97-16516. Science Advisory Board; Notification of Public Advisory Committee Meetings

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 121 (Tuesday, June 24, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34062-34063]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-16516]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5846-3]


Science Advisory Board; Notification of Public Advisory Committee 
Meetings

July 1997.
    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 
meetings are open to the public. Due to limited space, seating at 
meetings will be on a first-come, first-served 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. Integrated Risk Project Multi-Stressor Work Group

    The Multi-Stressor Work Group of the SAB's Integrated Risk Project 
(IRP) will meet on July 7-8, 1997, in the Palau Room on the first floor 
of EPA Region IX Offices, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105. 
The meeting will begin at 8:30 am Pacific Time on July 7 and at 8 am 
Pacific Time on July 8, and end no later than 5:30 pm Pacific Time on 
both days. The purpose of the meeting is to develop a methodology for 
considering more than one stressor (e.g., chemical pollutant) at a time 
when estimating the impact of one risk reduction option over another 
(e.g., incineration vs. landfilling). The Multi-Stressor Work Group 
(MSWG) was established at the request of the Chair of the IRP Steering 
Committee to work on this task, and the results of the MSWG meeting 
will be considered by the Steering Committee at its meeting on July 9-
11, 1997 (see below for details of that meeting).
    The specific charge to the MSWG and the agenda for the meeting are 
available from the Office of the Science Advisory Board and on the 
SAB's website (www.epa.gov/sab).
    For Further Information: Any member of the public wishing further 
information concerning the meeting or

[[Page 34063]]

who wishes to submit comments should contact Stephanie Sanzone, Acting 
Designated Federal Official for the MSWG, no later than 4:00pm Eastern 
Time on July 2, 1997, at 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 can be obtained by contacting Ms. Wanda Fields at (202) 
260-8414 or via the Internet at: [e-mail].

2. Integrated Risk Project Steering Committee

    The Integrated Risk Project (IRP) Steering Committee, an ad hoc 
committee established by the Executive Committee of the Science 
Advisory Board, will meet on July 9-11, 1997, at the Ramada Hotel Olde 
Towne, 901 N. Fairfax Street, Alexandria, VA, telephone [phone]. 
The meeting will begin at 1:30 pm eastern time on July 9, and at 8 am 
on July 10 and 11, and end no later than 5:30 pm each day. Seating will 
be limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. The 
purpose of the meeting is to review and revise a draft report, being 
developed as part of the Integrated Risk Project, describing an 
integrated model for decision-making that incorporates information on 
risks to ecosystems and humans, risk reduction options, and their 
economic and societal implications.
    Background on the Integrated Risk Project (IRP): 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 is being conducted by several SAB panels, working 
at the direction of an ad hoc Steering Committee established by the 
Executive Committee.
    Single copies of Reducing Risk, the report of the previous relative 
risk ranking effort of the SAB, can be obtained by contacting the SAB's 
Committee Evaluation and Support Staff (1400), 401 M Street, SW, 
Washington, DC 20460, telephone [phone], or fax [phone]. 
Members of the public desiring additional information about the 
meeting, including an agenda, should contact Ms. Wanda Fields, Staff 
Secretary, Committee Operations Staff, Science Advisory Board (1400), 
US EPA, 401 M Street, SW, Washington DC 20460, by telephone at (202) 
260-8414, fax at [phone], or via the Internet at: 
[e-mail].
    Anyone wishing to make a brief oral presentation at the IRP meeting 
must contact Ms. Stephanie Sanzone, Designated Federal Official for the 
Steering Committee no later than 4 pm on July 2, 1997, at fax: (202) 
260-7118 or via the 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 Ms. 
Sanzone no later than the time of the presentation for distribution to 
the Committee and the interested public. For further information, you 
may also reach Ms. Sanzone by phone on [phone]. See below for 
additional information on providing comments to the SAB.

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 minutestotal. 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.
    Information concerning the Science Advisory Board, its structure, 
function, and composition, may be found in The FY1996 Annual Report of 
the Staff Director which is available from the SAB Committee Evaluation 
and Support Staff (CESS) by contacting US EPA, Science Advisory Board 
(1400), Attention: CESS, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460 or via 
fax [phone]. Additional information concerning the SAB can be 
found on the SAB Home Page at: http://www.epa.gov/sab.

    Dated: June 16, 1997.
Donald G. Barnes,
Staff Director, Science Advisory Board.
[FR Doc. 97-16516 Filed 6-23-97; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560-50-P