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questions, consult the person listed 

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CONTACT. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, 

Administrative practice and procedure, 

Agricultural commodities, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: February 5, 2013. 

Steven Bradbury, 

Director, Office of Pesticide Programs. 

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National Advisory Council for 

Environmental Policy and Technology 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee 

Meeting. 

SUMMARY: Under the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, Public Law 92463, EPA 

gives notice of a public meeting of the 

National Advisory Council for 

Environmental Policy and Technology 

(NACEPT). NACEPT provides advice to 

the EPA Administrator on a broad range 

of environmental policy, technology, 

and management issues. NACEPT 

represents diverse interests from 

academia, industry, non-governmental 

organizations, and local, State, and 

tribal governments. 

The purpose of this meeting is for 

NACEPT to discuss and approve draft 

recommendations in response to the 

National Academy of Sciences’ report 

on ‘‘Sustainability and the U.S. EPA.’’ 

NACEPT’s second letter on 

sustainability will address two topics: 

(1) What strengths EPA can leverage to 

successfully deploy sustainability 

practices across the Agency, and (2) 

what 3–5 year breakthrough objectives 

are related to sustainability 

implementation and recommended 

measurement systems for assessing 

progress toward EPA’s sustainability 

vision. A copy of the agenda for the 

meeting will be posted at http:// 

www.epa.gov/ofacmo/nacept/calnacept.htm. 

DATES: NACEPT will hold a two-day 

public meeting on Thursday, March 7, 

2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (EST) 

and Friday, March 8, 2013, from 8:30 

a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (EST). 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the U.S. EPA East Building, 1201 

Constitution Avenue NW., Room 1117, 

Washington, DC 20004. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mark Joyce, Acting Designated Federal 

Officer, at joyce.mark@epa.gov, (202) 

564–2130, U.S. EPA, Office of Federal 

Advisory Committee Management and 

Outreach (1601M), 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Requests 

to make oral comments or to provide 

written comments to NACEPT should be 

sent to Eugene Green at 

green.eugene@epa.gov by Thursday, 

February 28, 2013. The meeting is open 

to the public, with limited seating 

available on a first-come, first-served 

basis. Members of the public wishing to 

attend should contact Eugene Green at 

green.eugene@epa.gov or (202) 564– 

2432 by February 28, 2013. 

Meeting Access: Information regarding 

accessibility and/or accommodations for 

individuals with disabilities should be 

directed to Eugene Green at the email 

address or phone number listed above. 

To ensure adequate time for processing, 

please make requests for 

accommodations at least 10 days prior 

to the meeting. 

Dated: January 29, 2013. 

Mark Joyce, 

Acting Designated Federal Officer. 

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Notification of a Public Meeting of the 

Chartered Science Advisory Board 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) Staff Office announces a public 

meeting of the chartered SAB to: (1) 

Receive an update briefing on the EPA’s 

Office of Research and Development’s 

(ORD) implementation of strategic 

research plans; (2) conduct quality 

reviews of three draft SAB reports [on 

the use of computational toxicology 

(CompTox) to advance risk assessment; 

on EPA’s retrospective study of the costs 

of EPA regulations; and on 

methodologies for estimating air 

emissions for broiler animal feeding 

operations and for lagoons and basins at 

swine and dairy animal feeding 

operations]; and (3) to discuss 

information provided in the agency’s 

regulatory agenda, specifically planned 

actions and their supporting science. 

DATES: The public meeting will be held 

on Thursday, March 7, 2013, from 10:30 

a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Friday, March 8, 

2013, from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. 

(Eastern Daylight Time). 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Washington Marriott, 1221 22nd 

Street NW., Washington, DC, 20037. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public who wants further 

information concerning the meeting 

may contact Dr. Angela Nugent, 

Designated Federal Officer (DFO), EPA 

Science Advisory Board (1400R), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; via telephone/voice mail 

(202) 564–2218, fax (202) 565–2098; or 

email at nugent.angela@epa.gov. 

General information concerning the 

SAB can be found on the EPA Web site 

at http://www.epa.gov/sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The SAB was established pursuant to 

the Environmental Research, 

Development, and Demonstration 

Authorization Act (ERDDAA), codified 

at 42 U.S.C. 4365, to provide 

independent scientific and technical 

advice to the Administrator on the 

technical basis for Agency positions and 

regulations. The SAB is a Federal 

Advisory Committee chartered under 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), 5 U.S.C., App. 2. The SAB will 

comply with the provisions of FACA 

and all appropriate SAB Staff Office 

procedural policies. Pursuant to FACA 

and EPA policy, notice is hereby given 

that the SAB will hold a public meeting 

to discuss and deliberate on the topics 

below. 

Briefing on Implementation of ORD 

Strategic Research Plans 

The SAB and ORD’s Board of 

Scientific Councilors (BOSC) provided a 

joint report to the Administrator in 

September 2012 entitled 

Implementation of ORD Strategic 

Research Plans: A Joint Report of the 

Science Advisory Board and ORD Board 

of Scientific Counselors (EPA–SAB–12– 

012). ORD will provide a briefing to 

update SAB members on recent 

significant ORD activities to implement 

the recommendations in the ORD–BOSC 

report, available on the SAB Web site at 

http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/ 

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Draft SAB Report on the Use of 

CompTox To Advance Risk Assessment 

The chartered SAB will conduct a 

quality review of a draft report 

providing advice to assist the EPA in 

advancing the application of ORD’s 

CompTox research for human health 

risk assessment to meet the agency’s 

programmatic needs. The SAB 

undertook this initiative to identify 

applications for outputs from the 

CompTox Research Program, barriers to 

their use, and strategies for overcoming 

those barriers. The CompTox Research 

Program conducts research that 

integrates advances in molecular 

biology, chemistry and innovative 

computer science to more effectively 

and efficiently rank chemicals based on 

risks. The goal of the CompTox 

Research Program is to provide highthroughput chemical screening data and 

decision support tools for assessing 

chemical exposure, hazard, and risk to 

human health and the environment. 

Information about this advisory activity 

can be found on the Web at: http:// 

yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/ 

fedrgstr_activites/CompTox%20data%

20in%20RA?OpenDocument. 

Draft SAB Report on EPA’s 

Retrospective Study of the Costs of EPA 

Regulations 

The chartered SAB will conduct a 

quality review of a draft report 

providing a review of the EPA’s 

retrospective study of the costs of EPA 

regulations. The EPA conducts benefitcost analyses of its rules and regulations 

and strives to use the best available 

information to conduct its analyses. 

Benefit-cost analyses are by definition 

predictive, relying on ex ante or 

forecasted information. To improve 

future benefit-cost analyses, it is 

important to learn how well EPA’s 

estimates compare with actual (ex post) 

costs and, if they differ substantially, to 

understand why. EPA’s National Center 

for Environmental Economics prepared 

a series of case studies attempting to 

assess compliance costs retrospectively 

that, if successful, could help identify 

reasons for any systematic differences 

between ex ante and ex post cost 

estimates. The EPA requested the SAB’s 

review of its approach to assessing ex 

post costs as detailed in a draft paper 

entitled ‘‘Retrospective Study of the 

Costs of EPA Regulations: An Interim 

Report’’ (March 2012). Information 

about this advisory activity can be 

found on the Web at: http:// 

yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/ 

fedrgstr_activites/Retrospective%

20Cost%20Study?OpenDocument. 

Draft Report on EPA’s Emissions 

Estimation Methodologies (EEMs) From 

Broiler Animal Feeding Operations and 

From Lagoons and Basins at Swine and 

Dairy Animal Feeding Operations 

The chartered SAB will conduct a 

quality review of a draft report 

providing review of EPA’s draft 

methodologies for estimating air 

emissions from animal feeding 

operations (AFOs). The EPA developed 

the draft methodologies to address 

commitments in a voluntary air 

compliance consent agreement signed in 

2005 between the agency and nearly 

14,000 broiler, dairy, egg layer and 

swine AFO operations. The goals of the 

agreement are to reduce air pollution, 

monitor AFO emissions, promote a 

national consensus on methodologies 

for estimating emissions from AFOs, 

and ensure compliance with the 

requirements of the Clean Air Act, the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act and the Emergency Planning and 

Community Right-to-Know Act. The 

EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation has 

requested the SAB review. Information 

about this advisory activity can be 

found on the Web at: http:// 

yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/ 

fedrgstr_activites/AFO–AEEM?Open

Document. 

Discussion of Information Provided in 

the Agency’s Semiannual Regulatory 

Agenda 

The EPA has recently underscored the 

need to routinely inform the SAB about 

proposed and planned agency actions 

that have a scientific or technical basis. 

Accordingly, the agency provided notice 

to the SAB that the Office of 

Management and Budget published the 

‘‘Unified (Regulatory) Agenda’’ on the 

Web on December 21, 2012 (http:// 

www.reginfo.gov/public/). The SAB will 

discuss whether it should provide 

advice and comment on the adequacy of 

the scientific and technical basis for 

EPA actions included in the Agenda. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: A 

meeting agenda and other materials for 

the meeting will be placed on the SAB 

Web site at http://epa.gov/sab. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Public comment for consideration by 

EPA’s federal advisory committees and 

panels has a different purpose from 

public comment provided to EPA 

program offices. Therefore, the process 

for submitting comments to a federal 

advisory committee is different from the 

process used to submit comments to an 

EPA program office. 

Federal advisory committees and 

panels, including scientific advisory 

committees, provide independent 

advice to the EPA. Members of the 

public can submit relevant comments 

pertaining to the EPA’s charge, meeting 

materials, or the group providing 

advice. Input from the public to the SAB 

will have the most impact if it provides 

specific scientific or technical 

information or analysis for the SAB to 

consider or if it relates to the clarity or 

accuracy of the technical information. 

Members of the public wishing to 

provide comment should contact the 

DFO directly. 

Oral Statements: In general, 

individuals or groups requesting an oral 

presentation at a public meeting will be 

limited to five minutes. Persons 

interested in providing oral statements 

at the March 7–8, 2013, meeting should 

contact Dr. Angela Nugent, DFO, in 

writing (preferably via email) at the 

contact information noted above by 

February 27, 2013. Written Statements: 

Written statements for the March 7–8, 

2013, meeting should be received in the 

SAB Staff Office by February 27, 2013, 

so that the information may be made 

available to the SAB for its 

consideration prior to this meeting. 

Written statements should be supplied 

to the DFO in the following formats: 

either an electronic copy (preferred) via 

email (acceptable file format: Adobe 

Acrobat PDF, MS Word, WordPerfect, 

MS PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in 

IBM–PC/Windows 98/2000/XP format) 

or in hard copy with original signature. 

Submitters are asked to provide 

electronic versions of each document 

submitted with and without signatures, 

because the SAB Staff Office does not 

publish documents with signatures on 

its Web sites. Members of the public 

should be aware that their personal 

contact information, if included in any 

written comments, may be posted to the 

SAB Web site. Copyrighted material will 

not be posted without explicit 

permission of the copyright holder. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Dr. Nugent at 

the phone number or email address 

noted above, preferably at least ten days 

prior to the meeting, to give the EPA as 

much time as possible to process your 

request. 

Dated: January 30, 2013. 

Thomas H. Brennan, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

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