[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 154 (Friday, August 10, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45045-45046]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-15675]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-8453-2; Docket ID No. EPA-HQORD-2007-0667]


Climate and Land Use Change Effects on Ecological Resources in 
Three Watersheds: A Synthesis Report

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of public comment period.

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SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a 30-day public comment period for the draft 
document titled, ``Climate and Land Use Change Effects on Ecological 
Resources in Three Watersheds: A Synthesis Report'' (EPA/600/R-07/086). 
The document was prepared by the National Center for Environmental 
Assessment within EPA's Office of Research and Development.
    EPA is releasing this draft document solely for the purpose of pre-
dissemination peer review under applicable information quality 
guidelines. This document has not been formally disseminated by EPA. It 
does not represent and should not be construed to represent any Agency 
policy or determination. EPA intends to consider any public comments 
submitted in accordance with this notice when revising the document.

DATES: The 30-day public comment period begins August 10, 2007, and 
ends September 10, 2007. Technical comments should be in writing and

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must be received by EPA by September 10, 2007.

ADDRESSES: The draft ``Climate and Land Use Change Effects on 
Ecological Resources in Three Watersheds: A Synthesis Report'' is 
available primarily via the Internet on the National Center for 
Environmental Assessment's home page under the Recent Additions and the 
Data and Publications menus at http://www.epa.gov/ncea. A limited 
number of paper copies are available from the Technical Information 
Staff of the National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA-TIS). 
Please contact the Technical Information Staff by telephone at 202-564-
3261 or by facsimile at 202-565-0050. If you are requesting a paper 
copy, please provide your name, your mailing address, and the draft 
document title, ``Climate and Land Use Change Effects on Ecological 
Resources in Three Watersheds: A Synthesis Report.''
    Comments may be submitted electronically via http://www.regulations.gov, by mail, by facsimile, or by hand delivery/
courier. Please follow the detailed instructions provided in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information on the public comment 
period, contact the Office of Environmental Information Docket; 
telephone: 202-566-1752; facsimile: 202-566-1753; or e-mail: 
[email protected].
    For technical information, contact Susan Julius, NCEA, telephone: 
202-564-3394; facsimile: 202-565-0061; or e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information About the Project/Document

    Effects of global change drivers differ by place and in scale, 
necessitating place-specific impacts information to enable stakeholders 
to respond appropriately. Place and scale also determine appropriate 
adaptation strategies and expected outcomes. This report is a synthesis 
of three watershed case-study assessments conducted by Global Change 
Research Program (GCRP) to advance the capability of managers to 
consider climate and land use change in watershed management decisions. 
The goal of this report is three-fold: (1) To understand the potential 
impacts of global changes and the availability of effective responses 
at the watershed scale across different geographic regions, (2) to 
learn how GCRP and other research programs might improve the process of 
conducting future assessments, and (3) to improve GCRP's and other 
research programs' understanding about effective ways to inject climate 
change impacts and adaptation information into decision-making 
processes. Toward that end, this report compares and contrasts methods 
and processes employed by the three case study teams to learn effective 
analytic, project management, and decision support approaches.

II. How to Submit Technical Comments to the Docket at http://www.regulations.gov

    Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD 2007-
0667, by one of the following methods:
     http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line 
instructions for submitting comments.
     E-mail: [email protected].
     Fax: 202-566-1753.
     Mail: Office of Environmental Information (OEI) Docket 
(Mail Code: 2822T), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. The phone number is 202-
566-1752.
     Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is located in the EPA 
Headquarters Docket Center, EPA West Building, Room 3334, 1301 
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center 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 202-566-1744. Such deliveries are only accepted during 
the docket's normal hours of operation, and special arrangements should 
be made for deliveries of boxed information.
    If you provide comments by mail or hand delivery, please submit one 
unbound original with pages numbered consecutively, and three copies of 
the comments. For attachments, provide an index, number pages 
consecutively with the comments, and submit an unbound original and 
three copies.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2006-0667. Please ensure that your comments are submitted within the 
specified comment period. Comments received after the closing date will 
be marked ``late,'' and may only be considered if time permits. It is 
EPA's policy to include all comments it receives in the public docket 
without change and to make the comments available online at http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided, 
unless a 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 http://www.regulations.gov or e-
mail. The http://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 http://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, 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 about EPA's public docket visit the 
EPA Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
    Docket: Documents in the docket are listed in the http://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 materials, 
such as copyrighted material, are publicly available only in hard copy. 
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically 
in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the OEI Docket in the 
EPA Headquarters Docket Center.

    Dated: August 2, 2007.
Peter W. Preuss,
Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.
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