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provides an assessment of the exposure 

of Americans to polybrominated 

diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a class of 

brominated flame retardants. It includes 

chapters on use and production of 

PBDEs, environmental fate, 

environmental and exposure media 

concentrations, and an exposure 

assessment including background 

exposures and exposures to special 

populations. 

DATES: The document will be available 

on or about May 24, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: The report titled, ‘‘An 

Exposure Assessment of 

Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers’’ (EPA/ 

600/R–08/086F) will be available 

primarily via the Internet on the NCEA 

home page under the Recent Additions 

and Publications menus at http:// 

www.epa.gov/ncea. A limited number of 

paper copies are available from the 

Information Management Team 

(Address: Information Management 

Team, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment (Mail Code: 

8601P), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone: 

703–347–8561; facsimile: 703–347– 

8691). If you request a paper copy, 

please provide your name, mailing 

address, and the document title, ‘‘An 

Exposure Assessment of 

Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers’’ (EPA/ 

600/R–08/086F). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical information, contact Mr. 

Matthew Lorber, NCEA; telephone: 703– 

347–8535; facsimile: 703–347–8692; or 

e-mail: lorber.matthew@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information About the Document 

This document provides an 

assessment of the exposure of 

Americans to polybrominated diphenyl 

ethers (PBDEs), a class of brominated 

flame retardants. The use of PBDEs as 

flame retardants in products associated 

with the indoor environment has led to 

exposures primarily associated with 

indoor dust. This exposure pattern 

differs from other persistent organic 

pollutants, such as dioxins and PCBs, 

where exposure is dominated by food 

ingestion. Human biomonitoring data 

indicate blood levels of PBDEs in the 

United States are higher than those 

measured in other parts of the world. 

Intake doses, expressed on a body 

weight basis, are highest for infants who 

breast feed and higher for children 

compared with those for adults. 

In December 2008, the draft report 

was released for independent external 

review, and a Federal Register notice 

published on December 4, 2008, 

announced the start of a public review 

and comment period. This final report 

addresses comments received from both 

the external peer review panel and the 

public. 

Dated: May 3, 2010. 

Rebecca Clark, 

Acting Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Notification of a Public Teleconference 

and Public Meeting of the SAB Dioxin 

Review Panel 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a 

teleconference and a face-to-face 

meeting of the SAB Dioxin Review 

Panel to review EPA’s Reanalysis of Key 

Issues Related to Dioxin Toxicity and 

Response to NAS Comments, External 

Review Draft. 

DATES: There will be a public 

teleconference on June 24, 2010 from 1 

p.m. to 3:30 p.m. (Eastern Daylight 

Time). The public meeting will be on 

July 13 from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., July 14 

from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and July 15 

from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Eastern 

Daylight Time). 

ADDRESSES: The teleconference will be 

conducted by phone only. The face-toface meeting on July 13–15 will be held 

at The Hilton Embassy Row Hotel, 2015 

Massachusetts Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20036; telephone (202) 

265–1600. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing to obtain 

information concerning the public 

teleconference and public meeting may 

contact Dr. Thomas Armitage, 

Designated Federal Officer (DFO), EPA 

Science Advisory Board Staff Office 

(1400F), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; by 

telephone/voice mail at (202) 343–9995 

or via e-mail at 

armitage.thomas@epa.gov. General 

information about the SAB, as well as 

any updates concerning the meeting 

announced in this notice, may be found 

on the SAB Web site at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), 5 U.S.C., App. 2, notice is 

hereby given that the SAB Dioxin 

Review Panel will hold a public 

teleconference to discuss the plans for 

the subsequent public face-to-face 

meeting to conduct a peer review of 

EPA’s Reanalysis of Key Issues Related 

to Dioxin Toxicity and Response to NAS 

Comments, External Review Draft (May 

2010). The SAB was established 

pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 4365 to provide 

independent scientific and technical 

advice to the Administrator on the 

technical basis for Agency positions and 

regulations. The SAB is a Federal 

Advisory Committee chartered under 

FACA. The SAB will comply with the 

provisions of FACA and all appropriate 

SAB Staff Office procedural policies. 

Background: In 2003, EPA’s Office of 

Research and Development (ORD) 

developed a comprehensive 

reassessment of the health risks of 

dioxin and related compounds. In 2004, 

EPA asked the National Research 

Council of the National Academy of 

Sciences (NAS) to review the 2003 

dioxin reassessment document. In 2006, 

The NAS published its review and 

identified three areas that required 

substantial improvement to support a 

scientifically robust risk 

characterization. These areas were: (1) 

Justification of approaches to doseresponse modeling for cancer and noncancer endpoints; (2) transparency and 

clarity in selection of key data sets for 

analysis; and (3) transparency, 

thoroughness, and clarity in quantitative 

uncertainty analysis. The full NAS 

report, including recommendations, is 

available at http://books.nap.edu/ 

catalog.php?record_id=11688. 

In response to the recommendations 

presented in the 2006 NAS review, the 

EPA published a ‘‘Science Plan for 

Activities Related to Dioxins in the 

Environment’’ on May 26, 2009. The 

plan states that EPA will prepare a draft 

report that responds to the 

recommendations and comments in the 

NAS report and that the SAB will peer 

review the science content of EPA’s 

draft report. Following the SAB review, 

EPA will release the final response to 

comments report, and focus on 

completion of the 2003 reassessment. 

In response to the request from ORD, 

the SAB staff office solicited 

nominations of experts and formed a 

review panel for dioxin [Federal 

Register Notice dated October 15, 2008 

(73 FR 61114–61115)]. The SAB panel 

will conduct a review of the May 2010 

External Review Draft of EPA’s 

Reanalysis of Key Issues Related to 

Dioxin Toxicity and Response to NAS 

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* Session Closed-Exempt pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

552b(c)(8) and (9). 

Comments. Specifically, the panel is 

being asked to evaluate: The 

transparency and clarity in the selection 

of key data sets for dose-response 

analysis; the use of toxicokinetics in 

dose-response modeling for cancer and 

non-cancer endpoints; the derivation of 

the chronic reference dose; cancer 

assessment; and EPA’s comments 

regarding the feasibility of the 

quantitative uncertainty analysis from 

the NAS evaluation of the 2003 

reassessment. The purpose of the 

teleconference is for the panel to be 

briefed on the EPA draft response to 

comments document and to allow panel 

members to ask clarifying questions on 

the charge to the panel. During the faceto-face meeting, the panel will review 

the draft EPA document. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: 

Agendas and materials in support of 

these meetings will be placed on the 

SAB Web site at http://www.epa.gov/sab 

in advance of each meeting. For 

technical questions and information 

concerning EPA’s draft document, 

please contact Dr. Glenn Rice at (513) 

569–7813, or rice.glenn@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 

independent advice to EPA. Members of 

the public can submit comments for a 

Federal advisory committee to consider 

as it develops advice for EPA. They 

should send their comments directly to 

the Designated Federal Officer for the 

relevant advisory committee. Oral 

Statements: In general, individuals or 

groups requesting an oral presentation 

at a public teleconference will be 

limited to three minutes per speaker, 

with no more than a total of 30 minutes 

for all speakers. At the face-to-face 

meeting, presentations will be limited to 

five minutes, with no more than a total 

of one hour for all speakers. Each person 

making an oral statement should 

consider providing written comments as 

well as their oral statement so that the 

points presented orally can be expanded 

upon in writing. Interested parties 

should contact Dr. Thomas Armitage, 

DFO, in writing (preferably via e-mail) 

at the contact information noted above, 

by June 21, 2010 for the teleconference, 

and by July 7, 2010 for the face-to-face 

meeting, to be placed on the list of 

public speakers. Written Statements: 

Written statements should be supplied 

to the DFO via e-mail at the contact 

information noted above, by June 22, 

2010 for the teleconference, and by July 

9, 2010 for the face-to-face meeting so 

that the information may be made 

available to the Committee members for 

their consideration. Written statements 

should be supplied in one of the 

following electronic formats: Adobe 

Acrobat PDF, MS Word, MS 

PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in IBM– 

PC/Windows 98/2000/XP format. 

Submitters are requested to provide 

versions of signed documents, 

submitted with and without signatures, 

because the SAB Staff Office does not 

publish documents with signatures on 

its Web sites. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Dr. Thomas 

Armitage at (202) 343–9995 or 

armitage.thomas@epa.gov. To request 

accommodation of a disability, please 

contact Dr. Armitage preferably at least 

ten days prior to the teleconference to 

give EPA as much time as possible to 

process your request. 

Dated: May 17, 2010. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

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FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION 

Sunshine Act 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). 

DATES: Date and Time: The regular 

meeting of the Board will be held at the 

offices of the Farm Credit 

Administration in McLean, Virginia, on 

June 10, 2010, from 9 a.m. until such 

time as the Board concludes its 

business. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Roland E. Smith, 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: Parts of 

this meeting of the Board will be open 

to the public (limited space available), 

and parts will be closed to the public. 

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 

• May 13, 2010. 

B. New Business—Regulations 

• Advance Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking—Capital Adequacy— 

Capital Components; Basel Accord Tier 

1/Tier 2. 

• Direct Final Rule—Technical 

Changes. 

Closed Session*

Reports 

• Office of Secondary Market 

Oversight Quarterly Report. 

Dated: May 19, 2010. 

Roland E. Smith, 

Secretary, Farm Credit Administration Board. 

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COMMISSION 

Notice of Public Information 

Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the 

Federal Communications Commission, 

Comments Requested 

May 14, 2010. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications 

Commission, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork burden 

invites the general public and other 

Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection(s), as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501 – 

3520. Comments are requested 

concerning: (a) whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Commission, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

Commission’s burden estimate; (c) ways 

to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information collected; (d) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on the 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

and (e) ways to further reduce the 

information collection burden on small 

business concerns with fewer than 25 

employees. 

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