[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 79 (Wednesday, April 24, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 17158]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-08301]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0765; FRL-9992-33-ORD]


Board of Scientific Counselors Executive Committee Meeting--June 
2019

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act the U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research and 
Development (ORD), gives notice of a meeting of the Board of Scientific 
Counselors (BOSC) Executive Committee (EC).

DATES: The meeting will be held on Thursday, June 27, 2019, from 8:30 
a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Friday, June 28, 2019, from 8:30 a.m. until 2:00 
p.m. All times noted are Eastern Time and approximate. The meeting may 
adjourn early if all business is finished. Attendees should register by 
June 20 at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/us-epa-bosc-executive-committee-meeting-tickets-58436808066. Requests for making oral 
presentations at the meeting will be accepted up to one business day 
before the meeting. Comments may be submitted through Tuesday, June 25, 
2019.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the EPA's Research Triangle Park 
Main Campus Facility, Room C-112, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research 
Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711. Submit your comments to Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0765 by one of the following methods:
     www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for 
submitting comments.
     Email: Send comments by electronic mail (email) to: 
[email protected], Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0765.
     Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0765.
     Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific 
Counselors (BOSC) Executive Committee Docket, Mail Code: 2822T, 1301 
Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20004, Attention Docket ID No. 
EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0765.
     Hand Delivery or Courier: Deliver comments to: EPA Docket 
Center (EPA/DC), Room 3334, William Jefferson Clinton West Building, 
1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-ORD-2015-0765. Note: This is not a mailing address. Deliveries are 
only accepted during the docket's normal hours of operation, and 
special arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed 
information.
    Instructions: The EPA's policy is that all comments received will 
be included in the public docket without change and may be made 
available online at 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 www.regulations.gov 
or email. The www.regulations.gov website is an ``anonymous access'' 
system, which means the EPA will not know your identity or contact 
information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you 
send an email comment directly to the EPA without going through 
www.regulations.gov, your email 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, the 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 the EPA cannot read your comment due to technical 
difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, the 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 the EPA's public 
docket visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/dockets/.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the 
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 www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Board of Scientific 
Counselors Executive Committee Docket, EPA/DC, William Jefferson 
Clinton West Building, Room 3334, 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 (DFO) 
via mail at: Tom Tracy, Mail Code 8104R, Office of Science Policy, 
Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460; via phone/
voice mail at: (202) 564-6518; via fax at: (202) 565-2911; or via email 
at: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: General Information: The meeting is open to 
the public. Any member of the public interested in receiving a draft 
agenda, attending the meeting, or making a presentation at the meeting 
may contact Tom Tracy, the Designated Federal (DFO), via any of the 
contact methods listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section 
above. Individuals making an oral presentation will be limited to a 
total of three minutes.
    For security purposes, all attendees must provide their names to 
the DFO by registering online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/us-epa-bosc-executive-committee-meeting-tickets-58436808066 by June 25, 2019, 
and must go through a metal detector, sign in with the security desk, 
and show REAL ID Act-compliant government-issued photo identification 
to enter the building. Attendees are encouraged to arrive at least 15 
minutes prior to the start of the meeting to allow enough time for 
security screening. Proposed agenda items for the meeting include but 
are not limited to the following: Overview of materials provided to the 
subcommittee, review of charge questions, overview and illustrations of 
SHC's draft Strategic Research Action Plan and research topics, and 
subcommittee deliberations.
    Information on Services for Individuals with Disabilities: For 
information on access or services for individuals with disabilities, 
please contact Tom Tracy (202) 564-6518 or [email protected]. To 
request accommodation of a disability, please contact Tom Tracy, 
preferably at least ten days prior to the meeting, to give the EPA as 
much time as possible to process your request.

    Dated April 2, 2019.
Kathleen Deener,
Acting Director, Office of Science Policy.
[FR Doc. 2019-08301 Filed 4-23-19; 8:45 am]
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