80048 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 244 / Tuesday, December 21, 2010 / Notices 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Notification of an Upcoming Meeting of 

the Science Advisory Board; 

Ecological Processes and Effects 

Committee Augmented for Ballast 

Water 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA or Agency) Science 

Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office 

announces a public meeting of the SAB 

Ecological Processes and Effects 

Committee (EPEC). The SAB EPEC, 

augmented with other experts, will 

discuss their draft report about the 

effectiveness of shipboard ballast water 

treatment processes and ways to 

improve future assessments of ballast 

water treatment systems to minimize the 

impacts of invasive species in vessel 

ballast water discharge. 

DATES: The meeting dates are Tuesday, 

January 25, 2011 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 

p.m. (Eastern Time) and Wednesday, 

January 26, 2011 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 

p.m. (Eastern Time). 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

The Madison Hotel, 1177 15th Street, 

NW., Washington, DC 20005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Members of the public who wish to 

obtain further information about this 

meeting may contact Ms. Iris Goodman, 

Designated Federal Officer (DFO). Ms. 

Goodman may be contacted at the EPA 

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

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; or via 

telephone/voice mail; (202) 564–2164 

fax (202) 265–2098; or e-mail at 

Goodman.iris@gmail.com. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

Public Law 92–463, notice is hereby 

given that the SAB EPEC augmented 

with other experts will hold a public 

meeting to discuss their draft report that 

responds to charge questions about the 

effectiveness and reliability of treatment 

technologies and systems to meet 

discharge standard that adequately 

protect waters from the risk of invasion 

and are protective of Clean Water Act 

standards. The SAB was established by 

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), as amended, 5 

U.S.C., App. 2. The SAB will comply 

with the provisions of FACA and all 

appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural 

policies. 

Background: Vessel ballast water 

discharges are a major source of 

nonidigenous species introductions to 

marine, estuarine, and freshwater 

ecosystems of the United States. Ballast 

water discharges are regulated by EPA 

under authority of the Clean Water Act 

(CWA) and the U.S. Coast Guard under 

authority of the Nonindigenous Aquatic 

Nuisance Prevention and Control Act, as 

amended (NANPCA). 

EPA’s Office of Water (OW) has 

requested SAB review of technical 

documents and available data on the 

effectiveness of ballast water treatment 

systems and advice on improving the 

performance of such systems. The SAB 

panel previously met on July 29–30, 

2010 and held public teleconferences on 

October 26, 2010 and November 4, 2010. 

Additional information about this 

advisory activity may be found on the 

SAB Web site at http:// 

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

fedrgstr_activites/ 

BW%20discharge?OpenDocument. The 

purpose of the meeting on January 25– 

26, 2011 is for the Committee to discuss 

their draft report. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: The 

meeting agenda and other materials in 

support of the meeting will be posted on 

the SAB Web site at http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab in advance of the 

meeting. 

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 EPA. Members of the public 

can submit comments for a Federal 

Advisory Committee to consider as it 

develops advice for EPA. They should 

send their comments directly to the 

Designated Federal Officer for the 

Relevant Advisory Committee. 

Oral Statements: In general, 

individuals or groups requesting an oral 

presentation at a public meeting will be 

limited to five minutes per speaker. 

Interested parties should contact Ms. 

Goodman, DFO, in writing (preferably 

via e-mail) at the contact information 

noted above by January 18, 2011 to be 

placed on a list of public speakers for 

the meeting. 

Written Statements: Written 

statements should be received in the 

SAB Staff Office no later than January 

18, 2011 so that the information may be 

made available to the SAB Committee 

members for their consideration. 

Written statements should be supplied 

to the DFO in the following formats: 

One hard copy with original signature, 

and one electronic copy via e-mail 

(acceptable file format: Adobe Acrobat 

PDF, WordPerfect, MS Word, MS 

PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in IBM– 

PC/Windows 98/2000/XP format). 

Submitters are requested to provide two 

versions of each document submitted 

with and without signatures, because 

the SAB Staff Office does not publish 

documents with signatures on its Web 

sites. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Ms. 

Goodman at the phone number or e-mail 

address noted above, preferably at least 

ten days prior to the meeting to give 

EPA as much time as possible to process 

your request. 

Dated: December 14, 2010. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Notification of a Public Meeting of the 

Environmental Economics Advisory 

Committee Augmented for Valuing 

Mortality Risk Reductions 

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 Environmental 

Economics Advisory Committee 

Augmented for Mortality Risk Valuation 

to conduct a review of EPA’s White 

Paper ‘‘Valuing Mortality Risk 

Reduction for Environmental Policy’’ 

(December 10, 2010). 

DATES: The public meeting will be held 

on Thursday, January 20, 2011 from 

8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Eastern Time) and 

Friday, January 21, 2011 from 8:30 a.m. 

to 12 p.m. (Eastern Time). 


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ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be 

held at the Madison Hotel, 1177 15th 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public who wants further 

information concerning the meeting 

may contact Dr. Holly Stallworth, 

Designated Federal Officer (DFO), EPA 

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

Environmental Protection Agency, 1300 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; via telephone/ 

voice mail (202) 564–2073; fax (202) 

565–2098; or e-mail at 

stallworth.holly@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the SAB can be 

found on the EPA Web site at http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA), as 

amended, 5 U.S.C., App., notice is 

hereby given that the SAB 

Environmental Economics Advisory 

Committee (EEAC) Augmented for 

Mortality Risk Valuation will hold a 

public meeting to discuss the valuation 

of mortality risk reduction for regulatory 

analysis. The SAB was established 

pursuant to 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 

FACA. The SAB will comply with the 

provisions of FACA and all appropriate 

SAB Staff Office procedural policies. 

The U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) uses a value of statistical 

life (VSL) to express the benefits of 

mortality risk reductions in monetary 

terms for use in benefit cost analyses of 

its rules and regulations. EPA has used 

the same central default value (adjusted 

for inflation) in its primary analyses 

since 1999 when the Agency updated its 

Guidelines for Preparing Economic 

Analyses (2000). Prior to the release of 

the Guidelines, EPA sought advice from 

the Science Advisory Board’s 

Environmental Economics Advisory 

Committee (EEAC) on the 

appropriateness of this estimate and its 

derivation. In 2000, EPA also requested 

advice from the SAB EEAC on the 

appropriateness of making adjustments 

to VSL estimates to capture risk and 

population characteristics associated 

with fatal cancer risks. The SAB 

responded with the report, ‘‘An SAB 

Report on EPA’s White Paper Valuing 

the Benefits of Fatal Cancer Risk 

Reduction’’ (EPA–SAB–EEAC–00–010), 

available on the SAB Web site at http:// 

yosemite.epa.gov/sab/ 

SABPRODUCT.NSF/

41334524148BCCD6852571

A700516498/$File/eeacf013.pdf. 

In addition, as part of the recent 

process for updating its guidance on the 

conduct of benefit cost analysis, EPA 

embarked on a series of meetings with 

the SAB–EEAC on issues related to 

mortality risk valuation. In 2004, the 

SAB EEAC held a consultation to 

discuss the robustness of estimates from 

the mortality risk valuation literature. In 

2006, the SAB EEAC reviewed an EPA 

paper on the application of metaanalysis techniques to deriving 

estimates for the value of mortality risk 

reduction as well as a paper on 

appropriate and available methods for 

valuing mortality risk reductions when 

affected populations have relatively 

short remaining life expectancy. The 

‘‘SAB Advisory on EPA’s Issues in 

Valuing Mortality Risk Reduction’’ 

(EPA–SAB–08–001) may be found at: 

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

SABPRODUCT.NSF/4128007E7876B8

F0852573760058A978/$File/sab-08- 

001.pdf. 

EPA’s National Center for 

Environmental Economics has requested 

a review of a White Paper that 

highlights additional key topics related 

to the valuation of mortality risks 

reductions. On July 8, 2009 in 74 FR 

32607–32608, the SAB Staff Office 

solicited nominations of experts to 

augment the EEAC. Thus, for the 

January 20–21, 2011 meeting, EEAC will 

be joined by additional experts to 

review EPA’s White Paper. Key issues 

described in the white paper include: 

—Terminology: Replacing the term 

‘‘Value of Statistical Life,’’ which has 

often been misunderstood as a 

measure of the value of individual 

lives, with the term ‘‘Value of 

Mortality Risk Reductions’’ (VMR). 

This change in terminology should 

help to avoid some of the confusion 

surrounding the interpretation of the 

VSL. It would not affect the results of 

the analysis itself, but rather how the 

benefits of reduced risks are reported 

and described. 

—Cancer Differential: Taking into 

account potential differences in how 

much people are willing to pay for 

reductions in their risks of dying from 

cancer relative to other causes when 

estimating the benefits of policies that 

reduce exposure to cancer-causing 

pollutants. 

—Altruistic Effects: Taking into account 

potential differences in individuals’ 

willingness to pay for ‘‘public’’ risk 

reductions that may affect many 

people (such as reductions of 

pollution to public drinking water) 

relative to their willingness to pay for 

‘‘private’’ risk reductions that only 

affect the individual (such as 

choosing to install a water filter in 

one’s home). Many of the published 

estimates of willingness to pay are for 

private risk reductions, but since EPA 

regulations generally result in 

‘‘public’’ risk reductions, accounting 

for these differences when estimating 

benefits could be important. 

Technical Contacts: Any questions 

concerning EPA’s White Paper should 

be directed to Dr. Nathalie Simon, 

NCEE, at (202) 566–2347 or 

simon.nathalie@epa.gov. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: 

EPA’s White Paper may be found posted 

at http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/ 

eerm.nsf/vwAN/EE-0563-1.pdf/$file/ 

EE-0563-1.pdf. A meeting agenda, 

charge questions, a roster for the EEAC 

Augmented for Mortality Risk Valuation 

and other materials for the meeting will 

be placed on the SAB Web site at 

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

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant written or oral 

information for consideration on the 

topics included in this advisory activity. 

Oral Statements: To be placed on the 

public speaker list for the January 20– 

21, 2011 meeting, interested parties 

should notify Dr. Holly Stallworth, 

DFO, by e-mail no later than January 14, 

2011. Individuals making oral 

statements will be limited to three 

minutes per speaker. Written 

Statements: Written statements for the 

meeting should be received in the SAB 

Staff Office by January 14, 2011 so that 

the information may be made available 

to the SAB Panel for its consideration 

prior to this meeting. Written statements 

should be supplied to the DFO 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). 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Dr. 

Stallworth at the phone number or email address noted above, preferably at 

least ten days prior to the meeting, to 

give EPA as much time as possible to 

process your request. 

Dated: December 15, 2010. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

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