[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 59 (Tuesday, March 29, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15855-15856]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-6193]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-7890-6]


Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of Upcoming 
Teleconferences of the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance 
Analysis and its Ecological Effects Subcommittee

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a 
public teleconference of the Ecological Effects Subcommittee (EES) of 
the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis (Council). The 
EES will meet to discuss its draft advisory report in response to EPA's 
charge questions related to the Agency's Benefits and Costs of the 
Clean Air Act, Revised Analytic Plan for EPA's Second Prospective 
Analysis, 1990-2020. The chartered Council will subsequently meet to 
review the draft advisory of the EES and consider it for approval and 
transmittal to the EPA Administrator.

DATES: The public teleconference of the Council EES will be held on 
April 14, 2005 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. (eastern time). The public 
teleconference of the Council will be held on May 24, 2005 from 2 p.m. 
to 4 p.m. (eastern time).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Members of the public who wish to 
obtain the call-in number or access code or submit written or brief 
oral comments (three minutes or less) must contact Dr. Holly 
Stallworth, Designated Federal Officer, at telephone/voice mail: (202) 
343-9867 or via e-mail at: [email protected]. Any member of the 
public wishing further information regarding the SAB or the Council EES 
may also contact Dr. Stallworth, or visit the SAB Web site at: http://www.epa.gov/sab.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background: EPA's Office of Air and

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Radiation (OAR) conducts periodic, scientifically reviewed studies to 
assess the costs and benefits of regulations promulgated under the 
Clean Air Act. The Council is chartered to provide advice on EPA's 
methods and analyses. The EES is one of the Council's three 
subcommittees and was formed after a ``widecast'' was published in a 
Federal Register Notice on September 9, 2003 (68 FR 53162-53164). 
Additional information on the EES and its advisory activity was 
provided in a Notice published on October 14, 2004 (69 FR 60996). 
Updated information on the current work of the EES was provided on 
November 26, 2004 (29 FR 68901).
    EPA has thus far issued one retrospective analysis of the Clean Air 
Act covering the 1970-1990 time period and one prospective analysis 
covering the 1990-2010 time period. EPA is planning a second 
prospective analysis covering the 1990-2020 time period and has issued 
two analytic blueprints for this analysis. The Council provided advice 
on these analytic blueprints in 2001 (http://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/councila01004.pdf) and 2004 (http://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/council_adv_04004.pdf) but deferred three charge questions pertaining to ecological 
effects to the EES. The EES has responded to these three charge 
questions in a Draft Advisory at http://www.epa.gov/sab/panels/sba_adv_panel.htm.
    The April 14 teleconference will provide the EES an opportunity to 
finalize its Draft Advisory. The May 24 teleconference will provide the 
Council an opportunity to review the EES Draft Advisory and consider it 
for approval and transmittal to the EPA Administrator.
    Meeting agendas for both teleconferences will be posted on the SAB 
Web site prior to each meeting.
    Procedures for Providing Public Comment. It is the policy of the 
EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office to accept written public 
comments of any length, and to accommodate oral public comments 
whenever possible. The EPA SAB Staff Office expects that public 
statements presented at any teleconference or meeting will not be 
repetitive of previously submitted oral or written statements. Oral 
Comments: Requests to provide oral comments must be in writing (e-mail, 
fax or mail) and received by Dr. Stallworth no later than five business 
days prior to the teleconference in order to reserve time on the 
meeting agenda. For teleconferences, opportunities for oral comment 
will usually be limited to no more than five minutes per speaker and no 
more than fifteen minutes total. Written Comments: Although written 
comments are accepted until the date of the meeting (unless otherwise 
stated), written comments should be received in the SAB Staff Office at 
least five business days prior to the meeting date so that the comments 
may be made available to the committee for their consideration. 
Comments should be supplied to the DFO at the address/contact 
information noted above in the following formats: one hard copy with 
original signature, and one electronic copy via e-mail (acceptable file 
format: Adobe Acrobat, WordPerfect, Word, or Rich Text files (in IBM-
PC/Windows 95/98 format).

    Dated: March 22, 2005.
Vanessa T. Vu,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
[FR Doc. 05-6193 Filed 3-28-05; 8:45 am]
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