[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 203 (Tuesday, October 21, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62949-62950]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-25002]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9918-32-OA]
Notification of a Closed Teleconference of the Science Advisory
Board's Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards Committee
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA), Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office is announcing a teleconference of the SAB's
Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA) Committee to
discuss draft recommendations for the chartered SAB regarding the
Agency's 2013 and 2014 STAA recipients. The STAA Committee
teleconference will be closed to the public.
DATES: The STAA Committee teleconference date is Friday, November 7,
2014, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time).
ADDRESSES: The SAB STAA Committee closed teleconference will take place
via telephone only. General information about the SAB may be found on
the SAB Web site at http://www.epa.gov/sab.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Members of the public who wish to
obtain further information regarding this announcement may contact
Edward Hanlon, Designated Federal Officer, by telephone: (202) 564-2134
or email at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to section 10(d) of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App. 2, and section (c)(6) of
the Government in the Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6), the EPA has
determined that the STAA Committee teleconference will be closed to the
public. The purpose of the teleconference is for the SAB STAA Committee
to continue discussion of draft recommendations for the chartered SAB
regarding recipients of the Agency's 2013 and 2014 Scientific and
Technological Achievement Awards.
The STAA Committee discussion will have two parts. The first part
of the discussion will focus on review of additional agency
recommendations for the 2013 awards. Although the chartered SAB
reviewed the Agency's 2013 STAA nominations and provided advice
regarding those nominations in January 2014 (for more information, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_activites/2013%20STAA%20Review?OpenDocument), the Agency later identified
additional nominations for SAB review. The second part of the SAB STAA
Committee discussion will allow the Committee to continue its review
begun on July 28, 2014 (79 FR 38314) of the Agency's 2014 STAA
nominations (for more information, see http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_activites/2014%20STAA%20Review?OpenDocument).
The STAA awards are established to honor and recognize EPA
employees who have made outstanding contributions in the advancement of
science and technology through their research and development
activities, as exhibited in publication of their results in peer
reviewed journals. I have determined that the STAA Committee
teleconference will be closed to the public because it is concerned
with recommending employees deserving of
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awards. In making these draft recommendations, the SAB requires full
and frank advice from the STAA Committee. This advice will involve
professional judgments on the relative merits of various employees and
their respective work. Such personnel matters involve the discussion of
information that is of a personal nature and the disclosure of which
would be a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy and,
therefore, are protected from disclosure by section (c)(6) of the
Government in the Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6). Minutes of the
STAA Committee teleconference will be kept and certified by the chair.
Dated: October 8, 2014.
Gina McCarthy,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2014-25002 Filed 10-20-14; 8:45 am]
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