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and other requirements for this program. 

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Dated: September 21, 2010. 

Eduardo M. Ochoa, 

Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary 

Education. 

[FR Doc. 2010–24030 Filed 9–23–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9206–7] 

2010 Release of CADDIS (Causal 

Analysis/Diagnosis Decision 

Information System) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of public release. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing 

the public release of the 2010 version of 

the Causal Analysis/Diagnosis Decision 

Information System (CADDIS). This 

Web site was developed to help 

scientists find, develop, organize, and 

use environmental information to 

improve causal assessments of 

biological impairment. The CADDIS 

Web site was developed and prepared 

by EPA’s National Center for 

Environmental Assessment (NCEA), in 

the Office of Research and Development 

(ORD), and is available at http:// 

www.epa.gov/caddis. 

DATES: The 2010 CADDIS Web site will 

become publically available on 

September 24, 2010. 

Additional Information: For 

additional information on the CADDIS 

Web site, please contact the Information 

Management Team via mail: Mailcode 

8601P, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone: 703– 

347–8561; facsimile: 703–347–8691; or 

e-mail: caddis@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Over a 

thousand water bodies in the United 

States are listed by states as biologically 

impaired. For many of these sites, the 

cause of impairment is reported as 

‘‘unknown.’’ Before appropriate 

management actions can be formulated 

for impaired water bodies, the causes of 

biological impairment (e.g., excess fine 

sediments, nutrients, toxics, and other 

stressors) must be identified. Effective 

causal analyses require knowledge of 

the mechanisms, symptoms, and 

stressor-response relationships for 

various stressors, as well as the ability 

to use that knowledge to draw 

appropriate, defensible conclusions. To 

aid in these causal analyses, NCEA 

developed CADDIS, a web-based 

decision support system to help 

regional, state, and tribal investigators 

find, access, organize, and share 

information useful for causal 

evaluations in aquatic systems. CADDIS 

is based on EPA’s Stressor Identification 

process, which is a formal method for 

identifying causes of impairments in 

aquatic environments. Features of 

CADDIS include a step-by-step guide to 

conducting causal assessments; a 

summary of relevant causal assessment 

history and concepts; summary 

information for common sources and 

stressors; applied examples of causal 

assessment methods; information on 

basic and advanced data analyses; 

downloadable software tools; and an 

online application for collaborating on 

conceptual diagrams and using them to 

update and access a database of 

supporting literature. 

Dated: September 20, 2010. 

Lynn Flowers, 

Acting Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

[FR Doc. 2010–23966 Filed 9–23–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R09—UST–2010–0538; FRL–9205–2] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Underground 

Storage Tank: Information Request 

Letters, Pacific Southwest Region 

(Region IX); EPA ICR No. 2405.01, OMB 

Control No. 2009–NEW 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document 

announces that EPA’s Pacific Southwest 

Region (Region IX) is planning to submit 

an Information Collection Request (ICR) 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB). Before submitting the request to 

OMB, EPA Region IX is soliciting 

comments on specific aspects of the 

information collection as described 

below. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before November 23, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R09— 

UST–2010–0538 by one of the following 

methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: thomas.ladonna@epa.gov. 

• Fax: (415) 947–3530. 

• Mail: LaDonna Thomas, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Mailcode: WST–8, 75 Hawthorne Street, 

San Francisco, CA 94105–3901. 

• Hand Delivery: Environmental 

Protection Agency Region IX, 75 

Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA. 

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–R09–UST–2010– 

0538. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change and may be 

made available online at 


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