21140 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 82 / Friday, April 27, 2001 / Notices

Committee, Monitoring, Modeling

and Research Committee, and Gulf

Mapping and Assessment Center.

3:00 p.m.—Meeting Adjourns.

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Science Advisory Board; Notification

of Public Workshop

Notice is hereby given that the US

EPA along with the US EPA Science

Advisory Board (SAB), will jointly host

a public Workshop on Understanding

Public Values and Attitudes Related to

Ecological Risk Management. The

Workshop is open to the public,

however, seating is limited and

available on a registration basis. In most

instances, SAB meetings are subject to

the Federal Advisory Committee Act

which includes opportunities for public

comment. However, since this meeting

meets the requirements of 41 CFR 101–

6.1004, the provisions of the Federal

Advisory Committee Act (Public Law

92–463) do not apply. Therefore, we are

not soliciting public comments during

this non-FACA Workshop.

Time and Location—The Workshop

will be held on May 23–24, 2001 at the

Academy for Educational Development,

1825 Connecticut Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC, Telephone 202–884–

8000. Registration is from 8:30–9:00 am

on May 23. The Workshop will begin at

9:00 am each day, ending at 5:00 pm on

May 23 and no later than 12:15 pm on

May 24.

Purpose of the Workshop—To

demonstrate how researchers using

different kinds of analytical methods,

tools and approaches from the social

sciences can mutually inform each other

and risk managers in understanding: (a)

public values and attitudes related to

specific threats to ecological resources,

such as a specific water body threatened

with nitrogen deposition and (b) the

significance of those values.

The Workshop will focus on a

particular waterbody, Tampa Bay

Estuary, and will provide an

opportunity for four researchers in the

social sciences to address the following

questions in terms that are relevant to

and readily comprehendible to Agency

management:

Given that the state of knowledge

about ecological and human health

effects of nitrogen deposition are fairly

well known in the Tampa Bay Estuary,

(a) Why do people care about protecting

waterbodies against current problems

and preventing further nitrogen

deposition? and (b) How can EPA move

beyond current economic

considerations, per se, to identify and

evaluate/measure why and how much

people care about protecting the

resource?

Workshop Agenda—A written agenda

is available on the SAB website (see

below). The first day of Workshop will

include an introduction followed by

four presentations of Research Plans

commissioned on the issue. These

proposals would demonstrate how

different social science approaches (in

the disciplines of anthropology,

decision sciences, economics, and social

psychology) could help decision makers

at EPA and outside understand values,

attitudes and decision factors related to

protection of Tampa Bay against

nitrogen deposition. There would be a

short time following each presentation

for a facilitated discussion.

The morning of the second day will

feature a panel of managers who will

discuss their reactions to the expert

presentations. They would focus on the

potential usefulness of the research

proposals presented, whether and how

they add value to information currently

available to decision makers for making

decisions, communicating decisions,

and justifying decisions about ecological

risk management.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To

register for the Workshop, please send

the following information via email to:

Brian Heninger at

heninger.brian@epa.gov by May 15:

name; affiliation; address; phone; fax; email address; occupation; area of

expertise; and what aspects of this

Workshop interest you the most.

Any member of the public wishing

further information concerning this

Workshop should consult the website

for this Workshop at http://

www.epa.gov/sab/presentation-1/

index.htm. Questions concerning this

Workshop can be directed to Dr. Angela

Nugent, Special Assistant, EPA Science

Advisory Board, (202) 564–4562 or

nugent.angela@epa.gov.

Dated: April 18, 2001.

Donald G. Barnes,

Staff Director, Science Advisory Board.

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Regulatory Reinvention (XL) Pilot

Projects

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of availability of the City

of Columbus Project XL for

Communities final project agreement

and related documents.

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing the

signing of the Project XL for

Communities (XLC) Final Project

Agreement (FPA) for the City of

Columbus, Ohio.

DATES: The FPA was signed on

September 26, 2000.

ADDRESSES: To obtain a copy of the

Final Project Agreement, Fact Sheet, or

public comments received, contact:

Miguel Del Toral, 312–886–5253, US

EPA Region 5, Water Division, WD–15J,

77 West Jackson Blvd, Chicago, Illinois

60604–3507 (deltoral.miguel@epa.gov)

or Kristina Heinemann, US EPA, Office

of Environmental Policy Innovation,

1807, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,

Washington, DC 20460

(heinemann.kristina@epa.gov). The

documents are also available via the

internet at the following location: http:/

/www.epa.gov/ProjectXL/Columbus/

index.htm. In addition, public files on

the project are located at the EPA

Regional Office in Chicago. Questions to

EPA regarding the documents can be

directed to Miguel Del Toral at (312)

886–5253 or Kristina Heinemann at

(202) 260–5355. Additional information

on Project XL, and Project XL for

Communities including documents

referenced in this notice, other EPA

policy documents related to Project XL,

Regional and Headquarters contacts,

application information and

descriptions of existing XL projects and

proposals are available via the Internet

at http://www.epa.gov/ProjectXL.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Final

Project Agreement is a voluntary

agreement developed by the City of

Columbus (the project sponsor), the

State of Ohio (the Ohio Department of

Health and the Ohio Environmental

Protection Agency), project

stakeholders, and US EPA. Project XL

and Project XLC, announced in the

Federal Register on May 23, 1995 (60

FR 27282) and November 1, 1995 (60 FR

55569) respectively give regulated

sources the opportunity to develop

alternative strategies that will replace or

modify specific regulatory requirements

on the condition that they produce