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Rules of Practice and Procedures (18 

CFR 385.211). Any person desiring to 

become a party to these proceedings 

should file a motion to intervene at the 

above address in accordance with FERC 

Rule 214 (18 CFR 385.214). Five copies 

of such comments, protests, or motions 

to intervene should be sent to the 

address provided above on or before the 

date listed above. 

Comments and other filings 

concerning MAG E.S.’s application to 

export electric energy to Canada should 

be clearly marked with OE Docket No. 

EA–306–B. An additional copy is to be 

provided directly to both Ruta Kalvaitis 

Skucas, Pierce Atwood LLC., 900 17th 

Street NW., Suite 350, Washington, DC 

20006 and Simon Pelletier, MAG Energy 

Solutions, Inc., 999 de Maisonneuve 

Boulevard West, Suite 875, Montreal, 

Quebec H3A 3L4 Canada. 

A final decision will be made on this 

application after the environmental 

impacts have been evaluated pursuant 

to DOE’s National Environmental Policy 

Act Implementing Procedures (10 CFR 

part 1021) and after a determination is 

made by DOE that the proposed action 

will not have an adverse impact on the 

sufficiency of supply or reliability of the 

U.S. electric power supply system. 

Copies of this application will be 

made available, upon request, for public 

inspection and copying at the address 

provided above, by accessing the 

program Web site at http://energy.gov/

node/11845, or by emailing Angela Troy 

at Angela.Troy@hq.doe.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on November 

18, 2015. 

Christopher Lawrence, 

Electricity Policy Analyst, Office of Electricity 

Delivery and Energy Reliability. 

[FR Doc. 2015–29885 Filed 11–23–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9939–18–ORD; Docket ID No. EPA– 

HQ–ORD–2013–0357] 

Draft Integrated Science Assessment 

for Sulfur Oxides—Health Criteria 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice; public comment period. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is announcing a 60-day 

public comment period for the draft 

document titled, ‘‘External Review Draft 

Integrated Science Assessment for 

Sulfur Oxides—Health Criteria’’ (EPA/

600/R–15/066). The draft document was 

prepared by the National Center for 

Environmental Assessment (NCEA) 

within the EPA’s Office of Research and 

Development as part of the review of the 

primary (health-based) National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards 

(NAAQS) for sulfur dioxide (SO2). The 

Integrated Science Assessment (ISA), in 

conjunction with additional technical 

and policy assessments, provides the 

scientific basis for the EPA’s decisions 

on the adequacy of the current NAAQS 

and the appropriateness of possible 

alternative standards. EPA intends to 

develop a separate ISA as part of an 

independent review for the secondary 

(welfare-based) NAAQS for oxides of 

nitrogen and sulfur. 

EPA is releasing this draft document 

to seek review by the Clean Air 

Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) 

and the public (meeting date and 

location to be specified in a separate 

Federal Register notice). This draft 

document is not final as described in 

EPA’s information quality guidelines, 

and it does not represent, and should 

not be construed to represent, Agency 

policy or views. When revising the 

document, EPA will consider any public 

comments submitted during the 60-day 

comment period in response to this 

notice. 

DATES: The 60-day public comment 

period begins on November 24, 2015, 

and ends on January 25, 2016. 

Comments must be received on or 

before January 25, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: The ‘‘External Review Draft 

Integrated Science Assessment for 

Sulfur Oxides—Health Criteria’’ will be 

available primarily via the Internet on 

EPA’s Integrated Science Assessment for 

Sulfur Dioxide (Health Criteria) home 

page at http://www2.epa.gov/isa/

integrated-science-assessment-isasulfur-dioxide-health-criteria or the 

public docket at http://

www.regulations.gov, Docket ID: EPA– 

HQ–ORD–2013–0357. A limited number 

of CD–ROM copies will be available. 

Contact Ms. Marieka Boyd by phone: 

919–541–0031; fax: 919–541–5078; or 

email: boyd.marieka@epa.gov to request 

a CD–ROM, and please provide your 

name, your mailing address, and the 

document title, ‘‘External Review Draft 

Integrated Science Assessment for 

Sulfur Oxides—Health Criteria’’ to 

facilitate processing of your request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the public comment 

period, contact the ORD Docket at the 

EPA Headquarters Docket Center; 

telephone: 202–566–1752; facsimile: 

202–566–9744; or email: Docket_ORD@

epa.gov. 

For technical information, contact Dr. 

Tom Long, NCEA; telephone: 919–541– 

1880; facsimile: 919–541–1818; or 

email: long.tom@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information About the Document 

Section 108(a) of the Clean Air Act 

directs the Administrator to identify 

certain pollutants which, among other 

things, ‘‘cause or contribute to air 

pollution which may reasonably be 

anticipated to endanger public health or 

welfare’’ and to issue air quality criteria 

for them. These air quality criteria are 

to ‘‘accurately reflect the latest scientific 

knowledge useful in indicating the kind 

and extent of all identifiable effects on 

public health or welfare which may be 

expected from the presence of [a] 

pollutant in the ambient air. . . .’’ 

Under section 109 of the Act, EPA is 

then to establish NAAQS for each 

pollutant for which EPA has issued 

criteria. Section 109(d) of the Act 

subsequently requires periodic review 

and, if appropriate, revision of existing 

air quality criteria to reflect advances in 

scientific knowledge on the effects of 

the pollutant on public health or 

welfare. EPA is also required to review 

and, if appropriate, revise the NAAQS, 

based on the revised air quality criteria 

(for more information on the NAAQS 

review process, see http://www.epa.gov/ 

ttn/naaqs/review.html). 

Sulfur oxides are one of six criteria 

pollutants for which EPA has 

established NAAQS. Periodically, EPA 

reviews the scientific basis for these 

standards by preparing an ISA (formerly 

called an Air Quality Criteria 

Document). The ISA, in conjunction 

with additional technical and policy 

assessments, provides the scientific 

basis for the EPA’s decisions on the 

adequacy of the current NAAQS and the 

appropriateness of possible alternative 

standards. The CASAC, an independent 

science advisory committee whose 

review and advisory functions are 

mandated by Section 109(d)(2) of the 

Clean Air Act, is charged (among other 

things) with independent scientific 

review of the EPA’s air quality criteria. 

On May 10, 2013 (78 FR 27387), EPA 

formally initiated its current review of 

the air quality criteria for the health 

effects of sulfur oxides and the primary 

(health-based) SO2 NAAQS, requesting 

the submission of recent scientific 

information on specified topics. EPA 

held a workshop on June 12 and 13, 

2013, to discuss with invited scientific 

experts, both internal and external to 

the EPA, key science and policy issues 

relevant to the review of the health 

effects of sulfur oxides (78 FR 27387). 

These science and policy issues were 

incorporated in EPA’s ‘‘Integrated 

Review Plan for the Primary National 

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Ambient Air Quality Standard for Sulfur 

Dioxide’’ (EPA–452/R–14–007), which 

was finalized in October 2014 with a 

prior draft available for public comment 

(79 FR 14035) and discussion by the 

CASAC via publicly accessible 

teleconference consultations (79 FR 

16325, 79 FR 30137, 79 FR 34739). On 

June 23–24, 2014, EPA held a workshop 

to discuss, with invited internal and 

external scientific experts, initial draft 

materials prepared in the development 

of the ISA (79 FR 33750). 

The ‘‘External Review Draft Integrated 

Science Assessment for Sulfur Oxides— 

Health Criteria’’ will be discussed at a 

public meeting for review by CASAC 

and the public. In addition to the public 

comment period announced in this 

notice, the public will have an 

opportunity to address CASAC. A 

separate Federal Register notice will 

inform the public of the exact date and 

time of the CASAC meeting and of the 

procedures for public participation. 

II. How To Submit Technical Comments 

to the Docket at www.regulations.gov 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2013– 

0357, by one of the following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: Docket_ORD@epa.gov. 

• Fax: 202–566–9744. 

• Mail: U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center 

(ORD Docket), Mail Code: 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. The phone number is 202– 

566–1752. 

• Hand Delivery: The ORD Docket is 

located in the EPA Headquarters Docket 

Center, EPA West Building, Room 3334, 

1301 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center 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. 

Such deliveries are only accepted 

during the docket’s normal hours of 

operation, and special arrangements 

should be made for deliveries of boxed 

information. If you provide comments 

by mail or hand delivery, please submit 

three copies of the comments. For 

attachments, provide an index, number 

pages consecutively with the comments, 

and submit an unbound original and 

three copies. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2013– 

0357. Please ensure that your comments 

are submitted within the specified 

comment period. Comments received 

after the closing date will be marked 

‘‘late,’’ and may only be considered if 

time permits. It is the EPA’s policy to 

include all comments it receives in the 

public docket without change and to 

make the comments available online at 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless a 

comment includes information claimed 

to be Confidential Business Information 

(CBI) or other information whose 

disclosure is restricted by statute. Do 

not submit information through 

www.regulations.gov or email that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected. 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. For additional information 

about the EPA’s public docket visit the 

EPA Docket Center homepage at http:// 

www2.epa.gov/dockets. 

Docket: Documents in the docket are 

listed in the www.regulations.gov index. 

Although listed in the index, some 

information is not publicly available, 

e.g., CBI or other information whose 

disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Certain other materials, such as 

copyrighted material, are publicly 

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 in the EPA 

Headquarters Docket Center. 

Dated: November 6, 2015. 

Mary A. Ross, 

Deputy Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

FCC To Hold Open Commission 

Meeting Thursday, November 19, 2015 

November 12, 2015. 

The Federal Communications 

Commission will hold an Open Meeting 

on the subjects listed below on 

Thursday, November 19, 2015, which is 

scheduled to commence at 10:30 a.m. in 

Room TW–C305, at 445 12th Street SW., 

Washington, DC. 

Item No. Bureau Subject 

1 ........... Public Safety and Homeland Security ......... Title: Improving Wireless Emergency Alerts and Community-Initiated Alerting (PS Docket No. 15–91). 

Summary: The Commission will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would 

improve the effectiveness of WEA message content and the geographic targeting of 

WEA messages, and facilitate WEA testing and proficiency training. 

2 ........... Wireless Tele-Communications ................... Title: Amendment of the Commission’s Rules Governing Hearing Aid Compatible Mobile Handsets (WT Docket No. 07–250). 

Summary: The Commission will consider a Report and Order and Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking that would update the scope of the wireless hearing aid compatibility 

rules and seek comment on additional measures that would ensure greater deployment of hearing aid compatible wireless handsets. 

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