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6 50 FR 37835 (Sept. 18, 1985) and 84 FR 5347 

(Feb. 21, 2019). 

7This Act transferred to, and vested in, the 

Secretary of Energy the power marketing functions 

of the Secretary of the Department of the Interior 

and the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) under 

the Reclamation Act of 1902 (Ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 

388), as amended and supplemented by subsequent 

laws, particularly section 9(c) of the Reclamation 

Project Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 485h(c)); and other 

acts that specifically apply to the project involved. 

8 In compliance with the National Environmental 

Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 

4321–4347; the Council on Environmental Quality 

Regulations for implementing NEPA (40 CFR parts 

1500–1508); and DOE NEPA Implementing 

Procedures and Guidelines (10 CFR part 1021). 

rate adjustments (10 CFR part 903) were 

published on September 18, 1985, and 

February 21, 2019.6 The proposed 

action constitutes a minor rate 

adjustment, as defined by 10 CFR 

903.2(e)(2). In accordance with 10 CFR 

903.15(a) and 10 CFR 903.16(a), Sierra 

Nevada Region will hold a public 

information and public comment forum 

for this minor rate adjustment. Sierra 

Nevada Region will review and consider 

all timely public comments at the 

conclusion of the consultation and 

comment period and make amendments 

or adjustments to the proposal as 

appropriate. Proposed rates will then be 

approved on an interim basis. 

WAPA is establishing the non-firm 

power formula rate for Washoe Project, 

Stampede Division in accordance with 

section 302 of the DOE Organization Act 

(42 U.S.C. 7152).7

By Delegation Order No. 00–037.00B, 

effective November 19, 2016, the 

Secretary of Energy delegated: (1) The 

authority to develop power and 

transmission rates to the WAPA 

Administrator; (2) the authority to 

confirm, approve, and place such rates 

into effect on an interim basis to the 

Deputy Secretary of Energy; and (3) the 

authority to confirm, approve, and place 

into effect on a final basis, or to remand 

or disapprove such rates, to FERC. By 

Delegation Order No. S1–DEL–S4–2021, 

effective February 25, 2021, the Acting 

Secretary of Energy also delegated the 

authority to confirm, approve, and place 

such rates into effect on an interim basis 

to the Under Secretary for Science (and 

Energy). By Redelegation Order No. S4– 

DEL–OE1–2021–2, also effective 

December 8, 2021, the Under Secretary 

for Science (and Energy) redelegated the 

authority to confirm, approve, and place 

such rates into effect on an interim basis 

to the Assistant Secretary for Electricity. 

By Redelegation Order No. 00–002.10– 

05, effective July 8, 2020, the Assistant 

Secretary for Electricity further 

redelegated the authority to confirm, 

approve, and place such rates into effect 

on an interim basis to WAPA’s 

Administrator. This redelegation order, 

despite predating the December 2021 

delegations, remains valid. 

Availability of Information 

All brochures, studies, comments, 

letters, memorandums, or other 

documents that Sierra Nevada Region 

initiates or uses to develop the proposed 

non-firm power formula rate are 

available for inspection and copying at 

the Sierra Nevada Region, Western Area 

Power Administration, 114 Parkshore 

Drive, Folsom, California 95630. Many 

of these documents and supporting 

information are also available on 

WAPA’s website at https://

www.wapa.gov/regions/SN/rates/Pages/ 

Rate-Case-2022-WAPA-201.aspx. 

Ratemaking Procedure Requirements 

Environmental Compliance 

WAPA is in the process of 

determining whether an environmental 

assessment or an environmental impact 

statement should be prepared or if this 

action can be categorically excluded 

from those requirements.8

Determination Under Executive Order 

12866 

WAPA has an exemption from 

centralized regulatory review under 

Executive Order 12866; accordingly, no 

clearance of this notice by the Office of 

Management and Budget is required. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on March 22, 2022, 

by Tracey A. LeBeau, Administrator, 

Western Area Power Administration, 

pursuant to delegated authority from the 

Secretary of Energy. That document, 

with the original signature and date, is 

maintained by DOE. For administrative 

purposes only, and in compliance with 

requirements of the Office of the Federal 

Register, the undersigned DOE Federal 

Register Liaison Officer has been 

authorized to sign and submit the 

document in electronic format for 

publication, as an official document of 

the Department of Energy. This 

administrative process in no way alters 

the legal effect of this document upon 

publication in the Federal Register. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on March 31, 

2022. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

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AGENCY 

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Request for Nominations for a Science 

Advisory Board Panel 

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 form 

a panel to review the new cloud-based 

Environmental Benefits and Mapping 

(BenMAP) tool, an open-source 

computer program that calculates 

estimated air pollution-related deaths 

and illnesses and their associated 

economic value. BenMAP is a shorthand 

title referring to the EPA’s 

Environmental Benefits Mapping and 

Analysis Program, which has recently 

been updated to a new software 

platform built with Java code for the 

interface. The panel will review the 

latest available public release version of 

the BenMAP software. 

DATES: Nominations should be 

submitted by April 26, 2022 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 Dr. 

Bryan Bloomer, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), EPA Science Advisory 

Board via telephone/voice mail (202) 

564–4222, or email at bloomer.bryan@

epa.gov. General information 

concerning the EPA SAB can be found 

at the EPA SAB website at https://

sab.epa.gov. For information concerning 

BenMAP, please contact Dr. Peter 

Maniloff by email at maniloff.peter@

epa.gov or phone (919) 541–5548. 

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 Staff Office is forming an 

expert panel, the BenMAP Review 

Panel, under the auspices of the 

Chartered SAB. The BenMAP Review 

Panel will provide advice through the 

chartered SAB. The SAB and the 

BenMAP Review Panel will comply 

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appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural 

policies. 

The BenMAP Review Panel will 

conduct the review of BenMAP as 

requested by the EPA’s Office of Air and 

Radiation. This panel is one of two 

separate, but related, panels that will 

evaluate two different aspects of EPA’s 

overall health benefits assessment 

methods. The panel being formed with 

this Notice will review the new cloudbased version of BenMAP and will 

investigate how the BenMAP software 

implements EPA’s methods to quantify 

estimated health benefits of air quality 

changes. The goal of this review will be 

to focus, in particular, on the user 

interface, software engineering and 

documentation (i.e., does the tool 

correctly perform the intended analytics 

and yield defensible, scientifically 

sound and consistent results?). The 

panel being formed with the 

nominations solicited with this Notice 

will be asked to examine the software 

code in the new cloud-based version of 

BenMAP and independently evaluate 

model construction and operations. 

Thus, panelists for this review will need 

the appropriate software experience and 

environmental/health/economic 

modeling assessment experience to 

conduct this review. The panelists will 

have access to a publicly available but 

non-final cloud-based version of 

BenMAP and the legacy desktop version 

of BenMAP, as well as the computer 

code and design documentation for 

each. Subsequently, a second SAB panel 

(to be formed soon via a separate FRN 

soliciting nominations) will evaluate 

specific aspects of the methodology EPA 

uses to quantify estimated health 

benefits of air quality changes, 

including how EPA selects human 

health endpoints to quantify and selects 

among risk estimates from 

epidemiologic studies, among others. 

Request for Nominations: The SAB 

Staff Office is seeking nominations of 

nationally and internationally 

recognized scientists with demonstrated 

expertise in the following disciplines: 

Software development (including 

expertise in Java, User Interfaces, 

database/data-management, and cloud 

computing in the Amazon Web Services 

[AWS] platform); Geographic 

Information Systems and Geostatistics; 

Demographics; Risk Assessment; 

Statistics/Biostatistics; Atmospheric 

Modeling; Photochemical Air Quality 

Modeling; Economics Modeling 

(including expertise in Non-Market 

Valuation). As noted above, the panel 

will need to have the appropriate 

computational expertise to examine the 

software code in the cloud-based 

version of BenMAP and independently 

evaluate model construction and 

operations. The panel will be asked to 

evaluate the performance of the cloudbased version of BenMAP by examining 

the computer code and documentation, 

running specific cases, comparing 

cloud-based platform results to results 

generated using the legacy desktop 

version, and any other associated model 

performance elements as needed. 

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 SAB panel. Individuals may selfnominate. Nominations should be 

submitted in electronic format 

(preferred) using the online nomination 

form on the SAB website at https://

sab.epa.gov (see the ‘‘Public Input on 

Membership’’ list under ‘‘Committees, 

Panels, and Membership’’ following the 

instructions for ‘‘Nominating Experts to 

Advisory Panels and Ad Hoc 

Committees Being Formed,’’ provided 

on the SAB website (see the 

‘‘Nomination of Experts’’ link under 

‘‘Current Activities’’ at https://

sab.epa.gov). To be considered, 

nominations should include the 

information requested below. EPA 

values and welcomes diversity. All 

qualified candidates are encouraged to 

apply regardless of sex, race, disability 

or ethnicity. Nominations should be 

submitted in time to arrive no later than 

April 26, 2022. 

The following information should be 

provided on the nomination form: 

Contact information for the person 

making the nomination; contact 

information for the nominee; and the 

disciplinary and specific areas of 

expertise of the nominee. Nominees will 

be contacted by the SAB Staff Office and 

will be asked to provide a recent 

curriculum vitae and a narrative 

biographical summary that include the 

following: Current position, educational 

background; research activities; sources 

of research funding for the last two 

years; 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 website, should contact the 

DFO at the contact information noted 

above. The names and biosketches of 

qualified nominees identified by 

respondents to this Federal Register 

Notice, and additional experts identified 

by the SAB Staff Office, will be posted 

in a List of Candidates for the panel on 

the SAB website at https://sab.epa.gov. 

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 expert panel, the SAB Staff 

Office will consider public comments 

on the Lists 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 is required and 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 through the ‘‘Ethics 

Requirements for Advisors’’ link on the 

SAB website at https://sab.epa.gov. This 

form should not be submitted as part of 

a nomination. 

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 website at https://sab.epa.gov. 

Thomas H. Brennan, 

Director, Science Advisory Board Staff Office. 

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