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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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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 various committees of the Science Advisory 
Board (SAB) will meet on the dates and times described below. All times 
noted are Eastern Time. All meetings are open to the public. Due to 
limited space, seating at all meetings will be on a first-come basis. 
For further information concerning each meeting, 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 staff. Many of the meetings listed below include 
discussion of issues relevant to the SAB's Environmental Futures 
Project. The Environmental Futures effort is described in 58 FR 48063, 
dated September 14, 1993.

Environmental Engineering Committee

    (a) The Environmental Engineering Committee (EEC) will meet by 
conference call on February 7, 1994. This conference call meeting 
replaces the one previously announced (58 FR 61689, dated November 22, 
1993) for February 2, 1994. The conference call will be from 11 a.m. 
until 1 p.m. and is open to the public. The Committee will be 
discussing draft papers on sustainability, transient events, and the 
re-use of contaminated urban lands developed for the Futures Project. 
There will also be a writing session on February 10-11, 1994 (see 
below) that is open to the public.
    (b) The EEC's Environmental Futures Subcommittee will hold a public 
writing session on February 10-11, 1994 at the Holiday Inn Georgetown, 
2101 Wisconsin Avenue, NW., Washington, DC (Tel. (202) 338-4600). The 
Subcommittee is currently revising papers on sustainability, transient 
events, and the re-use of urban lands. The Subcommittee will discuss 
their draft documents, receive public comment on the issues and make 
necessary changes to compile their report. These documents will be 
integrated for consideration by the EEC at a meeting tentatively 
scheduled for March 2-3, 1994 (see future Federal Register for 
announcement).
    For additional information concerning the teleconference meeting or 
the writing session or to obtain agendas, please contact Mrs. Dorothy 
Clark, Staff Secretary, Science Advisory Board (1400F), U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW., Washington, DC 
20460. Phone: (202) 260-6552; Fax: (202) 260-7118. Anyone wishing to 
provide written public comment for the teleconference or the writing 
session should provide thirty-five (35) copies to Mrs. Clark no later 
than 12 noon on Wednesday, February 2, 1994. Individuals wishing to 
participate in the teleconference as audience or commenters should call 
the Designated Federal Official (DFO) for the EEC, Mrs. Kathleen Conway 
at (202) 260-2558 as soon as possible as the number of available 
conference lines is limited. Those wishing to provide public comment at 
the writing session should also contact Mrs. Conway.

Ecological Processes and Effects Committee

    The Ecological Processes and Effects Committee (EPEC) of the 
Science Advisory Board will meet on February 15-16, 1994, at the 
Embassy Suites, 1250 ``22nd'' Street, NW., Washington, DC 20037. The 
meeting, which will concern the Environmental Futures Projects, is open 
to the public, and will begin on both days at 8:30 a.m. and end no 
later than 3 p.m. on February 16. Seating at the meeting will be on a 
first come basis.
    EPEC met on January 10-11, 1994 to begin discussing ecological 
endpoints of concern at several temporal and spatial scales, and to 
identify key drivers of environmental change in the future. At the 
February 15-16 meeting, EPEC will continue the discussion of drivers 
and ecological stressors, and develop and assess Environmental Futures 
Scenarios. The Committee will also begin drafting a report to the EFC 
on emerging ecological issues in the short and long-term.
    To obtain a draft agenda, please contact Ms. Stephanie Sanzone, 
Designated Federal Official, at (202) 260-6557, Ecological Processes 
and Effects Committee, Science Advisory Board (1400F), U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW., Washington, DC 
20460. Anyone wishing to make a presentation at the meeting must notify 
Ms. Sanzone and forward thirty-five copies of a written statement to 
her no later than February 8, 1994. Oral comments to the Committee will 
be limited to five minutes per individual, and should not be repetitive 
of previously submitted written statements.

Radiation Advisory Committee

    (a) The Radiation Environmental Futures Subcommittee (REFS) of the 
Radiation Advisory Committee (RAC) of the Science Advisory Board (SAB) 
will meet February 22, 1994 at the Embassy Suites Hotel, Delegate Room, 
22nd and M Streets, NW., Washington, DC 20037 (Tel. (202) 857-3388). 
The meeting will begin at 9 am on Tuesday, February 22, 1994 and 
adjourn no later than 6 pm that day. The REFS will continue its review 
of the radiation environmental futures issues, including preparing and 
rewriting the draft SAB report on this topic. The deliberative draft 
materials of the REFS are currently under preparation and are not yet 
available to the public.
    (b) The Radiation Advisory Committee (RAC) of the Science Advisory 
Board (SAB) will meet February 23-24, 1994 at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 
Delegate Room, 22nd and M Streets, NW., Washington, DC 20037 (Tel. 
(202) 857-3388). The meeting will begin at 9:00 am on Wednesday, 
February 23, 1994 and 8:30 am on Thursday, February 24, 1994 and 
adjourn no later than 4:30 pm on Thursday, February 24, 1994. The 
topics covered during this meeting will be a continued discussion, 
edits and anticipated closure of the RAC's draft report on review of 
the Agency's draft scoping study on diffuse naturally-occurring 
radioactive material (NORM); continued discussion, edits and 
anticipated closure of the RAC's Radon Science Initiative 
Subcommittee's (RSIS) draft report on review of the radon science 
initiatives issues; an update on the radiation environmental futures 
issues, including status of the draft SAB report on this topic; 
discussions and update on the RAC's Retrospective Study of previous SAB 
reviews; a discussion of the remaining topics to be reviewed in Fiscal 
Year 1994; and discussion of other topics as time and circumstances 
permit.
    Copies of the draft NORM document entitled ``Diffuse NORM--Waste 
Characterization and Preliminary Risk Assessment,'' are available from 
the EPA's Air Docket at 401 M Street, SW., Washington, DC 20460 (202) 
260-7548. The Docket Number is R-82-01, and the Item Number is IIA-38. 
There may be a newer draft document with a different docket and item 
number. For technical information on the NORM draft document, please 
contact Mr. William E. Russo, EPA's Office of Radiation and Indoor Air 
(ORIA), (202) 233-9215.
    Anyone wishing to provide written public comments for the above 
meetings, or wishing to obtain copies of the proposed agendas, or 
copies of the latest publically-available draft reports on the NORM or 
Radon Science initiative should contact Mrs. Diana Pozun, Staff 
Secretary, Science Advisory Board (1400F), U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, 401 M Street SW., Washington, DC 20460, (202) 260-
6552.

Environmental Futures Committee

    The Environmental Futures Committee (EFC) of the Science Advisory 
Board (SAB) will conduct public meetings on the following dates: 
February 23-24, 1994, and March 31-April 1, 1994. These meetings will 
be held at the Marriott Crystal City Courtyard, 2899 Jefferson Davis 
Highway, Arlingotn, Virginia 22202, (703) 549-3434.
    The Environmental Futures Committee (EFC) was formed by the SAB at 
the request of Administrator Browner to assist the Agency in 
anticipating environmental problems, issues and opportunities. The 
charge to this Committee includes: developing a procedure for short and 
long-term forecasting of natural and anthropogenic developments which 
may affect environmental quality and its protection; develop detailed 
examinations procedures and apply them to some future developments; and 
draw implications from the examinations of future developments and 
recommend actions for EPA to address them. At these meetings, the EFC 
will receive briefings on Futures issues; discuss the overall progress 
of the project (including tracking the activities of the SAB Standing 
Committees that are involved in the project); and begin to outline its 
draft report.
    These meetings are open to the public, but seating is limited and 
available on a first come basis. Any member of the public wishing 
further information concerning the meetings or who wishes to submit 
oral or written comments (at least 35 copies) should contact one of the 
Designated Federal Officials, Mr. Robert Flaak or Dr. Edward Bender, 
Science Advisory Board (Mail Code 1400F), U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency, 401 M Street, SW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone (202) 260-
6552; FAX (202) 260-7118.

Environmental Economics Advisory Committee

    The Environmental Economics Advisory Committee (EEAC) of the 
Science Advisory Board (SAB) will meet February 24, 1994 at the Embassy 
Suites Hotel, 22nd and M Streets, NW., Washington, DC 20037 (Tel. (202) 
857-3388). The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. and adjourn no later 
than 5 p.m. The activities planned for this meeting include initiating 
the Committee's work on the SAB's Environmental Futures Project, 
discussing a possible future projects for the Committee, receiving a 
briefing from Office of Water (OW) staff on current economic issues/
analysis in that office, a briefing on the Agency's program in SOx 
emissions trading, and a discussion of aspects of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Economic Policy Evaluation System (CEEPES) developed by 
the Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation (OPPE). For further 
information, please contact Mr. Samuel Rondberg, Science Advisory Board 
(1400F), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20460; telephone (202) 260-2559; FAX (202) 260-7118.
    This meeting is open to the public, but seating is limited and 
available on a first come basis. Any member of the public wishing 
further information concerning the meeting or who wishes to submit oral 
or written comments (at least 35 copies) should contact Mr. Rondberg.

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 five 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: January 14, 1994.
A. Robert Flaak,
Acting Staff Director, Science Advisory Board.
[FR Doc. 94-2081 Filed 1-28-94; 8:45 am]
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