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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Members of the public who would like 

to register and receive pertinent 

information, present an oral statement 

or submit a written statement for the 

November 6 and 7 meeting should 

contact Roy Simon by October 17, 2014, 

by email at Simon.Roy@epa.gov; by 

phone at 202–564–3868; or by regular 

mail at the United States Environmental 

Protection Agency, Office of Ground 

Water and Drinking Water, William 

Jefferson Clinton East, (Mail Code 4601– 

M), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. Further details 

about participating in the meeting can 

be found in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Details about Participating in the 

Meeting: If you wish to attend the 

meeting, you should provide your email 

address when you register. The EPA 

will provide updated information on the 

November 6 and 7 meeting to registered 

individuals and organizations by 

October 29, 2014. The Council will 

allocate one hour for the public’s input 

(1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m., eastern time) at 

the meeting on November 7, 2014. Oral 

statements will be limited to five 

minutes at the meeting. It is preferred 

that only one person present a statement 

on behalf of a group or organization. To 

ensure adequate time for public 

involvement, individuals or 

organizations interested in presenting 

an oral statement should notify Roy 

Simon no later than October 17, 2014. 

Any person who wishes to file a written 

statement can do so before or after the 

Council meeting. Written statements 

intended for the meeting must be 

received by October 29, 2014, to be 

distributed to all members of the 

Council before any final discussion or 

vote is completed. Any statements 

received on or after the date specified 

will become part of the permanent file 

for the meeting and will be forwarded 

to the Council members for their 

information. 

National Drinking Water Advisory 

Council: The Council was created by 

Congress on December 16, 1974, as part 

of the SDWA of 1974, Public Law 93– 

523, 42 U.S.C. 300j–5, and is operated 

in accordance with the provisions of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), 5 U.S.C. App.2. The Council 

was established under the SDWA to 

provide practical and independent 

advice, consultation and 

recommendations to the EPA 

Administrator on the activities, 

functions, policies and regulations 

required by the SDWA. 

Special Accommodations: For 

information on access or services for 

individuals with disabilities, please 

contact Roy Simon at 202–564–3868 or 

by email at Simon.Roy@epa.gov. To 

request an accommodation for a 

disability, please contact Roy Simon at 

least 10 days prior to the meeting to give 

the EPA as much time as possible to 

process your request. 

Dated: September 8, 2014. 

Peter Grevatt, 

Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking 

Water. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2014–0614; FRL–9915–55] 

FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; 

Notice of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: There will be a 4-day meeting 

of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, 

and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory 

Panel (FIFRA SAP) to consider and 

review Integrated Endocrine Activity 

and Exposure-based Prioritization and 

Screening. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

December 2–5, 2014, from 

approximately 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Comments. The Agency encourages 

that written comments be submitted by 

November 18, 2014, and requests for 

oral comments be submitted by 

November 25, 2014. However, written 

comments and requests to make oral 

comments may be submitted until the 

date of the meeting, but anyone 

submitting written comments after 

November 18, 2014, should contact the 

Designated Federal Official (DFO) listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. For additional instructions, 

see Unit I.C. of the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. 

Nominations. Nominations of 

candidates to serve as ad hoc members 

of FIFRA SAP for this meeting should 

be provided on or before September 30, 

2014. 

Webcast. This meeting may be 

webcast. Please refer to the FIFRA SAP 

Web site at http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/ 

sap for information on how to access the 

webcast. Please note that the webcast is 

a supplementary public process 

provided only for convenience. If 

difficulties arise resulting in Webcasting 

outages, the meeting will continue as 

planned. 

Special accommodations. For 

information on access or services for 

individuals with disabilities, and to 

request accommodation of a disability, 

please contact the DFO listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT at least 

10 days prior to the meeting to give EPA 

as much time as possible to process 

your request. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Environmental Protection Agency, 

Conference Center, Lobby Level, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA 22202. 

Comments. Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2014–0614, by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

• Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/ 

DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: To make special 

arrangements for hand delivery or 

delivery of boxed information, please 

follow the instructions at http://

www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html. 

Additional instructions on 

commenting or visiting the docket, 

along with more information about 

dockets generally, is available at http:// 

www.epa.gov/dockets. 

If your comments contain any 

information that you consider to be CBI 

or otherwise protected, please contact 

the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT to obtain special 

instructions before submitting your 

comments. 

Nominations, requests to present oral 

comments, and requests for special 

accommodations. Submit nominations 

to serve as ad hoc members of FIFRA 

SAP, requests for special seating 

accommodations, or requests to present 

oral comments to the DFO listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alva 

Daniels, DFO, Office of Science 

Coordination and Policy (7201M), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

(202) 564–2661; email address: 

daniels.alva@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general. This action may, however, be 

of interest to persons who are or may be 

required to conduct testing of chemical 

substances under the Federal Food, 

Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) and 

FIFRA. Since other entities may also be 

interested, the Agency has not 

attempted to describe all the specific 

entities that may be affected by this 

action. 

B. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for EPA? 

When submitting comments, 

remember to: 

1. Identify the document by docket ID 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

2. Follow directions. The Agency may 

ask you to respond to specific questions 

or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

3. Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

4. Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

5. If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

6. Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns and suggest 

alternatives. 

7. Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

8. Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

C. How may I participate in this 

meeting? 

You may participate in this meeting 

by following the instructions in this 

unit. To ensure proper receipt by EPA, 

it is imperative that you identify docket 

ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2014–0614 in 

the subject line on the first page of your 

request. 

1. Written comments. The Agency 

encourages that written comments be 

submitted, using the instructions in 

ADDRESSES, no later than November 18, 

2014, to provide FIFRA SAP the time 

necessary to consider and review the 

written comments. Written comments 

are accepted until the date of the 

meeting, but anyone submitting written 

comments after November 18, 2014, 

should contact the DFO listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Anyone 

submitting written comments at the 

meeting should bring 20 copies for 

distribution to FIFRA SAP. 

2. Oral comments. The Agency 

encourages that each individual or 

group wishing to make oral comments 

to FIFRA SAP submit their request to 

the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT no later than 

November 25, 2014, in order to be 

included on the meeting agenda. 

Requests to present oral comments will 

be accepted until the date of the meeting 

and, to the extent that time permits, the 

Chair of FIFRA SAP may permit the 

presentation of oral comments at the 

meeting by interested persons who have 

not previously requested time. The 

request should identify the name of the 

individual making the presentation, the 

organization (if any) the individual will 

represent, and any requirements for 

audiovisual equipment (e.g., overhead 

projector, 35 mm projector, chalkboard). 

Oral comments before FIFRA SAP are 

limited to approximately 5 minutes 

unless prior arrangements have been 

made. In addition, each speaker should 

bring 20 copies of his or her comments 

and presentation slides for distribution 

to FIFRA SAP at the meeting. 

3. Seating at the meeting. Seating at 

the meeting will be open and on a firstcome basis. 

4. Request for nominations to serve as 

ad hoc members of FIFRA SAP for this 

meeting. As part of a broader process for 

developing a pool of candidates for each 

meeting, FIFRA SAP staff routinely 

solicits the stakeholder community for 

nominations of prospective candidates 

for service as ad hoc members of FIFRA 

SAP. Any interested person or 

organization may nominate qualified 

individuals to be considered as 

prospective candidates for a specific 

meeting. Individuals nominated for this 

meeting should have expertise in one or 

more of the following areas: High 

Throughput Screening (HTS) in vitro 

assay technology and applications, 

QSAR methodology, Tier 1 assays 

(Uterotrophic and Hershberger), In vitro 

assays (Estrogen, Androgen, Thyroid or 

Steriodogenesis), reproductive biology 

and toxicology, endocrinology. 

Mathematical modeling of biological 

Systems, Bioinformatics, 

Biomathematics, Statistics, Quantitative 

modeling and analysis of complex data 

including Curve-fitting and Outlier 

detection, Computational exposure 

modeling, Near-field and far-field 

exposure modeling, Toxicokinetics and 

Pharmacokinetics, Environmental fate 

and transport, Human exposure 

assessment (including vulnerable or 

susceptible populations), Ecological 

exposure assessment. Note: In support 

of the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency’s (EPA) priority of ‘‘Making a 

Visible Difference in Communities’’ 

across the country, the Agency is 

committed to helping minority, low 

income, tribal and other vulnerable 

populations improve their health and 

environment. In an effort to ensure that 

actions being proposed by the Agency 

are taking into consideration input from 

potential communities with 

environmental justice concerns, the EPA 

is offering an opportunity to provide 

input on the FIFRA SAP meeting to 

address scientific issues associated with 

‘‘Integrated Endocrine Activity and 

Exposure-based Prioritization and 

Screening’’. The EPA encourages all 

grass-root organizations and residents to 

submit public comments on this issue 

which is being addressed during the 

FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel 

meeting. The Agency also encourages 

community environmental justice 

advocates to give a voice to their 

communities by nominating candidates 

for consideration to serve on this panel. 

Nominees should be scientists who have 

sufficient professional qualifications, 

including training and experience, to be 

capable of providing expert comments 

on the scientific issues for this meeting. 

Nominees should be identified by name, 

occupation, position, address, and 

telephone number. Nominations should 

be provided to the DFO listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT on or 

before September 30, 2014. The Agency 

will consider all nominations of 

prospective candidates for this meeting 

that are received on or before that date. 

However, final selection of ad hoc 

members for this meeting is a 

discretionary function of the Agency. 

The selection of scientists to serve on 

FIFRA SAP is based on the function of 

the Panel and the expertise needed to 

address the Agency’s charge to the 

Panel. No interested scientists shall be 

ineligible to serve by reason of their 

membership on any other advisory 

committee to a Federal department or 

agency or their employment by a 

Federal department or agency, except 

the EPA. Other factors considered 

during the selection process include 

availability of the potential Panel 

member to fully participate in the 

Panel’s reviews, absence of any conflicts 

of interest or appearance of lack of 

impartiality, independence with respect 

to the matters under review, and lack of 

bias. Although financial conflicts of 

interest, the appearance of lack of 

impartiality, lack of independence, and 

bias may result in disqualification, the 

absence of such concerns does not 

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to serve on FIFRA SAP. Numerous 

qualified candidates are identified for 

each Panel. Therefore, selection 

decisions involve carefully weighing a 

number of factors including the 

candidates’ areas of expertise and 

professional qualifications and 

achieving an overall balance of different 

scientific perspectives on the Panel. In 

order to have the collective breadth of 

experience needed to address the 

Agency’s charge for this meeting, the 

Agency anticipates selecting 

approximately 8 ad hoc scientists. 

FIFRA SAP members are subject to 

the provisions of 5 CFR Part 2634— 

Executive Branch Financial Disclosure, 

Qualified Trusts, and Certificates of 

Divestiture, as supplemented by EPA in 

5 CFR part 6401. In anticipation of this 

requirement, prospective candidates for 

service on FIFRA SAP will be asked to 

submit confidential financial 

information which shall fully disclose, 

among other financial interests, the 

candidate’s employment, stocks, and 

bonds, and where applicable, sources of 

research support. The EPA will evaluate 

the candidate’s financial disclosure 

form to assess whether there are 

financial conflicts of interest, 

appearance of a lack of impartiality, or 

any prior involvement with the 

development of the documents under 

consideration (including previous 

scientific peer review) before the 

candidate is considered further for 

service on FIFRA SAP. Those who are 

selected from the pool of prospective 

candidates will be asked to attend the 

public meetings and to participate in the 

discussion of key issues and 

assumptions at these meetings. In 

addition, they will be asked to review 

and to help finalize the meeting 

minutes. The list of FIFRA SAP 

members participating at this meeting 

will be posted on the FIFRA SAP Web 

site at http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/sap 

or may be obtained from the OPP Docket 

at http://www.regulations.gov. 

II. Background 

A. Purpose of FIFRA SAP 

FIFRA SAP serves as the primary 

scientific peer review mechanism of 

EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and 

Pollution Prevention (OCSPP) and is 

structured to provide scientific advice, 

information and recommendations to 

the EPA Administrator on pesticides 

and pesticide-related issues as to the 

impact of regulatory actions on health 

and the environment. FIFRA SAP is a 

Federal advisory committee established 

in 1975 under FIFRA that operates in 

accordance with requirements of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act. FIFRA 

SAP is composed of a permanent panel 

consisting of seven members who are 

appointed by the EPA Administrator 

from nominees provided by the National 

Institutes of Health and the National 

Science Foundation. FIFRA established 

a Science Review Board (SRB) 

consisting of at least 60 scientists who 

are available to FIFRA SAP on an ad hoc 

basis to assist in reviews conducted by 

FIFRA SAP. As a peer review 

mechanism, FIFRA SAP provides 

comments, evaluations, and 

recommendations to improve the 

effectiveness and quality of analyses 

made by Agency scientists. Members of 

FIFRA SAP are scientists who have 

sufficient professional qualifications, 

including training and experience, to 

provide expert advice and 

recommendation to the Agency. 

B. Public Meeting 

This FIFRA SAP meeting will review 

methods using computational 

toxicology and exposure tools (i.e., high 

throughput screening (HTS) assays, and 

computational models), and other data 

streams for integrated bioactivity and 

exposure based prioritization and 

screening of the universe of EDSP 

chemicals. Endocrine bioactivity of 

chemicals will be quantified using HTS 

in vitro estrogen, androgen, and thyroid 

receptor assays, along with other 

potential molecular targets, and 

compared with Tier 1 screening and 

other in vivo assay results obtained from 

published and publically available peerreviewed studies. While technical 

advances in high-throughput toxicity 

testing of chemicals were presented at a 

FIFRA SAP meeting in 2013, this SAP 

will review further advances in 

computational toxicology exposure 

science for prioritization and screening 

of the EDSP universe of chemicals. The 

ability of the agency to screen the 

thousands of environmental chemicals 

in the EDSP universe is substantially 

limited by the capacity of the current 

Tier 1 screening methods. Rapid 

screening of 1000s of chemicals using 

EPA’s ToxCast high throughput assays 

allows the agency to focus attention on 

chemicals with the greatest potential 

endocrine bioactivity. In addition, high 

throughput models of human and 

ecological exposure (e.g. ExpoCast) 

allows the agency to identify chemicals 

with the greatest potential for exposures 

that could result in bioactive 

concentrations. This shift in the EDSP 

framework allows focus to be placed on 

chemicals that pose the greatest 

likelihood of exposures leading to 

endocrine bioactivity in humans or 

wildlife. The FIFRA SAP will be 

requested to respond to charge 

questions regarding EPA’s proposed 

integrated bioactivity exposure based 

approach for ranking chemicals in the 

EDSP universe for further screening and 

testing. 

C. FIFRA SAP Documents and Meeting 

Minutes 

EPA’s background paper, related 

supporting materials, charge/questions 

to FIFRA SAP, FIFRA SAP composition 

(i.e., members and ad hoc members for 

this meeting), and the meeting agenda 

will be available by approximately 

October 27, 2014. In addition, the 

Agency may provide additional 

background documents as the materials 

become available. You may obtain 

electronic copies of these documents, 

and certain other related documents that 

might be available at http://

www.regulations.gov and the FIFRA 

SAP Web site at http://www.epa.gov/

scipoly/sap. 

FIFRA SAP will prepare meeting 

minutes summarizing its 

recommendations to the Agency 

approximately 90 days after the 

meeting. The meeting minutes will be 

posted on the FIFRA SAP Web site or 

may be obtained from the OPP Docket 

at http://www.regulations.gov. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests, Environmental Justice. 

Dated: September 2, 2014. 

David J. Dix, 

Director, Office of Science Coordination and 

Policy. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9916–68–OGC] 

Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air 

Act Citizen Suit 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed consent 

decree; request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended 

(‘‘Act’’), notice is hereby given of a 

proposed consent decree, to address a 

lawsuit filed by WildEarth Guardians: 

WildEarth Guardians v. McCarthy, Civil 

Action No. 1:13–dv–02748–RBJ (D. Co.). 

On October 28, 2013, WildEarth 

Guardians filed a complaint alleging 

that the Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) had failed to perform its 

nondiscretionary duties to make 

findings that certain states had failed to 


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