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas 

Emissions from Existing Fossil FuelFired Electric Generating Units; and 

Repeal of the Affordable Clean Energy 

Rule (RIN 2060–AV09). (3) The SAB 

will discuss recommendations received 

from the SAB Workgroup for Review of 

Science Supporting EPA Decisions 

concerning SAB review of EPA planned 

regulatory actions. Under the SAB’s 

authorizing statute, the SAB ‘‘may make 

available to the Administrator, within 

the time specified by the Administrator, 

its advice and comments on the 

adequacy of the scientific and technical 

basis’’ of proposed rules. The SAB 

Workgroup for Review of Science 

Supporting EPA Decisions (SAB SSD 

Workgroup) is charged with identifying 

EPA planned actions that may warrant 

SAB review. 

Availability of meeting materials: All 

meeting materials, including the agenda, 

will be available on the SAB web page 

at https://sab.epa.gov. 

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 pertaining to the 

committee’s charge or meeting 

materials. Input from the public to the 

SAB will have the most impact if it 

provides specific scientific or technical 

information or analysis for the SAB to 

consider or if it relates to the clarity or 

accuracy of the technical information. 

Members of the public wishing to 

provide comments should follow the 

instruction below to submit comments. 

Oral statements: In general, 

individuals or groups requesting an oral 

presentation will be limited to three 

minutes. Each person making an oral 

statement should consider providing 

written comments as well as their oral 

statement so that the points presented 

orally can be expanded upon in writing. 

Persons interested in providing oral 

statements should contact the DFO, in 

writing (preferably via email) at the 

contact information noted under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, by 

February 22, 2024, to be placed on the 

list of registered speakers. 

Written statements: Written 

statements will be accepted throughout 

the advisory process; however, for 

timely consideration by SAB members, 

statements should be submitted to the 

DFO by February 22, 2024, for 

consideration at the February 29, 2024, 

meeting. Written statements should be 

supplied to the DFO at the contact 

information above via email. Submitters 

are requested to provide an unsigned 

version of each document because the 

SAB Staff Office does not publish 

documents with signatures on its 

websites. Members of the public should 

be aware that their personal contact 

information if included in any written 

comments, may be posted to the SAB 

website. Copyrighted material will not 

be posted without the explicit 

permission of the copyright holder. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact the DFO, at 

the contact information noted above, 

preferably at least ten days before the 

meeting, to give the EPA as much time 

as possible to process your request. 

Thomas H. Brennan, 

Director, Science Advisory Board Staff Office. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–ORD–2020–0701; FRL–11654–01– 

ORD] 

Integrated Science Assessment for 

Lead 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is announcing the 

availability of a final document titled, 

‘‘Integrated Science Assessment for 

Lead’’ (EPA/600/R–23/375). The 

document was prepared by the Center 

for Public Health and Environmental 

Assessment (CPHEA) within EPA’s 

Office of Research and Development 

(ORD) as part of the review of the 

primary (health-based) and secondary 

(welfare-based) lead national ambient 

air quality standards (NAAQS) and 

represents an update of the 2013 

Integrated Science Assessment (ISA) for 

Lead (EPA/600/R–10/075F). The final 

lead ISA, in conjunction with additional 

technical and policy assessments, will 

provide the scientific foundation for 

EPA’s decisions on the adequacy of the 

current lead NAAQS and, if appropriate, 

on potential alternative standards. 

DATES: The document will be available 

on or about January 31, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: The ‘‘Integrated Science 

Assessment for Lead’’ will be available 

primarily via the internet on EPA’s 

Integrated Science Assessment Lead 

page at https://www.epa.gov/isa/ 

integrated-science-assessment-isa-lead 

or the public docket at http://

www.regulations.gov, Docket ID: No. 

EPA–HQ–ORD–2020–0701; FRL– 

11654–01–ORD. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical information, contact Evan 

Coffman (919–541–0567 or 

Coffman.Evan@epa.gov) or Meredith 

Lassiter (919–541–3200 or 

Lassiter.Meredith@epa.gov). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information About the Document 

Section 108(a) of the Clean Air Act 

(the Act) directs the EPA Administrator 

to identify and list certain air pollutants 

that ‘‘may reasonably be anticipated to 

endanger public health or welfare’’ and 

‘‘the presence of which in the ambient 

air results from numerous or diverse 

mobile or stationary sources.’’ The Act 

further directs the Administrator to 

issue air quality criteria for these 

pollutants. The 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 then to 

establish NAAQS for each pollutant for 

which the Agency has issued air quality 

criteria. Section 109(d)(1) requires 

periodic review and, if appropriate, 

revision of air quality criteria and the 

NAAQS to reflect advances in scientific 

knowledge on the effects of the 

pollutant on public health or welfare. 

Information on EPA’s process for 

reviewing the air quality criteria and the 

NAAQS is available at https://

www.epa.gov/naaqs. 

EPA has established NAAQS for six 

criteria pollutants. Presently, the EPA is 

reviewing the air quality criteria and 

NAAQS for lead. As part of that review, 

EPA prepared an ISA that reflects the 

latest scientific knowledge on the public 

health and welfare effects of lead 

exposures, per section 108(a) of the Act. 

The final lead ISA, in conjunction with 

additional technical and policy 

assessments, will provide the scientific 


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foundation for EPA’s decisions on the 

adequacy of the current lead NAAQS 

and, if appropriate, on potential 

alternative standards. The Clean Air 

Scientific Advisory Committee 

(CASAC), an independent scientific 

advisory committee with review and 

advisory functions that are mandated by 

section 109(d)(2) of the Act, provides 

independent scientific review of the 

draft ISA and related draft technical and 

policy assessments. 

On July 7, 2020 (85 FR 40641), EPA 

formally initiated its current review of 

the air quality criteria for the health and 

welfare effects of lead and the primary 

(health-based) and secondary (welfarebased) NAAQS, requesting the 

submission of scientific and policyrelevant information on specified topics. 

This information was incorporated into 

Volume 2 of EPA’s ‘‘Integrated Review 

Plan for the Review of the Lead National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards 

(External Review Draft),’’ which was 

available for public comment (87 FR 

13732, March 10, 2022) and discussed 

by the CASAC via a publicly accessible 

teleconference consultation (87 FR 

15985, March 21, 2022). Volume 2 of the 

‘‘Integrated Review Plan for the Review 

of the Lead National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards’’ is focused on 

planning for the review and the ISA and 

was posted to the EPA website in March 

2022 (https://www.epa.gov/naaqs/leadpb-standards-planning-documentscurrent-review). 

In developing the lead ISA, webinar 

workshops were held on May 26, June 

7, June 22, and June 29, 2022, to discuss 

initial draft materials with invited EPA 

and external scientific experts (87 FR 

27147, May 6, 2022). The input received 

during these webinar workshops aided 

in developing the ‘‘Integrated Science 

Assessment for Lead (External Review 

Draft)’’, released on March 31, 2023 

(EPA/600/R–23/061, 88 FR 19302), and 

made available at: https://

cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/isa/

recordisplay.cfm?deid=357282. The 

CASAC met at a public meeting on June 

13 and June 14, 2023 (88 FR 17218, 

March 22, 2023), to review the draft lead 

ISA. A public teleconference was then 

held on August 23 and August 24, 2023, 

for CASAC to review their draft letter to 

the Administrator on the draft lead ISA 

(88 FR 45415, July 17, 2023). 

Subsequently, on September 18, 2023, 

the CASAC provided a consensus letter 

of their review to the EPA Administrator 

(EPA–CASAC–23–003), available at: 

https://casac.epa.gov/ords/sab/r/sab_

apex/casac/activity?p18_id=2637&

clear=18&session=363677211680#

report. The letter from the CASAC, as 

well as public comments received on 

the draft lead ISA, can also be found in 

the Docket (EPA–HQ–ORD–2020–0701). 

The EPA Administrator responded to 

the CASAC’s letter on the draft lead ISA 

on October 30, 2023, and the letter is 

available at: https://casac.epa.gov/ords/ 

sab/r/sab_apex/casac/ar?session=

8387849145801. EPA has considered 

comments by the CASAC panel and by 

the public in preparing this final ISA. 

More information can be found in 

Appendix 12, Section 12.7.5, of the final 

lead ISA (EPA/600/R–23/375). 

Wayne Cascio, 

Director, Center for Public Health and 

Environmental Assessment. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[OMB 3060–0422; FR ID 201021] 

Information Collections Being 

Reviewed by the Federal 

Communications Commission 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burdens, and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (PRA), the Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC or 

Commission) invites the general public 

and other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collections. 

Comments are requested concerning: 

whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Commission, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

the accuracy of the Commission’s 

burden estimate; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected; ways to minimize 

the burden of the collection of 

information on the respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology; and ways to 

further reduce the information 

collection burden on small business 

concerns with fewer than 25 employees. 

The FCC may not conduct or sponsor 

a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) control 

number. No person shall be subject to 

any penalty for failing to comply with 

a collection of information subject to the 

PRA that does not display a valid OMB 

control number. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted on or before April 8, 2024. If 

you anticipate that you will be 

submitting comments, but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the contacts below as soon as 

possible. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to 

Cathy Williams, FCC, via email: PRA@

fcc.gov and to Cathy.Williams@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information about the 

information collection, contact Cathy 

Williams at (202) 418–2918. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0422. 

Title: Hearing Aid Compatibility; 

Access to Telecommunications 

Equipment and Services by Persons 

with Disabilities; Section 68.5 Waivers, 

CC Docket No. 87–124 and CG Docket 

No. 13–46. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities; not-for-profit entities. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 331 respondents; 2,512 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 0.25 

hour (15 minutes) to 24 hours. 

Frequency of Response: Annual and 

on-occasion reporting requirements; 

Third party disclosure requirement; 

Recordkeeping requirement. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. The statutory 

authority for this information collection 

is found at section 710 of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended, 47 U.S.C. 610. 

Total Annual Burden: 5,930 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: $375,000. 

Needs and Uses: This notice and 

request for comments pertains to the 

extension of the currently approved 

information collection requirements 

concerning hearing aid compatibility 

(HAC) for wireline handsets used with 

the legacy telephone network and with 

advanced communications services 

(ACS), such as Voice over internet 

Protocol (VoIP). The latter are known as 

ACS telephonic customer premises 

equipment (ACS telephonic CPE). 

Beginning in the 1980s, the 

Commission adopted a series of 

regulations to implement statutory 

directives in section 710(b) of the 

Communications Act of 1934 requiring 

wireline telephone handsets in the 

United States (for use with the legacy 

telephone network) to be hearing aid 

compatible. 47 U.S.C. 610. In 2010, the 


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