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[FR Doc No: 94-2081]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-4831-9]
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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