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l. Locations of the Application: A 

copy of the application is available for 

inspection and reproduction at the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room, 

located at 888 First Street, NE., Room 

2A, Washington, DC 20426, or by calling 

(202) 502–8371. This filing may also be 

viewed on the Commission’s Web site at 

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n. Comments, Protests, or Motions to 

Intervene: Anyone may submit 

comments, a protest, or a motion to 

intervene in accordance with the 

requirements of Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, 18 CFR 385.210, .211, .214. 

In determining the appropriate action to 

take, the Commission will consider all 

protests or other comments filed, but 

only those who file a motion to 

intervene in accordance with the 

Commission’s Rules may become a 

party to the proceeding. Any comments, 

protests, or motions to intervene must 

be received on or before the specified 

comment date for the particular 

application. 

o. Filling and Service of Responsive 

Documents—All filings must bear in all 

capital letters the title ‘‘COMMENTS’’, 

‘‘PROTEST’’, or ‘‘MOTION TO 

INTERVENE’’, as applicable, and the 

Project Number of the particular 

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p. Agency Comments: Federal, State, 

and local agencies are invited to file 

comments on the described application. 

A copy of the application may be 

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Applicant. If an agency does not file 

comments within the time specified for 

filing comments, it will be presumed to 

have—no comments. One copy of an 

agency’s comments must also be sent to 

the Applicant’s representatives. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–19087 Filed 8–3–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AC10–142–000] 

MidAmerican Energy Company; Notice 

of Filing 

July 28, 2010. 

Take notice that on July 16, 2010, 

MidAmerican Energy Company 

(MidAmerican) submitted a filing 

requesting approval of proposed journal 

entries required to reclassify high 

voltage assets and accumulated 

depreciation, from distribution plant 

accounts to transmission plant accounts. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest this filing must file in 

accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). 

Protests will be considered by the 

Commission in determining the 

appropriate action to be taken, but will 

not serve to make protestants parties to 

the proceeding. Any person wishing to 

become a party must file a notice of 

intervention or motion to intervene, as 

appropriate. Such notices, motions, or 

protests must be filed on or before the 

comment date. Anyone filing a motion 

to intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Applicant and 

all the parties in this proceeding. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper using the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible on-line at 

http://www.ferc.gov, using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

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(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on August 17, 2010. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0565; FRL–8835–1] 

Nominations to the FIFRA Scientific 

Advisory Panel; Request for 

Comments 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides the 

names, addresses, professional 

affiliations, and selected biographical 

data of persons nominated to serve on 

the Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) 

established under section 25(d) of the 

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 

Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). The Panel was 

created on November 28, 1975, and 

made a statutory Panel by amendment 

to FIFRA, dated October 25, 1988. The 

Agency, at this time, anticipates 

selecting two new members to serve on 

the panel as a result of membership 

terms that will expire this year. Public 

comment on the nominations is invited, 

as these comments will be used to assist 

the Agency in selecting the new 

chartered Panel members. 

DATES: Comments, identified by docket 

ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0565, 

must be received on or before 

September 3, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0565, by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Office of Pesticide Programs 

(OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001. 

• Delivery: OPP Regulatory Public 

Docket (7502P), Environmental 

Protection Agency, Rm. S–4400, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. Deliveries 

are only accepted during the Docket 

Facility’s normal hours of operation 

(8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays). 

Special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. The 

Docket Facility telephone number is 

(703) 305–5805. 

Instructions. Direct your comments to 

docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2010– 

0565. If your comments contain any 

information that you consider to be CBI 

or otherwise protected, please contact 

the Designated Federal Official (DFO) 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

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CONTACT to obtain special instructions 

before submitting your comments. 

EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the docket 

without change and may be made 

available on-line at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes information 

claimed to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Do not submit information that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected through regulations.gov or email. The regulations.gov website is an 

‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means EPA will not know your identity 

or contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

If you send an e-mail comment directly 

to EPA without going through 

regulations.gov, your e-mail address 

will be automatically captured and 

included as part of the comment that is 

placed in the docket and made available 

on the Internet. If you submit an 

electronic comment, EPA recommends 

that you include your name and other 

contact information in the body of your 

comment and with any disk or CD-ROM 

you submit. If EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

EPA may not be able to consider your 

comment. Electronic files should avoid 

the use of special characters, any form 

of encryption, and be free of any defects 

or viruses. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the docket index available 

at http://www.regulations.gov. 

Although, listed in the index, some 

information is not publicly available, 

e.g., CBI or other information whose 

disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Certain other material, such as 

copyrighted material, is not placed on 

the Internet and will be publicly 

available only in hard copy form. 

Publicly available docket materials are 

available either in the electronic docket 

at http://www.regulations.gov, or, if only 

available in hard copy, at the OPP 

Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S– 

4400, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 

2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The 

hours of operation of this Docket 

Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The Docket Facility telephone 

number is (703) 305–5805. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joseph E. Bailey, DFO, Office of Science 

Coordination and Policy (7201M), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

(202) 564–2045; fax number: (202) 564– 

8382; e-mail address: 

bailey.joseph@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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), 

FIFRA, and the Food Quality Protection 

Act of 1996 (FQPA). 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. If you have any questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

to a particular entity, consult the DFO 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

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. 

II. Background 

The 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. The FIFRA SAP is 

a Federal advisory committee, 

established in 1975 under FIFRA, that 

operates in accordance with 

requirements of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA). In accordance 

with the statute, the 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 (NIH) and the 

National Science Foundation (NSF). 

FIFRA, as amended by FQPA, 

established a Science Review Board 

consisting of at least 60 scientists who 

are available to the SAP on an ad hoc 

basis to assist in reviews conducted by 

the FIFRA SAP. As a peer review 

mechanism, the FIFRA SAP provides 

comments, evaluations and 

recommendations to improve the 

effectiveness and quality of analyses 

made by Agency scientists. Members of 

the FIFRA SAP are scientists who have 

sufficient professional qualifications, 

including training and experience, to 

provide expert advice and 

recommendation to the Agency. The 

statute further stipulates that the 

Agency publish the name, address and 

professional affiliation in the Federal 

Register. 

The Agency, at this time, anticipates 

selecting two new members to serve on 

the panel as a result of membership 

terms that will expire this year. The 

Agency requested nominations of 

experts to be selected from the field of 

environmental risk assessment with 

experience and expertise in all phases of 

the risk assessment process including: 

Planning, scoping, and problem 

formulation, analysis, and interpretation 

and risk characterization (including the 

interpretation and communication of 

uncertainty). Nominees should be well 

published and current in their field of 

expertise. 

III. Charter 

A Charter for the FIFRA Scientific 

Advisory Panel dated October 24, 2008, 

was issued in accordance with the 

requirements of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, Public Law 92–463, 86 

Stat. 770 (5 U.S.C. App. I). 

A. Qualifications of Members 

Members are scientists who have 

sufficient professional qualifications, 

including training and experience, to be 

capable of providing expert comments 

as to the impact of pesticides on health 

and the environment. No persons shall 

be ineligible to serve on the Panel by 

reason of their membership on any other 

advisory committee to a Federal 

department or agency or their 

employment by a Federal department or 

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agency (except EPA). The Administrator 

appoints individuals to serve on the 

Panel for staggered terms of 4 years. 

Panel members are subject to the 

provisions of 40 CFR part 3, subpart F, 

Standards of Conduct for Special 

Government Employees, which include 

rules regarding conflicts of interest. 

Each nominee selected by the 

Administrator, before being formally 

appointed, is required to submit a 

confidential statement of employment 

and financial interests, which shall fully 

disclose, among other financial 

interests, the nominee’s sources of 

research support, if any. 

In accordance with section 25(d)(1) of 

FIFRA, the Administrator shall require 

all nominees to the Panel to furnish 

information concerning their 

professional qualifications, educational 

background, employment history, and 

scientific publications. 

B. Applicability of Existing Regulations 

With respect to the requirements of 

section 25(d) of FIFRA that the 

Administrator promulgate regulations 

regarding conflicts of interest, the 

Charter provides that EPA’s existing 

regulations applicable to Special 

Government Employees, which include 

advisory committee members, will 

apply to the members of the Scientific 

Advisory Panel. These regulations 

appear in 40 CFR part 3, subpart F. In 

addition, the Charter provides for open 

meetings with opportunities for public 

participation. 

C. Process of Obtaining Nominees 

In accordance with the provisions of 

section 25(d) of FIFRA, EPA, on March 

11, 2010, requested that the National 

Institutes of Health (NIH) and the 

National Science Foundation (NSF) 

nominate scientists to fill vacancies 

occurring on the Panel. The Agency 

requested nominations of experts in the 

field of environmental risk assessment 

with experience and expertise in all 

phases of the risk assessment process. 

NIH and NSF responded by letter, 

providing the Agency with a total of 16 

nominees. Eight of the 16 nominees are 

interested and available to actively 

participate in SAP meetings (see Unit 

IV. Nominees). The following eight 

nominees are not available: 

1. Elizabeth Kelly, Ph.D., Los Alamos 

National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM. 

2. Riana Maier, Ph.D., Department of 

Soil, Water and Environmental Science, 

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. 

3. Ronald Melnick, Ph.D., National 

Institute of Environmental Health 

Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 

Research Triangle Park, NC. 

4. Eva Oberdorster, Ph.D., Department 

of Biological Sciences, Southern 

Methodist University, Dallas, TX. 

5. Walter Piegorsch, Ph.D., 

Department of Mathematics, University 

of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. 

6. Jim Riviere, Ph.D., Department of 

Population Health and Pathobiology, 

North Carolina State University, 

Raleigh, NC. 

7. Theodore Slotkin, Ph.D., 

Department of Pharmacology and 

Cancer Biology, Duke University, 

Durham, NC. 

8. Nigel Walker, Ph.D., National 

Institute of Environmental Health 

Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 

Research Triangle Park, NC. 

IV. Nominees 

The following are the names, 

addresses, professional affiliations, and 

selected biographical data of nominees 

being considered for membership on the 

FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel. The 

Agency anticipates selecting two of the 

nominees to fill vacancies occurring this 

year. 

1. Lawrence Barnthouse, Ph.D., 

President and Principle Scientist, LWB 

Environmental Services, Inc., Hamilton, 

OH. 

i. Expertise. Population biology, 

ecological risk assessment. 

ii. Education. B.A. in Biology, Kenyon 

College; Ph.D., in Biology with area of 

specialty of population biology, 

University of Chicago. 

iii. Professional experience. Dr. 

Barnthouse is President and Principal 

Scientist of LWB Environmental 

Services, Inc. He has more than 30 years 

of experience in research and 

assessment projects involving impacts 

of energy technologies in freshwater, 

estuarine, and marine environments. 

Prior to founding LWB Environmental 

Services in 1998, he spent 19 years as 

a staff scientist at the U.S. Department 

of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National 

Laboratory (ORNL). At ORNL, he led or 

participated in dozens of environmental 

research and assessment projects 

involving development of new methods 

for predicting and measuring the 

environmental risks of energy 

technologies. In 1981, he became coprincipal investigator on EPA’s first 

research project on ecological risk 

assessment. Since that time, he has been 

active in the development and 

application of ecological risk assessment 

methods for EPA, other federal agencies, 

state agencies, and private industry. He 

has chaired workshops on ecological 

risk assessment for the National 

Academy of Sciences and the Society of 

Environmental Toxicology and 

Chemistry, and served on the peer 

review panels for the Framework for 

Ecological Risk Assessment and the 

Guidelines for Ecological Risk 

Assessment. He continues to support 

the development of improved methods 

for ecological risk assessment as the 

Hazard/Risk Assessment Editor of 

Environmental Toxicology and 

Chemistry and Associate Editor of 

Integrated Environmental Assessment 

and Management. 

2. Deborah Cory-Slechta, Ph.D., 

Professor, Environmental Medicine and 

Pediatrics, University of Rochester 

Medical School, Rochester, NY. 

i. Expertise. Neurotoxicology. 

ii. Education. B.S. in Psychology and 

M.A. in Experimental Psychology, 

Western Michigan University; Ph.D. in 

Experimental Psychology, University of 

Minnesota. 

iii. Professional experience. Dr. CorySlechta became a faculty member at the 

University of Rochester Medical School 

(URMC) in 1982. She became Chair of 

its Department of Environmental 

Medicine and Director of the NIEHS 

Environmental Health Sciences Center 

in 1998, and served as Dean for 

Research from 2000–2002. She then 

became Director of the Environmental 

and Occupational Health Sciences 

Institute (EOHSI) and Chair of the 

Department of Environmental and 

Community Medicine at the University 

of Medicine and Dentistry of New 

Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical 

School from 2003–2007, before 

returning to URMC as Professor in 

Environmental Medicine and Pediatrics. 

Dr. Cory-Slechta has served on national 

review and advisory panels of the 

National Institutes of Health, the 

National Institute of Environmental 

Health Sciences, the Food and Drug 

Administration, the National Center for 

Toxicological Research, the 

Environmental Protection Agency, the 

National Academy of Sciences, the 

Institute of Medicine, and the Agency 

for Toxic Substances and Disease 

Registry, Centers for Disease Control 

(CDC). She currently serves on the 

Science Advisory Board of EPA and on 

the Advisory Committee for Childhood 

Lead Poisoning Prevention of the CDC. 

In addition, Dr. Cory-Slechta has served 

on the editorial boards of the journals 

Neurotoxicology, Toxicology, 

Toxicological Sciences, Fundamental 

and Applied Toxicology, 

Neurotoxicology and Teratology, and 

American Journal of Mental Retardation. 

She has held the elected positions of 

President of the Neurotoxicology 

Specialty Section of the Society of 

Toxicology, President of the Behavioral 

Toxicology Society, and been named a 

Fellow of the American Psychological 

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Association. Her research has focused 

largely on the relationships between 

brain neurotransmitter systems and 

behavior, and how such relationships 

are altered by exposures to 

environmental toxicants, particularly 

the role played by environmental 

neurotoxicant exposures in 

developmental disabilities and 

neurodegenerative diseases. These 

research efforts have resulted in over 

120 papers and book chapters to date. 

3. Timothy Gross, Ph.D., Consultant, 

Environmental Resource Consultants, 

Gainsville, FL. 

i. Expertise. Environmental resource 

management, wildlife biology, 

ecotoxicology. 

ii. Education. B.S. and M.S. in 

Biology, Indiana University of 

Pennsylvania; M.A. in Historical 

Preservation, Savannah College of Art 

and Design; Ph.D. in Toxicology/Animal 

Sciences, University of Maryland. 

iii. Professional experience. Dr. Gross 

is a private environmental resource 

consultant with over 20 years of 

experience and expertise in 

ecotoxicology. Dr. Gross was previously 

employed at the University of Florida 

from 1992 through 2007 and 

simultaneously with the U.S. 

Department of Interior (U.S. Geological 

Survey) from 1997–2006, providing Dr. 

Gross with a unique background in 

academia, public service and industry. 

Dr. Gross’s research expertise has 

focused on the assessment of biological 

effects of environmental stressors across 

many levels of biological organization, 

from the biochemical and molecular 

levels to population and community 

effects. These efforts have examined the 

potential effects of single chemicals and 

complex mixtures in wildlife using both 

laboratory-based and field-based 

assessments. Efforts have evaluated 

effects of pesticides, wastewater, 

pharmaceuticals, pulp-and paper 

discharge and other assorted man-made 

and natural environmental stressors. 

Research projects have considered a 

wide array of taxonomic impacts, from 

planktonic and macro-invertebrate 

populations to fish, birds, amphibians, 

and reptiles. Dr. Gross’s research has 

had broad implication and contribution 

to the research area of ‘‘endocrine 

disruption’’ Indeed, Dr. Gross’s research 

efforts on Lake Apopka and similar sites 

nationally are among the first indicators 

of endocrine modulating effects of 

environmental contaminants in wildlife. 

Dr Gross has mentored many graduate 

students and post-docs since 1994 and 

continues to participate in graduate 

education. 

4. Nominee. Mark Harwell, Ph.D., 

Harwell Gentile and Associates, L.C., 

Palm Coast, FL. 

i. Expertise. Ecological risk 

assessment and ecosystem management. 

ii. Education. B.S. in Biology, Emory 

University; Ph.D., in Systems Ecology 

from University of Miami, Institute of 

Marine Science. 

iii. Professional experience. Dr. 

Harwell is an ecosystems ecologist and 

is currently a Partner in Harwell Gentile 

and Associates, L.C, following a 25–year 

career in academia at Cornell 

University, the University of Miami 

Rosenstiel School, and Florida A&M 

University. Dr. Harwell was a leader in 

the development of EPA ecological risk 

assessment framework and has led 

several large risk assessments, including 

comparative ecological risk assessments 

of oil spills in Tampa Bay and the Bay 

of Fundy; an ecological risk assessment 

of the effects of climate change and the 

South Florida ecosystem restoration on 

the Everglades and Biscayne Bay; an 

ecotoxicological risk assessment of the 

Coeur d’Alene River watershed; and an 

assessment of the current ecological 

significance of effects from the Exxon 

Valdez oil spill on Prince William 

Sound. He led a series of 

interdisciplinary studies on human 

interactions with the South Florida 

environment, including field, 

mesocosm, and modeling studies in 

Biscayne Bay and the Florida Keys 

National Marine Sanctuary. He 

coordinated interdisciplinary studies in 

five National Estuarine Research 

Reserves, developing conceptual models 

of coupled human environment 

systems, and contributing to ecological 

assessments using remote sensing and 

hyperspectral imagery. Dr. Harwell 

served for more than a decade as a 

member of the EPA Science Advisory 

Board (SAB), including two terms as 

Chair of the Ecological Processes and 

Effects Committee. He led the ecological 

risk component of the EPA Unfinished 

Business Project, and was a member of 

the EPA SAB Reducing Risk project. He 

chaired the U.S. Man and the Biosphere 

Human-Dominated Systems Directorate, 

and led its project on ecological 

sustainability, ecosystem management, 

and an ecosystem integrity report card 

framework. He led the Scientific 

Committee on Problems of the 

Environment (SCOPE) 5–year 

international study to assess the global 

environmental consequences of nuclear 

war (ENUWAR), with emphasis on 

ecological responses to climate change. 

He directed the PAN-EARTH Project, a 

series of national-level case studies on 

the ecological and agricultural effects of 

climate variability on Venezuela, India, 

Japan, China, and sub-Saharan Africa; 

he was a member of the U.S. Global 

Change Research Program’s National 

Assessment working group on coastal 

resources effects; and he serves as an 

expert reviewer for the 

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 

Change. He served on the National 

Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel on 

ecological risks in the U.S. and Poland, 

and was a member of the NAS panel on 

risk communications. Dr. Harwell also 

served as a member of the NAS Board 

on Environmental Studies and 

Toxicology, and was elected a Fellow of 

the American Association for the 

Advancement of Science. 

5. Stephen J. Klaine, Ph.D., Professor 

in the Department of Biological Sciences 

and Director of the Institute of 

Environmental Toxicology (CUENTOX), Clemson University, 

Pendleton, SC. 

i. Education. B.S. in Biology, 

University of Cincinnati; M.S. and Ph.D. 

in Environmental Science, Rice 

University. 

ii. Expertise. Toxicity and risk 

assessment of pesticides and metals 

iii. Professional experience. Dr. Klaine 

has spent over 25 years conducting 

environmental research and educating 

graduate students. He has 30 Ph.D. and 

over 40 MS graduates from his 

laboratory. He has served on the board 

of directors of the Society of 

Environmental Toxicology and 

Chemistry and has been an associate 

editor for the journal, Environmental 

Toxicology and Chemistry for 15 years. 

He has been on the editorial board of the 

journal, Nanotoxicology, since 2009. 

From 1995 to 2000 he was the only U.S. 

participant on a multi-national 

International Atomic Energy Agency 

Cooperative Research Program on 

Pesticides in Coastal Tropical 

Ecosystems. In addition to building 

capacity in tropical countries around 

the world, this group produced the first 

book to compile pesticide use and 

effects information in tropical countries 

of which Dr. Klaine was co-editor. He 

has served on several EPA Science 

Advisory Panels and workshops dealing 

with pesticide and metal fate, effects, 

and risk assessment. He has also served 

on the panel to review the National 

Nanotechnology Initiative Strategy on 

Environmental and Human Safety 

Needs for Nanomaterials. He has served 

on the National Institute of 

Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) 

review panel for the Superfund Basic 

Research Program since 1995 and 

chaired the panel in 2007 and 2008. He 

has served on several other proposal 

review panels for EPA, USDA, and 

NIEHS. He has been a Sigma Xi National 

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Lecturer, won the Clemson University 

Sigma Xi researcher of the year in 2007, 

and won the Clemson University 

Alumni Award for Outstanding 

Research in 2009. He has over 110 peerreviewed publications on research 

ranging from the bioavailability and 

toxicity of pesticides and metals to 

pesticide risk assessment, to the 

environmental behavior and toxicity of 

nanomaterials. Current research in his 

laboratory focuses on characterizing: (1) 

The bioavailablity of metals and 

pesticides in aquatic systems; (2) the 

comparative phytotoxicity of pesticides; 

(3) the response of aquatic organisms to 

episodic contaminant exposures; (4) the 

water quality consequences of land use; 

(5) the effects of pharmaceuticals on fish 

behavior; and (6) the bioavailability and 

toxicity of colloids and nanoparticles in 

aquatic systems. 

6. Charlene McQueen, Ph.D., ATS., 

W.W. Walker Professor at the Harrison 

School of Pharmacy, Auburn University, 

Auburn, AL. 

i. Education. M.S. in Pharmacology 

and Toxicology, University of Arizona; 

Ph.D. in Human Genetics, University of 

Michigan. 

ii. Expertise. Pharmacology and 

toxicology. 

iii. Professional experience. Prior to 

moving to Auburn in 2007, Dr. 

McQueen was a professor in the 

Department of Pharmacology and 

Toxicology at the University of Arizona. 

Her research in the areas of 

pharmacogenomics, toxicogenomics and 

chemical carcinogenesis investigates the 

role of genetic variation in response to 

chemicals. Dr. McQueen is particularly 

interested in the genes that code for Nacetyltransferases (NAT1 and NAT2), 

enzymes involved in the metabolism of 

aromatic amines and hydrazines. She is 

using model systems to understand the 

mechanisms of the adverse effects of 

such chemicals during development and 

in adults. Dr. McQueen is an American 

Association for the Advancement of 

Science (AAAS) Fellow and a Fellow in 

the Academy of Toxicological Sciences 

(ATS). She has been on numerous 

review panels for the National Institutes 

of Health (NIH) and served on the Board 

of Scientific Councillors of the National 

Toxicology Program. She is currently a 

member of the NIH Cancer Etiology 

Study Section. 

7. Martha Sandy, Ph.D., Senior 

Toxicologist/Chief, Cancer Toxicology 

and Epidemiology Section, California 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Oakland, CA. 

i. Expertise. Risk assessment, 

children’s health, carcinogen exposure. 

ii. Education. M.P.H. and Ph.D., in 

Environmental Health Science, 

University of California; Berkeley 

School of Public Health. 

iii. Professional experience. Dr. Sandy 

is a Senior Toxicologist and Chief of the 

Cancer Toxicology and Epidemiology 

Section within the California 

Environmental Protection Agency’s 

(Cal/EPA) Office of Environmental 

Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA). 

Dr. Sandy’s section conducts hazard 

identification, dose-response 

assessment, and exposure assessment of 

chemical carcinogens. Children’s 

environmental health, and in particular, 

cancer risk associated with early life 

carcinogen exposures, has been a 

significant focus in recent years. Her 

group is comprised of individuals with 

expertise in toxicology, epidemiology, 

biostatistics and exposure assessment. 

She conducted research investigating 

biochemical and molecular mechanisms 

of toxicity and carcinogenicity, and 

biochemical and genetic susceptibility 

factors in Parkinson’s disease before 

joining OEHHA in 1994. Dr. Sandy 

currently serves on EPA’s Children’s 

Health Protection Advisory Committee 

and has served as an ad hoc member of 

two EPA Scientific Review panels, as a 

member of two National Academy 

committees, as a member of one Report 

on Carcinogens Expert panel, and as a 

peer reviewer for the National Research 

Council. 

8. Coby Schal, Ph.D., Blanton J. 

Whitmire Distinguised Professor of 

Structural Pest Management, North 

Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. 

i. Education. B.S. in Biology, State 

University of New York at Albany; Ph.D. 

in Entomology, University of Kansas - 

Lawrence; post–doctoral training in 

chemical ecology, University of 

Massachusetts-Amherst. 

ii. Expertise. Entomology, pest 

management. 

iii. Professional experience. Dr. Schal 

is co-founder and member of the 

Executive Committee of the W. M. Keck 

Center for Behavioral Biology, on the 

Executive Committee of the Genetic Pest 

Management Program, and member of 

the Agromedicine Institute. Between 

1984 and 1993, Dr. Schal was Assistant 

and Associate Professor and Extension 

Specialist of Urban Entomology at 

Rutgers University, New Jersey. He is a 

leading authority on cockroach and bed 

bug behavior, chemical ecology, 

physiology, toxicology, biochemistry 

and molecular biology. His research has 

resulted in publications, patents, and 

tools for pest management. Dr. Schal’s 

research on chemical ecology has 

delineated pheromone-mediated 

communication in cockroaches, 

oviposition attractants in mosquitoes 

and the evolution of pheromone 

communication in moths. His team also 

characterized the role that juvenile 

hormone plays in regulating sexual 

behavior and sexual maturation in 

insects and studies the function and 

regulation of cuticular waxes in various 

insects. Research in urban entomology 

in the last decade has concentrated on 

the biology of cockroach-produced 

allergens and intervention strategies to 

mitigate their pervasiveness in the 

indoor environment; profiles and 

mechanisms of insecticide resistance 

that form the basis for recommendations 

to the pest control industry; 

optimization of bait delivery systems, 

developing and testing repellents 

against urban pests, and assessing the 

impact of these approaches on pest 

behavior, humans, and the environment; 

and practical integrated solutions (IPM) 

to cockroach problems in livestock 

production facilities that emphasize 

reduced-risk approaches. Dr. Schal’s 

research has been funded by EPA, NIH, 

NSF, USDA, private foundations and 

industry, and he has published over 200 

refereed papers. He has served as 

subject editor of the Journal of 

Economic Entomology and Pest 

Management Science, and on the 

editorial boards of Archives of Insect 

Biochemistry and Physiology, Journal of 

Chemical Ecology, Journal of Insect 

Science, and Psyche. Dr. Schal also 

served on several EPA panels and as 

panelist and panel manager for USDA 

grants panels, and has been an active 

volunteer with the Entomological 

Society of America, the Entomological 

Foundation, and the International 

Society of Chemical Ecology. He has 

directed 24 graduate students and 26 

post-doctoral researchers, and mentored 

high school and undergraduate 

students. Dr. Schal teaches a graduate 

course in Insect Behavior, graduate 

seminars in Urban Entomology and 

Chemical Ecology, and contributes to a 

team-taught Professional Development 

course. Recent honors include Lifetime 

Honorary Membership in the North 

Carolina Pest Management Association, 

Distinguished Achievement Award in 

Urban Entomology from the National 

Conference on Urban Entomology, 

Fellow of the Entomological Society of 

America, Fellow of the American 

Association for the Advancement of 

Science, and North Carolina State 

University’s Research Friend of 

Extension Award and Alumni 

Association Outstanding Research 

Award. 

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46924 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 149 / Wednesday, August 4, 2010 / Notices 

Dated: July 20, 2010. 

Frank Sanders, 

Director, Office of Science Coordination and 

Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2010–18900 Filed 8–3–10; 8:45 a.m.] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0012; FRL–8834–9] 

Notice of Receipt of Several Pesticide 

Petitions Filed for Residues of 

Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various 

Commodities 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

Agency’s receipt of several initial filings 

of pesticide petitions proposing the 

establishment or modification of 

regulations for residues of pesticide 

chemicals in or on various commodities. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before September 3, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number and the pesticide petition 

number (PP) of interest as shown in the 

body of this document, by one of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Office of Pesticide Programs 

(OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001. 

• Delivery: OPP Regulatory Public 

Docket (7502P), Environmental 

Protection Agency, Rm. S–4400, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. Deliveries 

are only accepted during the Docket 

Facility’s normal hours of operation 

(8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays). 

Special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. The 

Docket Facility telephone number is 

(703) 305–5805. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

the docket ID number and the pesticide 

petition number of interest as shown in 

the body of this document. EPA’s policy 

is that all comments received will be 

included in the docket without change 

and may be made available on-line at 

http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information provided, 

unless the comment includes 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Do not submit 

information that you consider to be CBI 

or otherwise protected through 

regulations.gov or e-mail. The 

regulations.gov website is an 

‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means EPA will not know your identity 

or contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

If you send an e-mail comment directly 

to EPA without going through 

regulations.gov, your e-mail address 

will be automatically captured and 

included as part of the comment that is 

placed in the docket and made available 

on the Internet. If you submit an 

electronic comment, EPA recommends 

that you include your name and other 

contact information in the body of your 

comment and with any disk or CD-ROM 

you submit. If EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

EPA may not be able to consider your 

comment. Electronic files should avoid 

the use of special characters, any form 

of encryption, and be free of any defects 

or viruses. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the docket index available 

at http://www.regulations.gov. Although 

listed in the index, some information is 

not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Certain other 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

is not placed on the Internet and will be 

publicly available only in hard copy 

form. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either in the 

electronic docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or, if only 

available in hard copy, at the OPP 

Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S– 

4400, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 

2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The 

hours of operation of this Docket 

Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The Docket Facility telephone 

number is (703) 305–5805. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A 

contact person, with telephone number 

and e-mail address, is listed at the end 

of each pesticide petition summary. You 

may also reach each contact person by 

mail at Registration Division (7505P), 

Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this Action Apply to Me? 

You may be potentially affected by 

this action if you are an agricultural 

producer, food manufacturer, or 

pesticide manufacturer. Potentially 

affected entities may include, but are 

not limited to: 

• Crop production (NAICS code 111). 

• Animal production (NAICS code 

112). 

• Food manufacturing (NAICS code 

311). 

• Pesticide manufacturing (NAICS 

code 32532). 

This listing is not intended to be 

exhaustive, but rather provides a guide 

for readers regarding entities likely to be 

affected by this action. Other types of 

entities not listed in this unit could also 

be affected. The North American 

Industrial Classification System 

(NAICS) codes have been provided to 

assist you and others in determining 

whether this action might apply to 

certain entities. If you have any 

questions regarding the applicability of 

this action to a particular entity, consult 

the person listed at the end of the 

pesticide petition summary of interest. 

B. What Should I Consider as I Prepare 

My Comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to EPA through 

regulations.gov or e-mail. Clearly mark 

the part or all of the information that 

you claim to be CBI. For CBI 

information in a disk or CD-ROM that 

you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the 

disk or CD-ROM as CBI and then 

identify electronically within the disk or 

CD-ROM the specific information that is 

claimed as CBI. In addition to one 

complete version of the comment that 

includes information claimed as CBI, a 

copy of the comment that does not 

contain the information claimed as CBI 

must be submitted for inclusion in the 

public docket. Information so marked 

will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR part 2. 

2. Tips for preparing your comments. 

When submitting comments, remember 

to: 

i. Identify the document by docket ID 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

ii. 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. 

iii. Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

iv. Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

v. If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

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