Meetings: Board of Scientific Counselors, Executive Committee

Federal Register: January 19, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 11)

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

EPA-HQ-ORD-2010-0013; FRL-9104-5

Board of Scientific Counselors, Executive Committee Meeting--

February 2010

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92- 463, the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and

Development (ORD), gives notice of a meeting of the Board of Scientific

Counselors (BOSC) Executive Committee.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Thursday, February 4, 2010, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and will continue on Friday, February 5, 2010, from 8:30 a.m. until 12 noon. All times noted are Eastern Standard Time. The meeting may adjourn early if all business is finished. Requests for the draft agenda or for making oral presentations at the meeting will be accepted up to one business day before the meeting.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Marriott at Metro Center hotel, 775 12th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20005. Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2010-0013, by one of the following methods: http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments.

E-mail: Send comments by electronic mail (e-mail) to:

ORD.Docket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2010-0013.

Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID

No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2010-0013.

Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific

Counselors, Executive Committee Meeting--February 2010 Docket,

Mailcode: 2822T, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20004,

Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2010-0013.

Hand Delivery or Courier. Deliver comments to: EPA Docket

Center (EPA/DC), Room 3334, EPA West Building, 1301 Constitution

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2010- 0013. Deliveries are only accepted during the docket's normal hours of operation, and special arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.

Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD- 2010-0013. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in the public docket without change and may be made available online at http://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 http:// www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The http://www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not know your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without going through www.regulations.gov, your e-mail 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, 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 EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, 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 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 http:// 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 http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at

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February 2010 Docket, EPA/DC, EPA West, 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 via mail at: Greg Susanke, Mail Code 8104-R, Office of Science Policy,

Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; via phone/voice mail at: (202) 564-9945; via fax at: (202) 565-2911; or via e-mail at: susanke.greg@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

General Information

Any member of the public interested in receiving a draft BOSC agenda or making a presentation at the meeting may contact Greg

Susanke, the Designated Federal Officer, via any of the contact methods listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section above. In general, each individual making an oral presentation will be limited to a total of three minutes.

Proposed agenda items for the meeting include, but are not limited to: Executive Committee review of the BOSC Computational Toxicology

Letter report; update on BOSC program review subcommittees (Drinking

Water, Global Change); an ORD briefing on revisions to the program review process; a briefing from the BOSC Decision Analysis Workgroup and discussion of draft workgroup product; an ORD update; and future issues and plans. The meeting is open to the public.

Information on Services for Individuals with Disabilities: For information on access or services for individuals with disabilities, please contact Greg Susanke (202) 564-9945 or susanke.greg@epa.gov. To request accommodation of a disability, please contact Greg Susanke, preferably at least 10 days prior to the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your request.

Dated: January 5, 2010.

Fred Hauchman,

Director, Office of Science Policy.

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