[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 62 (Wednesday, April 1, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17429-17430]
[FR Doc No: 2015-07494]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0086; FRL-9925-03]

EQI and POM SFIREG; Notice of Public Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Association of American Pesticide Control Officials
(AAPCO)/State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group (SFIREG),
Joint EQI and POM Committee will hold a 2-day meeting, beginning on
April 13, 2015 and ending April 14, 2015. This notice announces the
location and times for the meeting and sets forth the tentative agenda
topics.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Monday, April 13, 2015 from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. and 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday April 14, 2015.
    To request accommodation of a disability you should please contact
the person listed in this notice under FOR FURTHER INFORMATON CONTACT.
Please contact EPA at least 10 days prior to the meeting, to give EPA
as much time as possible to process your request

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at EPA, One Potomac Yard (South
Bldg.) 2777 Crystal Dr., Arlington VA. 1st Floor South Conference Room.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ron Kendall, Field and External
Affairs Division (7506P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number:<PHONE_NUMBER>; fax number:<PHONE_NUMBER>;
email address<EMAIL_ADDRESS>or Amy Bamber, SFIREG Executive
Secretary, at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. Does this action apply to me?

    You may be potentially affected by this action if you are
interested in pesticide regulation issues affecting States and any
discussion between EPA and SFIREG on FIFRA field implementation issues
related to human health, environmental exposure to pesticides, and
insight into EPA's decision-making process. You are invited and
encouraged to attend the meetings and participate as appropriate.
Potentially affected entities may include, but are not limited to,
persons who are or may be required to conduct testing of chemical
substances under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act (FFDCA), or
the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and
those who sell, distribute or use pesticides, as well as any non-
government organization. If you have any questions regarding the
applicability of this action to a particular entity please consult the
person in this notice listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

B. How can I get copies of this document and other related information?

    The docket for this action, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0086, is available at http://www.regulations.gov or at the Office of Pesticide Programs Regulatory
Public Docket (OPP Docket) in the Environmental Protection Agency
Docket Center (EPA/DC), West William Jefferson Clinton Bldg., Rm. 3334,
1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001. The Public
Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public
Reading Room is<PHONE_NUMBER>, and the telephone number for the OPP
Docket is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Please review the visitor instructions and
additional information about the docket available at http://www.epa.gov/dockets.

II. Tentative Agenda Topics

1. OPP/OECA program updates.
2. Emergence of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UVA) for agricultural
applications.
3. State updates on environmental quality issues.
4. Present results of the SFIREG Pesticides of Interest Tracking System
(POINTS) evaluation.

5. Aggregation of National Endangered Species Act (ESA) data by the
FIFRA Endangered Species Task Force.
6. States use of EPA developed benchmarks for pesticides in water.
7. State managed pollinator protection plan measures.
8. Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program.
9. Design for the Environment (DfE) survey results.
10. Oregon neonicotinoid ban.
11. Drift Reduction Technology (DRT) Program and the Spray Drift PR
Notice.
12. Respirator label language in the label review manual.

III. How can I request to participate in this meeting?

    This meeting is open for the public to attend. You may attend the
meeting without further notification.

    Authority:  7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.

    Dated: March 25, 2015.
Patricia L. Parrott,
Acting Director, Field and External Affairs Division, Office of
Pesticide Protection.
[FR Doc. 2015-07494 Filed 3-31-15; 8:45 am]
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Complete information on the derivation of the inflation factors used is given in Table 0-2. In 2006, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) made several changes to the Employment Cost Index. The changes are described on a BLS web page, "Change has come to the ECI," (BLS, 2006c) and in several April 2006 Monthly Labor Review articles posted on the BLS web site: "Changes affecting the Employment Cost Index: an overview" (Caroll 2006); "Employment Cost Index Publication Plans" (Sleemi, 2006); and "Seasonal adjustment in the ECI and the conversion to NAICS and SOC" (Branch, 2006).
Under a mandate from OMB, BLS changed its classification of industries and occupations from the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) and Occupational Classification System (OCS) to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. In 2006, BLS adjusted all ECI series to reflect this change.
In addition to changing the industry and occupational classification systems, in 2006, BLS rebased the ECI from June 1989 = 100 to December 2005 = 100 for all current and historical non-seasonally adjusted series, including the NAICS and SIC based series. (Seasonally adjusted indices, including those in Table 0-2 of this report, may not exactly equal 100 for December 2005 as a result of the seasonal adjustment. Seasonal adjustments are explained in Branch, 2006.)
According to BLS, the official ECI for the years 1975-2005 is the SIC-OCS based series, and for subsequent years, the official ECI is the NAICS-SOC based series (Sleemi, 2006, p.8).
"Starting year" indices in Table 0-2 continue to be SIC-OCS based. Current year indices are NAICS-SOC based. We use indices from both the NAICS-SOC and the SIC-OCS based ECI series because neither series spans the entire period over which testing and other costs need to be inflated.
Table 0-2: Derivation of Inflation Factors
                                     Item
                           Inflation Index Source[1]
                                 Starting Year
                          Index for Starting Year (a)
                                Index for 2009
                                      (b)
                          Inflation Factor (b)/(a)[2]
Export notification
 BLS ECI, not SA, Total comp, Private industry, White Collar. ECS11102I, 4[th] Q [BLS, 2010a]
                                     1993
                                     66.5
                                     110.4
                                     1.660
Agency Extramural costs White collar labor; equipment; supplies
 BLS ECI, not SA, Total comp, Private industry, White Collar. ECS11102I, 4[th] Q [BLS, 2010a]
                                     1993
                                     67.0
                                     111.4
                                     1.663
Labels, placards etc.
 BLS CPI, inflation calculator, not SA. Annual [BLS, 2010b]
                                     1997
                                     160.5
                                    214.537
                                     1.337
File cabinet

Photocopies
 BLS CPI, inflation calculator, Annual [BLS, 2010b]
                                     1988
                                     118.3
                                    214.537
                                     1.813
Record keeping materials

Key: BLS = Bureau of Labor Statistics. CPI = Consumer Price Index. ECI = Employment Cost Index. SA = Seasonally Adjusted. Total Comp = Total Compensation (wages/salaries and benefits). 4th Q = Fourth Quarter. "ECS10002I" etc. refer to BLS series Ids.
Notes:

1 In 2006, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Employment Cost Index (ECI) series "were rebased to December 2005 = 100 from June 1989 = 100." The change is reflected in the indices in this table and explained on the BLS website, Employment Cost Index News Release Text: Employment Cost Index, March 2006 (BLS, 2006b). The Consumer Price Index (CPI) was not rebased.

"Starting year" ECI indices are SIC-OCS based: Seasonally Adjusted (SA) ECS10002I for private industry All Workers, and not SA ECU11122I for private industry Professional and Related Workers.

After 2006, ECI indices are NAICS-SOC based: Seasonally Adjusted (SA) CIS2010000000000I for private industry All Workers, and not SA CIU2010000120000I (B) for private industry Professional, and Related workers.

1 Inflation factors are rounded to three decimal places in this table, but calculations in this report use the unrounded values. BLS CPI values were published with one decimal place through 2006 and with three decimal places after that.

[3] We began using the ECI for Private Industry All Workers in EPA, 2007b, to better reflect the labor mix for impermeability testing. Earlier PMN SNUR economic analyses used the ECI for Private Industry White Collar Workers.

[4] Beginning with the report Economic Analysis of Expedited Significant New Use Rules for 25 Chemical Substances: EPA Docket OPPT-2009-0922 (EPA, 2010d) we began to use the not-seasonally adjusted CIU2010000120000I for private industry Professional, and Related workers, instead of SA CIS2010000W00000I for private industry white collar workers because BLS retired the "white-collar" series.


                          UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
                            National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory 2000 Traverwood Drive
                                 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105-2498

March 24, 2022

MEMORANDUM

             SUBJECT:	Meeting with Air Inc of East Boston and Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership (STEP)  -  March 16, 2022

             FROM:	Bryan Manning, General Engineer
             	Assessment and Standards Division
             Office of Transportation and Air Quality
             U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

TO:	Docket No. EPA - HQ - OAR - 2019 - 0660

On March 16, 2022, representatives from Air Inc of East Boston and Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership (STEP) met virtually with representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the subject of the proposed rulemaking for aircraft engine particulate matter emission standards.  A list of attendees is provided below.  The EPA presented a summary of the proposed rulemaking during this meeting, and the presentation is attached.  Air Inc of Boston and STEP gave a presentation on primary transport pollution and ultrafine particle emissions from aviation, and this presentation is attached.   In addition, Air Inc of Boston and STEP sent us an email message after the meeting, which is also attached.

The meeting attendees included:

EPA
Bryan Manning
Rich Cook
Marion Hoyer
Courtney Herbolsheimer

Air Inc of Boston and STEP
Chris Marchi AIR INC
Ellin Reisner STEP
Aaron Toffler MassPort CAC
Wig Zamore STEP/AIR INC/MCAC
Neelakshi Hudda TUFTS
John Durant TUFTS
Scott Fruin USC

Attachments:
 EPA presentation summarizing the proposed rulemaking
 Air Inc of Boston and STEP presentation on primary transport pollution and ultrafine particle emissions from aviation
 Air Inc of Boston and STEP follow-up email message