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• Application for Professional 

Certifying Organization Approval 

6100–X3 

• Annual Reporting Forms: Builders 

6100–09; Professional Certifying 

Organizations 6100–09; Promotional 

partners 6100–09 

• Annual Reporting Forms—Online and 

Hard-copy Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) Forms: Plumbing 

Manufacturers 6100–09; Nonplumbing Manufacturers 6100–09; 

Retailers/Distributors 6100–09 

• Provider Quarterly Reporting Form 

6100–09 

• Award Application Forms: Builders 

6100–17; Licensed Certification 

Providers 6100–17; Manufacturers 

6100–17; Professional Certifying 

Organizations 6100–17; Promotional 

Partners 6100–17; Retailers/ 

Distributors 6100–17 

• Consumer Awareness Survey 6100– 

X2 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Respondents will consist of WaterSense 

partners and participants in the 

consumer survey. WaterSense partners 

include product manufacturers; 

professional certifying organizations; 

retailers; distributors; utilities; federal, 

state, and local governments; home 

builders; licensed certification 

providers; and non-governmental 

organizations (NGOs). 

Respondent’s obligation to respond: 

Voluntary. 

Estimated number of respondents: 

2,561 (total). 

Frequency of response: Once a 

prospective partner organization 

reviews WaterSense materials and 

decides to join the program, it will 

submit the appropriate Partnership 

Agreement for its partnership category 

(this form is only submitted once). 

Professional Certifying Organizations 

must include additional documentation 

to begin their partnership by completing 

an Application for Professional 

Certifying Organization Approval (this 

form is only submitted once). Each year, 

EPA also asks partners to submit an 

Annual Reporting Form and Awards 

Application (voluntarily at the partner’s 

discretion). Licensed certification 

providers for WaterSense-labeled new 

homes are asked to submit a Provider 

Quarterly Reporting Form four times 

each year. EPA also may conduct two 

Consumer Awareness Surveys over the 

three-year period of the ICR. 

Total estimated burden: 3,212 hours 

per year. Burden is defined at 5 CFR 

1320.03(b). 

Total estimated cost: $293,189 per 

year, includes $905 annualized 

operation & maintenance costs. 

Changes in the estimates: There is no 

change in burden compared with the 

ICR currently approved by OMB. 

Courtney Kerwin, 

Director, Regulatory Support Division. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–10025–40–OP] 

Request for Nominations for the 

Science Advisory Board; PFAS Review 

Panel 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) Staff Office requests public 

nominations of scientific experts to form 

a Panel to review draft EPA documents 

that are being developed to support 

EPA’s National Primary Drinking Water 

Rulemaking for per- and polyfluoroalkyl 

substances (PFAS). These draft 

documents will describe EPA’s prepared 

analyses of health effects data that will 

inform the derivation of proposed 

Maximum Contaminant Level Goals for 

perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) 

and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). 

Additionally, the documents will 

include elements from EPA’s 

assessment of the health risk reduction 

benefits of potential reductions in 

drinking water concentrations of PFOA 

and PFOS for targeted health endpoints. 

The documents will also include a 

framework for estimating health risks 

associated with PFAS mixtures. 

DATES: Nominations should be 

submitted by July 21, 2021 per the 

instructions below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing further 

information regarding this notice and 

request for nominations may contact Dr. 

Suhair Shallal, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), EPA Science Advisory 

Board via telephone/voice mail (202) 

564–2057, or email at shallal.suhair@

epa.gov. General information 

concerning the EPA SAB can be found 

at the EPA SAB website at http://

www.epa.gov/sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The SAB (42 U.S.C. 

4365) is a chartered Federal Advisory 

Committee that provides independent 

scientific and technical peer review, 

advice, and recommendations to the 

EPA Administrator on the technical 

basis for EPA actions. As a Federal 

Advisory Committee, the SAB conducts 

business in accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 

U.S.C. app. 2) and related regulations. 

The SAB Staff Office is forming an 

expert panel, the SAB PFAS Review 

Panel, under the auspices of the 

Chartered SAB. The SAB PFAS Review 

Panel will provide advice through the 

chartered SAB. The SAB and the SAB 

PFAS Review Panel will comply with 

the provisions of FACA and all 

appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural 

policies. 

The SAB PFAS Review Panel will 

conduct the review of draft EPA 

documents that are being developed to 

support EPA’s National Primary 

Drinking Water Rulemaking for per- and 

polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) 

prepared by the EPA’s Office of Ground 

Water and Drinking Water (OGWDW) 

and Office of Science and Technology 

(OST). 

EPA has made final determinations to 

regulate two contaminants, 

perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) 

and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). EPA 

is currently moving forward to 

implement the national primary 

drinking water regulation development 

process for PFAS. The Regulatory 

Determinations outline avenues that the 

agency is considering to further evaluate 

additional PFAS chemicals and provide 

flexibility for the agency to consider 

groups of PFAS as supported by the best 

available science. 

Request for Nominations: The SAB 

Staff Office is seeking nominations of 

nationally and internationally 

recognized scientists with demonstrated 

expertise in the following disciplines: 

Toxicology, specifically: Reproductive/ 

developmental, hepatic, immunology 

and neurotoxicology; epidemiology with 

expertise in: Immunology, 

endocrinology, reproductive/ 

developmental and cardiology; 

physiologically-based pharmacokinetic 

(PBPK) modeling; physician/clinician 

with a focus on cardiology; risk 

assessment; toxicity of chemical 

mixtures; economist with expertise in 

health related benefit cost analysis and 

valuing avoided adverse health 

outcomes; dose response relationships 

in economic models. 

Process and Deadline for Submitting 

Nominations: Any interested person or 

organization may nominate qualified 

individuals in the areas of expertise 

described above for possible service on 

the SAB Panel. Individuals may selfnominate. Nominations should be 

submitted in electronic format 

(preferred) following the instructions for 

‘‘Nominating Experts to Advisory Panels 

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Formed,’’ provided on the SAB website 

(see the ‘‘Nomination of Experts’’ link 

under ‘‘Current Activities’’ at http://

www.epa.gov/sab). To be considered, 

nominations should include the 

information requested below. EPA 

values and welcomes diversity. All 

qualified candidates are encouraged to 

apply regardless of sex, race, disability 

or ethnicity. Nominations should be 

submitted in time to arrive no later than 

July 21, 2021. 

The following information should be 

provided on the nomination form: 

Contact information for the person 

making the nomination; contact 

information for the nominee; and the 

disciplinary and specific areas of 

expertise of the nominee. Nominees will 

be contacted by the SAB Staff Office and 

will be asked to provide a recent 

curriculum vitae and a narrative 

biographical summary that includes: 

Current position, educational 

background; research activities; sources 

of research funding for the last two 

years; and recent service on other 

national advisory committees or 

national professional organizations. 

Persons having questions about the 

nomination procedures, or who are 

unable to submit nominations through 

the SAB website, should contact the 

DFO at the contact information noted 

above. The names and biosketches of 

qualified nominees identified by 

respondents to this Federal Register 

notice, and additional experts identified 

by the SAB Staff Office, will be posted 

in a List of Candidates for the Panel on 

the SAB website at http://www.epa.gov/ 

sab. Public comments on the List of 

Candidates will be accepted for 21 days. 

The public will be requested to provide 

relevant information or other 

documentation on nominees that the 

SAB Staff Office should consider in 

evaluating candidates. 

For the EPA SAB Staff Office a 

balanced review panel includes 

candidates who possess the necessary 

domains of knowledge, the relevant 

scientific perspectives (which, among 

other factors, can be influenced by work 

history and affiliation), and the 

collective breadth of experience to 

adequately address the charge. In 

forming the expert panel, the SAB Staff 

Office will consider public comments 

on the Lists of Candidates, information 

provided by the candidates themselves, 

and background information 

independently gathered by the SAB 

Staff Office. Selection criteria to be used 

for panel membership include: (a) 

Scientific and/or technical expertise, 

knowledge, and experience (primary 

factors); (b) availability and willingness 

to serve; (c) absence of financial 

conflicts of interest; (d) absence of an 

appearance of a loss of impartiality; (e) 

skills working in committees, 

subcommittees and advisory panels; 

and, (f) for the panel as a whole, 

diversity of expertise and scientific 

points of view. 

The SAB Staff Office’s evaluation of 

an absence of financial conflicts of 

interest will include a review of the 

‘‘Confidential Financial Disclosure 

Form for Environmental Protection 

Agency Special Government 

Employees’’ (EPA Form 3110–48). This 

confidential form is required and allows 

government officials to determine 

whether there is a statutory conflict 

between a person’s public 

responsibilities (which include 

membership on an EPA federal advisory 

committee) and private interests and 

activities, or the appearance of a loss of 

impartiality, as defined by federal 

regulation. The form may be viewed and 

downloaded through the ‘‘Ethics 

Requirements for Advisors’’ link on the 

SAB website at http://www.epa.gov/sab. 

This form should not be submitted as 

part of a nomination. 

The approved policy under which the 

EPA SAB Office selects members for 

subcommittees and review panels is 

described in the following document: 

Overview of the Panel Formation 

Process at the Environmental Protection 

Agency Science Advisory Board (EPA– 

SAB–EC–02–010), which is posted on 

the SAB website at http://www.epa.gov/ 

sab. 

V Khanna Johnston, 

Deputy Director, Science Advisory Board Staff 

Office. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2021–0287; EPA–HQ–OPP– 

2021–0288; FRL–10022–67] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Renewal of Two 

Currently Approved Collections; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), this 

document announces that EPA is 

planning to submit requests to renew 

two currently approved Information 

Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). The 

ICRs are identified in this document by 

their corresponding titles, EPA ICR 

numbers, OMB Control numbers, and 

related docket identification (ID) 

numbers. Before submitting these ICRs 

to OMB for review and approval, EPA 

is soliciting comments on specific 

aspects of the information collection 

activities that are summarized in this 

document. The ICRs and accompanying 

material are available for public review 

and comment in the relevant dockets 

identified in this document for the ICR. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before August 30, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by the docket identification 

(ID) number for the corresponding ICR 

as identified in this document, online 

using the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. Do not submit electronically 

any information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Additional 

instructions on commenting or visiting 

the docket, along with more information 

about dockets generally, is available at 

http://www.epa.gov/dockets. 

Due to the public health concerns 

related to COVID–19, the EPA Docket 

Center (EPA/DC) and Reading Room is 

closed to visitors with limited 

exceptions. The staff continues to 

provide remote customer service via 

email, phone, and webform. For the 

latest status information on EPA/DC and 

docket access, visit https://

www.epa.gov/dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carolyn Siu, Mission Support Division 

7101M, Office of Program Support, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460–0001; telephone number: (703) 

347–0159; email address: siu.carolyn@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. What information is EPA particularly 

interested in? 

Pursuant to PRA section 3506(c)(2)(A) 

(44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), EPA 

specifically solicits comments and 

information to enable it to: 

1. Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility. 

2. Evaluate the accuracy of the 

Agency’s estimates of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used. 


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