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Request for Nominations of Experts To 

Augment the Science Advisory Board 

Ecological Processes and Effects 

Committee To Provide Advice on 

Methods for Deriving Water Quality 

Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic 

Life 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA), SAB Staff Office is 

requesting public nominations of 

scientific experts to augment the SAB 

Ecological Processes and Effects 

Committee (EPEC) for review of a draft 

EPA document entitled ‘‘Scope and 

Approach for Revising USEPA’s 

Guidelines for Deriving National Water 

Quality Criteria to Protect Aquatic Life.’’ 

DATES: Nominations should be 

submitted by September 20, 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, 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, consultation, 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 Ecological Process and Effects 

Committee (EPEC) is a subcommittee of 

the SAB that provides advice through 

the chartered SAB on technical issues 

related to EPA environmental programs 

and the supporting science and research 

to protect, sustain, and restore the 

health of ecosystems. The SAB and the 

EPEC, augmented with additional 

experts, will comply with the provisions 

of FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff 

Office procedural policies. The 

augmented EPEC will provide advice 

through the chartered SAB on scientific 

and technical issues related to the 

Agency’s proposed methods for revising 

and updating water quality criteria, as 

described in the Agency’s draft scoping 

document, entitled ‘‘Scope and 

Approach for Revising USEPA’s 

Guidelines for Deriving National Water 

Quality Criteria to Protect Aquatic Life.’’ 

This draft document provides an 

overview of the framework EPA 

proposes to use for the phased revision 

of the 1985 Guidelines for Deriving 

Numerical Water Quality Criteria for the 

Protection of Aquatic Organisms and 

Their Uses by outlining the planned 

scope and approach of the Guidelines 

revision process and introducing new 

and alternative methods to be 

considered for deriving aquatic life 

criteria based on the latest and most 

appropriate science available. 

EPA’s Office of Water (OW) requested 

an SAB consultation (i.e., early advice) 

on their draft approach for updating and 

revising the EPA’s 1985 methodology 

for deriving national Ambient Water 

Quality Criteria to protect aquatic life, 

as described in the draft scoping 

document. The SAB Staff Office is 

seeking experts to augment the SAB 

EPEC for this advisory activity. EPA’s 

OW has also requested reviews of two 

subsequent and related draft documents: 

‘‘Draft Expedited Methodologies for 

Deriving Water Quality Criteria for the 

Protection of Aquatic Life’’ and ‘‘Draft 

Revised USEPA Guidelines for Deriving 

Numeric Water Quality Criteria for the 

Protection of Aquatic Life.’’ These draft 

documents are currently scheduled for 

completion as drafts in late 2017 and 

mid-2019. 

Technical Contact for EPA’s Draft 

Report: For information concerning the 

draft EPA report, ‘‘Scope and Approach 

for Revising USEPA’s Guidelines for 

Deriving National Water Quality Criteria 

to Protect Aquatic Life,’’ please contact 

Mike Elias, Ecological Risk Assessment 

Branch, Health and Ecological Criteria 

Division, Office of Water, U.S. EPA, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, phone (202) 

566–0120 or via email at elias.mike@

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 

EPEC for the consultation and 

subsequent reviews of methods for 

revising Water Quality Criteria. For this 

effort, the SAB Staff Office seeks experts 

in one or more of the following areas: 

Aquatic toxicology; ecotoxicology; 

aquatic ecology; ecological risk 

assessment; ecological effects modeling; 

and statistics, especially as applied to 

developing robust computational 

methods for estimating acute and 

chronic effects of water pollutants on 

aquatic life and aquatic-dependent 

wildlife. Additional information about 

this advisory activity is available on the 

SAB Web site at http://

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

fedrgstr_activites/1985%20

WQ%20Criteria%20Guidelines%20

Revision?OpenDocument. Questions 

regarding this advisory activity should 

be directed to Iris Goodman, Designated 

Federal Officer (DFO), SAB Staff Office, 

by telephone/voice mail at (202) 564– 

2164, by fax at (202) 565–2098, or via 

email at goodman.iris@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 EPEC panel described 

above. 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 Iris 

Goodman as indicated above in this 

notice. Nominations should be 

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submitted in time to arrive no later than 

September 20, 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 EPEC Augmented for 

Review of Aquatic Life Water Quality 

Criteria Methods 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 the augmented EPEC, 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?Open

Document. 

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://

www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/ec02010.pdf. 

Dated: August 24, 2016. 

Christopher S. Zarba, 

Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff 

Office. 

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Meeting of the Mobile Sources 

Technical Review Subcommittee 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 

92–463, notice is hereby given that the 

Mobile Sources Technical Review 

Subcommittee (MSTRS) will meet on 

October 18, 2016. The MSTRS is a 

subcommittee under the Clean Air Act 

Advisory Committee. This is an open 

meeting. The meeting will include 

discussion of current topics and 

presentations about activities being 

conducted by EPA’s Office of 

Transportation and Air Quality. The 

preliminary agenda for the meeting and 

any notices about change in venue will 

be posted on the Subcommittee’s Web 

site: http://www2.epa.gov/caaac/mobilesources-technical-review-subcommitteemstrs-caaac. MSTRS listserv subscribers 

will receive notification when the 

agenda is available on the 

Subcommittee Web site. To subscribe to 

the MSTRS listserv, send an email to 

mccubbin.courtney@epa.gov. 

DATES: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 from 

9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Registration 

begins at 8:30 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting is currently 

scheduled to be held at The Willard 

Intercontinental Hotel, 1401 

Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC 

20004. However, this date and location 

are subject to change and interested 

parties should monitor the 

Subcommittee Web site (above) for the 

latest logistical information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Courtney McCubbin, Designated Federal 

Officer, Transportation and Climate 

Division, Mailcode 6406A, U.S. EPA, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; Ph: 202–564– 

2436; email: mccubbin.courtney@

epa.gov. 

Background on the work of the 

Subcommittee is available at: https://

www.epa.gov/caaac/mobile-sourcestechnical-review-subcommittee-mstrscaaac Individuals or organizations 

wishing to provide comments to the 

Subcommittee should submit them to 

Ms. McCubbin at the address above by 

October 4, 2016. The Subcommittee 

expects that public statements presented 

at its meetings will not be repetitive of 

previously submitted oral or written 

statements. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: During the 

meeting, the Subcommittee may also 

hear progress reports from some of its 

workgroups as well as updates and 

announcements on activities of general 

interest to attendees. 

For Individuals With Disabilities: For 

information on access or services for 

individuals with disabilities, please 

contact Ms. McCubbin (see above). To 

request accommodation of a disability, 

please contact Ms. McCubbin, 

preferably at least 10 days prior to the 

meeting, to give EPA as much time as 

possible to process your request. 

Dated: August 23, 2016. 

Benjamin Hengst, 

Acting Director, Office of Transportation and 

Air Quality. 

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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 

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