[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 217 (Monday, November 10, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63779-63786]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-28217]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OPP-2003-0337; FRL-7333-9]


Nominations to the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; Request for 
Comments

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice provides the names, addresses, professional 
affiliations, and selected biographical data of persons nominated to 
serve on the Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) established under section 
25(d) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 
(FIFRA). The Panel was created on November 28, 1975, and made a 
statutory Panel by amendment to FIFRA, dated October 25, 1988. Public 
comment on the nominations is invited, as these comments will be used 
to assist the Agency in selecting three new chartered Panel members.

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DATES: Comments, identified by docket ID number OPP-2003-0337, must be 
received on or before December 10, 2003.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted electronically (preferred), 
through hand delivery/courier, or by mail. Follow the detailed 
instructions as provided in Unit I. of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven Knott, Assistant Executive 
Secretary, FIFRA SAP Staff (7201M), Office of Science Coordination and 
Policy, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (202) 564-8450; fax 
number: (202) 564-8382; e-mail address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. Does this Action Apply to Me?

    This action is directed to the public in general. This action may, 
however, be of interest to persons who are or may be required to 
conduct testing of chemical substances under the Federal Food, Drug, 
and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), FIFRA, and the Food Quality Protection Act of 
1996 (FQPA). Since other entities may also be interested, the Agency 
has not attempted to describe all the specific entities that may be 
affected by this action. If you have any questions regarding the 
applicability of this action to a particular entity, consult the person 
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

B. How Can I Get Copies of this Document and Other Related Information?

    1. Docket. EPA has established an official public docket for this 
action under docket identification (ID) number OPP-2003-0337. The 
official public docket consists of the documents specifically 
referenced in this action, any public comments received, and other 
information related to this action. Although a part of the official 
docket, the public docket does not include Confidential Business 
Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted 
by statute. The official public docket is the collection of materials 
that is available for public viewing at the Public Information and 
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holidays. The docket telephone number is (703) 305-5805.
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    An electronic version of the public docket is available through 
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use EPA Dockets at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/ to submit or view public 
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are available electronically. Once in the system, select ``search,'' 
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    Certain types of information will not be placed in the EPA Dockets. 
Information claimed as CBI and other information whose disclosure is 
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Although not all docket materials may be available electronically, you 
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the docket facility identified in Unit I.B.1. EPA intends to work 
towards providing electronic access to all of the publicly available 
docket materials through EPA's electronic public docket.
    For public commenters, it is important to note that EPA's policy is 
that public comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, 
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    Public comments submitted on computer disks that are mailed or 
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be scanned and placed in EPA's electronic public docket. Where 
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will be placed in EPA's electronic public docket along with a brief 
description written by the docket staff.

C. How and to Whom Do I Submit Comments?

    You may submit comments electronically (preferred), through hand 
delivery/courier, or by mail. To ensure proper receipt by EPA, identify 
the appropriate docket ID number in the subject line on the first page 
of your comment. Please ensure that your comments are submitted within 
the specified comment period. Comments received after the close of the 
comment period will be marked ``late.'' EPA is not required to consider 
these late comments. Do not use EPA Dockets or e-mail to submit CBI or 
information protected by statute.
    1. Electronically. If you submit an electronic comment as 
prescribed in this unit, EPA recommends that you include your name, 
mailing address, and an e-mail address or other contact information in 
the body of your comment. Also include this contact information on the 
outside of any disk or CD ROM you submit, and in any cover letter 
accompanying the disk or CD ROM. This ensures that you can be 
identified as the submitter of the comment and allows EPA to contact 
you in case EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties 
or needs further information on the substance of your comment. EPA's 
policy is that EPA will not edit your comment, and any identifying or 
contact information provided in the body of a comment will be included 
as part of the comment that is placed in the official public docket, 
and made available in EPA's electronic public docket. If EPA cannot 
read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you 
for clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment.
    i. EPA Dockets. Your use of EPA's electronic public docket to 
submit comments to EPA electronically is EPA's preferred method for 
receiving comments. Go directly to EPA Dockets at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/, and follow the online instructions for submitting comments. 
Once in the system, select ``search,'' and then key in docket ID number 
OPP-2003-0337. The system is an ``anonymous access'' system, which 
means EPA will not know your identity, e-mail address, or

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other contact information unless you provide it in the body of your 
comment.
    ii. E-mail. Comments may be sent by e-mail to [email protected], 
Attention: Docket ID Number OPP-2003-0337. In contrast to EPA's 
electronic public docket, EPA's e-mail system is not an ``anonymous 
access'' system. If you send an e-mail comment directly to the docket 
without going through EPA's electronic public docket, EPA's e-mail 
system automatically captures your e-mail address. E-mail addresses 
that are automatically captured by EPA's e-mail system are included as 
part of the comment that is placed in the official public docket, and 
made available in EPA's electronic public docket.
    iii. Disk or CD ROM. You may submit comments on a disk or CD ROM 
that you hand deliver or send by courier to the address identified in 
Unit I.C.2. or mail to the mailing address identified in Unit I.C.3. 
These electronic submissions will be accepted in WordPerfect or ASCII 
file format. Avoid the use of special characters and any form of 
encryption.
    2. By hand delivery or courier. Deliver your comments to: Public 
Information and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Office of Pesticide 
Programs (OPP), Environmental Protection Agency, Rm. 119, Crystal Mall 
2, 1921 Jefferson Davis Hwy., Arlington, VA, Attention: Docket 
ID Number OPP-2003-0337. Such deliveries are only accepted during the 
docket's normal hours of operation as identified in Unit I.B.1.
    3. By mail. Due to potential delays in EPA's receipt and processing 
of mail, respondents are strongly encouraged to submit comments either 
electronically or by hand delivery or courier. We cannot guarantee that 
comments sent via mail will be received prior to the close of the 
comment period. If mailed, please send your comments to: Public 
Information and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB) (7502C), Office of 
Pesticide Programs (OPP), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001, Attention: Docket ID 
Number OPP-2003-0337. For questions about delivery options, please 
contact the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

II. Background

    Amendments to FIFRA, enacted November 28, 1975, include a 
requirement under section 25(d) that notices of intent to cancel or 
reclassify pesticide registrations 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 prior to being made public or 
issued to a registrant. In accordance with section 25(d), the 
Scientific Advisory Panel 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.
    In accordance with the statute, the SAP is a permanent panel 
composed of seven members, selected and appointed by the Deputy 
Administrator of EPA from nominees submitted by both the National 
Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). 
The Agency is, at this time, selecting three new members to serve on 
the panel as a result of membership terms that will expire this year. 
The Agency requested nominations of experts to be selected from the 
fields of ecological risk assessment (especially probabilistic 
ecological risk assessment), human health risk assessment methodology 
and uncertainty analysis, and veterinary pathology. Nominees should be 
well published and current in their fields of expertise. The statute 
further stipulates that we publish the name, address, professional 
affiliation, and a brief biographical sketch of each nominee in the 
Federal Register and solicit public comments regarding the candidates 
nominated.

III. Charter

    A Charter for the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel, dated October 
25, 2002, was issued in accordance with the requirements of the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, 86 Stat. 770 (5 U.S.C. App. 
I). The qualifications of members as provided by the Charter follow.

A. Qualifications of Members

    Members are 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. No persons shall be ineligible to serve on the Panel 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). The Deputy Administrator appoints individuals 
to serve on the Panel for staggered terms of 4 years. Panel members are 
subject to the provisions of 40 CFR part 3, subpart F, Standards of 
Conduct for Special Government Employees, which include rules regarding 
conflicts of interest. Each nominee selected by the Deputy 
Administrator, before being formally appointed, is required to submit a 
confidential statement of employment and financial interests, which 
shall fully disclose, among other financial interests, the nominee's 
sources of research support, if any.
    In accordance with section 25(d) of FIFRA, the Deputy Administrator 
shall require all nominees to the Panel to furnish information 
concerning their professional qualifications, educational background, 
employment history, and scientific publications. The Agency is required 
to publish in the Federal Register the name, address, and professional 
affiliations of each nominee and to seek public comment on the 
nominees.

B. Applicability of Existing Regulations

    With respect to the requirements of section 25(d) of FIFRA that the 
Administrator promulgate regulations regarding conflicts of interest, 
the Charter provides that EPA's existing regulations applicable to 
special government employees, which include advisory committee members, 
will apply to the members of the Scientific Advisory Panel. These 
regulations appear in 40 CFR part 3, subpart F. In addition, the 
Charter provides for open meetings with opportunities for public 
participation.

C. Process of Obtaining Nominees

    In accordance with the provisions of section 25(d) of FIFRA, EPA in 
May 2003, requested NIH and NSF to nominate scientists to fill three 
vacancies occurring on the Panel. The Agency requested nomination of 
experts in the fields of ecological risk assessment (especially 
probabilistic ecological risk assessment), human health risk assessment 
methodology and uncertainty analysis, and veterinary pathology. NIH and 
NSF responded by letter, providing the Agency with a total of 29 
nominees. Fifteen of the 29 nominees are interested and available to 
actively participate in SAP meetings.

IV. Nominees

    The following are the names, addresses, professional affiliations, 
and selected biographical data of nominees being considered for 
membership on the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel. The Agency seeks to 
fill three vacancies occurring this year.

A. Nominations for the Field of Ecological Risk Assessment

    1. Nominee. Burger, Joanna, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of 
Biology,

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Division of Life Sciences, Rutgers University; Professor in the School 
of Public Health in New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ.
    i. Expertise. Ecotoxicology methods, design, data collection and 
analysis, ecological risk methods and assessment.
    ii. Education. Ph.D., Ecology and Behavioral Ecology, University of 
Minnesota.
    iii. Professional experience. Dr. Burger has had over 30 years of 
experience in ecological studies of a wide range of animals in their 
natural environments, and nearly 25 years working in the fields of 
ecological risk and ecotoxicology. She has served as Director of the 
Graduate Program in Ecology at Rutgers University for 15 years, and has 
served as Director of the Chemical Analysis Laboratory for the National 
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Center of Excellence 
at Rutgers University/University of Medicine and Dentistry of New 
Jersey (UMDNJ), Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. During this period, 
she has been actively involved in research on the effects of toxic 
chemicals on behavior and neurodevelopment, on biomonitoring of toxic 
chemicals and ecological endpoints, on the risks from chemical 
contaminants in fish and wildlife, and on developing methods for 
ecological risk assessment at different levels of ecological 
complexity. She has published over 350 refereed papers in these areas, 
and has written or edited over 15 books. Dr. Burger has served as a 
member of the National Research Council (NRC) Board of Environmental 
Science and Toxicology, Board on Biology, Commission of Life Sciences 
and other NRC committees. She also has served on several SCOPE 
committees, most recently as the Co-Chair of an international meeting 
on endocrine disruptors. Dr. Burger has served on EPA, U.S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
(NOAA) advisory councils as well as the New Jersey Endangered and 
NonGame Species Council. She teaches ecological risk and serves as an 
environmental advisor to numerous local, State, and Federal agencies.
    2. Nominee. James, Margaret O., Ph.D., Professor and Chair, 
Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of 
Florida, Gainesville, FL.
    i. Expertise. Xenobiotic metabolism, environmental pollutants.
    ii. Education. B.Sc. (Honors), Chemistry, University College 
London, UK; Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, St. Mary's Hospital Medical 
School, University of London.
    iii. Professional experience. Dr. James completed a 3-year post-
doctoral fellowship in the pharmacology branch of the National 
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). She was appointed 
as a research associate, and then a senior staff fellow at the NIEHS 
satellite laboratory at the Whitney Laboratory in St. Augustine, FL. 
She has been on the faculty of the Departments of Medicinal Chemistry 
and Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Florida since 
1980. Dr. James also serves as the director of the University of 
Florida Superfund Basic Research Program project grant. Dr. James is a 
founding member of the interdisciplinary toxicology graduate program at 
the University of Florida. She has authored or co-authored over 100 
peer reviewed original research papers and several book chapters. Dr. 
James served on the Environmental Health Sciences review panel from 
1991 to 1995, and on the Toxics Advisory Committee, National Marine 
Fisheries Service, NOAA from 1992 to 1994. She has served as Secretary 
of the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (2000 to 
2003) and is a former member of the editorial board of Chemico-
Biological Interactions. Dr. James currently serves on the editorial 
boards of Drug Metabolism and Disposition and Aquatic Toxicology. She 
is the guest editor of a special volume of Marine Environmental 
Research to be published in 2004. Dr. James' research interests are in 
biotransformation pathways involved in the formation or detoxification 
of chemically reactive metabolites of xenobiotics.
    3. Nominee. Portier, Kenneth M., Ph.D., Associate Professor of 
Statistics and Agricultural Experiment Station Statistician, Institute 
of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, 
FL.
    i. Expertise. Applied statistics, biostatistics, statistical 
computing, and the teaching of statistics.
    ii. Education. B.S., Mathematics, Nicholls State University; M.S., 
Statistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Ph.D. in 
Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
    iii. Professional experience. Dr. Portier has taught statistical 
methods on the graduate level, and has served as a statistical 
consultant to researchers in agriculture, natural resources, and the 
environment at the University of Florida since 1979. His participation 
in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Higher Education Programs 
(HEP) funded teaching grants has included development of web-based 
materials for teaching natural resources sampling, and developing a 
senior graduate course in forested watersheds. Dr. Portier is 
collaborating with other University of Florida researchers on grants 
from the NSF, USDA, NOAA, and the Department of Interior (DOI). Dr. 
Portier has been a regular member of EPA and National Toxicology 
Program science advisory panels reviewing ecological risks from 
agriculture-related chemicals and practices. He has co-authored papers 
in many of the premier journals in agriculture, natural resources, and 
environmental sciences.
    4. Nominee. Regan, Helen M., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department 
of Biology, Ecology Program, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.
    i. Expertise. Ecological risk assessment, quantitative conservation 
ecology, population models and mathematical treatments of uncertainty 
in ecological risk assessment.
    ii. Education. B.S. (with first-class honors), Applied Mathematics, 
Latrobe University, Victoria, Australia; Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, 
University of New England, New South Wales, Australia.
    iii. Professional experience. Dr. Regan's research activities 
include: Treatment of uncertainty in contaminant exposure models for 
wildlife; population-level ecological risk assessment of endangered and 
threatened species using stochastic population models; systematic 
decisionmaking for management and conservation planning; and assessment 
of uncertainty in endangered species classification protocols. She has 
held postdoctoral research fellow appointments with the University of 
Melbourne and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and 
Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Regan has 
served as a consultant for the Cooperative Research Center for 
Catchment Hydrology (Australia) and for Forestry Tasmania (Australia). 
She has served as an invited panelist for the Industrial Risk 
Management Forum, Environmental Futures Forum (Victorian Environmental 
Protection Authority, Australia) and as a member of the review team for 
Improvements in Applications of Models in Ecological Risk Assessment 
(sponsored by the American Chemistry Council). She is a contributing 
author to Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment: Chemical Effects on 
Populations, Ecosystems, and Landscapes (Pastorok, Bartell, Ferson and 
Ginzburg, eds.), Lewis publishers, Boca Raton, FL, 2001. She was a

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scientific reviewer for the US Fish and Wildlife Service Revised 
Proposal for Critical Habitat for Forty-Seven Plant Species on the 
Island of Hawaii and served on the scientific review panel for Forest 
Service Species Viability Assessment Processes at the National Center 
for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa 
Barbara. In September 2003, she was an invited participant for the 
Pellston Workshop on Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment (focus 
on chemical contaminants), sponsored by the Society for Environmental 
Toxicology and Chemistry, held in Roskilde, Denmark.
    5. Nominee. Scott, Geoffrey I., Ph.D., Acting Director, Charleston 
Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research 
(CCEHBR), National Ocean Services, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Charleston, SC.
    i. Expertise. Aquatic and marine toxicology, ecological assessments 
of the impacts of agricultural runoff, oil spills, pesticides, 
bacterial contamination, and water chlorination.
    ii. Education. B.S., Biology, Wofford College; M.S. and Ph.D., 
Marine Science, University of South Carolina.
    iii. Professional experience. Dr. Scott's research experience 
includes working as an Aquatic Toxicologist for the EPA, where he 
helped develop a suite of rapid assessment indices for assessing 
ecological damages from oil spills. He has served as a tenured 
Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of 
South Carolina (USC) where he received the 1989 Outstanding Young 
Researcher Award in Public Health. While at USC, most of Dr. Scott's 
research focused on the impacts of agricultural pesticide non-point 
source runoff on estuarine ecosystems. Dr. Scott served as Chief of the 
Marine Ecotoxicology Branch at NOAA CCEHBR from 1993 to 2001. He has 
collaborated with peers in his discipline to write both the conceptual 
framework for the Urbanization in the Southeast Estuarine Systems 
(USES) study, and the conceptual framework for the Land Use Coastal 
Environmental Study (LUCES). Dr. Scott was appointed by the NOAA 
Administrator to represent NOAA in a Federal agency task force on 
endocrine disruptors, culminating in the Raleigh Workshop, where he co-
chaired the sessions on neuro-endocrine effects. Dr. Scott has served 
on numerous government and industry advisory panels, including the EPA 
advisory board on endocrine disrupting chemicals; EPA's Food Quality 
Protection Act Science Review Board; the EPA Environmental Technology 
Verification Program, Water Stakeholder Committee; the South Carolina 
Coastal Pesticide Advisory Committee; the United Nations Gulf of Guinea 
Large Marine Ecosystem Team; and the Research Delegation Exchange with 
the Black Sea Research Institute. Dr. Scott has served as a board 
member, Vice President, and President of the Carolina Chapter of the 
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Dr. Scott is also an 
Associate Professor in the Medical University of South Carolina, the 
University of Charleston, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the 
Institute of Human and Environmental Health, Texas Tech University.

B. Nominations for the Field of Human Health Risk Assessment 
Methodology and Uncertainty Analysis

    1. Nominee. Anderson, Elizabeth L., Ph.D., President and Chief 
Executive Officer, Sciences International, Inc., Alexandria, VA.
    i. Expertise. Risk assessment and carcinogenicity.
    ii. Education. B.S., Chemistry, College of William and Mary; M.S., 
Organic Chemistry, University of Virginia; Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, 
American University.
    iii. Professional experience. Dr. Anderson regularly participates 
in and directs an interdisciplinary group of scientists and engineers 
specializing in risk assessment. She has over 20 years of experience 
working in the field of risk assessment and is currently the Editor-in-
Chief of Risk Analysis: An International Journal. Previously, while 
employed by the EPA, Dr. Anderson founded the Agency's central risk 
assessment program, and directed it for 10 years. In this capacity, she 
served as the Executive Director of the EPA committee that initially 
adopted risk assessment as the basis for implementing the Agency's 
regulatory mandates. She also founded EPA's Carcinogen Assessment Group 
and the Office of Health and Environmental Assessment. Dr. Anderson 
received the EPA Gold Medal for exceptional service. She has 
participated in numerous risk-related panels and committees including 
those for inter-agency risk assessment initiatives, the National 
Academy of Sciences, and the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Anderson 
has worked extensively on international risk assessment issues to 
address human health and ecological consequences of exposure to 
environmental toxicants for organizations that include the World Health 
Organization and the Pan American Health Organization. She was 
President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of 
Clement International Corporation and on the Board of Directors of ICF-
Kaiser International. Dr. Anderson is a co-founder and past-President 
of the Society for Risk Analysis. She has participated in numerous 
national and international commissions and organizations concerned with 
risk based issues, and has lectured and published widely in the field 
of risk assessment.
    2. Nominee. Crawford-Brown, Douglas, Ph.D., Professor, Departments 
of Environmental Sciences and Engineering and in Public Policy 
Analysis; also on the Resource Faculty of the Department of Philosophy; 
Chairman, Environmental Sciences and Studies Undergraduate Program; and 
Director, Carolina Environmental Program, University of North Carolina, 
Chapel Hill, NC.
    i. Expertise. Environmental modeling, exposure assessment, risk 
assessment, and the application of scientific models in the assessment 
and selection of environmental policies.
    ii. Education. B.S., M.S., and Ph.D., Physics and Nuclear Science, 
Georgia Institute of Technology.
    iii. Professional experience. Dr. Crawford-Brown's teaching and 
research are in the areas of environmental modeling, exposure 
assessment, risk assessment, and the application of scientific models 
in the assessment and selection of environmental policies. His current 
research focuses on risk assessment in support of policy in water and 
air; on development of biomathematical models of human health risk 
following exposure to radionuclides, chemicals, and microbes; on dose 
reconstruction methodologies; and on the development of decision 
support systems to analyze risks from environmental contaminants. He 
has worked extensively in the field of exposure and dose assessment in 
support of epidemiological studies, with a primary focus on exposure to 
radionuclides and radiation. Dr. Crawford-Brown has written over 120 
journal articles in his discipline, and has authored a series of books 
on environmental risk assessment: Theoretical and Mathematical 
Foundations of Human Health Risk Analysis (1997), Risk-Based 
Environmental Decisions: Methods and Culture (1999), and Mathematical 
Methods of Environmental Risk Modeling (2001). Dr. Crawford-Brown has 
served on a number of federal advisory committees for EPA, and 
currently serves as a Technical Advisor for the American Waterworks 
Association in the areas of risk and

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decisions. He has chaired, or has served as a member of a wide variety 
of national and international committees in areas related to risk and 
the environment, including those established by EPA, the World Trade 
Organization, the Department of Energy, NIH, the International Life 
Sciences Institute, and the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology.
    3. Nominee. Frey, H. Christopher, Ph.D., Associate Professor, 
Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North 
Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.
    i. Expertise. Quantification of variability and uncertainty, 
measurement, modeling and evaluation of energy and environmental 
control systems, and exposure and risk assessment.
    ii. Education. B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of 
Virginia; Master of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie-
Mellon University; Ph.D., Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie-
Mellon University.
    iii. Professional experience. Dr. Frey's research interests are 
primarily in: Development and demonstration of methods for 
quantification of variability and uncertainty; modeling and evaluation 
of energy and environmental control systems; measurement and modeling 
of real-world tailpipe emissions; and exposure and risk assessment. He 
has been a principal or co-principal investigator for 25 externally 
sponsored university research projects in these areas. Dr Frey has 
published 26 peer-reviewed journal papers, co-authored the book, 
Probabilistic Techniques in Exposure Assessment: A Handbook for Dealing 
with Variability and Uncertainty in Models and Inputs, authored three 
other book chapters and authored or co-authored numerous conference 
proceedings papers and technical reports. He has served as a reviewer 
for 14 journals, and as an external reviewer for 8 draft EPA reports, 2 
USDA risk assessments, and a draft Food and Agriculture Organization 
(FAO)/World Health Organization (WHO) exposure assessment guideline. He 
has served in numerous advisory capacities for EPA including on the 
EPA's Scientific Advisory Panel and on the Science Advisory Board. Dr. 
Frey has participated in the development of guidance documents and 
handbooks, including chairing a workshop in 1998 that recommended 
methods for developing input distributions in probabilistic analysis, 
and a 2001 workshop that recommended approaches for sensitivity 
analysis applied to food safety risk models. Dr. Frey participated in 
international expert panels for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 
Change, pertaining to guidelines for uncertainty analysis, and for FAO/
WHO regarding guidelines for probabilistic exposure assessment. Dr. 
Frey is active in the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) and the Air and 
Waste Management Association (AWMA) and also is a member of the 
American Society of Civil Engineers. Formerly, he was president of the 
Research Triangle Chapter of SRA, a member of the SRA Council, and 
Chair of the AWMA's EE-1 Exposure and Health Effects Technical 
Committee. He is a recipient of a 1992 AAAS/EPA Fellowship, the 1992 
AAAS Barnard Scholarship, a National Science Foundation CAREER award, 
and the SRA's 1999 Chauncy Starr Award for exceptional contributions to 
the field of risk analysis.
    4. Nominee. Gray, George M., Ph.D., Executive Director, Harvard 
Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
    i. Expertise. Risk assessment, interpretation of rodent bioassays, 
risk management, risk communication.
    ii. Education. B.S., Biology, University of Michigan; M.S. and 
Ph.D., Toxicology, University of Rochester.
    iii. Professional experience. Dr. Gray's primary research interests 
are risk characterization and risk communication with a focus on food 
safety and agriculture and chemicals in the environment. He has 
published on both the scientific bases of human health risk assessment 
and its application to risk policy with a focus on risk/risk tradeoffs 
in risk management. Dr. Gray teaches toxicology and risk assessment to 
graduate students and to participants in the Continuing Professional 
Education Program at the Harvard School of Public Health. He serves on 
the Risk Assessment Task Force of the Society of Toxicology, and on 
government panels, including a Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) Food Advisory 
Committee, and the NIEHS National Advisory Environmental Health Science 
Council.
    5. Nominee. Zeise, Lauren, Ph.D., Chief, Reproductive and Cancer 
Hazard Assessment Section, Office of Environmental Health Hazard 
Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency, Oakland, CA.
    i. Expertise. Cancer and reproductive risk assessment methodologies 
and applications.
    ii. Education. M.S. and Ph.D., Harvard University.
    iii. Professional experience. Dr. Zeise has served as Chief of the 
Reproductive and Cancer Hazard Assessment Section since 1991, 
overseeing a variety of the State's cancer, reproductive, and 
ecological risk assessment activities. Dr. Zeise currently serves on 
the EPA Science Advisory Board Research Strategies Advisory Committee, 
on the National Institute of Medicine Board of Health Promotion and 
Disease Prevention, and on the NRC Board on Environmental Sciences and 
Toxicology. She is a member, fellow, and councilor of the Society of 
Risk Analysis and is on the editorial board of that society's journal. 
The National Cancer Institute Smoking and Tobacco Smoke monograph, 
Health Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke, was conceived and 
developed under her editorial direction. She is co-author and co-editor 
of the 1999 International Agency for Research on Cancer monograph 
Quantitative Estimation and Prediction of Cancer Risk. Dr. Zeise has 
served on the EPA Science Advisory Board Environmental Health Committee 
and Integrated Risk Project, and as a consultant to the Clean Air Act 
Scientific Advisory Committee, Environmental Engineering Committee, 
FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel, EPA Board of Scientific Counselors, 
and on other ad hoc committees of EPA. She also has served on 
committees of the National Institute of Medicine, National Research 
Council, Consumer Product Safety Commission, National Toxicology 
Program, and the Office of Technology Assessment.

C. Nominations for the Field of Veterinary Pathology

    1. Nominee. Chambers, Janice E., Ph.D., Director, Center for 
Environmental Health Sciences, and William L. Giles Distinguished 
Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State 
University, MS.
    i. Expertise. Pesticide toxicology, neurochemical and behavioral 
effects of pesticides, potential effects of pesticides on infants and 
children, mechanism of action and biotransformation of neurotoxicants 
and other xenobiotics, predictive modeling of the effects of mixtures.
    ii. Education. B.S., Biology, University of San Francisco and 
Ph.D., Animal Physiology, Mississippi State University.
    iii. Professional experience. Dr. Chambers directs several research 
projects that deal with the effects of pesticides in mammalian systems 
to determine the potential human health effects of pesticide exposures.

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Specifically, there are projects related to the neurochemical and 
behavioral effects of pesticides in developing organisms as well as the 
metabolism of pesticides in developing organisms to yield predictions 
about potential effects of pesticides in infants and children. Other 
Projects are involved in developing mathematical predictions of the 
effects of mixtures of pesticides on the nervous system so that 
predictive models can be generated to potentially describe the effects 
of future uncharacterized mixtures. Dr. Chambers has been the Principal 
Investigator for numerous federally funded competitive grants in the 
field of toxicology. Because of her expertise, she has been asked to 
serve on a number of advisory boards and prestigious committees. Dr. 
Chambers is board certified as a toxicologist by the American Board of 
Toxicology and the Academy of Toxicological Sciences. As Director of 
the Center for Environmental Health Sciences, she has developed an 
interdisciplinary research center specializing in pesticide toxicology 
and funded primarily by NIH. The center comprises the areas of 
neurotoxicology, biochemical toxicology, analytical chemistry, 
biostatistics, epidemiology, computational chemistry, computational 
simulation, biochemistry, and endocrinology.
    2. Nominee. Dragan, Yvonne P., Ph.D., Program Director, 
Hepatotoxicology Center for Excellence, National Center for 
Toxicological Research, FDA, Jefferson, AR.
    i. Expertise. Pharmacology, toxicology, carcinogenesis, mode of 
action, and human health risk assessment.
    ii. Education. B.A., Biology, Smith College; Ph.D., Pharmacology 
and Toxicology, Medical College of Virginia.
    iii. Professional experience. Dr. Dragan received her Ph.D. in 
Pharmacology and Toxicology from the Medical College of Virginia in 
1988. She performed postdoctoral work in the Department of Oncology at 
the University of Wisconsin in Madison at the McArdle Laboratory for 
Cancer Research from 1988 until 1998. She was a member of the School of 
Public Health faculty at the Ohio State University from 1998 until 
2001. Dr. Dragan is currently the Director of the Program in 
Hepatotoxicity at the National Center for Toxicological Research in 
Jefferson, AR. She has held her current position at NCTR since 2002 and 
is an adjunct Associate Professor in Pharmacology and Toxicology at the 
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
    3. Nominee. Haschek-Hock, Wanda M., Ph.D., Director, Graduate 
Training Program in Toxicologic Pathology and Professor, Comparative 
Pathology, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary 
Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.
    i. Expertise. Pathology, veterinary diagnostic and toxicologic; 
mycotoxicology.
    ii. Education. B.V.Sc., University of Sydney; Ph.D., Veterinary 
Pathology, Cornell University.
    iii. Professional experience. Dr. Haschek-Hock has 30 years of 
experience in diagnostic and toxicologic pathology including teaching, 
research, and service. Her research has been in pathophysiology of 
chemicals and natural toxins found in the environment. Her current 
research focus is mycotoxins and food safety. Dr. Haschek-Hock has over 
100 scientific peer-reviewed publications in the fields of pathology 
and toxicology, and is senior editor of the Handbook of Toxicologic 
Pathology (1991, 2002), and Fundamentals of Toxicologic Pathology 
(1998). She developed and directs the Graduate Training Program in 
Toxicologic Pathology and the biannual international Continuing 
Education Course in Industrial Toxicology and Pathology. She was Head 
of the Department of Veterinary Pathology at the University of Illinois 
for 6 years. She has served as President of the Society of Toxicology's 
Comparative and Veterinary Specialty Section; on the Board of Directors 
of the American Board of Toxicology; as Associate Editor for 
Toxicological Sciences; as an Editorial Board member for Fundamental 
and Applied Toxicology, Veterinary Pathology, and Toxicologic 
Pathology. Dr. Haschek-Hock also has served as Councilor of the 
American College of Veterinary Pathologists and as Councilor and, 
currently, Secretary Treasurer of the Society of Toxicologic Pathology. 
She recently served on the FDA Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee 
for the Center for Veterinary Medicine.
    4. Nominee. Songer, J. Glenn, Ph.D., Professor, Department of 
Veterinary Science and Microbiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
    i. Expertise. Infectious disease epidemiology and diagnosis, 
pathogenesis of gram-positive bacterial infections, clostridial toxins, 
clostridial enteric disease.
    ii. Education. B.S., Biology, Mid-America Nazarene College; M.A., 
Preventive Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch; Ph.D., 
Veterinary Microbiology, Iowa State University.
    iii. Professional experience. Dr. Songer's research has focused on 
two primary areas. The major emphasis at present is elucidation of the 
role of membrane active bacterial toxins in pathogenesis of animal 
disease. In addition, he has developed and applied in vitro methods, 
including rapid molecular approaches, to diagnosis of animal disease. 
Dr. Songer is a member of the American Society for Microbiology, the 
American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, the 
Conference of Research Workers in Animal Disease, the U.S. Animal 
Health Association and is a Fellow of the American Academy of 
Microbiology. He has authored and co-authored numerous papers in his 
field during the past 20 years. He has served on numerous national and 
international panels on matters of interest in his field including 
committees and panels for USDA and NIH.
    5. Nominee. Woods, Leslie Willis, D.V.M., Associate Professor, 
Clinical Diagnostic Pathology, California Animal Health and Food Safety 
Laboratory System, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of 
California, Davis, CA.
    i. Expertise. Toxicology and infectious diseases in mammalian 
wildlife and avian species.
    ii. Education. B.A., Chemistry, University of San Diego; D.V.M., 
University of California, Davis; Ph.D. in Comparative Pathology, 
University of California.
    iii. Professional experience. Dr. Woods became a professor of 
clinical diagnostic pathology in 1997 and has a joint appointment at 
the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System and the 
Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology Department in the School of 
Veterinary Medicine, University of California. Her research interests 
are in infectious diseases and toxicoses of wildlife and exotic and 
companion avian species, and infectious diseases of mammalian wildlife 
species. Dr. Woods discovered and described a new adenoviral 
hemorrhagic disease of deer that has been responsible for high 
mortality in the mule deer species in the western United States. Dr. 
Woods' other area of interest is toxicology. Her graduate research 
program included in vitro and in vivo studies using respiratory toxins. 
Dr. Woods has been a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary 
Pathologists since 1993.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection, pesticides and pests.



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    Dated: November 3, 2003.
Joseph J. Merenda,
Director, Office of Science Coordination and Policy.

[FR Doc. 03-28217 Filed 11-7-03; 8:45 am]
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