[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 127 (Tuesday, July 1, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37454-37455]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-14881]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-8686-8]


Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public 
Teleconference of the Science Advisory Board Drinking Water Committee

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory 
Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public teleconference of the SAB 
Drinking Water Committee (DWC) to discuss and finalize its draft 
advisory report regarding EPA's draft third Drinking Water Contaminant 
Candidate List 3 (CCL 3).

DATES: The public teleconference on August 13, 2008 will begin at 12:30 
p.m. and end no later than 3:30 p.m. (Eastern Time).

ADDRESSES: The August 13, 2008, meeting will be conducted by telephone 
only.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public wishing to 
obtain general information concerning this public teleconference, 
including call-in

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phone number, should contact Dr. Resha M. Putzrath, 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) 343-9978; 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: Pursuant to FACA, Public Law 92-463, notice 
is hereby given that the EPA SAB Drinking Water Committee will hold a 
public teleconference to discuss and finalize its report concerning 
EPA's draft Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List 3 (CCL 3). 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.
    Background: 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 draft CCL 3 was published on February 21, 
2008 (73 FR 9628) and includes 93 chemicals or chemical groups and 11 
microbiological contaminants.
    The EPA sought comment from the SAB DWC on the draft CCL 3, the 
approach used to develop the list, and the specific contaminants. The 
DWC held a public, face-to-face meeting to review the draft CCL 3 on 
April 23-24, 2008 (announced in 73 FR 12999). At that meeting, the DWC 
discussed the charge questions, sought clarification from EPA staff, 
and began to draft comments and recommendations. Materials and public 
comments from the April meeting are posted on the SAB Web site at 
http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/SABPRODUCT.NSF/MeetingCal/C990CC0808123428852573C4007A5B6F?OpenDocument. The purpose of the 
teleconference on August 13 is for the DWC to discuss and finalize the 
draft advisory report.
    Availability of Meeting Materials: The meeting agenda and draft 
advisory report will be posted on the SAB Web site at http://www.epa.gov/sab under the calendar entry for that date in advance of 
the meeting. The draft CCL 3 can be found at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/ccl/index.html.
    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. To be placed on the public speaker list, interested parties 
should contact Dr. Resha M. Putzrath, DFO, in writing (via e-mail), by 
August 4, 2008, at the contact information noted above. Written 
Statements: Written statements should be received in the SAB Staff 
Office by August 4, 2008, so that the information may be made available 
to the SAB DWC for their consideration prior to the teleconference. 
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. Resha M. Putzrath at 
(202) 343-9978 or [email protected]. To request accommodation of a 
disability, please contact Dr. Putzrath, preferably at least ten days 
prior to the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process 
your request.

    Dated: June 24, 2008.
Anthony F. Maciorowski,
Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
[FR Doc. E8-14881 Filed 6-30-08; 8:45 am]
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