UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

WASHINGTON D.C. 20460

OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR
SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD

January 26 , 201 5

EPA

- SAB

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The Honorable Gina McCarthy

Administrator

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20460

Subject: Science Advisory Board (SAB) Consideration of EPA Planned Actions in the Spring

201 4 Unified (Regulatory) Agenda and their Supporting Science

Dear Administrator McCarthy :

As part of its statutory duties, the Science Advisory Board (SAB) recently concluded discussions about possible review of the science supporting major EPA planned actions associated with the Spring 201 4 Unified ( Regulatory ) Agenda and Regulatory Plan . The EPA Office of Policy provided notice of the

release of this information on May 23, 2014

. T he SAB held a public teleconference on January 23 , 201 5

, to discuss whether to review the science supporting any of the planned regulatory actions in that agenda in order to provide advice and comment on the adequacy of the science, as authorized by section (c) of the Environmental Research, Development and Dem onstration Authorization Act.

The SAB focused its attention on three major actions identified by the EPA Office of Policy as being planned but not yet proposed as of the date the Agenda was published in the Federal Register . At the public teleconference

, the SAB decided that it will not undertake review of the science supporting any

actions in the semi

- annual regulatory agenda at this time. It notes, however, that one action, the Interstate Transport Rule for the 2008 Ozone NAAQS (2060

- AS05)

, is not at a p oint in its regulatory development that the EPA could provide sufficient information for the SAB to consider whether Board review is necessary. The SAB requests that the Office of Air and Radiation provide the SAB with more information about the scientific basis for this action as soon as that information becomes available. The

SAB plans to reconsider potential Board review at that time.

The SAB appreciates the information provided by the EPA Office of Policy and the EPA program offices describing the plan ned actions, associated scientific questions, and agency plans for scientific analyses and peer review. The written information provided and the results of fact

- finding discussions

with EPA Staff are available on the SAB website.On behalf of the SAB, I thank you for the opportunity to support EPA through consideration of the science supporting actions in the agency’s regulatory agenda.

Sincerely,

/

signed/

Dr. David T. Allen, Chair Science Advisory Board

Enclosure

(1) Roster of SAB Membersi 

### U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board

CHAIR

Dr. David T. Allen , Gertz Regents Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources, The University of Texas, Austin, TX

MEMBERS Dr. George Alexeeff , Director, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California

Envi ronmental Protection Agency, Oakland, CA

Dr. Joseph Arvai , Professor and Svare Chair in Applied Decision Research, Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Dr. Sylvie M. Brouder , Professor and Wickersham Chair of Excellenc e in Agricultural Research, Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Dr. Thomas Burbacher , Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Dr. In grid Burke , Director and Wyoming Excellence Chair, Haub School and Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

Dr. George Daston , Victor Mills Society Research Fellow, Global Product Stewardship, The

Proc ter & Gamble Company, Mason, OH

Dr. Costel Denson , Managing Member, Costech Technologies, LLC, Hockessin, DE

Dr. Michael Dourson , President, Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment, Cincinnati, OH

Dr. Joel Ducoste , Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Dr. David A. Dzombak , Hamerschlag University Professor and Department Head, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Dr. Elaine M. Faustman , Professor and Director, Environmental and Occupational Health

Sciences , University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Dr. R. William Field , Professor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, and Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IAii Dr. H. Christopher Frey , Distinguish ed University Professor, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Dr. Steven Hamburg , Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund, Boston, MA

Dr. Cynthia M. Harr is , Director and Professor, Institute of Public Health, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL

Dr. Robert J. Johnston , Director of the George Perkins Marsh Institute and Professor, Economics, Clark University, Worcester, MA

Dr. Kimberly L. Jones , Profes sor and Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Howard University, Washington, DC

Dr. Catherine Karr , Associate Professor

- Pediatrics and Environmental and Occupational

Health Sciences and Director

- NW Pediatric Environmental Health Sp ecialty Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Dr. Madhu Khanna , ACES Distinguished Professor in Environmental Economics, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana

- Champaign, Urbana,

IL

Dr. Nancy K. Kim , Ind ependent Consultant, Independent Consultant, Albany, NY

Dr. Francine Laden , Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, and Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Dr. Lois Lehman

- McKeeman , Distinguished Research Fellow, Discovery Toxicology, Bristol

Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ

Dr. Cecil Lue

- Hing , President, Cecil Lue

- Hing & Assoc. Inc., Burr Ridge, IL

Dr. Elizabeth Matsui , Associate Professor, Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Dr. Denise Mauzerall , Professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princet on University, Princeton, NJ

Dr. Kristina D. Mena , Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, El Paso, TX

Dr. Surabi Menon , Director of Res earch, ClimateWorks Foundation, San Francisco, CAiii Dr. James R. Mihelcic , Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Dr. H. Keith Moo

- Young , Chancellor, Office of Chancellor, Washington State University, Tri

Cit ies, Richland, WA

Dr. Eileen Murphy , Director of Research Development, Office of Research and Economic Development, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Dr. James Opaluch , Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Col lege of the Environment and Life Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

Dr. Martin Philbert , Dean and Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Mr. Richard L. Poirot , Air Quality Planning Chief, Air Quality and Climate Division, Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, Montpelier, VT

Dr. Stephen Polasky , Fesler

- Lampert Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesot a, St. Paul, MN

Dr. David B. Richardson , Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Dr. Amanda D. Rodewald , Director of Conservation Science, Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Dr. William Schlesinger , President Emeritus, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook,

NY

Dr. Gina Solomon , Deputy Secretary for Science and Health, Office of the Secretary, California Environmental Protection Agency, Sacramento, CA

Dr. Daniel O. Stram , Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Division of Biostatistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Dr. Peter S. Thorne , Professor and Head , Department of Occupational & Environmental Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Dr. Paige Tolbert , Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Dr. Jeanne VanBriesen , Profe ssor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PAiv Dr. John Vena , Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

Dr. Elke Weber , Je rome A. Chazen Professor of International Business, Columbia Business School, New York, NY

Dr. Charles Werth , Professor and Bettie Margaret Smith Chair in Environmental Health Engineering, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Dr. Peter J. Wilcoxen , Associate Professor, Economics and Public Administration, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Dr. Dawn J. Wright , Chief Scientist, Environ mental Systems Research Institute (Esri), Redlands, CA

SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD STAFF Dr. Angela Nugent , Designated Federal Officer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science Advisory Board, Washington, DC