13206 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 57 / Thursday, March 26, 2009 / Notices 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Chemicals, 

Hazardous substances, Health. 

Dated: March 20, 2009. 

Barbara Cunningham, 

Acting Director, Office of Pollution Prevention 

and Toxics. 

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AGENCY 

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Science Advisory Board Staff Office, 

Notification of an Upcoming Meeting of 

the Science Advisory Board Homeland 

Security Advisory Committee (HSAC) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA or Agency) Science 

Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office 

announces a public face-to-face meeting 

of the SAB Homeland Security Advisory 

Committee (HSAC). HSAC has been 

augmented with additional members to 

provide consultative comment on a draft 

Environmental Response Technical 

Assistance Document for Bacillus 

anthracis Intentional Releases (BA– 

TAD). 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

April 21, 2009 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

(Eastern Daylight Time) and April 22, 

2009 from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. (Eastern 

Daylight Time). 

ADDRESSES: The Committee meeting 

will be held at the SAB Conference 

Center, located at 1025 F Street, NW., 

Room 3705, Washington, DC 20004. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Members of the public who wish to 

obtain additional information regarding 

this meeting may contact Mr. Edward 

Hanlon, Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO), EPA Science Advisory Board 

(1400F), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW.,Washington, DC 20460; telephone/ 

voice mail: (202) 343–9946; fax (202) 

233–0643; or via e-mail at 

hanlon.edward@epa.gov. General 

information about the EPA SAB, as well 

as any updates concerning the meeting 

announced in this notice, may be found 

on the SAB Web site at http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab. Any inquiry 

regarding EPA’s BA–TAD should be 

directed to Captain Colleen Petullo, U.S. 

Public Health Service, on detail to 

EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and 

Emergency Response (OSWER), at 

petullo.colleen@epa.gov or (702) 784– 

8004. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

Public Law 92–463, notice is hereby 

given that the Augmented SAB HSAC 

will hold a public face-to-face meeting 

to discuss their comments on the draft 

BA–TAD. The SAB was established by 

42 U.S.C. 4365 to provide independent 

scientific and technical advice to the 

Administrator on the technical basis for 

Agency positions and regulations. The 

SAB is a Federal Advisory Committee 

chartered under the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA), as amended, 5 

U.S.C., App. The SAB will comply with 

the provisions of FACA and all 

appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural 

policies. The SAB HSAC provides 

scientific and technical advice to the 

EPA Administrator through the 

chartered SAB on scientific matters 

pertaining to EPA’s mission in 

protecting against the environmental 

and health consequences of terrorism. 

Background: In response to the 2001 

Bacillus anthracis incidents in 

Washington, the Weapons of Mass 

Destruction (WMD) Subcommittee of 

the Science and Technology (S&T) 

Committee of the EPA-chaired National 

Response Team (NRT) developed an 

interim-final draft Technical Assistance 

Document (TAD) in 2003 for responses 

to an actual or suspected terrorist 

release of Bacillus anthracis. In July 

2005, the NRT slightly revised the 

interim-final draft TAD. EPA, as chair, 

works closely with seventeen other 

Federal agencies on the NRT. The NRT 

is developing the BA–TAD by revising 

and updating the 2005 interim-final 

draft TAD, and requested that OSWER 

seek consultative advice from the SAB 

HSAC on their development of the BA– 

TAD. The Augmented HSAC will 

conduct the consultation. The primary 

purpose of this upcoming meeting is for 

the Augmented HSAC to provide advice 

on whether the technical plans to 

prepare the BA–TAD are properly 

directed, and if there are any items, 

issues or practical applications that 

have not been considered that ought to 

be included. 

The SAB HSAC held a teleconference 

on October 15, 2008 and was briefed by 

the EPA and its partners on its progress 

in developing the draft BA–TAD. A 

Federal Register Notice dated 

September 29, 2008 (73 FR 56578– 

56579) announced this teleconference 

and provided background information 

on this advisory activity. Information on 

the process of augmenting the expertise 

on the SAB HSAC was provided in a 

Federal Register Notice dated March 28, 

2008 (73 FR 16679–16680). Additional 

information about this consultative 

activity including a meeting agenda will 

be posted on the SAB Web site prior to 

the meeting at http://www.epa.gov/sab. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: The 

agenda and other meeting materials will 

be available on the SAB Web site at 

http://www.epa.gov/sab in advance of 

the meeting. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant written or oral 

information for the SAB HSAC to 

consider during the advisory process. 

Oral Statements: In general, individuals 

or groups requesting an oral 

presentation at a public face-to-face 

meeting will be limited to three minutes 

per speaker, with no more than a total 

of one hour for all speakers. Each person 

making an oral statement should 

consider providing written comments as 

well as their oral statement so that the 

points presented orally can be expanded 

upon in writing. Interested parties 

should contact Edward Hanlon, DFO, in 

writing (preferably via e-mail) at the 

contact information noted above, by 

April 7, 2009 to be placed on the list of 

public speakers for the meeting. Written 

Statements: Written statements should 

be received in the SAB Staff Office by 

April 7, 2009 so that the information 

may be made available to the Committee 

members for their consideration. 

Written statements should be supplied 

to the DFO in the following formats: 

One hard copy with original signature, 

and one electronic copy via e-mail 

(acceptable file format: Adobe Acrobat 

PDF, WordPerfect, MS Word, MS 

PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in IBM– 

PC/Windows 98/2000/XP format). 

Submitters are requested to provide 

versions of each document submitted 

with and without signatures, because 

the SAB Staff Office does not publish 

documents with signatures on its Web 

sites. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Edward 

Hanlon at the phone number or e-mail 

address noted above, preferably at least 

ten days prior to the public face-to-face 

meeting to give EPA as much time as 

possible to process your request. 

Dated: March 18, 2009. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

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