[Federal Register: September 15, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 179)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0649; FRL-8715-6]
Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), Human Health Subcommittee
Meetings--Fall 2008 and Winter 2009
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of 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 three meetings of the Board of
Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Human Health Subcommittee.
DATES: The first meeting (a teleconference call) will be held on
Friday, October 10, 2008, from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EDT. The second
meeting (a teleconference call) will be held on Monday, December 1,
2008, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. EST. The third meeting (face-to-face) will
begin on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 and conclude on Thursday, January
15, 2009. 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 one business day before each meeting.
ADDRESSES: The face-to-face meeting will be held at the EPA's RTP Main
Campus Facility, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park,
North Carolina 27711. Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No.
EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0649, by one of the following methods:
http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line
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-2008-0649.
Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0649.
Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific
Counselors (BOSC), Human Health Subcommittee
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Meetings--Fall 2008 and Winter 2009 Docket, Mailcode: 28221T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, Attention Docket ID No.
EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0649.
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-2008-
0649.
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-
2008-0649. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at
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 www.regulations.gov or e-mail.
The 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 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
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 www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Board of Scientific
Counselors (BOSC), Human Health Subcommittee Meetings--Fall 2008 and
Winter 2009 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: Heather Drumm, Mail Code 8104-R, Office of Science Policy,
Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency,
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; via phone/voice
mail at: (202) 564-8239; via fax at: (202) 565-2911; or via e-mail at:
drumm.heather@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
General Information
Any member of the public interested in receiving a draft BOSC
agenda or making a presentation at any of the meetings may contact
Heather Drumm, 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 teleconference include, but are
not limited to: Overview of materials provided to the subcommittee;
Overview of ORD; Overview of ORD's Human Health Program; Subcommittee
discussion. Proposed agenda items for the second teleconference
include, but are not limited to: Overviews of each of the four Long
Term Goals for the Human Health Research Program. Proposed agenda items
for the face-to-face meeting include, but are not limited to:
Overviews, poster sessions and client testimonials for each of the long
term goals; Subcommittee discussions. 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 Heather Drumm at (202) 564-8239 or
drumm.heather@epa.gov. To request accommodation of a disability, please
contact Heather Drumm, preferably at least ten days prior to the
meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your request.
Dated: September 4, 2008.
Fred Hauchman,
Director, Office of Science Policy.
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