[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 2 (Tuesday, January 4, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 365-366]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-33202]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0879; FRL-8860-5]


Exposure Modeling Public Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: An Exposure Modeling Public Meeting (EMPM) will be held for 
one day on January 11, 2011. This notice announces the location and 
time for the meeting and sets forth the tentative agenda topics.

DATES: The meeting will be held on January 11, 2011 from 9 a.m. to 
12:30 p.m. To request accommodation of a disability, please contact the 
person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, preferably prior 
to the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your 
request.

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ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Environmental Protection 
Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), One Potomac Yard (South 
Building), 4th Floor South Conference Room (S-4370/80), 2777 S. Crystal 
Drive, Arlington, VA 22202.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chuck Peck, Environmental Fate and 
Effects Division (7507P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (703) 347-8064; fax number: (703) 305-6309; e-
mail address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. Does this action apply to me?

    You may be potentially affected by this action if you are required 
to conduct testing of chemical substances under the Toxic Substances 
Control Act (TSCA), the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), 
or the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). 
Since other entities may also be interested, the Agency has not 
attempted to describe all the specific entities that may be affected by 
this action. If you have any questions regarding the applicability of 
this action to a particular entity, consult the person listed under FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

B. How can I get copies of this document and other related information?

    EPA has established a docket for this action under docket ID number 
EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0879. Publicly available docket materials are available 
either in the electronic docket at http://www.regulations.gov, or, if 
only available in hard copy, at the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) 
Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S-4400, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 
2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The hours of operation of this 
Docket Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
excluding legal holidays. The Docket Facility telephone number is (703) 
305-5805.

II. Background

    On a biannual interval, an Exposure Modeling Public Meeting will be 
held for presentation and discussion of current issues in modeling 
pesticide fate, transport, and exposure of risk assessment in a 
regulatory context. Meeting dates and abstract requests are announced 
through the ``empmlist'' forum on the LYRIS list server at https://lists.epa.gov/read/all_forums/.

III. How can I request to participate in this meeting?

    You may submit a request to participate in this meeting to the 
person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Do not submit any 
information in your request that is considered CBI. Requests to 
participate in the meeting, identified by docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-
2009-0879, must be received 3 days after January 4, 2011.

IV. Tentative Topics for the Meeting

    Tentative topics for the meeting will include presentations related 
to the spatial context of terrestrial exposure modeling. Specifically, 
presentations will include the following:
     Estimation of confidence intervals for metabolite 
degradation rates.
     Developments in terrestrial exposure modeling.
     Determining the fate and transport of pesticides in the 
Chesapeake Bay region.
     Habitat classification for ecological risk assessments 
using aerial photography and GIS data.
     Dermal contact, movement, and amphibian pesticide 
exposure.

List of Subjects

    Environmental protection, modeling, monitoring, pesticides.

    Dated: December 28, 2010.
Arthur-Jean Williams,
Acting Director, Environmental Fate and Effects Division, Office of 
Pesticide Programs.
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