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obtain nominations of diverse 

candidates, EPA encourages 

nominations of women and men of all 

racial and ethnic groups, as well as from 

a variety of backgrounds (e.g., industry, 

non-profit organizations, academia, and 

government). 

Candidates not selected for HSRB 

membership at this time may be 

considered for HSRB membership as 

vacancies arise in the future or for 

service as consultants to the HSRB. 

Members of the HSRB are subject to the 

provisions of 5 CFR part 2634, 

Executive Branch Financial Disclosure, 

as supplemented by the EPA in 5 CFR 

part 6401. In anticipation of this 

requirement, each nominee will be 

asked to submit confidential financial 

information that fully discloses, among 

other financial interests, the candidate’s 

employment, stocks and bonds, and 

where applicable, sources of research 

support. The information provided is 

strictly confidential and will not be 

disclosed to the public. Before a 

candidate is considered further for 

service on the HSRB, EPA will evaluate 

each candidate to assess whether there 

is any conflict of financial interest, 

appearance of a lack of impartiality, or 

prior involvement with matters likely to 

be reviewed by the Board. 

Nominations will be evaluated on the 

basis of several criteria, including: 

Professional background, expertise, and 

experience that would contribute to the 

diversity of perspectives of the 

committee; interpersonal, oral, and 

written communication skills and other 

attributes that would contribute to the 

HSRB’s collaborative process; consensus 

building skills; absence of any financial 

conflicts of interest or the appearance of 

a lack of impartiality, or lack of 

independence, or bias; and the 

availability to participate in meetings 

and administrative sessions, participate 

in teleconferences, develop policy 

recommendations to the Administrator, 

and prepare recommendations and 

advice in reports. 

Nominations should include a resume 

or curriculum vitae providing the 

nominee’s educational background, 

qualifications, leadership positions in 

national associations or professional 

societies, relevant research experience 

and publications along with a short (one 

page) biography describing how the 

nominee meets the above criteria and 

other information that may be helpful in 

evaluating the nomination, as well as 

the nominee’s current business address, 

email address, and daytime telephone 

number. Interested candidates may selfnominate. 

To help the Agency in evaluating the 

effectiveness of its outreach efforts, 

nominees are requested to inform the 

Agency of how you learned of this 

opportunity. 

Final selection of HSRB members is a 

discretionary function of the Agency 

and will be announced on the HSRB 

website at https://www.epa.gov/osa/ 

human-studies-review-board as soon as 

selections are made. 

Mary Ross, 

Director, Office of Science Advisor, Policy 

and Engagement. 

[FR Doc. 2022–09470 Filed 5–2–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2022–0365 and EPA–HQ– 

OW–2022–0366; FRL 8310–01–OW] 

Draft Recommended Aquatic Life 

Ambient Water Quality Criteria for 

Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and 

Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid (PFOS) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: As part of the Environmental 

Protection Agency’s (EPA) commitment 

to safeguard the environment from perand polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), 

the agency is announcing the 

availability of Clean Water Act (CWA) 

national ‘‘Draft Recommended Aquatic 

Life Ambient Water Quality Criteria for 

Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)’’ and 

‘‘Draft Recommended Aquatic Life 

Ambient Water Quality Criteria for 

Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid (PFOS)’’ 

for a 30-day public comment period. 

These draft criteria are a priority action 

identified in EPA’s PFAS Strategic 

Roadmap and reflect the latest scientific 

knowledge regarding the effects of 

PFOA and PFOS on freshwater 

organisms. These draft criteria have 

undergone external peer review, and 

EPA has revised the documents 

accordingly. When these draft CWA 

recommended criteria are finalized, they 

will provide information that states and 

tribes may consider when adopting 

water quality standards. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before June 2, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: 

Docket: EPA has established dockets 

for these actions under Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–OW–2022–0365 for the ‘‘Draft 

Recommended Aquatic Life Ambient 

Water Quality Criteria for 

Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA)’’ and 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OW–2022–0366 

for the ‘‘Draft Recommended Aquatic 

Life Ambient Water Quality Criteria for 

Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid (PFOS).’’ 

You may send comments, identified by 

the Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OW–2022– 

0365 for the draft PFOA criteria or 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OW–2022–0366 

for the draft PFOS criteria, through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://

www.regulations.gov/. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the Docket ID No. for this 

rulemaking. Comments received may be 

posted without change to https://

www.regulations.gov/, including any 

personal information provided. For 

detailed instructions on sending 

comments and additional information 

on the rulemaking process, see the 

‘‘Public Participation’’ heading of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. Out of an abundance of 

caution for members of the public and 

our staff, the EPA Docket Center and 

Reading Room are open to the public by 

appointment only to reduce the risk of 

transmitting COVID–19. Our Docket 

Center staff also continue to provide 

remote customer service via email, 

phone, and webform. Hand deliveries 

and couriers may be received by 

scheduled appointment only. For 

further information on EPA Docket 

Center services and the current status, 

please visit us online at https://

www.epa.gov/dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Justice, Health and Ecological 

Criteria Division, Office of Water (Mail 

Code 4304T), Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone: 

(202) 566–0275; or email: 

justice.jamesr@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Public Participation—Written 

Comments 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OW–2022–0365 

for the draft PFOA criteria or Docket ID 

No. EPA–HQ–OW–2022–0366 for the 

draft PFOS criteria, at https://

www.regulations.gov. Once submitted, 

comments cannot be edited or removed 

from the docket. EPA may publish any 

comment received to its public docket. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. EPA will generally not consider 

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outside of the primary submission (i.e., 

on the web, cloud, or other file sharing 

system). For the full EPA public 

comment policy, information about CBI 

or multimedia submissions, and general 

guidance on making effective 

comments, please visit https://

www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epadockets. 

II. What are PFOA and PFOS, and how 

do they affect aquatic life? 

PFOA and PFOS are two of the most 

widely used and studied chemicals in 

the PFAS group. PFAS have been 

manufactured and used by a broad range 

of industries since the 1940s. PFOA and 

PFOS are not naturally occurring and 

have no biologically important 

functions or beneficial properties to 

aquatic life. The mechanisms 

underpinning the toxicity of PFOA and 

PFOS to aquatic organisms, like other 

PFAS, is an active and on-going area of 

research. The draft recommended 

criteria are based on observed effects of 

PFOA and PFOS to the survival, growth, 

and reproduction of aquatic organisms. 

Based on the available ecotoxicity data, 

aquatic plants are generally less 

sensitive to PFOA and PFOS than fish 

and other aquatic life. 

III. What are EPA’s recommended 

criteria for PFOA and PFOS in 

freshwater for the protection of aquatic 

life? 

EPA’s draft recommended aquatic life 

ambient water quality criteria 

documents provide a critical review of 

PFOA and PFOS toxicity data, quantify 

the toxicity of these chemicals to 

aquatic life, and provide separate PFOA 

and PFOS criteria to protect aquatic life 

from the toxic effects of these chemicals. 

These draft criteria were derived to 

reflect the latest scientific knowledge 

using the available data on the 

toxicological effects of PFOA and PFOS 

on aquatic life. EPA developed these 

draft aquatic life ambient water quality 

criteria following the general approach 

outlined in EPA’s ‘‘Guidelines for 

Deriving Numerical Water Quality 

Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic 

Organisms and Their Uses.’’ 

EPA developed the draft PFOA and 

PFOS criteria to be protective of most 

aquatic organisms in the community 

(i.e., approximately 95 percent of tested 

aquatic organisms representing the 

aquatic community) and to be protective 

of aquatic life designated uses 

established for freshwaters. The draft 

criteria documents both contain acute 

and chronic criteria for freshwaters (see 

Table 1). The draft criteria documents 

also contain chronic criteria expressed 

as tissue-based concentrations to protect 

aquatic life from PFOA and PFOS 

bioaccumulation (see Table 1 below). 

The chronic freshwater and chronic 

tissue criteria for both of these 

chemicals are intended to be 

independently applicable and no one 

criterion takes primacy. 

Data limitations did not allow for 

derivation of PFOA or PFOS national 

recommended water quality criteria in 

estuarine/marine waters. However, EPA 

derived acute estuarine/marine 

benchmarks through application of a 

New Approach Method (NAM), using 

available toxicity data supplemented 

with modeled estimates of acute 

toxicity. The acute estuarine/marine 

benchmarks for PFOA and PFOS are 

recommendations for states and tribes to 

consider as protective values in their 

water quality protection programs. 

EPA’s draft recommended criteria are 

the maximum concentrations of PFOA 

and PFOS (individually, not in 

mixture), with associated frequency and 

duration specifications, that will 

support protection of aquatic life from 

acute and chronic effects in freshwaters 

(see Table 1). 

TABLE 1—DRAFT RECOMMENDED FRESHWATER AQUATIC LIFE WATER QUALITY CRITERIA FOR PFOA AND PFOS 

Criteria component Acute water column 

(CMC) 1

Chronic water column 

(CCC) 2

Invertebrate 

whole-body 

(mg/kg ww3) 

Fish 

whole-body 

(mg/kg ww) 

Fish muscle 

(mg/kg ww) 

PFOA Magnitude ............................. 49 mg/L ............................................ 0.094 mg/L ....................................... 1.11 6.10 0.125 

PFOS Magnitude ............................. 3.0 mg/L ........................................... 0.0084 mg/L ..................................... 0.937 6.75 2.91 

Duration ............................................ 1-hour average ................................. 4-day average .................................. Instantaneous.4

Frequency ........................................ Not to be exceeded more than once 

in three years, on average.

Not to be exceeded more than once 

in three years, on average.

Not to be exceeded more than once in ten years, 

on average. 

1 Criterion Maximum Concentration. 

2 Criterion Continuous Concentration. 

3Wet Weight. 

4Tissue data provide instantaneous point measurements that reflect integrative accumulation of PFOA or PFOS over time and space in aquatic life population(s) at 

a given site. 

IV. What are CWA national 

recommended ambient water quality 

criteria developed by EPA? 

Section 304(a)(1) of the CWA directs 

EPA to develop and publish and, from 

time to time, revise criteria for water 

quality accurately reflecting the latest 

scientific knowledge. Water quality 

criteria developed under CWA Section 

304(a) are based solely on data and 

scientific judgments on the relationship 

between pollutant concentrations and 

environmental and human health 

effects. CWA Section 304(a) 

recommended criteria do not reflect 

consideration of economic impacts or 

the technological feasibility of meeting 

pollutant concentrations in ambient 

water. 

Under the CWA and its implementing 

regulations, states and authorized tribes 

are to adopt water quality criteria to 

protect designated uses (e.g., aquatic 

life, recreational use). CWA Section 

304(a) recommended criteria provide 

guidance to states and authorized tribes 

in adopting water quality standards that 

ultimately provide a basis for 

controlling discharges of pollutants. 

Standards consist of designated uses, 

water quality criteria to protect those 

uses, a policy for antidegradation, and 

may include general policies for 

application and implementation. EPA 

CWA Section 304(a) water quality 

criteria recommendations are not 

regulations and do not constitute legally 

binding requirements. States and 

authorized tribes may adopt other 

scientifically defensible water quality 

criteria that differ from these 

recommendations. CWA Section 

303(c)(1) requires states and authorized 

tribes to review and modify, if 

appropriate, their water quality 

standards at least once every three 

years. Consistent with EPA regulations 

40 CFR 131.11, protective criteria must 

be based on a sound scientific rationale 

and contain sufficient parameters or 

constituents to protect the designated 


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uses. Criteria may be expressed in either 

narrative or numeric form. When states 

and authorized tribes adopt numeric 

water quality criteria, those criteria 

should be based on (1) recommended 

CWA Section 304(a) criteria; (2) CWA 

Section 304(a) criteria modified to 

reflect site-specific conditions; or (3) 

other scientifically defensible methods. 

Alternatively, states and authorized 

tribes may adopt narrative criteria or 

criteria based upon biomonitoring 

methods where numeric criteria cannot 

be established or to supplement 

numeric criteria. 

Radhika Fox, 

Assistant Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2022–09441 Filed 5–2–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK 

[Public Notice EIB–2022–0001] 

Application for Final Commitment for a 

Long-Term Loan or Financial 

Guarantee in Excess of $100 Million: 

AP089448XX & AP089448XA 

AGENCY: Export-Import Bank. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This Notice is to inform the 

public the Export-Import Bank of the 

United States (‘‘EXIM’’) has received an 

application for final commitments for 

aggregated long-term loans or financial 

guarantees in excess of $100 million. 

Comments received within the comment 

period specified below will be 

presented to the EXIM Board of 

Directors prior to final action on these 

Transactions. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before May 31, 2022 to be assured of 

consideration before final consideration 

of the transactions by the Board of 

Directors of EXIM. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted through Regulations.gov at 

WWW.REGULATIONS.GOV. To submit 

a comment, enter EIB–2022–0001 under 

the heading ‘‘Enter Keyword or ID’’ and 

select Search. Follow the instructions 

provided at the Submit a Comment 

screen. Please include your name, 

company name (if any) and EIB–2022– 

0001 on any attached document. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Reference: AP089448XX & 

AP089448XA. 

Purpose and Use: 

Brief description of the purpose of the 

transactions: To support the export of 

U.S.-manufactured commercial aircraft 

to South Korea. 

Brief non-proprietary description of 

the anticipated use of the items being 

exported: To be used for passenger air 

transport between South Korea and 

other countries within Asia. 

To the extent that EXIM is reasonably 

aware, the item(s) being exported are 

not expected to produce exports or 

provide services in competition with the 

exportation of goods or provision of 

services by a United States industry. 

Parties: 

Principal Supplier: The Boeing 

Company. 

Obligor: Korean Air Lines Co., Ltd. 

Guarantor(s): N/A. 

Description of Items Being Exported: 

Boeing commercial jet aircraft. 

Information on Decision: Information 

on the final decision for these 

transactions will be available in the 

‘‘Summary Minutes of Meetings of 

Board of Directors’’ on http://exim.gov/ 

newsandevents/boardmeetings/board/. 

Confidential Information: Please note 

that this notice does not include 

confidential or proprietary business 

information; information which, if 

disclosed, would violate the Trade 

Secrets Act; or information which 

would jeopardize jobs in the United 

States by supplying information that 

competitors could use to compete with 

companies in the United States. 

Authority: Section 3(c)(10) of the 

Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, as 

amended (12 U.S.C. 635a(c)(10)). 

Joyce B. Stone, 

Assistant Corporate Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–09460 Filed 5–2–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6690–01–P 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

[Notice BSC–RPM–2022–01; Docket No. 

BSC–RPM–2022–0002; Sequence 1] 

Business Standards Council Review of 

Real Property Management (RPM) 

Federal Integrated Business 

Framework Draft Level 2 Business Use 

Cases: Request for Public Comment 

AGENCY: Office of Government-wide 

Policy; General Services Administration 

(GSA). 

ACTION: Request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: This notice informs the public 

of the opportunity to provide input on 

the proposed Real Property Management 

business use cases that have been 

created in support of Federal shared 

services. This input will be used in 

formulation of business standards for 

Federal real property management. 

DATES: Comments due: Interested 

parties should submit comments via the 

method outlined in the ADDRESSES

section on or before June 2, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments in 

response to Notice BSC–RPM–2022–01 

by Regulations.gov: http://

www.regulations.gov. Submit comments 

via the Federal eRulemaking portal by 

searching for ‘‘Notice BSC–RPM–2022– 

01’’. Select the link ‘‘Comment Now’’ 

that corresponds with ‘‘Notice BSC– 

RPM–2022–01’’. Follow the instructions 

provided at the screen. Please include 

your name, company name (if any), and 

‘‘Notice BSC–RPM–2022–01’’ on your 

attached document. 

• Instructions: Please submit 

comments only and cite ‘‘Notice BSC– 

RPM–2022–01,’’ in all correspondence 

related to this notice. Comments 

received generally will be posted 

without change to http://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal and/or business confidential 

information provided. To confirm 

receipt of your comment(s), please 

check http://www.regulations.gov, 

approximately two-to-three business 

days after submission to verify posting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chris Coneeney, Real Property Policy 

Division Director, at 202–208–2956, or 

by email at chris.coneeney@gsa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 

26, 2019, the Office of Management and 

Budget published OMB memorandum 

19–16, Centralized Mission Support 

Capabilities for the Federal Government 

(available at https://www.whitehouse.

gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/M-19- 

16.pdf). Mission support business 

standards, established and agreed to by 

agencies, using the Federal Integrated 

Business Framework (FIBF) website at 

https://ussm.gsa.gov/fibf/, enable the 

Federal Government to better coordinate 

on the decision-making needed to 

determine what can be adopted and 

commonly shared. These business 

standards are an essential first step 

towards agreement on outcomes, data, 

and cross-functional end to end 

processes that will drive economies of 

scale and leverage the government’s 

buying power. The business standards 

will be used as the foundation for 

common mission support services 

shared by Federal agencies. 

GSA serves as the Real Property 

Management (RPM) business standards 

lead on the Business Standards Council 

(BSC). The goal of the RPM business 

standards is to drive real estate 

management consistency, equity, and 

standardization across the Federal 

government. The RPM business use 

cases document the key activities, 

inputs, outputs, and other functional 

areas intersections. 

GSA is seeking public feedback on 

these draft business cases, including 


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