[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 138 (Friday, July 18, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42703-42704]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-18157]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-7530-6]


EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Request for Nomination 
of Members for the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB), Clean Air 
Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC), and the Advisory Council on 
Clean Air Compliance Analysis (COUNCIL)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory 
Board (SAB) Staff Office is soliciting nominations for Members to serve 
on the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB), the Clean Air Scientific 
Advisory Committee (CASAC), and the Advisory Council on Clean Air 
Compliance Analysis (COUNCIL). Individuals responding to this annual 
request for nominations will be considered for membership vacancies on 
these three Congressionally mandated Federal advisory committees. This 
process supplements other efforts to identify qualified candidates.

DATES: Nominations should be submitted in time to arrive no later than 
August 18, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To submit a hard copy of the form 
noted below (for those unable to submit the information in electronic 
form), please contact Ms. Diana Pozun, U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board 
Staff Office (Mail Code 1400A), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20460 (FedEx/Courier address: U.S. EPA SAB, Suite 6450, 
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington DC 20004), (202) 564-4544 
(tel.), (202) 501-0323 (fax), or via email at [email protected].
    For further information concerning this nomination process, please 
contact Mr. Robert Flaak, Acting Deputy Director for Management, U.S. 
EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office, (202) 564-4546 (tel.), or via 
email at: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Background--The SAB (42 U.S.C. 4365), CASAC (42 U.S.C. 7409) and 
COUNCIL (42 U.S.C. 7612) are chartered Federal Advisory Committees that 
report directly to the EPA Administrator. The mission of these Federal 
advisory committees, as established by statute, is to provide 
independent scientific and technical peer review advice, consultation, 
and recommendations to the EPA Administrator on the technical bases for 
EPA actions. Additional information about these Federal Advisory 
Committee can be obtained on the SAB Web site (http://www.epa.sab/gov).
    Members serve as Special Government Employees (SGEs) (40 CFR part 
3, subpart F, or EPA Ethics Advisory 88-6 dated 7/6/88) and receive 
compensation, in addition to reimbursement at the Federal government 
rate for travel and per diem expenses while serving on the SAB, CASAC, 
and COUNCIL. SGEs are subject to certain ethical standards common to 
all Federal employees. In particular, prior to their appointment, SGEs 
are required to complete an information package, including a 
Confidential Financial Disclosure Report.
    Expertise Sought--As part of the annual membership drive, the EPA 
SAB Staff Office is seeking nominations for nationally and 
internationally recognized non-Federal scientists, engineers, 
economists, and social scientists with demonstrated research and 
applied scientific experience and expertise in various disciplinary 
areas that address ecological and/or environmental/public health 
challenges, a multitude of stressors (e.g., physical, biological and 
chemical agents and mixtures) impacting environmental media (e.g., air, 
water, land), monitoring and characterizing sources of pollution, 
assessing risk to ecosystem and/or human health, prevention and risk 
management technologies, risk communication, environmental data 
quality, assessing environmental social economic values and cost-
benefit analyses.
    The selected experts will be appointed by the EPA Administrator to

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serve on the CASAC, COUNCIL, the SAB Executive Committee, and/or the 
SAB's standing committees (e.g., Drinking Water Committee, Ecological 
Processes and Effects Committee, Environmental Economics Advisory 
Committee, Environmental Engineering Committee, Environmental Health 
Committee, Integrated Human Exposure Committee, Radiation Advisory 
Committee, and Research Strategies Advisory Committee).
    How to Apply--Any interested person or organization may nominate 
qualified persons to serve on the SAB. Individuals may self-nominate. 
Nominees should be qualified by scientific education, training, and 
experience to evaluate scientific, engineering and/or economics 
information on issues referred to and addressed by the SAB. Successful 
candidates have distinguished themselves professionally and should be 
available to invest the time and effort to advance the cause of the 
supporting the use of good science through the efforts of the SAB. 
Nominations should be submitted in electronic format (which is 
preferred over hard copy) through the Form for Nominating Individuals 
to Panels of the EPA Science Advisory Board provided on the SAB Web 
site. The form can be accessed through a link on the blue navigational 
bar on the SAB Web site, http://www.epa.gov/sab/. To be considered, all 
nominations should include the information requested on that form.
    The nominating form requests contact information about the person 
making the nomination; contact information about the nominee; the 
disciplinary and specific areas of expertise of the nominee; the 
nominee's resume; and a general biosketch of the nominee indicating 
education, expertise, past research, recent service on other advisory 
committees or with professional associations, and recent grant and/or 
contract support.
    Anyone who has any question concerning any aspect of the nomination 
process may contact Mr Robert Flaak as indicated above in this FR 
notice. Anyone who is unable to submit nominations through the SAB Web 
site should contact Ms. Diana Pozun as indicated above in this FR 
notice. Non-electronic submissions must follow the same format and 
contain the same information as the electronic form.
    The EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office will acknowledge 
receipt of nominations. From the nominees identified by respondents to 
this Federal Register notice and through other sources, the SAB Staff 
Office will develop a list of recommended candidates to submit to the 
EPA Administrator for selection as Members.
    The EPA SAB seeks the inclusion of candidates who possess the 
necessary domains of knowledge, the relevant scientific perspectives 
(which, among other factors, can be influenced by work history and 
affiliation), and the collective breadth of experience to adequately 
address the issues facing the Agency. Specific criteria to be used in 
evaluating potential Members include: (a) Scientific and/or technical 
expertise, knowledge, and experience (primary factors); (b) absence of 
financial conflicts of interest; (c) scientific credibility and 
impartiality; (d) availability and willingness to serve; and (e) 
ability to work constructively and effectively in committees.
    Those candidates ultimately chosen to serve as Members will be 
appointed as Special Government Employees. As a result, they will all 
be required to fill-out the ``Confidential Financial Disclosure Form 
for Special Government Employees Serving on Federal Advisory Committees 
at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency'' (EPA Form 3110-48). This 
confidential form allows Government officials to determine whether 
there is a statutory conflict between that person's public 
responsibilities as a Special Government Employee and private interests 
and activities, or the appearance of a lack of impartiality, as defined 
by Federal regulation. The form may be viewed and downloaded from the 
following URL address: http://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/epaform3110-48.pdf. 
This form should not be submitted as part of a nomination.

    Dated: July 10, 2003.
Vanessa T. Vu,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
[FR Doc. 03-18157 Filed 7-17-03; 8:45 am]
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