[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 11, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6661-6662]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-2815]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[OPP-2004-0021; FRL-7343-7]


Tribal Pesticide Program Council; Notice of Public Meeting

AGENCY:  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION:  Notice.

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SUMMARY:  The Tribal Pesticide Program Council (TPPC) will hold a 3-day 
meeting, beginning on March 10, 2004, and ending on March 12, 2004, 
including a closed session from 1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday and 
Thursday. This notice announces the location and times for the meeting 
and sets forth the tentative agenda topics.

DATES:  The meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 10, 2004, and 
Thursday, March 11, 2004, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Friday, March 12, 
2004, from 9 a.m. to noon.

ADDRESSES:  The meeting will be held at the Doubletree Hotel-Crystal 
City, 300 Army-Navy Drive, Arlington, VA 22202.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Georgia A. McDuffie, Field and 
External Affairs Division (7506C), Office of Pesticide Programs, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 605-0195; fax 
number: (703) 308-1850; e-mail address: [email protected] or
    Lillian Wilmore, TPPC Facilitator, P.O. Box 470829, Brookline 
Village, MA 02447-0829; telephone number: (617) 232-5742; fax: (617) 
277-1656; e-mail address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. Does this Action Apply to Me?

    You may be potentially affected by this action if you are 
interested in TPPC's information exchange relationship with EPA 
regarding important issues related to human health, environmental 
exposure to pesticides, and insight into EPA's decision-making process. 
All parties are invited and encouraged to attend the meetings and 
participate as appropriate. Potentially affected entities may include, 
but are not limited to those persons who are or may be required to 
conduct testing of chemical substances under the Federal Food, Drug, 
and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), or the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). 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 either 
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-2004-0021. 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 
Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Rm. 119, Crystal Mall 2, 
1921 Jefferson Davis Hwy., Arlington, VA. This docket facility is open 
from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal 
holidays. The docket telephone number is (703) 305-5805.
    2. Electronic access. You may access this Federal Register document 
electronically through the EPA Internet under the``Federal Register'' 
listings athttp://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/.
    An electronic version of the public docket is available through 
EPA's electronic public docket and comment system, EPA Dockets. You may 
use EPA Dockets at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/ to view public comments, 
access the index listing of the contents of the official public docket, 
and to access those documents in the public docket that are available 
electronically. Although not all docket materials may be available 
electronically, you may still access any of the publicly available 
docket materials through the docket facility identified in Unit I.B.1. 
Once in the system, select ``search,'' then key in the appropriate 
docket ID number.

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II. Tentative Agenda

    This unit provides the tentative agenda for the meeting.
    1. TPPC state of the Council Report.
    2. Presentation and questions and answers by EPA's Office of 
Pesticide Programs Field and External Affairs Division.
    3. Reports from working groups and TPPC participation in other 
meetings:Forum on State and Tribal Toxic Actions (FOSTTA); Pesticide 
Program Dialogue Committee; Western Region; Tribal Operations 
Committee, Tribal Customary & Traditional Lifeways; 7th National Forum 
on Contaminants in Fish; and other reports or presentations.
    4. Tribal caucus (2).
    5. EPA's Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances 
(OPPTS) tribal strategy update.
    6. Dialogue and discussion on development of a tribal pesticide 
program.
    7. Discussion on TPPC's participation on the Worker Protection 
Working Group.
    8. National issues on noxious weeds for tribes.
    9. Homeland Security--tribal and other farms and pesticide storage 
issues.
    10. Discussion on the involvement of tribes in the Strategic Ag 
Initiative.
    11. Update on the Federal Inspector Credentials Criteria and 
opportunity for discussion.
    12. Tribal West Nile Virus concerns and to include a discussion on 
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) issues.
    13. Update on Lifeline.
    14. Endangered species issues.
    15. Half-day training session.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection.


    Dated: February 2, 2004.
Jay Ellenberger,
Acting Director, Field and External Affairs Division, Office of 
Pesticide Programs.
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