97-33613. Science Advisory Board; Notice of Public Meetings

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 247 (Wednesday, December 24, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67363-67365]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-33613]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5940-3]


Science Advisory Board; Notice of Public Meetings

    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, 
notice is hereby given that several committees of the Science Advisory 
Board (SAB) will meet on the dates and times described below. All times 
noted are Eastern Time and all meetings are open to the public, 
however, seating is limited and available on a first come basis. 
Documents that are the subject of SAB reviews are normally available 
from the originating EPA Office and are not available from the SAB 
Office. Public drafts of SAB reports are available to the Agency and 
the public from the SAB Office. Details on availability are noted 
below.

1. Executive Committee (EC)

    The Science Advisory Board's Executive Committee (EC) will meet on 
Tuesday, January 13, 1998, and Wednesday, January 14, 1998. The meeting 
will convene each day at 8:30 a.m., in the Administrator's Conference 
Room 1103 West Tower of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
Headquarters Building, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460, and will 
adjourn no later than 5:30 p.m. on each day (Eastern Time).
    At this meeting, the Executive Committee will receive updates from 
its committees and subcommittees summarizing their recent and planned 
activities. As part of these updates, some committees expect to present 
draft reports for the Executive Committee review and approval. Expected 
drafts include:
    (a) Environmental Engineering Committee
    (1) Review of Pollution Prevention Research Plan
    (2) Review of Surface Impoundments Survey
    (b) Integrated Human Exposure Committee
    (1) Update on Expedited Action on ``Review of Indoor Air Source 
Ranking Database''
    (2) Commentary on ``Importance of Indoor Air Environments''
    Other items on the agenda tentatively include, but are not limited 
to, the following:
    (a) Discussion with Deputy Administrator Fred Hansen on various 
issues.
    (b) Discussion with the Acting Assistant Administrator for Research 
and Development, Mr. Henry Longest on Peer Review at EPA.
    (c) Updates on Activities of the Agency's FIFRA Scientific Advisory 
Panel (SAP) and the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) and their 
interactions with the SAB.
    (d) An update of the Futures activities of the SAB.
    (e) An update on the Integrated Risk Project.
    (f) A follow-up to the Board's Strategic Planning Retreat held in 
November 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Members of the public desiring 
additional information concerning the meeting or who wish to submit 
comments should contact Dr. Donald G. Barnes, Designated Federal 
Official for the Executive Committee, Science Advisory Board (1400), 
U.S. EPA, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460, telephone (202) 260-
4126; fax [phone]; or via the INTERNET at: 
[e-mail]. Copies of the draft meeting agenda and 
available draft reports listed above can be obtained from Ms. Priscilla 
Tillery-Gadson on [phone]; fax [phone]; or via the 
INTERNET at: [e-mail].

2. Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis--Three 
Meetings

    The Science Advisory Board's (SAB) Advisory Council on Clean Air 
Compliance Analysis (ACCACA, or the ``Council''), its Air Quality 
Models Subcommittee (AQMS), and its Health and Ecological Effects 
Subcommittee (HEES) will each hold public meetings on the dates and 
times described below. All meetings are open to the public, and all 
times noted are Eastern Time. For further information concerning the 
specific meetings described in this section, please contact the 
individuals listed below. These public meetings are a follow-up to 
earlier Council public teleconference discussions held on March 14, 
March 19, May 15 and June 30, 1997, as well as the AQMS public 
teleconference meeting discussions of

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May 5, 1997 pertaining to the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) 
section 812 Prospective Study of Costs and Benefits (See 62 FR 10045, 
Wednesday, March 5, 1997, 62 FR 19320, April 21, 1997 and 62 FR 32605, 
June 16, 1997, for further information).
    Consistent with the apparent Congressional intent behind section 
812 of the 1990 CAAA, and with the Environmental Protection Agency's 
(EPA's) judgments regarding the potential utility of a comprehensive 
economic assessment of the Clean Air Act, the four fundamental goals of 
the first Prospective Study to be submitted to Congress are stated 
succinctly as follows:
    (a) To facilitate greater understanding of the value of America's 
overall investment in clean air, particularly the value of the 
additional requirements established by the 1990-CAAA,
    (b) To facilitate greater understanding of where future investments 
in air pollution control might yield the greatest reduction in adverse 
human health and/or environmental effects for the resources expended,
    (c) To help evaluate the significance of potential new and emerging 
information pertaining to the benefits and costs of air pollution 
control, and
    (d) To help identify areas of economic and scientific research 
where additional effort might improve the comprehensiveness of and/or 
decrease the uncertainty associated with future estimates of the 
benefits and costs of air pollution control.
    Pursuant to the above four goals, the Agency has embarked on the 
Prospective Study activities. These activities involve a number of 
component studies, such as analytical design, scenario development, 
emissions profiles, air quality modeling, physical effects modeling, 
direct cost estimation, sector studies, air toxics analysis, economic 
valuation, comparison of benefits and costs, and report generation. 
Working drafts of relevant portions of these components, along with 
focused charges will be presented to the Council and its two 
subcommittees, the Air Quality Models Subcommittee (AQMS) and the 
Health and Ecological Effects Subcommittee (HEES), in the upcoming 
meetings described below. The draft documents that present, compile and 
document the results and methodologies used for the Prospective Study, 
including the Appendices to the future draft Prospective Study report, 
which are the subject of these reviews will be available upon request 
from the originating EPA office (See below for details).

2a. Air Quality Models Subcommittee

    The Air Quality Models Subcommittee (AQMS) of the Advisory Council 
on Clean Air Compliance Analysis will meet Thursday, January 22, 1998, 
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday, January 23, 1998 from 9 a.m. to 4 
p.m. The meeting will take place in the Science Advisory Board 
Conference Room 2103 of Waterside Mall at the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, 401 M Street SW, Washington, DC 20460. The public is 
welcome to attend the meeting on a space-available basis. Additional 
instructions about how to participate in the public meeting can be 
obtained by calling Ms. Diana L. Pozun at [phone] prior to the 
meeting.
    In this meeting, the Subcommittee plans to review the draft 
documents pertaining to the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) section 812 
Prospective Study data, emissions modeling assumptions, methodology, 
results and documentation. In previous public teleconference meetings 
of the Council (See 61 FR 54196, Thursday, October 17, 1996, and 62 FR 
10045, Wednesday, March 5, 1997 for further information), the Council 
advised the Agency staff that the Subcommittee should review the 
emissions modeling information before proceeding to conduct any model 
runs. The May 5, 1997 public teleconference (See 62 FR 19320, Monday, 
April 21, 1997) of the AQMS was conducted for this purpose and produced 
a letter report (See EPA-SAB-COUNCIL-LTR-97-012, dated September 9, 
1997 for further information).

2b. Health and Ecological Effects Subcommittee

    The Health and Ecological Effects Subcommittee (HEES) of the 
Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis will meet to review 
draft documents pertaining to the health and ecological aspects of the 
Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) section 812 Prospective Study data, 
emissions modeling assumptions, methodology, results and documentation. 
The Subcommittee will meet on Thursday, January 29, 1998, from 9 a.m. 
to 5 p.m. and Friday, January 30, 1998 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The 
meeting will take place in the Administrator's Conference Room 1103 
West Tower of Waterside Mall at the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency, 401 M Street SW, Washington, DC 20460. The public is welcome to 
attend the meeting on a space-available basis. Additional instructions 
about how to participate in the public meeting can be obtained by 
calling Ms. Diana L. Pozun at [phone] prior to the meeting.

2c. Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis (the 
``Council'')

    The Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis ( the 
``Council'') of the Science Advisory Board (SAB) will meet on Thursday, 
February 5, 1998 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday, February 6, 1998 
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The meeting will take place in the 
Administrator's Conference Room 1103 West Tower of Waterside Mall at 
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street SW, Washington, 
DC 20460. The public is welcome to attend the meeting on a space-
available basis. Additional instructions about how to participate in 
the public meeting can be obtained by calling Ms. Diana L. Pozun at 
[phone] prior to the meeting. The Council plans to discuss 
results of the preliminary findings and recommendations of its Air 
Quality Models Subcommittee (AQMS) and Health and Ecological Effects 
Subcommittee (HEES) in relation to the emissions estimates, modeling 
assumptions, methodology, results and documentation of the Prospective 
Study. The various draft documents pertaining to the draft Prospective 
Study are not available from the Science Advisory Board, but may be 
obtained by contacting Ms. Catrice Jefferson (see below for ordering 
information). To discuss technical aspects of the Prospective Study 
draft documents, please call Mr. James DeMocker, Office of Air and 
Radiation (see below for further information).

2d. For Further Information

    Please contact the SAB staff (see below) to obtain agendas and to 
determine the logistics and details of the individual public meetings.
    To discuss technical aspects of the draft documents pertaining to 
the CAA section 812 Prospective Study, please contact Mr. James 
DeMocker, Office of Policy Analysis and Review (OPAR) (Mail Code 6103), 
US Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 
20460. Tel. [phone]; FAX [phone], or via the Internet at: 
[e-mail]. To obtain copies of the draft documents 
pertaining to the CAA Section 812 Prospective Study, please contact Ms. 
Catrice Jefferson, Office Manager, Office of Policy Analysis and Review 
(OPAR), (Mail Code 6103), US Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M 
Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460. Tel. [phone]; FAX (202) 260-
9766, or via the

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Internet at jefferson.catrice @epamail.epa.gov.
    To obtain copies of the meeting agendas, please contact Ms. Diana 
L. Pozun, Secretary to the Council, AQMS and HEES Science Advisory 
Board (1400), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC 
20460; at Tel. [phone]; FAX [phone]; or via the Internet: 
[e-mail]. To discuss technical or logistical aspects 
of the Council or its AQMS and HEES subcommittee review process or to 
submit written comments, please contact Dr. K. Jack Kooyoomjian, 
Designated Federal Official to the Council, AQMS and HEES, at Tel. 
[phone]; FAX [phone]; or via the Internet: 
kooyoomjian.jack @epamail.epa.gov. Members of the public who wish to 
attend these public meetings should contact Ms. Pozun at least one week 
prior to the meeting of interest to express your intention to attend.
    To request time to provide public comments at the meetings, please 
contact Ms. Diana L. Pozun in writing by mail, FAX or E-Mail addresses 
given above no later than one week prior to each of the meetings.

Providing Oral or Written Comments at SAB Meetings

    The Science Advisory Board (SAB) expects that public statements 
presented at its meetings will not be repetitive of previously 
submitted oral or written statements. In general, opportunities for 
oral comment at meetings will be usually limited to five minutes per 
speaker and no more than thirty minutes total. Written comments (at 
least 35 copies) received in the SAB Staff Office sufficiently prior to 
a meeting date (usually one week prior to a meeting), may be mailed to 
the Council and its respective AQMS and HEES subcommittees prior to its 
meeting; comments received too close to the meeting date will normally 
be provided to the Council and its subcommittees in the meeting. 
Written comments may be provided up until the time of the meeting.

    Dated: December 18, 1997.
Donald G. Barnes, Ph. D.,
Staff Director, Science Advisory Board.
[FR Doc. 97-33613 Filed 12-23-97; 8:45 am]
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