[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 229 (Wednesday, November 26, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72041-72042]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-28126]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0872; FRL-8745-1]
Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), Executive Committee
Meeting--December 2008
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 one meeting of the Board of
Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Executive Committee.
DATES: The meeting (a teleconference) will be held on Wednesday,
December 17, 2008, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. EDT. The meeting may adjourn
early if all business is finished. Requests for the draft agenda or for
making oral presentations at the meeting will be accepted up to one
business day before the meeting.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held via teleconference only. Submit
your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0872, by one
of the following methods:
www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for
submitting comments.
E-mail: Send comments by electronic mail (e-mail) to:
[email protected], Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0872.
Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0872.
Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific
Counselors (BOSC), Executive Committee Meeting--2008 Docket, Mailcode:
28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, Attention
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0872.
Hand Delivery or Courier. Deliver comments to: EPA Docket
Center (EPA/DC), Room B102, EPA West Building, 1301 Constitution Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0872.
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-
2008-0872. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at
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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), Executive Committee Meeting--December 2008 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:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
General Information
Any member of the public interested in receiving a draft BOSC
agenda or making a presentation at the meeting 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 teleconference include, but are not
limited to: Discussion of what charge question(s) should be asked
regarding investment efficiency in BOSC program reviews, and what
materials should be provided by ORD in order for the BOSC to make an
assessment of efficiency. The meeting is 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
[email protected]. 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: November 20, 2008.
Mary Ellen Radzikowski,
Acting Director, Office of Science Policy.
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