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quality standards. Nutrients (i.e., 

nitrogen and phosphorus) have been 

one of the leading causes of surface 

water quality impairment in the U.S. 

Therefore, development of numeric 

nutrient criteria and assisting States in 

the adoption of numeric nutrient criteria 

into their water quality standards is a 

high priority for OW. EPA published 

peer reviewed technical guidance for 

developing nutrient criteria for lakes 

and reservoirs in April 2000, rivers and 

streams in July 2000, estuaries and 

coastal marine waters in October 2001, 

and Wetlands in June 2008. These 

guidance documents are available at the 

following Web site at http:// 

www.epa.gov/waterscience/criteria/ 

nutrient/guidance/index.html. The basic 

analytical approaches for nutrient 

criteria derivation described in these 

previously published guidance 

documents include: (1) The reference 

condition approach, (2) stressorresponse analysis, and (3) mechanistic 

modeling. Because many states are 

currently pursuing the use of 

empirically-derived stressor-response 

relationships as the basis for developing 

numeric nutrient endpoints for water 

quality standards, OW has developed 

the draft guidance document, Empirical 

Approaches for Nutrient Criteria 

Derivation, to augment EPA’s published 

guidance manuals. OW has asked the 

Science Advisory Board to review the 

draft guidance document and comment 

on the technical soundness of proposed 

empirical approaches as the basis for 

future development of numeric nutrient 

criteria. 

On April 27, 2009 the SAB Staff 

Office published a Federal Register 

Notice (74 FR 19084–19085) requesting 

public nominations of scientists in 

fields such as ecology, biology, 

environmental science, risk assessment, 

statistics, and zoology to augment the 

SAB Ecological Processes and Effects 

Committee. In particular, the SAB Staff 

Office requested nominations of 

scientists with specialized knowledge 

and expertise in the use of empiricallyderived stressor-response relationships 

to develop nutrient assessment 

endpoints. The augmented Ecological 

Processes and Effects Committee will 

conduct the review of EPA’s draft 

Empirical Approaches for Nutrient 

Criteria Derivation. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: The 

meeting agenda, SAB Committee roster, 

charge to the Committee, and other 

meeting material will be posted on the 

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

in advance of the meeting. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant written or oral 

information on the topic of this advisory 

activity, and/or the group conducting 

the activity, for the SAB to consider 

during the advisory process. 

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 Dr. 

Armitage, DFO, in writing (preferably 

via e-mail) at the contact information 

noted above by September 1, 2009 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 

September 4, 2009 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 Dr. Armitage 

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: August 11, 2009. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

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Notification of a Meeting of the Science 

Advisory Board Drinking Water 

Committee 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) Staff Office announces a public 

face-to-face meeting of the SAB 

Drinking Water Committee (DWC) to 

provide advice on the Agency’s draft 

Protocol for Microbial Risk Assessment 

to Support Human Health Protection for 

Water-Based Media and to discuss its 

draft advisory report on the Agency’s 

supporting analysis for the proposed 

revised Total Coliform Rule. 

DATES: The SAB will hold the public 

face-to-face meeting on September 21, 

2009 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Eastern 

Time) and will continue on September 

22, 2009 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

(Eastern Time). 

ADDRESSES: The September 21–22, 2009 

face-to-face meeting will be held at the 

SAB Conference Center, 1025 F Street, 

NW., Room 3705, Washington, DC 

20004. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing to obtain 

general information concerning this 

public meeting should contact Mr. 

Aaron Yeow, Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO), EPA Science Advisory Board 

(1400F), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; via 

telephone/voice mail: (202) 343–9878; 

fax: (202) 233–0643; or e-mail at 

yeow.aaron@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the EPA Science 

Advisory Board can be found on the 

SAB Web site at http://www.epa.gov/ 

sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

5 U.S.C., App. 2 (FACA), notice is 

hereby given that the SAB Drinking 

Water Committee (DWC) will hold a 

public meeting to provide advice on the 

Agency’s draft Protocol for Microbial 

Risk Assessment to Support Human 

Health Protection for Water-Based 

Media and to discuss its draft advisory 

report on the Agency’s supporting 

analysis for the proposed revised Total 

Coliform Rule. 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 

EPA and SAB Staff Office procedural 

policies. 

Background: EPA’s Office of Water 

(OW) is responsible for protecting 

human health and the environment 

from contaminants in water. To achieve 

this goal, OW conducts risk assessments 

that apply scientific principles and 

methods to determine the nature and 

magnitude of health risks from 

contaminant exposures. OW performs 

microbial risk assessments (MRA) to 

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pathogens in drinking water under the 

Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). MRAs 

also support the development of healthbased ambient water quality criteria and 

biosolids criteria under the Clean Water 

Act (CWA). These criteria protect 

against adverse human exposures to 

infectious disease microorganisms in 

recreational waters, shellfish growing 

waters, and wastewater biosolids. 

Because of the importance of MRAs, 

OW developed a Microbial Risk 

Assessment Framework and is 

developing a draft Protocol for Microbial 

Risk Assessment to Support Human 

Health Protection for Water-Based 

Media to provide Agency guidance for 

performing microbial risk assessments. 

Current Agency risk assessment 

guidance is geared towards chemical 

risk assessment. MRAs do not fit easily 

within that framework because of 

microbial and host factors that do not 

affect chemical risk assessments. A 

separate protocol is needed to help risk 

assessors address these factors in a 

consistent way. 

The draft Protocol for Microbial Risk 

Assessment to Support Human Health 

Protection for Water-Based Media will 

be used as guidance for preparing 

qualitative or quantitative MRAs for 

recreational water exposures, evaluation 

of biosolids application to land, and 

drinking water regulation development 

applications. OW may also make the 

Protocol available to States, nongovernmental organizations, and 

international agencies to use in 

conducting risk assessments related to 

water media. In addition to supporting 

new regulations under the SDWA and 

supporting the development of criteria 

under the CWA, the MRA Protocol may 

also be used for a number of different 

applications such as assessing the 

potential human health risks associated 

with a known pathogen, determining 

critical control points for risk 

mitigation/control measures, identifying 

and prioritizing research and 

development, assisting in 

epidemiological investigations, and 

determining consequences of 

management options to reduce risk. 

The Office of Water is requesting that 

the SAB provide advice on the draft 

Protocol for Microbial Risk Assessment 

to Support Human Health Protection for 

Water-Based Media and to provide 

recommendations on: how to improve 

the overall approach, the applicability 

of the Protocol, the reasonableness of 

the protocol, the clarity of the Protocol, 

the completeness and robustness of the 

protocol, and the ease of use of the 

Protocol for conducting water-based 

microbial risk assessments. 

The SAB DWC will also discuss its 

draft advisory report on the Agency’s 

supporting analysis for the proposed 

revised Total Coliform Rule during this 

meeting. The Committee met previously 

on May 20, 2009 and on June 9–June 10, 

2009 to deliberate on the Agency’s 

charge questions regarding the 

supporting analysis. A Federal Register 

Notice dated May 1, 2009 (74 FR 20297– 

20298) announced these meetings and 

provided background information on 

this advisory activity. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: The 

meeting agenda and other materials, 

including a link to access the EPA 

review document(s) related to the draft 

Protocol for Microbial Risk Assessment 

to Support Human Health Protection for 

Water-Based Media and draft advisory 

report on the Agency’s supporting 

analysis for the proposed revised Total 

Coliform Rule, will be posted on the 

SAB Web site (http://www.epa.gov/sab) 

in advance of the meeting. For questions 

and information concerning the 

Agency’s documents relating to the 

Protocol, please contact Dr. Stephen 

Schaub at (202) 566–1126 or 

schaub.stephen@epa.gov. For questions 

and information concerning the SAB’s 

draft advisory report on EPA’s proposed 

Total Coliform Rule revisions, please 

contact Dr. Suhair Shallal at (202) 343– 

9977 or shallal.suhair@epa.gov. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant written or oral 

information for the SAB to consider on 

the topics included in this advisory 

activity and/or group conducting the 

activity. Oral Statements: In general, 

individuals or groups requesting an oral 

presentation at a public SAB face-to-face 

meeting will be limited to five minutes, 

with no more than a total of one hour 

for all speakers. To be placed on the 

public speaker list for the Microbial 

Risk Assessment Protocol, interested 

parties should contact Mr. Aaron Yeow, 

DFO, in writing (preferably via e-mail), 

by September 14, 2009 at the contact 

information noted above. To be placed 

on the public speaker list for the draft 

SAB advisory report on the Total 

Coliform Rule revisions, interested 

parties should contact Dr. Suhair 

Shallal, DFO, in writing (preferably via 

e-mail), by September 14, 2009 at the 

contact information noted above. 

Written Statements: Written 

statements should be received in the 

SAB Staff Office by September 14, 2009, 

so that the information may be made 

available to the SAB for their 

consideration prior to the face-to-face 

meeting. Written statements on the 

Microbial Risk Assessment Protocol 

should be supplied to the DFO via email to yeow.aaron@epa.gov and written 

statements on the draft SAB advisory 

report on the Total Coliform Rule 

Revisions should be supplied to the 

DFO via e-mail to 

shallal.suhair@epa.gov (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 Mr. Aaron 

Yeow at (202) 343–9878 or 

yeow.aaron@epa.gov. To request 

accommodation of a disability, please 

contact Mr. Yeow preferably at least ten 

days prior to the meeting, to give EPA 

as much time as possible to process 

your request. 

Dated: August 6, 2009. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

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effort to reduce paperwork burden 

invites the general public and other 

Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following information collection(s), as 

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