[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 223 (Monday, November 18, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58683-58684]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-29453]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5652-8]


Science Advisory Board; Notification of Public Advisory Committee 
Meeting

    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, 
notice is hereby given that the Integrated Human Exposure Committee 
(IHEC) of the Science Advisory Board (SAB) will meet on December 19-20, 
1996 at the Environmental Protection Agency's Waterside Mall Complex, 
401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460 in Room M2103. For convenient 
access, members of the public should use the EPA entrance next to the 
Safeway store. The meeting will start at 9:00 a.m. and end no later 
that 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) each day. All meetings are open 
to the public. Due to limited space, seating at meetings will be on a 
first-come basis.
    Purpose of the Meeting--The main purpose of the meeting is to 
discuss and review the EPA Office of Research and Development's (ORD) 
draft Exposure Factors Handbook, which is intended to revise the extant 
(published in March 1990) version of the Handbook. The Handbook is 
intended to encourage consistency in exposure assessments, while 
allowing risk assessors the flexibility to tailor assessment approaches 
to specific situations. This Handbook provides a summary of the 
available data on consumption of drinking water; consumption of fruits, 
vegetables, beef, dairy products, and fish, soil ingestion; inhalation 
rates; skin surface area; lifetime; activity patterns; and body weight. 
Since publication of the 1990 document, new data on exposure factors 
have become available, and revision was necessary to update the 
Handbook.
    The Committee is being asked to review the revised Handbook, 
addressing: a) its consistency with EPA's published Exposure 
Guidelines; b) usefulness of its data presentation to exposure 
assessors; c) the way in which supporting studies have been grouped 
vis-a-vis the exposure factors being evaluated; and d) data 
interpretation and characterization of uncertainty.
    For Further Information--Single copies of the review document can 
be obtained by contacting the ORD Center for Environmental Research 
Information (CERI) at (513) 569-7562. The EPA document numbers are: 
EPA/600/P-95/002Ba (for volume I); EPA/600/P-95/002Bb (for volume II); 
and EPA/600/P-95/002Bc (for volume III). PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS DOCUMENT 
IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE SAB. Members of the public desiring 
additional technical information about the draft Handbook should 
contact Ms. Jacqueline Moya (8623), US EPA, 401 M Street, SW, 
Washington, DC 20460, telephone (202) 260-2385, or by sending a request 
via Internet to [email protected].
    Members of the public desiring additional information about the 
meeting, including a draft agenda, should contact Ms. Dorothy Clark, 
Staff Secretary, Science Advisory Board (1400), US EPA, 401 M Street, 
SW, Washington DC 20460, telephone (202) 260-8414, fax (202) 260-7118, 
or Internet at: [email protected]. Anyone wishing to make 
an oral presentation at the meeting must contact Mr. Samuel Rondberg, 
Designated Federal Official for the IHEC, in writing at the above 
address no later than 4:00 p.m., December 10, 1996 via fax (202) 260-
7118 or via Internet at: [email protected]. 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. 
Rondberg no later than the time of the presentation for distribution to 
the Committee and the interested public. Mr. Rondberg may be contacted 
by telephone at (202) 260-2559.


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    Dated: November 7, 1996.
Donald G. Barnes,
Staff Director, Science Advisory Board.
[FR Doc. 96-29453 Filed 11-15-96; 8:45 am]
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