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materials may be available 

electronically, you may still access any 

of the publicly available docket 

materials through the EPA Docket 

Center. 

B. How and to Whom Do I Submit 

Comments? 

You may submit comments as 

provided in the ADDRESSES section. 

Please ensure that your comments are 

submitted within the specified comment 

period. Comments received after the 

close of the comment period will be 

marked ‘‘late.’’ EPA is not required to 

consider these late comments. 

If you submit an electronic comment, 

EPA recommends that you include your 

name, mailing address, and an e-mail 

address or other contact information in 

the body of your comment and with any 

disk or CD ROM you submit. This 

ensures that you can be identified as the 

submitter of the comment and allows 

EPA to contact you in case EPA cannot 

read your comment due to technical 

difficulties or needs further information 

on the substance of your comment. Any 

identifying or contact information 

provided in the body of a comment will 

be included as part of the comment that 

is placed in the official public docket, 

and made available in EPA’s electronic 

public docket. 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. 

Use of the http://www.regulations.gov 

Web site to submit comments to EPA 

electronically is EPA’s preferred method 

for receiving comments. The electronic 

public docket system is an ‘‘anonymous 

access’’ system, which means EPA will 

not know your identity, e-mail address, 

or other contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

In contrast to EPA’s electronic public 

docket, EPA’s electronic mail (e-mail) 

system is not an ‘‘anonymous access’’ 

system. If you send an e-mail comment 

directly to the Docket without going 

through http://www.regulations.gov, 

your e-mail address is automatically 

captured and included as part of the 

comment that is placed in the official 

public docket, and made available in 

EPA’s electronic public docket. 

Dated: June 16, 2009. 

Richard B. Ossias, 

Associate General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. E9–14710 Filed 6–22–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8921–8] 

Science Advisory Board Staff Office 

Notification of an Upcoming Meeting of 

the Science Advisory Board Ecological 

Processes and Effects Committee 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA or Agency) Science 

Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office 

announces a public meeting of the SAB 

Ecological Processes and Effects 

Committee to provide advice on EPA’s 

implementation of the Ecosystem 

Services Research Program. 

DATES: The meeting dates are Tuesday, 

July 14, 2009 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

(Eastern Time) and Wednesday, July 15, 

2009 from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon (Eastern 

Time). 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the SAB Conference Center, 1025 F 

Street, NW., Room 3705, Washington, 

DC 20004. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Members of the public who wish to 

obtain further information about this 

meeting must contact Dr. Thomas 

Armitage, Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO). Dr. Armitage may be contacted at 

the EPA Science Advisory Board 

(1400F), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; or via 

telephone/voice mail; (202) 343–9995; 

fax (202) 233–0643; or e-mail at 

armitage.thomas@epa.gov. Any inquiry 

regarding EPA’s Ecosystem Services 

Research Program should be directed to 

Dr. Rick Linthurst of EPA’s Office of 

Research and Development at 

linthurst.rick@epa.gov or (919) 541– 

4909. General information about the 

EPA SAB, as well as any updates 

concerning the meeting announced in 

this notice, may be found on the SAB 

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

Public Law 92–463, notice is hereby 

given that the SAB Ecological Processes 

and Effects Committee will hold a 

public meeting to provide consultative 

comment on implementation of EPA’s 

Ecosystem Services Research Program. 

The SAB was established by 42 U.S.C. 

4365 to provide independent scientific 

and technical advice to the 

Administrator on the technical basis for 

Agency positions and regulations. The 

SAB is a Federal Advisory Committee 

chartered under the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA), as amended, 5 

U.S.C., App. 2. The SAB will comply 

with the provisions of FACA and all 

appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural 

policies. 

Background: In February 2008, The 

EPA Office of Research and 

Development (ORD) released a draft 

Ecological Research Program Multi-Year 

Plan that established EPA’s long-term 

and annual goals for ecological research. 

This draft Multi-Year Plan is available 

on the EPA Office of Research and 

Development Web site at http://epa.gov/ 

ord/esrp/pdfs/ERP–MYP-completedraft-v5.pdf. The Multi-Year Plan 

described a new direction for the 

Agency’s Ecological Research Program 

intended to fill the need for a better 

understanding of the implications of 

human impacts on ecosystems and the 

services they provide. The redirected 

Ecological Research Program is building 

on past research efforts in ecosystem 

monitoring, restoration, and functioning 

to develop operational methods for 

incorporating quantitative information 

on ecosystem services into decision 

making. 

In 2008 the SAB Ecological Processes 

and Effects Committee reviewed EPA’s 

draft Ecological Research Program 

Multi-year Plan. The findings and 

recommendations of that SAB review 

are available on the SAB Web site at 

http://www.epa.gov/sab (see report 

EPA–SAB–08–011). The SAB Staff 

Office selected several additional SAB 

committee members with expertise in 

valuing ecosystem services to augment 

the expertise on the Ecological 

Processes and Effects Committee for that 

advisory activity. 

The ORD has requested further 

consultation with the SAB regarding the 

implementation of the Ecosystem 

Services Research program. This 

consultation will be conducted by the 

augmented SAB Ecological Processes 

and Effects Committee. The purpose of 

the upcoming meeting of this 

Committee is to provide consultative 

advice on the current direction of high 

priority areas of the Ecosystem Services 

Research Program and the specific 

research projects that have been 

undertaken. The roster and biosketches 

of Committee members are posted on 

the SAB Web site at http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: The 

meeting agenda, charge to the SAB 

Committee, and other meeting material 

will be posted on the SAB Web site at 

https://www.epa.gov/sab in advance of 

the meeting. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant written or oral 

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information on the topic of this advisory 

activity, and/or the group conducting 

the activity, for the SAB to consider 

during the advisory process. 

Oral Statements: In general, 

individuals or groups requesting an oral 

presentation at a public meeting will be 

limited to five minutes per speaker, 

with no more than a total of one hour 

for all speakers. Interested parties 

should contact Dr. Armitage, DFO, in 

writing (preferably via e-mail) at the 

contact information noted above by July 

6, 2009 to be placed on a list of public 

speakers for the meeting. Written 

Statements: Written statements should 

be received in the SAB Staff Office by 

July 6, 2009 so that the information may 

be made available to the SAB 

Committee members for their 

consideration. Written statements 

should be supplied to the DFO in the 

following formats: one hard copy with 

original signature, and one electronic 

copy via e-mail (acceptable file format: 

Adobe Acrobat PDF, WordPerfect, MS 

Word, MS PowerPoint, or Rich Text 

files in IBM–PC/Windows 98/2000/XP 

format). Submitters are requested to 

provide two versions of each document 

submitted with and without signatures, 

because the SAB Staff Office does not 

publish documents with signatures on 

its Web sites. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Dr. Armitage 

at the phone number or e-mail address 

noted above, preferably at least ten days 

prior to the meeting to give EPA as 

much time as possible to process your 

request. 

Dated: June 16, 2009. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

[FR Doc. E9–14713 Filed 6–22–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

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AGENCY 

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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee (CASAC); NOx & SOx

Secondary NAAQS Review Panel 

Meeting and CASAC 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 Risk and Exposure Assessment 

for Review of the Secondary National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards for 

Oxides of Nitrogen and Oxides of 

Sulfur: Second Draft (EPA–452/P–09– 

004a). The chartered CASAC will 

subsequently hold a public 

teleconference to review and approve 

the Panel’s report. 

DATES: The CASAC Panel will meet 

from 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 22, 

2009 through 3 p.m. Thursday, July 23, 

2009 (Eastern Time). The chartered 

CASAC will meet by public 

teleconference from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. 

on August 20, 2009 (Eastern Time). 

Location: The July 22–23, 2009 public 

meeting will take place at the Marriott 

at Research Triangle Park, 4700 

Guardian Drive, Durham, NC 27703, 

telephone (919) 941–6200. The August 

20, 2009 public teleconference will be 

conducted by telephone only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public who wishes to 

submit a written or brief oral statement 

or wants further information concerning 

the July 22–23, 2009 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 

on the CASAC teleconference on August 

20, 2009, please contact Dr. Holly 

Stallworth, Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO), at the above listed address; via 

telephone/voice mail (202) 343–9867 or 

e-mail at stallworth.holly@epa.gov. 

General information concerning the 

CASAC and the CASAC documents can 

be found on the EPA Web site at 

http://www.epa.gov/casac. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 

92–463 5 U.S.C., App. 2 (FACA), notice 

is hereby given that a CASAC Panel will 

hold a public meeting to peer review 

EPA’s Risk and Exposure Assessment 

for Review of the Secondary National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards for 

Oxides of Nitrogen and Oxides of 

Sulfur: Second Draft and that the 

chartered CASAC will hold a public 

teleconference to review and approve 

the Panel’s draft report. The CASAC was 

established under section 109(d)(2) of 

the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) (42 

U.S.C. 7409) as an independent 

scientific advisory committee. CASAC 

provides advice, information and 

recommendations on the scientific and 

technical aspects of air quality criteria 

and national ambient air quality 

standards (NAAQS) under sections 108 

and 109 of the Act. The CASAC and 

CASAC Panel will comply with the 

provisions of FACA and all appropriate 

SAB Staff Office procedural policies. 

Section 109(d)(1) of the CAA requires 

that the Agency periodically review and 

revise, as appropriate, the air quality 

criteria and the NAAQS for the six 

‘‘criteria’’ air pollutants, including NOx

and SOx. EPA is in the process of 

reviewing the secondary NAAQS for 

NOx and SOx. Welfare effects as defined 

in the CAA include, but are not limited 

to, effects on soils, water, wildlife, 

vegetation, visibility, weather, and 

climate, as well as effects on materials, 

economic values, and personal comfort 

and well-being. 

CASAC has previously provided 

consultative advice on EPA’s Draft Plan 

for Review of the Secondary National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards for 

Nitrogen Dioxide and Sulfur Dioxide 

and conducted peer reviews of the first 

and second drafts of EPA’s Integrated 

Science Assessment fox Oxides of 

Nitrogen and Sulfur—Environmental 

Criteria. CASAC also provided 

consultative advice on EPA’s Scope and 

Methods Plan for Risk/Exposure 

Assessment and conducted a peer 

review of 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. The 

CASAC advisory reports are available 

on the EPA Web site at http:// 

www.epa.gov/casac. 

The purpose of the July 22–23, 2009 

meeting is for the CASAC Panel to 

conduct a peer review of EPA’s Risk and 

Exposure Assessment for Review of the 

Secondary National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards for Oxides of 

Nitrogen and Oxides of Sulfur: Second 

Draft. The chartered CASAC will review 

and approve the Panel’s draft report on 

the REA by public conference call on 

August 20, 2009. 

Technical Contacts: Any questions 

concerning EPA’s Risk and Exposure 

Assessment for Review of the Secondary 

National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards for Oxides of Nitrogen and 

Oxides of Sulfur: Second Draft should 

be directed to Dr. Anne Rea, OAR, by 

telephone at (919) 541–0053, or e-mail 

rea.anne@epa.gov. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: 

EPA–OAR’s Risk and Exposure 

Assessment for Review of the Secondary