Document ID: EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0978-0001
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Board of Scientific Counselors Human Health Mid-Cycle Subcommittee Meetings--January 2007
Posted Date: 2006-12-19T05:00Z

[Federal Register: December 19, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 243)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0978; FRL-8258-5]

 
Board of Scientific Counselors Human Health Mid-Cycle 
Subcommittee Meetings--January 2007

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of two meetings.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-
463, the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and 
Development (ORD), gives notice of two meetings of the Board of 
Scientific Counselors (BOSC) Human Health Mid-Cycle Subcommittee.

DATES: The first meeting (a teleconference call) will be held on 
Tuesday, January 9, 2007, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The second meeting 
(face-to-face meeting) will be held on Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. All times noted are eastern time. The meetings 
may adjourn early if all business is finished. Requests for the draft 
agendas or for making oral presentations at the meetings will be 
accepted up to 1 business day before each meeting.

ADDRESSES: The first meeting will be by teleconference only--meeting 
rooms will not be used. Members of the public may obtain the call-in 
number and access code for the teleconference meeting from Virginia 
Houk, whose contact information is listed under the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice. The second meeting will be 
held at the Crowne Plaza Washington National Airport hotel, 1480 
Crystal Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22202. Submit your comments,

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identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0978, by one of the 
following methods:
     http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the online instructions for 

submitting comments.
     E-mail: Send comments by electronic mail (e-mail) to: 
ORD.Docket@epa.gov, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0978.

     Fax: Fax comments to: (202) 566-0224, Attention Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0978.
     Mail: Send comments by mail to: Board of Scientific 
Counselors, Human Health Mid-Cycle Subcommittee Meeting--January 2007 
Docket, Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC, 
20460, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0978.
     Hand Delivery or Courier. Deliver comments to: EPA Docket 
Center (EPA/DC), Room B102, EPA West Building, 1301 Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-
0978.

    Note: this is not a mailing address. Such deliveries are only 
accepted during the docket's normal hours of operation, and special 
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.

    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2006-0978. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included 
in the public docket without change and may be made available online 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 http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. 

The http://www.regulations.gov Web site 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 http://www.regulations.gov, 

your e-mail address will be automatically captured and included as part 
of the comment that is placed in the public 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. For additional 
information about EPA's public docket visit the EPA Docket Center 
homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.

    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the 
http://www.regulations.gov index.

    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, will be publicly available only in hard copy. Publicly 
available docket materials are available either electronically in 
http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the 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 4:30 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public 
Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the ORD 
Docket is (202) 566-1752.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Designated Federal Officer via 
mail at: Virginia Houk, Mail Code B305-02, National Health and 
Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Office of Research and 
Development, Environmental Protection Agency, 109 TW Alexander Drive, 
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711; via phone/voice mail at: (919) 541-
2815; via fax at: (919) 685-3250; or via e-ail at: 
houk.virginia@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

General Information

    Any member of the public interested in receiving a draft BOSC 
agenda or making a presentation at the meetings may contact Virginia 
Houk, 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 items for the first meeting (teleconference) 
include, but are not limited to: the objectives of the review, an 
overview of the Human Health Research Program (HHRP), a summary of 
major changes in the HHRP since 2005, an update on the Human Health 
Multi-Year Plan, and research to evaluate the effectiveness of risk 
management decisions. Proposed agenda items for the second meeting 
(face-to-face) include, but are not limited to: the HHRP's response to 
recommendations from its 2005 BOSC review, the revised Human Health 
Multi-Year Plan, the development of performance metrics, and 
accountability and risk management decisions. The meetings are open to 
the public.
    Information on Services for Individuals with Disabilities: For 
information on access or services for individuals with disabilities, 
please contact Virginia Houk at (919) 541-2815 or 
houk.virginia@epa.gov. To request accommodation of a disability, please 

contact Virginia Houk, preferably at least 10 days prior to the 
meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your request.

    Dated: December 13, 2006.
Jeff Morris,
Acting Director, Office of Science Policy.
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