[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 32 (Thursday, February 19, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7688-7689]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-3497]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-8774-4]
Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public
Meeting of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC);
Particulate Matter Review Panel
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public meeting of the Clean Air
Scientific Advisory Particulate Matter Review Panel to peer review
EPA's Integrated Science Assessment for Particulate Matter: First
External Review Draft and conduct a consultation on EPA's draft plans
for Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality Standards: Scope
and Methods Plan for Health Risk and Exposure Assessment and
Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality Standards: Scope and
Methods Plan for Urban Visibility Impact Assessment.
DATES: The public meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 from
8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. (Eastern Time) and Thursday, April 2, 2009 from
8 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Eastern Time).
Location: The meeting will be held at the Carolina Inn, 211
Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public who wants
further information concerning the teleconference meeting may contact
Dr. Holly Stallworth, Designated Federal Officer (DFO), EPA Science
Advisory Board (1400F), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; via telephone/voice
mail (202) 343-9867; fax (202) 233-0643; or e-mail at
[email protected]. General information concerning the CASAC can
be found on the EPA Web site at http://www.epa.gov/casac.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background: The Clean Air Scientific
Advisory Committee (CASAC) was established under section 109(d)(2) of
the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) (42 U.S.C. 7409) as an independent
scientific advisory committee. CASAC provides advice, information and
recommendations on the scientific and technical aspects of air quality
criteria and national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) under
sections 108 and 109 of the Act. The CASAC is a Federal advisory
committee chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), as
amended, 5 U.S.C., App. The Panel will comply with the provisions of
FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural policies. Section
109(d)(1) of the CAA requires that the Agency periodically review and
revise, as appropriate, the air quality criteria and the National
Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for the six ``criteria'' air
pollutants, including particulate matter (PM). EPA conducts scientific
assessments to determine both primary (health-based) and secondary
(welfare-based) standards for each of these pollutants. As part of that
process, EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) has completed a
draft document, Integrated Science Assessment for Particulate Matter
(First External Review Draft, December 2008) and requested that CASAC
peer review the document. EPA's Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) will
also release two planning documents entitled Particulate Matter
National Ambient Air Quality Standards: Scope and Methods Plan for
Health Risk and Exposure Assessment and Particulate Matter National
Ambient Air Quality Standards: Scope and Methods Plan for Urban
Visibility Impact Assessment (February 2009). OAR has requested that
the CASAC review these plans.
The purpose of the April 1-2, 2009 meeting is to review these three
documents. Background information about the formation of the CASAC
Particulate Matter Review Panel was published in the Federal Register
on March 8, 2007 (72 FR 10527-10528). The Panel previously held a
public teleconference on November 30, 2007 (announced in 72 FR 63177-
63178) to provide consultative advice on EPA's draft Integrated Review
Plan for the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate
Matter, the first document in this review of the PM NAAQS.
Technical Contacts: Any questions concerning EPA's Integrated
Science Assessment for Particulate Matter should be directed to Dr.
Lindsay Stanek at [email protected] or 919-541-7792. Any questions
concerning EPA's Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality
Standard: Scope and Methods Plan for Health Risk and Exposure
Assessment should be directed to Ms. Beth Hassett-Sipple at hassett-
[email protected] or 919-541-4605. Any questions concerning
Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality Standards: Scope and
Methods Plan for Urban Visibility Impact Assessment (February 2009)
should be directed to Ms. Vicki Sandiford at [email protected] or
919-541-2629.
Availability of Meeting Materials: A meeting agenda, charge
questions and other materials for the meeting will be placed on the
CASAC Web site at http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabpeople.nsf/
WebCommitteesSubcommittees/
CASAC%20Particulate%20Matter%20Review%20Panel (see links to ``Current
Advisory Activities''). The Integrated Science Assessment for
Particulate Matter: First External Review Draft (December 2008) is
available at http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/
recordisplay.cfm?deid=201805. Both of the PM NAAQS Scope and Methods
Plans (February 2009) will be available at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/
naaqs/standards/pm/s_pm_2007_pd.html.
Procedures for Providing Public Input: Interested members of the
public may submit relevant written or oral information for
consideration on the topics included in this advisory activity. Oral
Statements: To be placed on the public speaker list for the April 1-2,
2009 meeting, interested parties should notify Dr. Holly Stallworth,
DFO, by e-mail no later than March 24, 2009. Individuals making oral
statements will be limited to three minutes per speaker. Written
Statements: Written statements for the April 1-2, 2009 meeting should
be received in the SAB Staff Office by March 24, 2009, so that the
information may be made available to the CASAC Panel for its
consideration prior to this meeting. Written statements should be
supplied to the DFO in the following formats: one hard copy with
original signature and one electronic copy via e-mail (acceptable file
format: Adobe Acrobat PDF, MS Word, WordPerfect, MS PowerPoint, or Rich
Text files in IBM-PC/Windows 98/2000/XP format). Submitters are asked
to provide versions of each document submitted with and without
signatures, because the SAB Staff Office does not publish documents
with signatures on its Web sites.
Accessibility: For information on access or services for
individuals with disabilities, please contact Dr. Stallworth at the
phone number or e-mail address noted above, preferably at least ten
days prior to the
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teleconference, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your
request.
Dated: February 11, 2009.
Anthony F. Maciorowski,
Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
[FR Doc. E9-3497 Filed 2-18-09; 8:45 am]
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