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statements should be submitted to the 

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at the public meeting on May 31, 2022, 

and June 2, 2022. Written statements 

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the contact information noted above, 

preferably at least ten days prior to the 

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Notice of Public Comment Period on 

the Pool of Candidate Peer Reviewers 

for the Biofuels and the Environment: 

Third Triennial Report to Congress 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of public comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing 

a 15-day public comment period on the 

pool of twenty (20) candidates for the 

external peer review of the Biofuels and 

the Environment: Third Triennial 

Report to Congress (RtC3). The peer 

review will be conducted under the 

framework of EPA’s Scientific Integrity 

Policy (https://www.epa.gov/sites/ 

default/files/2014-02/documents/ 

scientific_integrity_policy_2012.pdf) 

and follow procedures established in 

EPA’s Peer Review Handbook 4th 

Edition, 2015 (EPA/100/B–15/001). 

After consideration of public comments 

on the candidate pool, EPA’s contractor, 

ERG, will select from this pool the final 

list of up to nine (9) peer reviewers, 

ensuring their combined expertise best 

spans the following disciplines: 

Economics, engineering, agronomics, 

land use change, remote sensing, air 

quality, biogeochemistry, water quality, 

hydrology, conservation biology, 

limnology, and ecology. This Federal 

Register notice (FRN) follows a previous 

FRN seeking nominations for the peer 

review panel published on February 1, 

2022. 

DATES: The 15-day public comment 

period on the list of proposed peer 

review candidates begins May 9, 2022 

and ends May 24, 2022. Comments must 

be received on or before May 24, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Please follow the 

instructions as provided in the section 

of this notice entitled SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions concerning the process for 

forming the peer review panel should be 

directed to EPA’s contractor, ERG, by 

email to peerreview@erg.com (subject 

line: RtC3 Peer Review). For information 

on the period of submission, contact the 

ORD Docket at the EPA Headquarters 

Docket Center; phone: 202–566–1752; 

fax: 202–566–9744; or email: 

ord.docket@epa.gov. For technical 

information, contact Christopher Clark; 

phone: 202–564–4183; or email: 

Clark.Christopher@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information About the Document 

In 2007, Congress enacted the Energy 

Independence and Security Act (EISA) 

with the stated goals of ‘‘mov[ing] the 

United States toward greater energy 

independence and security [and] to 

increase the production of clean 

renewable fuels.’’ In accordance with 

these goals, EISA revised the Renewable 

Fuel Standard (RFS) Program, which 

was created under the 2005 Energy 

Policy Act and is administered by the 

EPA, to increase the volume of 

renewable fuel required to be blended 

into transportation fuel to 36 billion 

gallons per year by 2022. Section 204 of 

EISA directs the EPA, in consultation 

with the U.S. Departments of 

Agriculture and Energy, to assess and 

report triennially to Congress on the 

environmental and resource 

conservation impacts of the RFS 

Program. 

The first report to Congress (RtC1) 

was completed in 2011 and provided an 

assessment of the environmental and 

resource conservation impacts 

associated with increased biofuel 

production and use (EPA/600/R–10/ 

183F). The overarching conclusions of 

this first report were: (1) The 

environmental impacts of increased 

biofuel production and use were likely 

negative but limited in impact; (2) there 

was a potential for both positive and 

negative impacts in the future; and (3) 

EISA goals for biofuels production 

could be achieved with minimal 

environmental impacts if best practices 

were used and if technologies advanced 

to facilitate the use of second-generation 

biofuel feedstocks (corn stover, 

perennial grasses, woody biomass, 

algae, and waste). 

The second report to Congress (RtC2) 

was completed in 2018 and reaffirmed 

the overarching conclusions of the RtC1 

(EPA/600/R–18/195). The RtC2 noted 

that the biofuel production and use 

conditions that led to the conclusions of 

the RtC1 had not materially changed, 

and that the production of biofuels from 

cellulosic feedstocks anticipated by both 

the EISA and the RtC1 had not 

materialized. Noting observed increases 

in acreage for corn and soybean 

production in the period prior to and 

following implementation of the RFS2 

Program, the RtC2 concluded that the 

environmental and resource 

conservation impacts associated with 

land use change were likely due, at least 

in part, to the RFS Program and 

associated production of biofuel 

feedstocks but that further research was 

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This RtC3 builds on the previous two 

reports and provides an update on the 

impacts to date of the RFS Program on 

the environment. This report assesses 

air, water, and soil quality; ecosystem 

health and biodiversity; and other 

effects. This third report also includes 

new analyses not previously included in 

the first and second reports. 

II. Information About This Peer Review 

EPA’s contractor, ERG, is considering 

a list of candidates from which to select 

the independent, external, peer review 

panel for the RtC3. On February 1, 2022, 

EPA announced through an FRN (87 FR 

5479; FRL–9518–01–ORD) that it was 

seeking nominations for the peer review 

panel. After considering nominations 

submitted by the public in response to 

that FRN (FRL–9518–01–ORD), ERG has 

identified a pool of twenty (20) 

candidates whose combined expertise 

spans the following disciplines: 

Economics, engineering, agronomics, 

land use change, remote sensing, air 

quality, biogeochemistry, water quality, 

hydrology, conservation biology, 

limnology, and ecology. The List of 

Candidates (LoC) document has been 

posted to the docket at https://

www.regulations.gov (EPA–HQ–ORD– 

2020–0682) and is included below. 

After review and consideration of public 

comments on the candidates submitted 

in response to this FRN, ERG will select 

up to nine (9) peer reviewers from this 

pool in a manner consistent with EPA’s 

Peer Review Handbook 4th Edition, 

2015 (EPA/100/B–15/001) based on the 

following factors: (1) Demonstrated 

expertise in the areas listed above 

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 conflicts of interest; (5) no 

appearance of a lack of impartiality; (6) 

willingness to commit adequate time for 

a thorough review of the draft report, 

including preparation of individual 

written comments that will be made 

publicly available; and (7) availability to 

participate virtually in a public two-day 

or three-day peer review meeting and to 

provide subsequent revised individual 

comments. ERG will independently 

conduct a conflict of interest (COI) 

screening of candidates to ensure that 

the selected experts have no COI in 

conducting this review. EPA will 

announce the final peer review panel, 

peer review meeting information, and 

public comment period on the RtC3 

External Review Draft in a subsequent 

FRN. Comments on the peer review 

candidates must be submitted to the 

docket by May 24, 2022. 

1. Jacob N. Barney, Virginia Tech 

2. Steven T. Berry, Yale University 

3. Sarah C. Davis, Ohio University 

4. Bernard A. Engel, Purdue University 

5. Jason D. Hill, University of Minnesota 

6. S. Kent Hoekman, Desert Research 

Institute 

7. Atul K. Jain, University of Illinois at 

Urbana-Champaign 

8. Stephen R. Kaffka, University of 

California, Davis 

9. Mary Kombolias, Agrafa Solutions 

LLC 

10. Lyubov A. Kurkalova, North 

Carolina Agricultural and Technical 

State University 

11. Tyler J. Lark, University of 

Wisconsin-Madison 

12. Ruopi Li, Southern Illinois 

University, Carbondale 

13. Chris Malins, Cerulogy Consulting, 

UK 

14. Nathan Parker, Arizona State 

University 

15. John M. Reilly, Massachusetts 

Institute of Technology 

16. Timothy D. Searchinger, Princeton 

University 

17. Aaron Smith, University of 

California, Davis 

18. Yang Song, University of Arizona 

19. Farzad Taheripour, Purdue 

University 

20. Bin Yang, Washington State 

University, Tri-Cities 

III. How To Submit Technical 

Comments to the Docket at 

www.regulations.gov 

We encourage the public to submit 

comments to Docket ID No. [EPA–HQ– 

ORD–2020–0682] via web at https://

www.regulations.gov/ or via email at 

ord.docket@epa.gov, as there may be a 

delay in processing mail and faxes. 

Hand deliveries and couriers may be 

received at the EPA Docket Center, WJC 

West Building, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding Federal 

Holidays. For further information on 

EPA Docket Center services and the 

current status, please visit us online at 

https://www.epa.gov/dockets. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. [EPA–HQ–ORD–2020– 

0682]. Please ensure that your 

comments are submitted within the 

specified comment period. It is EPA’s 

policy to include all materials it 

receives in the public docket without 

change and to make the materials 

available online at www.regulations.gov, 

including any personal information 

provided, unless materials include 

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 website 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 directly to EPA 

without going through 

www.regulations.gov, your email 

address will be automatically captured 

and included as part of the materials 

that are placed in the public docket and 

made available on the internet. If you 

submit electronic materials, EPA 

recommends that you include your 

name and other contact information in 

the body of your materials and with any 

disk or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA 

cannot read your materials due to 

technical difficulties and cannot contact 

you for clarification, EPA may not be 

able to consider the materials you 

submit. 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 EPA’s 

Docket Center homepage at 

www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

Docket: 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 materials, such as 

copyrighted material, are publicly 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the ORD Docket in EPA’s Headquarters 

Docket Center. 

Dated: May 3, 2022. 

Wayne Cascio, 

Director, Center for Public Health and 

Environmental Assessment, Office of 

Research and Development. 

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