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viewed at http://www.epa.gov/region6/ 

water/npdes/tmdl/index.htm. The 

administrative record file may be 

examined by calling or writing Ms. 

Diane Smith at the address below. 

Please contact Ms. Smith to schedule an 

inspection. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Diane Smith, Environmental Protection 

Specialist, Water Quality Protection 

Division, U.S. EPA Region 6, 1445 Ross 

Avenue, Dallas, TX 75202–2733, (214) 

665–2145. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 1996, 

two Louisiana environmental groups, 

the Sierra Club and Louisiana 

Environmental Action Network 

(plaintiffs), filed a lawsuit in Federal 

Court against the EPA, styled Sierra 

Club, et al. v. Clifford et al., No. 96– 

0527, (E.D. La.). Among other claims, 

plaintiffs alleged that EPA failed to 

establish Louisiana TMDLs in a timely 

manner. 

EPA Takes Final Agency Action on 30 

TMDLs 

By this notice EPA is taking final 

agency action on the following 30 

TMDLs for waters located within the 

Terrebonne River basin: 

Subsegment Waterbody name Pollutant 

120102 ................................. Bayou Poydras ................................................................ Dissolved Oxygen and Nutrients. 

120103 ................................. Bayou Choctaw ............................................................... Dissolved Oxygen, Nutrients, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus. 

120105 ................................. Chamberlin Canal ........................................................... Dissolved Oxygen, Nutrients, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus. 

120106 ................................. Bayou Plaquemine .......................................................... Dissolved Oxygen and Nutrients. 

120107 ................................. Upper Grand River and Lower Flat River—Headwaters 

to Intracoastal Waterway.

Dissolved Oxygen 

120109 ................................. Intracoastal Waterway—in Morgan City to Port Allen 

Route—Port Allen Locks to Bayou Sorrel Locks.

Dissolved Oxygen and Nutrients 

120110 ................................. Bayou Cholpe—Headwaters to Bayou Choctaw ............ Dissolved Oxygen. 

120202 ................................. Bayou Black—Intracoastal Waterway to Houma ............ Dissolved Oxygen and Nutrients. 

120204 ................................. Lake Verret and Grassy Lake ......................................... Dissolved Oxygen and Nutrients. 

120304 ................................. Intracoastal Waterway—Houma to Larose ..................... Dissolved Oxygen and Nutrients. 

120403 ................................. Intracoastal Waterway—Bayou Boeuf ............................ Dissolved Oxygen. 

120604 ................................. Bayou Blue—Intracoastal Waterway to boundary between segments 1206 and 1207.Dissolved Oxygen. 

120401 ................................. Bayou Penchant—Bayou Chene to Lake Penchant ....... Dissolved Oxygen. 

120404 ................................. Lake Penchant ................................................................ Dissolved Oxygen. 

120405 ................................. Lake Hatch and Lake Theriot ......................................... Dissolved Oxygen and Nutrients. 

120406 ................................. Lake de Cade .................................................................. Dissolved Oxygen and Nutrients. 

EPA requested the public to provide 

EPA with any significant data or 

information that might impact the 30 

Final TMDLs in the Federal Register 

Notice: Volume 73, Number 167, pages 

50610 and 50611 (August 27, 2008). The 

comments which were received, the 

EPA’s response to comments, and the 

final TMDLs may be found at http:// 

www.epa.gov/region6/water/npdes/ 

tmdl/index.htm. 

Dated: September 30, 2008. 

William K. Honker, 

Deputy Director, Water Quality Protection 

Division, EPA Region 6. 

[FR Doc. E8–23868 Filed 10–7–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2006–0922; FRL–8724–4] 

Draft Risk and Exposure Assessment 

Report for Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of draft report for public 

review and comment. 

SUMMARY: On or about October 3, 2008, 

the Office of Air Quality Planning and 

Standards (OAQPS) of EPA is making 

available for public review and 

comment additional sections of a draft 

document titled, Risk and Exposure 

Assessment to Support the Review of the 

NO 2 Primary National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard: Second Draft which 

was originally announced in a 

September 2, 2008 Federal Register 

notice (73 FR 51297). The additional 

sections being released at this time are 

Chapter 8 and a revised Appendix B. 

The purposes of these two sections are 

to convey the approach taken to 

characterize NO2 exposures, to convey 

the approach taken to characterize 

health risks associated with those 

exposures, and to present the results of 

those analyses. 

DATES: Comments on the additional 

sections of the above report must be 

received on or before October 22, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2006–0922, 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–2006–0922. 

• Fax: Fax your comments to 202– 

566–9744, Attention Docket ID. No. 

EPA–HQ–OAR–2006–0922. 

• 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–2006–0922. 

• 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–2006– 

0922. 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 

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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 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. 

Scott Jenkins, Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards (Mail Code 

C504–06), U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Research Triangle 

Park, NC 27711; e-mail: 

Jenkins.scott@epa.gov; telephone: 919– 

541–1167; fax: 919–541–0237. 

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 national ambient 

air quality standards (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. 

Air quality criteria have been 

established for the nitrogen oxides 

(NOX) and NAAQS have been 

established for nitrogen dioxide (NO2), 

an indicator for gaseous NOX. Presently, 

EPA is in the process of reviewing the 

NAAQS for NO2. As part of its review 

of the NAAQS, EPA is preparing an 

assessment of exposures and health 

risks associated with ambient NO2. A 

draft plan describing the proposed 

approaches to assessing exposures and 

risks is described in the draft document, 

Nitrogen Dioxide Health Assessment 

Plan: Scope and Methods for Exposure 

and Risk Assessment. This document 

was released for public review and 

comment in September, 2007 and was 

the subject of a consultation with the 

Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee (CASAC) on October 24 and 

25, 2007. Comments received from that 

consultation were considered in 

developing the document titled, Risk 

and Exposure Assessment to Support 

the Review of the NO 2 Primary National 

Ambient Air Quality Standard: First 

Draft, which was released for public 

review and comment in April 2008. 

This document was the subject of a 

CASAC review on May 1 and 2, 2008. 

Comments received from that review 

have been considered in developing the 

document titled, Risk and Exposure 

Assessment to Support the Review of the 

NO 2 Primary National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard: Second Draft, which 

was released (except for chapter 8 and 

part of appendix B) for public review 

and comment in August 2008. The EPA 

solicited advice and recommendations 

from the CASAC by means of a review 

of this draft document at a public 

meeting that was held on September 9– 

10, 2008 in Research Triangle Park, 

North Carolina. Chapter 8 of this 

document, and a revised appendix B, 

are being released on or about October 

3, 2008. 

Chapter 8 and the revised appendix B 

will be available online at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/nox/ 

s_nox_cr_rea.html . Their purposes are 

to convey the approach taken to 

characterize NO2 exposures, to convey 

the approach taken to characterize 

health risks associated with those 

exposures, and to present the results of 

those analyses. The EPA is soliciting 

advice and recommendations from the 


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CASAC by means of a review of chapter 

8 and the revised appendix B at a public 

teleconference that will be held on 

October 22, 2008. Information on that 

meeting has been announced separately 

in the Federal Register . In preparing a 

final risk and exposure assessment 

report, EPA will consider comments 

received from the CASAC and the 

public at the meeting held on September 

9–10 and at the teleconference to be 

held on October 22 as well as written 

comments received during the public 

comment periods. 

Dated: September 18, 2008. 

Jenny Edmonds, 

Acting Director, Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards. 

[FR Doc. E8–23856 Filed 10–7–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2007–0837; FRL–8384–1] 

Malathion; Notice of Receipt of 

Request to Amend to Terminate Uses 

of Certain Pesticide Registrations 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, 

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 

(FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a 

notice of receipt of a request by the 

technical registrant to voluntarily 

amend their registrations to terminate 

uses of certain products containing the 

pesticide malathion. The request would 

terminate malathion use in or on 

commercial storages/warehouses 

premises (excluding stored grain 

facilities such as silos), commercial 

transportation facilities – feed/food – 

empty, commercial transportation 

facilities – nonfeed/nonfood, 

commercial/institutional/industrial 

premises/equipment (indoor), 

commercial/institutional/industrial 

premises/equipment (outdoor), dairies/ 

cheese processing plant equipment 

(food contact), eating establishments, 

food processing plants (excluding stored 

grain facilities such as silos), golf course 

turf, greenhouse – empty, indoor hard 

surfaces, indoor premises, residential 

dust formulations, residential lawns 

(broadcast), residential pressurized can 

formulations, and sewage systems. The 

request would not terminate the last 

malathion products registered for use in 

the United States. EPA intends to grant 

this request at the close of the comment 

period for this announcement unless the 

Agency receives substantive comments 

within the comment period that would 

merit its further review of the request, 

or unless the registrant withdraws their 

request within this period. Upon 

acceptance of this request, any sale, 

distribution, or use of products listed in 

this notice will be permitted only if 

such sale, distribution, or use is 

consistent with the terms as described 

in the final order. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before November 7, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2007–0837, by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Office of Pesticide Programs 

(OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001. 

• Delivery: OPP Regulatory Public 

Docket (7502P), Environmental 

Protection Agency, Rm. S–4400, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. Deliveries 

are only accepted during the Docket 

Facility’s normal hours of operation 

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

Friday, excluding legal holidays). 

Special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. The 

Docket Facility telephone number is 

(703) 305–5805. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2007– 

0837. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the docket 

without change and may be made 

available on-line 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 regulations.gov or email. The regulations.gov website 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 

regulations.gov, your e-mail address 

will be automatically captured and 

included as part of the comment that is 

placed in the 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. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the docket index available 

at http://www.regulations.gov. 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, 

is not placed on the Internet and will be 

publicly available only in hard copy 

form. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either in the 

electronic docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or, if only 

available in hard copy, at the OPP 

Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S– 

4400, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 

2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The 

hours of operation of this Docket 

Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The Docket Facility telephone 

number is (703) 305–5805. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric 

Miederhoff, Special Review and 

Reregistration Division (7508P), Office 

of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460– 

0001; telephone number: (703) 347- 

8028; fax number: (703) 308-7070; email address: miederhoff.eric@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this Action Apply to Me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general, and may be of interest to a 

wide range of stakeholders including 

environmental, human health, and 

agricultural advocates; the chemical 

industry; pesticide users; and members 

of the public interested in the sale, 

distribution, or use of pesticides. Since 

others also may be interested, the 

Agency has not attempted to describe all 

the specific entities that may be affected 

by this action. If you have any questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

to a particular entity, consult the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

B. What Should I Consider as I Prepare 

My Comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to EPA through 

regulations.gov or e-mail. Clearly mark 

the part or all of the information that 


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