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Science Advisory Board; Notification

of Public Advisory Committee Meeting

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory

Committee Act, Public Law 92–463,

notice is hereby given that the

Environmental Models Subcommittee

(EMS) National-Scale Air Toxics

Assessment (NATA) Review Panel

(hereafter, ‘‘NATA Review Panel’’) of

the USEPA Science Advisory Board’s

(SAB) Executive Committee (EC) will

meet on the dates and times noted

below. All times noted are Eastern

Standard Time. All meetings are open to

the public; however, seating is limited

and available on a first come basis.

Important Notice: Documents that are

the subject of SAB reviews are normally

available from the originating EPA office

and are not available from the SAB

Office—information concerning

availability of documents from the

relevant Program Office is included

below.

1—EC/EMS NATA Review Panel

Teleconference—February 21, 2001

The Agency is planning to conduct an

initial, national-scale assessment of the

potential health risks associated with

inhalation exposures to 32 air toxics

identified as priority pollutants by the

Agency’s Integrated Urban Air Toxics

Strategy, plus diesel emissions. While a

number of the elements of this assessment

plan have already undergone scientific peer

review, the entire assembly of these elements

and application of the full assessment

approach have not. Therefore, the Agency is

asking the NATA Review Panel to comment

on the appropriateness of the overall

approach, including the data, models, and

methods used, and the ways these elements

have been integrated, as well as to suggest

ways to improve these approaches for

subsequent national-scale assessments.

As a first step in this review, the NATA

Review Panel will conduct a public

conference call on Wednesday February 21,

2001 from 11 am to 1 pm (Eastern Standard

Time). The call will be hosted out of the EPA

Science Advisory Board Conference Room

(Room 6013), Ariel Rios Federal Building,

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20004. Interested members

of the public may attend in person or connect

to the teleconference by phone. The purpose

of the call is to provide Panel Members with

the opportunity to clarify the Charge

questions (see below), request any

supplemental materials from the Agency, ask

questions on materials already received from

the Agency, and discuss preparations for a

public meeting of the NATA Review Panel on

March 20–21, 2001 in Durham, NC (see

below for details on the March meeting).

Providing Public Comments—The NATA

Review Panel will not be accepting oral or

written public comments at the conference

call, since this is an information-gathering

meeting. Public comments in both formats

will be accepted at the meeting on 20–21,

2001 (see details below).

For Further Information—To obtain

information concerning this teleconference,

please contact Dr. K. Jack Kooyoomjian,

Designated Federal Officer (DFO) (see contact

information below). To obtain information

about how to participate in this

teleconference, please contact Ms. Betty

Fortune (see contact information below). A

draft agenda for the teleconference will be

posted on the SAB website (www.epa.gov/

sab) approximately 10 days prior to the

teleconference.

2—NATA Review Panel Meeting—March

20–21, 2001

The NATA Review Panel will meet on

Tuesday and Wednesday, March 20–21, 2001

at the USEPA Environmental Research Center

(ERC) Annex Building, Room S–23, 79 T.W.

Alexander Drive, Durham, NC. The meeting

will begin at 9 am and end no later than 5

pm each day.

Purpose of the Meeting—The NATA

Review Panel will review and receive

technical public comments on the EPA

Document entitled ‘‘National-Scale Air

Toxics Assessment for 1996’’, (EPA–453/R–

01–003), dated January, 2001. The Panel will

respond to questions in the Charge (see

below) that has been negotiated with the

Agency: The Panel is free to address

additional questions, as it sees fit.

Charge Questions—Keeping in mind the

stated goals and preliminary nature of this

assessment, EPA asks the NATA Review

Panel to generally comment on the

appropriateness of the overall approach,

including the data, models, and methods

used, and the ways in which these elements

have been integrated. Also, EPA solicits

suggestions on ways to improve these

approaches for subsequent national-scale

assessments. Specifically:

1. Given the nature of the National Toxics

Inventory (NTI) and the methods by which it

was developed and reviewed, have available

emissions data been appropriately adapted

for use in this assessment? Can the Panel

suggest improvements to EPA’s application

of the NTI for use in future initial nationalscale assessments?

(a) Can the Panel suggest improvements to

the treatment of compound classes (e.g.,

chromium and compounds), given the nature

of the information available in the inventory?

(b) Can the Panel suggest improvements to

the methods used to spatially distribute area

and mobile source emissions?

(c) Can the Panel suggest improvements to

the methods used to specify default point

source emission characteristics in lieu of

missing emissions data?

2. Is the approach taken for the geographic

aggregation of ambient and exposure

concentrations generated by the ASPEN and

HAPEM4 models appropriate in light of the

limitations of the models and of the available

emissions data?

3. Has available dose-response information

(e.g., different sources of information, a

different prioritization scheme) been

appropriately used in this assessment? Can

the Panel suggest methods that could

improve upon the use of available doseresponse information?

4. What are the strengths and the

weaknesses of the overall conceptual

approach to risk characterization used in this

assessment? Given the underlying science

and the intended purposes of the assessment,

can the Panel suggest ways in which the risk

characterization could be improved?

(a) Is the method used to aggregate cancer

risks appropriate? The aggregation of

carcinogenic risk within two categories,

based on weight-of-evidence classifications,

is of particular interest.

(b) Is the method used to aggregate noncancer hazards appropriate? The summation

of hazard quotients within target organs, the

categorization of sums by ranges of

uncertainty factors, and the inclusion of all

target organs (as opposed to only the organs

associated with the critical effect) are of

particular interest.

5. Although EPA has concluded that

available data are not sufficient to develop a

reliable quantitative estimate of cancer unit

risk for diesel emissions, it is clear that this

pollutant class may be of significant concern

in a number of urban settings. The risk

characterization in this report includes a

discussion of diesel particulate matter to help

states and local areas frame the importance

of this pollutant compared to the other air

toxics. In the context of this assessment, is

the discussion in this report regarding

making risk comparisons among other air

toxics appropriate? Can the Panel provide

any suggestions that would improve upon

this approach to comparing the toxic health

effects of diesel particulate matter with other

pollutants?

6. Given the limitations inherent in this

preliminary assessment, have uncertainty

and variability been appropriately

characterized?

(a) Can the Panel suggest ways that the

characterization of uncertainty and

variability could be improved, made more

transparent, or integrated more effectively

into the risk characterization?

(b) Can the Panel suggest methods for

quantifying individual as well as composite

uncertainties associated with the emissions

inventory, dispersion modeling, exposure

modeling, dose-response assessment,

quantitative risk estimates, and accumulation

of risk across air toxics?

7. Have the results of the assessment been

appropriately and clearly presented? Can the

Panel suggest alternative methods or formats

that could improve the presentation and

communication of these results?

8. Does the Panel have suggestions for

research priorities that would improve such

air toxics assessments in the future?

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Availability of Review Materials—To

obtain a copy of the review document

(National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment for

1996, EPA–453/R–01–003, dated January,

2001) and supporting appendices, please

contact Ms. Barbara Miles at U.S. EPA,

OAQPS/ESD/REAG (MD–13), Research

Triangle Park, NC 27711; telephone (919)

541–5648; facsimile (919) 541–0840; e-mail

miles.barbara@epa.gov. Please provide the

title and the EPA number for the document,

as well as your name and address. The

document will be dispensed in CD ROM

format unless the requestor requires a paper

copy. Internet users may download a copy

from EPA’s National Center for

Environmental Assessment’s (NCEA) website

(http://www.epa.gov/nata/).

Following the meeting, the NATA Review

Panel will draft a publicly available report

that will be forwarded to the SAB Executive

Committee for final review and approval,

prior to transmittal to the Agency. This

review will be announced in a subsequent

Federal Register notice.

For Further Information—Members of the

public desiring additional information about

the meeting should contact Dr. K. Jack

Kooyoomjian, Designated Federal Officer

(DFO), Environmental Models Subcommittee,

National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment

Review Panel, US EPA Science Advisory

Board (1400A), U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20460 (FedEx

address: US EPA Science Advisory Board,

Suite 6450, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20004); telephone/voice

mail at (202) 564–4557; fax at (202) 501–

0582; or via e-mail at kooyoomjian.jack

@epa.gov. The draft agenda will be available

approximately two weeks prior to the

meetings on the SAB website (http://

www.epa.gov/sab) or from Ms. Betty Fortune

at (202) 564–4534; fax: (202) 501–0582; or email at: fortune.betty@epa.gov.

Providing Public Comments—Members of

the public who wish to make a brief oral

presentation at the meeting must contact Dr.

Kooyoomjian in writing (by letter, fax, or email—see previously stated information) no

later than 12 noon Eastern Time, Wednesday,

March 14, 2001 in order to be included on

the Agenda. Written statements will be

accepted in the SAB Staff office up until two

days following the meeting (by close of

business, March 23, 2001).

3. NATA Review Panel Contingent

Teleconference—April 24, 2001

The NATA Review Panel, may, depending

on progress achieved in developing its report

from the March 20–21, 2001 meeting,

convene in a public teleconference on

Tuesday, April 24, 2000 between 1 and 3 pm.

The meeting will be coordinated through a

conference call connection in Room 6013 in

the US EPA, Ariel Rios Building, 1200

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

20004. The public is encouraged to attend the

meeting in the conference room noted above,

however, a limited number of the public may

also attend through a telephonic link.

Additional instructions about how to

participate in the meeting can be obtained by

calling Ms. Betty Fortune prior to the meeting

(see contact information given above).

Purpose of the Meeting—The NATA

Review Panel is planning a teleconference for

the above noted date on a contingency basis.

The teleconference will be convened only if,

in the opinion of the Panel Chair, it is needed

to address issues that require further

discussion prior to completion of the

Committee’s report. A decision as whether or

not the teleconference [announced in this

meeting notice] will be convened will be

made by close of business, Friday, April 13,

2001, 11 days prior to the tentatively

scheduled date. The decision on the

teleconference will be posted to the SAB

website (www.epa.gov/sab); or members of

the public may call or email Ms. Betty

Fortune at the telephone and e-mail address

previously given.

Availability of Review Materials—If this

teleconference is to be held, a list of the

issues to be discussed, along with a draft

meeting agenda, will be posted on the SAB

website (www.epa.gov/sab) under the

‘‘Agenda’’ heading on or about April 13,

2001. If the meeting is canceled, a notice will

be posted on the SAB website to that effect,

as well.

For Further Information—To obtain

information concerning this contingent

teleconference, please contact Dr. K. Jack

Kooyoomjian, Designated Federal Officer

(DFO) (see contact information previously

given). To obtain information about how to

participate in this teleconference, please

contact Ms. Betty Fortune (see contact

information previously given).

Providing Oral or Written Comments at SAB

Meetings

It is the policy of the Science Advisory

Board to accept written public comments of

any length, and to accommodate oral public

comments whenever possible. The Science

Advisory Board expects that public

statements presented at its meetings will not

be repetitive of previously submitted oral or

written statements.

Oral Comments: In general, each

individual or group requesting an oral

presentation at a face-to-face meeting will be

limited to a total time of ten minutes. For

teleconference meetings, opportunities for

oral comment will usually be limited to no

more than three minutes per speaker and no

more than fifteen minutes total, unless

otherwise stated. Deadlines for getting on the

public speaker list for a meeting are given

above. Speakers should bring at least 35

copies of their comments and presentation

slides for distribution to the reviewers and

public at the meeting.

Written Comments: Although the SAB

accepts written comments until the date of

the meeting (unless otherwise stated), written

comments should be received in the SAB

Staff Office at least one week prior to the

meeting date so that the comments may be

made available to the committee for their

consideration. Comments should be supplied

to the appropriate DFO at the address/contact

information noted above in the following

formats: one hard copy with original

signature, and one electronic copy via e-mail

(acceptable file formats: WordPerfect, Word,

or Rich Text files (in IBM-PC/Windows 95/

98 format). Those providing written

comments and who attend the meeting are

also asked to bring 25 copies of their

comments for public distribution.

General Information—Additional

information concerning the EPA Science

Advisory Board, its structure, function, and

composition, may be found on our Website

(http://www.epa.gov/sab) and in The FY2000

Annual Report of the Staff Director which is

available from the SAB Publications Staff at

(202) 564–4533 or via fax at (202) 501–0256.

Committee rosters, draft Agendas and

meeting calendars are also located on our

website.

Meeting Access—Individuals requiring

special accommodation at this meeting,

including wheelchair access to the

conference room, should contact Dr.

Kooyoomjian at least five business days prior

to the meeting so that appropriate

arrangements can be made.

Dated: February 1, 2001.

Donald G. Barnes,

Staff Director, Science Advisory Board.

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Proposed Administrative Cost

Recovery Agreement Under CERCLA

Section 122(h) for Recovery of Past

Response Costs at the Onondaga

Nation Drum Superfund Site,

Onondaga Indian Nation Territory,

Town of Nedrow, New York

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice; request for public

comment.

SUMMARY: In accordance with section

122(i) of the Comprehensive

Environmental Response,

Compensation, and Liability Act of

1980, as amended (‘‘CERCLA’’), 42

U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given of

a proposed administrative settlement,

entered into pursuant to Section 122(h)

of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(h), for

recovery of past response costs

concerning the Onondaga Nation Drum

Superfund Site (‘‘Site’’) located in

Onondaga Indian Nation Territory,

Town of Nedrow, New York. The

settlement with the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency (‘‘EPA’’) is entered

into with Aventis Cropscience USA, Inc.

and Stauffer Management Company

(‘‘Settling Parties’’). The Settling Parties

have agreed to reimburse $100,000.00 of

past response costs incurred by EPA

with respect to the Site. This settlement

includes a covenant not to sue the

Settling Parties pursuant to section

107(a) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607(a), for