78868 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 187 / Thursday, September 26, 2024 / Notices 

public engagement and participation in 

Commission proceedings. OPP can help 

members of the public, including 

landowners, environmental justice 

communities, Tribal members and 

others, access publicly available 

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processes. For public inquiries and 

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contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@

ferc.gov. 

Dated: September 20, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22088 Filed 9–25–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–12233–01–OA] 

Science Advisory Board Scientific and 

Technological Achievement Awards 

Panel; Closed Meeting 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) Staff Office announces a meeting 

of the Scientific and Technological 

Achievement Awards (STAA) Panel. 

The purpose of the meeting is to review 

nominations and make 

recommendations for the Early Career 

Science and Technology Award. The 

meeting is closed to the public. 

DATES: The SAB STAA Panel will meet 

on the following dates. All times listed 

are in eastern time. 

1. November 4, 2024, from 10:30 a.m. to 

4 p.m. 

2. November 6, 2024, from 10:30 a.m. to 

3 p.m. 

3. November 13, 2024, from 10:30 a.m. 

to 3 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The SAB STAA Panel 

meeting will be conducted virtually. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Members of the public who wish to 

obtain further information concerning 

this notice may contact Dr. Shaunta 

Hill-Hammond, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), via telephone (202) 564– 

3343, or via email at hillhammond.shaunta@epa.gov. General 

information about the SAB as well as 

any updates concerning the meeting 

announced in this notice can be found 

on the SAB website at https://

sab.epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The SAB was 

established pursuant to the 

Environmental Research, Development, 

and Demonstration Authorization Act 

(ERDDAA), codified at 42 U.S.C. 4365, 

to provide independent scientific and 

technical advice to the EPA 

Administrator on the scientific and 

technical basis for agency positions and 

regulations. The SAB is a Federal 

Advisory Committee chartered under 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), 5 U.S.C. 10. The SAB will 

comply with the provisions of FACA 

and all appropriate SAB Staff Office 

procedural policies. Pursuant to FACA 

and EPA policy, notice is hereby given 

that the SAB STAA Panel, will hold a 

closed meeting to review nominations 

for the Early Career Science and 

Technology Award and make 

recommendations for award recipients. 

The Early Career Science and 

Technology Award at EPA, established 

in 2024, recognizes early-career 

professionals who have made 

distinguished contributions to scientific 

research or technology development to 

EPA and show exceptional promise of 

continued achievements throughout 

their EPA career. All technical staff (e.g., 

mathematicians, engineers, social/ 

physical/biological/computational 

scientists, physicians, and others) are 

eligible for this annual award. 

Recipient(s) receive a one-time 

monetary stipend of $10,000 and a 

commemorative plaque. 

The SAB reviews the STAA 

nomination packages according to the 

following three evaluation factors: 

• Scientific achievements: How has 

the nominee led, conducted, or 

influenced scientific research that 

significantly advanced a field of 

research (to include the integration and 

synthesis of data) or developed 

technology within the employee’s 

scientific or technical area of expertise, 

such that the product of their work had 

a substantial impact on the mission of 

ORD and EPA. 

• Impact: How have the efforts of the 

nominee resulted in improved 

customer, partner, or stakeholder 

satisfaction through documented 

accolades, recognition, or direct 

influence on decisions or actions and 

consistently demonstrated the highest 

level of accountability in achieving the 

organization’s, ORD’s and the Agency’s 

goals and mission. 

• Partnership: How have efforts of the 

nominee led or initiated significant 

collaborations successfully influencing 

the organization, workgroup, or teams in 

activities or projects that result in 

improvements in program policies, 

processes, or other key activities 

(commensurate with career stage). 

I have determined that the meetings of 

the STAA Panel and Chartered SAB will 

be closed to the public because they are 

concerned with selecting employees 

deserving of awards. In making these 

recommendations, the Agency requires 

full and frank advice from the SAB. This 

advice will involve professional 

judgments on the relative merits of 

various employees and their respective 

work. Such matters relate solely to 

EPA’s internal personnel rules and 

practices and involve the discussion of 

information that is of a personal nature 

and the disclosure of which would be a 

clearly unwarranted invasion of 

personal privacy and, therefore, are 

protected from disclosure by section 

10(d) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S. Code 10, 

and subsections (c)(2) and (c)(6) of the 

Government in the Sunshine Act, 5 

U.S.C. 552b. Minutes of the meetings of 

the STAA Panel and the Chartered SAB 

will be kept and certified by the chair 

of those meetings. 

Meeting cancellation: The November 

6, 2024 and November 13, 2024 meeting 

dates may be cancelled if the STAA 

Panel concludes its deliberative 

discussions early. 

Michael S. Regan, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22032 Filed 9–25–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2018–0476; FRL–11109– 

03–OCSPP] 

Tris(2-chloroethyl) Phosphate (TCEP); 

Risk Evaluation Under the Toxic 

Substances Control Act (TSCA); Notice 

of Availability 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA or Agency) is announcing 

the availability of the final risk 

evaluation under the Toxic Substances 

Control Act (TSCA) for tris(2- 

chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP). The 

purpose of risk evaluations under TSCA 

is to determine whether a chemical 

substance presents an unreasonable risk 

of injury to health or the environment, 

without consideration of costs or nonrisk factors, including unreasonable risk 

to potentially exposed or susceptible 

subpopulations identified as relevant to 

the risk evaluation by EPA, under the 


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