Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 189 / Friday, September 30, 2005 / Notices 57291 

[FR Doc. 05–19708 Filed 9–29–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–C 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OPP–2005–0269; FRL–7739–2] 

Exposure Modeling Work Group; 

Notice of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Exposure Modeling Work 

Group (EMWG) will hold a 1–day 

meeting on October 26, 2005. This 

notice announces the location and time 

for the meeting and sets forth the 

tentative agenda topics. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

October 26, 2005, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Environmental Protection Agency, 

Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), 

Crystal Mall #2, Room 1126 (Fishbowl), 

1801 S. Bell St., Arlington, VA 22202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Marietta Echeverria, Environmental Fate 

and Effects Division (7507C), Office of 

Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460–

0001; telephone number: (703) 305–

8578; fax number: (703) 308–6309; email address: 

echeverria.marietta@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this Action Apply to Me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general, and may be of particular 

interest to those persons who are or may 

be required to conduct testing of 

chemical substances under the Toxic 

Substances Control Act (TSCA), the 

Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act 

(FFDCA), or the Federal Insecticide, 

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 

(FIFRA). Since other entities may also 

be interested, the Agency has not 

attempted to describe all the specific 

entities that may be affected by this 

action. If you have any questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

to a particular entity, consult the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

B. How Can I Get Copies of this 

Document and Other Related 

Information? 

1. Docket. EPA has established an 

official public docket for this action 

under docket identification (ID) number 

OPP–2005–0269. The official public 

docket consists of the documents 

specifically referenced in this action, 

any public comments received, and 

other information related to this action. 

Although a part of the official docket, 

the public docket does not include 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. The official public 

docket is the collection of materials that 

is available for public viewing at the 

Public Information and Records 

Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Rm. 119, 

Crystal Mall #2, 1801 S. Bell St., 

Arlington, VA. This docket facility is 

open from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The docket telephone number 

is (703) 305–5805. 

2. Electronic access. You may access 

this Federal Register document 

electronically through the EPA Internet 

under the ‘‘Federal Register’’ listings at 

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/. 

An electronic version of the public 

docket is available through EPA’s 

electronic public docket and comment 

system, EPA Dockets. You may use EPA 

Dockets at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/ 

to view public comments, to access the 

index listing of the contents of the 

official public docket, and to access 

those documents in the public docket 

that are available electronically. 

Although not all docket materials may 

be available electronically, you may still 

access any of the publicly available 

docket materials through the docket 

facility identified in Unit I.B.1. Once in 

the system, select ‘‘search,’’ then key in 

the appropriate docket ID number. 

II. Background 

On a quarterly interval, the Exposure 

Modeling Workgroup meets to discuss 

current issues in modeling pesticide 

fate, transport, and exposure to 

pesticides in support of risk assessment 

in a regulatory context. 

III. How Can I Request to Participate in 

this Meeting? 

You may submit a request to 

participate in this meeting to the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. Do not submit any information 

in your request that is considered CBI. 

Requests to participate in the meeting, 

identified by docket ID number OPP–

2005–0269, must be received on or 

before October 31, 2005. 

IV. Tentative Agenda 

1. Welcome and Introductions 

2. Old Action Items 

3. Brief Updates 

• PRZM3.12.2 Evaluation (J. Hetrick) 

• EFED’s Modeling Scenarios (M. 

Corbin) 

• Spray Drift Update (N. Birchfield) 

4. Major Topics 

• The FOCUS Version Control 

Process (Russell Jones, Bayer 

CropScience) 

• GIS Tool for Associating Estuarine/ 

Marine Habitat with Agricultural 

Pesticide Uses (Kris Garber and Tim 

Negley, SRC) 

• National Geo-spatial Data Policy 

(Kevin Kirby, EPA/OEI) 

• The MARIA Spatial Water Quality 

Modeling Framework (James Ascough, 

USDA-ARS-NPA) 

• Framework for Spatially Explicit 

Risk Assessments (Nelson Thurman and 

Mark Corbin, EPA/OPP) 

• National Hydrography Dataset 

(NHDplus) (TBD) 

• PLUS: Geospatial Leaching 

Assessment Tool (Mark Cheplick, 

Waterborne) 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: September 22, 2005. 

Steve Bradbury, 

Director, Environmental Fate and Effects 

Division, Office of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. 05–19491 Filed 9–29–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OPPT-2005–0046; FRL–7739–3] 

Forum on State and Tribal Toxics 

Action; Notice of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing the 

meeting of the Forum on State and 

Tribal Toxics Action (FOSTTA) to 

enable state and tribal leaders to 

collaborate with EPA on environmental 

protection and pollution prevention 

issues. Representatives and invited 

guests of the Chemical Information and 

Management Project (CIMP), the 

Pollution Prevention (P2) Project, and 

the Tribal Affairs Project (TAP), 

components of FOSTTA, will be 

meeting October 17–18, 2005. The 

meeting is being held to provide 

participants an opportunity to have indepth discussions on issues concerning 

the environment and human health. 

This notice announces the location and 

times for the meeting and sets forth 

some tentative agenda topics. EPA 

invites all interested parties to attend 

the public meeting. 

DATES: A plenary session is being 

planned for the participants from 8:30