[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 83 (Tuesday, May 1, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23815-23816]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-8264]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0363; FRL-8307-8]


Board of Scientific Counselors, Executive Committee Meeting--May 
2007

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-
463, the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and 
Development (ORD), gives notice of one meeting of the Board of 
Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Executive Committee.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Thursday, May 24, 2007 from 8 a.m. 
to 5 p.m. and Friday, May 25, 2007 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. All 
times noted are eastern time. The meeting may adjourn early if all 
business is finished. Requests for the draft agenda or for making oral 
presentations at the meeting will be accepted up to 1 business day 
before the meeting.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Newport Harbor Hotel and 
Marina, 49 America's Cup Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island 02840. Submit 
your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0363, by one 
of the following methods:
     www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for 
submitting comments.
     E-mail: Send comments by electronic mail (e-mail) to: 
[email protected], Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0363.

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     Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0363.
     Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific 
Counselors, Executive Committee Meeting--May 2007 Docket, Mailcode: 
28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, Attention 
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0363.
     Hand Delivery or Courier. Deliver comments to: EPA Docket 
Center (EPA/DC), Room B102, EPA West Building, 1301 Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-
0363.

    Note: This is not a mailing address. Such deliveries are only 
accepted during the docket's normal hours of operation, and special 
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.

    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2007-0363. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included 
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at 
www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided, 
unless the comment includes information claimed to be Confidential 
Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is 
restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you consider to 
be CBI or otherwise protected through www.regulations.gov or e-mail. 
The www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' system, 
which means EPA will not know your identity or contact information 
unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an e-
mail comment directly to EPA without going through www.regulations.gov, 
your e-mail address will be automatically captured and included as part 
of the comment that is placed in the public docket and made available 
on the Internet. If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends 
that you include your name and other contact information in the body of 
your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. 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. Electronic 
files should avoid the use of special characters, any form of 
encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses. For additional 
information about EPA's public docket visit the EPA Docket Center 
homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the 
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some 
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information 
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such 
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. 
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically 
in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Board of Scientific 
Counselors, Executive Committee--May 2007 Docket, EPA/DC, EPA West, 
Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The Public 
Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public 
Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the ORD 
Docket is (202) 566-1752.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Designated Federal Officer via 
mail at: Lorelei Kowalski, Mail Code 8104-R, Office of Science Policy, 
Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency, 
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; via phone/voice 
mail at: (202) 564-3408; via fax at: (202) 565-2911; or via e-mail at: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

General Information

    Any member of the public interested in receiving a draft BOSC 
agenda or making a presentation at the meeting may contact Lorelei 
Kowalski, the Designated Federal Officer, via any of the contact 
methods listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section above. In 
general, each individual making an oral presentation will be limited to 
a total of three minutes.
    Proposed agenda items for the meeting include, but are not limited 
to: ORD response to recent STAR/GRO report; review/approval of the 
Human Health Mid-Cycle Draft Report; review/approval of the Safe 
Pesticides/Safe Products Program Review Draft Report; updates on Mid-
Cycle Review Subcommittees for Ecology and Drinking Water; updates on 
Program Review Subcommittees for Technology for Sustainability, Human 
Health Risk Assessment, and Homeland Security; updates on Standing 
Subcommittees for Computational Toxicology, for the National Center for 
Environmental Research (NCER) and for the National Exposure Research 
Lab (NERL); an ORD briefing on the National Coastal Condition Report 
III; and future issues and plans. There will also be a site visit to 
ORD's Narragansett Lab. The meeting is open to the public.
    Information on Services for Individuals with Disabilities: For 
information on access or services for individuals with disabilities, 
please contact Lorelei Kowalski at (202) 564-3408 or 
[email protected]. To request accommodation of a disability, 
please contact Lorelei Kowalski, preferably at least 10 days prior to 
the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your 
request.

    Dated: April 24, 2007.
Mary Ellen Radzikowski,
Acting Director, Office of Science Policy.
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