[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 90 (Thursday, May 9, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20354-20356]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-09489]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPPT-2018-0604; FRL-9993-22]


TSCA Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC); Notice of 
Rescheduled Public Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: EPA is announcing the rescheduled meeting dates for the 4-day 
meeting of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Science Advisory 
Committee on Chemicals (SACC) that had been previously scheduled for 
January to consider and review the draft Risk Evaluation for Colour 
Index (C. I.) Pigment Violet 29 (PV29) and associated documents. This 
in-person meeting will also include a general TSCA orientation for the 
TSCA SACC. A portion of the in-person meeting will be closed to the 
public for the committee's discussion of information claimed as 
confidential business information (CBI). As previously announced in 
April, the public is invited to comment on the

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draft risk evaluation for PV29 and related documents, including the 
draft charge questions, in advance of and during this peer review 
meeting. The TSCA SACC will consider these comments during their 
discussions.

DATES: Meeting: The 4-day meeting will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 
approximately 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time, June 18 to 21, 2019.
    Comments: Submit your written comments, following the detailed 
instructions provided in Unit I.C. of this document, on or before May 
17, 2019. This comment period was already announced in the Federal 
Register on April 17, 2019 (84 FR 16011; FRL-9990-36 and corrected by 
84 FR 16485, April 19, 2019). As described in Unit I.C., EPA will also 
accept written comments at the start of meeting.
    Requests to make oral comments during the meeting will be included 
on the meeting agenda if received on or before May 28, 2019. As 
described in Unit I.C., such requests may also be made up to and 
possibly during the meeting.
    Special accommodations: For information on access or services for 
individuals with disabilities, and to request accommodation of a 
disability, please contact the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT at least 10 days prior to the meeting to give EPA as much time 
as possible to process your request.

ADDRESSES: In-Person Meeting: The in-person meeting will be held at the 
Holiday Inn Rosslyn at Key Bridge, Rosslyn Ballroom, 1900 North Fort 
Myer Drive, Arlington, VA 22209. The meeting may also be available via 
webcast. Please refer to the TSCA SACC website at https://www.epa.gov/tsca-peer-review for information on how to access the webcast. Please 
note that the webcast is a supplementary public process provided only 
for convenience. If difficulties arise resulting in webcasting outages, 
the in-person meeting will continue as planned.
    Comments. Submit your written comments, identified by docket 
identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPPT-2018-0604, by one of the 
following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Do not submit 
electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business 
Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted 
by statute.
     Mail: OPPT Docket, Environmental Protection Agency Docket 
Center (EPA/DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 
20460-0001.
     Hand Delivery: To make special arrangements for hand 
delivery or delivery of boxed information, please follow the 
instructions at http://www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html. Additional 
instructions on commenting or visiting the docket, along with more 
information about dockets generally, is available at http://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Requests to present oral comments, and requests for special 
accommodations. Submit requests to present oral comments or for special 
accommodations, to the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Todd Peterson, DFO, Office of 
Science Coordination and Policy (7201M), Environmental Protection 
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone 
number: (202) 564-6428; email address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. Does this action apply to me?

    This action is directed to the public in general. This action may 
be of interest to persons who are interested in risk evaluations of 
chemical substances under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). 
Since other entities may also be interested in this risk evaluation, 
the Agency has not attempted to describe all the specific entities that 
may be affected by this action.

B. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for EPA?

    1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit CBI information to EPA through 
http://www.regulations.gov or via email. If your comments contain any 
information that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected, please 
contact the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT to obtain 
special instructions before submitting your comments.
    2. Tips for preparing your comments. When preparing and submitting 
your comments, see the commenting tips at http://www.epa.gov/dockets/comments.html.

C. How may I participate in the in-person meeting?

    You may participate in the in-person peer review meeting by 
following the instructions in this unit. To ensure proper receipt by 
EPA, it is imperative that you identify docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPPT-
2018-0604 in the subject line on the first page of your submissions.
    1. Written comments. Written comments on the draft risk evaluation 
for PV29 and related documents should be submitted using the 
instructions in ADDRESSES and Unit I.B. Submitting written comments by 
the comment due date provides the TSCA SACC with the time necessary to 
review the written comments before the meeting. Anyone wishing to 
submit written comments at the meeting should contact the DFO listed 
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT before the date of the in-person 
meeting and must provide 30 copies to the DFO at the start of the 
meeting for the DFO to distribute to the TSCA SACC and the Agency at 
the meeting. The TSCA SACC will consider written comments during their 
discussions.
    2. Oral comments. The Agency encourages each individual or group 
wishing to make brief oral comments to the TSCA SACC during the in-
person meeting to submit their request to the DFO in order to be 
included on the meeting agenda. Requests to present oral comments will 
also be accepted until the date of the in-person meeting and, to the 
extent that time permits, the Chair of the TSCA SACC may permit the 
presentation of oral comments at the in-person meeting by interested 
persons who have not previously requested time. The request to present 
oral comments should identify the name of the individual making the 
presentation, the organization (if any) the individual will represent, 
and any requirements for audiovisual equipment.
    Oral comments before the TSCA SACC during the in-person meeting are 
limited to approximately 5 minutes unless prior arrangements have been 
made with the DFO. In addition, each speaker should provide 30 copies 
of his or her comments and presentation to the DFO at the start of the 
meeting for the DFO to distribute to the TSCA SACC and the Agency at 
the meeting. The TSCA SACC will consider oral comments during their 
discussions.
    3. Seating at the meeting. Seating at the meeting will be open and 
on a first-come basis.

II. Background

A. Purpose of the TSCA SACC

    The Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) was established 
by EPA in 2016 under TSCA, 15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq., as amended by the 
Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, Public 
Law 114-182, 140 Stat. 448 (2016), and operates in accordance with the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C. Appendix 2 (1972). The 
SACC supports activities under TSCA, the Pollution

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Prevention Act (PPA), 42 U.S.C. 13101 et seq., and other applicable 
statutes. The SACC provides expert independent scientific advice and 
recommendations to the EPA on the scientific and technical aspects of 
risk assessments, methodologies, and pollution prevention measures and 
approaches for chemicals regulated under TSCA.
    The SACC is comprised of experts in: Toxicology; human health and 
environmental risk assessment; exposure assessment; and related 
sciences (e.g., synthetic biology, pharmacology, biotechnology, 
nanotechnology, biochemistry, biostatistics, PBPK modeling, 
computational toxicology, epidemiology, environmental fate, and 
environmental engineering and sustainability). The SACC currently 
consists of 26 members. When needed, the committee will be assisted in 
their reviews by ad hoc participants with specific expertise in the 
topics under consideration.

B. Purpose of This Public Meeting

    EPA is announcing the rescheduled meeting dates for the TSCA SACC's 
public meeting to review PV29 that was previously announced in the 
Federal Register on November 30, 2018 (83 FR 61629) (FRL-9983-08). As 
previously announced, the public is invited to comment on the draft 
risk evaluation for PV29 and related documents, including the draft 
charge questions, in advance of and during this peer review meeting. 
The TSCA SACC will consider these comments during their discussions. 
See 83 FR 57473, November 15, 2018 (FRL-9986-45) and 84 FR 16011, April 
17, 2019 (FRL-9990-36), as corrected by 84 FR 16485, April 19, 2019.
    The focus of the TSCA SACC meeting is to peer review the Agency's 
draft risk evaluation of PV29. After the peer review process, EPA will 
consider reviewer comments and recommendations, and public comments to 
finalize the risk evaluation. The discussion of charge questions, for 
scope and clarity, originally planned for January 8, 2019, will be 
folded into the rescheduled in-person meeting.
    As previously announced, approximately one hour of the TSCA SACC's 
in-person meeting will be closed to the public for the TSCA SACC to 
consider and discuss material that has been claimed as CBI provided to 
the TSCA SACC as background for the draft risk evaluation for PV29. In 
accordance with FACA section 10(d), 5 U.S.C. App. 2, and section (c)(4) 
of the Government in the Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552b, this 
approximately one-hour session of the TSCA SACC will be closed to the 
public to avoid the potential disclosure of CBI, which is protected 
from disclosure by statute. The Administrator's determination for a 
closed meeting is available in the docket.

C. TSCA SACC Documents and Meeting Minutes

    EPA's draft risk evaluation for PV29, related supporting materials, 
and draft charge/questions to the TSCA SACC are available on the TSCA 
SACC website and in the meeting docket. In addition, the Agency will 
provide additional background documents (e.g., TSCA SACC members 
participating in this meeting and the meeting agenda) as the materials 
become available. You may obtain electronic copies of these documents, 
and certain other related documents that might be available at http://www.regulations.gov and the TSCA SACC website at https://www.epa.gov/tsca-peer-review.
    TSCA SACC will prepare the Meeting Minutes and Final Report 
document summarizing its recommendations to the Agency approximately 90 
days after the meeting. The meeting minutes will be posted on the TSCA 
SACC website and placed in the meeting docket.

    Authority: 15 U.S.C. 2625(o) et seq.; 5 U.S.C Appendix 2 et seq.

    Dated: May 1, 2019.
Hayley Hughes,
Director, Office of Science Coordination and Policy.
[FR Doc. 2019-09489 Filed 5-8-19; 8:45 am]
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