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and valley-fill operations require an 

NPDES permit that either meets 

technology-based effluent limits or 

water quality-based limits that are 

developed from ambient water quality 

criteria. Ambient Water Quality Criteria 

are developed for specific pollutants, 

and their application takes into account 

the conditions of a waterbody that are 

designed to protect the designated uses 

of the waterbody. 

EPA’s ORD has developed a report 

that uses field data to derive an aquatic 

life advisory value for conductivity (a 

measure of salinity) that may be applied 

to waters in the Appalachian Region 

that are dominated by salts of SO4

2¥

and HCO3¥. This advisory value is 

intended to protect the biological 

integrity of waters in the region. It is 

derived by a method modeled on EPA’s 

standard methodology for deriving 

water quality criteria. In particular, the 

methodology was adapted for use of 

field data. 

ORD is requesting the SAB to peer 

review this draft conductivity 

document. In a Federal Register Notice 

(Volume 74, Number 185, Pages 

48952—48953) published on September 

25, 2009, the SAB Staff Office solicited 

public nominations for a proposed SAB 

expert Panel to provide advice on ORD’s 

draft assessment of ecological impacts 

related to mountaintop mining and 

valley-fill operations. Since the 

mountaintop mining assessment report 

and the conductivity advisory document 

are related, the SAB Staff Office is 

forming one expert panel under the 

auspices of the SAB to cover the 

necessary expertise for the review of 

both reports. 

Request for Nominations: In addition 

to the expertise previously sought in the 

above noted Federal Register Notice, 

the SAB Staff office is seeking public 

nominations of experts with nationally 

recognized expertise, knowledge, and 

experience in statistics with emphasis 

in management of empirical data sets 

associated with aquatic ecology or water 

quality criteria. 

Process and Deadline for Submitting 

Nominations: Any interested person or 

organization may nominate qualified 

individuals in the areas of expertise 

described above for possible service on 

this expert ad hoc Panel. Nominations 

should be submitted in electronic 

format (which is preferred over hard 

copy) following the instructions for 

‘‘Nominating Experts to Advisory Panels 

and Ad Hoc Committees Being Formed’’ 

provided on the SAB Web site. The 

instructions can be accessed through the 

‘‘Nomination of Experts’’ link on the 

blue navigational bar on the SAB Web 

site at http://www.epa.gov/sab. To 

receive full consideration, nominations 

should include all of the information 

requested. 

EPA’s SAB Staff Office requests: 

contact information about the person 

making the nomination; contact 

information about the nominee; the 

disciplinary and specific areas of 

expertise of the nominee; the nominee’s 

curriculum vita; sources of recent grant 

and/or contract support; and a 

biographical sketch of the nominee 

indicating current position, educational 

background, research activities, and 

recent service on other national 

advisory committees or national 

professional organizations. 

Persons having questions about the 

nomination procedures, or who are 

unable to submit nominations through 

the SAB Web site, should contact Mr. 

Edward Hanlon, DFO, as indicated 

above in this notice. Nominations 

should be submitted in time to arrive no 

later than February 17, 2010. 

The EPA SAB Staff Office will 

acknowledge receipt of nominations. 

The names and biosketches of qualified 

nominees identified by respondents to 

this Federal Register notice and to the 

September 25, 2009 Federal Register 

Notice (Volume 74, Number 185, Pages 

48952—48953), and additional experts 

identified by the SAB Staff, will be 

posted in an Updated List of Candidates 

on the SAB Web site at http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab. Public comments on 

this Updated List of Candidates will be 

accepted for 21 calendar days. The 

public will be requested to provide 

relevant information or other 

documentation on nominees that the 

SAB Staff Office should consider in 

evaluating candidates. 

For the EPA SAB Staff Office, a 

balanced subcommittee or review panel 

includes candidates who possess the 

necessary domains of knowledge, the 

relevant scientific perspectives (which, 

among other factors, can be influenced 

by work history and affiliation), and the 

collective breadth of experience to 

adequately address the charge. In 

establishing this expert ad hoc Panel to 

provide advice on the ecological 

impacts related to mountaintop mining 

and valley-fill operations and on 

deriving an aquatic life ambient water 

quality advisory value for conductivity 

using field data, the SAB Staff Office 

will consider public comments on the 

List of candidates, information provided 

by the candidates themselves, and 

background information independently 

gathered by the SAB Staff Office. 

Selection criteria to be used for Panel 

membership include: (a) Scientific and/ 

or technical expertise, knowledge, and 

experience (primary factors); (b) 

availability and willingness to serve; (c) 

absence of financial conflicts of interest; 

(d) absence of an appearance of a lack 

of impartiality; and (e) skills working in 

committees, subcommittees and 

advisory panels; and, for the Panel as a 

whole, (f) diversity of scientific 

expertise and viewpoints. EPA values 

and welcomes diversity. In an effort to 

obtain nominations of diverse 

candidates, EPA encourages 

nominations of women and men of all 

racial and ethnic groups. 

The SAB Staff Office’s evaluation of 

an absence of financial conflicts of 

interest will include a review of the 

‘‘Confidential Financial Disclosure Form 

for Special Government Employees 

Serving on Federal Advisory 

Committees at the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency’’ (EPA Form 3110– 

48). This confidential form allows 

Government officials to determine 

whether there is a statutory conflict 

between that person’s public 

responsibilities (which includes 

membership on an EPA Federal 

advisory committee) and private 

interests and activities, or the 

appearance of a lack of impartiality, as 

defined by Federal regulation. The form 

may be viewed and downloaded from 

the following URL address http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/epaform3110– 

48.pdf. 

The approved policy under which the 

EPA SAB Office selects subcommittees 

and review panels is described in the 

following document: Overview of the 

Panel Formation Process at the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

Science Advisory Board (EPA–SAB–EC– 

02–010), which is posted on the SAB 

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

ec02010.pdf. 

Dated: January 27, 2010. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

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Notice of Public Information Collection 

Being Reviewed by the Federal 

Communications Commission for 

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Comments Requested 

January 28, 2010. 

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opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection(s), as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act 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 for small business 

concerns with fewer than 25 employees. 

The FCC 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 display a valid OMB control 

number. 

DATES: Persons wishing to comments on 

this information collection should 

submit comments on or before April 5, 

2010. 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 contact listed below as soon 

as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to 

Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), via fax 

at (202) 395–5167, or via the Internet at 

Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and 

to Judith B. Herman, Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC). To 

submit your PRA comments by e–mail 

send them to: PRA@fcc.gov. To view a 

copy of this information collection 

request (ICR) submitted to OMB: (1) Go 

to web page: http://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain, (2) look for the 

section of the web page called 

‘‘Currently Under Review’’, (3) click on 

the downward–pointing arrow in the 

‘‘Select Agency’’ box below the 

‘‘Currently Under Review’’ heading, (4) 

select ‘‘Federal Communications 

Commission’’ from the list of agencies 

presented in the ‘‘Select Agency’’ box, 

(5) click the ‘‘Submit’’ button to the right 

of the ‘‘Select Agency’’ box, and (6) 

when the FCC list appears, look for the 

title of this ICR (or its OMB Control 

Number, if there is one) and then click 

on the ICR. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Judith B. Herman, OMD, 202–418–0214. 

For additional information about the 

information collection(s) send an e–mail 

to PRA@fcc.gov or contact Judith B. 

Herman, 202–418–0214. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control No: 3060–0758. 

Title: Sections 5.55, 5.61, 5.75, 5.85 

and 5.93, Rules for the Experimental 

Radio Service, Part 5, ET Docket No. 96– 

256. 

Form No.: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Individuals or 

households, business or other for–profit, 

not–for–profit institutions, and state, 

local or tribal government. 

Number of Respondents: 428 

respondents; 4,524 responses. 

Estimated Time Per Response: .25 – 

2.5 hours. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

and one–time reporting requirements 

and third party disclosure requirements. 

Obligation to Respond: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. Statutory 

authority for this information collection 

is contained in 47 U.S.C. sections 154(i), 

303(c), 303(f), 303(g) and 303(r). 

Total Annual Burden: 681 hours. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: Yes. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

The Experimental Licensing System 

database is publicly accessible and in 

general, respondents do not have any 

assurances of confidentiality. However, 

applicants may request that certain 

portions of their application be kept 

confidential. In these instances, the 

Commission established rules in 47 CFR 

0.459 regarding how to file such 

requests. 

Need and Uses: The Commission is 

submitting this expiring information 

collection to the Office of Management 

and Budget at the end of this 60 day 

comment period in order to obtain the 

full three year clearance from them. 

There is no change in the reporting and/ 

or third party disclosure requirements. 

There are no changes to the 

Commission’s burden estimates. 

Section 5.55(c) requires that each 

application for experimental radio 

authorization shall be specific and 

complete with regard to: station 

location, proposed equipment, power, 

antenna height, and operating 

frequency; and other information 

required by the application form and 

rules. 

Section 5.61(c) requires that an 

application for experimental special 

temporary authority shall contain name, 

address, phone number of the applicant, 

description of why the STA is needed, 

description of the operation to be 

conducted and its purpose, time and 

dates of proposed operation, classes of 

station and call sign, description of the 

location, equipment to be used, 

frequency desired, power desired, and 

antenna height information. 

Section 5.75 requires that if a blanket 

experimental radio license is granted 

licensees are required to notify the 

Commission of specific details of each 

individual experiment. Specific details 

should include location, number of base 

and mobile units, power, emission 

designator, and any other pertinent 

technical information not specified by 

the blanket license. 

Section 5.85(d) when applicants are 

using public safety frequencies to 

perform experiments of a public safety 

nature, the license may be conditioned 

to require coordination between the 

experimental licensee and appropriate 

frequency coordinator and/or all public 

safety licensees in its area of operation. 

Section 5.85(e) states that the 

Commission may at its discretion 

condition any grant of an experimental 

license or special temporary authority 

(STA) on the requirement that before 

commencing operation, the new 

licensee must coordinate its proposed 

facility with other licensees that may 

receive interference as a result of the 

new licensee’s operations; and 

Section 5.93(b) unless otherwise 

stated in the instrument of authorization 

licenses granted for the purpose of 

limited market studies require the 

licensee to inform anyone participating 

in the experiment that the service or 

device is granted under an experimental 

authorization and is strictly temporary. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Office of 

Managing Director. 

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Notice of Public Information Collection 

Being Reviewed by the Federal 

Communications Commission, 

Comments Requested 

January 29, 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 

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