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Dated: August 8, 2013. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–19820 Filed 8–14–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2013–0485; FRL–9393–3] 

FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; 

Notice of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: There will be a 1-day meeting 

of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, 

and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory 

Panel (FIFRA SAP) to consider and 

review RNAi Technology as a Pesticide: 

Problem Formulation for Human Health 

and Ecological Risk Assessment. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

October 29, 2013, from 9 a.m. to 

approximately 6 p.m. 

Comments. The Agency encourages 

that written comments and requests for 

oral comments be submitted by October 

21, 2013. 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 21, 2013 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 August 29, 

2013. 

Webcast. This meeting may be 

webcast. Please refer to the FIFRA SAP’s 

Web site, 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 ID number EPA– 

HQ–OPP–2013–0485, by one of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

• Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/ 

DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. 

NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: To make special 

arrangements for hand delivery or 

delivery of boxed information, please 

follow the instructions at http:// 

www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.htm. 

Additional instructions on 

commenting or visiting the docket, 

along with more information about 

dockets generally, is available at 

http://www.epa.gov/dockets. 

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. 

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; email 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) and 

FIFRA. 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. 

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. 

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–2013–0485 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 21, 

2013, 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 21, 2013 should 

contact the DFO listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Anyone 

submitting written comments at the 

meeting should bring 25 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 22, 2013 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 


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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: 

• Ecological risk assessment 

• Human health risk assessment 

• Bioinformatics 

• RNAi technology 

• Biotechnology 

• Plant breeding and genomics 

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 August 29, 2013. 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 8–10 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. The 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 Web 

site at http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/sap 

or may be obtained from the OPP Docket 

or 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 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 use of RNA Interference (RNAi) 

gene silencing technology, particularly 

RNAi gene silencing for pesticidal 

purposes, is a relatively recent 

innovation. Post-transcriptional 

silencing of gene function is a very 

rapid process where double-stranded 

RNA (dsRNA) directs sequence-specific 

degradation of an RNA. The EPA is 

beginning to receive applications for 

regulatory actions on pesticides based 

on RNAi gene silencing technologies. 

The EPA recognizes the need to better 

understand the scientific issues 

concerning the assessment of the risks 

to human health and the environment 

that RNAi technologies may pose before 

any regulatory decisions concerning 

these products can be made. In 1998, 

the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency developed a formalized process 

for risk assessment. Problem 

formulation is the first step in this 

process. In problem formulation, 

available information is used to define 

assessment endpoints and to develop a 

preliminary understanding of potential 

risks (i.e., develop a risk hypothesis and 

conceptual model) associated with the 

use of a pesticide. Problem formulation 

also serves as an opportunity to identify 

missing information/uncertainties that 

may limit the assessment and any 

assumptions that may be made in the 

absence of such data. The EPA is 


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seeking the input of the FIFRA SAP on 

the assessment of pesticide products 

based on RNAi technology, particularly 

with regard to general uncertainties in 

the current state of knowledge about 

dsRNAs, including the potential fate of 

dsRNAs genetically-engineered into 

plants or other organisms in the 

environment and any avenues through 

which they may present risk to human 

health and/or the environment. 

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 early October. 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 Web site or 

may be obtained from the OPP Docket 

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

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: July 29, 2013. 

David J. Dix, 

Acting Director, Office of Science 

Coordination and Policy. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9900–14–OA] 

National Environmental Education 

Advisory Council 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of meeting(s). 

SUMMARY: Under the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, EPA gives notice of a 

series of teleconference meetings of the 

National Environmental Education 

Advisory Council (NEEAC). The NEEAC 

was created by Congress to advise, 

consult with, and make 

recommendations to the Administrator 

of the Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA) on matters related to activities, 

functions and policies of EPA under the 

National Environmental Education Act 

(the Act). 

The purpose of these teleconference(s) 

is to discuss specific topics of relevance 

for consideration by the council in order 

to provide advice and insights to the 

Agency on environmental education. 

DATES: The National Environmental 

Education Advisory Council will hold 

public teleconferences on Wednesday, 

August 28, 2013, Monday, September 

23, 2013, Monday, October 23, 2013 and 

Monday, November 25, 2013, from 

12:00 pm until 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight 

Time. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Javier Araujo, Designated Federal 

Officer, araujo.javier@epa.gov, 202– 

564–2642, U.S. EPA, Office of 

Environmental Education, William 

Jefferson Clinton North Room 1426, 

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Members 

of the public wishing to gain access to 

the teleconference, make brief oral 

comments, or provide a written 

statement to the NEEAC must contact 

Javier Araujo, Designated Federal 

Officer, at araujo.javier@epa.gov or 202– 

564–2642 by 10 business days prior to 

each regularly scheduled meeting. 

Meeting Access: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities or to request 

accommodations please contact Javier 

Araujo at araujo.javier@epa.gov or 202– 

564–2642, preferably at least 10 days 

prior to the meeting, to give EPA as 

much time as possible to process your 

request. 

Stephanie Owens, 

Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of 

External Affairs and Environmental 

Education. 

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