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Waterbody/general area From longitude From latitude To longitude To latitude 

South in a straight line across the water to navigational marker C 

‘‘1’’ off ‘‘Baker Island’’ in Cranberry Isles.

69°11′27.45′′ W 44°18′20.76′′ N 68°11′16.54′′ W 44°14′16.84′′ N 

West in a straight line across the water to ‘‘Bass Harbor Head’’ in 

Tremont.

68°11′16.54′′ W 44°14′16.84′′ N 68°20′14.35′′ W 44°13′16.42′′ N 

The area includes the municipal 

waters of Mount Desert, Southwest 

Harbor, portions of Cranberry Isles, and 

Tremont. 

The information submitted to EPA by 

the State of Maine certifies that there are 

six pumpout facilities located within 

this area. A list of the facilities, with 

locations, phone numbers, and hours of 

operation is appended at the end of this 

determination. 

Based on the examination of the 

petition and its supporting 

documentation, and discussions with 

the State and local officials, EPA has 

determined that adequate facilities for 

the safe and sanitary removal and 

treatment of sewage from all vessels are 

reasonably available for the area covered 

under this determination. 

This determination is made pursuant 

to Section 312(f)(3) of Public Law 92– 

500, as amended by Public laws 95–217 

and 100–4. 

PUMPOUT FACILITIES WITHIN PROPOSED NO DISCHARGE AREA

[Southern Mount Desert Island] 

Name Location Contact info. Hours 

Mean 

low 

water 

depth 

Harbormaster .............................. 18 Harbor Dr., .............................

Mount Desert ...............................

207–276–5737, HF 16 ........... 8 a.m.–5 p.m., 7 days ............ 10 ft. 

Clifton Dock ................................. Clifton Dock Rd., Mount Desert .. 207–967–2511, HF 9 ............. 8 a.m.–5 p.m., 7 days ............ 10 ft. 

Hinckley Company ...................... 130 Shore Rd., Southwest Harbor.207–244–5572, VHF 9 .......... 8 a.m.–5 p.m., 7 days ............ 20 ft. 

Great Harbor Marina ................... 11 Apple Lane, Southwest Harbor.207–244–0117, VHF 9 .......... 9 a.m.–5 p.m., 7 days ............ 10 ft. 

Southwest Boat Marine Service .. 168 Clarke Point Rd., Southwest 

Harbor.

207–244–5525, VHF 9 .......... 9 a.m.–5 p.m., M–F ............... 8 ft. 

Downeast Diesel and Marine ...... 174 Clarke Point Rd., Southwest 

Harbor.

207–244–5145, VHF 9 .......... 9 a.m.–5 p.m., M–F ............... 8 ft. 

Dated: June 22, 2009. 

Ira W. Leighton, 

Acting Regional Administrator, New England 

Region. 

[FR Doc. E9–16838 Filed 7–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0935; FRL–8408–5] 

Guidance for Submission of 

Probabilistic Human Health Exposure 

Assessments Science Policy; Notice of 

Withdrawal 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA announces the 

withdrawal of the pesticide science 

policy document ‘‘Guidance for 

Submission of Probabilistic Human 

Health Exposure Assessments to the 

Office of Pesticide Programs.’’ This 

science policy document was developed 

to establish guidance for submission 

and review of probabilistic human 

health exposure assessments to the 

Agency’s Office of Pesticide Programs. 

This guidance has been superseded by 

EPA’s ‘‘Guidance on Cumulative Risk 

Assessment of Pesticide Chemicals That 

Have a Common Mechanism of 

Toxicity,’’ and by the ‘‘Guidance for 

Performing Aggregate Exposure and 

Risk Assessment.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David J. Miller, Health Effects Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs (7509P), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

(703) 305–5352; fax number: (703) 305– 

5147; e-mail address: 

miller.davidj@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this Action Apply to Me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general. This action, however, may be 

of interest to persons who produce or 

formulate pesticides or who register 

pesticide products. Since other entities 

may also be interested, the Agency has 

not attempted to describe all the specific 

entities that may be affected by this 

action. If you have any questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

to a particular entity, consult the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

B. How Can I Get Copies of this 

Document and Other Related 

Information? 

1. Docket. EPA has established a 

docket for this action under docket 

identification (ID) number EPA–HQ– 

OPP–2008–0935. Publicly available 

docket materials are available either in 

the electronic docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or, if only 

available in hard copy, at the Office of 

Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory 

Public Docket in Rm. S–4400, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The hours of 

operation of this Docket Facility are 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The Docket Facility telephone 

number is (703) 305–5805. 

2. Electronic access. You may access 

this Federal Register document 

electronically through the EPA Internet 

under the ‘‘Federal Register’’ listings at 

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr. 

II. Background 

The Food Quality Protection Act of 

1996 (FQPA) significantly amended the 


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Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 

Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the 

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 

(FFDCA). Among other changes, FQPA 

established a stringent health-based 

standard (‘‘a reasonable certainty of no 

harm’’) for pesticide residues in foods to 

assure protection from unacceptable 

pesticide exposure and strengthened 

health protections for infants and 

children from pesticide risks. 

During 1998 and 1999, EPA and the 

United States Department of Agriculture 

(USDA) established a subcommittee of 

the National Advisory Council for 

Environmental Policy and Technology 

(NACEPT), the Tolerance Reassessment 

Advisory Committee (TRAC), to address 

FFDCA issues and implementation. 

TRAC comprised more than 50 

representatives of affected user, 

producer, consumer, public health, 

environmental, states, and other 

interested groups. The TRAC met from 

May 27, 1998, through April 29, 1999. 

In order to continue the constructive 

discussions about FFDCA, EPA and 

USDA established, under the auspices 

of NACEPT, the Committee to Advise on 

Reassessment and Transition (CARAT). 

The CARAT provided a forum for a 

broad spectrum of stakeholders to 

consult with and advise the Agency and 

the Secretary of Agriculture on pest and 

pesticide management transition issues 

related to the tolerance reassessment 

process. The CARAT was intended to 

further the valuable work initiated by 

earlier advisory committees toward the 

use of sound science and greater 

transparency in regulatory decisionmaking, increased stakeholder 

participation, and reasonable transition 

strategies that reduce risks without 

jeopardizing American agriculture and 

farm communities. 

As a result of the 1998 and 1999 

TRAC process, EPA decided that the 

implementation process and related 

policies would benefit from providing 

notice and comment on major science 

policy issues. The TRAC identified nine 

science policy areas it believed were key 

to implementation of tolerance 

reassessment. EPA agreed to provide 

one or more documents for comment on 

each of the nine issues by announcing 

their availability in the Federal 

Register. In a notice published in the 

Federal Register of October 29, 1998 (63 

FR 58038) (FRL–6041–5), EPA described 

its intended approach. Since then, EPA 

has issued a series of draft and revised 

documents concerning the nine science 

policy issues. Publication of this notice 

is intended to update the public on the 

status of the science paper ‘‘Guidance 

for Submission of Probabilistic Human 

Health Exposure Assessments to the 

Office of Pesticide Programs.’’ 

III. Why this Policy is No Longer 

Needed 

Historically, assessment of the 

potential health risks associated with 

exposure to pesticides has focused upon 

single pathways of exposure (e.g., from 

pesticide residues in food, water, or 

residential/non-occupational uses) for 

individual chemicals, and not on the 

potential for individuals to be exposed 

to multiple pesticides by all pathways 

concurrently. In 1996, the FQPA 

required EPA to consider potential 

human health risks from all pathways of 

dietary and non-dietary exposures to 

more than one pesticide acting through 

a common mechanism of toxicity. 

The ‘‘Guidance for Submission of 

Probabilistic Human Health Exposure 

Assessments to the Office of Pesticide 

Programs’’ was issued in 1998; http://

www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/1998/ 

November/Day-05/6021.pdf. The 

‘‘Guidance for Submission of 

Probabilistic Human Health Exposure 

Assessments’’ provided general 

guidance on the conduct of probabilistic 

risk assessments. The guidance was 

intended to be used chiefly by persons 

conducting human health exposure 

assessments for purposes of registration 

or reregistration of pesticides. 

EPA is withdrawing the ‘‘Guidance 

for Submission of Probabilistic Human 

Health Exposure Assessments to the 

Office of Pesticide Programs’’ because it 

has been superseded by several other 

EPA policy and guidance documents. 

These include: (1) ‘‘General Principles 

for Performing Aggregate Exposure and 

Risk Assessments,’’ http://www.epa.gov/ 

pesticides/trac/science/aggregate.pdf, 

and (2) ‘‘Guidance on Cumulative Risk 

Assessment of Pesticide Chemicals That 

Have a Common Mechanism of 

Toxicity,’’ http://epa.gov/pesticides/

trac/science/cumulative_guidance.pdf. 

The ‘‘General Principles for 

Performing Aggregate Exposure and 

Risk Assessments’’ focus upon 

describing principles to guide the way 

in which aggregate exposure and risk 

assessment may be performed when 

more extensive distributional data and 

more sophisticated exposure 

assessment, methods and tools are 

available. 

The ‘‘Guidance on Cumulative Risk 

Assessment of Pesticide Chemicals That 

Have a Common Mechanism of 

Toxicity’’ provides guidance for OPP 

scientists for evaluating and estimating 

the potential human risks associated 

with such multi-chemical and multipathway exposures to pesticides. 

The policies and guidance mentioned 

above reflect EPA’s most recent 

guidance, thus superseding the 

information in ‘‘Guidance for 

Submission of Probabilistic Human 

Health Exposure Assessments to the 

Office of Pesticide Programs.’’ While the 

information in the document we are 

withdrawing is not necessarily 

inaccurate, it is outdated. 

This action is also responsive to the 

recommendations made by EPA’s Office 

of Inspector General during its review of 

EPA’s implementation of FQPA. In its 

report ‘‘Opportunities to Improve Data 

Quality and Children’s Health through 

the FQPA’’ issued January 10, 2006 

http://www.epa.gov/oig/reports/2006/

20060110–2006–P–00009.pdf the Office 

of Inspector General Recommended that 

EPA should update the status of its 

science policy issue papers. This 

Federal Register notice updates the 

public on the status of one of the 

science policy papers which has been 

superseded by other guidance. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, 

Administrative practice and procedure, 

Agricultural commodities, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: June 30, 2009. 

James Jones, 

Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of 

Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances. 

[FR Doc. E9–16273 Filed 7–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2009–0467; FRL–8424–7] 

Lead Wheel Balancing Weights; TSCA 

Section 21 Petition; Notice of Receipt 

and Request for Comment 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces that 

EPA has received a petition under 

section 21 of the Toxic Substances 

Control Act (TSCA), and requests 

comments on issues raised by the 

petition. The petition was received from 

the Ecology Center of Ann Arbor, 

Michigan and the Sierra Club et al., 

(petitioners) on May 29, 2009. The 

petition requests that EPA establish 

regulations prohibiting the manufacture, 

processing, and distribution in 

commerce of lead wheel balancing 

weights. EPA must either grant or deny 

the petition within 90 days of filing. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before July 30, 2009 


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