[Federal Register: December 19, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 243)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0978; FRL-8258-5]
Board of Scientific Counselors Human Health Mid-Cycle
Subcommittee Meetings--January 2007
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of two meetings.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-
463, the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and
Development (ORD), gives notice of two meetings of the Board of
Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Human Health Mid-Cycle Subcommittee.
DATES: The first meeting (a teleconference call) will be held on
Tuesday, January 9, 2007, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The second meeting
(face-to-face meeting) will be held on Wednesday, January 24, 2007,
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. All times noted are eastern time. The meetings
may adjourn early if all business is finished. Requests for the draft
agendas or for making oral presentations at the meetings will be
accepted up to 1 business day before each meeting.
ADDRESSES: The first meeting will be by teleconference only--meeting
rooms will not be used. Members of the public may obtain the call-in
number and access code for the teleconference meeting from Virginia
Houk, whose contact information is listed under the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice. The second meeting will be
held at the Crowne Plaza Washington National Airport hotel, 1480
Crystal Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22202. Submit your comments,
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identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0978, by one of the
following methods:
http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the online instructions for
submitting comments.
E-mail: Send comments by electronic mail (e-mail) to:
ORD.Docket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0978.
Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0978.
Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific
Counselors, Human Health Mid-Cycle Subcommittee Meeting--January 2007
Docket, Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC,
20460, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0978.
Hand Delivery or Courier. Deliver comments to: EPA Docket
Center (EPA/DC), Room B102, EPA West Building, 1301 Constitution
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-
0978.
Note: this is not a mailing address. Such deliveries are only
accepted during the docket's normal hours of operation, and special
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2006-0978. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at
http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided,
unless the 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: All 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 material, such as copyrighted
material, will be 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 Docket, EPA/DC, EPA West,
Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. 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 (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the ORD
Docket is (202) 566-1752.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Designated Federal Officer via
mail at: Virginia Houk, Mail Code B305-02, National Health and
Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Office of Research and
Development, Environmental Protection Agency, 109 TW Alexander Drive,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711; via phone/voice mail at: (919) 541-
2815; via fax at: (919) 685-3250; or via e-ail at:
houk.virginia@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
General Information
Any member of the public interested in receiving a draft BOSC
agenda or making a presentation at the meetings may contact Virginia
Houk, the Designated Federal Officer, via any of the contact methods
listed in the ``FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT'' section above. In
general, each individual making an oral presentation will be limited to
a total of three minutes.
Proposed agenda items for the first meeting (teleconference)
include, but are not limited to: the objectives of the review, an
overview of the Human Health Research Program (HHRP), a summary of
major changes in the HHRP since 2005, an update on the Human Health
Multi-Year Plan, and research to evaluate the effectiveness of risk
management decisions. Proposed agenda items for the second meeting
(face-to-face) include, but are not limited to: the HHRP's response to
recommendations from its 2005 BOSC review, the revised Human Health
Multi-Year Plan, the development of performance metrics, and
accountability and risk management decisions. The meetings are open to
the public.
Information on Services for Individuals with Disabilities: For
information on access or services for individuals with disabilities,
please contact Virginia Houk at (919) 541-2815 or
houk.virginia@epa.gov. To request accommodation of a disability, please
contact Virginia Houk, preferably at least 10 days prior to the
meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your request.
Dated: December 13, 2006.
Jeff Morris,
Acting Director, Office of Science Policy.
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