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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

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Science Advisory Board;Notification of

Public Advisory Committee Meetings

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory

Committee Act, Public Law 92–463,

notice is hereby given several

committees/subcommittees of the US

EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) will

meet on the dates and times noted

below. All times noted are Eastern

Standard 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—where appropriate, information

concerning availability of documents

from the relevant Program Office is

included below.

1. NATA Review Panel Conference

Call—May 14, 2001

It was recently announced in the

Federal Register (66 FR 20802, April 25,

2001) that the National-Scale Air Toxics

Assessment (NATA) Review Panel

(hereafter, ‘‘NATA Review Panel’’) of

the USEPA Science Advisory Board’s

(SAB) Executive Committee (EC) will

conduct a public conference call on

Monday, May 14, 2001 from 11 a.m. to

1 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time). The call

will be hosted out of the EPA Science

Advisory Board Conference Room

(Room 6013), Ariel Rios Federal

Building, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue,

NW., Washington, DC 20004. Interested

members of the public may attend in

person or connect to the conference by

phone. The original purpose of the call

was to provide Panel Members with the

opportunity to reach closure on their

draft report. The Panel Members

conducted a technical editing work

session (non-Federal Advisory

Committee Act (FACA) meeting) on

April 24, 2001(see also 66 FR 9846,

February 12, 2001). In the April 24,

2001 meeting, the Panel Members

determined that they need more time to

continue edits and will not have a

public draft report available until after

May 14, 2001. They elected to continue

the May 14, 2001 conference call as a

technical editing work session (nonFACA) meeting, in which the public

could listen in, but where no comments

would be solicited on the draft report,

since it is still in preparation. The

NATA Panel then scheduled a public

conference call for May 25, 2001 from

10 a.m. to 12 noon, in which public

comments could be made. See below for

details of the review, to request any

supplemental materials from the Agency

or ask questions on materials already

received from the Agency.

2. EC/NATA Review Panel Conference

Call—May 25, 2001

On May 25, 2001, the NATA Review

Panel will discuss its draft report in

review of the EPA Document entitled

‘‘National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment

for 1996,’’ EPA–453/R–01–003, dated

January, 2001 and supporting

appendices. The conference call will

take place from 10 a.m. to 12 noon

(Eastern Standard Time). The call will

be hosted out of the EPA Science

Advisory Board Conference Room

(Room 6013), Ariel Rios Federal

Building, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue,

NW., Washington, DC 20004. Interested

members of the public may attend in

person or connect to the conference by

phone.

The document being reviewed

represents an initial national-scale

assessment of the potential health risks

associated with inhalation exposures to

32 air toxics identified as priority

pollutants by the Agency’s Integrated

Urban Air Toxics Strategy, plus diesel

emissions. More information about the

previous meetings can be found in 66

FR 9846, February 12, 2001, and 66 FR

20802, April 25, 2001. The NATA

Review Panel is commenting on the

charge questions which were outlined

in the above FR notice and pertain to

appropriateness of the overall approach,

including the data, models, and

methods used, and the ways these

elements have been integrated, as well

as to suggest ways to improve these

approaches for subsequent nationalscale assessments.

Providing Public Comments—We

anticipate that the revised public draft

of the NATA Report will be available to

the public and the Agency on the SAB

website (www.epa.sab.gov/sab)

approximately one week prior to the

May 25th meeting. The NATA Review

Panel will accept oral or written public

comments at the May 25, 2001

conference call, and is asking

participants to focus on three aspects of

the SAB NATA Panel’s draft report,

namely: (1) Has the NATA Review Panel

adequately responded to the questions

posed in the charge?; (2) Are any

statements or responses made in the

draft unclear?; and, (3) Are there any

technical errors? Oral and written

public comments were previously

accepted at the March 20–21, 2001

meeting in review of this topic and new

comments should be duplicative of

these earlier comments.

For Further Information—To obtain

information concerning this conference

call, please contact Dr. K. Jack

Kooyoomjian, Designated Federal

Officer (DFO) (see contact information

below). To obtain information about

how to participate in this conference

call, please contact Ms. Betty Fortune

(see contact information below). A draft

agenda for the teleconference will be

posted on the SAB website

(www.epa.gov/sab) approximately one

week prior to the conference call. The

draft report, once it becomes a

consensus draft will also be posted on

the SAB website. It is anticipated that

this will be posted around May 21,

2001.

Availability of Review Materials—All

the Agency OAQPS NATA-related

review and informational materials,

including the NATA Report, the

Appendices, all briefing and

presentation materials previously

provided to the SAB were mentioned in

earlier Federal Register notices (see

above) and may be obtained on the web

at the following URL site: http://

www.epa.gov/ttn/uatw/sab/sabrev.html.

Alternately, a copy of the review

document (National-Scale Air Toxics

Assessment for 1996, EPA–453/R–01–

003, dated January, 2001) and

supporting appendices can be obtained

from Ms. Barbara Miles at U.S. EPA,

OAQPS/ESD/REAG (MD–13), Research

Triangle Park, NC 27711; telephone

(919) 541–5648; facsimile (919) 541–

0840; e-mail miles.barbara@epa.gov.

Please provide the title and the EPA

number for the document, as well as

your name and address. The document

will be dispensed in CD ROM format

unless the requestor requires a paper

copy. Internet users may also download

a copy from EPA’s National Center for

Environmental Assessment’s (NCEA)

website (http://www.epa.gov/nata/).

Following the May 25, 2001

conference call meeting, the NATA

Review Panel plans to revise its draft

report and forward it to the SAB

Executive Committee for final review

and approval, prior to transmittal to the

Agency. This review will be announced

in a subsequent Federal Register notice.

For Further Information—Members of

the public desiring additional

information about the meeting should

contact Dr. K. Jack Kooyoomjian,

Designated Federal Officer (DFO),

Environmental Models Subcommittee,

National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment

Review Panel, US EPA Science

Advisory Board (1400A), U.S. EPA,

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20460 (FedEx address:

US EPA Science Advisory Board, Suite

6450, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,

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Washington, DC 20004); telephone/

voice mail at (202) 564–4557; fax at

(202) 501–0582; or via e-mail at

kooyoomjian.jack@epa.gov. The draft

agenda will be available approximately

one week prior to the meetings on the

SAB website (http://www.epa.gov/sab)

or from Ms. Betty Fortune at (202) 564–

4534; fax: (202) 501–0582; or e-mail at:

fortune.betty@epa.gov.

Providing Public Comments—

Members of the public who wish to

make a brief oral presentation at the

May 25th meeting must contact Dr.

Kooyoomjian in writing (by letter, fax,

or e-mail—see previously stated

information) no later than 12 noon

Eastern Time, Friday, May 18, 2001 in

order to be included on the Agenda.

Written statements will be accepted in

the SAB Staff office up until two

business days following the meeting (by

close of business, May 29, 2001).

3. Ecological Processes and Effects

Committee (EPEC)—Teleconference

Meeting June 1, 2001

The Ecological Processes and Effects

Committee’s STAR Water and

Watersheds (WW) Review Panel will

meet by conference call from 1 to 3 p.m.

Eastern time on Friday, June 1, 2001.

Members of the public wishing to callin to the teleconference must make

arrangements with Ms. Mary Winston

by noon the Tuesday before the meeting.

Instructions about how to participate in

the conference call can be obtained by

calling Ms. Mary Winston, Management

Assistant, at (202) 564–4538, or via email at: winston.mary@epa.gov.

Purpose of the Meeting—The purpose

of the conference call meeting is to

allow the STAR WW Review Panel to

complete discussion of the Agency’s

Science to Achieve Results (STAR)

Water and Watersheds Program. The

STAR WW Program was the subject of

a public meeting of the Committee on

April 20, 2001. Additional details on the

background and charge for the review of

the STAR WW Program were provided

in 66 FR 15433–15434, dated March 19,

2001.

Providing Oral or Written Comments at

SAB Meetings

It is the policy of the Science

Advisory Board to accept written public

comments of any length, and to

accommodate oral public comments

whenever possible. The Science

Advisory Board expects that public

statements presented at its meetings will

not be repetitive of previously

submitted oral or written statements.

Oral Comments: In general, each

individual or group requesting an oral

presentation at a face-to-face meeting

will be limited to a total time of ten

minutes. For conference call meetings,

opportunities for oral comment will

usually be limited to no more than three

minutes per speaker and no more than

fifteen minutes total, unless otherwise

stated. Deadlines for getting on the

public speaker list for a meeting are

given above. Speakers should bring at

least 35 copies of their comments and

presentation slides for distribution to

the reviewers and public at the meeting.

Written Comments: Although the SAB

accepts written comments until two

business days following the date of the

meeting (unless otherwise stated),

written comments should be received in

the SAB Staff Office at least one week

prior to the meeting date so that the

comments may be made available to the

committee for their consideration.

Comments should be supplied to the

appropriate DFO at the address/contact

information noted above in the

following formats: one hard copy with

original signature, and one electronic

copy via e-mail (acceptable file formats:

WordPerfect, Word, or Rich Text files

(in IBM–PC/Windows 95/98 format).

Those providing written comments and

who attend the meeting are also asked

to bring 25 copies of their comments for

public distribution.

General Information—Additional

information concerning the EPA Science

Advisory Board, its structure, function,

and composition, may be found on our

Website (http://www.epa.gov/sab) and

in The FY2000 Annual Report of the

Staff Director which is available from

the SAB Publications Staff at (202) 564–

4533 or via fax at (202) 501–0256.

Committee rosters, draft Agendas and

meeting calendars are also located on

our website.

Meeting Access—Individuals

requiring special accommodation at this

meeting, including wheelchair access to

the conference room, should contact the

appropriate DFO at least five business

days prior to the meeting so that

appropriate arrangements can be made.

Dated: May 7, 2001.

Donald G. Barnes,

Staff Director, Science Advisory Board.

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FEDERAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS

ADVISORY BOARD

Notice of New Exposure Draft

Reporting Corrections of Errors and

Changes in Accountng—Amendment

of SFFAS 7, Accounting for Revenue

and Other Financing Sources

Board Action: Pursuant to the Federal

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No.

92–463), as amended, and the FASAB

Rules of Procedure, as amended in

October, 1999, notice is hereby given

that the Federal Accounting Standards

Advisory Board has published a new

exposure draft, Reporting Corrections of

Errors and Changes in Accounting

Principles—Amendment to SFFAS 7,

Accounting for Revenue and Other

Financing Sources.

A summary of the proposed

Statement follows: On May 11, 2001, the

Federal Accounting Standards Advisory

Board (FASAB) released for public

comment an exposure draft (ED) to

amend Statement of Federal Financial

Accounting Standards (SFFAS) 7,

Accounting for Revenue and Other

Financing Sources and Concepts for

Reconciling Budgetary and Financial

Accounting. The Chairman of the

Federal Accounting Standards Advisory

Board announced that the FASAB has

issued an exposure draft of a proposed

standard amending the reporting

requirements for errors, discovered in

the current year, that would have

materially affected prior year financial

statements. The current standard

requires that adjustments be recognized

as a change in cumulative results of

operations (rather than as an element of

net results of operations for the period)

and that prior period financial

statements not be restated for prior

period adjustments recognized in the

current period. The proposed

amendment requires that when material

errors are discovered in prior year

financial statements, all statements

presented must be restated to correct the

error. The primary reason for proposing

the amendment is to allow reporting

entities to present comparative

statements. The exposure draft, entitled

Reporting Corrections of Errors and

Changes in Accounting Principles,

Amendment of SFFAS 7, Accounting for

Revenue and Other Financing Sources,

will be out for comment until June 11,

2001. The proposed amendment of

SFFAS No. 7 would be effective for

periods beginning after September 30,

2001.

The exposure draft will be mailed to

FASAB’s mailing list subscribers.

Additionally, it is available on FASAB’s

home page http://www.financenet.gov/