[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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