60078 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 198 / Friday, October 14, 2005 / Notices 

Dated: October 6, 2005. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Associate Director for Science, EPA Science 

Advisory Board Staff Office. 

[FR Doc. 05–20601 Filed 10–13–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–OW–FRL–7983–6] 

Notice of Data Availability and Request 

for Data and Information to Develop 

Ambient Water Quality Criteria for 

Protection of Human Health for 

Atrazine and Alachlor 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of data availability; 

request for scientific data and 

information. 

SUMMARY: Section 304(a) of the Clean 

Water Act (CWA) requires the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

to develop and publish, and from time 

to time revise, criteria for water 

accurately reflecting the latest scientific 

knowledge. Today, EPA is informing the 

public of data currently available to EPA 

and requesting data and information to 

develop Ambient Water Quality Criteria 

for Protection of Human Health for 

Atrazine and Alachlor. Lists of 

references available to the Agency for 

atrazine and alachlor will be posted on 

EPA’s Office of Science and 

Technology’s Home-page located at 

http://www.epa.gov/ost. In addition to 

seeking input on the references known 

to the Agency, EPA is also soliciting any 

additional pertinent data or information 

that may be useful in developing these 

criteria. 

DATES: Submit data and information on 

or before November 14, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: Data and information may 

be submitted electronically, by mail, or 

through hand deliver/courier. Follow 

the detailed instructions as provided in 

Unit B of the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Amal Mahfouz, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Office of Water, 

Health and Ecological Criteria Division 

(4304T), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; (202) 566–

1114; Mahfouz.amal@epa.gov (Data on 

toxicity of atrazine and alachlor) or Dr. 

Tala Henry, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Office of Water, 

Health and Ecological Criteria Division 

(4304T), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; (202) 566–

1323; henry.tala@epa.gov (Data 

pertaining to bioaccumulation of 

atrazine and alachlor). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. How Can I Get Copies of Related 

Information? 

1. Docket. EPA has established an 

official public docket for this Notice 

under Docket ID Nos. OW–2005–0008 

for Atrazine and OW–2005–0009 for 

Alachlor. The official public docket is 

the collection of materials that is 

available for public viewing at the Water 

Docket in the EPA Docket Center, EPA 

West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC. Although a 

part of official docket, public docket 

does not include Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

The EPA Docket Center Public Reading 

Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding 

legal holidays. The telephone number 

for the Public Reading Room is (202) 

566–1744, and the telephone number for 

the Water Docket is (202) 566–2426. 

2. Electronic Access. You may access 

this Federal Register document 

electronically through the EPA Internet 

under the ‘‘Federal Register’’ listings at 

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/. 

An electronic version of the public 

docket is available through EPA’s 

electronic public docket and comment 

system, EPA Dockets. You may use EPA 

Dockets at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/ 

to access the index listing of the 

contents of the official public docket 

and to access those documents in the 

public docket that are available 

electronically. Although not all docket 

materials may be available 

electronically, you may still access any 

of the publicly available docket 

materials through the docket facility 

identified in Section B.1. Once in the 

system, select ‘‘search,’’ then key in the 

appropriate docket identification 

number. 

B. How and to Whom Do I Submit Data 

and Information? 

You may submit data electronically, 

by mail, or through hand delivery/ 

courier. To ensure proper receipt by 

EPA, identify the appropriate docket 

identification number in the subject line 

on the first page. Please ensure that your 

data are submitted within the specified 

period. 

1. Electronically. If you submit data as 

prescribed below, EPA recommends that 

you include your name, mailing 

address, and an e-mail address or other 

contact information. Also include this 

contact information on the outside of 

any disk or CD ROM you submit, and 

in any cover letter accompanying the 

disk or CD ROM. This ensures that you 

can be identified as the submitter of the 

data and allows EPA to contact you in 

case EPA cannot read your data due to 

technical difficulties or needs further 

information on the substance of your 

data. EPA’s policy is that EPA will not 

edit your data, and any identifying or 

contact information provided in the 

body of the data will be included as part 

of the data that is placed in the official 

public docket, and made available in 

EPA’s electronic public docket. If EPA 

cannot read your data due to technical 

difficulties and cannot contact you for 

clarification, EPA may not be able to 

consider your comment. 

i. EPA Dockets. Your use of EPA’s 

electronic public docket to submit data 

to EPA electronically is EPA’s preferred 

method for receiving data. Go directly to 

EPA Dockets at http://www.epa.gov/ 

edocket, and follow the online 

instructions. Once in the system, select 

‘‘search,’’ and then key in Docket ID 

Nos. OW–2005–0008 for Atrazine or 

OW–2005–0009 for Alachlor. The 

system is an ‘‘anonymous access’’

system, which means EPA will not 

know your identity, e-mail address, or 

other contact information unless you 

provide it along with your data. 

ii. E-mail. Data may be sent by 

electronic mail (e-mail) to owdocket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID 

Nos. OW–2005–0008 for Atrazine and 

OW–2005–0009 for Alachlor. In contrast 

to EPA’s electronic public docket, EPA’s 

e-mail system is not an ‘‘anonymous 

access’’ system. If you send an e-mail 

directly to the Docket without going 

through EPA’s electronic public docket, 

EPA’s e-mail system automatically 

captures your e-mail address. E-mail 

addresses that are automatically 

captured by EPA’s e-mail system are 

included as part of the comment that is 

placed in the official public docket, and 

made available in EPA’s electronic 

public docket. 

iii. Disk or CD ROM. You may submit 

data on a disk or CD ROM that you mail 

to the mailing address identified in Unit 

B.2. These electronic submissions will 

be accepted in WordPerfect or ASCII file 

format. Avoid the use of special 

characters and any form of encryption. 

2. By Mail. Send an original and three 

copies of any data or information to: 

Water Docket, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mailcode: 4101T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC, 20460, Attention Docket ID Nos. 

OW–2005–0008 for Atrazine and OW–

2005–0009 for Alachlor. 

3. By Hand Delivery or Courier. 

Deliver your comments to: EPA Docket 

Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 198 / Friday, October 14, 2005 / Notices 60079 

Center, (EPA/DC) EPA West, Room 

B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460, Attention 

Docket ID Nos. OW–2005–0008 for 

Atrazine and OW–2005–0009 for 

Alachlor. Such deliveries are only 

accepted during the Docket’s normal 

hours of operation as identified in 

Section A.1. 

II. Background 

A. What Are National Recommended Water 

Quality Criteria? 

B. What Type of Information Does EPA Want 

from the Public? 

C. Where Can I Find More Information on 

EPA’s Revised Process for Developing New 

or Revised Criteria? 

A. What Are National Recommended 

Water Quality Criteria? 

Section 304(a) of the Clean Water Act 

requires the EPA to develop, publish, 

and from time to time revise criteria for 

water that accurately reflect the latest 

scientific knowledge. Water quality 

criteria developed under section 304(a) 

are based solely on data and scientific 

judgements; economic impacts or the 

technological feasibility of meeting the 

criteria in ambient water are not 

considered. Section 304(a) criteria are 

guidance to States and Tribes for 

adopting water quality standards. The 

criteria also provide a scientific basis for 

EPA to develop federal regulations 

under section 303(c). 

B. What Type of Information Does EPA 

Want From the Public? 

EPA recently completed a 

comprehensive review of the available 

toxicity data for Atrazine and Alachlor. 

The list of pertinent references 

identified by the Agency for these two 

chemicals is available from EPA’s 

electronic public docket under Docket 

ID Nos. OW–2005–0008 for Atrazine 

and OW–2005–0009 for Alachlor. EPA 

is soliciting additional pertinent new 

toxicity data or information it might use 

to develop the Ambient Water Quality 

Criteria for these two chemicals. In 

particular, EPA is interested in 

acquiring from the public any new data, 

not identified by the Agency’s literature 

review, on the toxicity and human 

exposure to these chemicals from 

ambient water bodies as well as the 

bioaccumulation of each of these two 

chemicals in aquatic organisms to 

calculate trophic level specific 

bioaccumulation factors; in addition to 

seeking input on the references known 

to the Agency, EPA is also soliciting any 

additional pertinent data or information 

that may be useful in developing these 

criteria, particularly new data on the 

toxicity of these two chemicals. You 

should adequately document any data 

you submit. It should also contain 

enough supporting information to show 

that acceptable test procedures were 

used. 

Please refer to the EPA’s 

‘‘Methodology for Deriving Ambient 

Water Quality Criteria for the Protection 

of Human Health—2000’’ (EPA–822–B–

00–004, October 2000 and EPA–822–R–

03–030, December 2003); for guidance 

on data suitability. These documents are 

available at the EPA website under 

using the following link, http:// 

www.epa.gov/waterscience/criteria/ 

humanhealth/method/index.html. It is 

also available from EPA’s electronic 

public docket at http://www.epa.gov/ 

edocket/. 

C. Where Can I Find More Information 

on EPA’s Revised Process for Developing 

New or Revised Criteria? 

The Agency published detailed 

information about its revised process for 

developing and revising criteria in the 

Federal Register on December 10, 1998 

(63 FR 68354) and in the EPA 

documents entitled ‘‘Methodology for 

Deriving Ambient Water Quality Criteria 

for the Protection of Human Health’’

(vol 1 on Risk Assessment, EPA–822–B–

00–004, October 2000; and vol 2 on 

Bioaccumulation, EPA–822–R–03–030, 

December 2003). The revised process 

provides greater opportunities for public 

input and makes the criteria 

development process more efficient. A 

copy of the technical information that 

will be used to derive the atrazine and 

alachlor criteria are available in the 

EPA’s Interim Registration Eligibility 

Document (IRED) for Atrazine (2003) 

that is available at http://www.epa.gov/ 

oppsrrd1/reregistration/atrazine and the 

Registration Eligibility Document (RED) 

for Alachlor (1998) that is available at 

http://cfpub.epa.gov/oppref/rereg/ 

status.cfm?show=rereg. 

Dated: October 7, 2005. 

Ephraim S. King, 

Director, Office of Science and Technology. 

[FR Doc. 05–20599 Filed 10–13–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–U 

FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION 

Sunshine Act; Farm Credit 

Administration Board; Regular Meeting 

AGENCY: Farm Credit Administration. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given, 

pursuant to the Government in the 

Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b(e)(3)), of 

the regular meeting of the Farm Credit 

Administration Board (Board). 

DATE AND TIME: The regular meeting of 

the Board will be held at the offices of 

the Farm Credit Administration in 

McLean, Virginia, on October 13, 2005, 

from 9 a.m. until such time as the Board 

concludes its business. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jeanette C. Brinkley, Secretary to the 

Farm Credit Administration Board, 

(703) 883–4009, TTY (703) 883–4056. 

ADDRESSES: Farm Credit 

Administration, 1501 Farm Credit Drive, 

McLean, Virginia 22102–5090. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

meeting of the Board will be open to the 

public (limited space available). In order 

to increase the accessibility to Board 

meetings, persons requiring assistance 

should make arrangements in advance. 

The matters to be considered at the 

meeting are: 

Open Session 

A. Approval of Minutes 

• September 8, 2005 (Open and 

Closed). 

B. Reports 

• Potential Impact of Hurricane 

Katrina and Hurricane Rita on the FCS. 

C. New Business—Regulations 

• Risk-Based Capital Stress Test—

Proposed Rule. 

Dated: October 7, 2005. 

Jeanette C. Brinkley, 

Secretary, Farm Credit Administration Board. 

[FR Doc. 05–20721 Filed 10–12–05; 2:27 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6705–01–P 

FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE BOARD 

[No. 2005–N–06] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Federal Housing Finance 

Board. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal 

Housing Finance Board (Finance Board) 

is seeking public comments concerning 

the information collection known as 

‘‘Community Support Requirements,’’

which has been assigned control 

number 3069–0003 by the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). The 

Finance Board intends to submit the 

information collection to OMB for 

review and approval of a 3 year 

extension of the control number, which 

is due to expire on February 28, 2006. 

DATES: Interested persons may submit 

comments on or before December 13, 

2005.