Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0253-0165
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2008-07-02T04:00Z

Lydia Wegman/RTP/USEPA/US

06/25/2008 12:55 PM

	

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"King, Heidi R." <Heidi_R._King@omb.eop.gov>

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Al McGartland/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, "Fraas, Arthur G."
<Arthur_G._Fraas@omb.eop.gov>, Kathy Kaufman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Nathalie
Simon/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Neal Fann/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Ron
Evans/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Tricia Crabtree/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

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RE: Pb NAAQS RIA proposal--can you clear it today?

Thanks Heidi.   I appreciate your help in getting this completed today. 

"King, Heidi R." <Heidi_R._King@omb.eop.gov> 

06/25/2008 11:12 AM

	

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Lydia Wegman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

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Al McGartland/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, "Fraas, Arthur G."
<Arthur_G._Fraas@omb.eop.gov>, Kathy Kaufman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Nathalie
Simon/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Neal Fann/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Ron
Evans/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Tricia Crabtree/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Subject

RE: Pb NAAQS RIA proposal--can you clear it today?

Lydia, I believe the last edits on the proposal RIA are either done or

nearly done now -- Ron, Kathy and I spoke this morning.

Tricia, I recall seeing the RTC convention on several O3 NAAQS files,

and there are other titles that did not seem to reflect well the

contents of the file, but I do not have a list.  I'll let you know if I

see similar creativity in the Pb docket.

Thanks all --

heidi

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From: Wegman.Lydia@epamail.epa.gov [mailto:Wegman.Lydia@epamail.epa.gov]

Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:53 AM

To: King, Heidi R.

Cc: mcgartland.al@epa.gov; Fraas, Arthur G.; kaufman.kathy@epa.gov;

Simon.Nathalie@epamail.epa.gov; fann.neal@epa.gov;

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Subject: RE: Pb NAAQS RIA proposal--can you clear it today?

That's really interesting about the translation of "RTC".   We need to

watch that kind of creativity.

Any word on when we will be able to get clearance of the RIA?  Have you

had a chance to talk to Art?  Thanks.

                                                                        

             "King, Heidi R."                                           

             <Heidi_R._King@o                                           

             mb.eop.gov>                                             To 

                                      Ron Evans/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA        

             06/25/2008 10:45                                        cc 

             AM                       Al McGartland/DC/USEPA/US@EPA,    

                                      "Fraas, Arthur G."                

                                      <Arthur_G._Fraas@omb.eop.gov>,    

                                      Kathy Kaufman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA,   

                                      Lydia Wegman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA,    

                                      Nathalie Simon/DC/USEPA/US@EPA,   

                                      Tricia Crabtree/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, 

                                      Neal Fann/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA        

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                                      RE: Pb NAAQS RIA proposal--can    

                                      you clear it today?               

                                                                        

                                                                        

                                                                        

                                                                        

                                                                        

                                                                        

Understood.  Kathy said she would find the title of the memo in the

docket.

In the Ozone docket many of the docket file titles are very creative --

for example "RTC" which EPA used to shorten "Response to Comments" was,

in docket title, translated to "Regional Transport Commission" or some

similar unrelated phrase... I am hoping that items in the Pb docket will

be easier for the public to find.

Thanks so much, Ron !!

Best regards,

heidi

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From: Evans.Ron@epamail.epa.gov [mailto:Evans.Ron@epamail.epa.gov]

Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:43 AM

To: King, Heidi R.

Cc: mcgartland.al@epa.gov; Fraas, Arthur G.; kaufman.kathy@epa.gov;

Wegman.Lydia@epamail.epa.gov; Simon.Nathalie@epamail.epa.gov;

Crabtree.Tricia@epamail.epa.gov; fann.neal@epa.gov

Subject: RE: Pb NAAQS RIA proposal--can you clear it today?

I don't think we can install a link to the memo until it is actually in

the docket.   Once it is placed in the docket, we think that we can then

make the cross link live in the RIA.

             "King, Heidi R."

             <Heidi_R._King@o

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                                      Ron Evans/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

             06/24/2008 03:05                                        cc

             PM                       Al McGartland/DC/USEPA/US@EPA,

                                      "Fraas, Arthur G."

                                      <Arthur_G._Fraas@omb.eop.gov>,

                                      Kathy Kaufman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA,

                                      Lydia Wegman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA,

                                      Nathalie Simon/DC/USEPA/US@EPA,

                                      Tricia Crabtree/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

                                                                Subject

                                      RE: Pb NAAQS RIA proposal--can

                                      you clear it today?

Thank you Ron, I had missed the footnote.  Is it possible to include a

link?  It can be difficult to find items in the docket, particularly if

the title or docket number is not known.

I will mark calendars for Thursday morning.

Best regards, as always --

h

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From: Evans.Ron@epamail.epa.gov [mailto:Evans.Ron@epamail.epa.gov]

Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 3:02 PM

To: King, Heidi R.

Cc: mcgartland.al@epa.gov; Fraas, Arthur G.; kaufman.kathy@epa.gov;

Wegman.Lydia@epamail.epa.gov; Simon.Nathalie@epamail.epa.gov;

Crabtree.Tricia@epamail.epa.gov

Subject: RE: Pb NAAQS RIA proposal--can you clear it today?

Heidi, I wanted to quickly follow up to this note, especially the

portion on the missing cross-reference.   Please look at the bottom of

page 25 of Chapter 5, here is the language we included prior to the

table lifted from the preamble:

Table 5-4 below summarizes a range of studies quantifying the

relationship between changes in blood lead and IQ that was included in

the Lead NAAQS NPRM (EPA, 2008b). The Docket contains a memo that

including estimates of IQ gains using two alternate

concentration-response functions. These functions include:

   *  Lanphear et al. 2005 Log-Linear with low-exposure linearization

   (LLL), based on concurrent blood lead metric

   *  The median value of the slopes of the "set of studies with

   shallower slopes"

   The contractor work is complete except for any small edits you may

   have, it will be a simple process to finalize the document once we

   get your hopefully final small edits.   You are correct about the

   table fixes, the "C's" are now correctly in the cost tables instead

   of the benefits table.

   As to the Thursday meeting, I will arrange for you to get the formal

   invite in a few moments.   Just for advance planning, the one hour

   meeting is at 10 on Thursday, the call-in number is 919-541-4407.

   The agenda for the meeting will be to broadly cover our

   approach/improvements to the final RIA, it will be an opportunity to

   determine what subject areas need further conversations, if any.

   Specifically to the cost estimate methodology, recall from last week

   that we plan to give you an update on status on July 1st with a more

   extensive meeting as needed on July 8th.  We will not have any

   additional detailed cost information for you this Thursday.

   However, we will be able to discuss how all the analysis pieces fit

   together and will be comparable in the final analysis.

   Let me know if you have any questions.

             "King, Heidi R."

             <Heidi_R._King@o

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                                      Lydia Wegman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA,

             06/24/2008 02:38         "Fraas, Arthur G."

             PM                       <Arthur_G._Fraas@omb.eop.gov>

                                                                     cc

                                      Ron Evans/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Kathy

                                      Kaufman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Al

                                      McGartland/DC/USEPA/US@EPA,

                                      Nathalie Simon/DC/USEPA/US@EPA,

                                      Tricia Crabtree/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

                                                                Subject

                                      RE: Pb NAAQS RIA proposal--can

                                      you clear it today?

Hi Lydia,

We are due to catch up on the phone -- I'll call shortly.

I believe that Ron has asked a contractor to make a couple of remaining

edits on the Pb RIA, and I do owe him final thoughts -- I could not, for

example, find the references to the analysis in the docket using the

alternative C-R function and wondered if I had not looked in the right

place.  I understand that the errors identified in our last conversation

have been fixed (a cost variable had been assigned to benefit estimates

by accident).

Also - I do not have a meeting on calendar for Thursday.  If you could

share the invitation with me, that would be helpful.  Given the tight

timeline for the final Pb NAAQS rule, I would prefer not to postpone the

discussion of the cost estimate methodology, since EPA's assessment of

the availability of sufficient data is key to defining the methodology.

Thanks for your note, I will call this afternoon --

heidi

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Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 1:49 PM

To: King, Heidi R.; Fraas, Arthur G.

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Simon.Nathalie@epamail.epa.gov; Crabtree.Tricia@epamail.epa.gov

Subject: Pb NAAQS RIA proposal--can you clear it today?

Heidi and Art,

I know the GHG ANPR has been swallowing huge amounts of your time, but I

understand there is something of a lull today, at least EPA.  I wondered

if you could take advantage of this pause, assuming you are having one,

and take a look at the changes we've made to the Pb NAAQS RIA to

accommodate your concerns and clear the document today.   I understand

from Ron that Heidi is comfortable with what we've done and that she

just needs to have Art review it.  Could you possibly accomplish that

today so we can move fully forward on the final RIA?  Please let me

know.

A related question is the meeting we have scheduled for Thursday with

you and OPEI to discuss changes we plan to make for the final RIA.  I

wondered if you will have the time and intellectual energy to devote to

that meeting on Thursday, given that the ANPR may still be at play that

day.  Could you please let me know if you'd like to postpone that

meeting?  Thanks very much.

Lydia