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[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 171 (Thursday, September 3, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53308-53309]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-21918]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0611; FRL-9933-55-ORD]

Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Sustainable and Healthy 
Communities Subcommittee Meeting--September 2015

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of 
Research and Development (ORD), gives notice of a meeting of the Board 
of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Sustainable and Healthy Communities 
(SHC) Subcommittee.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Thursday, September 24, 2015, from 
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and will continue on Friday, September 25, 
2015, from 8:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. All times noted are Eastern 
Daylight Time and are approximate. Attendees should register by 
September 16, 2015, at the following Eventbrite Web site: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/us-epa-bosc-sustainable-and-healthy-communities-subcommittee-tickets-17480310078. Requests for the draft agenda or for 
submitting written comments will be accepted up to September 22, 2015.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the EPA's Main Campus Facility, 
C111-C, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, North 
Carolina 27711. Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-ORD-2015-0611, by one of the following methods:
    www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for 
submitting comments.
     Email: Send comments by electronic mail (email) to: 
ORD.Docket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0611.
     Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0611.
     Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific 
Counselors (BOSC) Sustainable and Healthy Communities Subcommittee 
Docket, Mail Code: 2822T, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC 
20004, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0611.
     Hand Delivery or Courier: Deliver comments to: EPA Docket 
Center (EPA/DC), Room 3334, William Jefferson Clinton West Building, 
1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC, Attention Docket ID No. 
EPA-HQ-ORD-2015-0611. Note: This is not a mailing address. Deliveries 
are only accepted during the docket's normal hours of operation, and 
special arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed 
information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2015-0611. The EPA's policy is that all comments received will be 
included in the public docket without change and may be made available 
online at 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 www.regulations.gov 
or email. The www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' 
system, which means the EPA will not know your identity or contact 
information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you 
send an email comment directly to the EPA without going through 
www.regulations.gov, your email 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, the EPA recommends that you include your name and other 
contact information in the body of your comment. If the EPA cannot read 
your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for 
clarification, the 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. For additional 
information about the EPA's public docket visit the EPA Docket Center 
homepage at http://www.epa.gov/dockets/.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the 
www.regulations.gov index. 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, will be publicly available only in hard copy. 
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically 
in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Board of Scientific 
Counselors (BOSC) Sustainable and Healthy Communities Subcommittee 
Docket, EPA/DC, William Jefferson Clinton West Building, Room 3334, 
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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Designated Federal Officer (DFO) 
via mail at: Jace Cuj[eacute], Mail Code 8104R, Office of Science 
Policy, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; 
via phone/voice mail at: (202) 564-1795; via fax at: (202) 565-2911; or 
via email at: cuje.jace@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: General Information: The BOSC was 
established by the EPA to provide advice, information, and 
recommendations regarding the ORD research programs. The BOSC is 
federal advisory committee chartered under the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C., App. 2. Pursuant to FACA and EPA 
policy, notice is hereby given that the BOSC SHC Subcommittee will hold 
a meeting to deliberate on the future direction of ORD's SHC research 
program.
    This meeting is open to the public. Any member of the public 
interested in receiving a draft agenda, attending the meeting, or 
making a presentation at the meeting may contact Jace Cuj[eacute], DFO, 
via any of the contact methods listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT section above. Proposed agenda items for the meeting include, 
but are not limited to, the following: Overview of materials provided 
to the subcommittee; Overview of ORD; Overview of ORD's SHC Research 
Program; Poster sessions; SHC Tools Caf[eacute]; Program and Regional 
Office perspectives; Public comments; and Subcommittee discussion. 
Members of the public wishing to provide comment in person should 
register by September 16, 2015, via the Eventbrite site noted above and 
contact the DFO directly.
    Written Statements: Written statements for the public meeting 
should be received by the DFO via email at the contact information 
listed above by September 21, 2015. Written statements should be 
supplied in one of the following electronic formats: Adobe Acrobat PDF, 
MS Word, MS Power Point, or Rich Text format.
    Oral Statements: In general, each individual making an oral 
presentation at the public meeting will be limited to a total of three 
minutes. Each person

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making an oral statement should also consider providing written 
comments so that the points presented orally can be expanded upon in 
writing. Interested parties should contact the DFO in writing 
(preferably via email) at the contact information noted above by 
September 16, 2015, to be placed on the list of public speakers for the 
BOSC meeting.
    For security purposes, all attendees must provide their names to 
the DFO and register online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/us-epa-bosc-sustainable-and-healthy-communities-subcommittee-tickets-17480310078 by September 16, 2015. Upon entering the EPA building, 
attendees will be required to sign in with the security desk, go 
through a metal detector, and show government-issued photo 
identification to enter the building. Attendees are encouraged to 
arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the meeting to allow 
sufficient time for security screening.
    Information on Services for Individuals with Disabilities: For 
information on access or services for individuals with disabilities, 
please contact Jace Cuj[eacute] at (202) 564-1795 or cuje.jace@epa.gov. 
To request accommodation of a disability, please contact Jace 
Cuj[eacute], preferably at least ten days prior to the meeting, to give 
the EPA as much time as possible to process your request.

    Dated: August 27, 2015.
Fred S. Hauchman,
Director, Office of Science Policy.
[FR Doc. 2015-21918 Filed 9-2-15; 8:45 am]
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