[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 166 (Tuesday, August 26, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50322-50323]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-19757]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0648; FRL-8708-7]


Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), Executive Committee 
Meeting--September 2008

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 a meeting of the Board of Scientific 
Counselors (BOSC) Executive Committee.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Thursday, September 18, 2008, from 2 
p.m. to 5:15 p.m., and will continue on Friday, September 19, 2008, 
from 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. All times noted are Eastern Standard 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 one business day before the meeting.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Key Bridge Marriott, 401 Lee 
Highway, Arlington, Virginia 22209. Submit your comments, identified by 
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0648, by one of the following methods:
      http://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-2008-
0648.
      Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention 
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0648.
      Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of 
Scientific Counselors (BOSC), Executive Committee Meeting--September 
2008 Docket, Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 
DC 20460, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0648.
      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-2008-0648. 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-
2008-0648. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included 
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at 
http://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 http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The http://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 http://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 http://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 http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Board of 
Scientific Counselors (BOSC), Executive Committee Meeting--September 
2008 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 responses to the BOSC Science and Technology for Sustainability 
program review report, BOSC Human Health Risk Assessment program review 
report, and BOSC National Center for Environmental Research letter 
report; Executive Committee review of the Homeland Security 
Subcommittee and Land Mid-Cycle Subcommittee draft reports; update on 
the BOSC mid-cycle review subcommittees (Water Quality and Science and 
Technology for Sustainability); update on the BOSC

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program review subcommittees (Human Health and Endocrine Disrupting 
Chemicals); update on the BOSC standing subcommittees (National Center 
for Environmental Research and National Exposure Research Lab); 
discussions on: (1) ORD efficiency measures, and (2) ORD and Value of 
Information; briefing on ORD's biofuels program; update on BOSC 
workgroups; an ORD update; an update on EPA's Science Advisory Board 
activities; and future issues and plans. 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 (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 August 19, 2008.
Fred Hauchman,
Director, Office of Science Policy.
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