Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Environmental Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 228, November 25, 2008

Note: Update for the last two days will follow later today.
 
Federal Register
Vol. 73, No. 228
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
 
 
There are 7 announcements in this issue
 
    1. ENERGY - FR. EPA. Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Modifications to Renewable Fuel Standard Program Requirements
 
    2. ALL - ND. EPA. Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Focus Groups as Used by EPA for Economics Projects (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 2205.02, OMB Control No. 2090-0028
 
    3. WATER - ND. EPA. Gulf of Mexico Program Policy Review Board; Notice of Charter Renewal
 
    4. HAZ - ND. EPA. Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance; Notice of twenty-third update of the Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket
 
    5. ALL - ND. DOC/NOAA. Science Advisory Board (SAB); Draft Report of the NOAA Science Advisory Board Social Science Working Group
 
    6. ALL - ND. DOC/NOAA. National Weather Service (NWS); NOAA Science Advisory Board's Environmental Information Services Working Group
 
    7. ENERGY - NM. DOE. Methane Hydrate Advisory Committee
 
  
CODES USED:  THE FOLLOWING CODES ARE USED TO IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF ANNOUNCEMENT & ISSUE AREA.  

REPORTING FORMAT: ISSUE CODE - TYPE CODE. AGENCY. ANNOUNCEMENT.
ISSUE CODES:  AIR - Air; ALL - Cross-Media, ecosystems, Env. Justice; CLIMATE - Climate Change, Global Warming; DRINK - Drinking Water, SDWA, Underground Injection; ENERGY - Energy; GLAKES  - Great Lakes; HAZ - Hazardous Waste, RCRA, HSWA, DOT/RSPA, Some Nuclear (NRC); LAND - Land Use, Forests; P2 - Pollution Prevention, Sustainability, Recycling, Pjt. XL; REMED - Remediation, Brownfields, Superfund; TANKS - AST, UST; TOXICS = Toxics, TRI, TSCA, Pesticides, Risks, RTK; TRANSPORT -  Transportation; SOLID - Solid Waste, RCRA Subtitle D; WATER - Surface Water, NPS, NPDES, Wetlands; WILDLIFE = Wildlife, Biodiversity, Endangered Species.
TYPE CODES: ANPR - Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking; FR - Final Rule; FRD - Direct final rule; FRI - Interim final rule; ICR - Information Collection Request; ND - Notice of data, information, reports, etc. availability; NF - Notice of Fuding Opportunity; NM - Notice of Meeting; NS - Notice of administrative/court settlement; PR - Proposed Rule; ROD - Record of decision.
 

ANNOUNCEMENT 1


Subject: ENERGY - FR. EPA. Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Modifications to Renewable Fuel Standard Program Requirements
 
[Federal Register: November 25, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 228)]
[Rules and Regulations]              
[Page 71560]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 80

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2005-0161; FRL-8723-3]
RIN 2060-AO80

Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Modifications to
Renewable Fuel Standard Program Requirements

Correction

    In rule document E8-23131 beginning on page 57248 in the issue of
Thursday, October 2, 2008, make the following correction:

Sec.  80.1127  [Corrected]

    On page 57255, in the second column, in Sec.  80.1127(b)(2), the
formula should appear as follows:

Di = RVOi - [([Sigma]RINNUM)i +
([Sigma]RINNUM)i-1]
 
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ANNOUNCEMENT 2


Subject: ALL - ND. EPA. Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Focus Groups as Used by EPA for Economics Projects (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 2205.02, OMB Control No. 2090-0028
 
[Federal Register: November 25, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 228)]
[Notices]              
[Page 71643-71644]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OA-2008-0701; FRL-8744-7]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Focus Groups as Used by EPA for Economics Projects
(Renewal); EPA ICR No. 2205.02, OMB Control No. 2090-0028

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information
Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an
existing approved collection. The ICR, which is abstracted below,
describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated
burden and cost.

DATES: Additional comments may be submitted on or before December 26,
2008.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OA-
2008-0701, to (1) EPA online using www.regulations.gov (our preferred
method), by e-mail to oei.docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket
Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental
Information, Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode: 28221T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB by mail to:
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget (OMB), Attention: Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nathalie Simon, National Center for
Environmental Economics, Office of Policy Economics and Innovation,
(1809T), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number:202-566-2347; fax number: 202-
566-2363; e-mail address: simon.nathalie@epa.gov.
 
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ANNOUNCEMENT 3


Subject: WATER - ND. EPA. Gulf of Mexico Program Policy Review Board; Notice of Charter Renewal
 
[Federal Register: November 25, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 228)]
[Notices]              
[Page 71644]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Gulf of Mexico Program Policy Review Board; Notice of Charter
Renewal

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of Charter Renewal.

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    Notice is hereby given that the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) has determined that, in accordance with the provisions of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App. 2, the Gulf of
Mexico Program Policy Review Board (GMPPRB) is a necessary committee
which is in the public interest.
    Accordingly, GMPPRB will be renewed for an additional two-year
period. The purpose of GMPPRB is to provide advice and recommendations
to the Administrator of EPA on issues associated with plans to improve
and protect the water quality and living resources of the Gulf of
Mexico.
    Inquiries may be directed to Gloria Car, Designated Federal
Officer, U.S. EPA, Gulf of Mexico Program Office (Mail Code: EPAIGMPO),
Stennis Space Center, MS, 39529, Telephone (228) 688-2421, or
car.gloria@epa.gov.
 
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ANNOUNCEMENT 4


Subject: HAZ - ND. EPA. Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance; Notice of twenty-third update of the Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket
 
[Federal Register: November 25, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 228)]
[Notices]              
[Page 71644-71653]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-8744-5]

Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of twenty-third update of the Federal Agency Hazardous
Waste Compliance Docket.

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SUMMARY: Since 1988, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has
maintained a Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket (``the
Docket'') under Section 120(c) of the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). Section 120(c)
requires EPA to establish a Docket that contains certain information
reported to EPA by Federal facilities that manage hazardous waste or
from which a reportable quantity of hazardous substances has been
released. The Docket is used to identify Federal facilities that should
be evaluated to determine if they pose a
threat to public health or welfare and the environment and to provide a
mechanism to make this information available to the public. The Docket
contains information that is submitted by Federal facilities under the
following authorities: CERCLA Section 103, and RCRA Sections 3005, 3010
and 3016. EPA is required to publish a list of newly reported
facilities in the Federal Register.
    CERCLA Section 120(d) requires that EPA take steps to assure that a
Preliminary Assessment (PA) be completed for those sites identified in
the Docket and that the evaluation and listing of sites with a PA be
completed within a reasonable time frame. The PA is designed to provide
information for EPA to consider when evaluating the site for potential
response action or listing on the National Priorities List (NPL).
    Today's notice identifies the Federal facilities not previously
listed on the Docket and reported to EPA since the last update of the
Docket (72 FR 46218) on August 17, 2007. In addition to the list of
additions to the Docket, this notice includes a section with revisions
of the previous Docket list. The revisions in this update include 33
additions and 53 deletions since the previous update, as well as
numerous other corrections to the Docket list. At the time of
publication of this notice, the new total number of Federal facilities
listed on the Docket is 2,271.

DATES: This list is current as of November 4, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Electronic versions of the Docket and
more information on its implementation can be obtained at http://
www.epa.gov/fedfac/documents/docket.htm
by clicking on the link for
Update #23 to the Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket.

 
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ANNOUNCEMENT 5


Subject: ALL - ND. DOC/NOAA. Science Advisory Board (SAB); Draft Report of the NOAA Science Advisory Board Social Science Working Group
 
[Federal Register: November 25, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 228)]
[Notices]              
[Page 71604-71605]

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Science Advisory Board (SAB); Draft Report of the NOAA Science
Advisory Board Social Science Working Group

AGENCY: Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce
(DOC).

ACTION: Notice of availability of report and request for public
comment.

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SUMMARY: NOAA Research (OAR) publishes this notice on behalf of the
NOAA Science Advisory Board (SAB) to announce the availability of the
draft report of the SAB Social Science Working Group (here called SSWG)
for public comment. The draft report of the SSWG has been prepared
pursuant to the request initiated from the NOAA for an external panel
of experts to carry out an independent review of current social science
research conducted by NOAA and examine how the results of the research
are being developed and incorporated into the operations of NOAA.

DATES: Comments on this draft report must be received by December 26,
2008.

ADDRESSES: The draft report of the SSWG will be available on the NOAA
Science Advisory Board Web site at http://www.sab.noaa.gov/Reports/
SSWG.pdf
. The public is encouraged to submit comments electronically to
noaa.sab.comments@noaa.gov. For individuals who do not have access to
the Internet, comments may be submitted in writing to: NOAA Science
Advisory Board (SAB), c/o Dr. Cynthia Decker, 1315 East-West Highway-R/
SAB, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Cynthia Decker, Executive
Director, Science Advisory Board, NOAA, 1315 East-West Highway-R/SAB,
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910. (Phone: 301-734-1156, Fax: 301-713-1459)
during normal business hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday
through Friday, or visit the NOAA SAB Web site at http://
www.sab.noaa.gov
.
 
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ANNOUNCEMENT 6


Subject: ALL - ND. DOC/NOAA. National Weather Service (NWS); NOAA Science Advisory Board's Environmental Information Services Working Group
 
[Federal Register: November 25, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 228)]
[Notices]              
[Page 71620-71621]

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[Docket Number: 0811191487-81488-01]
RIN: 0648-XL97

National Weather Service (NWS); NOAA Science Advisory Board's
Environmental Information Services Working Group

AGENCY: National Weather Service (NWS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce (DOC).

ACTION: Notice of solicitation for members of the NOAA Science Advisory
Board's Environmental Information Services Working Group.

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SUMMARY: The Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
requested the NOAA Science Advisory Board (SAB) to obtain input from a
standing working group, the Environmental Information Services Working
Group (EISWG), as a mechanism to address interactions between NOAA and
its Partners. The initial focus of the EISWG is to advise on issues
raised and enhance effective collaboration between the National Weather
Service and its partners. The composition of the Working Group will
reflect those interests.
    The EISWG will be composed of 15-18 members, who, by reason of
knowledge, experience or training, are especially qualified to
represent users of NOAA environmental information services, including,
but not limited to, the commercial weather industry (both value-added
and end-users), academia, and the media. Membership may also include
representatives of federal, state and regional government agencies and
non-governmental agencies. NOAA is requesting nominations for
membership in the SAB EISWG.

DATES: Nominations must be received by January 23, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Nominations should be submitted electronically to
(noaa.sab.eiswg@noaa.gov).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Sprague, 301-713-0217.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The complete Terms of Reference of this
working group can be found on the NOAA Science Advisory Board Web site:
http://www.sab.noaa.gov/Working_Groups/standing/index.html.
 
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ANNOUNCEMENT 7


Subject: ENERGY - NM. DOE. Methane Hydrate Advisory Committee
 
[Federal Register: November 25, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 228)]
[Notices]              
[Page 71628]

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Methane Hydrate Advisory Committee

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy, Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of Open Meeting.

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    This notice announces a meeting of the Methane Hydrate Advisory
Committee. Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat.
770) requires that notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal
Register.

DATES: Monday, December 22, 2008, 2 to 3:30 p.m.

ADDRESSES: TMS, Inc., 955 L'Enfant Plaza North, SW., Suite 1500,
Washington, DC 20024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Edith Allison, U.S. Department of
Energy, Office of Oil and Natural Gas, Washington, DC 20585. Phone:
202-586-1023.
 
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