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The meeting is open to the public and

time will be allotted for public

comment. Written comments are

encouraged and should be directed to

David Friedman; USEPA; 1200

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (8101R);

Washington, DC 20460.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

David Friedman; Designated Federal

Officer; USEPA; 1300 Pennsylvania

Avenue, NW; Washington, DC 20460. If

questions arise, please contact Mr.

Friedman by phone at (202) 564–6662,

by facsimile at (202) 565–2432 or by

email at friedman.david@epa.gov.

Dated: January 21, 2000.

Henry L. Longest II,

Deputy Assistant Administrator for

Management, Office of Research and

Development.

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AGENCY

[OPP–00641; FRL–6490–6]

FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; Open

Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: There will be a 4–day meeting

of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,

and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and Food

Quality Protection Act (FQPA)

Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) to

review the following sets of scientific

issues being considered by the Agency

pertaining to: Food allergenicity of

Cry9C endotoxin and other nondigestible proteins; Dietary Exposure

Evaluation Model (DEEM)

Decompositing procedure and software;

MaxLIP (Maximum Likelihood

Imputation Procedure) Pesticide residue

decompositing procedure and software;

Dietary Exposure Evaluation Model

(DEEM); and consultation on

development and use of distributions of

pesticide concentrations in drinking

water for FQPA assessments.

The meeting is open to the public.

Seating at the meeting will be on a firstcome basis. Individuals requiring

special accommodations at this meeting,

including wheelchair access, should

contact Laura Morris or Paul Lewis at

the address listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT at least 5 business

days prior to the meeting so that

appropriate arrangements can be made.

DATES: The meeting will be held on

Tuesday, February 29, through Friday,

March 3, 2000, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30

p.m.

ADDRESSES: Sheraton Crystal City Hotel,

1800 Jefferson Davis Highway,

Arlington, VA. The telephone number

for the Sheraton hotel is: (703) 486–

1111.

Comments may be submitted by mail,

electronically, or in person. Please

follow the detailed instructions for each

method as provided in Unit I. of the

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. To ensure

proper receipt by EPA, it is imperative

that you identify docket control number

OPP–00641 in the subject line on the

first page of your response.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Laura Morris or Paul Lewis, Designated

Federal Officials, FIFRA SAP (7101C),

Office of Science Coordination and

Policy, Environmental Protection

Agency, Ariel Rios Bldg., 1200

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,

DC 20460; telephone number: (703)

308–6212 or (703) 305–5369; fax

number: (703) 605–0656; e-mail address:

morris.laura or lewis.paul@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. Does this Action Apply to Me?

This action is directed to the public

in general. 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 Get Additional

Information, Including Copies of this

Document and Other Related

Documents?

1. Electronically. You may obtain

electronic copies of this document, and

certain other related documents that

might be available electronically, from

the EPA Internet Home Page at http://

www.epa.gov/. To access this

document, on the Home Page select

‘‘Laws and Regulations’’ and then look

up the entry for this document under

the ‘‘Federal Register--Environmental

Documents.’’ You can also go directly to

the Federal Register listings at http://

www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/.

A meeting agenda and copies of EPA

background documents for the meeting

will be available early February, 2000.

The meeting agenda and EPA primary

background documents will be available

on the FIFRA SAP web site at http://

www.epa.gov/scipoly/sap.

2. In person. The Agency has

established an official record for this

action under docket control number

OPP–00641. The official record consists

of the documents specifically referenced

in this action, any public comments

received during an applicable comment

period, and other information related to

this action, including any information

claimed as Confidential Business

Information (CBI). This official record

includes the documents that are

physically located in the docket, as well

as the documents that are referenced in

those documents. The public version of

the official record does not include any

information claimed as CBI. The public

version of the official record, which

includes printed, paper versions of any

electronic comments submitted during

an applicable comment period, is

available for inspection in the Public

Information and Records Integrity

Branch (PIRIB), Rm. 119, Crystal Mall2

(CM2), 1921 Jefferson Davis Hwy.,

Arlington, VA, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.,

Monday through Friday, excluding legal

holidays. The PIRIB telephone number

is (703) 305–5805.

C. How Can I Request to Participate in

this Meeting?

You may submit comments through

the mail, in person, or electronically. To

ensure proper receipt by EPA, it is

imperative that you identify docket

control number OPP–00641 in the

subject line on the first page of your

response.Members of the public wishing

to submit comments should contact the

persons listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT to confirm that the

meeting date and the agenda have 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 persons listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT,

interested persons may be permitted by

the Chair of the FIFRA SAP to present

oral statements at the meeting. 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,

etc). 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. The Agency also urges the

public to submit written comments in

lieu of oral presentations. Persons

wishing to make oral and/or written

statements should notify the persons

listed under FOR

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FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT and

submit 40 copies of the summary

information. The Agency encourages

that written statements be submitted

before the meeting to provide Panel

Members the time necessary to consider

and review the comments.

1. By mail. Submit your comments to:

Public Information and Records

Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Information

Resources and Services Division

(7502C), Office of Pesticide Programs

(OPP), Environmental Protection

Agency, Ariel Rios Bldg., 1200

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,

DC 20460.

2. In person or by courier. Deliver

your comments to: Public Information

and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB),

Information Resources and Services

Division (7502C), Office of Pesticide

Programs (OPP), Environmental

Protection Agency, Rm. 119, CM2, 1921

Jefferson Davis Hwy., Arlington, VA.

The PIRIB is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4

p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding

legal holidays. The PIRIB telephone

number is (703) 305–5805.

3. Electronically. You may submit

your comments electronically by e-mail

to: ‘‘opp-docket@epa.gov,’’ or you can

submit a computer disk as described

above. Do not submit any information

electronically that you consider to be

CBI. Avoid the use of special characters

and any form of encryption. Electronic

submissions will be accepted in

WordPerfect 6.1/8.0 or ASCII file

format. All comments in electronic form

must be identified by docket control

number OPP–00641. Electronic

comments may also be filed online at

many Federal Depository Libraries.

II. Background

A. Purpose of the Meeting?

This 4-day meeting concerns several

scientific issues undergoing

consideration within the EPA/Office of

Pesticide Programs (OPP). The four

session topics to be addressed during

the 4-day meeting are indicated as

follows:

The first session will focus on

assessing the potential allergenicity of

non-digestible proteins expressed as

plant-pesticides. The specific case in

question concerns the Cry9C

insecticidal protein derived from

Bacillus thuringiensis and expressed in

field corn. The Agency is asking

questions on the use of amino acid

homology, the brown Norway rat model

for food allergenicity and other subjects

with regards to the assessment for

potential allergenicity.

The second session will address the

decomposition module in the Dietary

Exposure Evaluation Model (DEEM)

software. In estimating dietary exposure

to pesticides, the Agency uses several

sources for monitoring data of pesticide

residues in foods. These monitoring

data, however, are in the form of

pesticide residues on composited

samples and do not directly represent

concentrations of pesticide residues in

single food items. For acute dietary

exposure estimation, it is the residues in

single items of produce that are of

interest rather than ‘‘average’’ residues

measured in composited samples. The

decomposition module in the DEEM

software uses a statistical procedure in

order to ‘‘decomposite’’ composited

monitoring data to estimate residues in

single items. The purpose of this

presentation is to describe the

decomposition component of the

software.

The second session will also include

a presentation of the MaxLIP (Maximum

Likelihood Imputation Procedure)

Pesticide residue decompositing

procedure and software. For acute

dietary exposure estimation, it is the

residues in single items of produce that

are of interest rather than ‘‘average’’

residues measured in composited

samples. The MaxLIP software uses a

maximum likelihood estimation

procedure in order to ‘‘decomposite’’

composited monitoring data to estimate

residues in single items.

The third session will focus on the

Dietary Exposure Evaluation Model

(DEEM). A major component of

assessing the risks of pesticide

substances is the estimation of dietary

exposure to pesticide residues in foods.

The Agency currently uses the DEEM

exposure assessment software in

conducting its dietary exposure and risk

assessment. The purpose of this session

is to describe the components and

methodologies used by the DEEM

software.

The last session is to provide the

FIFRA SAP with a progress report on

the Agency’s efforts to implement the

drinking water component of the FQPA

aggregate exposure assessment.

Aggregate exposure is defined to

encompass multiple potential sources of

exposure to pesticides and includes

exposure from pesticide residues in

food, in drinking water and in the home.

In order to combine the drinking water

component with the population based

distribution of pesticide residues on

food items in a statistically rigorous

manner, the data should be developed

with the same general structure. In this

way, the Monte Carlo procedure used

for the risk assessment for food stuffs

can be extended to the drinking water

component.

The Agency will outline the basic

steps envisioned in developing national,

population-weighted distributions of

pesticide residues in drinking water and

aggregating them with distributions in

food. These steps include development

of distributions of pesticide drinking

water concentration values across

surface water/drinking water intake

locations, consideration of the impact of

treatment by a water utility, and

development of methodologies to

combine the adjusted distributions with

the distribution of pesticide residues on

food items. The presentation on

development of distributions of

drinking water concentrations will

describe a process using measured data

with a computer modeling/analysis

overlay. The details of how the Agency

will consider the effects of treatment

will be largely addressed in a future

FIFRA SAP meeting.

B. Panel Report

Copies of the Panel’s report of their

recommendations will be available

approximately 45 working days after the

meeting, and will be posted on the

FIFRA SAP web site or may be obtained

by contacting the Public Information

and Records Integrity Branch at the

address or telephone number listed in

Unit I.B. of this document.

List of Subjects

Environmental protection.

Dated: January 27, 2000.

Steven Galson,

Director, Office of Science Coordination and

Policy.

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Science Advisory Board; Notification

of Public Advisory Committee Meeting

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory

Committee Act, Public Law 92–463,

notice is hereby given that two

committees of the USEPA Science

Advisory Board (SAB) will meet on the

dates and times noted below. All times

noted are Eastern Time. All meetings are

open to the public, however, seating is

limited and available on a first come

basis. Important Notice: Documents that

are the subject of SAB reviews are

normally available from the originating

EPA office and are not available from

the SAB Office—information concerning

availability of documents from the

relevant Program Office is included

below.