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(202) 564–4885; fax (202) 565–2098; or 

email at carpenter.thomas@epa.gov. 

General information concerning the 

SAB can be found on the SAB Web site 

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA), as 

amended, 5 U.S.C., App., notice is 

hereby given that the SAB Perchlorate 

Advisory Panel will hold a public 

teleconferences to discuss its draft 

report regarding EPA’s draft white paper 

Life Stage Considerations and 

Interpretation of Recent Epidemiological 

Evidence to Develop a Maximum 

Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) for 

Perchlorate. The SAB was established 

pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 4365 to provide 

independent scientific and technical 

advice to the Administrator on the 

technical basis for Agency positions and 

regulations. The SAB is a Federal 

Advisory Committee chartered under 

FACA. The SAB will comply with the 

provisions of FACA and all appropriate 

SAB Staff Office procedural policies. 

The SAB Perchlorate Advisory Panel 

held a public meeting on July 18–19, 

2012 to discuss the EPA white paper 

and a public teleconference on 

September 25, 2012 to discuss its initial 

draft (9/5/21012) report. The purpose of 

these public teleconferences is for the 

Panel to discuss its revised draft report 

on this advisory activity. Additional 

background on this SAB advisory 

activity is provided on the SAB Web site 

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

product.nsf/fedrgstr_activites/

Perchlorate%20MCLG%20Approaches?

OpenDocument.’’ 

Availability of Meeting Materials: A 

meeting agenda, draft report, and other 

materials for the teleconferences will be 

posted on the SAB Web site at 

www.epa.gov/sab. 

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 EPA. Members of 

the public can submit relevant 

comments pertaining to the group 

conducting this advisory activity, EPA’s 

charge, or meeting materials. 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 to 

consider. Members of the public 

wishing to provide comment should 

contact the Designated Federal Officer 

for the relevant advisory committee 

directly. 

Oral Statements: In general, 

individuals or groups requesting an oral 

presentation at a public teleconference 

will be limited to three minutes per 

speaker. To be placed on the public 

speaker list for the December 5, 2012 

meeting, interested parties should notify 

Mr. Thomas Carpenter, DFO, by email 

no later than November 28, 2012. 

Written Statements: Written 

statements for these teleconferences 

should be received in the SAB Staff 

Office by the same deadlines given 

above for requesting oral comments. 

Written statements should be supplied 

to the DFO via email (acceptable file 

format: Adobe Acrobat PDF, MS Word, 

WordPerfect, MS PowerPoint, or Rich 

Text files in IBM–PC/Windows 98/ 

2000/XP format). 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 Mr. 

Carpenter 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. 

Dated: October 11, 2012. 

Vanessa T. Vu, 

Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff 

Office. 

[FR Doc. 2012–25793 Filed 10–18–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R04–OW–2012–0273; FRL–9743–5] 

Public Water System Supervision 

Program Revision for the State of 

Florida 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of tentative approval. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the State of Florida is revising its Public 

Water System Supervision Program by 

adopting the Lead and Copper Rule 

Short Term Revisions. EPA has 

determined that Florida’s rule is no less 

stringent than the corresponding federal 

regulations. Therefore, the EPA is 

tentatively approving this revision to 

the State of Florida’s Public Water 

System Supervision Program. 

DATES: Any interested person may 

request a public hearing. A request for 

a public hearing must be submitted by 

November 19, 2012, to the Regional 

Administrator at the EPA, Region 4 

address shown below. The Regional 

Administrator may deny frivolous or 

insubstantial requests for a hearing. 

However, if a substantial request for a 

public hearing is made by November 19, 

2012, a public hearing will be held. If 

the EPA, Region 4 does not receive a 

timely and appropriate request for a 

hearing and the Regional Administrator 

does not elect to hold a hearing on her 

own motion, this tentative approval 

shall become final and effective on 

November 19, 2012. Any request for a 

public hearing shall include the 

following information: The name, 

address, and telephone number of the 

individual, organization, or other entity 

requesting a hearing; a brief statement of 

the requesting person’s interest in the 

Regional Administrator’s determination; 

a brief statement of the information that 

the requesting person intends to submit 

at such hearing; and the signature of the 

individual making the request, or, if the 

request is made on behalf of an 

organization or other entity, the 

signature of a responsible official of the 

organization or other entity. 

ADDRESSES: All documents relating to 

this determination are available for 

inspection between the hours of 8:30 

a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, at the following offices: Florida 

Department of Environmental 

Protection, Drinking Water Program, 

2600 Blair Stone Road, Tallahassee, 

Florida 32399; and the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region 4, Safe Drinking Water Branch, 

61 Forsyth Street SW., Atlanta, Georgia 

30303. 

EPA Analysis 

On October 12, 2010, the State of 

Florida submitted a request that the 

Region approve revisions to the State’s 

Safe Drinking Water Act PWSS Program 

to include the authority to implement 

and enforce the Lead and Copper Rule 

Short Term Revisions. EPA reviewed 

the application using the federal 

statutory provisions (Section 1413 of the 

Safe Drinking Water Act), federal 

regulations (at 40 CFR part 142), state 


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regulations, rule crosswalks and EPA 

guidance to determine whether the 

request for revision is approvable. 

Florida has chosen to not allow 

certain options set forth in the federal 

regulations, to extend time frames for 

certain activities. There are specific 

State regulatory provisions indicating 

the State is not allowing the option to 

extend those time frames. In addition, 

Florida has chosen to implement an 

optional federal requirement regarding 

submittal of certain information. These 

choices are consistent with and no less 

stringent than the federal requirements. 

EPA Action: The EPA is tentatively 

approving this revision. If EPA does not 

receive a timely and appropriate request 

for a hearing and the Regional 

Administrator does not elect to hold a 

hearing on her own motion, this 

tentative approval will become final and 

effective on November 19, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Larry Meyer, EPA, Region 4, Safe 

Drinking Water Branch, at the address 

given above, or by telephone at (404) 

562–9449, or via email at meyer.larry@

epa.gov. 

Authority: Section 1413 of the Safe 

Drinking Water Act, as amended (1996), and 

40 CFR part 142. 

Dated: September 11, 2012. 

Gwendolyn Keyes Fleming, 

Regional Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2012–25794 Filed 10–18–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE 

CORPORATION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Revision of 

Information Collection; National 

Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked 

Households; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance 

Corporation (FDIC). 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The FDIC, as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden and as required 

by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. chapter 35), invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to comment on the survey 

collection instrument for its third 

National Survey of Unbanked and 

Underbanked Households (‘‘Household 

Survey’’), currently approved under 

OMB Control No. 3064–0167, scheduled 

to be conducted in partnership with the 

U.S. Census Bureau as a supplement to 

its June 2013 Current Population Survey 

(‘‘CPS’’). The collection is a key 

component of the FDIC’s efforts to 

comply with a Congressional mandate 

contained in section 7 of the Federal 

Deposit Insurance Reform Conforming 

Amendments Act of 2005 (‘‘Reform 

Act’’) (Pub. L. 109–173), which calls for 

the FDIC to conduct ongoing surveys 

‘‘on efforts by insured depository 

institutions to bring those individuals 

and families who have rarely, if ever, 

held a checking account, a savings 

account or other type of transaction or 

check cashing account at an insured 

depository institution (hereafter in this 

section referred to as the ‘unbanked’) 

into the conventional finance system.’’ 

Section 7 further instructs the FDIC to 

consider several factors in its conduct of 

the surveys, including: (1) ‘‘What 

cultural, language and identification 

issues as well as transaction costs 

appear to most prevent ‘unbanked’ 

individuals from establishing 

conventional accounts’’; and (2) ‘‘what 

is a fair estimate of the size and worth 

of the ‘‘unbanked’’ market in the United 

States.’’ The household survey is 

designed to address these factors and 

provide a factual basis on the 

proportions of unbanked households. 

Such a factual basis is necessary to 

adequately assess banks’ efforts to serve 

these households as required by the 

statutory mandate. 

To satisfy the Congressional mandate, 

the FDIC designed two complementary 

surveys: a survey of FDIC-insured 

depository institutions and a survey of 

households. The survey of FDIC-insured 

depository institutions, aimed at 

collecting data on their efforts to serve 

underbanked, as well as unbanked, 

populations (underbanked populations 

include individuals who have an 

account with an insured depository but 

also rely on non-bank alternative 

financial service providers for 

transaction services or high cost credit 

products), was conducted in mid-2007 

and again in 2011. The results of the 

2007 survey were released in February 

2008 and the results of the 2011 survey 

are expected to be released in December 

2012. The first survey of unbanked and 

underbanked households was 

conducted in January 2009 as a CPS 

supplement and the results were 

released to the public in December 

2009. The second survey of unbanked 

and underbanked households was 

conducted in June 2011 and the results 

were released to the public in 

September 2012. The household survey 

seeks to estimate the proportions of 

unbanked and underbanked households 

in the U.S. and to identify the factors 

that inhibit the participation of these 

households in the mainstream banking 

system. The results of these ongoing 

surveys will help policymakers and 

bankers understand the issues and 

challenges underserved households 

perceive when deciding how and where 

to conduct financial transactions. This 

notice addresses the next Household 

Survey. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before December 18, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

invited to submit written comments by 

any of the following methods. All 

comments should refer to ‘‘National 

Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked 

Households’’: 

• http://www.FDIC.gov/regulations/ 

laws/federal/. 

• Email: comments@fdic.gov. Include 

the name and number of the collection 

in the subject line of the message. 

• Mail: Leneta Gregorie (202–898– 

3719), Counsel, Legal Division, Federal 

Deposit Insurance Corporation, 550 17th 

Street NW., Washington, DC 20429. 

• Hand Delivery: Comments may be 

hand-delivered to the guard station at 

the rear of the 550 17th Street Building 

(located on F Street), on business days 

between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Interested members of the public may 

obtain a copy of the survey and related 

instructions by clicking on the link for 

the National Unbanked and 

Underbanked Household Survey on the 

following Web page: http:// 

www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/federal/ 

notices.html. Interested members of the 

public may also obtain additional 

information about the collection, 

including a paper copy of the proposed 

collection and related instructions, 

without charge, by contacting Leneta 

Gregorie at the address identified above, 

or by calling (202) 898–3719. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FDIC 

is considering possible revisions to the 

following collection of information: 

Title: National Unbanked and 

Underbanked Household Survey. 

OMB Number: 3064–0167. 

Frequency of Response: Once. 

Affected Public: U.S. Households. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

50,000. 

Average time per response: 10 

minutes (0.166 hours) per respondent. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

0.166 hours × 50,000 respondents = 

8,334 hours. 

General Description of Collection 

A mandate in section 7 of the Reform 

Act requires the FDIC to conduct 

ongoing surveys on efforts by banks to 

bring unbanked individuals and 

families into the conventional finance 


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