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Fifty-Seventh Report of the TSCA Interagency Testing Committee to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection

Fri, Dec 23 2005 11:00:00 GMT

The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Interagency Testing Committee (ITC) transmitted its FiftySeventh Report to the Administrator of EPA on November 22, 2005. In the 57^th ITC Report, which is included with this notice, there are no changes to the TSCA section 4(e) Priority Testing List published in the
56^th ITC Report in the Federal Register of October 24, 2005. As stated in the 56^th ITC Report, it was the ITC's intention to provide in this 57^th ITC Report a dataavailability study of the high production volume (HPV) chemicals in the 2002 Inventory Update Rule (IUR). The study of the HPV chemicals in the 2002 IUR may be made available after the ITC has had an opportunity to review comments received on the study of the HPV chemicals described in the 56^th ITC Report. In addition, the ITC needs additional time to review information submitted from the International Tungsten Industry Association, the Indium Corporation of America, and the Van

Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Virginia; Redesignation of the City of Fredericksburg,

Fri, Dec 23 2005 11:00:00 GMT

EPA is approving a redesignation request and a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VADEQ) is requesting that the City of Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, and Stafford County (the Fredericksburg area) be redesignated as attainment for the 8hour ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS). In conjunction with its redesignation request, the Commonwealth submitted a SIP revision consisting of a maintenance plan for the Fredericksburg area that provides for continued attainment of the 8hour ozone NAAQS for the next 10 years. EPA is also approving the adequacy determination for the motor vehicle emission budgets (MVEBs) that are identified in the 8hour maintenance plan for the Fredericksburg area for purposes of transportation conformity, and is approving those MVEBs. EPA is approving the redesignation request and the maintenance plan revision to the Virginia SIP in accordance with the requir

Hazardous Waste Management System; Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste; Final Exclusion

Fri, Dec 23 2005 11:00:00 GMT

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) today is granting a petition submitted by Saturn Corporation in Spring Hill, Tennessee (Saturn) to exclude (or ``delist'') a certain hazardous waste from the lists of hazardous wastes. Saturn generates the petitioned waste, the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) sludge, by treating wastewater from Saturn's chemical conversion coating of aluminum. The waste so generated is a wastewater treatment sludge that meets the definition of F019. Saturn petitioned EPA to grant a ``generator specific'' delisting because Saturn believes that its F019 waste does not meet the criteria for which this type of waste was listed. EPA reviewed all of the wastespecific information provided by Saturn, performed calculations, and determined that the waste could be disposed in a landfill without harming human health and the environment. This action responds to Saturn's petition to delist this waste on a generatorspecific basis from the hazardous waste lists, and to publ

Benzaldehyde, Captafol, Hexaconazole, Paraformaldehyde, Sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate, and Tetradifon; Proposed

Fri, Dec 23 2005 11:00:00 GMT

EPA is proposing to revoke specific tolerances and tolerance exemptions for residues of the insecticides paraformaldehyde and tetradifon; fungicides captafol, hexaconazole, and sodium
dimethyldithiocarbamate; and bee repellant benzaldehyde. EPA canceled food use registrations or deleted food uses from registrations following requests for voluntary cancellation or use deletion by the registrants, or nonpayment of registration maintenance fees. Also, stakeholders have withdrawn their support for import tolerances for captafol and hexaconazole. EPA expects to determine whether any individuals or groups want to support these tolerances. The regulatory actions proposed in this document contribute toward the Agency's tolerance reassessment requirements under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) section 408(q), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) of 1996. By law, EPA is required by August 2006 to reassess the tolerances that were in existence on August 2, 1996. The regula

Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of EPA Comments

Fri, Dec 23 2005 11:00:00 GMT

Availability of EPA comments prepared pursuant to the Environmental Review Process (ERP), under section 309 of the Clean Air Act and Section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act as amended. Requests for copies of EPA comments can be directed to the Office of Federal Activities at 2025647167. An explanation of the ratings assigned to draft environmental impact statements (EISs) was published in FR dated April 1, 2005 (70 FR 16815).

Draft EISs

EIS No. 20050415, ERP No. DFRAD51028PA, Pennsylvania HighSpeed Maglev Project, Construction between Pittsburgh International Airport (PIA) and Greensburg Area, The Pennsylvania Project of Magnetic Levitation Transportation Technology Deployment Program, Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties, PA

Summary: EPA has environmental concerns about air quality, environmental justice, and the disposal of excavated waste material, and also requests that additional information describing the quality of the habitat that is to be impacted should be

Environmental Impacts Statements; Notice of Availability

Fri, Dec 23 2005 11:00:00 GMT

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal Activities, General Information (202) 5647167 or http://www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/.

Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact Statements.

Filed 12/12/2005 Through 12/16/2005.

Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9.
EIS No. 20050523, Draft EIS, AFS, PA, West Branch of Tionesta Project, Road Construction and Vegetation Management, State Game Lands No. 29 and Chapman Dam State Park,
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Sheffield, Warren County, PA, Comment Period Ends: 02/06/2006, Contact: O'Dell Tucker 8143624613Ext 125.
EIS No. 20050524, Final EIS, BLM, CA, Desert Southwest Transmission Line Project, New Substation/Switching Station Construction, Operation and Maintenance, Issuance of RightofWay Grant and U.S. Army COE Section 10 and 404 Permits, North Palm Springs and Blythe, CA, Wait Period Ends: 01/23/2006, Contact: Diane Gomez 7602514852.
EIS No.

State Innovation Grant Program, Notice of Availability of Solicitation for Proposals for 2006 Awards

Fri, Dec 23 2005 11:00:00 GMT

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Innovation (NCEI) is giving notice of the availability of its solicitation for proposals for the 2006 grant program to support innovation by state environmental regulatory agenciesthe ``State Innovation Grant Program.''

The solicitation is available at the Agency's State Innovation Grant Web site: http://www.epa.gov/innovation/stategrants/solicitation2006.pdf , or may be requested from the Agency by email,
telephone, or by mail. Only the principal environmental regulatory agency within each State (generally, where delegated authorities for Federal environmental regulations exist) is eligible to receive these grants.

Environmental Economics Research Strategy

Fri, Dec 23 2005 11:00:00 GMT

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is today announcing the availability of its Environmental Economics Research Strategy, EPA/600/R04/195. The Environmental Economics Research Strategy identifies and prioritizes environmental economics and decision science research that will be conducted over the next several years to improve the scientific foundation for EPA's decisionmaking and policy initiatives.

A&H Sales Superfund Site,Tampa, FL; Notice of Settlement

Fri, Dec 23 2005 11:00:00 GMT

Under section 122(h)(1) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), the United States Environmental Protection Agency has entered into a settlement for the reimbursement of past response costs with Finishmaster, Inc., concerning the A&H Sales Superfund Site located in Tampa, Florida.

Proposed National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit for Stormwater Discharges From

Fri, Dec 23 2005 11:00:00 GMT

On December 1, 2005 (70 FR 72116) EPA noticed the availability of the proposed National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit for Stormwater Discharges from Industrial Activities and requested comments on the draft by January 16, 2006. The purpose of this notice is to extend this comment period to February 16, 2006.