54922 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 180 / Monday, September 19, 2005 / Notices 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information concerning the Air 

Quality Management subcommittee to 

the CAAAC, please contact Mr. Jeffrey 

Whitlow, Office of Air and Radiation, 

US EPA (919) 541–5523, FAX (919) 

685–3307 or by e-mail at US EPA, Office 

of Air Quality Planning and Standards 

(Mail code C 439–04), 109 T.W. 

Alexander Drive, Research Triangle 

Park, NC 27711, or e-mail at: 

whitlow.jeff@epa.gov. Additional 

information on this meeting, the 

CAAAC, and its Subcommittees can be 

found on the CAAAC Web site: http:// 

www.epa.gov/air/caaac. 

Providing Oral or Written Comments 

at This Meeting: It is the policy of the 

subcommittee to accept written public 

comments of any length and to 

accommodate oral public comments 

whenever possible. The subcommittee 

expects that public statements presented 

at this meeting will not be repetitive of 

previously-submitted oral or written 

statements. Oral Comments: In general, 

each individual or group requesting an 

oral presentation at this meeting is 

limited to a total time of 5 minutes 

(unless otherwise indicated). However, 

no more than 30 minutes total will be 

allotted for oral public comments at this 

meeting; therefore, the time allowed for 

each speaker’s comments will be 

adjusted accordingly. In addition, for 

scheduling purposes, requests to 

provide oral comments must be in 

writing (e-mail, fax, or mail) and 

received by Mr. Whitlow no later than 

noon Eastern Time five business days 

prior to the meeting in order to reserve 

time on the meeting agenda. Written 

Comments: Although the subcommittee 

accepts written comments until the date 

of the meeting (unless otherwise stated), 

written comments should be received by 

Mr. Whitlow no later than noon Eastern 

Time five business days prior to the 

meeting so that the comments may be 

made available to the subcommittee 

members for their consideration. 

Comments should be supplied to Mr. 

Whitlow (preferably via e-mail) at the 

address/contact information noted 

above, as follows: one hard copy with 

original signature, or 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). 

Dated: September 12, 2005. 

Gregory A. Green, 

Deputy Director, Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards. 

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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee (CASAC); CASAC Ozone 

Review Panel; Notification of Public 

Advisory Committee Meeting 

(Teleconference) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA or Agency) Science 

Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office 

announces a public teleconference of 

the Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee (CASAC) Ozone Review 

Panel (Panel) to conduct a consultation 

on EPA’s draft Ozone Environmental 

Assessment Plan: Scope and Methods 

for Exposure, Risk and Benefits 

Assessment (August 2005). 

DATES: The teleconference meeting will 

be held on October 3, 2005, from 1 to 

4 p.m. (Eastern Time). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public who wishes to 

obtain the teleconference call-in 

numbers and access codes; would like 

to submit written or brief oral 

comments; or wants further information 

concerning this teleconference meeting, 

should contact Mr. Fred Butterfield, 

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) 343–9994; fax: (202) 

233–0643; or e-mail at: 

butterfield.fred@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the CASAC or 

the EPA SAB can be found on the EPA 

Web site at: http://www.epa.gov/sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: Under section 108 of the 

Clean Air Act (CAA or Act), the Agency 

is required to establish National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards 

(NAAQS) for each pollutant for which 

EPA has issued criteria, including ozone 

(O3). Section 109(d) of the CAA 

subsequently requires periodic review 

and, if appropriate, revision of existing 

air quality criteria and standards to 

reflect advances in scientific knowledge 

on the effects of the pollutant on public 

health and welfare. The Agency revised 

the NAAQS for O3 in July 1997. EPA’s 

Office of Research and Development 

(ORD) released a draft updated air 

quality criteria document for O3 (draft 

Ozone AQCD) in January 2005. The 

CASAC Ozone Review Panel met in a 

public meeting to conduct a peer review 

on this draft Ozone AQCD on May 4–

5, 2005. EPA’s Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards (OAQPS), 

within the Office of Air and Radiation 

(OAR), is in the process of developing 

a draft updated Staff Paper for O3 as part 

of its review of the O3 NAAQS. This 

draft Staff Paper will evaluate the policy 

implications of the key scientific and 

technical information contained in the 

draft Ozone AQCD and identify critical 

elements that EPA believes should be 

considered in the review of the O3

NAAQS. The O3 Staff Paper is intended 

to ‘‘bridge the gap’’ between the 

scientific review contained in the Ozone 

AQCD and the public health and 

welfare policy judgments required of the 

EPA Administrator in reviewing the O3

NAAQS. OAQPS has developed a draft 

Ozone Environmental Assessment Plan, 

which outlines the scope, approaches, 

and key issues in estimating vegetation 

exposure, risk, and impacts on 

economic values posed by O3. 

EPA is soliciting advice and 

recommendations from the CASAC, by 

means of a consultation on the draft 

Ozone Environmental Assessment Plan, 

on the overall scope, approaches, and 

key issues in advance of the completion 

of such analyses and presentation of 

results in the draft O3 Staff Paper. The 

CASAC, which is comprised of seven 

members appointed by the EPA 

Administrator, 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, in part to provide advice, 

information and recommendations on 

the scientific and technical aspects of 

issues related to 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 

CASAC Ozone Review Panel complies 

with the provisions of FACA and all 

appropriate SAB Staff Office procedural 

policies. 

Technical Contact: Any questions 

concerning the draft Ozone 

Environmental Assessment Plan should 

be directed to Ms. Vicki Sandiford, 

OAQPS, at phone: (919) 541–2629, or 

e-mail: sandiford.vicki@epa.gov. 

Availability of Meeting Materials 

The draft Ozone Environmental 

Health Assessment Plan can be accessed 

via the Agency’s Technology Transfer 

Network (TTN) Web site at: 

http://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/ 

standards/ozone/s_o3_index.html under 

‘‘Planning Documents.’’ In addition, a 

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copy of the draft agenda for this meeting 

will be posted on the SAB Web Site at: 

http://www.epa.gov/sab (under the 

‘‘Agendas’’ subheading) in advance of 

this CASAC Ozone Review Panel 

meeting. Other meeting materials, 

including the charge to the CASAC 

Ozone Review Panel, will be posted on 

the SAB Web site at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab/panels/ 

casacorpanel.html prior to this meeting. 

Providing Oral or Written Comments at 

SAB Meetings 

The SAB Staff Office accepts written 

public comments of any length, and will 

accommodate oral public comments 

whenever possible. The SAB Staff Office 

expects that public statements presented 

at its face-to-face meetings and 

teleconferences will not repeat 

previously-submitted oral or written 

statements. 

Oral Comments: In general, each 

individual or group requesting an oral 

presentation at a CASAC meeting or 

teleconference is limited to a total time 

of five minutes (unless otherwise 

indicated). However, no more than 30 

minutes will be allotted for all oral 

public comments at this teleconference; 

therefore, the time allowed for each 

speaker’s comments will be adjusted 

accordingly. In addition, for scheduling 

purposes, requests to provide oral 

comments must be in writing 

(e-mail, fax or mail) and received by Mr. 

Butterfield no later than September 26, 

2005 in order to reserve time on the 

meeting agenda. 

Written Comments: Written comments 

should be received in the SAB Staff 

Office by September 26, 2005 so that the 

comments may be made available to the 

CASAC PM Review Panel for their 

consideration. Comments should be 

supplied to Mr. Butterfield (preferably 

via e-mail) at the address/contact 

information noted above, as follows: 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 IBMPC/Windows 98/2000/XP format)). 

Meeting Accommodations 

Individuals requiring special 

accommodation to access this meeting, 

should contact the DFO at least five 

business days prior to the meeting so 

that appropriate arrangements can be 

made. 

Dated: September 13, 2005. 

Anthony Maciorowski, 

Associate Director for Science, EPA Science 

Advisory Board Staff Office. 

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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Notification of Advisory Meeting of the 

Science Advisory Board; Regulatory 

Environmental Modeling (REM) 

Guidance Review Panel 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) Regulatory Environmental 

Modeling (REM) Guidance Review 

Panel will hold two public 

teleconferences to discuss its draft peer 

review report of the Agency’s Draft 

Guidance on the Development, 

Evaluation, and Application of 

Regulatory Environmental Models, 

dated November 2003 (referred to here 

also as the Draft Guidance), and the 

Models Knowledge Base related to 

modeling activity within the EPA. 

DATES: October 12, 2005, 1 p.m. to 4 

p.m. Eastern Standard Time and 

October 13, 2005, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

Eastern Standard Time. 

ADDRESSES: The public teleconferences 

will take place via telephone only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public who wishes to 

obtain the teleconference call-in number 

and access code, or who wants further 

information concerning these public 

teleconferences should contact Dr. K. 

Jack Kooyoomjian, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), EPA SAB, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. (MC 1400F), 

Washington, DC 20460; via telephone/ 

voice mail: (202) 343–9984; fax: (202) 

233–0643; or e-mail at: 

kooyoomjian.jack@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the SAB can be 

found on the SAB Web site at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The EPA’s Council for 

Regulatory Environmental Modeling 

(CREM) has requested that the SAB 

review the Agency’s Draft Guidance and 

Models Knowledge Base. The Draft 

Guidance was prepared by the CREM in 

response to the EPA Administrator’s 

request to continue to strengthen EPA’s 

development, evaluation and use of 

models in the Agency. The CREM 

Models Knowledge Base provides 

public Internet access to information on 

some of EPA’s most frequently used 

models. The Draft Guidance and Models 

Knowledge Base are currently under 

review by the SAB’s REM Guidance 

Review Panel, and are the subject of 

these conference calls. Additional 

background information on this review 

and all previous announcements [68 FR 

46602, Aug. 6, 2003; 70 FR 1243, 

January 6, 2005; 70 FR 12477, March 14, 

2005; and 70 FR 30948, May 31, 2005, 

and 70 FR 41008, July 15, 2005], 

meeting agendas, review and 

background materials can be found at 

the SAB Web site. The purpose of these 

meetings is for the SAB Panel to review 

the working draft report. If the second 

conference call is not necessary, Dr. 

Kooyoomjian will announce this prior 

to adjournment of the October 12, 2005 

meeting, and will be on the line for the 

first ten minutes commencing at 10 a.m. 

EST on October 13, 2005 to advise 

interested parties. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: 

Copies of the meeting agenda, the roster 

of the SAB’s REM Guidance Review 

Panel, and the latest working draft 

report of the REM Guidance Advisory 

Panel will be posted on the SAB Web 

site at: http://www.epa.gov/sab/panels/ 

cremgacpanel.html prior to the 

meetings. 

Copies of the Agency’s Draft Guidance 

and Models Knowledge Base and other 

background materials pertinent to this 

advisory activity may be obtained at: 

www.epa.gov/crem, or www.epa.gov/ 

crem/sab. For further information 

regarding the Agency’s Draft Guidance 

and Models Knowledge Base, contact 

Pasky Pascual, Office of Research & 

Development, National Center for 

Environmental Research (Mail Code 

8701F), by telephone/voice mail at (202) 

343–9710, by fax at (202) 233–0680; or 

via e-mail at pascual.pasky@epa.gov. 

Providing Oral or Written Comments 

at SAB Meetings: The SAB Staff Office 

accepts written public comments of any 

length, and will accommodate oral 

public comments wherever possible. 

The SAB Staff Office expects that public 

statements presented at its meetings will 

not repeat previously submitted oral or 

written statements. 

Oral Comments: In general, each 

individual or group requesting an oral 

presentation at a public teleconference 

will be limited to a total time of three 

minutes (unless otherwise indicated). 

Requests to provide oral comments must 

be in writing (e-mail, fax, or mail) and 

received by the DFO no later than noon 

Eastern Standard Time, October 4, 2005 

in order to reserve time on the meeting 

agenda.