Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 198 / Friday, October 14, 2005 / Notices 60075 

Section 10 and 404 Permit, New 

London County, CT 

Summary: EPA continues to have 

environmental concerns about ground 

and surface water resources, impacts to 

wetlands and secondary impacts. 

However, EPA supports the selection of 

the preferred alternative. 

EIS No. 20050191, ERP No. F–AFS–

L65470–ID, Meadows Slope Wildland 

Fire Protection Project, Proposes to 

Create and Maintain a Fuelbreak of 

Reduced Crown Fire Hazard, Payette 

National Forest, New Meadows 

Rangers District, Adams and Valley 

Counties, ID 

Summary: EPA continues to express 

environmental concern about water 

quality impacts associated with 

sediment in low gradient streams. 

EIS No. 20050258, ERP No. F–AFS–

L65477–OR, B&B Fire Recovery 

Project, Proposed Harvest of FireKilled Trees, Reduction of Fuels, 

Planting of Tree, Deschutes National 

Forest, Sisters Ranger District, 

Jefferson and Deschutes Counties, OR 

Summary: EPA continued to have 

environmental concerns about the long 

term impacts of salvage logging to water 

quality and aquatic habitat from 

sediment delivery to streams. 

EIS No. 20050307, ERP No. F–IBR–

K64023–CA, Battle Creek Salmon and 

Steelhead Restoration Project, To 

Address New Significant Information, 

Habitat Restoration in Battle Creek 

and Tributaries, License Amendment 

Issuance, Implementation, Tehama 

and Shasta Counties, CA 

Summary: EPA is supportive of efforts 

to restore salmonid habitat to facilitate 

population growth and recovery, and 

has no objection to the proposed action. 

EIS No. 20050312, ERP No. F–NRC–

B06005–CT, Generic-License Renewal 

of Nuclear Plants for the Millstone 

Power Station, Units 2 and 3, 

Supplement 22 to NUREG–1437, 

Implementation, New London 

County, CT 

Summary: EPA continues to have 

environmental concerns about the 

entrainment and impingement of fish 

and other aquatic organisms, heat shock, 

and the assessment of cumulative 

environmental impacts. 

EIS No. 20050326, ERP No. F–AFS–

K65278–CA, Burlington Ridge Trails 

Project, To Eliminate, Reconstruct/or 

Reroute Unsound Trail Sections, 

Tahoe National Forest, Yuba River 

Ranger District, Camptonville, Nevada 

County, CA 

Summary: No formal comment letter 

was sent to the preparing agency. 

EIS No. 20050338, ERP No. F–FHW–

F40428–OH, OH–823, Portsmouth 

Bypass Project, Transportation 

Improvements, Funding and U.S. 

Army COE Section 404 Permit, 

Appalachian Development Highway, 

Scioto County, OH 

Summary: EPA continues to have 

environmental concerns about 

ecosystem fragmentation, forest losses, 

relocation impacts, and requested that 

these impacts be further mitigated. 

EIS No. 20050345, ERP No. FS–BLM–

K67038–NV, Ruby Hill Mine 

Expansion—East Archimedes Project, 

Extension of Existing Open Pit and 

Expansion of Two Existing Waste 

Rock Disposal Areas, Plan-ofOperations Permit, Eureka County, 

NV 

Summary: EPA recommended that 

BLM analyze potential long-term heap 

leach draindown scenarios and include 

the full cost of long-term treatment in 

the reclamation/closure bond. 

Dated: October 11, 2005. 

Ken Mittelholtz, 

Environmental Protection Specialist, Office 

of Federal Activities. 

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AGENCY 

[ER–FRL–6668–3] 

Environmental Impacts Statements; 

Notice of Availability 

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal 

Activities, General Information (202) 

564–7167 or http://www.epa.gov/ 

compliance/nepa/. 

Weekly receipt of Environmental 

Impact Statements Filed 10/03/2005 

Through 10/07/2005 Pursuant to 40 CFR 

1506.9. 

EIS No. 20050410, Draft EIS, COE, FL, 

Central and Southern Florida Project, 

Comprehensive Everglades 

Restoration Plan, Implementation, 

Everglades Agricultural Area Storage 

Reservoirs, Palm Beach County, FL, 

Comment Period Ends: 11/21/2005, 

Contact: Janet Cushing 904–232–2259. 

The above EIS should have appeared 

in FR on 10/07/05. The comment 

period is calculated from the 10/7/ 

2005 FR. 

EIS No. 20050418, Final EIS, AFS, CA, 

Bald Mountain Project, Proposes to 

Harvest Trees Using Group and 

Individual Trees Selection Methods, 

Feather River Ranger District, Plumas 

National Forest, Plumas and Butte 

Counties, CA, Wait Period Ends: 11/ 

14/2005, Contact: Katherine Worn 

530–534–6500 

EIS No. 20050419, Final EIS, AFS, MT, 

Middle East Fork Hazardous Fuel 

Reduction Project, Implementation of 

Three Alternatives, Bitterroot 

National Forest, Sula Ranger District, 

Ravalli County, MT, Wait Period 

Ends: 11/14/2005, Contact: Sandrah 

Mack 406–821–1251 

EIS No. 20050420, Final EIS, IBR, NV, 

Humboldt Project Conveyance, 

Transferring 83, 530 Acres from 

Federal Ownership to the Pershing 

County Water Conservation District 

(PCWCD), Pershing and Lander 

Counties, NV, Wait Period Ends: 11/ 

14/2005, Contact: Caryn Huntt 

DeCarlo 775–884–8352 

EIS No. 20050421, Draft EIS, HUD, NY, 

Ashburton Avenue Master Plan and 

Urban Renewal Plan/Mulford Hope VI 

Revitalization Plan, Development, 

Implementation, Yonkers City, 

Westchester County, NY, Comment 

Period Ends: 11/28/2005, Contact: 

Stephen Whetstone 914–337–6650 

EIS No. 20050422, Draft Supplement, 

COE, AR, Fourche Bayou Basin 

Project, 1,750 Acre Bottomland 

Acquisition with Nature Appreciation 

Facilities, Development, Funding, 

City of Little Rock, Pulaski County, 

AR, Comment Period Ends: 11/28/ 

2005, Contact: Jim Ellis 501–324–5629 

EIS No. 20050423, Final EIS, BLM, NV, 

Sloan Canyon National Conservation 

Area, Resource Management Plan, 

Implementation, Cities of Las Vegas 

and Henderson, Clark County, NV, 

Wait Period Ends: 11/14/2005, 

Contact: Charles Carroll 702–515–

5291 

EIS No. 20050424, Draft EIS, NPS, CA, 

Furnace Creek Water Collection 

System, Reconstruction, Death Valley 

National Park, Implementation, Inyo 

County, CA, Comment Period Ends: 

12/12/2005, Contact: Linda Greene 

760–786–3253 

EIS No. 20050425, Draft EIS, BLM, CA, 

Southern Diablo Mountain Range and 

Central Coast of California Resource 

Management Plan, Several Counties, 

CA, Comment Period Ends: 01/11/ 

2006, Contact: Sky Murphy 831–630–

5039 

EIS No. 20050426, Final EIS, FTA, CA, 

Mid-City/Westside Transit Corridor 

Improvements, Wilshire Bus Rapid 

Transit and Exposition Transitway, 

Construction and Operation, Funding, 

Section 404 Permit, Los Angeles 

County, CA, Wait Period Ends: 11/14/ 

2005, Contact: Ray Sukys 415–744–

3115 

EIS No. 20050427, Draft Supplement, 

FTA, WA, Central Link Light Rail 

Transit Project (Sound Transit) 

60076 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 198 / Friday, October 14, 2005 / Notices 

Construction and Operation of the 

North Link Light Rail Extension, from 

Downtown Seattle and Northgate, 

Updated Information on Refined 

Design Concepts, Funding, Right-ofWay and US Army COE Section 404 

Permits, King County, WA, Comment 

Period Ends: 11/30/2005, Contact: 

John Witmer 206–220–7954 

EIS No. 20050428, Draft EIS, FRC, CA, 

Long Beach Liquefied Natural Gas 

(LNG) Import Project, Construction 

and Operation of a LNG Receiving 

Terminal and Associated Facilities, 

US Army COE 10 and 404 Permits, 

Long Beach, CA, Comment Period 

Ends: 12/08/2005, Contact: Thomas 

Russo 1–866–208–3372 

Amended Notices 

EIS No. 20050328, Draft EIS, FHW, LA, 

US 90 Corridor, Proposed Interstate 

Highway 49 (I49 ) South Improvement 

from Raceland to the Davis Pond 

Diversion Canal, Section of 

Independent Utility 1 (SIU 1), 

Lafourche and St. Charles Parishes, 

LA, Comment Period Ends: 12/31/ 

2005, Contact: William C. Farr 225–

757–7615 Revision of FR Notice 

Published 08/12/2005; Comment 

Period Extended from 9/30/2005 to 

12/31/2005. 

Dated: October 11, 2005. 

Ken Mittelholtz, 

Environmental Protection Specialist, Office 

of Federal Activities. 

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[E–Docket ID No. ORD–2005–0022; FRL–

7983–9] 

Notice of a Scientific Peer-Review 

Meeting to Review the Draft Document: 

Approaches for the Application of 

Physiologically-Based 

Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Models and 

Supporting Data in Risk Assessment 

(EPA/600/R–05/043A) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of external peer-review 

panel meeting. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing 

that Versar Inc., an EPA contractor for 

external scientific peer review, will 

convene a panel of experts and organize 

and conduct an independent external 

peer-review workshop to review the 

draft report, ‘‘Approaches for the 

Application of Physiologically-Based 

Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Models and 

Supporting Data in Risk Assessment’’

(EPA/600/R–05/043A), which was 

prepared by the National Center for 

Environmental Assessment (NCEA) 

within EPA’s Office of Research and 

Development. Versar, Inc. invites the 

public to register to attend this 

workshop as observers. In addition, 

Versar, Inc. invites the public to give 

oral and/or provide written comments at 

the workshop regarding the draft 

document under review. The draft 

document and EPA’s peer-review charge 

are available primarily via the Internet 

on NCEA’s home page under the Recent 

Additions and Publications menus at 

http://www.epa.gov/ncea. In preparing a 

final report, EPA will consider Versar, 

Inc.’s report of the comments and 

recommendations from the external 

peer-review workshop. In addition to 

the workshop announced today, EPA 

previously published a Federal Register 

notice (70 FR 43692) announcing a 

separate process for public comment on 

the draft document on July 28, 2005 and 

a second Federal Register notice (70 FR 

48950) announcing a 45-day extension 

(closing October 14, 2005) of the public 

comment period. 

DATES: Versar, Inc. will hold the peerreview workshop from November 10, 

2005, to November 11, 2005. On the first 

day, the meeting is scheduled to begin 

at 8:30 a.m. and end at 5 p.m., Eastern 

Daylight Time. The public may attend 

the peer-review workshop on November 

10, 2005, as observers. In addition, 

members of the public in attendance at 

the workshop will be allowed to make 

brief (no longer than five minutes) oral 

statements at the commencement of the 

meeting. The second day of the 

workshop is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 

12:30 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time. This 

second day will be not be open to the 

public and is meant to provide time for 

the peer-reviewers to begin drafting 

their comments on the draft report. 

ADDRESSES: The external peer-review 

panel meeting will be held at the Hyatt 

Arlington located at 1325 Wilson 

Boulevard, Arlington, VA, 22209. The 

EPA contractor, Versar, Inc., is 

organizing, convening, and conducting 

the peer-review panel meeting. To 

attend the meeting, register by 

November 4, by calling Ms. Amanda 

Jacob of Versar, Inc., 6850 Versar Center, 

Springfield, VA, 22151, at 703–750–

3000 ext. 260, or via e-mail at 

AJacob@versar.com, or by sending a 

facsimile to 703–642–6954. Interested 

parties may also register on-line at: 

http://epa.versar.com/pbpk. Space is 

limited, and reservations will be 

accepted on a first-come, first-served 

basis. At the time of your registration for 

the meeting, please indicate if you 

intend to make an oral statement during 

the public comment period on the first 

day of the meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions regarding registration and 

logistics for the peer review meeting 

should be directed to Ms. Amanda 

Jacob, Versar, Inc., 6850 Versar Center, 

Springfield, VA, 22151; telephone: 703–

750–3000 ext. 260; facsimile: 703–642–

6954; e-mail: AJacob@versar.com. If you 

have questions about the document, 

please contact Technical Information 

Staff, NCEA, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Washington, DC 

20460; telephone: 202–564–3261; 

facsimile: 202–565–0050; or e-mail: 

NCEADC.Comment@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 

28, 2005, EPA published a Federal 

Register notice (70 FR 43692) that 

announced a 30-day public comment 

period through August 29, 2005, for 

EPA’s draft report, ‘‘Approaches for the 

Application of Physiologically-Based 

Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Models and 

Supporting Data in Risk Assessment’’

(EPA/600/R–05/043A). EPA published a 

second notice in the Federal Register on 

August 22, 2005 (70 FR 48950) that 

extended the public comment period for 

45 days from August 29, until October 

14, 2005. On July 28, 2005, the draft 

document was made publicly available 

on NCEA’s Web site for review and 

comment. An electronic version of the 

public docket is available through EPA’s 

electronic public docket and comment 

system, E-Docket. To view comments, 

go to http://www.epa.gov/edocket/, 

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

identification number, ORD–2005–0022. 

In the July 28, 2005, notice, EPA also 

announced that a subsequent Federal 

Register notice would announce the 

date and location of a workshop for 

independent external peer review of this 

draft document. Today’s notice provides 

information on that external peer-review 

workshop. 

The purpose of the draft document is 

to describe some approaches for the use 

of physiologically-based 

pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models in risk 

assessment. PBPK models represent an 

important class of dosimetry models 

that are useful for predicting internal 

dose at target organs for risk assessment 

applications. Dose-response 

relationships that appear unclear or 

confusing at the administered dose level 

can become more understandable when 

expressed on the basis of internal dose 

of the chemical. To predict internal dose 

level, PBPK models use 

pharmacokinetic data to construct 

mathematical representations of