10734 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 47 / Thursday, March 12, 2009 / Notices 

Tuesday, March 31, 2009, at 10 a.m. 

(EDT), in a room to be designated at the 

offices of the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. 

The Commission determined to hold 

a technical conference to explore a 

proposal by Tennessee Gas Pipeline 

Company (Tennessee) to enhance the 

flexibility of shippers that using its 

supply area and/or market area pooling 

points and issues raised by that 

proposal including, but not limited to, 

the possible degradation of existing 

service, and the possible effects on 

scheduling and nomination priorities, 

primary firm rights, and the allocation 

of mainline versus receipt point 

capacity among proposed and existing 

points. 

FERC conferences are accessible 

under section 508 of the Rehabilitation 

Act of 1973. For accessibility 

accommodations please send an e-mail 

to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free 

(866) 208–3372 (voice) or (202) 502– 

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

2106 with the required 

accommodations. 

All interested persons are permitted 

to attend. For further information please 

contact Robert McLean at (202) 502– 

8156 or e-mail Robert McLean@ferc.gov. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL8779–4; Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD– 

2007–0925] 

Draft Integrated Science Assessment 

for Carbon Monoxide 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of public comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing 

the availability of a document titled, 

‘‘First External Review Draft Integrated 

Science Assessment for Carbon 

Monoxide’’ (EPA/600/R–09/019). This 

draft document was prepared by the 

National Center for Environmental 

Assessment (NCEA) within EPA’s Office 

of Research and Development as part of 

the review of the national ambient air 

quality standards (NAAQS) for carbon 

monoxide. 

EPA is releasing this draft document 

to seek review by the Clean Air 

Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) 

and the public. The draft document 

does not represent and should not be 

construed to represent any final EPA 

policy, viewpoint, or determination. 

EPA will consider any timely public 

comments submitted in response to this 

notice when revising the document. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before May 8, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: The ‘‘First External Review 

Draft Integrated Science Assessment for 

Carbon Monoxide’’ will be available 

primarily via the Internet on the 

National Center for Environmental 

Assessment’s home page under the 

Recent Additions and Publications 

menus at http://www.epa.gov/ncea. A 

limited number of CD–ROM or paper 

copies will be available. Contact Ms. 

Debbie Wales by phone (919–541–4731), 

fax (919–541–5078), or e-mail 

(wales.deborah@epa.gov) to request 

either of these, and please provide your 

name, your mailing address, and the 

document title, ‘‘First External Review 

Draft Integrated Science Assessment for 

Carbon Monoxide’’ (EPA/600/R–09/019) 

to facilitate processing of your request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical information, contact Dr. 

Thomas C. Long, NCEA; telephone: 

919–541–1880; facsimile: 919–541– 

2985; or e-mail: long.tom@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information About the Document 

Section 108(a) of the Clean Air Act 

directs the EPA Administrator to 

identify certain pollutants that ‘‘cause or 

contribute to air pollution which may 

reasonably be anticipated to endanger 

public health or welfare’’ and to issue 

air quality criteria for them. These 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 * * *.’’ Under section 109 

of the Act, EPA is to establish national 

ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) 

for each pollutant for which EPA has 

issued criteria. Section 109(d) of the Act 

requires periodic review and, if 

appropriate, revision of existing air 

quality criteria to reflect advances in 

scientific knowledge on the effects of 

the pollutant on public health or 

welfare. EPA is also to revise the 

NAAQS, if appropriate, based on the 

revised air quality criteria. 

Carbon monoxide (CO) is one of six 

‘‘criteria’’ pollutants for which EPA has 

established NAAQS. Periodically, EPA 

reviews the scientific basis for these 

standards by preparing an Integrated 

Science Assessment (ISA) (formerly 

called an Air Quality Criteria 

Document). The ISA and supplementary 

annexes, in conjunction with additional 

technical and policy assessments, 

provide the scientific basis for EPA 

decisions on the adequacy of the current 

NAAQS and the appropriateness of 

possible alternative standards. The 

Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee (CASAC), an independent 

science advisory committee whose 

review and advisory functions are 

mandated by Section 109(d)(2) of the 

Clean Air Act, is charged (among other 

things) with independent scientific 

review of EPA’s air quality criteria. 

On September 13, 2007 (72 FR 52369), 

EPA formally initiated its current 

review of the air quality criteria for CO, 

requesting the submission of recent 

scientific information on specified 

topics. A workshop was held on January 

28–29, 2008 (73 FR 2490) to discuss 

policy-relevant science to inform EPA’s 

planning for the CO NAAQS review. 

Following the workshop, a draft of 

EPA’s ‘‘Plan for Review of the National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards for 

Carbon Monoxide’’ (EPA–452/D–08– 

001) was made available in March 2008 

for public comment and was discussed 

by the CASAC via a publicly accessible 

teleconference consultation on April 8, 

2008 (73 FR 12998). EPA finalized the 

plan and made it available in August 

2008 (EPA/452/R–08/005; http:// 

www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/co/ 

s_co_cr_pd.html). In November 2008, 

EPA held an authors’ teleconference to 

discuss, with invited scientific experts, 

preliminary draft materials prepared 

during the ongoing development of the 

CO ISA and its supplementary annexes. 

After the end of the comment period 

on the First External Review Draft ISA 

for CO, the CASAC review panel will 

review the draft at a public meeting. 

Timely public comments received will 

be provided to the CASAC review panel. 

A future Federal Register notice will 

inform the public of the exact date and 

time of that meeting. 

II. How To Submit Technical Comments 

to the Docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2007– 

0925, by one of the following methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: ORD.Docket@epa.gov. 

• Fax: 202–566–1753. 

• Mail: Office of Environmental 

Information (OEI) Docket (Mail Code: 

2822T), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 


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Washington, DC 20460. The phone 

number is 202–566–1752. 

• Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is 

located in the EPA Headquarters Docket 

Center, Room 3334 EPA West Building, 

1301 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center Public Reading Room is open 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

Public Reading Room is 202–566–1744. 

Such deliveries are only accepted 

during the docket’s normal hours of 

operation, and special arrangements 

should be made for deliveries of boxed 

information. 

If you provide comments by mail or 

hand delivery, please submit an original 

and three copies of the comments. For 

attachments, provide an index, number 

pages consecutively with the comments, 

and submit an unbound original and 

three copies. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2007– 

0925. Please ensure that your comments 

are submitted within the specified 

comment period. Comments received 

after the closing date will be marked 

‘‘late,’’ and may only be considered if 

time permits. It is EPA’s policy to 

include all comments it receives in the 

public docket without change and to 

make the comments available online at 

http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information provided, 

unless a comment includes information 

claimed to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Do not submit information through 

http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail 

that you consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected. The http:// 

www.regulations.gov Web site 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 http:// 

www.regulations.gov, your e-mail 

address will be automatically captured 

and included as part of the comment 

that is placed in the public 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. For additional information 

about EPA’s public docket visit the EPA 

Docket Center homepage at http:// 

www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

Docket: Documents in the docket are 

listed in the http://www.regulations.gov 

index. Although listed in the index, 

some information is not publicly 

available, e.g., CBI or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Publicly available docket materials are 

generally available either electronically 

in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard 

copy at the OEI Docket in the EPA 

Headquarters Docket Center; however, 

certain materials, such as copyrighted 

material, are publicly available only in 

hard copy. 

Dated: March 3, 2009. 

Rebecca Clark, 

Acting Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8775–7] 

Partnership To Promote Innovation in 

Environmental Practice, Notice of 

Availability of Solicitation for 

Proposals for 2009 Assistance 

Agreement Award 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA or Agency), 

National Center for Environmental 

Innovation (NCEI) is giving notice of the 

availability of its solicitation for 

proposals from institutions that are 

interested in organizing two symposia 

over four years to promote sharing and 

transfer of innovative environmental 

protection approaches among States, 

EPA, and other primarily governmental 

representatives. The solicitation is 

available at the Agency’s State 

Innovation Grant Web site: http:// 

www.epa.gov/innovation/ 

2010symposium.htm, or may be 

requested from the Agency by e-mail to: 

innovation_state_grants@gov, 

telephone, or by mail. Eligible recipients 

include States, territories, Indian Tribes, 

interstate organizations, intrastate 

organizations, and possessions of the 

U.S., including the District of Columbia, 

public and private universities and 

colleges, hospitals, laboratories, other 

public or private nonprofit institutions, 

and individuals. Nonprofit 

organizations described in Section 

501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code 

that engage in lobbying activities as 

defined in Section 3 of the Lobbying 

Disclosure Act of 1995 are not eligible 

to apply. For-profit organizations are 

generally not eligible for funding. 

DATES: Eligible applicants will have 

until April 22, 2009, to respond with a 

pre-proposal, budget, and project 

summary. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the solicitation 

can be downloaded from the Agency’s 

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

innovation/2010symposium.htm or may 

be requested by telephone (202–566– 

2236), or by e-mail 

(innovation_state_grants@epa.gov). You 

can request a solicitation application 

package be sent to you by fax or by mail 

by contacting NCEI as indicated below. 

Applicants are requested to apply 

online using the Grants.gov Web site 

with an electronic signature. Applicants 

are encouraged to submit their preproposals early. For those applicants 

who lack the technical capability to 

apply electronically via http:// 

www.grants.gov, please contact Scott 

Fontenot by phone at: (202) 566–2236 

and/or by e-mail at: 

innovation_state_grants@epa.gov, for 

alternative submission procedures. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions about this notice, 

please contact EPA at this e-mail 

address: 

innovation_state_grants@epa.gov; or, 

you may call Scott Fontenot at (202) 

566–2236. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Strengthening EPA’s innovation 

partnership with States and Tribes is a 

cornerstone of EPA’s Innovation 

Strategy (http://www.epa.gov/ 

innovation/strategy.htm). A key 

mechanism by which this partnership 

has been enhanced is through a biannual conference sponsored primarily 

by the National Center for 

Environmental Innovation that brings 

together State and EPA innovation 

practitioners to share experiences. EPA 

sponsored the first State-EPA 

Environmental Innovation Symposium 

in 2000 to showcase environmental 

innovations that promise improved 

results. A second symposium was held 

in 2003. In 2006, NCEI joined with 

EPA’s Office of Congressional and 

Intergovernmental Relations to offer an 

expanded agenda that focused on 

innovation as well as performance 

management issues. In 2008, NCEI and 

EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation held 

the State/EPA Symposium on 

Innovating for Sustainable Results: 

Integrated Approaches for Climate, 

Energy, and the Environment. 


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