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1The EPA’s call for information for this review 

was issued on February 26, 2010 (75 FR 8934). 

Dated: May 6, 2014. 

Cliff Rader, 

Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office 

of Federal Activities. 

[FR Doc. 2014–10681 Filed 5–8–14; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9910–58–OW] 

Notice of a Public Meeting: The 

National Drinking Water Advisory 

Council Lead and Copper Rule 

Working Group Meeting 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing 

a public meeting of the National 

Drinking Water Advisory Council 

(NDWC) Lead and Copper Rule Working 

Group (LCRWG). The meeting is 

scheduled for May 29 and 30, 2014, in 

Arlington, VA. During this meeting, the 

LCRWG and the EPA will focus 

discussions on the Lead and Copper 

Rule sample site selection criteria. 

DATES: The meeting on May 29, 2014, 

will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 

Eastern Time, and on May 30, 2014, 

from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Eastern Time. 

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be 

held at the Cadmus Group Inc., 1555 

Wilson Blvd., Suite 300, Arlington, VA, 

and will be open to the public. All 

attendees must sign in with the security 

desk and show photo identification to 

enter the building. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

more information about this meeting or 

to request written materials contact 

Lameka Smith, Standards and Risk 

Management Division, Office of Ground 

Water and Drinking Water; by phone 

(202) 564–1629 or by email at 

LCRWorkingGroup@epa.gov. For 

additional information about the Lead 

and Copper Rule, please visit: http://

water.epa.gov/lawsregs/rulesregs/sdwa/

lcr/index.cfm. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Details about Participating in the 

Meeting: Members of the public who 

would like to register for this meeting 

should contact Lameka Smith by May 

27th, 2014, by email at 

LCRWorkingGroup@epa.gov or by 

phone at 202–564–1629. The LCRWG 

will allocate time for the public’s input 

at the meeting on May 29 and 30. Oral 

statements will be limited to five 

minutes at the meeting. It is preferred 

that only one person present the 

statement on behalf of a group or 

organization. To ensure adequate time 

for public involvement, individuals or 

organizations interested in presenting 

an oral statement should notify Lameka 

Smith no later than May 22, 2014. Any 

person who wishes to file a written 

statement can do so before or after the 

LCRWG meeting. Written statements 

intended for the meeting must be 

received by May 22, 2014, to be 

distributed to all members of the 

working group before the meeting. Any 

statements received on or after the date 

specified will become part of the 

permanent file for the meeting and will 

be forwarded to the LCRWG members 

for their information. 

Special Accommodations: For 

information on access or to request 

special accommodations for individuals 

with disabilities please contact Lameka 

Smith at (202) 564–1629 or by email at 

LCRWorkingGroup@epa.gov at least 10 

days prior to the meeting to give EPA as 

much time as possible to process your 

request. 

Dated: April 30, 2014. 

Peter Grevatt, 

Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking 

Water. 

[FR Doc. 2014–10677 Filed 5–8–14; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2010–0108; FRL–9910–59– 

OAR] 

Release of Final Policy Assessment 

Document Related to the Review of the 

National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards for Lead 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The EPA is announcing the 

availability of a final document titled 

Policy Assessment for the Review of the 

Lead National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards. The Policy Assessment (PA) 

has been prepared by staff in the EPA’s 

Office of Air Quality Planning and 

Standards (OAQPS) as part of the 

agency’s ongoing review of the primary 

(health-based) and secondary (welfarebased) national ambient air quality 

standards (NAAQS) for lead (Pb). It 

presents analyses and staff conclusions 

regarding the policy implications of the 

key scientific and technical information 

that informs this review. 

DATES: The PA will be available on or 

about May 9, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: This document will be 

available primarily via the Internet at 

the following Web site: http://

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

s_pb_index.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Deirdre Murphy, Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards (mail code 

C504–06), U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Research Triangle 

Park, NC 27711; telephone number: 

919–541–0729; fax number: 919–541– 

0237; email address: murphy.deirdre@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Two 

sections of the Clean Air Act (CAA) 

govern the establishment and revision of 

the NAAQS. Section 108 (42 U.S.C. 

section 7408) directs the Administrator 

to identify and list certain air pollutants 

and then to issue air quality criteria for 

those pollutants. The Administrator is 

to list those air pollutants that in her 

‘‘judgment, cause or contribute to air 

pollution which may reasonably be 

anticipated to endanger public health or 

welfare;’’ ‘‘the presence of which in the 

ambient air results from numerous or 

diverse mobile or stationary sources;’’ 

and ‘‘for which . . . [the Administrator] 

plans to issue air quality criteria. . . .’’ 

Air quality criteria are intended 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 [a] 

pollutant in the ambient air . . .’’ 42 

U.S.C. section 7408(b). Under section 

109 (42 U.S.C. section 7409), the EPA 

establishes primary (health-based) and 

secondary (welfare-based) NAAQS for 

pollutants for which air quality criteria 

are issued. Section 109(d) requires 

periodic review and, if appropriate, 

revision of existing air quality criteria. 

The EPA is also required to periodically 

review and, if appropriate, revise the 

NAAQS based on the revised criteria. 

Section 109(d)(2) requires that an 

independent scientific review 

committee ‘‘shall complete a review of 

the criteria . . . and the national 

primary and secondary ambient air 

quality standards . . . and shall 

recommend to the Administrator any 

new . . . standards and revisions of 

existing criteria and standards as may be 

appropriate. . . .’’ Since the early 

1980’s, this independent review 

function has been performed by the 

Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee (CASAC). 

Presently, the EPA is reviewing the 

NAAQS for Pb.1 The document, whose 


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availability is being announced today, 

Policy Assessment for the Review of the 

Lead National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards, presents analyses and staff 

conclusions regarding the policy 

implications of the key scientific and 

technical information that informs this 

review. The PA is intended to ‘‘bridge 

the gap’’ between the relevant scientific 

evidence and technical information and 

the judgments required of the EPA 

Administrator in determining whether 

to retain or revise the current standards. 

The PA builds upon information 

presented in the Integrated Science 

Assessment for Lead prepared for this 

review by the EPA’s Office of Research 

and Development (ORD) as well as 

scientific and technical assessments 

from prior Pb NAAQS reviews, 

including quantitative risk and exposure 

assessments developed in the last 

review. A draft of the PA document was 

released for CASAC review and public 

comment in January 2013 (78 FR 2394), 

and was the subject of a CASAC review 

meeting on February 5–6, 2013 (78 FR 

938). In preparing the final PA, EPA has 

considered comments received from 

CASAC and the public on the earlier 

draft document. This final PA document 

will be available through the agency’s 

Technology Transfer Network (TTN) 

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

naaqs/standards/pb/s_pb_index.html. 

This document may be accessed in the 

‘‘Documents from Current Review’’ 

section under ‘‘Policy Assessments.’’ 

Dated: May 2, 2014. 

Mary E. Henigin, 

Acting Director, Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards. 

[FR Doc. 2014–10679 Filed 5–8–14; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9910–61–OGC] 

Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air 

Act Citizen Suit 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed consent 

decree; request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended 

(‘‘CAA’’), notice is hereby given of a 

proposed partial consent decree to 

address lawsuits filed by the States of 

New York, Connecticut, Maryland, 

Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont; the 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and 

Puget Sound Clean Air Agency 

(collectively ‘‘State Plaintiffs’’); the 

American Lung Association, 

Environmental Defense Fund, Clean Air 

Council and Environment and Human 

Health, Inc. (collectively 

‘‘Environmental Plaintiffs’’); and 

interveners the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue 

Association (‘‘Association Plaintiff’’) in 

the United States District Court for the 

District of Columbia: State of New York, 

et al. v. McCarthy, No. 13–1553 and 

consolidated case No. 13–1555 (D. D.C). 

Plaintiffs each filed a complaint alleging 

that EPA failed to perform a 

nondiscretionary duty to review, and, if 

necessary, revise the new performance 

standards for new residential wood 

heaters, at least every eight years. The 

consent decree would require EPA to 

sign a notice to take final action by 

February 3, 2015. 

DATES: Written comments on the 

proposed consent decree must be 

received by June 9, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID number EPA– 

HQ–OGC–2014–0363, online at 

www.regulations.gov (EPA’s preferred 

method); by email to 

oei.docket@epa.gov; mailed to EPA 

Docket Center, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mailcode: 2822T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; or by 

hand delivery or courier to EPA Docket 

Center, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. Comments on a disk or CD– 

ROM should be formatted in Word or 

ASCII file, avoiding the use of special 

characters and any form of encryption, 

and may be mailed to the mailing 

address above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Scott Jordan, Air and Radiation Law 

Office (2344A), Office of General 

Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone: (202) 

564–7508; fax number (202) 564–5603; 

email address: jordan.scott@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Additional Information About the 

Proposed Consent Decree 

The proposed consent decree would 

settle claims by the State and 

Environmental Plaintiffs in deadline 

suits alleging that EPA failed to perform 

a nondiscretionary duty pursuant to 

section 111(b)(1)(B) of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 

7411(b)(1)(B) to review, and, if 

necessary, revise, the new source 

performance standards for new 

residential wood heaters at least once 

every eight years. The Association 

Plaintiff has not agreed to settle its 

claims against EPA and does not join in 

this Consent Decree. The proposed 

consent decree would require EPA, by 

February 3, 2015, to sign a Federal 

Register notice taking final action with 

respect to the Wood Heater NSPS 

Standards, 40 CFR part 60, Subpart 

AAA, with such modifications as EPA 

deems appropriate under CAA section 

111(b)(1)(B), 42 U.S.C. 7411(b)(l)(B). 

Under the proposed consent decree, 

once EPA has met its obligations, and 

the parties have resolved any claims for 

litigation costs, the State and 

Environmental Plaintiffs and EPA agree 

that this consent decree shall constitute 

a complete and final settlement of all 

claims that the State and Environmental 

Plaintiffs asserted against EPA, in State 

of New York, et al. v. EPA, Case No. 

1:13–cv–1553–GK (and consolidated 

case). 

For a period of thirty (30) days 

following the date of publication of this 

notice, the Agency will receive written 

comments relating to the proposed 

consent decree from persons who were 

not named as parties or intervenors to 

the litigation in question. EPA or the 

Department of Justice may withdraw or 

withhold consent to the proposed 

consent decree if the comments disclose 

facts or considerations that indicate that 

such consent is inappropriate, 

improper, inadequate, or inconsistent 

with the requirements of the Act. Unless 

EPA or the Department of Justice 

determines that consent to the consent 

decree should be withdrawn, the terms 

of the decree will be affirmed. 

II. Additional Information About 

Commenting on the Proposed Consent 

Decree 

A. How can I get a copy of the consent 

decree? 

Direct your comments to the official 

public docket for this action under 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OGC–2014– 

0363 which contains a copy of the 

consent decree. The official public 

docket is available for public viewing at 

the Office of Environmental Information 

(OEI) Docket in the EPA Docket Center, 

EPA West, Room 3334, 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, and the telephone 

number for the OEI Docket is (202) 566– 

1752. 

An electronic version of the public 

docket is available through 

www.regulations.gov. You may use the 

www.regulations.gov to submit or view 


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