[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 3, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26081-26082]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-6701]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Request for Nominations 
of Candidates for the EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, the 
Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis, and the Science 
Advisory Board

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Science 
Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office is soliciting nominations for 
consideration of membership on EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory 
Committee (CASAC), the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance 
Analysis (Council), the chartered Science Advisory Board (SAB or 
Board), and SAB Standing Committees.

DATES: Nominations should be submitted in time to arrive no later than 
June 2, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nominators who are unable to submit 
nominations electronically as described below, may submit a paper copy 
by contacting Ms. Patricia L. Thomas, U.S. EPA SAB Staff Office (Mail 
Code 1400F), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460 
(FedEx/Courier address: U.S. EPA SAB, Suite 3600, 1025 F Street, NW., 
Washington DC 20004), (202) 343-9974 (telephone), (202) 233-0643 (fax), 
or via e-mail at [email protected]. General inquiries regarding 
the work of the SAB, CASAC, and Council may be directed to Dr. Anthony 
F. Maciorowski, Associate Director for Science, U.S. EPA SAB Staff 
Office, (202) 343-9983 (telephone), or via e-mail at 
[email protected].

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. As Federal Advisory Committees, the CASAC, Council, and 
SAB conduct business in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee 
Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C. App. C) and related regulations. Generally, CASAC, 
Council, and SAB meetings are announced in the Federal Register, 
conducted in public view, and provide opportunities for public input 
during deliberations. Additional information about these Federal 
Advisory Committees can be obtained on the SAB Web site at: http://www.epa.gov/sab.
    Members of the CASAC, Council, SAB and their standing committees 
constitute a distinguished body of non-EPA scientists, engineers, 
economists, and social scientists who are nationally and 
internationally recognized experts in their respective fields. Members 
are appointed by the EPA Administrator for a period of three years, 
with the possibility of appointment to a second three year term. These 
federal advisory committees provide advice, recommendations, and peer 
review on a wide variety of EPA science activities. This notice 
specifically requests nominations for the chartered CASAC, Council, and 
SAB, and SAB standing committees.
    The chartered CASAC has responsibility to review and offer 
technical and scientific advice to the EPA Administrator on scientific 
aspects of national ambient air quality standards for criteria 
pollutants. The chartered Council has the responsibility to review and 
offer technical and scientific advice to the EPA Administrator on the 
impacts of the Clean Air Act on the public health, economy, and 
environment of the United States. The SAB standing committees provide 
independent scientific and technical advice to the EPA Administrator 
through the chartered Board. The SAB Drinking Water Committee provides 
advice on EPA's national drinking water criteria and standards program. 
The SAB Ecological Processes and Effects Committee provides advice on 
science to protect, sustain and restore the integrity of ecosystems. 
The SAB Environmental Economics Advisory Committee provides advice on 
methods and analyses related to economics, costs, and benefits of EPA 
environmental programs. The SAB Environmental Engineering Committee 
provides advice on environmental engineering, remediation, and control. 
The SAB Environmental Health Committee and the SAB Integrated Human 
Exposure Committee provides advice on the development and use of 
guidelines for human health effects, exposure assessment, and risk 
assessment. The Radiation Advisory Committee provides advice on 
radiation protection, radiation science, and radiation risk assessment. 
All the work of the SAB standing committees are under the direction of 
the Board. The Board reviews and approves SAB standing committee 
reports, and provides strategic advice to the EPA Administrator on a 
variety of EPA science and research issues and programs. Additional 
information about the CASAC, the Council, the SAB, and SAB standing 
committees may be found at the SAB Web site at: http://www.epa.gov/sab.

Expertise Sought

    The SAB Staff Office is seeking nominations for nationally and 
internationally recognized non-EPA scientists, engineers, economists, 
and social scientists. Nominees are sought from a wide range of 
scientific and technical areas that are relevant to EPA research and 
science activities. General areas of expertise and the specific 
committees where such expertise is desired follow.
    (a) Exposure Assessment--Specialized expertise in the 
characterization, quantitative analysis, sensor development and 
deployment, monitoring, and modeling of sources, emissions, 
environmental fate, transport, and distribution of physical, chemical, 
radiological, and biological stressors and mixtures in various 
environmental media (air, water, land, tissue, etc.). Depending upon 
their specific disciplinary expertise, nominees will be considered for 
appointment to the chartered CASAC, chartered SAB, the SAB Drinking 
Water Committee, the SAB Integrated Human Exposure Committee, and the 
SAB Radiation Advisory Committee.
    (b) Human Health Risk Assessment--Specialized expertise in public 
health, environmental medicine, epidemiology, mammalian toxicology, 
microbiology, quantitative or statistical methods and models to 
estimate the potential health hazard and risk of physical, chemical, 
radiological, and biological stressors and mixtures in various 
environmental media (air, water, land, tissue, etc.). Depending upon 
their specific disciplinary expertise, nominees will be considered for 
appointment to the chartered CASAC, chartered Council, the chartered 
SAB, the SAB Drinking Water Committee, the SAB Environmental Health 
Committee, and the SAB Radiation Advisory Committee.
    (c) Ecological Assessment--Specialized expertise in ecological 
condition assessment, conservation biology, landscape ecology, 
ecosystem modeling, ecotoxicology, quantitative or statistical methods 
and models to estimate the ecological hazard and risk to ecosystems, 
communities, populations, and species to physical,

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chemical, radiological, and biological stressors and mixtures. 
Depending upon their specific disciplinary expertise, nominees will be 
considered for appointment to the chartered SAB, and the SAB Ecological 
Processes and Effects Committee.
    (d) Risk Mitigation and Control--Specialized expertise in civil, 
chemical, environmental, or systems engineering for the protection of 
public health and the environment through sustainable and green 
approaches, environmental management systems, pollution prevention, 
waste reduction and reuse, and containment or control technologies for 
environmental stressors in all environmental media (e.g., air, land, 
water). Depending upon their specific disciplinary expertise, nominees 
will be considered for appointment to the chartered SAB and the SAB 
Environmental Engineering Committee.
    (g) Environmental Economics Assessments--Specialized expertise in 
cost-benefit analysis, uncertainty analysis, energy sector and 
electricity generation, modeling (e.g., emissions fate and transport, 
emissions trading, economy-environment interactions), application of 
quantitative methods to environmental policy (e.g., benefit-cost 
assessment, valuation, cost effective analysis, computable general 
equilibrium modeling), market mechanisms and incentives, or political 
economy of policy instrument choices. Depending upon their specific 
disciplinary expertise, nominees will be considered for appointment to 
the chartered Council, chartered SAB, and the SAB Environmental 
Economics Advisory Committee.
    (f) Behavioral and Decision Sciences Assessments--Specialized 
expertise in risk communication, and analytical deliberative, 
collaborative, and predictive approaches to environmental decision-
making. Depending upon their specific disciplinary expertise, nominees 
will be considered for appointment to the chartered Council and the 
chartered SAB.

How To Submit Nominations

    Any interested person or organization may nominate qualified 
persons to be considered for appointment to these chartered advisory 
committees and SAB standing committees. Individuals may self-nominate. 
Qualified nominees will demonstrate appropriate scientific education, 
training, and experience to evaluate basic and applied science issues 
addressed by these advisory committees. Successful nominees will have 
distinguished themselves professionally and be available to invest the 
time and effort in providing advice and recommendations on the 
development and application of science at EPA. Nominations should be 
submitted in electronic format (which is preferred over hard copy) 
through the Form for Nomination to Chartered Advisory Committees or SAB 
Subcommittees provided on the SAB Web site. The form can be accessed 
through the SAB Nomination Form link on the blue navigational bar on 
the SAB Web site at: http://www.epa.gov/sab. To be considered, all 
nominations should include the information requested on that form.
    Nominators are asked to identify the specific committee or 
committees for which nominees would like to be considered. 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 
curriculum vita; and a biographical sketch of the nominee indicating 
current position, educational background; research activities; and 
recent service on other national advisory committees or national 
professional organizations. Persons having questions about the 
nomination procedures, or who are unable to submit nominations through 
the SAB Web site, should contact Ms. Patricia L. Thomas as indicated 
above in this notice. Non-electronic submissions must follow the same 
format and contain the same information as the electronic form. The SAB 
Staff Office will acknowledge receipt of nominations.
    Candidates will be asked to submit 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 EPA 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 at the SAB 
Web site at: http://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/epaform3110-48.pdf. This form 
should not be submitted as part of a nomination.
    The SAB Staff Office seeks candidates who possess the necessary 
domains of knowledge, and relevant scientific perspectives (which, 
among other factors, can be influenced by work history and affiliation) 
to adequately address scientific issues facing the Agency. The primary 
criteria to be used in evaluating potential nominees will be scientific 
and/or technical expertise, knowledge, and experience. Additional 
criteria that will be used to evaluate technically qualified nominees 
will include: The absence of financial conflicts of interest; 
scientific credibility and impartiality; availability and willingness 
to serve; and the ability to work constructively and effectively on 
committees. The selection of new members will also include 
consideration of the collective breadth and depth of scientific 
perspectives; a balance of scientific perspectives; continuity of 
knowledge and understanding of EPA missions and environmental programs, 
and diversity factors (e.g., geographical areas and professional 
affiliations) for each of the chartered committees, SAB subcommittees.

    Dated: April 27, 2006.
Vanessa Vu,
Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
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