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DATES: Access by the DOJ and/or the 

parties to the Litigation to material 

discussed in this Notice that has been 

either claimed or determined to be CBI 

is ongoing, and is expected to continue 

in the future during the pendency of the 

Litigation. The EPA will accept 

comments on this Notice through 

October 30, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: For further information 

contact Craig Kaufman, AttorneyAdvisor, Office of Site Remediation 

Enforcement, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW. (Mail Code 2272A), 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 564–4284; e-mail address: 

kaufman.craig@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with 40 CFR 2.209(c)(1), the 

EPA has disclosed information, 

including CBI, to the DOJ in response to 

a written request for information from 

the DOJ and/or on the initiative of the 

EPA because such disclosure was 

necessary to enable the DOJ to carry out 

a litigation function on behalf of the 

EPA. The DOJ has been served with 

discovery requests seeking, among other 

things, documentation supporting the 

proofs of claim filed by the United 

States of America in the bankruptcy 

styled, In re Tronox Incorporated, et al., 

Case No. 09–10156 (ALG) (Chapter 11), 

pending in the United Stated 

Bankruptcy Court for the Southern 

District of New York (the ‘‘Bankruptcy’’). 

Those proofs of claim were filed on 

behalf of, inter alia, the EPA regarding 

the debtors’ environmental liabilities, 

including liabilities at sites at which the 

EPA’s contractors may have provided 

services. 

The parties to the Litigation have 

entered into an Agreed Protective Order, 

see Document No. 248 in the 

Bankruptcy docket, as amended on 

August 12, 2009, see Document No. 622 

(together, the ‘‘AGP’’), that will govern 

the treatment of information, including 

CBI, that is designated ‘‘Confidential’’ 

pursuant to the AGP. The AGP provides 

for limited dissemination of confidential 

information and for the return or 

destruction of confidential information 

at the conclusion of the Litigation. See, 

e.g., AGP, at ¶¶ 1, 10, 12–16, 21. 

In accordance with 40 CFR 2.209(d), 

the EPA is hereby giving notice that it 

has authorized the DOJ to disclose 

information that originated from the 

EPA to the extent required to comply 

with the discovery obligations of the 

United States in the Litigation, 

including its obligations under the AGP. 

Accordingly, business information that 

is ordinarily entitled to confidential 

treatment under existing Agency 

regulations (40 CFR Part 2) may be 

included in the information that the DOJ 

will release to parties in the Litigation 

pursuant to the AGP. 

As explained by EPA’s Office of 

General Counsel at its Web site, 

http://www.epa.gov/ogc/documents.

htm, the CBI that may be disclosed in 

the Litigation could include, but is not 

limited to, business information 

submitted by contractors and 

prospective contractors, see generally 

Class Determination 1–95; business 

information submitted in technical and 

cost proposals, see generally Class 

Determination 2–78; and business 

information submitted in contract 

proposals and related documents, see 

generally Class Determination 2–79. CBI 

may also include information obtained 

by the EPA under the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, 

Compensation, and Liability Act of 

1980, as amended (‘‘CERCLA’’), 

including information provided to the 

EPA, directly or indirectly, pursuant to 

section 104 of CERCLA. All CBI that is 

disclosed in the Litigation will be 

designated ‘‘Confidential’’ pursuant to 

the AGP. 

Information, including CBI, discussed 

in this Notice may relate to certain 

companies and agencies that have 

provided services for the EPA at sites 

involved in the Litigation, including but 

not limited to the following: Agency for 

Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; 

Alion Science & Technology 

Corporation; Alpha Woods Hole 

Laboratories; Arctic Slope Regional 

Corporation; ASRC Management 

Services, Incorporated; CDM Federal 

Programs Corporation; CH2M Hill 

Incorporated; Clayton Environmental 

Consultants; Columbia Analytical 

Services; Computer Services 

Corporation; Contract Laboratory 

Program; Datachem Laboratories, 

Incorporated; DynCorp International; 

Ecology & Environment, Incorporated; 

Environmental Control Technology 

Corporation; EnviroSystems, 

Incorporated; Foster Wheeler 

Environmental Corporation; GRB 

Environmental Services, Incorporated; 

Illinois Environmental Protection 

Agency; Industrial Economics, 

Incorporated; InStep Software, LLC; 

Integrated Support Systems, 

Incorporated; Keystone Environmental 

Resources Incorporated; Lancaster 

Laboratories; Lata-Kemron Remediation, 

LLC; Laucks Testing Laboratories, 

Incorporated; Liberty Analytical 

Corporation; Lockheed Environment 

Systems and Technologies Company; 

Lockheed Environmental & 

Technologies Remote Sensing Support; 

Lockheed Martin Services Incorporated; 

Malcolm Pirnie, Incorporated; Metcalf & 

Eddy, Incorporated; Mitkem 

Laboratories; NewFields; OHM 

Remediation Services Corporation; 

Resource Applications, Incorporated; 

Ronson Management Corporation; 

Routine Analytical Services; Roy F. 

Weston, Incorporated; Science 

Applications International Corporation; 

Special Analytical Services; S.S. 

Papadopulos & Associates, 

Incorporated; Stevenson; STN 

Environmental Joint Venture; TechLaw, 

Incorporated; Tetra Tech EM 

Incorporated; The Conti Group; Toeroek 

Associates, Incorporated; TRC 

Environmental Corporation; United 

States Environmental Services, LLC; 

United States Army Corps of Engineers; 

United States Department of the 

Interior; and Westinghouse Remediation 

Services, Incorporated; Weston 

Solutions, Incorporated; Wisconsin 

Department of Natural Resources; WRS 

Infrastructure and Environment 

Incorporated; York Laboratories. 

Dated: October 18, 2010. 

Sandra Connors, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Site 

Remediation Enforcement. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9216–4] 

Science Advisory Board Staff Office 

Request for Nominations of Experts for 

the Consultation on Revisions to the 

Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and 

Site Investigation Manual 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office is requesting 

public nominations for technical experts 

to augment the SAB’s Radiation 

Advisory Committee (RAC) to conduct a 

consultation on revision to the MultiAgency Radiation Survey and Site 

Investigation Manual. 

DATES: Nominations should be 

submitted by November 12, 2010 per 

instructions below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing further 

information regarding this Notice and 

Request for Nominations may contact 

Dr. K. Jack Kooyoomjian, Designated 

Federal Officer (DFO), SAB Staff Office, 

by telephone/voice mail at (202) 564– 

2064, or via e-mail at 

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information concerning the EPA Science 

Advisory Board can be found at the EPA 

SAB Web site at http//www.epa.gov/sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The SAB (42 U.S.C. 4365) 

is a chartered Federal Advisory 

Committee that provides independent 

scientific and technical peer review, 

advice, consultation, and 

recommendations to the EPA 

Administrator on the technical basis for 

EPA actions. As a Federal Advisory 

Committee, the SAB conducts business 

in accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 

U.S.C. App. 2) and related regulations. 

The SAB will comply with the 

provisions of FACA and all appropriate 

SAB Staff Office procedural policies. 

The Federal Inter-Agency MultiAgency Radiation Survey and Site 

Investigation Manual (MARSSIM) 

Workgroup plans to issue a Revision 2 

to the MARSSIM. The document to be 

revised, ‘‘MARSSIM, Rev.1 (2001),’’ is 

available at http://www.epa.gov/ 

radiation/marssim/obtain.html. The 

MARSSIM is the official multi-agency 

(U.S. EPA, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, U.S. Department of Energy 

and U.S. Department of Defense) 

consensus document on planning, 

coordinating, evaluating and 

documenting environmental 

radiological surveys. The MARSSIM, 

Rev. 1 (2001) provides explicit guidance 

to Federal agencies and other parties, 

including states, site owners, 

contractors and private entities on how 

to demonstrate that their site is in 

compliance with a radiation dose or 

risk-based regulation, otherwise known 

as a release criterion. 

Specifically, the update to the 

MARSSIM is anticipated to include 

incorporation of an improved treatment 

of measurement uncertainty, additional 

survey methods made possible by 

improvements in technology, more 

extensive discussion on areas of 

elevated activity [hotspots and Uranium 

Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act 

(UMTRCA) standards], and a variety of 

other improvements resulting from 

feedback received from users since 

issuance of the document. The planned 

revision reflects changes in science and 

technology, as well as twelve years of 

combined Federal experience in 

utilizing MARSSIM. This effort reflects 

a major extension of a multi-agency 

initiative to provide Federal guidance 

on determining whether a radioactivelycontaminated site (including materials 

and equipment located on or used at the 

site) has been adequately cleaned up. 

To support development of this 

update, EPA’s Office of Radiation and 

Indoor Air (ORIA), on behalf of the 

Federal Inter-Agency MARSSIM 

Workgroup, has requested an SAB 

consultation to seek advice early in the 

process for technical and scientific 

improvements to MARSSIM leading to 

the issuance of Revision 2. In response 

to ORIA’s request, the SAB Radiation 

Advisory Committee (RAC) will be 

augmented with additional experts to 

conduct this consultation. 

Request for Nominations: The SAB 

Staff Office is seeking nominations of 

nationally and internationally 

recognized scientists and engineers with 

demonstrated expertise and experience 

in one or more of the following areas: 

Environmental monitoring and 

sampling, geology, hydrogeology, 

measurement protocols for 

radionuclides, metrology, radiation 

science and statistics. 

Additional Information: For questions 

concerning ‘‘MARSSIM, Rev. 1(2001),’’ 

please contact Dr. Mary E. Clark of the 

U.S. EPA, ORIA by telephone at (202) 

343–9348, fax at (202) 343–2395, or email at clark.marye@epa.gov. 

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 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 below. 

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 Dr. K. 

Jack Kooyoomjian, DFO, as indicated 

above in this notice. Nominations 

should be submitted in time to arrive no 

later than November 12, 2010. 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 EPA SAB Staff Office will 

acknowledge receipt of nominations. 

The names and bio-sketches of qualified 

nominees identified by respondents to 

this Federal Register notice, and 

additional experts identified by the SAB 

Staff, will be posted in a List of 

Candidates on the SAB Web site at 

http://www.epa.gov/sab. Public 

comments on this 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 

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 

forming this expert panel, 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, (f) for the Panel as a whole, 

diversity of expertise and viewpoints. 

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:// 


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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: October 15, 2010. 

Vanessa T. Vu, 

Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff 

Office. 

[FR Doc. 2010–26656 Filed 10–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

Notice of Public Information 

Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the 

Federal Communications Commission, 

Comments Requested 

October 1, 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 

Act (PRA) 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 on 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 currently valid OMB 

control number. 

DATES: Written Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) comments should be 

submitted on or before December 20, 

2010. If you anticipate that you will be 

submitting PRA comments, but find it 

difficult to do so within the period of 

time allowed by this notice, you should 

advise the FCC contact listed below as 

soon as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to 

Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of 

Management and Budget, via fax at 202– 

395–5167 or via the Internet at 

Nicholas_A._Fraser@omb.eop.gov and 

to the Federal Communications 

Commission via e-mail to PRA@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information, contact Judith B. 

Herman, OMD, 202–418–0214 or e-mail 

Judith-b.herman@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 3060–0698. 

Title: Sections 25.203(i) and 

73.1030(a)(2), Radio Astronomy 

Coordination Zone in Puerto Rico. 

Form No.: N/A. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Business or other forprofit, not-for-profit institutions, and 

state, local or tribal government. 

Number of Respondents and 

Responses: 200 respondents; 1,000 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 5–40 

minutes (.0833 hours to .667 hours). 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

reporting requirement and third party 

disclosure requirement. 

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), 303(r), and 

309(j)(13). 

Total Annual Burden: 142 hours. 

Total Annual Cost: N/A. 

Privacy Act Impact Assessment: N/A. 

Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: 

There is no need for confidentiality. 

Needs and Uses: The Commission 

will submit this revised collection to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) after this comment period to 

obtain the full three year approval from 

them. The Commission is revising this 

information collection because Part 23 

rules, specifically section 23.20, was 

eliminated because there are no 

International Fixed Public 

Radiocommunication Services (IFPRS) 

licenses in operation. On January 14, 

2010, a Report and Order, IB Docket No. 

05–216, FCC 10–7, was adopted that 

eliminated Part 23 rules and the 

frequency allocations for IFPRS in the 

Table of Frequency Allocation. Part 23 

was created in the 1930s. IFPRS more 

recently was made up of point-to-point 

microwave services. For many years, 

these facilities provided an important 

form of international communications. 

More recently, however IFPRS has been 

limited to point-to-point microwave 

services provided between islands in 

the Caribbean Sea. Therefore, the 

Commission has removed this rule 

section from this information collection. 

The Commission published a 60-day 

delegated notice on September 22, 2010 

(75 FR 57792) which incorrectly stated 

that we would submit this collection as 

an extension (no change in the 

Commission’s reporting and/or third 

party disclosure requirements). 

However, after publication of this notice 

in the Federal Register, FCC 10–7 was 

discovered that changed this 

information collection. So, the 

Commission decided to publish another 

notice with accurate information on 

how we are treating and submitting this 

OMB submission. 

The existing requirements for this 

information collection are contained in 

parts 25 and 73. In a 1997 Report and 

Order, the Commission established a 

Coordination Zone for new and 

modified radio facilities in various 

communications services that cover the 

islands of Puerto Rico, Desecheo, Mona, 

Vieques, and Culebra within the 

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The 

coordination zone and notification 

procedures enable the Arecibo Radio 

Astronomy Observatory to receive 

information needed to assess whether 

an applicant’s proposed operations will 

cause harmful interference to the 

Arecibo Observatory’s operations, 

which also promotes efficient resolution 

of coordination problems between the 

applicants and the Observatory. The 

Observatory will perform interference 

evaluations at no cost to applicants. If 

potential interference problems are 

identified, applicants are required to 

make reasonable attempts to resolve or 

mitigate such problems in order to 

protect the Observatory. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

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Ocean Transportation Intermediary 

License Reissuance 

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following Ocean Transportation 

Intermediary licenses have been 

reissued by the Federal Maritime 

Commission pursuant to section 19 of 

the Shipping Act of 1984 (46 U.S.C. 

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