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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0518; FRL–8380–5] 

Chloropicrin, Dazomet, Metam Sodium/ 

Potassium, and Methyl Bromide 

Reregistration Eligibility Decisions; 

Notice of Availability; Extension of 

Comment Period 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice; extension of comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: On July 16, 2008, EPA issued 

a notice in the Federal Register 

announcing the availability of the 

Reregistration Eligibility Decisions 

(REDs) for the soil fumigant pesticides 

chloropicrin, dazomet, metam sodium/ 

potassium, and methyl bromide. The 

notice also announced a 60–day public 

comment period. This document is 

extending the comment period for 45 

days, from September 15, 2008, to 

October 30, 2008. 

DATES: Comments, identified by the 

docket identification (ID) number must 

be received on or before October 30, 

2008. 

ADDRESSES: Follow the detailed 

instructions as provided under 

ADDRESSES in the Federal Register 

notice of July 16, 2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

pesticide-specific information contact: 

The Chemical Review Manager listed in 

the Federal Register notice of July 16, 

2008. 

For general information contact: John 

Leahy, Special Review and 

Reregistration Division (7508P), Office 

of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460–

0001; telephone number: (703) 305–

6703; fax number: (703) 308–8090; email address: leahy.john@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. What Action is EPA Taking? 

This document extends the public 

comment period for the fumigants 

chloropicrin, dazomet, metam 

potassium/sodium, and methyl bromide 

established in the Federal Register 

issued on July 16, 2008 (73 FR 40871, 

FRL–8372–3). In that document, EPA 

announced the availability of the REDs 

and opened a 60–day public comment 

period. EPA is hereby extending the 

comment period, which was set to end 

on September 15, 2008, to October 30, 

2008. 

To submit comments, or access the 

public docket, please follow the detailed 

instructions as provided under 

ADDRESSES in the July 16, 2008, Federal 

Register notice (73 FR 40871). 

II. What is the Agency’s Authority for 

Taking this Action? 

Section 4(g)(2) of the Federal 

Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 

Act (FIFRA), as amended, directs that, 

after submission of all data concerning 

a pesticide active ingredient, the 

Administrator shall determine whether 

pesticides containing such active 

ingredient are eligible for reregistration. 

Further provisions are made to allow a 

public comment period. However, the 

Administrator may extend the comment 

period if additional time for comment is 

requested. In this case, the Methyl 

Bromide Industry Panel (MBIP), 

California Specialty Crops Council, the 

Chloropicrin Manufacturers’ Task Force 

(CMTF), the National Association of 

Manufacturers (NAM), the American 

Nursery and Landscape Association 

(ANLA), the California Strawberry 

Nurserymen’s Association, the 

Agricultural Retailers Association, the 

American Forest and Paper Association, 

and McDermott, Will, and Emery LLP, 

on behalf of the Minor Crop Farmer 

Alliance (MCFA), have requested 

additional time to develop comments. 

These groups represent manufacturers 

and users of the soil fumigants. The 

Agency believes that an additional 45 

days is warranted. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Fumigants, 

Pesticides and pests. 

Dated: August 25, 2008. 

Steven Bradbury, 

Director, Special Review and Reregistration 

Division, Office of Pesticide Programs. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2007–1145; FRL–8709–3] 

Draft Risk and Exposure Assessment 

Report for Review of the Secondary 

National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards for Oxides of Nitrogen and 

Oxides of Sulfur 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of draft report for public 

review and comment. 

SUMMARY: On or about August 27, 2008, 

the Office of Air Quality Planning and 

Standards (OAQPS) of EPA is making 

available for public review and 

comment a draft document titled ‘‘Risk 

and Exposure Assessment to Support 

the Review of the Secondary National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards for 

Oxides of Nitrogen and Oxides of 

Sulfur: First Draft.’’ The purpose of this 

draft document is to convey the 

approach EPA has taken to assess 

environmental exposures to ambient 

oxides of nitrogen and sulfur and to 

characterize associated public welfare 

risks, as well as to present the results of 

those assessments. We anticipate the 

release of an additional chapter(s) on or 

about the week of September 15, 2008. 

DATES: Comments on the above report 

must be received on or before October 

15, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–

OAR–2007–1145, by one of the 

following methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: Comments may be sent by 

electronic mail (e-mail) to a-and-rdocket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID 

No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2007–1145. 

• Fax: Fax your comments to 202–

566–9744, Attention Docket ID. No. 

EPA–HQ–OAR–2007–1145. 

• Mail: Send your comments to: Air 

and Radiation Docket and Information 

Center, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mailcode: 2822T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460, Attention Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–OAR–2007–1145. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: Deliver 

your comments to: EPA Docket Center, 

1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Room 

3334, 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–2007–

1145. The EPA’s policy is that all 

comments received will be included in 

the public docket without change and 

may be made available online at 

http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information provided, 

unless the comment includes 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Do not submit 

information that you consider to be CBI 

or otherwise protected through http:// 

www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The 

http://www.regulations.gov Web site 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 e-mail comment directly 

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to EPA without going through http:// 

www.regulations.gov your e-mail 

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 

able to consider your comment. 

Electronic files should avoid the use of 

special characters, any form of 

encryption, and be free of any defects or 

viruses. For additional information 

about EPA’s public docket visit the EPA 

Docket Center homepage at http:// 

www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

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. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either 

electronically in http:// 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the Air Docket in the EPA Docket 

Center, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC. This Docket Facility is open from 

8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays. The 

Docket telephone number is 202–566–

1742; fax 202–566–9744. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Anne Rea, Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards (Mailcode 

C539–02), U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Research Triangle 

Park, NC 27711; e-mail: 

rea.anne@epa.gov; telephone: 919–541–

0053; fax: 919–541–0840. 

General Information 

A. What Should I Consider as I Prepare 

My Comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to EPA through http:// 

www.regulations.gov or e-mail. Clearly 

mark the part or all of the information 

that you claim to be CBI. For CBI 

information in a disk or CD ROM that 

you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the 

disk or CD ROM as CBI and then 

identify electronically within the disk or 

CD ROM the specific information that is 

claimed as CBI. In addition to one 

complete version of the comment that 

includes information claimed as CBI, a 

copy of the comment that does not 

contain the information claimed as CBI 

must be submitted for inclusion in the 

public docket. Information so marked 

will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR part 2. 

2. Tips for Preparing Your Comments. 

When submitting comments, remember 

to: 

• Identify the rulemaking by docket 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

• Follow directions—The agency may 

ask you to respond to specific questions 

or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

• Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

• Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

• If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

• Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns, and suggest 

alternatives. 

• Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

• Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 

section 108(a) of the Clean Air Act 

(CAA), the Administrator identifies and 

lists certain pollutants which ‘‘cause or 

contribute to air pollution which may 

reasonably be anticipated to endanger 

public health or welfare.’’ The EPA then 

issues air quality criteria for listed 

pollutants, which are commonly 

referred to as ‘‘criteria pollutants.’’ The 

air quality criteria are to ‘‘accurately 

reflect the latest scientific knowledge 

useful in indicating the kind and extent 

of all identifiable effects on public 

health or welfare which may be 

expected from the presence of [a] 

pollutant in the ambient air, in varying 

quantities.’’ Under section 109 of the 

CAA, EPA establishes NAAQS for each 

listed pollutant, with the NAAQS based 

on the air quality criteria. Section 109(d) 

of the CAA requires periodic review 

and, if appropriate, revision of existing 

air quality criteria. The revised air 

quality criteria reflect advances in 

scientific knowledge on the effects of 

the pollutant on public health or 

welfare. The EPA is also required to 

periodically review and revise the 

NAAQS, if appropriate, based on the 

revised criteria. 

EPA is currently conducting a joint 

review of the existing secondary 

(welfare-based) national ambient air 

quality standards (NAAQS) for nitrogen 

dioxide (NO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2). 

Because NOX, SOX, and their associated 

transformation products are linked from 

an atmospheric chemistry perspective as 

well as from an environmental effects 

perspective, and because of the National 

Research Council’s (NRC’s) 2004 

recommendations to consider multiple 

pollutants in forming the scientific basis 

for the NAAQS, EPA has decided to 

jointly assess the science, risks, and 

policies relevant to protecting the public 

welfare associated with oxides of 

nitrogen and oxides of sulfur. This is the 

first time since NAAQS were 

established in 1971 that a joint review 

of these two pollutants has been 

conducted. Since both the Clean Air 

Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) 

and EPA have recognized these 

interactions historically, and the science 

related to these interactions has 

continued to evolve and grow to the 

present day, there is a strong basis for 

considering them together. 

As part of its review of the secondary 

NAAQS for NOX and SOX, EPA is 

preparing an assessment of exposures 

and characterization of risks for adverse 

ecological effects associated with 

atmospheric NOX and SOX deposition. 

A draft plan describing the proposed 

approaches to assessing ecological 

exposures and effects is described in the 

draft document, Draft Scope and 

Methods Plan for Risk/Exposure 

Assessment: Secondary NAAQS Review 

for Oxides of Nitrogen and Oxides of 

Sulfur. This document was released for 

public review and comment in March, 

2008 and was the subject of a 

consultation with the CASAC on April 

2 and 3, 2008. Comments received from 

that consultation have been considered 

in developing the first draft risk and 

exposure assessment for the secondary 

NOX/SOX NAAQS review being released 

at this time. 

The first draft risk and exposure 

assessment for the secondary NOX/SOX

NAAQS review released at this time 

conveys our approach to assess 

ecological effects due to the deposition 

of ambient NOX and SOX, and present 

the results of these analyses. This draft 

document will be available online at: 

http://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/ 

standards/no2so2sec/cr_rea.html. 

The EPA is soliciting advice and 

recommendations from the CASAC by 

means of a review on the draft 

document at an upcoming public 

meeting of the CASAC scheduled for 

October 1–2, 2008 in Research Triangle 

Park, N.C. Following the CASAC 

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meeting, EPA will consider comments 

received from the CASAC and the 

public in preparing a second draft risk 

and exposure assessment report. The 

release of the second draft report will be 

followed by another CASAC meeting 

which will be announced in a future 

Federal Register notice and ultimately 

EPA will release a final risk and 

exposure assessment document taking 

into consideration comments from the 

CASAC and public. 

Dated: August 21, 2008. 

Jennifer N. Edmonds, 

Acting Director, Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards. 

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OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND 

TECHNOLOGY POLICY 

Meeting of the President’s Council of 

Advisors on Science and Technology 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

schedule and summary agenda for a 

meeting of the President’s Council of 

Advisors on Science and Technology 

(PCAST), and describes the functions of 

the Council. Notice of this meeting is 

required under the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA). 

Dates and Place: September 16, 2008, 

Washington, DC. The meeting will be 

held in Room 100 at the Keck Center of 

the National Academies at 500 5th St., 

NW., Washington DC. 

Type of Meeting: Open. Further 

details on the meeting agenda will be 

posted on the PCAST Web site at: 

http://ostp.gov/cs/pcast/ 

meetings_agendas. 

Proposed Schedule and Agenda: The 

President’s Council of Advisors on 

Science and Technology (PCAST) is 

scheduled to meet in open session on 

Tuesday September 16, 2008, at 

approximately 9 a.m. The chairs of the 

PCAST subcommittee on universityprivate sector research partnerships are 

tentatively scheduled to lead a 

discussion on the findings of the PCAST 

study on this issue. The PCAST also is 

tentatively scheduled to convene three 

panels. The first panel will address 

broad policy issues associated with 

science and engineering education. The 

second panel will explore the impact of 

science policy on innovation. 

Additionally, PCAST is tentatively 

scheduled to have a panel providing an 

update on energy-related technologies. 

This session will end at approximately 

4 p.m. Additional information and the 

final agenda will be posted at the 

PCAST Web site at: http://ostp.gov/cs/ 

pcast/meetings_agendas. 

Public Comments: There will be time 

allocated for the public to speak on the 

above agenda items. This public 

comment time is designed for 

substantive commentary on PCAST?s 

work topics, not for business marketing 

purposes. Please submit a request for 

the opportunity to make a public 

comment five (5) days in advance of the 

meeting. The time for public comments 

will be limited to no more than 5 

minutes per person. Written comments 

are also welcome at any time following 

the meeting. Please notify Dr. Scott 

Steele, PCAST Executive Director, at 

(202) 456–6549, or fax your request/ 

comments to (202) 456–6040. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Information 

regarding agenda, time, and location is 

available at the PCAST Web site at: 

http://ostp.gov/cs/pcast/ 

meetings_agendas. Questions about the 

meeting should be directed to PCAST 

Executive Director Dr. Scott Steele at 

(202) 456–6549 prior to 3 p.m. on 

Friday, September 5, 2008. Please note 

that public seating for this meeting is 

limited and is available on a first-come, 

first-served basis. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

President’s Council of Advisors on 

Science and Technology was 

established by Executive Order 13226, 

on September 30, 2001. The purpose of 

PCAST is to advise the President on 

matters of science and technology 

policy, and to assist the President’s 

National Science and Technology 

Council in securing private sector 

participation in its activities. The 

Council members are distinguished 

individuals appointed by the President 

from non-Federal sectors. The PCAST is 

co-chaired by Dr. John H. Marburger, III, 

the Director of the Office of Science and 

Technology Policy, and by E. Floyd 

Kvamme, a Partner at Kleiner Perkins 

Caufield & Byers. 

Stanley S. Sokul, 

Chief of Staff and General Counsel, Office 

of Science and Technology Policy. 

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COMMISSION 

Public Information Collection 

Requirement Submitted to OMB for 

Review and Approval, Comments 

Requested 

August 22, 2008. 

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, as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. An agency may not 

conduct or sponsor a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid control number. No 

person shall be subject to any penalty 

for failing to comply with a collection 

of information subject to the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA) that does not 

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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; and (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. 

DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) comments should be 

submitted on or before September 29, 

2008. If you anticipate that you will be 

submitting comments, but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the contacts listed below as soon 

as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to 

Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of 

Management and Budget, via Internet at 

Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov or via 

fax at (202) 395–5167 and to Cathy 

Williams, Federal Communications 

Commission, Room 1–C823, 445 12th 

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PRA@fcc.gov. 

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