59686 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 213 / Tuesday, November 4, 1997 / Notices

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[OPP–00512; FRL–5753–8]

FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; Open

Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of open meeting.

SUMMARY: There will be a 2–day meeting

of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,

and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and Food

Quality Protection Act (FQPA)

Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) to

review a set of scientific issues being

considered by the Agency in connection

with Estimating Drinking Water

Exposure as a Component of the Dietary

Risk Assessment and a Review of the

Spray-Drift Task Force Aerial Data Base.

The session concerning estimating

drinking water exposure will include

presentations on SCI-GROW:

groundwater screening model for

predicting pesticide concentrations in

water, percentage crop based dilution

factors for run-off and surface water

models, description of the screening

model GENEEC for estimating pesticide

concentrations in surface water and the

run-off model PRZM, screening model

for predicting pesticide concentrations

in flowing surface water and drinking

water reservoirs and use of water

monitoring data for drinking water

exposure assessments. The Spray-Drift

Task Force Aerial Data Base review will

include presentations on aerial field

data, review of atomization and physical

properties data, a model for predicting

downwind deposition for agricultural

spray-drift and the model validation

process for agricultural spray-drift.

DATES: The meeting will be held on

Wednesday and Thursday, December 10

and 11, 1997, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at:

Crystal City Gateway Marriott Hotel,

1700 Jefferson Davis Highway,

Arlington, VA. The telephone number

for the hotel is: (703) 920–3230.

By mail, submit written comments

(one original and 20 copies) to: Larry

Dorsey, Designated Federal Official for

the FIFRA/Scientific Advisory Panel,

(7509C), Environmental Protection

Agency, 401 M St., SW., Washington,

DC 20460. In person or by delivery

service, bring comments to: Rm. 819B,

Crystal Mall #2, 1921 Jefferson Davis

Highway, Arlington, VA.

Comments and data may also be

submitted electronically to: oppdocket@epamail.epa.gov. Follow the

instructions under SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION of this document. No

Confidential Business Information (CBI)

should be submitted through e-mail.

Information submitted as a comment

concerning this document may be

claimed confidential by marking any

part or all of that information as CBI.

Information so marked will not be

disclosed except in accordance with

procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2.

A copy of the comment that does not

contain CBI must be submitted for

inclusion in the public record.

Information not marked confidential

will be included in the public docket by

EPA without prior notice. The public

docket is available for public inspection

in Rm. 1132 at the Virginia address

given above, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.,

Monday through Friday, excluding legal

holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: By

mail: Larry C. Dorsey, Designated

Federal Official, FIFRA Scientific

Advisory Panel (7509C), Office of

Pesticide Programs, Environmental

Protection Agency, 401 M St., SW.,

Washington, DC 20460. Office location,

telephone number, and e-mail address:

Rm. 819B, CM #2, 1921 Jefferson Davis

Highway, Arlington, VA, (703) 305–

5369, e-mail:

dorsey.larry@epamail.epa.gov.

A meeting agenda is currently

available and copies of EPA primary

background documents for the meeting

will be available no later than November

10 and may be obtained by contacting:

By mail: Public Information and

Records Integrity Branch, Information

Resources and Services Division

(7502C), Office of Pesticide Programs,

Environmental Protection Agency, 401

M St., SW., Washington, DC 20460, In

person: Rm. 1132, CM #2, 1921 Jefferson

Davis Highway, Arlington, VA,

telephone: (703) 305–5805.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Any

member of the public wishing to submit

written comments should contact Larry

C. Dorsey at the address or the

telephone number given above to

confirm that the meeting is still

scheduled and that the agenda has not

been modified or changed. Interested

persons are permitted to file written

statements before the meeting. To the

extent that time permits and upon

advanced written request to the

Designated Federal Official, interested

persons may be permitted by the Chair

of the Scientific Advisory Panel to

present oral statements at the meeting.

There is no limit on the length of

written comments for consideration by

the Panel, but oral statements before the

Panel are limited to approximately 5

minutes. As oral statements only will be

permitted as time permits, the Agency

urges the public to submit written

comments in lieu of oral presentations.

Persons wishing to make oral and/or

written statements should notify the

Designated Federal Official and submit

20 copies of the summary information.

Please note that comments received by

December 1, 1997, ensure that the Panel

Members will have the time necessary

to consider and review the comments.

Copies of the Panel’s report of their

recommendations will be available

approximately 30 working days after the

meeting and may be obtained by

contacting the Public Information and

Records Integrity Branch, at the address

or telephone number given above.

The official record for this document,

as well as the public version, has been

established for this document under

docket control number ‘‘OPP–00512’’

(including comments and data

submitted electronically as described

below). A public version of this record,

including printed, paper versions of

electronic comments, which does not

include any information claimed as CBI,

is available for inspection from 8:30

a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday,

excluding legal holidays. The official

record is located at the Virginia address

in ‘‘ADDRESSES’’ at the beginning of

this document.

Electronic comments can be sent

directly to EPA at:

opp-docket@epamail.epa.gov

Electronic comments must be

submitted as an ASCII file avoiding the

use of special characters and any form

of encryption. Comment and data will

also be accepted on disks in

Wordperfect 5.1/6.1 or ASCII file

format. All comments and data in

electronic form must be identified by

the docket control number ‘‘OPP–

00512.’’ Electronic comments on this

document may be filed online at many

Federal Depository Libraries.

Dated: October 29, 1997.

Stephen L. Johnson,

Acting Director, Office of Pesticide Programs.

[FR Doc. 97–29155 Filed 11–3–97; 8:45 am]

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