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members participating at this meeting 

will be posted on the FIFRA SAP 

website at http://epa.gov/scipoly/sap or 

may be obtained from the OPP 

Regulatory Public Docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

II. Background 

A. Purpose of FIFRA SAP 

FIFRA SAP serves as the primary 

scientific peer review mechanism of 

EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and 

Pollution Prevention (OCSPP) 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. FIFRA SAP is a 

Federal advisory committee established 

in 1975 under FIFRA that operates in 

accordance with requirements of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act. 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 and the National 

Science Foundation. FIFRA, as 

amended by FQPA, established a 

Science Review Board consisting of at 

least 60 scientists who are available to 

the SAP on an ad hoc basis to assist in 

reviews conducted by the SAP. As a 

peer review mechanism, FIFRA SAP 

provides comments, evaluations and 

recommendations to improve the 

effectiveness and quality of analyses 

made by Agency scientists. Members of 

FIFRA SAP are scientists who have 

sufficient professional qualifications, 

including training and experience, to 

provide expert advice and 

recommendation to the Agency. 

B. Public Meeting 

The Agency recognizes that climate 

change will affect parts of its core 

mission. To achieve its core mission, 

EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs 

(OPP) assessment methodologies must 

continue to provide high quality 

science-based predictions of the risks 

from exposure to pesticides. OPP is in 

the early stages of examining how well 

existing assessment tools may perform 

in light of climate change and if any 

modifications are needed to respond to 

changes in climate. OPP’s initial effort 

is to examine its exposure models. 

EPA assesses pesticide exposure to 

people from the food and water they 

consume and from the pesticides they 

use or otherwise come in contact within 

and around the home, public areas and 

occupational settings. EPA also assesses 

environmental exposure to terrestrial 

and aquatic species. In assessing 

exposures to pesticides, EPA uses many 

peer reviewed models and 

methodologies. 

OPP has reviewed most of its human 

and ecological exposure models used to 

assess exposure to conventional 

pesticides to explore which inputs and 

parameters may be affected by changing 

climatic conditions. Of the reviewed 

exposure assessment tools, OPP selected 

two human and two ecological models 

commonly used by OPP as case studies 

to illustrate the Agency’s approach for 

considering the potential effects of 

climate change on the Agency’s 

exposure estimates. Based on the 

reviews the Agency has reached some 

preliminary conclusions. 

The purpose of this consultation is to 

seek the SAP’s advice on the approach 

used by OPP to examine its exposure 

models’ performance in light of climate 

change and on OPP’s preliminary 

conclusions resulting from this review. 

The Agency is also seeking advice on 

sources of information or research that 

may inform identified gaps in our 

knowledge. 

C. FIFRA SAP Documents and Meeting 

Minutes 

EPA’s background paper, related 

supporting materials, charge/questions 

to FIFRA SAP, FIFRA SAP composition 

(i.e., members and ad hoc members for 

this meeting), and the meeting agenda 

will be available by mid-November 

2010. In addition, the Agency may 

provide additional background 

documents as the materials become 

available. You may obtain electronic 

copies of these documents, and certain 

other related documents that might be 

available electronically, at http:// 

www.regulations.gov and the FIFRA 

SAP homepage at http://www.epa.gov/ 

scipoly/sap. 

FIFRA SAP will prepare meeting 

minutes summarizing its 

recommendations to the Agency 

approximately 90 days after the 

meeting. The meeting minutes will be 

posted on the FIFRA SAP website or 

may be obtained from the OPP 

Regulatory Public Docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: September 22, 2010. 

Frank Sanders, 

Director, Office of Science Coordination and 

Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2010–24433 Filed 9–28–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0001; FRL–8847–2] 

SFIREG Full Committee; Notice of 

Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Association of American 

Pesticide Control Officials (AAPCO)/ 

State FIFRA Issues Research and 

Evaluation Group (SFIREG), 

Environmental Quality Issues (EQI) 

Committee will hold a 2-day meeting, 

beginning on October 27, 2010, and 

ending October 28, 2010. This notice 

announces the location and times for 

the meeting and sets forth the tentative 

agenda topics. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 from 8:30 

a.m. to 5 p.m. and 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon 

on Thursday, October 28, 2010. 

To request accommodation of a 

disability, please contact the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATON

CONTACT, preferably at least 10 days 

prior to the meeting, to give EPA as 

much time as possible to process your 

request. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

EPA. One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 

2777 Crystal Dr., Arlington VA., 4th 

Floor South Conference Room. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ron 

Kendall, Field and External Affairs 

Division (7506P), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (703) 305–5561 fax number: 

(703) 308–1850; e-mail address: 

kendall.ron@epa.gov. or Grier Stayton, 

SFIREG Executive Secretary, P.O. Box 

466, Milford DE 19963; telephone 

number (302) 422–8152; fax (302) 422– 

2435; e-mail address: Grier Stayton at 

aapco-sfireg@comcast.net. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

You may be potentially affected by 

this action if you are interested in 

SFIREG information exchange 

relationship with EPA regarding 

important issues related to human 

health, environmental exposure to 

pesticides, and insight into EPA’s 

decision-making process. You are 

invited and encouraged to attend the 

meetings and participate as appropriate. 

Potentially affected entities may 

include, but are not limited to: 


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Those persons who are or may be 

required to conduct testing of chemical 

substances under the Federal Food, 

Drug and Cosmetics Act (FFDCA), or the 

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 

Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). 

B. How can I get copies of this document 

and other related information? 

1. Docket. EPA has established a 

docket for this action under docket ID 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0001. 

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 Office of 

Pesticide Programs (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. 

2. Electronic access. You may access 

this Federal Register document 

electronically through the EPA Internet 

under the Federal Register listings at 

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr. 

II. Background 

1. SFIREG/EQI letter re: 

environmental and human health 

benchmarks. 

2. EPA use of monitoring data vs. use 

of modeling outputs in registration 

review process. 

3. Endangered Species—bulletins 

update, possible rulemaking procedure, 

new biological opinions. 

4. Bed bugs: ‘‘One State’s Experience’’, 

EPA taskforce update, misuse of 

pesticide products, proposed next steps. 

5. Water quality Pesticide Regulatory 

Education Program (PREP) update. 

6. Water quality PREP—National 

Pollution Discharge Elimination System 

(NPDES) discussions. 

7. NPDES permit update—rollout, 

feedback and comments, EPA responses, 

NPDES/FIFRA Workgroup meeting, next 

steps. 

8. Pesticide Of Interest Tracking 

System (POINTS) database—reporting 

and use update. 

9. OPP and OECA updates. 

10. Office of Water updates—Drinking 

water strategy. 

11. Status of deleted and underreview pesticides (endosulfan, atrazine), 

pyrethoids and pyrethrins reevaluation, 

chlorpyrifos lawsuit, and usefulness to 

the states of Study Profile Templates for 

pesticide registration applications? 

12. Canary software—detect 

intentional or unintentional 

contamination in drinking water 

systems. 

II. How can I request to participate in 

this meeting? 

This meeting is open for the public to 

attend. You may attend the meeting 

without further notification. Non EPA 

attendees will need to be signed in at 

lobby security and escorted to the fourth 

floor meeting room. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection. 

Dated: September 17, 2010. 

Kevin Keaney, 

Acting Director, Field and External Affairs 

Division, Office of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2010–24435 Filed 9–28–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0935; FRL–8804–7] 

Pesticide Science Policy; Notice of 

Withdrawal 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA announces the 

withdrawal of the pesticide science 

policy document ‘‘Use of the Pesticide 

Data Program (PDP) in Acute Risk 

Assessment.’’ In estimating dietary 

exposure to pesticides, the Agency uses 

a variety of data and different models. 

This science policy document was 

developed to explain a particular 

statistical methodology, known as 

decomposition, for using information 

from the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture’s (USDA) Pesticide Data 

Program (PDP) in risk assessments of 

acute exposure to pesticide residues in 

food. EPA is withdrawing this policy 

because EPA has been using a less 

resource-intensive and generally 

comparable method of analyzing data on 

pesticide residues. This action is in 

response to the recommendations made 

by EPA’s Office of Inspector General 

during its review of EPA’s 

implementation of the Food Quality and 

Protection Act (FQPA). In its report 

‘‘Opportunities to Improve Data Quality 

and Children’s Health through the 

FQPA’’ issued January 10, 2006, the 

Office of Inspector General 

recommended that EPA should update 

the status of its Science Policy issue 

papers. This Federal Register notice 

updates the public on the status of one 

of those papers. EPA is withdrawing 

this policy because EPA has been using 

a less resource-intensive and generally 

comparable method of analyzing data on 

pesticide residues. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David J. Miller, Health Effects Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs (7509P), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460-0001; telephone number: 

(703) 305-5352; fax number: (703) 305- 

5147; e-mail address: 

miller.davidj@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, however, may be 

of interest to persons who produce or 

formulate pesticides or who register 

pesticide products. 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. How Can I Get Copies of this 

Document and Other Related 

Information? 

1. Docket. EPA has established a 

docket for this action under docket 

identification (ID) number EPA–HQ– 

OPP–2008–0935. 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 Office of 

Pesticide Programs (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. 

2. Electronic access. You may access 

this Federal Register document 

electronically through the EPA Internet 

under the ‘‘Federal Register’’ listings at 

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr. 

II. Discussion 

A. Background on the Food Quality 

Protection Act of 1996 

The Food Quality Protection Act of 

1996 (FQPA) significantly amended the 

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 

Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the 

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 

(FFDCA). Among other changes, FQPA 

established a stringent health-based 

standard (‘‘a reasonable certainty of no 

harm’’) for pesticide residues in foods to 

assure protection from unacceptable 

pesticide exposure and strengthened 


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