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EPA’s federal advisory committees has a 

different purpose from public comment 

provided to EPA program offices. 

Therefore, the process for submitting 

comments to a federal advisory 

committee is different from the process 

used to submit comments to an EPA 

program office. Federal advisory 

committees provide independent advice 

to EPA. Members of the public may 

submit comments on matters being 

considered by the EFAB for 

consideration as the Board develops its 

advice and recommendations to EPA. 

Oral Statements: In general, 

individuals or groups requesting an oral 

presentation at a public meeting will be 

limited to three minutes each. Persons 

interested in providing oral statements 

at the March 2022 meeting virtually via 

webcast should register in advance and 

provide notification, as noted in the 

registration confirmation, by March 22, 

2022, to be placed on the list of 

registered speakers. 

Written Statements: Written 

statements should be received by March 

22, 2022, so that the information can be 

made available to the EFAB for its 

consideration prior to the meeting. 

Written statements should be sent via 

email to efab@epa.gov. Members of the 

public should be aware that their 

personal contact information, if 

included in any written comments, may 

be posted to the EFAB website. 

Copyrighted material will not be posted 

without explicit permission of the 

copyright holder. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities or to request 

accommodations for a disability, please 

register for the meeting and list any 

special requirements or 

accommodations needed on the 

registration form at least 10 business 

days prior to the meeting to allow as 

much time as possible to process your 

request. 

Dated: March 4, 2022. 

Andrew D. Sawyers, 

Director, Office of Wastewater Management, 

Office of Water. 

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AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2020–0312; FRL–7887–02– 

OAR] 

Release of Volumes 1 and 2 of the 

Integrated Review Plan for the Lead 

National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: On or about March 4, 2022, 

the Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA) is making available to the public, 

Volumes 1 and 2 of the Integrated 

Review Plan for the Lead National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards (IRP). 

The national ambient air quality 

standards (NAAQS) for lead (Pb) are set 

to protect the public health and the 

public welfare from Pb in ambient air. 

Volume 1 of the IRP contains contextual 

background material and the anticipated 

schedule for the current review of the 

air quality criteria and NAAQS for Pb. 

Volume 2 identifies policy-relevant 

issues in the review and describes key 

considerations in EPA’s development of 

the Integrated Science Assessment 

(ISA). The ISA provides the scientific 

basis for the EPA’s decisions, in 

conjunction with additional technical 

and policy assessments, for the review 

of the NAAQS, as described in the Clean 

Air Act, section 108(a). 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before April 4, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments on 

Volume 2 of the IRP, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2020– 

0312, by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

https://www.regulations.gov/ (our 

preferred method). Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center, 

Office of Air and Radiation Docket, Mail 

Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier (by 

scheduled appointment only): EPA Start 

Printed Page 56264 Docket Center, WJC 

West Building, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20004. The Docket Center’s hours of 

operations are 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., 

Monday–Friday (except Federal 

Holidays). 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the Docket ID No. for this 

notice. Comments received may be 

posted without change to https://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. For 

detailed instructions on sending 

comments, see the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this document. 

The two volumes described here will be 

available on the EPA’s website at 

https://www.epa.gov/naaqs/lead-pb-airquality-standards. The documents will 

be accessible under ‘‘Planning 

Documents’’ from the current review. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Deirdre L. Murphy, Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards, (Mail Code 

C504–06), U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Research Triangle 

Park, NC 27711; telephone number: 

919–541–0729, fax number: 919–541– 

027; or email: murphy.deirdre@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

Written Comments 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2020– 

0312, at https://www.regulations.gov 

(our preferred method), or the other 

methods identified in the ADDRESSES

section. Once submitted, comments 

cannot be edited or removed from the 

docket. The EPA may publish any 

comment received to its public docket. 

Do not submit to EPA’s docket at 

https://www.regulations.gov any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. The EPA will generally not 

consider comments or comment 

contents located outside of the primary 

submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or 

other file sharing system). For 

additional submission methods, the full 

EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit 

https://www.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets. 

Due to public health concerns, the 

EPA Docket Center and Reading Room 

are open to the public by appointment 

only. Our Docket Center staff continues 

to provide remote customer service via 

email, phone, and webform. Hand 

deliveries or couriers will be received 

by scheduled appointment only. For 

further information and updates on EPA 

Docket Center services, please visit us 

online at https://www.epa.gov/dockets. 

II. Information About the Documents 

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1The EPA’s call for information for this review 

was issued on July 7, 2020 (85 FR 40641). 

establishment and revision of the 

NAAQS. Section 108 directs the 

Administrator to identify and list 

certain air pollutants and then issue ‘‘air 

quality criteria’’ for those pollutants. 

The 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 such 

pollutant in the ambient air . . .’’ (CAA 

section 108(a)(2)). Under section 109 of 

the Act, the EPA is then to establish 

primary (health-based) and secondary 

(welfare-based) NAAQS for each 

pollutant for which the EPA has issued 

air quality criteria. Section 109(d)(1) of 

the Act requires periodic review and, if 

appropriate, revision of existing air 

quality criteria. Revised air quality 

criteria are to reflect advances in 

scientific knowledge on the effects of 

the pollutant on public health and 

welfare. Under the same provision, the 

EPA is also to periodically review and, 

if appropriate, revise the NAAQS, based 

on the revised air quality criteria. 

The Act additionally requires 

appointment of an independent 

scientific review committee that is to 

periodically review the existing air 

quality criteria and NAAQS and to 

recommend any new standards and 

revisions of existing criteria and 

standards as may be appropriate (CAA 

section 109(d)(2)(A)–(B)). Since the 

early 1980s, the requirement for an 

independent scientific review 

committee has been fulfilled by the 

Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee (CASAC). 

Presently the EPA is reviewing the air 

quality criteria and NAAQS for Pb.1 The 

documents announced in this notice 

have been developed as part of the 

integrated review plan (IRP) which is 

developed in the planning phase for the 

review. The documents have been 

prepared jointly by the EPA’s Center for 

Public Health and Environmental 

Assessment, within the Office of 

Research and Development, and the 

Office of Air Quality Planning and 

Standards, within the Office of Air and 

Radiation. These documents will be 

available on the EPA’s website at 

https://www.epa.gov/naaqs/lead-pb-airquality-standards, accessible under 

‘‘Planning Documents’’ from the current 

review. 

The IRP for the current review of the 

lead NAAQS will be comprised of three 

volumes. Volumes 1 and 2 are the 

subject of this notice. Volume 1 

provides background information on the 

air quality criteria and standards for Pb 

and may serve as a reference by the 

public and the CASAC in their 

consideration of the subsequent two 

volumes. Volume 2 addresses the 

general approach for the review and 

planning for the integrated science 

assessment (ISA). Comments are 

solicited from the public on Volume 2, 

which will also be the subject of a 

consultation with the CASAC, to be 

announced in a separate Federal 

Register notice. This volume identifies 

policy-relevant issues in the review and 

describes key considerations in EPA’s 

development of the ISA. Volume 3, 

which is not yet completed, is the 

planning document for quantitative 

analyses to be considered in the policy 

assessment (PA), including exposure 

and risk analyses. In order that 

consideration of the availability of new 

evidence in the review can inform these 

plans, the development and public 

availability of Volume 3 will generally 

coincide with that of the draft ISA and 

it will be the subject of a consultation 

with the CASAC at that time. 

Comments on Volume 2 of the IRP 

should be submitted to the docket, as 

described above, by April 4, 2022. A 

separate Federal Register notice will 

provide details about the CASAC 

consultation meeting and the process for 

participation in the CASAC consultation 

on Volume 2. The EPA will consider the 

consultation comments from the CASAC 

and public comments on the IRP, 

Volume 2, in preparation of the Pb ISA. 

Volume 1 of the IRP, also being made 

available, provides background or 

contextual and historical material for 

this NAAQS review. These documents 

do not represent and should not be 

construed to represent any final EPA 

policy, viewpoint, or determination. 

Panagiotis Tsirigotis, 

Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and 

Standards. 

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Disclosure of Information Claimed as, 

or Determined by EPA To Be, 

Confidential Business Information 

(CBI) in Renewable Fuel Standard 

(RFS) Small Refinery Exemption 

Petitions and Certain RFS Compliance 

Reports 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) is providing 

notice of disclosure to all obligated 

parties under the Renewable Fuel 

Standard (RFS) program that have 

petitioned for a small refinery 

exemption (SRE) or that have submitted 

any of the following RFS compliance 

reports: RFS2500 Efficient Producer 

Data Report, RFS0303 Annual Report, 

RFS0104 RFS Activity Report, and 

RFS0105 RFS Activity Report. In 

response to a request by the U.S. 

Government Accountability Office 

(GAO), EPA will disclose information to 

GAO which has been submitted to EPA 

that is claimed to be, or has been 

determined to be, confidential business 

information (CBI). The information to be 

disclosed includes all documents, 

information, and data related to all 

small refinery exemption petitions 

received by EPA since May 21, 2021, 

through December 31, 2023, and all 

information in the aforementioned RFS 

compliance reports. These records 

include, but are not limited to: (a) All 

materials submitted by the small 

refineries as part of their petitions; (b) 

any documentation sent by the 

Department of Energy (DOE) to EPA 

stating DOE’s findings and scores 

associated with the petitions and any 

EPA responses thereto; (c) any EPA 

record addressing the subject of the 

exemption petitions, including any 

analysis that EPA conducted in addition 

to DOE’s findings; and (d) EPA’s final 

exemption decisions sent to the 

refineries. 

DATES: EPA will disclose the material 

discussed in this document to GAO, 

including any CBI therein, on March 28, 

2022. All CBI-claimed documents will 

be destroyed, deleted, or returned to 

EPA at the conclusion of GAO’s review. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Karen Nelson, Environmental Protection 

Specialist, Compliance Division, Office 

of Transportation and Air Quality at 

nelson.karen@epa.gov or (734) 214– 

4657. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

connection with a GAO review, EPA 

received a request under 40 CFR 

2.209(b) from GAO for records 

submitted to EPA under the RFS 

program since the date EPA last shared 

similar documents with GAO (May 21, 

2021) through December 31, 2023. GAO, 

as part of the same program review, has 

also requested access to a RIN analysis 

that potentially contains derivative CBI 

sourced from certain RFS compliance 

reports. The information that will be 

disclosed to GAO includes all 


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