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p. 1 36/ C 70840 Federal Register/Vol. 70, No . 225/Wednesday, November 23, 2005/Notice s List of Subjects these proposals should be submitted to Environmental protection, Pesticides the UNECE Secretariat for the POPs and pest. Task Force via e-mail at b . What Is the 1998 Aarhus POPs Protocol ? Dated : November 10, 2005 . oir.env@unece.org. Please provide a The 1998 Aarhus POPs Protocol Janet L . Andersen, copy of your comments and information under the LRTAP Convention was Director, Biopesticides and Pollution submitted to Paul Almodovar of the U .S . established with the objective of Prevention Division, Office of Pesticide EPA, Office of Air Quality Planning and controlling, reducing or eliminating Programs Standards via e-mail at discharges, emissions, and losses of (FR Doc . . almodovar.paul@epa 05-23107 Filed 11-22-05 ; 8 .gov. If you are POPs . POPs are defined in the Protocol :45 am) interested in being contacted in the as organic substances that (i) possess BILLING CODE 6560-50-S future when proposals under this toxic characteristics ; (ii) are persistent ; Protocol occur, please notify Paul (iii) bioaccumulate ; (iv) are prone to ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Almodovar directly . long-range transboundary atmospheric AGENCY FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT : Paul transport and deposition ; and (v) are Almodovar of the U .S . EPA, Office of likely to cause significant adverse [FRL-7999-11 Air Quality Planning and Standards, human health or environmental effects Proposal of addition of certain ImplemeInnftoatrimonatD ioinvTisriaonns,fCer3P0r4o-g0r3a,mThneeaPrrtootoacnodldoiusttalinntefsrobmastihceoirblsioguartcioesns. substances to the 1998 Aarhus Research Triangle Park, North Carolina for countries that are Parties to the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPS) 27711, telephone number (919) 541- Protocol (have ratified the Protocol) for Protocol under the Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution 0283, e-mail at achieving this objective, and includes almodovar .paul@epa .gov . methods by which Parties to the Convention of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe INFORMATION : Protocol can fulfill the basic obligations, (UNECE) : Notice of Data Availabpiliety O thisuNtOliDnAei:s Tohrgeainnifzoermd aatsiofnolplorewssen: tteedcihnniinqculuedsinagndideenmtiifsysiniognbelismt aivt avilaalbulees for AGENCY : Environmental Protection stationary sources of POPs, and effectiv e Agency (EPA) 1 . 1998 Aarhus POPs Protocol Under the measures to control POPs emissions . Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution ACTION : Notice of data availability Convention of the UNECE from mobile sources . The Protocol (NODA) . a . What Is the Long-Range Transboundary identifies POPs that have been targeted Air Pollution (LRTAP) Convention of the and scheduled for elimination (aldrin , SUMMARY : This notice announces the UNECE? chlorodane, clordecone, DDT, deildrin, availability of data and information b . What Is the 1998 Aarhus POPs Protocol? endrin, heptachlor, hexabromobiphenyl, concerning dossiers for proposals) for it . Proposals for New POPs hexachlorobenzene, mirex, PCB, an d the addition of hexachlorobutadiene, a . Who Are the Nominating Countries? toxaphene ; Annex I of the Protocol) ; for octabromo diphenyl ether (octaBDE), b. . What What Do the Proposals Address? use restrictions (DDT, Is Involved in the Technical II of the Protocol) HCH, PCB ; Annex pentachlorobenzene, p Revie wolchrinated of Proposals ? ; and for annua l napthalenes, short-chain chlorinated d . Other Proposals reductions in emissions from a specified parrafins (SCCPs), dicofol, reference year, achieved by taking pentabromodiphenyl ether (PeDBE), and 1 . 1998 Aarhus POPs Protocol Under effective measures as appropriate perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) as the Long-Range Transboundary Air (po)ycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons persistent organic pollutants (POPs) P olluti on Convention of the UNECE (PAHs), Dioxins/furans, an d submitted to the Secretariat of the 1998 a. What Is the LRTAP Convention of the hexachlorobenzene) . The Protocol in its Aarhus POPs Protocol Under the Long- UNECE? entirety can be viewed at the LRTAP Range Transboundary Air Pollution The LRTAP Convention functions to POPs Web site at http://www.unece .org/ (LRTAP) Convention of the UNECE . We foster intergovernmental cooperation env/Irtap/pops_hl .htm . The United are issuing this NODA to alert interested and has created the essential framework States is currently not a Party to the and potentially affected parties of these for controlling and reducing the damage Aarhus POPs Protocol . Legislation is proposals ; to announce the substances to human health and the environment being developed that would allow the proposed for inclusion in the Protocol ; caused by transboundary air pollution . United States to become Parties to, and to provide the Web site where these Since entry into force of the Convention implement the protocol . proposals may be reviewed ; to provide 8 specific Protocols have also been II. Proposals To Include Substances as tihnfeoarmddatrieosnsmesaywbheesruebcmoimttemd ents or completed to address transboundary air POP s ; and to pollution, one of which is the 199 8 provide the deadline for submitting Aarhus POPs Protocol, which today's Who Are the Nominating Countries? comments and information . We are also NODA addresses . The United States is The Protocol provides procedures by issuing the NODA to solicit names and a Party to the LRTAP Convention . The which Parties to the Protocol can contact information for those parties focus of the Parties to the Convention propose to amend annex I, II, or III by wprhoopowsoaulsldunlidkeertothbeeAnaorthifuisedPwOhPesneonvsuerrethim e npelexmt seenvteartiaolnyeoafrtshwesill be to adding substances to the Protocol . These Protocol occur. P procedures are outlie ned in Article 14 of DATES : protocols. Participation in this the Protocol . Comments and information on Convention allows the United States to This year, the European Commission tbheefosreepDroecpeomsablesr m9,u2s0t0b5e received on or continue to assert its leadership role in has submitted proposals fo r ADDRESSES : . shaping the substance and structure of hexachlorobutadiene, OctaBDE, The proposals can be found LRTAP protocols as they continue to pentachlorobenzene, polychlorinated at the following Web site: http :// www.unece.org/env/popsxg/ tackle complex pollution issues and napthalenes, and SCCPs, and the proposals%20for%20NEW%20pops . serve as models for action in other Netherlands has submitted a proposal regional bodies, as well as for global for dicofol . htm . Comments and information on environmental agreements . 000258 p. 2 Federal Register/ Vol . 70, No . 225/Wednesday, November 23, 2005 /Notices 70841 b . What Do the Proposals Address? representatives of intergovernmental or quantifiable costs and benefits The proposals need to provide accredited non-governmental associated with the use of these information that allows a determination organizations. The Task Force on POPs alternatives and/or techniques is being of whether the substance is a POP in the receives its instructions from the annual sought . This information may be context of the Protocol . The proposals work plan of the EB, but reports to the submitted until December 9, 2005 to the (e .g., risk profiles) are described as a WGSR. entities listed in the ADDRESSES section . comprehensive review of the scientific A definitive description of the process Dated information related to the determination for technical reviews of the proposals : November 14 . 2005 . of general human health and : WL illiamcanbefoudthlwigWebs . Wehrum , environmental risks associahtettpd://w wwiwth.untehcee.oorg/0envo/opsxg/ Acting Assistant Administrator forAirand uses and releases of a substance . proposals /o20for/o20NEW /o20pops . Radiation. Specifically, the proposals document htm . [FR Doc . 05-23227 Filed 11-22-05 ; 8 :45 am] the following characteristics : potential The proposals submitted by the BIwNG CODE W60-so-a for long-range transport ; toxicity ; European Commission and the persistence ; and bioaccumulation . The Netherlands will be considered by the EB of the Convention at its session on ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION POPs Protocol provides guidance on December 12-15, 2005 for acceptability AGENC Y numerical descriptors, as appropriate, to and referral to the Task Force on POP assist in the evaluation of the above for technical review s [FRL-8001-6] . These proposals characteristics in the context of the can be reviewed at the website liste program . In addition to individual d Adequacy of Illinois Municipal Solid determinations, the evaluation includes above in the ADDRESSES section of this Waste Landfill Progra m a consideration as to whether sufficient NODA . Comments and information may be submitted until December 9, 2005 to AGENCY : Environmental Protection information exists to suggest that the the entities listed in the substance is likely to have significant section ADDRESSES Agency (EPA) . adverse human health and/or . ACTION : Notice of proposed effects as a result of its d . Other Proposals determination of adeeq1uuaaccyy. long-range transboundary transport (LRAT) atmospheric Last year Norway submitted a SUMMARY : The U .S . Environmenta l . The protocol also proposal for pentbromodiphenyl ether Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 is provides guidance to assist in the (PeBDE) and Sweden submitted a proposing to approve a modification to evaluation of socio-economic proposal for perfluorocotane sulfonate Illinois' approved municipal solid waste information to help frame the strategy (PFOS) . These proposals were referred landfill (MSWLF) permit program . The for reducing risks from the proposed by the EB of the Convention for modification allows the State to issue substances . The proposal must include, technical review to the Task Force on research, development an d as available, information on release to POPs in its session in December 2004 . demonstration (RD&D) permits to the environment, including production, Both of these substances underwent the owners and operators of MSWLF units uses, and emissions, plus socio- first stage of technical review by the in accordance with its State law and economic factors related to the Task Force on POPs, and have been regulations . alternatives and/or techniques available recommended by the WGSR as POPs, a s to reduce emissions of the proposed defined under the POPs Protocol to the DATES : All comments on Illinois' substance . At this time, the proposals EB of the Convention . (http :// application for approval of its research, are available for public review and www.unece.org/env/documents/2005/ development and demonstration permit submission of comments and eb/wg5/eb.air.wg.5 .2005 .1 .e.pdj7 . modification must be received by close information (see the ADDRESSES section Based on the recommendation of the of business on December 23, 2005 . of this NODA for where to find these WGSR, the Task Force on POPs is ADDRESSES : Written comments should proposals) to supplement information expected to be asked by the EB to be sent to Donna Twickler, Waste contained in the dossiers . All relevant develop proposed management Management Branch (Mail code : DWcomments and information will be strategies for both PeBDE and PFOS . To 8J), U .S . EPA Region 5, 77 West Jackson considered during the technical reviews develop these management strategies, Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60604 , of these proposals . information on production/uses/ telephone : (312) 886-6184 . Comments c . What Is Involved in the Technical Review of These Proposals? emissions, measured environmental may also be submitted electronically to : levels in areas distant from sources, twickler.donnaepa .gov or by facsimil e abiotic and biotic degradation processes, at (312) 353-4788. You may examine The Executive Body (EB) (which is and rates, degradation products, bio- copies of the relevant portions o f the Convention's "conference of the availability ; and socio-economic factors Illinois' regulations during normal parties"), has decided that the Task related to the alternatives and/or the business hours at U .S . EPA Region 5 . Force on POPs shall prepare technical techniques available to reduce the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: reviews of such proposals when emissions of the proposed substance Donna Twickler, Waste Management requested to do so, and present relevant including : Alternatives to the existing Branch (Mail code DW-8J), U .S . EPA documentation on the proposals to the uses and their efficacy ; any known Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Working Group on Strategies and adverse environmental or human health Chicago, Illinois 60604, telephone (312) Review (WGSR). The WGSR is the group effects associated with the alternatives ; 886-6184, twickler.donnaQepa .gov. under the Convention which amongst process changes, control technologies, other activities, develops "strategies operating practices, and other pollutio n SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION : (i.e ., negotiates) for action on substances prevention techniques which can be A. Background and proposes such actions for adoption used to reduce the emissions of the On March 22, 2004, U by the EB .S . EPA issued . Membership of the Task substance, and their applicability and a final rule amending the municipal Force is open to experts from all Parties effectiveness ; and the non-monetary solid waste landfill criteria in 40 CFR to the Convention, and to authorized costs and benefits as well as the part 258 to allow for research , 000259