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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public who wants further 

information concerning the 

teleconference may contact Dr. Holly 

Stallworth, 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) 343–9867; 

fax (202) 233–0643; or e-mail at 

stallworth.holly@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the CASAC can 

be found on the EPA Web site at http://

www.epa.gov/casac. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The Clean Air Scientific 

Advisory Committee (CASAC) was 

established under section 109(d)(2) of 

the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) (42 

U.S.C. 7409) as an independent 

scientific advisory committee. CASAC 

provides advice, information and 

recommendations on the scientific and 

technical aspects of air quality criteria 

and national ambient air quality 

standards (NAAQS) under sections 108 

and 109 of the Act. The CASAC is a 

Federal advisory committee chartered 

under the Federal Advisory Committee 

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

The CASAC Ozone Review Panel Panel 

will comply with the provisions of 

FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff 

Office procedural policies. 

Section 109(d)(1) of the CAA requires 

that the Agency periodically review and 

revise, as appropriate, the air quality 

criteria and the National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards (NAAQS) for the six 

‘‘criteria’’ air pollutants, including 

ozone. EPA is currently reviewing the 

primary (health-based) and secondary 

(welfare-based) NAAQS for ozone. 

Accordingly, the SAB Staff Office 

solicited nominations for the Ozone 

Review Panel on June 26, 2008 (73 FR 

36319–36321). Membership of the Panel 

is listed at http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/ 

sabpeople.nsf/WebExternal

SubCommitteeRosters?OpenView

&committee=CASAC&subcommittee

=Ozone%20Review%20Panel. 

EPA is developing the Integrated 

Review Plan (IRP) that will serve as the 

framework for its review of the ozone 

NAAQS. The IRP presents background 

information, the schedule for the 

review, the process to be used in 

conducting the review, and the key 

policy-relevant science issues that will 

guide the review. The IRP also discusses 

the frameworks for the various 

documents to be prepared by the EPA as 

part of the review, including an 

integrated science assessment (ISA) and 

a risk/exposure assessment (REA), and 

policy assessment that will be submitted 

for later CASAC review and public 

comment. The purpose of the November 

13, 2009 teleconference is for the 

CASAC Panel to provide consultative 

advice on the draft Integrated Review 

Plan for the National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards for Ozone. A 

teleconference was previously planned 

for March 30, 2009 and noticed in the 

Federal Register on February 19, 2009 

(74 FR 7689) but was subsequently 

cancelled at the request of the EPA 

Office of Air and Radiation (OAR). 

Technical Contacts: Any questions 

concerning EPA’s Integrated Review 

Plan for ozone should be directed to Dr. 

David McKee, OAR, at (919) 541–5288 

or mckee.dave@epa.gov. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: A 

meeting agenda and other materials for 

the meeting will be placed on the 

CASAC Web site at http://yosemite.epa.

gov/sab/SABPRODUCT.NSF/

81e39f4c09954fcb85256ead006be86e/

97662d128e20ca968525746b006ce9fd! 

OpenDocument. The Integrated Review 

Plan for the National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards for Ozone will be 

available at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/ 

naaqs/standards/ozone/s_o3_index.

html (see ‘‘Planning Documents’’). 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant written or oral 

information for consideration on the 

topics included in this advisory activity. 

Oral Statements: To be placed on the 

public speaker list for the November 13, 

2009 teleconference, interested parties 

should notify Dr. Holly Stallworth, 

DFO, by e-mail no later than November 

9, 2009. Individuals making oral 

statements will be limited to three 

minutes per speaker. Written 

Statements: Written statements for the 

November 13, 2009 teleconference 

should be received in the SAB Staff 

Office by November 9, 2009 so that the 

information may be made available to 

the CASAC Panel for its consideration 

prior to this meeting. Written statements 

should be supplied to the DFO in the 

following formats: one hard copy with 

original signature and one electronic 

copy via e-mail (acceptable file format: 

Adobe Acrobat PDF, MS Word, 

WordPerfect, MS PowerPoint, or Rich 

Text files in IBM–PC/Windows 98/ 

2000/XP format). Submitters are asked 

to provide versions of each document 

submitted with and without signatures, 

because the SAB Staff Office does not 

publish documents with signatures on 

its Web sites. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Dr. 

Stallworth at the phone number or email address noted above, preferably at 

least ten days prior to the 

teleconference, to give EPA as much 

time as possible to process your request. 

Dated: October 15, 2009. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

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EPA Science Advisory Board Staff 

Office Request for Nominations of 

Experts for the SAB Trichloroethylene 

(TCE) Review Panel 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice request for nominations. 

SUMMARY: The Science Advisory Board 

(SAB) Staff Office is requesting public 

nominations of experts to form an SAB 

Ad Hoc Panel to review EPA’s health 

effects assessment for Trichloroethylene 

(TCE). 

DATES: Nominations should be 

submitted by November 12, 2009 per 

instructions below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing further 

information regarding this Request for 

Nominations may contact Dr. Marc 

Rigas, Designated Federal Officer (DFO), 

SAB Staff Office, by telephone/voice 

mail at (202) 343–9978; by fax at (202) 

233–0643; or via e-mail at 

rigas.marc@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: 

Background: EPA’s Integrated Risk 

Information System (IRIS) is an 

electronic database containing 

descriptive and quantitative 

toxicological information on human 

health effects that may result from 

chronic exposure to various substances 

in the environment. This information 

supports human health risk 

assessments, and includes hazard 

identification and dose-response data 

and derivations of oral reference doses 

(RfDs) and inhalation reference 

concentrations (RfCs) for noncancer 

effects and oral slope factors and oral 

and inhalation unit risks for cancer 

effects. IRIS is prepared and maintained 

by EPA’s National Center for 

Environmental Assessment (NCEA) 

within the Office of Research and 

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developed a draft IRIS Toxicological 

Assessment for TCE and has requested 

that the SAB conduct a review of its 

draft Assessment. 

In 2001, ORD developed a draft IRIS 

Toxicological Assessment for TCE, 

which was released for public comment 

and external peer review. In 2002, the 

Environmental Health Committee of the 

SAB reviewed the draft TCE Assessment 

and made several recommendations to 

strengthen the dose-response 

assessment. In 2004, in preparation for 

development of a new TCE assessment, 

the National Research Council (NRC) 

was requested to provide a scientific 

consultation on key scientific issues 

related to assessing the human health 

risks of TCE, including those relevant to 

hazard characterization/mode of action, 

physiologically-based pharmacokinetic 

(PBPK) modeling, and dose-response 

assessment. ORD has taken the 

recommendations and conclusions 

included in the NRC’s report, which 

was released in 2006, into account as it 

developed a new revised draft IRIS 

Toxicological Assessment for TCE. ORD 

has requested that the SAB conduct a 

review of its revised draft Assessment. 

The SAB was established by 42 U.S.C. 

4365 to provide independent scientific 

and technical advice, consultation and 

recommendations to the EPA 

Administrator on the technical basis for 

Agency positions and regulations. The 

SAB Staff Office will form an expert 

Panel to review ORD’s draft IRIS 

Toxicological Assessment for TCE. The 

SAB Panel will comply with the 

provisions of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA) and all 

appropriate SAB procedural policies. 

Upon completion, the Panel’s report 

will be submitted to the chartered SAB 

for final approval for transmittal to the 

EPA Administrator. The TCE Review 

Panel is being asked to comment on the 

scientific soundness of the Agency’s 

draft IRIS review. 

Availability of the Review Materials: 

The EPA draft IRIS Toxicological 

Review document to be reviewed by the 

TCE Review Panel will be made 

available by ORD at the following URL 

http://epa.gov/ncea (under ‘‘Recent 

Additions’’). For questions concerning 

the review materials, please contact Dr. 

Weihsueh Chiu, at (703) 347–8607, or 

chiu.weihsueh@epa.gov. 

Request for Nominations: The SAB 

Staff Office is requesting nominations of 

nationally recognized experts with 

expertise in one or more of the 

following areas, particularly with 

respect to TCE and its metabolites: 

toxicokinetics; toxicology; carcinogenic 

modes of action; physiologically-based 

pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling; 

epidemiology; statistics; dose-response 

modeling; and risk assessment. 

Process and Deadline for Submitting 

Nominations: Any interested person or 

organization may nominate qualified 

individuals for possible service on the 

TCE Review Panel in the areas of 

expertise described above. Nominations 

should be submitted in electronic 

format (which is preferred over hard 

copy) following the instructions for 

‘‘Nominating Experts to Advisory Panels 

and Ad Hoc Committees Being Formed’’ 

provided on the SAB Web site. The 

instructions can be accessed through the 

‘‘Nomination of Experts’’ link on the 

blue navigational bar on the SAB Web 

site at http://www.epa.gov/sab. To 

receive full consideration, nominations 

should include all of the information 

requested. 

EPA’s SAB Staff Office requests: 

contact information about the person 

making the nomination; contact 

information about the nominee; the 

disciplinary and specific areas of 

expertise of the nominee; the nominee’s 

curriculum vita; sources of recent grants 

and/or contracts; and a biographical 

sketch of the nominee indicating current 

position, educational background, 

research activities, and recent service on 

other national advisory committees or 

national professional organizations. 

Persons having questions about the 

nomination procedures, or who are 

unable to submit nominations through 

the SAB Web site, should contact Dr. 

Marc Rigas, DFO, as indicated above in 

this notice. Nominations should be 

submitted in time to arrive no later than 

November 12, 2009. EPA values and 

welcomes diversity. In an effort to 

obtain nominations of diverse 

candidates, EPA encourages 

nominations of women and men of all 

racial and ethnic groups. 

The EPA SAB Staff Office will 

acknowledge receipt of nominations. 

The names and biosketches of qualified 

nominees identified by respondents to 

the Federal Register notice and 

additional experts identified by the SAB 

Staff will be posted on the SAB Web site 

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

comments on this ‘‘Short List’’ of 

candidates will be accepted for 21 

calendar days. The public will be 

requested to provide relevant 

information or other documentation on 

nominees that the SAB Staff Office 

should consider in evaluating 

candidates. 

For the EPA SAB Staff Office, a 

balanced subcommittee or review panel 

includes candidates who possess the 

necessary domains of knowledge, the 

relevant scientific perspectives (which, 

among other factors, can be influenced 

by work history and affiliation), and the 

collective breadth of experience to 

adequately address the charge. In 

establishing the TCE Review Panel, the 

SAB Staff Office will consider public 

comments on the ‘‘Short List’’ of 

candidates, information provided by the 

candidates themselves, and background 

information independently gathered by 

the SAB Staff Office. Selection criteria 

to be used for Panel membership 

include: (a) Scientific and/or technical 

expertise, knowledge, and experience 

(primary factors); (b) availability and 

willingness to serve; (c) absence of 

financial conflicts of interest; (d) 

absence of an appearance of a lack of 

impartiality; and (e) skills working in 

committees, subcommittees and 

advisory panels; and, for the Panel as a 

whole, (f) diversity of, and balance 

among scientific expertise and 

viewpoints. 

The SAB Staff Office’s evaluation of 

an absence of financial conflicts of 

interest will include a review of the 

‘‘Confidential Financial Disclosure 

Form for Special Government 

Employees Serving on Federal Advisory 

Committees at the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency’’ (EPA Form 3110– 

48). This confidential form allows 

Government officials to determine 

whether there is a statutory conflict 

between that person’s public 

responsibilities (which includes 

membership on an EPA Federal 

advisory committee) and private 

interests and activities, or the 

appearance of a lack of impartiality, as 

defined by Federal regulation. The form 

may be viewed and downloaded from 

the following URL address http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/epaform3110- 

48.pdf. 

The approved policy under which the 

EPA SAB Office selects subcommittees 

and review panels is described in the 

following document: Overview of the 

Panel Formation Process at the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

Science Advisory Board (EPA–SAB–EC– 

02–010), which is posted on the SAB 

Web site at http://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/ 

ec02010.pdf. 

Dated: October 15, 2009. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

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