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that you wish to make a brief oral 

comment at the workshop. 

ADDRESSES: The peer-review workshop 

will be held at the Courtyard Arlington 

Crystal City/Reagan National Airport, 

2899 Jefferson Davis Highway, 

Arlington, Virginia 22202. Versar, Inc. is 

organizing, convening, and conducting 

the peer-review workshop. To attend the 

workshop as an observer, register by 

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 via the Internet 

at http://epa.versar.com/ 

pentachlorophenol. You may also 

register by e-mail at 

ssarraino@versar.com (subject line: 

Pentachlorophenol Peer-Review 

Workshop), by phone: 703–750–3000 x. 

316, or by faxing a registration request 

to 703–642–6954 (please reference the 

‘‘Pentachlorophenol Peer-Review 

Workshop’’ and include your name, 

title, affiliation, full address and contact 

information). 

The draft ‘‘Toxicological Review of 

Pentachlorophenol: In Support of 

Summary Information on the Integrated 

Risk Information System (IRIS)’’ is 

available primarily via the Internet on 

the NCEA home page under the Recent 

Additions and Publications menus at 

http://www.epa.gov/ncea. A limited 

number of paper copies are available 

from the Information Management 

Team, NCEA, telephone: 703–347–8561; 

facsimile: 703–347–8691. If you are 

requesting a paper copy, please provide 

your name, mailing address, and the 

document title, ‘‘Toxicological Review 

of Pentachlorophenol: In Support of 

Summary Information on the Integrated 

Risk Information System (IRIS).’’ Copies 

are not available from Versar, Inc. 

Information on Services for 

Individuals With Disabilities: EPA 

welcomes the attendance of the public 

at the Pentachlorophenol Peer-Review 

Workshop and will make every effort to 

accommodate persons with disabilities. 

For information on access or services for 

individuals with disabilities, please 

contact Versar, Inc. (see below for 

contact information). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions regarding information, 

registration, access or services for 

individuals with disabilities, or logistics 

for the external peer-review workshop 

should be directed to Versar, Inc., 6850 

Versar Center, Springfield, VA 22151; 

telephone: 703–750–3000 x. 316; 

facsimile: 703–347–8691; or e-mail: 

ssarraino@versar.com (subject line: 

Pentachlorophenol Peer-Review 

Workshop). To request accommodation 

of a disability, please contact Versar, 

Inc., preferably at least 10 days prior to 

the meeting, to give as much time as 

possible to process your request. 

If you need technical information 

about the document, please contact 

Catherine Gibbons, IRIS Staff, National 

Center for Environmental Assessment, 

(8601P), U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone: 703–603–0704; facsimile: 

703–347–8689; or e-mail: 

gibbons.catherine@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Summary of Information About the 

Integrated Risk Information System 

(IRIS) 

IRIS is a database that contains 

potential adverse human health effects 

information that may result from 

chronic (or lifetime) exposure to specific 

chemical substances found in the 

environment. The database (available on 

the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/iris) 

contains qualitative and quantitative 

health effects information for more than 

540 chemical substances that may be 

used to support the first two steps 

(hazard identification and doseresponse evaluation) of a risk 

assessment process. When supported by 

available data, the database provides 

oral reference doses (RfDs) and 

inhalation reference concentrations 

(RfCs) for chronic health effects, and 

oral slope factors and inhalation unit 

risks for carcinogenic effects. Combined 

with specific exposure information, 

government and private entities can use 

IRIS data to help characterize public 

health risks of chemical substances in a 

site-specific situation and thereby 

support risk management decisions 

designed to protect public health. 

II. Workshop Information 

Members of the public may attend the 

workshop as observers, and there will 

be a limited time for oral comments 

from the public. The deadline for 

registration is July 28, 2009. Please let 

Versar, Inc. know if you wish to make 

oral comments during the workshop. 

Space is limited, and reservations will 

be accepted on a first-come, first-served 

basis. 

Dated: June 22, 2009. 

Rebecca Clark, 

Director, National Center for Environmental 

Assessment. 

[FR Doc. E9–15313 Filed 6–26–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8923–7] 

Proposed CERCLA Administrative 

Cashout Settlement; AndersonCalhoun Mine and Mill Site, Leadpoint, 

WA 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice; request for public 

comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 

122(i) of the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, 

Compensation, and Liability Act, as 

amended (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), 

notice is hereby given of a proposed 

administrative settlement for recovery of 

past and projected future response costs 

concerning the Anderson-Calhoun Mine 

and Mill Site in Leadpoint, Washington, 

with settling parties: The Goldfield 

Corporation and Combustion 

Engineering, Inc. The settlement 

requires the settling parties to pay Three 

Hundred and Fifty Seven Thousand 

Dollars ($357,000) to the Hazardous 

Substance Superfund. The settlement 

includes a covenant not to sue or take 

administrative action against the settling 

party pursuant to Sections 106 or 107(a) 

of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9606 or 9607(a). 

For thirty (30) days following the date 

of publication of this notice, the Agency 

will receive written comments relating 

to the settlement. The Agency will 

consider all comments received and 

may modify or withdraw its consent to 

the settlement if comments received 

disclose facts or considerations which 

indicate that the settlement is 

inappropriate, improper, or inadequate. 

The Agency’s response to any comments 

received will be available for public 

inspection at the U.S. EPA Region 10 

offices, located at 1200 Sixth Avenue, 

Seattle, Washington 98101. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before July 29, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: The proposed settlement is 

available for public inspection at the 

U.S. EPA Region 10 offices, located at 

1200 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, Washington 

98101. A copy of the proposed 

settlement may be obtained from Carol 

Kennedy, Regional Hearing Clerk, U.S. 

EPA Region 10, Mail Stop ORC–158, 

1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 900, Seattle, 

Washington 98101; (206) 553–0242. 

Comments should reference the 

Anderson-Calhoun Mine and Mill Site 

in Leadpoint, Washington, EPA Docket 

No. CERCLA–10–2009–0095 and should 

be addressed to Alexander Fidis, 

Assistant Regional Counsel, U.S. EPA 


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Region 10, Mail Stop ORC–158, 1200 

Sixth Avenue, Suite 900, Seattle, 

Washington 98101. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alexander Fidis, Assistant Regional 

Counsel, U.S. EPA Region 10, Mail Stop 

ORC–158, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 

900, Seattle, Washington 98101; (206) 

553–4710. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Anderson-Calhoun Mine and Mill site is 

located in Leadpoint, Stevens County, 

Washington (Site). Site operations 

conducted between 1910 and the early 

1980s included the mining and milling 

of zinc ore, and the milling of barite ore. 

Waste-rock and mill tailings produced 

by these operations were disposed at the 

Site in areas around the mill building 

and in a raised tailings impoundment. 

The waste-rock and tailings at the Site 

contain hazardous substances including 

barium, cadmium, copper, lead, 

selenium and zinc at concentrations that 

exceed applicable cleanup levels. The 

Agency has selected a removal action to 

address potential or actual threats that 

these substances may present to public 

health, welfare, or the environment. 

The Goldfield Corporation and 

Combustion Engineering, Inc., two prior 

owners and operators of the Site, have 

jointly spent approximately $465,000 to 

investigate and study the Site, assess 

cleanup alternatives, and to develop 

draft plans for the removal action. The 

Agency is proposing to enter into an 

administrative settlement with both 

parties for a payment of $357,000. These 

funds will be deposited in a site-specific 

account and will be used to reimburse 

the Agency for its past costs and for 

future response costs at the Site. The 

proposed settlement will provide the 

settling parties with a release of liability 

subject to certain rights reserved by the 

Agency. 

Dated: June 22, 2009. 

Linda Anderson-Carnahan, 

Acting Director, Office of Environmental 

Cleanup. 

[FR Doc. E9–15284 Filed 6–26–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8923–8] 

Notice of a Regional Waiver of Section 

1605 (Buy American Requirement) of 

the American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) to 

the State of New Hampshire 

Department of Environmental Services’ 

Winnipesaukee River Basin Bureau 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA is hereby granting a 

waiver of the Buy America requirements 

of ARRA Section 1605 under the 

authority of Section 1605(b)(2) 

[manufactured goods are not produced 

in the United States in sufficient and 

reasonably available quantities and of a 

satisfactory quality] to the State of New 

Hampshire Department of 

Environmental Services’ Winnipesaukee 

River Basin Bureau (WRBB) for the 

purchase of air bearing turbo aeration 

blowers and an associated main blower 

control panel. These blowers and 

associated control panel are 

manufactured outside of the United 

States by APG-Neuros of South Korea, 

and meet the WRBB’s technical design 

specifications. The Acting Regional 

Administrator is making this 

determination based on the review and 

recommendation of the Municipal 

Assistance Unit. The WRBB has 

provided sufficient documentation to 

support their request. 

The Assistant Administrator of the 

Office of Administration and Resources 

Management has concurred on this 

decision to make an exception to 

Section 1605 of the ARRA. This action 

permits the purchase of air bearing 

turbo aeration blowers and an 

associated main blower control panel by 

the WRBB, as specified in its May 11, 

2009 waiver request, to upgrade its 

regional wastewater treatment facility in 

Franklin, New Hampshire as part of a 

project funded under the ARRA. 

DATES: Effective Date: June 8, 2009 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Katie Connors, Environmental Engineer, 

(617) 918–1658, or David Chin, 

Environmental Engineer, (617) 918– 

1764, Municipal Assistance Unit (CMU), 

Office of Ecosystem Protection (OEP), 

U.S. EPA, One Congress Street, CMU, 

Boston, MA 02114. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with ARRA Section 1605(c), 

the EPA hereby provides notice that it 

is granting a project waiver of the 

requirements of Section 1605(a) of 

Public Law 111–5, Buy American 

requirements, to the WRBB for the 

purchase of air bearing turbo aeration 

blowers and an associated main blower 

control panel manufactured outside of 

the United States by APG–Neuros of 

South Korea, which meet the WRBB’s 

technical design specifications for its 

wastewater treatment plant upgrade 

project. 

Section 1605 of the ARRA requires 

that none of the appropriated funds may 

be used for the construction, alteration, 

maintenance, or repair of a public 

building or public work unless all of the 

iron, steel, and manufactured goods 

used in the project is produced in the 

United States unless a waiver is 

provided to the recipient by EPA. A 

waiver may be provided if EPA 

determines under Section 1605(b) that 

(1) applying these requirements would 

be inconsistent with the public interest; 

(2) iron, steel, and the relevant 

manufactured goods are not produced in 

the United States in sufficient and 

reasonably available quantities and of a 

satisfactory quality; or (3) inclusion of 

iron, steel, and the relevant 

manufactured goods produced in the 

United States will increase the cost of 

the overall project by more than 25 

percent. 

In a letter dated May 11, 2009 to the 

EPA, the WRBB requested a waiver from 

the Buy American Provision for the 

purchase of air bearing turbo aeration 

blowers and an associated Main Blower 

Control Panel (MBCP), manufactured 

outside of the United States (US) by 

APG-Neuros, a South Korea based 

company. 

Based on information provided to the 

EPA, the WRBB performed a pre-bid 

selection of the high efficiency, air 

bearing turbo aeration blowers with the 

help of a 12 member technical review 

committee that included WRBB 

operations, maintenance, electrical, 

electronics and management staff, 

WRBB’s technical consultant, and the 

NHDES’ Wastewater Engineering 

Bureau Design Review staff. This prebid selection committee determined 

critical specifications and manufacturer 

capabilities, and the development of a 

weighted scoring system to assess the 

submitted proposals. Three priority 

technical specifications were identified 

by the pre-bid committee: 

(1) That the entire proposed blower 

package proposed had to be 

Underwriters Laboratories (UL) or CSA– 

US (NRTL) certified in order to be 

approved by the State Fire Marshall for 

installation at the facility; 

(2) That the manufacturer 

demonstrated experience with installed 


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