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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary 

Bangs, Risk Assessment Forum, Mail 

Code 8105R, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 564–6667; fax number: 

(202) 564–2070, E-mail: 

bangs.gary@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Various 

stakeholders, inside and outside the 

Agency, have called for a more 

comprehensive characterization of risks, 

including uncertainties, in protecting 

more sensitive or vulnerable 

populations and life stages. Therefore, 

the Office of the Science Advisor of the 

EPA, together with EPA’s Science Policy 

Council and members of EPA’s Risk 

Assessment Forum (RAF), identified a 

need to examine the use of probabilistic 

approaches in Agency risk assessment 

and risk management. An RAF 

Technical Panel developed this paper 

and the manager’s summary to provide 

a general overview of the value of 

probabilistic analyses and similar or 

related methods, and some examples of 

current applications across the Agency. 

The purpose of these papers is not only 

to describe potential and actual uses of 

these tools in the risk decision process, 

but also to encourage their further 

implementation in human, ecological 

and environmental risk analysis and 

related decision making. The enhanced 

use of probabilistic analyses to 

characterize uncertainty in assessments 

would not only reflect external 

scientific advice on how to further 

advance EPA risk assessment science, 

but will also help to address specific 

challenges faced by managers and 

improve confidence in Agency 

decisions. The draft document was 

prepared by the Probabilistic Risk 

Analysis Technical Panel of EPA’s Risk 

Assessment Forum and has undergone 

internal peer review. 

Dated: August 4, 2009. 

Kevin Teichman, 

Acting EPA Science Advisor. 

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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Notification of an Upcoming Meeting of 

the Science Advisory Board; 

Ecological Processes and Effects 

Committee 

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 to conduct a review of EPA’s 

draft guidance document, Empirical 

Approaches for Nutrient Criteria 

Derivation. 

DATES: The meeting dates are 

Wednesday, September 9, 2009 from 9 

a.m. to 5 p.m. (Eastern Time), Thursday, 

September 10, 2009 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 

p.m. (Eastern Time) and Friday, 

September 11, 2009 from 8:30 a.m. to 12 

noon (Eastern Time). 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Marriott at Metro Center Hotel, 775 

12th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Members of the public who wish to 

obtain further information about this 

meeting must contact Dr. Thomas 

Armitage, Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO). Dr. Armitage 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) 343–9995; 

fax (202) 233–0643; or e-mail at 

armitage.thomas@epa.gov. Any inquiry 

regarding EPA’s draft guidance 

document, Empirical Approaches for 

Nutrient Criteria Derivation, should be 

directed to Ms. Ifeyinwa Davis of EPA’s 

Office of Water at 

davis.ifeyinwa@epa.gov or (202) 566– 

1096. General information about the 

EPA SAB, as well as any updates 

concerning the meeting announced in 

this notice, may be found on the SAB 

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

Public Law 92–463, notice is hereby 

given that the SAB Ecological Processes 

and Effects Committee will hold a 

public meeting to conduct a peer review 

of EPA’s draft guidance document, 

Empirical Approaches for Nutrient 

Criteria Derivation. 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: EPA’s Office of Water 

(OW) is responsible for deriving 

national recommended water quality 

criteria that serve as guidance to States 

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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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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

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 

support new regulations for microbial 


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