Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 15 / Monday, January 26, 2009 / Notices 4435 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8766–8] 

Science Advisory Board Staff Office 

Notification of a Public Teleconference 

of the Science Advisory Board 

Environmental Economics Advisory 

Committee 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA’s Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office is announcing 

a public teleconference of the SAB 

Environmental Economics Advisory 

Committee (EEAC) to discuss its draft 

Advisory on EPA’s draft Guidelines for 

Preparing Economic Analyses. 

DATES: The teleconference will be held 

from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. (Eastern Time) on 

March 4, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing further 

information regarding the public 

teleconference and call-in numbers may 

contact Dr. Holly Stallworth, Designated 

Federal Officer (DFO), U.S. EPA Science 

Advisory Board Staff Office by 

telephone/voice mail at (202) 343–9867, 

or via e-mail at 

stallworth.holly@epa.gov. The SAB 

mailing address is: U.S. EPA, Science 

Advisory Board (1400F), 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. General 

information about the SAB, as well as 

any updates concerning the meeting 

announced in this notice, may be found 

in the SAB Web site at http:// 

www.epa.gov/sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

Public Law 92–463, notice is hereby 

given that the SAB Environmental 

Economics Advisory Committee will 

hold a public teleconference to consider 

its draft Advisory on EPA’s draft 

Guidelines for Preparing Economic 

Analyses as well as public comments. 

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: The mission of the 

EEAC, an SAB Standing Committee, is 

to provide independent advice to the 

EPA Administrator, through the 

chartered SAB, regarding the use of 

economics in EPA’s decision-making. 

As discussed in 73 FR 57621, EPA’s 

National Center for Environmental 

Economics (NCEE) issued the 

Guidelines for Preparing Economic 

Analyses in September 2000 and 

updated those Guidelines in 2008. The 

SAB EEAC met on October 23—24, 2008 

to discuss charge questions related to 

the updated Guidelines. On the March 

4, 2009 teleconference, the SAB EEAC 

will discuss its draft Advisory as well as 

public comments submitted to the SAB 

EEAC. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: All 

materials in support of this meeting, an 

agenda, public comments and a draft 

Advisory will be placed on the SAB 

Web site at http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/ 

sabproduct.nsf/fedrgstr_activites/ 

Guidelines%20Review?OpenDocument 

prior to the meeting. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant written or oral 

information for the SAB to consider 

during the advisory process. 

Oral Statements: In general, 

individuals or groups requesting an oral 

presentation at a public teleconference 

will be limited to five minutes per 

speaker, with no more than a total of 

one hour for all speakers. Interested 

parties should contact Dr. Stallworth, 

DFO, at the contact information noted 

above, to be placed on the public 

speaker list for the March 4, 2009 

teleconference. Written Statements: 

Written statements should be received 

in the SAB Staff Office by February 27, 

2009 so that the information may be 

made available to the SAB for their 

consideration prior to this 

teleconference. 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 to 

stallworth.holly@epa.gov (acceptable 

file format: Adobe Acrobat PDF, 

WordPerfect, MS Word, 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. 

Meeting Access: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Dr. 

Stallworth at (202) 343–9867 or 

stallworth.holly@epa.gov. To request 

accommodation of a disability, please 

contact Dr. Stallworth, preferably at 

least 10 days prior to the meeting to give 

EPA as much time as possible to process 

your request. 

Dated: January 15, 2009. 

Anthony F. Maciorowski, 

Deputy Director, EPA Science Advisory Board 

Staff Office. 

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The White House Office 

Memorandum for the Heads of 

Executive Departments and Agencies 

January 20, 2009, Washington, DC. 

From: Rahm Emanuel, Assistant to the 

President and Chief of Staff 

Subject: Regulatory Review 

President Obama has asked me to 

communicate to each of you his plan for 

managing the Federal regulatory process 

at the beginning of his Administration. 

It is important that President Obama’s 

appointees and designees have the 

opportunity to review and approve any 

new or pending regulations. Therefore, 

at the direction of the President, I am 

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1. Subject to any exceptions the 

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