[Federal Register: July 1, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 127)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public
Teleconference of the Science Advisory Board Drinking Water Committee
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public teleconference of the SAB
Drinking Water Committee (DWC) to discuss and finalize its draft
advisory report regarding EPA's draft third Drinking Water Contaminant
Candidate List 3 (CCL 3).
DATES: The public teleconference on August 13, 2008 will begin at 12:30
p.m. and end no later than 3:30 p.m. (Eastern Time).
ADDRESSES: The August 13, 2008, meeting will be conducted by telephone
only.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public wishing to
obtain general information concerning this public teleconference,
including call-in
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phone number, should contact Dr. Resha M. Putzrath, Designated Federal
Officer (DFO), EPA Science Advisory Board (1400F), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460;
via telephone/voice mail (202) 343-9978; fax: (202) 233-0643; or e-mail
at putzrath.resha@epa.gov. General information concerning the EPA
Science Advisory Board can be found on the SAB Web site at http://
www.epa.gov/sab.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to FACA, Public Law 92-463, notice
is hereby given that the EPA SAB Drinking Water Committee will hold a
public teleconference to discuss and finalize its report concerning
EPA's draft Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List 3 (CCL 3). The
SAB was established by 42 U.S.C. 4365 to provide independent scientific
and technical advice to the Administrator on the technical basis for
Agency positions and regulations. The SAB is a Federal Advisory
Committee chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), as
amended, 5 U.S.C., App. The SAB will comply with the provisions of FACA
and all appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural policies.
Background: The 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act amendments (SDWA)
require EPA to (1) publish every five years a list of currently
unregulated contaminants in drinking water that may pose risks (the
Contaminant Candidate List or ``CCL''), and (2) make determinations on
whether or not to regulate at least five contaminants from that list on
a staggered five year cycle. SDWA requires EPA to publish a new list of
contaminants that are known or anticipated to occur in public water
systems every five years. The draft CCL 3 was published on February 21,
2008 (73 FR 9628) and includes 93 chemicals or chemical groups and 11
microbiological contaminants.
The EPA sought comment from the SAB DWC on the draft CCL 3, the
approach used to develop the list, and the specific contaminants. The
DWC held a public, face-to-face meeting to review the draft CCL 3 on
April 23-24, 2008 (announced in 73 FR 12999). At that meeting, the DWC
discussed the charge questions, sought clarification from EPA staff,
and began to draft comments and recommendations. Materials and public
comments from the April meeting are posted on the SAB Web site at
http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/SABPRODUCT.NSF/MeetingCal/
C990CC0808123428852573C4007A5B6F?OpenDocument. The purpose of the
teleconference on August 13 is for the DWC to discuss and finalize the
draft advisory report.
Availability of Meeting Materials: The meeting agenda and draft
advisory report will be posted on the SAB Web site at http://
www.epa.gov/sab under the calendar entry for that date in advance of
the meeting. The draft CCL 3 can be found at http://www.epa.gov/
safewater/ccl/index.html.
Procedures for Providing Public Input: Interested members of the
public may submit relevant written or oral information for the Drinking
Water Committee to consider throughout the advisory process. Oral
Statements: In general, individuals or groups requesting an oral
presentation at a public SAB teleconference will be limited to three
minutes per speaker, with no more than a total of one-half hour for all
speakers. To be placed on the public speaker list, interested parties
should contact Dr. Resha M. Putzrath, DFO, in writing (via e-mail), by
August 4, 2008, at the contact information noted above. Written
Statements: Written statements should be received in the SAB Staff
Office by August 4, 2008, so that the information may be made available
to the SAB DWC for their consideration prior to the teleconference.
Written statements should be supplied to the DFO via e-mail to
putzrath.resha@epa.gov (acceptable file format: Adobe Acrobat PDF,
WordPerfect, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in IBM-PC/
Windows 98/2000/XP format).
Accessibility: For information on access or services for
individuals with disabilities, please contact Dr. Resha M. Putzrath at
(202) 343-9978 or putzrath.resha@epa.gov. To request accommodation of a
disability, please contact Dr. Putzrath, preferably at least ten days
prior to the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process
your request.
Dated: June 24, 2008.
Anthony F. Maciorowski,
Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
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