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agree to participate in a research study

on soil ingestion.

Title: Soil Ingestion Research, (EPA

ICR No. 1965.01).

Abstract: This ICR supports research

to examine the amount of soil ingested.

Soil is ingested in two ways, incidental

ingestion from everyday hand to mouth

activity and ingestion resulting from

inhaled particles of soil that are

deposited in upper and middle

respiratory tract and swallowed. The

ingestion of soil is important because

contaminated soils from a hazardous

waste site poses risks to individuals

exposed to contaminated soil. This

research should help any environmental

program concerned with contaminated

soils but is specifically being sponsored

by Superfund. This research will

evaluate ingestion by comparing the

amount of trace metals that are ingested

in food with the amount of metals that

are excreted, any amount in excess of

the ingested trace metals is attributed to

incidental soil ingestion. Because of the

possibility of trace metal ingestion from

a variety of sources (like food and

toothpaste), a questionnaire to identify

and characterize sources of trace metals

that can affect daily variation in trace

metals is an important part of the

experimental design of these studies.

About 20 study volunteers are paid and

are expected to participate in this study

for about two weeks. Each night the

study participants would participate in

a questionnaire that will later be used to

help interpret daily variations in trace

metals. An agency may not conduct or

sponsor, and a person is not required to

respond to, a collection of information

unless it displays a currently valid OMB

control number. The OMB control

numbers for EPA’s regulations are listed

in 40 CFR part 9 and 48 CFR Chapter

15.

The EPA would like to solicit

comments to:

(i) evaluate whether the proposed

collection of information is necessary

for the proper performance of the

functions of the agency, including

whether the information will have

practical utility;

(ii) evaluate the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information,

including the validity of the

methodology and assumptions used;

(iii) enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and

(iv) minimize the burden of the

collection of information on those who

are to respond, including through the

use of appropriate automated electronic,

mechanical, or other technological

collection techniques or other forms of

information technology, e.g., permitting

electronic submission of responses.

Burden Statement: During the study,

paid research subjects would fill out a

questionnaire on a daily basis.

Questions could take 5 minutes. This

reporting burden would involve

approximately 20 research subjects who

are expected to participate in a study for

2 weeks. This information would be

collected by the researchers at the

research institution conducting the

study and the data would be maintained

by this group, not the Federal

government. Burden means the total

time, effort, or financial resources

expended by persons to generate,

maintain, retain, or disclose or provide

information to or for a Federal agency.

This includes the time needed to review

instructions; develop, acquire, install,

and utilize technology and systems for

the purposes of collecting, validating,

and verifying information, processing

and maintaining information, and

disclosing and providing information;

adjust the existing ways to comply with

any previously applicable instructions

and requirements; train personnel to be

able to respond to a collection of

information; search data sources;

complete and review the collection of

information; and transmit or otherwise

disclose the information.

Dated: October 24, 2000.

Elaine F. Davies,

Acting Director, Office of Emergency and

Remedial Response.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[OPP–00687A; FRL–6755–2]

FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel;

Announcement of change of Public

Meeting Dates

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a change

in the dates of a public meeting of the

FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel which

was originally published in the Federal

Register of November 3, 2000. Meetings

were scheduled to be held on December

6, 7, and 8, 2000. The December 6

meeting has been dropped, therefore,

meetings will only be held on December

7 and 8, 2000.

DATES: Meetings of the FIFRA Scientific

Advisory Panel will be held on

December 7 and 8, 2000, from 8:30 a.m.

to 5:30 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, 1800

Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA.

The telephone number for the Sheraton

Hotel is (703) 486–1111. Requests to

participate may be submitted by mail,

electronically, or in person. Please

follow the detailed instructions for each

method as provided in Unit I.C. of the

originally published notice of November

3, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Olga

Odiott, Designated Federal Official,

Office of Science Coordination and

Policy, (7101C), Office of Prevention,

Pesticides and Toxic Substances,

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,

DC 20460; telephone number: (703)

305–5369; fax number: (703) 605–0656;

e-mail address: odiott.olga@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 those persons who are or

may be required to conduct testing of

chemical substances under the Federal

Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA),

FIFRA, and FQPA. 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.

II. Purpose of this Notice

EPA is announcing a change in dates

of a public meeting of the FIFRA

Scientific Advisory Panel which was

published in the Federal Register of

November 3, 2000 (65 FR 66245) (FRL–

6753–4). Meetings had been scheduled

to be held on December 6, 7, and 8,

2000, but because the session on the

LifeLineTM Model Review will not be

taking place at this time, the meetings

will be held only on December 7 and 8,

2000.

List of Subjects

Environmental protection.

Dated: November 16, 2000.

Steven K. Galson,

Director, Office of Science Coordination and

Policy, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and

Toxic Substances.

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