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TABLE—REGISTRATION REVIEW DOCKETS OPENING—Continued 

Registration Review Case Name and Number Docket ID Number Chemical Review Manager, 

Telephone Number, E-mail Address 

Soap salts Case # 4083 EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0519 Monica Wait, 

(703) 347–8019, 

wait.monica@epa.gov 

Flutolnil EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0148 Jill Bloom, 

(703) 308–7070, 

bloom, jill@epa.gov 

The Agency is also announcing that it 

will not conduct a registration review 

for fenamiphos (registration review case 

333). In October 2006, the Agency 

issued schedules for upcoming 

registration reviews and included 

fenamiphos as one of the pesticides 

scheduled for registration review. Since 

first identifying fenamiphos as a 

Registration Review pesticide, the 

Agency has determined that there are no 

current fenamiphos Section 3 or Section 

24(c) registrations. Therefore, the 

Agency has determined that fenamiphos 

is no longer subject to registration 

review. A Registration Review docket 

will not be opened for fenamiphos and 

the fenamiphos registration review case 

has been closed pursuant to 40 CFR 

155.42(c). 

B. Docket Content 

1. Review dockets. The registration 

review dockets contain information that 

the Agency may consider in the course 

of the registration review. The Agency 

may include information from its files 

including, but not limited to, the 

following information: 

• An overview of the registration 

review case status. 

• A list of current product 

registrations and registrants. 

• Federal Register notices regarding 

any pending registration actions. 

• Federal Register notices regarding 

current or pending tolerances. 

• Risk assessments. 

• Bibliographies concerning current 

registrations. 

• Summaries of incident data. 

• Any other pertinent data or 

information. 

Each docket contains a document 

summarizing what the Agency currently 

knows about the pesticide case and a 

preliminary work plan for anticipated 

data and assessment needs. Additional 

documents provide more detailed 

information. During this public 

comment period, the Agency is asking 

that interested persons identify any 

additional information they believe the 

Agency should consider during the 

registration reviews of these pesticides. 

The Agency identifies in each docket 

the areas where public comment is 

specifically requested, though comment 

in any area is welcome. 

2. Other related information. More 

information on these cases, including 

the active ingredients for each case, may 

be located in the registration review 

schedule on the Agency’s website at 

http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/ 

registration_review/schedule.htm.. 

Information on the Agency’s registration 

review program and its implementing 

regulation may be seen at http:// 

www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/ 

registration_review. 

3. Information submission 

requirements. Anyone may submit data 

or information in response to this 

document. To be considered during a 

pesticide’s registration review, the 

submitted data or information must 

meet the following requirements: 

• To ensure that EPA will consider 

data or information submitted, 

interested persons must submit the data 

or information during the comment 

period. The Agency may, at its 

discretion, consider data or information 

submitted at a later date. 

• The data or information submitted 

must be presented in a legible and 

useable form. For example, an English 

translation must accompany any 

material that is not in English and a 

written transcript must accompany any 

information submitted as an 

audiographic or videographic record. 

Written material may be submitted in 

paper or electronic form. 

• Submitters must clearly identify 

the source of any submitted data or 

information. 

• Submitters may request the 

Agency to reconsider data or 

information that the Agency rejected in 

a previous review. However, submitters 

must explain why they believe the 

Agency should reconsider the data or 

information in the pesticide’s 

registration review. 

• As provided in 40 CFR 155.58, the 

registration review docket for each 

pesticide case will remain publicly 

accessible through the duration of the 

registration review process; that is, until 

all actions required in the final decision 

on the registration review case have 

been completed. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: September 4, 2008. 

Peter Caulkins, 

Acting Director, Special Review and 

Registration Division, Office of Pesticide 

Programs. 

[FR Doc. E8–21482 Filed 9–12–08; 8:45 a.m.] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

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AGENCY 

[FRL–OW–FRL–8715–3] 

Revision of National Recommended 

Water Quality Criteria for Acrolein and 

Phenol 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability of updated 

draft criteria and request for scientific 

views. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 304(a) of 

the Clean Water Act (CWA), the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

is announcing the revision and 

availability of draft updated national 

recommended water quality criteria for 

the protection of human health for 

acrolein and phenol. The draft criteria 

are partial updates based on EPA’s 

Methodology for Deriving Ambient 

Water Quality Criteria for the Protection 

of Human Health (2000), EPA–822–B– 

00–004 (2000 Human Health 

Methodology) and will supersede 

previously published criteria when 

final. EPA’s recommended section 

304(a) water quality criteria provide 

guidance to States and authorized 

Tribes in adopting water quality 

standards for protecting human health 

and provide guidance to EPA for 

promulgating Federal regulations under 

CWA section 303(c), when such action 

is necessary. 

DATES: Scientific views must be 

received on or before October 30, 2008. 

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Comments postmarked after this date 

may not be considered. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your scientific 

views, identified by Docket ID No. EPA– 

HQ–OW–2008–0553, by one of the 

following methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: OW–Docket@epa.gov. 

• Mail: U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency; EPA Docket Center 

(EPA/DC) Water Docket, MC 2822T; 

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. 

• Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center, 

1301 Constitution Ave., NW., EPA West, 

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–OW–2008– 

0553. 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 

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 Office of Water Docket/EPA/DC, 

1301 Constitution Ave., NW., EPA West, 

Room 3334, Washington, DC. This 

Docket Facility is open from 8:30 a.m. 

until 4:30 p.m., EST, Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays. The 

telephone number for the Public 

Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, and 

the telephone number for the Office of 

Water is (202) 566–2426. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Heidi L. Bethel, Health and Ecological 

Criteria Division (4304T), U.S. EPA, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; (202) 566–2054; 

bethel.heidi@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. What Are Water Quality Criteria? 

Water quality criteria are scientifically 

derived numeric values that protect 

aquatic life or human health from the 

deleterious effects of pollutants in 

ambient water. 

Section 304(a)(1) of the Clean Water 

Act requires EPA to develop and 

publish and, from time to time, revise, 

criteria for water quality accurately 

reflecting the latest scientific 

knowledge. Water quality criteria 

developed under section 304(a) are 

based solely on data and scientific 

judgments on the relationship between 

pollutant concentrations and 

environmental and human health 

effects. Section 304(a) criteria do not 

reflect consideration of economic 

impacts or the technological feasibility 

of meeting the chemical concentrations 

in ambient water. 

Section 304(a) criteria provide 

guidance to States and authorized 

Tribes in adopting water quality 

standards that ultimately provide a basis 

for controlling discharges or releases of 

pollutants. The criteria also provide 

guidance to EPA when promulgating 

federal regulations under section 303(c) 

when such action is necessary. Under 

the CWA and its implementing 

regulations, States and authorized 

Tribes are to adopt water quality criteria 

to protect designated uses (e.g., public 

water supply, recreational use, 

industrial use). EPA’s recommended 

human health water quality criteria do 

not substitute for the CWA or 

regulations, nor are they regulations 

themselves. Thus, EPA’s recommended 

criteria do not impose legally binding 

requirements. States and authorized 

Tribes have the discretion to adopt, 

where appropriate, other scientifically 

defensible water quality standards that 

differ from these recommendations. 

II. What Are the Criteria Revisions? 

EPA is today publishing an update of 

national recommended water quality 

criteria (NRWQC) for protecting human 

health for acrolein and phenol. These 

draft revisions are based on EPA’s 

Methodology for Deriving Ambient 

Water Quality Criteria for the Protection 

of Human Health (2000), EPA–822–B– 

00–004 (2000 Human Health 

Methodology). This methodology 

describes the Agency’s current approach 

for deriving national recommended 

water quality criteria to protect human 

health. 

The draft revision of these criteria 

represents a partial update of the 304(a) 

criteria as described in both the draft 

Methodology revisions and the Federal 

Register Notice that accompanied the 

2000 Human Health Methodology (65 

FR 66444; November 3, 2000). EPA 

believes that updating a limited number 

of components for which there are 

available data or improved science (i.e., 

a partial update) is a reasonable and 

efficient means of publishing revised 

304(a) criteria more frequently. EPA has 

also previously described its process for 

publishing revised criteria [see National 

Recommended Water Quality Criteria; 

Notice; Republication (63 FR 68354; 

December 10, 1998 or EPA 822–Z–99– 

001) and National Recommended Water 

Quality Criteria; Notice; Republication; 

Correction (64 FR 19781; April 22, 1999) 

or the Federal Register Notice for the 

2000 Methodology]. EPA indicated that 

when making minor revisions to 

existing criteria based on new 

information pertaining to individual 

components of the criteria, it would 

typically publish the recalculated 

criteria directly as the Agency’s national 

recommended water quality criteria. 

The draft criteria for acrolein and 

phenol are being updated with reference 

dose (RfD) values from EPA’s Integrated 

Risk Information System (IRIS) (http:// 

www.epa.gov/iris). Because 

recalculation of these two criteria 

results in significant changes, EPA is 

publishing them in today’s Notice in 

order to solicit scientific views. 

However, EPA does not intend to 

subject this recalculation to additional 

peer review because the IRIS reference 

doses being updated in this draft partial 

criteria update have been previously 

peer reviewed. 

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Tables 1 and 2 below containing the 

current and updated draft criteria for 

acrolein and phenol were prepared to 

assist reviewers. The RfD values used to 

derive the respective criteria values are 

also included in Tables 1 and 2 below. 

TABLE 1—UPDATED DRAFT CRITERIA FOR ACROLEIN

Acrolein Current criteria Updated draft criteria 

IRIS RfD ................................. 0.0156 mg/(kg-d) (published 1977) ....................................... 0.0005 mg/(kg-d) (published 6/03) 

(http://www.epa.gov/ncea/iris/subst/0364.htm). 

Water + Organisms ................ 190 μg/l .................................................................................. 6 μg/l 

Organisms Only ...................... 290 μg/l .................................................................................. 9 μg/l. 

TABLE 2—UPDATED DRAFT CRITERIA FOR PHENOL

Phenol Current criteria Updated draft criteria 

IRIS RfD ................................. 0.60 mg/(kg-d) (published 2/90) ............................................ 0.30 mg/(kg-d) (published 9/02) 

(http://www.epa.gov/ncea/iris/subst/0088.htm). 

Water + Organisms ................ 20,700 μg/l ............................................................................. 10,400 μg/l. 

Organisms Only ...................... 1,700,000 μg/l ........................................................................ 857,000 μg/l. 

EPA decided to revise the existing 

criteria based on partially updated 

components of the criteria equations in 

order to increase the frequency of 

scientific improvements to the 

nationally recommended criteria using 

acceptable, currently-available 

information. For a water quality 

criterion revision based on a partial 

update to be considered acceptable to 

EPA, a component of the criterion (e.g., 

the toxicological risk assessment) 

should be comprehensive (e.g., a new or 

revised reference dose (RfD)) or cancer 

dose-response assessment, as opposed 

to simply a new scaling factor), stand 

alone, and be based on new national or 

local data. The criteria for phenol and 

acrolein are being updated with more 

recent reference doses available from 

EPA’s Integrated Risk Information 

System (IRIS). IRIS is an electronic data 

base maintained by the EPA that 

provides chemical-specific risk 

information on the relationship between 

chemical exposures and estimated 

human health effects. Risk assessment 

information contained in IRIS, except as 

specifically noted, has been reviewed 

and agreed upon by an interdisciplinary 

group of scientists representing various 

Program Offices within the Agency and 

represents Agency-wide consensus. 

Therefore, updated IRIS values reflect 

the most current Agency science and 

should be used by States and Tribes in 

updating or developing new human 

health criteria. The Office of Science 

and Technology will publish these 

partial updates of water quality criteria 

via their Water Science Web Site 

(http://www.epa.gov/waterscience). 

IV. What Is the Relationship Between 

the Water Quality Criteria and Your 

State or Tribal Water Quality 

Standards? 

As part of the water quality standards 

triennial review process defined in 

Section 303(c)(1) of the CWA, the States 

and authorized Tribes are responsible 

for maintaining and revising water 

quality standards. Water quality 

standards consist of designated uses, 

water quality criteria to protect those 

uses, a policy for antidegradation, and 

general policies for application and 

implementation. Section 303(c)(1) 

requires States and authorized Tribes to 

review and modify, if appropriate, their 

water quality standards at least once 

every three years. 

States and authorized Tribes must 

adopt water quality criteria that protect 

designated uses. Protective criteria are 

based on a sound scientific rationale 

and contain sufficient parameters or 

constituents to protect the designated 

uses. 

Consistent with 40 CFR131.21 [see: 

EPA Review and Approval of State and 

Tribal Water Quality Standards (65 FR 

24641, April 27, 2000)], water quality 

criteria adopted by law or regulation by 

States and authorized Tribes prior to 

May 30, 2000, are in effect for CWA 

purposes unless superseded by federal 

regulations (see, for example, the 

National Toxics Rule, 40 CFR 131.36; 

Water Quality Standards for Idaho, 40 

CFR 131.33). New or revised water 

quality criteria adopted into law or 

regulation by States and authorized 

Tribes on or after May 30, 2000 are in 

effect for CWA purposes only after EPA 

approval. 

V. What Is the Status of Existing 

Recommended Criteria While They Are 

Under Revision? 

Water quality criteria published by 

EPA remain the Agency’s recommended 

water quality criteria until EPA revises 

or withdraws the criteria. The current 

criteria for acrolein and phenol will 

remain in effect until EPA publishes the 

updated criteria. 

VI. Where Can I Find More Information 

About Water Quality Criteria and 

Water Quality Standards? 

For more information about water 

quality criteria and Water Quality 

Standards refer to the following: Water 

Quality Standards Handbook (EPA 823– 

B94–005a); Advanced Notice of 

Proposed Rule Making (ANPRM), (63 FR 

36742); Water Quality Criteria and 

Standards Plan—Priorities for the 

Future (EPA 822–R–98–003); Guidelines 

and Methodologies Used in the 

Preparation of Health Effects 

Assessment Chapters of the Consent 

Decree Water Criteria Documents (45 FR 

79347); Methodology for Deriving 

Ambient Water Quality Criteria for the 

Protection of Human Health (2000), 

(EPA–822–B–00–004); Guidelines for 

Deriving Numerical National Water 

Quality Criteria for the Protection of 

Aquatic Organisms and Their Uses 

(EPA 822/R–85–100); National Strategy 

for the Development of Regional 

Nutrient Criteria (EPA 822–R–98–002); 

and EPA Review and Approval of State 

and Tribal Water Quality Standards (65 

FR 24641). 

You can find these publications 

through EPA’s National Service Center 

for Environmental Publications (NSCEP, 

previously NCEPI) or on the Office of 

Science and Technology’s Home-page 

(http://www.epa.gov/waterscience). 

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Dated: August 28, 2008. 

Ephraim S. King, 

Director, Office of Science and Technology. 

[FR Doc. E8–21460 Filed 9–12–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE 

CORPORATION 

Notice of Agency Meeting 

Pursuant to the provisions of the 

‘‘Government in the Sunshine Act’’ (5 

U.S.C. 552b), notice is hereby given that 

at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 16, 

2008, the Federal Deposit Insurance 

Corporation’s Board of Directors will 

meet in closed session, pursuant to 

section 552b(c)(2), (c)(4), (c)(6), (c)(8), 

(9)(A)(ii), and (9)(B) of Title 5, United 

States Code, to consider matters relating 

to the Corporation’s supervisory and 

corporate activities. 

The meeting will be held in the Board 

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Building located at 550 17th Street, 

NW., Washington, DC. 

Requests for further information 

concerning the meeting may be directed 

to Mr. Robert E. Feldman, Executive 

Secretary of the Corporation, at (202) 

898–7122. 

Dated: September 9, 2008. 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

Robert E. Feldman, 

Executive Secretary. 

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the Federal Deposit Insurance 

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meet in open session at 10 a.m. on 

Tuesday, September 16, 2008, to 

consider the following matters: 

Summary Agenda: No substantive 

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member of the Board of Directors 

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discussion agenda. 

Disposition of minutes of previous 

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reports of actions taken pursuant to 

authority delegated by the Board of 

Directors 

Memorandum and resolution re: Final 

Rule: Financial Education Programs 

that Include the Provision of Bank 

Products and Services 

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Amendments to the FDIC Rules and 

Regulations Due to the Financial 

Services Regulatory Relief Act of 2006 

Memorandum and resolution re: Final 

Amendments to the Guidelines for 

Appeals of Material Supervisory 

Determinations 

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Interagency Notice of Proposed 

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Deduction of Goodwill Net of 

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Dated: September 9, 2008. 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

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members of the Performance Review 

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DATES: September 15, 2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

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Child Labor, Forced Labor & Human 

Trafficking, Bureau of International 

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Bill Spencer, Clerk of the Board, Merit 

Systems Protection Board; 

Rosa Koppel, Solicitor, Federal Labor 

Relations Authority; 

Catherine Emerson, Acting Executive 

Director, Federal Labor Relations 

Authority. 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 4134(c)(4). 

Dated: September 9, 2008. 

Catherine V. Emerson, 

Acting Executive Director. 

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