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XIE, President, New York Office, 

State Grid Corporation of China 

(SGCC) 

Æ Discussion with heads of delegation 

11:45 p.m. Lunch Break 

Day 2, Thursday, August 2, 2012— 

Afternoon 

Theme—Competition Reform 

1:30 p.m. Market Regulation—Oil and 

Gas Developments 

Panel Moderator: S. Krishnan, 

Chairperson, Petroleum and Natural 

Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB), 

India 

Æ Oil Developments in Canada: John 

Foran, Director, Natural Resources 

Canada 

Æ Presentation: Regulatory 

Framework in Oil & Natural Gas 

Sector in India—Challenges & 

Opportunities: Konedana Rajeswara 

Rao, Petroleum & Natural Gas 

Regulatory Board (PNGRB), India 

Æ Impacts of the Shale Gas 

Revolution Mike McGehee, 

Director, Division of Pipeline 

Certificates, Office of Energy 

Projects, U.S. Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission 

Æ Discussion with heads of delegation 

3:00 p.m. Break 

3:15 p.m. Impact of Competition on 

Reliability of Supply 

Panel Moderator: Carl Hansen, Chief 

Executive, Electricity Authority of 

New Zealand 

Æ Presentation: Energy network 

regulation policy and consumer 

prices—Mr. Brendan Morling, Head 

of Energy and Environment 

Division, Department of Resources, 

Energy and Tourism, Australia 

Æ Presentation: Building efficient 

wholesale markets, the RTO/ISO 

model—Andrew L. Ott, Senior Vice 

President for Markets, PJM 

Interconnection L.L.C., United 

States 

Æ Discussion with heads of delegation 

4:45 p.m. Concluding Remarks 

Philip Moeller, Commissioner, U.S. 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

John R. Norris, Commissioner, U.S. 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[FR Doc. 2012–18440 Filed 7–27–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–ORD–2012–0579; FRL–9706–3] 

Notice of Availability of the External 

Review Draft of Framework for Human 

Health Risk Assessment To Inform 

Decision Making 

AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) Office of the 

Science Advisor (OSA) announces a 

60-day public comment period for the 

external review draft of ‘‘A Framework 

for Human Health Risk Assessment to 

Inform Decision Making.’’ This 

document was developed as part of an 

agencywide program by the EPA Risk 

Assessment Forum. The EPA is 

releasing this draft document solely for 

the purpose of seeking public comment 

prior to external peer review. The 

document will undergo independent 

peer review during an expert peer 

review meeting that will be convened, 

organized, and conducted by a 

contractor of the EPA in 2012. The date 

of the external peer review meeting will 

be announced in a subsequent Federal 

Register notice. All comments received 

by the docket closing date September 

28, 2012, will be shared with the 

external peer review panel for their 

consideration. Comments received after 

the close of the comment period may be 

considered by the agency when it 

finalizes the document. This document 

has not been formally disseminated by 

the EPA. This draft document does not 

represent and should not be construed 

to represent the EPA policy, viewpoint, 

or determination. Members of the public 

may obtain the external review draft 

from www.regulations.gov; or 

www.epa.gov/raf/FrameworkHHRA.htm 

or from Julie Fitzpatrick via the contact 

information below. 

This draft document describes a 

framework for conducting human health 

risk assessments that are responsive to 

the needs of decision making processes 

at the EPA. The document was 

developed by the EPA, to provide 

guidance to scientists and decision 

makers in the EPA. 

DATES: All comments received by the 

docket closing date September 28, 2012 

will be shared with the external peer 

review panel for their consideration. 

Comments received beyond that time 

may be considered by the EPA when it 

finalizes the document. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

ORD–2012–0579, and by one of the 

following methods: 

• Internet: Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments in 

www.regulations.gov. 

• Email: ORD.Docket@epa.gov. 

• Mail: ORD Docket, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, Mail 

Code: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

• Hand Delivery: The EPA Docket 

Center (EPA/DC), Room 3334, EPA West 

Building, 1301 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20004, Attention 

Docket ID EPA–HQ–ORD–2012–0579. 

Deliveries are only accepted from 

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

Friday, excluding legal holidays. 

Special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID EPA–HQ–ORD–2012–0579. 

The EPA policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change and may be 

made available online at 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes information 

claimed to be Confidential Business 

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whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Do not submit information that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected by statute through 

www.regulations.gov or email. The 

www.regulations.gov Web site is an 

‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means the EPA will not know your 

identity or contact information unless 

you provide it in the body of your 

comment. If you send an email 

comment directly to the EPA, without 

going through www.regulations.gov, 

your email address will be 

automatically captured and included as 

part of the comment that is placed in the 

public docket and made available on the 

Internet. If you submit an electronic 

comment, the EPA recommends that 

you include your name and other 

contact information in the body of your 

comment and with any disk or CD–ROM 

you submit. If the EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

the EPA may not be able to consider 

your comment. Electronic files should 

avoid the use of special characters, any 

form of encryption, and be free of any 

defects or viruses. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the www.regulations.gov 

index. Although listed in the index, 

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available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the ORD Docket, EPA/DC, EPA West, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC. The Public 

Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

excluding legal holidays. The telephone 

number for the Public Reading Room is 

(202) 566–1744, and the telephone 

number for the ORD Docket is (202) 

566–1752. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie 

Fitzpatrick, Office of the Science 

Advisor, Mail Code 8105R, 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 

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 Framework the 

recommendations presented in the 

National Research Council’s report 

Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk 

Assessment have been taken into 

consideration. Specifically, this 

Framework addresses the 

recommendations that the EPA 

formalize and implement planning, 

scoping and problem formulations in 

the risk assessment process and that the 

agency adopt a framework for risk-based 

decision making. 

The Framework highlights the 

important roles of planning and scoping 

as well as problem formulation in 

designing a risk assessment. In 

accordance with longstanding agency 

policy, it also emphasizes the 

importance of 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 suitable and useful for 

informing risk management decisions. 

This Framework will enhance the 

agency’s emphasis on the importance of 

transparency of the human health risk 

assessment and decision making. 

This document is not intended to 

supersede existing agency guidance; 

rather by citing and discussing existing 

guidance in the context of the 

framework it is intended to foster 

increased implementation of agency 

guidance. 

Dated: July 20, 2012. 

Glenn Paulson, 

Science Advisor. 

[FR Doc. 2012–18409 Filed 7–27–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE 

UNITED STATES 

Economic Impact Policy 

This notice is to inform the public 

that the Export-Import Bank of the 

United States has received an 

application to support the export of 

approximately $2.3 billion in U.S. 

petrochemical equipment and services 

to expand petrochemical production at 

an existing facility in India. The 

financed amount associated with the 

U.S. export contract is expected to total 

approximately $2 billion. 

The U.S. exports will enable the 

foreign buyer to increase its annual 

production of the following products: 

550,000 metric tons of linear low 

density polyethylene (LLDPE); 400,000 

metric tons of low density polyethylene 

(LDPE); 733,000 metric tons of 

monoethylene glycol (MEG); 1,800,000 

metric tons of paraxylene (PX); and 

152,000 metric tons of polypropylene 

(PP). Available information indicates 

the Indian petrochemical producer 

plans to sell its output as follows: the 

majority of LDPE will be consumed in 

India with the balance exported to 

China, Europe and Africa; about half of 

LLDPE production will be consumed in 

India with the remainder going to 

China, Europe and Africa; the entire 

MEG production will be consumed in 

India; the PX production will be 

exported to South and North East Asia; 

and the majority of the PP production 

will be consumed in India with the 

balance exported to China, Africa and 

Europe. 

Interested parties may submit 

comments on this application by email 

to economic.impact@exim.gov or by 

mail to 811 Vermont Avenue NW., 

Room 432, Washington, DC 20571, 

within 14 days of the date this notice 

appears in the Federal Register. 

Kathryn Hoff-Patrinos, 

Deputy General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2012–18489 Filed 7–27–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6690–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Information Collection(s) Being 

Reviewed by the Federal 

Communications Commission 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burden and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501– 

3520), the Federal Communications 

Commission invites the general public 

and other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection(s). 

Comments are requested concerning: 

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; 

the accuracy of the Commission’s 

burden estimate; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected; 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; and ways to 

further reduce the information burden 

for small business concerns with fewer 

than 25 employees. 

The FCC may not conduct or sponsor 

a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB 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 OMB control 

number. 

DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) comments should be 

submitted on or before September 28, 

2012. If you anticipate that you will be 

submitting PRA comments, but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the FCC contact listed below as 

soon as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your PRA comments 

to Judith B. Herman, Federal 

Communications Commission, via the 

Internet at Judith-b.herman@fcc.gov. To 

submit your PRA comments by email 

send them to: PRA@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Judith B. Herman, Office of Managing 

Director, (202) 418–0214. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0999. 

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