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analyses for investment banking, 

corporate and non-profit clients. 

Mr. Anstrom also holds a B.A. from 

Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, and 

attended one year of graduate school at 

the Woodrow Wilson School of Public 

and International Affairs, Princeton 

University, Princeton, NJ. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009-0727; FRL–8839–6] 

Lauryl Sulfate Salts Registration 

Review Final Decision; Notice of 

Availability 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability of EPA’s final registration 

review decision for the pesticide, lauryl 

sulfate salts (also known as sodium 

lauryl salts), case 4061. Registration 

review is EPA’s periodic review of 

pesticide registrations to ensure that 

each pesticide continues to satisfy the 

statutory standard for registration, that 

is, that the pesticide can perform its 

intended function without causing 

unreasonable adverse effects on human 

health or the environment. Through this 

program, EPA is ensuring that each 

pesticide’s registration is based on 

current scientific and other knowledge, 

including its effects on human health 

and the environment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

pesticide specific information, contact: 

Monisha Harris, Chemical Review 

Manager, Antimicrobials Division 

(7510P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

(703) 308-0410; fax number: (703) 308- 

8090; e-mail address: 

harris.monisha@epa.gov. 

For general information on the 

registration review program, contact: 

Lance Wormell, Antimicrobials Division 

(7510P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

(703) 603-0523; fax number: (703) 308– 

8090; e-mail address: 

wormell.lance@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 

environmental, human health, farm 

worker, and agricultural advocates; the 

chemical industry; pesticide users; and 

members of the public interested in the 

sale, distribution, or use of pesticides. 

Since others also may 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 

chemical review manager listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

B. How Can I Get Copies of this 

Document and Other Related 

Information? 

EPA has established a docket for this 

action under docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0727. 

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. 

II. Background 

A. What Action is the Agency Taking? 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 155.58(c), this 

notice announces the availability of 

EPA’s final registration review decision 

for the lauryl sulfate salts. Sodium 

lauryl sulfate (PC Code 079011) is the 

only active ingredient in case 4061. 

There is one registered product that 

contains sodium lauryl sulfate as an 

active ingredient. The product, 

Kleenex® Brand Antiviral Tissues, 

contains 2.02% sodium lauryl sulfate 

and is registered by Kimberly-Clark 

Global Sales, LLC (EPA Reg. No. 9402- 

10). The tissues also contain citric acid 

as an active ingredient at 7.51%. 

Products containing sodium lauryl 

sulfate as an active ingredient were first 

registered in 1948 and sodium lauryl 

sulfate is widely used as an 

intentionally-added inert ingredient in 

pesticide products. 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 155.57, a 

registration review decision is the 

Agency’s determination whether a 

pesticide meets, or does not meet, the 

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 

Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) standard for 

registration. EPA has considered lauryl 

sulfate salts in light of the FIFRA 

standard for registration. The Final 

Decision document in the docket 

describes the Agency’s rationale for 

issuing a registration review final 

decision for lauryl sulfate salts. 

In addition to the final registration 

review decision document, the 

registration review docket for lauryl 

sulfate salts also includes other relevant 

documents related to the registration 

review of this case. The combined final 

work plan and proposed registration 

review decision was posted to the 

docket and the public was invited to 

submit any comments or new 

information. During the 60–day 

comment period, no public comments 

were received. 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 155.58(c), the 

registration review case docket for 

lauryl sulfate salts will remain open 

until all actions required in the final 

decision have been completed. 

Background on the registration review 

program is provided at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/ 

registration_review. Links to earlier 

documents related to the registration 

review of lauryl sulfate salts are 

provided at: http://www.epa.gov/

oppsrrd1/registration_review/laurylsulfate/index.html. 

B. What is the Agency’s Authority for 

Taking this Action? 

Section 3(g) of FIFRA and 40 CFR part 

155, subpart C, provide authority for 

this action. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, 

Registration review, Pesticides and 

pests, Antimicrobials, Lauryl Sulfate 

Salts. 

Dated: September 2, 2010. 

Joan Harrigan-Farrelly 

Director, Antimicrobials Division, Office of 

Pesticide Programs. 

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FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; 

Notice of Rescheduled Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Agency is issuing this 

notice to reschedule the 3–day meeting 


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of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, 

and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Scientific 

Advisory Panel (SAP) to consider and 

review the Chlorpyrifos Physiologically 

Based Pharmacokinetic/ 

Pharmacodynamic (PBPK/PD) Modeling 

linked to the Cumulative and Aggregate 

Risk Evaluation System (CARES). The 

meeting, originally scheduled for 

October 5–8, 2010, was announced in 

the Federal Register of August 18, 2010. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

November 2-5, 2010, from 9 a.m. to 

approximately 5:30 p.m. 

Comments. The Agency encourages 

that written comments be submitted by 

October 26, 2010, and requests for oral 

comments be submitted by October 29, 

2010. However, written comments and 

requests to make oral comments may be 

submitted until the date of the meeting, 

but anyone submitting written 

comments after October 26, 2010, 

should contact the Designated Federal 

Official (DFO) listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. For additional 

instructions, see Unit I.C. of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

Nominations. Nominations of 

candidates to serve as ad hoc members 

of FIFRA SAP for this meeting should 

be provided on or before September 29, 

2010. 

Webcast. This meeting may be 

webcast. Please refer to the FIFRA SAP’s 

website, http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/ 

SAP for information on how to access 

the webcast. Please note that the 

webcast is a supplementary public 

process provided only for convenience. 

If difficulties arise resulting in 

webcasting outages, the meeting will 

continue as planned. 

Special accommodations. For 

information on access or services for 

individuals with disabilities, and to 

request accommodation of a disability, 

please contact the DFO listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT 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 

the Environmental Protection Agency, 

Conference Center, Lobby Level, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA 22202. 

Comments. Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0588, 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–2010– 

0588. If your comments contain any 

information that you consider to be CBI 

or otherwise protected, please contact 

the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT to obtain special 

instructions before submitting your 

comments. 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:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes information 

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. 

Nominations, requests to present oral 

comments, and requests for special 

accommodations. Submit nominations 

to serve as ad hoc members of FIFRA 

SAP, requests for special seating 

accommodations, or requests to present 

oral comments to the DFO listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sharlene Matten, DFO, Office of Science 

Coordination and Policy (7201M), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

(202) 564–0130; fax number: (202) 564– 

8382; e-mail address: 

matten.sharlene@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 DFO 

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 

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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. 

C. How May I Participate in this 

Meeting? 

You may participate in this meeting 

by following the instructions in this 

unit. To ensure proper receipt by EPA, 

it is imperative that you identify docket 

ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2010–0588 in 

the subject line on the first page of your 

request. 

1. Written comments. The Agency 

encourages that written comments be 

submitted, using the instructions in 

ADDRESSES, no later than October 26, 

2010, to provide FIFRA SAP the time 

necessary to consider and review the 

written comments. Written comments 

are accepted until the date of the 

meeting, but anyone submitting written 

comments after October 26, 2010, 

should contact the DFO listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Anyone 

submitting written comments at the 

meeting should bring 30 copies for 

distribution to FIFRA SAP. 

2. Oral comments. The Agency 

encourages that each individual or 

group wishing to make brief oral 

comments to FIFRA SAP submit their 

request to the DFO listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT no later 

than October 29, 2010, in order to be 

included on the meeting agenda. 

Requests to present oral comments will 

be accepted until the date of the meeting 

and, to the extent that time permits, the 

Chair of FIFRA SAP may permit the 

presentation of oral comments at the 

meeting by interested persons who have 

not previously requested time. The 

request should identify the name of the 

individual making the presentation, the 

organization (if any) the individual will 

represent, and any requirements for 

audiovisual equipment (e.g., overhead 

projector, 35 mm projector, chalkboard). 

Oral comments before FIFRA SAP are 

limited to approximately 5 minutes 

unless prior arrangements have been 

made. In addition, each speaker should 

bring 30 copies of his or her comments 

and presentation slides for distribution 

to the FIFRA SAP at the meeting. 

3. Seating at the meeting. Seating at 

the meeting will be open and on a firstcome basis. 

4. Request for nominations to serve as 

ad hoc members of FIFRA SAP for this 

meeting. As part of a broader process for 

developing a pool of candidates for each 

meeting, FIFRA SAP staff routinely 

solicits the stakeholder community for 

nominations of prospective candidates 

for service as ad hoc members of FIFRA 

SAP. Any interested person or 

organization may nominate qualified 

individuals to be considered as 

prospective candidates for a specific 

meeting. Individuals nominated for this 

meeting should have expertise in one or 

more of the following areas: Risk 

Assessment, organophosphate 

pesticides, cholinesterase inhibition, 

data-derived uncertainty factors (also 

referred to as chemical specific 

adjustment factors), pharmacodynamic 

modeling, physiologically based 

pharmacokinetic modeling, 

biomonitoring data, statistical modeling, 

probabilistic techniques, and dietary 

exposure to pesticides. Nominees 

should be scientists who have sufficient 

professional qualifications, including 

training and experience, to be capable of 

providing expert comments on the 

scientific issues for this meeting. 

Nominees should be identified by name, 

occupation, position, address, and 

telephone number. Nominations should 

be provided to the DFO listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT on or 

before September 29, 2010. The Agency 

will consider all nominations of 

prospective candidates for this meeting 

that are received on or before this date. 

However, final selection of ad hoc 

members for this meeting is a 

discretionary function of the Agency. 

The selection of scientists to serve on 

FIFRA SAP is based on the function of 

the panel and the expertise needed to 

address the Agency’s charge to the 

panel. No interested scientists shall be 

ineligible to serve 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. Other factors considered during 

the selection process include 

availability of the potential panel 

member to fully participate in the 

panel’s reviews, absence of any conflicts 

of interest or appearance of lack of 

impartiality, independence with respect 

to the matters under review, and lack of 

bias. Although financial conflicts of 

interest, the appearance of lack of 

impartiality, lack of independence, and 

bias may result in disqualification, the 

absence of such concerns does not 

assure that a candidate will be selected 

to serve on FIFRA SAP. Numerous 

qualified candidates are identified for 

each panel. Therefore, selection 

decisions involve carefully weighing a 

number of factors including the 

candidates’ areas of expertise and 

professional qualifications and 

achieving an overall balance of different 

scientific perspectives on the panel. In 

order to have the collective breadth of 

experience needed to address the 

Agency’s charge for this meeting, the 

Agency anticipates selecting 

approximately 10–15 ad hoc scientists. 

FIFRA SAP members are subject to 

the provisions of 5 CFR part 2634, 

Executive Branch Financial Disclosure, 

as supplemented by the EPA in 5 CFR 

part 6401. In anticipation of this 

requirement, prospective candidates for 

service on the FIFRA SAP will be asked 

to submit confidential financial 

information which shall fully disclose, 

among other financial interests, the 

candidate’s employment, stocks and 

bonds, and where applicable, sources of 

research support. EPA will evaluate the 

candidates financial disclosure form to 

assess whether there are financial 

conflicts of interest, appearance of a 

lack of impartiality or any prior 

involvement with the development of 

the documents under consideration 

(including previous scientific peer 

review) before the candidate is 

considered further for service on FIFRA 

SAP. Those who are selected from the 

pool of prospective candidates will be 

asked to attend the public meetings and 

to participate in the discussion of key 

issues and assumptions at these 

meetings. In addition, they will be asked 

to review and to help finalize the 

meeting minutes. The list of FIFRA SAP 

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 


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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 

Chlorpyrifos (0,0-diethyl-0-3,5,6- 

trichloro-2-pyridyl phosphorothioate) is 

a broad-spectrum, chlorinated 

organophosphate (OP) insecticide. In 

2000, nearly all residential uses were 

voluntarily canceled by Dow 

AgroSciences, but agricultural uses 

remain. The 2000 human health risk 

assessment was largely based on adult 

laboratory animal data (rat or dog) for 

cholinesterase inhibition and the 

application of default uncertainty 

factors to address inter- and intraspecies differences including 

susceptible populations. Currently, the 

Agency is developing a new human 

health risk assessment expected to be 

released in 2010. In 2008, the FIFRA 

SAP reviewed a draft science issue 

paper on the human health effects of 

chlorpyrifos. Since that time, Dow 

AgroSciences has undergone a research 

effort to improve the existing PBPK/PD 

model developed by Dr. Charles 

Timchalk and co-workers at Pacific 

Northwest National Laboratory. Dow 

AgroSciences has also developed a 

proposed approach for linking this 

PBPK/PD model to the CARES, see 

http://www.ilsi.org/ 

ResearchFoundation/Pages/ 

CARES.aspx, a publically available 

probabilistic exposure model. The 

purpose of the October 2010 SAP 

meeting will be to review the PBPK/PD 

model and to evaluate the proposed 

approach for linking this model to 

CARES. The linking of the chlorpyrifos 

PBPK/PD model to CARES may provide 

opportunities to integrate distributions 

of exposure to chlorpyrifos and its 

metabolites with cholinesterase 

inhibition levels across the U.S. 

population. In addition, this approach 

may allow estimation of data-derived 

uncertainty factors that consider use of 

toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic data to 

inform quantitative extrapolations for 

interspecies differences and human 

variability in dose response assessment. 

The topics to be covered in the October 

2010 SAP are consistent with EPA’s 

Office of Pesticide Programs continuing 

efforts to improve the scientific basis for 

risk assessment by broadening the 

application of probabilistic exposure 

techniques and PBPK models. The 

Agency has a conceptually similar effort 

on-going to link PBPK models for 

pyrethroids to the Stochastic Human 

Exposure and Dose Simulation model 

for multimedia and multipathway 

chemicals (SHEDS-Multimedia), a 

probabilistic exposure model developed 

by EPA’s Office of Research and 

Development, that was reviewed by the 

SAP in July 2010. The current effort by 

Dow AgroSciences is a research effort 

which may, if sufficiently robust, inform 

future risk assessments. The October 

meeting is a key milestone in this effort. 

The Agency will solicit feedback from 

the Panel on technical issues related to 

the PBPK/PD model, the proposed 

approach for linking the PBPK/PD 

model with CARES, and the use of such 

linked models in risk assessment. 

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-October 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 2, 2010. 

Steven M. Knott, 

Acting Director, Office of Science 

Coordination and Policy. 

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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Notification of Public Teleconferences 

of the Mountaintop Mining Panel 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office announces two 

public teleconferences of the SAB 

Mountaintop Mining Panel to discuss 

the Panel’s draft reports. 

DATES: A public teleconference will be 

held on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 

from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. (Eastern Time). 

Should the Panel need additional time, 

a second public teleconference will be 

held on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 from 

1 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern Time). 

ADDRESSES: The public teleconference 

will be conducted by telephone only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing to obtain 

general information concerning the 

public teleconference may contact Mr. 

Edward Hanlon, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), via telephone at (202) 

564–2134 or e-mail at 

hanlon.edward@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 

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

hereby given that the SAB Mountaintop 

Mining Panel will hold a public 

teleconference to discuss its draft 

reports. 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 under FACA. The 

SAB will comply with the provisions of 

FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff 

Office procedural policies. 

The Panel met on July 20–22, 2010 to 

review EPA’s The Effects of 

Mountaintop Mines and Valley Fills on 

Aquatic Ecosystems of the Central 

Appalachian Coalfields and Field-Based 

Aquatic Life Benchmark for 

Conductivity in Central Appalachian 

Streams draft reports [Federal Register 

Notice dated May 25, 2010 (75 FR 

29339–29340)]. Materials from the July 

2010 meeting are posted on the SAB 

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

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