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accompanying enforcement procedures 

are consistent with section 209 of the 

Act. 

IV. Procedures for Public Participation 

EPA will begin pre-registering 

speakers for the hearing upon 

publication of this document in the 

Federal Register. To register to speak at 

the virtual hearing, please visit: https:// 

usepa.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/ 

WN_ByheDTzYSPuoGbv8J7yNwg. The 

last day to pre-register to speak at the 

hearing will be June 21, 2022. If you 

require the services of a translator or 

special accommodations such as audio 

description, please pre-register for the 

hearing and describe your needs by June 

14, 2022. EPA may not be able to 

arrange accommodations without 

advance notice. 

Each commenter will have 5 minutes 

to provide oral testimony. EPA may ask 

clarifying questions during the oral 

presentations but will not respond to 

the presentations at that time. EPA 

recommends submitting the text of your 

oral comments as written comments to 

the rulemaking docket. Written 

statements and supporting information 

submitted during the comment period 

will be considered with the same weight 

as oral comments and supporting 

information presented at the public 

hearing. 

The Agency will make a verbatim 

record of the proceedings at the hearing 

and will be placed in the docket. EPA 

will keep the record open until August 

2, 2022. Upon expiration of the 

comment period, the Administrator will 

render a decision on CARB’s request 

based on the record of the public 

hearing, relevant written submissions, 

and other information that she deems 

pertinent. 

Persons with written comments 

containing proprietary information must 

distinguish such information from other 

comments to the greatest possible extent 

and label it as ‘‘Confidential Business 

Information’’ (CBI). If a person making 

comments wants EPA to base its 

decision in part on a submission labeled 

CBI, then a non-confidential version of 

the document that summarizes the key 

data or information should be submitted 

for the public docket. To ensure that 

proprietary information is not 

inadvertently placed in the docket, 

submissions containing such 

information should be sent directly to 

the contact person listed above and not 

to the public docket. Information 

covered by a claim of confidentiality 

will be disclosed by EPA only to the 

extent allowed and by the procedures 

set forth in 40 CFR part 2. If no claim 

of confidentiality accompanies the 

submission when EPA receives it, EPA 

will make it available to the public 

without further notice to the person 

making comments. 

Sarah Dunham, 

Director, Office of Transportation and Air 

Quality, Office of Air and Radiation. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2022–0331; FRL 9883–01– 

OAR] 

California State Motor Vehicle 

Pollution Control Standards; Advanced 

Clean Trucks; Zero Emission Airport 

Shuttle; Zero-Emission Power Train 

Certification; Request for Waiver of 

Preemption; Opportunity for Public 

Hearing and Public Comment 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of opportunity for public 

hearing and comment. 

SUMMARY: The California Air Resources 

Board (CARB) has notified the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

that it has finalized three rulemaking 

actions—the Advanced Clean Trucks 

(ACT), Zero Emission Airport Shuttle 

Bus (ZEAS), and Zero Emission 

Powertrain (ZEP) Certification 

regulations. The regulations require 

manufacturers to produce and sell 

increasing numbers of zero-emission 

medium and heavy-duty vehicles, 

require certain fleets to acquire 

increasing numbers of zero emitting 

airport shuttles, and establish new 

certification requirements and optional 

emission standards for 2021 and 

subsequent model year zero-emission 

medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and 

the zero-emission powertrains installed 

on them. By letter dated December 20, 

2021, CARB submitted a request that 

EPA grant waivers of preemption under 

the Clean Air Act (CAA) This notice 

announces that EPA has scheduled a 

public hearing concerning California’s 

request and that EPA is accepting 

written comment on the request. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before August 2, 2022. 

Public Hearing: EPA plans to hold a 

virtual public hearing on June 29, 2022. 

This one hearing will also cover the 

notices for California’s Omnibus Low 

NOX Regulation, Docket No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2022–0332, and 2018 HD 

Warranty Amendments, Docket No. 

EPA–HQ–OAR–2022–0330. Additional 

information regarding the virtual public 

hearing and this action can be found at: 

https://usepa.zoomgov.com/webinar/ 

register/WN_

ByheDTzYSPuoGbv8J7yNwg. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2022–0331, by one of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov (our preferred 

method). Follow the on-line instructions 

for submitting comments. 

• Mail: U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, EPA West (Air 

Docket), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

Room B108, Mail Code 6102T, 

Washington, DC 20460, Attention 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2022– 

0331. Please include a total of two 

copies. 

• Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center, 

EPA/DC, EPA West, Room B102, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC. 

Such deliveries are only accepted 

during the Docket’s normal hours of 

operation, and special arrangements 

should be made for deliveries of boxed 

information. Instructions: Direct your 

comments to Docket ID No EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2022–0331. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the Docket ID No. for this 

action. Comments received may be 

posted without change to https://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. Do not 

submit information that you consider to 

be CBI or otherwise protected through 

http://www.regulations.gov or email. For 

the full EPA public comment policy, 

information about Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit 

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

commenting-epa-dockets. 

The http://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 comment directly to EPA without 

going through http://

www.regulations.gov your email address 

will be automatically captured and 

included as part of the comment that is 

placed in the public docket and made 

available on the internet. If you submit 

an electronic comment, EPA 

recommends that you include your 

name and other contact information in 

the body of your comment and with any 

disk or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA 

cannot read your comment due to 

technical difficulties and cannot contact 

you for clarification, EPA may not be 

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1The ACT regulation is set forth in title 13, 

California Code of Regulations (Cal. Code Regs.), 

sections 1963, and 1963.1 through 1963.5. 

2The ZEAS regulation is comprised of new 

sections 95690.1, 95690.2, 95690.3, 95690.4, 

95690.5, 95690.6, 95690.7, and 95690.8, title 17, 

Cal. Code Regs. 

3The ZEP Certification regulation is comprised of 

amendments to title 13, Cal. Code Regs., section 

1956.8 and title 17, Cal. Code Regs., section 95663. 

4Letter from Richard W. Corey, CARB, dated 

December 20, 2021, at p. 5, available at Docket No. 

EPA–HQ–OAR–2022–0331. The Waiver Request 

Support Document, attached to the letter from Mr. 

Corey, is available at Docket No. EPA–HQ–OAR– 

2022–0331. 

5The Waiver Request Support Document 

provides a summary of the adopted regulation, a 

brief history of similar regulations, and an analysis 

of the adopted regulation under the waiver criteria 

in section 209(b)(1) of the CAA. 

6Waiver Request Support Document at 19–21. 

7Waiver Request Support Document at 21–30. 

8Waiver Request Support Document at 30–39. 

Electronic files should avoid the use of 

special characters, any form of 

encryption, and be free of any defects or 

viruses. Docket: All documents in the 

docket are listed in the http://

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 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

will be publicly available only in hard 

copy. 

EPA has established a docket for this 

action under EPA–HQ–OAR–2022– 

0331. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either 

electronically at https://

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the Air and Radiation Docket in the EPA 

Docket Center, (EPA/DC) EPA West, 

Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave. 

NW, Washington, DC. Due to public 

health concerns related to COVID–19, 

the EPA Docket Center and Reading 

Room are open to the public by 

appointment only, and walk-ins are not 

allowed. Visitors to the Reading Room 

must complete docket material requests 

in advance and then make an 

appointment to retrieve the material. 

Please contact the EPA Reading Room 

staff at (202) 566–1744 or via email at 

docket-customerservice@epa.gov to 

arrange material requests and 

appointments. Hand deliveries and 

couriers may be received by scheduled 

appointment only. For further 

information on EPA Docket Center 

services and status, please visit us 

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

EPA’s Office of Transportation and 

Air Quality also maintains a web page 

that contains general information on its 

review of California waiver and 

authorization requests. Included on that 

page are links to prior waiver and 

authorization Federal Register notices. 

The page can be accessed at https://

www.epa.gov/state-andlocaltransportation/vehicleemissionscalifornia-waivers-andauthorizations. Please note that due to 

differences between the software used to 

develop the documents and the software 

into which the documents may be 

downloaded, changes in format, page 

length, etc., may occur. 

Public Hearing. The virtual public 

hearing will be held on June 29, 2022. 

The hearing will begin at 9:00 a.m. 

Eastern Time (ET) and end when all 

parties who wish to speak have had an 

opportunity to do so. As noted above, 

this hearing will also cover the notices 

for California’s Omnibus Low NOX

Regulation, Docket No. EPA–HQ–OAR– 

2022–0332, and the 2018 HD Warranty 

Amendments, Docket No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2022–0330. All hearing attendees 

(including those who do not intend to 

provide testimony and merely listen) 

should register at: https://

usepa.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/ 

WN_ByheDTzYSPuoGbv8J7yNwg by 

June 21, 2022. Please refer to 

Instructions in the ADDRESSES section 

and Procedures for Public Participation 

in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

section for additional information on 

the public hearing and public comment 

process. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Dickinson, Transportation and 

Climate Division (6405J), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460, Email: Dickinson.David@epa.gov 

or Kayla Steinberg, Office of 

Transportation and Air Quality, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460, Email: Steinberg.Kayla@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. CARB’s New Waiver Requests 

CARB’s December 20, 2021, letter to 

the Administrator notified EPA that 

CARB had finalized Advanced Clean 

Trucks (ACT), Zero Emission Airport 

Shuttle Bus (ZEAS), and Zero Emission 

Powertrain (ZEP) Certification 

regulations. The ACT regulation, 

adopted by the Board on January 26, 

2021, requires that manufacturers 

produce and sell increasing quantities of 

medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission 

vehicles (ZEVs) and near zero emission 

vehicles (NZEVs) in California. These 

quantities are based on increasingly 

higher percentages of manufacturers’ 

annual sales of on-road heavy-duty 

vehicles, beginning in the 2024 model 

year.1 The ZEAS regulation, adopted by 

the Board on June 27, 2019, establishes 

steadily increasing zero-emission airport 

shuttle fleet composition requirements 

for airport shuttle fleet owners who 

service the thirteen largest California 

airports.2 The ZEP Certification 

regulation, adopted by the Board on 

June 27, 2019, establishes certification 

requirements and optional emission 

standards for 2021 and subsequent 

model year medium- and heavy-duty 

ZEVs and the zero-emission powertrains 

installed in such vehicles.3 CARB 

requests that EPA grant a new waiver for 

each of these regulations. CARB’s 

request and waiver analysis includes ‘‘a 

description of California’s rulemaking 

actions, a review of the criteria 

governing EPA’s evaluation of 

California’s request for waiver action, 

[CARB’s] analysis and rationale 

supporting [its] request, and supporting 

documents.’’ 4 CARB’s waiver analysis, 

set forth in its Waiver Request Support 

Document, addresses how each of its 

three regulations contained in the 

waiver request meet each of the three 

waiver criteria in section 209(b)(1) of 

the CAA.5 For example, CARB explains 

how its regulations will not cause 

California motor vehicle emission 

standards, in the aggregate, to be less 

protective of public health and welfare 

than applicable federal standards and 

that no basis exists for the 

Administrator of EPA to find that 

CARB’s determination is arbitrary and 

capricious under section 209(b)(1)(A) of 

the CAA.6 CARB also explains how it 

continues to demonstrate California’s 

need for a separate motor vehicle 

emission program, including the three 

regulations contained in its waiver 

request, under section 209(b)(1)(B) of 

the CAA.7 Finally, CARB explains how 

the three regulations in its waiver 

request meet the requirement in section 

209(b)(1)(C), which requires California’s 

regulations to be consistent with section 

202(a) of the CAA.8

II. Scope of Preemption and Criteria for 

a Waiver Under the Clean Air Act 

Section 209(a) of the Clean Air Act, as 

amended (‘‘Act’’), 42 U.S.C. 7543(a), 

provides: 

No State or any political subdivision 

thereof shall adopt or attempt to enforce any 

standard relating to the control of emissions 

from new motor vehicles or new motor 

vehicle engines subject to this part. No state 

shall require certification, inspection or any 

other approval relating to the control of 

emissions from any new motor vehicle or 

new motor vehicle engine as condition 

precedent to the initial retail sale, titling (if 

any), or registration of such motor vehicle, 

motor vehicle engine, or equipment. 

Section 209(b) of the Act requires the 

Administrator, after notice and 


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9 ‘‘The language of the statute and its legislative 

history indicate that California’s regulations, and 

California’s determination that they comply with 

the statute, when presented to the Administrator are 

presumed to satisfy the waiver requirements and 

that the burden of proving otherwise is on whoever 

attacks them.’’ Motor and Equipment Mfrs. Ass’n v. 

EPA, 627 F.2d 1095, 1121 (D.C. Cir. 1979). 

10To be consistent, the California certification 

procedures need not be identical to the Federal 

certification procedures. California procedures 

would be inconsistent, however, if manufacturers 

would be unable to meet the state and the Federal 

requirements with the same test vehicle in the 

course of the same test. See, e.g., 43 FR 32182 (July 

25, 1978). 

11See, e.g., 81 FR 78149, 78153 (November 7, 

2016); 81 FR 95982 95985–86 (December 29, 2016). 

EPA recently found and confirmed, in the Agency’s 

reconsideration of a previous withdrawal of a 

waiver of preemption for CARB’s Advanced Clean 

Car program, that the traditional interpretation of 

section 209(b)(1)(B) was appropriate and continues 

to be a better interpretation. 87 FR 14332, 14367 

(March 14, 2022). CARB’s December 21, 2021, 

waiver request addresses both the traditional and an 

alternative interpretation wherein the need for the 

specific standards in the waiver request would be 

evaluated. 

12See, e.g., 81 FR 78149, 78153–54 (‘‘EPA has 

previously stated that the determination is limited 

to whether those opposed to the waiver have met 

their burden of establishing that California’s 

standards are technologically infeasible, or that 

California’s test procedures impose requirements 

inconsistent with the federal test procedure. 

Infeasibility would be shown here by demonstrating 

that there is inadequate lead time to permit the 

development of technology necessary to meet the 

2013 HD OBD New or Stricter Requirements that 

are subject to the waiver request, giving appropriate 

consideration to the cost of compliance within that 

time.’’ (citing 38 FR 30136 (November 1, 1973) and 

40 FR 30311 (July 18, 1975)); 81 FR 95982, 95986 

(December 29, 2016); 70 FR 50322 (August 26, 

2005). 

13For example, section 202(a)(3)(C) of the CAA 

provides: ‘‘(C) Lead time and stability.—Any 

standard promulgated or revised under this 

paragraph and applicable to classes or categories of 

heavy-duty vehicles or engines shall apply for a 

period of no less than 3 model years beginning no 

earlier than the model year commencing 4 years 

after such revised standard is promulgated.’’ See 

also 59 FR 48625 (September 22, 1994) and 

associated Decision Document at EPA–HQ–OAR– 

2022–0331; EPA’s Notice of denial—Petition for 

Reconsideration of Waiver of Federal Preemption 

for California to Enforce Its NOX Emission 

Standards and Test Procedures, 46 FR 22032 (April 

15, 1981). 

opportunity for public hearing, to waive 

application of the prohibitions of 

section 209(a) for any state that has 

adopted standards (other than crankcase 

emission standards) for the control of 

emissions from new motor vehicles or 

new motor vehicle engines prior to 

March 30, 1966, if the state determines 

that the state standards will be, in the 

aggregate, at least as protective of public 

health and welfare as applicable Federal 

standards. California is the only state 

that is qualified to seek and receive a 

waiver under section 209(b).9 Section 

209(b)(1) requires the Administrator to 

grant a waiver unless he finds that (A) 

the determination of the state is 

arbitrary and capricious, (B) the state 

does not need the state standards to 

meet compelling and extraordinary 

conditions, or (C) the state standards 

and accompanying enforcement 

procedures are not consistent with 

section 202(a) of the Act. Previous 

decisions granting waivers of Federal 

preemption for motor vehicles have 

stated that State standards are 

inconsistent with section 202(a) if there 

is inadequate lead time to permit the 

development of the necessary 

technology giving appropriate 

consideration to the cost of compliance 

within that time period or if the Federal 

and State test procedures impose 

inconsistent certification procedures.10

III. Request for Comment 

When EPA receives new waiver 

requests from CARB, EPA traditionally 

publishes a notice of opportunity for 

public hearing and comment and then, 

after the comment period has closed, 

publishes a notice of its decision in the 

Federal Register. EPA invites comment 

on the following three criteria: whether 

(a) California’s determination that its 

motor vehicle emission standards are, in 

the aggregate, at least as protective of 

public health and welfare as applicable 

Federal standards is arbitrary and 

capricious, (b) California needs such 

standards to meet compelling and 

extraordinary conditions, and (c) 

California’s standards and 

accompanying enforcement procedures 

are consistent with section 202(a) of the 

Clean Air Act. 

With regard to section 209(b)(1)(B), 

EPA must grant a waiver request unless 

the Agency finds that California ‘‘does 

not need such State standards to meet 

compelling and extraordinary 

conditions.’’ EPA has interpreted the 

phrase ‘‘need[s] such State standards to 

meet compelling and extraordinary 

conditions’’ to mean that California 

needs a separate motor vehicle program 

as a whole in order to address 

environmental problems caused by 

conditions specific to California and/or 

effects unique to California (the 

‘‘traditional’’ interpretation).11 EPA 

intends to use this traditional 

interpretation in evaluating California’s 

need for the Advanced Clean Trucks, 

Zero Emission Airport Shuttle Bus, and 

Zero Emission Powertrain Certification 

regulations. EPA seeks comment on 

whether California needs the Advanced 

Clean Trucks, Zero Emission Airport 

Shuttle Bus, and Zero Emission 

Powertrain Certification regulations 

under section 209(b)(1)(B). 

With regard to section 209(b)(1)(C), 

EPA must grant a waiver request unless 

the Agency finds that California’s 

standards are not consistent with 

section 202(a). EPA has previously 

stated that consistency with section 

202(a) requires that California’s 

standards must be technologically 

feasible within the lead time provided, 

giving due consideration to costs, and 

that California and applicable Federal 

test procedures be consistent.12

Included in, but not limited to, EPA’s 

request for comment is what provisions 

in section 202(a) of the CAA are 

applicable to California due to the 

reference of section 202(a) in section 

209(b)(1)(C).13 EPA invites comment on 

how such provisions, to the extent they 

may be applicable to California, should 

be evaluated in the context of EPA’s 

evaluation of CARB’s waiver request 

under the criteria in section 209(b)(1)(C) 

of the CAA. 

IV. Procedures for Public Participation 

EPA will begin pre-registering 

speakers for the hearing upon 

publication of this document in the 

Federal Register. To register to speak at 

the virtual hearing, please visit https:// 

usepa.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/ 

WN_ByheDTzYSPuoGbv8J7yNwg. The 

last day to pre-register to speak at the 

hearing will be June 21, 2022. If you 

require the services of a translator or 

special accommodations such as audio 

description, please pre-register for the 

hearing and describe your needs by June 

14, 2022. EPA may not be able to 

arrange accommodations without 

advance notice. 

Each commenter will have 5 minutes 

to provide oral testimony. EPA may ask 

clarifying questions during the oral 

presentations but will not respond to 

the presentations at that time. EPA 

recommends submitting the text of your 

oral comments as written comments to 

the rulemaking docket. Written 

statements and supporting information 

submitted during the comment period 

will be considered with the same weight 

as oral comments and supporting 

information presented at the public 

hearing. 

The Agency will make a verbatim 

record of the proceedings at the hearing 

and will be placed in the docket. EPA 

will keep the record open until August 

2, 2022. Upon expiration of the 

comment period, the Administrator will 

render a decision on CARB’s request 

based on the record of the public 

hearing, relevant written submissions, 

and other information that she deems 

pertinent. 

Persons with written comments 

containing proprietary information must 

distinguish such information from other 

comments to the greatest possible extent 


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and label it as ‘‘Confidential Business 

Information’’ (CBI). If a person making 

comments wants EPA to base its 

decision in part on a submission labeled 

CBI, then a non-confidential version of 

the document that summarizes the key 

data or information should be submitted 

for the public docket. To ensure that 

proprietary information is not 

inadvertently placed in the docket, 

submissions containing such 

information should be sent directly to 

the contact person listed above and not 

to the public docket. Information 

covered by a claim of confidentiality 

will be disclosed by EPA only to the 

extent allowed and by the procedures 

set forth in 40 CFR part 2. If no claim 

of confidentiality accompanies the 

submission when EPA receives it, EPA 

will make it available to the public 

without further notice to the person 

making comments. 

Sarah Dunham, 

Director, Office of Transportation and Air 

Quality, Office of Air and Radiation. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL 9921–01–OA] 

Request for Nominations for a Science 

Advisory Board Panel on BenMAP and 

Benefits Methods 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) Staff Office is expanding its 

request for nominations previously 

announced on April 5, 2022. The EPA 

SAB Staff Office previously requested 

nominations of scientific experts to form 

a panel to review EPA’s new cloudbased Environmental Benefits and 

Mapping (BenMAP) tool, an opensource computer program that calculates 

estimated air pollution-related deaths 

and illnesses and their associated 

economic values. In that notice, the SAB 

Staff Office indicated its intention to 

announce a separate panel that would 

address the approach EPA takes for 

selecting and applying evidence in its 

PM2.5 and Ozone (O3) benefits 

assessments. Because the two panels 

would require substantially similar 

expertise, the SAB Staff Office has now 

determined that it is appropriate to 

combine them into a single panel with 

a more comprehensive charge. The 

Science Advisory Board Staff Office is 

soliciting additional candidates to 

complement those nominated for the 

review of BenMAP. 

DATES: Nominations should be 

submitted by June 27, 2002 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. 

Bryan Bloomer, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), EPA Science Advisory 

Board via telephone/voice mail (202) 

564–4222, or email at bloomer.bryan@

epa.gov. General information 

concerning the EPA SAB can be found 

at https://sab.epa.gov. For information 

concerning EPA’s technical support 

document, please contact Mr. Neal Fann 

via telephone/voice mail at (919) 541– 

0209 or email at fann.neal@epa.gov. 

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 BenMAP and 

Benefits Methods Panel, under the 

auspices of the Chartered SAB. The 

BenMAP and Benefits Methods Panel 

will provide advice through the 

chartered SAB. The SAB will comply 

with the provisions of FACA and all 

appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural 

policies. 

The SAB BenMAP and Benefits 

Methods Panel will conduct the review 

of EPA’s BenMAP tool as described 

previously in 87 FR 19680–19681. 

BenMAP is an open-source computer 

program that calculates the number and 

economic value of air pollution-related 

deaths and illnesses. In addition, the 

SAB BenMAP and Benefits Methods 

Panel will review EPA’s technical 

support document Estimating PM2.5- 

and Ozone-Attributable Health Benefits 

as requested by the EPA’s Office of Air 

and Radiation. Collectively, the SAB 

BenMAP and Benefits Methods Panel 

will review both EPA’s approach for 

selecting and applying the evidence 

used to quantify and monetize air 

pollution-related effects and how the 

BenMAP tool performs these 

calculations. With today’s notice, the 

SAB Staff Office is expanding its 

solicitation of April 5, 2022 (87 FR 

19680–19681) so that a broader panel, 

the BenMAP and Benefits Methods 

Panel, can also review EPA’s selection 

of human health endpoints, risk 

estimates and monetized values in an 

air pollution benefits assessment, as 

well as the agency’s characterization of 

uncertainty inherent in EPA benefits 

assessments. These additional topics 

will be in combination with the panel’s 

review of the BenMAP tool. 

Request for Nominations: The SAB 

Staff Office is seeking nominations of 

nationally and internationally 

recognized scientists with demonstrated 

expertise in the following disciplines: 

air pollution epidemiology; biostatistics; 

risk assessment; demographics; public 

health data science; uncertainty 

analysis; and environmental economics, 

particularly, the valuation of benefits 

from pollution reductions. The SAB 

Staff Office is seeking nominees from 

the listed disciplines above, with 

expertise that emphasizes the health 

effects of air pollution and the 

development of economic values for 

reductions in air pollution. 

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) using the online nomination 

form on the SAB website at https://

sab.epa.gov (see the ‘‘Public Input on 

Membership’’ list under ‘‘Committees, 

Panels, and Membership’’ following the 

instructions for ‘‘Nominating Experts to 

Advisory Panels and Ad Hoc 

Committees Being Formed,’’ provided 

on the SAB website (see the 

‘‘Nomination of Experts’’ link under 

‘‘Current Activities’’ at https://

sab.epa.gov). 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 

June 27, 2022. 

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 include the 

following: current position, educational 

background; research activities; sources 

of research funding for the last two 

years; and recent service on other 


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