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information or require applicants/ 

sponsors of the federal action to provide 

the information. 

Respondents/affected entities: Entities 

potentially affected by this action are 

state, local, and tribal air quality 

agencies, regional planning 

organizations and facilities potentially 

regulated under the regional haze rule. 

Respondents/affected entities: States 

and Federal Land Managers. 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Mandatory. 

Estimated number of respondents: 53. 

Frequency of response: Annual. 

Total estimated burden: 6,048 hours. 

Total estimated cost: $293,631. This 

includes an estimated labor cost of 

$293,631 and an estimated cost of $0 for 

capital investment or maintenance and 

operational costs. 

Changes in the Estimates: There is a 

decrease of 25,793 hours in the total 

estimated burden currently identified in 

the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR 

Burdens. The last collection request 

anticipated the program progressing 

from the planning stages to 

implementation. The change in burden 

reflects changes in labor rates, changes 

in the activities conducted due to the 

normal progression of the program, and 

the fact that the aggregate initial 

regional haze SIPs and best available 

retrofit technology (BART) 

determinations will be acted on by the 

EPA by November 2012 and the states 

will be evaluating reasonable progress 

and implementation stages for the goals 

in those SIPs. 

John Moses, 

Director, Collection Strategies Division. 

[FR Doc. 2012–22404 Filed 9–11–12; 8:45 am] 

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Notification of an External Peer Review 

Meeting for the Draft Framework for 

Human Health Risk Assessment to 

Inform Decision Making 

AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of an external peer 

review meeting. 

SUMMARY: The EPA Office of the Science 

Advisor announces that Versar, Inc., a 

contractor to the EPA, will convene an 

independent panel of experts to review 

the draft document, Framework for 

Human Health Risk Assessment to 

Inform Decision Making. Any member 

of the public may register to attend this 

peer review meeting as an observer. 

Time will be set aside for observers to 

give brief oral comments on the draft 

document at the meeting. The draft 

document is available via the internet 

on the Risk Assessment Forum web 

page (http://www.epa.gov/raf/ 

frameworkhhra.htm). 

DATES: The peer review panel meeting 

on the draft document, Framework for 

Human Health Risk Assessment to 

Inform Decision Making will be held on 

October 9, 2012, from 9:00 a.m. to 

approximately 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Daylight Time, with registration 

beginning at 8:30 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, 2799 

Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA 

22202. 

Internet: The draft document can be 

downloaded from http://www.epa.gov/ 

raf/frameworkhhra.htm. 

Instructions: To attend the peer 

review meeting as an observer, register 

no later than October 2, 2012 by calling 

Kathy Coon at Versar, Inc., on (703) 

750–3000 ext. 545 or toll free on (800) 

283–7727; sending a facsimile to (703) 

642–6809 (subject line: HHRA 

Framework Meeting; and include your 

name, title, affiliation, full address and 

contact information in the body of the 

facsimile), or sending an email to 

saundkat@versar.com (subject line: 

HHRA Framework Meeting; and include 

your name, title, affiliation, full address 

and contact information in the body of 

the email). Space is limited, and 

registrations will be accepted on a firstcome, first-served basis. There will be a 

limited time for comments from the 

public at the peer review meeting. 

Please inform Versar, Inc., in your 

registration request, if you wish to make 

oral comments during the meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie 

Fitzpatrick, Office of the Science 

Advisor, Mail Code 8105–R, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 

564–4212; fax number: (202) 564–2070, 

email: fitzpatrick.julie@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EPA 

has an established history of conducting 

human health risk assessments. The 

final Framework is intended to foster 

increased implementation of existing 

agency guidance for conducting human 

health risk assessments and improve the 

utility of risk assessment in the 

decision-making process. 

In developing the draft Framework, 

the relevant recommendations 

presented in the National Research 

Council’s report Science and Decisions: 

Advancing Risk Assessment have been 

taken into consideration. Specifically, 

the recommendations that the EPA 

formalize and implement planning, 

scoping and problem formulation early 

in the risk assessment process and that 

the agency adopt a framework for riskbased decision-making are included in 

this Framework. 

The draft Framework highlights the 

important roles of planning and scoping 

as well as problem formulation in 

designing a human health risk 

assessment process. In accord with longstanding agency policy, it also 

emphasizes the importance of both 

scientific review and public 

involvement. The Framework presents 

the concept of ‘‘fit for purpose’’ to 

address the development of risk 

assessments and associated products 

that are for informing risk management 

decisions. The final Framework will 

also highlight the agency’s emphasis on 

the importance of transparency in 

human health risk assessment and 

decision-making processes. 

This document is not intended to 

supersede existing agency guidance; 

instead, by citing and discussing 

existing guidance in the context of the 

proposed framework, it is intended to 

foster more effective implementation of 

that guidance. 

The EPA previously announced the 

release of the draft Framework for a 60 

day comment period (77 FR 44613), 

which ends on September 28, 2012. 

Public comments submitted during the 

public comment period may be viewed 

at http://www.regulations.gov under 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2012– 

0579. The EPA will forward all public 

comments to Versar, Inc., for 

distribution to the members of the 

review panel. The external review draft 

does not represent agency policy. As it 

finalizes the draft document, the EPA 

intends to consider the comments from 

the external peer review meeting, along 

with public comments received by 

September 28, 2012, in accordance with 

77 FR 44613. 

Dated: September 6, 2012. 

Glenn Paulson, 

Science Advisor. 

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