[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 48 (Tuesday, March 11, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12999-13000]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-4828]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-8540-6]


Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public 
Teleconference and Face-to-Face Meeting of the Drinking Water Committee

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory 
Board (SAB) Staff Office announces two meetings of the SAB Drinking 
Water Committee (DWC): A public teleconference to discuss the 
Waterborne Diseases--Measures to Link Drinking Water Programs to Public 
Health Outcomes (Measures) and a face-to-face meeting to review 
Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List 3 (CCL3) Draft document.

DATES: The SAB will hold the public teleconference on April 2, 2008. 
The teleconference will begin at 1 p.m. and end at 5 p.m. (Eastern 
Time). A face-to-face meeting will be held on April 23, 2008 from 9 
a.m. to 5 p.m. (Eastern Time) and will continue on April 24, 2008 from 
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Eastern Time).

ADDRESSES: The April 2, 2008 teleconference will be conducted by phone 
only. The April 23-24, 2008 face-to-face meeting will be held at the 
SAB Conference Center, 1025 F Street, NW., Suite 3700, Washington, DC 
20004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public wishing to 
obtain general information concerning this public teleconference or 
meeting should contact Dr. Sue Shallal, Designated Federal Officer 
(DFO), EPA Science Advisory Board (1400F), U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; 
via telephone/voice mail: (202) 343-9977; fax: (202) 233-0643; or e-
mail at: [email protected]. General information concerning the EPA 
Science Advisory Board can be found on the SAB Web Site at: http://www.epa.gov/sab.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SAB was established by 42 U.S.C. 4365 to 
provide independent scientific and technical advice to the 
Administrator on the technical basis for Agency positions and 
regulations. The SAB is a Federal Advisory Committee chartered under 
the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C., App. 
The SAB will comply with the provisions of FACA and all appropriate SAB 
Staff Office procedural policies. Pursuant to the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, notice is hereby given that the EPA 
SAB Drinking Water Committee will hold a public teleconference to 
provide a consultation on the Waterborne Diseases--Measures to Link 
Drinking Water Programs to Public Health Outcomes document and a face-
to-face meeting to review its Draft Drinking Water Contaminant 
Candidate List 3 document.
     Background: EPA's Office of Water has requested that the SAB 
conduct a

[[Page 13000]]

consultation for its Waterborne Diseases--Measures to Link Drinking 
Water Programs to Public Health Outcomes (Measures) and review its 
Draft Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List 3 (CCL3) document.
    Measures--EPA's Office of Water (OW) produced a draft Measure 
Development Plan in October, 2004. The purpose of the plan is to 
develop long-term measures that describe changes over time of disease 
due to drinking water contamination or changes in the occurrence of 
indicators of waterborne disease. The objective of the measures is to 
demonstrate the effectiveness of drinking water programs on epidemic 
and endemic, acute and chronic disease related to microbes or other 
water contaminants. The SAB is being asked to comment on the 
effectiveness of this plan to produce outcome measures.
     CCL3--The 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act amendments (SDWA) require 
EPA to (1) publish every five years a list of currently unregulated 
contaminants in drinking water that may pose risks (the Contaminant 
Candidate List or ``CCL''), and (2) make determinations on whether or 
not to regulate at least five contaminants from that list on a 
staggered five year cycle. SDWA requires EPA to publish a new list of 
contaminants that are known or anticipated to occur in public water 
systems every five years. The first CCL (CCL1) was published or 
finalized on March 2, 1998 (63 FR 10273). CCL1 was developed based on 
the review by technical experts of readily available information and 
contained 50 chemicals and 10 microbial contaminants/groups. EPA 
consulted with the scientific community, including the Science Advisory 
Board, on a process for developing the first CCL. The second CCL (CCL2) 
was published on February 24, 2005 (70 FR 9071). CCL2 carried forward 
the remaining 51 chemical and microbial contaminants listed on CCL1. 
The Agency is evaluating data and research on these chemicals and 
microbes to make regulatory determinations on the contaminants listed 
CCL2. The draft CCL3 includes 93 chemicals or chemical groups and 11 
microbiological contaminants. The EPA is seeking comment from the SAB 
DWC on the draft CCL3, the approach used to develop the list, and other 
specific contaminants.
     Availability of Meeting Materials: The meeting agendas and other 
materials including a link to the Office of Water's draft Measures 
document will be posted on the SAB Web Site at: (http://www.epa.gov/sab) in advance of the meeting. The CCL3 draft can be found at: http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-WATER/2008/February/Day-21/w3114.pdf. For 
questions and information concerning the Agency's documents, please 
contact Ms. Valerie Blank for Measures at 202-564-1720 or 
[email protected]. Please contact Mr. Thomas Carpenter for CCL3 at 
202-564-4885 or [email protected].
     Procedures for Providing Public Input: Interested members of the 
public may submit relevant written or oral information for the Drinking 
Water Committee to consider throughout the advisory process. Oral 
Statements: In general, individuals or groups requesting an oral 
presentation at a public SAB teleconference will be limited to three 
minutes per speaker, with no more than a total of one-half hour for all 
speakers. At the face-to-face meeting, presentations will be limited to 
five minutes, with no more than a total of one hour for all speakers. 
To be placed on the public speaker list, interested parties should 
contact Dr. Sue Shallal, DFO, in writing (preferably via e-mail), by 
March 26, 2008 for the teleconference and by April 16, 2008 for the 
face-to-face meeting, at the contact information noted above. Written 
Statements: Written statements should be received in the SAB Staff 
Office by March 26, 2008, so that the information may be made available 
to the SAB for their consideration prior to the teleconference or by 
April 16, 2008 for their consideration prior to the face-to-face 
meeting. Written statements should be supplied to the DFO via e-mail to 
[email protected] (acceptable file format: Adobe Acrobat PDF, 
WordPerfect, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in IBM-PC/
Windows 98/2000/XP format).
     Accessibility: For information on access or services for 
individuals with disabilities, please contact Dr. Sue Shallal at (202) 
343-9977 or [email protected]. To request accommodation of a 
disability, please contact Dr. Shallal preferably at least ten days 
prior to the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process 
your request.

    Dated: March 5, 2008.
Anthony F. Maciorowski,
Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
[FR Doc. E8-4828 Filed 3-10-08; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560-50-P