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internationally recognized scientific 

experts to serve as external peer 

reviewers for the draft report regarding 

approaches to modeling children’s BLL 

associated with lead in drinking water. 

The review is not intended to provide 

EPA with advice on the public health 

implications of alternative BLLs. As 

such, EPA is seeking nominees who 

possess a strong background and 

demonstrated expertise in one or more 

of the following areas: (1) 

Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic 

modeling, particularly with regard to 

lead, (2) environmental lead exposure 

analyses, particularly with regard 

probabilistic modeling. 

Selection criteria: Selection criteria 

for individuals nominated to serve as 

external peer reviewers of the draft 

report include the following: (1) 

Demonstrated expertise through 

relevant peer reviewed publications; (2) 

professional accomplishments and 

recognition by professional societies; (3) 

demonstrated ability to work 

constructively and effectively in a 

committee setting; (4) absence of 

financial conflicts of interest; (5) no 

actual conflicts of interest or appearance 

of lack of impartiality; (6) willingness to 

commit adequate time for the thorough 

review of the draft report; and (7) 

availability to participate in-person in a 

one-day or two-day peer review meeting 

in the Washington, DC metro area, 

projected to occur in June 2017 (exact 

date will be published in the Federal 

Register at least 30 days prior to the 

external peer review meeting). Further 

logistical information regarding the 

external peer review meeting will be 

announced at a later date in the Federal 

Register. 

Required nominee information: To 

receive full consideration, the following 

information should be submitted to ERG 

at peerreview@erg.com (the subject line 

should read: Lead in Drinking Water 

Peer Review): (1) Contact information 

for the person making the nomination; 

(2) contact information for the nominee; 

(3) the disciplinary and specific areas of 

expertise of the nominee; (4) the 

nominee’s curriculum vitae; and (5) a 

biographical sketch of the nominee 

indicating current position, educational 

background, past and current research 

activities, recent service on other 

advisory committees, peer review 

panels, editorial boards or professional 

organizations, sources of recent grant 

and/or contract support and other 

comments on the relevance of the 

nominee’s expertise to this peer review 

topic. Compensation for non-federal 

peer reviewers will be provided by ERG. 

Selection process: EPA’s contractor, 

ERG, will notify nominees of selection 

or non-selection. ERG may also conduct 

an independent search for candidates to 

assemble a balanced group representing 

the expertise needed to fully evaluate 

EPA’s draft report, entitled ‘‘Proposed 

Modeling Approaches for a Health 

Based Benchmark for Lead in Drinking 

Water.’’ ERG will consider and screen 

all nominees against the criteria 

previously listed. Following the 

screening process, ERG will narrow the 

list of potential reviewers to 

approximately 10–16 candidates. Prior 

to selecting the final peer reviewers, a 

Federal Register document will be 

published (exact date to be determined) 

to solicit comments on the interim list 

of candidates. In that document, the 

public will be requested to provide 

relevant information or documentation 

on the nominees within 30 days of the 

announcement of the interim list of 

candidates. Once ERG has considered 

the public comments on the interim list 

of candidates, ERG will select the final 

list of peer reviewers, based on who, 

collectively, will best provide expertise 

spanning the disciplines previously 

listed and (to the extent feasible) best 

provide a balance of perspectives. 

Dated: January 10, 2017. 

Joel Beauvais, 

Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of 

Water. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9958–16–OLEM] 

FY2017 Supplemental Funding for 

Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund 

(RLF) Grantees 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of the availability of 

funds. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) plans to make available 

approximately $13 million to provide 

supplemental funds to Revolving Loan 

Fund (RLF) capitalization grants 

previously awarded competitively 

under section 104(k)(3) of the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation and Liability 

Act (CERCLA). Brownfields Cleanup 

Revolving Loan Fund pilots awarded 

under section 104(d)(1) of CERCLA that 

have not transitioned to section 

104(k)(3) grants are not eligible to apply 

for these funds. EPA will consider 

awarding supplemental funding only to 

RLF grantees who have demonstrated an 

ability to deliver programmatic results 

by making at least one loan or subgrant. 

The award of these funds is based on 

the criteria described at CERCLA 

104(k)(4)(A)(ii). 

The Agency is now accepting requests 

for supplemental funding from RLF 

grantees. Requests for funding must be 

submitted to the appropriate EPA 

Regional Brownfields Coordinator 

(listed below) by March 1, 2017. 

Funding requests for hazardous 

substances and/or petroleum funding 

will be accepted. Specific information 

on submitting a request for RLF 

supplemental funding is described 

below and additional information may 

be obtained by contacting the EPA 

Regional Brownfields Coordinator. 

DATES: This action is effective January 

19, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: A request for supplemental 

funding must be in the form of a letter 

addressed to the appropriate Regional 

Brownfields Coordinator (see listing 

below) with a copy to Pankaj Arora, 

arora.pankaj@epa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Pankaj Arora, U.S. EPA, (202) 566–1388 

or the appropriate Brownfields Regional 

Coordinator. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Small Business Liability Relief 

and Brownfields Revitalization Act 

added section 104(k) to CERCLA to 

authorize federal financial assistance for 

brownfields revitalization, including 

grants for assessment, cleanup and job 

training. Section 104(k) includes a 

provision for EPA to, among other 

things, award grants to eligible entities 

to capitalize Revolving Loan Funds and 

to provide loans and subgrants for 

brownfields cleanup. Section 

104(k)(4)(A)(ii) authorizes EPA to make 

additional grant funds available to RLF 

grantees for any year after the year for 

which the initial grant is made 

(noncompetitive RLF supplemental 

funding) taking into consideration: 

(I) The number of sites and number of 

communities that are addressed by the 

revolving loan fund; 

(II) the demand for funding by eligible 

entities that have not previously 

received a grant under this subsection; 

(III) the demonstrated ability of the 

eligible entity to use the revolving loan 

fund to enhance remediation and 

provide funds on a continuing basis; 

and 

(IV) such other similar factors as the 

[Agency] considers appropriate to carry 

out this subsection. 

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Eligibility 

In order to be considered for 

supplemental funding, grantees must 

demonstrate that they have significantly 

depleted funds (both EPA grant funding 

and any available pre- or post-closeout 

program income) and that they have a 

clear plan for quickly utilizing 

requested additional funds. Grantees 

must demonstrate that they have made 

at least one loan or subgrant prior to 

applying for this supplemental funding 

and have significantly depleted existing 

available funds. For FY2017, EPA 

defines ‘‘significantly depleted funds’’ 

as $400,000 or less remaining 

unliquidated obligations from all of the 

EPA RLF grant funding and available 

pre- or post-closeout program income 

from all the open or closed EPA RLF 

grants. Additionally, the RLF recipient 

must have demonstrated a need for 

supplemental funding based on, among 

other factors, the number of sites that 

will be addressed; demonstrated the 

ability to make loans and subgrants for 

cleanups that can be started and 

completed expeditiously (i.e., ‘‘shovelready’’ projects) and will lead to 

redevelopment; demonstrated the 

existence of additional leveraged funds 

to complete the project in a timely 

manner and move quickly from cleanup 

to redevelopment, including the use of 

tax incentives such as new market tax 

credits, direct funding or other 

resources to advance the project to 

completion; demonstrated the ability to 

administer and revolve the 

capitalization funding in the RLF grant; 

demonstrated an ability to use the RLF 

grant to address funding gaps for 

cleanup; and demonstrated that they 

have provided a community benefit 

from past and potential loan(s) and/or 

subgrant(s). Special consideration may 

be given to those communities affected 

by plant closures or other economic 

disruptions; can demonstrate projects 

that have a clear prospect of aiding the 

in-sourcing of manufacturing capacity 

and keeping and/or adding jobs, or 

otherwise creating jobs, in the affected 

area; or will benefit a community that 

has been identified as part of EPA’s 

Cross Agency Strategy on Working to 

Make a Visible Difference in 

Communities. EPA encourages 

innovative approaches to maximizing 

revolving and leveraging with other 

funds, including use of grants funds as 

a loan loss guarantee, combining with 

other government or private sector 

lending resources. Applicants for 

supplemental funding must contact the 

appropriate Regional Brownfields 

Coordinator below to obtain information 

on the format for supplemental funding 

applications for their region. When 

requesting supplemental funding, 

applicants must specify whether they 

are seeking funding for sites 

contaminated by hazardous substances 

or petroleum. Applicants may request 

both types of funding. 

REGIONAL CONTACTS

Region States Address/phone number/email 

EPA Region 1, Frank Gardner, Gardner.Frank@epa.gov ... CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT ..... 5 Post Office Square, Boston, MA 02109–3912, 

Phone (617) 918–1278, Fax (617) 918–0278. 

EPA Region 2, Benny Hom, Hom.Benny@epa.gov ............ NJ, NY, PR, VI ..................... 290 Broadway, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10007, 

Phone (212) 637–3964, Fax (212) 637–3083. 

EPA Region 3, Tom Stolle, Stolle.Tom@epa.gov ................ DE, DC, MD, PA, VA, WV ... 1650 Arch Street, Mail Code 3HS51, Philadelphia, 

Pennsylvania 19103–2029, Phone (215) 814– 

3129, Fax (215) 814–3015. 

EPA Region 4, Wanda Jennings, Jennings.Wanda@

epa.gov.

AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, 

SC, TN.

Atlanta Federal Center, 61 Forsyth Street SW., 10th 

Fl., Atlanta, GA 30303–8960, Phone (404) 562– 

8682, Fax (404) 562–8761. 

EPA Region 5, Keary Cragan, Cragan.Keary@epa.gov ...... IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI ........ 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Mail Code SB–5J, Chicago, Illinois 60604–3507, Phone (312) 353– 

5669, Fax (312) 886–7190. 

EPA Region 6, Mary Kemp, Kemp.Mary@epa.gov ............. AR, LA, NM, OK, TX ............ 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 1200 (6SF–PB), Dallas, 

Texas 75202–2733, Phone (214) 665–8358, Fax 

(214) 665–6660. 

EPA Region 7, Susan Klein, R7_Brownfields@epa.gov ...... IA, KS, MO, NE .................... 11201 Renner Blvd., Lenexa, Kansas 66219, Phone 

(913) 551–7786, Fax (913) 551–8688. 

EPA Region 8, Ted Lanzano, Lanzano.Ted@epa.gov ........ CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, WY ... 1595 Wynkoop Street (EPR–B), Denver, CO 

80202–1129, Phone (303) 312–6596, Fax (303) 

312–6065. 

EPA Region 9, Noemi Emeric-Ford, Emeric-Ford.Noemi@

epa.gov.

AZ, CA, HI, NV, AS, GU ...... 75 Hawthorne Street, WST–8, San Francisco, CA 

94105, Phone (213) 244–1821, Fax (415) 972– 

3364. 

EPA Region 10, Susan Morales, Morales.Susan@epa.gov AK, ID, OR, WA ................... 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 900, Mailstop: ECL–112 

Seattle, WA 98101, Phone (206) 553–7299, Fax 

(206) 553–0124. 

Dated: January 3, 2017. 

David R. Lloyd, 

Director, Office of Brownfields and Land 

Revitalization, Office of Land and Emergency 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2017–00448 Filed 1–18–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[WT Docket No. 17–17; DA 17–33] 

Acumen Communications 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This document commences a 

hearing to determine whether Acumen 

Communications (Acumen) is qualified 

to be and to remain a Federal 

Communications Commission 

(Commission) licensee, and as a 

consequence thereof, whether any or all 

of its licenses should be revoked, and 

whether any or all of the applications to 

which Acumen is a party should be 

denied. As discussed more fully below, 

based on the totality of the evidence, 

there are substantial and material 

questions of fact as to whether Acumen 

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