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1 169 FERC ¶ 62,139 (2019). 

2 18 CFR 385.2007(a)(2) (2021). 

Filed Date: 5/2/22. 

Accession Number: 20220502–5258. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 5/16/22. 

Docket Numbers: RP22–904–000. 

Applicants: Texas Eastern 

Transmission, LP. 

Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing: 

Negotiated Rates—Various Releases eff 

5–1–22 to be effective 5/1/2022. 

Filed Date: 5/2/22. 

Accession Number: 20220502–5266. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 5/16/22. 

Docket Numbers: RP22–905–000. 

Applicants: Algonquin Gas 

Transmission, LLC. 

Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing: 

Negotiated Rates—Various Releases eff 

5–1–22 to be effective 5/1/2022. 

Filed Date: 5/3/22. 

Accession Number: 20220503–5014. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 5/16/22. 

Any person desiring to intervene or 

protest in any of the above proceedings 

must file in accordance with Rules 211 

and 214 of the Commission’s 

Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. 

Protests may be considered, but 

intervention is necessary to become a 

party to the proceeding. 

The filings are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system (https://

elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/search/fercgen

search.asp) by querying the docket 

number. 

eFiling is encouraged. More detailed 

information relating to filing 

requirements, interventions, protests, 

service, and qualifying facilities filings 

can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/ 

docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For 

other information, call (866) 208–3676 

(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. 

Dated: May 3, 2022. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–09907 Filed 5–6–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 14976–000] 

Lock+TM Hydro Friends Fund XXIII, 

LLC; Notice of Surrender of 

Preliminary Permit 

Take notice that Lock+TM Hydro 

Friends Fund XXIII, LLC, permittee for 

the proposed George B. Stevenson Dam 

Hydropower Project, has requested that 

its preliminary permit be terminated. 

The permit was issued on December 6, 

2019 and would have expired on 

November 30, 2023.1 The project would 

have been located at the Pennsylvania 

Department of Conservation and Natural 

Resources’ George B. Stevenson Dam on 

First Fork Sinnemahoning Creek in 

Cameron County, Pennsylvania. 

The preliminary permit for Project 

No. 14976 will remain in effect until the 

close of business, June 2, 2022. But, if 

the Commission is closed on this day, 

then the permit remains in effect until 

the close of business on the next day in 

which the Commission is open.2 New 

applications for this site may not be 

submitted until after the permit 

surrender is effective. 

Dated: May 3, 2022. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–09899 Filed 5–6–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL—9773–01–OA] 

Notification of a Public Meeting of the 

Chartered Science Advisory Board 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) Staff Office announces a public 

meeting of the chartered Science 

Advisory Board. The purpose of the 

meeting is to (1) review the scientific 

and technical basis of the proposed rule 

‘‘Revised Definition of Waters of the 

United States’’; and (2) discuss 

recommendations received from the 

SAB Work Group for Review of Science 

Supporting EPA Decisions. 

DATES: The public meeting of the 

chartered Science Advisory Board will 

be held on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, from 

12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) 

and Thursday, June 2, 2022, from 12:00 

p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time). 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be 

conducted virtually. Please refer to the 

SAB website at https://sab.epa.gov for 

information on how to attend the 

meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public who wants further 

information concerning this notice may 

contact Dr. Thomas Armitage, 

Designated Federal Officer (DFO), via 

telephone (202) 564–2155, or email at 

armitage.thomas@epa.gov. General 

information about the SAB, as well as 

any updates concerning the meetings 

announced in this notice can be found 

on the SAB website at https://

sab.epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The SAB was 

established pursuant to the 

Environmental Research, Development, 

and Demonstration Authorization Act 

(ERDDAA), codified at 42 U.S.C. 4365, 

to provide independent scientific and 

technical advice to the EPA 

Administrator on the scientific and 

technical basis for agency positions and 

regulations. The SAB is a Federal 

Advisory Committee chartered under 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), 5 U.S.C., App. 2. The SAB will 

comply with the provisions of FACA 

and all appropriate SAB Staff Office 

procedural policies. Pursuant to FACA 

and EPA policy, notice is hereby given 

that the chartered Science Advisory 

Board will hold a public meeting to 

review the scientific and technical basis 

of the proposed rule ‘‘Revised Definition 

of Waters of the United States’’ 

described in 86 FR 69372—69450 and 

discuss recommendations received from 

the SAB Work Group for Review of 

Science Supporting EPA Decisions. 

Under the SAB’s authorizing statute, the 

SAB ‘‘may make available to the 

Administrator, within the time specified 

by the Administrator, its advice and 

comments on the adequacy of the 

scientific and technical basis’’ of 

proposed rules. The SAB Work Group 

for Review of Science Supporting EPA 

Decisions is charged with identifying 

EPA planned actions that may warrant 

SAB review. The SAB will hold a public 

meeting to (1) review the scientific and 

technical basis of the proposed rule 

‘‘Revised Definition of Waters of the 

United States,’’ and (2) discuss 

recommendations received from the 

SAB Work Group for Review of Science 

Supporting EPA Decisions with regard 

to SAB review of other EPA planned 

actions. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: All 

meeting materials, including the agenda 

will be available on the SAB web page 

at https://sab.epa.gov. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Public comment for consideration by 

EPA’s federal advisory committees and 

panels has a different purpose from 

public comment provided to EPA 

program offices. Therefore, the process 

for submitting comments to a federal 

advisory committee is different from the 

process used to submit comments to an 

EPA program office. Federal advisory 

committees and panels, including 

scientific advisory committees, provide 


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independent advice to the EPA. 

Members of the public can submit 

relevant comments pertaining to the 

committee’s charge or meeting 

materials. Input from the public to the 

SAB will have the most impact if it 

provides specific scientific or technical 

information or analysis for the SAB to 

consider or if it relates to the clarity or 

accuracy of the technical information. 

Members of the public wishing to 

provide comment should follow the 

instruction below to submit comments. 

Oral Statements: In general, 

individuals or groups requesting an oral 

presentation at a public meeting will be 

limited to three minutes. Each person 

making an oral statement should 

consider providing written comments as 

well as the oral statement so that the 

points presented orally can be expanded 

upon in writing. Persons interested in 

providing oral statements should 

contact the DFO, in writing (preferably 

via email) at the contact information 

noted above by May 24, 2022, to be 

placed on the list of registered speakers. 

Written Statements: Written 

statements will be accepted throughout 

the advisory process; however, for 

timely consideration by SAB members, 

statements should be submitted to the 

DFO by May 24, 2022, for consideration 

at the public meeting on May 31, 2022, 

and June 2, 2022. Written statements 

should be supplied to the DFO at the 

contact information above via email. 

Submitters are requested to provide a 

signed and unsigned version of each 

document because the SAB Staff Office 

does not publish documents with 

signatures on its websites. Members of 

the public should be aware that their 

personal contact information, if 

included in any written comments, may 

be posted to the SAB website. 

Copyrighted material will not be posted 

without explicit permission of the 

copyright holder. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact the DFO, at 

the contact information noted above, 

preferably at least ten days prior to the 

meeting, to give the EPA as much time 

as possible to process your request. 

Thomas H. Brennan, 

Director, Science Advisory Board Staff Office. 

[FR Doc. 2022–09874 Filed 5–6–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–ORD–2020–0682; FRL–9826–01– 

ORD] 

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 

needed. 


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