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party to the proceeding. Any comments, 

protests, or motions to intervene must 

be received on or before the specified 

comment date for the particular 

application. 

o. Filing and Service of Responsive 

Documents: All filings must bear in all 

capital letters the title ‘‘COMMENTS’’, 

‘‘PROTESTS’’, and ‘‘MOTIONS TO 

INTERVENE’’, as applicable, and the 

Docket Number of the particular 

application to which the filing refers. A 

copy of any Motion To Intervene must 

also be served upon each representative 

of the Applicant specified in the 

particular application. 

p. Agency Comments: Federal, state, 

and local agencies are invited to file 

comments on the described application. 

A copy of the application may be 

obtained by agencies directly from the 

Applicant. If an agency does not file 

comments within the time specified for 

filing comments, it will be presumed to 

have no comments. One copy of an 

agency’s comments must also be sent to 

the Applicant’s representatives. 

Dated: October 21, 2016. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings 

Take notice that the Commission has 

received the following Natural Gas 

Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings: 

Filings Instituting Proceedings 

Docket Numbers: RP17–38–000. 

Applicants: Algonquin Gas 

Transmission, LLC. 

Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing: 

Negotiated Rates—Keyspan Release to 

ConEd 792126 to be effective 11/1/2016. 

Filed Date: 10/19/16. 

Accession Number: 20161019–5029. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/31/16. 

Docket Numbers: RP17–39–000. 

Applicants: Southern Natural Gas 

Company, L.L.C. 

Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing: 2016 

Expansion Negotiated Rate Filing to be 

effective 12/1/2016. 

Filed Date: 10/19/16. 

Accession Number: 20161019–5041. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/31/16. 

Docket Numbers: RP17–40–000. 

Applicants: Algonquin Gas 

Transmission, LLC. 

Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing: 

Negotiated Rates—KeySpan Release to 

Emera contract 792149 to be effective 

11/1/2016. 

Filed Date: 10/19/16. 

Accession Number: 20161019–5047. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 10/31/16. 

Docket Numbers: RP17–41–000. 

Applicants: Natural Gas Pipeline 

Company of America. 

Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing: 

Peoples Gas Light & Coke Negotiated 

Rate to be effective 11/1/2016. 

Filed Date: 10/20/16. 

Accession Number: 20161020–5000. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/1/16. 

Any person desiring to intervene or 

protest in any of the above proceedings 

must file in accordance with Rules 211 

and 214 of the Commission’s 

Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. 

Protests may be considered, but 

intervention is necessary to become a 

party to the proceeding. 

Filings in Existing Proceedings 

Docket Numbers: RP15–301–002. 

Applicants: Equitrans, L.P. 

Description: Compliance filing IBS 

First Year of Service—Compliance 

Filing. 

Filed Date: 10/20/16. 

Accession Number: 20161020–5036. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/1/16. 

Any person desiring to protest in any 

of the above proceedings must file in 

accordance with Rule 211 of the 

Commission’s Regulations (18 CFR 

385.211) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. 

The filings are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system by 

clicking on the links or querying the 

docket number. 

eFiling is encouraged. More detailed 

information relating to filing 

requirements, interventions, protests, 

service, and qualifying facilities filings 

can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/ 

docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For 

other information, call (866) 208–3676 

(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. 

Dated: October 20, 2016. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9954–54–OA] 

Request for Nominations of Experts To 

Augment the Science Advisory Board 

Chemical Assessment Advisory 

Committee for the Review of EPA Draft 

Toxicological Reviews for tert-Butyl 

Alcohol (tert-butanol) and Ethyl 

Tertiary Butyl Ether (ETBE) 

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 

peer review of two EPA Draft 

Toxicological Review: (1) The 

Toxicological Review of tert-Butyl 

Alcohol (tert-butanol) and (2) 

Toxicological Review for Ethyl Tertiary 

Butyl Ether (ETBE) in Support of 

Summary Information on the Integrated 

Risk Information System (IRIS). 

DATES: Nominations should be 

submitted by November 17, 2016 per the 

instructions below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: 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 


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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 inclusion in the 

IRIS database. NCEA is developing a 

draft Toxicological Review of tert-Butyl 

Alcohol (tert-butanol) and Toxicological 

Review of Ethyl Tertiary Butyl Ether 

(ETBE) and has asked the SAB to 

conduct the peer review of these draft 

documents. Because tert-butanol is a 

metabolite of ETBE, the peer reviews 

will be conducted together. The SAB 

Staff Office is seeking experts to 

augment the SAB CAAC for the review 

of tert-butanol and ETBE. 

These two draft EPA documents 

represent new IRIS assessments of tertbutanol and ETBE. Experimental animal 

data and other relevant data from 

studies of the noncancer and cancer 

effects of tert-butanol and ETBE are 

evaluated in these assessments. These 

assessments include an oral reference 

dose (RfD) and inhalation reference 

concentration (RfC) for noncancer 

effects as well as a cancer assessment. 

The cancer assessments characterize 

tert-butanol and ETBE as having 

suggestive evidence of carcinogenic 

potential to humans and include oral 

cancer slope factors for both compounds 

and an inhalation unit risk for ETBE. 

Technical Contact for EPA’s draft 

assessments: For information 

concerning the EPA draft assessments, 

please contact Gina Perovich, 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) 347–8656 or via 

email at perovich.gina@epa.gov. 

Request for Nominations: The SAB 

Staff Office is seeking nominations of 

nationally and internationally 

recognized scientists with demonstrated 

expertise and research on tert-butanol 

and ETBE to augment the CAAC for the 

peer review of the tert-butanol and 

ETBE toxicological reviews. The SAB 

Staff Office seeks experts in one or more 

of the following areas, with a particular 

focus on tert-butanol and ETBE: 

Toxicology, rat nephrotoxicity, liver 

toxicity, reproductive toxicity, cancer 

biology, physiologically-based 

pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling, 

toxicokinetics, and dose-response 

modeling of animal data. Questions 

regarding this review should be directed 

to Dr. Shaunta Hill, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), SAB Staff Office, by 

telephone/voice mail at (202) 564–3343, 

or via email at hill.shaunta@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 review 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. 

Hill as noted above. Nominations 

should be submitted in time to arrive no 

later than November 17, 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 tert-butanol 

and ETBE Review Panel on the SAB 

Web site at http://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 Environmental Protection 

Agency Special Government 

Employees’’ (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: October 18, 2016. 

Khanna Johnston, 

Acting Deputy Director, EPA Science 

Advisory Board Staff Office. 

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