[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 181 (Tuesday, September 17, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48950-48951]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-23787]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5610-7]


Science Advisory Board; Notification of Public Advisory Committee 
Meeting Open Meeting

    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, 
notice is hereby given that the Human Exposure and Health Subcommittee 
(HEHS) of the Science Advisory Board's (SAB) Integrated Risk Project 
will meet on October 9-10, 1996, in room 3075, Building 90, at the 
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, 
Berkeley CA 947720. The meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. and end no 
later than 5:00 p.m. on each day. All times noted are Pacific Time. 
This meeting is open to the public, but prior registration is required 
(see below).
    The main purpose of the meeting is to continue discussions 
(initiated at the Committee's previous meeting on June 13/14, 1996) of 
human exposure (and their consequences) to various pollutants and to 
consider the potential for risk reduction. Members of the Committee 
will report back on their efforts to ``pilot test'' four possible 
approaches for assessing exposure and risk. The Subcommittee's 
activities are part of an SAB project to update the 1990 SAB report, 
Reducing Risk: Setting

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Priorities and Strategies for Environmental Protection. In a letter 
dated October 25, 1995, to Dr. Matanoski, Chair of the SAB Executive 
Committee, Deputy Administrator Fred Hansen charged the SAB to: 1) 
develop an updated ranking of the relative risk of different 
environmental problems based upon explicit scientific criteria; 2) 
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; 3) assess the potential for 
risk reduction and propose alternative technical risk reduction 
strategies for the environmental problems identified; and 4) identify 
the uncertainties and data quality issues associated with the relative 
rankings. The project will be conducted by several SAB panels, 
including HEHS, working at the direction of an ad hoc Steering 
Committee established by the Executive Committee.
    Single copies of Reducing Risk can be obtained by contacting the 
SAB's Committee Evaluation and Support Staff (1400), 401 M Street, SW, 
Washington, DC 20460, telephone (202) 260-8414, or fax (202) 260-1889. 
Members of the public desiring additional information about the 
meeting, including an agenda, should contact Ms. Mary Winston, Staff 
Secretary, Science Advisory Board (1400F), US EPA, 401 M Street, SW, 
Washington DC 20460, by telephone at (202) 260-6552, fax at (202) 260-
7118, or via the INTERNET at: [email protected].
    Anyone wishing to attend the meeting, and/or make an oral 
presentation to the Committee should register with Samuel Rondberg, 
Designated Federal Official for the HEHS, no later than 4:00 p.m., 
October 3, 1996, at (202) 260-2559 or via the INTERNET at 
[email protected]. Prior registration is required for 
admission to the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory complex. The registration 
request should include name and affiliation of the attendee, and 
indicate if parking space at the laboratory complex will be required. 
Anyone wishing to make a presentation should also provide 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. Rondberg no later than the time 
of the presentation for distribution to the Committee and the 
interested public. 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 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: September 5, 1996.
Donald G. Barnes,
Staff Director, Science Advisory Board.
[FR Doc. 96-23787 Filed 9-16-96; 8:45 am]
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