[Federal Register: March 29, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 59)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of Upcoming
Teleconferences of the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance
Analysis and its Ecological Effects Subcommittee
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a
public teleconference of the Ecological Effects Subcommittee (EES) of
the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis (Council). The
EES will meet to discuss its draft advisory report in response to EPA's
charge questions related to the Agency's Benefits and Costs of the
Clean Air Act, Revised Analytic Plan for EPA's Second Prospective
Analysis, 1990-2020. The chartered Council will subsequently meet to
review the draft advisory of the EES and consider it for approval and
transmittal to the EPA Administrator.
DATES: The public teleconference of the Council EES will be held on
April 14, 2005 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. (eastern time). The public
teleconference of the Council will be held on May 24, 2005 from 2 p.m.
to 4 p.m. (eastern time).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Members of the public who wish to
obtain the call-in number or access code or submit written or brief
oral comments (three minutes or less) must contact Dr. Holly
Stallworth, Designated Federal Officer, at telephone/voice mail: (202)
343-9867 or via e-mail at: stallworth.holly@epa.gov. Any member of the
public wishing further information regarding the SAB or the Council EES
may also contact Dr. Stallworth, or visit the SAB Web site at: http://www.epa.gov/sab
.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background: EPA's Office of Air and
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Radiation (OAR) conducts periodic, scientifically reviewed studies to
assess the costs and benefits of regulations promulgated under the
Clean Air Act. The Council is chartered to provide advice on EPA's
methods and analyses. The EES is one of the Council's three
subcommittees and was formed after a ``widecast'' was published in a
Federal Register Notice on September 9, 2003 (68 FR 53162-53164).
Additional information on the EES and its advisory activity was
provided in a Notice published on October 14, 2004 (69 FR 60996).
Updated information on the current work of the EES was provided on
November 26, 2004 (29 FR 68901).
EPA has thus far issued one retrospective analysis of the Clean Air
Act covering the 1970-1990 time period and one prospective analysis
covering the 1990-2010 time period. EPA is planning a second
prospective analysis covering the 1990-2020 time period and has issued
two analytic blueprints for this analysis. The Council provided advice
on these analytic blueprints in 2001 (http://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/councila01004.pdf) and 2004 (http://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/council_adv_04004.pdf
) but deferred three charge questions pertaining to ecological
effects to the EES. The EES has responded to these three charge
questions in a Draft Advisory at http://www.epa.gov/sab/panels/sba_adv_panel.htm
.
The April 14 teleconference will provide the EES an opportunity to
finalize its Draft Advisory. The May 24 teleconference will provide the
Council an opportunity to review the EES Draft Advisory and consider it
for approval and transmittal to the EPA Administrator.
Meeting agendas for both teleconferences will be posted on the SAB
Web site prior to each meeting.
Procedures for Providing Public Comment. It is the policy of the
EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office to accept written public
comments of any length, and to accommodate oral public comments
whenever possible. The EPA SAB Staff Office expects that public
statements presented at any teleconference or meeting will not be
repetitive of previously submitted oral or written statements. Oral
Comments: Requests to provide oral comments must be in writing (e-mail,
fax or mail) and received by Dr. Stallworth no later than five business
days prior to the teleconference in order to reserve time on the
meeting agenda. For teleconferences, opportunities for oral comment
will usually be limited to no more than five minutes per speaker and no
more than fifteen minutes total. Written Comments: Although written
comments are accepted until the date of the meeting (unless otherwise
stated), written comments should be received in the SAB Staff Office at
least five business days prior to the meeting date so that the comments
may be made available to the committee for their consideration.
Comments should be supplied to the DFO at the address/contact
information noted above in the following formats: one hard copy with
original signature, and one electronic copy via e-mail (acceptable file
format: Adobe Acrobat, WordPerfect, Word, or Rich Text files (in IBM-
PC/Windows 95/98 format).
Dated: March 22, 2005.
Vanessa T. Vu,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
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