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sodium hydroxide (mineral bases, 

strong) will remain open until all 

actions required in the final decision 

have been completed. 

Background on the registration review 

program is provided at:http:// 

www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/ 

registration_review. Links to earlier 

documents related to the registration 

review of this pesticide are provided at: 

http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/ 

registration_review/mineral_bases/ 

index.htm. 

B. What is the Agency’s Authority for 

Taking this Action? 

Section 3(g) of FIFRA and 40 CFR part 

155, subpart C, provide authority for 

this action. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, 

Antimicrobials, Pesticides and pests, 

Registration review, Sodium hydroxide. 

Dated: March 4, 2009. 

Joan Harrigan-Farrelly, 

Director, Antimicrobials Division, Office of 

Pesticide Programs. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2007–0492; FRL–8779–1] 

Review of the National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards for Particulate 

Matter 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of planning documents 

for public review and comment. 

SUMMARY: On or about February 27, 

2009, the Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards (OAQPS) of EPA is 

making available for public review and 

comment two planning documents 

titled: Particulate Matter National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards: Scope 

and Methods Plan for Health Risk and 

Exposure Assessment; and Particulate 

Matter National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards: Scope and Methods Plan for 

Urban Visibility Impact Assessment. 

These documents describe EPA’s 

planned approach for developing 

quantitative analyses as part of the 

review of the National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards (NAAQS) for 

particulate matter (PM). EPA is releasing 

these planning documents to seek 

consultation with the Clean Air 

Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) 

and to solicit public comments. 

DATES: Comments should be submitted 

on or before May 18, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2007–0492, by one of the 

following methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov. 

• Fax: 202–566–9744. 

• Mail: EPA–HQ–OAR–2007–0492, 

Environmental Protection Agency, Mail 

code 6102T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC 20460. Please 

include a total of two copies. 

• Hand Delivery: Environmental 

Protection Agency, EPA West, Room 

3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC. Such deliveries are 

only accepted during the Docket’s 

normal hours of operation, and special 

arrangements should be made for 

deliveries of boxed information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2007– 

0492. The EPA’s policy is that all 

comments received will be included in 

the public docket without change and 

may be made available online 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 http:// 

www.regulations.gov (or e-mail). 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: All 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. Certain other 

materials, such as copyrighted material, 

will be publicly available only in hard 

copy. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either 

electronically in http:// 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the Air and Radiation Docket and 

Information Center, EPA/DC, EPA West, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC. The 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, and the telephone 

number for the Air and Radiation 

Docket and Information Center is (202) 

566–1742. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

questions concerning EPA’s Particulate 

Matter National Ambient Air Quality 

Standard: Scope and Methods Plan for 

Health Risk and Exposure Assessment 

should be directed to Ms. Beth HassettSipple at hassett-sipple.beth@epa.gov or 

telephone 919–541–4605. Any questions 

concerning Particulate Matter National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards: Scope 

and Methods Plan for Urban Visibility 

Impact Assessment should be directed 

to Ms. Vicki Sandiford at 

sandiford.vicki@epa.gov or telephone 

919–541–2629. 

General Information 

A. What Should I Consider as I Prepare 

My Comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to EPA through http:// 

www.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: 


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1EPA 452R–08–004; March 2008; Available: 

http://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/pm/ 

s_pm_2007_pd.html. 

• Identify the rulemaking by docket 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

• 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. 

• Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

• Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

• If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

• Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns, and suggest 

alternatives. 

• Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

• Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 

section 108(a) of the Clean Air Act 

(CAA), the Administrator identifies and 

lists certain pollutants which ‘‘cause or 

contribute to air pollution which may 

reasonably be anticipated to endanger 

public health or welfare.’’ The EPA then 

issues air quality criteria for listed 

pollutants, which are commonly 

referred to as ‘‘criteria 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 form the presence of [a] 

pollutant in the ambient air, in varying 

quantities.’’ Under section 109 of the 

CAA, EPA establishes NAAQS for each 

listed pollutant, with the NAAQS based 

on the air quality criteria. Section 109(d) 

of the CAA requires periodic review 

and, if appropriate, revision of existing 

air quality criteria. The revised air 

quality criteria reflect advances in 

scientific knowledge on the effects of 

the pollutant on public health or 

welfare. The EPA is also required to 

periodically review and revise the 

NAAQS, if appropriate, based on the 

revised criteria. 

Air quality criteria have been 

established for particulate matter (PM) 

and NAAQS have been established for 

PM2.5 and PM10, to provide protection 

for fine and coarse particles, 

respectively. Presently, EPA is 

reviewing the air quality criteria and 

NAAQS for PM. The EPA’s overall plan 

and schedule for this review is 

presented in the Integrated Review Plan 

for the National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards for Particulate Matter.1 A 

draft of the integrated review plan was 

released for public review and comment 

in October 2007 and was the subject of 

a consultation with the Clean Air 

Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) 

on November 30, 2007 (72 FR 63177; 

November 8, 2007). Comments received 

from that consultation and from the 

public were considered in finalizing the 

plan and in beginning the review of the 

air quality criteria. 

As part of the review of the air quality 

criteria for PM, EPA’s Office of Research 

and Development (ORD) has completed 

a draft document, Integrated Science 

Assessment (ISA) for Particulate Matter 

(First External Review Draft, December 

2008) and requested review by the 

CASAC and the public (73 FR 77686; 

December 19, 2008). In the future, EPA’s 

OAQPS will prepare a Risk and 

Exposure Assessment (REA) focusing 

on: (1) Human health risk and exposure 

assessment, and (2) assessment of urban 

visibility impairment. The two planning 

documents announced today describe 

the planned approaches for conducting 

the quantitative assessments that will be 

presented in the REA as part of the 

review of the primary (health-based) 

and secondary (welfare-based) PM 

NAAQS. These documents are available 

on the Agency’s Technology Transfer 

Network (TTN) Web site at http:// 

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

s_pm_index.html. These documents 

may be accessed in the ‘‘Documents 

from Current Review’’ section under 

‘‘Planning Documents.’’ These planning 

documents are intended to provide 

enough specificity to facilitate 

consultation with CASAC, as well as for 

public review, in order to obtain advice 

on the overall scope, approaches and 

key issues in advance of the conduct of 

the quantitative analyses and 

presentation of results in the first draft 

REA. The CASAC consultation on these 

two planning documents coincides with 

its review of the first draft ISA. This 

CASAC meeting is scheduled for April 

1 and 2, 2009. A separate Federal 

Register notice provides additional 

details about this meeting and the 

process for participation (74 FR 7688; 

February 19, 2009). 

Dated: February 27, 2009. 

Jeffrey S. Clark, 

Acting Director, Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards. 

[FR Doc. E9–5843 Filed 3–17–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[CG Docket No. 02–278; DA 09–542] 

Consumer and Governmental Affairs 

Bureau Seeks Comment on Paul D.S. 

Edwards Petition for Expedited 

Clarification and Declaratory Ruling 

Concerning the Telephone Consumer 

Protection Act (TCPA) Rules 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the 

Commission seeks comment on a 

petition for an expedited clarification 

and declaratory ruling, filed by Paul 

D.S. Edwards (Edwards), asking whether 

a creditor may place autodialed or 

prerecorded message calls to a 

telephone number associated with 

wireless service that was provided to 

the creditor initially as a telephone 

number associated with landline 

service. 

DATES: Comments are due on or before 

April 2, 2009. Reply comments are due 

on or before April 13, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may 

submit comments and reply comments 

identified by [CG Docket No. 02–278], 

by any of the following methods: 

• Electronic Filers: Comments may be 

filed electronically using the Internet by 

accessing the Commission’s Electronic 

comment Filing System (ECFS), through 

the Commission’s Web site: http:// 

www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/, or the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Filers should 

follow the instructions provided on the 

Web site for submitting comments. 

• For ECFS filers, in completing the 

transmittal screen, filers should include 

their full name, U.S. Postal Service 

mailing address, and the applicable 

docket number, which in this instance 

is [CG Docket No. 02–278]. Parties may 

also submit an electronic comment by 

Internet e-mail. To get filing 

instructions, filers should send an email to ecfs@fcc.gov, and include the 

following words in the body of the 

message, ‘‘get form <your e-mail 

address>.’’ A sample form and 

directions will be sent in response. 

• Paper Filers: Parties who choose to 

file by paper must file an original and 


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