60338 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 199 / Monday, October 17, 2005 / Notices 

Dated: October 11, 2005. 

Joanne K. Rodman, 

Designated Federal Official. 

Children’s Health Protection Advisory 

Committee; Hotel Washington, 515 15th 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20004–1099; 

July 12–14, 2005; Draft Agenda 

Monday October 24, 2005 

Task Group Meetings 

Wednesday, October 25, 2005 

8:45 Welcome, Introductions, Review 

Meeting Agenda 

9 Highlights of Recent OCHP Activities 

9:45 Presentation and Discussion: 

Community Based Perspectives on 

Children’s Environmental Health 

10:15 Update: VCCEP Evaluation 

10:30 Break 

10:45 Science Workgroup Status Report 

11:15 Human Subjects Comment Letter 

12:30 Lunch 

1:30 Presentation TBA 

3 Public Comment 

3:15 Break 

3:30 Regulatory Workgroup Status Report 

4 Discussion: Regulatory Workgroup 

Comment Letters 

6 Adjourn 

Thursday, October 26, 2005 

9 Discussion of Day One 

9:15 Presentation: Implementation of the 

Supplemental Cancer Guidelines 

10:15 Discuss and Agree on 

Recommendations 

12:15 Wrap Up/Next Steps 

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AGENCY 

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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Notification of an Upcoming Science 

Advisory Board Meeting 

(Teleconference) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a 

public teleconference meeting of the 

chartered SAB to discuss a draft SAB 

report. 

DATES: November 7, 2005, 1–3 p.m. 

(Eastern Time). 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place 

via telephone only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Members of the public who wish to 

obtain the call-in number and access 

code to participate in the telephone 

conference or who wish to obtain 

further information regarding this 

teleconference meeting may contact Mr. 

Thomas O. Miller, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office (1400F), U.S. EPA, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; or via 

telephone/voice mail at (202) 343–9982 

or via e-mail at miller.tom@epa.gov. 

General information about the SAB, as 

well as any updates concerning the 

meeting announced in this notice, may 

be found on the SAB Web site at: 

http://www.epa.gov/sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of this SAB telephone 

conference meeting is to conduct a final 

public review and discussion of the 

draft SAB report Review of EPA’s Draft 

Framework for Inorganic Metals Risk 

Assessment. The focus of the meeting is 

to consider whether: (i) The original 

charge questions to the SAB review 

panel have been adequately addressed 

in the draft report, (ii) the draft report 

is clear and logical; and (iii) the 

conclusions drawn, or 

recommendations made in the draft 

report, are supported by the body of the 

report. 

Background: Background on the EPA 

metals Risk Assessment was provided in 

a Federal Register Notice published on 

July 29, 2004 (69 FR 45314–45315). EPA 

has been undertaking an effort to 

develop cross-Agency guidance for 

assessing the human health and 

ecological hazards and risks of metals 

and metal compounds. EPA developed 

the draft guidance document entitled, 

‘‘Framework for Inorganic Metals Risk 

Assessment,’’ to supplement previous 

EPA guidance for use in site-specific 

risk assessments, criteria derivation, and 

other similar Agency activities related to 

metals. The guidance is organized 

around the risk assessment paradigm. 

The document provides a conceptual 

model that highlights areas where 

consideration of metal-specific 

information is necessary and 

advantageous when conducting risk 

assessments. It outlines 

recommendations for conducting risk 

assessment for metals and metal 

compounds based on the unique 

attributes of these compounds. The 

guidance document also discusses 

metal-specific issues related to 

environmental chemistry, exposure, 

bioaccumulation and bioavailability, 

ecological effects, and human health 

effects. In addition, the guidance 

discusses research underway, planned, 

and needed to reduce uncertainty in 

metals risk assessment. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: A 

roster of participating SAB members 

and the meeting agenda will be posted 

on the SAB Web site prior to the 

meeting. The draft report that is the 

subject of this meeting is available on 

the SAB Web site at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab. 

Procedures for Providing Public 

Comment: The SAB Staff Office accepts 

written public comments of any length, 

and accommodates oral public 

comments whenever possible. The SAB 

Staff Office expects that public 

statements presented at SAB 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 teleconference meeting 

will usually be limited to no more than 

three minutes per speaker and no more 

than fifteen minutes total for all 

speakers. Interested parties should 

contact the DFO noted above in writing 

via e-mail at least one week prior to the 

meeting in order to be placed on the 

public speaker list for the meeting. 

Speakers should provide an electronic 

copy of their comments to the DFO for 

distribution to interested parties and 

participants in the meeting. Written 

Comments: Although written comments 

are accepted until 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 

DFO at the address/contact information 

above in the following formats: one hard 

copy with original signature, and one 

electronic copy via e-mail (acceptable 

file format: Adobe Acrobat, 

WordPerfect, Word, or Rich Text files 

(in IBM–PC/Windows 98/2000/XP 

format). 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Mr. Thomas 

O. Miller at (202) 343–9982 or 

miller.tom@epa.gov. To request 

accommodation of a disability, please 

contact Mr. Miller, preferably at least 10 

days prior to the meeting, to give EPA 

as much time as possible to process 

your request. 

Dated: October 7, 2005. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Associate Director for Science, EPA Science 

Advisory Board Staff Office. 

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