[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 146 (Monday, August 1, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-18662]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[FRL-5025-5]
Workshop on Ecological Risk Assessment Issue Papers
AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice of Meeting.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces a workshop sponsored by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Risk Assessment Forum to peer
review eight ecological risk assessment issue papers. The papers cover
a wide range of topics such as conceptual model development,
characterization of effects and exposure, and risk integration methods.
When complete, the issue papers will help provide a scientific basis
for the development of future Agency-wide ecological risk assessment
guidelines.
DATES: The workshop will begin on Tuesday, August 16, 1994 at 8:30 a.m.
and end on Thursday, August 18, 1994 at 12:30 p.m. Members of the
public may attend as observers.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Radisson Plaza Hotel, Mark
Plaza, 5000 Seminary Road, Alexandria, Virginia.
Versar, Inc., an EPA contractor, is providing logistical support
for the workshop. To attend the workshop as an observer, contact Pat
Wood of Versar, 6850 Versar Center, P.O. Box 1549, Springfield,
Virginia 22151, Tel: (703) 750-3000, extension 534 by August 12, 1994.
Space is limited.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ms. Clare Stine, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Risk Assessment
Forum (8101), 401 M Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20460, Tel: (202) 260-
6743.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA's Risk Assessment Forum is developing
Agency-wide guidance for conducting ecological risk assessment. The
first step in this process was the publication of the EPA report
Framework for Ecological Risk Assessment (EPA/630/R-92/001), which
proposed a simple, flexible structure, or framework, for ecological
risk assessment. To help expand the framework into more substantive
guidance documents, draft issue papers have been prepared by expert
consultants. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as conceptual
model development, characterization of effects and exposure, and risk
integration methods. Each issue paper emphasizes scientific principles
applicable to a wide range of stressors and ecosystems.
Workshop participants will provide comments and recommendations for
revision of the papers, discuss larger issues that affect some or all
of the papers, and suggest topics that may be of particular importance
for future guidelines development. Following revision, the issue papers
will be published as EPA reports.
To obtain a single copy of the draft issue papers, interested
parties should contact the Office of Research and Development
Publications Office, Center for Environmental Research Information,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive,
Cincinnati, OH 45268, Tel: 513/569-7562. Please provide your name,
mailing address, and the EPA document number (EPA/630/R-94/004A).
Dated: July 18, 1994.
Gary J. Foley,
Acting Assistant Administrator for Research and Development.
[FR Doc. 94-18662 Filed 7-29-94; 8:45 am]
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