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Dated: August 4, 2009. 

Fred Hauchman, 

Director, Office of Science Policy. 

[FR Doc. E9–19337 Filed 8–11–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0177; FRL–8429–2] 

Nominations to the FIFRA Scientific 

Advisory Panel; Request for 

Comments 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides the 

names, addresses, professional 

affiliations, and selected biographical 

data of persons nominated to serve on 

the Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) 

established under section 25(d) of the 

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 

Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). The FIFRA 

SAP was created on November 28, 1975, 

and made a statutory panel by 

amendment to FIFRA, dated October 25, 

1988. The Agency is, at this time, 

selecting two new members to serve on 

the FIFRA SAP as a result of a 

membership term that will expire this 

year and the sudden and unexpected 

loss of a FIFRA SAP member. Public 

comment on the nominations is invited, 

as these comments will be used to assist 

the Agency in selecting the new 

chartered FIFRA SAP members. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before September 11, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0177, by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Office of Pesticide Programs 

(OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001. 

• Delivery: OPP Regulatory Public 

Docket (7502P), Environmental 

Protection Agency, Rm. S–4400, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. Deliveries 

are only accepted during the Docket 

Facility’s normal hours of operation 

(8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays). 

Special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. The 

Docket Facility telephone number is 

(703) 305–5805. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2008– 

0177. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the docket 

without change and may be made 

available on-line at http:// 

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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 regulations.gov or email. The regulations.gov website 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 

regulations.gov, your e-mail address 

will be automatically captured and 

included as part of the comment that is 

placed in the 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. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the docket index available 

at http://www.regulations.gov. 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, 

is not placed on the Internet and will be 

publicly available only in hard copy 

form. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either in the 

electronic docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or, if only 

available in hard copy, at the OPP 

Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S– 

4400, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 

2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The 

hours of operation of this Docket 

Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The Docket Facility telephone 

number is (703) 305–5805. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Myrta R. Christian, Designated Federal 

Official (DFO), FIFRA SAP, Office of 

Science Coordination and Policy 

(7201M), Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (202) 564–8498; fax number: 

(202) 564–8382; e-mail address: 

christian.myrta@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does This Action Apply to Me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general. This action may, however, be 

of interest to persons who are or may be 

required to conduct testing of chemical 

substances under the Federal Food, 

Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), 

FIFRA, and the Food Quality Protection 

Act of 1996 (FQPA). Since other entities 

may also be interested, the Agency has 

not attempted to describe all the specific 

entities that may be affected by this 

action. If you have any questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

to a particular entity, consult the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

B. What Should I Consider as I Prepare 

My Comments for EPA? 

When submitting comments, 

remember to: 

1. Identify the document by docket ID 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

2. Follow directions. The Agency may 

ask you to respond to specific questions 

or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

3. Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

4. Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

5. If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

6. Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns and suggest 

alternatives. 

7. Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

8. Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

II. Background 

The FIFRA SAP serves as the primary 

scientific peer review mechanism of 

EPA’s Office of Prevention, Pesticides 

and Toxic Substances and is structured 

to provide scientific advice, 

information, and recommendations to 

the EPA Administrator on pesticides 

and pesticide-related issues as to the 

impact of regulatory actions on health 

and the environment. The FIFRA SAP is 

a Federal advisory committee, 

established in 1975 under FIFRA, that 

operates in accordance with 

requirements of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA). The FIFRA SAP 

is composed of a permanent panel 

consisting of seven members who are 

appointed by the EPA Administrator 

from nominees provided by the National 

Institutes of Health (NIH) and the 

National Science Foundation (NSF). 

FIFRA, as amended by FQPA, 

established a Science Review Board 

consisting of at least 60 scientists who 

are available to the FIFRA SAP on an ad 

hoc basis to assist in reviews conducted 

by the FIFRA SAP. As a peer review 

mechanism, the FIFRA SAP provides 

comments, evaluations, and 

recommendations to improve the 

effectiveness and quality of analyses 

made by Agency scientists. Members of 

the FIFRA SAP are scientists who have 

sufficient professional qualifications, 

including training and experience, to 

provide expert advice and 

recommendation to the Agency. The 

Agency is, at this time, selecting two 

new members to serve on the permanent 

FIFRA SAP as a result of a membership 

term that will expire this year and the 

sudden and unexpected loss of a FIFRA 

SAP member. The Agency requested 

nominations of experts to be selected 

from the field of environmental risk 

assessment including: planning, 

scoping, and problem formulation; 

analysis; and interpretation and risk 

characterization (including the 

interpretation and communication of 

uncertainty). Nominees should be well 

published and current in their fields of 

expertise. The statute further stipulates 

that we publish the names, addresses, 

and professional affiliations in the 

Federal Register. 

III. Charter 

A charter for the FIFRA SAP, dated 

October 24, 2008, was issued in 

accordance with the requirements of 

FACA, Public Law 92–463, 86 Stat. 770 

(5 U.S.C. App.). 

A. Qualifications of Members 

FIFRA SAP members are scientists 

who have sufficient professional 

qualifications, including training and 

experience, to be capable of providing 

expert comments as to the impact of 

pesticides on health and the 

environment. No persons are ineligible 

to serve on the FIFRA SAP by reason of 

their membership on any other advisory 

committee to a Federal department or 

agency or their employment by a 

Federal department or agency (except 

the EPA). The EPA Administrator 

appoints individuals to serve on the 

FIFRA SAP for staggered terms of 4 

years unless the appointment serves to 

fill an unexpired term for a vacancy that 

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expiration of a term. The FIFRA SAP 

members, as Special Government 

Employees, are subject to the provisions 

of 5 CFR Part 2635–Standards of Ethical 

Conduct for Employees of the Executive 

Branch. Each nominee selected by the 

EPA Administrator before being 

formally appointed, is requested to 

submit a confidential statement of 

employment and financial interests, 

which shall fully disclose, among other 

financial interests, the nominee’s 

sources of research support, if any. 

In accordance with section 25(d)(1) of 

FIFRA, the EPA Administrator shall 

require all nominees to the FIFRA SAP 

to furnish information concerning their 

professional qualifications, educational 

background, employment history, and 

scientific publications. 

B. Applicability of Existing Regulations 

With respect to the requirements of 

section 25(d) of FIFRA that the 

Administrator promulgate regulations 

regarding conflicts of interest, the 

charter provides that EPA’s existing 

regulations applicable to Special 

Government Employees, which include 

advisory committee members, will 

apply to the members of the FIFRA SAP. 

These regulations appear in 5 CFR part 

2635. In addition, the charter provides 

for open meetings with opportunities for 

public participation. 

C. Process of Obtaining Nominees 

In accordance with the provisions of 

section 25(d) of FIFRA, EPA, in April 

2009, requested that NIH and NSF 

nominate scientists for consideration to 

serve on the FIFRA SAP. The Agency 

requested nominations of experts in the 

field of environmental risk assessment 

including: planning, scoping, and 

problem formulation; analysis; and 

interpretation and risk characterization 

(including the interpretation and 

communication of uncertainty). NIH 

and NSF responded by letter, providing 

the Agency with a total of 14 nominees. 

Seven of the 14 nominees are interested 

and available to actively participate in 

FIFRA SAP meetings (see Unit IV.). The 

following 7 nominees are not available: 

1. Blomquist, Gary, Ph.D., University 

of Nevada, Reno, NV. 

2. Greer, Linda, Ph.D., National 

Resources Defense Council, San 

Francisco, CA. 

3. Haws, Laurie C., Ph.D., DABT, 

ToxStrategies Inc., Austin, TX. 

4. Kim, Amy, Ph.D., DABT, 

Genentech, Inc., San Francisco, CA. 

5. Lanno, Roman P., Ph.D., Ohio State 

University, Columbus, OH. 

6. Thomas, Russell S., MS, Ph.D., The 

Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, 

Research Triangle Park, NC. 

7. Tickner, Joel A., ScD, MSc, BA, 

University of Massachusetts– Lowell, 

Lowell, MA. 

IV. Nominees 

The following are the names, 

addresses, professional affiliations, and 

selected biographical data of nominees 

being considered for membership on the 

FIFRA SAP. The Agency expects to 

select two of the nominees to fill the 

vacancies described in this notice. 

1. Nominee. Braverman, Michael, 

Ph.D., Manager, Biopesticide Program— 

Rutgers University, Princeton, NJ. 

i. Expertise. Efficacy and 

environmental fate of pesticides. 

ii. Education. B.S., Agriculture/ 

Biology, Murray State University, KY; 

M.S., Agronomy (Weed Science), 

University of Arkansas; Ph.D., 

Horticulture (Vegetable Crops), 

University of Florida. 

iii. Professional experience. Dr. 

Michael Braverman is currently a Senior 

Scientist and Manager of the 

Biopesticide and Organic Support 

Program for the IR-4 Project at Rutgers 

University. He oversees a cooperative 

research project with the United States 

Department of Agriculture (USDA), 

State Agriculture Experimental Station, 

and industry scientists to develop data 

to support the registration of 

biopesticides on specialty crops. Dr. 

Braverman earned his Ph.D. in 

Horticulture from the University of 

Florida with an emphasis on herbicide 

fate and transport in muck soils. Dr. 

Braverman has 20 years experience in 

pesticide research and regulations 

involving efficacy, laboratory analysis of 

pesticide residues, herbicide 

physiology, and environmental fate. Dr. 

Braverman currently supervises a 

national efficacy grant program 

involving the review of research 

proposals designed to develop efficacy 

data involving biopesticides. Dr. 

Braverman has provided education, 

guidance, and technical expertise in the 

design, interpretation of research and 

scientific literature review aligned with 

EPA Product Chemistry, Residue, 

Human Health and Non-Target 

Ecotoxicology Guidelines on behalf of 

USDA, university scientists from other 

institutions and small businesses. The 

emphasis of his program has been in 

synchronization with EPA’s 

Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention 

Division. He co-manages and co-reviews 

research programs with EPA’s Office of 

Pollution Prevention and Toxics to 

promote the adoption of reduced risk 

products. He has also been an advisor to 

USDA’s Agricultural Research Service 

(ARS) in regulation, risk assessment, 

and monitoring and distribution 

agreements of Plant Incorporated 

Protectants (PIPs) developed by USDA 

researchers. He has served as a panel 

member on several USDA’s Cooperative 

State Research, Education, and 

Extension Service research grant review 

programs as well as editorial reviewer of 

research in the flagship journals of the 

Weed Science Society of America and 

the American Phytopathological 

Society. He has been a leader of 

intensive regulatory workshops for 

Agriculture and Ag Food Canada as well 

as a participant with EPA in workshops 

involving biopesticide regulations. He 

has trained M.S. and Ph.D. level 

graduate students, one of which 

currently works in EPA’s Environmental 

Fate and Effects Division performing 

risk assessments on endangered species. 

On an international level, under the 

auspices of USDA’s Foreign Agricultural 

Service, he has conducted regulatory 

workshops to develop regulatory 

expertise on how to conduct risk 

assessments in Benin, Colombia, Egypt, 

Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, 

South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda for 

natural products, microorganism and 

biotechnology products. He is currently 

managing a global residue zoning 

project in over 20 countries in Africa, 

Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle 

East, and North and South America in 

cooperation with EPA’s Office of 

Pesticide Programs, Analytical 

Chemistry Laboratory, Fort Meade, MD. 

2. Nominee. Fisher, Jeffrey W., Ph.D., 

Professor and Director, Interdisciplinary 

Toxicology Program, University of 

Georgia, Athens, GA. 

i. Expertise. Development and 

application of biologically based 

mathematical models to ascertain health 

risks from environmental and 

occupational chemical exposures. 

ii. Education. B.S., Biology, 

University of Nebraska at Kearney; M.S., 

Biology/Ecology, Wright State 

University, Dayton, OH; Ph.D., Zoology/ 

Toxicology, Miami University of Ohio. 

iii. Professional experience. Dr. Jeffrey 

W. Fisher is a Professor in the 

Department of Environmental Health 

Science, College of Public Health at the 

University of Georgia (UGA) and 

Director of the Interdisciplinary 

Toxicology Program. Dr. Fisher’s 

research interests are in the 

development and application of 

biologically based mathematical models 

to ascertain health risks from 

environmental and occupational 

chemical exposures. Dr. Fisher’s 

modeling experience includes working 

with chlorinated and non-chlorinated 

solvents, fuels, polychlorinated 

biphenyls, pyrethroids, and perchlorate. 

Dr. Fisher has published over 100 


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papers on computational modeling for 

dose response analyses in laboratory 

animals and humans. He has developed 

physiologically based pharmacokinetic 

models for use in cancer risk 

assessment, estimating lactational 

transfer of solvents, understanding in 

utero and neonatal dosimetry and 

quantifying metabolism of solvent 

mixtures. Over the last 10 years Dr. 

Fisher has developed systems biology 

models for the hypothalamic-pituitarythyroid axis (biologically based dose 

response (BBDR) models in rodents and 

humans). He has trained several 

graduate students and postdoctoral 

fellows on the concepts and application 

of physiological and system biology 

models. Dr. Fisher’s laboratory and 

computational research are funded 

through grants provided by EPA, 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention, Agency for Toxic 

Substances and Disease Registry 

(ATSDR); Air Force Office of Scientific 

Research; United States Air Force; 

Department of Energy; and occasionally 

subcontracts with nonprofit 

organizations or trade groups. He has 

served on several national panels and 

advisory boards for the Departement of 

Defense, ATSDR, EPA, and non-profit 

organizations. He also has been a U.S. 

delegate for the North Atlantic Treaty 

Organization. He is currently on the 

Science Advisory Board for EPA and is 

associate editor for Toxicological 

Sciences. 

3. Nominee. Hattis, Dale, Ph.D., 

Research Professor, Center for 

Technology, Environment, and 

Development, George Perkins Marsh 

Institute, Clark University, Worcester, 

MA. 

i. Expertise. Modeling and uncertainty 

analysis in risk assessment. 

ii. Education. B.S., Biochemistry, 

University of California, Berkeley, CA; 

Ph.D., Genetics, Stanford University, 

Stanford, CA. 

iii. Professional experience. Dr. Dale 

Hattis is a Research Professor with the 

George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark 

University. For the past 3 decades he 

has been engaged in the development 

and application of methodology to 

assess the health, ecological, and 

economic impacts of regulatory actions. 

His work has focused on approaches to 

incorporate inter-individual variability 

data and quantitative mechanistic 

information into risk assessments for 

both cancer and non-cancer endpoints. 

Recent past research has explored agerelated differences in sensitivity to 

carcinogenesis and other effects, a 

taxonomy of different non-mutagenic 

modes of action for carcinogenesis with 

likely differential implications for agerelated sensitivity, and physiologically 

based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) 

modeling of acrylamide dose in rats and 

humans, and mechanism-based dose 

response modeling of carcinogenic 

effects from ionizing radiation. Current 

efforts are using PBPK modeling to 

better assess dose response relationships 

for human birth weight changes and 

developmental delays associated with 

exposure to the insecticide chlorpyrifos 

during pregnancy. He is a leader in 

efforts to replace the current system of 

uncertainty factors for non-cancer 

effects with distributions based on 

empirical observations. He is a member 

of the Clean Air Science Advisory 

Committee reviewing EPA efforts to 

reassess the National Ambient Air 

Quality Criteria for nitrogen oxides and 

sulfur oxides, and for several years he 

has served as a member of the Food 

Quality Protection Act Science Review 

Board. Until recently he has also been 

a member of the Environmental Health 

Committee of the EPA Science Advisory 

Board. For 2007 he was the Chair of the 

Dose Response Specialty Group of the 

Society for Risk Analysis. He has also 

served as a member of the National 

Research Council Committee on 

Estimating the Health-Risk-Reduction 

Benefits of Proposed Air Pollution 

Regulations. He has been a counselor 

and is a Fellow of the Society for Risk 

Analysis, and serves on the editorial 

board of its journal, Risk Analysis. 

4. Nominee. Hayes, Tyrone B., Ph.D., 

Professor, University of California, 

Berkeley, CA. 

i. Expertise. Role of steroid hormones 

in amphibian development and effects 

of pesticides on amphibian 

development, growth, reproduction, and 

immune function. 

ii. Education. B.A., Biology, Harvard 

University, Cambridge, MA; Ph.D., 

Integrative Biology, University of 

California, Berkeley, CA. 

iii. Professional experience. Dr. 

Tyrone B. Hayes’ research focuses on 

the role of steroid hormones in 

amphibian development in laboratory 

and field studies in Africa and the 

United States. The two main areas of 

interest are metamorphosis and sex 

differentiation, but Dr. Hayes is also 

interested in growth (larval and adult) 

and hormonal regulation of 

reproductive behavior. His work 

addresses problems on several levels 

including ecological, organismal, and 

molecular questions. Studies of 

metamorphosis examine the effects of 

temperature on developmental rates, 

interactions between the thyroid 

hormones and steroids, and hormonal 

regulation of skin gland development. 

Dr. Hayes is also examining the effects 

of tadpole density on developmental 

rates and measuring metamorphic rates 

and hormone levels of tadpoles in the 

field and in the laboratory. His work on 

sex differentiation involves the African 

clawed frog (Xenopus laevis), and 

several other species for comparison. 

Studies in African Reedfrogs 

(Hyperolius spp), for example, examine 

the role of steroid hormones in both 

primary sex differentiation and in 

secondary sex differentiation. Ongoing 

studies also examine the role of steroids 

in sex differentiation in reptile species 

that display genetic sex determination. 

In all of his research, his main goal is 

to synthesize ecological/evolutionary, 

organismal/physiological, and 

biochemical/molecular studies to learn 

how an animal translates changes in its 

external environment to internal 

changes, how these internal changes are 

coordinated, what molecular 

mechanisms are involved, and in turn, 

how changes at the molecular level 

affect an animal’s ability to adapt to the 

changes in its external environment. 

Most recently, Dr. Hayes’ studies have 

been used as models to develop 

laboratory and field techniques to 

examine the effects of endocrine 

disrupting contaminants on amphibian 

development. His current research in 

this area focuses on the effects of 

pesticides mixtures on larval 

development and the potential role of 

pesticides in amphibian declines of 

laboratory and field studies. This work 

has also expanded to use human cell 

lines and to examine the potential role 

of endocrine-disrupting contaminants in 

ethnic/racial disparities in cancer 

outcomes. 

5. Nominee. LeBlanc, Gerald A., 

Ph.D., Professor and Head of the 

Department of Environmental and 

Molecular Toxicology, North Carolina 

State University, Raleigh, NC. 

i. Expertise. Environmental endocrine 

toxicology. 

ii. Education. B.S., Biology, 

University of Massachusetts, North 

Dartmouth, MA; M.A., Biology, 

Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, 

MA; Ph.D., Biology, University of South 

Florida, Tampa, FL. 

iii. Professional experience. Dr. 

Gerald A. LeBlanc maintains an active 

research program in environmental 

endocrine toxicology. This research 

involves elucidating processes that 

contribute to the endocrine regulation of 

reproduction and development and 

their disruption by environmental 

agents. Dr. LeBlanc’s research also has 

been instrumental in developing 

modeling approaches for evaluating the 

toxicity of complex chemical mixtures. 

Dr. LeBlanc has published over 130 


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research articles and 12 text book 

chapters. He has served on numerous 

Federal and international science 

advisory committees, panels, and 

boards, including serving as chairman of 

the EPA Endocrine Disruptors Methods 

Validation Advisory Committee. 

6. Nominee. Shah, Dilip M., Ph.D., 

Research Scientist and Principal 

Investigator, Donald Danforth Plant 

Science Center, St Louis, MO. 

i. Expertise. Molecular biology and 

agricultural biotechnology. 

ii. Education. B.S., Botany and 

Chemistry, South Gujarat University, 

India; M.S., Genetics, North Carolina 

State University, Raleigh, NC; Ph.D., 

Genetics, North Carolina State 

University, Raleigh, NC. 

iii. Professional experience. Dr. Dilip 

M. Shah is a Research Scientist and 

Principal Investigator at the Donald 

Danforth Plant Science Center in 

Missouri where his lab is involved in 

studying the interactions of fungal 

pathogens with their host plants and 

developing strategies for the 

development of disease resistant 

mycotoxin-free transgenic crops. His lab 

is investigating the modes of action and 

biological roles of a group of proteins 

that act as antifungal agents on a broadspectrum of fungal pathogens and 

expressing these proteins in transgenic 

crops for control of economically 

important fungal pathogens. Dr. Shah 

has over 25 years of experience in plant 

molecular biology and agricultural 

biotechnology. He has made substantial 

contributions to the development of 

herbicide- and virus-resistant crops and 

led a team of scientists working on 

fungus-resistant crops during his 

previous tenure at Monsanto Company. 

He played a major role in the 

establishment of Monsanto Company’s 

Research and Development Center in 

India. He has served on the study 

section of NIH and has served on the 

review panel at NSF. He is a co-inventor 

on a number of patents and his patents 

on glyphosate-tolerant crops were listed 

as the ‘‘Ten Patents That Changed the 

World’’ in 2003 year-end publication of 

Intellectual Property Worldwide. 

7. Nominee. Zacharewski, Timothy R., 

Ph.D., Professor, Department of 

Biochemistry and the National Food 

Safety and Toxicology Center, Michigan 

State University, East Lansing, MI. 

i. Expertise. Mechanistic toxicology. 

ii. Education. B.S., Chemistry with 

microbiology emphasis, University of 

Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada; Ph.D., 

Toxicology, Texas A & M University, 

College Station, TX. 

iii. Professional experience. Dr. 

Timothy R. Zacharewski is a Professor 

in the Department of Biochemistry and 

Molecular Biology and member of the 

Center for Integrative Toxicology and 

the National Food Safety and 

Toxicology Center at Michigan State 

University. He graduated with a Ph.D. in 

Toxicology in 1990 from Texas A&M 

University in the laboratory of Dr. 

Stephen Safe. He received a Medical 

Research Council of Canada Post 

Doctoral Fellowship to study with 

Professor Pierre Chambon in Strasbourg, 

France from 1990–1992. In 1992, Dr. 

Zacharewski accepted an Assistant 

Professor position in the Department of 

Pharmacology and Toxicology at the 

University of Western Ontario. In 1997, 

he relocated to Michigan State 

University where he has been pursuing 

research interests in the areas of 

mechanistic toxicology. More 

specifically, his research interests 

include the elucidation of receptormediated mechanisms of toxicity using 

comparative omic and computational 

approaches in order to inform sciencebased quantitative risk assessment, 

identify biomarkers of toxicity, and 

develop high through-put assays to 

screen drugs and chemicals for toxicity. 

He has published more than 100 peerreviewed research papers, presented at 

numerous national and international 

meetings, and participated in various 

workshops addressing issues related to 

toxicogenomics, food safety, mixture 

toxicology, environmental risk 

assessment, stem cells in toxicology, 

endocrine disruptors, and mechanisms 

of toxicology. Dr. Zacharewski has 

served as a member on two committees 

for the National Academies of Science 

(i.e., Emerging Issues in Environmental 

Health Sciences, Identifying and 

Assessing Unintended Effects of 

Genetically Engineered Foods on 

Human Health), and as a consultant to 

the National Centers for 

Toxicogenomics, the Science Advisory 

Board for EPA, the International Life 

Sciences Institute/Health and 

Environmental Sciences Institute 

Technical Committee on the 

Application of Genomics to MechanismBased Risk Assessment, and the Science 

Advisory Panel for Chemical Industry 

Institute of Toxicology Centers for 

Health Research. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection. 

Dated: August 7, 2009. 

Frank Sanders, 

Director, Office of Science Coordination and 

Policy. 

[FR Doc. E9–19313 Filed 8–11–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2007–0540; FRL–8427–5] 

Bromonitrostyrene; Product 

Cancellation Order 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces EPA’s 

order for the cancellation of products 

containing the pesticide 

bromonitrostyrene, pursuant to section 

6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, 

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 

(FIFRA), as amended. This cancellation 

order follows an August 27, 2008 

Federal Register Notice of Receipt of 

Requests from the bromonitrostyrene 

registrants to voluntarily cancel all their 

bromonitrostyrene product registrations. 

These are the last bromonitrostyrene 

products registered for sale or 

distribution in the United States. In the 

August 27, 2008 Notice, EPA indicated 

that it would issue an order accepting 

the requests for voluntary cancellation 

and implementing the cancellations, 

unless the Agency received substantive 

comments within the 30–day comment 

period that would merit its further 

review of these requests, or unless the 

registrants withdrew their requests 

within this period. The Agency did not 

receive any comments on the notice. 

Further, the registrants did not 

withdraw their requests. Accordingly, 

EPA hereby issues in this notice a 

cancellation order accepting the 

requested cancellations and cancelling 

the affected registrations. Any 

distribution, sale, or use of the 

bromonitrostyrene products subject to 

this cancellation order is permitted only 

in accordance with the terms of this 

order, including any existing stocks 

provisions. 

DATES: The cancellations are effective 

August 12, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

ShaRon Carlisle, Antimicrobials 

Division (7510P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (703) 308–6427; fax number: 

(703) 308–8481; e-mail address: 

carlisle.sharon@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this Action Apply to Me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general, and may be of interest to a 

wide range of stakeholders including 


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