[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 63 (Friday, April 3, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15265-15266]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-7434]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-8789-3]


Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Public 
Meeting of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Carbon 
Monoxide Review Panel

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory 
Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public meeting of the Clean Air 
Scientific Advisory Committee Carbon Monoxide Review Panel to peer 
review EPA's Integrated Science Assessment for Carbon Monoxide: First 
External Review Draft and conduct a consultation on EPA's planning 
document entitled Carbon Monoxide National Ambient Air Quality 
Standards: Scope and Methods Plan for Risk and Exposure Assessment.

DATES: The public meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 from 9 
a.m. to 5 p.m. (Eastern Time) and Wednesday, May 13, 2009 from 8 a.m. 
to 2 p.m. (Eastern Time).

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Carolina Inn, 211 Pittsboro 
Street, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any member of the public who wants 
further information concerning the CASAC public meeting may contact Dr. 
Ellen Rubin, Designated Federal Officer (DFO), EPA Science Advisory 
Board (1400F), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; via telephone/voice mail (202) 343-
9975; fax (202) 233-0643; or e-mail at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#097b7c6b6067276c65656c67496c7968276e667f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="770502151e1959121b1b12193712071659101801">[email protected]</span></a>. General 
information concerning the CASAC can be found on the EPA Web site at 
http://www.epa.gov/casac.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Background: The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) was 
established under section 109(d)(2) of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) 
(42 U.S.C. 7409) as an independent scientific advisory committee. CASAC 
provides advice, information and recommendations on the scientific and 
technical aspects of air quality criteria and National Ambient Air 
Quality Standards (NAAQS) under sections 108 and 109 of the Act. The 
CASAC is a Federal advisory committee chartered under the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act (FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C., App. The Panel 
will comply with the provisions of FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff 
Office procedural policies.
    Section 109(d)(1) of the CAA requires that the Agency periodically 
review and revise, as appropriate, the air quality criteria and the 
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for the six ``criteria'' 
air pollutants, including carbon monoxide (CO). EPA is conducting 
scientific assessments to review the primary (health-based) NAAQS of 
CO. As part of this review, EPA's Office of Research and Development 
(ORD) has completed a draft document, Integrated Science Assessment for 
Carbon Monoxide (First External Review Draft, March 2009) and requested 
that CASAC peer review the document. EPA's Office of Air and Radiation 
(OAR) will also release a planning document entitled Carbon Monoxide 
National Ambient Air Quality Standards: Scope and Methods Plan for Risk 
and Exposure Assessment (April 2009). OAR has requested that the CASAC 
provide consultative advice on this plan.
    The purpose of the May 12-13, 2009 meeting is to review these two 
documents. Background information about the formation of the CASAC 
Carbon Monoxide Review Panel was published in the Federal Register on 
October 12, 2007 (72 FR 58078-58080). The CASAC Panel previously held a 
public teleconference on April 8, 2008 (announced in 73 FR 12998) to 
provide consultative advice on EPA's Plan for Review of the National 
Ambient Air Quality Standards for Carbon Monoxide, the first document 
in this review of the CO NAAQS. The CASAC panel report was made 
available at http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/
AB0ED61CDF9F37DF8525746A005C12EC/$File/EPA-CASAC-08-013-unsigned.pdf.
    Technical Contacts: Any questions concerning EPA's Integrated 
Science Assessment for Carbon Monoxide should be directed to Dr. Tom 
Long at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#fb9794959cd58f9496bb9e8b9ad59c948d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="274b4849400953484a6742574609404851">[email protected]</span></a> at (919) 541-1880. Any questions concerning 
EPA's Carbon Monoxide National Ambient Air Quality Standard: Scope and 
Methods Plan for Risk and Exposure Assessment should be directed to Dr. 
Dave McKee at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3c515f57595912585d4a597c594c5d125b534a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d1bcb2bab4b4ffb5b0a7b491b4a1b0ffb6bea7">[email protected]</span></a> at (919) 541-5288.
    Availability of Meeting Materials: A meeting agenda, charge 
questions and other materials for the meeting will be placed on the 
CASAC Web site at http://www.epa.gov/casac. Select the calendar link on 
the left and click on May 12-13. The Integrated Science Assessment for 
Carbon Monoxide: First External Review Draft (March 2009) is available 
at http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=203935. The

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CO NAAQS Scope and Methods Plans (April 2009) will be available at 
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/co/s_co_cr_pd.html.
    Procedures for Providing Public Input: Interested members of the 
public may submit relevant written or oral information for 
consideration on the topics included in this advisory activity. Oral 
Statements: To be placed on the public speaker list for the May 12-13, 
2009 meeting, interested parties should notify Dr. Ellen Rubin, DFO, by 
e-mail no later than April 27, 2009. Individuals making oral statements 
will be limited to three minutes per speaker. Written Statements: 
Written statements for the May 12-13, 2009 meeting should be received 
in the SAB Staff Office by April 27, 2009, so that the information may 
be made available to the CASAC Panel for its consideration prior to 
this meeting. 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, 
MS Word, WordPerfect, MS PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in IBM-PC/
Windows 98/2000/XP format). Submitters are asked 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 Dr. Rubin at the phone 
number or e-mail address noted above, preferably at least ten days 
prior to the teleconference, to give EPA as much time as possible to 
process your request.

    Dated: March 27, 2009.
Anthony F. Maciorowski,
Deputy Director, Science Advisory Board Staff Office.
[FR Doc. E9-7434 Filed 4-2-09; 8:45 am]
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