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or compromise. No information will be 

provided to the System Research and 

Application Corporation, until the 

requirements in this document have 

been fully satisfied. Records of 

information provided under this IAG 

will be maintained by EPA Project 

Officers for this contract. All 

information supplied to the System 

Research and Application Corporation, 

by EPA for use in connection with this 

IAG will be returned to EPA when the 

System Research and Application 

Corporation, have completed their work. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Business 

and industry, Government contracts, 

Government property, Security 

measures. 

Dated: January 23, 2008. 

Oscar Morales, 

Acting Director, Office of Pesticide Programs. 

[FR Doc. E8–1796 Filed 1–30–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission. 

DATE AND TIME: Thursday, February 7, 

2008, 2 p.m. Eastern Time. 

PLACE: Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. 

Conference Room on the Ninth Floor of 

the EEOC Office Building, 1801 ‘‘L’’

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20507. 

STATUS: The meeting will be open to the 

public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Open Session: 

1. Announcement of Notation Votes, 

and 

2. Obligation of Funds for a 

Temporary Interactive Voice Response/ 

Automatic Call Distribution (IVR/ACD) 

Non-competitive Hosting Contract and a 

Competitive Contract for Technology 

Support of Customer Response 

Function. 

Note: In accordance with the Sunshine Act, 

the meeting will be open to public 

observation of the Commission’s 

deliberations and voting. (In addition to 

publishing notices on EEOC Commission 

meetings in the Federal Register the 

Commission also provides a recorded 

announcement a full week in advance on 

future Commission sessions.) 

Please telephone (202) 663–7100 

(voice) and (202) 663–4074 (TTY) at any 

time for information on these meetings. 

The EEOC provides sign language 

interpretation at Commission meetings 

for the hearing impaired. Requests for 

other reasonable accommodations may 

be made by using the voice and TTY 

numbers listed above. Contact Person 

For More Information: Stephen 

Llewellyn, Executive Officer on (202) 

663–4070. 

Dated: January 29, 2008. 

Stephen Llewellyn, 

Executive Officer, Executive Secretariat. 

[FR Doc. 08–454 Filed 1–29–08; 11:41 am] 

BILLING CODE 6570–01–M 

OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND 

TECHNOLOGY POLICY 

Notice of Decision Under Section 

127(f) of the Public Health Security and 

Bioterrorism Preparedness and 

Response Act of 2002 

AGENCY: Office of Science and 

Technology Policy, Executive Office of 

the President. 

ACTION: Notice of Decision to Waive 

Requirements of Sections 127(a) and (d) 

of the Public Health Security and 

Bioterrorism Preparedness and 

Response Act of 2002. Notice of 

Availability of Associated OSTP 

Director’s Decision Memorandum and 

Interagency Technical Evaluation 

Report. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

determination, under Section 127(f) of 

the Public Health Security and 

Bioterrorism Preparedness and 

Response Act of 2002 (the Act), to waive 

the requirements of Section 127(a) and 

(d) of the Act. Notice is also given that 

the Associated Decision Memorandum 

and an interagency technical analysis 

report are available on the Office of 

Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) 

Web site at http://www.ostp.gov/KI. 

Section 127(a) of the Act directed the 

President to establish a Potassium 

Iodide (KI) distribution program, under 

which State and local governments 

could receive KI tablets for distribution 

to the population in the 20 mile radius 

surrounding nuclear power plants 

(NPPs). The Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) already has such a 

program for the 10 mile emergency 

planning zones surrounding NPPs, so 

Section 127(a) effectively extended that 

program to the 10–20 mile range. 

Through Section 127(f), Congress 

authorized the President to waive this 

distribution requirement if there exists 

‘‘an alternative and more effective 

prophylaxis or preventive measures for 

adverse thyroid conditions that may 

result from the release of radionuclides 

from nuclear power plants.’’

On July 3, 2007, the President 

delegated the Section 127(f) waiver 

authority to the Director of the Office of 

Science and Technology Policy. 

On July 30, 2007, to help inform his 

decision, the OSTP Director requested 

the Federal Radiological Policy 

Coordinating Committee (FRPCC) to 

provide a technical evaluation of the 

issues surrounding Section 127. The 

FRPCC is an interagency organization, 

with membership from 17 Federal 

agencies, established to coordinate 

Federal responsibilities for assisting 

State and local governments in 

emergency planning and preparedness 

for peacetime nuclear emergencies. The 

FRPCC transmitted its final technical 

evaluation paper to the OSTP Director 

on October 23, 2007. 

On January 22, 2008, the OSTP 

Director executed his final decision 

pursuant to the Section 127(f) 

delegation. The complete Decision 

Memorandum, as well as the FRPCC 

technical information paper, is available 

on the OSTP Web site at http:// 

www.ostp.gov/KI. 

The OSTP Director’s determination 

waived Section 127(f) because a more 

effective preventive measure does exist 

for the extended zone covered by the 

Act, namely avoidance of exposure 

altogether through evacuation of the 

potentially affected population and 

interdiction of contaminated food. 

Analysis of radiological release events 

that could lead to adverse thyroid 

conditions beyond the current 10 mile 

zone shows that limiting or avoiding 

exposure to radiation through these 

mechanisms is practical and much more 

effective than the administration of KI 

in the proposed extended zone. 

DATES: The Decision Memorandum was 

executed on January 22, 2008. 

Associated documents will be available 

on the OSTP Web site on January 31, 

2008. 

ADDRESSES: Questions concerning this 

Notice should be sent to OSTP by e-mail 

at comments@ostp.eop.gov or by Fax at 

202–456–6027. 

Background 

Section 127(a) of the Act directs the 

President to establish a KI distribution 

program as discussed above. Section 

127(b) of the Act calls for State and local 

authorities to submit their KI stockpile 

plans to the President. Section 127(c) 

requires the President to issue 

guidelines for the stockpiling of KI 

tablets. Section 127(d) requires the 

Federal government to undertake efforts 

to make states and localities aware of 

the availability of KI under 127(a). 

Section 127(e) requires the President to 


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