[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 79 (Wednesday, April 24, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17161-17162]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-08304]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9992-27-OA]
Request for Nominations of Candidates for EPA's Science Advisory
Board Computable General Equilibrium Model Review Panel
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science
Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office invites nominations of environmental
economists and other experts with expertise in computable general
equilibrium (CGE) modeling to be considered for appointment to the
SAB's CGE Model Review Panel.
DATES: Nominations should be submitted in time to arrive no later than
May 15, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public wishing
further information regarding this Notice and Request for Nominations
may contact Dr. Holly Stallworth, Designated Federal Officer (DFO), EPA
Science Advisory Board Staff Office (1400R), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460;
by telephone at (202) 564-2073 or at [email protected]. General
information concerning the EPA SAB can be found at the EPA SAB website
at http://www.epa.gov/sab.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The SAB (42 U.S.C. 4365) is a chartered Federal
Advisory Committee that provides independent scientific and technical
peer review, advice and recommendations to the EPA Administrator on the
technical basis for EPA actions. As a Federal Advisory Committee, the
SAB conducts business in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee
Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C. App. 2) and related regulations. The SAB CGE Model
Review Panel will be an ad hoc panel of the SAB that provides advice
through the chartered SAB. It will be charged with reviewing a CGE
model developed by EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics
(NCEE) for use by agency analysts for the economic analysis of
environmental regulations. Experts
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selected for the panel will be asked to review the model code and
documentation, run the model and independently verify how it works to
respond to NCEE's charge questions. Thus, the SAB Staff Office is
seeking nominations of environmental economists and other experts with
extensive experience building and using CGE models. The SAB CGE Model
Review Panel will comply with the provisions of FACA and all
appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural policies. The SAB CGE Model
Review Panel will operate under the auspices of the SAB.
Request for Nominations: The SAB Staff Office is seeking
nominations of environmental economists and other experts with CGE
modeling experience.
Process and Deadline for Submitting Nominations: Any interested
person or organization may nominate qualified individuals with CGE
modeling experience for possible service on the SAB CGE Model Review
Panel identified in this notice. Nominations should be submitted in
electronic format (preferred) following the instructions for
``Nominating Experts to Advisory Panels and Ad hoc Committees Being
Formed,'' provided on the SAB website (see the ``Nomination of
Experts'' link under ``Current Activities'') at http://www.epa.gov.sab.
To receive full consideration, EPA's SAB Staff Office requests
contact information about the person making the nomination; contact
information about the nominee; the disciplinary and specific areas of
expertise of the nominee; the nominee's resume or curriculum vitae;
sources of recent grant and/or contract support; and a biographical
sketch of the nominee indicating current position, educational
background, research activities, and recent service on other national
advisory committees or national professional organizations.
Persons having questions about the nomination procedures, or who
are unable to submit nominations through the SAB website, should
contact Dr. Holly Stallworth as indicated above in this notice.
Nominations should be submitted in time to arrive no later than May 15,
2019. EPA values and welcomes diversity. All qualified candidates are
encouraged to apply regardless of sex, race, disability, or ethnicity.
The EPA SAB Staff Office will acknowledge receipt of nominations.
The names and biosketches of qualified nominees identified by
respondents to this Federal Register notice, and additional experts
identified by the SAB Staff, will be posted in a List of Candidates on
the SAB website at http://www.epa.gov/sab. Public comments on the List
of Candidates will be accepted for 21 days. The public will be
requested to provide relevant information or other documentation on
nominees that the SAB Staff Office should consider in evaluating
candidates.
For the EPA SAB Staff Office, a balanced review panel includes
candidates who possess the necessary domains of knowledge, the relevant
scientific perspectives (which, among other factors, can be influenced
by work history and affiliation), and the collective breadth of
experience. The SAB Staff Office will consider public comments on the
List of Candidates, information provided by the candidates themselves,
and background information independently gathered by the SAB Staff
Office. Selection criteria to be used for panel membership include: (a)
Scientific and/or technical expertise, knowledge, and experience
(primary factors), e.g. journal publications within the last ten years
that rely on and discuss CGE model results; (b) availability and
willingness to serve; (c) absence of financial conflicts of interest;
(d) absence of an appearance of a loss of impartiality; and (e) skills
working in panels and advisory committees; and, (f) for the panel as a
whole, diversity of expertise and scientific points of view.
The SAB Staff Office's evaluation of an absence of financial
conflicts of interest will include a review of the ``Confidential
Financial Disclosure Form for Special Government Employees'' (EPA Form
3110-48). This confidential form allows government officials to
determine whether there is a statutory conflict between a person's
public responsibilities (which include membership on an EPA federal
advisory committee) and private interests and activities, or the
appearance of a loss of impartiality, as defined by federal regulation.
The form may be viewed and downloaded from the following URL address
http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/Web/ethics?OpenDocument.
Dated: April 9, 2019.
Khanna Johnston,
Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
[FR Doc. 2019-08304 Filed 4-23-19; 8:45 am]
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