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2. In person or by courier. Deliver

your comments to: Public Information

and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB),

Information Resources and Services

Division (7502C), Office of Pesticide

Programs (OPP), Environmental

Protection Agency, Rm. 119, Crystal

Mall #2, 1921 Jefferson Davis Highway,

Arlington, VA. The PIRIB is open from

8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through

Friday, excluding legal holidays. The

PIRIB telephone number is (703) 305–

5805.

3. Electronically. You may submit

your comments electronically by e-mail

to: ‘‘opp-docket@epa.gov,’’ or you can

submit a computer disk as described

above. Do not submit any information

electronically that you consider to be

CBI. Avoid the use of special characters

and any form of encryption. Electronic

submissions will be accepted in

WordPerfect 6.1/8.0 or ASCII file

format. All comments in electronic form

must be identified by docket control

number OPP–30500. Electronic

comments may also be filed online at

many Federal Depository Libraries.

D. How Should I Handle CBI that I Want

to Submit to the Agency?

Do not submit any information

electronically that you consider to be

CBI. You may claim information that

you submit to EPA in response to this

document as CBI by marking any part or

all of that information as CBI.

Information so marked will not be

disclosed except in accordance with

procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2.

In addition to one complete version of

the comment that includes any

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

version of the official record.

Information not marked confidential

will be included in the public version

of the official record without prior

notice. If you have any questions about

CBI or the procedures for claiming CBI,

please consult the person identified

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT.

E. What Should I Consider as I Prepare

My Comments for EPA?

You may find the following

suggestions helpful for preparing your

comments:

1. Explain your views as clearly as

possible.

2. Describe any assumptions that you

used.

3. Provide copies of any technical

information and/or data you used that

support your views.

4. If you estimate potential burden or

costs, explain how you arrived at the

estimate that you provide.

5. Provide specific examples to

illustrate your concerns.

6. Offer alternative ways to improve

the registration activity.

7. Make sure to submit your

comments by the deadline in this

notice.

8. To ensure proper receipt by EPA,

be sure to identify the docket control

number assigned to this action in the

subject line on the first page of your

response. You may also provide the

name, date, and Federal Register

citation.

II. Registration Application

EPA received applications as follows

to register pesticide products containing

active ingredients not included in any

previously registered products or

registered active ingredients with a

significant new use pursuant to the

provisions of section 3(c)(4) of FIFRA.

Notice of receipt of these applications

does not imply a decision by the Agency

on the applications.

A. Products Containing Active

Ingredients Not Included in Any

Previously Registered Products

1. File Symbol: 69697–R and 69697–

E. Applicant: Jellinek, Schwartz &

Connolly, Inc., 1525 Wilson Boulevard,

Suite 600, Arlington, VA 22209 for Plant

Products Co. Ltd., 314 Orenda Road,

Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Product

Name: Sporodex WP. Biological

fungicide. Active ingredient:

Pseudozyma flocculosa at 2%. Proposed

classification/Use: Control powdery

mildew disease on greenhouse-grown

cut roses and English seedless

cucumber.

2. File Symbol: 70571–E. Applicant:

Encore Technologies LLC, 111 Cheshire

Lane, Minnetonka, MN 55305. Product

Name: Mallet WP. Herbicide. Active

ingredient: Colletotrichum

gloeosporioides f. sp. malvae at 8.0%.

Proposed classification/Use: Postemergent control of the weeds roundleaved mallow and small-flowered

mallow.

3. File Symbols: 73314–R and 73314–

E. Applicant: Natural Industries, Inc.,

6223 Theall Road, Houston, TX 77066.

Product Name: Actinovate Soluble and

Actinovate Iron Fulvate. Fungicide.

Active ingredient: Streptomyces lydicus

WYEC 108 at 1.0%. Proposed

classification/Use: Control of soil borne

plant root rot and damping-off fungi.

B. Product Containing the Active

Ingredient (1-methylcyclopropene)

Involving a Changed Use Pattern

EPA Registration Number: 71297–1.

Applicant: BioTechnologies for

Horticulture, Inc., 101 Independence

Mall West, Philadelphia, PA 19106–

2399. Product name: EthylBloc. The

product contains the already registered

active ingredient 1-methylcyclopropene

and is intended for indoor use as a plant

growth regulator on post-harvest fruits

and vegetables for the purpose of

inhibiting the effects of ethylene on food

commodities. This is a significant new

use.

List of Subjects

Environmental protection, Pesticides

and pest.

Dated: September 18, 2000.

Janet L. Andersen,

Director, Biopesticides and Pollution

Prevention Division, Office of Pesticide

Programs.

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–F

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6880–9]

Draft Dioxin Reassessment

Documents; Dose-Response Modeling

for 2,3,7,8-TCDD, Toxic Equivalency

Factors (TEFS) for Dioxin and Related

Compounds and Integrated Summary

and Risk Characterization for 2,3,7,8-

Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin (TCDD)

and Related Compounds

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of availability of draft

documents for public review and

comment and announcement of close of

public comment period.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing

the availability of Science Advisory

Board (SAB) review drafts of the Draft

Dioxin Reassessment Documents,

Chapter 8: Dose-Response Modeling for

2,3,7,8-TCDD, Chapter 9: Toxic

Equivalency Factors (TEFs) for Dioxin

and Related Compounds, and Part III:

Integrated Summary and Risk

Characterization for 2,3,7,8-

Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin (TCDD)

and Related Compounds, for public

review and comment. The documents

were prepared by the EPA’s Office of

Research and Development (ORD) with

the involvement of other federal

agencies, in particular the National

Institutes of Health’s National Institute

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of Environmental Health Sciences. The

Agency is also announcing the date for

the close of the public comment period

that began on June 12, 2000.

DATES: In a June 12, 2000 Federal

Register (65 FR 36898), the Agency

announced the beginning of an

extended public comment period, on

both a previous version of these draft

documents as well as those discussed in

this Notice. It announced that the

comment period began on June 12 and

will be concluded two weeks following

the SAB peer review meeting in the Fall.

All public comments should be

submitted by close of business on

November 17, 2000. The SAB review

meeting is scheduled for November 1

and 2, 2000, and details related to that

meeting will be announced in a separate

FR notice.

Document Availability

The primary distribution method for

the three SAB review drafts of the doseresponse modeling chapter (hereafter,

Chapter 8), the TEF chapter (hereafter,

Chapter 9) and Integrated Summary and

Risk Characterization (hereafter, Part III)

will be via the Internet on ORD’s

National Center for Environmental

Assessment (NCEA) website. These SAB

review drafts, in PDF format, are

available at http://www.epa.gov/ncea/

dioxin.htm. These documents can be

reviewed and downloaded from the

Internet. Background information is also

available at the above-mentioned

Internet site. This information, provided

as background only, consists of other

draft final exposure and health sections

of the reassessment, specifically Part I:

Estimating Exposure to Dioxin-Like

Compounds (Volumes 2–4) and Part II:

Health Assessment for 2,3,7,8-

Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin (TCDD)

and Related Compounds (Chapters 1–7).

In addition, a Compact Disk-Read Only

Memory (CD–ROM) containing the three

SAB review drafts, the background

information, and the draft final Database

of Sources of Environmental Releases of

Dioxin-Like Compounds in the United

States, is available from EPA’s National

Service Center for Environmental

Publications (NSCEP) in Cincinnati,

Ohio (telephone: 1–800–490–9198, or

513–489–8190; facsimile 513–489–

8695). If you are requesting a copy of the

CD–ROM, please provide your name,

mailing address, and reference the

‘‘Dioxin CD/September 2000’’ and

document number EPA/600/P–00/

001Bb-Be. The background documents

are available only on CD–ROM and the

Internet. A limited number of paper

copies of draft Chapter 8, Chapter 9, and

Part III will be available from NSCEP.

To receive paper copies please provide

your name, mailing address, and the

document title and number, Part II.

Chapter 8: Dose-Response Modeling for

2,3,7,8–TCDD, document number

NCEA–I–0835; Part II. Chapter 9: Toxic

Equivalency Factors (TEFs) for Dioxin

and Related Compounds, document

number NCEA–I–0836; and/or Part III.

Integrated Summary and Risk

Characterization for 2,3,7,8-

Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin (TCDD)

and Related Compounds, document

number EPA/600/P–00/001Bg.

Comment Submission

Comments should be in writing and

mailed to the Technical Information

Staff (8623D), NCEA–W, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Ariel Rios

Building, Washington, DC 20460, or

delivered to the Technical Information

Staff at 808 17th Street, N.W., 5th Floor,

Washington, DC 20006; telephone: (202)

564–3261; facsimile: (202) 565–0050.

One unbound original with pages

numbered consecutively, including

attachments, and three copies should be

submitted. An index is required for any

attachments. Electronic comments may

be emailed to: ncea.dioxin@epa.gov.

Commentors are requested to make clear

that their comments pertain to the

September 2000 SAB review drafts.

Please note that all technical

comments received in response to this

notice will be placed in a public record.

Commentors should not submit

personal information (such as medical

data or home address), Confidential

Business Information, or information

protected by copyright. Due to limited

resources, acknowledgments will not be

sent.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

information contact the Technical

Information Staff, NCEA–W (8623D),

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, DC 20460; telephone: 202–

564–3261; facsimile: 202–565–0050; email: ncea.dioxin@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In April

1991, EPA announced that it would

conduct a scientific reassessment of the

health risks of exposure to dioxin and

dioxin-like compounds. EPA undertook

the 1991 reassessment in light of

significant advances in our scientific

understanding of mechanisms of dioxin

toxicity, significant new studies of

dioxin’s carcinogenic potential in

humans and increased evidence of other

adverse health effects.

In September 1994, EPA released the

external review drafts of the health

effects and exposure documents. In late

1994, EPA took public comment and

held numerous public meetings across

the country on the drafts, followed by

SAB review of the draft dioxin

reassessment in May 1995. The SAB’s

report was received in the Fall of that

year. In its report to the Agency, the

SAB responded favorably to most

portions of the reassessment, but

recommended substantive revision of

two key sections (Chapter 8 and the Risk

Characterization document) and

development of an additional document

that would focus on TEFs for dioxin and

dioxin-like compounds. They also

requested that the two redrafted

documents and the new TEF chapter be

submitted for independent external peer

review before being returned to the SAB

for re-review. With respect to Chapters

1–7 of the health document and the full

exposure reassessment document, the

SAB accepted these sections. They

suggested that the sections be updated

to address public and SAB comments

and to incorporate new scientific data.

However, the SAB’s report stated that

substantive further review of these

sections by the SAB was not needed.

On July 25 and 26, 2000, an external

scientific peer-review meeting was held

to review the new Chapter 9 and revised

Part III. The third section of the

reassessment on which the SAB

recommended substantive revision,

Chapter 8, underwent public comment

and external peer review in March 1997.

The July peer review meeting focused

on the key science issues including: the

characterization of cancer risk, how to

extrapolate between animals and

humans, non-cancer effects seen close to

background exposures, and children’s

risk. A range of opinions regarding

EPA’s treatment of these issues in the

draft chapters were expressed.

Suggestions were made regarding

improved presentation of these key

science issues.

After the July 25 and 26 external peer

review meeting and subsequent receipt

of the final meeting report, dated August

24, the documents were revised to

address the comments of the scientific

peer reviewers and the public comments

received prior to September 25, the date

the drafts were provided to the SAB

review panel. The SAB will conduct its

scientific peer review of draft Chapter 8,

Chapter 9, and Part III on Wednesday

and Thursday, November 1 and 2. The

SAB review will be announced in a

separate Federal Register notice.

Following the SAB meeting, EPA will

revise the draft reassessment documents

to incorporate appropriate changes that

have been indicated by the comments of

Federal agencies, the public, and the

SAB review panel. SAB approval is

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needed to produce a final EPA dioxin

reassessment document.

Dated: September 28, 2000.

Henry L. Longest II,

Deputy Assistant Administrator for

Management, Office of Research and

Development.

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–U

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6880–4]

Proposed CERCLA Administrative

Cost Recovery Settlement; Jasco

Chemical Superfund Site

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice; request for public

comment.

SUMMARY: In accordance with Section

122(i) of the Comprehensive

Environmental Response,

Compensation, and Liability Act, as

amended (‘‘CERCLA’’), 42 U.S.C.

9622(i), notice is hereby given of a

proposed administrative settlement for

recovery of past and future response

costs concerning the Jasco Chemical

Superfund Site in Mountain View,

California with the following settling

parties: JASCO Chemical Corporation,

Harry M. Anthony, and Carol Jean

Anthony. The settlement requires the

settling parties to pay $5,862.60, all of

the outstanding past response costs as of

31 March 2000, and all future response

costs (costs after 31 March 2000) to the

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

(the ‘‘Agency’’ or ‘‘EPA’’) Hazardous

Substance Superfund. Under the terms

of the AOC, the Parties will pay

$5,862.60 to the Superfund within 10

days of the effective date of the AOC.

Furthermore, the Parties agree to pay the

United States’ future response costs

incurred at or in connection with the

Site. Upon payment by the settling

parties of EPA’s response costs, the

settling parties shall have resolved any

and all civil liability to EPA under

Section 107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C.

9607(a), for reimbursement of such

response costs. For thirty (30) days

following the date of publication of this

notice, the Agency will receive written

comments relating to the settlement.

The Agency will consider all comments

received and may modify or withdraw

its consent to the settlement if

comments received disclose facts or

considerations which indicate that the

settlement is inappropriate, improper,

or inadequate. The Agency’s response to

any comments received will be available

for public inspection at Jasco Chemical

Superfund Site at 1710 Villa Street,

Mountain View, California and at

USEPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street,

San Francisco, California.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before November 3, 2000.

ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement

document is available for public

inspection at EPA Region IX, 75

Hawthorne Street, San Francisco,

California. A copy of the proposed

settlement document may be obtained

from Ellen Manges, Superfund Division

(SFD–7–2), USEPA Region IX, 75

Hawthorne St., San Francisco,

California, (415) 744–2228. Comments

should reference the Jasco Chemical

Superfund Site, Mountain View,

California, and EPA Docket No. 2000–11

and should be addressed to Ellen

Manges, Superfund Division (SFD–7–2),

USEPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne St.,

San Francisco, California.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ellen Manges, Superfund Division

(SFD–7–2), USEPA Region IX, 75

Hawthorne St., San Francisco,

California, (415) 744–2228.

Dated: September 25, 2000.

John Kemmerer,

Acting Director, Superfund Division, Region

IX.

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–U

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

Notice of Public Information

Collection(s) being Reviewed by the

Federal Communications Commission

September 26, 2000.

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications

Commission, as part of its continuing

effort to reduce paperwork burden

invites the general public and other

Federal agencies to take this

opportunity to comment on the

following information collection(s), as

required by the Paperwork Reduction

Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13. An

agency may not conduct or sponsor a

collection of information unless it

displays a currently valid control

number. No person shall be subject to

any penalty for failing to comply with

a collection of information subject to the

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) that

does not display a valid control number.

Comments are requested concerning (a)

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;

(b) the accuracy of the Commission’s

burden estimate; (c) ways to enhance

the quality, utility, and clarity of the

information collected; and (d) 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.

DATES: Written comments should be

submitted on or before November 3,

2000. 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 contact listed below as soon

as possible.

ADDRESSES: Direct all comments to Judy

Boley, Federal Communications

Commission, Room 1–C804, 445 12th

Street, SW, DC 20554 or via the Internet

to jboley@fcc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

additional information or copies of the

information collection(s), contact Judy

Boley at 202–418–0214 or via the

Internet at jboley@fcc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

OMB Control No.: 3060–0292.

Title: Part 69—Access Charges.

Form No.: N/A.

Type of Review: Revision of a

currently approved collection.

Respondents: Business or other forprofit.

Number of Respondents: 1,458

respondents; 5,832 responses.

Estimated Time Per Response: 5

hours.

Frequency of Response: Third party

disclosure requirement; on occasion,

semi-annual, annual, biennial, and/or

monthly reporting requirements.

Total Annual Burden: 27,702 hours.

Total Annual Cost: N/A.

Needs and Uses: Part 69 of the

Commission’s rules and regulations

establishes the rules for access charges

for interstate or foreign access provided

by telephone companies. Local

telephone companies and states are

required to submit information to the

Commission and/or the National

Exchange Carrier Association (NECA).

The information is used to compute

charges in tariffs for access service (or

origination and termination) and to

computer revenue pool distributions.

This information collection was revised

due to expiration of two requirements,

i.e., Section 69.104(k)(1) and 69.104(l).

Federal Communications Commission.

Magalie Roman Salas,

Secretary.

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BILLING CODE 6712–01–U