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public comment and was discussed by 

the CASAC via a publicly accessible 

teleconference consultation on May 11, 

2007 (72 FR 20336). This plan was then 

finalized and made available to the 

public in October 2007. A review of the 

secondary (welfare-based) NAAQS for 

Sulfur Oxides is being conducted 

separately, in conjunction with the 

review of the secondary NAAQS for 

Oxides of Nitrogen. (http:// 

www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/so2/ 

s_so2_cr_pd.html). In February 2007 (72 

FR 6238), a workshop was held to 

discuss, with invited scientific experts, 

initial draft materials prepared in the 

development of the ISA and 

supplementary annexes for sulfur 

oxides. The first external review draft of 

this ISA was released for public 

comment and review by the CASAC on 

September 28, 2007 (72 FR 55207), and 

was reviewed by CASAC at a public 

meeting held on December 5–6, 2007 

(72 FR 64216). The second draft of this 

ISA was released for public comment 

and review by the CASAC in June 2008 

(73 FR 31113), and was reviewed by 

CASAC at a public meeting held on July 

30–31, 2008. EPA has considered 

comments by CASAC and by the public 

in preparing this final ISA. 

Dated: September 2, 2008. 

Rebecca Clark, 

Acting Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0673; FRL–8382–8] 

FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; 

Notice of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: There will be a four–day 

meeting of the Federal Insecticide, 

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 

Scientific Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP) 

to consider and review the Scientific 

Issues Associated with Worker Reentry 

Exposure Assessment. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

December 2-5, 2008, from 

approximately 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m, 

eastern time. 

Comments. The Agency encourages 

that written comments be submitted by 

November 18, 2008 and requests for oral 

comments be submitted by November 

25, 2008. However, written comments 

and requests to make oral comments 

may be submitted until the date of the 

meeting, but anyone submitting written 

comments after November 18, 2008 

should contact the Designated Federal 

Official (DFO) listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. For additional 

instructions, see Unit I.C. of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

Nominations. Nominations of 

candidates to serve as ad hoc members 

of the FIFRA SAP for this meeting 

should be provided on or before 

September 22, 2008. 

Special accommodations. For 

information on access or services for 

individuals with disabilities, and to 

request accommodation of a disability, 

please contact the DFO listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT at least 

10 days prior to the meeting to give EPA 

as much time as possible to process 

your request. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Environmental Protection Agency, 

Conference Center, Lobby Level, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA 22202. 

Comments. Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0673, by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Office of Pesticide Programs 

(OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, 

DC 20460–0001. 

• Delivery: OPP Regulatory Public 

Docket (7502P), Environmental 

Protection Agency, Rm. S–4400, One 

Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S. 

Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. Deliveries 

are only accepted during the Docket 

Facility’s normal hours of operation 

(8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays). 

Special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. The 

Docket Facility telephone number is 

(703) 305–5805. 

Instructions. Direct your comments to 

docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2008– 

0673. If your comments contain any 

information that you consider to be CBI 

or otherwise protected, please contact 

the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT to obtain special 

instructions before submitting your 

comments. EPA’s policy is that all 

comments received will be included in 

the docket without change and may be 

made available on-line at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes information 

claimed to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Do not submit information that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected through regulations.gov or email. The regulations.gov website is an 

‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means EPA will not know your identity 

or contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

If you send an e-mail comment directly 

to EPA without going through 

regulations.gov, your e-mail address 

will be automatically captured and 

included as part of the comment that is 

placed in the docket and made available 

on the Internet. If you submit an 

electronic comment, EPA recommends 

that you include your name and other 

contact information in the body of your 

comment and with any disk or CD-ROM 

you submit. If EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

EPA may not be able to consider your 

comment. Electronic files should avoid 

the use of special characters, any form 

of encryption, and be free of any defects 

or viruses. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the docket index available 

at http://www.regulations.gov. Although 

listed in the index, some information is 

not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Certain other 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

is not placed on the Internet and will be 

publicly available only in hard copy 

form. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either in the 

electronic docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or, if only 

available in hard copy, at the OPP 

Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S– 

4400, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 

2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The 

hours of operation of this Docket 

Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The Docket Facility telephone 

number is (703) 305–5805. 

Nominations, requests to present oral 

comments, and requests for special 

accommodations. Submit nominations 

to serve as ad hoc members of the 

FIFRA SAP, requests for special seating 

accommodations, or requests to present 

oral comments to the DFO listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim 

Downing, DFO, Office of Science 

Coordination and Policy (7201M), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460–0001; telephone number: 

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downing.jim@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this Action Apply to Me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general. This action may, however, be 

of interest to persons who are or may be 

required to conduct testing of chemical 

substances under the Federal Food, 

Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), 

FIFRA, and the Food Quality Protection 

Act of 1996 (FQPA). 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 DFO 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

B. What Should I Consider as I Prepare 

My Comments for EPA? 

When submitting comments, 

remember to: 

1. Identify the document by docket ID 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

2. Follow directions. The Agency may 

ask you to respond to specific questions 

or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

3. Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

4. Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

5. If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

6. Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns and suggest 

alternatives. 

7. Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

8. Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

C. How May I Participate in this 

Meeting? 

You may participate in this meeting 

by following the instructions in this 

unit. To ensure proper receipt by EPA, 

it is imperative that you identify docket 

ID number EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0673 in 

the subject line on the first page of your 

request. 

1. Written comments. The Agency 

encourages that written comments be 

submitted, using the instructions in 

ADDRESSES, no later than November 18, 

2008, to provide FIFRA SAP the time 

necessary to consider and review the 

written comments. Written comments 

are accepted until the date of the 

meeting, but anyone submitting written 

comments after November 18, 2008 

should contact the DFO listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Anyone 

submitting written comments at the 

meeting should bring 30 copies for 

distribution to the FIFRA SAP. 

2. Oral comments. The Agency 

encourages that each individual or 

group wishing to make brief oral 

comments to FIFRA SAP submit their 

request to the DFO listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT no later 

than November 25, 2008, in order to be 

included on the meeting agenda. 

Requests to present oral comments will 

be accepted until the date of the meeting 

and, to the extent that time permits, the 

Chair of the FIFRA SAP may permit the 

presentation of oral comments at the 

meeting by interested persons who have 

not previously requested time. The 

request should identify the name of the 

individual making the presentation, the 

organization (if any) the individual will 

represent, and any requirements for 

audiovisual equipment (e.g., overhead 

projector, 35 mm projector, chalkboard). 

Oral comments before FIFRA SAP are 

limited to approximately 5 minutes 

unless prior arrangements have been 

made. In addition, each speaker should 

bring 30 copies of his or her comments 

and presentation slides for distribution 

to the FIFRA SAP at the meeting. 

3. Seating at the meeting. Seating at 

the meeting will be open and on a firstcome basis. 

4. Request for nominations to serve as 

ad hoc members of the FIFRA SAP for 

this meeting. As part of a broader 

process for developing a pool of 

candidates for each meeting, the FIFRA 

SAP staff routinely solicits the 

stakeholder community for nominations 

of prospective candidates for service as 

ad hoc members of the FIFRA SAP. Any 

interested person or organization may 

nominate qualified individuals to be 

considered as prospective candidates for 

a specific meeting. Individuals 

nominated for this meeting should have 

expertise in one or more of the 

following areas: occupational pesticide 

exposure and risk assessment, agronomy 

and agricultural production practices, 

statistics, and labor statistics. Nominees 

should be scientists who have sufficient 

professional qualifications, including 

training and experience, to be capable of 

providing expert comments on the 

scientific issues for this meeting. 

Nominees should be identified by name, 

occupation, position, address, and 

telephone number. Nominations should 

be provided to the DFO listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT on or 

before September 22, 2008. The Agency 

will consider all nominations of 

prospective candidates for this meeting 

that are received on or before this date. 

However, final selection of ad hoc 

members for this meeting is a 

discretionary function of the Agency. 

The selection of scientists to serve on 

the FIFRA SAP is based on the function 

of the panel and the expertise needed to 

address the Agency’s charge to the 

panel. No interested scientists shall be 

ineligible to serve by reason of their 

membership on any other advisory 

committee to a Federal department or 

agency or their employment by a 

Federal department or agency except the 

EPA. Other factors considered during 

the selection process include 

availability of the potential panel 

member to fully participate in the 

panel’s reviews, absence of any conflicts 

of interest or appearance of lack of 

impartiality, independence with respect 

to the matters under review, and lack of 

bias. Although financial conflicts of 

interest, the appearance of lack of 

impartiality, lack of independence, and 

bias may result in disqualification, the 

absence of such concerns does not 

assure that a candidate will be selected 

to serve on the FIFRA SAP. Numerous 

qualified candidates are identified for 

each panel. Therefore, selection 

decisions involve carefully weighing a 

number of factors including the 

candidates’ areas of expertise and 

professional qualifications and 

achieving an overall balance of different 

scientific perspectives on the panel. In 

order to have the collective breadth of 

experience needed to address the 

Agency’s charge for this meeting, the 

Agency anticipates selecting 

approximately 10 to 12 ad hoc 

scientists. 

FIFRA SAP members are subject to 

the provisions of 5 CFR part 2634, 

Executive Branch Financial Disclosure, 

as supplemented by the EPA in 5 CFR 

part 6401. In anticipation of this 

requirement, prospective candidates for 

service on the FIFRA SAP will be asked 

to submit confidential financial 

information which shall fully disclose, 

among other financial interests, the 

candidate’s employment, stocks and 

bonds, and where applicable, sources of 

research support. The EPA will evaluate 

the candidates financial disclosure form 

to assess whether there are financial 

conflicts of interest, appearance of a 

lack of impartiality or any prior 

involvement with the development of 

the documents under consideration 

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review) before the candidate is 

considered further for service on the 

FIFRA SAP. Those who are selected 

from the pool of prospective candidates 

will be asked to attend the public 

meetings and to participate in the 

discussion of key issues and 

assumptions at these meetings. In 

addition, they will be asked to review 

and to help finalize the meeting 

minutes. The list of FIFRA SAP 

members participating at this meeting 

will be posted on the FIFRA SAP 

website at http://epa.gov/scipoly/sap or 

may be obtained from the OPP 

Regulatory Public Docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

II. Background 

A. Purpose of the FIFRA SAP 

The FIFRA SAP serves as the primary 

scientific peer review mechanism of 

EPA’s Office of Prevention, Pesticides 

and Toxic Substances (OPPTS) and is 

structured to provide scientific advice, 

information and recommendations to 

the EPA Administrator on pesticides 

and pesticide-related issues as to the 

impact of regulatory actions on health 

and the environment. The FIFRA SAP is 

a Federal advisory committee 

established in 1975 under FIFRA that 

operates in accordance with 

requirements of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act. The FIFRA SAP is 

composed of a permanent panel 

consisting of seven members who are 

appointed by the EPA Administrator 

from nominees provided by the National 

Institutes of Health and the National 

Science Foundation. FIFRA, as 

amended by FQPA, established a 

Science Review Board consisting of at 

least 60 scientists who are available to 

the Scientific Advisory Panel on an ad 

hoc basis to assist in reviews conducted 

by the Scientific Advisory Panel. As a 

peer review mechanism, the FIFRA SAP 

provides comments, evaluations and 

recommendations to improve the 

effectiveness and quality of analyses 

made by Agency scientists. Members of 

the FIFRA SAP are scientists who have 

sufficient professional qualifications, 

including training and experience, to 

provide expert advice and 

recommendation to the Agency. 

B. Public Meeting 

Extensive investigation of hand labor 

activities in agriculture and subsequent 

occupational, post-application exposure 

monitoring were conducted as a result 

of an EPA data call-in (DCI) in 1995. An 

industry task force, the Agricultural 

Reentry Task Force (ARTF), was formed 

to produce the data to satisfy the data 

requirements. In conjunction with the 

U.S Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA), Health Canada’s Pest 

Management Regulatory Agency 

(PMRA), and the California Department 

of Pesticide Regulation (CDPR), the Task 

Force proposed and conducted exposure 

monitoring studies for field workers 

engaged in hand labor activities in a 

variety of crops across agriculture. 

The data from the completed studies 

now comprise a generic database for use 

in conducting occupational postapplication exposure assessment in all 

agricultural settings. Based on the types 

of crops and activities monitored, the 

database is organized into crop-activity 

groups, or clusters, designed to 

represent, and enable exposure 

assessment of all hand labor activities 

that occur in agriculture. 

During this meeting of the FIFRA 

SAP, the Agency will provide an 

overview of occupational postapplication monitoring studies 

conducted by the ARTF as well as the 

proposed organization, content, 

structure, and characteristics of the 

database. The overview will contain 

discussions of the criteria used to define 

the appropriate activities to monitor, 

how crops and crop activities were 

grouped into clusters, how the 

completed data are interpreted and 

used, and the general methodology and 

assumptions underlying postapplication exposure assessments. 

Finally, the regulatory agencies will 

discuss the peer review process that was 

followed in developing and making 

decisions on the use of this database. 

The goal of this meeting is for the 

Agency to seek comments from the 

FIFRA SAP on the adequacy of the data 

collected, the appropriateness of the 

clustering decisions, the utility of the 

database for occupational postapplication exposure assessment in 

agricultural settings, and some of the 

critical assumptions used in estimating 

exposures. 

C. FIFRA SAP Documents and Meeting 

Minutes 

EPA’s background paper, related 

supporting materials, charge/questions 

to the FIFRA SAP, FIFRA SAP 

composition (i.e., members and ad hoc 

members for this meeting), and the 

meeting agenda will be available by late 

November 2008. In addition, the Agency 

may provide additional background 

documents as the materials become 

available. You may obtain electronic 

copies of these documents, and certain 

other related documents that might be 

available electronically, at http:// 

www.regulations.gov and the FIFRA 

SAP homepage at http://www.epa.gov/ 

scipoly/sap. 

The FIFRA SAP will prepare meeting 

minutes summarizing its 

recommendations to the Agency 

approximately 90 days after the 

meeting. The meeting minutes will be 

posted on the FIFRA SAP website or 

may be obtained from the OPP 

Regulatory Public Docket at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Pesticides 

and pests. 

Dated: September 4, 2008. 

Elizabeth A. Resek, 

Acting Director, Office of Science 

Coordination and Policy. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–0335; FRL–8380–8] 

Nuosept 145 Registration Review; 

Antimicrobial Pesticide Dockets 

Opened for Review and Comment 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA has established 

registration review dockets for the 

pesticides listed in the table in Unit 

III.A. With this document, EPA is 

opening the public comment period for 

these registration reviews. Registration 

review is EPA’s periodic review of 

pesticide registrations to ensure that 

each pesticide continues to satisfy the 

statutory standard for registration, that 

is, the pesticide can perform its 

intended function without unreasonable 

adverse effects on human health or the 

environment. Registration review 

dockets contain information that will 

assist the public in understanding the 

types of information and issues that the 

Agency may consider during the course 

of registration reviews. Through this 

program, EPA is ensuring that each 

pesticide’s registration is based on 

current scientific and other knowledge, 

including its effects on human health 

and the environment. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before December 11, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments 

identified by the docket identification 

(ID) number for the specific pesticide of 

interest provided in the table in Unit 

III.A., by one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions for submitting comments. 


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