96-14684. Science Advisory Board; Notification of Public Advisory Committee Meetings

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 113 (Tuesday, June 11, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29560-29562]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-14684]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5517-9]


Science Advisory Board; Notification of Public Advisory Committee 
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 Daylight Time. All meetings are open to the public. 
Due to limited space, seating at meetings will be on a first-come 
basis. For further information concerning specific meetings, please 
contact the individuals listed below. Documents that are the subject of 
SAB reviews are normally available from the originating EPA office and 
are not available from the SAB Office.

1. Executive Committee of the Science Advisory Board

    The Science Advisory Board's (SAB's) Executive Committee will meet 
on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 25-26, 1996 in the Administrator's 
Conference Room, Room 1103, West Tower, U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency Headquarters Building, 401 M St. SW, Washington, DC 20460. The 
meeting will convene both days at 8:30 am, adjourning no later than 
5:30 pm on Tuesday and 2:00 pm on Wednesday.
    At this meeting, the Executive Committee will receive updates from 
its committees and subcommittees concerning their recent and planned 
activities. As part of these updates, some committees will present 
draft reports for Executive Committee review and approval. Expected 
drafts include: (a) Executive Committee's ``Lookout Panel'' Committee-
of-the-Whole activity--Commentary on the First Lookout Panel Session: 
Forecasting Future Water Environmental Issues; (b) Environmental 
Engineering

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Committee--Report on the Review of the Waste Incineration Research 
Program; and (c) Radiation Advisory Committee--Commentary on the 
International Commission on Radiation Protection's (ICRP) Lung Model.
    Other items on the agenda will likely include: (a) The Agency-
proposed projects for SAB review in FY97; (b) Discussion with Agency 
leaders regarding the role of science in various Agency programs; and 
(c) Planning for the second Lookout Panel session in September.
    For Further Information--Any member of the public wishing further 
information concerning the meeting or who wishes to submit comments 
should contact Dr. Donald G. Barnes, Designated Federal Official for 
the Executive Committee, Science Advisory Board (1400), U.S. EPA, 
Washington, DC 20460, phone [phone]; 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 at the above phone and fax numbers.

2. Risk Reduction Options Subcommittee of the Integrated Risk 
Project

    The Risk Reduction Options Subcommittee (RROS) of the Science 
Advisory Board's (SAB) Integrated Risk Project will meet Wednesday and 
Thursday, June 26-27, 1996. The meeting will be held in the EPA 
Institute for Learning at EPA's Waterside Mall Complex, 401 M Street, 
SW, Washington, DC. The Institute is located in the northwest corner of 
the mall. On the 26th, the Subcommittee will meet in the Muir Room and 
on the 27th in the Carrson Room. On both days the meeting will begin at 
8:30 am and end by 6:30 pm.
    Purpose of the Meeting--The main purpose of the meeting is to 
discuss risk reduction options for environmental problems. The 
Subcommittee's activities are part of an SAB project to update the 1990 
SAB report, Reducing Risk: Setting Priorities and Strategies for 
Environmental Protection. In a letter dated October 25, 1995, to Dr. 
Matanoski, Chair of the SAB Executive Committee, Deputy Administrator 
Fred Hansen charged the SAB to: (a) Develop an updated ranking of the 
relative risk of different environmental problems based upon explicit 
scientific criteria; (b) provide an assessment of techniques and 
criteria that could be used to discriminate among emerging 
environmental risks and identify those that merit serious, near-term 
Agency attention; (c) assess the potential for risk reduction and 
propose alternative technical risk reduction strategies for the 
environmental problems identified; and (d) identify the uncertainties 
and data quality issues associated with the relative rankings. The 
project will be conducted by several SAB panels, including RROS, 
working at the direction of an ad hoc Steering Committee established by 
the SAB's Executive Committee.
    Availability of Review Materials--Single copies of Reducing Risk 
can be obtained by contacting the SAB's Committee Evaluation and 
Support Staff (CESS) (1400), 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460, 
telephone [phone], or fax [phone].
    For Further Information--Agendas and rosters can be obtained from 
the Subcommitteee Secretary, Mrs. Dorothy Clark, Tel. [phone], 
Fax [phone], or via the internet at: 
[e-mail]. Members of the public desiring 
additional information about the meeting should contact Mrs. Kathleen 
Conway, Designated Federal Official, Environmental Engineering 
Committee, Science Advisory Board (1400F), U.S. EPA, 401 M Street, SW, 
Washington, DC 20460; telephone/voice mail at [phone]; fax at 
[phone]; or via the internet at: 
[e-mail].
    Members of the public who wish to make a brief oral presentation to 
the Committee must contact Mrs. Conway in writing (by letter or by 
fax--see previously stated information) no later than 12 noon Eastern 
Time, Wednesday June 19, 1996 in order to be included on the Agenda. 
Public comments will be limited to five minutes per speaker or 
organization. The request should identify the name of the individual 
who will make the presentation, the organization (if any) they will 
represent, any requirements for audio visual equipment (e.g., overhead 
projector, 35mm projector, chalkboard, etc.), and at least 35 copies of 
an outline of the issues to be addressed or the presentation itself

3. Integrated Human Exposure Committee

    The Integrated Human Exposure Committee (IHEC) (formerly called the 
Indoor Air Quality and Total Human Exposure Committee (IAQC)) of the 
Science Advisory Board (SAB) will meet on June 27-28, 1996 at the 
Holiday Inn Georgetown, 2101 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington D.C. 
20007. The hotel telephone number is [phone]. The meeting will 
start at 9:00 am and end no later than 5:00 pm each day.
    Purpose of the Meeting--The main purpose of the meeting is to 
discuss and review the Cumulative Exposure Study, an on-going Agency 
effort within the Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation (OPPE) 
intended to increase the level of understanding of total chronic human 
exposure to various toxic agents in the environment, including 
geographic and demographic variations in exposure levels. The Committee 
will address the overall scientific underpinnings of the study's 
initial findings, its planned approaches for future work, and several 
specific issues, including: (a) Proposed methods for modeling ambient 
concentrations of air toxics; (b) use of a proposed toxics emissions 
inventory for developing representative long-term concentrations of air 
toxics by census tract; (c) dispersion modeling techniques for 
developing representative, geographically differentiated long-term 
concentrations of air toxics; (d) methods proposed for evaluating the 
performance of the dispersion model; (e) proposed methodology for 
estimating food and drinking water ingestion exposures, including 
dealing with uncertainty and quantitation issues; (f) the proposed 
methods for aggregating pollutants for comparative analysis across 
subpopulations and communities; (g) methods for addressing indoor 
pollutant concentrations; and (h) methods for combining the inhalation, 
food ingestion and drinking water ingestion exposures estimated in this 
project to derive multi-pathway cumulative exposures. In addition, 
staff from EPA's Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards and the 
Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics will brief the Committee on 
related activities in their program areas.
    For Further Information--Single copies of the review materials for 
the Cumulative Exposure Study can be obtained by contacting Ms. 
Constance Williams, US EPA, Mail Code 2126, 401 M Street, SW, 
Washington, DC 20460, telephone [phone], fax [phone], or 
via the Internet at: [e-mail]. PLEASE NOTE 
THAT THIS DOCUMENTATION IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SAB. Members of the 
public desiring additional technical information about the study should 
contact Mr. Daniel Axelrad, US EPA, Mail Code 2126, 401 M Street, SW, 
Washington, DC 20460, telephone [phone], or fax [phone], 
or by sending a request via the Internet at: 
[e-mail].
    Members of the public desiring additional information about the 
meeting, including a draft agenda,

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should contact Ms. Dorothy Clark, Staff Secretary, Science Advisory 
Board (1400F), US EPA, 401 M Street, SW, Washington DC 20460, telephone 
[phone], fax [phone], or Internet at: 
[e-mail]. Anyone wishing to make an oral 
presentation at the meeting must contact Mr. Samuel Rondberg, 
Designated Federal Official for the IHEC, in writing at the above 
address no later than 4:00 p.m., June 21, 1996 via fax [phone] 
or via Internet at: [e-mail]. The request should 
identify the name of the individual who will make the presentation and 
an outline of the issues to be addressed. At least 35 copies of any 
written comments to the Committee are to be given to Mr. Rondberg no 
later than the time of the presentation for distribution to the 
Committee and the interested public. Mr. Rondberg may be contacted by 
telephone at [phone].

Providing Oral or Written Comments at SAB Meetings

    The Science Advisory Board expects that public statements presented 
at its meetings will not be repetitive of previously submitted oral or 
written statements. In general, each individual or group making an oral 
presentation will be limited to a total time of ten minutes. For 
conference call meetings, opportunities for oral comment will be 
limited to no more than five minutes per speaker and no more than 
fifteen minutes total. Written comments (at least 35 copies) received 
in the SAB Staff Office sufficiently prior to a meeting date, may be 
mailed to the relevant SAB committee or subcommittee prior to its 
meeting; comments received too close to the meeting date will normally 
be provided to the committee at its meeting. Written comments may be 
provided to the relevant committee or subcommittee up until the time of 
the meeting.

    Dated: May 29, 1996.
A. Robert Flaak,
Acting Staff Director, Science Advisory Board.
[FR Doc. 96-14684 Filed 6-10-96; 8:45 am]
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