[Federal Register: February 12, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 29)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OPP-2003-0041; FRL-7292-7]
Tribal Pesticide Program Council; Notice of Public Meeting
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Tribal Pesticide Program Council (TPPC) will hold a 2-day
meeting, on March 13 and 14, 2003. This notice announces the location
and times for the meeting and sets forth the tentative agenda topics.
DATES: The meeting will be held on Thursday, March 13, 2003, from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m., including a closed session from 4:30 to 5 p.m. and
Friday March 14, 2003, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., including two closed
sessions from 10:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Doubletree Hotel - 300 Army
Navy Drive, Arlington, Crystal City, VA.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Georgia McDuffie, Field and External
Affairs Division (7506C), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (703) 605-0195; fax number: (703) 308-1850; e-
mail address: mcduffie.georgia@epa.gov.
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Lillian Wilmore, TPPC Facilitator, P.O. Box 470829, Brookline
Village, MA 02447-0829; telephone number: (617) 232-5742; fax (617)
277-1656; e-mail address: naecology@aol.com.
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 TPPC's information exchange relationship with EPA
regarding important issues related to human health, environmental
exposure to pesticides, and insight into EPA's decisionmaking process.
All parties are invited and encouraged to attend the meetings and
participate as appropriate.
This action is directed to the public in general, and may be of
particular interest to those persons who are or may be required to
conduct testing of chemical substances under the Federal Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), or the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). Since other entities may also be interested,
the Agency has not attempted to describe all the specific entities that
may be affected by this action. If you have any questions regarding the
applicability of this action to a particular entity, consult the person
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
B. How Can I Get Copies of this Document and Other Related Information?
1. Docket. EPA has established an official public docket for this
action under docket identification (ID) number OPP-2003-0041. The
official public docket consists of the documents specifically
referenced in this action, any public comments received, and other
information related to this action. Although a part of the official
docket, the public docket does not include Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted
by statute. The official public docket is the collection of materials
that is available for public viewing at the Public Information and
Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Rm. 119, Crystal Mall 2,
1921 Jefferson Davis Hwy., Arlington, VA. This docket facility is open
from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The docket telephone number is (703) 305-5805.
2. Electronic access. You may access this Federal Register document
electronically through the EPA Internet under the ``Federal Register''
listings at http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/.
An electronic version of the public docket is available through
EPA's electronic public docket and comment system, EPA Dockets. You may
use EPA Dockets at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/ to view public comments,
access the index listing of the contents of the official public docket,
and to access those documents in the public docket that are available
electronically. Although not all docket materials may be available
electronically, you may still access any of the publicly available
docket materials through the docket facility identified in Unit I.B.1.
Once in the system, select ``search,'' then key in the appropriate
docket ID number.
II. Tentative Agenda
This unit provides tentative agenda topics for the 2-day meeting.
1. TPPC state of the council report.
2. Presentation questions and answers by EPA Office of Pesticide
Programs and by EPA Office of Pesticide Programs, Field and External
Affairs Division.
3. Reports from Working Groups and TPPC participation in other
meetings: Tribal Strategy and Forum on State and Tribal Toxic Actions
(FOSTTA), Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee, Western Regional
Pesticide Conference, Certification and Training Advisory Group, and
Worker Protection.
4. Tribal caucus.
5. Reports from other organizations: State FIFRA Issues Research
and Evaluation Group, American Indian Environmental Office, Tribal
Operations Committee, Regional Tribal Operations Committee, Intertribal
Agricultural Council, and National Tribal Environmental Council,
Intertribal Agricultural Council, and Tribal Air Group.
6. Videos; EPA and Indian Country; Building Pesticide and Toxic
Programs in Indian Country and Native American Grave Protection
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) issues; tainted legacy.
7. Report on Tribal Medicine Project.
8. EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA)
related issues and continuing issues reference data collections
issues--Form 5700-33H; inspector credentials.
9. EPA Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances
(OPPTS) Tribal strategy--update.
10. Update--FIFRA section 18s and section 24c issues (including
Shoalwater Bay Tribe issues).
11. Tribal issues raised; Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP)
issues.
12. Updates from the sub-regional lead officer.
13. Report from the Working Group--Tribal Traditional Lifeways
(subsistence issues).
14. Update on the lifeline project.
15. Update on the West Nile Virus.
16. Announcement of requests for proposal--National Environmental
Exchange Network Grant; other funding announcements.
17. Water Quality and Pesticides Management; United States
Geological Survey (USGS) projects on future training efforts.
18. FIFRA and the Clean Water Act; the talent decision.
19. Update and overview--Biopesticides (Bt issues).
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Pesticides and pests.
Dated: February 4, 2003.
Jay S. Ellenberger,
Associate Director, Field and External Affairs Division, Office of
Pesticide Programs.
[FR Doc. 03-3412 Filed 2-11-03; 8:45 am]
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