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Federal Officer (DFO), SAB Staff Office, 

by telephone at (202) 564–2050 or via 

email at yeow.aaron@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the CASAC, as 

well as any updates concerning the 

meetings announced in this notice can 

be found on the CASAC website: 

https://casac.epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The CASAC was 

established pursuant to the Clean Air 

Act (CAA) Amendments of 1977, 

codified at 42 U.S.C. 7409(d)(2), to 

review air quality criteria and NAAQS 

and recommend to the EPA 

Administrator any new NAAQS and 

revisions of existing criteria and 

NAAQS as may be appropriate. The 

CASAC shall also: advise the EPA 

Administrator of areas in which 

additional knowledge is required to 

appraise the adequacy and basis of 

existing, new, or revised NAAQS; 

describe the research efforts necessary 

to provide the required information; 

advise the EPA Administrator on the 

relative contribution to air pollution 

concentrations of natural as well as 

anthropogenic activity; and advise the 

EPA Administrator of any adverse 

public health, welfare, social, economic, 

or energy effects which may result from 

various strategies for attainment and 

maintenance of such NAAQS. As 

amended, 5 U.S.C., App. section 

109(d)(1) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) 

requires that EPA carry out a periodic 

review and revision, as appropriate, of 

the air quality criteria and the NAAQS 

for the six ‘‘criteria’’ air pollutants, 

including lead. 

The CASAC is a Federal Advisory 

Committee chartered under the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 

U.S.C., App. 2, and conducts business 

in accordance with FACA and related 

regulations. The CASAC and the 

CASAC Lead Panel 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 

CASAC Lead Panel will hold a public 

meeting to provide additional 

consultative advice on aspects of the 

approach for quantitative exposure and 

risk analyses as a follow-up to prior 

CASAC Lead Panel advice on the 

Integrated Review Plan (IRP) for Review 

of the National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards for Lead, Volume 3: Planning 

for Quantitative Exposure/Risk Analyses 

(External Review Draft). 

Technical Contacts: Any technical 

questions concerning the quantitative 

exposure and risk analyses should be 

directed to Dr. Zachary Pekar 

(pekar.zachary@epa.gov) or Dr. Deirdre 

Murphy (murphy.deirdre@epa.gov). 

Availability of Meeting Materials: 

Prior to the meeting, the review 

documents, agenda and other materials 

will be accessible on the CASAC 

website: https://casac.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 EPA. Members of 

the public can submit relevant 

comments on the topic of this advisory 

activity, including the charge to the 

CASAC and the EPA review documents, 

and/or the group conducting the 

activity, for the CASAC to consider as 

it develops advice for EPA. Input from 

the public to the CASAC will have the 

most impact if it provides specific 

scientific or technical information or 

analysis for CASAC to consider or if it 

relates to the clarity or accuracy of the 

technical information. Members of the 

public wishing to provide comment 

should follow the instructions below to 

submit comments. 

Oral Statements: Individuals or 

groups requesting an oral presentation 

during the public meeting will be 

limited to five 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. Interested parties 

should contact Mr. Aaron Yeow, DFO, 

in writing (preferably via email) at the 

contact information noted above by 

November 15, 2024, to be placed on the 

list of public speakers. 

Written Statements: Written 

statements will be accepted throughout 

the advisory process; however, for 

timely consideration by CASAC 

members, statements should be 

supplied to the DFO (preferably via 

email) at the contact information noted 

above by November 15, 2024. 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 websites. Members of the public 

should be aware that their personal 

contact information, if included in any 

written comments, may be posted to the 

CASAC website. 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. Aaron 

Yeow at (202) 564–2050 or yeow.aaron@

epa.gov. To request accommodation of a 

disability, please contact the DFO, at the 

contact information noted above, 

preferably at least ten days prior to each 

meeting, to give EPA as much time as 

possible to process your request. 

V. Khanna Johnston, 

Deputy Director, Science Advisory Board Staff 

Office. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R01–OW–2024–0492; FRL–12374–01– 

R1] 

Notice of Preliminary Designation of 

Certain Stormwater Discharges in the 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts and 

Notice of Availability of Draft Permit 

Under the National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System of the Clean Water 

Act 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Regional Administrator 

of the Environmental Protection Agency 

Region 1 (‘‘EPA’’) is providing notice of 

two proposed actions today. The first 

action is the Preliminary Designation of 

certain stormwater discharges from 

commercial, industrial, and institutional 

properties with one acre or more of 

impervious surface in the Charles, 

Neponset, and Mystic River watersheds 

in Massachusetts for regulation under 

the Clean Water Act’s (‘‘CWA’’) National 

Pollutant Discharge Elimination System 

(‘‘NPDES’’) permitting program. Second, 

the Regional Administrator of the EPA 

Region 1 is concurrently providing 

notice of availability of a draft NPDES 

General Permit (‘‘GP’’) for Private 

Commercial Industrial, and Institutional 

(‘‘CII’’) Stormwater Discharges in the 

Charles, Mystic, and Neponset River 

Watersheds in Massachusetts (‘‘Draft CII 

GP’’). The Draft CII GP would regulate 

the identified stormwater discharges, as 

it is authorized to do under section 402 

of the CWA, by requiring the 

implementation of Best Management 

Practices (‘‘BMPs’’) and meeting other 

limitations to meet water quality 

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DATES: Comments on the Preliminary 

Designation and the Draft CII GP may be 

submitted as described in Section I.A of 

this notice. The public notice period for 

both the Preliminary Designation and 

the Draft CII GP will close January 29, 

2025. EPA will hold virtual public 

meetings on January 7, 2025, at 7 p.m. 

Eastern Time and January 9, 2025, at 7 

p.m. Eastern Time. EPA will hold 

virtual public hearings on January 22, 

2025, at 7 p.m. Eastern Time and 

January 23, 2025, 7 p.m. Eastern Time. 

Please refer to the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section for registration 

instructions for the public meetings and 

hearings. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments on 

the Preliminary Designation and/or the 

Draft CII GP, identified by Docket ID No. 

EPA–R01–OW–2024–0492, by any of 

the following methods: 

—Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://

www.regulations.gov/ (our preferred 

method). Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

—Email: R1.RDA@epa.gov, and include 

‘‘Comments on the Preliminary 

Designation and/or Draft CII GP’’ in 

the subject line. 

—Mail: U.S. EPA Region 1, Water 

Division, Attn: Laura Schifman, 5 Post 

Office Square, Suite 100, Mail Code 

06–4, Boston, Massachusetts 02109– 

3912. If comments are submitted in 

hard copy form, please also email a 

copy to R1.RDA@epa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Laura Schifman, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency Region 1, Water 

Division, Stormwater Permits Section; 

telephone number: (617) 918–1015; 

email address: schifman.laura@epa.gov. 

Administrative Record: The 

Preliminary Designation, the Draft CII 

GP, and other related documents in the 

administrative record are on file and 

may be inspected between 9 a.m. and 5 

p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding 

legal holidays, at the following address: 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

EPA Region 1 Regional Office, Water 

Division, 5 Post Office Square, Boston, 

MA. Contact the person listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section to 

schedule your inspection. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Public Participation 

A. Written Comments 

Submit your comments as detailed in 

the ADDRESSES section. Do not submit to 

EPA any information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information 

(‘‘CBI’’), Proprietary Business 

Information (‘‘PBI’’), or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. EPA will generally not consider 

comments or comment contents located 

outside of the primary submission (i.e., 

on the web, cloud, or other file sharing 

system). 

B. Public Meetings and Public Hearings 

EPA will begin pre-registering 

speakers for the hearings upon 

publication of this document in the 

Federal Register. To register to speak at 

the virtual hearing, please use the 

online registration form available at 

https://www.epa.gov/npdes-permits/ 

notice-preliminary-designation-certainstormwater-discharges-commonwealth. 

The last day to pre-register to speak at 

either the January 22 or 23, 2025 

hearings is January 16, 2025. On January 

17, 2025, EPA will post a general agenda 

for the hearing that will list preregistered speakers in approximate 

order at: https://www.epa.gov/npdespermits/notice-preliminary-designationcertain-stormwater-dischargescommonwealth. 

II. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

Entities included in the Preliminary 

Designation and eligible for coverage 

under the Draft CII GP Permit include: 

commercial, industrial, and institutional 

properties with one acre or more of 

impervious surface in the Charles, 

Neponset, and Mystic River watersheds 

in Massachusetts. Commercial, 

industrial, and institutional properties 

are identified by reference to 

Massachusetts Property Type 

Classification Codes, identified in Draft 

CII GP Appendix H. The amount of 

impervious cover on a parcel can be 

determined either by verifying EPA’s 

impervious cover data or by 

determining the amount of impervious 

cover by a site plan or site survey, GIS 

analysis, or Google Earth. These 

methods are described in Draft CII GP 

Appendix E. 

B. Summary and Availability of 

Preliminary Designation Documents 

The Regional Administrator of EPA 

Region 1 has made a Preliminary 

Designation of stormwater discharges 

from certain commercial industrial, and 

institutional properties with one acre or 

more of impervious surface in the 

Charles, Neponset, and Mystic River 

watersheds in Massachusetts for 

regulation under the NPDES permitting 

program pursuant to Clean Water Act 

sections 301, 402(p)(2)(E), and 402(p)(6) 

of the Clean Water Act and EPA’s 

implementing regulations at 40 CFR 

122.26(a)(9)(i)(C)–(D) and 122.44. Those 

provisions authorize the Agency to 

regulate stormwater discharges that 

contribute to a water quality standard 

violation or that are a significant 

contributor of pollutants to waters of the 

United States, or where controls are 

needed based on wasteload allocations 

that are part of total maximum daily 

loads. This authority is often referred to 

as ‘‘residual designation authority’’ or 

RDA. EPA is providing notice of its 

Preliminary Designation for NPDES 

permitting of unregulated stormwater 

discharges from certain commercial 

industrial, and institutional properties 

with one acre or more of impervious 

surface in the Charles, Neponset, and 

Mystic River watersheds in 

Massachusetts. 

The Preliminary Designation plus 

supplementary information relating to 

the Preliminary Designation are 

available on EPA Region 1’s web page 

at: https://www.epa.gov/npdes-permits/ 

notice-preliminary-designation-certainstormwater-discharges-commonwealth 

and at www.regulations.gov by 

searching for Docket ID No. EPA–R01– 

OW–2024–0492. This information 

includes parcel analyses of the 

Neponset River watershed and the 

Mystic River watershed, and an updated 

parcel analysis for the Charles River 

watershed. 

Please refer to EPA’s website or this 

action’s docket on www.regulations.gov 

to review these materials and then 

follow the directions above in this 

Notice for submitting any comments. 

Note that stakeholders may submit 

comments on the Preliminary 

Designation to EPA until the end of the 

comment period and on the EPA NPDES 

general permit for these discharges. See 

40 CFR 124.52(c). In this case, the 

public notice periods for the 

Preliminary Designation and Draft CII 

GP are simultaneous and will run for 90 

days from the Federal Register 

publication of this Notice. Commenters 

may submit comments on the 

Preliminary Designation, the Draft CII 

GP, or on both actions. 

C. Summary and Availability of Draft 

CII GP Documents 

The Draft CII General Permit, 

appendices, and fact sheet are available 

at: https://www.epa.gov/npdes-permits/ 

notice-preliminary-designation-certainstormwater-discharges-commonwealth 

and at www.regulations.gov by 

searching for Docket ID No. EPA–R01– 

OW–2024–0492. 


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This Draft CII General Permit is 

established pursuant to CWA sections 

301, 402(a)(1), 402(p)(2)(E), and 

402(p)(6). 

1. Technology-Based Requirements 

This Draft CII General Permit would 

be available to authorize certain 

stormwater discharges, as it is 

authorized to do under CWA sections 

301, 402(a)(1), 402(p)(2)(E) and 

402(p)(6), by requiring the 

implementation of BMPs. The Draft CII 

Permit regulates Phosphorus, a nonconventional pollutant, as an indicator 

parameter for all regulated pollutants. 

As provided in section 402(a)(1) of the 

CWA, EPA established TechnologyBased Effluent Limitations (TBELs) in 

this Draft Permit utilizing Best 

Professional Judgment (BPJ) to meet the 

‘‘best available technology economically 

achievable’’ (BAT), ‘‘best conventional 

pollutant control technology’’ (BCT), 

and ‘‘best practicable control technology 

currently available’’ (BPT) standards 

described in section 304(b) of the CWA. 

TBELs in this Draft Permit are expressed 

as requirements for implementation of 

effective best management practices 

(BMPs). 40 CFR 122.44(k). Section 2.1.1 

of the Draft CII GP requires all 

Permittees to develop and implement 

Stormwater Pollution Control Plans 

(SPCPs). The minimum BMPs specified 

in this CII GP represent common 

practices that can be implemented by 

most CII facilities. Dischargers have 

flexibility in designing their SPCP in 

accordance with Section 2.2 of this Draft 

CII GP. 

2. Water-Quality Based Requirements 

Based on its scientific and technical 

judgment, EPA has determined that the 

following reductions of Phosphorus, as 

an indicator pollutant, from CII sites are 

necessary to meet water quality 

standards: Charles River watershed, 

65%; Mystic River watershed, 62%; 

Neponset River watershed, 60%. 

Permittees’ development and 

implementation of SPCPs constitutes 

compliance with the Water-Quality 

Based Effluent Limitations (WQBELs) 

contained in this Draft CII GP, including 

the aforementioned reductions of 

Phosphorus. 

D. Provisions on Which EPA Is 

Soliciting Comment 

While EPA encourages the public to 

review and comment on all provisions 

in the Preliminary Determination and 

the Draft CII GP, EPA has included in 

the body of the Draft CII GP Fact Sheet 

several proposed provisions on which 

EPA specifically requests feedback. The 

following list summarizes these specific 

requests for comment, and where they 

are included in the fact sheet. EPA notes 

that these are only summaries of the 

requests for comment. The Agency 

recommends that the public see the 

specific wording of each comment 

request within the body of the fact 

sheet. 

1. Multifamily housing/tax codes 

(Fact Sheet § 1.5): EPA is seeking 

comment on whether to include MultiFamily Residential Properties in the 

final designation and in the final CII GP. 

2. Compliance schedule (Fact Sheet 

§ 5.1.1): EPA is seeking comment on 

whether the proposed compliance 

schedule is appropriate. 

3. Multiple non-contiguous properties 

(Fact Sheet § 1.4): EPA is seeking 

comment on how the permitting process 

should work for owners with multiple 

non-contiguous properties that are 

subject to the CII GP. 

4. Owner-operator (Fact Sheet § 1.4): 

EPA is seeking comment on whether 

EPA should regulate the operator with 

control over a site instead of the owner, 

including sites where multiple operators 

may be tenants of a site (e.g., a shopping 

plaza with one owner and multiple 

tenants). 

5. Contiguous properties (Fact Sheet 

§ 1.4): EPA is seeking comment on its 

regulation of contiguous sites, which 

reflect EPAs interest in consolidating, to 

the greatest extent possible, 

responsibility for permit compliance. 

6. Historic Properties (Fact Sheet 

§ 9.3): EPA is seeking comment on the 

Draft CII GP’s potential impact on 

historic properties. 

E. Procedures for Reaching a Final 

Designation and Final Permit Decision 

After the comment period closes, EPA 

intends to issue a final permit and final 

RDA determination. EPA will consider 

all significant comments and make 

appropriate changes before issuing this 

permit. EPA’s responses to public 

comments received will be included in 

the docket as part of the final permit 

issuance. Once the final permit becomes 

effective, eligible dischargers may seek 

authorization. 

Authority: This action is being taken 

pursuant to Clean Water Act sections 

301, 402(a)(1), 402(p)(2)(E), and 

402(p)(6). 

Dated: October 24, 2024. 

David W. Cash, 

Administrator, EPA Region 1, Boston, MA. 

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FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION OF PREVIOUS

ANNOUNCEMENT: 89 FR 85212. 

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED TIME AND DATE OF

THE MEETING: Wednesday, October 30, 

2024 at 10:00 a.m., Hybrid Meeting: 

1050 First Street NE, Washington, DC 

(12th Floor) and virtual. 

CHANGES IN THE MEETING: The October 

30, 2024 Open Meeting has been 

canceled. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Judith Ingram, Press Officer, Telephone: 

(202) 694–1220. 

(Authority: Government in the Sunshine Act, 

5 U.S.C. 552b) 

Laura E. Sinram, 

Secretary and Clerk of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2024–25498 Filed 10–29–24; 4:15 pm] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency for Healthcare Research and 

Quality 

Meeting on the Artificial Intelligence in 

Healthcare Safety Program 

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality (AHRQ), Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: HHS is directed by Executive 

order (E.O.) to establish an Artificial 

Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare Safety 

Program in partnership with federally 

listed Patient Safety Organizations 

(PSOs). The purpose of this notice is to 

announce a meeting to discuss 

implementation of the Executive order 

to establish the AI in Healthcare Safety 

Program. This meeting is designed as an 

interactive forum where participants 

can provide input on the future of the 

program. 

DATES: The meeting will be held from 

12:30 to 4 p.m. eastern on Friday, 

November 15, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held 

virtually. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Erofile Gripiotis, Program Analyst, 

Center for Quality Improvement and 

Patient Safety, AHRQ, 5600 Fishers 

Lane, Rockville, MD 20857; Telephone 

(toll free): (866) 403–3697; Telephone 

(local): (301) 427–1111; TTY (toll free): 

(866) 438–7231; TTY (local): (301) 427– 

1130; Email: pso@ahrq.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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