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the Board of Scientific Counselors, 

Computational Toxicology 

Subcommittee Meetings—end 2007/ 

early 2008 Docket, EPA/DC, EPA West, 

Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., 

NW., Washington, DC. The Public 

Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 

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number for the ORD Docket is (202) 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Designated Federal Officer via mail at: 

Lorelei Kowalski, Mail Code 8104–R, 

Office of Science Policy, Office of 

Research and Development, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; via phone/voice 

mail at: (202) 564–3408; via fax at: (202) 

565–2911; or via e-mail at: 

kowalski.lorelei@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

General Information 

Any member of the public interested 

in receiving a draft BOSC agenda or 

making a presentation at the meeting 

may contact Lorelei Kowalski, the 

Designated Federal Officer, via any of 

the contact methods listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section 

above. In general, each individual 

making an oral presentation will be 

limited to a total of three minutes. 

Proposed agenda item for the meeting 

includes, but is not limited to: 

Discussion of the subcommittee’s draft 

report on ORD’s National Center for 

Computational Toxicology (NCCT). The 

meeting is open to the public. The 

subcommittee roster and charge can be 

accessed at: http://www.epa.gov/osp/ 

bosc/subcomm-ctox.htm. 

Information on Services for 

Individuals with Disabilities: For 

information on access or services for 

individuals with disabilities, please 

contact Lorelei Kowalski at (202) 564–

3408 or kowalski.lorelei@epa.gov. To 

request accommodation of a disability, 

please contact Lorelei Kowalski, 

preferably at least 10 days prior to the 

meeting, to give EPA as much time as 

possible to process your request. 

Dated: January 28, 2008. 

Jeff Morris, 

Acting Director, Office of Science Policy. 

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EPA Science Advisory Board; 

Notification of a Public Teleconference 

and Meeting of the Science Advisory 

Board Acrylamide Review Panel 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) Staff Office announces a public 

teleconference and meeting of the 

Acrylamide Review Panel (ARP) to 

review the Agency’s draft assessment, 

‘‘IRIS Toxicological Review of 

Acrylamide’’. 

DATES: The SAB will hold the public 

teleconference on February 20, 2008. 

The teleconference will be held from 

1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. (Eastern Time). A 

face-to-face meeting will be held on 

March 10, 2008 and March 11, 2008 

from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Eastern Time) and 

will continue on March 12, 2008 from 

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Eastern Time). 

Location: The February 20, 2008 

telephone conference will be conducted 

by phone only. The March 10–12, 2008 

face-to-face meeting will be held in the 

Washington DC metropolitan area. The 

actual venue will be announced on the 

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

sab. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing to obtain 

general information concerning this 

public teleconference or meeting should 

contact Dr. Sue Shallal, 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) 343–9977; fax: (202) 233–0643; or 

e-mail at: shallal.suhair@epa.gov . 

General information concerning the EPA 

Science Advisory Board can be found 

on the SAB Web site at: http:// 

www.epa.gov./sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SAB 

was established by 42 U.S.C. 4365 to 

provide independent scientific and 

technical advice to the Administrator on 

the technical basis for Agency positions 

and regulations. The SAB is a Federal 

Advisory Committee chartered under 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C., App. The 

SAB will comply with the provisions of 

FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff 

Office procedural policies. Pursuant to 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

Public Law 92–463, notice is hereby 

given that the EPA SAB Acrylamide 

Review Panel will hold a public 

teleconference and face-to-face meeting 

to review EPA’s draft IRIS assessment. 

Background: EPA’s Office of Research 

and Development (ORD) had requested 

that the SAB peer review the Agency’s 

draft assessment, ‘‘Toxicological Review 

of Acrylamide.’’ Background on this 

SAB review and the process for 

formation of this review panel was 

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provided in a Federal Register Notice 

published on March 29, 2007 (72 FR 60 

14804–14805). The purpose of this 

upcoming teleconference is for the SAB 

Review Panel to discuss EPA’s charge 

questions and plan for the face-to-face 

meeting. The Panel will then discuss 

and deliberate on the charge questions 

at the face-to-face meeting. 

Availability of Materials: The draft 

agendas and other materials will be 

posted on the SAB Web site at: 

http://www.epa.gov/sab prior to each 

meeting. For questions and information 

concerning the Agency’s draft 

assessment, (http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/ 

cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=187729), 

please contact Dr. Rob Dewoskin, at 

(919) 541–1089, or 

dewoskin.rob@epa.gov. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant written or oral 

information for the Acrylamide Review 

Panel to consider throughout the 

advisory process. Oral Statements: In 

general, individuals or groups 

requesting an oral presentation at a 

public SAB teleconference will be 

limited to three minutes per speaker, 

with no more than a total of one-half 

hour for all speakers. At the face-to-face 

meeting, presentations will be limited to 

five minutes, with no more than a total 

of one hour for all speakers. To be 

placed on the public speaker list, 

interested parties should contact Dr. Sue 

Shallal, DFO, in writing (preferably via 

e-mail), by February 13, 2008 for the 

teleconference and by March 3, 2008 for 

the face-to-face meeting, at the contact 

information noted above. Written 

Statements: Written statements should 

be received in the SAB Staff Office by 

February 13, 2008, so that the 

information may be made available to 

the SAB for their consideration prior to 

the teleconference or by March 3, 2008 

for their consideration prior to the faceto-face meeting. Written statements 

should be supplied to the DFO via email to shallal.suhair@epa.gov 

(acceptable file format: Adobe Acrobat 

PDF, WordPerfect, MS Word, MS 

PowerPoint, or Rich Text files in IBMPC/Windows 98/2000/XP format). 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Dr. Sue 

Shallal at (202) 343–9977 or 

shallal.suhair@epa.gov. To request 

accommodation of a disability, please 

contact Dr. Shallal preferably at least ten 

days prior to the meeting, to give EPA 

as much time as possible to process 

your request. 

Dated January 28, 2008. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

[FR Doc. E8–1869 Filed 1–31–08; 8:45 am] 

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Notification of a Public Teleconference 

of the Science Advisory Board 

Exposure and Human Health 

Committee 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a 

public teleconference of the SAB 

Exposure and Human Health Committee 

(EHHC) to discuss advisory activities for 

the coming year. 

DATES: The SAB will hold a public 

teleconference on February 29, 2008. 

The teleconference will be held from 2 

p.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern Time). 

ADDRESSES: The teleconference will be 

conducted by telephone only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing to obtain 

general information concerning this 

public teleconference or meeting should 

contact Dr. Sue Shallal, 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) 343–9977; fax: (202) 

233–0643; or e-mail at: 

shallal.suhair@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the EPA Science 

Advisory Board can be found on the 

EPA SAB Web site at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SAB 

was established by 42 U.S.C. 4365 to 

provide independent scientific and 

technical advice to the Administrator on 

the technical basis for Agency positions 

and regulations. The SAB is a Federal 

Advisory Committee chartered under 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C., App. The 

SAB will comply with the provisions of 

FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff 

Office procedural policies. 

Background: EPA’s Office of the 

Science Advisor (OSA) has requested 

that the SAB EHHC evaluate three 

Agency activities in the coming year. 

EPA will provide introductory briefings 

to the committee on: (1) Exposure 

Assessment Guidelines; (2) 

Immunosuppression Guidance; and (3) 

Microbial Risk Assessment Guidance 

Document. The Agency will offer these 

briefings to acquaint the EHHC with the 

Agency’s activities in preparation for 

future meetings. Preliminary 

background information on these 

activities follows. 

Exposure Assessment Guidelines: The 

practice of exposure assessment has 

been evolving rapidly and has changed 

significantly since the 1992 publication 

of EPA’s Guidelines for Exposure 

Assessment. The science has advanced 

in the areas of personal monitoring and 

modeling, activity pattern analysis, and 

susceptible populations and life stages. 

The EPA has published specific 

guidance in such areas as probabilistic 

analyses, exposure factors, aggregate 

exposure and cumulative risk, and 

community-based research. The update 

incorporates and refers to advances and 

changes in the theory and practice of 

exposure assessment. The SAB provided 

a consultation on the general goals, 

topic areas, and approach for the update 

in September 2006 (SAB letter dated 

February 28, 2007, EPA–SAB–07–003). 

The SAB is asked to provide peer 

review, and to comment specifically on 

the scope and content of the updated 

Guidelines, the completeness and 

clarity of the text, the suitability of 

figures and tables, and the inclusion of 

appropriate emerging areas in this field. 

Immunosuppression Guidance: The 

Agency is developing a guidance 

document for interpreting changes in 

the activity or histology of components 

of the immune system to identify 

hazards from exposure to environmental 

stressors. The immune system is a 

complex array of components that work 

both independently and in concert with 

other components to protect humans 

against infection and suppress the 

spread of neoplasia. Given this 

complexity, the Agency is soliciting 

input from the SAB on the direction and 

scope of the draft guidance document. 

Microbial Risk Assessment Guidance 

Document: EPA is working with other 

government agencies to develop 

guidance for microbial risk assessment. 

The draft document is intended to 

reflect the issues and approaches of all 

contributing agencies, from which EPA 

will derive its own internal guidance, 

specific to the regulatory mandates of 

the program offices. The EPA has 

requested a consultation with the SAB 

EHHC on the content and direction of a 

draft microbial risk assessment guidance 

document to determine if its approach 

is appropriate and the content adequate. 

Availability of Materials: The draft 

agenda and other materials will be 

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