97-23690. Science Advisory Board Notification of Public Advisory Committee Meeting: September 1997

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 173 (Monday, September 8, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47206-47207]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-23690]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5889-4]


Science Advisory Board Notification of Public Advisory Committee 
Meeting: September 1997

    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, 
notice is hereby given that the Integrated Risk Project (IRP) Steering 
Committee, an ad hoc committee established by the Executive Committee 
of the Science Advisory Board, will meet on September 24-26, 1997 at 
the Quality Hotel, 1200 North Courthouse Road, Arlington, VA, telephone 
[phone]. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on September 24, 
and end no later than 5:30 p.m. 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 the second draft of a 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 Mr. Thomas O. Miller, Designated Federal Official, no 
later than 4:00 pm on September 16, 1997, at fax: [phone] 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 Mr. Miller no 
later than the time of the presentation for distribution to the 
Committee and the interested public. For further information, you may 
also reach Mr. Miller 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

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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: August 28, 1997.
Donald G. Barnes,
Staff Director, Science Advisory Board.
[FR Doc. 97-23690 Filed 9-5-97; 8:45 am]
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