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copy of the comment that does not
contain the information claimed as CBI
must be submitted for inclusion in the
public docket. Information so marked
will not be disclosed except in
accordance with procedures set forth in
40 CFR part 2.
2. Tips for preparing your comments.
When submitting comments, remember
to:
i. Identify the document by docket ID
number and other identifying
information (subject heading, Federal
Register date and page number).
ii. Follow directions. The Agency may
ask you to respond to specific questions
TABLE 1.—REGISTRATION WITH REQUEST FOR AMENDMENT TO DELETE USES IN CERTAIN PESTICIDE REGISTRATIONS
EPA Registration Product Name
No.
3008-60 ACC 50% Wood Preservative
Users of these products who desire
continued use on sites being deleted
should contact the applicable registrant
before August 17, 2006 to discuss
withdrawal of the application for
amendment. This 30–day period will
also permit interested members of the
public to intercede with registrants prior
to the Agency’s approval of the deletion.
Table 2 of this unit includes the name
and address of record for the registrant
of the product listed in Table 1 of this
unit, by EPA company number.
TABLE 2.—REGISTRANT REQUESTING
Environmental protection, Pesticides
AMENDMENT TO DELETE USES IN and pests, acid copper chromate, ACC.
CERTAIN PESTICIDE REGISTRATIONS
Company name and
EPA company no. address
3008 Osmose, Inc.980
Ellicott St.Buffalo,
NY 14209-2398
III. What is the Agency’s Authority for
Taking this Action?
Section 6(f)(1) of FIFRA provides that
a registrant of a pesticide product may
at any time request that any of its
pesticide registrations be amended to
delete one or more uses. The Act further
provides that, before acting on the
request, EPA must publish a notice of
receipt of any such request in the
Federal Register. Thereafter, the
Administrator may approve such a
request.
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IV. Procedures for Withdrawal of
Request
Registrants who choose to withdraw a
request for use deletion must submit the
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or organize comments by referencing a
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part
or section number.
iii. Explain why you agree or disagree;
suggest alternatives and substitute
language for your requested changes.
iv. Describe any assumptions and
provide any technical information and/
or data that you used.
v. If you estimate potential costs or
burdens, explain how you arrived at
your estimate in sufficient detail to
allow for it to be reproduced.
vi. Provide specific examples to
illustrate your concerns and suggest
alternatives.
Active Ingredient
Copper Oxide
Acid(35.46%)
withdrawal in writing to the person
named under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT using the methods in
ADDRESSES. The Agency will consider
written withdrawal requests postmarked
no later than August 17, 2006.
V. Provisions for Disposition of Existing
Stocks
The registrant is no longer
manufacturing or distributing this
product, and has requested no existing
stocks provision.
List of Subjects
Dated: July 12, 2006.
Frank Sanders,
Director, Antimicrobials Division, Office of
Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. E6–11342 Filed 7–17–06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560–50–S
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OAR–2005–0172; FRL–8198–8]
Draft Staff Paper for Ozone
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of a draft for public
review and comment.
SUMMARY: On or about July 18, 2006, the
Office of Air Quality Planning and
Standards (OAQPS) of EPA will make
available for public review and
comment a draft document, Review of
the National Ambient Air Quality
Standards for Ozone: Policy Assessment
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vii. Explain your views as clearly as
possible, avoiding the use of profanity
or personal threats.
viii. Make sure to submit your
comments by the comment period
deadline identified.
II. What Action is the Agency Taking?
This notice announces receipt by the
Agency of an application from the
registrant to delete uses in certain
pesticide registrations. This registration
is listed in Table 1 of this unit by
registration number, product name,
active ingredients, and specific uses
deleted:
Delete from Label
(14.07%)Chromic All residential uses
of Scientific and Technical Information
(Draft Staff Paper) (Chapters 1–5 and 7–
8). Chapter 6 (Staff Conclusions on the
Primary Ozone National Ambient Air
Quality Standards) of the Draft Staff
Paper will be made available on or
about July 25, 2006. The purpose of the
Staff Paper is to evaluate the policy
implications of the key scientific and
technical information contained in a
related EPA document, Air Quality
Criteria for Ozone and Related
Photochemical Oxidants, required
under sections 108 and 109 of the Clean
Air Act (CAA) for use in the periodic
review of the national ambient air
quality standards (NAAQS) for ozone.
The OAQPS also will make available
for public review and comment related
draft technical support documents,
Ozone Population Exposure Analysis for
Selected Urban Areas (draft Exposure
Analysis), Ozone Health Risk
Assessment for Selected Urban Areas
(draft Risk Assessment), and Technical
Report on Ozone Exposure, Risk and
Impact Assessments for Vegetation
(draft Environmental Assessment).
Availability of Documents
The following documents are
available for review by the CASAC
Ozone Panel in the form of printed
copies and a CD–ROM containing these
electronic files or by downloading the
documents from the EPA Web
site:http://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/
standards/ozone/s_o3_cr_sp.html for
the Staff Paper and http://www.epa.gov/
ttn/naaqs/standards/ozone/s_o3_
cr_td.html for the technical support
documents and staff memos.
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DATES: Comments on the Draft Staff
Paper, draft Exposure Analysis, draft
Risk Assessment, and draft
Environmental Assessment should be
submitted on or before September 18,
2006.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OAR–2005–0172 by one of the following
methods:
• www.regulations.gov: Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• E-mail: a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov.
• Fax: 202–566–1741.
• Mail: Docket EPA–HQ–OAR–2005–
0172, Environmental Protection Agency,
Mailcode 6102T, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
Please include a total of two copies.
• Hand Delivery: Public Reading
Room, Room B102, EPA West Building,
1301 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC. Such deliveries are
only accepted during the Docket’s
normal hours of operation, and special
arrangements should be made for
deliveries of boxed information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2005–
0172. The EPA’s policy is that all
comments received will be included in
the public docket without change and
may be made available online at
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes information
claimed to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise
protected through www.regulations.gov
or e-mail. The www.regulations.gov Web
site is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system,
which means EPA will not know your
identity or contact information unless
you provide it in the body of your
comment. If you send an e-mail
comment directly to EPA without going
through www.regulations.gov, your e-
mail address will be automatically
captured and included as part of the
comment that is placed in the public
docket and made available on the
Internet. If you submit an electronic
comment, EPA recommends that you
include your name and other contact
information in the body of your
comment and with any disk or CD–ROM
you submit. If EPA cannot read your
comment due to technical difficulties
and cannot contact you for clarification,
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EPA may not be able to consider your
comment. Electronic files should avoid
the use of special characters, any form
of encryption, and be free of any defects
or viruses. For additional information
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about EPA’s public docket visit the EPA
Docket Center homepage at http://
www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
Docket: All documents in the docket
are listed in the www.regulations.gov
index. Although listed in the index,
some information is not publicly
available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Certain other material, such as
copyrighted material, will be publicly
available only in hard copy. Publicly
available docket materials are available
either electronically in
www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at
the address listed above for hand
delivery of comments. This Docket
Facility is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. Monday through Friday, excluding
legal holidays. The Docket telephone
number is 202–566–1742.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
David McKee, Office of Air Quality
Planning and Standards (Mail Code
C504–06), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Research Triangle
Park, NC 27711; e-mail:
mckee.dave@epa.gov; telephone: (919)
541–5288; fax: (919) 541–0237.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. What Should I Consider as I Prepare
My Comments for EPA?
1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this
information to EPA through
www.regulations.gov or e-mail. Clearly
mark the part or all of the information
that you claim to be CBI. For CBI
information in a disk or CD–ROM that
you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the
disk or CD–ROM as CBI and then
identify electronically within the disk or
CD–ROM the specific information that
is claimed as CBI. In addition to one
complete version of the comment that
includes information claimed as CBI, a
copy of the comment that does not
contain the information claimed as CBI
must be submitted for inclusion in the
public docket. Information so marked
will not be disclosed except in
accordance with procedures set forth in
40 CFR part 2.
2. Tips for Preparing Your Comments.
When submitting comments, remember
to:
• Identify the rulemaking by docket
number and other identifying
information (subject heading, Federal
Register date and page number).
• Follow directions—The agency
may ask you to respond to specific
questions or organize comments by
referencing a Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) part or section
number.
• Explain why you agree or disagree;
suggest alternatives and substitute
language for your requested changes.
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• Describe any assumptions and
provide any technical information and/
or data that you used.
• If you estimate potential costs or
burdens, explain how you arrived at
your estimate in sufficient detail to
allow for it to be reproduced.
• Provide specific examples to
illustrate your concerns, and suggest
alternatives.
• Explain your views as clearly as
possible, avoiding the use of profanity
or personal threats.
• Make sure to submit your
comments by the comment period
deadline identified.
II. Background on the Ozone NAAQS
Review
Section 108(a) of the CAA directs the
Administrator to identify certain
pollutants which ‘‘may reasonably be
anticipated to endanger public health
and welfare’’ and to issue air quality
criteria for them. These air quality
criteria are to ‘‘accurately reflect the
latest scientific knowledge useful in
indicating the kind and extent of all
identifiable effects on public health or
welfare which may be expected from the
presence of [a] pollutant in the ambient
air * * *’’ Under section 109 of the
CAA, EPA is then to establish NAAQS
for each pollutant for which EPA has
issued criteria. Section 109(d) of the
CAA subsequently requires periodic
review and, if appropriate, revision of
existing air quality criteria to reflect
advances in scientific knowledge on the
effects of the pollutant on public health
and welfare. Also, EPA is to retain or,
if appropriate revise, the NAAQS based
on the revised criteria, which have
undergone review by the Clean Air
Scientific Advisory Committee
(CASAC).
The CASAC, which is comprised of
seven members appointed by the EPA
Administrator, was established under
section 109(d)(2) of the CAA (42 U.S.C.
7409) as an independent scientific
advisory committee, in part to provide
advice, information, and
recommendations on the scientific and
technical aspects of issues related to air
quality criteria and NAAQS under
sections 108 and 109 of the CAA. The
CASAC is a Federal advisory committee
under the Federal Advisory Committee
Act (FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C., App.
The CASAC Ozone Review Panel
consists of the members of the chartered
CASAC, is supplemented by subject-
matter experts, and complies with the
provisions of FACA.
Ozone is one of six ‘‘criteria’’
pollutants for which EPA has
established air quality criteria and
NAAQS. Presently, EPA is reviewing
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the criteria and NAAQS for ozone. This
review includes preparation of two key
documents, the Air Quality Criteria for
Ozone and Related Photochemical
Oxidants (‘‘Criteria Document’’) and a
related ‘‘Staff Paper.’’ The purpose of
the Staff Paper is to evaluate the policy
implications of the key scientific and
technical information contained in the
Criteria Document and identify critical
elements that EPA staff believe should
be considered in reviewing the NAAQS.
The Staff Paper is intended to ‘‘bridge
the gap’’ between the scientific review
contained in the Criteria Document and
the public health and welfare policy
judgments required of the Administrator
in reviewing the NAAQS.
In January 2005, a first external
review draft of the Criteria Document
was released by EPA for public review
and comment and for review by the
CASAC of EPA’s Science Advisory
Board (70 FR 4850, January 31, 2005) at
a public meeting held in May 2005.
Comments received from review of the
first draft document were considered in
preparing the second draft Criteria
Document released for public review
and comment in August 2005 (70 FR
51810, August 31, 2005). Based on this
document, the first Draft Staff Paper was
released in November 2005 (70 FR
69761, November 17, 2005), and
reviewed at a public meeting on
December 8, 2005. Based on the
information contained in the final
Criteria Document, released in March
2006 (71 FR 10030, February 28, 2006),
the second Draft Staff Paper includes
assessments and analyses related to: (1)
Air quality characterization; (2)
integration and evaluation of health
information; (3) exposure analysis; (4)
health risk assessment; and (5)
evaluation of information on vegetation
damage and other welfare effects. The
second Draft Staff Paper contains staff
conclusions and options with respect to
possible retention or revision of the
current primary (health-based) and
secondary (welfare-based) standards and
identifies alternative standards for
consideration by the Administrator.
The draft Exposure Analysis, Risk
Assessment and Environmental
Assessment technical support
documents describe and present the
results from an ozone exposure analysis
and health risk assessment in several
urban areas, and the impact of ozone on
the environment. Draft plans upon
which these assessments are based, the
Ozone Health Assessment Plan: Scope
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Risk Assessment and the Scope and
Methods for Environmental Assessment
Plan, were previously reviewed by
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received on those plans have been
considered in developing the draft
Exposure Analysis, Risk Assessment
and Environmental Assessment
technical support documents being
released at this time. The exposure
analysis, risk assessment, and
environmental assessment
methodologies and results are also
discussed in the second Draft Staff
Paper.
The EPA is soliciting advice and
recommendations from the CASAC by
means of a peer review of the second
Draft Staff Paper and drafts of the
Exposure Analysis, Risk Assessment,
and Environmental Assessment at an
upcoming public meeting of the CASAC
scheduled for August 24 and 25, 2006.
A Federal Register notice will inform
the public of the location of that
meeting. Following the CASAC meeting,
EPA will consider comments received
from CASAC and the public in
preparing a final Staff Paper and final
Exposure Analysis, Risk Assessment,
and Environmental Assessment
technical support documents.
Dated: July 13, 2006.
Mary E. Henigin,
Acting Director, Office of Air Quality Planning
and Standards.
[FR Doc. E6–11343 Filed 7–17–06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560–50–P
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Formations of, Acquisitions by, and
Mergers of Bank Holding Companies
The companies listed in this notice
have applied to the Board for approval,
pursuant to the Bank Holding Company
Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.)
(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part
225), and all other applicable statutes
and regulations to become a bank
holding company and/or to acquire the
assets or the ownership of, control of, or
the power to vote shares of a bank or
bank holding company and all of the
banks and nonbanking companies
owned by the bank holding company,
including the companies listed below.
The applications listed below, as well
as other related filings required by the
Board, are available for immediate
inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank
indicated. The application also will be
available for inspection at the offices of
the Board of Governors. Interested
persons may express their views in
writing on the standards enumerated in
the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the
proposal also involves the acquisition of
a nonbanking company, the review also
includes whether the acquisition of the
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nonbanking company complies with the
standards in section 4 of the BHC Act
(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise
noted, nonbanking activities will be
conducted throughout the United States.
Additional information on all bank
holding companies may be obtained
from the National Information Center
website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
Unless otherwise noted, comments
regarding each of these applications
must be received at the Reserve Bank
indicated or the offices of the Board of
Governors not later than August 14,
2006.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
(Richard Walker, Community Affairs
Officer) P.O. Box 55882, Boston,
Massachusetts 02106-2204:
1. Fidelity Mutual Holding Company
and Life Design Holding Company, both
of Fitchburg, Massachusetts; to become
a bank holding company by acquiring
Fidelity Co-Operative Bank, Fitchburg,
Massachusetts.
B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
(Patrick M. Wilder, Assistant Vice
President) 230 South LaSalle Street,
Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
1. Oakland Financial Services, Inc.,
Oakland, Iowa; to aquire up to 33.3
percent of the non voting equity of Otoe
County Bancorporation, Inc., Nebraska
City, and thereby indirectly acquire
Otoe County Bank & Trust Company,
Nebraska City, Nebraska.
2. Southwest Company, Sidney, Iowa;
to acquire up to 33.3 percent of the non
voting equity of Otoe County
Bancorporation, Inc., Nebraska City,
Nebraska, and thereby indirectly acquire
Otoe County Bank & Trust Company,
Nebraska City, Nebraska.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, July 13, 2006
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E6–11322 Filed 7–17–06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210–01–S
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Sunshine Act Meeting
AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve
System.
TIME AND DATE: 11:30 a.m., Monday, July
24, 2006.
PLACE: Marriner S. Eccles Federal
Reserve Board Building, 20th and C
Streets, NW., Washington, DC 20551.
STATUS: Closed.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:
1. Personnel actions (appointments,
promotions, assignments,
reassignments, and salary actions)
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