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Revision to FR Notice Published 02/ 

14/2014; Correcting Lead Agency from 

AFS to USFS. 

Dated: February 25, 2014. 

Cliff Rader, 

Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office 

of Federal Activities. 

[FR Doc. 2014–04420 Filed 2–27–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2014–0138; FRL–9907–31– 

OW] 

Request for Nominations for Peer 

Reviewers and Notice of Public 

Comment Period for Draft Health 

Effects Documents for 

Perfluorooctanoic Acid and 

Perfluorooctane Sulfonate 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Request for nominations for 

peer reviewers and notice of public 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) invites the public to 

nominate scientific experts to be 

considered as peer reviewers for the 

contractor-managed external peer 

review of the draft documents entitled, 

‘‘Health Effects Document for 

Perfluorooctanoic Acid’’ and ‘‘Health 

Effects Document for Perfluorooctane 

Sulfonate.’’ In addition, EPA is 

announcing the release of the draft 

health effects documents for public 

comment. Public comments will be 

made available to the peer reviewers for 

consideration in their review. The draft 

documents and charge questions were 

prepared in order to support potential 

future regulatory evaluations and 

decisions. These draft documents do not 

represent and should not be construed 

to represent final Agency policy. 

DATES: The nomination period for 

scientific experts begins on February 28, 

2014 and ends on March 21, 2014. 

The public comment period begins on 

February 28, 2014 and ends on April 29, 

2014. Technical comments should be 

submitted to the public EPA docket by 

April 29, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Any interested person or 

organization may nominate scientific 

experts to be considered as a peer 

reviewer. Nominations should be 

submitted in time to arrive no later than 

March 21, 2014. Self-nominations will 

also be accepted. Nominations should 

be submitted to the EPA contractor, 

Versar, Inc., online using the following 

URL: http://peerreview.versar.com/epa/

pfoa. Nominations will also be accepted 

by U.S. Postal mail or by an overnight/ 

priority mail service. http://

www.versar.com/epa/

bristolbaynominationform.html Mailed 

nominations should be addressed to 

Versar, Inc., 6850 Versar Center, 

Springfield, VA 22151 (ATTN: Betzy 

Colon) and should include all nominee 

information outlined in Section II of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. Submit your comments 

on the draft health effects documents 

and peer review charge questions, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OW–2014–0138, by one of the following 

methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: ow-docket@epa.gov. 

Attention Docket No. EPA–HQ–OW– 

2014–0138 

• Mail: EPA Water Docket, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Mailcode: 2822–IT, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

Please include a total of two copies 

(including references). 

• Hand Delivery: EPA Water Docket, 

EPA Docket Center, William Jefferson 

Clinton West Building, Room 3334, 

1301 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20004, Docket No. 

EPA–HQ–OW–2014–0138. 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: EPA’s policy is that all 

comments received will be included in 

the public docket without change and 

may be made available online at 

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 www.regulations.gov 

or email. The 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 email 

comment directly to EPA without going 

through www.regulations.gov your email 

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. 

For additional instructions on 

submitting comments, go to Section III 

of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

section of this document. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the 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 material, such as 

copyrighted material, will be publicly 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the EPA–HQ–OW–2014–0138 Docket, 

EPA/DC, William Jefferson Clinton 

Building 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 EPA 

Water Docket is (202) 566–2426. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions concerning the nomination 

process or Web site should be directed 

to the EPA contractor, Versar, Inc., at 

6850 Versar Center, Springfield, VA 

22151; by email peerreview@versar.com 

(subject line: PFOA/PFOS Peer Review); 

or by phone: (703) 642–6727 (ask for 

Betzy Colon). For additional 

information concerning the health 

effects documents, please contact Joyce 

Donohue at U.S. EPA, Office of Water, 

Health and Ecological Criteria Division 

(Mail Code 4304T), 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone: 202–566–1098; or email: 

donohue.joyce@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information on the Draft Health 

Effects Documents for 

Perfluorooctanoic Acid and 

Perfluorooctane Sulfonate 

EPA has prepared draft health effects 

documents for Perfluorooctanoic Acid 

(PFOA) and Perfluorooctane Sulfonate 

(PFOS) for purposes of public comment 

(scientific views) and peer review. EPA 

will consider any public comments 

submitted in accordance with this 


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11430 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 40 / Friday, February 28, 2014 / Notices 

1CCL3 is a list of contaminants that are currently 

not subject to any proposed or promulgated 

national primary drinking water regulations, that 

are known or anticipated to occur in public water 

systems, and which may require regulation under 

the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). Additional 

information about the CCL3 can be found at the 

following Web site: http://water.epa.gov/scitech/ 

drinkingwater/dws/ccl/ccl3.cfm. 

2EPA uses the Unregulated Contaminant 

Monitoring (UCM) program to collect data for 

unregulated contaminants suspected to be present 

in drinking water. Results from UCMR3 can be 

examined as they become available at the following 

Web site: http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/rulesregs/ 

sdwa/ucmr/ucmr3/. 

notice when finalizing the documents. 

Once the health effects documents are 

finalized, they will be utilized to 

develop lifetime health advisory values 

for each chemical. PFOA and PFOS are 

listed on the third contaminant 

Candidate List (CCL3) 1 and both 

chemicals are currently being monitored 

under the third Unregulated 

Contaminant Monitoring Rule 

(UCMR3) 2. 

II. How To Submit Nominations for 

Peer Reviewers 

Expertise Sought: EPA is seeking 

candidates who are nationally and/or 

internationally recognized scientific 

experts to serve as external peer 

reviewers for the draft health effects 

documents for PFOA and PFOS. 

Nominees should possess and 

demonstrate background knowledge and 

experience in one or more of the 

following areas: (1) Epidemiology, (2) 

toxicology (liver effects, 

immunotoxicity, neurotoxicity, 

developmental and reproductive 

toxicology, etc.), (3) membrane 

transport, (4) human health risk 

assessment, (5) pharmacokinetic 

models, and (6) mode-of-action for 

cancer and noncancer effects. 

Selection Criteria: Selection criteria 

for individuals nominated to serve as 

external peer reviewers of the draft 

documents include the following: (1) 

Demonstrated expertise through 

relevant peer reviewed publications, (2) 

professional accomplishments and 

recognition by professional societies, (3) 

demonstrated ability to work 

constructively and effectively in a 

committee setting, (4) absence of 

financial conflicts of interest, (5) no 

actual conflicts of interest or the 

appearance of lack of impartiality, (6) 

willingness to commit adequate time for 

the thorough review of the draft health 

effects documents for PFOA and PFOS 

commencing in June 2014 (exact date to 

be determined), and (7) availability to 

participate in-person in a two-day peer 

review meeting in the Washington, DC 

metro area in July or August 2014 (exact 

date will be published in the Federal 

Register at least 30 days prior to the 

external peer review meeting). Further 

information regarding the external peer 

review meeting will be announced at a 

later date in the Federal Register. 

Peer reviewer candidates must not 

have previously provided comments on 

the draft health effects documents for 

PFOA and PFOS; that is, anyone 

wishing to be considered as a peer 

reviewer must not submit comments 

during the 60-day public comment 

period. However, candidates not 

selected for the panel peer review will 

be given a limited opportunity to submit 

public comments once the final peer 

reviewers are selected by Versar, Inc., 

the EPA contractor managing this peer 

review process. 

Required Nominee Information: To 

receive full consideration, the following 

information should be provided on the 

nomination form available at the Versar 

URL: (1) Contact information for the 

person making the nomination; (2) 

contact information for the nominee; (3) 

the disciplinary and specific areas of 

expertise of the nominee; (4) the 

nominee’s curriculum vita; and (4) a 

biographical sketch of the nominee 

indicating current position, educational 

background, past and current research 

activities, and recent service on other 

advisory committees, peer review 

panels, editorial boards, or professional 

organizations, sources of recent grant 

and/or contract support, and other 

comments on the relevance of the 

nominee’s expertise to this peer review 

topic. Compensation of non-federal peer 

reviewers will be provided by EPA’s 

contractor. 

Selection Process: EPA’s contractor, 

Versar, will notify candidates of 

selection or non-selection. Versar may 

also conduct an independent search for 

candidates to assemble a balanced group 

representing the expertise needed to 

fully evaluate EPA’s draft documents. 

Versar will consider and screen all 

candidates against the criteria listed 

above. Following the screening process, 

Versar will narrow the list of potential 

reviewers to 12–15 candidates. Prior to 

selecting the final peer reviewers, a 

second Federal Register notice will be 

published (exact date to be determined) 

to solicit comments on the interim list 

of 12–15 candidates. The public will be 

requested to provide relevant 

information or documentation on the 

nominees that Versar should consider in 

evaluating the candidates within 21 

days of following the announcement of 

the interim candidates. Once the public 

comments on the interim list of 

candidates have been reviewed, Versar 

will select the final six to seven peer 

reviewers who, collectively, best 

provide expertise spanning the multiple 

areas listed above and, to the extent 

feasible, best provide a balance of 

perspectives. Additional information on 

the nomination process can be found at: 

http://peerreview.versar.com/epa/pfoa. 

III. How to Submit Comments 

(Scientific Views) on the Draft Health 

Effects Documents 

The draft documents ‘‘Health Effects 

Document for Perfluorooctanoic Acid’’ 

and ‘‘Health Effects Document for 

Perfluorooctane Sulfonate’’ and charge 

questions are available electronically by 

the following methods: (1) Public 

Docket at http://www.regulations.gov 

(Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OW–2014– 

0138) or (2) Versar’s peer review Web 

site at http://peerreview.versar.com/epa/ 

pfoa. Oral or written comments will not 

be accepted during the external peer 

review meeting, so it is important that 

all comments be submitted during the 

public comment period. As stated in 

Section II, anyone wishing to be 

considered as a peer reviewer must not 

submit comments during the 60-day 

public comment period. No comments 

will be accepted after the closing of the 

comment period except from those 

nominated as a potential peer reviewer 

but not selected as a final peer reviewer. 

Dated: February 24, 2014. 

Nancy K. Stoner, 

Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of 

Water. 

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required by the Paperwork Reduction 

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