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conference in the above-referenced 

proceedings on Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 

from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EDT) in the 

Commission Meeting Room at the 

offices of the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. Members of the 

Commission may attend the conference, 

which will also be open for the public 

to attend. Advance registration is not 

required, but is encouraged. We will 

provide nametags for those who register 

on or before July 10, 2012. Participants 

may register at the following Web page: 

https://www.ferc.gov/whats-new/ 

registration/small-generator-7-17-12- 

form.asp. 

The purpose of this conference is to 

discuss issues related to a petition for 

rulemaking recently submitted by the 

Solar Energy Industries Association 

(Docket No. RM12–10–000). 

This conference is not intended to 

address the substance of any particular 

case pending before the Commission. 

However, discussions at the conference 

may address matters at issue in the 

following Commission proceedings that 

are either pending or within their 

rehearing period: California 

Independent System Operator 

Corporation, Docket No. ER12–502–001 

and Docket No. ER12–502–002; PJM 

Interconnection, LLC, Docket No. ER12– 

1177–001; California Independent 

System Operator Corporation, Docket 

No. ER12–1855–000. 

Those interested in speaking at the 

conference should notify the 

Commission by close of business June 

22, 2012, by completing an online form 

identifying the topic(s) that they wish to 

address: https://www.ferc.gov/whatsnew/registration/small-generator-7-17- 

12-speaker-form.asp. Due to time 

constraints, we may not be able to 

accommodate all those interested in 

speaking. The Commission will issue a 

subsequent notice that will provide the 

detailed agenda for the conference, 

including panel speakers, and a 

comment date for filing post-conference 

comments. 

The conference will be transcribed 

and available by webcast. Transcripts 

will be available immediately for a fee 

from Ace Reporting Company (202– 

347–3700 or 1–800–336–6646). A free 

webcast of the technical conference in 

this proceeding is also available. 

Anyone with Internet access interested 

in viewing this conference can do so by 

navigating to the FERC Calendar of 

Events at www.ferc.gov and locating this 

event in the Calendar. The event will 

contain a link to its webcast. The 

Capitol Connection provides technical 

support for the webcasts and offers the 

option of listening to the conferences 

via phone-bridge for a fee. If you have 

any questions, visit 

www.CapitolConnection.org or call (703) 

993–3100. 

FERC conferences are accessible 

under section 508 of the Rehabilitation 

Act of 1973. For accessibility 

accommodations please send an email 

to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free 

1–866–208–3372 (voice) or 202–208– 

8659 (TTY), or send a fax to 202–208– 

2106 with the required 

accommodations. 

For information related to the agenda, 

please contact Leslie Kerr at 

leslie.kerr@ferc.gov or (202) 502–8540. 

For information related to logistics, 

please contact Sarah McKinley at 

sarah.mckinley@ferc.gov or (202) 

502–8368. 

Dated: June 13, 2012. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2012–14885 Filed 6–18–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9688–7] 

Notice of Availability of the Benchmark 

Dose Technical Guidance 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency is announcing the 

availability of Benchmark Dose 

Technical Guidance (BMD). This 

document was developed as part of an 

agency-wide guidance development 

program by a technical panel of the 

EPA’s Risk Assessment Forum. Drafts 

were peer reviewed internally by EPA 

scientists and externally by experts from 

academia, industry, and other federal 

and state government agencies. When 

appropriate, the EPA intends to use the 

guidance prospectively in conducting 

risk assessments. 

ADDRESSES: The BMD document is 

available electronically through the 

EPA’s Web site at http://www.epa.gov/ 

raf/publications/benchmarkdose.htm. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Michael W. Broder, Risk Assessment 

Forum, Office of the Science Advisor 

(8105R), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; on 

telephone number (202) 564–3393; 

facsimile number (202) 564–2070; or 

email broder.michael@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In support 

of its mission to protect human health 

and the environment, the EPA routinely 

conducts risk assessments on chemical 

agents that may be toxic to humans. A 

key component of the risk assessment 

process involves evaluating the doseresponse relationship between exposure 

to the agent and the observed effect. The 

dose-response assessment is a two-step 

process: (1) Defining a point of 

departure (POD); and (2) extrapolating 

from the POD for relevance to 

environmental exposures. Traditionally, 

the no observed adverse effect level 

(NOAEL) or lowest observed adverse 

effect level (LOAEL) methods were used 

for establishing the POD for noncancer 

endpoints. The BMD method gained 

favor within the risk assessment 

community over time because it 

incorporates and conveys more 

information than the NOAEL/LOAEL 

methods. The EPA conducted 

workshops and symposia about the 

application of BMD methodology and 

the development of relevant guidance. 

The BMD document focuses on the 

use of the BMD methodology for human 

health risk assessments. The document 

discusses computation of BMD values 

and their confidence limits, data 

requirements, dose-response 

assessment, and reporting 

recommendations that are specific to 

BMD values. Although the EPA has 

generated its own BMD software 

(http://www.epa.gov/ncea/BMDS/ 

index.html), this document supports the 

use of other relevant, well-documented 

software packages. 

Dated: June 6, 2012. 

Glenn Paulson, 

Science Advisor. 

[FR Doc. 2012–14897 Filed 6–18–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R01–OW–2012–0201, FRL–9688–9] 

Massachusetts Marine Sanitation 

Device Standard—Notice of 

Determination 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Determination. 

SUMMARY: The Regional Administrator 

of the Environmental Protection 

Agency—New England Region, has 

determined that adequate facilities for 

the safe and sanitary removal and 

treatment of sewage from all vessels are 

reasonably available for the waters of 

Dighton, Berkley, Freetown, Somerset, 

Swansea, and Fall River collectively 

termed Mount Hope Bay. 


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