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appearance of a lack of impartiality; and 

(e) skills working in committees, 

subcommittees and advisory panels; 

and, for the Panel as a whole, (f) 

diversity of, and balance among, 

scientific expertise, viewpoints, etc. 

The SAB Staff Office’s evaluation of 

an absence of financial conflicts of 

interest will include a review of the 

‘‘Confidential Financial Disclosure 

Form for Special Government 

Employees Serving on Federal Advisory 

Committees at the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency’’ (EPA Form 3110–

48). This confidential form allows 

Government officials to determine 

whether there is a statutory conflict 

between that person’s public 

responsibilities (which includes 

membership on an EPA Federal 

advisory committee) and private 

interests and activities, or the 

appearance of a lack of impartiality, as 

defined by Federal regulation. The form 

may be viewed and downloaded from 

the following URL address: http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/epaform3110–

48.pdf. 

The approved policy under which the 

EPA SAB Office selects subcommittees 

and review panels is described in the 

following document: Overview of the 

Panel Formation Process at the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

Science Advisory Board (EPA–SAB–EC–

02–010), which is posted on the SAB 

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

pdf/ec02010.pdf. 

Dated: March 5, 2007. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

[FR Doc. E7–4562 Filed 3–12–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–ORD–2006–0998; FRL–8287–2] 

Human Studies Review Board (HSRB); 

Notification of a Public Teleconference 

To Review Its Draft Report From the 

January 24, 2007 HSRB Meeting 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA Human Studies 

Review Board (HSRB) announces a 

public teleconference meeting to discuss 

its draft HSRB report from the January 

24, 2007 HSRB meeting. 

DATES: The teleconference will be held 

on April 10, 2007, from 1 to 

approximately 3 p.m. (Eastern Time). 

Location: The meeting will take place 

via telephone only. 

Meeting Access: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact the DFO at 

least 10 business days prior to the 

meeting using the information under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, so 

that appropriate arrangements can be 

made. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant written or oral 

comments for the HSRB to consider 

during the advisory process. Additional 

information concerning submission of 

relevant written or oral comments is 

provided in Unit I.D. of this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Members of the public who wish to 

obtain the call-in number and access 

code to participate in the telephone 

conference, request a current draft copy 

of the Board’s report or who wish 

further information may contact Lu-Ann 

Kleibacker, EPA, Office of the Science 

Advisor, (8105R), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

or via telephone/voice mail at (202) 

564–7189. General information 

concerning the EPA HSRB can be found 

on the EPA Web site at http:// 

www.epa.gov/osa/hsrb/. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your written 

comments, identified by Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–ORD–2006–0998, by one of 

the following methods: http:// 

www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line 

instructions for submitting comments. 

E-mail: ORD.Docket@epa.gov. 

Mail: ORD Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mailcode: 28221T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. 

Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center 

(EPA/DC), Public Reading Room, 

Infoterra Room (Room Number 3334), 

EPA West Building, 1301 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460, 

Attention Docket ID No. EPA–ORD–

2006–0998. Deliveries are only accepted 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. Special arrangements should 

be made for deliveries of boxed 

information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2006–

0998. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change and may be 

made available online 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 http:// 

www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The 

http://www.regulations.gov Web site 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 http:// 

www.regulations.gov, your e-mail 

address will be automatically captured 

and included as part of the comment 

that is placed in the public 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. 

I. Public Meeting 

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 conduct or 

assess human studies, especially studies 

on substances regulated by EPA, or to 

persons who are or may be required to 

conduct testing of chemical substances 

under the Federal Food, Drug, and 

Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) or the Federal 

Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 

Act (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. 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 Access Electronic Copies 

of This Document and Other Related 

Information? 

In addition to using regulations.gov, 

you may access this Federal Register 

document electronically through the 

EPA Internet under the ‘‘Federal 

Register’’ listings at http:// 

www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the http:// 

www.regulations.gov index. Although 

listed in the index, some information is 

not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other 

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restricted by statute. Certain other 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

will be publicly available only in hard 

copy. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either 

electronically in http:// 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the ORD Docket, EPA/DC, Public 

Reading Room, Infoterra Room (Room 

Number 3334), EPA West Building, 

1301 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC. The Public Reading 

Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding 

legal holidays. The telephone number 

for the Public Reading Room is (202) 

566–1744, and the telephone number for 

the ORD Docket is (202) 566–1752. 

The January 24, 2007 HSRB meeting 

draft report is now available. You may 

obtain electronic copies of this 

document, and certain other related 

documents that might be available 

electronically, from the regulations.gov 

Web site and the HSRB Internet Home 

Page at http://www.epa.gov/osa/hsrb/. 

For questions on document availability 

or if you do not have access to the 

Internet, consult the person listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

C. What Should I Consider as I Prepare 

My Comments for EPA? 

You may find the following 

suggestions helpful for preparing your 

comments: 

1. Explain your views as clearly as 

possible. 

2. Describe any assumptions that you 

used. 

3. Provide copies of any technical 

information and/or data you used that 

support your views. 

4. Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns. 

5. To ensure proper receipt by EPA, 

be sure to identify the docket ID number 

assigned to this action in the subject 

line on the first page of your response. 

You may also provide the name, date, 

and Federal Register citation. 

D. How May I Participate in This 

Meeting? 

You may participate in this meeting 

by following the instructions in this 

section. To ensure proper receipt by 

EPA, it is imperative that you identify 

docket ID number EPA–HQ–ORD–2006–

0998 in the subject line on the first page 

of your request. 

1. Oral comments. Requests to present 

oral comments will be accepted up to 

April 3, 2007. To the extent that time 

permits, interested persons who have 

not pre-registered may be permitted by 

the Chair of the HSRB to present oral 

comments at the meeting. Each 

individual or group wishing to make 

brief oral comments to the HSRB is 

strongly advised to submit their request 

(preferably via e-mail) to the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT no later than noon, eastern 

time, April 3 2007, in order to be 

included on the meeting agenda and to 

provide sufficient time for the HSRB 

Chair and HSRB DFO to review the 

meeting agenda to provide an 

appropriate public comment period. 

The request should identify the name of 

the individual making the presentation 

and the organization (if any) the 

individual will represent. Oral 

comments before the HSRB are limited 

to 5 minutes per individual or 

organization. Please note that this 

includes all individuals appearing 

either as part of, or on behalf of an 

organization. While it is our intent to 

hear a full range of oral comments on 

the science and ethics issues under 

discussion, it is not our intent to permit 

organizations to expand these time 

limitations by having numerous 

individuals sign up separately to speak 

on their behalf. If additional time is 

available, there may be flexibility in 

time for public comments. 

2. Written comments. Although you 

may submit written comments at any 

time, for the HSRB to have the best 

opportunity to review and consider your 

comments as it deliberates on its report, 

you should submit your comments at 

least 5 business days prior to the 

beginning of this teleconference. If you 

submit comments after this date, those 

comments will be provided to the Board 

members, but you should recognize that 

the Board members may not have 

adequate time to consider those 

comments prior to making a decision. 

Thus, if you plan to submit written 

comments, the Agency strongly 

encourages you to submit such 

comments no later than noon, Eastern 

Time, April 3, 2007. You should submit 

your comments using the instructions in 

Unit 1.C. of this notice. In addition, the 

Agency also requests that person(s) 

submitting comments directly to the 

docket also provide a copy of their 

comments to the person listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

There is no limit on the length of 

written comments for consideration by 

the HSRB. 

E. Background 

The EPA Human Studies Review 

Board will be reviewing its draft report 

from the January 24, 2007 HSRB 

meeting. Background on the January 24, 

2007 HSRB meeting can be found at 

Federal Register 71 249, 78200 

(December 28, 2006) and at the HSRB 

Web site http://www.epa.gov/osa/hsrb/. 

The Board may also discuss planning 

for future HSRB meetings. 

Dated: March 7, 2007. 

George Gray, 

EPA Science Advisor. 

[FR Doc. E7–4565 Filed 3–12–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8286–9] 

Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Notification of Multiple Public 

Teleconferences of the Science 

Advisory Board Hypoxia Advisory 

Panel 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA’s Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office is announcing 

three public teleconferences of the SAB 

Hypoxia Advisory Panel and its 

subgroups to discuss its draft advisory 

working report concerning the hypoxic 

zone in the Gulf of Mexico. 

DATES: The dates for the three 

teleconferences are: 

(1) SAB Hypoxia Advisory Panel 

Subgroup 1 Characterization of the 

Causes Hypoxia Teleconference—April 

2, 2007 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Eastern 

Time; 

(2) SAB Hypoxia Advisory Panel 

Subgroup 2 Characterization of Nutrient 

Fate, Transport, and Sources, and 

Subgroup 3 Scientific Basis for Goals 

and Management Options 

Teleconference—April 16, 2007 from 1 

p.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern Time; and 

(3) SAB Hypoxia Advisory Panel 

Teleconference—May 7, 2007 from 1 

p.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern Time. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Members of the public who wish to 

obtain the teleconference call-in 

numbers and access codes to participate 

in the teleconferences may contact the 

following individuals. 

(1) For the SAB Hypoxia Advisory 

Panel Subgroup 1—Characterization of 

the Causes of Hypoxia teleconference, 

contact Dr. Thomas Armitage, 

Designated Federal Officer (DFO), by 

telephone at (202) 343–9995, fax at (202) 

233–0643, or e-mail at 

armitage.thomas@epa.gov. 

(2) For the SAB Hypoxia Advisory 

Panel Subgroup 2—Characterization of 

Nutrient Fate, Transport, and Sources, 

and Subgroup 3—Scientific Basis for 

Goals and Management Options 

teleconference, contact Mr. David 

Wangsness, DFO for Subgroup 2, by 


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