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ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel, 

801 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 

22203; phone (703) 717–6200. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public who wants further 

information concerning the 

teleconference meeting may contact Mr. 

Thomas Miller, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), EPA Science Advisory 

Board (1400F), U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

via telephone/voice mail (202) 343– 

9982; fax (202) 233–0643; or e-mail at 

miller.tom@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the SAB can be 

found on the EPA Web site at http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The SAB was 

established by 42 U.S.C. 4365 to provide 

independent scientific and technical 

advice, consultation, and 

recommendations to the EPA 

Administrator on the technical basis for 

Agency positions and regulations. The 

SAB is a Federal advisory committee 

chartered under the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA), as amended, 5 

U.S.C., App. The SAB will comply with 

the provisions of FACA and all 

appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural 

policies. 

Background: (1) Strategic Research 

Vision: The purpose of this meeting will 

be to allow the Chartered SAB to 

discuss with Agency representatives the 

strategic research directions of EPA’s 

Office of Research and Development 

over the next 10 years. These 

discussions will permit consideration of 

the overall strategic direction of the 

program in relation to EPA’s overall 

mission, as well as permit the 

evaluation of smaller components of the 

total program as they fit into the total 

program. (2) Research Budget: If the 

President’s FY 2010 budget is released 

prior to this meeting, the SAB will 

consider that budget and how it relates 

to the overall goals of EPA and the EPA 

strategic research directions. The SAB 

has reviewed the EPA research budget 

request each year for over twenty years 

and provides written advice to the EPA 

Administrator and, when requested, 

provides testimony to the U.S. Congress 

on how the budget might contribute to 

the achievement of EPA’s overall 

research goals. (3) SAB Future 

Activities: The Board will discuss future 

advisory activities including a draft plan 

for a study to develop advice to EPA on 

strengthening its science assessment 

program for key areas of EPA’s mission. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: A 

meeting agenda, charge questions and 

other materials for the meeting will be 

placed on the SAB Web site at http:// 

yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabpeople.nsf/ 

WebCommittees/BOARD. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant written or oral 

information for consideration on the 

topics included in this advisory activity. 

Oral Statements: To be placed on the 

public speaker list for the April 23–24, 

2009 meeting, interested parties should 

notify Mr. Thomas Miller, DFO, by 

e-mail no later than April 16, 2009. 

Individuals making oral statements will 

be limited to three minutes per speaker. 

Written Statements: Written statements 

for the April 23–24, 2009 meeting 

should be received in the SAB Staff 

Office by April 16, 2009, so that the 

information may be made available to 

the SAB for its consideration prior to 

this meeting. Written statements should 

be supplied to the DFO in the following 

formats: One hard copy with original 

signature and one electronic copy via email (acceptable file format: Adobe 

Acrobat PDF, MS Word, WordPerfect, 

MS PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in 

IBM–PC/Windows 98/2000/XP format). 

Submitters are asked to provide 

electronic versions of each document 

submitted with and without signatures, 

because the SAB Staff Office does not 

publish documents with signatures on 

its Web sites. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Mr. Miller at 

the phone number or e-mail address 

noted above, preferably at least ten days 

prior to the teleconference, to give EPA 

as much time as possible to process 

your request. 

Dated: March 17, 2009. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

[FR Doc. E9–6256 Filed 3–20–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–409–OAR–09–0148; FRL–8783–2] 

Proposed Determination for Washoe 

County Moe 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments 

and notice of opportunity for public 

hearing. 

SUMMARY: EPA has made a proposed 

determination that reduction in 

expenditures of non-Federal funds for 

the Washoe County District Health 

Department (WCDHD) in Reno, Nevada 

are a result of county-wide non-selective 

reductions in expenditures. This 

determination, when final, will permit 

the WCDHD to receive grant funding for 

FY2009 from the EPA, under Section 

105 of the Clean Air Act (CAA). 

DATES: Comments and/or requests for a 

public hearing must be received by EPA 

at the address state below by April 22, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, 

identified by docket number [09–0148], 

by one of the following methods: 

1. Federal Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions. 

2. E-mail: ford.roy@epa.gov 

3. or deliver to: Roy Rod (Air-8), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency 

Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San 

Francisco, CA 94105–3901. 

Instructions: All comments 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 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

districted by protected should be clearly 

identified as such and should not be 

submitted through http:// 

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

www.regulations.gov is an ‘‘anonymous 

access’’ system, and EPA will not know 

your identity or contact information 

unless you provide it in the body of 

your comment. If you send e-mail 

directly to EPA, your e-mail address 

will be automatically captured and 

included as part of the public comment. 

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. 

Docket: The index to the docket for 

this action is available electronically at 

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

copy at EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne 

Street, San Francisco, California. While 

all documents in the docket are listed in 

the index, some information may be 

publicly available only at the hard copy 

location (e.g., CBI). To inspect the hard 

copy materials, please schedule an 

appointment during normal business 

hours with the contact listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Roy 

Ford, EPA Region IX, (415) 972–3997, 

ford.roy@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

authority of Section 105 of the CAA, 

EPA provides grant funding to the 

WCDHD to aid in the operation of its air 


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pollution control programs. In FY2008, 

EPA awarded the WCDHD $632,694, 

which represented approximately 36% 

of the WCDHD budget. In FY2009, EPA 

will award the WCDHD $632, 649, 

which represents approximately 43% pf 

the WCDHD budget. 

Section 105(c) (1) of the CAA, 42 

U.S.C. 7405(c) (1) provides that ‘‘no 

agency shall receive any grant under 

this section during any fiscal year when 

its expenditures of non-Federal funds 

for recurrent expenditures for air 

pollution control programs will be less 

than its expenditures were for such 

programs during the preceding fiscal 

year. However, pursuant to Section 

105(c) (2) of the CAA, EPA may still 

award a grant to an agency not meeting 

the requirements of Section 105(c) (2), 

‘‘if the Administrator, after notice and 

opportunity for public hearing, 

determines that a reduction in 

expenditures is attributable to a nonselective reduction in the expenditures 

in the programs of all Executive branch 

agencies of the applicable unit of the 

Government.’’ These statutory 

requirements are repeated in EPA’s 

implementing regulations at 40 CFR 35 

140–35.148. 

WCDHD’s final Financial Status 

Report for FY08 indicated that 

WCDHD’s maintenance of effort (MOE) 

level was $1,711,833. The budgeted 

FY2009 MOE is $1,451,265. 

The projected MOE is not sufficient to 

meet the MOE requirements under the 

CAA Section 105 because it is not equal 

to or greater than the MOE for the 

previous fiscal year. In order for the 

WCDHD to be eligible to receive its 

FY2009 CAA Section 105 grant, EPA 

must make a determination (after notice 

and opportunity for a public hearing) 

that the reduction in expenditures is 

attributable to a non-selective reduction 

in the expenditures in the programs of 

all the Washoe County agencies. EPA, 

Region IX has yet to award the Section 

105 award for the FY09 to the WCDHD. 

The shortfall stems from an action 

taken by the Washoe County Board of 

County Commissioners in February 

2008, directing Washoe County agencies 

to reduce budget expenditures in order 

to make up for a budget deficit of 

$22,700,000. The budget cuts were not 

aimed solely at the Health District. Each 

entity in Washoe County was required 

to reduce budget expenditures, 

including police and fire protection 

services, etc. 

The Health District has five divisions: 

(1) Administrative Health Services 

(AHS); (2) Air Quality Management 

(AWM); (3) Community and Clinical 

Health Services (CCHS); (4) 

Environmental Health Services (EHS); 

and (5) Epidemiology and Public Health 

Preparedness (EPHP). Each division has 

borne a percentage of the total FY09 

reduction. The combined reduction in 

budgeted expenditures for the Health 

District in FY2009 (July 1, 2008 through 

June 30, 2009) totaled approximately 

$1,581,515 as summarized below: 

Division FY09 $ 

reduction 

FY09 % of 

total reduction 

AHS* ......... $(188,509) ¥11.89% 

AQM** ....... $84,000 5.32% 

CCHS ........ $1,105,569 69.91% 

EHS .......... $435,681 27.55% 

EPHP ........ $144,188 9.12% 

Total ... $1,581,515 100% 

* AHS ‘‘negative’’ reduction due to payout 

budget for organizational retirements $147,000 

and reorganization of personnel from CCHS 

and EHS to AHS (Department Computer Application Specialist, GIS Specialist, Account 

Clerk II, and Administrative Assistant II, 

¥41,509). 

** AQM reduction only reflects one vacancy 

Public Information Officer. However, two additional vacancies (Administrative Secretary Supervisor and Senior Air Quality Specialist) are 

anticipated to remain unfilled until funding is 

available. Therefore, three vacancies are reflected in FY09 anticipated MOE of 

$1,451,265. 

To meet the $1,057,965 reduction 

requirements for FY09, the Health 

District substantially reduced budget for 

personnel (¥$1,022,065) and minimally 

reduced budget for operating 

expenditures (¥$35,000). Ten positions 

were permanently abolished and the 

Health District is holding seven (7) 

vacancies ‘‘dark’’. The ‘‘dark’’ positions 

will remain vacant until sufficient 

funding is available. To meet the 

additional $532,550 reduction 

requirements for FY09, the Health 

District substantially reduced the budget 

for personnel: (¥$501,550) and 

minimally reduced the budget for 

operating expenditures (¥$31,000). The 

majority of the reduction came from the 

Family Planning Program local budget, 

which was reduced by 50%, or 

$372,250. 

The WCDHD’s MOE reduction 

resulted from a loss of revenues from 

the County to all agencies due to 

circumstances beyond its control. EPA 

proposes to determine that the WCDHD 

lower FY9 MOE level meets the CAA 

Section 105(c)(2) criteria as resulting 

from a non-selective reduction of 

expenditures. 

This notice constitutes a request for 

public comment and an opportunity for 

public hearing as required by the CAA. 

All written comments received by April 

22, 2009 on this proposal will be 

considered. EPA will conduct a public 

hearing on this proposal only if a 

written request for such is received by 

EPA at the address above by April 22, 

2009. If no written request for a hearing 

is received, EPA will proceed to the 

final determination. While notice of the 

final determination will not be 

published in the Federal Register, 

copies of the determination can be 

obtained by sending a written request to 

Roy Ford at the above address. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7405 et seq. 

Dated: March 9, 2009. 

Laura Yoshii, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

[FR Doc. E9–6159 Filed 3–20–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8785–5] 

Notice of Proposed Administrative 

Settlement Pursuant to the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice; request for public 

comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 

122 (h) of the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, 

Compensation, and Liability Act, as 

amended (‘‘CERCLA’’), 42 U.S.C. 

9622(i), notice is hereby given of a 

proposed administrative settlement 

concerning the Malone Service 

Company Superfund Site, Texas City, 

Galveston County, Texas. 

The settlement requires the seventyfour (74) settling parties to pay a total 

of $4,403,290 payment of response costs 

to the Hazardous Substances Superfund. 

The settlement includes a covenant not 

to sue pursuant to Sections 106 or 107 

of CERCLA, 42, U.S.C. 9606 or 9607. 

For thirty (30) days following the date 

of publication of this notice, the Agency 

will receive written comments relating 

to this notice and will receive written 

comments relating to the settlement. 

The Agency will consider all comments 

received and may modify or withdraw 

its consent to the settlement if 

comments received disclose facts or 

considerations which indicate that the 

settlement is inappropriate, improper, 

or inadequate. The Agency’s response to 

any comments received will be available 

for public inspection at 1445 Ross 

Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202–2733. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before April 22, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement 

and additional background information 


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