[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 110 (Wednesday, June 9, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30991-30993]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-14358]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OPP-00586; FRL-6063-4]


 Formation and Request for Nominations to Serve on the Food 
Quality Protection Act, Science Review Board

 AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
 ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the formation and solicits nominations 
to serve on the Food Quality Protection Act, Science Review Board. The 
names, addresses, and professional affiliations of persons already 
serving on the Science Review Board are provided below. Section 104 of 
the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 established the Science Review 
Board consisting of at least 60 scientists who shall be available to 
the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Scientific 
Advisory Panel on an ad hoc basis to assist in reviews conducted by the 
Panel. The Scientific Advisory Panel was established under section 
25(d) of Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.

 ADDRESSES: By mail, submit comments to: Public Information and Records 
Integrity Branch, Information Resources and Services Division (7502C), 
Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M St., SW., Washington, DC, 20460. 
In person, bring comments to: Rm. 119, Crystal Mall #2, 1921 Jefferson 
Davis Highway, Arlington, VA 22202, telephone: (703) 305-5805.
    Comments and data also may be submitted electronically by sending 
electronic mail (e-mail) to: [email protected]. Electronic comments 
must be submitted as an ASCII file avoiding the use of special 
characters and any form of encryption. Comments and data also will be 
accepted on disks in WordPerfect 5.1/6.1 file format or ASCII file 
format. All comments and data in electronic form must be identified by 
the docket control number OPP-00586. No Confidential Business 
Information (CBI) should be submitted through e-mail. Electronic 
comments may be filed online at many Federal Depository Libraries.

 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: By mail: Paul I. Lewis, FIFRA 
Scientific Advisory Panel (7101C), Office of Science Coordination and 
Policy, Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M St., SW., Washington, DC 
20460. Office location, telephone number, and e-mail address: Rm. 117, 
CM #2, 1921 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA 22202, telephone: 
(703) 305-5369 or 305-7351; e-mail: [email protected].

 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

 I. Background

    Amendments to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 
Act (FIFRA) enacted November 28, 1975 (7 U.S.C. 136w(d)), include a 
requirement under section 25(d) that notices of intent to cancel or 
reclassify pesticide regulations pursuant to section 6(b)(2), as well 
as proposed and final forms of rulemaking pursuant to section 25(a), be 
submitted to a Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) prior to being made 
public or issued to a registrant. In accordance with FIFRA section 
25(d), the SAP is to have an opportunity to comment on the health and 
environmental impact of such actions. The Panel shall also make 
comments, evaluations, and recommendations for operating guidelines to 
improve the effectiveness and quality of analyses made by Agency 
scientists.
    Section 104 of the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA) (Pub. 
L. 104-170) established the FQPA Science Review Board (SRB) consisting 
of at least 60 scientists. These scientists shall be available to the 
SAP on an ad hoc basis to assist in reviews conducted by the Panel.
    The Food Quality Protection Act mandated that members of the SRB 
shall be selected in the same manner as a member of SAP temporary 
subpanels.

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The chair of the SAP, after consultation with the Administrator, may 
create temporary subpanels on specific projects to assist the full SAP 
in expediting and preparing its evaluations, comments, and 
recommendations. These subpanels will be composed of scientists to 
evaluate scientific studies relied upon by the Administrator with 
respect to the proposed action. Such additional scientists shall be 
selected by the SAP.

 II. Applicability of Existing Regulations

    With respect to the requirements of FIFRA section 25(d) that the 
Administrator promulgate regulations regarding conflicts of interest, 
EPA's existing regulations applicable to special government employees, 
which include advisory committee members, will apply to the members of 
the SRB. These regulations appear at 5 CFR part 2635.

 III. Nominees to the Science Review Board

    The Agency announces and solicits nominations of scientists to 
serve on the SRB. The Agency has already selected members to the SRB 
and seeks additional participants (a list of current SRB members 
follows). Members shall be scientists who have sufficient professional 
qualifications, including training and experience, to be capable of 
providing expert comments as to the impact on health and the 
environment of regulatory actions under sections 6(b) and 25(a) of 
FIFRA. Members will be selected from among, but are not limited to, 
toxicology, pathology, environmental biology, and related sciences 
(e.g. pharmacology, biotechnology, biochemistry and biostatistics). No 
persons shall be ineligible to serve on the SRB by reason of their 
membership on any other advisory committee to a Federal department or 
agency or their employment by a Federal department or agency (except 
the EPA). All nominees to the SRB should furnish information concerning 
their professional qualifications, educational background, employment 
history, and scientific publications.
    If a SRB nominee is considered to assist in a review by the SAP for 
a particular session, the SRB nominee is subject to the provisions of 5 
CFR part 2634, Executive Branch Financial Disclosure, as supplemented 
by the EPA in 5 CFR part 6401. As such, the SRB nominee is required to 
submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 450) which 
shall fully disclose, among other financial interests, the nominee's 
employment, stocks and bonds, and where applicable, sources of research 
support. The EPA will evaluate the nominee's financial disclosure form 
prior to the nominee being appointed to a panel reviewing agency 
actions. This evaluation will identify conflicts that may arise between 
the member's financial interests and the agency actions under review. 
If the SRB nominee's financial disclosure form is approved by the EPA, 
the nominee will be assigned to a SAP session and be hired as a Special 
Government Employee.
    The SAP consists of 7 members appointed by the Administrator from a 
list of 12 nominees, 6 nominated by the National Institutes of Health 
and 6 by the National Science Foundation, utilizing a system of 
staggered terms of appointment. The members are: Dr. Ronald Kendall, 
The Institute of Environmental and Human Health/Texas Tech University 
Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX (chairperson); Dr. Charles Capen, 
Ohio State University, School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of 
Veterinary Biosciences, Columbus, OH; Dr. Ernest McConnell, Toxpath, 
Inc., Raleigh, NC; Dr. Fumio Matsumura, University of California, 
Institute of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Davis, CA; Herbert 
Needleman, M.D., University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, 
Pittsburgh, PA; Dr. Christopher Portier, National Institutes of 
Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, and; Dr. 
Mary Anna Thrall, Colorado State University, College of Veterinary 
Medicine and Biomedical Science, Fort Collins, CO.
    EPA Science Advisory Board members are also available to serve on 
the SRB (there are over 300 scientific consultants on the EPA Science 
Advisory Board). Several EPA Science Advisory Board scientific 
consultants have served in the past on the SRB to assist in reviews 
conducted by the Panel. The following are the names, addresses, and 
professional affiliations of current members on the SRB.

Current FQPA SRB Members

    Dr. John Adgate, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
    Dr. Marion Anders, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
    Dr. Jack Barbash, United States Geological Service, Tacoma, WA
    Dr. Osman Basaran, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
    Dr. William Brimijoin, Mayo Clinic and Medical School, 
Rochester, NY
    Dr. Arthur Buikema, Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State 
University, Blacksburg, VA
    Dr. Allen Burton, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
    Dr. Janice Chambers, Mississippi State University, Mississippi 
State, MS
    Dr. Robert Chapin, National Institute of Environmental Health 
Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC
    Dr. Luz Claudio, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
    Dr. Joel Coats, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
    Dr. Rory Conolly, Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology, 
Research Triangle Park, NC
    Dr. Michael Cunningham, National Institute of Environmental 
Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC
    Dr. Terri Damstra, World Health Organization, Research Triangle 
Park, NC
    Dr. Kenneth Davis, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
    Dr. Michael Doyle, University of Georgia, Griffin, GA
    Dr. J. Larry Duda, Pennsylvania State University, University 
Park, PA
     Dr. Amira Eldefrawi, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
     Mr. James Fallon, United States Geological Service, Moundsview, 
MS
    Dr. Richard Fenske, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    Dr. David Ferro, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
    Dr. John Fletcher, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
    Dr. Paul Foster, Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology, 
Research Triangle Park, NC
    Dr. Natalie Freeman, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
    Dr. David Gaylor, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, AK
    Dr. James Gibson, Dow AgroSciences LLC, Indianapolis, IN
    Dr. Christian Grue, Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife 
Research Unit, Seattle, WA
    Dr. Philip Guzelian, University of Colorado, Denver, CO
    Dr. Robert Hale, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, 
Gloucester Point, VA
    Dr. George Hallberg, The Cadmus Group, Waltham, MA
    Dr. Lenwood Hall, University of Maryland, Queenstown, MD
    Dr. James Hanson, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
    Dr. Gordon Hard, American Health Foundation, Valhalla, NY
    Dr. Jerry Hatfield, National Soil Tilth Laboratory, Ames, IA
    Dr. Dale Hattis, Clark University, Worcester, MA
    Dr. Paul Hendley, Zeneca AG Products, Richmond, CA
    Dr. Diane Henshel, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
    Dr. Robert Herrick, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
    Dr. Elwood Hill, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
    Dr. Robert Hill, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
    Dr. Charles Hobbs, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, 
Albuquerque, NM
    Dr. Bruce Hope, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, 
Portland, OR
    Dr. Art Hornsby, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

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    Dr. Robert Horton, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
    Dr. Lovell Jones, University of Texas, Houston, TX
    Dr. Russell Jones, Rhone-Poulenc, Inc., Research Triangle Park, 
NC
    Dr. Mont Juchau, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    Dr. Kathleen Keeler, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
    Dr. John Kissel, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    Dr. Robert Kreiger, University of California, Riverside, CA
    Dr. Sam Kung, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
    Dr. Tom LaPoint, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
     George Lambert, M.D. University of Medicine and Dentistry of 
New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ
    Dr. Peter Landrum, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, Ann Arbor, MI
    Dr. Dennis Laskowski, Dow AgroSciences LLC, Indianapolis, IN
    Dr. Ross Leidy, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
    Dr. Martin Locke, United States Department of Agriculture, 
Stoneville, MS
    Dr. Charles MacTutus, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
    Dr. Margaret McCarthy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
    Dr. William McCarthy, Hoffman-LaRouche, Inc., Nutley, NJ
    Dr. F.M. Anne McNabb, Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State 
University, Blacksburg, VA
    Dr. Victor McFarland, United States Army Core of Engineers, 
Vicksburg, MS
    Dr. Charles Menzie, Menzie-Cura and Associates, Inc., 
Chelmsford, MA
    Dr. Karl Mierzejewski, Independent Consultant, State College, PA
    Dr. Robert Moore, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
    Dr. Tom Mueller, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
    Dr. Mark Nearing, United States Department of Agriculture, West 
Lafayette, IN
    Dr. Benjamin Nelson, National Institute for Occupational Safety 
and Health, Cincinnati, OH
    Dr. Jeff Novak, United States Department of Agriculture, 
Florence, SC
    Dr. Raymond O'Connor, University of Maine, Orono, ME
    Dr. John O'Donoughe, Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY
    Dr. Jim Oris, Miami University, Oxford, OH
    Dr. Reynaldo Patino, Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife 
Research Unit, Lubbock, TX
    Robert Peiffer, DVM, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 
NC
    Dr. James Petty, United States Geological Survey, Columbia, MO
    Dr. Carey Pope, Northeast Louisiana University, Monroe, LA
    Dr. Nu-may Ruby Reed, California Environmental Protection 
Agency, Sacramento, CA
    J. Routt Reigart, M.D. Medical University of South Carolina, 
Charleston, SC
    Dr. James Render, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
    Mr. Darryl Rester, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
    Dr. Lorenz Rhomberg, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, Boston, 
MA
    Dr. George Roderick, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
    Dr. Tim Roland, United States Department of Agriculture, 
Edinburg, TX
    Dr. William Rutula, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 
NC
    Dr. Ali Sadeghi, United States Department of Agriculture, 
Beltsville, MD
    Dr. Syed Sattar, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Dr. Daniel Saunders, Frito Lay, Dallas, TX
    Dr. Jay Schreider, Department of Pesticide Regulation, 
Sacremento, CA
    Dr. Jeffery Scott, United States Department of Commerce, 
Charleston, SC
    Dr. Lynne Sehulster, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA
    Dr. Dhiren Shah, Food and Drug Administration, Washington, DC
    Dr. James Shih, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
    Dr. Lawrence Sirinek, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, 
Columbus, OH
    Dr. William Slikker, National Center for Toxicological Research, 
Jefferson, AK
    Dr. David Smith, Mississippi State University, Mississippi 
State, MS
    Dr. Tom Sobotka, Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, MD
    Dr. Mark Sobsey, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
    Dr. Tammo Steenhuis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
    Dr. James Swenberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 
NC
    Dr. Harold Thistle, United States Department of Agriculture, 
Forest Service, Missoula, MT
    Dr. Mark Tumeo, Cleveland State University,Cleveland, OH
    Dr. Harold van Es, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
    Dr. Ian van Wesenbeeck, Dow Elanco, Indianapolis, IN
    Dr. John Vandenbergh, North Carolina State University, Chapel 
Hill, NC
    Dr. Joel Walker, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AK
    Dr. John Wargo, Yale University, New Haven, CT
    Dr. R. Don Wauchope, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Tifton, GA
    Dr. Carol Weisskopf, Washington State University, Richland, WA
    Dr. Richard (Rick) Wetzler, Tufts University, Medford, MA
    Dr. Mark Whalon, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
    Dr. Willis Wheeler, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, 
Gainesville, FL

 List of Subjects

     Environmental protection.

    Dated: May 17, 1999.

Susan H. Wayland,

Acting Assistant Administrator for Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic 
Substances.
[FR Doc. 99-14358 Filed 6-8-99; 8:45 am]
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