[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 12 (Wednesday, January 21, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3595-3596]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-1105]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0943; FRL-8763-6]


Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), Executive Committee 
Meeting--February 9-10, 2009

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of meetings.

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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 February 9, 2009, from 2 p.m. to 
5:15 p.m. EDT and continued on February 10, 2009, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 
p.m. EDT. 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 Marriott Courtyard Arlington 
Crystal City, 2899 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA 22202. Submit 
your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0943, 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-2008-0943.
     Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0943.
     Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific 
Counselors (BOSC), Executive Committee Meeting--2008 Docket, Mailcode: 
28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, Attention 
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0943.
     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-
0943. 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-
2008-0943. 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--February 9-
10, 2009 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:

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Heather Drumm, 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) 564-8239; 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 Heather 
Drumm, 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 teleconference include, but are not 
limited to: Presentation(s) of ORD responses to BOSC reports; nanotech 
research presentation, review of subcommittee draft reports; 
subcommittee and workgroup updates. 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 Heather Drumm at (202) 564-8239 or 
[email protected]. To request accommodation of a disability, please 
contact Heather Drumm, preferably at least ten days prior to the 
meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your request.

    Dated: January 8, 2009.
Mary Ellen Radzikowski,
Acting Director, Office of Science Policy.
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