[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 75 (Friday, April 17, 2020)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 21340]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-07348]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 30

[EPA-HQ-OA-2018-0259; FRL-10007-88-ORD]
RIN 2080-AA14


Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking; extension of 
comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending the 
comment period for a notice issued in the Federal Register on March 18, 
2020, supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (SNPRM) titled 
``Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science.'' This document is 
extending the comment period on this SNPRM from April 17, 2020, to May 
18, 2020.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before May 18, 2020.

ADDRESSES: You may send comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OA-2018-0259, by the following method:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov/ 
(our preferred method). Follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the Docket ID 
No. for this rulemaking. Comments received may be posted without change 
to https://www.regulations.gov/, including any personal information 
provided.
    Out of an abundance of caution for members of the public and our 
staff, the EPA Docket Center and Reading Room will be closed to public 
visitors beginning at the close of business on March 31, 2020 (4:30 
p.m.) to reduce the risk of transmitting COVID-19. Our Docket Center 
staff will continue to provide remote customer service via email, 
phone, and webform. We encourage the public to submit comments via 
https://www.regulations.gov or email, as there will be a delay in 
process mail and no hand deliveries will be accepted. For further 
information on EPA Docket Center services, please visit us online at 
https://www.epa.gov/dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cheryl A. Hawkins, Office of Science 
Advisor, Policy and Engagement (8104R), Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone 
number: (202) 564-7307; email address: osp_staff@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 18, 2020, EPA published a 
supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (SNPRM) titled 
``Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science'' (85 FR 15396), 
which includes clarifications, modifications and additions to certain 
provisions in the Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science 
Proposed Rulemaking, published on April 30, 2018 (83 FR 18768). The 
SNPRM proposed that the scope of the rulemaking apply to influential 
scientific information as well as significant regulatory decisions. 
That notice proposed definitions and clarified that the proposed 
rulemaking would apply to data and models underlying both pivotal 
science and pivotal regulatory science. In the SNPRM, EPA also proposed 
a modified approach to the public availability provisions for data and 
models that would underly significant regulatory decisions and an 
alternate approach. Finally, EPA requested comment on whether to use 
its housekeeping authority independently or in conjunction with 
appropriate environmental statutory provisions as authority for the 
rulemaking.
    This document extends the public comment period for the proposed 
rule to ensure that the public has sufficient time to review and 
comment on the proposal.

    Dated: April 2, 2020.
Mary Ross,
Director, Office of Science Advisor, Policy and Engagement.
[FR Doc. 2020-07348 Filed 4-16-20; 8:45 am]
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