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1Enterprise Texas Pipeline LLC, 126 FERC 

¶ 61,183 (2009). 

time allowed therefore, the proposed 

activity shall be deemed to be 

authorized effective the day after the 

time allowed for filing a protest. If a 

protest is filed and not withdrawn 

within 30 days after the allowed time 

for filing a protest, the instant request 

shall be treated as an application for 

authorization pursuant to section 7 of 

the NGA. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–6501 Filed 3–24–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. PR08–30–000, PR07–12–003, 

and PR07–12–004] 

Enterprise Texas Pipeline LLC; Notice 

of Technical Conference 

March 18, 2009. 

Take notice that the Commission will 

convene a technical conference in the 

above-captioned proceeding on 

Tuesday, April 14, 2009, at 10 a.m. 

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

offices of the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission (Commission), 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC. 20426. 

The Commission’s February 27, 2009 

Order in the above-captioned 

proceeding,1 directed that a technical 

conference be held to discuss Enterprise 

Texas Pipeline LLC’s (Enterprise Texas) 

proposed incremental rates for firm and 

interruptible transportation services and 

the issues raised with respect to the 

Statement of Operating Conditions. At 

the conference, Commission Staff and 

interested persons will have the 

opportunity to discuss all of the issues 

raised by Enterprise Texas’s filing 

including, but not limited to, technical, 

engineering and operational issues; rate 

and cost issues; and any issues raised in 

the protests and data requests. 

Enterprise Texas should be prepared to 

address all the concerns raised in the 

protests, to discuss answers to the data 

requests, to discuss technical, 

engineering and operational issues, to 

discuss rate and cost issues, and to 

provide, as necessary, additional 

support for its filing. 

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 parties and staff are 

permitted to attend. For further 

information please contact Rita Johnson 

at (202) 502–6518 or e-mail at 

Rita.Johnson@FERC.gov. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–6499 Filed 3–24–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8775–8] 

Notice of Availability for the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency’s 

Strategic Plan for Evaluating the 

Toxicity of Chemicals 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of document availability. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing 

the availability of the final document 

The U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency’s Strategic Plan for Evaluating 

the Toxicity of Chemicals (EPA 100/K– 

09/001). The purpose of the Strategic 

Plan is to serve as a blueprint for EPA 

in incorporating advances in molecular 

biology and computational sciences into 

toxicity testing and risk assessment 

practices across the Agency. The 

Strategic Plan is centered on three 

interrelated components: (1) Toxicity 

pathways identification and use of this 

information in screening and 

prioritization of chemicals for further 

testing, (2) the use of toxicity pathways 

information in risk assessment, and (3) 

the institutional transition necessary to 

implement such practices across EPA. 

This Strategic Plan describes an 

ambitious and substantive improvement 

in the efficiency and effectiveness of the 

process by which environmental 

pollutants are evaluated for toxicity and 

risk. A workgroup of EPA’s Science 

Policy Council oversaw the 

development of this document, 

incorporating input obtained from an 

external peer review. 

ADDRESSES: The final document is 

available electronically through the EPA 

Office of the Science Advisor’s Web site 

at: http://www.epa.gov/osa/spc/ 

toxicitytesting/. A limited number of 

paper copies will be available from 

EPA’s National Service Center for 

Environmental Publications (NSCEP), 

P.O. Box 42419, Cincinnati, OH 45242; 

telephone 1–800–490–9198 or 513–489– 

8190; facsimile 301–604–3408; e-mail 

NSCEP@bps-lmit.com. Please provide 

your name and mailing addresses and 

the title and EPA number (as given 

above) of the requested publication. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Melissa Kramer, Office of the Science 

Advisor, Mail Code 8105R, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 564–8497; fax number: 

(202) 564–2070, e-mail: 

kramer.melissa@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA 

recently took the lead in commissioning 

the National Research Council (NRC) of 

the National Academies to develop a 

long-range vision for toxicity testing and 

risk assessment. Their 2007 report, 

Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: A 

Vision and a Strategy (http:// 

www.nap.edu/ 

catalog.php?record_id=11970), 

envisions a landmark transformation 

that focuses on identifying and 

evaluating ‘‘toxicity pathways,’’ i.e., 

cellular response pathways responsible 

for adverse health effects when 

sufficiently perturbed by environmental 

agents under realistic exposure 

conditions. 

To build upon the transformative 

changes advocated in the NRC 

document, while ensuring an internally 

coordinated and integrated approach, 

EPA established a cross-Agency 

workgroup under the auspices of its 

internal Science Policy Council. This 

workgroup produced The U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency’s 

Strategic Plan for Evaluating the 

Toxicity of Chemicals that provides a 

framework for EPA to comprehensively 

move forward to incorporate this new 

scientific paradigm into future toxicity 

testing and risk assessment practices. 

This new paradigm has the potential 

to address increasingly complex issues 

that EPA faces in evaluating 

environmental contaminants for risks to 

human health and the environment. For 

example, it is expected to create more 

efficient and cost-effective means to 

screen and prioritize for further 

assessment the tens of thousands of 

chemicals that are already found in the 

environment. The new paradigm should 

facilitate evaluating the susceptibility of 

different life-stages and genetic 

variations in the population, 

understanding the mechanisms by 

which toxicity occurs, and considering 

the risks of concurrent, cumulative 

exposure to multiple and diverse 

chemicals, while at the same time 

significantly reducing reliance on 

animal testing for assessing human risk. 


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