[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 31 (Tuesday, February 15, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7549-7550]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-3487]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6536-6]


Science Advisory Board; Meeting Cancellation Notice; Open Meeting 
Notice; Notice of Meeting Changes

1. Meeting Cancellation Notice--Executive Committee--February 16, 
2000

    The meeting of the Executive Committee of the SAB that was 
scheduled for February 16, 2000 between the hours of 2:00 and 4:00 EST 
has been canceled. The meeting was advertised in 65 FR 4966, dated 
February 2, 2000. The reports subject to review at that meeting have 
been rescheduled for review at the March 7-8 Executive Committee 
meeting announced below. For further information, please contact Dr. 
Donald G. Barnes, Designated Federal Officer for the Executive 
Committee (see below for contact information).

2. Open Meeting Notice--Executive Committee--March 7-8, 2000

    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, 
notice is hereby given that the Science Advisory Board's (SAB's) 
Executive Committee will conduct a public meeting on Tuesday and 
Wednesday, March 7-8, 2000. The meeting will convene each day at 8:30 
in Conference Room 6013 of the Ariel Rios Building, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC 20460 and 
adjourn no later than 5:30. The meeting is open to the public; however, 
seating is limited and available on a first-come basis.
    At this meeting, the Executive Committee will receive updates from 
its committees and subcommittees concerning their recent and planned 
activities. As part of these updates, some committees will present 
draft reports for Executive Committee review and approval. Tentatively 
anticipated drafts include, but are not limited to, the following:
    (a) Executive Committee Subcommittee: ``Review of the Agency's 
Position on the Data from the Testing of Human Subjects.''
    (b) Executive Committee Subcommittee: ``Review of the Agency's 
Application of the Cancer Risk Assessment Guidelines to Children.''
    (c) Executive Committee Subcommittee: ``Review of the Application 
of the Draft Cancer Risk Assessment Guidelines to the Case of 
Chloroform.''
    (d) Radiation Advisory Committee: ``Assessing the Risks from Indoor 
Radon.''
    (e) Research Strategies Advisory Committee joint report view with 
the Board of Scientific Counselors of ORD: ``Review of the Agency's 
Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program.''
    Drafts of the reports that will be reviewed at the meeting should 
be available to the public at the SAB website (http://www.epa.gov/sab) 
by close-of-business on February 28, 2000.
    As part of this two day meeting, the Executive Committee will also: 
(a) Meet with various Agency officials to discuss matters of mutual 
interest such as the framework for a Strategic Plan for Science at EPA; 
(b) receive briefings from Agency staff on various topics, including an 
update of the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) project; and 
(c) conduct the second in a series of Workshops on the role of science 
in some of the Agency's innovative approaches to environmental decision 
making.
    The timing of these events will be included in an agenda for the 
meeting that should be available one week prior to the meeting.

Public Comments

    Any member of the public wishing to submit brief oral comments (5 
minutes) must contact Dr. Donald G. Barnes, Designated Federal Officer 
(DFO) for the Executive Committee, in writing, no later than close of 
business Tuesday, February 29th at USEPA Science Advisory Board 
(1400A), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20460; fax (202) 
501-0323; or via e-mail at ([email protected]). Those wishing further 
information concerning the meeting should contact Dr. Barnes at (202) 
564-4533.

Meeting Access

    Individuals requiring special accommodation at this meeting due to 
disability should contact Dr. Barnes at least five business days prior 
to the

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meeting to insure that appropriate arrangements are made.

3. Meeting Change Notice--Environmental Engineering Committee and 
Its Subcommittees

    Notice is hereby given of changes to three meetings of the Science 
Advisory Board's Environmental Engineering Committee and its 
Subcommittees. The original meetings were announced in 65 FR 1866, 
dated Wednesday, January 12, 2000. For further information, please 
contact Ms. Kathleen Conway, Designated Federal Officer for the 
Environmental Engineering Committee at (202) 564-4559 or via e-mail at 
([email protected]). The changes follow.
    (a) The Technology Evaluation Subcommittee will not meet February 
23-25, 2000. Instead, it will meet March 6-8, 2000 as part of the week-
long Environmental Engineering Committee meeting. There has been no 
change in the purpose or location for that meeting; only the dates have 
changed.
    The following information from the previous announcement is 
provided again here for your convenience, ``The Environmental 
Engineering Committee of the Science Advisory Board (SAB) will meet 
Monday through Friday, March 6-10, 2000 in room 6450 of in the Ariel 
Rios Building North, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004 
(adjacent to the escalator to the Federal Triangle Metro Station on 
12th Street NW). The meeting will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Monday and end 
no later than 4:00 p.m. on Friday.''
    (b) The Natural Attenuation Research Subcommittee of the Science 
Advisory Board's (SAB) Environmental Engineering Committee (EEC) will 
conduct a public teleconference meeting Thursday February 24, 2000 
between the hours of 3:00 p.m.--5:00 p.m (Eastern Standard Time) as 
announced. However, the purpose of this conference call has been 
changed. The Subcommittee will not hear the preliminary reactions of 
individual reviewers to the written materials. Instead, the 
Subcommittee will discuss the charge and plan the review in light a 
forthcoming report from the National Research Council.
    (c) The Natural Attenuation Research Subcommittee will not meet 
March 6-8, 2000. The Subcommittee plans to reschedule its review of the 
Agency's Natural Attenuation research program until May. When dates for 
that meeting have been determined, it will be announced in the Federal 
Register.

General Information on 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 (unless 
otherwise noted). Written comments (at least 35 copies) should be 
received in the SAB Staff Office one week before the meeting so that 
they can be mailed to the relevant SAB committee or subcommittee for 
study. Written comments may be provided to the relevant committee or 
subcommittee up until the time of the meeting.
    Additional information concerning the Science Advisory Board, its 
structure, function, and composition, may be found on the SAB Website 
(http://www.epa.gov/sab) and in the Annual Report of the Staff Director 
which is available from the SAB Publications Staff at (202) 564-4533 or 
via fax at (202) 501-0256.

    Dated: February 8, 2000.
Donald G. Barnes,
Staff Director, Science Advisory Board.
[FR Doc. 00-3487 Filed 2-14-00; 8:45 am]
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