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Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1011c. 

Lynn B. Mahaffie, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning, 

Policy and Innovation, delegated the duties 

of Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary 

Education. 

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Request for Nominations of Experts To 

Augment the Science Advisory Board 

Chemical Assessment Advisory 

Committee for the Review of the EPA’s 

Draft Toxicological Review of 

Hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine 

(RDX) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) Staff Office requests public 

nominations of scientific experts to 

augment the SAB Chemical Assessment 

Advisory Committee (CAAC) for the 

review of the EPA’s draft Toxicological 

Review of Hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro1,3,5-triazine (RDX) in Support of 

Summary Information on the Integrated 

Risk Information System (IRIS). 

DATES: Nominations should be 

submitted by April 8, 2016 per the 

instructions below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing further 

information regarding this Notice and 

Request for Nominations may contact 

the Designated Federal Officer for the 

review, as identified below. Nominators 

unable to submit nominations 

electronically as described below may 

contact the Designated Federal Officer 

for assistance. General information 

concerning the EPA SAB can be found 

at the EPA SAB Web site at http://

www.epa.gov/sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The SAB (42 U.S.C. 

4365) is a chartered Federal Advisory 

Committee that provides independent 

scientific and technical peer review, 

advice and recommendations to the EPA 

Administrator on the technical basis for 

EPA actions. As a Federal Advisory 

Committee, the SAB conducts business 

in accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 

U.S.C. App. 2) and related regulations. 

The SAB Chemical Assessment 

Advisory Committee (CAAC) is a 

subcommittee of the SAB that provides 

advice through the chartered SAB 

regarding assessments of environmental 

chemicals available on EPA’s Integrated 

Risk Information System (IRIS). The 

SAB and the CAAC, augmented with 

additional experts, will comply with the 

provisions of FACA and all appropriate 

SAB Staff Office procedural policies. 

The National Center for 

Environmental Assessment (NCEA) in 

the EPA’s Office of Research and 

Development (ORD) develops 

toxicological reviews/assessments for 

various chemicals for IRIS. NCEA is 

developing a draft IRIS assessment for 

Hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine 

(RDX) and has asked the SAB to peer 

review the draft document. The SAB 

Staff Office is seeking experts to 

augment the SAB CAAC for this peer 

review. 

This draft will be a reassessment of 

RDX. NCEA’s draft Toxicological 

Review of Hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro1,3,5-triazine (RDX) currently posted to 

the IRIS database includes an oral 

reference dose (RfD) (posted in 1988), 

and a cancer descriptor and oral cancer 

slope factor (posted in 1990). 

Epidemiological data, experimental 

animal data, and other relevant data 

from studies of the noncancer and 

cancer effects of RDX are being 

evaluated in this reassessment. The 

reassessment is expected to include an 

updated RfD and oral cancer 

assessment. 

Technical Contact for EPA’s draft 

assessment: For information concerning 

the EPA draft assessment, please contact 

Dr. Samantha Jones, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment, Office of 

Research and Development, U.S. EPA, 

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Mail 

Code 8601P, Washington, DC 20460, 

phone (703) 347–8580 or via email at 

jones.samantha@epa.gov. 

Request for Nominations: The SAB 

Staff Office is seeking nominations of 

nationally and internationally 

recognized scientists with demonstrated 

expertise and research to augment the 

CAAC for the peer review of the RDX 

toxicological review. The SAB Staff 

Office seeks experts in one or more of 

the following areas, with a particular 

focus on RDX: Neurotoxicity; kidney/

urogenital expertise [preferably with 

some experience with the prostate]; 

reproductive/developmental toxicity; 

general toxicology; carcinogenicity; 

physiologically-based pharmacokinetic 

(PBPK) modeling including 

toxicokinetic considerations; and 

quantitative risk assessment expertise 

specifically related to dose-response 

modeling of animal data. Questions 

regarding this review should be directed 

to Dr. Suhair Shallal, Designated 

Federal Officer (DFO), SAB Staff Office, 

by telephone/voice mail at (202) 564– 

2057, or via email at shallal.suhair@

epa.gov. 

Process and Deadline for Submitting 

Nominations: Any interested person or 

organization may nominate qualified 

individuals in the areas of expertise 

described above for possible service on 

the augmented CAAC panel identified 

in this notice. 

Nominations should be submitted in 

electronic format (preferred over hard 

copy) using the online nomination form 

under the ‘‘Nomination of Experts’’ 

category at the bottom of the SAB home 

page at http://www.epa.gov/sab. To 

receive full consideration, nominations 

should include all of the information 

requested below. 

EPA’s SAB Staff Office requests 

contact information about the person 

making the nomination; contact 

information about the nominee; the 

disciplinary and specific areas of 

expertise of the nominee; the nominee’s 

resume or curriculum vitae; sources of 

recent grant and/or contract support; 

and a biographical sketch of the 

nominee indicating current position, 

educational background, research 

activities, and recent service on other 

national advisory committees or 

national professional organizations. 

Persons having questions about the 

nomination procedures, or who are 

unable to submit nominations through 

the SAB Web site, should contact Dr. 

Shallal as noted above. Nominations 

should be submitted in time to arrive no 

later than April 8, 2016. EPA values and 

welcomes diversity. In an effort to 

obtain nominations of diverse 

candidates, EPA encourages 

nominations of women and men of all 

racial and ethnic groups. 

The EPA SAB Staff Office will 

acknowledge receipt of nominations. 

The names and biosketches of qualified 

nominees identified by respondents to 

this Federal Register notice, and 

additional experts identified by the SAB 

Staff, will be posted in a List of 

Candidates for the CAAC RDX panel on 

the SAB Web site at http://


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www.epa.gov/sab (see links under 

‘‘Public Input on Membership’’ at the 

bottom of the SAB home page). Public 

comments on the List of Candidates will 

be accepted for 21 days. The public will 

be requested to provide relevant 

information or other documentation on 

nominees that the SAB Staff Office 

should consider in evaluating 

candidates. 

For the EPA SAB Staff Office a 

balanced review panel includes 

candidates who possess the necessary 

domains of knowledge, the relevant 

scientific perspectives (which, among 

other factors, can be influenced by work 

history and affiliation), and the 

collective breadth of experience to 

adequately address the charge. In 

forming this expert panel, the SAB Staff 

Office will consider public comments 

on the List of Candidates, information 

provided by the candidates themselves, 

and background information 

independently gathered by the SAB 

Staff Office. Selection criteria to be used 

for panel membership include: (a) 

Scientific and/or technical expertise, 

knowledge, and experience (primary 

factors); (b) availability and willingness 

to serve; (c) absence of financial 

conflicts of interest; (d) absence of an 

appearance of a loss of impartiality; (e) 

skills working in committees, 

subcommittees and advisory panels; 

and, (f) for the panel as a whole, 

diversity of expertise and scientific 

points of view. 

The SAB Staff Office’s evaluation of 

an absence of financial conflicts of 

interest will include a review of the 

‘‘Confidential Financial Disclosure 

Form for Special Government 

Employees Serving on Federal Advisory 

Committees at the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency’’ (EPA Form 3110– 

48). This confidential form allows 

government officials to determine 

whether there is a statutory conflict 

between a person’s public 

responsibilities (which include 

membership on an EPA federal advisory 

committee) and private interests and 

activities, or the appearance of a loss of 

impartiality, as defined by federal 

regulation. The form may be viewed and 

downloaded from the following URL 

address: http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/

sabproduct.nsf/Web/

ethics?OpenDocument. 

The approved policy under which the 

EPA SAB Office selects members for 

subcommittees and review panels is 

described in the following document: 

Overview of the Panel Formation 

Process at the Environmental Protection 

Agency Science Advisory Board (EPA– 

SAB–EC–02–010), which is posted on 

the SAB Web site at http://

yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/

WebFiles/OverviewPanelForm/$File/

ec02010.pdf. 

Dated: March 14, 2016. 

Thomas H. Brennan, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

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Environmental Impact Statements; 

Notice of Availability 

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal 

Activities, General Information (202) 

564–7146 or http://www2.epa.gov/nepa. 

Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact 

Statements 

Filed 03/07/2016 Through 03/11/2016 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9. 

Notice 

Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act 

requires that EPA make public its 

comments on EISs issued by other 

Federal agencies. EPA’s comment letters 

on EISs are available at: https://

cdxnodengn.epa.gov/cdx-nepa-public/

action/eis/search. 

EIS No. 20160059, Draft, NASA, FL, 

PROGRAMMATIC—Kennedy Space 

Center, Center-Wide Operations, 

Comment Period Ends: 05/02/2016, 

Contact: Don Dankert 321–861–1196. 

EIS No. 20160060, Draft, USN, RI, 

Disposal and Reuse of Surplus 

Property at Naval Station Newport, 

Comment Period Ends: 05/02/2016, 

Contact: James Anderson 843–963– 

4991. 

EIS No. 20160061, Draft, BOEM, LA, 

Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas 

Leasing Program: 2017–2022, 

Comment Period Ends: 05/02/2016, 

Contact: Dr. Jill K. Lewandowski 703– 

787–1703. 

EIS No. 20160062, Draft, ARS, ID, U.S. 

Sheep Experiment Station Grazing 

and Associated Activities Project, 

Comment Period Ends: 05/02/2016, 

Contact: Christine Handler 559–920– 

2188. 

Dated: March 15, 2016. 

Dawn Roberts, 

Management Analyst, NEPA Compliance 

Division, Office of Federal Activities. 

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Information Collection Being Reviewed 

by the Federal Communications 

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Authority 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork burdens, and as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501– 

3520), the Federal Communications 

Commission (FCC or Commission) 

invites the general public and other 

Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collections. 

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 

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including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology; and ways to 

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The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a 

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ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to 

Nicole Ongele, FCC, via email to PRA@

fcc.gov and to Nicole.Ongele@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information about the 

information collection, contact Nicole 

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