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categories with existing effluent 

guidelines identified with ‘‘(5)’’ in the 

column entitled ‘‘Findings’’ in Table V– 

1 in section V.B.4 of today’s notice). 

EPA will need to collect more 

information for the 2009 annual review. 

Specifically, EPA hopes to gather the 

following information: 

• What toxic pollutants are 

discharged from this industry in nontrivial amounts on an industry and perfacility basis? 

• What raw material(s) or process(es) 

are the sources of these pollutants? 

• What technologies or management 

practices are available (technically and 

economically) to control or prevent the 

generation and/or release of these 

pollutants. 

E. Data Sources and Methodologies 

EPA solicits comments on whether 

EPA used the correct evaluation factors, 

criteria, and data sources in conducting 

its annual review and developing this 

final Plan. EPA also solicits comment on 

other data sources EPA can use in its 

annual reviews and biennial planning 

process. Please see the docket for a more 

detailed discussion of EPA’s analysis 

supporting the reviews in this notice 

(see DCN 05515). 

F. BPJ Permit-Based Support 

EPA solicits comments on whether, 

and if so, how the Agency should 

provide EPA Regions and States with 

permit-based support instead of revising 

effluent guidelines (e.g., when the vast 

majority of the hazard is associated with 

one or a few facilities). EPA solicits 

comment on categories for which the 

Agency should provide permit-based 

support. 

G. Implementation Issues Related to 

Existing Effluent Guidelines and 

Pretreatment Standards 

As a factor in its decision-making, 

EPA considers opportunities to 

eliminate inefficiencies or impediments 

to pollution prevention or technological 

innovation, or opportunities to promote 

innovative approaches such as water 

quality trading, including within-plant 

trading. Consequently, EPA solicits 

comment on implementation issues 

related to existing effluent guidelines 

and pretreatment standards. 

H. EPA’s Evaluation of Categories of 

Indirect Dischargers Without 

Categorical Pretreatment Standards To 

Identify Potential New Categories for 

Pretreatment Standards 

EPA solicits comments on its 

evaluation of categories of indirect 

dischargers without categorical 

pretreatment standards. Specifically, 

EPA solicits wastewater characterization 

data (e.g., wastewater volumes, 

concentrations of discharged 

pollutants), current examples of 

pollution prevention, treatment 

technologies, and local limits for all 

industries without pretreatment 

standards. EPA also solicits comment on 

whether there are industrial sectors 

discharging pollutants that cause 

interference issues that cannot be 

adequately controlled through the 

general pretreatment standards. Finally, 

EPA solicits comment on how better to 

access and aggregate discharge data 

reported to local pretreatment programs. 

Currently, pollutant discharge data are 

collected by the local pretreatment 

program to demonstrate compliance 

with pretreatment standards and local 

limits but are not typically 

electronically transmitted to the States 

or EPA Regions. 

I. Industrial Water Conservation, Reuse 

and Recycling Technology Transfer 

EPA requests data to evaluate the 

costs, benefits, and impacts of industrial 

water conservation practices. In 

particular, EPA solicits the following 

industrial sector or facility level data on 

water re-use and reduction technologies 

and pollution prevention practices: 

• The main reasons why these 

technologies and practices were adopted 

(e.g., limitations to source water, 

increased water purchasing or treatment 

costs), and whether these technologies 

and practices are transferable to other 

facilities. 

Notice of Final 2008 Effluent Guidelines 

Program Plan 

• Descriptions of the water 

conservation technologies and practices 

employed at industrial unit operations; 

wastewater flow and pollutant data; and 

descriptions of the extent to which these 

water conservation technologies and 

practices reduce the amount of 

wastewater volume, the mass of 

wastewater pollutants resulting from an 

industrial unit operation, or both. 

• Detailed descriptions of the 

wastewater treatment and the annual 

costs of operating wastewater treatment 

to maintain compliance with the 

facility’s effluent limits. 

• Detailed descriptions of the capital 

and annual costs associated with 

implementing water conservation 

technologies and practices and any cost 

savings resulting from water 

conservation technologies and practices. 

Additionally, EPA solicits estimates 

of the amount of increased water 

conservation and the number of 

facilities that will likely adopt more 

advanced water conservation 

technologies and practices over the next 

five years as a result of limitations on 

water source availability or potential 

costs savings. 

Dated: September 5, 2008. 

Benjamin H. Grumbles, 

Assistant Administrator for Water. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–ORD–2008–0649; FRL–8715–6] 

Board of Scientific Counselors 

(BOSC), Human Health Subcommittee 

Meetings—Fall 2008 and Winter 2009 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of meetings. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 

92–463, the Environmental Protection 

Agency, Office of Research and 

Development (ORD), gives notice of 

three meetings of the Board of Scientific 

Counselors (BOSC) Human Health 

Subcommittee. 

DATES: The first meeting (a 

teleconference call) will be held on 

Friday, October 10, 2008, from 12:30 

p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EDT. The second 

meeting (a teleconference call) will be 

held on Monday, December 1, 2008, 

from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. EST. The third 

meeting (face-to-face) will begin on 

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 and conclude 

on Thursday, January 15, 2009. The 

meetings may adjourn early if all 

business is finished. Requests for the 

draft agendas or for making oral 

presentations at the meetings will be 

accepted up to one business day before 

each meeting. 

ADDRESSES: The face-to-face meeting 

will be held at the EPA’s RTP Main 

Campus Facility, 109 T.W. Alexander 

Drive, Research Triangle Park, North 

Carolina 27711. Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

ORD–2008–0649, by one of the 

following methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: Send comments by 

electronic mail (e-mail) to: 

ORD.Docket@epa.gov, Attention Docket 

ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2008–0649. 

• Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566– 

0224, Attention Docket ID No. EPA– 

HQ–ORD–2008–0649. 

• Mail: Send comments by mail to: 

Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), 

Human Health Subcommittee 

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Meetings—Fall 2008 and Winter 2009 

Docket, Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460, Attention Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–ORD–2008–0649. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier. Deliver 

comments to: EPA Docket Center (EPA/ 

DC), Room B102, EPA West Building, 

1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC, Attention Docket ID 

No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2008–0649. 

Note: This is not a mailing address. 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–ORD–2008– 

0649. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change and may be 

made available online at 

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 www.regulations.gov 

or e-mail. The 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 www.regulations.gov, your email 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 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 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the Board of Scientific Counselors 

(BOSC), Human Health Subcommittee 

Meetings—Fall 2008 and Winter 2009 

Docket, EPA/DC, EPA West, Room 

B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC. The 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 ORD Docket is (202) 566–1752. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Designated Federal Officer via mail at: 

Heather Drumm, Mail Code 8104–R, 

Office of Science Policy, Office of 

Research and Development, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; via phone/voice 

mail at: (202) 564–8239; via fax at: (202) 

565–2911; or via e-mail at: 

drumm.heather@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

General Information 

Any member of the public interested 

in receiving a draft BOSC agenda or 

making a presentation at any of the 

meetings may contact Heather Drumm, 

the Designated Federal Officer, via any 

of the contact methods listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section 

above. In general, each individual 

making an oral presentation will be 

limited to a total of three minutes. 

Proposed agenda items for the first 

teleconference include, but are not 

limited to: Overview of materials 

provided to the subcommittee; 

Overview of ORD; Overview of ORD’s 

Human Health Program; Subcommittee 

discussion. Proposed agenda items for 

the second teleconference include, but 

are not limited to: Overviews of each of 

the four Long Term Goals for the Human 

Health Research Program. Proposed 

agenda items for the face-to-face 

meeting include, but are not limited to: 

Overviews, poster sessions and client 

testimonials for each of the long term 

goals; Subcommittee discussions. The 

meetings are open to the public. 

Information on Services for 

Individuals with Disabilities: For 

information on access or services for 

individuals with disabilities, please 

contact Heather Drumm at (202) 564– 

8239 or drumm.heather@epa.gov. To 

request accommodation of a disability, 

please contact Heather Drumm, 

preferably at least ten days prior to the 

meeting, to give EPA as much time as 

possible to process your request. 

Dated: September 4, 2008. 

Fred Hauchman, 

Director, Office of Science Policy. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8715–9] 

Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee (CASAC); NOX & SOX

Secondary NAAQS Review Panel 

Meeting and Teleconference 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) Staff Office announces a public 

meeting of the Clean Air Scientific 

Advisory Committee Oxides of Nitrogen 

(NOX) and Sulfur Oxides (SOX) 

Secondary National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards (NAAQS) Review 

Panel (CASAC Panel) to peer review 

EPA’s Integrated Science Assessment for 

Oxides of Nitrogen and Sulfur— 

Environmental Criteria (Second 

External Review Draft) (EPA/600/R–08/ 

082) and EPA’s Risk and Exposure 

Assessment for Review of the Secondary 

National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards for Oxides of Nitrogen and 

Oxides of Sulfur: First Draft (EPA–452/ 

P–08–005a). The chartered CASAC will 

review and approve the Panel’s reports 

by public teleconference. 

DATES: The CASAC Panel will meet 

from 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, October 1, 

2008 through 3 p.m. Thursday, October 

2, 2008 (Eastern Time). The chartered 

CASAC will meet by public 

teleconference from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on 

October 30, 2008 (Eastern Time). 

ADDRESSES: The October 1–2, 2008 

public meeting will take place at the 

Marriott at Research Triangle Park, 4700 

Guardian Drive, Durham, NC 27703, 

telephone (919) 941–6200. The October 

30, 2008 public teleconference will be 

conducted by phone only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public who wants further 

information concerning the October 1– 

2, 2008 meeting may contact Ms. 

Kyndall Barry, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), EPA Science Advisory 

Board (1400F), U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

via telephone/voice mail (202) 343– 

9868; fax (202) 233–0643; or e-mail at 

barry.kyndall@epa.gov. For information 

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